Everyone 05:30pm, on Wednesday. So to 24th 2025, when the publicity room of the city County building welcome to the public safety. It come to community County council. We'll start meeting introduction of our counselors first Row Council heart. Thank you, MR. Michael Partners or 20. MR. CHAIRMAN Josh being district. 21, just quick note. I do have to leave the past 6 o'clock for a meeting and the district tonight. Thank Thank you, MR. Chair Pollen, a district. 22, thank you. MISTER Chair Brian Mowery District. 25. Thank you, MR. CHAIRMAN Van moves District 3 Washington Lawrence townships, thank you, CHAIRMAN. Just McCormick District, 16 West Side. Thank you. MISTER Chair Berry and Illini District. 2. And the top row. Please. Grace District. Not only that,
seaside. Frank Miscarry district, 19 southeast side. Thank you. Council Council partners. Thank you, MR. Chaired even DR. Carlos Perkins District 6, thank you. Cause we do have a few into this evening. One presentation in a couple budget items and then the adoption of the 2026 budget. First up, with the presentation is early Intervention Planning Council. The Sullivan Elizabeth, quite ready. And the cost to have a presentation hard cover for them. This quake. Thank you. And we will do a q a after your complete presentation. Thank you. Turn. Appreciate it. Thank you for the opportunity to share with you what we've been up to at the early intervention and Planning Council. What I'd
like to do is I first I'll share a little bit about just a reminder about what the council does and what our budget is for the coming season are year. And then I want to share a little bit about what we have been doing in terms of understanding the scope of child services across the city focusing our efforts in terms of creating a plan. First, just a quick reminder on the power of prevention and why why this ordinance was even created. Obviously, the earlier we can intervene results in positive outcomes for children, families, communities across the county decreases the cost of public safety and law enforcement and leverages existing resources and increasing the effectiveness versus our
systems and deepening the impact. Quick reminder, Marion County Commission on Youth McCoy. We service with the organizer in the coordinator of the Early Intervention Planning Council. We've served Marion County as an intermediary supporting youth services for over 35 years. And we've been supporting the council the early 2. Thousands. Our vision is a community where every young person is an equitable opportunity to learn, grow and thrive and our mission. What we focus on everyday is championing the positive development of youth community and systems change. As quick reminder, the early Intervention Planning Council was established in 2005 by
City Council general ordinance. Number 70 coy was engaged as coordinator in 2009. The council's vision is a city where all children are safe, free from abuse and neglect. All children receive the care support and resources to grow into healthy and contributing members of society and all caregivers have the support and resources to provide a safe and healthy environment for children. The mission of the council is to develop and collaboration with regional service councils, a plan for the city to promote welfare, promote the coordination of available resources, reduce and minimize the cost, providing service to children reduce or eliminate the extent to the extent possible the need to move
children. Obviously, I'm paraphrasing, but I wanted to stay can do a quick reminder of why the council comes together. The sidewall to share with you sort of who is currently appointed in the positions that are defined in the ordinance are co-chairs keep Peterson from dcs and Maggie Lewis then Tapper from the Office Equity belonging and Inclusion for the city. Celia from the city pollen, resent Letty Martinez who is named the new head of the respite center. Part of probation Sean Anderson, Ashley Asante Doyle from Firefly as one of our community members. Courtney Focus, windy Tucker walk by Faith. Mary Beth Larkins from Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health. Nicole Send. And he's also an at-large participant she
represents kids voice. So it's a nice divers committee. The budget remains the same going into the next fiscal year at 71,500 primarily that covers the cost personnel to organize, coordinate and support the council. I I want to emphasize that that very small investment is leveraged significantly through other grants and programs through McCoy that tie and wraparound the early intervention efforts represented by the council. We currently have the Resilience project which went mental wellness project that is in 2 of our school districts in Marion County, Juvenile Advisory Council, which I'm excited to say launched this week with great success. Marion Council County Youth Violence Prevention Coalition.
