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Okay, let's call our meeting to order for Wednesday, August 12th, 2026, police and fire commission roll call members present except for Dan Becker who's absent and excused.

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Are there any public appearances comments or correspondence.

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Okay, you're in none.

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As far as my comments.

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Just one thing I had a long conversation today with a resident Mike Keller who's concerned about the bikes in the city and thinks we maybe want to look at some more either regulations or ordinances or education.

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I have to admit I'm more a fan of education than enforcement, but he seems to be a proud. He seems to think there's a problem with e bikes motor scooters hoverboards those type of things. And I think it's something we may want to address.

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So I just like to challenge the police department to come perhaps in September with some ideas how we can move forward on that or suggestions other communities have found to be helpful.

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Okay, that's it for my comments.

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Yes, sir.

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Yes, go ahead.

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I just want to be sure our current bike helmet law applies to any of these bike classifications true.

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Yes, thank you.

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Right.

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Okay, thank you.

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Okay, we can move on then to a review of the minutes from our June 17th meeting.

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Is there any corrections or.

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Or comments to be made on that.

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Hearing none, is there a motion to accept those minutes from the June 17th meeting.

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Motion and second, all in favor.

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Hi, posed.

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Okay, those pass.

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Okay, then it's always the fun part here recognition of service anniversaries and quite a few this month in the police department. We have Taylor Russell with 10 years of service.

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Jason Bergen, 25 years of service.

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Jordan Cook, nine years.

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Gatelyn Volm, four years.

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Jacob Zagowski, four years.

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And then over at the fire department, we have.

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Jacob.

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Oh, dwarf with five years of service.

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Eric IBS, 27 years.

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Nick Gilbank with three years.

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Rick Colchen, 20 years.

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Olsen, Melinda with four years.

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And Jeff teaching with 40 years of service.

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As always, the PFC.

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Thanks them and wants them to understand the community appreciates their efforts.

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And chief, did you want to say something.

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So tonight, one of our officers.

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Jason Bergen, who has reached the 25 year milestone with our department is here tonight with some family.

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Because he reached the 25 years, we have a little gift for him in a very nice gift bag. And I didn't wrap it.

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Because first of all, I'm not good at it. And all I had was Christmas paper. So.

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We got a little something for you, but before we give that to him.

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Let's say a couple of things about Jason. First off, I still remember field training.

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Jason 25 years ago, we were both a lot younger and had a lot less gray hair.

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But he's done a great job for us ever since.

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Some of the things that he's done has been as a bike patrol officer.

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He's currently our SRO.

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He's been on the honor guard for the department and he's gotten special training in clan lab cleanup.

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So sometimes assist other agencies, if they have like a meth lab, things like that, which is a little bit more complicated than your normal call.

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So if Jason would come up, I'll present him with his gift.

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And your gift bag.

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Yes, congratulations. Thank you for your 25 years. Do you want to.

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Yeah, with me tonight, I'm very lucky I have my wife Liz. Go to the microphone, please.

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I have my wife Liz sitting over here with us. And then our children JJ.

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From right to the left, we have Bella and Grant way on the end.

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So, yeah. And I have a daughter who's at Creighton University. So.

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She's starting her junior year. So.

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Thank you very much for your service. Thank you. Just one question. What has changed in 25 years at the police department.

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The easy one. We're getting a new building. Hey, no.

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Starting out with no computers in the squad car.

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To now we're like to the point where where do I sit.

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It's almost like a cockpit where we're getting there tight. We got everything that we need.

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Police has changed. Yeah. In the 25 years. It has gone fast and.

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Yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't change the path at all. So I'm proud. It's great city to work for. So thank you.

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Thank you. And thanks for being here. You guys.

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Mr Chairman, only 25 more years to go.

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I'd like to make a comment. Yeah, I just wanted to add my thanks to Officer Bergen. Thank you so much for your service to our community.

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And as you know, better than anybody, no one serves alone. So thank you to the family as well.

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I know it's difficult to say goodbye to your husband and your father each morning and pray that they come home safely.

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But Jason's done a phenomenal job for us and we appreciate your service and that of your families. Thank you.

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Okay. Any other comments? Okay, then we can move on.

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So we'll start with the police department tonight and let's review and discuss June and July bills.

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Any commissioners have questions about the.

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The bills for June and July.

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Yes, I had a question. I did address it.

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Through the city a little earlier today, but I had a question on the July invoices for the we energies,

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specifically to the public safety building, because I believe it is still considered under project and that should be going to the project coordinator.

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In reaching out to Rob VanderNova, I did get an email back.

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The we energies charges should have been made to the project, not to PD. He will get that reclassified.

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And then moving forward, we energies charges will be split between PD and FD.

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And we'd question the parking lot lights, which again, they'll they're working on.

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We hope they are because they have been on 24 seven since they installed them. So that's where that's where my question started originally when I sent it to Rob.

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And as I explained earlier, that's a building automation issue and they're still working the kinks out of that.

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Thank you.

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Any other questions or comments about the invoices at the police department?

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Hearing none, let's move along to the budget.

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And.

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This is the second quarter budget. Any questions on that?

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Yes, Mr. Chairman. Yes.

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So if I'm reading this correctly, we're at 77% of overtime wages.

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Probably. Yes. So a couple of questions on that chief.

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If I just want to be sure I'm reading this correctly, if that were to continue, we'd be at 140 154% here.

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Yes, this isn't like a pro rated door. Okay.

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This seems like, and I know it's not your issue, but it just seems like.

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Every year we're over on overtime wages.

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Is as we approach budget time and including our meeting this Friday, is this something we go to the city with and say, where are we kidding?

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Every year, every year we go over when they like to know the real number or.

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I don't want to get into the weeds on the political process here, but is it just.

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I mean, are we in denial? It's over every year. We know it's going to be over. Why don't we just budget it?

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They, they are aware of that also based on the meetings I've had with the city.

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Yeah. So plenty of smart people. They know.

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They're aware that we're going to go over now. Some of that.

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I mean, the overtime budget fluctuates from your dear based on number of things.

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Last year, the year before was particularly bad. I wasn't a chief then, but I can make an educated guess based on my position and what I know.

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Because we were three officers short, you know, for a good portion of that, that year.

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This year, I'm not sure exactly why we're over as much as we are, but typically the beginning of the year tends to be and particularly the summer tends to be a little bit worse.

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A lot of festivals.

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Yeah, festivals, vacation time. And when we're at minimum staffing, it only takes one person then to call in sick or have some other issue.

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Paternity leave, whatever it happens to be. And then we're back filling shifts and that's where you get a lot of the overtime. And, you know, some of this, for instance, I don't remember exactly how many hours we had.

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Because of fish day, but that'll be reimbursed by fish day. So, I mean, some of those, some of those hours aren't necessarily.

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Are overtime costs. It's somebody else's.

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Is there a number you can attribute to the vantage data center?

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Vantage really hasn't aside from.

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Issues.

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And now that you mentioned that that's probably where a lot of this came from, you know, having extra security for council meetings.

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If you want to attribute that to them, that's, I guess that's fair, but vantage.

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The data center itself has not caused us.

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A lot of overtime issues are main calls up there.

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Because you've got a couple thousand people all who have cell phones that are moving around. Our main calls up there are cell phone 911.

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There have been some traffic issues and they're kind of getting split between us and the sheriff's department.

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And mostly that's, you know, sloppy roads because of mud and stuff like that.

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And when there's a request for additional traffic support there, I know that I'm pretty sure that the sheriff gets reimbursed by vantage.

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Is that something we get reimbursed for? Do we just not do it?

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We have not been doing it because, frankly, we don't have the personnel that are interested in coming in on a concert.

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I can't, I can't staff somebody there on a consistent basis to help out with the traffic direction.

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Now that traffic direction is going to change a little bit in the near future because, as you may have noticed, the traffic lights that were approved.

