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Ana Police Department. The Department is in the final process of procurement and then it will <br />come before City Council. Once the project is approved, it can be up and running in two <br />months. <br />7. Community Policing Plan /Self- Assessment Tool (Update) — Commander Ken Gominsky <br />{Strategic Plan Goal No. 1, la} <br />Commander Ken Gominsky gave an update on Community Oriented Policing Survey. The <br />power point presentation defined the goal of the survey as helping create a Community Oriented <br />Policing Plan. There will be six steps: informal information gathering, compiling data and <br />sorting into common themes, select an entity to co- author the COP survey, select a research <br />partner, utilize the partnership to establish four community forums in each of the four policing <br />districts, and finally have the research partner utilize data from all prior actions sent out via the <br />City of Santa Ana and SAUSD resources, as well as social media. <br />8. Police Officer Recruitment (Update) — Police Admin. Manager Robert Carroll <br />{Strategic Plan Goal No. 1, li} <br />Police Admin. Manager Carroll dispensed a power point presentation which highlighted progress <br />made since the beginning of 2015 as it relates to police officer recruitment. He discussed various <br />resources that the Department continues to use to attract viable candidates. The Department also <br />implemented different strategies and identified funds for marketing activities and recruiting <br />candidates. Upcoming will be implementation and research of new software programs to <br />increase efficiency. <br />9. Wage and Benefit Study (Discussion of Comparable Wage and Benefits of Police <br />Officers) — Executive Director, Personnel, Ed Raya {Strategic Plan Goal No. 7, 4a} <br />Ed Raya, Executive Director of Personnel, dispensed a handout addressing the results of a salary <br />study. The salary study is a tool used when studying a number of positions to maintain who we <br />are and the compensation we offer across the board with other cities in the county. Police <br />officers picked the agencies that most resemble Santa Ana, including some cities outside the <br />county that serve larger, diverse communities. Adding together Santa Ana's base pay and total <br />potential annual compensation, the City of Santa Ana came up at being No. 3. Santa Ana is <br />competitive in the marketplace with base pay average and total compensation a little above <br />average. <br />13A -6 <br />