Public Safety Commission - Regular Meeting

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Yes. within the jurisdiction of the commission on the agenda. Do we have any requests to speak? Yeah, now moving on to old business. There's no old business discussed. So yeah, first item of new business, introduction of new members. And so we have a missionary to mesh other Walla and share Stephen Lau. There's an alternate member, I'd wait sake. So let's introductions. Yeah, go ahead. Okay.

So my name is in my shadow and recently retired after 42 years in tech. And now I have time to start the more time to spend with the community. Been in Cupertino since 2000, and in the Valley since 1986. And the closest I've gotten to anything like this, meaning dealing with the public side of things, is I was on the board of a nonprofit for five years. It was a healthcare nonprofit, partly funded by the county, And so I got a feel for how things are different for our sector. And then the way I've eased into it is I'm on emergency communications, both for the city and for the county, and this weekend for Los Altos. And then Ravi posted on Nextdoor that there was an opening on this, so I applied, and council felt that, you know, So looking forward to learning more about things like ground app and how it plays in practice and so on and so forth. I'm a bit accustomed to it in the corporate world, but it's not nearly as formal as this. So I'm very interested in learning the flow of meetings and so on. Glad to be here. Thank you. All right.

So my name is Steven Lau. I have been also a long time Cupertino resident. I moved to the city since 1998. So it's about 20 years. I got married there. I have kids there. So they both went through the public systems as well as joining Little League and different activities in the city. i live in the same house for 28 years so uh so um so i've been enjoying the neighborhood and also uh the uh making some new friends uh making some good friends and long-term relief friends and neighbors and i for work i've been the chief building official for several local governments including I am semi retired and I familiar with local government process procedures, public hearing. And also working with. police and fire, as well as public works and other city departments to coordinate different events and different activities responding to emergencies such as earthquakes, fire. So I have a little bit of experience about how departments, city departments work with each other, as well as with outside agencies such as health departments, sanitary departments, some state agencies as well. But I don't pretend to know it all. I know that every city wants their operations differently. And so I want to learn from each one of you. And I'm looking forward to share what I know. It's a better place. I also, one thing I always wanted to make note is I've been enjoying the safe environment, comfortable environment in the city, but I know that it's not free. There's a lot of people work together behind the scenes, make this place safe and also enjoyable. So I always keep that in mind, share that. Thank you.

Awesome. Yeah, so I guess that being said, we can now move to our item, which is a presentation of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention on the Talk Saves Lives program, joined by Adam Kraft from Foundation.

Hello, everyone. Can everyone hear me?

I think it's a little quiet.

A little quiet?

I think now it's good.

Okay, cool. Let me share my slides real quick. Is everyone able to see my slides?

Yes, we can see them.

Awesome. Thank you for inviting me to this Public Safety Commission meeting to share information about Talk Saves Lives and Introduction to Suicide Prevention. My name is Adam. I'm an intern with the local Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, as well as a graduate student at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Today, I'll just tell you a little bit about Talk Saves Lives, walking you through why the program was created, its learning objectives, the impact of the program so far, and how you can bring Talk Saves Lives to your community. Suicide is a major public health issue in the United States. Every year, millions of people think about suicide. Over a million people attempt suicide, and nearly 50,000 people die by suicide. The good news is that suicide can be prevented. Everyone has a role in preventing suicide, and talk can save lives. Talk Saves Lives was developed and launched in 2015. It was then revamped by the organization and redesigned in 2024 with input from diverse audiences, presenters, volunteers, staff, and those with lived experiences. After attending a presentation, audience members will be able to describe the impact of suicide, identifying contributors to suicide and protective factors, understand how suicide may impact certain communities differently, describe how to recognize suicide warning signs, provide examples of how to start a conversation about suicide with somebody you're concerned about, and list ways to seek and offer support and crisis resources for yourself or others. The delivery audience members will leave with handouts and resources to take home and put what they learned into action. The program can be delivered in person or virtually. It's presented by trained staff and volunteers. It's around one hour and the program is free. The Talksaves Live can be presented to anyone over the age of 18, such as community members, employees, faith groups, college students, educators, or business owners. Talksaves Live provides general information, but can also be customized for specific audiences, such as workplaces, veterans, LGBTQ plus communities, and more. Talk Saves Lives can be presented anywhere where those over 18 gather, such as workplaces, organizations, faith communities, college and universities, community centers, mental health centers, and local businesses. Since January 2020, there have been thousands of presentations reaching over 173,000 people, Audience feedback shows us that the program has been really well received. After attending the presentation, 93% reported gains in new knowledge, 93% also felt more confident in their ability to recognize suicide warning signs, and 86% felt comfortable in helping a loved one who might be struggling or having thoughts of suicide. Respondents also said they had a greater likelihood to take action. There's a 29% increase in likelihood to reach out to crisis services, 18% increase in likelihood to seek help when struggling, and a 15% likelihood to talk to somebody they're concerned about. Respondents shared that the program is successful in showing how easy it is to make a difference to someone suffering and how to start a conversation about suicide. TalksLivesLives is also part of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center's Best Practices Registry, which means that it's been reviewed and vetted by experts to ensure it aligns with suicide prevention best practices, national frameworks, and community-informed approaches. You can reach out to your local chapter at afsp.org slash chapters to request a presentation in person or virtually or to inquire about becoming a trained presenter yourself. You can also email the greater SF chapter directly at sfbayarea at afsp.org or you can reach out to me at apratt at afsp.org. I really appreciate the invitation and thank you for your time. I'm happy to answer any questions anyone may have. And again, thank you.

