WEBVTT - 1-6-26 Sloan with Anna Albi 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.160 Don't want to be an americandio shorright here we go, 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:07.480 Here we go slowey seven hundred WLW. Very sad and 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.200 horrible story here. As you know, we had a casualty 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:13.720 on New Year's Day, the first shooting of twenty twenty six, 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:15.360 and it happened to be an eleven year old girl 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.640 who was committing the deadly sin in areas since in 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.280 some aria of Cincinnati of actually playing at a playground. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.240 That's a horrible story in a horrible way, horrible thing 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.800 for any parent or grandparent or family member to go through, 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.320 but especially on a New Year's Day with a child 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.560 who just celebrated Christmas. So another shooting at or near 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.479 Laurel Playground on the West End. If you go back 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.680 a couple of years, there's a promise to put more 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.839 cameras up, and cameras are on us specifically in that 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.479 area because there have been shootings and kids being struck, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.200 and the inquirers of Scott Warpman reported the stories when 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:51.559 being confusion and contradictions, lack of accountability. If you budgeted 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.520 the money council did to put those cameras up, how 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.040 come the cameras aren't up that is a good question. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.720 She sits on public Safety, the Committee of Public Safety, 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.120 and that be council member. And I'll be on the 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.400 Scottsland Show this morning on seven hundred W out of 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:05.800 and a happy new year. How are you. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:08.800 Good morning? Thanks for having me. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the mayor said we will spare 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.680 nothing to put a stop to this after the shooting 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.480 death of this eleven year old, and it sounds like, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.520 you know, that's again more important things to say, more 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.760 things to say, and giving lip service to this. But 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.280 if two years ago you on council approved one hundred 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.160 and fifty thousand dollars for cameras to go up in 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.000 the West End as part of that four and a 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.319 half million dollar public safety package, what's going on the 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:33.960 camera's up? 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.320 I wish I had a better answer for you, but 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.399 it appears that there's still work to be done to 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.080 get those dollars out the door and those cameras installed. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:45.720 So, just to set. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.160 A little bit of context through listeners, in early September, 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:53.120 city Council past a five point four million dollar public 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.040 safety package. It's part of that, there a bunch of 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.080 different things which included one hundred and fifty thousand dollars 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.560 specifically for cameras in the West. And additionally, there was 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.360 another one point two million that was meant to be 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.400 for lighting and cameras broadly city wide. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:08.880 And those are. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:13.120 Two line items in that bill that I was personally 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:17.040 very passionate about because while we know sometimes you know, 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.760 cameras can't stop a crime necessarily, it sure makes it 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.680 a lot easier to solve the crime and in this case, 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:28.120 to apprehend a killer, someone who shot and killed an eleven. 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:29.000 Year old on New Year's Day. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:33.120 So this is a moment of urgency for myself, for 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.320 my colleagues, and the mayor and the city manager. We 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.639 are all eager to get those dollars out the door. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.799 And frankly, we're looking to CPD at this moment. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:40.840 You know, those. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.720 Dollars, those at one hundred and fifty thousand for Western cameras, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.240 sits within the police budget, and we need to get 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:47.239 those dollars out the door. 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.560 Okay, So that was September of last year. I mean, 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.720 here we are in January. Should it take that long? 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.880 No, it absolutely should not, and I think everyone should be. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:57.959 Mad that it has. 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.880 We should be able to move a lot faster especially 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.119 since you know, council passed that package at five point 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.240 four million with the urgency of responding to the moment 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.480 over the summer when we had a series of incidents 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.080 as well. So if we're moving with urgency, we should 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.880 expect that of every single person administration, including some side police. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.959 Right we are trying to make it easier to prevent 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.320 crime and solve crimes that are happening. So those dollars 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.839 are sitting there. My understanding is we need to get 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.160 with some you know, business owners so we can have 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.520 permission to put cameras on their property. 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.480 So you know, my ask is, if you are a 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:32.639 business owner. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.160 In that area and you are willing to have a 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.440 camera or lights put on your building, email my office 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.000 let me know and I will make sure since I 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.520 police that reaches out to you as soon as possible. 