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COPCAB Minutes
July 10, 2014
6:30pm- 8:OOpm
Jim Haggerton, Mayor
Michael Villa, Chief of Police
Present: Chief Villa, Chris Partman, Jun Castillo, Jerry Thornton, Lynn Churchill
1. Minutes from 6/12/14 meeting tabled.
2. Chiefs Update
• Facilities — The process is ongoing and Public Safety, Police and Fire, is the top priority.
• Staffing — at 73 commissioned officers hired.
o Officer Donnelly is back from deployment
o Four laterals in background, one is done except for the final testing.
o Records, still one in background
• Funding — The Mayor's staff looked at all initiatives and budget requests from all departments. All
Dept. heads gave presentation and then each Dept. head got to pick top 5 picks. Out of the over 70
presentations, there were 8 top ones. Three of them were PD initiatives: additional budget for
ammunition, a police recruiting specialist (half time) and public records assistant who would work in
legal but 75% of work would be for PD records requests.
• Strategic Plan — over the next few weeks it will go out to the department. This will be presented in a
11 minute video and a power point the Chief used.
• Next meeting the Chief will bring copies of the strategic plan for COPCAB members.
• Firearms trailer — was purchased through significant savings in the cost of replacing the jail transport
van.
3. COPCAB Bylaws and Ordinance — Proposed ordinance changes distributed and discussed. Chris
will send them to the City Attorney's Office for comment.
4. Good of the Order
• Jun — his nephew is joining the Tukwila PD Explorers, he is attending his pre - joining
meetings.
• Chris — Citizens' Academy flyers handed out. Night Out Against Crime, COPCAB members
are welcome to ride with the City teams.
• Jerry — Attended Facilities Steering Committee, there were options for City Hall, Courts, PD
and Fire Department. Jerry felt they spent a lot of time on the FD. He also noted that many
of the plans were to have PD and Courts in a building of their own. Jerry wondered if Chief
Villa had had equal time, because Acting Chief Flores was there to speak to the committee.
6200 Southcenter Blvd. Tukwila, WA 98188 • Phone (206) 433 -1808 • Records Fax (206) 244 -6181 Invest. Fax (206) 431 -3688
Meeting adjourned at 7:15
Next meeting will be on Thursday, 8/14/14 from 6:30pm- 8:OOpm. Please contact Chris Partman at
Chris.Partman(&tukwilawa.gov or call 206 - 271 -6069 if you're unable to attend.