WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 You 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 You 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 You 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 You 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 You 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 You 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 You 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 You 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 You 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 You 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 You 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 You 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 You 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 You 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 You 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 You 05:40.000 --> 05:44.000 That's bringing the village board meeting May 11, 2026 05:44.000 --> 05:45.000 To order. 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 And we need the roll call from 05:48.000 --> 05:49.000 The clerk. 05:49.000 --> 05:50.000 Caris. 05:50.000 --> 05:51.000 Here. 05:51.000 --> 05:52.000 Batia. 05:52.000 --> 05:53.000 Here. 05:53.000 --> 05:54.000 Ventrini. 05:54.000 --> 05:55.000 Here. 05:55.000 --> 05:56.000 Washburn. 05:56.000 --> 05:57.000 Here. 05:57.000 --> 05:58.000 DeGroote. 05:59.000 --> 06:01.000 Next item is Pledge of allegiance. 06:01.000 --> 06:02.000 Please join us. 06:02.000 --> 06:05.000 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 06:05.000 --> 06:24.000 And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 06:25.000 --> 06:26.000 Okay. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 We have a couple of presentations straight away. 06:28.000 --> 06:31.000 First is South Shore fire department. 06:31.000 --> 06:34.000 Thank you. 06:34.000 --> 06:37.000 Chief Dustin Ellis. 06:37.000 --> 06:39.000 Thank you. 06:39.000 --> 06:40.000 Sorry. 06:40.000 --> 06:43.000 I gave your firefighters a hard time today. 06:43.000 --> 06:44.000 Thank you. 06:44.000 --> 06:47.000 They were inspecting my office. 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 No, they weren't. 06:49.000 --> 06:51.000 They weren't inspecting the office. 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 Yeah. 06:57.000 --> 06:59.000 Good evening. 06:59.000 --> 07:02.000 You're here to go over just a brief summary of our annual report. 07:02.000 --> 07:06.000 I'll say the annual report is a long time coming for the fire department. 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 It's been a few years since we've done one. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 So we're proud to put one together for you guys. 07:11.000 --> 07:15.000 Happy to answer any questions you have of the annual report. 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 Both here offline. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 So just a quick overview. 07:20.000 --> 07:25.000 In 2025, we were authorized for 68 full time personnel. 07:25.000 --> 07:28.000 That's roughly 42 firefighters. 07:28.000 --> 07:31.000 For 2026, we're authorized up to 69 personnel. 07:31.000 --> 07:35.000 That includes the fire inspector that was hired this year. 07:35.000 --> 07:41.000 We covered 38 square miles, roughly 34,000 residents between the two communities of Mount Pleasant and Sturtivant. 07:42.000 --> 07:49.000 And in 2025, we answered 6,378 total calls for service. 07:49.000 --> 07:53.000 From a fire station standpoint, a lot of you know the sorority. 07:53.000 --> 07:59.000 We operate out of four fire stations, three in Mount Pleasant, one in the village's third event. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 A little bit about our fleet. 08:01.000 --> 08:08.000 We operate three fire engines, two ladder trucks, four primary med units with two secondary med units, 08:08.000 --> 08:13.000 two wild land vehicles, one special operations vehicle, and we have a boat. 08:13.000 --> 08:20.000 From our call volume from 2025, like I said, 6,378 total incidents. 08:20.000 --> 08:24.000 Of that, 4,986 were EMS related. 08:24.000 --> 08:31.000 That's about 78% of our call volume, which tracks nationwide what fire-based EMS does. 08:31.000 --> 08:39.000 Out of that breakdown, just some highlights, 37 building fires, 333 vehicle accidents, 406 fire alarms, 08:39.000 --> 08:41.000 and 271 other calls. 