City Council - Special Meeting

making that announcement for why we made that change, at least for those who are used to having this meeting in the community room. So I believe this will be a permanent change for the time being.

That's correct, Mayor Mann. Per state law, this will be a permanent change going forward.

Okay. All right. Sounds good. So with that, I'd like to call the special meeting for July 29th, 2026 to order. Can we have a roll call, please?

Council Member Chavez?

Here.

Council Member Sternquist? Here. Council Member Yu? Here. Mayor Pro Tem Chen?

Here.

Mayor Mann?

Here. And as announced earlier, this is a meeting that is conducted in a hybrid format. Both in-person and remote participation is available. Instructions on how to join us remotely are available on the posted agenda. So our first item is public comment on items not listed on the agenda. If you wish to address the city council at this time, please raise your hand and also fill out the speaker request form. Is there anyone who'd like to address council at this time? Yes, Jerry. Yes, please.

GOOD MORNING, MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS AND DEPUTIES AND EVERYBODY ELSE. MY NAME IS JERRY JANBAZIAN. I'M A BUSINESS OWNER IN TEMPLE CITY FOR 71 YEARS. I HAVE SOME COMMENTS, AND I KIND OF KNOW THAT THE COUNCIL CANNOT RESPOND TO THEM, BUT AT LEAST I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF NEWS LATELY ABOUT FLOT CAMERAS. certain cities not using them, discontinuing them. I'm thinking of Los Angeles and South Pasadena, notably. But I'm wondering, are they an intrusion on privacy? Is it the people that are upset about them being photographed? And I'm wondering, is it still a viable A TOOL THAT OUR SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT USES TO ENHANCE THEIR WORK. SO I DON'T KNOW WHO WOULD COMMENT, BUT THAT'S MY QUESTION AS TO JUST THE DISCUSSION ON PLOT CAMERAS.

Thank you, Jerry. I think, well, flock cameras have come up in the course of our discussion monthly, just from how it's being used and how it's helped us. I think your specific issue, I would ask our city manager and our dedicated team to put together a more thoughtful response, because it is something that deserves attention, but certainly there are answers, and answers that are both objective, fair, and non-biased. So we'll keep that in mind.

Thank you. I have four items, so I'll keep them really short. I don't know if the time clock, yeah, the time clock is going. THE SAFE ROUTE TO SCHOOLS, I KNOW THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IT LAST WEEK, BUT I NOTICED THAT THE RADAR SPEED SIGN IS NOT WORKING ON LONGDON, IN FRONT OF LONGDON SCHOOLS. SO I'M WONDERING IF THAT COULD BE LOOKED AT, BECAUSE I THINK IT IS A DETERRENT, ESPECIALLY AROUND SCHOOLS. NATIONAL NIGHT OUT IS COMING NEXT WEEK, AND IT'S ALWAYS A POPULAR EVENT, AND I'M WONDERING WHAT KIND OF ASSETS WILL BE BROUGHT OUT BY OUR SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AND ALSO OUR PUBLIC SAFETY. AND I KNOW I PROBABLY CAN'T GET ANY ANSWERS, BUT ANYWAY, I JUST THOUGHT IT WOULD BE KIND OF GOOD. I MEAN, THE MORE THE BETTER. I KNOW IT'S ALWAYS POPULAR WITH THE LITTLE KIDS WHEN THEY SEE THE SWAT TEAM THERE, THE DOGS AND THE HORSES AND EVERYBODY ELSE. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I MEAN, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WE HAVE AN ADVANTAGE BECAUSE THE REGULAR NATIONAL NIGHT OUT IS THE DAY BEFORE. SO WE KIND OF HAVE AN ADVANTAGE THAT WE CAN USE ALL THESE ASSETS. WITH THE CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP AT THE TEMPLE STATION, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF TEMPLE STATION IS STILL GOING TO HAPPEN AND THAT IT'S IN PLACE AND IT'S BEING PLANNED FOR BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE A BIG EVENT HOPEFULLY IN THE FALL. 100 YEARS TO HAVE OUR STATION HERE IN TEMPLE CITY IS A BIG THING. SO HOPEFULLY IT WILL STILL HAPPEN AND LEADERSHIP WILL TAKE That's it. Thank you for listening.

All right. Thank you, Jerry. Is there anyone else who would like to address council at this time? I WANTED TO ASK COUNCILMEMBER CHAVEZ, DID WE HAVE PLANS TO, I KNOW WE HAD A MEETING WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT LAST WEEK AND WE HAD INVITED MS. TEMPLE CITY AND CROWD, WERE THEY PREPARING?

