05/09/2022 - Minutes r
Public Safety Advisory Board Meeting
May 9, 2022-5:00pm-7:00pm
Meeting Minutes
5:00-5:05 Welcome,Centering Exercise, Roll Call
- Call to Order 5 p.m.
- Chair Patty Lofgren led opening of meeting by reading the purpose and mission of PSAB.
- She then read the Centering& Breathing exercise.
- Facilitator Kim Marshall conducted roll call.
Name Role Present?
Jimmy Brown Community Representative
Thurman (Lee) Landers Community representative
Patty Lofgren Community representative
Justin Low Community representative
Danny Rauda Community representative �X
Valerie Sasaki Community representative X
Shaun Stuhldryer Community representative
Jeff Mott Alternate: Community representative Non-Voting Member X
Jamey McDonald Police Chief/Designee �X
Nick Nunn Tigard Police Officers'Association (TPOA) X
Shelby Rihala City Attorney
Michael O'Brien Municipal Court Judge X
Emilio Calderon Tigard Youth City Councilor
Liz Newton Tigard City Councilor
John Trinh Licensed Mental Health Professional X
Elise Butera Pres. of Tigard HS Black Student Union (BSU)/Designee
Nick Jarmer Alternate: Community representative Non-Voting Member
5:05-5:20 Public Comment —
Chair Patty Lofgren noted the rules of public comment.
Resident Roger Potthoff submitted public comment about an address adjacent his home, an abandoned
property: 11700 SW Ann St. Neighbor to west of his home. Mr. Potthoff read prepared statement and
asked that PSAB members take a close look at the photos of the abandoned home. Kim thanked Roger
Potthoff.
Community members are encouraged to submit comments by emailing Management Analyst,Alex
Richardson at: alex.richardson@tgard-or.gov
5:25-5:35 Chief's Update by Chief McAlpine: Budget Update
Commander McDonald gave an update in Chief McAlpine's absence.The city FY22-23 budget is in
process.Tonight is third and final budget hearing.Two PSAB recommendations included: Community
Navigator position and four hours of additional hands-on force-on-force training. Sgt. Prater,
Professional Standards Sgt. is working on implementation of adding into training calendar. So far Budget
Committee has not had any questions.
Councilor Liz Newton—recommendations of PSAB have been well-received. City Council will also discuss
increasing resources to clear homeless camps and provide access to supports when needed—when
unsafe. Goal is to create support network so they can avoid falling back into situation again.
Board Member Shaun Stuldryer: heard a lot of concern about that. Has Tigard considered something like
the tiny houses development in Multnomah Village (Portland)?Councilor Newton: we are working with
Wash. Cty. to talk about similar ideas, and the Community Services Officer is going to tour Multnomah
Village. Council is looking into developing a "palette community'with funding package.
Board Member John Trinh: Metro bond that passed several years ago allocated more resources for
building more affordable housing. Housing Dep.t of Wash. Cty in charge of getting that money out.
Chair Lofgren: Facilitator Marshall will facilitate the Mental Health Discussion. Facilitator Marshall: will
start with Co-Chair Jeff Mott's Mental Health First Response presentation, Board Member John Trinh as
the licensed mental healthcare professional will give his comments, will open to the Board for clarifying
questions, have breakout groups,then reconvene and possibly vote.
5:30-6:45 Recommendation Discussion
Board Co-Chair Mott brought up and presented Mental Health V Response Team Recommendation
slides. [see slide deck in Meeting Packet]
Board Member Trinh: In terms of behavioral health, we are seeing an increase in need. Great to see
what state is doing in mental health—seen a lot of money going towards behavioral health, over 1
billion in two years, including in housing and workforce.Talked about Cahoots model in meeting#11;
County looked at geographic location; Eugene–726 square miles, Washington County is much larger in
geo. area. How do we collaborate with different places in community: Unity Center(Portland) Hawthorn
Clinic (Hillsboro), detox (Portland), new detox coming online in several years in Wash. Cty. Diverting
some non-emergency calls to first responders is a great idea; how do we get the funding for this is the
question and how do we collaborate with all the other partners.