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 So natural gas leaks, carbon oxide calls, good intent calls. 08:44.000 --> 08:53.000 If somebody calls a fire house and they need help with a smoke detector, that generates a call for service if we have to go out. 08:53.000 --> 09:00.000 From our EMS runs, here's the breakdown of our primary med units, what they've done for EMS calls. 09:00.000 --> 09:05.000 Again, 78% of calls for service are EMS based. 09:05.000 --> 09:12.000 The good thing about our service delivery model, even if we're out of ambulances due to multiple calls, 09:12.000 --> 09:17.000 all of our fire engines and ladder trucks are ALS capable to provide that service 09:17.000 --> 09:20.000 while we wait for another ambulance from another community. 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 Again, you can see the breakdown just for our primary med units. 09:23.000 --> 09:28.000 You'll see fire station 10 or med 10 being lower than the restroom considerably, lower than the restroom. 09:28.000 --> 09:31.000 We share that fire station with the village of Caledonia. 09:31.000 --> 09:36.000 So we have a mutual aid agreement that if we're out, say in engine 10, 09:36.000 --> 09:39.000 med 20, who's from Caledonia, will take that call. 09:39.000 --> 09:48.000 So it's reflective of what med 10 actually did in EMS calls, but not reflective of what that station did in EMS runs. 09:48.000 --> 09:53.000 From a community risk reduction standpoint, 09:53.000 --> 09:59.000 the Bureau manages anywhere between 80 to 100 open permits at any given time. 09:59.000 --> 10:06.000 I think right now we're at roughly 90, and that's new construction renovation projects 10:06.000 --> 10:11.000 that we manage from a fire protection system or a fire alarm standpoint. 10:11.000 --> 10:16.000 This is driven by the growth we're experiencing here in Mount Pleasant. 10:16.000 --> 10:22.000 It's been like that for the fire prevention bureau, the community risk bureau for two or three years now 10:22.000 --> 10:25.000 managing that number of open permits. 10:25.000 --> 10:30.000 Out of all of our buildings, we have 1,119 inspectable properties, 10:30.000 --> 10:37.000 which we do annually or semiannually depending on the type of building we come across. 10:37.000 --> 10:43.000 From a public education standpoint, we delivered 95 hours of public education, 10:43.000 --> 10:48.000 so going into nursing homes, going into schools, having fire station tours, 10:48.000 --> 10:51.000 Cub Scout events at the firehouse. 10:51.000 --> 10:57.000 So 95 hours of public education we're working on away in 2026, a streamline, 10:57.000 --> 10:59.000 our visits to all of our schools. 10:59.000 --> 11:10.000 We might invite them to our fire stations in 2026 to try to streamline the number of visits we make out to the schools. 11:10.000 --> 11:14.000 Training, we are a state of Wisconsin EMS training center. 11:14.000 --> 11:20.000 Not many fire departments can say that, so we're able to deliver continuing education, 11:20.000 --> 11:25.000 state-approved continuing education to our EMTs and paramedics in-house. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 We have a great partnership with our medical direction. 11:27.000 --> 11:30.000 They provide quarterly training as well. 11:30.000 --> 11:35.000 Just some of the specialty certifications we have, critical care. 11:35.000 --> 11:38.000 We have a handful of critical care paramedics. 11:38.000 --> 11:41.000 We participate in tactical EMS. 11:41.000 --> 11:46.000 Rescue task force, again, kind of goes along with that tactical EMS, mobile integrated health, 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 and some tactical rescue. 11:48.000 --> 11:53.000 We do do quite a bit of training with our partners outside of Mount Pleasant's servant. 11:53.000 --> 12:00.000 We have a great joint academy that is on our fourth joint academy with Racine in Caledonia. 12:00.000 --> 12:09.000 It's been a huge hit for our new people and a way for us to work together to train our newest firefighters and EMTs and paramedics. 12:09.000 --> 12:14.000 You can see our training activity out of all of the hours, 12:14.000 --> 12:17.000 and this is for all of our employees on staff. 12:17.000 --> 12:24.000 We completed 5,790 fire training hours, 2,119 EMS training hours, 12:24.000 --> 12:34.000 707 apparatisen vehicle checks or equipment checks for a grand total of 8,616 training hours. 12:34.000 --> 12:39.000 With that, I'll take any questions. 