We service the fiscal sponsor to Rise above poverty is a new program that's in place. And on the Glick residential family properties addressing to generational to generational poverty. We are the supporting organization for the Summer Youth programs that are funded through the Summer Youth Program Fund and we launched in 20 earlier in 2025. Fever, Confidence All-Star Ambassador program supporting young women in high schools across the city. Total support from other source isn't programs again, all wrapped around through building, resilience in our young people is over a million dollars McCoy. The early Intervention Planning Council itself convenes bi-monthly representing the key agencies
and organizations that prevent that address, prevention intervention. We spend a lot of time talking about what do we know what is happening, what we need to know and decided in this prior year that one of the big challenges that we had was the barrier to a common understanding of what was happening in the community. Where were our children and that this sort of lack of common understanding of the facts of where children are was going to keep us from moving forward. So we took it upon ourselves as a council to create and a report which he should have copies of now called where the children are. It is a compilation of publicly available data, but it's in one place so that we can all have a common understanding not only how
many children we have in the city, how many are affected, how many are involved in and in the system in one way or another and how they're moving through that system that helps us understand what we're what it is. We're trying trying to address here. So that the the report, which was officially published this spring and the goal is to arm decision makers and policymakers with a common understanding information insights to enable better and deeper focus on the most important trends and issues facing our children. The council identified permanency is a critical component component to positive youth. That has been since its since its inception. But in that light, we needed to understand better where our children are. If they're not in a permanent home situation. So that data
has all been collected here. We do rank among the worst states in the nation for dual status, children, which, of course, affects us both within the dcf system, but also within the juvenile justice system indicating that we need to do a better job in prevention. This report is just one step. It's the first attempt to collect the data. We learned a lot about the quality of the data and the availability of the date of the reach of the data. But we also learned a lot about the condition of our children and where where they are. I pulled out just yet couple pages here, literally just 2, maybe 3 pages a day to justice to ground us a little bit in this. Indiana's child population, this data for the
most part is 2023 cause. That's where the common denominator was in terms of access is a little over a million and have children across the state. 15% of those children are here in Marion County at 240,000. Plus. But the children who lack permanency in our county for 4500 of those are unhoused 726 are within the juvenile detention system a little over 2000 are designated as children in need of services. There's overlap course between those numbers talked about. We have one of that one of the highest ratio percentages of dual status, children in our county this is disproportionate to the state. We all kind of know, anecdotally that Marion County is unique and has unique challenges where it's not
different here we we have a disproportionate number of our youth who are consider children in need of services. And 2023, almost 1000 new cases came in an average of 78 new cases a month. On the next page. Just quick snapshot of where those 2400 children any is that services are they can be in a number of different places by definition. Obviously they can be residential placement, which Orrin in-home placement. They can be have been placed with a relative and 33% are in non relative care. We have there's a lot more data in that book about the differences in demographic in age and how long they've been in each of those, how they move through those different definitions in the system, which is important
to understanding how those children are doing great, how they're holding up under that. The number of stressors, the number that the amount of trauma that's created as they move through that system since 2017, we have seen a decline in the number I hate to just sort of leave us. They're a Minnesota state dot, 0, dot. There's a lot that goes underneath that. Some of that is very real. Some of that is policy change. Some of it is definitional some of his the way we count the data. But in general, the trend is going in in the right direction. And so one of virus or takeaways you'll see that the back of this report is we need to do a better job of understanding when when definitions are affecting the way data is either collected. The definition of the data that's
