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So, if I'm a parent and I want to learn more about what happens to the adolescent brain during vaping, I can watch the same module that um my student um watched. So, at this time, I'd like to a invite Captain Jud from the Maricopa Police Department to share more about our ongoing collaboration, including the school safety officer program, joint trainings, and our continued uh partnership with local law enforcement. Captain Jud Thank you. Thank you, Miss Pastor. Um, President Downey and board. It's uh and Dr. Lman, it's pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. Um, as a point of just brief introduction. Um, for those that um don't know me and those that are present, um, my name is Captain Steven Jud and I am the operational captain for the Maricopa Police Department. Um, I serve second in command under uh Chief Goodman and my uh role is to lead and manage day-to-day operations of all our sworn personnel uh police officers at the police department.
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um when we have an alliance, the alliance grant requires us to there's a lot of constraints in it. So, we have to get creative in how we program staff and the work that we do um among all of the other grants that we fund a myriad of of our staffing needs uh with. So, it's a it creates a complex picture um for us to jigsaw all of those pieces together. Um but uh once again, I will never turn down onetime funds. um we will um continue to work towards sustainability in the future. Um the of course the mayor will give his final number uh on Thursday and that is at city hall and that is 6 or 7 o'clock 6 7 7:00 sorry getting the different meetings getting the different meetings council chambers. Thank you. at 7:00. Um there'll be a public session, so uh we'll be in attendance at that and uh you never know.
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Um I have served in Arizona law enforcement for nearly 30 years, 18 of it here in the city of Maricopa. And it's certainly been my pleasure um to do that. And um this community um has a special place in my heart and and I have it's been my pleasure to serve and continue to do that. Um I would like to speak briefly about um our SRO and SSO program. Um we are proud to partner uh the Maricopa Police Department with MUSD. It allows us to have school resource officers and support the school um safety officer program um here at with MUSD. Just to help understand the difference between those two terms, SRO is school resource officers. Those are full-time uh Maricopa police officers that we dedicate to um schools here in Maricopa. We have one in each of the high schools and one in each of the two middle schools u for a total of four SRO's for MUSD.
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So hopefully um again, we're prepared to move forward for next year with the funding that we have uh responsibly and we'll continue to seek out sustainable funding sources. So just wanted to give that summary update. Teresa, just want to commend uh Dr. Casemiro on three things that were brought out at the meeting. um first the uh that it was a surplus that we have left over. She uh as opposed to a negative. So in a way it's a positive. So that was good. The other thing is is um the list that they created of uh new procedures to go forward with the budget uh things that they need to do a check off list. And third, uh, mention of a three-year plan down the road. So, it was, uh, a very positive evening, I think. Okay. Cara, do we have an update as to uh, the actual total dollar amount of the alliance grant?
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Um those are our full-time personnel um that we provide uh for the program. Um the SRO program in the Maricopa Police Department represents nearly 10% of our sworn resources that we dedicate to MUSD. Um that's a significant factor, but we do that willingly uh and with great pride because of the benefits that come to the district um to our department and especially to the community. The SRO program is based on um several key issues. Um one is that the community is in the school and the school is in the community. what we find happening in the schools, we find happening in the community. And what we find happening in the community, we're going to find happening in the schools. And so by providing a full-time um officer in those campuses on those sites, um that allows us to um uh respond to and solve problems and do those things right there with those students.
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I can't recall exactly where that lands. I know overall like the whole thing, I think it'll be 30 million. 30.0 now. Yeah, 30.0 now. It'll go up at 9.1 to that next year. Okay. Yeah, that should stick. That's it's excellent. I'm so glad that we're getting that additional funding, but you know, it does to your point complicate things when you have such a large amount of money that is restricted, very restricted funds. Thank you. That's what you're going to use for staffing for the best. Yeah. So, the preponderance of the new staff will will be will be programmed in there. I already this year major strategy was around themies and the staffing for that and it was accepted as an innovative innovative strategy. Um and so now that that's accepted I feel comfortable and I had to get pre-approval to do that. I was very nervous heading into this year.
