Here.

Alderman Senate is here.

Alderman Ravan?

Here.

Alderman Kelly or Alderwoman Kelly, Vice Chair.

Here.

And Alderman Lopez, Chair.

I'm here.

Also joining us this evening is Alderman Johnson.

Okay.

We have a guest in the audience.

First, does anyone have any public comment to

make?

No members of the public here.

Any communications?

There are none.

Unfinished business.

There is none.

New business resolutions.

We have R26076 relative to the acceptance of 45,180 from the United States Department of Justice into police grant activity.

2025 Justice Assistance Grant multi-jurisdic jurisdictional.

Well I will make a motion to recommend final passage.

All right.

Do we have any discussion?

Presentations?

No, just uh I'll come to speak about just exactly what it's for.

Awesome.

Come on up, give your name.

Uh my name is Steve Hallem.

I'm a police officer with the National Police Department as well as the uh grants manager.

Um this grant is a federal grant through the um Department of Justice.

It's called the Justice Assistance Grant.

Um we use this funding to fund our Citizens Academy, uh neighborhood crime watch meetings, uh more importantly, our civilian response active shooter events training for all the schools throughout the city of Nashville.

Um and several other uh community policing events, including uh national night out, several touch a truck events, um PAL internet safety workshops, and we also use a portion of this funding to send officers to trainings once our training budget is depleted.

We use these funds to pay for that.

Um yeah, I mean, do you guys have any questions about it or anything like that?

Sure.

Everyone is familiar with the Citizens Academy as Alderman.

It's a huge opportunity for us to find out what the police are doing so that we can explain that to constituents.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um just the go-to question whenever it deals with any grants, is there any um matching obligation on the city's part?

No, there is no matching obligation.

Um standby for one.

Um the grant does not cover the city's cost of wage-driven benefits, including pension costs, social security, and Medicare associated with overtime costs, but that will be funded through the police department's current operating budget.

Thank you.

Um regarding one of the items that the the grant funds, the active shooter response and training.

Um is there a component of um crisis stabilization from a mental health perspective?

I know that this uh police department does have I believe at least social workers on staff.

Yeah,

so we do have Leah Elliott, who is a doctor who uh she responds anytime there's any type of emotional situation or um mental illness type driven situation.

So um this grant doesn't specifically cover anything like that, but we do have uh clinical psychologist uh on our staff.

I was saying for certainly for the public, these are scary, terrifying events um and traumatic if you experience them.

But for the law enforcement officers who've been through these kind of events, but also still have to show up and present and organize, you know, in the middle of a crisis, that's where that kind of support I think would be obviously very helpful.

Absolutely, yeah, definitely.

And Leah Elliott, she she also follows up with which is the the the for forgotten component of this whole thing is the follow-up after just the touch base and and see if we could connect these individuals with the proper resources and all that.

But

uh

Alderman Kelly.

Uh thank you.