Yeah, thank you for the presentation. Yeah, I guess maybe one question that I have is, do you know if there have been presentations at the local high schools and colleges here? Do you know?

I don't know exactly about colleges. Schools, we aren't able to do presentations directly towards people under the age of 18. We have two separate programs called It's Real and More Than Sad. It's Real is for teenagers and More Than Sad is for either parents of younger children or educators of younger children to help them kind of look for the signs in either other staff or for their young ones.

I do have a question also, Adam. Yeah. I'm sort of not clear on what Talks Saves Lives is. Is it an intervention of some kind, or what's that?

It's a suicide prevention and awareness education program. It's about an hour-long presentation similar to this, but to expanded format. Oh, thanks. Sounds like no more questions. I really appreciate everyone's time and feel free to reach out if you have any more questions.

I think there's also a public comment period. Yes.

Oh, wonderful. We have no speakers, Chair.

Okay. Excellent. Awesome. All right. Thanks so much, Adam. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, so I guess that closes that item. Move on to the next one, which is a presentation from Maitri on domestic violence awareness and community resources. And we're joined by Neeti Kataruka from Maitri.

Hello, thank you. Good evening. Thank you for inviting Maitri to your meeting. And let me just quickly pull up my slides so I can just go a little bit about domestic violence.

Give me one.

