* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:03] EXCITED AND JOYFUL AND READY TO GET TO WORK, HUH? YEAH. YEAH, IT DID. IT DID. SO, UH, I GUESS, UH, WHAT WE'LL DO IS, I GUESS WE'LL KIND OF USE THE SAME FORMAT, I GUESS, THAT WE FOLLOW WITH THE, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THE COMMISSION, RIGHT. CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER, I GUESS [ AGENDA REFORM SUB COMMITTEE OF THE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZENS ACTION COMMISSION Remote Meeting October 19, 2020 6:00 P.M. ] IT'S WHAT I SAID AT SIX OH SIX OH FOUR, UH, PM. AND, UH, AND I GUESS WE'LL, YOU KNOW, MOVING ALONG THE AGENDA THERE, WE'LL START WITH, I GUESS WHAT THEY ROLL CALL, UH, FIRST, UM, I GUESS WE'LL START WITH, UH, AS DEFINED RAMIREZ TARA HERE, ERIC RICHARDSON. I AM HERE. GREAT. SO TARA, IS IT TARA? TARA, I'M GOING TO MAKE SURE I HEAR TARA. OKAY. IT JUST REALLY DEPENDS ON WHERE YOUR PARENTS ARE FROM AND MINOR FROM CONNECTICUT. SO IT'S IT'S TARA. GOOD, GOOD STUFF. ALL RIGHT. SO, UH, I GUESS, YEAH, LOOKING AT THE AGENDA HERE, UM, WE'LL MOVE INTO, I GUESS, NEW BUSINESS, RIGHT? SO THEN THE FIRST ITEM UP UNDER NEW BUSINESSES, WE MUST APPOINT A CHAIR. UM, SAYS, YOU KNOW, I WAS, UH, CHOSEN TO AT LEAST INITIATE THE MEETING RIGHT. AND BRING US TOGETHER. RIGHT. IT OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T MEAN I WAS, UH, CHOSEN TO BE CHAIR. SO THAT'S THIS, THAT'S WHAT WE HERE HAVE TO AGREE. I THINK SHE'S READY TO MAKE HER, YOU KNOW, I HAVE SOME IDEAS OF WHO WAS NOT GOING TO BE IT. WELL, LIKE I SAID, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO OPEN UP THE FLOOR FOR, UH, FOR, FOR DOMINATIONS, RIGHT. OR FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR THE INDIVIDUALS, THE SERVICE CHAIR, UH, FOR THE REFORM, UM, REFORM COMMITTEE. SO, UM, DOES ANYONE WANT TO NOMINATE YOU THE NOMINATE YOURSELF OR NOMINATE ANYONE TO BE A CHAIR? WHO'S YOUR NOMINATION? I WOULD LIKE TO NOMINATE ERIC STEVEN TO BE THE CHAIR. YOU GUYS DID THAT TOO QUICK. I, THE ESTEBAN WILL MAKE A NOMINATION, MAYBE NOMINATE HIMSELF OR ERIC, RIGHT. I MEAN, COME ON. HEY, WE GONNA STAND WITH YOU. WE GOT THIS. UH, SO I'M SORRY. SO A MOTION WAS PUT ON THE FLOOR AND SEC WASN'T SO MADE THE MOTION AND WAS THAT MOST OF THE SECONDARY, SECONDARY MOTION? OKAY. UM, SO I SPENT PROPERLY MOVED AND SECOND, AND THAT, UH, ERIC STEVENS B UH, UM, I GUESS NOMINATED AS THE, AS THE CHAIR. YOU READY FOR THE QUESTION? SO, UH, I GUESS ALL THOSE, I GUESS, FAVORS, SAY, I GUESS, I GUESS WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL, STARTING WITH ESTEFAN, UH, UH, TARA PURPOSE. UH, ERIC RICHARDSON. AYE. ALRIGHT. MOTION CARRIED. I GUESS I'M NOW THE, UH, CHAIR FOR THE, UH, FOR THE, UH, HERE WE GO, MAN. WE GOT A FIRST MOTION OF BUSINESS. TAKE CARE, GOOD STUFF. GOOD STUFF. WELL, GREAT. WELL LET'S, UH, I GUESS WHAT WE SHOULD DO NOW IS WE'LL MOVE INTO THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. RIGHT. I THINK WHAT WE WANTED TO DO NOW IS TO, UH, KIND OF FOCUS IN ON WHAT ARE OUR OBJECTIVES FOR, UH, FOR THE REFUND COMMITTEE, RIGHT? I MEAN, THAT WAS SORT OF OUR, OUR TASK OR FROM, UH, THE, THE, THE LAST COMMISSION MEETING THAT WE HAD WAS AS WE FORMED THE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES, UH, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO COME UP WITH OUR OBJECTIVES AND, UH, FOR WHAT WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH, I GUESS, KIND OF WHERE THE FOCUS AREAS ARE AND WHAT WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH AS IT RELATES TO THE REFORM COMMITTEE. UH, I GUESS I'LL OPEN THAT UP. AND, AND, UH, AND I HAVE SOME OF MY OWN, UH, THOUGHTS, BUT I'LL, I'LL, I'LL AT LEAST OPEN IT UP AND LET YOU KNOW OTHERS, UM, BE ABLE TO, TO SHARE WHAT, WHAT THEY BELIEVE. WELL, LET ME AT LEAST SAY THIS, RIGHT. LET ME JUST, I DID KIND OF WRITE, I DID WRITE IN THAT OBJECTIVE, IF YOU WILL, FOR THE, UH, FOR THIS REFORM COMMITTEE AND IT, AND IT BASICALLY JUST STATES, UH, YOU KNOW, THE DEVELOP AND [00:05:01] PROPOSE BASICALLY AS A REFORM COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP AND PROPOSE POLICY CHANGES THAT PROMOTE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AND ENSURES, UH, FAIR TREATMENT AND OPPORTUNITIES OF ALL CITIZENS, REGARDLESS OF DEMOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND, RIGHT? RACE, COLOR, CREED, WHAT HAVE YOU, BUT THAT'S SORT OF, YOU KNOW, AS I LOOK AT THAT, THAT'S KIND OF THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE, RIGHT? HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S PUTTING IN POLICIES, WAS MAKING, UM, MAKING THOSE TYPES OF RECOMMENDATION? WELL, OF COURSE WE CAN'T PUT THE POLICIES IN, RIGHT. BUT WE CAN AT LEAST, YOU KNOW, COME UP WITH RECOMMENDATIONS. I COME UP WITH LANGUAGE THAT WE WOULD PROPOSE OBVIOUSLY TO CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER FOR INCORPORATION. UM, NOW ERIC, REAL QUICK, BEFORE WE KEEP MOVING, DO WE NEED TO HAVE SOMEBODY THAT TAKES NOTES AND STUFF LIKE THAT FOR THIS SUBCOMMITTEE? OR HOW DOES THAT GOOD POINT? YES. I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP. SO I'M TARA. I VOLUNTEER TO TAKE NOTES CAUSE THAT'S WHY I'M LOOKING DOWN. IT'S NOT THAT I'M IGNORING YOU. I'M WRITING. OKAY. YOU'RE GOING TO NEED TO SAY THE WHOLE THING MUCH SLOWER BECAUSE I LIKE ARROWS. AND THEN LIKE MISSING FIVE WORDS. I CAN SEND THIS TO YOU, BUT YEAH, BASICALLY THE, WHAT I DETERMINED TO BE THE OBJECTIVE, RIGHT. IT'S JUST MY OPINION. AND THEN WE CAN HAVE THE CONVERSATION AND YOU GUYS HAVE OTHER IDEAS, RIGHT. IN TERMS OF JUST AN OVERALL OBJECTIVE STATEMENT. RIGHT. BUT WHAT IT SAYS IS DEVELOP AND PROPOSE POLICY CHANGES THAT PROMOTES DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AND ENSURES FAIR TREATMENT AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL CITIZENS, REGARDLESS OF DEMOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND. RIGHT NOW WE COULD SPELL THAT OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE IN TERMS OF DEMOGRAPHIC, LIKE GO BACK TO WHAT THE OBJECTIVES ARE OF THE COMMISSION. RIGHT. IT TALKS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, REGARDLESS OF RACE, COLOR, ETHNICITY, I CAN'T REMEMBER SPECIFICALLY, BUT WE CAN USE THAT LANGUAGE. RIGHT. AND SO, UM, SO YEAH, SO I JUST SEE THAT'S WHAT OUR ROLE IS. RIGHT. IT'S TRYING TO COME UP WITH THOSE, THOSE, THOSE TYPES OF RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WILL BE ERIC. IS THAT MORE KIND OF TALKING ABOUT, UM, POLICING? IS THAT HIRING? IS THAT RIGHT? SO YEAH. SO LET ME GET, YEAH, EXACTLY. SO HERE ARE THE THINGS THAT I'VE CAPTURED. THIS IS WHERE I MAY BE AUGUST. I NEED YOUR HELP. I MEAN, EVERYONE'S HELP HERE AND MAKING SURE WE RECOVER THE, UH, UH, THE APPROPRIATE AREAS. RIGHT. SO RIGHT. NUMBER ONE WAS POLICE REFORM. UH, AND THEN NUMBER TWO, I'D SAY, I'M NOT GONNA SAY IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER, RIGHT? NOT THAT IT'S THE TOP PARTY, BUT IT'S THE REFORM I HAD RECRUITING AND HIRING A REFORM OR POLICY UPDATES IF YOU WILL. UM, AND THEN ANOTHER ONE I HAD WAS, UM, I SAID LIKE, ENSURING THAT, YOU KNOW, BUSINESSES, UH, CONTRACTORS WITHIN THE HUBER HEIGHTS, UM, CITY ARE GIVING FAIR OPPORTUNITIES, RIGHT. FOR, FOR WORK WITH THE CITY GOVERNMENT. RIGHT. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, RIGHT. JUST MAKING SURE THAT AGAIN, COMPANIES, MINORITY COMPANIES, RIGHT. ARE GIVEN, UH, A FAIR SHOT AT BEING ABLE TO WIN CONTRACTS OR AT LEAST BEING CONSIDERED FOR CONTRACTS. RIGHT. FOR ANY OF THE WORK THAT THE CITY, UM, UH, NEEDS TO BE DONE AND WHAT I WAS THINKING. SO, UM, BUT YEAH. SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RECRUITING AND HIRING, SO IT'S NOT JUST THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT POLICE, BUT ACROSS MAYBE ALL DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE CITY GOVERNMENT. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT BE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, WHETHER IT BE, UM, HEALTH AND SERVICES. WELL, YOU KNOW, ALL THE DIFFERENT, AGAIN, THE DIFFERENT, THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE CITY. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE WE, WE LOOK AT THOSE PRACTICES, LOOK AT THOSE POLICIES, UM, TO SEE WHERE, UH, CHANGES MAY BE MADE. RIGHT. GOTCHA. UM, SO IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT I'M MISSING? WHAT ELSE DO YOU GOT ME? SO AS WE, AS WE THINK ABOUT REFORM, RIGHT. UM, THINGS THAT THE CITY CAN AFFECT, WHAT OTHER AREAS, UH, SHOULD WE, SHOULD WE CONSIDER, ARE WE MISSING SAY WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, WHEN THE ERA YOU TALKED ABOUT IN POLICING IS, AND I KNOW, I THINK WE HAD TALKED IN OUR MEETING ABOUT THEY'RE TRYING TO BE, WHAT WAS THERE LIKE A, GOING TO BE A NEEDS ASSESSMENT THAT'S DONE FOR THE ENTIRE CITY. YEAH. I WAS GOING TO GET INTO THAT CONVERSATION NEXT, THE NEXT TOPIC ABOUT THE NEWS. OKAY. WELL, I CAN HOLD MY THOUGHT UNTIL THAT THEN TILL YOU GET INTO THAT. UM, [00:10:01] BUT TO, TO ADD TO THAT, THEN I WOULD SAY, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT LOOKS AT, UM, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT POLICE REFORM, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GET INTO THE, YOU KNOW, USE OF FORCE SCENARIO, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, WE COULD LOOK AT TO SEE MAYBE THAT SOMETHING TO COME OUT OF OUR NEEDS ASSESSMENT WHEN IT COMES TO THAT, BUT ALSO HOW, YOU KNOW, OUR POLICE FORCES INTERACTING WITH THOSE THAT ARE HAVING A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS AS WELL. YOU KNOW, ARE WE, YOU KNOW, WHAT I'M SAYING IS THE, YOU KNOW, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OR WHOEVER ARE THEY, YOU KNOW, INFORMED ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH SOMEBODY THAT'S IN A CRISIS BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA BEHAVE A LOT DIFFERENTLY THAN A, I DON'T WANT TO SAY A REGULAR PERSON CAUSE THEY'RE REGULAR PEOPLE TOO. BUT IF THEY'RE HAVING A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS, THEY'RE GOING TO REACT DIFFERENT TO SITUATIONS. I GUESS THAT'S THE BEST WAY TO SAY IT. YEAH, EXACTLY. NO, NO, YOU'RE RIGHT. YEAH. HOW CAN WE, UM, SUGGEST CHANGES, RIGHT. THAT W W UH, SURE. THAT, LIKE YOU SAID, PEOPLE THAT MAYBE ARE DEALING WITH MENTAL HEALTH CRISISES OR MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE ENSURE THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY GET THE PROPER CARE AND TREATMENT RIGHT. UM, IN A SITUATION LIKE THAT. RIGHT. UM, I THINK IS WHAT YOU'RE YEAH. WHAT YOU'RE SUGGESTING THERE. IT WOULD BE ALSO PROBABLY LOOKING INTO, I THINK, ARE WE PROVIDING, OR ARE THEY TRAINED IN THE DEESCALATION TECHNIQUES THAT SOMEBODY THAT IS WORKING DAY TO DAY IN THOSE TYPES OF ENVIRONMENTS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE SPECIFICALLY TRAINED TO DEAL IN THOSE, THOSE AREAS, LIKE, AND ALL, YOU KNOW, FIRST RESPONDERS IN ANY WAY, CAPACITY SHOULD BE EITHER TRAINED IN THAT, OR THERE SHOULD BE PROVIDED IN SOME OTHER CAPACITY. YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA TRAIN YOUR OFFICERS IN YOUR FIRE DEPARTMENT, IN DEESCALATION TECHNIQUES, ARE YOU GOING TO PROVIDE THE STRANGE SOCIAL WORKER TO RESPOND IN THOSE SCENARIOS? YOU KNOW, VERSUS, YOU KNOW, THE HORRIFIC VERSION OF EVENTS WAS THE ONE WITH A SOCIAL WORKER WAS TRYING TO DEESCALATE WITH THE, THE PERSON THAT HAD AUTISM AND THEY SHOT THE SOCIAL WORKER WHILE HE WAS LAYING ON THE GROUND WITH HIS HANDS UP SAYING, DON'T SHOOT ME. THEY SHOT THE SOCIAL WORKER, THE POLICE THAT WERE RESPONDING TO THE, YOU KNOW, ISSUE. CORRECT. EXACTLY. SO, SO YEAH, SO THOSE, THOSE SPECIFIC, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, EXAMPLES OR EVEN POTENTIAL RECOMMENDATIONS, THEY ALL FALL ON A POLICE REFORM, RIGHT. SO THOSE ARE, WE WANT TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, IDEAS, UH, THINGS WE WANT TO CONSIDER AS A PART OF POLICE REFORM. UM, BUT I GUESS AGAIN, JUST TAKING IT UP A LEVEL, RIGHT. YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT, I JUST WANT TO SAY, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, ARE THERE ANY OTHER TYPES OF REFORM THAT WE WANT TO, AS WE LOOK AT THIS FROM A DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION FROM A DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PERSPECTIVE AND FAIR TREATMENT, OR WHAT HAVE YOU, ARE THERE, UH, OTHER AREAS, UM, THAT NEED THAT NEED ADDRESSING, RIGHT. MAYBE WE DON'T KNOW THAT RIGHT NOW, MAYBE THAT'S WHAT WE DO THIS, THAT NEEDS ASSESSMENT, MAYBE THAT HELPS WITH THAT. BUT, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST, JUST TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, DETERMINE IF THERE'S JUST AT A, AT A HIGH LEVEL, WHERE DO WE BELIEVE IN THE CITY OF CUPRA HEIGHTS? UM, YOU KNOW, WHERE DO WE THINK REFORM NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE, OR AT LEAST AREAS WE NEED TO LOOK AT? I THINK, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T HAVE A, A TON OF LENS TO ADD OVER LIKE, YOU KNOW, POLICING AND IT, CAUSE I HAVEN'T HAD THAT MUCH INTERACTION HERE TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, KIND OF HOW IT GOES. I THINK A LOT OF THAT WILL BE WITH THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT. I MEAN, EVERY PLACE NEEDS REFORM. I THINK WE, ESPECIALLY WITH WHAT CAME OUT OF THAT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, A STATEMENT THAT WAS MADE, UM, AT THE BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTEST PRIOR TO THAT OF LIKE HOW TO REACT AND ALTHOUGH THE CITY BACKED IT UP, I THINK WE NEED TO MAYBE JUST ENSURE FAIR BUSINESS PRACTICES OVERALL OVER BUSINESS OWNERS IN HUBER HEIGHTS. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LOT OF DIVERSITY AND A LOT OF DIVERSITY IN THE BUSINESS OWNERS, BUT THERE SEEMS, YOU KNOW, WE JUST SHOULD BE LOOKING INTO ENSURE THAT ALL BUSINESSES ARE OPERATED FAIRLY AND THERE'S NO, YOU KNOW, HOW DO THE CITIZENS REALLY FEEL ABOUT ALL OF THE BUSINESSES HERE AND HOW THEY'RE WRONG? ARE THEY FAIR? ARE THEY TREATED THE SAME WAY? SO WHEN I THINK OF OBJECTIVES AND I HAVE A COUPLE [00:15:01] OF, I GUESS, AREAS THAT COULD BE OF USE TO LOOK ON TUNE, WHICH THINK INCLUDES THE, THE, THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY, BUT JUST THE GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF HUBER HEIGHTS. SO FOR, FOR ME, WHEN I THINK OF OBJECTIVES, I THINK THE OBJECTIVE, WELL, ONE OF THE OBJECTIVES THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US TO SEE IT'S TO DETERMINE IF THERE'S EVIDENCE OF BIAS WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION OF HUBER HEIGHTS, THAT THAT WOULD INCLUDE ONLY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT WOULD INCLUDE, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, THE DEPARTMENT OF, UH, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OR HOWEVER, THE PRACTICES WITHIN, UH, THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ITSELF. UM, SO WHEN I THINK OBJECTIVES, I THINK OF SOMETHING THAT WE CAN USE AN UMBRELLA EFFECT TO FOCUS ON AND THEN KIND OF USE THE COMMUNITY TO, TO PING, TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. SO I WOULD CATEGORIZE THAT AS THE FRUSTRATION OF HUBER HEIGHTS, AND THAT WOULD BE AN AREA THAT I, I, I LISTED AS AN AREA TO LOOK INTO, BUT ALSO HOUSING, UH, UH, PINGING, UM, UH, THE COMMUNITY, AGAIN, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF THERE ARE ANY ISSUES WITHIN, YOU KNOW, THE HOUSING PROCESS. UH, AND AGAIN, THESE ARE WHERE YOU MAY NOT EXPERIENCE THESE ISSUES, BUT IN ORDER TO FIGURE OUT IF THERE ARE ANY OBJECTIVES OR ANY SPECIFIC PROGRAMS OR REFORMS FOR US TO TACKLE PING IN THE COMMUNITY, THOSE THAT ARE EXPERIENCING ISSUES, UH, I, I THINK THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER CATEGORY. UM, AND THEN MOST IMPORTANTLY NOW VOTING, I KNOW WITH COVID A LOT OF THE, UH, DIFFERENT, UH, PROCESSES THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW, BUT EDUCATING THE YOUTH, UM, LOOKED INTO, UH, THE PAST COUPLE OF, UH, VOTING, UM, UH, TERMS, THE AVERAGE AGE FOR VOTING IN HUBER HEIGHTS WAS 38 39, UH, SORRY, 42 TO 45 AVERAGE AGE WAS ANYWHERE BETWEEN 35 TO 36. UM, I THINK AS WE'RE GOING INTO, YOU KNOW, AFFORD ELECTIONS, MAYBE TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT SOME PRO, MAYBE SEEING IF THERE'S ANY AREAS THAT WE COULD APPROVE FOR OUR COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND THE VOTING PROCESS AND UNDERSTANDING THE VOTING CONCEPTS, BUT AGAIN, SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ASK COMMUNITY TO, TO LOOK INTO AND OF COURSE, CIVIL RIGHTS AND KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, UM, IS IT EASY FOR OUR CITIZENS TO, UH, YOU KNOW, REACH OUT TO THE HUBER HEIGHTS ADMINISTRATION TO UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS, TO MAKE COMPLAINTS? IS IT EASY? IS IT PAINFUL? UH, I KNOW IN DATE AND THEY HAVE A PRETTY STRAIGHT FORWARD PROCESS ON THEIR, UH, HOME HOMEPAGE THAT, YOU KNOW, LAYS OUT ALL THE LAWS WITHIN THE CITY, YOU KNOW, AND THEN GIVES THEM DIRECT, UH, DIRECT CONTEXT FOR THE CITY ITSELF TO LIST COMPLAINTS, YOU KNOW, IS AN EASY PROCESS FOR US CITIZENS WITHIN HUBER HEIGHTS TO, YOU KNOW, RAISE THEIR HAND AND COUGH, FOUL PLAY. I DON'T KNOW. AND THEN I GUESS TALKING TO ME AGAIN ABOUT THE ECONOMICAL BUSINESS, YOU KNOW, ARE THERE ANY LIKE, UH, NEED DISCREPANCIES AND IN, UH, IN THE DEMOGRAPHICS FOR BUSINESSES. SO WHEN I SEE THAT I SEE ABOUT FIVE GROUPS CATEGORIES THAT WE CAN POSSIBLY, YOU KNOW, REFINE OBJECTIVES AND THEN GO OFF AND NEEDS ASSESSMENTS. BUT THAT'S JUST OFF OF WHAT I WAS THINKING AND TO GO AND TO GO BACK TO THE POLICE REFORM THAT, THAT ALL FALLS WITHIN THE, THE, THE OBJECTIVE THAT THE HUBER HEIGHTS ADMINISTRATION ITSELF. YEAH, NO, NO GOOD STUFF. ESTEBAN, NOT APPRECIATE THAT. YEAH. I THINK YOU TOUCHED ON A LOT OF STUFF FROM A NEEDS ASSESSMENT PERSPECTIVE, WHICH IS GREAT. AND WE'LL, UM, THOSE ARE THE THINGS DEFINITELY NEED TO CONSIDER. UM, UM, AS I BACK TO, I GUESS THE WHOLE THING ABOUT REFORM, RIGHT. I THINK IF WE, THE KEY THING ABOUT FROM A POLICY PERSPECTIVE, RIGHT? CAUSE WE'RE FOCUSED ON POLICY AND PROCESS OR POLICY OR POLICY CHANGES TO, TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE, UM, ADDRESSING THE CONCERN ABOUT FAIR TREATMENT EQUALITY WITHIN THIS WITHIN CITY, WITHIN THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS. UM, RIGHT. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ONE FROM A CITY PERSPECTIVE, RIGHT. DOES IT REFLECT, DOES THE DEMOGRAPHIC OF THE CITY, UM, AT LEAST IN TERMS OF THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS, DOES IT REFLECT THE COMMUNITY? RIGHT? ARE WE ENSURING THAT THERE IS DIVERSITY WITHIN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE CITY? ONE THING THAT WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO, OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS, RIGHT. AND THEN, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, UH, NEED TO MAKE SURE AT LEAST THE CITY WHEN THEY ARE, UH, WELL FOR ONE, TWO, ARE THEY, AS BUSINESSES COME TO, ARE LOOKING TO COME TO HOOPER HEIGHTS, ARE THEY BEING GIVEN, YOU KNOW, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY ARE A WHITE OWNED, BLACK OWNED OR, OR PEOPLE OF COLOR ON, ARE THEY BEING GIVEN A FAIR TREATMENT WHEN IT COMES TO BRINGING THEM INTO THE CITY OR [00:20:01] GETTING, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THEY NEED TO, UM, SET UP BUSINESS, SET THEIR BUSINESS WITHIN YOOPER HEIGHTS, RIGHT. ARE WE, IS THE CITY, YOU KNOW, GIVING OR TREATING THOSE FOLKS EQUALLY, UM, ACROSS THE BOARD? RIGHT? SO, UH, THOSE ARE JUST KEY AREAS, MAKING SURE THAT THE CITY GOVERNMENT HAS POLICIES THAT ARE WELCOMING TO ALL PEOPLE, OUR BUSINESSES ARE WELCOMING TO, UH, ENSURING THAT, UH, IN TERMS OF PEOPLE THAT WANT TO COME WORK FOR THE CITY, THAT THEY'RE BEING GIVEN FAIR OPPORTUNITIES TO COME WORK FOR THE CITY. SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE THE THINGS I THINK WE, WE NEED TO, YOU KNOW, TAKE A LOOK AT RIGHT, WHAT DOCUMENTATION IS AVAILABLE WITH WHAT'S EXISTING TODAY. WE VIEW THAT. UM, AND THEN, BUT, BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT, RIGHT, IT, IT, IT MAY BE LET'S MOVE ON TO THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT PIECE. RIGHT. UM, LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT, THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. RIGHT. SO I THINK SO FROM A NEEDS ASSESSMENT, I GUESS WE NEED TO DETERMINE, CAUSE BEFORE WE ACTUALLY CAN MOVE FORWARD ON ANY SORT OF POLICY CHANGE, RIGHT. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE PROBLEMS ARE, RIGHT. WHAT ARE THE ISSUES LIKE YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, WE GOTTA GET THAT MAYBE SOME FROM THE, FROM THE COMMUNITY, RIGHT. WE NEED TO HAVE SOME SORT OF SURVEY WE NEED, UH, WE NEED TO GET SOME FEEDBACK, RIGHT? YOU, I CAN TALK ABOUT COMPLAINTS. IT'D BE GOOD TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE, WHAT THE PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY, RIGHT. UH, WHAT THEY FEEL ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. I THINK THERE'S PROBABLY A LIST OF QUESTIONS, RIGHT. UH, THAT NEED TO BE PUT TOGETHER. BUT, BUT I THINK FIRST OF ALL, WE NEED TO KNOW THE STEP BACK FOR A SECOND. WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE DEMOGRAPHICS, I DON'T KNOW. THERE MAY BE SOME, WE NEED TO GET SOME DATA JUST ON THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF HUBRIS. I THINK WE, YOU KNOW WHAT, I THINK I'VE SEEN SOME NUMBERS, BUT AT LEAST WANT TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION. RIGHT. UH, WHAT'S THE DEMOGRAPHICS, NOT OF JUST PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE, BUT WHAT'S THE DEMOGRAPHIC OF JUST THE BUSINESSES. RIGHT. I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN GET THAT INFORMATION IN TERMS OF THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE IN NEW BRIGHTS, WHAT'S THE DEMOCRAT DEMOGRAPHICS IN TERMS OF OWNERSHIP, RIGHT. AT THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE HERE. RIGHT. AND THEN WHAT ARE THE DEMOGRAPHICS WITHIN THE CITY GOVERNMENT? LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT WHETHER THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, THE HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT, ALL THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS, WHAT ARE THE DEMOGRAPHICS, BUT, YOU KNOW, WHITE VERSUS BLACK VERSUS HISPANIC VERSUS ASIAN, WHAT HAVE YOU, UM, CAUSE THAT MAYBE HELP FROM A STUDENT SPEC, AT LEAST WE CAN, IT GIVES US INSIGHT AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S TRUE DIVERSITY. RIGHT. YOU KNOW? RIGHT. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WITH THE POLICE REPORT, YOU KNOW, WE MAY FILE WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. WOW. THEY REALLY HAVE AN ISSUE. SO WE NEED TO FOCUS IN, ON THE HIRING AND RECRUITING PROCESS FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, FOR EXAMPLE. RIGHT. UM, AND YOU KNOW, JUST THROWING THAT OUT THERE. RIGHT. SO THOSE ARE THINGS WE NEED THAT WE PROBABLY NEED TO START GATHERING. SOME LET'S IDENTIFY WHAT DATA WE NEED. SO I'M NOT, I'M NOT SURE IF Y'ALL READ INTO IT. AND I MEAN, THERE'S, THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN AN OBVIOUS ISSUE ON, YOU KNOW, HAVING A PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION ON A FIRST RESPONDER, YOU KNOW, DEPARTMENTS. AND IT'S NOT, AS, IT'S NOT AN ISSUE SPECIFIC TO YOUR HIGH, IT'S NOT AN ISSUE SPECIFIC TO DAYTON, OHIO, TEXAS, IT'S, IT'S A WIDESPREAD ISSUE. AND SO THERE'S A COUPLE OF REPORTS OUT THERE THAT JUST, THAT ARE JUST REFLECTING, THAT THEY CAN'T GET THE RECRUITS IN THE TRAINING IN THE FIRST PLACE. SO IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE RECRUITS AND THE TRAINING, THE FIRST PLACE, YOU'RE ALREADY HAVING A STRATIFIED GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS THAT, AND A LIMITED POOL OF INDIVIDUALS THAT CAN BE HIRED. SO OFTENTIMES I THINK THAT IT, IT, IT CAN BE AN ISSUE AND SOMETIMES THERE ARE ISSUES AND THAT'S WHAT WE CAN LOOK INTO IN THE HIRING PRACTICE AT THE SAME TIME. LIKE WHAT DOES THE TRAINING ACADEMY LOOK LIKE? IS IT ALREADY 90, 90% CAUCASIAN? MY PERSON AFRICAN-AMERICAN. AND LIKE, SO HOW DOES THAT IMPACT THE HIRING DECISIONS HERE? AND LIKE, I KNOW FOR, I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT FOR, SO I WENT TO FIRE ACADEMY HERE AT SINCLAIR AND, UH, I WAS, UH, ONE OF TWO AFRICAN-AMERICANS THERE, UM, PROBABLY 90% VETERANS GOING THROUGH ACADEMY, BUT THE FACT THAT WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE EQUAL REPRESENTATION IN THE TRAINING ACADEMY AND ONE FLUNKED OUT. SO I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT GRADUATED TO GET THROUGH IN ITSELF SHOWS THAT THERE'S A MUCH DEEPER PROBLEM WITHIN THE SUBCULTURES OF OUR COMMUNITY TO TRY TO GET THEM LIFTED UP, TO, TO GET THERE. SO I THINK IT CAN BE INTERESTING TO LOOK INTO, I THINK IT'S AN INTERESTING AND FUN TO TRY TO GET THE COMMUNITY INVOLVED, BUT I DO THINK THERE'S GONNA BE SOME, SOME PROBLEMS TO TRY TO GET TO A COMMON UNDERSTANDING ON WHY THERE ISN'T THE PROPER REP REPRESENTATION, YOU KNOW, THEIR POINT, OTHER THOUGHTS. NO, I THINK [00:25:01] THAT'S A GOOD POINT THAT WE, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY YOU WANT TO, YOU KNOW, YOUR, THE LEADERSHIP SHOULD REPRESENT, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, THAT MEMBERSHIP, RIGHT. SO, UM, I'M IN TOTAL AGREEANCE WITH THAT. AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN GO AFTER, YOU KNOW, AND WE CAN LOOK AT, UM, I'M DEFINITELY A FAN OF THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT PIECE OF IT FROM A KIND OF LIKE A, I GUESS THE BEST WAY TO SAY KIND OF LIKE A CORPORATE LEVEL. SO I GET THAT, BUT I'M ALSO A BIG FAN OF A NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF MOUTH TO MOUTH. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? WORD TO WORD, BECAUSE I THINK THEREFORE YOU CAN KIND OF HELP VALIDATE WHAT A CORPORATE NEEDS ASSESSMENT IS. SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT WE COULD DO IS ONE SINCE OUR TOTAL COMMISSION, NOT JUST OUR SUB-TEAM RIGHT HERE, BUT OUR TOTAL COMMISSION IS SOMETHING NEW. SO IT'S ALMOST LIKE I FEEL WE KIND OF NEED TO, UM, A PROMOTION TO KIND OF KICK THIS THING OFF TO LET THE RESONANCE OF HUBER HEIGHTS. NO. OKAY. FIRST OF ALL, GUESS WHAT, THERE IS A CITIZENS, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION, PERIOD, HANDS DOWN, THAT'S THAT. AND WHAT IT IS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, UH, AND BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THAT. SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, HOW WE CAN, YOU KNOW, THROUGH CITY COUNCIL OR WHATEVER WE NEED TO DO, IF THAT'S A LIVE STREAM, SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DO, YOU KNOW, AND BE ABLE TO PROMOTE THAT TYPE OF EVENT. AND THEN LET FOLKS KNOW AT THAT TIME, HEY, WE WANT SOME FEEDBACK AND WE WANT SOME INFORMATION FROM THE COMMUNITY, WHICH IS GOING TO HELP US VALIDATE, OKAY, THIS NEEDS PIECE, BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'RE ALL PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE, NUMBERS CAN BE TURNED HOWEVER WAY YOU WANT THEM TO BE TURNED BASED UPON THE OUTCOME THAT YOU'RE LOOKING TO HAVE. RIGHT. SO, BUT I THINK THE TRUE INDICATOR IS HOW OUR RESIDENTS, PEOPLE THAT ARE US, YOU KNOW, FROM HUBER HEIGHTS, HOW DO WE FEEL ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING AND WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? SO THAT'S KINDA MY THOUGHT I WOULD LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS CAN HELP ME AND, YOU KNOW, BASED UPON WHAT OUR WHOLE COMMISSION, HOW DO WE PULL THAT OFF TO, TO PUT THAT OUT THERE, TO GET THE INFORMATION BACK. I THINK WHAT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR US? THE MOST RECENT DEMOGRAPHIC MAKEUP ONLINE FOR US WAS THE 2010 CENSUS. EXCUSE ME, I'M GETTING A LITTLE SOMETHING. I'M NOT SURE WHAT I HAVE, BUT ON THE ACTUAL HUBER HEIGHTS PAGE. AND THEN IF YOU GO TO LIKE THE YEAR WEST CENSUS, THERE'S ONE, THAT'S ALSO BASED OFF OF 2010. SO IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THAT'S BEEN UPDATED IN 10 YEARS. YEAH. IT'S USUALLY AROUND 70 TO 75% THAT ARE USUALLY CAUCASIAN. AND THEN THE FURTHER NORTH YOU GO UP THAT NEVER INCREASES THAT TO 80 TO 85, AND THEN YOU GO UP TO MAINE. BUT IF YOU HAVE TO, IT'D BE INTERESTING JUST TO SEE HOW THAT MAKEUP, YOU KNOW, COMES OFF AT THE END OF THIS. WE'LL ONCE IT'S UPDATED NEXT YEAR FROM THE 20, 20 CENSUS. YEAH. SORRY. SORRY ABOUT THAT. YEAH. SO, SO ALTHOUGH, YEAH, WE DON'T HAVE THE DEMOGRAPHICS, AT LEAST THE MOST RECENT DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE, OF THE COMMUNITY OF HUBRIS. WE CAN, I MEAN, WE COULD PROBABLY DRAW SOME CONCLUSIONS. RIGHT. I MEAN, IT COULD BE, CAUSE CAUSE YOU COULD EVEN LOOK AT IT PROBABLY STATISTICALLY WHEN YOU LOOK AT HISTORICALLY RIGHT. EVERY 10 YEARS, YOU KNOW, HOW THE DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES. RIGHT. BUT I ASSUME IT DIDN'T CHANGE DRASTICALLY. I ASSUME, UH, AFRICAN AMERICANS PROBABLY STILL MAKE UP ABOUT 14, MAYBE 15% SOMEWHERE IN THERE. LIKE I SAID, UM, WHITE AMERICANS BUY MAKEUP AROUND WHAT, 60, 70, 70%. AND THEN WHAT HAVE YOU, BUT, BUT I THINK THE ONE, SOME OF THE DATA THAT WE CAN COLLECT THE RIGHT, UH, CAUSE WE TALK ABOUT THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE CITY, BUT WE CAN THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE, OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT. RIGHT. WE CAN REACH OUT TO, I GUESS. SO, I MEAN, UM, ROB, ROB, SORRY, ROB, ROB SOBER. AND IT CAN GIVE US THE, THE BREAKOUT, YOU KNOW, THE DEMOCRAT, THE DEMOGRAPHIC, UM, STATISTICS ON, YOU KNOW, ALL THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS. RIGHT. AND IT'S, YOU'RE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING THAT'S FINE. WELL, I GUESS THAT GOES BACK TO SOME, I GUESS THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, I GUESS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS, [00:30:01] IF WE WERE EITHER BE A BROAD QUESTION OR, YOU KNOW, SOME GENERALLY BROAD QUESTIONS IS, IS DO YOU, DO YOU LEAVE THE HUBER HEIGHTS ADMINISTRATION, UH, APPROPRIATE, APPROPRIATELY REPRESENTS, UH, DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE COMMUNITY AND DO YOU FEEL, YOU KNOW, SAFE APPROACHING THEM TYPE SITUATION? YOU KNOW, I MEAN THE, THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT IS SUPPOSED TO BE MORE WHAT I WOULD ASSUME IT'D BE BOTH, YOU KNOW, BROAD QUESTIONS TO, YOU KNOW, NOT TO, TO BRING BIAS UPON TO INTER INTERVIEWEES, BUT ALSO A LITTLE GENERAL AND SPECIFIC QUESTIONS JUST TO GET A GENERAL VIBE, YOU KNOW, BASED OFF OF OUR PURPOSE. SO WHEN I THINK OF THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, WHAT W W WHAT'S WHAT'S THE INTENTION IS, IS IT TO DRAFT QUESTIONS SPECIFICALLY, OR JUST TO DO, JUST TO GENERALIZE