I WOULD THINK, AND I JUST SAW THEM WALK IN, IF YOU GUYS, ADDRESSING Representative from Miss Temple City, if you want to address the council on the e-bike issue, the time to do it would be during public comment, or it's not on the agenda.

Okay. Yeah.

So, and we do have another public comment at the end. Okay.

So, right now is public comment. If it is something you'd like to share with the audience and everyone here, now would be the time to do so, or you could wait until after the meeting.

No, at the end of the meeting. We have a public comment again at the end of the meeting.

So I'm not forcing you to. I'm just making you aware. That's all. Mr. Yeah, of course. You could certainly address the council now. Council Member Yu?

When she's coming up, I know you have said this public comment. I'm not listed on the agenda. But if they probably want to address public safety issues, would this be the right time for them to come up? I would think so. Because we have all the other items are public safety related .

Right, although.

Because I see them there are other folks in the audience.

I guess I would say because for items four and subsequent, we don't have individual public comment periods for those, then it would be either this time or afterwards.

Right. I just want to make that so they can come up. They can. Yes. Okay. Because they're all listed. They're all listed. Okay. Got it. Okay. Please.

Good morning. Good morning. So I know last week

So I leave the Temple City High School for a moment. I have two copies. I changed the regulations slightly because some of them are, like, the sixth one is the high school board of districts are responsible for the e-bikes, which I know can be a legal alternative that John has not heard.

Yes, please. If you can give it to our city clerk, Ms. Kuo, and she'll make sure that we have it. Thank you.

sorry also can I ask you to speak into the mic since this is a virtual meeting we need the participant to be able to hear you through the mic okay and then for the

Online safety class, is there a very reliable source I could use to make said safety class?

I think at this point, in terms of the comment, we're not gonna be able to answer your questions directly in the same way as last week's meeting. We're not trying to make you redo your entire presentation from last week, of course. It's just, if there was anything additional or things that you thought you'd like to share at this forum, you don't have to. It's wonderful that you are here and we're glad you're very interested in this topic. it was just an opportunity for you to say anything you'd like to add that's all i think that's it okay thank you thank you all right is there anyone else would like to address council at this time i'd like to also check with our city clerk if there are any virtual participants who'd like to comment

There are none.

Okay, thank you. With that, I will close public comment, and we will move directly into item four, communications. I'll hand it off to our city manager.

Thank you, Mayor Mann and members of the council, and thank you to the public, and thank you for the adjustment to this new format that is dictated by state law. So we'll have a little kinks in the processes through, but we'll figure it out. There is breakfast in the back for those who are interested as well, coffee. and for many members of the public, both virtually, and please join us, nice and bright and early, seven o'clock in the morning. A couple announcements to let you know. Just talked about the reason why we're doing this meeting in this format, but also too, I can formally announce to you, as I gave you information earlier last week, that we do have a new captain. Captain Sharif Morrissey, he is the operations lieutenant for currently the operations lieutenant for the industry station, so nearby in the San Gabriel Valley. He will introduce himself. He is very accomplished and does a lot of community outreach, especially with the Muslim American community as well. And he'll talk about his background. We're excited to have him here with us starting on Sunday as lieutenant. And I want to thank Acting Captain Dave Hernandez, who's been accessible, easy to work with, and just kept the ship afloat at the station for the last month or so. And so I appreciate him. Operations lieutenants are extremely important. in the day-to-day functioning of a station. They are like the chief of staff, the number two that makes all the gears of the station run, and I appreciate him through that process. The other thing, too, is just want to let you know for our CSO program, too. About two weeks ago, Fernando started to go out on dispatch calls, sheriff-assisted dispatch calls as well. He's done a really great job. Steve will be following behind him very shortly in the next couple of weeks. Also, too, both of them in September will be attending a very intense week-long class about how to actually do traffic reports and collision reports so that they will then be assisting our sheriff's team and our traffic deputies so that can relieve them as well so that they can do, as long as it's safe, they are civilian employees, they have certain duties, but They are not sworn officers in the context of responding to certain types of calls, but they can report and be dispatchable to other types of calls that are safe and for them to do so. So there's going to be about a week or so that they're gone and doing a really intense course. So I appreciate all of their hard work as well. And we're actively working on that third CSO as well going forward. A LOT OF GOOD THINGS HAPPENING AND TRANSITION. SO THAT'S IT FOR ME, MAYOR MANN, IN TERMS OF JUST GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. AND WHENEVER YOU'RE READY, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DEPUTY. ALSO, TOO, I WANT TO THANK OUR DEDICATED TEAM. DEPUTY BUEY HAS REALLY TAKEN ON THE of really mentoring our CSO team, being with them one-on-one throughout their entire training process. I'd like to thank Mayor Pro Tem Chen as well, and his expertise in helping us understand where we're going with the CSO program, and I appreciate them, and also the dedicated team. And in my role right now, while we're recruiting for the public safety supervisor, I've been a bit more involved in the day-to-day. When you're a bit more involved in the day-to-day, you see the hard work everybody does. You see the, you know, it's kind of the duck that's swimming, but underneath it's paddling like crazy. That's the way the team works. They're so calm. They're so welcoming to the community. But there's a lot of work that they do behind the scenes that no one sees. And it's great for me to see a glimpse of that and all the hard work they do on a day-to-day basis. So with that, Mayor Mann, I just want to say thanks. Thanks to the team. Thanks to our CSO team. Thanks to the public for being here. And whenever you're ready, I'll turn it over to Deputy Bowie for our regular presentation.