Okay. So as I said, my name is Neeti Kataruka and I work across two programs in Maitri. I work with the Helpline program as well as the legal programs. Maitri is an organization which is there to support the survivors of domestic violence. And it was established in the year 1991. At Metri, our vision is to have a society where all relationships are built on dignity, equality and compassion. And to achieve this, we wish to empower South Asian survivors of domestic violence to lead lives of dignity, self-sufficiency through holistic programs. We want to enable healthy relationships, gender equality, and through community education, engagement, advocacy, and of course, awareness. Like I told you, Maitri was established in the year 1991. It has been around 35 years of service. Just to give you a basic background, Maitri's inception was in someone's kitchen, and it was just a landline phone, and from there, the journey has just taken off. And over these 35 years, we have attended to 63,000 helpline calls. And we've provided wraparound services to more than 9,300 survivors. When I say we are a South Asian agency, I know it sounds a little bit of a niche thing. But it is a culturally responsive service catering to the South Asian community, which is how it began. And most of our grants work is related to that. Having said that, we don't turn anyone away. The services are open to all. And METRI has been a recipient of many awards, so our work has been recognized. Yet one of the constant challenges which we as an agency and other domestic violence agencies face is the financial challenges arising from budget cuts and the current financial restraints that are taking place. Now, I have been talking about domestic violence and how as an agency we are working for the survivors of domestic violence. So domestic violence is actually an umbrella term, which people identify domestic violence to be like physical violence or maybe even sexual violence now. However, it extends beyond. It can be psychological abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse. And now technology is coming in. So there is a lot of tech-enabled abuse as well. There was a survey done by the National Network to End Domestic Violence, which is an NNEDV survey. This was done on the 10th of September, 2025. Across the United States, across 1,700 US domestic violence programs, All the programs in total were able to serve 84,000 victims, survivors, and children of domestic violence. 13,000 needs on that particular day remained unmet. If we are talking closer home, Santa Clara County in general, last year, METRI, along with four other agencies, we are a part of the Domestic Violence Advocacy Consortium, which is the DVAC, So Maitri, along with five other agencies, five agencies alone in the Santa Clara County over a period of one year answered to a total of 23,000 hotline calls. And domestic violence cases are still largely um not highlighted people will not reach out for support it is seen as a stigma still in society if i come to the services that metri provides it can be under two umbrella terms so one is the client facing uh sector of which also i am a part of it is the client intervention services direct client advocacy, which comprises of, you know, people reaching out to us over a helpline. And then we see the kind of services and the help they need. Legal advocacy, immigration assistance, peer counseling. And then there is... This way of where we want to take them to self-sufficiency towards independence. So we look into their mental well-being, providing safe transitional housing, economic empowerment, housing stability. We also are culturally responsive in the sense that we do provide language support and financial assistance where needed. Just to give you an example. So typically, and this is a client story. So Simi is a client who we had. She reached out to Metrio on our helpline. She has been a victim of domestic violence and she was initially not reaching out, a lot of gaslighting taken place. So she reached out to us on our helpline. At the helpline level, we do the crisis intervention, understand the needs. For Simi, she is an LEP client, which is limited English proficiency client. So she knows very little words of English. technically cannot communicate with the services available. So we provided her with that language help. She speaks in Telugu, which is an Indian language, a South Asian language. We provided her one-on-one support in that language, got her legal help to be able to get a restraining order against her abuser, and slowly we helped her get back her mental health, her lost confidence, helped her with immigration because she was largely dependent on her spouse for her immigration, got her into our safe housing, and then slowly, once we were able to enroll her in ESL classes, provide her with training to get a job, we were also able to get her rental assistance and get her into housing. And then, so this is the client advocacy part of it where we are directly working with the client. Not all clients will require all of our services. Some just require listening here and will not come back. Some only require some level of legal help, right? But there are others who will require all of these. And now the other part of Maitri, which I think I'm here today, is to reach out to the community, create awareness and also create and make prevention at the We also participate in a lot of policy advocacy programs. More recently, in terms of we have signed off on a national level legislation which aims to stop child marriages and closer home. We are supporting a bill that will help survivors or people who have been forced into marriages. Forced marriages will now be eligible to get a domestic violence restraining order. We have signed off on a bill on that. So we do reach out regularly and support causes associated with domestic violence. We also have an awareness campaign where we work with men and youth in general to support and build healthy relationships. So in the last year alone, this is the data, Maitri's data, last fiscal year, we have been able to serve so many clients. And this is when a large number of cases are unreported. This is all about Maitri and the domestic violence, which is a pandemic, if you are to ask me. I am open to questions and I really thank you for this opportunity to invite me here and hear me speak.

Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Any questions?

Yes, I do have a question. The previous slide, the stats, this Santa Clara County?

No, yes, Santa Clara County. Mostly, some of it is based out of Alameda County as well. We do actually also have callers who call us from different states. all along the United States. Of course, the ability to provide them help or direct help is a little bit limited, but we do try to give them resources or connect them to resources closer home. And if there is something like say related help, we will help them out because that is the same across the nation.

And those bills that you mentioned, I think one of them you mentioned is like a national bill, but are any of those like state level bills as well?

So the state level bill is the one for, I'm forgetting the bill number, but it is for the forced marriages that I mentioned, that is the state level bill that I'm talking about. Currently under domestic finance restraining order, forced marriages are not included. So we are, one of the many agencies and people who are trying to advocate to include forced marriages under that. And, you know, make it eligible to get a restraining order under those contexts.

Got it. Thank you.

Thank you. Can we get, like, I understand you're also looking for some funding as well, right? Can we get, like, some, like, information a book or pamphlet kind of thing that we can share in our community?

Sure, I will be happy to share that. And otherwise, all this information is also available on our website, which we regularly update, which is www.metri.org. We can do that. And also I can be in touch and get you that information.

Thank you. All right. Yeah, we can also open the public comment period for this item as well.

We have no speakers, Chair.

Great. Awesome. Well, thank you so much, Nidhi, for the presentation, and thank you to the whole organization for the work you guys are doing. This will now close this item. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you.

All right. So now we have the staff and commission reports. So we can start with the report from Chief Strada from the Soundcraft County Fire District.

