The meeting was called to order by Councilmember Prakriya at 4:30 PM local time. Attendees included Council President Stewart, Council Vice President Nueva Camina, Councilmembers Forsythe, Kritzer, and Sony. The committee reviewed seven action items and one informational presentation, with most action items advanced to the consent agenda for the February 3, 2026 business meeting. The fire pay plan correction was advanced to the consent agenda for the same meeting.
I am calling the January 20th meeting of the Public Safety and Human Services Committee of the Whole to order. In attendance are Council President Stewart, Council Vice President Nueva Camina, Councilmember Forsythe, Councilmember Kritzer, Councilmember Sony, and myself, presiding officer, Councilmember Prakria. We have four action items on the agenda. The first action item is the approval of the 2026 Public Safety and Human Services Committee of the Whole Work Plan. And the presenter for this item is myself. I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen for Teams. And I'm gonna go ahead and give an order uh give an order view, uh give an overview quarter by quarter. Um so we have three departments here police, fire, and planning. Uh for the first quarter, January, February, and March. Uh from police, we have um continuing uh the vendor selection for parking enforcement, uh, which in the meantime we have diamond parking, um, the contract renewal for diamond parking um as we bridge the gap to our new vendor for for this parking enforcement. Um for new ordinances, we also have a couple of updates uh with regards to parking enforcement. Uh for fire, we have our quarterly Office of Emergency Management Report. Uh we have our quarterly overtime report as well as our quarterly fire loss versus what we have saved report. Uh we have uh permits and impact fees and a small donation of a th of a thousand dollars. Uh we have a couple of grants that we may end up receiving. So we have a grant from FEMA, uh, we have a grant from EMPG, um, as well as updates to the fire operational permits and new fire impact fees. Um and with regards to planning, um, I believe a little bit of a lighter quarter, we have an update on housing framework, um, rapid response fund allocation, and public defense grant evaluation. Um as well, we have an ordinance for the donation of a thousand dollars from fire. Uh for quarter two, April, May, and June, going again in the same order of police, fire, and planning. Uh with regards to police, we have our quarterly report of police activity, uh, as well as a report on police technology. We have our 2025 annual report, um, as well as a tentative uh set of new ordinances we may have to establish in Redmond for HB 1515, uh, which is a bill in the state legislature right now establishing libation zones for the World Cup. Um, so zones that you can uh that are open to public consumption of alcohol, we may have to amend some of our ordinances in accordance with that state law that is that that may pass. Um with regards to fire, um we again have our quarterly Office of Emergency Emergency Management Report, our quarterly overtime report, fire loss and save, as well as the annual report. Um we have a tentative junior fire chief ceremony, um, as well as three new contracts and agreements, um, one with EMAC Wildland, uh, one with the Department of Natural Resources Wildland Contract, um, and as well with the Department of Ecology grant acceptance uh in preparation for a potential second electric fire engine for the city of Redmond. With regards to planning, uh we have updates on the on our next budget's human services funding process from planning staff, as well as more updates on housing framework in accordance with Redmond 2050. Uh going on to quarter three. We have uh for for police, we have updates. We have our quarter two police activity report as well as another report on police technology, as on uh as in last quarter. Uh we have uh three new contracts. So uh the LWSD community resource officer contract, um, our contract with King County Jails, and our FFIT grant renewal contract, which um delves into financial crime. Uh with regards to uh fire, we have uh again our quarterly Office of Emergency Management Report, overtime report, fire loss and save, um, as well as our contract with um our interlocal agreement with fire district 34 is also going to be um also going to be discussed. Um with regards to planning, we have um a joint study session coming up in quarter three uh in preparation for human services housing and human services strategic plan um and also the community block development grant. Um we're gonna get a briefing on that. For quarter four, um again um more of the the standard items for for each quarter. So our quarter three police activity report, um, another report on police technology um as well as uh contracts with um with jails for fire. We have our quarterly um Office of Emergency Management report, overtime report, fire loss versus save, as well as our emergency um uh or EMS uh end of year report is coming out. Um and as Chief Shepherd has told me, we have a a world class EMS system here in Redmond. So I'm very much looking forward to that. Um, with planning, uh we have updates on health through housing as well as the uh 27 through 28 funding recommendations for human services are gonna be presented to us. Are there any questions? Um Councilmember Forsyth. Thank you. Um just two things to that I'd like to flag to add to the uh work plan in quarter four when we're talking about the score jail. We had last year sought to see if Kirkland would be open to receiving some of our um folks that that need that um holding. So I want to make sure we don't just look at score that we actually add Kirkland to this. Um I know they weren't ready last year, but maybe they'll be ready this year. Um so I want to make sure we add that. And then in September, I want to make sure we flag our ALPR contract with Flock and that renewal so we don't miss that opportunity to decide what we're doing there. Wonderful. Um Councilmember Kritzer.