Bloomington City Board of Public Safety approves five police hires, hears monthly police and fire reports

The Bloomington City Board of Public Safety on an unspecified date approved conditional employment offers for five police candidates and an offer tied to a pension transfer while hearing monthly updates from the police and fire departments.

Chair Russell Kitner opened the meeting and asked the board to certify the consent agenda, which passed by voice vote. The board then heard a presentation from a police department representative, who said monthly calls for service were down compared with the previous year — “6,295 calls for service as opposed to 6,833 the year before,” a 7.9% decrease — and that traffic stops and other categories showed small month-to-month variation. The presenter cautioned that single-month changes need a longer trend analysis: “until we get into a deep dive and have probably three or four months data to look at, you really can't…