Thank you, Chair. I apologize for not having a complete report tonight. We do have the stats. I usually like to try to dig in with the special messages. It's actually going to be because of the way this one tracked down, it's hard for us to make it. in a time frame, but it'll be published, expected on the phone, so it won't be available to the public and very close to. But call volume and other stats, and questions, we'll take them in the end. So basically, for Mauritian service faults, we had a pretty typical breakdown, mostly EMS structure, fires, vegetation fires are grouped together, but that is a very, lower frequency, but higher risk things. So those are the ones that we're trying to be ready for. The fire season I will remark is this. Actually, we've had some favorable weather. I think we're going to be getting into some hotter weather now. So it's seeing a shift in the wildfire seasons, definitely going into what we would normally consider the fall. So here's about jet vegetation. vegetation management, or efforts that they're going in the last year or two years. So hope for some luck, but we are starting to see instances of grass, vegetation fires, in the South County area. I'm dead, I don't know. For those, time to start paying attention. That would be the message. Significant incidents, we've been lucky in Cupertino for June. No significant incidents, although there were a few things here and there that basically didn't rise to a level of multi-alarm structure fires or anything significant. We are seeing the period where we see a lot of folks out there in the community events and in the school. So at the end of school, and then we have station visits happening. So basically the school-related and or community events accounts for more than half of the total attendees that we have in We are looking to refine this so we get a little bit. We'll see 2000 or something, but that's like how many expected participants. So try to get a little bit, we're digging in to try to get a better idea of really what kind of penetration we're having with our events. So we're focusing on making that much more. But we are out there, we're meeting folks, and we are going to be having an event, good routine for wildfire events coming up. So hopefully we'll have you all there.

Next slide.

So this is the average time for fire response. One of the fortunate things for fire response is we actually did have a smaller numbers. So there were actually this accounts for four. So that's where you see this, if the numbers are larger, and detail are being so what we have here, pay attention to the blue. That's the annual, the annual app. So call processing turnout, the reflex, total reflex in the urban less, that's more than 1000 per square mile. that rule would be less than. So you'll see that here by excelling and then you start moving up towards the hills to the urban. Harder to get there, longer run time. So those things would be expected. And you can see that we actually didn't have any responses in that for June that qualified. So, but the average response time out to those urban areas is about nine minutes. which is somewhat extended given that we have three fire stations in Cupertino specifically that serve this community as well as those that are coming in. So some of these drawn down, we actually have some debt there, which allows us to keep the response times to those lower average C on the urban side. So that keeps us below our baseline. So for this one, that red line, we're under it. Average response times for medical. So this one has a little bit more meaningful. goes down to it, it looks like that we, as long as we can keep it below that baseline and that red line, we're doing well. We actually did a little bit better over in the short term, as opposed to the annual average. And anything between about that five to six, six and a half minute mark is as a total response time that you have the fractal nature of all processing time, then you have the notification to the station, and that time from that notification to the time they start rolling, that's the reflex time. There's an overlap, so the only way to really take a close look at that is to see it both in the fractals and then also in the totals.

That would be something.

And then with the urban, doing well in the urban and in the total reflex, it actually looked like it was pretty peaceful in here. So that's good news. Then number of incidents per type. Pretty typical breakdown, once again. The structure fires, vegetation fires were grouped together. There's 46 incidents. The fact that I said that there was no significant incidents, there were a lot of small things. There's a garbage can fire next to the house. There's somebody with a cigarette butt out the window in the center of the lab. Those types of things started happening, people working on vegetation, there was a spark and a small thing, or even I think there's a fire in my house and there's some smoke come out. Sometimes it's also classified as an extinguished fire, cooking fire, those types of things. So that's why that number looks higher, but the fact that there's no actual significant event or there's no dollar loss that's significant means that A LUCKY INSTANCE FOR A INSTANCE WHERE THEY WILL ACTION ON BEHALF OF THE PRESIDENT OR FIRE OR EVEN LAW ENFORCEMENT. SO WITH THAT, FIRE ALARMS. WITH THE WEATHER, PRETTY TYPICAL, THESE WOULD BE PRETTY LOW. PULSE ACTIVATIONS USUALLY CAUSING INCREDIBLE WEATHER, WATER LIKE THAT GETTING INTO THE SYSTEM AND CAUSING SHOCKS. None of these look that extraordinary in terms of our normal breakdown line share of over 1100 over June, over 62%. It is very, very typical and that's something that you would expect to see. And then finally, there is one thing of note that I noticed and that is, if you look at the total calls, now this is the total, this is the year to date for June. If you look at last year, versus this year got about 800 ish difference that's a pretty significant increase um. I haven't looked at the data, but I'm interested to see exactly why you would see a jump like that, because the weather actually has been good, so it's not going to be . We haven't had a significant number of fires. It just started to kind of slowly come up. So I would actually be interested to see what kind of incidents and breakouts that would come up. That's something that we expect to see about a 3% rise on an annual basis. just pretty much kind of tracks that data. And so with that, that's an expected growth. This one's a little bit more so. Looking at what next month looks like would be something that I'd be kind of interested in seeing. So I'd say for us, Cupertino's got a pretty respectable call volume at 10,700 calls this year. And they're probably on track to break 20. And there's a lot going on here. So the freeways really play a big part of that.

just like they always do.

