Speaker 0: Great motion carries. Thank you very much. We're going to go to item item 15, please.
Speaker 11: Report from police recommendation to authorize city manager to execute all documents necessary to amend contract with Axon Enterprises Inc for the purchase of body worn camera equipment, accessories, software support and digital video storage for a total amount not to exceed 850,001 and authorize a one time purchase of body worn camera equipment and accessories for a total not to exceed the amount of 606,260.
Speaker 0: Is restricted to you. Here is Barbara show gear. Now, is not it? Do you want to speak on this?
Speaker 2: You're going to go. And those.
Speaker 3: So I'm in support of this. I think that body cameras are.
Speaker 8: Could we please have it quiet? Why are you leaving? Thank you.
Speaker 3: Body cameras are one way to hold police officers accountable for their action. As we know, police departments all over the country demonstrate systematic mistreatment, sometimes fatal, fatal of people of courage, color. Long Beach has not been exempt from this problem. In fact, we're a major contributor to this problem. Cameras are necessary, but not sufficient. Much more is needed to hold police accountable. And I did the 90 seconds because I thought.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Thank you, Count Councilwoman Pierce.
Speaker 9: Yes, I have, of course, support this item. I know that we've talked a lot about it over the last several years. And so I look forward to hearing. I'm assuming there's a brief staff report.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 9: Thank you. So noisy. It's so distracting. We should really pause while people leave.
Speaker 5: We can give a very brief staff report. Yes.
Speaker 9: You.
Speaker 0: You do? Oh, here I go.
Speaker 8: Yes. Thank you, sir. Chief, go ahead.
Speaker 7: Vice Mayor, members of the city council. So tonight, before you. We have our request for more body worn cameras. As you've heard over the last several years. And many of you have asked us to deploy body worn cameras. And we've gone through several trials, one that didn't really work out for us. But the current one that we have as far as we can see is working out well for us. Currently, we have 250 body worn cameras deployed between two patrol divisions north and south. The proposal in front of you today would increase that to 675 body worn cameras, which would cover about 80% of our sworn personnel. So with that, I know that's short, but I'll leave it to any questions.
Speaker 5: That you may have.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Congressman Uranium.
Speaker 10: Angry and Taguchi for following through with this.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Councilwoman Price.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you, Chief, for that report. And I want to just speak on behalf of the members of the Public Safety Committee who have talked about this issue for years now. Jack was able to pull up that the first time we started talking about this topic of public safety was December of 2015. So I'm really glad that we've implemented the program and that we're expanding the program. I will say that I see it daily that body cameras increase transparency. Obviously, they serve the rights of the accused, but they also protect the officers. And I'm grateful that we have body cameras now as the as the industry standard for most police agencies. It's something that I think juries expect to see now with the technology being so readily available to police agencies throughout the country. So I'm glad that we're able to equip our equip our officers. And I thank you, Chief, for staying with it and making this a priority for this fiscal year. Thank you.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Concentrate.
Speaker 9: Yes. I want to thank the Public Safety Committee. I know you guys have been working on. I know Councilmember Price, you've brought it up several times. You mentioned that it covered 80%. What's the 20% that's not covered? And is that expected to be covered down the road?
Speaker 7: Command staff members and members, for example, detectives who work more inside than outside. What we did is when we we looked at who should have them. Obviously, our priority was the officers who have the most contact with the public. So that would be all of our patrol divisions, including our field support division and some of our investigative units that go out and make more than your normal or your average amount of contacts, including search warrants and things of that nature. In regards to the future, absolutely. As we phase this in which I think has been the the appropriate and efficient way of doing it, and as as we move forward, we'll see, one, if the technology changes or.
Speaker 6: Improves storage and.
Speaker 7: Things of that nature and paying attention to what the rest of the industry is doing. I know that we as a city, we as a police department do great compared to others, and we have stats to prove that. But there are departments going the opposite direction that have had body worn cameras and decided that it is not for them for a lot of different reasons. So those are things we'll continue to monitor and keep you updated on and we'll proceed in the best interests of our community.
Speaker 9: Great. Thank you for that. I do just want to say how much I appreciate it. I know our police department in the last several years has made a lot of changes. I know our stats are changing and want to recognize that and applaud our officers for that effort. I look forward to seeing that trend continue and hopefully our police cameras can give our community a little bit more sense of security and our officers as well. Thank you.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Councilman. Super now.
Speaker 7: Thank you. Thanks for the report, chief, and great job on on facing this end from our end of things.
Speaker 5: You know they always.
Speaker 8: Ask us when we get these in the East Division or whatever.
Speaker 7: I know there are a lot of moving parts to get this thing going, including personnel. So you probably can't give us a hard date. But is there any light you can shed.
Speaker 8: On on when this will all take place?
Speaker 7: We anticipate that we will have this all rolled out because there's been an extraordinary amount of work that has already been down or done, I should say. There's a lot of infrastructure that needs to be done, and I can't say enough about the other departments that helped us get here, technology and innovation and financial management. So we anticipate with no significant curveballs that we should be able to get these cameras out, hopefully by February of 2020. If if you approve this, then we go through the contractual.
Speaker 5: Process.
Speaker 7: With the company. And then by the time we get all the equipment, we should be about February of 2020.
Speaker 8: Great. Thank you. Thank you also. Great job with that. Would you please cast your vote?
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend Contract No. 34946, with Axon Enterprises, Inc., of Scottsdale, AZ, for the purchase of body worn camera equipment, accessories, software, support and digital video storage, to increase the annual amount by $772,728, with a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $77,273, for a total amount not to exceed $850,001, and extend the term for an additional one year, with the option to renew for four additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager; and 

Authorize a one-time purchase of body worn camera equipment and accessories in the amount of $605,694, with a 10 percent contingency of $60,569, for a total not to exceed amount of $666,264.  (Citywide)