ORDER-2021-63 : Acceptance of a FY21 Police 911 Training Grant in the amount of $82,089.51.

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▶ 2:45:23 Jeff McNaught: We have a motion to recommend for passage by Councilor Grigoraitis, seconded by Vice Chair Eccles. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Chairman, that's all?

▶ 2:45:35 Speaker 1: Yes. Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Sandoval-Fluency? Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor Garipay?

▶ 2:45:46 Speaker 1: Yes, yes. Yes, yes.

▶ 2:45:54 Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, yes.

▶ 2:46:04 Jeff McNaught: Motion passes next up we have order 2021 dash 63. Acceptance of a 21 police 9, 1, 1 training grant in the amount of 82,000. $89 and 51 cents chief. Is there anything you.

▶ 2:46:29 Speaker 10: Oh, sorry, this is a reoccurring had for many, many years. It's a 16 hour annual recertification for each officer in the building. And we're unique Melrose. We have 3 dispatch positions. 1's unfilled. The other 2 are filled in the event. We have an emergency and they get overloaded. The supervisor steps in and assist. Everybody in the building has to be trained in 911 dispatch. In the 16 hours, this year's curriculum, I don't know if you folks have it in front of you, are the four writers that we selected, ICAT de-escalation training, implicit bias training, procedural justice, verbal judo for telecommunication professionals.

▶ 2:47:15 Speaker 10: If anybody would like a copy of the syllabus, I'd be happy to send it along to Worker committees, and she can forward it to you all.

▶ 2:47:26 Jeff McNaught: I think that'd be great. Thank you. Chief 1st, we have counselor Thomas.

▶ 2:47:37 Cory Thomas: Thank you Mr. chair you just listed a number of trainings. Is this the 1st time in the most common is going to be receiving. What's advice training or diversity training or escalation training? And I apologize for the audio. It's been difficult.

▶ 2:47:49 Speaker 10: That's okay. No, this is just, you know, it's more enhanced than what they get at their annual in-service. Everybody goes to in-service 32 hours per year. And then you may get defensive tactics, and part of the defensive tactics will have a component of de-escalation training. Implicit bias training is a new training they have gotten to some extent in the police academy now. But I think as time rolls on, the next academies, you'll see it heavily emphasized in there as far as implicit bias training. E-escalation is going to be, uh-oh, sorry, paper at the keyboard.

▶ 2:48:33 Speaker 10: You'll see that certainly expanded. There is going to be considerable training for law enforcement in the coming months, and I'll certainly share that with you folks.

▶ 2:48:47 Cory Thomas: Chief, thank you so much, and thank you for always being so readily available. and thank you for all that you and the police department not only during

▶ 2:49:07 John N. Tramontozzi: the pandemic thank you council thomas councilor Tramontozzi yeah and thank you uh chief um i know this is a great uh i'm assuming there's there's no uh state uh i mean no uh city matching funds

▶ 2:49:18 Speaker 10: required for this grant no it's not it's a non-man it's a considerable cost for this for for the entire police department. The entire police department to go to a training, an eight-hour training is $22,000. This is a real for the city.

▶ 2:49:33 John N. Tramontozzi: Excellent. Thank you for your hard work on getting these grants. Thank you to you and your department for all you do. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

▶ 2:49:47 Jeff McNaught: Thank you, Councilor. Councilor Gimaldi.

▶ 2:49:51 Maya Jamaleddine: Thank you, Chairman. Thank you, to file for continuing providing us with all the information being so transparent um are these trainings mandatory to all the staff to understand they're required to take it everybody

▶ 2:50:12 Maya Jamaleddine: in the building is part of dispatch duties okay and is and as you mentioned is this the first

▶ 2:50:18 Speaker 10: time they take these kind of trainings or there's a there's a variety of topics and i selected these

▶ 2:50:24 Maya Jamaleddine: topics but specifically for our department okay so this grant is you are free to select the topic that you want it's not like they would limit you with turn topics right no there's quite a catalog

▶ 2:50:33 Speaker 10: of different uh training components and these are the ones i selected for the department okay thank

▶ 2:50:45 Jeff McNaught: you so much thank you counselor and next we have counselor stewart thank you mr chair and thank you

▶ 2:50:50 Robb Stewart: Chief Lyle. Just one question on the contract grant approval form. I noticed that the number 90,387 was crossed out and then written in with 82,089. What's the discrepancy between those two

▶ 2:51:11 Speaker 10: numbers? We originally put one for everybody in the police department and State 911 recognized every grant and they deducted the three new hires from this training uh we will be able to send them once they graduate the field training program later in the spring and i'll probably be before

▶ 2:51:33 Robb Stewart: the council for additional uh grant money okay thank you for that clarification uh thank you

▶ 2:51:41 Jeff McNaught: mr chair did i miss anyone else i didn't see any other hands okay uh counselor eccles vice chair

▶ 2:51:47 Jack Eccles: I was just going to make a motion to recommend passage.

▶ 2:51:51 Speaker 3: Second.

▶ 2:51:52 Jeff McNaught: Motion to recommend passage by Vice Chair Eccles, seconded by Councilor Thomas. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?

▶ 2:51:59 Speaker 1: Chairman McMaster? Yes. Vice Chair Eccles? Yes. Councilor Tammion Cozy?

▶ 2:52:05 Speaker 9: Yes.

▶ 2:52:06 Speaker 1: Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor Garibaldi? Yes. Councilor Zingaritis? Yes. Councilor McGuirelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart?

▶ 2:52:21 Speaker 4: Yes, Thomas. Yes.

▶ 2:52:24 Speaker 1: Yeah, yes 11. yeah.