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And when they leave those school sites and go into the community, they take those with they take those opportunities with them. Um the school resource officer and this SSO program is based on a triad of three uh goals. One is mentoring um and positive role model. The second is um educational LRE or law related education where our officers go into classrooms and actually do instruction. Um and then the third when appropriate we do enforcement um and enforce state and um city code. So um it's a great opportunity for our officers to do that and they benefit both personally and professionally by being in the schools and working with your staff. Now the SSO program is a little bit different. Um the SSO program is school safety officers. These are not full-time Maricopa police officers, but these are sworn police officers that um when they are not working the capacity of their agency um like on their days off, they can sign up and go and do SRO related activities at the schools that um are sponsoring the SSO program.
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Um but I did get pre-approval and so what that says to me is that other staff that fits into the same strategy would be be accepted. So Mr. Janelle, you have questions everybody. Yeah. Thank you. the car any calculation of of coming up and meeting the need of of the proposed budget of $194 versus what we were given in that calculation. Uh I understand that the unit utilizes the full $9 million of land. I I believe that's going to be capped this year and so going to be frozen as we discussed before. If you max that number out in future years because of the large quantity of salaries in there, we're going to be short the cost of living increases and particularly the contract coming up in the summer for the teachers uh to uh provide you know for those those of contract increases. Um, are we short selling ourselves in and saying that we're going to use the full 9 million or is there a way that we can say hypothetically seven maybe or 8 million we're going to use when we keep a million for future cost of living increases?
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MUSD, that's all of the elementary schools. And so both Maricopa police officers engage in the SSO program as well as surrounding police agency personnel, Casag Grand, Eloy, uh the CA, uh uh the Panal County, and even officers uh that work with agencies up in the valley come to Maricopa and work in our schools here. Um it's usually just for the day. That's what the job is. they work the day and then they then they go and they can sign up for how many days they want to do that. Um these officers are visible uh protective and a safety presence plus positive role models on those campuses and they are a um great resource to the administrators and the educators and the parents that are associated with those campuses. So the um the SSO program is fairly new. Um it came out of a grant from the state education department and um the SSO program here in MUSD is related to all of the elementary schools and it started in February.
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Yes. Uh, that's a great question and absolutely. So, we absolutely need to create a cushion in alliance for those contractual increases. You did that heading into this year as well. Um, and you can project that out a couple of years at a basic percentage rate of of a typical uh typical contractual growth. Um, what that would mean is that it would squeeze out other things that we have programmed in alliance materials, resources, training, professional development potentially, you know, the amount of subs that we can can utilize in the district. So um the staffing will become sort of a central focus to maintain our staffing levels and we'll have to get creative with how we fund some other things. Um it does c it will cap out. It is scheduled to you know we spent a long time trying to get that acceleration and being fully funded in our alliance.
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Um and we've received a great deal of feedback, positive feedback at the department and um this pastor has told me that uh they've received a great deal of positive feedback at the at the district level as well. Um we have one example here of a Pumabute parent that says quote I just wanted to say thank you as a parent for making school safer. My anxiety about the kids safety has gone away. I'm very grateful that the district has added safety measures for volunteers and new buttons at the front and having officers at the school. I'm grateful for the watchdog program and I feel like all this has had such a positive impact on our kids. Um they're they've shared how much they've enjoyed having police officers play at recess. I think that this is a great example of what these programs are really all about, right?
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Uh we're here we now you know we've arrived at that fully funded uh accelerated number in ECS and so then it levels out from this point forward. So um it will not continue to grow. However, there is a lot of back back channel. Um districts are quite panicked about that as you can imagine particularly ones like ours and we you know people are asking for at least cost of living adjustments and you know typical incremental growth over time not the large increases that we have but certainly um there's a lot of superintendent talk on that topic. Yeah, you know, it the only thing that's happened and I think although I wasn't there last night, but I was able to get a pretty good narrative to what happened is once again it shows that the city continues to underfund us. And the only thing that's demonstrated again last night and as you're talking now is the ability that the district has had over the years to make do with what we get.
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Um, and speaking from personal experience, um, one of my favorite assignments in in my law enforcement career was the six years that I spent at a very large junior high school in Mesa as a school resource officer. That campus had 1,800 students. Um, and it was a ball to be there every day and do this SRL stuff. So, I am a big proponent of it uh from that standpoint and that's why I support it so strongly as an administrator at the dis at the um at the police department as well. So, many of our officers who were a little leery about the program, the SSO program like I have to come in on my day off and go work at the school, right? But it is it's voluntary on their part. They choose that whether they want to do that. Some of the motivation is maybe to earn a little extra money.