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Well, earlier in the year, they have finally been getting put up by DOT.

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So those traffic lights are going to kind of take the place of some of that traffic direction.

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Okay. And is that kind of, if we were to do it, do you see it as kind of a break-even as opposed to a revenue generator?

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It would be a break-even.

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It was a break-even. So more work for you, but break-even for the budget.

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Yeah, we can't really charge them for profit.

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Okay.

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Take your profits.

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Thank you.

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Okay. Any other questions about the budget?

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Do you contemplate more training happening during the year?

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Because I see we're already hit a percent of half of the year.

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Any specialized training probably will get turned down for the rest of the year because of that.

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However, there is mandatory training that we still have to do this fall.

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And that consists of our in-service training, which really,

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we try to schedule on officers' regular days on so we don't incur overtime from that.

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And currently we're using WCTC, which is a pretty good bargain deal for us because they provide a day's worth of training.

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I think it's like $35 an officer.

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So that really isn't a huge hit to the training budget, but that's,

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that training will be necessary for the rest of the year.

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Does that number of $35 an officer get attributed to the training budget?

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Do you know?

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It does. All right.

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I got to look to my, my budget person.

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Yes. Yes. That's where it goes.

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Thank you.

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And just again, following up with the percentages.

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Question with the maintenance contracts.

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So those obviously are on the old facility.

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Yes.

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And we continue, you know, they stay coming out of your budget even when you're moved into the new place.

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We have to look at what the maintenance contracts will be for the new place and,

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and work that into the 27 budget.

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That's good to know.

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And obviously the vehicle maintenance we can't do much about.

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No, we can't. And it's, um, yeah, that's, I mean, that's up there too.

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Yeah, that's at 91.

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And I've discussed this already with the finance director and essentially we didn't get to new cars this year.

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And so our primary cars are that much older and needing that much more maintenance.

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And I told him, I don't really expect that that's going to change.

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Anytime this year, because they just continue to accumulate miles.

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So I anticipate that'll get better next year when we can replace those cars and then have some newer.

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Pressure of vehicles in the fleet. So.

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Hearing none, then we'll move on to municipal court statements.

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Calls for service. I'm sorry.

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Oh, my bad. Okay. I'm just looking at the flow here.

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Yep. Municipal court statements and.

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Any questions there?

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Then we can move on to calls for service.

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And we have both June and July's calls for service.

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Any questions there?

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Mr. Chairman, quick question for the chief chief.

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I don't mean to put you on the spot. So feel free to answer this when we meet on Friday or whatever.

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But wastewater treatment plant calls. What are those?

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So ever since I've started wastewater has got somebody in the building 24 7 365.

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Dispatch makes a call about every hour after about 10 p.m. till about 6 a.m.

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To check on that person to make sure that they're okay.

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That's important. Yeah.

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So they must be creating some calls for that.

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So they're not incidents per se. They're just businesses.

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They're basically a well fair check.

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And we've done ever since we had our own dispatches. We call every hour to make sure that that person is answering,

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not that they've fallen into something or have some other move or some other problem.

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So beautiful. Thank you.

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Any other questions on calls for service?

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Hearing none.

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And one last thing is the Wisconsin information based reporting.

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And any questions there.

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Quiet group tonight.

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Okay. Hearing none.

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Then we can move on to the chief's report.

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Okay. So I've got two items, even though only a is on her, but.

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For the update for the public safety building.

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We continue to move things over there today. I got.

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I had our evidence tech team move everything from our evidence room.

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As far as collecting the evidence over the new PD. They did a fantastic job.

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They got it all done in a couple hours.

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They are putting everything away, labeling the new locations for these things.

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The only staff who we ran into is, like I said, in that room, there was a lack of shelving in the cupboard.

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So I have arranged to get some more shelving brought over to us for that tomorrow.

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We'll be bringing it was in today.

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They started working on our computers and I identified our priority computers.

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Two of which are in the property room.

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So that now the property room can be secured.

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And we can start getting our evidence over there, our actual.

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Taken evidence over there, which myself and one of the property officers will be doing tomorrow morning.

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Trying to transfer as much of that as we can.

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Phone system for the whole city is up and operational.

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The phones that I could plug in that were extra at the new PD have been plugged in.

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They are working.

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On a side note, I didn't know how this would work, but I was at the new PD.

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I dialed the extension for the old PD, one of the phones and somebody answered and I said, Hey, I'm at the new PD and this is actually working.

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We can talk back and forth.

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It is the little, it's the little victories that mean a lot.

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What we're going to be looking at.

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Now coming up in the short term is really working on trying to get some of the computers over there and monitors and get no setup.

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The plan is to try and get a clerk over at the new location so that we can start operating out of there and then once we can do that.

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We can start moving other stuff over officers have already started moving things for their lockers and their personal like their workspace stuff.

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Today I got all their entry fobs programmed.

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So today they receive their fobs and their keys so they can have access to the building now.

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So like I said, we're really going to start trying to move stuff over as much as possible shortly.

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They all seem to be pretty excited about it.

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The only one big thing that's left to do is we were going to use movers to move some of our stuff, but as we've looked through the list of things that we're going to have the movers do.

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We found that a lot of the things are already either there or we don't need to take because they were covered by the things that were purchased with the building.

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So we kind of for went that night. I've convinced a group to work for pizza.

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And we're going to rent a U hall and get a couple of decent alleys and and all that stuff over ourselves one evening.

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So that's kind of where we're at.

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Just don't forget to move the PFC's file cabinet over.

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Yeah, I got to talk to you guys about that.

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Don't forget about that because that you guys still have have to do that. So, yeah.

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Is there a date that you hope to have everything transferred over and be in there?

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I September 15th.

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I hope we're operational out of there. I mean, probably next week, I'm hoping.

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But I know I have a month that I just my main concentration is getting everything over there that we need. We can fine tune it later.

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But then I know I have a couple weeks to be able to still go back and access things because there are.

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I mean, you think about all the stuff you accumulate over 30 years and trying to figure out what can stay and what should go or what we don't need.

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Exactly. Yeah. And just one other question I had also involves chief to bore is.

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Have you come to an agreement on.

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You know, things within the building who's responsible for certain things or have you had the opportunity to talk about that yet.

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We talk about it on almost daily basis. Yeah, we've been.

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Yeah, we see each other more than I think we probably see our families right now.

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Yeah, we've been working through that as things come up. In fact, we just finalized like we're doing the fire alarm system.

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They're doing the sprinkler system stuff. So trying to keep it as equitable as possible in areas that makes sense.

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We still have some things to work on as far as interior maintenance that kind of stuff, but anything that we can share.

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We will work on doing great.

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Any other questions on that subject.

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Just a comment.

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Chief, you've been doing a lot of work on this project and the moving right down to going over and vacuuming.

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So thank you.

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I even had my wife over there working.

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That's about the only way we get to see each other is she's outcome over and help us.

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We have a lot of work to do with this project.

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So thank you for all of the hard work. Just a fantastic.

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Great job. Thank you.

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All right, moving along.

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Item B is a last minute entry. We have a.

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If it's okay, we have a request for secondary employment from Tammy Shepard.

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She will be working part time at the Fredonia Police Department.

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I think basically doing what she does for us, which is entering records and maybe typing reports and things like that.

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I don't believe that this will interfere with her position at all.

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It's very part time and the hours basically are whenever she wants to go up there.

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Having had the experience of working up in Fredonia.

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I know how that place is run.

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And essentially, it's when I have some free time, I'll go up and take care of this kind of thing. So.

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Okay, good.

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Yeah, I see a request dates back to June since we didn't have a July meeting. It's.

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On the on the shelf for a while. Yeah.

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But if you have no problem with that, I don't see any problem here.

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Commissioner, is any comments on that?

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Since it's not an item on here, I don't think we can.