TARGET AREAS FOR A CONSULTANT TO, YOU KNOW, TO, TO FORMULATE WHATEVER SERVER THEY NEED TO, TO, TO GET TO THE ANSWERS THAT WE NEED. YEAH. THAT'S A, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. YEAH. I DON'T KNOW THAT OUR JOB IS TO COME UP WITH THE SPECIFIC SURVEY QUESTIONS. IF YOU'RE ASKING THAT I WAS THERE, I'M SURE WE PROBABLY HAVE SOME IDEAS. RIGHT. WE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THAT. RIGHT. IT'D BE NICE. AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GET IT, MAYBE, OBVIOUSLY WE WANT, WE DO WANT, UM, INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF, IN TERMS OF ALL THE SERVICES. RIGHT. WHETHER IT BE POLICE SERVICES, WHETHER IT BE, I MEAN, ALL THE DIFFERENT SERVICES THAT THE CITY PROVIDES. RIGHT. WE'D LIKE TO KNOW HOW THE COMMUNITY FEELS, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING ABOUT THE SERVICES THAT HUBER HEIGHTS PROVIDES. RIGHT. AND SO NOW THE SPECIFIC TYPES OF QUESTIONS, YOU KNOW, AND MAYBE THAT'S WHERE THE CONSULTANT HELPS US COME UP WITH THOSE QUESTIONS THAT THEY COME UP WITH THE QUESTIONS. RIGHT. UM, CAUSE YEAH, I LIKE TO KNOW WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, RIGHT. YOU KNOW, FOR THOSE THAT HAVE, UM, HAD ENCOUNTERS WITH THE POLICE, RIGHT. YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THEIR, WHAT THEIR OVERALL FEELING IS, RIGHT. WHAT WAS, YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS THEIR EXPERIENCE? RIGHT. UM, YOU KNOW, SOMEHOW RATE THAT, RIGHT. YOU KNOW, IT WAS A GOOD, BAD, UGLY, WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, UM, WE JUST, WE, WE, AND WHO KNOWS, IT MAY BE BETTER, BETTER TO, YOU KNOW, HOLD IT OFF FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS OR DO IT ON A NON ELECTION YEAR, JUST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IN GENERAL, YOU KNOW, ELECTIONS, EVERYBODY'S SELLING, YOU KNOW, AMP UP JUST BECAUSE OF POLITICS. AND, YOU KNOW, SOME, SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST BIASED AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'LL, THEY'LL THROW THE VOICE OUT THERE. MAYBE WE SHOULD, MAYBE IF WE DO THE, IF WE EXECUTE THE NEED ASSESSMENT, MAYBE, WELL, WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, BUT CALM DOWN. AND EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, CALMS DOWN FROM, YOU KNOW, JUST THE RACIAL TENSION, THE POLICE TENSION, THE, THE, THE RED VERSUS BLUE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE JUST TO GIVE EVERYBODY CALM AND IT MAY TAKE AWHILE, LET ME TAKE A MINUTE. BUT WHAT IF WE JUST DID OUR OWN NEEDS ASSESSMENT AS A COMMISSION? YEAH. WELL, SO WHEN I SAY NEEDS SO WELL, GOT IT. WELL, FIRST OF ALL, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO LEAST IDENTIFY WHAT IF, WHAT INFORMATION CAN WE GATHER RIGHT NOW? I MEAN, INFORMATION WE NEED TO, TO HELP US, UH, FOCUS ON THE AREAS OF NEED OR CONCERN. RIGHT. BUT INFORMATION, I THINK PART OF THIS, I THINK IS LET'S IDENTIFY WHAT INFORMATION DO WE NEED OR NEED OR THINGS THAT WE NEED TO DO. RIGHT. WHAT ARE THOSE ACTIONS THAT, UM, THAT WE NEED TO TAKE, OR AT LEAST INFORMATION WE NEED TO GATHER SO THAT WE CAN START REVIEWING THE DATA, REVIEWING THE INFORMATION AND THEN DETERMINE WHAT THE NEXT STEPS ARE. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF CAUSE, RIGHT. WE DON'T KNOW. YEAH. WE CAN SAY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SYSTEMIC RACISM OR THAT THERE'S ISSUES OR WHAT HAVE YOU, BUT YOU KNOW, WHERE DO WE NEED TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE NEED TO TACKLE FIRST, I GUESS? RIGHT. UH, WHERE'S THE BIGGEST PROBLEM, RIGHT. I DON'T KNOW. RIGHT. UM, I'VE SUCCEEDED HAVING A NEEDS ASSESSMENT OR HAVING A SURVEY WOULD BE GREAT. IT GIVES YOU A LOT MORE INSIGHT. RIGHT. AND YEAH, WE MAY HAVE TO PUSH IT OFF FOR A LITTLE WHILE. I DON'T KNOW, BUT WHAT CAN WE, YOU KNOW, UH, WHAT CAN WE GATHER NOW, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF STATISTICS AND DATA, UM, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S MORE OF WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, I'M IN AGREEANCE WITH YOU. I THINK WE COULD GET, BECAUSE WE CAN PULL THAT DATA OR AT LEAST TRY TO GET THE BEST THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? DOES THE, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAY, THE FIRST ONE DOES THE LEADERSHIP MATCH TO MEMBERSHIP. SO I THINK THAT STUFF WE CAN FIND, RIGHT. YOU KNOW, HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE KNOW WHO'S, UH, YOU KNOW, WHO'S ON OUR CITY COUNCIL. WE KNOW WHO'S OUR MAYOR. WE KNOWS, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? WE KNOW OUR CITY COMMISSION. OKAY. LET'S TRY TO FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, OUR FIRST RESPONDERS, I THINK THAT STUFF WE CAN FIND OUT AND IT GETS SOME INFORMATION FOR THAT COULD BE A GOOD START FOR US AND ALL THE, I GUESS, DATA STUFF LET'S DO THAT FIRST. YEAH. [00:35:01] SO FUNNY ENOUGH, I REACHED OUT TO SOME, SOME, UH, LOCAL, UH, NETWORKS AT DAYTON KETTERING, SOME OF, YOU KNOW, THE SAME, YOU KNOW, ACTIVE CITIZENS OR TAKEN UP SOME OF THE SIMILAR CAUSES FOR, FOR, FOR, UH, FOR, UM, UH, CIVIL RIGHTS AND, AND, UH, POLICE REFORM BASICALLY. AND SO TALKING TO A COUPLE OF THEM, THEY SAID THAT, WELL, OBVIOUSLY THE DATA'S THERE. I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S THE GOVERNMENT, THEY SHOULD BE TV DIRECTORS OF THAT, SO THEY CAN REPORT IT UP. THAT'S JUST HOW THINGS WORK OUT, BUT IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT MAKING THE REQUEST ITSELF. IT'S HOW, UH, QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY THE HUBER OR LOCAL ADMINISTRATION GETS THAT INFORMATION BACK TO US. AND I'VE HEARD ANYWHERE BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, A MONTH UP TO FOUR MONTHS. SO IF INFORMATION IS THERE AND THAT COULD BE REFLECTIVE ON, YOU KNOW, THE, ON THE, ON THE, ANYTHING FOR THE WORD RIGHT NOW ON THE SUPPORT THAT WE'RE GETTING FROM OUR, OUR OWN LEADERS, OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS. I MEAN, IF THEY'RE NOT WILLING TO PROVIDE INFORMATION, WHICH WE KNOW MAYBE I'LL TAKE A MONTH, WHICH IS, WHICH IS PERFECTLY FINE, BUT IT'S TAKEN FOUR MONTHS TO GET THAT INFORMATION. LIKE HOW CONFIDENT AND HOW WILLING TO SUPPORTIVE ARE OUR OWN LEADERS WHO PUT INTO THE POSITION AND OF THIS COMMISSION OF THIS COMMITTEE AND ACTUALLY MAKING A TRUE CHANGE. SO THAT IS THERE. I KNOW THAT JUST HOW SOON CAN WE GET IT TO, TO GET THAT BACK OUT TO THE COMMUNITY. SO THAT'D BE INTERESTING IN ITSELF JUST TO SEE HOW, WHAT THAT TURNAROUND TIME IS FOR THEM TO GET THE INFORMATION BACK TO US. SO THAT'S MY OVERALL JUST CONCEPT OF THE WHOLE, WHOLE SITUATION. YEAH. THAT'S GOOD. GOOD. UH, THEY PUT YOU RIGHT. I GUESS WE NEED TO, FIRST OF ALL, MAKE THE, WELL, IDENTIFY WHAT WE WANT AND MAKE THE REQUEST BECAUSE YOU'RE RIGHT. WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT'S GOING TO WELL, YEAH, WE'LL, WE WON'T KNOW UNTIL WE ASK. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'LL, I GUESS WE NEED TO GET SOME SENSE OF HOW RESPONSIVE, YOU KNOW, HOW RESPONSIBLE THEY'D BE LIKE. UM, SO, UM, CAUSE YEAH, I MEAN, AS I THINK ABOUT LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN I THINK ABOUT POLICE REFORM, RIGHT. OBVIOUSLY THAT'S ONE OF THE AREAS, YOU KNOW, I, I WANT US TO FOCUS IN ON, AND AGAIN, NOT TO SAY THAT THERE'S BIG ISSUES IN HEBREW HEIGHTS WHEN IT, AS IT RELATES TO OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT. I JUST, I DON'T KNOW, LIKE, BUT AGAIN, IT'S ABOUT HOW CAN WE BE PROACTIVE INSTEAD OF REACTIVE. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, UM, HOW DO WE KEEP CERTAIN SITUATIONS FROM POTENTIALLY HAPPENING, YOU KNOW, FROM POTENTIALLY HAPPENING HERE IN HOOPER HEIGHTS. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE MAKE CHANGES AHEAD OF, OF, OF, OF, UH, SOMETHING, UH, POTENTIALLY HAPPENING HERE. AND SO, UM, BUT LIKE SOME OF THE THINGS, AND I KNOW ROB, HE'S A FORMER, UH, POLICE CHIEF, RIGHT. WITHIN HUBER HEIGHTS, RIGHT. HE'S A CITY MANAGER. SO LIKE TO THINK ANY OF THE DATA THAT WE NEED OR STATISTICS THAT WE NEED FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, I GUESS MOVE RELATIVELY QUICKLY TO GET THOSE, GET THAT DATA FOR US. RIGHT. SO LIKE, YOU KNOW, FOR, YOU KNOW, AS I'M THINKING, BUT WE'LL SEE. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, ROD, COME ON, MAN. WHAT'S GOING TO MISS THEM LIKE THREE BUCKS, MAN, COME ON, SIT. YOU'RE GOING TO WORK WITH US, YOU KNOW, COME ON. BUT, UH, YEAH. I MEAN, I ASSUME HE'S GONNA, YOU KNOW, BE SUPPORTIVE AND GATHER THE FOR US, BUT YEAH. BUT WHAT DO WE NEED? RIGHT. SO IT'D BE GOOD TO KNOW. UM, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN I THINK ABOUT, UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UM, HOW MANY, AND WE MAY NOT EVEN HAVE ANY RIGHT. OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTINGS, FOR EXAMPLE, I'M JUST THROWING THAT OUT. RIGHT. OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTINGS AND IN HUBER HEIGHTS IN THE LAST, I DON'T KNOW, FEAR A COUPLE OF YEARS, FOR EXAMPLE. RIGHT. AND W AND, AND, UH, WHAT WERE THE, WERE THE SUSPECTS, WERE THEY BLACK, WHITE, YELLOW, YOU KNOW, JUST WHO WAS INVOLVED, RIGHT. OR IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY, WHAT THE ARREST, THE ARREST BLACK VERSUS WHITE VERSUS HISPANIC, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST THINKING OUT LOUD. RIGHT. BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'D BE GOOD TO JUST GET, SIR, UH, HOW MANY OFFICER COMPLAINTS, I ASSUME THEY COLLECT DATA ON COMPLAINTS FROM OFFICERS. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, UM, HOW MANY COMPLAINTS DO YOU HAVE? UH, AND I DON'T THINK I SHARE WHO THE INDIVIDUAL, THEY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SHARE WHO THE INDIVIDUAL THAT HAS THE MOST COMPLAINTS, I DON'T KNOW. RIGHT. BUT, UM, I GOT AN ANSWER TO THAT, TO THAT OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING TWO IN THE PAST 15 YEARS. 