RCPRC November 17, 2020 Minutes

RCPRC Meeting Minutes

11-17-2020

1. Attendance

• Terry Johnson – Volunteer Committee Member
• Jennifer Bliss – Volunteer Committee Member, Chair
• Ted Dixon – Volunteer Committee Member, Vice Chair
• Josh Baron – Volunteer Committee Member, Secretary
• Rich Wright – Volunteer Committee Member
• Marc Cassidy – Volunteer Committee Member,
• Chief Scott Schaffrick – Chief of Police, Rosendale Police Department
• Councilman Matt Igoe – Rosendale Town Council Member (non-voting member, Police Commission liaison)
• Councilwoman Carrie Wykoff – Rosendale Town Council Member (non-voting member, Town Council liaison)
• Jessieca McNabb (Volunteer Committee Member)
• ADA Blackmon – did not attend

2. Post-Public Meeting Debrief – the Committee discussed a range of observations and lessons learned from the first meeting, this included:

• There is interested in finding ways to increase engagement with our minority populations
  • Based on public comments during the meeting there is interest in reaching out to the transgender community to better understand concerns that were expressed. Matt and Jessieca will be reaching out.
  • We discussed how we might invite others from the community to work with us more
• We discussed the importance of confidential comments and the need to draft a process and policy related to it. Josh will follow up to draft something.
• We discussed the need to focus Facebook comments on the committee’s work and not to read off all back-and-forth comments if they were not relevant to our work.
• We discussed the public’s perception of our role regarding issues of defunding the police department
• We again discussed our work plan timeline and future milestones coming up in early January
• Josh will work to get information from our first meeting posted via Facebook

We adjourned at 7:15 PM.