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This meeting of the public safety, finance, and strategic support committee will now come to order.

Can the clerk office please take a role?

Tordillos, here Casey, Mulcahi.

Vice Chair Kameh, Chair Duane.

Here.

You have a quorum.

Thank you very much.

So we have the consent calendar.

There's only one item, which is the third quarterly financial report.

Is there any public comments?

No public comment.

Move approval of the consent calendar.

Thank you very much.

Let's vote on that, please.

One more.

There we go.

We get unanimous vote.

We're going to go to our report to the committee, City Council Focus Area Status Report, increasing community safety.

That would be um Chief Dobson, Lieutenant Nathaniel Bennett, Rick Scott, which is the assistant director of DOT, on Aurelia Bailey, who is the division manager.

Thank you.

All right.

Good afternoon, members of the committee.

My name is Aurelia Bailey, and I am the division manager with Parks Recreation Neighborhood Services, representing the San Jose Youth Empowerment Alliance.

I have a great team presenting with me today.

We are here to provide an update on the City Council focus area status report, increasing community safety.

Our purpose today is to share what we are learning through this work while continuing to build the infrastructure and culture that supports continuous learning and improvement.

Today's agenda includes a brief overview of the focus area model approved by council, update of the increasing community safety focus area portfolio and goals and discussion on next steps.

As a reminder, the city focused area areas are designed to elevate the issues that most significantly impact our community, placing them at the top of the city's strategic framework.

These are among our most complex challenges requiring strong collaboration across departments and partners to drive meaningful progress.

While departments continue to deliver course services and improve day-to-day operations, focus areas require a different approach, one centered on innovation, cross-functional coordination, and shared accountability.

We are committed to learning in public, which means being transparent about both our progress and the areas where we are still refining our approach.

This strengthens trust, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Today we will share progress to date along with a few areas where we work where work remains underway.

A key value in this work is building a culture of learning, one that helps us improve outcomes for the community.

This includes the principles shown here.

These are the kinds of conversations we are excited to continue through today's update and in future discussions.

So now I will give you guys an update on increasing community safety focus area.

This slide outlines the structure of the focus area, including our long-term goal, ensuring San Jose residents live in a community with responsive emergency services and safe streets and roads.

To advance these goals, we have identified four key problem areas: emergency response, crisis response, crime reduction, and traffic safety.

Looking at our key indicator, there is encouraging progress to report.

While there is still more work ahead, resident, residents' perception of safety has improved.

So in quarter three, year over year data shows 11% more residents feel the city is safe.

12% more residents feel their neighborhood is safe.

3% more residents feel downtown is safe.

With that, I'll hand it over to assistant fire chief Dobson.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, Chief Dobson.

As our community continues to grow and develop, emergency service continues to see year over year increase in overall call volumes.

This slide presents data for priority one calls for police and fire.

For police, a priority one call is arrival at a major crime in progress call in less than six minutes.

For fire, a priority one call is arrival in less than eight minutes for lights and sirens calls that could be fires, rescues, or other significant hazards in EMS events.

The overall data shows that response time compliance is largely stable despite increased in overall call volumes.

For the police department, compliance is down slightly 1% year over year, while priority one call volume has increased by 3%.

The police department continues to focus on hiring more officers by launching a police academy this month and another scheduled for October 2026.

They continue to seek creative ways to identify new candidates who represent our community by streamlining recruitment through an enhanced internal onboarding process and by partnering with federal programs such as Skillbridge.