12:39.000 --> 12:46.000 Mr. President, I don't know that I really, Chief Ellis, I don't know that I really have a question. 12:46.000 --> 12:55.000 Other than to, with all the statistics you're giving us, which are amazing and very important for us to, as a board, 12:55.000 --> 13:04.000 to recognize and look over with the increase just from 2021 to now in volume and calls, 13:04.000 --> 13:14.000 I think it's very important and hopefully our residents will understand why we spend a lot of time in the budget on police and fire. 13:14.000 --> 13:19.000 You guys are, I mean, we see you all over, right? 13:19.000 --> 13:24.000 I mean, I'm out on the road all the time, and what you do is very important. 13:24.000 --> 13:28.000 It's very important to me as a board member, as a trustee of this village, 13:28.000 --> 13:33.000 to help make sure that you're provided with the equipment you need. 13:33.000 --> 13:39.000 We've had trouble getting the fire trucks in the past, and that's kind of caught catching up now. 13:40.000 --> 13:46.000 But in my mind, this report is huge for our citizens to understand. 13:46.000 --> 13:51.000 They want to be taken care of and be able to have assistance at their home, 13:51.000 --> 13:57.000 and it's vitally important with the number of calls you have in the hours of training and all of it that, 13:57.000 --> 14:01.000 you know, we as a board support you financially and keep you running in that regard. 14:01.000 --> 14:04.000 So, thank you so much. This is a great report. 14:04.000 --> 14:07.000 I'll speak to it too. We appreciate the support. 14:07.000 --> 14:13.000 You know, through the organizational study, we always try to keep an eye on how we grow and call. 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 I mean, you can see that from 2021. 14:15.000 --> 14:19.000 We have to just be smart in how we deliver service moving forward. 14:19.000 --> 14:22.000 So, it's always something we keep on the backboard and keep our eye on. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 So, the support, thank you. 14:24.000 --> 14:25.000 Thank you. 14:25.000 --> 14:26.000 Chief. 14:26.000 --> 14:27.000 Oh, go ahead. 14:27.000 --> 14:31.000 I would just say that I think you should go back and rock that mustache and have this picture. 14:32.000 --> 14:35.000 It may make it come back. 14:39.000 --> 14:43.000 Chief, you had a slide that showed the education hours in the schools and all that. 14:43.000 --> 14:52.000 What I'm wondering is, just in terms of visibility, you make it a point to get to various community events, 14:52.000 --> 14:59.000 the concert series that we have, why, you know, when they're doing stuff with the YMCA. 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 Do you track any of those hours? 15:02.000 --> 15:03.000 Yeah, that's in there too. 15:03.000 --> 15:08.000 It's hugely important for us to be forward-facing in the community, not just out here, but in schools. 15:08.000 --> 15:13.000 When we get requests for Cub Scouts or the Girl Scouts that come into the stations, 15:13.000 --> 15:17.000 it's hugely important for us to be forward-facing in all those events. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 We do track those hours. 15:19.000 --> 15:24.000 So, that is in kind of in our public education or community risk reduction. 15:24.000 --> 15:28.000 Bureau is purviewed to keep an eye on. 15:28.000 --> 15:35.000 Not just from a public education, but we stand by for EMS events at those as well. 15:35.000 --> 15:37.000 So, it's kind of a two-pronged. 15:37.000 --> 15:43.000 Yeah, because whenever there's a community gathering, I mean, we see the police out there too, 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 just making sure folks don't get rowdy. 15:45.000 --> 15:49.000 We're not expecting any fires at those events, but, you know, somebody can get sick. 15:49.000 --> 15:50.000 Yep. 15:50.000 --> 15:51.000 And it's just nice to have you there. 15:51.000 --> 15:54.000 The visibility, I think, reflects well. 15:55.000 --> 15:56.000 Good. 15:56.000 --> 16:05.000 So, again, I don't have any question, but I'd like you to convey to your team the whole fire department. 16:05.000 --> 16:10.000 I've met you on them on a wonderful job they're doing. 16:10.000 --> 16:12.000 I hear only good things. 16:12.000 --> 16:13.000 Thank you. 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 Both the fire and the police. 16:15.000 --> 16:16.000 We will pass it along. 