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By that I mean we have that money in alliance and we're using it pushing the envelope for stuff that it's really not supposed to be used for. And when you look at that, the calculations that we're coming up with now to make do with $190 million, there's some eight or $9 million one time money that's in there that really burdens us because we keep kicking a can down the road on that particular issue. So, and the I was glad that the the comment of the three-year budget was I've been paying for that for a long time. But if there's no discern on how to meet those numbers in the three-year budget, then it's a waste of exercise. Again, this entire process that we went through last night is a waste. I've been dealing with that for 18 years and nothing has changed. The scripts continue to come with a script.
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Um because it it is work, right? We know that being on school campuses is work in whatever capacity you do. Um but we have had officers come back and they're like, "That was really a lot of fun. I had such a great time being at the school, being in the lunchroom with the kids, going out and playing kickball or or um basketball or whatever they you know, throw the Frisbee with the kids out on this out on the recess." And um so we are seeing that positive feedback where your kids in your districts on your school campuses are are enriching the lives of our police officers and I believe that we're doing the same with those kids on those campuses. So finally um we work closely also with the district um in doing afteraction reports when there are large incidents involved whether it's on or near a campus.
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They don't change the script. In many cases, it's been a very contentious meeting. Uh well to me it's waste of time. I'm extremely upset about the $12 million fund you know allocation given to us particularly when we're looking at giving back $20 million and we've been talking about a opening a new school for the last three years. You know this is an election year we can understand the mayor doesn't want to raise taxes during election year and can we get them done today. So that's my editorial comments and I do plan to talk about that last night. I think the city can give us another four $5 million to close that 190 194. Thank you, Mr. Janette. Okay. Uh I can certainly understand the frustration with the process. like we sit around this table and we do our work to try to bring forward the the most responsible budget we can as far as meeting the needs of our students.
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Um we do afteraction reports where we get together, we sit in the same room, we talk about the things that we did well together, we talk about the things that we could maybe improve um and continue those lines of communication that help us uh be good partners. Um we um are actively involved in partnering with active asalent training here at the district level. Um, Mrs. Pastor has worked diligently over the last several months to help train leadership and security guards and our SRO's have taken part in in those trainings with security guards at the campus level. Um, and we're going to continue to do some additional training um, as we come to the end of the school year. Um once the campuses are vacant from teachers and students, um we are going to do some uh hands-on training with our officers at um Desert Winds and um Desert Sunrise High School where we have the opportunity to go in and hone our skills and our tactics and and um remind our officers about the expectations on how we respond and deal with active asalants.
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Um, you know, I think tomorrow night is an opportunity for families, for community members to come in to the public hearing and share their thoughts about what is happening with um the city budget and with the school budgets um with the council because they're the ones that have the final say in this. Um, so that's that's the opportunity. 7 o'clock tomorrow evening at city hall on the third floor in the council chambers. Um that's a great chance for folks to come in and share what they think about what's happening with the budget process. Thank you. Just add to that. Um I think one of the key slides that we um talked about in the past and has been presented um got a little short changed last night because the conversation ran long on the audit um is is really around the services that we're able to provide students which has always been something that we've um we really centered on.
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Um, this helps both if we ever have to respond to a school campus in our community for an active asalent, but it also helps us if there's active asalants in other places in other workplaces in our city. Um, whether that be a bank or or a restaurant or whatever it might be. It helps us hone our skills on those types of things and clearly make clear in the minds of our officers the expectations that we have that they respond in a way that is efficient and effective in eliminating threat immediately to save life. And that's what our expectation is and that's what this training um does to help reinforce those issues. Our officers are very skilled at these things, but you can understand that this type of response would bring a great deal of emotion and um stress, right? And so having kind of that stress inoculation through training gives us the ability to respond better.
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We we've gone a long time without uh having all the resources that we need in terms of the hard material supplies, but there's nothing more important than the actual uh teacher and pair professional, pair educator and people service contact that with students. And so that's something that um you know that came up a little bit last night. I talked about people services uh in understanding that we can we have gotten by um but what what does that mean uh for kids and you know there's a there's legal compliance, there's regular compliance and then there's actually meaningful meaningful connections, there's meaningful support services. Uh and that's something that we'll continue to advocate for is that we may have um x amount of social workers, but that doesn't mean we don't need x amount more to meet the true needs of our kids. uh reactive uh you know reactive support as opposed to getting out there and doing proactive planning with kids, running groups and getting to kids in different ways.
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