Public Safety Commission - Regular Meeting

Can we call the, city of Cupertino Public Safety Commission meeting to order and open? We're starting roll call.

Chair. I'll do roll call. Commissioner Evans? Here. Commissioner Dobbs? Vice chair Rajaram? Yes. And chair Todak? Here. There are three present, one absent. We do have a quorum. Super.

Next item is the approval of minutes. I hope you guys had a chance to review the minutes from November. Discussions on that? None? Can I get a motion to approve the, November, minutes?

Yeah. Motion to approve the minutes from November 14. Second. Roll call.

Roll call. Manager Evans? Yes. Chair Goss? Vice chair Rajaram? Yes. Chair Toda? Yes. Motion passes with three yeses and one absent.

Any, items for postponements?

There are no postponements of staff. Okay.

I do have, request for to add export. Oral communicate.

I would say paper. There's oral at number three.

I'm sorry. What?

I'm trying to say paper. It's for the initial oral at number three.

Item number three.

Okay. No. Oral. At oral. Yes. I can show him a certain card if you want.

Yeah. Perfect. But you can we can we can maximize our resources here. And so this portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the commission on any matter, within the jurisdiction of the commission and not on the speakers are limited to three minutes. In most cases, state law will prohibit the commission from making any decisions with respect to a matter not on the agenda. Miss Rhoda Fry.

Hi. Good evening. I found out about this meeting just about half hour ago. So I did email you with some notes that I'd actually presented to city council back in 2019. So in 2009 the most recent it's called the wildlife or wildlife wildlife urban interface area map. And the most recent one I was able to find is from 2009. And so what that is is that when you've got wildland, like, you know, the hills around here and you've got houses, that's called the interface. And so so those are fire and safety areas. And, you know, I think about what's happening in Altadena right now with the the hills the hillsides bring up. I get that.

Right? But it's just swept into the flats, and it's it's it's it is horrific. Right? And so we actually do have a corner of Cupertino that is considered a very high zone. Meanwhile, in 2017, there was a study, and it was many it's, like, about 20 pages. And it was called Santa Clara County Movie Wildfire Protection Plan. That was back in 2017. And so I went to council, and I actually asked questions after about that. I was like, hey. Has any of any of this been implemented? Right? I paid taxes for this.

I don't know whether the city paid taxes or the county paid taxes regardless of city tax taxpayers paid

for this study. What happened? Right? And I said, you know, they're saying, oh, yeah. In 2030, we're gonna wanna get rid of the shake shake roofs. And I thought, I didn't think that was very, you know, as aggressive as I would like it to be. And I was planning, not realizing the meeting was today, and I didn't get to it. I was thinking about actually driving around the hills today. You know, I remember, like, up by Redneck Road and all those areas. How much of the how many of those houses are actually defensible?

Because these if they're not, right, they're causing they're causing risk to all of us, the entire community. The other thing that, I talked with John about briefly when I came in today was I was very dismayed to see that, VAALCO project was tying itself to antiquated building codes because they put in their ideas early on. And what's happened with the building codes since then is there's been a lot of changes in the all assemblies and in chases and things like that that provide fire safety. I'm gratified to hear that there is that the fire department is somewhat independent in their requirements, with Cupertino. So Cupertino can't say, hey, guys.

You can go with the old code, but it's scary. And and I know that you guys are gonna do diligent due diligence, but it makes it very impractical. Another thing, for example, building codes has changed. Public safety, right, is decks. Do remember the deck failure that they had in Berkeley years ago? Two revs since then. So they're on one rev. Right? Then the next rev, they improved the deck assembly so they won't they won't collapse. A rev after that, they did another deck assembly fix.

So these things continue to progress. That's also public safety. I hope that the fire, they might be involved in that. Another thing I talked about, you'll have this in your email, is an email that I sent in April 2019 regarding assemblies and regarding about having products like a rock wall product for installation. And I guess I'm running out of time. You'll see this, but you can see we had Santana Road, Mission Bay, Oakland. All these things were burnt down here locally, but also San Francisco, London, Shanghai. If we had those assemblies, we wouldn't have these really terrible fires. We gotta do something about it. Look what's happening in LA. Let's save let's save money, right, and lives. Thank you.

Thank you, miss Wright. Do have any other poll to comment?

I'm sure.

Minute to three minutes to items not on the agenda. Yeah. I think it'll

be less than three minutes. I'm I'm Boyd Dickman. The two reasons to be here. One, I put an application in, to fill a vacant position on the, commission, and I thought I'd come to a commission meeting and see what it is. So so that's just informational. Then one issue, and I don't know if this is police or other concerns, but there's just a lot of red light runners

Yeah.

Around. In fact, just the other day, I was walking over to the library crossing De Anza Boulevard, and I think there were four of us in the cross walk, and three cars were going through the red light. So I don't know what the answer is, whether it's a police presence, whether it's cameras, whether it's changing the time on the traffic lights. But, certainly, there's a lot of impatient drivers there and, certainly, you know, wouldn't wanna have a property accident and certainly wouldn't wanna have any anybody injured. So just calling that as a matter of concern.

And if there are any thoughts down the road in terms of how to deal with it, I I'd appreciate it. So

Thank you. Sure. I think we have to close it.

That ends public our oral communication.

Let's move on to written communications. First is the old business. I think the only thing that Sorry, Chair. Yes.

We do have two written communications you should have received in your email. Okay. I will flash put them on the screen just for reference. We received these via email again the other day about it's on the screen. And they will be posted to the website.

And I did respond by forwarding it to the possible pedestrian community since these are items of interest to most guys. It deals with crosswalk safety. Thank you. Sure.

K. I received

the written communication as well. You guys may have gotten this. Can you talk about that now or later?

Well, so written communications are just informative for you. Not on our agenda. We, won't talk in detail about those items. But yeah. Again. Okay.

I was gonna bring it up at the end of the meeting, but we can bring it up now. Wonder if makes sense.

I received a direct email?

It was from similar to his emails, but it was it was from a local high school student. Yeah. Got a similar concern.

Guess

we all got it.