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Take any action other than getting giving blessing on this.

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Correct.

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Any problems?

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No, okay.

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Consider it done then. Thank you.

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All good done.

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Okay, let's then move on to.

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Fire department.

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Good evening, everybody.

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Good evening, chief.

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I figured we would just go through June and then go through July as we do normally.

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So yes, we will start with the MSM voices for June.

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Any concerns there, chief? Nope.

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Aim balances are starting to show signs of their ages, just, you know,

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similar to what chief Sarnaki was saying.

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Air conditioning and both ambulances went out within a month of each other.

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So you'll see an invoice for a runner.

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It's fire equipment and doing four 52s and then an invoice in July for four 51.

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Other than that,

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everything's pretty standard.

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As far as fire department invoices go.

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Not much to report there.

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Host testing is the big ticket item.

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We contract with a company called fire cat that comes in and does our annual host testing for us.

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It's nice because they have the correct equipment to do host testing.

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You know, it's a little bit more complicated than,

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you know, at 20 years ago and just hooked it up to the truck and pumped it as hard as we could and made sure nothing broke.

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There's an FPA standards that we have to follow.

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It also gives us a lot of time back because we're using three or at least three or four trainings a year to do host testing.

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And now that company comes in and does it for us. So we get those nights back for training.

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Yes, sir.

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Just curious, will that be an easier process in the new facility?

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Most testing. No, we actually.

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Use the Hollander chocolate lot. They're gracious enough to let us use that lot.

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So they can lay out 300 feet at a time and test all of those sections so they get through our entire fleet in a day and a half or so.

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Yeah, they have been super gracious about doing that the entire time that they've had the building.

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We try to schedule it on Monday when they're closed, but even then they more than gracious enough to work around us if we needed to bleed over.

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Great. Yeah. Yeah, we did. Send them a nice. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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You mess calls in June.

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It continues to be busy.

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140 calls in June.

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We actually ended up in with 140 in July as well.

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You're seeing that these are all largely our calls. We haven't been doing many intercepts. One or two Z here in there.

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But.

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We did have three mutual aid requests for second emails calls.

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As we'll talk about in our later agenda items, staffing has been a little bit challenging as of late. So that leaves us when we're at minimum unable to staff a second.

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So we had a couple of calls where somebody was not available and you'll see those are typically later at nighttime calls.

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That said, you know, looking back a few years ago and we're still, you know, farming out 50% of our calls, having essentially nine total throughout the course of the year is a significant improvement, but something that we're trying to work on internally.

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And response times are still looking good at a little over six minutes. Yes.

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Very good. Thank you.

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Tell us about fire calls for June.

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June fire calls are kind of all starting to run together in my head a little bit.

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I don't think there is anything too exciting there except for a cat from a tree rescue. Yes, it does happen.

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I think we have significantly razz the firefighter who got his picture on social media doing it. So.

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Yeah, that's.

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But otherwise nothing super exciting there.

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And then moving into July.

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EMS invoices.

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Significant things there. Again, we already talked about the air conditioning repair for 451.

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Our billing collection numbers were up significantly, which is good because that's a percentage of our reimbursement.

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The higher we see the ambulance billing collection fee means we're doing better from that standpoint, and then we have a pre employment physical there for a new member that we'll talk about shortly.

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And chief photos, a little more about the ambulances. How old are those and how many miles, when are they going to be replaced?

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All of them are due for replacement in 2020.

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Well, one is due in 28 and one is due in 29.

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If we can get them by them. So that's something that I've been talking with a finance director about.

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We're likely going to have to kind of go through a process similar to the ambulances or the engine about lead time issues.

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We have been working with a vendor to help put together a spec so we can send it out for proposals from multiple vendors so we can cross all of those things off the list, but.

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The ambulance 451 has about 90 between 90 and a hundred thousand miles on it right now.

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These are gas motors.

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When these two were purchased, they were.

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Specked as gas motors, so it's not the old diesel that'll run forever and ever and ever anymore.

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And it's not just the chassis, the box shows, you know, age with it. And as we change, you know, operationally, that's the biggest thing.

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You know, when these things were built, if you would have told me they would have been staffed by full time firefighter paramedics out of lap data.

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But obviously, you know, needing storage for their turn out gear, breathing apparatus, those type of things are going to be included in the new ambulance because that stuff just doesn't fit in the currently out.

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So we're also trying to plan for the future as we're working on the designs for these. Hopefully they can be remounted.

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Once we get the body style, how we want them with the next iteration of ambulances, hopefully we can get two chassis out of each of them.

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So.

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Mr Chairman. Yes, sir.

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Chief question on the ambulance billing collections. Yes.

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If I'm remembering correctly, we approve this as kind of a new process, like in the first quarter of this year.

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And I'm just wondering if you could say more about it. You think it's going well. I know we were spending enormous amounts of staff time and it wasn't really efficient and we weren't collecting and.

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As far as I, I don't think we made any significant changes to what we're doing.

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We had, we did have some meetings with our ambulance billing provider to make sure that some of the issues that we were having are ironed out.

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Since that time, I think communication with them has been significantly better.

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We have a new customer success representative, I think is their specific title.

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Who has been significantly more responsive than our previous, but there's always issues with, you know,

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people getting bills for work comp things that, you know, it didn't get entered as work comp.

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You know, either on the hospital side or, you know, vice versa. So we always have little things here and there.

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You know, and as these billing companies become larger and larger and larger, it's just like any other corporation as they get bigger and bigger or bigger.

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Sometimes customer service wins, but when we get those concerns, we take them seriously and we have pretty quick follow up with our rep to make sure those things get.

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Corrected pretty quick. Okay. And you're happy with the, I mean, they have a percentage right, but it's.

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Yes, if you look at, you know, when we went, you know, when we stayed with ems, emc, ems, emc purchased, Andre's medical billing, who was our previous provider.

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And their collection rates, you know, are significantly higher, or at least somewhat higher than, you know, what the national averages or if we went with a smaller firm.

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So that's part of the puzzle to, you know, ambulance, EMS billing, medical billing, all of those things involve insurance are and are exceedingly complicated. So it requires them to kind of be persistent.

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And that's why, you know, their, their fees are what they are because it takes a lot of time. In fact, I just talked with them on Monday to make sure all of our Medicare and Medicaid stuff was buttoned up because there had been some stuff that fell through the cracks

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a couple of years ago that needed to get buttoned up. Okay, so great. Thank you. Yep.

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Okay, any other questions about July billing invoices.

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Fire invoices pretty low for the month of July probably because we've been spending most of our time getting stuff ready for the transition to the new facility.

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You'll see fire alarm inspection and monitoring that kind of goes back to your question before about, you know, working together with the police department. So this is our half of the fire alarm system.

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Monitoring work, like I said before, we're taking care of the fire alarm inspection and monitoring, and then they're taking care of the sprinkler system so their invoice is pretty similar to ours.

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So we're going to have a couple of calls.

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For Peter's little laggy today, too many pages of things to flip through.

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Strangely exact same number of calls as June.

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A couple more intercepts again, you know, kind of waxing and waning, whether that's, you know, for don't use on a second call or whatever the case is.

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Two to three intercepts a month right now, but as they're staffing fluctuates just like anyone else.

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You know, those numbers kind of bounce up and down.

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Response times in July, drop below six minutes average in the city of five minutes and 37 seconds, which is great.

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And no facility based lift assist. We've been doing pretty well with that since the ordinance passage last year.

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A couple of mutual aid requests, both of those were 30 minutes calls, or sorry, two, two thirds of those were 30 minutes calls.

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And you guys know, don't have a 30 minutes, but both of those calls got first responders going to them. So at least somebody's coming.

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Getting to the patient quickly and at least starting care while we're waiting for our friends for almost a central to show up and help us out.

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Fire calls. So this is the first month in.

