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Mounds View City Council February 26, 2024 Regular Meeting Page 3 1 Council Member Meehlhause requested further information regarding the New Americans 2 Academy. Police Chief Zender explained the Mounds View Police Department collaborated with 3 the City Attorney, County Attorney and SBM Fire to provide new Americans with classes to 4 familiarize these individuals on the services provided by the City, police and fire. He reported he 5 would be working to schedule an academy in 2024. 6 7 Council Member Meehlhause thanked Police Chief Zender and the entire department for their 8 dedicated service to the community. 9 10 Mayor Lindstrom asked if residents could volunteer for the reserve program. Police Chief Zender 11 explained those interested in volunteering could fill out an application on the department's 12 webpage. 13 14 Mayor Lindstrom requested further information regarding the reality based training the officers 15 would be receiving. Police Chief Zender reported he ordered simunition guns and protective gear 16 for scenario based training, which could be done at Bridges or the Blaine Tach house. 17 18 Mayor Lindstrom questioned if the SRO's were at Pinewood and Edgewood. Police Chief Zender 19 stated the school resource officers were currently servicing at both Pinewood and Edgewood, but 20 were not under contract. He noted the department invoices the school district for SRO services 21 through a good faith agreement. He explained it was his understanding the school district was 22 working on a contract for the future. 23 24 Mayor Lindstrom commented on how calls for service have normalized since 2020. Police Chief 25 Zender reported this was the case. He commented further on how the Ramsey County Appropriate 26 Response model would impact calls going forward. He stated professionally trained public health 27 responders from St. Paul would be sent to mental health calls going forward instead of sending 28 police and fire. 29 3o B. 2023 Tubman Annual Report — Jennifer Dickinson. 31 32 Jennifer Dickinson, representative from Tubman Services, provided the Council with the annual 33 report for 2023 from the Tubman Organization. She described the legal advocacy services that 34 were provided to victims and survivors of domestic violence. She noted a lot of her time was spent 35 on criminal cases on domestic incidents. She commented on the challenges she faced due to 36 complex family issues and court delays. She explained she would be attending roll calls in 2024 37 in order to get to know officers better and to speak to officers about domestic violence and 38 violations of orders for protection. She thanked the City and Mounds View Police Department for 39 partnering with Tubman. 40 41 Council Member Meehlhause asked if Tubman partnered with NYFS. Ms. Dickinson explained 42 she does not typically partner with NYFS because the organizations provide different services, but 43 noted she would be meeting with them next week to talk further about collaboration. 44 45 Council Member Meehlhause inquired if Ms. Dickinson was familiar with CSC. Ms. Dickinson 46 was not.