We got that, so we

should discuss that at some point during

the meeting. What what I typically okay. Sorry to sorry to interrupt. We can only discuss the items that are on the agenda. So, you received an email in December. Right. That is not considered written communications for this meeting. Okay. We could discuss, during the commissioner Yeah. Session about what we can do in that session. Again, we won't talk about the item in particular Okay.

In detail. Understood.

That's fine.

Go on. One thing to note, I I had a mental lapse. I'm sorry. But during the postponements, I should have, deferred to, the captain here who would like to introduce the two individuals that are sitting in the room.

Thank you.

Good evening, Krishna. So January, we do a lot of shift changes, and a lot of people retire. Some people move move on to different assignments. And part of this December, our undersheriff, Ken Binder, retired, promoting undersheriff, Dalia Rodriguez and also moving, assistant sheriff Rich Irina to support services. Now I have assistant sheriff Adam Oberdorf for overseeing the enforcement, which is my direct boss, essentially.

Lieutenant Hemion, our previous, watch commander during this time, who I've introduced before when he first started working here, has moved on to our our, professional standards unit, and now he's be, manning that division as so and it's and then now captain Jones, who was my former assistant division commander of the captain, He's been moved over to special enforcement division. So I wanna introduce my new assistant division commander, lieutenant Sean Flores, and our new watch commander who is gonna be handling Wednesday through Sunday, big kind of big ass. Sean, do you wanna just give up production?

Hello, everyone. I've been on the sheriff's office about eighteen years now. Actually, I did all of my patrol time over here in West Valley. I did five years as a deputy, two years as a sergeant. I just got promoted to lieutenant last year. It was my first first full year, so I came from our regional auto theft task force where I was the the task force commander over there. And now I'm over here being the assistant division commander with Kathy Palinsuela. So looking forward to it. I always enjoyed my time doing my patrol time over here. And when the opportunity presented itself to come back, I jumped at it. So appreciate it, and I look forward to working with all of you guys.

Lieutenant Veiga?

Yeah. And so just like lieutenant Flores, I'm I'm lieutenant Jason Vega. I spent the entirety of my patrol time out here in Cupertino in the West Valley, so it does have a special place in my heart. Prior to my assignment here, I was a sergeant in the robbery and homicide unit for our investigations bureau. Did spend a lot of time out here as well. And then pry I've I've been with the sheriff's office since 2014. And then prior to that, I did work with Tom and and Black here as an EMS duty chief. It did spend a lot of time out in this area as well. So I'm very familiar with the demographics, the layout of of Cupertino specifically, and I look forward to working with you guys.

Thank you. And and just another thing another thing that I wanna I'll go in that senate Flores was actually one of our supervisors here before he was promoted to the senate, and lieutenant Vega was actually before going to Robert Homicide, he was actually one of our burglary detectives here in as well. So they've spent a lot of time here in Cupertino, and I'm glad to have both of the facts. For you guys, if you wanna take off.

And then I thank you, chair and commission, for entertaining and, excuse me, members of the public as well for entertaining this little unorthodox mental lab today. We will introduce these guys

in the lab. I'm gonna

go back on patrol. So thank you.

Thank you.

Are we ready to go on to the staff commission reports?

Old business.

Oh, sorry. Public safety. Old business. So I any updates on the, public safety is that we have attended eight and nine. It will be March 22 from twelve to 4PM, and it will be located in the square in front of the committee center in the City Hall Square there.

Sure. Sure. If you allow me to give a little bit more background, we've for many many, of our attendance or, frankly, all of our attendance include this item as a planning and update measure to the commission itself for the public safety forum. In years past, we've had a joint public safety forum and informational session that included both public safety officials like the fire department and sheriff's office, but also partners. And we brought in for informational heavy informational, distribution to the community, but also encouraging, at the same time, having a fair public safety fair.

This year, in order to focus our attention on the information and have a little bit more of an intimate session, we held a fireside chat with the assistant fire chief with a as a keynote, and then a a facilitated discussion amongst the sheriff's office fire department and myself. We decided to separate out the fair component into a springtime event to have multiple events a year, not just focused on one time and a one day wonder, but have two times a year. And as the chair mentioned, we settled on a date in March, March 22. It's a Saturday in the morning. We'll be looking at the Civic Center Plaza to have a fair, a public safety fair.

It's really a continuation of the forum, and allow the community to come together in front of the library on Saturday, hopefully to partner a a different, audience, maybe more participation from youth, and, really to put the services out there that are available to the community on March 22. Jared, would you like to talk about the organizing Sure. Event?

We've taken a little different approach to it since it's a a major undertaking. We've asked a a youth has volunteered to run this and coordinate this. And so she's devoting all of it from actually actually recruiting people at a lower level managers to help her. And she's doing this as an Eagle service project. So, typically, Eagle service projects can can be anywhere from a hundred to three hundred hours of service.

So we'll see how many hours of service. But rather than having a public safety form, which lasts only, like, an hour, now I know the fire department and the sheriff's office has assembled their tables and stuff. And but it's very short because we jump right into the forum. This time, we'll have several hours that they can devote to it and expand upon it. And we're typically, we've been limited in size.

And I think we're planning to have in excess of 20 exhibits exhibitors up to 40, whatever the plaza can accommodate. So I think it's gonna be very exciting one. I know the flyers and everything are being currently made, and we're just gonna start inviting people interested in the health and safety in the area that are nonprofits.

And then one last little update to that is just to say that the Eagle Scout candidate approached us to take on this role. So if you're familiar with the Eagle Scout process that's really led, so they really have taken on a provide share of the planning with both chair Toda and myself as guiding Of course, I will help

shepherd the city side. And we will get, I think, by an update status every every every week is what what I heard from so Susanna. So it will be really exciting to really have a broadened public safety fair. I I think I've seen the, other cities like San Carlos and San Diego and other areas that have a half a day fair, and it it seems to be pretty exciting stuff with a lot of folks. I don't know if it's if unfair, it's open to, quote, unquote, entertainment, but, you know, there may be some groups that wish to entertain as a as a service, like, the type of groups, fires and stuff.

You guys have any ideas or comments on that?

Think about it. Entertainment ideas. Yeah.