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.760 Well, and I'd imagine there isn't a business owner down 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.560 there that wouldn't go, yeah, I'd love a camera up, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.920 no problem, because it affects their quality of life, their business, 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.120 their bottom line with this crime continuing, and you know, 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.160 it's I guess it's going to take a little bit 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.080 of time, but it seems reasonable to have this done 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.160 at least by the first of the year, for sure. 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:02.480 And it's not the first time we've had a shooting 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.200 or violent crime happen around this playground, for God's sakes, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.640 and now the end result is because of I don't know, 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.840 lack of accountability or confusion, contradiction or incompetence or a 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.320 combination of all of those. You have an eleven year old. 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.600 It's dead. There's literally bloods blood on the hands of 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.440 elected officials because of the lack of movement on this project. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.480 You are not wrong that we need to move faster. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.040 I completely agree with the urgency of the moment. You know, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.039 there are a lot of questions. You know, the council 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.480 is asking around why these dollars haven't moved faster. And 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.320 at the end of the day, you know, actually we 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.720 cannot turn back time, which is a heartbreaking reality. So 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.679 from this moment on, it's what can we do going forward? 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.280 And to me, it's the camera as well as lighting. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.000 I went down to that playground for the balloon release 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.440 of the Little Girl and you know, it was round 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.039 five o'clock, stayed there until after six. The right is 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.640 the sun setting and it's dark. It is not lit there, 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.760 and we know that you know, places that are well lit, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.359 especially ones where kids are going to be playing. You know, 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.440 early evening six o'clock is not that late, but then 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.840 the middle of winter it's dark out right. We need 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.520 to have these spaces well lit so that they are 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.120 states and then you pair that with the cameras and 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:22.840 make sure that there's that monitoring there. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:23.839 And that's what we need. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.680 And I'll tell you right now, all council, the mayor 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.120 or even the city manager, we are all moving on 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.760 this with complete urgency. So again my ask is if 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.880 you have owned property in that area and you're willing 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.480 to raise your hand and have a camera or have lighting, 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.520 reach out to me my office. I'm Anna dot Albi 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.560 at cincinnatidshoh dot gov, and I will get you in 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.039 contact with Cincinnati Police because at the end of day, like, 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:48.440 we need a police out there. 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.279 And if that means going door to door and. 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.159 Knocking and asking who's willing to do this, like it's 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:54.080 time to do that work. 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.560 Yeah. I mean two years ago, three well three now 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.560 we had Dominic Davis killed another eleven year old all 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.320 the same place ground right, and you know, okay, now 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.080 let's get this thing fast tracked. It took till September 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.280 of last year for you to allocate one hundred and 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.880 fifty thousand dollars for the camera expansion. And we spend 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.760 a ton of money based on the crime that's happening downtown, 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.880 on public safety. From a council person's position, an alby, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.080 do you look at it going Okay, well we order 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.320 the money, here's the money, we're going to appropriate it, 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:23.720 and then do you just move on to the next 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.919 thing and the it's not finger pointing at you or 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.320 council for that matter, about a simmer Fire council member, 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.800 I would think we voted and passed something, hand that 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.200 off to the city manager, the mayor's office, or whoever 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.600 the police department, that there's going to be action on this. 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.320 Should you have to follow up on everything you guys appropriated. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:42.080 From a funny. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:46.279 Perspective, I'm not here to dodge blame. I'm really not. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.560 But typically when council does the voting and the allocating, 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.440 that is our part of the job. We have a 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.320 city manager, former government, and we have you know, in 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.640 this case it's the police chief, but in other departments 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.960 it's directors. Right, we have a city indministration whose job 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.960 then is to then execute on what we have allocated 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.080 the vision. Right, So that's typically how it goes. Now 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.120 in this situation, right, the buck stops with us elected. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.960 So I am not going to dodge the responsibility that 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.120 I can, and I will be doing a better job 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.480 checking in and making sure those dollars are out the door. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.840 In fact, you know, right before Christmas, I had multiple 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.800 people ask me about the Feusist camera technology, which allows 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.560 private camera owners to kind of connect their feed in 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:29.600 with Cincinni Police. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:31.440 My people come up and being like, hey, we want. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.280 To do this, but we have no idea how So 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.440 I literally got an email on Christmas Eve back from 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.720 the assistancity manager being like, oh, yeah, the funds are there, 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:40.680 and you know what, I should have followed up them 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.520 and be like, great, we need to do more. So 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.840 you know, I'm not going to duck and dodge responsibility. Yes, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.480 it's true that typically when council allocates the dollars and 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:53.080 puts for the vision, it's then the administration's job to execute. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.960 But in this case, when it's life or death, I'm 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.720 going to get my hands dirty and make sure we're 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.240 in there. And making sure that we get those cameras up, 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:04.080 get better in lighting. Those are all urgent, immediate actions. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.320 Okay, And I think that is a respect you for 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.840 that and saying, hey, listen, you know we passed UF 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.360 it's up to someone else to make sure it's the 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.600 plan is executed. It doesn't seem fair that you'd have 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.440 to go back and make sure that people follow your orders. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.960 So and you're saying, okay, the buck stops with us elected. 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.840 I get that. I appreciate that, But where's the weak 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.080 link here? Who's dropping the ball, who's not doing their 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.080 job to make sure this money is being spent in 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.880 those cameras being put up? Who is that on the 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:31.520 city manager? 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:34.679 That's a fair question. I'll say. 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.560 You know, my dad owned a business for forty years 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.719 and he had a problem solving process and it first 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:39.920 started with solved the. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:40.640 Problem in hand. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.800 So the first step here is to solve the problem. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.080 So how do we get those cameras up? How do 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.840 we get the lights installed? So once we solve the problem, 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.200 we can go back and analyze what went wrong. But 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.559 I'm here in the immediate moment, which is let's get 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.600 these up, and in fact, just yesterday coming out of 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.400 kind of a meeting with CPD and I think the 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:03.000 City Manager's office we got camera tower with lights into 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.559 Laurel Playground into that park area, right, So we are 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.600 in the moment where we are solving the problem and 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.760 we can go back and analyze after it's taken care of. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.160 I hope there is, because someone shouldn't have to be 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.040 covered in this whole thing. I mean, I don't want 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:17.280 to speak out of turn because I don't know the 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.199 anal workings, but it seems like once you approved that 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:20.960 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, it goes to the 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.960 city manager and then to the police department as well. 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:25.760 I can't imagine the cops don't want to get those 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.320 cameras up. It helps them do their job. Is the 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:29.959 week length the City Manager's office? 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.480 No, those dollars are in Cincinnati Police budget, so they're 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:41.400 now fully under Sincinnati Police kay area. So now I 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.360 don't know the bureaucracy within the police department well enough 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.360 to know who's the person doing outreach to those business owners, right. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.839 So again, I'm not in the spot at this moment 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.240 where I'm trying to pick apart who's exact fault. I'm 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.559 in a situation now where it's saying, Okay, how do 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.480 we fix it? How do we want it forward? 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.160 You know, So that's that's my priority at the moment. 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.240 Now it might be because of the you know, the 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.040 confusion after Chief Fiji. I mean, when you don't have 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.280 a direct leader, you've got an interim chief. You know, 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.280 there's a lot of confusion, a lot of people looking 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.439 over their shoulder and there. Do you think that contributed 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:11.600 to this? 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:14.040 I hope not. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:15.760 You know, I don't. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.679 Again, I don't know the inner workings of since my 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:23.200 police bureaucracy not my area of expertise. But again, at 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.400 the end of the day, right, we know that there's 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.480 this problem, and if there are people in the West End, 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.240 and I know the community Council has been kind of 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.079 speaking a little bit about trying to get these cameras 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:31.520 up as. 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:32.760 Well, So email me. 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.640 I will be that connector at this moment and make 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.240 sure we get this done. We need to push hard 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.360 at this moment. And it's not just this one one part, right, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:45.320 I firmly believe all of these play spaces that are 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.680 supposed to be for kids, we need to make sure 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.520 that they are well lit, have those cameras. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.160 So that kids can be outside. 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:58.160 Right, It is every mother's grandmother's parents worst nightmare to 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.079 have their life year old shot and kids while filming 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:02.800 TikTok videos and playing in the park. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:04.199 Like, how horrific. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.600 Yeah, if you're an eleven year if you're a kid 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.360 and can't be safe in a public park, I don't 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.880 have an answer for that. I especially what angers I 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.600 think everyone listening, Anna, i'llbe is the fact that we 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.320 had an eleven year old shot and killed two years ago, 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.520 and here we are again doing the same thing over 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.319 and over. And when you talk to the city manager 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.760 or the police department, they can't answer basic questions about 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:29.760 whether or not the cameras that you guys ordered in 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:31.520 September have been put up or not. We don't even 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.560 know if they even do we know they even have 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:37.000 any footage whatsoever of what transpired on New Year's Day. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.480 I know there is a camera in the area, I 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.080 don't know more than that. I would kind of have 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.280 to direct questions back to the police communications. You know, 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:52.240 leader there again, this is clearly a breakdown and kind 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.040 of getting dollars out the door and Frankly, this is 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.400 a problem we have across the board with different city 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.720 you know, initiatives, right, Council allocates dollars and then it 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.800 can take weeks, months, maybe you know, longer, to get 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.319 dollars out the door for projects. So when we think 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:12.040 about making government work for people, it's got to be 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.160 a priority for us to cut through that red tape 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.120 so we can actually get the work done. And so 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.319 that's something I'm going to be focusing on hard this 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.600 next term. The second term here is Okay, we can 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.720 have all the great intentions in the world, but if 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.360 we can't get dollars out the door to get think 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.839 initiatives up and running, intentions don't matter for anything, right, 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:31.800 So we've got to be able to cut through the 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.000 red tape and make government work for people. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:34.439 Right. 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.320 Our residents should absolutely expect that if Council allocates dollars 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.640 for cameras, those cameras get up and I again will 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.680 take responsibility for that. We've got to be able to 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.840 work faster and get things out the door. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.760 Yeah, But in all fairness to you, Anna Albe and 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.360 other members of Council, whether it's Mark Jefferies or Seth Walsh, 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.960 or Scottie Johnson. The fact of the matter is you 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.320 shouldn't have to follow about everything. You guys pay as 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.559 to make sure it's actually getting executed. And I hope 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.400 and I think the public deserves quite honestly, and no 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.320 more so than those in the West End, because you know, 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.400 we're told two and a half years ago, after the 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.280 first eleven year old was shot to death, that this 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.160 is intolerable, it's not going to happen, and we have 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:17.640 yet another death, the same age, same situation, same location 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.360 of something that we told We're told two and a 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.720 half years ago that this isn't going to happen again. 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:23.480 We're going to put the cameras up, and the cameras 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:27.480 aren't up. And I think the public demands that. I 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:32.199 think they deserve to know where the problem was. And 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.079 you know, I know generally folks like yourself don't want 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.720 to out others, but I think the public deserves that, 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.960 because if I'm in the West End right now and 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.080 you're telling me, and the mayor goes, hey, look we 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.640 were after this one. We'll spare nothing to put a 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.760 stop to this whole thing. Well, you said that two 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.400 and a half years ago, and now we got another 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.720 baby dead. I think we deserve to know what went wrong, 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.400 where the fault was, what happened, and why it didn't happen. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.280 And not only that, I think an apologies in order 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.679 for those in the West then, and specifically if you're 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.839 a West End resident, I is it fair for someone 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.040 to go a look, I just don't trust you guys anymore. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:09.040 This is twice now. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.319 It's heartbreaking, right, And I know nothing I'm going to 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.680 say to you is going to make a difference to 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.680 the family, right, I know it, But I think you're 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.160 absolutely correct. We need, frankly, a full audit of that 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.240 entire five point four million dollars. We need to know 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.360 how many of those dollars are off the door, what 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.120 programs and processes are. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:30.240 Up and running because of it. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.600 I believe, but don't quote me on it, that this 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.600 month or early next month, the Assistant City Manager over 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.840 Public Safety APM. Bresina was going to come in and 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.080 give us kind of a report out on those dollars. 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.120 So if that's not on the agenda yet, I'm going 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.640 to be pushing Public Safety Chare Council Number Johnson to 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.000 make sure we do get. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.800 That full audit. And report out about where those dollars were. 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.600 Because I know last time I talked to this assystem 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.560 city manager, it was slow to get dollars out the door, 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.920 which again speaks to the broad process of how hard 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:03.960 it is to cut through the red tape. You know, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.600 how tedious our pecurement processes are. 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.560 All of that. So we got to be able to 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:10.760 work faster. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:15.720 Especially in these urgent, critical life and death moments. So 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.160 I one hundred percent agree we we counsel you. The 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.840 public deserve a full readout of how that five point 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.120 four million dollars has been spent already or what needs 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.760 to still be get out the door and implemented. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.520 Yeah, okay, so this is one hundred and fifty thousand 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.720 dollars of the five point four million that was allocated 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.280 September for public safety. That's a small percentage. I'm not 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.040 smart enough to do that math off the top of 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.040 the my head without a calculator and a slide rule 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.600 and an advocacy and all, but you probably are. But 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:46.640 I look at this and go, okay, well, if we 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.600 don't know how one hundred and fifty was spent, how 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.920 can we trust that the other five five point four 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.440 and change is being spent properly. You have to go 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.840 back and literally look and make sure every dollar that 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.280 you guys allocated is being spent properly or at the 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.920 very least the plan's been implemented. I mean, who the 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.600 hell has that kind of time to follow up. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:08.600 And that's where we are at the moment, to be honest, 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.360 and I don't think I don't want to be careful 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.320 with language. It's not being spent properly. Dollars are not 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.920 being improperly spent, right. It's a matter of getting through 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.080 the red tape and the governmental procedures to actually get 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.800 dollars out the door, right. And that's so I don't 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.640 want people thinking that there's dollars going missing or anything 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:26.000 like that. 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.680 That's not what I'm talking about whatsoever. 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:32.400 It's Minnesota, for god's sakes, it's Cincinnati, Okay. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.960 I just I want to be really careful with my 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.720 language there. I don't want anyone to think something the 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.680 serious is happening. It's just a matter of cutting through 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.360 you know, processes here and get dollars out the door. So, yeah, again, 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.680 we need to get an update from the city administration, 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.760 whether that's the police interim police chief coming in and 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.680 giving a report out about how those dollars that were 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.360 allocated to since my police because a big chunk of 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.400 that five point four million, and that's why I don't 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.080 have to listen for to me was to police over 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:06.320 time and other you know, police functions, including these cameras. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.240 You know, some of that also was for department transportation 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.720 getting lighting up around the city. You know, there is 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.080 other technology in there like the drones expansion and fusis 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.239 and licensed plate readers. Right, we do need to know 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.120 where we are on that securement process. You know, our 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.239 contracts signed, Have we you know, signed the check our 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.399 dollars out the door? Have things been implemented? So you know, 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.720 I am looking now to the city administration for that 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.760 complete rundown, whether that's from the city manager's office or 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.960 from the department heads or in this case the interim 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.639 police chief to know exactly where those dollars are and 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:41.080 have they been spent yet? 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:46.120 Yeah, I don't know. Once again, we have I think 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.960 the biggest issue facing our government here locally, and I'll 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.399 be is transparency and accountability, and those two things we 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.720 get failed yet again. And this is I don't have 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.760 enough fingers and toes to count how many times I've 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.440 felt have had that feeling. And I'm sure people listening 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:03.359 also going where's the accountability? Where's responsibility when you can't 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.960 fulfill basic open records requests I mean, Scott Warman, the 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:07.600 inquirement to try to figure this out. No one has 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.080 any answers about how many cameras are up, which ones 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.000 are working, where the money went, if it was spent, 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.359 where the documentary. No one knows anything. That's not a 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.120 good look for city government. And I know you're part 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.639