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I think our department's history that we hit 50 fire calls in a month.

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40 is quite high. We had 41 the month prior and we eclipse that.

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Last year we had two months for the first time ever above 40. We've done that like four months already this year.

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We are well on our way to 2000 total calls this year, which will be significantly higher than where we've been in the past.

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Looks like you responded to four or five mutual aid calls. Yeah, I believe the 12th was one of those strange days.

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We had three fires in one day. One of them being our own on terrace drive.

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We responded to a fully involved garage fire at one in the morning.

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By the time I got on scene.

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Flames were already through the roof of the garage and it had partially already collapsed.

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Our crews got on scene very quickly and we're able to knock down the fire as best they could and prevent significant damage to the interior of the house.

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There was still some smoke damage and those type of things, but the fire didn't spread maybe 10 feet past the firewall in the garage.

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Our friends for the police department also did a great job helping get the neighbors evacuated and doing some force of a entry practice to make sure the people next door were out and safe as well as making sure the residents of that home were out.

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Then we ended up going to Newberg for a fire at one in the afternoon.

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And as we were on our way back from that one, we went to Cedarburg for another fire.

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Is that how we got the 347 response time? Yeah.

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Wow. Yeah. In fact, I was coming through Cedarburg as that page went out.

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So I was there probably faster than some of the Cedarburg units were getting on scene.

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Nice.

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So, good work.

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Okay.

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Mr. Has any questions about June or July fire information.

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Okay.

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Right.

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Okay.

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So a couple of things to run through quickly.

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Question on the revenue.

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Did you want to do go through the cheese report or do you want to do the budget next? Oh, okay. It's in there.

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It's up to you. I just want to be sure we didn't miss the revenue. I'm just.

428
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:23,000
I'll get you this. All right. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Okay. So just a couple of things from a staffing and personnel perspective.

429
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,000
I'm not sure what it is.

430
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
It's just a lot of things that we've been doing.

431
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:37,000
I'm sure that the National Firefighter Paramedic Brad Walker has resigned and accepted full time employment with the city of Brookfield fire department.

432
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,000
He started there on August 10 we wish him well and good luck.

433
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:46,000
That means we will be starting a recruiting process to fill that vacancy.

434
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,000
In the short term in the near future. So.

435
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,100
has requested to move back to the rank of engineer.

436
00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:57,540
Engineers are the folks that drive, pump the vehicles

437
00:38:57,540 --> 00:38:59,260
instead of riding in the right front

438
00:38:59,260 --> 00:39:01,060
and kind of being on the line.

439
00:39:01,060 --> 00:39:03,140
Andrew was a engineer for a long time

440
00:39:03,140 --> 00:39:04,500
before becoming a lieutenant

441
00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:06,580
and then has request to move back to that position.

442
00:39:06,580 --> 00:39:09,420
So I will honor that request

443
00:39:09,420 --> 00:39:10,700
unless there's any objection

444
00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:12,540
from the police and fire commission.

445
00:39:14,740 --> 00:39:16,740
Any objections?

446
00:39:16,740 --> 00:39:18,260
Hearing none,

447
00:39:18,260 --> 00:39:19,100
continue on.

448
00:39:19,100 --> 00:39:20,340
Wonderful.

449
00:39:20,340 --> 00:39:21,700
Like to announce the hiring

450
00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:26,060
of a new part-time firefighter, EMT, Isaiah Mullins.

451
00:39:26,060 --> 00:39:30,620
Isaiah has been with us for close to a month or so now,

452
00:39:30,620 --> 00:39:32,460
has been doing well quickly progressing

453
00:39:32,460 --> 00:39:34,260
through his orientation.

454
00:39:34,260 --> 00:39:36,460
Isaiah is a former defensive end

455
00:39:36,460 --> 00:39:37,860
for the Wisconsin Badgers.

456
00:39:37,860 --> 00:39:40,220
So he will not be the hard one to pick out

457
00:39:40,220 --> 00:39:41,540
when you see him on a call.

458
00:39:44,540 --> 00:39:46,380
All right, Commissioner Dean, now's your chance.

459
00:39:46,380 --> 00:39:47,740
Let's go through the budget.

460
00:39:49,020 --> 00:39:54,020
So I've provided the quarter two budget in our packet

461
00:39:54,620 --> 00:39:56,740
for you guys to review.

462
00:39:56,740 --> 00:39:57,660
Just kind of going through,

463
00:39:57,660 --> 00:40:00,580
you'll see our EMS revenue is up a little bit

464
00:40:01,460 --> 00:40:03,580
beyond what we expected.

465
00:40:03,580 --> 00:40:05,820
We forecasted about 800,000

466
00:40:05,820 --> 00:40:09,700
and we're at 430,000 so far this year.

467
00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:12,100
And as our call volume continues to increase,

468
00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:16,500
I would anticipate that continuing to increase.

469
00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:19,740
That does not include our GMAT funding

470
00:40:19,740 --> 00:40:23,980
or there's a program through the state

471
00:40:23,980 --> 00:40:26,780
that essentially helps offset some of the cost

472
00:40:26,780 --> 00:40:31,100
of what we're losing when we bill Medicare

473
00:40:31,100 --> 00:40:32,780
or sorry, Medicaid patients.

474
00:40:32,780 --> 00:40:37,780
So that adds between 12 and $15,000 annually,

475
00:40:39,620 --> 00:40:42,500
sometimes a little bit more, sometimes a little bit less.

476
00:40:42,500 --> 00:40:45,780
But that's a program that started technically last year

477
00:40:45,780 --> 00:40:47,980
but it was retroactive to the year prior.

478
00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:51,540
Amanda, our administrative assistant,

479
00:40:51,540 --> 00:40:54,300
does a great job doing that for us.

480
00:40:54,300 --> 00:40:57,580
It takes a lot of work for her to go through

481
00:40:57,580 --> 00:41:00,660
and catalog all those calls and all of that revenue

482
00:41:00,660 --> 00:41:05,220
and put that into the state portal to collect that.

483
00:41:05,220 --> 00:41:07,300
As I'm sure you can imagine that portal

484
00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:10,780
is way more complex than it probably needs to be,

485
00:41:10,780 --> 00:41:13,340
but she does a great job taking care of that for us.

486
00:41:13,980 --> 00:41:16,260
So that'll be miscellaneous revenue

487
00:41:16,260 --> 00:41:18,060
when that's received as well.

488
00:41:21,740 --> 00:41:23,940
Expenditures, as you can see,

489
00:41:23,940 --> 00:41:28,980
we're kind of creeping up on our overtime as well.

490
00:41:28,980 --> 00:41:30,900
We're at 53%.

491
00:41:30,900 --> 00:41:35,900
But see the previous comments before about staffing issues

492
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:39,900
with the departure of three full-time personnel this year.

493
00:41:39,900 --> 00:41:42,140
We've had to post a fair bit of overtime

494
00:41:42,140 --> 00:41:45,260
to make sure we're at least at our staffing minimums.

495
00:41:45,260 --> 00:41:48,060
We always do try to fulfill those positions

496
00:41:48,060 --> 00:41:49,260
with part-time personnel,

497
00:41:49,260 --> 00:41:53,100
but those folks obviously only have so much time available

498
00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:55,820
to give and the ones that are working there,

499
00:41:55,820 --> 00:41:59,420
maximum hours can't really help us more than they are.

500
00:41:59,420 --> 00:42:01,780
So typically a lot of those just fall

501
00:42:01,780 --> 00:42:03,580
on full-time staff to pick up.

502
00:42:04,700 --> 00:42:06,700
One thing that I would like to note in here,

503
00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:08,980
both on the fire and the EMS side

504
00:42:08,980 --> 00:42:12,140
is the life insurance is significantly higher

505
00:42:12,140 --> 00:42:13,940
than what is budgeted.