Okay. Well, if you have ideas for groups you'd like to participate, we could pass that on to Susanna. For example, one of the things that, I I made a contact with the DEA, and they have pop up and different informational things for youth regarding different illicit drugs and prevention. I think a while ago, we had a a a presentation from the suicide that might be an interesting to ask Mhmm. To come back. Same thing for the wildfire initiative. I think in the past, we've had that as a booth for presentation.

And I will note that we have one more Holy Safety Commission meeting scheduled in March, one of our regular meetings, the head of the scheduled fair. So I imagine that Susan and I would like to present to you during this item Mhmm. On on that date so you have a final update.

I guess, is there a motion to speak the Well,

guess you could motion. So a little bit unorthodox. We don't have a lot of We just riddle.

Yeah.

We don't generally have a lot of public in these meetings. So, if you'd like to, you can make a motion and then, but certainly wanna open the floor to the public. We're making In the public? On this side of It's like a great idea. Appreciate that.

Yeah. Motion to accept the updated report.

Yeah. Motion to, receive the updated report on the public safety form. Seconded.

And for the record, that's, vice chair Rasuram motioning and chair, commissioner Evans seconding. Roll call vote. Commissioner Evans. It's commissioner Dallas. Vice chair Rasuram. Yes. And chair Tosa? Yes. Motion passes with three ayes and one absent.

K. Since there's no other items on the whole business, let's move to new business.

And Sorry. There's also new business. Those staffing commission reports. Okay.

So, first up is the report by the Santa Clara County Fire.

Good evening. My name is John Black. I'm a battalion chief of battalion seventy two on b ship presenting for chief Estrada tonight. I got Tom, please correct me if I'm wrong, but we're doing both November and December.

We are. Yeah. I have November up. Okay.

November was a little bit of a busy month for Cupertino with on top of our normal call volumes for fairly significant events that, kinda made the news. Preservative remembers the, airplane that landed on Highway 85, then, hey, there were no injuries. The trickle down of that event was people stopping to look, which then caused couple really significant car accidents. There are two natural gas leaks. I was the incident commander for the for the second one, came in as a as a water main break.

We end up having pressurized water and gas coming out the seams where the roadway met the the gutter. We ended up responding a full first alarm to that to work with PG and E to mitigate the leak, but also to evacuate the residences in the area of the Sunday morning. So people were home and was a fairly quick mitigation given that we had to get, PG and had to get heavy equipment in to actually dig the roadway up, to to stop the gas leak. The last one was the vegetation fire at Lehi. Pull up a red flag warning.

We had, strike teams that we had prepositioned in the county for, this type of a of an event. So normally, our our hand crew is staffed Monday through Thursday. During daytime hours, the crew would reposition on a twenty four hour prepow, which was well, it allowed me to start getting our resources released from the scene while the crew didn't mop up. It was a joint effort between us and Cal Fire, as it was in the the unincorporated area, outside the city. But it was definitely a it was a good stop.

We were able to go up to less than an acre. And if you've been up in in the Lehigh property, it takes a little while to get in there, and, they were very helpful as far as helping get our crews through the maze of of roads up in the quarter system. Looking at the response data for the month, county fire resources responded to 367 calls in the city. As usual, the bulk of those were EMS related. If you look at the the table on the lower left, normally, have the Cupertino units, engine and truck 71, engine 72, and the hazmat engine 77.

But with our deployment model, we had engine seventy six running a couple calls into the city. And then because of how we do our move ups to make sure that we have four station coverage, you'll see the units you wouldn't typically see. Engine seventy eight is out of our Quito station. Rescue seventy four is out of Los Altos Hills. And then mutual aid other, as I mentioned, was that that strike team that we had prepositioned that helped us mitigate the fire at Lehigh.

That is November. In December, only one significant call in the city, structure fire at Homestead High School. First new first arriving crews found a a fire in in a classroom held and checked by sprinkler system. Estimated that property loss was $7,000. For the month, compared to the month previous, it was a little bit slower, 311 calls for service in the city, again, with the bulk of those being EMS related.

And as as usual, Engine 71 was the visit the busiest for Tino unit, followed by Engine 72 and trucks out well, and trucks 71 with 34. Any questions on the call volume or or any of the events that I kinda touched on briefly? Some of them I can speak to as as I was the incident commander. Others, I don't have a whole lot more information on what's on the screen.

Yeah. I guess I had a question.

I was curious about, like, the the natural gas leak at the construction site in November. I was curious, like, how how that got, like, reported. Like, who called it in? Was it, the construction workers there who smelled something?

Unfortunately, I don't have that information. Uh-huh. The one that was under underground on the Sunday morning, was there for that, and and I can speak to that. And an aircraft coming down the freeway and and the the Lehigh fire, but I wasn't at that other gas leak.

How cold was the weather condition, like, in the vegetation fires? When,

when I was dispatched to that, it was it was definitely cold, but we hadn't received much rain. And, we had enough wind where, my understanding is the the cause of that fire, it was a private, private power line that came down with the wind. It was windy and dry, which wasn't really hot. It's quite cold that morning. Initially, it came in as an explosion and, structure fire, but my guess or assumption would be it's probably a transformer that that was failing. From from seven strings, like, I I could see it glow, so we kinda leaned into it a little bit more and got those other resources responding quickly.

Thank you.

Any other questions? Any questions coming public?

We do have one request to speak, but I I apologize. Just just before that, I I did just add on as a part of the public safety infrastructure here, that repositioning of those extra resources is a common tactic that are not only the Santa Clara County Fire takes, but many regions take when certain conditions arise, whether it be red formal red flag warning or, dry conditions, and we know that relative humidity is going down. We often preposition resources in that way due to the weather. Yeah. The from the National Weather Service forecast to some of our regional assets, PG and E as well, repositioning assets is a very common tactic that we take knowing that certain conditions will arise.

Oh, go ahead.

Oh, yeah. I had another question. Like, I remember at the public safety forum, we heard about how, like, there's pretty extensive, like, resource sharing between, like, different regions and even, like, states and stuff. I'm curious. Like, are any, like, local or usually local elements, like, assisting in the Southern California situation?

