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Commission, Maria Shinn and Ken Kowalski provide an overview of their process which is also outlined in the letter that they provided to Council on July Is'. Council has until October Is'to accept, reject or take no action on that item. Council also discussed virtual meeting technology moving forward, recommendations for which were outlined by Councilmember Kepple in her communication of July 20'. The administration's IT Department expressed confidence in its ability to provide upgrades to our technology which will make it more accessible to the public and also more secure. I asked Council if there was any objection to Council leadership, staff, and IT staff implementing best practices by the first meeting in September and there was no objection. We also approved the minutes of our most previous meeting. Motion by President O'Malley and seconded to receive and file the oral report. A roll call vote was conducted as follows: Yeas —Bullock, Kepple, Litten, Neff, O'Malley, Rader, Shachner Nays —None Motion passed. 2. Public Safety Committee report regarding meeting held August 17, 2020. (to be provided) Public Safety Chairperson Neff delivered the following committee report: All Committee members were present in addition to members of the public and the mayor's administration. The first item of discussion centered on the Lakewood Truck Park and the complaints that the City and I have received regarding parking, excess traffic, and speeding. I have been working with Director Leininger and David Bass on solutions. The City plans to conduct a second traffic study. One was conducted in 2018. This will be a follow up to give a true measure that if there is heavy traffic and assistance is needed, to do more on the City's part. There were comments from the public as well. That next study will take place in September or early October. The next issue we discussed was the training with police and the 8 Can't Wait strategies. Detective Fiorelli discussed the use of force continuum and there were questions asked, particularly by Councilmember Kepple, about the timing of when an officer would have their knee on the back or neck area of someone they were trying to restrain and what was the time measure on that. It was a good conversation. I personally felt that Detective Fiorelli did a good job articulating and helping us understand the necessities of training and why they train. It is robust. Last year the Department underwent 8,900 hours of training and that averages 100 hours per officer. He also talked about with use of force that once that resistance stops the restraint should stop. Mr. Hill spoke about the use of force and maintaining transparency and accountability and referenced a case back in 2016 and we all agreed that we shouldn't just take it for granted that everything is being done properly. We need always be measuring ourselves. There were some good ideas tossed around about that.