506
00:42:13,940 --> 00:42:16,820
I did talk to the finance director about this.

507
00:42:16,820 --> 00:42:21,020
This was an oversight on their part this year

508
00:42:21,020 --> 00:42:23,180
about forecasting for life insurance

509
00:42:23,180 --> 00:42:26,900
and not including full-time personnel into that.

510
00:42:26,900 --> 00:42:29,580
So that'll be corrected in the 2027 budget.

511
00:42:29,580 --> 00:42:32,300
But a lot of those, that's in kind of the section

512
00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:34,180
that's maintained by City Hall

513
00:42:34,180 --> 00:42:36,640
and not really touched by us.

514
00:42:39,580 --> 00:42:42,660
The rest of the GLs seem to be going okay,

515
00:42:42,660 --> 00:42:45,100
computer services, that one, you know,

516
00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:48,780
when you see it, it says 419% over.

517
00:42:48,780 --> 00:42:51,700
That's only because that line item closed this year

518
00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:53,380
and got rolled into something else,

519
00:42:53,380 --> 00:42:57,740
but that was a carryover bill from 2025

520
00:42:57,740 --> 00:42:59,660
that made its way into this year.

521
00:42:59,660 --> 00:43:02,180
So there's nothing to be concerned about

522
00:43:02,180 --> 00:43:03,300
from that standpoint.

523
00:43:04,540 --> 00:43:07,580
And as you can see, our software fees in the line item

524
00:43:07,580 --> 00:43:11,700
below is only at 13% which will cover that significantly.

525
00:43:14,540 --> 00:43:17,940
Otherwise, if anybody has any questions,

526
00:43:17,940 --> 00:43:20,300
I'm more than happy to take them, you know,

527
00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:25,300
similar sentiments about our vehicle maintenance costs

528
00:43:25,660 --> 00:43:29,820
are, you know, as we continue to age our fleet,

529
00:43:29,820 --> 00:43:31,700
those fees keep going up.

530
00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:34,820
And we're trying to stay ahead of that as best as we can.

531
00:43:34,820 --> 00:43:37,300
So we're still trying to do some preventative

532
00:43:37,300 --> 00:43:39,340
maintenance things, replacing tires,

533
00:43:39,340 --> 00:43:41,500
doing those type of things as budget allows,

534
00:43:41,500 --> 00:43:43,740
but we're trying not to get behind on those things

535
00:43:43,740 --> 00:43:46,060
because that's where we see these, you know,

536
00:43:46,060 --> 00:43:49,260
astronomically priced repairs

537
00:43:49,260 --> 00:43:52,300
because we've neglected the preventative maintenance things.

538
00:43:56,860 --> 00:43:57,900
Sure, you have a question.

539
00:43:57,900 --> 00:43:58,740
Just a quick one.

540
00:43:58,740 --> 00:44:00,660
When is the insurance tax from the state?

541
00:44:00,660 --> 00:44:03,820
When do we recognize that revenue or receive it?

542
00:44:03,820 --> 00:44:05,940
Oh, the GMAT stuff.

543
00:44:05,940 --> 00:44:10,180
Usually we get it probably should be relatively soon.

544
00:44:10,180 --> 00:44:12,740
I would say end of quarter two, early quarter three.

545
00:44:12,740 --> 00:44:14,180
Okay, 80,000.

546
00:44:14,180 --> 00:44:16,740
Oh, no, it's significantly less than that.

547
00:44:16,740 --> 00:44:19,780
It's probably, like I said, between 15 and 20,000.

548
00:44:21,180 --> 00:44:22,460
Maybe we're talking about a different thing

549
00:44:22,460 --> 00:44:24,300
than it's forecasted at 80.

550
00:44:25,460 --> 00:44:27,420
Are you talking about the EMS call billing?

551
00:44:27,420 --> 00:44:29,100
I'm talking about fire insurance that from

552
00:44:29,100 --> 00:44:31,980
Oh, that's the 2% dues.

553
00:44:31,980 --> 00:44:34,140
That should be here by now.

554
00:44:34,140 --> 00:44:34,980
Yeah.

555
00:44:34,980 --> 00:44:36,620
So I don't, that should be here.

556
00:44:36,620 --> 00:44:37,660
It'll show up next time.

557
00:44:37,660 --> 00:44:39,260
Yes, that likely will.

558
00:44:39,260 --> 00:44:43,020
Yeah, we received, we did our 2% dues audit.

559
00:44:43,020 --> 00:44:45,060
I think we talked about that a few meetings ago.

560
00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:47,060
So just waiting for that to post,

561
00:44:47,060 --> 00:44:48,340
but that should have been here by now.

562
00:44:48,340 --> 00:44:49,740
So I will follow up with the finance.

563
00:44:49,740 --> 00:44:50,900
And that's a pretty clear line.

564
00:44:50,900 --> 00:44:52,180
You forecast 80 and you get it.

565
00:44:52,180 --> 00:44:53,260
Yeah, it's pretty, yeah.

566
00:44:53,260 --> 00:44:55,500
I mean, it's within a thousand bucks or two.

567
00:44:55,500 --> 00:44:56,900
Okay, thank you.

568
00:44:56,900 --> 00:44:58,380
But that'll be there for sure.

569
00:44:58,380 --> 00:44:59,220
Good.

570
00:45:02,020 --> 00:45:03,380
Any other budget questions?

571
00:45:08,020 --> 00:45:09,340
Carry on.

572
00:45:09,340 --> 00:45:10,180
Okay.

573
00:45:12,020 --> 00:45:13,700
Update on the brush truck

574
00:45:14,700 --> 00:45:17,180
and the progress of the new engine.

575
00:45:17,180 --> 00:45:22,140
So we have finally placed the new brush truck

576
00:45:22,140 --> 00:45:26,140
457 into service after Monday nights

577
00:45:26,140 --> 00:45:28,780
training with our driver operators.

578
00:45:28,780 --> 00:45:32,380
It's replacing the 1992 GMC brush truck

579
00:45:33,700 --> 00:45:37,140
as our primary brushing kind of quick attack vehicle.

580
00:45:38,020 --> 00:45:39,860
It actually does a lot more things

581
00:45:39,860 --> 00:45:42,100
than the previous brush truck did.

582
00:45:42,100 --> 00:45:45,300
It's equipped with a significantly more powerful pump.

583
00:45:45,300 --> 00:45:47,700
The previous brush truck had, I believe,

584
00:45:47,700 --> 00:45:50,620
a seven and a half or a five horsepower motor.

585
00:45:50,620 --> 00:45:53,660
The new one has a 35 horsepower motor on it.

586
00:45:53,660 --> 00:45:56,460
And the reason that we did that is it will allow us

587
00:45:56,460 --> 00:45:59,540
to essentially pump a standard firefighting

588
00:45:59,540 --> 00:46:02,980
hand line for areas, especially in the town

589
00:46:02,980 --> 00:46:05,940
along those residential roads by the lake

590
00:46:05,940 --> 00:46:08,500
that you really can't get a fire truck down.

591
00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:09,980
So at least we can get down there

592
00:46:09,980 --> 00:46:12,460
and use real firefighting equipment

593
00:46:12,460 --> 00:46:15,700
to try to get a knockdown if we have something down there.

594
00:46:17,780 --> 00:46:19,700
It also is something that we would utilize

595
00:46:19,700 --> 00:46:21,340
on the interstate for car accidents

596
00:46:21,340 --> 00:46:23,740
if we need a hose line or something like that

597
00:46:23,740 --> 00:46:26,060
because it's equipped with foam.

598
00:46:26,060 --> 00:46:28,820
It's got a 225 gallon water tank,

599
00:46:28,820 --> 00:46:31,740
which can be fed from our tanker truck.

600
00:46:31,740 --> 00:46:34,220
There's twin hose reels off the side as well.

