Staff study recommends workload-based police metric; council already budgeted two officers and a K‑9

City planning director Nicole Bartsonser told the Development Impact Fee Advisory Committee that a consultant study by CPSM recommends moving Eagle away from an officers‑per‑thousand metric toward a workload measure tied to community‑initiated calls. "We get 19,000 events in a year," Bartsonser said, "initiated per day is about 53 events." She added that 49% of the city’s calls for service in the study year were for traffic enforcement.

The study applies a "rule of 60"—that at least 60% of assigned sworn time should be deployed to patrol—with the city's assigned patrol workforce meeting that standard in the study snapshot. Bartsonser said the consultant recommended adding two full‑time equivalents now and one additional FTE for every 7% increase in community‑initiated calls. "If the city vehicle determines to maintain the current level of service," she said, the study recommends those staffing additions and periodic workload analyses.

Committee members pressed staff on how the study figures relate to practice. Bartsonser said the city currently meets minimum staffing levels after two recent hires and that the council included two FTEs, a sergeant, one patrol officer and a K‑9 in this year's budget. She also urged a follow‑up workload analysis in two years and a caseload study for criminal investigations to better isolate development‑related demand.

Bartsonser cautioned that impact fees cannot be used to pay salaries. "Impact fees cannot be used for staffing," she said, describing the funds as available for capital items—vehicles, facility improvements and equipment—rather than payroll. The committee did not take any formal vote on changing the level-of-service metric at the meeting; staff said they will scope a police impact‑fee update for presentation to council early next year.