Okay, sounds good. And thank you for that update. And Deputy Bowie, the floor is yours.

Thank you, Mayor, Mayor Pro Temling, City Council. Today we're going to start July 26th. We're going to start July 29th. We're going to do the long-form summary for July. I want to start out with our Volunteers on Patrol program. This is a program that actually helps us with day-to-day activities. uh law enforcement not no law enforcement activities where you know you would uh if you would like to become a volunteer on patrol you would actually have to have certain requirements that you would have to do to become one uh pretty much you have to be 18 years old um live in the city pass a background check and actually have to go through a class that we actually throw so that you can understand how to use our system and law enforcement to drive. Some of the duties that you actually help relieve us is like when you're on vacation and you would request a patrol for your home to check your home if you're not there. Our volunteers will go out and check your home when they have time, and they'll go do patrol checks for us in the busy areas like our business properties and everything for the holidays, which helps out a lot. It's just extra eyes and ears on the field. And if you'd like to become a volunteer, the numbers here on the back, we have Debbie Johnson, who is our coordinator for that. His email and his phone number is on the slide, so if you need it, that's who you'd contact to be a volunteer. So we'll start the presentation with quality of life. Quality of life issues are things that we handle in the city. We actually help our detective that handles all the sex offenders that they have to be in compliance with all their checks. So we actually periodically go out and check on the THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE IN COMPLIANCE IN THE CITY, AND IT'S ONLY IN THE CITY. WE ALSO DO PROBATION AND COMPLIANCE CHECKS WITH PAROLEES THAT ARE ON THE CITY, THAT ARE ON THE LIST IN THE CITY, THAT WE DO PERIOC CHECKS ON THEM SO THAT THEY'RE IN COMPLIANCE. PROBATION IS THE SAME THING. WE DO THAT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH OUR PROBATION TEAM AS WELL. Next slide is gonna be our crime trends. In the city, we have most of the major crimes are burglary and larceny crimes that happen in the city. What we're doing to do is proactive policing, pretty much. Our flock cameras, which someone had mentioned earlier, our flock cameras are just used for investigation only, used only. They are purpose, it does actually help us with our crimes that we can, SOLVE A LOT FASTER WHEN WE GET THE INFORMATION. ADDITIONAL UNITS DEPLOYED IN THE CITY WITH THE OVERTIME THAT THE CITY PROVIDES US, SO WE HAVE THOSE DEPUTIES THAT ARE ON, WE ACTUALLY PICK THEM SPECIFICALLY FOR THE ASSIGNMENT, AND THEY ARE WHAT WE CALL NO-CALL CAR, OR WHERE THEY ACTUALLY JUST DO 100% IN TEMPLE CITY FOR THAT SHIFT, AND THEY WILL STAY IN THE CITY AND THEY WILL JUST TRY AND CATCH WHATEVER CRIMINALS THAT ARE OUT THERE IN THE CITY. We do joint operations with our different detectives, our other utilized bureaus in our department, which is one of the biggest departments that we have that we can utilize. We have ongoing operations that we do monthly, burg suppression, undercover operations. We also do what we have a list that comes out when we have fumigation in the city because that's one of the issues as well. So we'll do checks on those homes as well. We actually do search warrants operations with other teams and other departments in our agency. We do a lot of sharing information when we have these crime trends and everything. We actually contact the sister cities around us to see if any of their crimes are related to the ones that we have as well so that we can kind of coordinate with what we have with the information we have. Educating the community. Well, as best as this is here, that when we're out here with the community, people are here, we do our area watch meetings, and then we do a lot of business outreaches with the businesses in the city to be a part of it as well. Yes.

Because there's an earlier question on flock cameras, so perhaps Deputy Bowie could explain what you meant by investigative purposes only.

