Welcome everyone.

At 5 30.

Mike's not out.

We'll be leading the group.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, we'll begin with roll call.

Mayor Darcy.

Here.

Councilman Cardinals?

Here.

Councilman Clement?

Councilman Hug?

Eric.

Councilwoman Abarra is absent.

She did let me know she would not be in attendance this evening.

Councilman Moreno?

Here.

Councilman Mudrin.

Here.

Councilman Quillman?

Here.

Councilman Ruordan.

Here.

First, we have a presentation.

Peregrine Technologies presented by Deputy Chief Bolton.

All right.

Good evening, Mayor, Council members.

I'm here with representatives from Peregrine Technologies to represent a data integration platform to help the Joel Police Department, the city, and our residents to get more value from the technology we already own.

The goal of this recommendation is straightforward to connect our existing systems into a single operational view, allowing us to solve crimes faster, improve transparency and accountability, and to better support officer wellness.

The recommendations come after closely reviewing how we operate today, uh where we lose time and how we can better leverage the city, leverage the city's current investments.

To be clear, we currently do not have any system that allows us to do this.

Now these connections are made in seconds, helping us identify the leads faster in improving the state's attorney's I'm sorry, provide the state's attorney with organized court ready evidence.

Currently, we lack the ability to visually to visualize crime trends in real time without manual reporting.

With Paragram, we can view crime data by council districts, NLPT areas, specific neighborhoods, using live data.

This allows us to respond more effectively to residents' concerns with accurate real-time information.

This assists us strategically, specifically with redistricting our sectors and NOPT boundaries.

By analyzing the data, we can ensure that our patrol sectors are balanced and efficient.

This assures that we are assigning officers exactly where the workload demands rather than relying on historical guesses.

Internally, the system also supports officer wellness through an early intervention system by monitoring data points like critical incident exposure, internal affairs data, and sick time usage.

Leadership can identify risk trends early and provide support before these issues escalate, helping us prevent burnout and reducing liability.

This is not replaced supervision or policy.

It simply provides earlier visibility.

Kind of an example is you know, in law enforcement, we see a lot of things.

You know, we see the worst of things, we see crashes, you know, or you know, babies, you know, um you know, pass away or children, you know, even our recent um tragic incident that we had.

You know, these officers are sitting there going there day to day and they see this, and it affects them.

We've done uh a tremendous amount of work to sit there and make sure that we take care of our officers.

Um but sometimes they're not getting the help they need, and you know, we need things to sit there and kind of track what they're doing.

So part of this wellness thing is very important because we're now we would be able to track the type of calls that certain officers have gone on compared to their sick bank if they're calling a lot of time, even to their discipline to the fact that maybe they're not dealing with what they've dealt with over time.

So, again, this is gonna be a very, very helpful tool.

And kind of going back, and I know I'm kind of going off the script here, but even going back to this data mapping here, uh looking at how we visualize data within the city, crime calls or service, we'd be able to do this in a very visual format, and we'd be able to answer questions about what's going on in neighborhoods in a more reliable and more uh up-to-date fashion, you know, without having to sit there and rely on someone else to pull the data for us.

We'd have it readily available to us.

I'm going uh back to this.

So, from an executive level, command staff can make evidence-based decisions in real time using role-based dashboards.

Um, access is strictly controlled and permission-based, ensuring that information is only available to those who need it.

Again, from a command staff standpoint, having data at our fingertips is essential.

Um, we have so many databases right now that we have to sit there and pull the information from.

We can't do a lot of our own stats, like trying to figure out the average response time, you know, to certain calls or certain areas.

Um, it takes a lot of manpower, a lot of work to do that.

This would allow us to do it pretty much instantaneously through the data integration.

So, currently more than 300 agencies are currently using this platform across the nation.

Uh, departments like Atlanta, uh, Armor Lowe, and Menifee have measurable improvements in crime reduction, uh, investigation speed and arrest efficiency.

Uh, these are real outcomes from agencies facing challenges similar to ours.

There's a couple other examples on it.

The question is what does this mean for Joliet?

Uh, in summary, this agreement delivers seven key benefits.

Uh maximizes your um return on investment by leveraging technology we currently own.