being collected so that we can parse out what what's real and what's really happening with our children I think again, another is statistic that I think we we that our child dependency ratio in Marion County out Reax, most outrageous, most cities across the country and even in Indiana whats the child dependency ratio, that is the ratio of children under the age of 15, divided by the number of who are How many children per adult are we taking care of in our city is an indication of the relative cost of raising a child in our city versus other other cities. We have more children. Therefore, our need to spend to support those children in education, in health care and
so forth is higher rate are needs for Child care is higher pediatric services and so forth on a relative basis to other cities across the state across the country. So that's just a quick snapshot of a maybe 40 page report that you have. But I wanted to begin share some of that data. Some key takeaways as we looked at this, really trying to understand root cause is a root issues that need to be addressed. And we as a council need to think about as we move forward, the relative economic situation of the children in Marion County, the system that is designed to support them. We need to understand more about that. We know that they're relatively worse off than other children across the state, but understanding the connection between that and and their situation within dcs
their situation with in juvenile justice. Those connections need to be better. Understood and better address the role of trauma and perpetuated trauma and families to not just understanding where children are, but where their parents are, where their caregivers are has a significant impact on their ability to rise above their situation and the role of an insufficient health care system, especially related to mental health services and supports is very significant in perpetuating the situation that these children face. There's a lot of information in there about the length of time that they're in there. There's lot of science behind the longer a child is in the the more changes experience with in their placement, the more trauma, the harder it is for them to rise above their
experience. So lots of data had to start there. We felt that strong need to create a a solid in common understanding of what's happening. So what's next early Intervention Planning Council? We will continue to lead and participate in the conversation. We have been out in the community with this data with various groups across the county to sharing the information, having conversations getting some feedback on what they're experiencing, how much they understood about that date and so forth. We will continue to do that. We also would like to take a look at the original ordinance. It's been minute since it was written just to make sure that we're still on point with what we need to be doing. I think there's no question that the need for early intervention is as
strong as it was. But we want to make sure that the direction that is created through the ordinance is still as relevant as it was. So our proposal is to come back with to proposed update and revision to that ordinance. Hopefully in the 1st quarter of 2026. And then you know, students are blast is we would love to be frequently in this conversation about early intervention across across the city within City County Council so that maybe we can all be a little bit more proactive as we think about this. We certainly the council was created to bring the experts together. We'd love to to be more actively in that conversation. So with that, I
would thank you. I do want to take one second to introduce my colleague, Sarah Comfort, who will be comic coordinator for McCoy for the earlier Intervention Planning Council. Sayre also serves as our director of advocacy and public policy at at McCoy. So to make sure it's a Thank Thank School free presentation. We will do q and a from our committee members comments questions from counselors. Also running. Thank you, MR. PRESIDENT, thank you. Liz. Free presentation on the great work that you do. I have the honor of serving Republican caucuses appointment to the early Intervention Planning Council. Before I joined the early Intervention Planning Council are longtime esteemed colleague, former council, Maryland Feaster served on and in a wonderful job and we
thank her for all the work that she put into it over the years, particularly want to thank our co-chair are Majority Leader Maggie Lewis for the outstanding contributions that she makes and has contributed to what the early intervention Planning Council. I think McCoy started back many years ago former mayor Bill have not the early Intervention Planning Council start under Mayor Peterson. So this is along history of a success. And I think that it's shown a very bipartisan desire to continue with I would just note that we did see a modest increase in the budget back in 2023. But I think that there's still more work to be done. And I think that the report that was presented more data that continues to be collected
will just further encourage the city and the council to take a really hard look and additional dollars that can be found within our budget in the future. Thank you. Thank you, Justin Constables. Thank you, MR. CHAIRMAN and thank you list as well. Just a question you said next for pc step, 2 representing propose revisions of City County Council. Do you have any early idea of areas that you believe revision or where your proposals might be directed to. At the risk of getting in front of the council. We've had some preliminary conversations, obviously, otherwise, I wouldn't his comment in here. There are some that are just practical, right? We think that we need to make some changes. In terms Sir Brian