The flock camera with the sheriff's department, we are very strict at how we use the resource. Every time we use that flock camera for a reason, we actually have to enter a reason or a report that is generated to look for that incident. We can't just look at the flock camera just to enter any car or anything else like that. For our sheriff's department, we actually have to have a report that goes with it so that it justifies why we're looking at it, so we're not looking at any other reason for an investigative person for this specific crime that we have. So that's why ours is one of the strictest policies we use. So we do use it for investigation purposes when we are told that, hey, this car may be involved, so that we can look for that car. And it generates with all the flock cameras that are available to us.

In addition to city staff, myself, our CSO team do not have access to the flock camera system as well. So there's nothing being retained by the city. There's nothing being retained in terms of records beyond what we maybe... An email that's going back and forth. Did you check a flock camera? Did you run those kind of things? Just the normal course of day-to-day law enforcement communication between the city and the LA County Sheriff's Department. But the city does not retain any of that data either.

How long is the data kept?

Within the flock system, that one, I apologize, council member, I'll have to go back and we'll provide you with a more robust report on that. There is a period of time that is kept. Off the top of my head, I don't know it.

And it only retains the licensed playground, right? Then it's not like people being photographed or videotaped. and faces are not kept, that sort of a thing.

That is our understanding of how the system works and what works in Temple City as well. Like I said, I think there's been concerns about data breaches and everything else that happens in our society as a whole now, no matter, regardless of the technology or the type of technology and what its purpose and intent is used for. Yeah, to the best of our knowledge, and contractually with FLOC and the city, which is a pretty standard template contract with all cities, at least in parts of California. I know some cities are looking to modify that, but we have assurances from our FLOC team, and we work with our FLOC customer support team as well.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir. The next thing is going to be our notable arrests. This is a deputy that was in Temple City, deputy on patrol, contacted an individual that was loitering on a property that was known to be on probation. Through the Department of Resources, we have to do confirm that they are on probation and they have search conditions. During the compliance check, he was He was found to have possession of narcotics on him, and he's a known transient in our city, which was arrested for the following possession of a controlled substance with two priors. So he is one of our Prop 36 arrestees where he has prior convictions for narcotics and was arrested for that as well. Another notable arrest we had was the Temple City team and detectives were working investigating a felony vandalism crime that happened in the city. We didn't have very much information, but we were doing a lot of canvassing in multiple locations just for the fall to identify the suspect. Through surveillance cameras and prior contacts with the deputy that we found out later in the day, we found that we We recognized the suspect that was involved in that vandalism report. And with the creative detective work that our detective did, he was able to get a warrant for his arrest for the crime. The deputy that actually arrested him that day later arrested him again for the felony. So once that warrant was issued to that suspect, approximately an hour later, a deputy went out and arrested him for that crime and now is charged for that felony vandalism that occurred.

Our next note will rest. Mr. May I just ask a clarification question? I mean, this brings up the point that I think a lot of residents were probably have curious about arrests. The fact that somebody's arrested doesn't mean that they're kept. I just want to make clear, the court, I guess our justice system, does not necessarily mean that somebody who is arrested will be kept in jail. and so i know there have been frustrations how why the city couldn't do certain things but i think these are the rules that our deputies would have to um abide by uh would have because of nature of the crime, I guess.

Correct, sir. Yeah. And to that point, I think if we look back at recent history long enough, there has been some changes to certain laws. I mean, you met, Deputy Bowie mentioned Prop 36. Yes. Amongst others. So there's a shift. There's also the change in the DEA. So while incremental, we don't see these things kind of just turn overnight, but it is a notable detail that people just assume arrest means detain, but we know that's not always the case.

I would like to add that there's been a movement for a number of years now in the county where folks are, where the pretrial holding is encouraged to be reduced. for a number of years now.

Just to note, that does not, our team is relentless. They do not stop in knowing those kind of constraints that are there. So some of these suspects who we know in the community, and everybody has their due process rights for certain, but it is a challenge. There has been some changes. The Prop 36 change has been substantially important to us in terms of as a city in assisting those who are habitual violators. Again, the council also too has enacted ordinances that have assisted the city and assisted our sheriff's team with how the behavioral issues not related to the individual status, if they're housed, unhoused, not from a classification standpoint, but it's a behavioral issue, how you operate, how you use the public right away. For example, things like drinking in public, the manner in which you maybe display some of your possessions and how you use them in the public right of way, those kind of things. So the team has done a really good job and has truly, but also too from a compassionate human being, from a compassion standpoint, trying to help some individuals who are have huge life challenges. But it's also a challenge within the court system, as Council Member Hughes is pointing out, that while we can, even when the courts remand somebody to get rehabilitation services and other things, that seems to be a real challenge that just keeps going on and on and on.

I may add, Mr. Mary, if I could. As a matter of fact, in LA County we operate what we call zero bail system. So there's no bail for pre-trial. Thank you.

We'll bring it back to you, Deputy Bowie.