So Santa Clara County Fire Agencies have deployed 15 fire agents, five of those being from County Fire. We also have doing the math in my head at the last staffing call that we had. We have five overhead, currently attached, so we'll have strike teams that go down. That's that's fire engines with with bosses. And then, a lot of our chiefs and captains are qualified to run portion of that incident as part of the incident management team.

So we've sent those folks, down as well. I don't know if any more of us are gonna be going, but it's it's pretty common. I was in LA for three weeks earlier this year, as part of an overhead team, and I was in Chico about two weeks before that, doing the same thing. The mutual aid system in California is pretty robust. I I think as you'll see, on social media and then in the news, there's crews on the way to Southern California from all over the nation, including private contractors that are also coming to help.

I'll add on that and correct me if I'm wrong, chief, but the center of town fire district serves as the region coordinator for fire assets. Right?

Well, we're the operator coordinator, and we're starting to transition to the region two coordination. I believe that's formalized. Not a 100% Pretty sure it's formalized.

What that means is that not only the operational areas, so all Santa Clara County fire agencies, such as Santa Clara Fire, Santa Clara City Fire, Mountain View Fire, they all work in coordination with Santa Clara County to deploy assets. And as they elevate to the region, they'll not not only take on this operational area, Santa Clara County, but also coordinate amongst multiple operational areas in the region including San Francisco, San Mateo County, Alameda County, and so forth, many others as well. As chief mentioned, the mutual aid system in California is robust. Many other states have built their systems off the California system as well.

If you remember what happened at the public safety forum during the presentation, there was a pretty impressive mobile man center that also displayed on the parking.

That wasn't this map last year. It was the year before? Oh, was it year?

Time flies. 2073.

Before we had the, mobile command we did from PowerOS on display in the parking lot, to sell, to the webster.

But I thought there was some also in the PowerPoint presentation So

Or maybe. Maybe. All of it. Yeah. K. Oh, can you please Any other public comments?

I get yeah. So as we know, sitting from Potato is is facing some dietary issues. And in the past, we had, I would say, more money than we needed to deal with because we were spending a lot, and we were also even saving some when we were doing it. And so I would like to see if possible a little bit more granularity about the source of our expenses as it pertains to fire and also the sheriff's department because I have to wonder how how much stuff comes as a result of single residences. We do pay property taxes and how much stuff comes from businesses.

And, of course, they pay property taxes as well. However, there is unlike a number of other cities in the region, we don't have a head tax for the business licenses. And, you know, we're not getting we're not we're not getting embarrassment of breaches from from Adam anymore. And so if we could get us figure out what where it is, is every question is, is everybody paying their own fair share? So because I I would like to see us move toward that, toward a, you know, a head tax than to be able to justify it.

So that's number one. Number two, I do appreciate seeing the the issue about the Lehigh fire, and I will be asking for more of a report. There is a history of their on-site fire water tank failing at least twice. That is in the public record. Lehigh has also failed to make reports to the state offices of emergency services.

I have followed up with county with the DH number of times, month after month after month, they wouldn't fix it. And I'm like, because the data is not the data is not present. We can't see the data because it wasn't reported, and that's a problem. We can't see that their systems are failing by looking at this office of emergency services. That's an issue. And I then I went to see that that address. The other thing with Lehi is that there is a history of fires up there, a history of deliberately set fires. And this comes from the fire department. They said, oh, was it arson? They said, no.

Deliberately set. K? And and the other the other thing is is I've I've been going back trying to get a report on '19 so in the late eighties, I watched it burn from the roof of my house, and somehow, oh, we can't find it. Oh, there's no report. You'd have to come in to get the report. Oh, we can't find the report. So there was never a report. And this was a big fire. There was hazmat involved. And frankly, I would like to see those reports from back in the eighties. And and, you know, now we have this thing recently. Sounds like you're saying it was, you know, I mean, potentially a private transformer. But the question is is, like, okay. So now are they going through the entire system and making sure that everything's everything's safe there? Because it puts all of us at risk.

Thank you. Time has expired. Here.

Should it pop in?

There's no I tried to I know. We're not used to this, actually. I would appreciate your involvement. Thank you. I tried to

Well, that's because I was looking at at at Sean here. I I apologize.

Any other No other public comment requests?

K. Any other questions for chief bank? Thank Can I get a motion to accept the report from the Santa Clara Fire District?

Yes. Motion to receive a report by Santa Clara County Fire District.

Second. Second.

For the record, that's commissioner Evans, motioning to accept the the report by the Santa Clara County Fire District and vice chair Rajaram seconding the roll call vote. Commissioner Evans? Yes. Commissioner Das? Vice chair Rajaram? Yep. Motion passes with three ayes and one absent.

K. What's next item is the report by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, captain. Alright. Oh, and congratulations on the Safeway bus.

That that yeah. The thing gets so much traction.

Well, I mean,

our our PIO had said that it it broadcasted in in, like, all different states. It was on TikTok. Every social media has went viral.

Just They hit it.

Went viral.

My my wife shops there every week. So it was big interest there. I'm

not sure if you you did you get the December report? Okay. Excellent. We have a very dedicated analyst who has been on vacation. I was not sure if she was gonna be able to get this done in time, but she did. So this wraps up the entire year as you can see here. I'm little little not disappointed, but it it is what it is, our average time for priority nine calls. I think I've explained over the over the course of the year these, missing 17 year old kids that have been gone for two weeks or have been gone for a certain amount of time are being classified as party one calls. And I need to meet with county communications because their protocol is missing juvenile is a party one call. You know?

And so that puts our time to five minutes. But when the call comes out of the radio, it doesn't seem like a very urgent matter sometimes for our deputies to track what they're doing and go to it. So I'll be meeting with county communications regarding that, that issue. So we missed about about a minute and fifty six seconds, but as you can see, our party two calls are are stellar, with the average time of nine minutes, and and we made it under six minutes and eighteen seconds. And the same thing with party three calls, with our response time being twenty minutes, we were able to get it right under seven minutes, so for the average time total.

So, those are for our response times. Going down, to our our other issue here, the residential burglaries. We did get 10 more, than we did to the the previous year when it comes to residential burglaries. I will say this that we have quite a quite a a large presence of these occurring in our what we call our Rancho Rinconada or Old Rancho or our area, which is, the the Southeast Corner Of Cupertino, and they're not by themselves being targeted as well. Unfortunately, the San Jose portion, South Of Bollinger, Blaney between, Prospect and Bollinger also getting hit pretty heavily with residential burglaries.