16:16.000 --> 16:17.000 Appreciate it. 16:17.000 --> 16:22.000 We are very blessed to have professionals protecting and serving our community. 16:22.000 --> 16:23.000 So, thank you. 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 Thank you. 16:24.000 --> 16:25.000 Appreciate it. 16:25.000 --> 16:26.000 Thank you. 16:26.000 --> 16:35.000 Okay, so now the next batter up are the guys in blue, and here's your chance to shine. 16:35.000 --> 16:36.000 Thank you. 16:36.000 --> 16:37.000 Wow. 16:37.000 --> 16:38.000 Thank you. 16:38.000 --> 16:39.000 Thank you. 16:39.000 --> 16:40.000 Thank you. 16:40.000 --> 16:41.000 Thank you. 16:41.000 --> 16:42.000 Thank you. 16:42.000 --> 16:43.000 Thank you. 16:43.000 --> 16:44.000 Thank you, Cheer. 16:44.000 --> 16:45.000 Thank you, Cheer. 16:45.000 --> 16:46.000 Thank you, Cheer. 16:46.000 --> 16:47.000 Thank you. 16:47.000 --> 16:48.000 Thank you. 16:48.000 --> 16:53.000 All right. 16:53.000 --> 17:01.000 Good evening, everyone. 17:01.000 --> 17:02.000 My name is Rob Botch. 17:02.000 --> 17:07.000 Chief of Police for the Village of Mount Pleasant Police Department. 17:07.000 --> 17:10.000 Thank you for inviting us in order to be able to present this report tonight. 17:10.000 --> 17:17.000 Hopefully we can provide you with some information that is both informative and helpful. 17:18.000 --> 17:21.000 So, we'll start with our organizational structure. 17:21.000 --> 17:26.000 So, the Mount Pleasant Police Department has roughly 56 people at any given time. 17:26.000 --> 17:33.000 The way that they are broken out here in the, let me just move this so I can see a little bit better. 17:33.000 --> 17:34.000 In the structure. 17:34.000 --> 17:46.000 So, we've got the chief, two captains, two attendance, seven sergeants, five detectives, 32 patrol officers, two canine handlers, two COP officers, one school resource officer, and FBI task force officer. 17:46.000 --> 17:52.000 And then one metro drug unit officer, and then ten full and part time civilian staff. 17:52.000 --> 17:59.000 As you can see the way that the structure is broken, it's broken down into operations and then investigations and administration. 17:59.000 --> 18:03.000 Much like the fire department, you have different shifts. 18:03.000 --> 18:06.000 So, as you can see the way that it's broken down, you have a first, second, and the third shift. 18:06.000 --> 18:13.000 And then there's an overlap with our COP, which is our community oriented policing officers and one of our canine units. 18:14.000 --> 18:19.000 It sort of takes that whole machine to make everything work. 18:19.000 --> 18:29.000 Especially the units are important because it offloads certain tasks that patrol doesn't necessarily have to worry about, such as the FBI's task force and the drug task force. 18:29.000 --> 18:36.000 Most of our drug and our gang work is offloaded to those task forces and it keeps patrol available in order to build answer calls for service. 18:37.000 --> 18:46.000 Throughout 2025, it was another year of change, so we lost three officers to one left just to go on to greener pastures. 18:46.000 --> 18:52.000 One retired and one took a job as a corporate security in a local school district. 18:52.000 --> 18:55.000 But then we were able to hire four additional's. 18:55.000 --> 18:58.000 Two of those are laterals, Brad Leach and Ryan Reynolds. 18:58.000 --> 19:03.000 The other two were officers that had to go through the academy, so there was a lengthy gap in the amount of time. 19:04.000 --> 19:08.000 So as you can see, they were COCA and Vitalis were hired on July 7th. 19:08.000 --> 19:11.000 They just got off of field training last week. 19:11.000 --> 19:17.000 So it took that long in order for them to get through the academy and then actually out onto their own. 19:20.000 --> 19:21.000 Calls for service. 19:21.000 --> 19:25.000 So as you can see, our calls for service are consistently going up here. 19:25.000 --> 19:33.000 So we have from 2023 to 2025, roughly a seven and a half percent increase. 19:33.000 --> 19:39.000 As of today at three o'clock, we're about 300 calls higher this year than we were at the same time last year already. 19:39.000 --> 19:49.000 So as you can see, as the village grows, the calls for service continue to go up and we continue to be able to answer those with the staff that we have. 19:52.000 --> 19:53.000 Crime statistics. 