Uh to force multiplier without adding staff, reduces liability through proactive wellness support, data-driven policing based on facts, not guesses, instant transparency with real-time statistics, operational efficiency through automation, and secure sieges compliant protection.

We respectfully request your approval to proceed.

Uh, please note that this project is fully funded and allocated within the approved 2026 budget, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

Any questions?

Yeah, Chris, did you personally have a chance to talk to any of the other police forces that are using this at this time?

Yes, it's that's how I came aware of it.

Um, I was talking to an agency in Spokane, Washington, and it was first started showing me what they were using for for their agency, and that's what you know led me to that their company, and then I went down the rabbit hole and I started talking to multiple other agencies, talked to other agencies in California, I think it was Glendale that's using it.

I know there's an agency in in Florida, and I know Paul Paul Paul's a former retired officer, and they implemented it within their agency.

What agency is Florida, I'm sorry.

Uh, sheriff's office.

So I was a customer before I was an employee of the company.

Thank you.

Yeah, I've I've talked to many agencies, and I have not found one agency yet that has said anything bad about that.

They said it's been a game changer when it's been implemented in their in their departments.

So this should save a lot of time and man hours, Chris.

Absolutely.

And the mere fact that we have data at our fingertips that we can sit there and share obviously with the council and the public is huge.

So Chris, I take it this would be an icon on your computer in the squad that you would hit on and from there, something of that nature.

It's web-based.

So it would be in a web browser.

But what it do is it was integrate all of our databases together.

So we can sit there and pull information from our CAD system, our record system, our crash system, our ticket system, uh education tickets.

Um we're also looking to integrate our um time management in there again for for sick leave.

Uh there's a couple other ones that I'm not forgetting, but they can coordinate with our ours are coordinatable.

That's a word.

Yes, they're there, they could be integrated.

Um yes, there's um APIs that can sit there and integrate all the data into one, and this is what this company's been doing since about 2018, and they've grown since then to where they're almost almost close to 400 agencies now, uh, about 350 or so.

But um, yeah, it's it's been very eye-opening.

Uh we did several demonstrations with this again, talking to different agencies.

It's very, very impressive what uh this system can do.

Yeah, Chief, um is there a way we could see a demo of this?

Like in the near future.

We could certainly arrange a demo.

Um we wouldn't be able to demo live data because we have to maintain the siege's compliance, but we do have a demo platform that we could show you.

I think a demo would be important for everybody to see, and then also what's the cost?

So the cost is about 200 a year, and we've allocated it in the 2026 budget, so we already have the funding set aside for it.

How long is it what it takes to train our men and women?

Probably a day.

I mean, I think it's pretty simple once once everything's integrated and you sit there and you kind of and probably still run a day, but I'm saying it may take a little bit longer.

But it's a very simple product.

It once the data is in there and you sit there and you're looking, it's like a Google search for law enforcement.

I know it's a very simple term, but that's basically what it is, and you can sit there and search all this data and it and it comes at your fingertips, and you can also have it on your on your phone.

So if you're out in the field on a call and you need to sit there and pull something up and you're not by your laptop, you can pull it there within seconds.

Going from 200 to 400 and it's obviously working.

People are uh they're using it.

Yes, absolutely.

Right.

Yeah, if I understand it, Chris, it can identify trends within your data.

Yes.

So that you know, when we have serial whatever serial robber serious, we speed up that process quickly.

Absolutely.

And something that popped on my mind, it's gonna help with what can be argued with sometimes just FOIA reports, right?

People want uh a list of these intersections, how many accidents at it, and now we'll just talk on a click.

With this new program, otherwise it's it's it's manually done correctly, right?

They have to go through and look it up.

Well, correct, and it'll help us find the information that's out there that we don't even know is out there.

So if we're sitting there, say we get a FOIA and where we do a search on it, it will allow us to figure out which database is there in because this is probably not the best for FOIA's because you're probably gonna want the original um document is what they're looking for.

Well, what it can do for us is say, hey, we need to go with this database, we're gonna go to this database, and then you go to this report, then we can pull it up much easier instead of sitting there trying to go to one system and trying to pull up, and then that actually might be in one or two other systems.

All right, thank you.

