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Merit Appeals Board August 30, 2022 <br />MS. DE SOTO: It's appreciable. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yes. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Any other questions for this particular division in the report? No? <br />Okay. Moving along. The next division is vehicle, equipment, property damage report—so, this <br />is what—what division is this, Waylen? <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: This comes under Health and Safety. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Health and Safety? <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yeah. And I don't have a lot of details on this, although, just through my <br />analysisobviously, this is a calendar -year report. So, we are significant—at this point, we are <br />not going to meet what we had reported last year, which was 208 damage reports. We're going <br />to fall short of actually all previous years, I believe. <br />CHR. CABANAS: But isn't that good? <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yes. <br />MS. MATHEWS: Yeah, (inaudible) isn't falling a good thing? <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: I'm sorry. Wellsorry, my COVID brain fog here. I was also going to <br />add that's also related to a lot of what Health and Safety is doing in developing their training <br />programs and keeping our employees aware—they're doing a lot of driver—defensive driver <br />programs, I believe. That has helped in this number here. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Have there been efforts to beef up the vehicle safety—`cause it, kind of, <br />looks like—wow, there's only two reports of theft, three reports of vandalismso, in other <br />words, the County vehicles are now not being targeted, right, for whatever the reason—which is <br />good. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yes. However, I—well, I do want to add that the County recently the <br />Council approved the County hiring private security, which is recent I think in the last couple <br />of weeks. Because in the complaint—was initially, as a result of all the homeless individuals <br />hanging out in the back lanai of our office. I mean, a lot of them became aggressive toward a lot <br />of our staff and a lot of the County employees, as well as in this building here. <br />So, I think that's going to help with our County vehicle theft and vandalism. I did see the <br />security guard a bunch of times, so their presence is definitely known and we don't have any of <br />the homeless population any more in the back lanai. <br />CHR. CABANAS: So, theseso, is it just one security officer? <br />Page 15 <br />