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