The Winston-Salem Public Safety Committee met on October 13, 2025, at 2:00 PM to discuss a contract renewal for crash reporting software, proposed revisions to city park rules, and an overview of downtown ordinances. The meeting included presentations from police and fire officials, and discussion on balancing public safety with equitable access to parks.
G-1: Resolution for LexisNexis Coplogic Solutions Contract Renewal and BuyCrash Addition
G-2: Ordinance to Revise City Park Rules
G-3: Overview of City Ordinances Enforced by Police in Downtown Winston-Salem
Fair Report and Fire Prevention
Good afternoon and welcome to the public safety committee meeting for October. Yes, my mic is on. Thank you. We have we are now sitting in the most magnificent committee room there has ever been in a city hall. So welcome. And I hope those chairs are more comfortable than the old ones. And we have this new configuration here with the tables, though I preferred the round table. Um we have new microphones and new technology. So since this is our very first adventure into this, please give us some grace in case it doesn't work so well. Right now we'll ask uh city clerk if you'd be so kind to check and see if we're all here. Chairperson, Councilmember Scipio? Here, Councilmember Hall here. Councilmember Joyner present and council member Andrew Bowen. Here thank you. Uh just so everybody knows these fancy microphones is a little button you push uh to speak. Um the system only allows three microphones on at one time, and if you say something that I don't like, I have a mute button because that's what the chair has authority with these new microphones. So uh Mr. Pate, we're gonna target you today. You're all thank you. Our first um item on our very long agenda uh is uh approval of the public safety committee minutes. Move for approval second. We've heard the motion, it's been approved, and we're having voice vote today for everything. So all in favor, aye. Hi. So that passes. So now we'll go to our general agenda. Um Madam Clerk, would you please tee that up? Item G1 resolution authorizing contract renewal for Lexus Nexus Co-Plodic Solutions Inc. and addition of by crash reporting solutions, and who will be presenting this for us? Captain? Yes, good afternoon, Chair City of members of the public safety committee. Captain Amy Gaulden presenting the contract removal for Lexus Nexus Cop Logic Solutions in 2021. So we'd like to continue that contract. The contract itself is 49,560. Okay, thank you. The contract itself is 49,560. In addition to the contract renewal, we are also requesting to implement the by crash system, which allows us to provide copies of our crash reports through Lexus Nexus to commercial vendors. Commercial vendors are already obtaining those reports through Lexus Nexus, so what they would do is implement a fee of $20 for each report that a commercial vendor requests. And what that does, it allows us to offset the cost of the software costs and a portion of the administrative cost associated with the online reporting system, which is known as doors or desk officer reporting system. So just to also put it in perspective. The type of reports that go to the system are non-emergency calls for service, which typically are not a crime in progress, do not have weapons involved, anything that such as like an auto-breaking, littering, or shoplifting is a big component of that as well. So we had 5301 reports actually in 2024. I floated to the system. The by crash, like I mentioned, will then offset. We will provide those reports to the commercial vendors for that fee. There'll also be a five-dollar administrative fee for involved parties to obtain that crash report online through Lexus Nexus, or they can still come to the police department and obtain a copy of that crash report for free. Are there any questions? I do have a question. Yes, ma'am. When you say the commercial vendors, you can hear me?