And once again, I'll say that the wildfire events coming up are something that I really would like to see all of you attend, if possible. If not, send somebody that you know or trust or love or anything like that, because there's really good information there. It's not always new. It's the same message at its core. It's still valid, and it's actually really important. The focal point would be you and how to prepare yourself best. The second would be how to prepare yourself Those two things together come up with the whole solution and about 95% of the effort happens well before the actual incident, which will determine your outcome. I will allow for any questions. Go ahead.

Yeah, I have a question. Since medical dominates your call responses, do you have a sense of, compared to the other agencies, is fire, you know, most likely to respond to a medical? Great question.

Yeah, so, so all of our response go through unmerged medical and . So there's a set of questions, and one of them is, what's the nature of your, let's see, first question, and one of them is, I have somebody sick, or there's something wrong. So the first cat would be, was it in law enforcement, or is it a medical? We have ALS, or Advanced Life Support, so we have perimelial ganglion syndrome. So the way the system in Santa Clara County works is that we are the, usually the initial responder. There's a supplemental and there's the ambulance. Certain events would require law enforcement, especially if there was a security concern. Others, like some of those unfortunate events that do require law enforcement, so a person had a basically passed away. So that is really baked into the system. It's really intended, just like in the fireside, to send the right people to every single type of incident, depending on what you get out of that call process. Dispatchers essentially are at our dispatch center county call, they handle ambulance, fire, and sheriffs, including the court fingers. So there's this consolidation of this dispatch for us here in our district. And yes, we do go to every single medical event with an ambulance that does require unless it's for some reason it's called on, but you're not requested, or it's a low acuity call, like a request for medical transport. So there's .

Question. So do you reckon that you realize the is there an increase of battery fires with the increased numbers of scooters, electric bicycle? That's an excellent question.

Yes, because so up until Last Friday I was a fire marshal. So I spent an entire week learning about basically energy storage systems, the mobile energy storage systems. And one of the things that was really the primary focus was these batteries. Aftermarket batteries will be some of those that are causing most problems. Anything that has a UL rating, testing is usually the one that makes sure that we continue with that. So many types of mobile, the personal mobile devices, those are the ones that have the most frequent instance of problems. And they break it up into those types of devices. large systems that are meant for structures, buildings, sections. Those are usually very, very safe. They have a lot of different safety protocols for public use. Your packs that are used in vehicles are usually very, very safe. They have very stable and resilient cases that are essentially package within and most of the time they can be fired to be contained. The one thing about these is that the most concerning types of fires that we're seeing are the ones that are from the mobile devices like wheelchairs, bikes, or scooters. When you're in an enclosed space, you have your apartment building or your room, That's where things start causing trouble. There's a lot of stuff on YouTube that basically has video footage of those types of things. I think it was two months ago, we actually had a focus on batteries. The last page of our normal newsletter has some kind of safety. I think last month was swimming and I think before that, we have batteries. And so it's the small batteries, especially when they're damaged, are the major concern. And if the aftermarket or non-UL rated battery through, say, one that you might deliver online, those would be the ones that carry the highest risk. So there's a lot in there. We do have some on our website. So if you're interested in that, I'm sure we can... working for this commission, specifically, everybody's down.

My question was, when, or where is it the library again, for the preparedness or prevention?

I'll look it up. Oh, that's okay. I want you. So we'll look at it.

It's Monday, last one, next Monday. But I wanted to come from the same. It's next Monday.

Okay, great.

Okay. Sorry, it's Wednesday, July 15th. Okay. It's PM to 8 p.m. But I'm not sure. That's what Google said.

Google's so smart.

Actually, Gemini. Absolutely.

I'll verify this. I'll verify it right now.

Because I know about the 15th, that's the community homes.

I think it is.

And registration is required and it's a common name to sign up. Yeah.

