So, okay, thank you for your patience, everyone.
We're in interviews for a new firefighter paramedic
and so we're a little bit late, but thanks again.
Roll call looks like all members are here and present.
Is there any public appearances,
comments or correspondence?
Okay, seeing none.
We'll move right along then to Chairman's comments.
The first one is speaking for the Police and Fire Commission.
We extend our thanks to Retiring Chief Kevin Hingas.
Chief Hingas served as a citizen of Port Washington for 42 years
and for that we should all be very grateful.
PFC wishes Kevin very best in his retirement.
It's also my pleasure to announce that Captain Craig Zaronecki
has been selected by the PFC to take the role of Interim Chief.
Captain Zaronecki has 35 years experience with the department
serving in many different roles.
We look forward to working with Chief Zaronecki.
Welcome Chief.
We also welcome new PFC member Dan Becker.
Dan was confirmed last night by the Council to serve a five-year term.
We look forward to working with Dan.
I'm sure you'll feel a little bit lost here in the beginning,
but in the first few months is a little bit confusing,
but we'll help you through it.
It's all good, thank you.
And then the Planning Commission,
or I'm sorry, the Police and Fire Commission also extends
our gratitude to outgoing PFC member Sarah Burdette.
We thank Sarah for her work on the commission
for the past five years.
Sarah is always welcome to attend our meetings
and to offer her knowledge and advice.
So we hope to see her back.
Thank you, Sarah.
Commissioners, would you like to add any additional comments
to those comments?
Mr. Chairman?
Yes, sir.
I just echo all of your comments.
Dan and Sarah and my welcome to the Chief as well.
And thank you for stepping in and being willing
to continue your service to Port Washington.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Any other comments?
Nope, okay.
Well, then we can move right along to the election
of Police and Fire Commission officers,
available our chair, Vice Chair and Secretary.
And we'll start.
Are there any nominations for Chairman?
I nominate Jim Beaver.
I'll second that.
And there's a nomination and a second.
Are there any other nominations for chair?
Are there any other nominations for chair?
Are there any other nominations for chair?
I could do this all night.
It's not good, Joe.
Are you asking or pleading?
Okay.
All right, so there's a nomination for Jim Beaver's chair.
All in favor, say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
Okay, let's do that again for Vice Chair.
Is there any nominations for Vice Chair?
I nominate Joe Dean for Vice Chair.
I'll second that.
Okay, we've got a nomination of Joe Dean for Vice Chair
and a second.
Are there any other nominations?
Are there any other nominations?
Are there any other nominations?
Okay, we've got a motion, a nomination.
Joe Dean for Vice Chair.
All in favor?
Aye.
Opposed?
Hearing none.
Congratulations, Joe as Vice Chair.
Thank you.
And last is Secretary position.
Are there any nominations for the Secretary position?
I nominate Ed for the Secretary position.
Okay, we've got a nomination for Ed Johnson as Secretary.
Are there any other nominations?
Are there any other nominations?
You need a second.
Are there, oh, we need a second for that.
I'll second that.
I don't need to get off.
And we're trying to rush you in there, Ed.
Okay.
All right, here we have a nomination of Ed Johnson for Secretary.
All in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Okay, congratulations, Ed.
Okay, so that takes care of that for us.
So let's take a look at the previous minutes
from the May 11th police and fire commission meeting.
Any corrections?
No.
Hearing none, is there a motion to accept those?
So moved.
A second.
I wasn't here, so I'm not going to second.
Ed's going to second that.
Okay, all right.
All in favor?
Aye.
Okay, we'll accept that.
Okay, and then it comes to the recognition
of service anniversaries.
And in the police department,
we have Officer Christopher Erickson with 27 years.
Police support specialist Emily Monkey with seven years.
And Officer Colin Dunn with five years of service.
Next door at the fire department,
we have engineer Andrew Borgenhagen with five years.
Chief Joe DeBore, 22 years old.
He started when he was four.
And firefighter paramedic in McKenna Ferry
with three years of service.
And as always, the police and fire commission
thank these individuals for their service to our community.
Okay, then we can move along
with the police department report
and Chief Sarnetki, this is your first shot at it.
So tell us what you have.
I see first, we have, I'm sorry, we have the...
You know, I think you got the bills.