The good thing is our detectives are working as a police department. We have identified, a group of individuals, and we we may be able to solve a lot of these residential burglaries that are occurring in that pocket. Once we have more information, have an actual arrest, we will be able to publicize that, and we'll let you guys can see that, hopefully do that. We did have a residential burglary, back in November, one of the 10 there, where our k nine officer responded to that residential burglary. The individual is trying to take a camera off the off the side of the house, and in the meantime, was recording his face pretty well.

So the diligent canine officer while we're sitting in in his office going through some of the the what we call track flyers or APBs where other agencies will broadcast things to say, hey. Do you know this person? Does anybody know who's recognized this individual? Was going through some of this, found a track flyer very similar to this individual out of a theft out of Sunnyvale. So, was able to by the suspects and was able to obtain a warrant, for the residential burglary.

So, good good job by that canine, deputy, in solving that that residential burglary. So even though the numbers are high, like I said, we we are able to get a good solubility rate in some of these burglaries. And then as you can see, commercial burglary went down pretty good. I think the word's getting around that, Target and and Safeway are no longer safe places to shoplift. So we do have a lot of, resources being thrown in there with our with our burg our our task forces that are preventing commercial burglaries.

So, vehicle burglary, again, we did have a couple, but, I did I did tell, Tom know about several incidents, especially on November where we did make an arrest on two individuals who were breaking into cars. So some of those 11 were solved with an arrest. So, there goes, some of the other numbers that you can see. We got, auto theft. We got 29, which is a good drop from the previous year.

Vandalism, 58, which is a good drop from the previous year. Still have to work on any theft and and and forgery, fraud. These are things that are, of course, scams are just coming along and people are falling for scams, and we just need to probably do more public awareness on some of these scams so that people don't fall for for some of these things. So Question

about the the scams over there.

This is

these could be sourced from anywhere. Right? It's not scams that are originating for Tino. Is that true?

It's so it's where the victims reside. Tino? So yeah. But scams are from anywhere. So the way identity theft works is it's where the victim resides. That's where the that's where the that's where the crime technically occurs.

And Yeah. Speaking anecdotally, I get these, like, text we probably all have these text messages.

Oh, yes.

Yes. So, hey, Bill. I'm Yeah.

We had a couple of Oh god. People were calling saying, hey. We're for the sheriff's office. You got a couple warrants. You can get them to go away with some Apple gift cards or something like that. Some people fell for some of those things.

I I got several from Fastrack.

Yes. The Fastrack ticket the the citations to keep going up. We always encourage people go on Fastrack. You can actually check your license plate, and it'll tell you if you have any tickets on there if you wanna pay them off. So, anyway, so, yeah, that's we'll we'll probably incorporate that more with our with our neighborhood watch groups when we do go out and talk to neighborhoods and throw in some more of these other issues that are more more prevalent, like identity theft, portering, fraud. So

Sorry. Just jump in as well, but I just wanted for the record and for the community, correct me if I'm wrong, Kev, but law enforcement will not ask for gift cards to

pay for

it. Yes.

We did put something out today. The law enforcement will never ask for gift cards to or or even ask you for any kind of money at all, period. We're not gonna call you about your warrant. The only time we're if we are gonna call you about your warrant is we're tell you to turn yourself in not to just keep your warrant. So

If you wish to avoid jail time, please stay.

Yeah. I'm not gonna ask you to go to Target and get any gift cards at all. So so that's where we ended up with the report there with all the crimes for the year. Overall, again, you know, still not so happy with the residential burglary numbers. We were able to get them to go down in a lot of areas, but, hopefully, now the installation of these ALPR cameras that might also bring those numbers down

as well too.

This is all regarding patrol units and moving citations, speeding citations. Regarding in Cupertino, as you can see, you know, we ended up with a 193 moving violations, which no. Getting that number up. Speed citations were at 69. Other citations, we got 863 total. And this is just our strictly our patrol units. So the number you'll see next is our traffic units. These are the traffic units. They're a little bit more aggressive. As you can see, they ended with a 552, smoothing violations, 570 speeding citations, and a 272 other citations.

No DUIs. Usually, they work during the daytime, so it's sometimes a little hard to get a daytime DUI. Not that they're not out there. They're just a little more difficult sometimes. Accidents, we ended about 50, 220 property damage accidents, and two accidents with DUIs. So, this is just the traffic numbers combined with the, with the regular patrol deputies, out there. So you can see, that's a pretty good number of citations. We did focus a lot on targeted enforcement. There was a lot of targeted enforcement this last year regarding pedestrian safety, red light runner stop site stop the runners. But so we have a a good traffic team.

And this year, my new traffic team that I got is some veterans that have previously worked traffic units. So they they're out there every single day, and we're gonna start hammering some of these target enforcement you know, on intersections where, you know, there's complaints, but vehicles not yielding pedestrians or red lights or speeding, and and we're gonna be doing a lot more than in town. So I think that's pretty much it. That wraps it up, I think. This is just the total stats of accidents, where we ended up at, and then that's about it.

So, good work by our detectives and every and everybody out there, and and, you know, we're we're making sure that the messages as you can see, if you follow-up on social media, we publicize a lot of residential burglary arrests. So I think we're our biggest deterrent is gonna be to let people know this is not the place to come and shoplift at Cupertino, and we we publicize a lot of those shoplifting incidents pretty widely. So happy to take any questions if you guys have anything.

