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(01 <br />City of Tukwila <br />Police Department - Bruce C. Linton, Chief <br />February 8, 2018 <br />6:30pm-8:OOpm <br />Allan Ekberg, Mayor <br />Members Present: Jerry Thornton, Kim Karns, Roger Arnold, Jan Bolerjack, Jun Castillo <br />Staff Present: Chris Partman, Chief Linton <br />Guest: <br />• Minutes for 1/11/17 meeting approved as corrected <br />• Chief's update: <br />• Staffing — <br />• So far, the Chief has received 1 resignation and 2 retirement letters. <br />He anticipates another 3-6 retirements this year. <br />• We need to really kick up the recruiting <br />• Have 7 in training <br />• Patrol is shorthanded, and detectives are shorthanded as well <br />• Still working on the problem apartment building. Still making arrests, working <br />with King County and apartment management to get the problem units evicted. <br />• Award Winners <br />• Matt Valdez, Employee of Year <br />• Victor Masters, Mayor's Award <br />• Gary Leavitt, Spirit of Service <br />• Adam Balcom, Good Idea Award <br />• COPCAB Project: <br />• Have members observe PD activities and report out to the community <br />• A newsletter from COPCAB to the community <br />• From Chief, work to distribute and get a survey out. Group consensus on it. <br />We will need to work hard to get a lot of responses. <br />1. Timeline: <br />a. Complete survey questions by April Meeting <br />b. Produce a theme for the survey <br />c. Have survey ready to get out by May <br />d. End survey by end of August <br />e. Compile by September/October <br />• Community Police Academy coming <br />Tukwila City Hall • 6200 Southcenter Boulevard • Tukwila,. WA 98188 • 206-4.38'-1800 • Website: TukwilaWA.gov <br />