Officials and Guests in Attendance
All Committee members except Steve Fields as well as a few City employees. Committee members seemed engaged. Accessing the Meeting and Materials The meeting started on time at 4:30pm. I observed the entire meeting. The agenda was available ahead of the meeting and the meeting was easy to access. Summary of Discussion The agenda was followed. Attendance was taken. Land acknowledgement was made. Interlocal Agreement (“ILA”) for District Court Services ILA between King County and the City of Redmond was discussed. This is an ILA for court services to be provided by King County. The City has had an ILA with King County since 2006. It expires at the end of 2021. A new ILA is being proposed that is for 5 years with two 4 year extensions. Twelve other city councils have ILAs with King County for court services. N. Rinkin from the City presented the ILA for questions and representatives from the police department and prosecutors office were available if needed for questions. J. Forsythe wanted to know the options if the ILA was not approved. Options are to set up their own court services or engage in an ILA with another city (although another city probably could not handle the workload). J. Forsythe wanted to know why the budget data used in the report was from 2018 and could they get more recent data. V. Kritzer wanted to know more about the community court and if King County was still funding this. The ILA was put on the consent calendar for February 2. ILA for Jail Services An ILA between King County and the City of Redmond for Jail Services was discussed. This is backup to SCORE, which provides most jail services for Redmond. There is occasion when SCORE can't take a person due to a medical or psychiatric reason and that is what this ILA covers. V. Kritzer wanted to confirm that SCORE is the primary source for Redmond jail services. The ILA was put on the consent calendar for February 2. Work Plan J. Anderson asked V. Khan, the presiding officer, about the work plan for this year - when will it be done/presented? V. Khan said it was in progress and would be put forward when completed without giving a date. Property Crime J. Forsythe asked the police at the meeting if they could comment on the perceived spike in car and mail prowls. Captain Gately and Chief Lowe both spoke and said that house burglaries were down because more people were home this past year. And yes they needed to take a closer look at car and mail problems. They also felt that some public education was needed as many of the car thefts happened to cars that were left unlocked or had a window open. The meeting was adjourned at 4:55.
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Members Present: Jeralee Anderson, David Carson, Steve Fields, Jessica Forsythe, Vanessa Kritzer, Tanika Kumar Padhye
Absent: Varisha Khan There was only one agenda item - SCORE interlocal agreement for jail services. SCORE is a correctional entity. It is a regionally owned jail in Des Moines, WA serving several cities in WA with a maximum capacity of 802 inmates. The Chief of police was presenting the contract for renewal, starting January 1. The current contract is for a maximum of 15 inmates at any one time and they are suggesting to move it down to 12. CM Forsythe said that based on the detail info provided it looked like Redmond used on average only 3 spots so did not understand why we needed more. She wanted to understand the methodology in the report to better understand the numbers. She also said that crime went up and she wanted to know specifically in what areas crime was increasing. The Chief said he would research the methodology and get back to the committee next week. The increase in crime was primarily in property crime. CM Fields wanted to know why we do this every year so late in the year and why this is the only agenda item. It is not very efficient to manage this way. The Chief (is new this year it sounded like) so he could not speak on earlier years. He only could say that SCORE was putting together a new fee structure and they had to wait on that before scheduling to be on the agenda. CM Kritzer asked what the risk is if we go down to 9 and the Chief said he could potentially not have enough beds and/or go over the budget. CM Kritzer also asked for a little overview on SCORE. It was agreed to accept answers from the Chief in an email next week and schedule it for the agenda on the October 1 meeting. CM Forsythe then said she agreed a short one item agenda is odd, especially when the last meeting had 8 items and ran well over the planned time ( 1 hour). She said we all need to work better to better plan meetings. She then asked about a fire code issue related to a construction project of a five story wood structure. The Chief agreed to get detail information in an email out to them next week. CM Anderson then thanked the Captain on the call as this was his last meeting. He was moving on to be the Chief of Police in Marysville. All said thank you to him. |