Aloy, good afternoon everyone.

It's 1 p.m., a Thursday, March 5th, and I call the committee on public safety and economy meeting to order.

I'd like to welcome Committee Vice Chair Ki Aina, Council Members Okimoto, Tupola, and Nishimoto.

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Okay, members, I would like to take up the agenda items one, three, and six together.

Agenda item number one, resolution 26-28.

This resolution accepts a monetary gift valued at $18,500 to the city from the deputies to fund the training scholarship uniforms and equipment for the Honolulu Police Department Law Enforcement Explorer program.

Agenda item number three, resolution 26-31.

This resolution accept the gift of travel and related expenses valued at 1,972.79 cents to the city from the Washington State Narcotics Investigators Association for representative of the Honolulu Police Department to attend the WSNIA 2026 training summit and vendor show in uh care.

I can't say you want to try this one someplace in Idaho.

From April 19th to 23 uh 2026.

Agenda item number six, resolution 26-40 for the resolution accept the gift valued at 11,360 to the city from the 200 club of 120 seats for the Honolulu Police Department, personnel and dignitaries to attend the 200 club breakfast and award ceremony of May 15, 2026, and to honor the award, uh the Honolulu Police Department's outstanding officer, parent reserve officer, civilian supervisor, and employee of the year and citizenship award for National Police Week 2026.

And here from the administration is uh Major Robert Town.

Major, if you'd like to uh say a few words and um and I don't see uh officer Jerome Pacaro.

Um Chair, Vice Chair the the button on button.

Good morning, Chair and good morning, Vice Chair and Council members.

Um Bobby Town, uh Holy Peace Department.

I'm currently the major in charge of the community affairs division.

Uh the first item that we were talking about is for our law enforcement um explorer program.

We refer to it as LEAP.

This is an annual um money that the deputies gives us.

That program we do is not budgeted in our um budget, so everything we operate is off of this donation.

Um I have a breakdown if you folks are interested in it.

But basically, it's to provide them with shirts that um identify them as LEAP uh for their training, their equipment.

We do coordinations now with um fire department and EMS also has a leap program.

We do joint exercises with them.

Uh our goal is to eventually get these um young students to go from leap to our cadet program and then into our recruit school thing.

Um some of the other items that we spend um on this is um when we when they graduate from the basic training, we have uh a little get together.

Um we give them some plaques and pictures and everything else.

But like I say, everything uh this program is funded through the deputies program ask questions uh for item number one.

Okay.

You want to proceed to uh item number three and maybe even six too.

So that's um kind of at uh end of our police week, which is coming up in May.

Uh the 200 club, again, this is one of those that every year they they donate this.

We have an awards um banquet last year and this year it's been held at the Honolulu Country Club, and basically we have a breakfast, some speakers, and we nominate um officer of the year, parent of the year, and so forth.

And it's just to honor them in the end, and just pays for the venue.

Okay.