Yeah. Just a comment. I'm really happy to see the moving violations going up. I mean, you we had a comment about the RedLight Runners. That's something that's very important to me for various reasons as well. It's impacted me directly. So there's no shortage of opportunity to catch people, so it's great to see that we're going after that. And, hopefully, that can eventually change the culture because I think it's kind of a culture of, you know, the default at a at a spot stop sign or light is kinda just to go and turn around

the interior,

right, rather than, like, stop and make sure there's not a car in the room. There needs to be sort of a shift in the I agree. Or following a car through the intersection, that sort of thing. And that'll take time, but appreciate seeing

And this is placed off

to the venue also where people could come in to us and they tell us something to us. You know, they say, hey. This intersection is really bad for pedestrians. And this happened at the last public safety mission meeting where a resident just came up and say, hey. This intersection is really bad. Deputies went out there and issued up 20 citations for not healing to pedestrians. I mean, it was it was pretty bad. So, hopefully, it changes the attitude. A lot of residents that live by there. So, you know, hopefully, the work gets around that curbing behavior. Right? That's what that's sort of or that's what the goal is, traffic enforcement. So

Yeah. I think I'll take the opportunity to add that that with the help of the sheriff's office and our dedicated deputies on the street, we are Cupertino has seen a ten year low in crime rate overall crime rate. Certainly, some crimes, we have increases. But overall, we have a low in crime rate. But it's the city's perspective, and I know the sheriff's office perspective that one crime is one crime too many.

So we are dedicated to improving public safety and our, safety on the street. But one captain mentioned, the ALPR, automated license plate readers, which this commission recommended for adoption by, council, are going to be installed this month. Hopefully, by the end of this month, we're working on some time timing issues, but, hopefully, by the end of this month. And then that will aid deputies in, on tracking, essentially deter deter deterring crime, if I can speak, but also help track and and investigations. But one crime is one crime too many, and I want to help emphasize that, yes, we're in a ten year low.

I do want our residents to feel empowered to report every crime that they experienced, whether it be immediately to 911 or immediate dispatch or, in cases like, intersections with red light runners or pedestrians being almost hit, nonemergency line. That's that nonemergency line here in the Santa Clara Valley is 4082992311. So please report those incidents. So you don't have to come necessarily come to a commission meeting. You'll be welcome, our public to be here and comment and give us direct feedback.

But report it in so that the dev captain is will reposition resources immediately. It doesn't have to wait at an interval for a public meeting like this to occur. So please report crimes that are occurring, and help us keep this community as safe as possible.

Captain, for other jurisdictions that have AL ALDR systems already, what kind of reports does the sheriff's office provide?

We provide the same report, the the public end report that we provide that, but we also do an additional report of what we call our surveillance use policy report. It is a it is you know, the the board of supervisors sees as a as a minor violation of privacy, you know, getting your license plate wherever you're at. So but we do have to publicize a report where we where we show success stories, how many stolen cars, for example, how many guns we've located, how many missing persons we've located. And we also do report if any of our staff members violated policy. Most of the time, what happens is if they don't enter a case number, we will send them a warning saying you have to enter a case number when you're when you're querying our system.

And most of the time, it's just a a human error. They just forgot to enter it in, or they didn't have a case number at the time, and so they can go back and reenter a case number most of the time. So but we do provide, like I said, that report to the board of supervisors, and I should

ask a question to see what we might be seeing in the future. Ah, yes. Thanks. Yes.

Now it is a combined report, for for the AOPR. So because we have license plate readers not only in Los Altos Hills, but Saratoga. So it is a combined report of of overall success. So

Super. Any other questions?

We have three minutes from.

Oh, yeah. So it's my comment earlier on the restrictions of fire department. I'd like to see a little more more granularity as to what these resident Cupertino residents are creating and businesses are creating. So we're really kind of getting ideas to the the dollars and cents portion of it. Now in the past, we did have more money allocated for the sheriff's department, and we weren't using all that money for some reason.

And so now the budget has decreased in in that. And and so where are we at on sort of the per capita basis for shares hours? Have the shares hours decreased over the years on a per capita basis? They say increased, you know, because it's certainly not using Trump that budget. And and so that's a concern because, of course, people are concerned about, you know, the the specifically residential burgers.

That was one thing. Another thing in the budget, and I'm hoping that you can address this as well, is there was talk about, you know, there there is a the sort of our Apple contract for shared services. And it did say in the budget that though that those those shares are, you know, available to the entire city. In my understanding, it that those hours are allocated to Apple. And so is the rest of the city getting potentially fewer hours if we can't attract the number of hours that we need to the rest of the city because we have earmarked hours for Apple. So do we have are we getting all the hours that we should be getting for the sheriff's department?

Can I just put my gift consult?

This is your comment.

Yes. And Sorry. It's it's. Yeah.

Okay. Thank you. If it please sit chair, and we should like us to respond. K. Would you like to respond? Sure, Kevin.

Yeah. So I'll I'll try to

see if I can pitch your question. So, the the the dedicated or what we call our our Charles five deputies who work closely with Apple but are available to the entire city. Let's not you know, we we can let's just be honest here. Apple makes up a huge section of of the population and and that area, that section. So we do have two deputies that work close with Apple but are available to respond anywhere in the city.

And the reason why they work close with Apple is just to get the ins and outs of layouts of all the businesses, have access to all the businesses all all throughout Apple. So they have park keys. They they can go into any of the any of the Apple campuses in town. And so that's why they work together with Apple. However, they are available to the entire city.

They commonly respond to a lot of incidents, especially, like, on Main Street or, in in that area just because they're usually around there. The the way our contract works is the city purchases hours, from the sheriff's office. Now why that number has gone down over the last couple of years is very simple. It's the county has cut back on on our staff or as far as unincorporated staff. So not the contract with Cupertino, but, like, for example, the deputies that work, Moffett Field, which is none no longer necessary because there's nothing there anymore, or the deputies that work to Santa Cruz Mountains.

And those are the hours that they have cut back. Now the reason why that number has not been utilized all the way or or or refunds have been issued sometimes to the city is because we don't have those lights for deputies that are also coming into the city and doing things. Because we don't build the city, based upon, number of deputies. We build the cities based upon hours. And so more deputies equal more usage of hours. So, our contracts are not affected by that. Our our CEO, James Williams, is very, very clear that we are fulfilling our contract obligations. So the cities of Cupertino, Saratoga, and Los Altos Hills always have the appropriate staffing. For the county, since then, unfortunately, we don't have the deputies twenty four seven in county pockets to to be available for that. So that's one of the things.

So you can always see the contract that I believe is published, Tom, or and you can see comparison to where other cities and how much do they pay per capita for pull for their police department, and we are one of the lowest, per capita or the sheriff's office contracts.