Thank you, sir. Our last noble arrest for the month was a deputy on overtime, which is our deputy on suppression patrol, conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle. During his investigation of the driver, the driver was found out to be unlicensed. During that traffic stop, the occupants, for some reason, became very irate and had to be detained as well. So during that investigation, as the occupants were being detained, one of the passengers had multiple bags of narcotics of a controlled substance, and the driver was arrested for driving unlicensed, and one of the passengers were arrested for possession of controlled substance. So that was a pretty good arrest. Our next slide today is going to be our crime statistics.

Yes, Deputy Bowie, we have a question from Mayor Pro Tem.

Yes, just for the sake of transparency, I thought I'd bring it in the open. I know as frustratingly as it may be, the previous format allows us to have more fluid dialogue with regards to perhaps not just tactics, but individual deputies. I know in this new format, perhaps some of that information is omitted. the deputies that are making the arrest but i think that's still information that is uh important for this council so i think you know we can perhaps modify in the future on kind of a new different format either on a post-it note for um for the council so each of us know who the arresting deputies are on these notable arrests. I just want the deputies that are out there doing the hard work knowing that their hard work is recognized and appreciated by this council. And I mean, these are great arrests. I just, we're missing that piece of information. We'd like to know who are some of our deputies that are doing that.

Noted, Mayor Pro Tem. And we'll find a way to address, we'll find a way to acknowledge that, for lack of a better term.

Council Member Sternquist.

You know, I'm just curious since Ed's talking about the new format. Has anybody challenged to ask if there's any possible exemptions for cities for a meeting such as this? I mean, this seems so formal for the type of meeting it is and the response that we wanted to get from the public and this is One of the ways that we felt that there was open dialogue, I mean, I don't know if I was coming to a city council meeting and had to think about, oh my goodness, you know, I'm gonna be on TV, I'm gonna be broadcasted. There might be people who are not comfortable with that, and the other provided that opportunity.

That's a great point, Council Member Sternquist. This is growing pains. with this format and growing pains generally but i can sit down with the city attorney we can give you maybe a little bit more again sorry not the best answer for you right now but it's kind of growing pains through through how we're going to work through this so we'll just like what mayor pro tem chen just brought up as well so um we'll we'll talk with the city attorney and see what we what we can do and maybe even look at the structure of the meeting as well to help provide for you as the council and for the members of the public that way to make it feel a little less stuffy and a little...

Even if we had our deputies sitting amongst the people to make them feel more comfortable that this is a partnership. It's just so formal and I think that there might be ways to make it better.

Sure.

Absolutely. Okay.

All right. Thank you. Deputy Bui.

Thank you, Mayor. So just to give you a quick update for the month of June, we had one robbery, four assaults, six residential injuries, two commercial, two vehicle burglars, I'm sorry, five grand thefts, two petty thefts, and two stolen vehicles, no arson. So for a total of 25 part one crimes that happened in the city for the month of June. The next slide's gonna show us the burglary comparisons from 2025 to 2026. As you can see, the numbers have changed from last year in the same time. In July we had, in June we had 14, and this month we had six. The two commercial burglars won, so it is lower than we had last year compared to last year from today's date. And here's our four year comparison so that if you can see from today's date, we've had 213 part one crimes total compared this time last year. So as you can see, we are going on a downward trend. We hopefully stay even lower as possible. So this is our four year comparison of the part one crimes that we saw on the previous slide. Our next slide is gonna be our crime statistics, and it's gonna be our response time for our routine, priority, and emergent calls. Our routine calls went up a little bit. The average time for the month was 55.9. Our priority was 10, a little over 10 minutes, and our emergent calls were a little higher at four, but they're still good average times that we have. For the month, we had four felony arrests, 31 misdemeanor arrests for a total of 35 arrests, and which earlier was one of our Prop 36 arrests was on there. So we've had a pretty high arrest for the year so far, up to date. Other issues that we have that we're dealing with are traffic issues. What type of traffic issues you say are mostly speeding is gonna be one of our top ones. Running stop sign and most updated ones are e-bikes with the school coming up. So we are working on a plan to do an e-bike thing with the school. So we are working with that. What we're doing is deploying our motor, our traffic motor. He's strictly on overtime just to do traffic, and that's all his thing does. So we do have a motor when you see him out there. That's the main thing he's doing out there for us. We have director patrol operations where we actually assign our deputies or our motors to certain areas that have been called for a little extra attention. So we do go to that area. And that is funded by Temple City's extra fund that we have so that we can do that for extra patrols for our traffic. And then with that, we're going to show you the traffic statistics. So in the month of June, we had six injury accidents in the city. Six of them were in, I'm sorry, we had six injury accidents, nine property accidents where it's just vehicle on vehicle, no injuries were reported for a total of 15 total accidents for the month of June. Traffic citations. So with our motor and all the deputies out there, we had 105 hazard citations. Hazard citations are running stop signs, running red lights, speeding are what we consider hazardous. Non-hazard citations are pretty much like a brake light, expired registration, and stuff like that, fixed tickets. So for the total of 105 year to date, we've had, I believe it's gonna be I'm sorry, year to date we've had 400 tickets, almost over 477 tickets cited for the year to date. Our special assignment team activities. Again, we address all quality of life issues with calls for service, calls to the city, or just follow-up stuff that we do for the city. So that's what we do, all quality of life issues that are complaints to the city and to the Sheriff's Department that we'll handle. We have special details where we do secure for city council meetings, public transportation, and all city events. We're usually there for every city event. We also attend the following meetings with our acting captain every month on all the crimes and what the trends are, what we're doing to to correct the problem. We have traffic force in detail, we have burglary suppressions, and we do a lot of the follow-up cases to all the reports that we have, because the team actually reads every report that is generated from the city every week, and that's how we do our crime blogger that comes out every weekly. So the next thing is events for August. We have our National Night Out, which is on August 5th. Athens Comp House giveaway that we'll be there for. And we have Neighborhood Watch on August 20th at Live Oak Park, which is gonna be our next big event. And then continuing with Constantin Park, where you see our reserve deputies out there with us until the middle of August. And then we do public outreach. events, public outreach and events, which again, which is our neighborhood watch is one of our good ones that we come out every other month. National Night Out is going to be one of our biggest ones where we usually have there are almost 800 to 900 people there every year. And the Athens Cockpile Giveaway is gonna be another big one with the community coming out, Concerts in the Park, and we do a lot of outreach with the unhoused in the public. And then we do do a lot of business outreaches with the businesses with, you know, problems that they have with our local transients or anything else, so we'll update them with whatever we can. And then again with this, with our law summary, law enforcement summary that we can provide with the public any information that they need.