601
00:46:35,460 --> 00:46:37,500
This brush truck has breathing apparatus.

602
00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:39,860
Again, if we're gonna do interior structural firefighting

603
00:46:39,860 --> 00:46:41,340
whether we need those type of things.

604
00:46:41,340 --> 00:46:45,300
So it's a significantly more advanced vehicle

605
00:46:45,300 --> 00:46:47,460
than its predecessor.

606
00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:55,100
We are about $40,000 between 30 and $40,000

607
00:46:55,100 --> 00:46:57,740
on your budget on this project largely

608
00:46:57,740 --> 00:47:02,740
because we kind of construction managed this vehicle

609
00:47:03,140 --> 00:47:03,980
in house.

610
00:47:04,860 --> 00:47:09,100
In fact, Cedar Grove fire department was down here

611
00:47:10,740 --> 00:47:12,740
last week to take a look at ours.

612
00:47:12,740 --> 00:47:15,140
They had a bid out for something similar

613
00:47:15,140 --> 00:47:19,140
maybe with a few different bells and whistles on it.

614
00:47:19,140 --> 00:47:22,660
They were getting quotes back for about 250,000.

615
00:47:22,660 --> 00:47:27,660
Ours will be done for about 135 to 140.

616
00:47:27,820 --> 00:47:28,660
Good work.

617
00:47:28,660 --> 00:47:32,660
On top of that, we also got a $10,000 grant from the DNR

618
00:47:32,660 --> 00:47:35,300
to partially fund some of the equipment on the vehicle.

619
00:47:36,540 --> 00:47:38,620
Like I said, a lot of that comes back

620
00:47:38,620 --> 00:47:42,700
to our in-station personnel putting in a lot of work.

621
00:47:42,700 --> 00:47:45,860
Deputy Chief Betcher installing all the lighting

622
00:47:45,860 --> 00:47:47,300
so the crews throughout the day

623
00:47:47,300 --> 00:47:50,100
helping them get those type of things done.

624
00:47:50,140 --> 00:47:52,780
We've been putting the lift kits on

625
00:47:52,780 --> 00:47:54,220
and making sure the tires get on

626
00:47:54,220 --> 00:47:56,340
and doing all that kind of stuff.

627
00:47:56,340 --> 00:47:59,020
So a lot of thanks goes out to those guys

628
00:47:59,020 --> 00:48:02,660
and we're getting all of that stuff done in house

629
00:48:02,660 --> 00:48:04,380
to save us on budget side.

630
00:48:07,460 --> 00:48:09,820
Progress report on the engine.

631
00:48:09,820 --> 00:48:13,820
I don't really have a lot of great news to report.

632
00:48:13,820 --> 00:48:17,420
We were initially planning on September 23rd

633
00:48:17,420 --> 00:48:19,140
as a delivery date.

634
00:48:19,180 --> 00:48:24,180
I received a message from Reliant Fire Apparatus

635
00:48:24,220 --> 00:48:27,100
that that will likely be pushed back

636
00:48:27,100 --> 00:48:29,300
until the end of October.

637
00:48:29,300 --> 00:48:31,780
Nothing on our end that we could do about that

638
00:48:31,780 --> 00:48:34,940
or caused by us, just production delays

639
00:48:34,940 --> 00:48:36,540
and manufacturer delays

640
00:48:36,540 --> 00:48:40,580
and them having issues sourcing materials.

641
00:48:41,700 --> 00:48:43,260
It sounds like there is a chance

642
00:48:43,260 --> 00:48:44,980
that we could still get it in September

643
00:48:44,980 --> 00:48:47,300
but they just wanted to prepare us for that.

644
00:48:47,300 --> 00:48:49,020
I know they are working on it.

645
00:48:49,020 --> 00:48:51,740
I did get graphics proofs sent to me last week

646
00:48:51,740 --> 00:48:53,460
which we sent them back for revision

647
00:48:53,460 --> 00:48:56,780
but it will be here before the end of the year

648
00:48:56,780 --> 00:48:59,340
come Heller High Water is what I'm told.

649
00:48:59,340 --> 00:49:01,540
And we've been working on trying to spec

650
00:49:01,540 --> 00:49:04,940
and order all of the other things that go on at the hose

651
00:49:04,940 --> 00:49:06,220
and all of that kind of stuff.

652
00:49:06,220 --> 00:49:09,020
So when it gets here, hopefully the turnaround time

653
00:49:09,020 --> 00:49:11,300
to get it in service is pretty quick

654
00:49:11,300 --> 00:49:13,420
and we don't drag this project over

655
00:49:13,420 --> 00:49:15,660
into the next budget year unless we have to.

656
00:49:16,660 --> 00:49:20,140
If just a question about how you're disposing

657
00:49:20,140 --> 00:49:24,020
of the old two old trucks,

658
00:49:24,020 --> 00:49:25,780
have you given any thought how you're going to do that?

659
00:49:25,780 --> 00:49:30,780
Yes, the brush truck will go on Wisconsin surplus

660
00:49:30,780 --> 00:49:34,300
and probably the next couple of weeks,

661
00:49:34,300 --> 00:49:36,220
obviously with a move to the new building,

662
00:49:36,220 --> 00:49:38,860
we've kind of trying to prioritize

663
00:49:38,860 --> 00:49:41,500
getting operational out of that place.

664
00:49:41,500 --> 00:49:43,340
But as soon as we are moved over there,

665
00:49:43,340 --> 00:49:46,540
we will be putting that vehicle on Wisconsin surplus.

666
00:49:46,540 --> 00:49:47,980
We've actually reached out to them

667
00:49:47,980 --> 00:49:51,860
to see if that truck is worth more with the skid in it.

668
00:49:51,860 --> 00:49:55,820
So the fire pump in it or if we lift that out

669
00:49:55,820 --> 00:49:57,140
and sell that separately,

670
00:49:57,140 --> 00:49:59,700
if we will get more for the truck that way

671
00:49:59,700 --> 00:50:04,700
because it's a 1992, like 3500 GMC

672
00:50:05,740 --> 00:50:07,100
without a ton of miles on it,

673
00:50:07,100 --> 00:50:08,980
those things actually collect a.

674
00:50:08,980 --> 00:50:10,140
It's a cream trophy.

675
00:50:10,140 --> 00:50:12,980
Yeah, they collect a pretty good value on that.

676
00:50:12,980 --> 00:50:16,860
So sometimes when the firefighting equipment is left

677
00:50:16,860 --> 00:50:19,700
in it, it actually decreases the value in that.

678
00:50:19,700 --> 00:50:22,500
So we've reached out to them to try to see

679
00:50:22,500 --> 00:50:25,100
which option is better because taking the skid out

680
00:50:25,100 --> 00:50:28,020
is a couple hours and a forklift.

681
00:50:28,020 --> 00:50:30,460
So we should be able to handle that.

682
00:50:30,460 --> 00:50:33,180
As far as the engine, we've listed it,

683
00:50:33,180 --> 00:50:38,180
we've listed 464, which is the engine that it's replacing

684
00:50:38,180 --> 00:50:42,580
on a couple of different fire truck broker sites.

685
00:50:42,580 --> 00:50:44,500
We've had a couple of nibbles, I guess,

686
00:50:44,500 --> 00:50:47,180
but no serious takers.

687
00:50:47,180 --> 00:50:52,180
So if we do not have a serious buyer by the time

688
00:50:53,220 --> 00:50:54,700
the new one is set to arrive,

689
00:50:54,700 --> 00:50:58,820
we will also put 464 on Wisconsin surplus.

690
00:50:58,820 --> 00:51:00,260
Okay, thank you.

691
00:51:00,260 --> 00:51:02,460
Yes, any other questions about those?

692
00:51:02,460 --> 00:51:03,300
Yes, sir.