It's not the sales in Saratoga. We're actually

Do you mean that? Okay.

It's there's a discrepancy here. Big discrepancy.

So so yeah. But but overall, the sheriff's office contract is is much lower than what like, for example, a resident Santa Clara pays for their police department

or yeah. So We can

afterwards if you'd like. That way, we're not interrupting the the the commission, but but I'm just trying to answer your questions. And so, overall, that information is published, and it's we did change a little bit of the contract so that we are utilizing the hours more appropriately towards the city. So K.

Any other questions for that? Then can I have the motion to accept the sheriff's

party

report? Yep. Motion to, receive the report by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office. Seconded.

For the record, that is, vice chair Rajaram motioning to receive the report by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office and commissioner Evans seconding with a roll call vote. Commissioner Evans? Commissioner Das? Vice chair Rajanaram. Yeah. Chair Kotto? Yes. Passes with three ayes and one absence.

Next, report by the city of Cortino.

Thank you. Well, I'm the city of Cortina representative here. So I am happy to introduce to you, Martha Drown. She is our block leader coordinator. She will likely be more involved in the public safety commission in the future. If you'd like to introduce yourself quickly, Martin.

My name is Marta Brown. I first got into an emergency management for the Red Cross from the recovery side. With the city, I do a lot of the community building resilience. So working with the sheriff's office quite often, fondly able to watch the presentations. He could announce president as well as with fire and the sheriff's office go to block parties and answer questions for restaurants. Okay?

K. Thank you. Thank you. Many of you are blog leaders or citizen corps members who often receive reach messaging. That's the raising emergency awareness of community hazards program that we have, and that's the effort for us to help perpetuate emergency information amongst the community.

So having our known block leaders and citizen court members redistribute messages, official messages from the city and public safety agencies about various stuff, especially when it comes to weather as a deterrent, our most common reach activation. So, first, if we had a similar situation than that the weather patterns that that Southern California face, though we're on the Eastern Side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, benefits us in a red flag warning, we would push messaging for preparedness and any forward activations through the community through those reach messaging. So we're happy to have a lot of positive feedback from our our volunteers who not only redistribute the messages, but then give parts a direct feedback on how many people they reach out to. And we're preparing a report on the annual process of of activations for Reach for the next meeting. So we'll have a graph, ideally with some impact.

And you've seen those reports in the past as well. As far as the, the officer emergency management, we are we've in the last few months, you've seen the multi jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan being adopted. We are trying to work on the emergency operations plan, for setting the foundation for our emergency response, not just for catastrophic disaster, certainly, but also for our everyday emergencies. So we're working on that process. We're looking to get a contractor on board to help us facilitate massive undertaking.

It is to engage the community, engage our private card partners, our internal, agencies, but we're looking at the opportunity to do that, in the future. But, we're still, in the planning processes for that. The community wildfire prevention plan, I think was mentioned in public comment today, or or comment today. We have a draft of that. We work in partnership with the, Fire State Council and the County Of Santa Clara in order to, prepare a vision to our annex for the community wildfire prevention plan, but we are, looking forward to, moving that. That was a result of the

a plan. That was sort

of a concurrent planning process. And they're somewhat related similar projects, but, not necessarily dependent upon each other. K. With that, the final thing that I wanted to mention, I briefly talked about it earlier, was the ALPR program, the automated license plate reader. We are moving forward with installation with our the selected vendor.

Policy was approved in October, October 1. The final step for our wild installation is prepared for is the sheriff's office getting their policy approved by the board of supervisors because just as we went through our commission and all of the council for adoption, that would certainly with respect to all privacy concerns, wanna make sure that the procedures are in place and, adopted for implementation.

Adoption would be from the sanitary county board?

Yeah. That's their their surveillance policy for use in Cupertino. Our installation will coincide with that, ideally. As soon as one of the, cameras are installed, that starts our annual subscription that we pay in we'll pay every year, for the cost. So we're trying to make sure we're maximizing our dollars, not installing something we the deputies can't use, until that it's ready to go. So that's the effectively, delay right now

Mhmm.

For some permitting and processes or all the gaps. And with that, I I open to any questions.

Do we know how long installation will take? Like, would we expect to see see information coming through in the next meeting,

or is this, like, a longer Oh, ideally, we would have a potential use impact by the next March meeting. Okay. Hopefully, we'll have the policy approved and adopted and then installation. Installation shouldn't take that long. We're teeing up everything, so it's can just go right in Mhmm. Cool. As soon as the adoption occurs.

Thanks.

I see we will have a public comment on this item as well, but, I'll hold until any of the commissioners are finished. I have no questions. No questions.

Just making up from last time. Sure. So

Oh, okay. Okay.

You know, these these mood plans are useless if they're not implemented. You know? And so we need to implement these things. And, also, pursuant to our my discussion earlier with with John is when I wrote this stuff back, I was just reading my notes that I wrote up in 2039. I sent this to this body earlier tonight, and that is the requirements, for instance, for fire sprinklers residential are different in different communities within Santa Clara County.

So they're they're not uniform. And, also, and, also, you know, the unvented assemblies, roof assemblies, same thing. And I think that those are things that we really need to be looking at. So, again, is, is fairly small. But, you know, it's probably expanded since, you know, back in whenever it was 2016 or '17, they did it. Second thing is, you might have seen my face of alarm, which is, talking about hiring contract, getting contract, to do some, work. Is this something, one, a work plan? And two, is this any possibility to do this this work in house? We have budget issues. And time and time again, I've seen the city spend money on studies that go nowhere.

And, you know, we have it with the reports, and what's the point? And we have to do this. Let's is there any possibility that we can use staff time for these things? And, again, this is all

Anything else for manager, Jim? Then could I get a motion to accept the report from the OEM?

And motion to to accept the report by the city.

Second. I'll second. Next up. Shake it up. I'll shake it.

Commissioner Evans motioning to receive the report by the city of Cupertino, and that's chair Toda seconding. Roll call vote. Commissioner Evans? Yes. Commissioner Fox? Vice chair Roger? Yeah. Chair Toda? Yes. Motion passes with three yeses and one absent.

Next item is the commission support. I guess, commissioner Evans, you were commenting about email.