Co-Chair Mott: another reason Wash. Cty didn't go this route: risk to unarmed personnel. Cahoots is
only sent to no-risk situations though.
Officer Nunn: Question about population number(110,000). Co-Chair Mott:Tigard-Sherwood-Tualatin
pooled together reaches that population number. Recommendation would be getting the other cities
together.
Board Member Jimmy Brown: Commended Jeff for putting together a very thorough presentation. Do
you see this being a contracted service like with a nonprofit provider, or would it become part of the
three cities organizational structure?Co-Chair Mott: it could be either.
Board Member Shaun Stuhldryer: Sherwood,Tigard and Tualatin together are 24 miles, comparable to
Eugene.
Commander McDonald: clinicians for the Mental Health Response Team are provided by Lifeworks NW.
Clinician who works in South Cities is assigned to this region. Also, conversation needs to be around the
prevention piece. Prevention is a lot cheaper than the reactive part when someone has already made it
to crisis. Some of the money coming from the state will focus on prevention.
Board Member Sasaki: I would like to propose an add-on. I would suggest pairing with Sherwood, King
City and Tualatin. Need to identify a mechanism of funding.
Mental health response is hugely under-resourced. Coordination is needed and could result in
tremendous cost savings. Prevention is only part of the puzzle. Police should focus on the things that
they do best.Address racial equity: is there a response that is not optimizing Police response. The next
step is broader examination of mental health response. The recommendation should be to create a
coordinated multi-jurisdictional team.
Board Member Stuhldryer: have to look at prevention. 20%of American adults experienced mental
health issue in 2019. 15%of youth. Not sustainable. Need to be addressed at state and national level.
This group can ask Council to lobby.
Facilitator Marshall summarized discussions and sent to breakout rooms for 30 minutes. She asked the
two groups to select someone to report back, and return at 6:15. Councilor Newton left at 5:45.
Return-6:15pm
Board Member Trinh for first group: we know this is a broken system,this is a societal problem. We
should not look at this as a moralistic problem.The Police Chief looked at both Cahoots model and the
current Mental Health Response Team model—why didn't Chief go with that?Would be good to hear
from her.
Look at both prevention and response side.There's going to be some challenges,that being said,there
needs to be something. Valerie made a good point to bring the cities together and explore funding,
create a charter, work with Washington County—first step is bringing the cities together and having a
discussion.
Board Member Danny Rauda for second group: I think John's last point is a good segue. Came to a
consensus that there needs to be a hierarchy of support but we need to get more people involved in the
discussion, like the County,Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue is the body that consists of medical experts,
leverage their expertise. Importance of bilingual and cultural competency in this team, given the lack of
that in the state especially for Spanish speakers. Recommendation should serve as a jumping-off point
for further discussions.Amended recommendation:work with other local jurisdictions to explore the
possibility.
Board Member Sasaki:TVF&R is present in these communities already. If someone calls with a medical
issue they would be uniquely suited. Only thing missing in the First Response Team would be the
counseling aspect. the group that meets to talk about this would talk about funding, State-level,grants.
Chair Lofgren—no cutting to Police,this is an add-on.
Facilitator Marshall: expanding mental health response in the region— sounds like there is consensus.
Board Member Trinh: I like this, bringing in people who have lived experience to be part of the
discussion and not just the government staff.
Board Member Brown: I suggest rewording "Work with other jurisdictions to establish..." and
recommend that we not say we are establishing, but determine the efficacy of establishing a committee.
We need reps from mental health orgs,TVF&R, local public health authority, public or private partners,
community stakeholders.This is a jump-off point. May morph into something else. We have a
conversation that begins to describe what our local communities need.
Board Member Stuhldryer: I agree with Jimmy's comments. We currently have a system in place with
MHRT. Could add a recommendation to increase funding while this other option gets explored.