Um the only thing is um I know we have this for public safety tomorrow, and I thought I was supposed to go to council for a vote tomorrow, so I'm not sure how we would do a demo before then unless we have to push this off.

Two and a half more weeks.

I don't know what do you think, Chris.

If we push it one more council meeting, I think I think we'd be good for that.

I think it is a good idea that we get a little better look at it.

I mean, I know it's a great investment, but we do want to see it.

Absolutely.

Um would be public safety in two weeks.

I'm not public safe, sorry, um, pre-council.

This should really go to the CTIS committee.

I think it's on a public safety tomorrow.

It's on tomorrow, and then maybe well, if we're not gonna pass it though, then we can CTIS meets uh Wednesday morning.

I don't know if that works.

I can make a loan.

Okay, okay.

Thank you.

Thanks, Chris.

Okay.

Next is citizens to be heard on agenda items.

Is there anyone who would like to speak under citizens to be heard on an agenda item this evening?

Hey man, everybody.

Hey, sorry I missed you guys last meeting.

I missed you guys.

Hey.

Anyway, on this thing, agenda and item number 108-26.

This thing with the center point and their ongoing so-called phase 28 of their projects.

I don't know how you keep allowing Center Point to go on and keep on doing their projects when we all know how badly they have affected communities.

It's been nothing but lies from them all the way from the beginning of which you know I have been there from the very beginning, a center point coming to Joliet.

A lot of you have not been.

Center Point offered him six-digit figure to get me out.

And therefore I had a fake, fake uh conviction done to me and put in jail even for it.

Well, because it was driven by center point.

My boss later, when I had to go down and take care of him in 2018, admitted all this to me.

That it was all paid off by Center Point.

And even John O'Connor, when he was the state's attorney at the time, when me and my mother were trying to get my record cleared on this, told me that I got money from Center Point after my boss got his money.

I told John Connor when he's the state's attorney, no, I didn't get one penny from Center Point.

You know, but he said it was on the record that I got paid money from Center Point.

I said, no, it's your victory or witness there lying to you about it because I didn't get paid no money from Center Point.

And my attorney Ricardo Muniz on the case for me, told me to, you know, Center Point paid them six-digit figure.

And later on, like I said, in 2018, my boss admitted that to me when I had to go down and take care of him in Missouri.

So I've been part of all the abuse with Center Point, and then when they built their DHL Mars Candy warehouse up the road from my Ma's place.

That was no public hearing on that.

It was called Project Osprey.

When that land did have a public hearing on it, it was supposed to be an LP refueling station.

That's what that was approved of from the Joeyak Council was approved for being LP refilling station where it takes in and bring Philip LP trucks or Phillips semi-trucks on LP.

Next thing you know, this is a Mars candy DHL warehouse that's being built.

Right at the top of the hill, right down the road from my ma's place.

And when that thing opened and still it is so noisy.

It's so noisy, we couldn't sleep.

My mom couldn't sleep, I couldn't sleep.

I'm lucky enough.

I was able to get sleeping pills from my doctor, but when my mom, with all her medical conditions, she couldn't get sleeping pills.

She ended up having heart trouble and everything.

She ended up having a stroke and dying because of it.

Her heart ended up giving out, and the whole main reason for it was because she was not able to get sleep from because that noisy Mars Mars Candy warehouse was built at Center Point put in.

I don't think Center Point should be allowed to keep on doing this stuff to people.

Then they make my road, Veter Road, a four-lane highway.

Needless to say, it was a two-lane, no peaceful two-lane, no truck roll route.

And they took and made it a four-lane highway, for that's their toll bridge.

And it's a safety hazard because even though I'm not there anymore because Whimsy trucking was allowed to come in, which you know we all will the story about the effect in my life.

I no longer live out there, of course, and I'm still suffering from it.

All because of going all along with what Center Point, all center point's projects have done.

Allow that road to be made a four-lane highway, and it's still dangerous.

There's still people that live out there.

My former neighbors are still living out there.

And they have to deal with these trucks every day going down Veter Road, which the trucks should not be allowed to go down Vetter Road, which is now South Hullboat.

Is there anyone else who'd like to speak on an agenda item this evening?

Okay, seeing none.

Next, you will have the city manager review tomorrow night's actionable items.

So tomorrow we will hear from the land use and economic development committee, public safety committee, and public service committee.