Sure. I'll kick it off. I think we probably all received, some same emails, so I can get a quick summary of some of the highlights of what I saw, and then you guys feel free to add to it if I miss anything. I had one email from a local, Cupertino High School senior, who was talking about the, crosswalk at Phil Lane and Finch Avenue, near the school. I think it's similar to a lot of intersections.

Has bad traffic during peak hours, people dropping off kids and things like that. But I guess it it has impacted her personally. One of her friends was hit by a car at one point. And so the students got together and conducted a poll of the other students. They they told me that seventy percent of students have, been involved in or encountered a close call incident with a car and 50% so half the students said they feel unsafe using this crosswalk, which is pretty pretty high numbers.

She had some requests. They they had looked into potential crossing guard. There were some difficulties with that. They had a volunteer program, but that was also difficult to maintain. And so the recommendation was to request, crossing lights, which ties us to the other communication we received, and I think which chair Toda has forwarded to maybe a more relevant commission, but I think it's worth discussing.

Because it also ties into what we're moving violations and traffic enforcement, you know, people, people are distracted from a hurry, not fully aware of their surroundings, maybe running stop signs and red lights. I think it kind of all ties together. And it's interesting that we had these communications come in over the last few weeks. It's kind of like all these all these data points coming together. Yeah.

So that was one email, and then we had another series of emails from a couple residents, actually right across or on the same street, city hall. They were talking about the Torrey Avenue crossing, couple of incidents they had there. And they hit, one of the residents actually attached a YouTube video that he he took from his car, I think, of somebody trying to cross the street at night. They were wearing dark clothing, so they were very difficult to see, and they kinda just didn't look and walked into the middle of the road. But it is a crossing area, which isn't necessarily very open or distinguished.

So and then they ended up also requesting crossing lights, physical barriers, speed bumps, removing vegetation and obstructions, and things like that. So, yeah, I don't know if those recommendations would apply to this commission specifically, but, yeah, I thought it was interesting interesting data points from the community that we should bring up in a public safety context. So anything to add? I think you guys also got those emails.

Yeah. I mean, I think, like, I went to high school. I I didn't go to Cupertino High, but I went to Monte Vista. And there's, like, all these, like, you'd call it, like, unofficial drop off and pick up spots on, like, the perimeter of the schools, which I think I think Phil Lane and Finch is kinda like the South Southwest kind of junction of Cupertino High. And so it has, like, all the makings of, like, that kind of, like, rushing, like, blinders on type traffic environment.

And, yeah, I I thought the blinkers, like, make a huge difference, like, near, like, where I live, intersection of, like, McClellan near De Anza College. Like, there used to be this crosswalk where there was no blinkers, no signal, nothing. And, like, students mainly would be crossing that McClellan Intersection, tons of near misses. And nowadays, like, we have the the the blinkers are there and, like, such a huge improvement. So I think I think she mentioned, like, that's probably, like, the cost effective thing in the long run based on their research. So I assume that's probably true.

I those are great. I I in the past, when I've diagnosed, I asked manager, Chin, what's the proper procedure we should take, especially since we have a commission specifically for bike and pedestrians' safety. And if I remember correctly, you urged me to respond and say that we've acknowledged it. We've got it and then forward it to the appropriate commission and make sure we we we can follow that up. So that's what I did with that letter from the Cupertino High student

Okay.

As

well as the two other letters that we recently have.

Okay.

And, of course, I couldn't cop copy you guys on it. Yeah. Otherwise, I'd be breaking the browns. You're here for me. Yes.

So

that's why you weren't copied, but I will respond and copy manager Chin as well as the bike and pedestrian commission liaison staff liaison. So it's not like we're not doing anything. But in

Well

I was also wondering whether I should have recommended to those people that they should file a three one one report.

But so to the members of the public, you should feel empowered to, one, respond to the members of the public, but also to make that simple recommendations like that. Mhmm. In addition to 311, I would say, reporting these incidents to the nonemergency line in particular, especially if that's a after the fact call, nonemergency line report will help captain use his discretion to redeploy resources immediately. Again, it doesn't have to wait until the commission meeting to address it. Now I'm sure the captain is here in these locations and still will likely do a targeted enforcement action out there.

And but, again, this is at the captain's discretion. And what the this commission can see in the future is reports on those enforcement actions, especially if we do one in particular to an area that you ask us to focus on. We can certainly bring back more specified.

So the gist is referring to the biking safety commission biking pedestal.

Leave that to the chair to speak to another chair Right. Rather than all three of you Yeah. Mailing random commissioners or other commissions. I would I would prefer that if you are and other members of the commission to respond with a member of the public as appropriate. They are your constituency. If you would like to respond Right. Give it a chair directly, that's fine. The secondary, I should follow-up that infrastructure changes really are the purview of the BIPET commission.

Mhmm.

They their liaison is their, transportation Transportation. Division in public works. They can actually make, these types of recommendations and discuss that with the infrastructure in there. I will let you know on the back end, on the staff side, we talk. So we're we're public safety official, myself.

We'll speak with the transportation manager and talk about these things because they're coming up for you. They're concerned with you. I'll share what the enforcement side is doing. Any incident specific information that we're able to find, whether it's an actual hit, at a intersection, both with all of us and EMS, but also for enforcement actions. So we could follow-up and provide with data that they'll need to help, you know, share the or data they'll use to justify the expense, but also, as you mentioned, potentially, the long term expense could be saved if we could install some safety measures in.

K. One other item as far as the commission report, we do have a a mayor's meeting with the convention chairs later this month on the fifteenth. So, usually, I'll discuss with manager Chin what the items that we'll present. I I would imagine one of those will be an update on ALPR, update on the public safety form. But if you have some I I don't know if you have an idea on what another topic would be.

We can discuss it. Okay.

And if you guys have some ideas, communicate directly with management chairman. Okay. Anything

else? Nothing else for me.

Any questions you wanna ask?

You got a chance? Well, not exactly an opportunity on this agenda. So future agenda setting. Okay.

Any any future agenda items people would like to have proposed?

None? K.

Since there are no other items, I think, we're ready for adjournment.

Meeting officially adjourned at 07:14PM. Thank you, everyone.