Girdwood Public Safety Advisory Committee

September 1, 2016

Minutes Draft

What:	Regular Monthly Meeting of the Public Safety Advisory Committee

Where:	Girdwood Community Center, 250 Egloff Drive

Date:	Thursday, September 1, 2016

Time:	7:00 pm

Call to order, Michelle Weston, Chair

PSAC Members attending are: Michelle Weston, Mike Edgington, Mike Opalka, Mandy Hawes

No GBOS member attending, Sam is out of town.
Quorum confirmed
Agenda Approved for September 1, 2016	4-0

Change to item #3, removing SB91 discussion and replacing it with discussion about non-response to calls by AST.

Minutes Approved for August 24, 2016 Meeting	4-0

Change to add GBOS attending info.

Old Business:

Review and approval of draft Operating Procedures for Public Safety Advisory Committee

Group reviewed updated draft of Operating Procedures.

Group liked simplicity of the document, agrees that there may need to be changes as the PSAC evolves.

Items that were discussed in the principles were:

Should GBOS member create quorum if needed due to lack of PSAC members in attendance?

Review of term of service (2 years vs 3 years) on board

Review of elections vs appointment to PSAC.

Motion:

Public Safety Advisory Committee moves to recommend that the GBOS accept the PSAC Operating Procedures as drafted.

Motion by Mike Edgington, 2nd by Mandy Hawes

Motion Passes 4-0

Review of Draft Public Safety Contract

Status of Contract Draft:

Bill Falsey received the most recent draft changes from PSAC and that the contract is currently under review by Whittier attorney Holley Wells.

Budget:

No news on Whittier fulfillment of PSAC budget requirement.

911 method and implementation

APD/MOA is in negotiations with 911 PSAP contract, and it is unknown whether ACS or GCI will win the contract. This is a situation that may not change for 18 months. However, APD can be pressed to provide option to supply interim solution while negotiations are on-going.

Kyle Kelley is going to talk to Bill Falsey, MOA Attorney and to Mike Abbott, MOA Manager, to get help with this.

Michelle Weston states that if there is no progress working with the MOA to receive this interim solution, PSAC may need to lobby the Assembly and perhaps attend and make statement at Anchorage Assembly meeting.

Girdwood Public Safety Advisory Committee is a sub-committee to the Girdwood Board of Supervisors

Agendas and minutes are available on line: http://www.muni.org/gbos

Group expresses frustration that items regarding possible contract with Whittier that were identified a year ago still are not resolved.

Kyle Kelley states that Sam Daniel, Eryn Boone and he met with Alyeska Resort. Resort is requesting GBOS to review a proposal from Alaska State Troopers. Contracting with Whittier is currently stalled with 911 and budget issues. GBOS Special meeting is being scheduled for WED September 7 at 7PM to discuss extending Trooper coverage past September 30 and to provide written proposal for PSAC to review. This meeting will be noticed tomorrow on www.muni.org/gbos website, posting sites in Girdwood and GBOS Facebook page.

Mike Opalka states that trooper status quo will not allow for public input and local control. He states that PSAC should look toward staring Girdwood Police Dept more seriously, and could go to Wasilla to learn more about startup police Dept. Mandy Hawes states that it would be good to get information and learn from Houston, which has had difficulty with starting own PD.

Mike Edgington seeks information on what the process is from here, as there are 29 days to end of trooper service:

GBOS Special Meeting on WED to discuss extending AST until enforcement service is contracted and to discuss requesting written proposal for enforcement service from AST.

Timeline for Whittier contract is:

APD/MOA/Assembly to provide answer to 911 issue

Whittier to provide budget.

If requirements are met, next step is for GBOS and Whittier City Council to approve in September and then for contract to be consent item on Assembly Agenda on 9/27

Motion:

Public Safety Advisory Committee moves to recommend that GBOS request extension of police services by Alaska State Troopers until policing issue in Girdwood is resolved.

Motion by Mike Edgington, 2nd by Mandy Hawes

Motion passes 4-0

Motion:
Public Safety Advisory Committee moves to advise GBOS that public safety budget from City of Whittier and plan for acceptable implementation of 911 PSAP from Municipality of Anchorage are critical to Public Safety Advisory Committee support for contract with Whittier Police Department.

Motion by Mike Edgington, 2nd by Mandy Hawes

Motion Passes 4-0

Motion:

Public Safety Advisory Committee moves to recommend that the GBOS request a written proposal from the Alaska State Troopers for 3 year police service agreement, due to the ongoing delay in resolution of the public safety budget and 911 PSAP callout system.

Motion by Mandy Hawes, 2nd by Michelle Weston

Motion fails 2-2

Motion:

Public Safety Advisory Committee moves to recommend that the GBOS request a written proposal from the Alaska State Troopers for 3 year police service agreement.

Motion by Mike Edgington, 2nd by Michelle Weston

Motion Passes 4-0

Discussion of collecting information from residents regarding delayed and non-response by Alaska State Troopers.

Group discusses that there has been input from residents regarding AST non-response and delayed response, but data on this has not been collected. Michelle Weston posted a request for people to send their information to gbos@muni.org email address on facebook. Margaret to post flyer at Post Office and other posting locations to solicit responses from community. Girdwood Volunteer Fire Dept is asked to give input on this.

New Business:
None

Public Comment:

None

Other Business (Roundtable Comments from the Board):

Michelle Weston will work on a “fact sheet” regarding current status of public safety in Girdwood.

Michelle Weston provides update regarding NIXLE alerts. Possible that there would be a fee to start a Girdwood NIXLE. More info as it becomes available.

Mike Edgington states concern that it’s September and there are still major issues to figure out before trooper service ends at end of the month.

Adjourn 8:25PM