Good afternoon, everyone.

Councilmember Tui here with the community health and safety committee meeting for June 4th, 2025.

I want to welcome everybody tonight.

We have a couple of uh staff presentations.

And so we'll kick right off with the first one, which is our soda ordinance renewal briefing from staff.

And I'm going to turn it over to Lacey.

Welcome.

Thank you very much.

Happy to be here.

And as you uh eloquently introduced, we're here to talk about the uh renewal of the soda order areas, which is required, of course, by EMC 1013040.

Uh that Everett community or the community code requires that um every two years, council review the soda orders based on police data and police testimony.

So with me here tonight, I have Sergeant Chris Bennett and Sergeant Nate Wallace, and I'll um invite them to introduce themselves before we get going with the presentation.

Just have to there you go.

Hi, Sergeant Chris Bennett, currently supervise our anti-crime team.

Sergeant Nate Wallace, uh currently supervise our community response team.

And by way of introduction, you'll see in the materials as I get my presentation started that uh the recommendation from the police department and um the city attorney's office is that the soda order areas largely remain the same as they have since 2023 when last they were reviewed by this body, uh, with three changes recommended based on the data, and we'll get into the reasons for those recommendations.

But the three changes would be to remove Wiggams Hollow Park from the existing soda order areas uh to maintain Jackson Park.

I guess that's not a change, but we do want to touch on Jackson Park as it compares to Wiggams Hollow and other parks in the city.

And then to add in as a um a new old area, the north area of Broadway from the 700 block to Marine View Drive.

And again, we'll discuss the reasons and the bases for those recommended changes.

So let me see if I can get this right and share.

Um, we've got about 10 or 11 uh slides for you tonight, and I'll go through each of them in turn.

What we have in front of you here is the data from police crime analysts overviewing the fatal and the non-fatal overdoses designated by the color of the dots there from 2021 and 2022, overlaid with the existing soda order areas in red.

And similarly here, you've got uh similar data with the overlay of this existing soda order areas with fatal and nonfatal overdoses from 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Here we've got a different view of the overdose data.

Here you can see the 2022 overdoses um broken out by uh a little bit more data.

And I don't know, Sergeant Bennett, would you be able to speak to the data that was used in making this um this slide briefly?

Uh so it was pulled by our crime analysts.

I'm not exactly sure what source they're using.

I know they rely upon a lot upon the recaps that we have as well as the police and fire responses.

So uh the trouble with the data will always be that this is only what's reported and occurring on this on the street and people are using their own Narcan or anything like that.

We're we're not gonna have numbers for that.

And this is similar to the data that's shown in the next slide, which is the 2023 overdoses.

So the same data, just different year.

Um, and if I can jump back and forth between these, you can see a little bit of the uptick in 2023 for the total overdoses as well as the fatal overdoses that we're seeing throughout the city.

And again, in 2024, um, with a slight downtick um in 2024.

What we have here are the drug and narcotic violations arrests.

So, again, this is data from the crime analyst.

These are arrests um from drug and narcotic violations.

This is the north sector overlaid with the so existing soda order areas.

Sergeant Bennett or Sergeant Wallace, can you speak to this slide in a little bit more detail?

Uh sure.

So you can kind of see the rectangles or the soda zones.

Uh, there's the smaller rectangle kind of up in the upper right, which is Wiggams Hollow, and then the one over closer to the river is is Henry Jackson Park.

These offenses are a little bit different than last time, I think we were doing the soda ordinances because we do have a couple new EMCs.

We used to have a lot of drug paraphernalia violations, whereas we don't have drug paraphernalia as a crime anymore.

Now it's more uh possession of a control substance, which is a misdemeanor, um, as well as using uh narcotics in public.

Uh so those are the two primary charges that you're seeing reflected here.

And this is focused in on the north sector.

This next slide is focused in on the south sector with the same types of data.

This next slide is uh citywide.

So compilation of the last two slides that you saw gives a better overview of kind of the hot spots around the city from 23 and 24 for a total count of about 1700.

And then breaking it out into a little bit different type of data.

So you've seen fatal and non-fatal overdose data now.

You've seen the arrest data that resulted in the actual arrest of a an individual for a violation related to drug use or narcotics.

Uh, what this is is substance abuse calls for service.

These calls for service are coming from the community.

If uh is that accurate, Sergeant Bennett?

Yeah, so this is just a little bit more encompasses a little bit more.

This could incorporate calls where somebody suspected somebody was under the influence of something, they were contacted by the police, maybe they went to the hospital, maybe they just walked off.