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2025-07-29 CCPD Meeting9 CITY OF SOUTHLAKE TEXAS SOUTHLAKE CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION DISTRICT BOARD MEETING AGENDA July 29, 2025 6:00 P.M. LOCATION: Southlake DPS Headquarters Facility 600 State Street, Community Room Southlake, Texas 76092 1. Call to order: 2. Public Forum: (This is the Public's opportunity to address the board about non -agenda items. During this proceeding, the Board will not discuss, consider or take action on any items presented. We respectfully ask that anyone stepping forward to speak during Public Forum to limit remarks to three minutes or less.) 3. Consider: A. Approve minutes from the May 13, 2025, Crime Control and Prevention District Board meeting. B. Approve the amended Fiscal Year 2025 Crime Control and Prevention District Operating Budget and adoption of Fiscal Year 2026 Crime Control and Prevention District Operating Budget. PUBLIC HEARING 4. Discussion: A. Update on Crime Control and Prevention District Sales Tax. B. Update on School Resource Officer program. 5. Meeting adjourned. A quorum of the City Council may be present at this meeting CERTIFICATE I hereby certify that the above agenda was posted on the official bulletin boards at Town Hall, 1400 Main Street, Southlake, Texas on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, by 6:00 p.m., pursuant to Chapter 551 of the Texas ment Code. �O IIgO U TH4� Amy Sh ley, TKVCZ U ; m City Secretary • cDn = If you plan to attend this meeting and.havea disability that requires special needs, please advise the City Secretary 48 hours in �60vaVly at•817-74-8016, and reasonable accommodations will be made to assist you. /,��1ji11 *111111``` Notice to appear in newspaper no later than Saturday July 19, 2025 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THIS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS THAT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE SOUTHLAKE CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION DISTRICT WILL BE HOLDING A PUBLIC HEARING ON JULY 29, 2025, AT 6:00 P.M. IN THE COMMUNITY ROOM AT DPS HEADQUARTERS FACILITY, 600 STATE ST 4TH FLOOR, SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS. THE PURPOSE OF THE HEARING IS TO CONSIDER THE FY 2026 ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET. A COPY OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION IN THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE AT 1400 MAIN STREET, SUITE 270, SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS. COMMERCIAL RECORDER PROOF EMAIL ADDRESS: recorder@flash.net Deadline for submitting legal notices is ii:oo am the business day before PUBLIC NOTICE 11 PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE ILPUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE 1 NOTICE OF 2 PUBLIC HEARING 3 THIS NOTICE IS HEREBY 4 GIVEN TO ALL INTERESTED 5 PERSONS THAT THE BOARD 6 OF DIRECTORS OF THE 7 SOUTHLAKE CRIME CON- S TROL AND PREVENTION 9 DISTRICT WILL BE HOLDING 10 A PUBLIC HEARING ON JULY 11 29,2025,AT 6:00 P.M.IN THE 12 COMMUNITY ROOM AT DPS 13 HEADQUARTERS FACILITY, 14 600 STATE ST 4TH FLOOR, 15 SOUTHLAKE,TEXAS. 16 THE PURPOSE OF THE 17 HEARING IS TO CONSIDER 18 THE FY 2026 ANNUAL OP- 19 ERATING BUDGET. A COPY 20 OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET 21 IS AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC 22 INSPECTION IN THE CITY 23 SECRETARY'S OFFICE AT 24 1400 MAIN STREET, SUITE 25 270,SOUTHLAKE,TEXAS. 26 7-1 6 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF TARRANT I, JOHN M. BONDURANT, JR., PUBLISHER NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEAR- of the COMMERCIAL RECORDER, am over the age ING THIS NOTICEIS HEREBY of 18, have knowledge of the facts stated herein, GIVEN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS THAT THE BOARD and am otherwise competent to make this OF DIRECTORS OF THE affidavit. The COMMERCIAL RECORDER, of Fort SOUTCON- CRIME PREVENTION TROL AND PREVENTION TROL AND Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, is a newspaper of DISTRICT WILL BE HOLDING A PUBLIC HEARING ON JULY general circulation which has been published in 29,2025, AT6:00 P.M. IN THE COMMUNITY ROOM AT UPS Tarrant County regularly and continuously for a HEADQUARTERS FACILITY, period of over one year prior to the first day of SOUTHLAKE,TEXAS.FLOOR, publication of this notice. The COMMERCIAL THE PURPOSE OF THE HEARING IS TO CONSIDER RECORDER is qualified to publish legal notices THE FY 2026 ANNUAL OP- according to Article 28e, Revised Civil statutes of ERATING BUDGET. A COPY OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET Texas. IS AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION IN THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE AT I, solemnly swear that the notice hereto attached 1400 MAIN STREET, SUITE 270, SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS. was published in the COMMERCIAL RECORDER, 7-] 6 on the following dates, to -wit: July 16, 2025 r/ _AA� Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of July, A.D. 2025 Notary Publi , Tarrant County, Texas FELIPE FACUNDO, JR My Notary ID # 129755308 e Expires March 20, 2026 19 CITY OF SOUTI ILAKE qz�11.10 SOUTHLAKE CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION DISTRICT BOARD MEETING MINUTES: JULY 29, 2025 LOCATION: Southlake Police Department Headquarters 600 State Street, 4t" Floor South lake, TX 76092 TIME: 6:00 p.m. CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Ken McMillan (President), Robert Williams (Vice President), Jay Demas, Frank Powers, William Meddings and David Barnes CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION DISTRICT BOARD MEMBER ABSCENT: Kara Clubb STAFF