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Clara Rong encouraged City Council to review policies within the PPD to provide more protection for whistleblowers within the organization and more internal accountability. Kyra Thordsen encouraged City Council to support widespread police reform within the PPD, reforms within the Santa Rita County Jail, participate in a statewide decertification for police officers and support the End Qualified Immunity Bill currently on the floor of the House of Representatives and Senate. Akanksha Maddi expressed concern regarding the use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) and encouraged PPD to be transparent about device use. contracts, and budget appropriations for FRT use. Esha Shah, Tri-Valley Chapter of Happy Period, requested City Manager Fialho to increase efforts to make information for homeless and low-income housing readily available and encouraged City Council to establish a Homeless Services Department by reallocating funds from the PPD. She commented the CityServe website is not regularly updated. Sylvia Tian provided the results of a social media survey where many were interested in not defunding the PPD. She expressed her support for the PPD. Rachel Sanchez expressed her support for defunding PPD, for removing Student Resource Officers from schools and replacing them with counseling services. She encouraged City Council to be more engaging while in the listening session. Rachel Sun expressed her support for the PPD, Student Resource Officers, and opposes defunding the PPD. Satya Yalamanchi encouraged City Council to consider joining the Alameda County Community Assessment and Training (CAT) Program to help address the mental health crisis in Pleasanton. Zoe Yao encouraged City Council to take action to fund a division of mental health professional's equipment to handle health emergencies instead of police officers. Ian Stick suggested additional de-escalation training, the assessment of police officers every six- months to one-year to ensure they are mentally and physically prepared for duty, encouraged the use of rank-choice voting (RCV) as a good system to encourage and ensure smaller political parties are being heard. Krishna Prakash encouraged City Council to adopt a comprehensive training program around the communal experience and adopt 21st Century policing policies. Nick G expressed concern that an external review of the PPD was not being conducted. He encouraged youth to apply for positions within the City Council. Gale Naylor encouraged City Council to reallocate some of the police funding to create robust services to respond to people during a mental health crisis. She encouraged a Community of Character style program to educate the community on alternatives including when to call the police and when not to call the police. Herb Ritter expressed support for the PPD and encouraged Pleasanton to adopt the national use of force standard that emphasizes the reverence for life, de-escalation, a duty to intercede, proportional response to dangerous incidences, and strong accountability provisions. He encouraged the use of existing City Commissions to provide oversight for the PPD. City Council Minutes Page 4 of 6 July 21. 2020