And that concludes. Mayor, I have a quick comment and question on this subject. So, last night, as a liaison to the Committee on Aging, one of the subjects that came up was more education or more information to help our seniors avoid fraud or scams, things that are out there, as we all know. And I remember in the past, we've talked about this subject at some of our neighborhood watches and the reason I bring it up is that I haven't seen it on our agenda for a while and I'd like to see if there's some way we can bring that subject matter back not at every meeting perhaps but maybe every other meeting or something because I think it's an important topic especially in today's world with the technology and things that are going on and also if there is any If there's anyone at the station or anyone that does perhaps talks or seminars on that subject, maybe we could arrange to have some type of event in the city or something. I know that we've had those in the past at different women's clubs and things like that, but I'm sure the station or the sheriff's department probably has some. And I think in the past, we've also had someone from the station talk about those. I don't know if they're still there. But just wanted to bring it up, and I'm sure that, I know I had asked Adam Matsumoto, our Parks and Rec, who also is in charge of the Committee on Aging, to reach out to both Brian and to the Sheriff to maybe talk some more about that and how we can get that out there. So, appreciate your help. Yes, sir. Thank you.

And speaking of National Night Out, since you mentioned that as an upcoming event, do we have any knowledge of What's going to be out there for the public to see? Is it the same kind of equipment and teams that we normally have? Like, for example, the trowel and horseback is always a popular one. But are there other items like the SWAT?

we'll have a more i'll have a more formal kind of like layout um it usually has to do with time but we're trying to put out as many pull out as many stops as we can for national night out so i'll have a more formal i'll let i'll let you go i'll let the council know kind of what what what kind of activity we're expecting out there.

Okay. And since we do have a council meeting right before the national night out, perhaps you can include that in your city manager's report?

We'll do, Mayor Mann.

Okay. Thank you. All right. And Deputy Bowie, that concludes your presentation? Yes, sir. Okay. All right.

Mayor, do you mind if I add something?

Yes, please.

So I know the sheriff, he's aware of National Night Out. It hasn't been confirmed that he's going to come, but unofficially, I was told more than likely he'll make just a pit stop and say hello and take some pictures. I also want to add, as an interim acting captain, it's been an honor to work with all of you. I believe you guys have some of the best deputies at Temple Station on your team. I work with them on a daily basis, and I'm just truly impressed with the work that they perform day in and day out. But again, it's been an honor, and I appreciate everything you've done, not only for me and my deputies, but the community as well. Thank you.