Commander McDonald: Knowing that in the current state biennium there is considerable money put
toward this, should there be something put in about advocacy at the State level?There needs to be
some sort of advocacy for this community at the State level for continued funding of behavioral or
mental health by City Council. Board Member Stuhldryer agreed.
Board Member Sasaki, Board Member Stuhldryer, and Facilitator Marshall then spent some time
deliberating over language.
Co-Chair Mott: main difference between this proposal and MHRT:the proposed team would only
respond to no risk situations, MHRT can respond to higher risk situations.
Board Member Sasaki:When we talk to Council about this, it would be nice to have this to accompany
recommendation. If they do decide to establish a committee—use this slide deck a jumping off point for
discussions. Facilitator Marshall agreed to include the slide deck.
Board Member Stuhldryer noted the risk of sending out unarmed people. Facilitator Marshall added a
line about service provider safety.
Commander: critical component to a position like this would be to delineate what types of call they
would reply to. Eugene PD has a really well-defined guideline of what they'll be dispatched to. We would
have something very similar to that.
Board Member Sasaki moved to adopt the amended recommendation.
Chair Member Brown seconded.
Board Member Stuhldryer suggested taking out that this new proposed team could respond to suicidal
threats. Board Member Sasaki said there would be further discussion of risk factors in the future and
implementation would include establishing standards of care.
Commander McDonald:this is something that the chiefs and sheriffs regularly talk about.The Chief will
actually feel really comfortable continuing on this conversation.This is not new.
Roll call vote:
Y=Yes vote
N = No Vote
A=Abstain
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=Absent
Name Role Yes?
Jimmy Brown Community Representative
Thurman (Lee) Landers Community representative
Patty Lofgren Community representative
Justin Low Community representative
Danny Rauda Community representative �Y
Valerie Sasaki Community representative Y
Shaun Stuhldryer Community representative
Jeff Mott Alternate: Community representative Non-Voting Member Y
Jamey McDonald Police Chief/Designee �Y
Nick Nunn Tigard Police Officers'Association (TPOA) Y
Shelby Rihala City Attorney
Michael O'Brien Municipal Court Judge LYJ
Emilio Calderon Tigard Youth City Councilor L
Liz Newton Tigard City Councilor
John Trinh Licensed Mental Health Professional Y
Elise Butera Pres. of Tigard HS Black Student Union (BSU)/Designee
Nick Jarmer Alternate: Community representative Non-Voting Member
With 11 votes, it has passed unanimously. Congratulations.
6:45-6:55 Opportunity to Discuss Current Events and How They Affect Tigard
Chair Lofgren asked for current events to discuss.
Facilitator Marshall mention said there are a couple of options for the next meeting. One—discuss
officer appearance.Two—ask City Council to advocate for State-level resources. Three—more discussion
around the Community Navigator discussion.
Board Member Rauda mentioned the car accident that happened recently.The students who died were
members of St. Anthony's Parish.There will be two Grief& Loss workshops at the Parish on May 17tH
for adults, and May 201h for youth.
Board Member Sasaki prefers the Community Navigator discussion over officer appearance.
Board Member Trinh reminded members that the Farmer's Market is open, 9:30-fpm, and members can
sign up to volunteer at the city table.
Board Member Stuhldryer noted that was not interested in discussing officer appearance.
Facilitator Marshall noted that Board would then discuss the Community Navigator position at the next
meeting—flesh out details and identify gaps that exist and how to address.
Next two meetings: Chief's discussion on next steps, then last one will be closing out the Board.
Facilitator Marshall will be sending out survey on City experience.
Board Member Mott asked for a list of what Board has voted on; Facilitator Marshall will send.
6:55-7:00 Wrap-up and Next Steps
Chair Lofgren asked if there was a motion to adjourn.
Board Member Sasaki made the motion.
Board Member Brown seconded it.
With no opposition or further questions, the meeting was adjourned.