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File Number: 23-447 IPA functions include: 1.Participate in internal affairs and administrative review processes conducted by the police department. 2.Serve as the law enforcement subject matter expert to the CPRB. 3.Make expert recommendations to the CPRB and the Police Chief on police department policies. 4.Assist the CPRB with the preparation of their annual report including workplan. 5.Recommend, with the Police Chief’s and the specifically affected police department personnel’s written consent, referrals for voluntary and confidential mediation of specific complaints to community-based mediation services provided by trained or certified mediators. Current structure and status of the Board The CPRB’s structure as defined by the adopted ordinance consists of nine members. More specifically, the membership includes two student members, as well as one member from each of the six City Council Districts, along with one at-large member appointed by the Mayor. The provisions related to the qualifications and appointment process are presently codified as follows: “Two residents who are either secondary students in their third or fourth year of secondary school or college students between the ages of 18 and 22 (“Student Member”) who are able to attend in person meetings of the Community Police Review Board shall be appointed to the Community Police Review Board. Once these members reach the age of 23, they are no longer eligible to serve or eligible for reappointment to these designated seats. Residents who are interested in appointment to the Student Member designated seats shall complete an application that will be submitted to the City Clerk, who shall schedule a City Council Rules Committee meeting for the Committee to review the applications and, at the Council Rules Committee’s discretion, interview the applicants for recommendation to the City Council for appointment. Any vacancy in these designated seats must be addressed by the Council in accordance with San Leandro Municipal Code section 1-3-115.” Following the City Council’s adoption of the ordinance on April 4, 2022, a diverse pool of over 50 community members subsequently applied to serve on the CPRB. The consulting firm IntegrAssure, Inc. was hired by the City Manager as the Independent Police Auditor (IPA) in September 2022, and eight CPRB board member appointees were sworn in before the City Council on September 19, 2022. The CPRB subsequently held its first public meeting on October 19, 2022 and has been diligently exercising its functions and conducting its monthly publicly-noticed meetings since that time. While nine appointments to the Board were initially authorized by the City Council, one student member withdrew before the September 19, 2022 swearing-in ceremony and that position has remained vacant ever since; another member from District 3 resigned in January 2023 (due to personal reasons), for which a new appointment was seated in April 2023. In February 2023 the sole remaining student member also resigned because he moved out of San Leandro and therefore lost his eligibility to serve on the Board. That second of the two student positions continues to remain vacant. Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 12/21/2023