The Mayan voices, we can take a look at that, yes.
Yeah, well, we take a look at that.
If you have any questions, I could try to answer them.
Although I wasn't really paying attention
to the bills too much before the understandable.
Commissioner, there's any questions on the invoices
for the month of June.
Should we take a look then at the municipal court statement?
Any questions on that?
Okay.
And Dan, just for your information,
we look at the municipal court statements
on a monthly basis, just to make sure we're not too far
out of line with other communities
in the mid-marine system.
And so we typically are right in line with that.
Okay, and then we can take a look at calls for service.
1,326 calls for service in the month of May.
Any questions for the chief there?
Very agreeable group of people here tonight.
We also have the Wisconsin information-based reporting
page here and any questions on that.
Okay.
Hearing none, then we can move on to the chief's report tonight.
Okay.
Well, I have a request for secondary employment
for Shelley Heathlip.
You guys should all have a copy of that, I believe.
We do not.
Oh, you do not.
Okay.
Would you like the copy?
There's just one copy that I need to sign.
Yeah.
So the secondary employer would be tactical security.
She's looking at doing a part-time security job on the side.
I don't believe she's been hired yet.
And I don't even know for certain that she's submitted
her application, to be honest.
But she wanted to have her ducks in a row here
before she did any of those things.
And you've got no concern with that, chief?
No, I don't believe that it's going to interfere
with her regular duties.
Good.
Mr. Chairman, I have the question I usually have on these.
If she were to get injured in her role there.
So her role there is essentially to sit in the chair
and watch a security monitor for a warehouse, essentially.
And then her job is to call 911 should anything pop up
on the monitor.
So getting injured, I mean, would have to be probably
sitting, you know, somehow from sitting in the chair.
I don't believe she runs a risk of getting injured in this job.
Okay.
And it's very part-time, it sounds like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Okay.
Do we need a motion for that to accept?
I don't believe we do, do we?
No, I don't think so.
I'll just assign that if no one has a problem with it otherwise.
Okay.
Move right along.
Okay.
Then the other item on my agenda is an update for the safety building
for the police department.
So things are progressing very well there yesterday.
They had us slated to get occupancy on the police department side
of the building.
However, apparently you need a working fire alarm.
Thanks, Joe, to get occupancy of a building.
So there was an issue with the phone line not working yet.
And I believe that we hadn't had the, do we not have the alarm
installed either at that point?
So that's getting corrected.
They were out today taking care of the phone line.
And I believe they'll be out Friday to install the fire alarm
system, assuming that everything goes okay with that.
Then probably possibly on Friday they'll be granting us
occupancy in our section of the building.
The nice thing about that is that means that we can start moving
stuff in to the building at that point, which we would do.
Today we had a walkthrough for furniture placement with the
furniture people for the department, both police and fire
and discuss where the furniture was going.
They got the layout of the building and so that they know
what's going where.
Next week, Monday is furniture delivery for both departments.
They've slated about four weeks for the furniture installation
because we are farther ahead than the shared section or the fire
department section.
They're going to start on our side first, which is nice for us
because once they get desks in and we have some place to put
computers, then we can have IT come in and start working on
the computers on our side.
On the 26th of this month, our appliances are getting
delivered.
At the end of the month on the 29th, our Milo system is getting
installed.
They're coming from out of state to come in and install our Milo
system.
We'll get trained on that, the operation of that in early
July.
And then in July, early July, the 6th right now, we have
it slated for our TV monitors to be delivered and installed.
By then, we should have some capabilities with the security
cameras and the electronic door fobs.
And then the new phone system will come sometime shortly after
that.
That's going to be a citywide system, but it sounds like they're
going to be ready to get that going.
Once all that is done, then we are really going to start moving,
especially when the IT comes in, to start getting my stuff moved
over there and look at operating out of that building.
So.
Great.
So do you have a day to hope to be completely operational?
I'd like to be, I don't think it's going to happen before
fish day, but I'd like to be in there by the end of July and
operational fully.
We have a lot of stuff to move over.
Some of it is stuff that movers can do.
Some of it is stuff that they cannot, such as property evidence,
firearms, ammunition, stuff like that.
So once we can get that stuff over and then we'll start moving
the other stuff and it's going to take a little bit.