15. WOW. PRETTY GOOD RECORD. YEAH. BUT THAT'S, I MEAN, BUT THE DATA THAT DATA IN ITSELF, WE HAVE THAT DATA ASK [00:40:01] FOR IT, AND THEN WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION TO FOCUS ON. BUT I THINK, I MEAN, I THINK YOU SHOULD REACH OUT TO ROB AND SAY, IS IT A PERMISSION IF THE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE, WHAT TYPE OF DETAILS CAN WE GET? AND HOW SOON CAN WE GET IT? YEAH. IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO LIKE WHERE YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE REST PER CRIME, PER DEMOGRAPHIC AND OFFICER COMPLAINTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. WE ALSO NEED TO LOOK INTO LIKE, IF THEY'RE RESPONDING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ARE THEY DEMAR, HOW ARE THEY RESPONDING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OF THIS DEMOGRAPHIC, THAT DEMOGRAPHIC OR THINGS LIKE THAT? YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S SOMETIMES A LOT OF BIASES INVOLVED IN, IN THOSE TYPES OF COMPLAINTS AND THERE MAY BE A DIFFERENT, AND IT MAY BE SOMETHING WE CAN LOOK AT WITH LIKE THE TYPE OF THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND QUALITY POLICING. AND HOW DO YOU VIEW WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT IT BY THE TYPE OF RESPONSES AS WELL, IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, NOT NECESSARILY TRAFFIC, BUT ALSO WHEN YOU'RE RESPONDING TO VARIOUS CALLS, DO YOU MORE TO PHRASE IT AS LIKE, IF YOU HAD A POLICE, YOU KNOW, HAVE YOU HAD A POLICE INVOLVED CALL IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS? YES. WELL, IT WASN'T THIS TYPE OF A RESPONSE. YES. HOW DO YOU VIEW THAT INTERACTION BASED ON THAT TYPE OF CALL, YOU KNOW, JUST TO KIND OF PIECE THAT OUT ON THERE AND TO GO WITH THE GOALS, YOU KNOW, AND OBJECTIVES, YOU KNOW, FOR THE COMMISSION, IF, IF THAT'S ONE OF OUR GOALS AND OBJECTIVE IS POLICE REFORM, WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT ALL AREAS OF THAT POLICING, YOU KNOW, ACTIONS AND, AND MAYBE INACTIONS BASED ON WHAT WE FIND. YEAH, NO, DEFINITELY. YEP, EXACTLY. SO, SO YEAH, THIS IS WHERE I COULD USE SOME HELP. MAYBE WE CAN PUT TOGETHER A LIST OF, AND AGAIN, I JUST THREW OUT A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES OF TYPES OF INFORMATION WE'D LIKE TO GATHER FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, BUT MAYBE WE CAN TAKE AN ACTION. I KIND OF COME UP WITH SOME THINGS, YOU GOT SOME THINGS THAT SEND ME A LIST OF THOSE THINGS THAT NEED LIKE, OR THAT YOU THINK WOULD BE HELPFUL. RIGHT. SO THAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE NEGATIVE, WHERE THE PROBLEM IS, AT LEAST UNDERSTAND WHAT, WHAT THE SITUATION IS HERE, RIGHT. TO SEE IF THERE'S A PROBLEM OR A, IS THERE, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENT FACTORS, RIGHT. YOU KNOW, IS, YOU KNOW, CAN WE GLEAN FROM THE DATA THAT THERE'S, IT SEEMS TO BE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF, UM, OUTCOME WITH THIS SCENARIO, WITH THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE VERSUS A DIFFERENT GROUP OF PEOPLE. ARE WE GETTING A DIFFERENT, IS THERE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF OUTCOME, RIGHT. ANOTHER, UM, WHEREAS THE OUTCOME, IS IT WORSE? IS IT BETTER? IS IT THE SAME? RIGHT. UM, BUT IT'S YEAH. BUT YEAH, STRONG IDENTIFY WHAT, WHAT DATA WE, WE LIKE TO GET FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UM, AS RELATES TO, YOU KNOW, THEIR INTERACTION, UH, WITH THE, UH, WITH THE COMMUNITY, UM, THAT THAT'LL BE OBVIOUSLY HELPFUL. AND THEN JUST WHAT THE BREAKOUT, LIKE I SAID, JUST EVEN THE POLICE FORCE, YOU KNOW, UM, I THINK EVEN WHEN I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH ROB, THIS WAS ACTUALLY WHEN THEY DID THE BLM MARCH OR STAND IN, IF YOU WILL, UM, A FEW MONTHS AGO, RIGHT. OVER AND OVER THERE BY THE, UM, NORTH PARK SHOPPING CENTER. AND I WAS TALKING TO HIM ABOUT THE, THE POLICE FORCE DEMOGRAPHICS. AND I THINK HE SAID THERE WERE, I DON'T THINK THERE WERE ANY AFRICAN AMERICANS THINK THERE WAS MAYBE AN AGE. I CAN'T REMEMBER. MAYBE THERE WAS ONE, I'M SORRY. THERE'S AT LEAST ONE INDIVIDUAL. YEAH. SO THERE IS AT LEAST OF ONE, I KNOW THERE'S, THERE'S ONE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN ONE ASIAN GUY AND THEN THERE USED TO BE TWO FEMALES, I THINK. UM, AND THEN I THINK ALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, I THINK ALL FULL-TIME FIREFIGHTER, EMT, PARAMEDICS ARE ALL WHITE MALES OR MALES. YEAH. RIGHT. YEAH. SO, UH, RIGHT. AND SO WE NEED TO, IT MAY BE IT'S, YOU KNOW, WOULD IT BE, I GUESS OTHER THING I WAS THINKING ABOUT, WOULD HE BE GOOD FOR US TO US AS A, UM, YOU KNOW, AS A COMMITTEE TO MAYBE MEET WITH, UH, MEET WITH, UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, MAYBE INTERVIEW THEM, ASK THEM QUESTIONS. I DON'T KNOW. I'M JUST THINKING, OR EVEN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT US, WE ASKED THEM QUESTIONS, THEY ASK US QUESTIONS, GATHERING INFORMATION, SO WE CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER, SEE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THEY COULD SHARE [00:45:01] WITH US, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, LEASES IN TERMS OF WHY THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO BRING IN, UH, MINORITIES, RIGHT. OR ARE THEY HAVING A HARD TIME RECRUITING OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, YOU KNOW? SO WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND, I THINK WE SHOULD GO ON A RIDE ALONG, YOU EVER HEARD OF THE RIDE ALONGS BEFORE. YEAH. YEAH. I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD, INTERESTING PROCESS FOR US TO GO THROUGH, TO HELP BUILD RELATIONS WITH US AND THE DEPARTMENT, AND THEN KIND OF BREAK DOWN THOSE, THOSE BARRIERS AND, YOU KNOW, GET TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE EXPERIENCING, BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, ASK QUESTIONS WHILE THEY'RE ON THE JOB AND ASK, YOU KNOW, HAVE ISSUES AND THINGS THAT GO THROUGH THE SAME THING WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, UM, TO BE ON A LESS FORMAL, YOU KNOW, LESS FORMAL WAY. AND, UH, I THINK THAT'D BE PRETTY NEAT FOR THAT'S A, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. SO WE CAN GET CAUSE RIGHT. UM, I'M NOT A FARMER, I'M NOT A POLICE OFFICER. I KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT WHAT'S INVOLVED. I MEAN, OTHER THAN WHAT YOU JUST SEE. RIGHT. YOU KNOW WHAT AGAIN, AGAIN, SO I WANT TO HAVE AN APPRECIATION, SOME APPRECIATION FOR WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED AND WHAT THEY SEE. RIGHT. AND WHAT THEY'RE AGAINST ME, WHAT THE CONCERNS ARE, WHAT HAVE YOU. RIGHT. SO AGAIN, IT'S ABOUT IT AT THE END OF THE DAY, RILEY SAYS ABOUT RELATIONSHIP BUILDING, RIGHT. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? UM, THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO, WE WANT TO DO WHAT WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO PUT IN PLACES, UH, HAVING GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. RIGHT. AND, UH, YOU KNOW, US HAVING TO RESPECT, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE, UH, FOR THE POLICE AND THE SAME THING FOR POLICE TO HAVE RESPECT FOR THE COMMUNITY. RIGHT. AND THAT'S IN ANY OF THE OTHER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN ANY OTHER DEPARTMENTS. RIGHT. SO, BUT I LIKED THAT IDEA, UM, US, YOU KNOW, SPENDING SOME TIME WITH THEM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING YOU TALKED TO ROB ABOUT, BUT, BUT I AGREE. I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE SOME SORT OF INTERACTION WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR FIRE DEPARTMENT AND IF THERE'S ANY OTHER DEPARTMENTS RIGHT. YOU KNOW, UH, HAVE SOME INTERACTION WITH THEM. UH, SO AGAIN, WE CAN LEARN, WE CAN GATHER INFORMATION, UM, CAUSE IT'S BEEN A BIG RIDE. WE WANT THIS TO BE A WIN-WIN SITUATION FOR EVERYBODY. RIGHT. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? YOU KNOW, IT'S THE WAY IT SHOULD BE. RIGHT. IS HOW I VIEW THAT. SO, UH, TELL ME THIS. UM, SO WE'VE KIND OF KICKED AROUND A COUPLE IDEAS. SO LIKE WE, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO LOOK AT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE RELATIONSHIP, YOU KNOW, WITH BUSINESS OWNERS, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? WHAT'S THAT DEMOGRAPHICS LIKE, SO WE'VE KIND OF TAKEN THE DEMOGRAPHIC THING AND SAID, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, BUSINESSES, YOU KNOW, OUR CITIZENS ARE PLEASE OUR FIRST RESPONDERS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE ADMINISTRATION, SHOULD WE MAYBE TRY TO PRIORITIZE BECAUSE WE CAN'T HIT THEM ALL RIGHT. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I THINK WE WOULD DO OURSELVES. AND I THINK WE WOULD DO, YOU KNOW, THE FOLKS AT HUBER HEIGHTS AND INJUSTICE BY TRYING TO DO THEM ALL. SO DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO TRY TO PRIORITIZE THAT LIST? AND THEN THEREFORE, UM, SO SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE SAY, HEY, LET'S, LET'S TRY TO BITE OFF FIRST RESPONDERS. YOU KNOW, SO MAYBE THAT'S THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, FIRE DEPARTMENT, OR MAYBE WE PICK ONE OF THEM, WHATEVER IT IS MY THOUGHT IS TO PICK ONE OF THOSE AREAS AND THEN LET'S START LISTING THE INFORMATION OF DATA THAT WE WANT AND WE CAN TRY TO GET SO THAT, SO IF, IF THE FIRST THING IS THE POLICE IN, OKAY, FINE. HERE'S ALL THE DATA. SO NOW WHEN WE SIT AND TALK WITH ROB, HEY, ROB, HERE'S SOME DATA THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO GET. HERE'S WHY WE WANT TO GET THIS. AND THEN ONCE WE GET THIS DATA, NOW WE WANT TO DO KIND OF LIKE A STA UH, ESTEFAN SAID, HEY, CAN WE DO SOME RIDE ALONGS? CAN WE DO SOME CITIES? CAN WE DO THIS? YOU KNOW, CAN WE DO THAT? AND THEN ALSO WE CAN ALSO OPEN UP THE SAY, LET CITIZENS KNOW, HEY, HERE'S OUR DATA. HERE'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. IF YOU CAN GIVE US SOME INPUT TO DO WE DO THAT. SO DOES THAT KINDA MAKE SENSE TO KIND OF PRIORITIZE THAT, PUT THAT TOGETHER SO THAT WE KIND OF GOT, SO WHEN WE'RE SHOOTING DOWN RANGE, WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE SHOOTING AT DIAL RANGE. SO ARE WE PRIORITIZING THAT OR ARE WE GETTING TOGETHER THE IDEAS SO THE PUBLIC CAN GET BACK TO US SO WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT TO PRIORITIZE. RIGHT. AND THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING. WE WANT TO COME UP WITH OUR OWN PRIORITY. OR DO WE WANT TO ASK, YOU KNOW, OPEN? I JUST THINK WE GOT TO PRIORITIZE SOMETHING. WE NEED YOU TO KIND OF DEFINE THE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES AND THEN WORK BACK FROM THOSE. LIKE, WHAT ARE OUR THREE, THREE MONTH GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FOR THIS COMMISSION AND THE NEXT THREE, THREE MONTHS, FOUR MONTHS, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T, WE HAVE A LOT OF BACK AND FORTH THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO TO COME TOGETHER AND THEN COME TOGETHER AS A LARGER PERMISSION. CAUSE A LOT OF THIS, RHONDA AND I HAVE MET WITH ADVOCACY AND WE'VE KIND OF HIT ON SOME OF THESE SAME THINGS. SO A LOT OF THIS WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO, I FEEL LIKE COLLECTIVELY COME [00:50:01] BACK TOGETHER AS THE LARGER COMMISSION, UM, LIKE THE HOUSING THAT IS STEFAN, UM, TOUCHED ON, WE TOUCHED ON FOR FAIR HOUSING. LIKE MY HOUSE WAS RECENTLY JUST BOUGHT BY VINE, BROOKE. AND I FOUND THAT THERE, UM, I DIDN'T MEAN TO JUST THROW THEM OUT THERE ON THE STREET LIKE THAT. I WAS GOING TO MORE CRUNCHING COMPANY IN HUBER HEIGHTS. UH, I GOT LIKE A, WEEK'S NOTICE, YOU KNOW, SIGN YOUR NEW LEASE. WELL, THEY HAVE VERY STRICT BREED RESTRICTIONS FOR DOGS. AND I FOUND THAT THOSE BREED RESTRICTIONS WERE DISCRIMINATORY AT BEST WHEN WE'RE PICKING AND CHOOSING OUR VICIOUS BREEDS. UM, AND I FOUND THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY DEALING WITH THE TOUGH RENTAL MARKET AND THEN YOU ADD MORE STIPULATIONS AND THINGS ON, ARE WE FURTHER EXCLUDING THAT, THAT DEMOGRAPHIC THAT WOULD BE NORMALLY RENTING WITH SAID ANIMALS? IT'S IT DISCRIMINATORY AT BEST? I FOUND, YOU KNOW, AND I HAVE TWO DOGS AND I WAS LIKE, UH, OKAY. UM, AND ONE OTHER THING I WANTED TO SAY WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE RIDE ALONGS AND GROWING RELATIONSHIPS. ONE OTHER THING THAT RHONDA AND I HAD DONE WAS, UM, STAKEHOLDERS WHO ARE THE STAKEHOLDERS IN THE COMMUNITY THAT ARE GOING TO BE WITH US ON REFORM, WHO IS GOING TO STAND BY US WHEN IT COMES TO TAKING THIS TO THEIR LARGER COMMUNITY. AND IT'S NOT THE FOUR OF US, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE GOT OF WITH ADVOCACY AND IS ONE OF OUR GOALS IS THE EDUCATION SYSTEM AND HELPING PUBLIC EDUCATION SCHOOLS BECAUSE THEY'VE BECOME LIKE A SECONDARY SOCIAL SERVICE, YOU KNOW, WAS THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. YOU KNOW, TEACHERS WHO ARE THE STAKEHOLDERS IN OUR COMMUNITY, THE NAACP, YOU KNOW, UM, BUSINESS OWNERS AND THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE WITH US WHEN WE'RE GROWING THESE RELATIONSHIPS. SO IT'S JUST SOMETHING ELSE TO THINK OF IS, YOU KNOW, MAYBE JUST DEFINING SOME GOALS AND OBJECTIVE AND OUR STAKEHOLDERS, UM, THAT'LL ASSIST US WITH THIS, WHICH WOULD BE THE POLICE AND MAYBE POLICE, CHIEF FIRE CHIEFS, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LIKE THAT. THEN WE COULD THINK ABOUT DOING SOME, MAYBE SOME TARGETED RECRUITING, IF IT'S SO DIFFICULT, YOU KNOW, TO RECRUIT THERE'S THERE'S WAYS THAT WAS TRIED ANY OF THAT DOWN. SO THAT WAS, THAT WAS, THAT WAS, I THINK WE, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE, UH, THAT WE IDENTIFY THE STAKEHOLDERS, RIGHT. BECAUSE WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT, UM, WE HAVE THEIR BUY-IN RIGHT AND HAVE THEIR SUPPORT. UM, CAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY WAY THIS THING IS GOING TO THE ONLY WAY WE'RE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL. RIGHT. IT'S GETTING EVERYONE, ALL THE KEY PEOPLE ON BOARD AND UM, YOU KNOW, READY TO MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION TO, TO MAKE THE APPROPRIATE, POSITIVE CHANGES THAT WE THINK WE, WE NEED HERE. SO, UM, SO YEAH, SO BACK TO YOU, THEY'RE LIKE, YEAH, I LIKE THE IDEA. I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. YOU DO NEED TO PRIORITIZE. I THINK, YOU KNOW, AND THIS WAS ONE THAT WE WANTED TO AT LEAST IDENTIFY KIND OF THE SCOPE KIND OF THE AREAS WE WANT TO FOCUS IN ON, BUT WHEN IT COMES, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE ACTUAL EXECUTION, YOU'RE RIGHT. WE NEED TO PROJECT AS, HEY, THIS IS THE AREA THAT WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON FOCUSING ON. RIGHT. I THINK WE'RE ALL ON THIS COMMISSIONER FOR AT LEAST WHAT COUPLE OF YEARS, OR I DON'T KNOW, TWO TO THREE YEARS, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TERM IS. RIGHT. SO KICK US OFF, HEY, FOOTBALL COACHES GETTING FIRED ALL TO DIE, ENJOY THE RIDE ALONG AS WE CAN. RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. BUT YOU'RE RIGHT. YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO, UH, IDENTIFY YEAH. WHAT WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON ON FIRST. AND THEN ONCE WE GET CONFIDENCE, WHATEVER, AGAIN, IN THIS CASE, RIGHT. POLICY CHANGE, RIGHT. ONCE WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY MAKE THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS, THEN WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER OR THE NEXT, UH, FOCUS AREA, IF YOU WILL. NOW, NOW MY RECOMMENDATION. RIGHT. AND AGAIN, WE CAN, OBVIOUSLY WE CAN COLLECTIVELY AGREE ON WHAT THAT PRIORITY SHOULD BE RIGHT NOW. I'D LIKE TO FOCUS IN, ON POLICE REFORM BECAUSE IT'S THE HOT TOPIC, RIGHT. IT'S, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S WHAT LED US REALLY LED TO THE FORMATION OF, OF AT LEAST THIS, UH, COMMISSION. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED WITH POLICE BRUTALITY AND IF YOU WILL, WHERE THESE, UH, POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTINGS, UM, YOU KNOW, AND EVERYONE'S, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT WAYS TO REFORM AND MAKE CHANGES WITHIN A POLICE DEPARTMENT SO THAT WE CAN MITIGATE OR MINIMIZE SOME OF THESE ENCOUNTERS OR THESE TYPES OF [00:55:01] OUTCOMES, LET'S SAY. RIGHT. UM, SO THAT'S WHERE I'D LIKE TO, TO, TO FOCUS ON AT LEAST INITIALLY, BUT THAT'S ME, WHAT, WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? SO FROM OUR CONVERSATION, I WAS KIND OF ABLE TO PULL OUT, WE PROBABLY TALKED ABOUT THREE DIFFERENT AREAS THAT WE COULD KIND OF PIECE OUT POLICE REFORM, BEING A MAIN ONE, UM, FAIR HOUSING, FAIR BUSINESS PRACTICES. WE COULD KIND OF WRAP INTO THE OTHER. AND THEN THE THIRD WOULD BE LIKE POLICY, CIVIL RIGHTS ACCESS TO, YOU KNOW, UM, I LIKED WHAT WE WERE, WHAT, UH, STEFAN WAS TALKING ABOUT WITH THE CIVIL RIGHTS, YOU KNOW, THE PLACES TO MAKE COMPLAINTS, ACCESS AND ABILITY TO, YOU KNOW, TO JUST EXERCISE YOUR BASIC CIVIL RIGHTS AND THAT, THAT UNDERSTANDING, UM, FEEL FREE TO ADD TO THAT OR TAKE AWAY. I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, JUST BASED ON KIND OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN THROWN AROUND OR I LIKE THE WAY YOU GROUPED THOSE TOGETHER. AND I THINK THOSE MAKE SENSE. UM, YEAH, I, I CAN THROW OUT MY SUGGESTION, WHAT I'D LIKE TO SEE US TRY TO WORK ON. I WOULD BE DEFINITELY IN FAVOR OF THE POLICE REFORM AS PRIORITY ONE, UH, SECOND PRIORITY. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO LOOK INTO THE CIVIL RIGHTS, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT ARE MY RIGHTS AND YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF DEAL, HOW DO I VOICE A COMPLAINT? AND THEN THE THIRD THING WOULD BE THE, UH, FAIR HOUSING. AND, UM, WOULD YOU, DID YOU SAY ECONOMICS, IS THAT HOW THAT BUSINESS BUSINESS PRACTICE? OKAY. I RESPECT THAT. SO THAT WILL BE MY RIGHT. SO THAT WOULD BE MY THIRD. PERFECT. I DID HAVE, UH, POLICE REFORM INSIDE OF THERE. I HAD IT UNDER LIKE A SUB PRIORITY UNDER THIS, THE HUBER HEIGHTS ADMINISTRATION IN ITS ENTIRETY, BUT THE HUMOR HEIGHTS ADMINISTRATION FOR ME WAS, WAS NUMBER ONE. UH, BUT WITH POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT DATA TO BE, SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE, YOU KNOW, EASILY AVAILABLE FOR US TO GET TO. SO FOR ME, I HAD HEBREW HEIGHTS ADMINISTRATION AND THE POLICE REFORM WAS UNDERNEATH THAT. UH, AND THEN I HAD CIVIL RIGHTS AND THEN I HAVE TO FAIR HOUSING AND THEN BUSINESS FOR, FOR THE CATEGORIES. BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY WERE ALL PRETTY MUCH ON THE SAME PAGE, BUT THAT WAS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE FOR ME, WAS IT WASN'T SPECIFIC TO POLICE REFORM. IT WAS MORE GENERALIZED TO HEBREW HEIGHTS ADMINISTRATION AND THEN KIND OF GOING FROM THERE, BUT THAT'S, AGAIN, JUST THE OPINION. YEAH. AND WE CAN STILL START GATHERING THAT DATA, RIGHT. UH, IN TERMS OF THE HUBER HEIGHTS ADMINISTRATION. RIGHT. GATHER THAT INFORMATION, UH, CAUSE WE NEED TO START SOMEWHERE IN TERMS OF TERMS OF WHAT TYPES OF DATA WE WANT TO WANT TO GATHER. RIGHT. SO, UM, BUT GOOD. OKAY. YEAH. I THINK THAT AT LEAST GIVES US SOME, SOME FOCUS RIGHT ON WHERE WE NEED TO, TO DIRECT OUR ENERGY. RIGHT. WE KNOW KIND OF WHERE WE WANT TO, HOW DO ASK THIS, DOES, UM, MAYBE THIS WRAPS UP UNDER ONE OF THESE THREE, I'M NOT SURE JUST IN TERMS OF RECRUITING AND, UM, HIRING AND JUST IN TERMS OF JUST ENSURING THAT WITHIN THE CITY GOVERNMENT, WE HAVE A, UM, A DIVERSE WORKFORCE. I HE'S MAKING SURE WE HAVE PROCESSES THAT PROVIDE IT'S LIKE, I THINK ABOUT, I THINK ABOUT THE ANALOGY I THINK ABOUT THE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, IN THE NFL, RIGHT. YOU REMEMBER YEARS AGO, WHAT'S HIS NAME? THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS WAS THE OWNER, UH, ROONEY, ROONEY RULE, ROONEY RULE, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE SITUATION WAS, YOU KNOW, UH, MINORITY COACHES WERE NOT AT ONE POINT IN TIME, THEY WERE JUST NOT BEING GIVEN FAIR SHOTS AND GIVEN A FAIR SHOT AT BECOMING A HEAD COACH IN THE NFL. RIGHT. SO I THINK THAT POLICY PRETTY MUCH SAID YOU HAD TO AT LEAST INTERVIEW, UH, ONE MINORITY CANDIDATE. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, TO, SO THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE, UH, TRYING TO MAKE STRIDES TOWARDS, UH, YOU KNOW, GIVING FOLKS AN OPPORTUNITY. RIGHT. AND A MINORITY. SO I'M JUST SORT OF WHAT I THOUGHT ABOUT WHEN I, SORRY, THAT'S MY DOG BARGAIN. BUT, UH, BUT YEAH, IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST HAVING A FOCUS ON ENSURING THAT, UH, WITHIN THE CITY. RIGHT. UM, FOR THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS. RIGHT. UM, DO WE HAVE POLICIES THAT AT LEAST AGAIN, UM, GIVES [01:00:01] FOLKS AN OPPORTUNITY, RIGHT. YOU KNOW, NOT TO SAY THAT, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S AN IN FRONT OF ACTION THING OR NOT JUST SAYING THAT YOU HAVE TO AT LEAST INTERVIEW ONE MINORITY CANDIDATE. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN BE RECOMMENDED OR CONSIDERED OR WHAT HAVE YOU. RIGHT. I MEAN, I THINK IT COULD BE CONSIDERED, I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE, WE'RE ADDRESSING THAT. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT, YEAH. WE TALK ABOUT REFORM. YEAH. THE POLICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINTS AND ALL THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE, WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE TO THOSE PEOPLE IN THOSE POSITIONS RIGHT. THAT, THAT IMPACT THE COMMUNITY. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT, THAT IT'S MADE UP OF A DIVERSE GROUP. RIGHT. I WOULD AGREE WITH THAT. RIGHT. YEAH. SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT, IF THAT'S A DIFFERENT CATEGORY ON HERE AND WE, UM, SEE IT AS A DIFFERENT CATEGORY, I THINK WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT, SO SAY FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE'RE DOING POLICE REFORM FIRST, THAT TO ME WOULD BE A PART OF THAT BECAUSE YOU'LL SEE WHAT I'M SAYING. THAT WOULD BE A PART OF THAT. AND THEN WHEN YOU MOVE TOWARDS THE SECOND ONE, CIVIL RIGHTS, I THINK HIRING PRACTICE WOULD BE A PART OF THAT. SO EVERY CATEGORY IS GOING TO HAVE THOSE SAME GUIDELINES. IF YOU LOOK AT FAIR HOUSING AND I THINK IT WAS FAIR BUSINESS, RIGHT. WHEN IT TERROR, IT, YOU KIND OF THAT TOGETHER. SO THE HIRING PROCESS, RECRUITING PROCESS, I THINK PLAYS A PART IN EVERY ONE OF THOSE. IF WE'RE GOING TO BREAK THEM DOWN IN THAT KIND OF GROUP, I AGREE. IT SHOULD GO TO EVERYONE IF YOU WERE JUST GOING TO DO HIRING DONE YET AS JUST FOR EVERYBODY ACROSS THE BOARD. BUT IF WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT CERTAIN AREAS, I JUST THINK THAT'S A PART OF IT. YEP. NOPE. THAT MAKES SENSE. YEP. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE, YEAH. WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE THERE, RIGHT. BECAUSE THAT'S, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, AS I LOOK AT THIS, RIGHT. I THINK THAT THE TWO BIG, TWO BIG THINGS IS, AGAIN, MAKING SURE WE HAVE, UM, THE, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, MAKING SURE THAT ACROSS THE BOARD, RIGHT. AS BEST WE CAN, UM, MAKE SURE, LIKE I SAY, THE ADMINISTRATION IS REFLECTIVE OF THE COMMUNITY. RIGHT, RIGHT. IN ALL ASPECTS. RIGHT. AND THEN, UH, THE OTHER THING IS FAIR TREATMENT REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOUR DEMOGRAPHIC IS. RIGHT. THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT THIS THING IS ALL ABOUT. RIGHT. WE'RE TRYING TO, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO PUT IN PLACE. SO, UM, WELL, COOL. ALL RIGHT. UM, I KNOW WE'VE BEEN GOING FOR ABOUT AN HOUR OR SO FOR AN HOUR. I WANTED TO, SHOULD WE KEEP THIS TO AN HOUR, HOUR AND A HALF AT THE, AT THE LONGEST, BUT, UM, ARE THERE SOME OTHER THINGS THAT WE WANT TO CAPTURE, I GUESS BEFORE WE, BEFORE WE CLOSE, UM, WHAT DID WE GET A TARGET THAT WE'RE GOING TO IS, IS IT GOING TO BE THE POLICE REFORM? IS THAT THE TARGET IS THAT I THOUGHT THEY WERE ALL TARGETS. I'M DOING ALL OF THEM OR JUST ONE. YEAH. I THOUGHT THE SAME THING. AND I JUST THOUGHT THAT INFORMATION INFORMATION WE CAN GET FROM THE, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT MAY BE MORE READILY AVAILABLE THAN, THAN THE OTHER AREAS. SO LIKE, IF THERE WAS ANYTHING THAT WE COULD DO, I KNOW LIKE TOMORROW TO REACH OUT TO ROB, AND THAT COULD BE AN EASY, EASY ONE TO START ON. BUT AS, I GUESS, AS TERRY SAID, NOT REALLY A PRIORITY. RIGHT. OR YOU CAN JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, WE CAN START WITH THE POLICE REFORM AREA AS BEING, WE CALL IT PARTY. WE JUST SAY, THAT'S OUR NEXT STEP. RIGHT. LET'S NOW YOU SAID LET'S START GATHERING SOME OF THE DATA. RIGHT. FIRST OF ALL, I THINK WHAT I'D LIKE FOR US TO DO IS, UM, IF YOU ALL COULD, UH, AGAIN, I'M GONNA COME UP WITH A LIST OF QUESTIONS, BUT TYPES OF INFORMATION THAT I THINK WE NEED. RIGHT. I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF IT. RIGHT. BUT AS YOU THINK ABOUT IT HERE OVER THE NEXT DAY, A COUPLE OF DAYS, OR SO IF THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT YOU SAY, YEAH, WE NEED THIS TYPE OF INFORMATION, JUST TEXT ME, JUST TEXT US IN OUR GROUP. RIGHT. I THINK WE HAVE, WE CAN TEXT EACH OTHER IN A GROUP. UM, JUST SAY HERE, THERE'S SOME THINGS I LIKE TO GET, WE NEED TO GET FROM. UM, UM, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. WE CAN START WITH THAT, START WITH SOME GATHERING, SOME OF THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, GATHERING SOME OF THAT DATA. ARE WE ALSO GOING TO BE LOOKING FOR LIKE A REVIEW OF POLICIES, PROCEDURES, OR DO WE HAVE A MAIN OBJECTIVE THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS? IS IT JUST INFORMATION GATHERING RIGHT NOW? AND THEN BASED ON THAT INFORMATION, WE'LL KIND OF PIGEONHOLE WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. RIGHT. I THINK AT THIS POINT WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO AT LEAST GATHER INFORMATION FIRST, RIGHT. REVIEW. LIKE IT'S A GOOD POINT. RIGHT. I THINK, YEAH. LET'S GET, I THINK EVEN ROB MENTIONED DURING THE LAST MEETING THAT, YOU KNOW, CAUSE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, POLICE POLICIES [01:05:01] ON HOW THEY, YOU KNOW, IN POLICE ENFORCEMENT. RIGHT. I THINK IT'D BE GOOD TO GET, YOU KNOW, THAT DOCUMENTATION. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, UM, FROM THE POLICE, RIGHT. IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, WHEN FACED WITH THE SITUATION, THIS IS WHAT THEY DO. RIGHT. JUST, UH, ANY TYPE OF POLICY, POLICE, POLICE POLICY, RIGHT ON HOW THESE OFFICERS IS, OUR OFFICERS ARE SUPPOSED TO CARRY OUT THEIR DUTIES. RIGHT. AS AN OFFICER. RIGHT. I THINK THAT WOULD BE GOOD. I THINK WE SHOULD GET THAT SO WE CAN START AT LEAST READING IT SO WE CAN UNDER START UNDERSTANDING, YOU KNOW, HOW LONG DO WE HAVE. YEAH. YEAH. AND I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THESE DOCUMENTS ARE, A COUPLE OF POLICE OFFICERS, BUT I DON'T KNOW. I JUST, WE GOTTA, WE GOTTA HAVE SOME UNDERSTANDING OF SOME APPRECIATION. I CAN SAY IT GOES BACK TO SOME OF THE RIDE ALONG. SO YOU TALK ABOUT RIGHT. WE GOTTA BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS TO BE A POLICE OFFICER WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE ACADEMY. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, I READ THE POLICY FOR ACTUAL JOB, IF ANYBODY NEEDS ME TO, LIKE I CAN REVIEW AND REPORT BACK. AND IT'S LITERALLY, MY JOB IS TO REVIEW POLICY ALL DAY LONG. OKAY. THAT'D BE GREAT IF WE COULD FIND THE HIGHLIGHTS. I MEAN, CERTAINLY THERE'S THE PRIVATE ONLY THE CARE. YEAH. YEAH. UM, CAUSE REMEMBER WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED IN, ON, ON HOW THE POLICE INTERACTS WITH THE COMMUNITY. RIGHT. I MEAN, UM, I DON'T CARE ABOUT EVERY, EVERY POLICY WITHIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR SOME THINGS THAT JUST, WE JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT. RIGHT. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING ABOUT THEIR DRESS CODE, FOR EXAMPLE, I DON'T KNOW. I MEAN, I DON'T CARE IF THEY HAVE TO SHINE THEIR BOOTS OR SANDWICH, I JUST DON'T CARE. YOU KNOW, THAT THEY HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, YEAH. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THEIR NAME TAG HAS TO BE HERE ON THIS LOCATION AND I JUST, WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, IT'S FINE. RIGHT. WE'RE NOT TRYING TO AFFECT EVERYTHING. WE THROW THOSE QUESTIONS TOGETHER, I GUESS W KINDA IN MY MIND, WHAT I'M KIND OF THINKING IS YES, THERE'S SOME DATA QUESTIONS WE WANT TO KNOW. WE WANT TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, ARRESTS, WE WANT TO KNOW STOPS SO THAT WE CAN SEE IS THAT A REPRESENTATION OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS. OKAY. SO I THINK THOSE ARE POINTS. AND THAT'S WHY I WAS SAYING WE CAN KIND OF PUT THESE IN ORDER SIMPLY BECAUSE JUST LOOKING AT THIS POLICE REFORM, IT'S GOING TO BE A LOT. SO I THINK IF WE TRY TO DO FAIR HOUSING AND BUSINESS, THERE'S GOING TO BE MUCH, AND I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE FOCUS. SO I THINK WE NEED DATA QUESTIONS WHEN IT COMES TO THAT. I THINK WHEN IT COMES TO POLICY, PROBABLY THE NUMBER ONE POLICY WE WANT TO LOOK AT IS WHAT IS THE USE OF FORCE POLICY. OKAY. BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE ARE, WHERE WE ARE TODAY, BECAUSE SOME USE OF FORCE POLICIES ARE JUST NOT GOOD OR ADEQUATE. RIGHT. SO I THINK WE NEED TO FIND OUT TRULY WHAT IS THAT USE OF FORCE POLICY? UH, I AGREE. I THINK WE PROBABLY SHOULD LOOK INTO THE RIDE ALONGS, YOU KNOW, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S ALLOWED, YOU KNOW, HOW DO, HOW CAN WE DO THAT TO ACCOMPLISH THAT GOAL FOR US, WHAT WE SHOULD DO. UH, THE OTHER THING WOULD BE TO LOOK AT WHAT THE HIRING PRACTICES ARE, THAT'S THERE. AND THEN I THINK THE BIGGEST THING THAT'S OUT THERE IS OBVIOUSLY ONCE YOU, UH, GET INTO A SITUATION WHERE, YOU KNOW, LAW ENFORCEMENT IS, IS ON FRONT STREET. OKAY, WELL, WHAT'S THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE UNION, YOU KNOW, SEEN AS HELPING TO PROTECT, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? SOME OF THESE OFFICERS THAT DON'T BEHAVE PROPERLY. RIGHT. SO I THINK THAT'S IN, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE NOT HERE TO REWRITE CBAS AND ALL THAT STUFF, THAT KIND OF DEAL, BUT YOU KNOW, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME HIGHLIGHTS THAT NEED TO BE SHINED ON TO SAY, HEY, THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT'S CAUSING SOME OF THE UNDERLINING PROBLEMS THAT ARE THERE. YEAH, YEAH, NO, YOU'RE, YOU'RE SPOT ON. YEP. I LIKE EVEN ALSO KNOW, UH, WHAT THE DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS ARE. RIGHT. SO WHETHER THEY'RE INVOLVED IN A CERTAIN STUDENTS, RIGHT. LIKE THEY LIKE TO KNOW THAT. RIGHT. UM, AND THEN WHAT IS THERE AND WHEN THEY DO BRING IN POLICE OFFICERS FROM MAYBE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, RIGHT. WHAT IS THE, WHAT IS THE CRITERIA THAT THEY USE RIGHT. TO BRING IN, UH, THEN OFFICERS THAT COME FROM OTHER DEPARTMENTS. RIGHT. I LIKE TO THINK THEY LOOK AT THEIR RECORD. RIGHT. UH, CAUSE YOU KNOW, WE'VE SEEN IN CASES RIGHT. WHERE YOU SEE, YOU MAY HAVE SEEN OFFICERS THAT HAVE, YOU KNOW, UH, HAD SOME COMPLAINTS, BUT THEN THEY WERE ABLE TO EASILY MOVE TO ANOTHER DEPARTMENT. RIGHT. AND SO, UM, SO YEAH. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WHEN THEY, YOU KNOW, YOU, IF YOU'RE BRINGING AN EXPERIENCED OFFICER, RIGHT. [01:10:01] LET'S MAKE SURE WE'RE MAKING SURE. AND THEY PROBABLY DO. I DON'T KNOW. RIGHT. I JUST DON'T KNOW WITH THE POSITIVE, BUT I LIKE TO THINK THEY ARE REVIEWING, REVIEWING THEIR RECORD. UM, BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET GOOD COPS. I, I BELIEVE MOST COPS ARE GOOD. RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. BUT EVEN ONE IS TOO MANY. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, COULD WE DO THIS AS FAR AS, SO US, WE COME UP WITH OUR LIST OF QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE OKAY. OF THINGS WE WANT. AND THEN MAYBE WE CAN GET WITH ROB NEXT AND SAY, ROB, THIS IS THE QUESTIONS THAT WE NEED POINT US IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. WHERE DO WE GO GET THIS DATA? OR IS THIS DATA YOU CAN GO AND GET YOUR NOTES SAYING, MAYBE HE'S LIKE, HEY, GIVE ME YOUR LIST AND I CAN GO GET THE USE OF FORCE POLICY. HEY, I CAN GO GET THE HIRING PRACTICES AT AND PROVIDE US THAT SORT OF, WE CAN REVIEW, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING IN OUR COMMITTEE THAT'S HERE. SO, UM, THAT WOULD BE MY THOUGHT. YEAH, NO, I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S THE RIGHT, RIGHT WAY TO RIGHT. WAY TO GO ABOUT IT. I'M WITH YOU THE RIGHT WAY TO GAUGE HOW TRANSPARENT THEY'RE GOING TO BE WITH US TOO. DEFINITELY SEEMS TO BE. UM, OR IT MIGHT BE AN ISSUE WHAT IS WANTED VERSUS NEEDED IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S EYES, YOU KNOW? UM, I THINK WE COULD MAYBE START A WORD DOC, UM, THAT WE CAN SHARE AMONGST OURSELVES ON THE BACKEND, THROUGH, YOU KNOW, GMAIL TO JUST ADD QUESTIONS AND REFINE. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANT TO FORMALIZE, UM, LIKE A COMMITTEE OBJECTIVES AND GOALS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. LIKE THE PROCLAMATION OR THE, YOU KNOW, WHAT THIS BROADER COMMITTEE, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S NECESSARY. I DON'T THINK IT IS THE ONLY THING I THINK I WANT TO ADD FOR THE POLICE REFORM. PART OF IT IS WHAT KIND OF CONTINUING EDS, ADDITIONAL TRAININGS ARE REQUIRED, YOU KNOW, OTHER THAN, YOU KNOW, THEIR BASIC TRAINING TO GET THERE. BUT WHAT IS THE RE WHAT'S THE ONENESS TO CONTINUE YOUR EDUCATION WHEN YOU'RE THERE, ARE THERE YEARLY, YOU KNOW, NON-DISCRIMINATION TRAININGS ARE THEIR YEARLY, UM, DEESCALATION TRAININGS, WHATEVER. I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER IMPORTANT AREA WE COULD COVER THERE. DOES ANYBODY WANT TO START THE WORD, DOC? DO YOU WANT ME TO START IT KIND OF WITH MY NOTES AND THINGS I'VE PULLED OUT? YEAH. IF YOU WANT TO START THAT AND THEN I GUESS CIRCULATE IT AROUND TO US TO GET THAT TOMORROW, BUT I CAN DO THAT. THAT'S FINE. THAT'S FINE. WE ADD TO THAT. DO WE WANT TO SET WHAT'S TODAY? TUESDAY? DO WE WANT TO SET A DEADLINE AT THE END OF THE WEEK? UM, GET ALL OF OUR INFORMATION IN MAYBE LIKE FRIDAY, RIGHT. UM, AND THEN I GUESS ONCE WE DO THAT, I GUESS, UH, MR. CHAIR, CAN YOU TAKE THAT DOC AND IN APPROACH, UM, ROB WITH IT? YEP. WHAT I'LL PROBABLY DO WHEN YOU SEND THAT, ONCE WE, UM, GATHER ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS AND WE ALL AGREE, RIGHT. UH, WITH THE LIST OF QUESTIONS, THEN WHAT I'LL PROBABLY DO IS OUT EMAIL ROB AND I'LL COPY I'LL COPY YOU ALL ON THAT EMAIL, UH, YOU KNOW, MAKING THIS, MAKING THAT REQUEST FOR, YOU KNOW, SAY, YEAH. ASK ROB TO, YOU KNOW, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS ATTACHMENT, EVEN A LIST OF QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION WE'D LIKE TO GATHER. COULD YOU PLEASE ASSIST US IN GATHERING THAT INFORMATION? SO, UH, MAYBE THAT'S THE WAY WE'LL. THAT SOUNDS GOOD. YEP. YEAH. GOOD QUESTION. ERIC CAN, THE ONES WE HAVE ARE OUR NEXT MEETING. WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE OUT. WELL, ONCE WE HAVE OUR NEXT MEETING, OUR FORMAL MEETING, WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE OUT THE NEW BUSINESS WE HAVE IN OUR AGENDA AS OLD BUSINESS. SO ARE WE GOING TO INCORPORATE THOSE FOUR AREAS INSIDE OF YOUR, YOUR PURPOSE IS YOUR PURPOSE STATEMENT. SO GOING BACK TO THE OBJECTIVES AND THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, I THINK IT'D BE A GOOD IDEA TO INCORPORATE THOSE AREAS FOR YOUR HOUSING, THEIR BUSINESS OVERWRITES. AND I KNOW POLICE REFORMS THERE. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS HUBER HEIGHTS ADMINISTRATION, JUST SO WE HAVE MORE OF A GENERALIZED VIEW OVER, OVER THE COMMUNITY. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT THOSE AREAS INCORPORATED INTO YOUR PURPOSE STATEMENT, AND THEN THAT'D BE OUR OVERALL OBJECTIVE RECOMMENDATIONS ADDRESSING, YOU KNOW, THE, I DON'T HAVE IT ALL WRITTEN DOWN OVER HERE, BUT, UH, TO LIST THOSE FOUR AREAS OUT AND THEN WE CAN PLAY AROUND WITH IT IF WE NEED TO THAT WAY, WHEN WE GET TO THE NEXT MEETING AND WE HAD THE MEETING IN MINUTES, WE CAN IMPROVE THE OBJECTIVES AND THE NEEDS ASSESSMENTS ARE GOING TO BE, YOU KNOW, AIMED TOWARD THOSE OBJECTIVES. CORRECT? YEP, YEP, YEP, EXACTLY. THAT'S EXACTLY HOW I WANT TO, BECAUSE I PUT TOGETHER THE INITIAL [01:15:01] OBJECTIVE STATED, BUT UNTIL WE HAD, UNTIL WE COULD HAVE THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT THE FOCUS AREAS, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT, THIS IS, THE FOUR THINGS ARE THE FOCUS AREAS. RIGHT. SO NOW THAT WE WE'VE COME TO WHAT, RIGHT. SO I'LL CAPTURE THAT AN OBJECTIVE STATEMENT SAY, THIS IS AN OBJECTIVE AND THESE ARE THE FOCUS AREAS. RIGHT. BUT IT WILL BE AN OBJECTIVE STATEMENT. I'LL PUT THAT TOGETHER. AND ONCE I GET THE, YEAH, THE MINUTES FROM TARA I'LL, UH, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL DO THAT. WE'LL WE'LL DEFINITELY HAVE THAT BY THE TIME WE HAVE OUR NEXT MEETING. PERFECT. PERFECT. ONE OF THE PICK AHEAD OF TIME THAT WE'RE NOT ADDRESSING YOU'RE SPOT ON YOU'RE SPOT ON RIGHT THERE. YEP. I'M IN TOTAL AGREEMENT WITH YOU THERE. SO WE PULL POLICY OUT BY IT'S STANDALONE. IS IT LIKE WE COULD DO HEBREW HIDES ADMINISTRATION AND POLICE REFORM, AND THEN WE HAD CIVIL RIGHTS ACCESS, BUT THEN WE KIND OF MOVE POLICY TO THE TOP ONE, BUT I HAD, IT WAS CIVIL RIGHTS ACCESS AND POLICY. AND THEN WE HAD FAIR HOUSING, FAIR BUSINESS PRACTICES, LIKE AS WELL. WELL, THEY'RE ALL POLICY, RIGHT. ISN'T IT. SO I WANNA MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE ALL LITTLE IT, YEAH, IT WAS POLICY. SO DID WE HAVE A FOURTH OR ARE WE PULLING? I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I HAVE IT RIGHT BEFORE I SEND IT TO YOU. YEAH, YEAH. RIGHT. BECAUSE I THINK I HAD, LET ME SEE POLICE REFORM FAIR HOUSING. I'M NOT SURE A FAIR HOUSING, FAIR BUSINESS PRACTICE THAT THE SEPARATE ONE WAS THAT ONE OF THEIR ONE. OKAY. AND THEN WE HAVE CIVIL RIGHTS. SO THAT'S THREE ASSET FOR THE HOUSING AND BUSINESS SEPARATED. SO IT'S PERFECT. PERFECT. JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE BEFORE I WAS LIKE, I HAD THREE, LIKE I MIGHT HAVE SPACED OUT THERE FOR A SECOND. GREAT. OKAY. WELL GOOD. I THINK WE, WE HAVE A VECTOR, UM, THIS WEEK WE'VE IDENTIFIED OUR OBJECTIVES, OUR FOCUS AREAS FIRST STEP, RIGHT. IN TERMS OF GATHERING DATA. AND WE JUST AGREED THAT WE'LL, UH, TERRIBLE. WE'LL START WITH A WORD LIST AND THEN WE WILL, UH, THIS WEEK WILL PILE ON OR ADD QUESTIONS TO THAT LIST. AND THEN WE WILL SUBMIT THAT TO, TO ROB THIS FRIDAY. UM, SO YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD FIRST STEP. AND THEN WE'LL YEAH, THE WHOLE NEEDS ASSESSMENT PIECE. I THINK WE'LL AS WE MOVE FORWARD. WE'LL UM, I THINK WHAT THE KEY THING IS, SIR, IT'S BACK TO THAT SURVEY THING, RIGHT. THE SURVEY, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT TIME IS TO DO THE SURVEY, BUT OBVIOUSLY WE, WE NEED TO HAVE A SURVEY PUT TOGETHER. RIGHT. SO WE CAN GAUGE THE COMMUNITY. CAUSE WE'D LIKE TO OBVIOUSLY GET SOME FEEDBACK FROM THEM ON WHAT THEY FEEL, HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT, UH, THE CITY. RIGHT. UM, WHETHER IT BE FROM THE TWO BUSINESSES, UH, AND THE CITY GOVERNMENT, RIGHT. UH, AND HOW THEY'RE BEING TREATED. SO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A WHOLE, I MEAN, THERE'S A WHOLE VARIETY OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF QUESTIONS, BUT I JUST THAT'S WHERE WE MAY NEED HELP. RIGHT. I MEAN, WE CAN COME UP WITH SOME, BUT JUST, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE A GOOD COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF QUESTIONS THAT, THAT PROVIDES US SOME GOOD INSIGHTS SO THAT, UH, WE KNOW HOW TO BEST, UH, TACKLE OR, OR ATTEMPT TO TACKLE, ADDRESSING SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS. SO THAT THOSE CONCERNS ARE NO LONGER THERE IN THE FUTURE. RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. WE WANT TO GET TO SO, UH, GREAT. UM, WELL, COOL. I THAT'S WHAT, SEVEN 22. NOW, ANY LAST THOUGHTS? I'LL START WITH US. DEFINE THE LAST THOUGHTS. OKAY. UH, TOM. OKAY. UH, ERIC, ALL MINDS ARE CLEAR. ALL RIGHT GUYS. HEY, I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL MAN. GOOD JOB, DEAR. MR. CHAIRMAN. I THINK YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO DO THIS TO ME. I THINK HOOKER, I CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT YOU GUYS. RIGHT. SO I APPRECIATE, APPRECIATE, UH, YOUR, YOUR, YOUR, YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND YOUR, AND UH, THIS IS GOOD WORK, RIGHT? THIS IS IMPORTANT STUFF, STUFF THAT WE'RE DOING, RIGHT. IT'S ABOUT GIVING BACK, YOU KNOW, I KNOW WHEN I GET PAID FOR THIS, BUT AGAIN, I THINK THERE'S A RE REWARDING THAT WE'RE DOING WORK TO TRY AND HAVE A, YOU KNOW, THAT, UH, UH, WITH THE GOAL OF HAVING A POSITIVE IMPACT RIGHT. ON OUR COMMUNITY. AND THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT, WHERE WE CAN AT LEAST PLAY SOME SMALL PART IN IT, YOU KNOW? AND SO I THANK YOU GUYS. I APPRECIATE IT. AND LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUE [01:20:01] TO WORK WITH YOU ALL. SO I'M GONNA SIGN OUT NOW. SEE YOU GUYS. BYE-BYE. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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