Yeah, wildfire protection workshop, Cupertino, six to eight. And keep in mind that you can, if you would like to, CPR training is always available as a month.

So go to our website.

There's a lot of opportunities there. I will just go ahead and fill in a plug for our other, some that are focused on seniors. There are some that are focused on, there's babysitter program. There's also every person at every stage of their life. Get an alert SEC and Genesis Protect.

You do not have to be the one that has a cell phone.

You know somebody, love somebody, care about somebody, know somebody who knows somebody. You can monitor another person's location and be able to keep track of them remotely as well.

Perfect. Thank you.

Awesome.

Thank you, Chief Estrada. Yes, I guess we can now move to the report from Captain Balansui. Oh, sorry about that. Yes. Any public comments? So we can now move on to the report from Sheridan.

All right. Thank you, Chair, and welcome to the new commissioners. for the new commissioners. I'm Captain Neil Valenzuela. I oversee basically the police services for the cities of Cupertino, Saratoga, and Los Altos Hills, as well as the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County. We'll go to the next page. Just to start off here, first of all, glad we got a little snafu that we had a little problem with the response times fixed finally. So we're back to a good timeframe here, under four minutes. response time to our priority one calls, which was throwing us off big time because it was a problem of changing the call type from when it was first received. So we got that problem fixed with County Comm and got that sorted out. So our response times are still pretty good. Even priority two calls are under seven minutes and priority three calls under seven minutes as well too. So I'll go on to the next slide. says a lot of the crime stats that we got going on here. The ones I'd like to point out is the residential burglaries. We can see we're at 29 at the end of June. We ended with 102 last year, which was a lot more than usual. So 29 seems to be a little bit more on the average base. I'd like to have zero, but we can't always prevent everything. And then looking down, the one number that is standing out to me is identity theft and forgery. We're at 89. We're only halfway through the year. So it looks like we'll probably be on track for the same amount, if not probably more than where we're at last year. So it looks like we've got to do some more education and be out there and continue these neighborhood watch meetings about fraud and identity theft prevention. Brooks are switching tactics and going to identity theft versus your shoplifting or home burglaries now. Next slide, please, or next page. This is just a breakdown for our citations for the month. As you can see, we gave about a number of 186 citations for the month of June. And this kind of breaks it down a little bit. It used to be better in our old system, but unfortunately we switched to a whole bunch of new systems, and this is a new RMS system, and this is the way this captures it at the time. Hopefully at some point in time we're going to be able to break these down a little bit better so people can understand what these actually mean, but hazardous citations mean essentially moving violations or anything that's hazardous while it's going, while non-hazardous are more like your registration, your insurance, things that are part of what we call like fix-it tickets or non-moving violations. Next slide. And this just kind of goes over a breakdown over the month of June with the total of accidents. The month of May will be online with Cupertino and online on Cupertino's website, but it just gives you a breakdown every month of all the number of accidents and the cause of the accidents. You can see we had a lot of rear-end issues with 11 out of all the 30 accidents. And that is part of the report, but I do want to mention a couple of things. So June 25th capped off our end of our Teen Academy, which is a two-week class that our school resource officers run for people under the age of 18, juveniles. And we basically run through a gambit of showing them the legal system. We gave them a tour of the jail, the courthouses. The district attorney put on a little mock trial. uh between the public defender and the district attorney's office uh we're providing tours of the sheriff's office our sheriff's academy they go through some of the training uh got a lot of positive feedback from the community we typically open it up to uh kids from cupertino and saratoga for a little while and then if we don't get enough attendance we open up santa clara county wide so we get a lot of attendance from from kids from all over the county um So it was a great, great thing. If you go on YouTube, you can see our highlights videos of all our teen academies that we posted there. Fourth of July was a success. Nothing of note. I did see Commissioner Klein there, part of his CERT detail probably. uh good turnout for a lot of people and went off safely so that's great uh national night out is august 5th um we have a location still to be determined where we're going to start normally we start off at a coffee shop where we host a coffee with the sheriff We have a lot of people that come in, including support supervisors that come by, elected officials. And then from there, we disperse and we go through all the block parties that are occurring within town. Martha usually gives us a list of all the block parties, and then we'll just divide and conquer. We'll send out two or three deputies with stickers and stuff that we can hand out to everybody and hang out for sometimes the fire department follows us there and we hang out. They get all the attention for some reason. They don't want to see the fire truck. But anyway, so besides the point, we try to work together. And then the last thing I want to bring up is the Stop Senior Scams or now the Senior Fraud Prevention Seminar. The next, we just hosted one on June 23rd at the Sunnyside Retirement Community Center in Saratoga. The next one is on July 11th from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Anza College. We do have flyers here, and I also have them back at our substation, too. This was something I know that the Public Safety Commission talked to us last time, and they wanted us to do a little bit more. I reached out to our coordinators, so they scheduled a few more. Like I said, they did one last month in Saratoga. This month, they're doing one in Cupertino at De Anza College, so I'll leave this here.

