Dear friends and neighbors,

 We have been appointed by Mayor David Condon to serve as the Police Leadership Advisory Committee preparatory to a national, regional, and local search for the City of Spokane’s next Police Chief. We hope to devise a thorough and transparent process for answering the charge from the mayor to hold town hall forums to solicit community input on three areas:

• Review and make recommendations to strengthen the current chief of police job description
• Identify the attributes the community is seeking in the next police chief
• Recommend the hiring and selection process that should be used

We expect to deliver a summary of all the themes we hear to the mayor by January 15^th. The mayor has assured us that our report will NOT “sit on a shelf’; he will consider our recommendations. Following that, our committee will provide guidance on the recommended culture audit, which involves many other organizations.

You can help by forwarding this to all of your friends, families and colleagues, and sharing this link on social media.

The above flier announces the dates & times we have scheduled for three town hall forums, one in each community center in the city.  Feel free to attend one or all. They will also be recorded and re-run on Channel 5.