Yeah, and I'm very sure I speak for council when we say we truly appreciate the work that you've done, not just in the interim role, but even the years prior. So we, just like Brian said, you're the key person to kind of make the station operations run, and we see that time and time and again. from not just you, but as well as your predecessors who have served in that capacity as well. So that's one thing that I know as a community we truly appreciate is the presence, the outreach in the community is so important. And just like some earlier comments about how we were never keen on having this particular meeting in this space for the very reason that just the presence of sitting on a dais could you know, not exactly be welcoming for some of our residents who do want to engage and talk to us. It's like there's literally a physical barrier between us and our residents who are sitting in the audience. Whereas in the community room, it was a bit more free flowing and we kind of walk around, there's food there. So I really appreciate what Council Member Sternquist said. But you've been ever present in all of those meetings and outreach engagement events. We see that, we see you, and we hope to be able to continue to work with you in that capacity.

Thank you, Mayor.

All right, are there any additional questions or comments from council? I'll start here with Council Member Sternquist.

No, I'd just like to offer, if the weather continues to be this hot for National Night Off, Foothill Transit has the availability to bring out a double-decker bus for a cooling type of center so that if people get overheated, they can go into the bus. We're doing that for the Rose Bowl for a backpack giveaway this coming Sunday. So I don't know what the weather looks like for that day that far ahead, but let me know.

It will probably be popular either way because it is August. Okay.

So let me reach out if you'd like and see if we can bring that along Golden West, right? Yes. Yes.

Next Wednesday, high of 90. But that's a high of 90. All right. Good. Okay.

Cool. That's all? Nothing further. Thank you. Okay. Council Member Yu?

Nothing further. I think I asked plenty of questions, but I just want to thank Lieutenant Hernandez for his good work as our acting captain. It's not easy. I've been there, done that, and to do two jobs at the same time. So thank you so much for your work. Thank you.

Mayor Pro Tem Chance.

Two very quick items. I want to thank the special assignment team as well as our public safety officers for bringing National Night Out to the Pacific Friends School on Temple City Boulevard. They brought horses. I think the children really appreciated it and some of the families, too. Secondly, Lieutenant Hernandez, you've been outstanding. I think the previous sheriff probably was more keen on promoting someone and remaining at that particular unit of assignment. It seems like the new sheriff is now going back to where it was when someone's promoted, they're moved to a different assignment. We wish you were here with us, but you've done a fantastic job as interim captain. knowing that this is broadcast, so I'm not going to go into the details, but I know integrity is really paramount in this profession, and in the Sheriff's Department, there's many, many which ways. When mistakes happen, they're... there are many ways to really rectify situations or individuals are kind of held accountable for it. And I think sometimes when those types of situations occur, uh, it is a very uncomfortable position for the hardworking men and women who are deputy sheriffs, you know, who are in those positions and oftentimes they want to know that their supervisors support them and are there for them. Um, and I've experienced it myself and know that you are that kind of leader. You really, are there for your deputies. So I say it sincerely from the bottom of my heart, you're a great leader, and you've done a great job as our interim captain, and I see great things from you. We hope to have you here someday in Temple Station, but we know you're going to be a captain somewhere here in the Sheriff's Department. So thank you. Thank you, sir. I appreciate the kind words.

I wish they would take... our thoughts into consideration when they do these things, but unfortunately, I know our city manager definitely conveys that, but I think when they hear from us individually, it makes a difference, but we're not part of that process. Thank you.

Thank you. Anything else, Mayor Protel?

No, that will be all. Thank you. Okay.

All right, a couple of items I just want to make sure our city manager can get back to us on. There was mention of the speed sign on Longden, so I believe that is under our agency, so if we could look into that. And also, if there are details related to the 100th anniversary of Temple Station, I think we would all appreciate a report back at a future council meeting as part of your city manager's report. Will do, sir.

Mayor, I think Mr. City Manager is supposed to bring back more details on the flock cameras. How long data is kept and what's being recorded and so on and so forth. Actually, if I may, when Mr. City Manager brings back that, actually, personally, I'd like to see the expansion rather than the reduction of flock cameras. I'd like to see if there are any recommendations to add more. instead of, like some cities, reduce the number of flock cameras.

Can I comment on the flock cameras? So the flock cameras are an LPR, which is License Plate Reader. They take pictures of the rear of the vehicle, so there's no pictures of the driver or any of the occupants inside. I can't confirm this, but I believe the information is retained for 30 days. Now what flock does with that after, I don't know. We could find that out, but Again, it's a valuable, valuable tool in locating criminals. And that's what we use it for, for our investigations, as Deputy Bowie said earlier. But again, these pictures are of the rear of the vehicle where no occupants or the driver, their photos are not taken.