Ding, the scope of who's on the council to make sure we're really are, including the leaders who are experts in this field. So that to me is sort of in the category of practical side. I think the other question is the original ordinance calls for us as a council to create a plan. Doesn't say for whom, but I assume it means for the city and there's a disconnect there, right? So I think we need to talk about if we are plenty, if we are to create a plan for home and in what time frame, how often will be revised, how it would be funded, how will be executed. So I think some of this would be about asking for some clarification. I also think that there's an opportunity for the council to take
perhaps become sort of a war, visible voice and at the table in these discussions because it does bring together across ector of expert in early intervention and perks. Perhaps that could become a formal role within the ordinance. That's very preliminary. Sure. There's much interaction between your organization and co p I. Sure, yes, I mean much. We are aware of what each other does were involved in each other's work. To the extent that that Nixon, would it ever make sense for them to have a spot on your board since address incredible specific area of youth justice. I think I think a stronger presence by youth justice makes lot of sense. I agree they do good work. Thank you. Thank you. Council Council heart. Thank you, MR. Chair phenomenal presentation. Thank you. And thank you for the book. By the way, there's a lot of good data points in
there and it really helps see things through that lens. And I had a interesting conversation at lunch today that really just coincides with things you're talking about. Specifically in regards to children and their outcomes in life. If they make it to school graduate from school and show up on time and things that get a look troubles me is that look at all the data points in here. But I'm curious, is that something either McCoy were there early intervention Planning Council this take into consideration when you're looking at the data points as well? Yeah, I mean, absolutely. I mean, McCoy outside of the council's done quite a bit of work on things like absenteeism There's and then outside of McCoy. We have certainly curated a lot of good
information and research around the impact of disruption of school, disruption of community Wright. So even our home placements, to the extent that they're outside of they're, you know, they're served. Whole school is extraordinarily traumatic. So we have curated quite a bit of that information also done quite a bit of work around absenteeism, separate from the from the council. But it obviously all integrates into early intervention. Okay. That's that's wonderful news. It wasn't as it last meeting. I suggest that we bring somebody in who is an expert on sure and seeing a correlation to juvenile crime. So knowing that you have information is just a another valuable asset that we have is
that as the community so thank you for no, thank you for the question. And we do actually quite a bit work for juvenile justice as well. So thank you for the question. Thank you, sir. To some comments, questions one of the owners can speak this presentation. Thanks so much was Thank Appreciate Thank you. But as a gentleman, up next is the budget review analysis. We proposal to 56 into 7th consent. Like to take those 2 together thank you. Propose a number 2. 56. 2025 approves a tax levy and rate for the police special service district for 2026. In proposal, 20 proposal. Number 2.57, 2025 approves a tax levy in of our special service district of 2026. MR. Jolly will come forward. Please.
Good So controller Abby Hanson. Both these proposals are administrative in nature. They are actions that we have to take because you are serving as the special Service District Council as opposed to the city County Council. These districts are are these perks puzzles are adopting the budget tax rate and tax levy for the police and fire special service districts. The information in these proposals mere the budget ordinance specifically section 301 subsection g for fire and subsection age for police. Thanks so much. Councils comments, questions. And when the what is crispr to these 2. Thanks so much. We'll do a a
still both motion first MISS A Most Republicans. Second, it was the favorite. These 2 to 56 or 57. Please say Aye. Aye. Those oppose motion carries. And left a proposal. Number 2, 59 2025. The new budget for the city of Marin County for 2026, the public safety can Justice Committee portion only MISS Cfo. There are no changes to the appropriations for the agencies that came before this committee. Thank you so much. Comments from counselors. Great Council Thank you, MR. CHAIRMAN, I've thought long and hard about this proposal tonight, fully support and then we'll move impd our fire department and public safety professionals here in Marion County. That being said, the
