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a <br /> • <br /> City of Tukwfla Allan Ekberg,Mayor <br /> • Police Department-bike Villa, Chief <br /> June 9, 2016 <br /> 6:30pm-8:OOpm <br /> Members Present: Jerry Thornton, Jun Castillo, John Lindsay <br /> Staff Present: Deputy Chief Rick Mitchell, Chris Partman <br /> • Minutes for 4/14/16 and 5/19/16 meetings tabled due to lack of quorum. <br /> • City Budget Presentation, by Jack Pace, Director of the Department of Community <br /> Development. <br /> • See Budget sheet provided <br /> • Chief's update <br /> • Staffing: Fully Staffed, one new officer just finished field training, two in field <br /> training, two about to enter academy. One civilian opening <br /> • TPD implementing a body camera program. New legislation provides <br /> protections from some public disclosure provisions <br /> • When in use 60%fewer citizen complaints <br /> • Less L&I claims <br /> • 5-6 officers are part of the pilot program <br /> • Increases transparency <br /> • For a month at a time will use one vendor, then switch vendors (not <br /> officers) to assess different systems. <br /> • Cameras to be on during all citizen contacts. <br /> • Must advise all people who they contact that the encounter is being <br /> recorded. <br /> • First month's data in for SPRINT program <br /> • They have written a lot of tickets <br /> • Getting citizen "thank yous" <br /> • Goal is to target speeding and slow people down <br /> • Part of the program is also to engineer traffic calming measures by <br /> working with public works. <br /> • Focus is on the residential neighborhoods and schools <br /> • Boats and Mobile Command Post were out on the Duwamish River today <br /> looking for a homicide weapon which was dumped there <br /> Tukwila City Hall « 6200 SQuthcenter Boulevard . Tukwila, WA 98188 . 206-433-1800 w Website:TukwilraWAl.gov <br />