19:53.000 --> 20:04.000 Some of the things that we chose to highlight in this were some of the anchor calls that would generate statistics through the FBI's incident crime reporting or neighbors. 20:04.000 --> 20:10.000 So this you've got burglarly, robbery, and motor vehicle theft over the last three years roughly. 20:10.000 --> 20:17.000 Burglarly ticked up slightly, but as you can see, robberies are down a good number and motor vehicle thefts are roughly the same. 20:18.000 --> 20:20.000 Frauds, thefts, and embezzlements. 20:20.000 --> 20:22.000 Again, you can see a nice downward trend. 20:22.000 --> 20:24.000 Theft significantly went down. 20:24.000 --> 20:27.000 A lot of those are generated in our local businesses. 20:27.000 --> 20:38.000 So if a business changes a security precaution or if they adjust their loss prevention strategies, it could dramatically increase or decrease the amount of thefts that we handle. 20:38.000 --> 20:39.000 Same thing with embezzlements. 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 And embezzlements are relatively small. 20:42.000 --> 20:52.000 So if you get one change on a number that is only three or four, it looks like it's significant where in reality it's still a relatively small number. 20:54.000 --> 20:59.000 Forgeries, death investigations and sex offenses, forgeries consistently go down. 20:59.000 --> 21:02.000 Death investigations are up, but that could be a natural death. 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 Obviously, we've had no homicides. 21:04.000 --> 21:08.000 So these are all deaths that could potentially be an overdose death or they could be a natural causes death. 21:08.000 --> 21:13.000 But with an aging population and a growing population, death investigations could potentially go up. 21:13.000 --> 21:14.000 Sex offenses did go up. 21:14.000 --> 21:20.000 That's because we've done a lot more proactive enforcement in that area of human trafficking and sex trafficking. 21:20.000 --> 21:25.000 So naturally, the more you do on something, the more that those potentially could go up. 21:25.000 --> 21:32.000 That's not necessarily a reflection of sexual assaults going up or things of that nature. 21:32.000 --> 21:40.000 This is more proactive, engaged in, for example, some of the illicit massage establishments that we've dealt with at the Village Board meetings. 21:42.000 --> 21:45.000 Aggravated assaults and other assaults, again, downward trend. 21:45.000 --> 21:53.000 So as our calls for service go up, thankfully, our significant reported crimes continue to be stable or go down. 21:54.000 --> 21:58.000 Traffic safety, obviously, traffic safety is something that is on everybody's mind. 21:58.000 --> 22:05.000 It's actually the number one call that I get from the community is auto speed or reckless driving or things of that nature. 22:05.000 --> 22:12.000 So here are our numbers over the last three years when it comes to a variety of different things. 22:12.000 --> 22:16.000 Accidents, when it comes to a variety of different accidents, are up. 22:16.000 --> 22:27.000 I guess the big thing to see here is that everything is unfortunately going up in the traffic area because we have a lot more traffic that is in our area. 22:27.000 --> 22:33.000 We have a lot more construction that's going on, but I want to call your attention to the fact that traffic stops are up as well. 22:33.000 --> 22:41.000 We're continuing to do more traffic to try and adjust behavior, and that's really kind of our goal with traffic. 22:41.000 --> 22:42.000 It's not to write citations. 22:42.000 --> 22:45.000 You'll notice that our citations are down, but our warnings are up. 22:45.000 --> 22:56.000 We've got roughly a 50-50 split in citations versus warnings because what our goal with traffic is to try and impact or influence a behavioral change, not necessarily to write a ticket. 22:56.000 --> 23:01.000 In this particular case, you'll see a big difference between 2023 to 2025. 23:01.000 --> 23:09.000 In 2023, they had a traffic car, so they had one unit that was dedicated to strictly only traffic. 23:09.000 --> 23:13.000 Unfortunately, we haven't had staffing in order to do that up until recently. 23:13.000 --> 23:17.000 I've been chasing staffing vacancies for the last two years. 23:17.000 --> 23:25.000 Actually, we are currently fully staffed for the first time in two years as of two weeks ago, which is actually really kind of nice. 23:25.000 --> 23:30.000 Community policing. 23:30.000 --> 23:36.000 One of the things when I came in that I've really tried to impact the culture is balance. 