PRESENT: Police Chief Ashleigh Casey, Sharen Jackson (Chief Financial Officer) &Erika Fletcher (CCPD Secretary) 1. REGULAR SESSION WAS CALLED TO ORDER: 6:00 PM 2. PUBLIC FORUM: (This is the public's opportunity to address the board about non -agenda items. During this proceeding, the Board will not discuss, consider, or take action on any items presented by the public. We respectfully ask that anyone stepping forward to speak during public forum limiting remarks to three minutes or less.) 3. CONSIDER 3A. APPROVE MINUTES FROM THE MAY 13, 2025, CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION DISTRICT BOARD MEETING APPROVED (6 — 0) Motion: CCPD Board Member proposed a motion to approve the minutes from the May 13, 2025 CCPD Board Meeting. Second: CCPD Board Member 3B. APPROVAL OF THE AMENDED 2025 FISCAL YEAR CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION DISTRICT BUDGET AND THE ADOPTION OF THE 2026 FISCAL YEAR CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION DISTRICT BUDGET APPROVED (6 — O) • Comments given by Police Chief Ashleigh Casey: This item was provided to the CCPD Board in May 2025. It highlights the items we proposed to you i n May 2025 an d n oth i n g h as ch an ged si n ce th at ti me. I'm h appy to go over those items again, if that's helpful. Page 1 of 5 • Question asked by CCPD Board Member: I have one question about SWAT vests. When the warranty is over, why would we purchase new vests just because the warranty is over? • Response given by Police Chief Ashleigh Casey: When the warranty is up, what that means, if we are involved in an officer involved shooting, and something h appen s, we have liability because we h aven't repl aced the vest. To your point, the vest doesn't stop operating because we hit the five-year mark. It's simply the best practice, in the vest industry, to replace the vest every 5 years. • Question asked by CCPD Board Member: Wh at wi I I we do with th ose expi red vests? • Response given by Police Chief Ashleigh Casey: Typically, the expired vests are destroyed. We can also use them to assist with training. • Question asked by CCPD Board Member: Is the bike (listed in the proposed FY26 CCPD budget) an electric bike? • Response given by Police Chief Ashleigh Casey: No. All of our bicycles are traditional bicycles. Not that it won'tevolve at some time, but the bike we need is a traditional bike. • Question asked by CCPD Board Member: Chief, are any allocations needed forthe radio consortium upgrades? Do we have plenty of radios and don't need to buy radios this year? • Response given by Police Chief Ashleigh Casey: Not in this year's budget cycle. I anticipate we will make recommendations regarding N ETCO in the following budget year. We have plenty of radios this year. • Question asked by CCPD Board Member: Included in the operating budgetof $2,699,896 is the SRO funding, Town Square security and the equipment list you just presented. The missing piece is $135,982. Page 2 of 5 • Response given by Chief Financial Officer Sharen Jackson: The difference that's not included is the annual recurring cost forth e Motorola Watch guard body camera contract at approximately $65K, Taser replacement recurring contract at approximately $50K and K-9 Training at $20K. These additional items are not related to the SRO program or Town Square security. That's the variance. If you add up all of these items plus the SRO funding, you'll get th e total listed at $2,699,896. Motion: CCPD Board Member proposed a motion to approve the amended FY25 Crime Control and Prevention District budget and to adopt the FY26 Crime Control and Prevention District proposed budget. Second: CCPD Board Member 4. DISCUSSION 4A. UPDATE ON CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION DISTRICT SALES TAX • Update given by Chief Financial Officer Sh aren Jackson Included in your packet, year to date, reflected $1.8M which is what we've collected year to date. The most recent collection from May 2025 sales is approximately 10% overwhat was collected in the prioryear. It did include a one-time adjustment, but overall, the majority of that is for actual sales. That is a very good bump in sales tax. Year to date, we are approximately 2.8% above what we collected in FY23, and we are 4.5% above what we collected in FY24.One thing I'd like to make you aware of is we received a letter from the Comptroller's Office stating we will receive an adjustmentfor an entity that overpaid during the years spanning from 2013 to 2017. This means th at th e Comptrol ler wi I I call that money back, in the amount of $123K from the Crime Control fund. We will have to repay these funds back to the State so that they can tran sfer th a monies appropriately. The good news is th at we were given the option to either repay the funds with a one-time paymen t or repay by a monthly deduction. I chose the monthly deduction of $2800 a month so that it will have a slow impact on the district. That's a total payment of $33,600 annually until it's fully repaid. We were not charged interest for this adjustment. 