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Activities Timeline for Unarmed Response in Ann Arbor (inc: CROS, CBS-Design, CBS, City Admin, City Council)
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[KEY] CROS = Coalition for Re-Envisioning Our Safety; CBS-Design = Care-Based Safety-Design
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See full CROS' statement and CALL-TO-ACTION from here & Linktree here
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April 2021AA City CouncilAnn Arbor City Council passes Resolution 21-0612https://a2gov.legistar.com/ViewReport.ashx?M=R&N=Text&GID=55&ID=4281976&GUID=B05AE0CB-A66F-42DC-8A21-36888EBD12B8&Title=Legislation+Text
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June 2021CROSCoalition for Re-Envisioning Our Safety (CROS) is formedwww.reenvisionoursafety.org
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July 2021CROSCROS begins robust research into other Unarmed, Non-Police Response Programs nationwide, meeting with organizers and officials across the country
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September 2021CROSCROS holds community listening sessions to help formulate a plan for unarmed non-police response, and meets with city council members, the mayor, and others to discuss our plan
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November 2021CROSThe CROS plan is publicly released, and CROS starts a petition for the plan, gaining nearly 1,000 community supportershttps://actionnetwork.org/petitions/ann-arbor-support-a-plan-for-non-police-response?clear_id=true
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November 2021CROSCROS' Plan is endorsed by 30+ local organizationshttps://www.reenvisionoursafety.org/endorsements.html
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December 2021AA City Admin City Admin releases a memo discussing the CROS planhttps://a2gov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10413590&GUID=1F682731-50B7-4092-B539-91F8D59FC347
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January 2022CROSCROS releases a counter memo to the City of Ann Arborhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1BCkXoyzPqsbl7zpM7fscF4-C5HdXarsS_JrLtPJFN-4/edit?usp=sharing
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January 2022AA City CouncilFacilitates 3 Listening Sessions about ARPA fundshttps://www.a2gov.org/news/pages/article.aspx?i=935&link_id=0&can_id=a7b89d0cfb57a4a80f9b67028e872661&source=email-dont-forget-join-us-on-112-at-7pm-to-fill-out-citys-survey-qa-with-cros&email_referrer=email_1781208&email_subject=take-action-join-city-listening-sessions
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February 2022CROSCROS hosts first public forum on unarmed response (over 220+ attended, including multiple City Council members & Admin Dohoney as a speaker) https://fb.watch/phixImu15a/
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February 2022AA City CouncilARPA Survey of Ann Arbor Residents Due
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March 2022AA City CouncilApproves resolution in support of an RFP Issuance for unarmed response Community Engagement Serviceshttps://www.a2gov.org/departments/finance-admin-services/purchasing/Documents/RFP_22-28_Document.pdf
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March 2022CROSExecutes landscape assessment to learn that no local organization can host the program
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April 2022AA City CouncilARPA Budget for 3.5M for unarmed response is passed by the City
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May 2022CROSAnnounces that we are starting our own program, thus "Care-Based Safety Design" is created
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May 2022CBS-DesignCare-Based Safety Design launches and hires a contract staff person (Anna Lemler) to work with community leaders/members and national resources to design a programwww.annalemler.com
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May 2022AA City CouncilRejects highest-rating application (ICPJ) & hires Public Sector Consultants to conduct community engagement for $100K; as memo states, the City erroneously informed ICPJ that they had a conflicthttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1sTpSuJ5_MeRbjGNlTaAX5MuLguYoIwQy/view?usp=sharing
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June 2022CBS-DesignEstablishes a community leadership team of 13 local members to design Care-Based Safety
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December 2022CBS-DesignPublishes Strategic Plan (based in a total of a minimum of 650 hrs of community work)https://drive.google.com/file/d/16iSKE8PhOWhny8v7DNcGlLoT1SASz40a/view?usp=sharing
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January 2023AA City CouncilPublishes results from Public Sector Consultant survey - 65% of respondents said they wanted the program to be housed outside of government in a non-profit organization (results in link)https://communityfeedback.opengov.com/portals/annarbormi/Issue_12145/survey_responses
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February 2023CBS-DesignConducts 15 community co-creation sessions with a draft design with ~100 community members https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l6YoV-qQ2sy2Yar8OfDVfQXUEEQ6gsXc/view
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February 2023CBS-DesignSecures funding and announces the hiring of 2 co-directors; establishes Interim Mission Circle
