Hayden council members and Public Safety Commission participants spent a large portion of a special joint workshop detailing the specific data they want the sheriff's office to provide if the county contract proceeds.

Why it matters: Council members said raw call counts include many officer-initiated checks and medical calls and therefore can inflate measures of patrol activity. The city asked for results-focused reporting so officials can assess whether the level of service they pay for is actually delivered.

City Attorney Fonda Jovic and multiple commissioners reviewed sample figures supplied by the sheriff's office. Jovic told the group the sheriff's office can produce monthly and yearly tabulations that include "police initiated versus all other initiated calls for service," top types of calls, response times, and other information that can be tracked in sheriff's office software.

Commissioners and deputies asked that reporting emphasize outcomes and clearance information rather than raw CAD call totals. Public Safety Commissioner Sean Meyer said he wants to know "what was cleared in arrest, what was cleared citation, and what was cleared report," arguing that many officer-initiated activities produce no measurable public-safety outcome. Several participants urged clarity on how the sheriff's CAD system counts security checks and other events that show up as calls but quickly clear.

Suggestions the council and commission requested staff to pursue with the sheriff's office included:
- Monthly metrics that break out citizen-initiated calls from officer-initiated activity; separate tallies for arrests, citations and reportable cases.
- Detective hours attributable to Hayden (command staff can produce monthly detective-hour summaries).
- Hotspot maps showing geographic clustering of significant incident types.
- Response times as calculated by the sheriff's office, with notation of exceptions (e.g., hospital follow-ups recorded at hospital address).
- Use of clearance codes rather than raw call counts in performance assessments.

Hayden officials also asked how expensive such reporting would be to generate and were told many reports can be automated "you just change the date and then it's generated," though some cross-referencing to ensure accuracy will take staff time. Staff said the sheriff's office has the capability to provide the requested data and that the city and captain's staff can tune the reports to the city's needs.

Ending: City staff were directed to meet with Sheriff's Office command (Captain Smart) to develop a proposed reporting menu and a short sample of monthly reports for the council and commission to review at a follow-up meeting.