Good afternoon, everyone.

Good afternoon, and welcome to the special public safety committee meeting of May 15th, twenty twenty-four.

Our committee liaison, Sarah Jordan will provide information and instruction for the public to participate in today's meeting.

Sarah, please proceed.

Use using the Zoom webinar platform.

Members of the public who wish to provide testimony via a call in or an internet based service option must enter the virtual speaking queue within five minutes after the conclusion of in-person public testimony or before the virtual speaking queue is exhausted, whichever occurs first.

This will allow for better meeting management between the two platforms and ensure the committee is able to manage and conduct city business.

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Please do so in a timely manner to ensure proper meeting management.

In-person testimony will conclude before virtual testimony begins.

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Chair.

Thank you very much for reviewing these instructions for the benefit of the public to participate.

A quorum is now present.

So we will we will begin by taking up the approval of the committee meeting minutes of April 25th, 2024.

Sarah, please let us know if there's any public comment on the committee meeting minutes.

Thank you, Chair.

We have received no speaker slips here in chambers, but we do have one hand up in the virtual queue.

So I will begin the five-minute timer for all those to indicate if they wish to speak to the past committee minutes.

Each speaker will have one minute.

Our first speaker is Laurie Saldania.

Please unmute yourself and provide your testimony.

You will have one minute.

Yes, thank you.

So I I just again want to remind this committee that you have an obligation to provide updates periodically on many different uh things.

And I know in the last month's meeting, uh at least one person called in to notice uh that they have still not received an update on their uh the status of a sexual assault kit.

They took time off of work, they spent their own money on medical procedures, they went through hours of um examination in order to provide evidence for their sexual assault investigation, and that kit is still sitting in the police uh storage somewhere.

It has not been sent to the lab for processing.

This was one of the comments I made in the minutes about the backlog sexual assault kits.

And I'm asking again, please request an update on how this process is proceeding in the department.

Thank you.

Thank you for your testimony and with no other hands in the virtual queue.

That will conclude public comment on the past committee minutes.

Thank you very much.

We will now vote on the approval of the past committee meeting minutes.

Do we have a motion from Vice Chair Campio?

A second from Councilmember Campbell.

Please uh call the roll.

And chair that passes unanimously 3-0 with council member Whitburn absent.

All right, thank you very much.

Uh, we will be taking today's agenda in order of the items listed.

Do we have any committee, mayor, city attorney, or IBA comments at this time?

Nope.

Uh hearing none.

Uh I do uh welcome back to uh Chief Nislight and Assistant Chief Paul Connolly from DC.

Thank you for representing us in Washington, DC.

Um, and thank you for being there for Sir's um memorial.

One of our police canines was killed in the line of duty, and he was honored this year in Washington, D.C.

So thank you for being there for us.

Welcome back.

Um, do we have any requests for continuance?