And on that note, I think in our monthly meetings, when we have notable arrests, we always hear about how that was a tool that may have been used in making those notable arrests. And I'm sure it's not limited to just the notable arrests that you report back to us. There are other cases that comes into play. And for the public's information, I mean, even in our budget, we do budget for this item. So if there's any question about where our priorities are, it's where we put our money where our mouth is, so to speak, right? So yes, I do think it is an important item and the question that Mr. Jambazian brought up certainly warrants a thoughtful response. So I would appreciate you bringing that back to council at a future meeting as well.

Certainly, Mayor Mann. Okay.

All right. And I also want to, again, thank our Miss Temple City contingent for not only coming out bright and early today, but they were also part of the school district city standing committee meeting that Council Member Chavez and I are part of last Thursday. And so we appreciate them thinking very thoughtfully about the e-bike issues that are currently affecting not just Temple City High, but we also, that's kind of been a standing item, not only on our current monthly law enforcement meeting, but it's also been on the standing committee's meeting as well. And on that note, I do want to extend a shout out to not just Deputy Bowie and the rest of our dedicated team, but our public safety officers and former public safety supervisor for a lot of the engagement and outreach with the high school, keeping everyone informed. And then these new ideas that you're bringing forth to council, as we're exploring those, I think that's another step in the right direction, because I'll say something that we said last Thursday, which is I think a key component of this outreach and education that we keep talking about are the students themselves, right? Because they're the ones being impacted, they're the ones being affected. Who better to serve as ambassadors of that information than your fellow peers, right? And so that's why I'm so keen on the fact that you're so engaged with us on this matter. And so I'm very excited to see if we can really move the needle when it comes to e-bikes. Because we see that in news, we see that with other agencies. What we don't want is we don't want to go down a path where... the only reason we're doing something is because someone was seriously hurt or, you know, God forbid, even killed, right? So this is what we as a council are trying to do to be as proactive as we can. And then the last thing I do also want to thank and acknowledge our residents who have not just attended previous council meetings to express their concerns about crime burglaries in their area, but have also are ever present in this meeting today. So thank you. I know it's not easy to carve out time in your schedule, especially at 7 a.m. to be here. So we really do appreciate that and we appreciate your engagement and the information that you're able to provide us since we all know, no one knows your neighborhood better than you do because you live there. So thank you for that. And with that, I would like to open up the last portion of our meeting for public comments. Is there anyone else who would like to address council at this time? Yes. Would you please come to the mic and... That mic is not as sensitive as others, so if you could please speak into it, if you could state your name. All right, that's good? Yes, that's good.

Hi, my name's Jiang Xu, and I live on Olima Street. So as you may know, we had two home burglaries this year, and I saw the rating compared to last year and previous years. The burglaries overall have been gone down, so thank you very much for keeping us safe. And so I'm just wondering, If there's anything that we did or deputies did for this year to reduce that crime rate, what was useful and also what's in the pipeline for future safety improvement, that would be great.

Okay, thank you for your comment. And I think many, some of the items that were previously presented by Deputy Bowie in terms of ongoing efforts are part, there's many pieces to the puzzle, so to speak, of crime. There's not a silver bullet, otherwise someone would be a billionaire if they found out the solution to solving and stopping all crimes. So I think the many things that was presented today are part of that solution. Like council member you mentioned, there are future discussion items that the council can engage in to add, supplement, or enhance any of the services that we are currently considering. At this time, we can't give you specific things because those have to be agendized for discussion and approval before we make any significant changes. Is there anything our city manager would like to add to maybe that element?

I'll do my best within the context of the meeting structure. As Deputy Bowie pointed out, one of the things that they do on a regular basis is they actually review all the crime reports as well. So they try to get a level of intelligence and understanding. The other thing that was noted as well in the presentation was the use of major crimes. I know acting... Captain Hernandez, prior captain, and the incoming captain as well, have very good relationships with major crimes so that when they identify something that may be a crew and other things. I think, without going into much detail, one of the frustrations sometimes with burglaries is if it's not an organized unit that's going out and committing these crimes, it's a little tougher to find. But what I can say is the full force of the resources of the LA County Sheriff Department when it comes to investigations and trying to pin down exactly what's happening is deployed. And that's the beauty of the contract model and everything else. So those are the two things I can point to that And I understand when you're a victim of a crime, it stinks. It is personal. But please know that across the board and our new sheriff's captain also too has worked downtown, has very good relationships with the downtown resources as well. So those major crimes and others are looking into the matter and figuring out and trying to solve those issues.

All right, thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to comment? I'm sorry, since you've spoken already, but you can certainly talk to us right after the meeting. We'll be here. If there are no other public comments in the audience, I'd like to ask our city clerk if there are any virtual participants who would like to comment at this time.

Mayor, there are none.

Okay. Thank you very much. Then with that, I will close public comment for our meeting, and we are adjourned.