Request for Work Session: Secondary Responder initiativeCity of Dubuque
City Council Meeting
Action Items # 07.
Copyrighted
January 16, 2024
ITEM TITLE: Request for Work Session: Secondary Responder initiative
SUMMARY: City Manager recommending City Council schedule a work session on
March 18, 2024, at 5:45 p.m. for an update on the Secondary Responder
I nitiative.
SUGGESTED Suggested Disposition: Receive and File; Council
DISPOSITION:
ATTACHMENTS:
Description
MVM Memo
Type
City Manager Memo
Memo Council Work Session Request for Secondary Staff Memo
Responder Update
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Masterpiece on the Mississippi
TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: Request for Work Session: Secondary Responder
DATE: January 10, 2024
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Chief of Police Jeremy Jensen is recommending City Council schedule a work session
on March 18, 2024, at 5:45 p.m. for an update on the Secondary Responder Initiative.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
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Mic ael C. Van Milligen
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Attachment
CC' Crenna Brumwell, City Attorney
Cori Burbach, Assistant City Manager
Jeremy Jensen, Chief of Police
THE CITY OF
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Masterpiece on the Mississippi
TO: Michael C. Van Milligen
City Manager
FR: Jeremy Jensen
Chief of Police
MEMORANDUM
RE: Request for Work Session: Secondary Responder
INTRODUCTION:
The purpose of this memorandum is to request a work session for the City Council
reference to update them on the Secondary Responder initiative.
BACKGROUND:
In the fall of 2022, the City Council requested staff to come up with an initiative that
comprehensively addressed brain health and unhoused issues. In the winter of 2023,
the City's Internal Working Group (IWG) was resurrected and given new direction. The
IWG consists of staff members from various City departments that address complex
problems using the various "lenses" of those departments. Additionally, in the summer
of 2023, the Dubuque Police Department's Critical Incident Team (CIT) became fully
staffed with two officers and a civilian law enforcement liaison. Their primary mission is
to address the brain health issue.
ACTION REQUESTED:
I am respectfully requesting a City Council work session on March 18, 2024, at 5:45
PM.
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