2023: Reimagining Public Safety and police compensation
On November 13, 2023, the Council voted 3–2 not to include the Reimagining Public Safety Element in General Plan 2045. Albert Vera, Goran Eriksson and Dan O’Brien voted to exclude it. Yasmine-Imani McMorrin and Freddy Puza voted against exclusion.
The same meeting included adjusted Police Management Group and Police Officers Association salary schedules. The City summary reports that measure as approved 3–2; McMorrin voted No and Puza abstained.
Police technology votes, 2023–2024
These are exact subjects and recorded positions. Full-budget votes and consent-calendar actions are kept separate from item-level votes.
2025: more public-safety actions than the earlier page showed
The expanded research sweep found a larger 2025 record. On June 9, Puza voted Aye on the full FY2025/26 City budget, which passed 3–2. That vote is recorded as a full-budget vote only; it is not converted into separate Police or Fire line-item positions.
Other official 2025 records show Council action on Fire Hazard Severity Zones and arrestee medical/Narcan services and, on July 9, ALPR data-sharing restrictions, Police/Fire mutual-aid reporting and Police-subcommittee restructuring. The available City summaries do not identify individual votes for those actions, so they are preserved as Council actions rather than assigned to Puza.
2026: dissolve the Police Subcommittee, create a broader Public Safety Subcommittee
On April 27, 2026, the Council dissolved the Standing Police Subcommittee and created a broader Standing City Council Public Safety Subcommittee. The City said the new body would address topics beyond police policy, including the Mobile Crisis Team, lighting, red-light-camera reform, ambassador programs and other community-safety strategies.
June 2026: budget vote included more Mobile Crisis funding
The FY 2026/27 budget adopted on June 8 included additional funding to expand Mobile Crisis Team service hours. Puza, Fish, McMorrin and O’Brien voted for the budget; Vera voted No.
Boundary: this was a vote on the full City budget, not a separate item-level vote on the Mobile Crisis Team line. It supports saying Puza voted for a budget containing the expansion, not that the Council held a standalone 4–1 MCT vote.
September 2026: 911 dispatch reaches the new subcommittee — but it is not a Puza vote
On September 1, File 27-248 put the “Feasibility to Dispatch 911 Calls to the Mobile Crisis Team” before the Standing Public Safety Subcommittee. Puza was not one of the two members of that body; the subcommittee discussion is therefore not a Puza roll-call vote.
Puza voted to create the broader body, while Fish and McMorrin became its two members; Puza’s 2026 candidate statement also identifies Mobile Crisis investment as part of his record.
Puza’s 2026 candidate statement
Puza’s City-published candidate statement says he “led on investments in the Mobile Crisis Team” and presents those investments as a way to give residents trained mental-health professionals during crises while maintaining strong emergency-response systems.
The documented record includes his Reimagining Public Safety vote, police-equipment votes, the Public Safety Subcommittee restructuring vote, the budget containing MCT expansion, and the later 911-dispatch discussion handled by Fish and McMorrin.
Votes still being recovered
The research ledger now contains 10 verified Puza roll calls from 2023 through 2026, plus a separate list of Police/Fire/public-safety actions where the official record retrieved so far does not expose an attributable Puza vote.
The highest-value unresolved item is the May 8, 2023 Flock ALPR contract (File 23-907). Consent-calendar Police/Fire facility and equipment actions also remain separate until their parent roll calls are recovered.