Who posted this flyer with tonight's material?

Yes, perfect. Thank you. With that, I'll conclude my report and I'll open to any questions.

Next one is this Saturday. July 11th? Yes. Yes. Is there one after that?

That's the only one. So the person that's that's coordinating it and putting it together, he's a volunteer with the sheriff's office. He volunteers and he's really passionate about stopping senior scams. I leave it up to him and his group of people that do it because they do it on a volunteer basis. So they do schedule here and there. And when I get the list of the dates, I do send them to Martha, which I did last time. i'd let her know that we had one coming up in june and one in july 11th and she had posted them online um we will have eventually some more these are just the two that are for this period of time right thank you we have a periodic most of the time they go to all over the county so they did the san jose state university i know they did they've done a couple of retirement communities around here too Yeah. Thank you. Yep. Thanks.

Yes. I have a question. You showed 29 in burglary in these bank vaults, but I was just wondering, the banks here have started shutting down their safe deposit vault services. I don't know when they started doing that, but do you expect an uptick once the bad guys figure out that people are now keeping more stuff in vaults?

Talking about the banks? Gosh, I hope not. So, you know... We hit a 10-year low with residential burglaries a couple of years ago, which was awesome. And then the number started increasing again. And then we ramped up our... Our Neighborhood Watch program started hitting the Neighborhood Watch meetings and letting people be aware of what steps they can take to prevent from being victimized for residential burglary. And I'm not saying that's what's probably causing it. There's a lot of factors that go into reduction of residential burglaries. The ALPRs was one. You have all these different things that happen. It's a hit and miss. I hope that doesn't get out to crooks. We don't want them to get the information that now it's a good time to hit houses. We tell a lot of residents that every time we go to a neighborhood watch meeting, get your safe out of your master bedroom because crooks tend to go to the master bedroom and if their safe's not there, they leave. So put it in another room, in the garage, or someplace else where it may be a little inconvenient for you, but it's also going to be inconvenient for the crooks.

Thank you. Yes.

Yes. Did you get an update on the ELPS? Yes. So as you know, a couple of months ago, our Board of Supervisors, who directs basically what we can do since we work for the county, wasn't liking the political view of flock. So this allowed us from continuing to usage of flock cameras. They did say that we could still use other ALPRs. We have explored Axon ALPRs. We've had communications with them. So we're still on the negotiation steps with Axon. Our board of supervisors is very anti-police or government oversight or big brother kind of stuff. So it just takes some time for us to get everything going through and to allow us to get another vendor approved. that we can utilize for ALPRs. So hopefully we'll get them back or get another vendor that can provide another ALPR service for us. And we're kind of in the works because it's not necessarily just Cupertino. it's a lot of other moving parts within the county because with axon we also have the capability of turning on alp of ours on our on our car cameras um and so that's what's kind of holding it up right now because if once we get axon alpr technology we have it in our cars basically all the time and so there's a little hurdle we have to cross to allow the to allow us to have that basically oversight, the government spying on people. But it's a reader that catches license plates. We have to kind of explain the technology and what it does. We'll get there eventually. Any other questions?

Public comment?

We have no speakers here.

All right. Thank you. Awesome. Um, all right, so, thanks. Commissioner's reports. Of course, from ourselves. Um, yeah, I guess, like, 1 thing to share. Uh. Yeah, so this is the, I like to point out about. Sharing expenses for. Flyers and placards, um, that we, that we were kind of given last time.

Um.

thinking maybe this is for the future agenda setting, but we can probably check in on that at the next meeting. Like in terms of like how we're doing in terms of the signups for alert, SEC and genesis.

So how we communicate there though?

Yeah.

Like basically see like what, what do the percentages look like?

Are there channels that seem to be working better than others? Like I, I like, So I basically did like a little door-to-door thing, like with the placards basically in my neighborhood. And then I like went to, there's like the South Bay Soaring Society, gliders, stuff like that. So I like gave it some folks there, but nothing like, you know, like institutional channel, you can say. probably checking out.