On consent agenda, um council memo eighty-seven twenty-six award of contract for overhead door repair at the nine Osgood Street facility to Wonderlook Doors in the amount of 51,735 dollars.

Council Memo 8826 approval of purchase and upfit of one new vehicle for the investigations division asset forfeiture detective not to exceed 65,000 dollars.

Council Memo 8926, approval of purchase of two heavy duty dump bodies from Henderson products in the amount of $120,463 and 18 cents.

Council Memo 9026 approval purchase of six Peterbuilt chassis from JX Truck Center in the amount of $805,748.92.

Council Memo 9126 approval of change order number one for the 2024 electrical maintenance assistance contract on behalf of Mead Electric Company Inc.

in the amount of $75,000 and payment request number six in the amount of $72,206.84.

Council Memo 9226 award a contract for the East Side Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Influent pump and two emergency repairs to Xylem Water Solutions USA Inc.

in the amount of $34,044.18 cents.

Council Memo 9326 approval purchase of water metering equipment from Core Main LP for the not exceed amount of $350,000.

Council Memo 9426 approval purchase of replacement sluice gates for the East Side Wastewater Treatment Plant from LAI and Associates Inc.

in the amount of $43,468.

Council Council Memo 9526 approval of the change order number one for the Heggy Park Water Main Improvement Project on behalf of P2 PT Faro Construction Company for adjustments to project completion dates.

This is another time extension similar to the ones we've seen the last couple of weeks.

Council Memo 9626 approval of change order number one for the Twin Oaks Phase 1 water main improvement project to MJ Underground Inc.

for a decreased amount of $138,007 and 89 cents and payment estimate number five and final in the amount of $58,410.55.

Council Memo 9726 approval of amendment number two to the professional services agreement for construction engineering services for the 2026 water main rebilitation program to Baxter and Women Inc.

in the amount of 223,400 dollars.

Council Memo 9826 award a contract for pear green technologies.

So if we're holding on this, then um we will hold it till the next meeting.

Council Memo 9926 award of professional services agreement for ambulance building services for the City of Joliet Fire Department 2026 to 2028 to EMS Management and Consultants not to exceed a million dollars for years 2026 to 2028.

Council Memo 10-26 purchase of 12 Bullard QXT Pro Thermal Images and 12 basic feature packs for the Joliet Fire Department from Dinges Fire Company in the amount of $91,140.

So these are the thermal imager imaging that the fire department uses to you know and in um fires to be able to identify if there are people in the building.

Award of contract number 2930-0126 for the Glenwood and West Acres Water Main Improvements Project to Austin Tyler Construction in the amount of six million five hundred and seventy-seven thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifty-one cents.

Council Memo 10326 award of contract number two nine two one zero one two six for the Larkin Theodore to Glenwood Water Main Improvement Project to deconstruction in the amount of nine million three hundred and two thousand sixty-four dollars and twenty-one cents.

Council Memo 10426 award of professional services agreement for construction related engineering services for the 2026 water main replacement program and the 2026 led water service line replacement program to Burns and McDonald Engineering Company in the amount of four million five hundred and seventy-three thousand eight hundred ninety-two dollars and eighty-eight cents.

Council Memo 10526, purchase of four complete Horton ambulances from foster coach in the amount of one million five hundred and seventy-one thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars for budget years twenty twenty-seven to twenty twenty-eight.

So these things we have to order ahead of time.

We have budgeted for it.

Um Kevin just gave the clear for the chief to order.

And so um we'll be ordering those.

It'll take a couple years to get in, but it would be for the 2027-2028 year.

Ordinances, Council Memo 10726 ordinance approving an amendment to the final planned unit development, a prairie landing subdivision, ordinance one eight seven three nine to allow additional house plans.

So the purpose of this is to add two one-story house models with eight total elevations to the set of approved house plans for the subdivision.

So they're adding single family ranch homes.

Two of them just to be clear, thank you.

Yeah, uh just being clarage about about this.

The um anybody watching that lives in that area, we went through a whole process of getting our heads around what was going to be built there, and you know, came to approve you know except and approve it.

Nothing's changing on the lot size.

You know, some rumors starting it.

Right.

Nothing's changing on the lot size.