693
00:51:04,580 --> 00:51:09,580
Chief, as we approach near final budget time with the city

694
00:51:09,580 --> 00:51:11,780
and I know we're gonna be reviewing that with you

695
00:51:11,780 --> 00:51:14,020
and previewing it for the council.

696
00:51:14,020 --> 00:51:15,260
It would be really helpful.

697
00:51:15,260 --> 00:51:16,460
You get a humble team over there,

698
00:51:16,460 --> 00:51:19,740
but it would be really helpful if you had a side column

699
00:51:19,740 --> 00:51:21,940
or notes for us or whatever.

700
00:51:21,940 --> 00:51:25,460
For example, coming in under budget on the fire truck,

701
00:51:25,460 --> 00:51:27,100
a little bit of work that you guys did there

702
00:51:27,100 --> 00:51:28,460
to be sure we came in under budget.

703
00:51:28,460 --> 00:51:30,620
You've had some creative revenue proposals this year,

704
00:51:30,620 --> 00:51:32,100
whether they were approved or not.

705
00:51:32,100 --> 00:51:33,340
Could we include all that?

706
00:51:33,340 --> 00:51:35,500
So it's more than a footnote on the budget.

707
00:51:35,500 --> 00:51:36,740
Absolutely, yeah.

708
00:51:36,740 --> 00:51:41,740
Yeah, I think as we continue to try to push for resources

709
00:51:41,780 --> 00:51:44,540
yes, absolutely, I do owe you guys a meeting

710
00:51:44,540 --> 00:51:46,340
about the budget here in the next couple of weeks.

711
00:51:46,340 --> 00:51:47,340
Yeah, no worries.

712
00:51:47,340 --> 00:51:49,140
No worries, we'll add and I will get to you.

713
00:51:49,140 --> 00:51:51,380
But I think that should be a part of our presentation.

714
00:51:51,380 --> 00:51:52,700
Yeah, I agree, 100%.

715
00:51:52,700 --> 00:51:53,540
Thank you.

716
00:51:54,700 --> 00:51:57,420
Lastly on my list is just a quick update

717
00:51:57,420 --> 00:51:59,340
on the public safety building.

718
00:51:59,340 --> 00:52:02,660
Largely echo, Chief Serneki on this.

719
00:52:02,660 --> 00:52:06,340
It's been a fun couple of weeks as we're trying to kind

720
00:52:06,340 --> 00:52:08,380
of get sorted out and sort through the things

721
00:52:08,380 --> 00:52:10,940
that we didn't anticipate a finding.

722
00:52:10,940 --> 00:52:13,580
Honestly, there hasn't been a ton of them on our side.

723
00:52:13,580 --> 00:52:16,620
It's just making sure that things are functioning,

724
00:52:16,620 --> 00:52:20,860
outlets all work and the garage doors aren't causing us

725
00:52:20,860 --> 00:52:22,340
problems and those type of things.

726
00:52:22,340 --> 00:52:27,340
So the plan is to be operational in there

727
00:52:28,020 --> 00:52:30,820
late Monday night, early Tuesday morning.

728
00:52:30,820 --> 00:52:34,060
We'll use this month's fire training for the vehicles

729
00:52:34,060 --> 00:52:36,700
coming over and everybody's turn out gear

730
00:52:36,700 --> 00:52:38,860
coming over that night.

731
00:52:38,860 --> 00:52:41,580
Our last big hold up was building access.

732
00:52:41,580 --> 00:52:44,140
We had permissions and instructions

733
00:52:44,140 --> 00:52:45,500
on how to do that today.

734
00:52:45,500 --> 00:52:48,740
So we couldn't do that because our staff getting

735
00:52:48,740 --> 00:52:50,700
in the building is kind of a barrier to us

736
00:52:50,700 --> 00:52:52,020
working in that building.

737
00:52:54,700 --> 00:52:56,620
Which you used to making force countries?

738
00:52:56,620 --> 00:53:00,060
Yes, it turns out we're not very gentle and it costs a lot

739
00:53:00,060 --> 00:53:01,660
and I don't think we have a force entry

740
00:53:01,660 --> 00:53:03,500
repair line item in the budget.

741
00:53:03,500 --> 00:53:05,340
No, no, okay.

742
00:53:05,340 --> 00:53:06,500
I'm checking.

743
00:53:07,340 --> 00:53:12,340
So, you know, I think we're excited to make the move.

744
00:53:13,060 --> 00:53:15,900
Again, you know, similar to Chief Sarnaki,

745
00:53:15,900 --> 00:53:19,300
we had budgeted in the project having movers come

746
00:53:19,300 --> 00:53:21,300
and do a lot of the work.

747
00:53:21,300 --> 00:53:24,100
But our crews, especially during the day have been,

748
00:53:24,100 --> 00:53:25,340
hey, what can we do to help?

749
00:53:25,340 --> 00:53:26,340
What can we do to help?

750
00:53:26,340 --> 00:53:29,700
And doing 90% of the work to the point

751
00:53:29,700 --> 00:53:32,940
where I don't think we will be hiring movers either.

752
00:53:32,940 --> 00:53:36,540
Yesterday, I, you know, walked out on the apparatus floor.

753
00:53:36,540 --> 00:53:39,660
The dining room table from the current station is there.

754
00:53:39,660 --> 00:53:42,700
The gear dryer and the tool bench is all there,

755
00:53:42,700 --> 00:53:44,020
which are exceedingly heavy.

756
00:53:44,020 --> 00:53:45,620
So I don't know what magic they did

757
00:53:45,620 --> 00:53:47,140
to get them out of the station.

758
00:53:47,140 --> 00:53:49,140
Nor do I probably want to know what they did

759
00:53:49,140 --> 00:53:50,380
to get them out of the station.

760
00:53:50,380 --> 00:53:53,620
But so that is a significant expense.

761
00:53:53,620 --> 00:53:56,220
Again, you know, thanks to our staff coming in,

762
00:53:56,220 --> 00:53:59,140
you know, either off shift or giving up their free time

763
00:53:59,140 --> 00:54:01,780
to just help with these things to make the move

764
00:54:01,780 --> 00:54:03,660
both cost effective and smooth for us.

765
00:54:03,660 --> 00:54:07,380
So IT was there today to start getting our computers

766
00:54:07,380 --> 00:54:08,220
up and running.

767
00:54:08,220 --> 00:54:10,860
It's been a pretty big lift for us.

768
00:54:10,860 --> 00:54:13,820
You know, we're coming from a place where, you know,

769
00:54:13,820 --> 00:54:18,420
we are using a router that once existed in my college dorm

770
00:54:18,420 --> 00:54:22,380
for our internet to having multiple IT closets

771
00:54:22,380 --> 00:54:26,020
and, you know, more computers than probably both

772
00:54:26,020 --> 00:54:29,540
of our current facilities combined, which are needed.

773
00:54:29,540 --> 00:54:32,500
You know, it's 2026 and our current facility, you know,

774
00:54:32,500 --> 00:54:35,820
was built in 1968 or 69.

775
00:54:35,820 --> 00:54:37,620
And not a lot of it has changed in there,

776
00:54:37,620 --> 00:54:39,820
but it's a lot of work getting that infrastructure

777
00:54:39,820 --> 00:54:41,140
up and running today.

778
00:54:41,140 --> 00:54:43,980
In fact, I just was messaging one of the guys

779
00:54:43,980 --> 00:54:46,700
who's working on building an internal television network

780
00:54:46,700 --> 00:54:47,540
for us.

781
00:54:47,540 --> 00:54:50,620
So all of our screens will have up to the minute CADs,

782
00:54:50,620 --> 00:54:53,540
security cameras, our response information,

783
00:54:53,540 --> 00:54:56,260
all of that stuff, just run through the TV

784
00:54:56,260 --> 00:54:58,380
so you can, it's just like a channel.

