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2023-01-12 - PEACE Commission Agenda Packet REGULAR MEETING AGENDA Meetings are being conducted in a hybrid format with in-person and remote options for attending. Remote Attendance: Members of the public may attend this meeting in person or via Webex or by calling +1-415-655-0001 and entering meeting number 2451 109 2445. 1. Call to Order 2. Land Acknowledgment: We acknowledge and honor the Dakota nation, on whose ancestral land the City of Golden Valley is built, and whose land resources we use. We commit to counteracting the erasure of the cultural practices and presence of the Dakota people and through education and by amplifying a wide range of indigenous voices. 3. Attendance/Roll Call ☐ Randy Anderson ☐ Madeline Ryan ☐ Shelli Bakken ☐ Andrew Wold ☐ Henry Crosby ☐ Loretta Arradondo ☐ Alicia Dang ☐ Roslyn Harmon ☐ Trey Gladney ☐ Janet Frisch ☐ Charlie Quimby Staff Present: 4. Approval of Agenda 5. Approval of Minutes 6. Subcommittee Update 7. Collaborative Solutions Grant Update 8. Letter to Community January 12, 2022 – 6:30 pm Council Conference Room Golden Valley City Hall 7800 Golden Valley Road 9. Staff Updates - Bridging the Faultline’s Event - Harassment Toolkit - Sweet Potato Comfort Pie’s Annual MLK Day Event 10. Adjournment REGULAR MEETING MINUTES 1. Call to Order 6:38 2. Land Acknowledgment: We acknowledge and honor the Dakota nation, on whose ancestral land the City of Golden Valley is built, and whose land resources we use. We commit to counteracting the erasure of the cultural practices and presence of the Dakota people and through education and by amplifying a wide range of indigenous voices. 3. Attendance/Roll Call ☒ Randy Anderson ☒ Madeline Ryan ☒ Shelli Bakken ☒ Andrew Wold ☒ Henry Crosby ☒ Loretta Arradondo ☒ Alicia Dang ☒ Roslyn Harmon ☒ Trey Gladney ☒ Janet Frisch ☒ Charlie Quimby Staff Present: Community Connections and Outreach Specialist/ Staff Liaison Airrion Williams, City Attorney Maria Cisneros, Councilmember Kimberly Sanberg 4. Approval of Agenda MOTION to approve 12/8/22 agenda by Commissioner Bakken, 2nd by Commissioner Anderson. Approved unanimously 5. Approval of Minutes MOTION to approve minutes for 11/10/22 by Commissioner Anderson, 2nd by Commissioner Crosby. Approved unanimously. Commissioner Frisch abstained 6. Acceptance of Subcommittee Reports Commissioner Bakken asked if it was necessary for the Hiring subcommittee to ask for the whole commission’s approval when submitting 5 interview questions to staff for the PD interview process. Commissioner Bakken MOTIONED to accept the subcommittee reports. 2nd by Commissioner Frisch. Approved unanimously. December 8th, 2022 – 6:30 pm Golden Valley City Hall 7800 Golden Valley Road City of Golden Valley PEACE Commission Regular Meeting December 8th, 2022 – 6:30 pm 2 7. Processing Circle Chair Gladney expressed gratitude toward the commission’s work and shared that the findings of the investigation were hurtful, but further fuels the PEACE Commissions work. Vice Chair Harmon facilitated a processing circle. Commissioners shared their thoughts and feelings on the report. Commissioners shared their ideas to improve collaboration with PD. 8. Adjournment MOTION to adjourn by Commissioner Anderson, 2nd by Commissioner Frisch. Approved Unanimously. _______________________________________ Trey Gladney, Chair _______________________________________ Airrion Williams, Staff Liaison Community Engagement Subcommittee December 2022 Report The release of the independent investigation into complaints against police has added a new layer to our community engagement work. Although the PEACE Commission was not a participant in the investigation, it is clear we have an expected role in helping the community react and give input as a result of the findings. Our focus in the coming months should be: Development of community meetings sponsored by PEACE in collaboration with the GVPD and DEI Commission. Joint planning and meeting design is so far lacking, and adding more meeting run by PEACE may just add to the noise and confusion. • We should set a date and begin preparations for a series of public engagements that encourage trust-building and point people and local institutions to concrete ways in which they can contribute and take action. • The first meeting format and its objectives should be re-evaluated and expanded the beyond initial, tabled plan to hold a smaller stakeholder-group focused meeting first. • We are exploring whether a new meeting format, based on a method called Creative Tensions, might be more impactful than “listening sessions.” We have some exciting thoughts about this that need more time to cook given recent events. Restorative Circles training for Commissioners will be conducted by Vice Chair Harmon. Commissioners should see their active participation in restorative work is an expectation. • We should set a date for the initial training. After it has been held, we should evaluate how such training might benefit other community members, such as block captains, police, and city staff, and make recommendations to the Council on how such training would be conducted and budgeted. Launch of a PEACE e-newsletter as a regular and targeted means of engaging and informing the public. • Schedule a meeting with Communications Department and PD to work out process kinks and plan topics for future editions. 12.5.2022 Report of the PEACE Commission Recruiting, Training, and Development Subcommittee The purpose of the Recruiting Subcommittee: Support the identification, hiring, and onboarding of new police officers. One of the tasks outlined in the Work Plan for Q4 is to “Develop interview questions for the hiring of police officers.” The measure for this task is that PEACE has developed 5 interview questions to be added to the interview template that is used. The Recruitment, Training and Development subcommittee proposes these 5 questions: 1. When was the last time you asked for help? 2. We all know that people hold implicit biases. In what ways do you work on a daily basis to acknowledge and confront your implicit biases? 3. What is most frustrating for you when dealing with difficult people? 4. How do you handle your personal trauma? 5. How would you reconcile these 2 goals of policing: "crime fighting" and "serving community". The subcommittee will submit these questions to Kirsten Santelices to add to the interview template. The hiring process is on “pause” due to workload constraints related to onboarding and will resume soon. PD leadership has been focusing on the onboarding of 3 new officers, promotional process, and coverage of existing shifts. With the task of “Identify restorative leaders to support officer training”, Airrion Williams has requested that Chief Green and Assistant Chief White consider individuals on the GVPD and put forth members who would be well suited for this responsibility. Shelli Bakken Report of the PEACE Commission Data and Research Subcommittee The purpose of the Data and Research Subcommittee: Develop a data gathering strategy to identify gaps and ways to best present that data and gather the data needed to analyze the attrition that has taken place with GVPD officers. One of the tasks outlined in the Work Plan for Q4 is to ”Participate in analysis of data from traffic stops and calls to service to identify the types of crimes omitted/services requested in GV.” The subcommittee has taken the available YTD data for 2022 and summarized our findings with the following graphs. Since 2022 data ended in August, we also evaluated the 2021 full year data for comparison. Another task that we had for Q4 2022 was to compare GV demographic information with crime statistics. The following graph shows a breakdown of the Golden Valley Demographic estimates from the 2021 census. We hope analyze reported demographics data from the GVPD to better understand the correlation between our community and GVPD service calls.