Nothing's changing on anything in the plan except there's an additional two models with I think uh six or eight variation.

Two one story models for those that don't want a two-story house.

Nothing else is changing, it's not condos, it's not townhouses, it's certainly not apartments, it's just two additional models of single family houses.

Correct?

Correct.

Okay, thank you.

Council Memo 10826 ordinances associated with the Center Point Intermodal Center at Joliet Phase 28.

So this is the purpose of this is to split an existing undeveloped lot into two lots so that the floodplain and wetlands are on a separate lot from the building buildable area.

Mayor is everybody here from Center Point?

I'm just curious to know what percentage are are you guys built out now?

It's got to be close, right?

I mean eighty plus maybe just curious, yeah.

I don't have the exact Jake and Karzik here on behalf of Center Point.

I don't have the exact percentage.

I think I think it'd want to say it's around maybe eight million square feet left, sixteen million built somewhere in there.

Give or take.

But the whole the whole project you from when you started many years ago, what yeah?

So there's I I believe don't quote me exactly, but I think there's like sixteen million square feet that's built, and I think there's eight million square feet uh remaining that still needs to be developed.

Okay.

That would be sixty-six percent.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, they uh that's not my thing.

But thank you.

Thank you.

Council Memo 10926 ordinance approving a special use permit to allow a truck maintenance facility located at 3501 Shanahan Road.

Interstate freights is an over-the-road trucking business.

The trucks are primarily out on the road for two to four weeks at a time and would come to the site for maintenance in between those trips as needed.

Council Memo 11026, ordinance amending chapter 12, section 13G to impose lift assist fees in accordance with House Bill 2336.

Um, Chief, I think this one is worthy of you coming to uh explain.

No, uh Carrie.

Sorry, Chief Kerry.

Chief Chief.

Chief Chief.

This is about the lift assist fees.

Yeah, good evening.

Um I was just talking about this earlier tonight, and in 2020 when we did our first CRA, you know, our mental health calls are 15% of our calls.

Falls are about eight.

Today our mental health calls are nine percent and lifts are eighteen percent.

What happened was about a few years ago, the nursing homes and assisted living facilities decided they didn't want to take that risk of hurting their employees, so anytime somebody fell uninjured, they're just gonna call the fire department to pick them up.

And it's not just Jolie, this is throughout the United States.

So Illinois passed a law on January 1st of this year to counteract that that we could start charging them actually up to half of our GMT rate to stop them from calling the fire departments.

And actually, I think there's a part in the bill where if they do continue to, and one of us got hurt, there's a way to go after them for our workers' comp.

Um, they have the people to do it, they just don't want to hurt their employees, so they've been calling fire departments.

Our calls for lifts were about 1,500 calls a few years ago.

There were 3,000 last year.

And these aren't people who are hurt, they just slip out of their chair or roll it not, and it's not residents' homes.

This is in these assisted living facilities where they have people to do it to do it.

So fire departments all throughout the state are starting to do these ordinances to try to counteract that so we don't put the burden on us.

Perfect.

Any questions for the chief?

All right, thank you.

Great, thanks, Chief Carrie Resolutions, Council Memo 1126.

Resolution authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding between the City of Joliet and the Will County Sheriff's Office.

So the purpose of the mem of the MOU here is to ensure the use of the incinerary to properly dispose of all substances and narcotics.

Council Memo 1136 resolution to accept and implement a grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity under Public Act 10306.

Um coming from Chief Evans.

If anyone has any questions here, we can call Chief Evans up.

Okay, no questions.

Um that's that's the agenda for tomorrow.

Okay, next is public comments.

Is there anyone who would like to address the council this evening?

Okay, seeing none, I did receive a request for closed session.

Is there a motion to go into closed session to discuss personnel, collective bargaining, land acquisition, or conveyance, pending or threatened litigation?

After which the meeting will adjourn.

It's a motion and second and to approve.

Councilman Cardinals.

Councilman Clement.

Councilman Hug?

Aye.

Councilman Marino?

Aye.

Councilman Mudrin.

Aye.

Councilman Quillman.

Aye.

Councilwoman Rurdin.

Aye.

Mayor Darcy.

Aye.

Motion carried.

Another calendar.