4B. UPDATE ON THE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER PROGRAM • Update given by Police Chief Ashleigh Casey: As we en ded th is last sch ool year, we en ded with a cou ple of vacan cies . On e vacancy was due to the resignation of one of our newer SROs and the other was due to the retirement of Officer Roderick Page. So, over the summer we filled one of those vacancies with one of ou rexisting officers who decided to transfer from a full-time officer position to a less than full-time SRO position. The officer is Corporal Mike Bedrich . Corporal Bedrich served as one of our D.A.R.E. officers years ago. He has experience in schools, and th i n k th at wi I I be a good match. To fill the second vacancy, we have advertised it and we have been going through applications. We've selected, through an interview process, a couple of people that have gone through the background check process. So, we have Page 3 of 5 one individual that we are preparing to make a conditional job offer to. This person will still need to complete additional pre -employment testing, and the reality is that they may n of be h i red before th e sch ool year starts. Assu mi n g everyth i n g goes wel I with th e pre- employment tests, the position should be filled soon after the start of the school year. At this pointwe have an opening at The Clariden School, but in the interim, we will be using the extra SRO officers who are Rovers to fill those vacancies until it's filled. It's our goal to fill this vacancy before school starts. This individual is a retired officer from another agency, so it ju st depends on the person's availability how quickly the person can start. • Question asked by CCPD Board President: Officer Bedrich, will he be a full-time SRO officer? • Response given by Police Chief Ashleigh Casey: It's a less than full-time position, which means the SROs work full-time during the school year an d th ey h ave th e su mmers off. • Question asked by CCPD Board Member: So, does that mean you need to find a new Range Officer? • Response given by Police Chief Ashleigh Casey: Yes. We are hiring forthatsoon. Itwill be an internal hire from within the department. • Question asked by CCPD Board Member: With the new law passed about no cell phones in schools, do we know how that will be implemented in the schools? Will it be similar to before when they'd just take the phone away an d retu rn it at th e en d of th e day? • Response given by Police Chief Ashleigh Casey: That is something thatthe school district is working through currently. Usually, these take effect either right before school starts or right after school ends. So, I imagine that you, as parents, will receive more information from the school district on how that works so you can manage expectations. Because this falls under the administrative side of the school district, that is not necessarily something that officers are going to get involved with enforcing. Certainly, the officers can help to remind kids of the rules. We do have a direct delineation of duties between the criminal aspects versus the administrative aspects of the schools, so the school district will handle that. Page 4of5 • Question asked by CCPD Board President: Any additional questions? • Comment made by Police Chief Ashleigh Casey: At ou r n ext meeti n g on October 1, 2025, we wi I I come back to you to req u est approval to expend the items approved in the FY26 budget. • Question asked by CCPD Board Member: Are the $5,356,000 in operating funds cash ?And the funds for capital projects, is that only for capital projects? Can you spend those funds on things like ammo, for example? • Response given by Chief Financial Officer Sharen Jackson: Yes, cash in investments. No, we can only use capital funds for capital projects like the EOC, or ch an ges n eeded for th is faci I ity. Th ere are some th i n gs th at are comi n g u p th at are needed for this facility, and we can use that balance to take care of those things or things needed at the other public safety facilities. But, before we spend that money, we would bring those things to the CCPD Board, and you would have to approve them. Currently, there is an estimated $160K that is noted as a pending item potentially needed for issues we're having with the EOC's air conditioning unit and sound equipment. I've earmarked those funds until we can get an estimate of wh atth at will cost. When we receive the estimate, we will come back to the CCPD Board to discuss the cost and the CCPD Board will have to approve that expenditure should we need the funds. 5. ANNOUNCEMENTS Next CCPD meeting: October 1, 2025 at 6:00pm. 6. MEETING ADJOURNED: 6:20 PM Ken McMillan, President Crime Control and Prevention District Board Erika Fletcher, Secretary Crime Control and Prevention District Board Page 5 of 5 • Question asked by CCPD Board President: Any additional questions? • Comment made by Police Chief Ashleigh Casey: At our next meeting on October 1, 2025, we will come back to you to request approval to expend the items approved in the FY26 budget. • Question asked by CCPD Board Member: Are the $5,356,000 in operating funds cash? And the funds for capital projects, is that only for capital projects? Can you spend those funds on things like ammo, for example? • Response given by Chief Financial Officer Sharen Jackson: Yes, cash in investments. No, we can only use capital funds for capital projects like the EOC, or changes needed for this facility. There are some things that are coming up that are needed for this facility, and we can use that balance to take care of those things or things needed at the other public safety facilities. But, before we spend that money, we would bring those things to the CCPD Board, and you would have to approve them. Currently, there is an estimated $160K that is noted as a pending item potentially needed for issues we're having with the EOC's air conditioning unit and sound equipment. I've earmarked those funds until we can get an estimate of what that will cost. When we receive the estimate, we will come back to the CCPD Board to discuss the cost and the CCPD Board will have to approve that expenditure should we need the funds. 5. ANNOUNCEMENTS Next CCPD meeting: October 1, 2025 at 6:OOpm. 6. MEETING ADJOURNED: 6:20 PM Ken McMillan, r sident Control and Prevention District Board Eri a Flet h r Secretary Crime Co of and Prevention District Board Page 5 of 5