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May 2023AA City CouncilPublic Sector Consultants (hired firm) releases their community engagement reporthttps://a2gov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11936315&GUID=B2B18927-8747-4820-91BB-FBBCA2382044
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June 2023CROS(June & July) CROS members call in to City Council meetings to support these 3 areas in the Community Engagement Report by PSC (#26): 1) Reallocating Funds to Unarmed Response; 2) Separate Phone # for Unarmed Response; & 3) Full Independence from Police
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June 2023Care-Based SafetyCBS Co-directors are hired and CBS is launched!! (Thus, CBS-Design sunsets) www.carebasedsafety.org
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June 2023AA City CouncilApproves resolution in support of an RFP Issuance for the Unarmed Response Programhttp://a2gov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6261657&GUID=141974AE-5A4E-41BC-84F0-6866A63F2A3C&Options=ID%7cText%7c&Search=unarmed+response
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August 2023AA City Admin Puts out a Request for Proposal to contract out the pilot, to be paid for through ARPA funds https://www.a2gov.org/departments/finance-admin-services/purchasing/Documents/RFP_23-42_Document.pdf
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September 2023Care-Based SafetyPublishes Community Co-Creation Report (led by CBS-Design)https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l6YoV-qQ2sy2Yar8OfDVfQXUEEQ6gsXc/view
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September 2023Care-Based SafetyPublishes updated Strategic Plan https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AN3__2oV0_-1lxUwsF5NbVCtdwDZ0E9W/view
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September 2023Care-Based SafetySubmits the ONLY PROPOSAL in response to the RFPhttps://www.a2gov.org/departments/finance-admin-services/purchasing/Documents/RFP_23-42_ProposalTab.pdf
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September 2023Care-Based SafetyCare-Based Safety Proposal Link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rOzUn-6iSQvPl_LjN_iM0AuLCcCpDYMv/view
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October 2023AA City Admin City of Ann Arbor's published deadline for interviewing candidates passes by with no contact to CBShttps://www.a2gov.org/departments/finance-admin-services/purchasing/Documents/RFP_23-42_Document.pdf
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October 2023AA City Admin Ignores communication from Care-Based Safety
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November 2023Care-Based Safety[11/28] Shares with public that they have heard nothing from City of Ann Arbor, and need to fundraise https://www.instagram.com/p/C0McD8_OjQS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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November 2023AA City Admin [11/28] Reaches out apologizing for the delay and that they will send an update ASAP
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December 2023AA City Admin [12/12] Dohoney communicates to CBS: "that CC is not voting on anything on Dec 18, that CC has not seen any submittals nor are they privy to any of the program's elements."
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December 2023AA City Admin [12/14] Dohoney replies to CBS saying, "if there are any concerns, questions, etc., those will be posed to you and you will have a full opportunity to respond to them."
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December 2023AA City Council[12/18] In closed session of City Council, Administrator Dohoney shares his decision to CANCEL the RFP on City staff's recommendation http://a2gov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6261657&GUID=141974AE-5A4E-41BC-84F0-6866A63F2A3C&Options=ID%7cText%7c&Search=unarmed+response
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December 2023AA City Admin [12/20] Dohoney communicates to CBS: "We have carefully gone through the submittal many times. After much deliberation we have made the decision to cancel this particular RFP. Our intent is to publish it again in 2024 but with an updated scope. CBS is of course welcome to submit at that time in response to an updated scope..."
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December 2023Care-Based Safety[12/24] Learns indirectly from different sources of varying reasons from Councilmembers for why the City decided to cancel the RFP https://www.instagram.com/p/C1M_N7XuOQ7/?img_index=1
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December 2023AA City Admin [12/27] Puts out misconstrued information for why the City decided to reject the Care-Based Safety application https://www.a2gov.org/news/Pages/article.aspx?i=1025
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December 2023Care-Based Safety[12/28] Responds to the City's misconstrued information as reflected in an MLive articlehttps://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2023/12/ann-arbor-explains-why-it-rejected-groups-unarmed-crisis-response-plan.html
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December 2023Care-Based Safety[12/29] Releases communications piece showing the discrepancies of the City's claims in CBS's RFP proposalhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Qa62pTb9_oHv7Iv0YGR-xiZwBJqI1fsekLO14-eTT0/edit?usp=sharing
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December 2023CROSResponds to the City demanding transparency, for them to reopen the RFP, and to contract with CBShttps://www.reenvisionoursafety.org/take-action.html
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