That's a very good topic, right? Because now we are heading into the city council elections. So there will be a lot of canvassing. Maybe I think there will be like two or three groups that participate in the elections. Maybe we can even do all the groups along with the canvassing also share this public safety information. Right. That's a good idea. We can reach all the groups, right? Correct. Yeah.

No other commissioner, for instance. All right. So I guess moving on to future agenda setting, are there any items that commissioners would like to request for the future agenda?

So there was some action items with respect to last meeting, right, where we want to send an official communication. I don't know if you met.

Yeah, so I sent an email to I think that was one of the guidance emails from the council, essentially, on two things. I think the first was basically requesting the council put their weight behind the Alert SEC and Genesis outreach. So I sent that. And then the other one was basically, I guess, sort of related to this, which was like, can we increase the awareness on the senior fraud and AI-related I'm not sure if there was any response yet from the council, per se. I mean, certainly agree in them.

Yeah. Chair, I can follow up with the council. I will say that it's a bit more compelling if the representative from the commission shows up at a council meeting, because you have all five of the council members in person, you could speak like a role of communications, but I'm happy to follow up as well and see if the mayor would like to explore this on a future council agenda.

Sounds good.

Just let me know. Okay. Okay. Got it.

Yeah, I guess we can, you can do that and show up, take part in the role of communications.

Next meeting. Okay.

Yes, the next meeting is July 21st. They have a recess in August, and they will resume again first Tuesday of September and the third Tuesday of September.

Okay.

So I have a question for Oris. I don't know if it's in support for this commission, but... Basically, indirectly, this was, I think, next to a post about Prominente shutting down and they're going to demolish stuff. Is there a public safety angle if they're going to start? We're downwind of that. We were subject to barrages of cement dust. I've been waiting for the entire state of Cupertino for it to shut down. And now it looks like they're going to do it. But I don't know in terms of the commission, whether there's a public safety angle to be explored. Can you be more specific? Is there like a feature that's under the topic here? Yes, yes. It's for that, basically. But I don't know if the public safety commission covers this kind of thing. If they're going to start demolishing stuff,

So the commission discusses anything within the scope of the powers and duties and functions that's listed in the municipal code. I'm happy to forward that to you. So what can you repeat the item, the topic that you wish to discuss here?

I'm exploring whether it's an appropriate topic, but the topic is that the permanent cement plant has stopped operating. But basically, Huberdino has asked them to demolish portions of it. And so demolition within the city boundaries, is there a public safety aspect to it?

So, okay, so you're asking if there's a public safety element to the... operations and demolition of the Lehigh cement. So in what regard? Would you be interested?

I'm still trying to maybe sort of score the commission longer, or I guess the concern might be like, oh, maybe there's like, aspects of like pollution or like dust, things that maybe we want to just kind of like get a read on.

Right. What does demolition mean? Is it just windows or are they going to dynamite the thing? What are they going to do?

I'm happy to follow up with the city attorney to see if that falls within the scope of this commission or another commission and then we'll bring that back to you.

So it was a meta question. It's a good topic.

Cool. Let's see. So yeah, I guess July 21st is that as our appearance. Okay. Yeah, so I guess that'll be not really a future agenda item, but more like an action item, so to speak. We'll be showing up at the 21st City Council meeting to basically speak on the color SEC genesis matter. And then I guess... can like stack multiple things in one oral communication, right? Okay, so I guess the other one would just be covering and spreading the word on the efforts of the Sheriff's Office as well as just the general eye-watering trends around identity theft and abroad. Okay, and I guess one future agenda item too would be checking in on the status of said Alert SEC and Genesis signups. Anything else on the future agenda?

Do you want to bring something up? And there was, first of all, we have a new OEM manager. It was hired fairly recently. It starts July 15th. There is, and there was a disaster council meeting that occurred several weeks back. All the department heads were there. I don't remember the details exactly, but there is a commission that is analyzing our response, and we are going to be receiving a report. This commission is going to be receiving a report on emergency response in conjunction with, as it happens, prodigiously with the new manager that hired. Did I cover that right, basically?

I think you referred to the emergency operations plan. Correct. Yes, the emergency operations plan. The draft. and we'll draft for your comments and your review and comments.

I guess that's it for the future agenda setting. So we can now move on to the adjournment. In other words, this meeting is adjourned at 7.03 p.m. Thank you, everybody.