But yeah, it'd be nice to get, I anticipate being in there and
end of July and operational.
An exciting time for you and your staff.
Is he time?
Yes.
Right.
Okay.
Chief, anything else that you'd like to bring up?
Not this time.
No.
Okay.
Thank you.
Okay.
Then let's talk about the fire department.
And the first item here is EMS invoices and commissioners,
any concerns with invoices there or chief, anything that jumps out
at you?
Yeah.
I just think for our new commissioner, just some kind of
conversation on things that you'll see recurring.
EMSMC is our third party billing agency.
All of our claims go to them and they are reimbursed a certain
percentage of our collections.
So you'll see that recurring throughout the billing cycle as we
kind of go meeting the meeting.
The higher the number there, the better, because it's percentage
of what we've collected.
But usually that's the largest expense in our EMS invoices.
You'll also see under training, we did our ACLS, so advanced
cardiac life support and pediatric advanced life support renewal
this month with all of our paramedics.
We have a good partnership with the folks at MATC.
They come out and do the practical portion.
There's an online portion that our crews do on shift.
So it is an easy way for us to get that taken care of.
Any questions?
Hearing none, we can then move along to the fire department
invoices.
Any concerns there, Chief?
Nothing super exciting.
We did have a malfunction of the tank lift on engine 463.
Old trucks have old truck problems.
There is a portable tank used for rural fires that's on the side
that kind of folds up over the top.
The actuator motor was having issues that needed to be replaced.
So our fire apparatus came down from Marcasand to take care of
that for us.
So that's the repair bill.
Very good.
Okay, then let's take a look at EMS calls for service for the month
of May.
128 total calls for the month up from the previous month.
But our response time still are below average.
In a good way.
Our average EMS response kind of all calls included.
That means going to Belgium.
Other municipalities, so on and so forth is about six minutes
and 20 seconds.
When we look at just responses in the city, we're at five minutes
and 53 seconds where our benchmarks are on six minutes.
We did have a couple facility based lift assists this month.
Then those have been forwarded to the finance department for
the month of May.
A few more.
Assist from other agencies.
I see it looks like right.
Nope.
Just one this month.
Okay.
That was a third ambulance call.
We only have two.
So can't put them in the back of the pickup truck and driving to
the hospital.
So.
Yeah.
And if I remember correctly there, like I said, there was three
and they were almost all page simultaneously.
So I'm able to get a first responder to that third one.
But that's what I'm usually this for.
Very good.
Commissioners, any questions?
No.
Okay.
And.
There's just the one EMS mutual aid.
Okay.
Good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This year continues to be gangbusters for us.
31 fire responses for us.
We had a couple of calls out on the lake this month as we get into
that season.
One of them was a boat and a stress.
And the other one we had a bus call on the lake,
which we would dispatch the fire department as well to,
to get crews out to the victim and distress.
The response times again, if we're looking at that six minute
benchmark, we're hovering well underneath that.
So.
All in all things are operating well.
Very good.
Any questions?
Okay.
Chief, let's get your report then.
Okay.
So I was going to invite you guys to come to our training this
evening with the National Guard.
But as you can tell by the weather, that it's not really
conducive to flying a Black Hawk helicopter and picking people
off of the bluff.
That schedule, that training has been rescheduled for Wednesday,
July 15th, which is the Wednesday before fish day.
It'll be combined fire and EMS training again with the National
Guard.
We had them out on Monday night.
We went through helicopter operations, reviewed some of their
hoisting capabilities, those type of things with them.
This is a great opportunity for them to get some training with
us to help them from a medical side of things.
Their crews out of West Bend are critical care paramedics.
So it's always good for us to interact with them and then, you
know, them to get some hoisting practice and us to, you know,
have some good scenario based training and do something different
when we're doing bluff work.
So in chief, are there viewing opportunities for citizens?
Yeah.
So we actually had quite a few folks down in a coldock park on
Monday night.
We will have most of the bluff face closed off that little parking lot
kind of by the playground area should remain open, but we'll have
the area cordoned off pretty well and roped off.
And thanks to the police department for helping us keep those areas
safe both Monday night and then next month as well.
So the entrance would be from the north entrance into the park
that you'd prefer?
No, through Lower Lake Park.
Lower Lake Park.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
Move on.
