Public Safety and Policing Alternative Response Task Force Facilitator

The City is seeking a consultant who can facilitate discussion and guide a newly created Alternative Response Task Force that is tasked with developing an alternative response model to certain public safety calls for service for the purposes of improving public safety, health, and well being. The Facilitator will lead the task force in having candid and productive conversations about appropriate calls types to consider, organization skills and capacity, program sustainability, implementation hurdles, and other keys issues concerning the development of an alternative response model. The facilitator will: 1) Develop meeting agendas, 2) Facilitate discussion covering key topic areas and manage time and disagreement, 3) Take notes and provide summaries of conversations and meetings, 4) Author a final report. The goal of the Alternative Response Task Force is to identify public safety calls for service that could feasibly be handled by a responder other than traditional sworn police officers or fire fighters. The Task Force should explore and describe the structure of such a model and determine its feasibility. When developing an alternative response model, feasibility will be determined based off of: 1) Scope of work (type of calls, and number), 2) agency availability (existence/commitment/desire), 3) resources required (City and outside agency resources needed, including staffing, equipment and financial), 4) deployment framework (how would agency, City, dispatch need to interact).