785
00:54:58,380 --> 00:55:01,980
So again, but also doing that on his own time,

786
00:55:01,980 --> 00:55:03,660
building it for us right now.

787
00:55:03,660 --> 00:55:06,900
So I can't say enough to all the guys that are over there.

788
00:55:07,900 --> 00:55:09,540
One last thing I wanted to mention about that

789
00:55:09,540 --> 00:55:12,100
is the decommissioning process.

790
00:55:12,100 --> 00:55:15,860
Last week at the GGF, they approved a contract

791
00:55:15,860 --> 00:55:18,220
with Bickler Auction Services who will be doing

792
00:55:18,220 --> 00:55:22,420
a decommissioning auction at both of our sites

793
00:55:23,580 --> 00:55:25,280
the third week of September.

794
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,480
Essentially everything that's not bolted down

795
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:32,160
and not moved over by then is up for auction.

796
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:33,960
All the things will be posted online,

797
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,680
then people can go on and bid on them

798
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:37,880
and then come pick them up.

799
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:41,080
I think it's the Friday and Saturday of that week.

800
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:45,520
I think we both agreed that this is the most effective option

801
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:49,120
for us instead of trying to go and individually list

802
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:50,880
everything on Wisconsin surplus.

803
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,720
Like imagine listing every office chair and desk

804
00:55:53,720 --> 00:55:55,240
and all that kind of stuff.

805
00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:57,800
And if you've ever listed anything on Wisconsin surplus,

806
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,440
you'll get 40 emails about an office chair

807
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,560
and somebody wants to come see it and sit in it

808
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:04,600
and do both handles work.

809
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:05,960
There's just one handle work.

810
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,480
Like can you take four more pictures of it?

811
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:11,640
Neither of us have the time to do that.

812
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:16,040
So having a third party come in and do that for us

813
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,720
is a great way for us to still get revenue

814
00:56:18,720 --> 00:56:20,240
from the things that are in the building

815
00:56:20,240 --> 00:56:23,800
but also protect our time and our staff's time

816
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:25,040
in order to get out of there.

817
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,840
So, bickler auction services.

818
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,480
They are local BICHLER.

819
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:33,320
They're out of Fredonia and they,

820
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:34,760
or sorry, out of Belgium.

821
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:38,120
They're probably gonna come after me if they hear that.

822
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,920
They're out of Belgium and they contract

823
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:45,960
with a larger auction house that helps them list

824
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:47,240
and all that kind of stuff.

825
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:50,800
Is there a contemplated date for us, you mentioned?

826
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,560
It is the third week of September.

827
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:55,960
I have to look at the contract again for the exact dates.

828
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:56,960
Okay, thank you.

829
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:57,800
Yep.

830
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:00,240
That's all I got.

831
00:57:00,240 --> 00:57:02,440
Here's a question for both chiefs.

832
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:05,800
He had residents ask about open houses of the new facility.

833
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:07,160
I can answer that one.

834
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:11,720
Yes, so October 11th will be our open house.

835
00:57:11,720 --> 00:57:14,000
Time will be posted shortly.

836
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,760
We will be doing a ribbon cutting or a hose on coupling

837
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:19,800
which is way cooler than a ribbon cutting.

838
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:25,800
And then open house for both fire and police, correct?

839
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:28,440
Yes.

840
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:31,960
So, we've got a lot of cool stuff planned already.

841
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:36,440
The sprinkler trailer from the National Fire Protection

842
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,600
Sprinkler Association will be here.

843
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:41,400
The Coast Guard will be bringing one of their boats

844
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:42,840
on a trailer, obviously.

845
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:48,280
The Sheriff's Department is going to bring some stuff

846
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:52,560
from emergency management and likely the SRT folks.

847
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:57,000
And we have been in conversations with the International Guard

848
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:00,600
and they seem supportive of actually bringing and landing

849
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:01,920
a Black Hawk helicopter.

850
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:05,760
We'll mark my calendar for October 11th.

851
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:09,680
Anything else, chief?

852
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:12,480
I'll get a question.

853
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,440
I have a couple, thanks.

854
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:17,520
So, I know we were, there was,

855
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,920
we lost significant amount of storage due to the HVAC equipment

856
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:23,880
and a little bit in the, or another significant amount

857
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:27,640
in the vehicle repair area.

858
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:31,440
How are you doing on storage as you get closer to moving?

859
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:32,960
We're working on it.

860
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:33,800
Working on it?

861
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:34,880
We're working on it.

862
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:38,880
Yeah, it's gonna be tight, but we're working on it.

863
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:39,720
Okay.

864
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:42,040
And then how did the training,

865
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:44,840
I noticed the National Guard helicopters,

866
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:45,960
we had two trainings, right?

867
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:48,240
One on North Beach and one on at Coldide Park.

868
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:49,080
How did that go?

869
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:51,640
Yes, so they were supposed to be within the same month,

870
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:53,840
but unfortunately we had to reindate the one

871
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,560
on in Upper Lake Park.

872
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:57,800
Both of them went well.

873
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,600
The first training was essentially a kind of dry run,

874
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:03,600
getting to work with the helicopter crews,

875
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,360
kind of learning their expectations of things,

876
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,360
approaching the helicopter, those type of things.

877
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:10,960
The second one, we actually did some victim picks

878
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:14,720
off of the bluff,

879
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,200
both with our bluff rescue team,

880
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,840
coupled with their crews from the Black Hawk.

881
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,440
So they would drop somebody down from the Black Hawk,

882
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:23,920
we would package them,

883
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:27,400
and then they would hoist either one of their guardsmen

884
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:31,240
or rescue Randy our training victim.

885
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:33,760
So then they would land the Black Hawk in the park,

886
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:35,120
and then they would offload them

887
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:36,440
to our waiting ambulance crews,

888
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:38,840
and then we had a EMS scenario set up

889
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:40,720
in the back of the ambulances.

890
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:42,200
Things went pretty well.

891
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:43,960
We pruned a few trees.

892
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,320
We did not anticipate the amount of downdraft

893
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:48,400
from those helicopters,

894
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,120
it's significantly more than the old fish day helicopters.

895
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:54,120
So quick apology to John Crane,

896
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:58,160
but we pruned a few trees a little early for them,

897
00:59:58,160 --> 00:59:59,920
but we talked to him that night,

898
00:59:59,920 --> 01:00:02,320
and they were fine with it, so.

899
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:04,560
But also again, thanks to the police department

900
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,160
for coming and helping us shut down the park,

901
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:09,400
and that was super helpful,

902
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:10,720
because that meant more of our people

903
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:12,800
could actually participate in the training.

904
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:13,800
Cool, thank you.

905
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:14,640
Yep.

906
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:18,800
Okay, any other questions this evening?

907
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:21,760
So looking at my calendar,

908
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:24,520
it looks like September 14th,

909
01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:27,080
Monday, September 14th is our next meeting.

910
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:29,480
Back to our schedule.

911
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:32,240
And the last item on our agenda

912
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:34,520
is a motion to convene in closed session,

913
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:39,120
pursuant to Wisconsin statute 1985 1C

914
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:41,880
for the purpose of considering employment, promotion,

915
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,960
compensation, or performance evaluation data

916
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:47,720
of a public employee over which this

917
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:50,320
police and fire commission has jurisdiction

918
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:52,760
or exercises responsibility,

919
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:56,000
to which review job applications received

920
01:00:56,000 --> 01:01:00,160
to date for the position of full-time police chief.

921
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,240
It's a voice, vote, Ed.

922
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,200
One, so moved.

923
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:06,040
Oh, sorry.

924
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:08,280
Second.

925
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:10,760
And a voice, vote.

926
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:12,600
Aye.

927
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:13,440
Aye.

928
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:14,280
Aye.

929
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:15,120
Aye.

930
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:16,280
Okay, we're in closed session.