SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The next meeting of the South Lake Tahoe City Council will be on Tuesday, July 14 starting at 9:00 a.m. It will be a virtual meeting and log on/comment instructions are at the end of the story.
On the agenda:
The City received two reports from the El Dorado County Civil Grand Jury, both dated May 8, 2020: (1) South Lake Tahoe City Police Facility, Case 19-02; and (2) Policing Those With Behavioral Health Issues, Case 19-04.
The Grand Jury report
found the South Lake Tahoe Police Department Facility is inadequate for modern
police operations and requires funding for extensive renovation or replacement.
There is some construction underway now, but that was previously authorized by
the City Council and not the full scope of what was needed.
"The City should move
expeditiously to renovate their current police facility," said the
report's recommendations.
The other Grand Jury finding
has to do with the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office, the South Lake Tahoe
Police Department (SLTPD), Placerville Police, and the County's Health and
Human Service Agency as they pertain to mental illness.
The SLTPD has already
implemented one recommendation, establishing a Homeless Outreach Team (HOT).
The Grand Jury recommends they explore with El Dorado County in getting a
Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PERT) implemented on the East Slope as
they already have on the West Slope. The West Slope also has a recent
innovation is the HOT trailer which has computers, heat and air conditioning,
and
provides privacy for
Health and Humans Services Agency clinicians conducting individual needs
assessments and services for the homeless.
The report also recommends
SLTPD add an internal standard for Continuing Professional Training for Crisis
Intervention Training course hours and Refresher Training Crisis Intervention
Training and have their officers attend such training.
Also, discussion and
direction regarding possible changes to Emergency Order No. 2 authorizing a
sixty-day deferral of business license fee payments for those
businesses deemed
"non-essential" that suffered a partial or complete shut-down period
during the COVID-19 emergency.
South Lake TahoeNOW.com
Paula
July 10, 2020
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