chief of impd asked for one thing and his budget. Which was that we would continue the vehicle program and that's not included in this. We still have a court system that. Refuses to share juvenile detention information with law enforcement continues to keep the revolving door criminal justice open for those reasons. I be voting No. Tonight. Council. Just a comment scouts around me. Thank you, CHAIRMAN. I I do share similar concerns my colleague counts for Bain is noted some some provisions with the impd budget specifically with fleet services. Some issues with the public defender agency that I don't think it properly. Been work Some additional concerns with some of these grant dollars we discussed the last
meeting or 2 and I think about that. I try to way. Do I think that this public safety budget is better than it is worse? And it does fully fund the police department. It does fully fund or fire department. It does a lot of great things. And so while I can't speak to the full budget and forecast mind support for that. I will be supporting this part of the public safety budget to 59 with continued concerns in hopes that these issues can be solved or worked on. If not in this budget sometime in the fall to school in other opportunities where we can fill gaps. Can also cause a heart. I think and I said I want to raise awareness of his. We still do have an opportunity that will be in proposal. 2.59, but we do have an opportunity as a council body, too, address vehicle. Concern in the under spend
this year and transparent with you. I do have a proposal coming forward or an amendment coming forward for that to try and get the dollars there. And that for one main reason and police morale, you know, it's been made very aware to us that. Their vehicle is their office there in there every day. You know, we have the option to support that or not. And that's when bring you on OCTOBER 6th. But that I have to do that because it's not in in this proposal. We've got an issue right now in the city where we're not attracting enough police officers. I think it sends a really bad message if we can't get them, the vehicles, the offices, they need to be successful in this city. I'm disappointed that it didn't land in this part of the budget, but I will bring that amendment forward. And with not supportive of to
unite as well. Thank you, MR. Chair figure accounts to additional comments from councils. Anyone in just leave. Good evening, MR. CHAIRMAN members of the Committee for Give my a little under the weather tonight. But for some of the same sentiments that my colleagues shared in the front row, in addition to the issues that we have happening. With regard to public safety or sheriff's office, particularly with regard to. Our detention of. Individuals are not being compensated for with id with idea. Excuse me. I d o c. As well as as well as the cooperation with eyes. So I will continue to advocate for these things offline as well. But luckily no vote tonight for proposal 2.59, thank you,
MR. CHAIRMAN, thank Counselor. Anyone in council boots. Thank you, MR. CHAIRMAN. I just would make a quick comment about what I found someone offensive when our attorney general sent us a threatening letter. I don't think it's proper that one form of government attacks, another form of government. I thought there were some blatant mischaracterizations in that press release our purpose, at least my purpose of our last public safety meeting was too delve into the basis for which the sheriff was working with the federal authorities for ice detainees. And just to confirm that we are comfortable that was all proper and right in to characterize that as our
attack in not being for his words, we stand for law and order in suggesting that we is again, I think a blatant false representation. And also, again, based on just falls mischaracterizations of the facts as our leading legal officer in the state asserting false facts is if our a lawyer doing that and I am. And if I did that in a court of law could be sanctioned for it. So for them to come forward and say with crime surging in our capital, that's a blatant lie. And that should not be coming from office of Attorney General. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Council Council apartment. Thank you, MISTER CHAIRMAN. I if it's okay, I
would director Merkley to come out and confirm the immigrant legal Defense Fund portion. That is not in the budget that will be funded. Some upper at us. Just want recommend yes, director of the Office of Public Health and Safety indirectly. Yes, cancer. We are happy to say that we will be able to fund the immigrant legal Defense Fund at the same amount 2025. We're thankful to our partners are community partners for bringing to our awareness and happy to be able to do that. Thank And I just want to say if we can double that number next year, that would even be better. Thank you. Thank you. Council director. Anyone the audience could speak to proposing to 59 2025. One sign of pretty things court. Chilling to
motion so Most are probably the second want to roll. Call vote, please. MISTER Clerk. Councilor and I. Councilor councilor boots, Councilor Carlino currently. No, no. Council of the Landing. Councilor Graves, Graves. I. Councilor halt part no councilor mask mask. Gary, I. Council McCormick McCormick. I. Councilor Maui. Council Perkins Perkins, Cs, Chile, Vinson Robertson, I most motion carries the council's also thank to the agencies of the city county, their leaders and their staff in the administration, the mayor's office prepare and present the budget. Thank you all for
that. Your support for 2026 budget and thank the committee members accounts was in our council staff with that. We