Just a couple of things in the fire chief report.
A couple of resignations this month.
Engineer Ricky Gilson has resigned his position due to some medical
issues.
Ricky has been great for us.
He came to us from Sockville, knows how to drive and pump.
You know, it's almost family tradition for him.
So it's sad to see him kind of step back for medical issues.
Depending on how things progressed, he's always welcome to return to us,
but we need to give him some time for that to happen.
And rescue diver Steve Plouts.
Steve is relatively new to us.
Only been here about four or five months, but family made a decision
that they're going to move to Arizona.
The response times from Arizona are not overly conducive to being on
the dive team here.
So I had to resign, but Steve was a very experienced diver.
He was with Southern Ozaki and Mackwan for a long time.
So I got some good trainings in, helped us actually run a couple of
trainings.
So we'll miss him.
Next on the list, I did send the next batch of administrative
policies for review and feedback.
I haven't gotten any feedback on this packet of things,
which they're unlikely to be perfect.
So I know I've unloaded a quite a bit of that stuff on you guys.
So please forward those things to me.
So I can start getting them taken care of and finalized.
And as I mentioned before, before the end of the year,
I'd like to bring the whole packet back for you guys to approve,
but figure it's easier to digest in small chunks instead of a 200 page
book at once.
Mr. Chairman.
Yes, sir.
Chief, did you email those?
Yes.
When was it?
I don't think I got it.
One, two, and six, I think I saw.
I got the first tranche.
And then I went to the chairman to distribute.
Oh, are you saying there's a second?
There's a second batch.
Yeah.
I'll respond.
We will make sure that we get those to you.
Thank you.
So I'm glad you enjoyed your break of not reading our policies.
First one was fun.
Enjoy.
You have a different definition.
Okay.
Next one on my list.
This is just a kudos to our well trained EMS staff.
We received notification that we were awarded the mission lifeline
EMS award from the American Heart Association.
The silver award this time, you have to get bronze before you get silver, so on and so forth.
We've had bronze for a couple of years.
We had the call volume this year to support getting the silver silver award.
In 2025, there's only 18 agencies across the state that were awarded this process.
There's quite a bit of reporting that's associated with it.
It largely focuses on like outcomes of pre hospital stroke, heart attack, cardiac arrest, making sure we're hitting timing benchmarks, reporting benchmarks, communication with the hospital, those type of things.
So hats off to our crew and a special thanks to McKenna fairy who put a lot of time in the reporting side of this going through call after call after call to make sure that we're being compliant with all the requests that they have from.
American Heart Association to get to that benchmark.
So extended thanks to the department that's quite an honor.
Yeah, the last thing I have on my list is just a quick update on our side of the public safety building.
As interim chiefs are deck, he pointed out things are progressing well.
If you've driven past this week, you're starting to notice garage doors, which is a huge thing for us a to get the building secure, but that's a huge benchmark.
For them to start being able to finish the apparatus for those type of things.
Our side was always a little bit behind. We had a couple of setbacks in the last few weeks on some things that we wanted to improve or change.
But it works out well because there needs to be pacing otherwise for furniture installation and those type of things.
So we're still on track to try to be in there probably by mid August.
We've also been working with some places to come up with a plan for decommissioning of the car buildings so we can be out of there when the city needs us to be out of there.
So stay tuned for more information about that.
Good.
Any questions?
That's our goal right now.
Come have a high water.
Okay.
Anything else, chief?
That's all I have for this evening.
Okay, good.
So it looks like our next meeting is Monday, July 15th.
And 13th.
I'm sorry.
June 13th.
Okay.
I was just checking that.
July 13th.
The BCC is a 15th.
That's correct.
Okay.
I was here for it in June.
So I get extra credit.
You do.
Yeah.
I came twice.
Okay.
If there's no other business, then I'll entertain a motion to the chair.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Yes.
I think we normally skip the July meeting and I just like to leave that option open, particularly.
I think there are some conflicts.
So if and and a lot going on for these gentlemen, if I'd like to leave that option open to your discretion, maybe look at that as we get closer to that date.
We can double up in August.
Okay.
Sounds good.
Thank you.
Make a note of that.
Okay.
No other business will entertain a motion to adjourn.
Okay.
All in favor.
Bye.