23:36.000 --> 23:39.000 Community policing is incredibly important to this community. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 It's incredibly important to the police department. 23:41.000 --> 23:47.000 Along with the last slide, when it comes to traffic enforcement and crime enforcement, there has to be balances. 23:47.000 --> 23:48.000 I think a community demands both. 23:48.000 --> 23:54.000 They want a community that is engaged with their police department, but they also want to know that the police department's out there. 23:54.000 --> 24:03.000 Stopping cars and forcing the law, but doing it in a community oriented way, which is what we've really prided ourselves on the ability to do, 24:03.000 --> 24:11.000 is go out there and not necessarily overwhelm a community with enforcement, but compliment the community in enforcement, 24:11.000 --> 24:16.000 which is what our traffic strategy is, is by trying to get out there and influence and impact behavior, 24:16.000 --> 24:19.000 not necessarily go out and just write tickets. 24:19.000 --> 24:26.000 Our tickets are for some of the things that need to be written, reckless driving, significant auto speed, suspended driver's license, 24:26.000 --> 24:30.000 revoked driver's license, things of that nature. 24:30.000 --> 24:38.000 COP at a glance, obviously, our anchor COP or community oriented policing strategy focuses around the cop house, 24:38.000 --> 24:41.000 but there's so much more than just the cop house. 24:41.000 --> 24:45.000 You know, there's the rest of the village that really kind of demands the same thing. 24:45.000 --> 24:47.000 They want that same relationship with the police. 24:47.000 --> 24:53.000 So we try and get out and do other events such as the National Night Out, the Citizens Police Academy, COP on a rooftop, 24:53.000 --> 24:58.000 the Easter events at the cop house, the Halloween events, the shop with the cop. 24:58.000 --> 25:02.000 We're always looking for opportunities in order to try and engage with the community. 25:02.000 --> 25:07.000 And then our cop house on the east end is also a model. 25:07.000 --> 25:14.000 During 2025, the Chicago Police Department visited the Mount Pleasant cop house in order to see how we're doing things. 25:14.000 --> 25:19.000 We really engage well with the community, and a lot of other agencies are trying to model that, 25:19.000 --> 25:26.000 and not just have a house and a neighborhood, but model the engagement, the ability to get out there, the ability to interact, 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 the ability to build relationships. 25:28.000 --> 25:32.000 That's what the cop house is all about. That's what the whole program is all about. 25:32.000 --> 25:34.000 These are some of our COP results. 25:34.000 --> 25:37.000 So crime prevention, special events, and building checks. 25:37.000 --> 25:40.000 So crime prevention are opportunities where officers will go out. 25:40.000 --> 25:45.000 They'll engage with different community organizations, community groups, businesses, things of that nature. 25:45.000 --> 25:54.000 And then they'll pull a CFS code, a call for service code, or a CAD call, a computer aided dispatch call. 25:54.000 --> 25:56.000 That's what these are reflecting. 25:56.000 --> 26:01.000 The special events, that could be, that's the National Night Out. 26:01.000 --> 26:02.000 That's the shop with the cops. 26:02.000 --> 26:05.000 That's a bigger type event that they're going to go out with. 26:05.000 --> 26:09.000 And then building checks are opportunities in order to stop out at certain businesses. 26:09.000 --> 26:13.000 So if you're on patrol on third shift, and you do a building check, and you want to log that building check, 26:13.000 --> 26:15.000 for example, case high school. 26:15.000 --> 26:19.000 You want to stop in case you want to check the doors to make sure that everything is secure. 26:19.000 --> 26:22.000 Your time dates are in that check. 26:22.000 --> 26:29.000 Unfortunately, that's not consistent, because different people may pull the number where some are not. 26:29.000 --> 26:34.000 This is one of the things that we're trying to work on in 2026 is consistency among CFS codes 26:34.000 --> 26:38.000 and how some of this stuff is recorded. 26:38.000 --> 26:44.000 One of the things we also try and do is understanding that tax dollars are limited, 26:44.000 --> 26:51.000 but equipment needs continue to grow, is how do you stretch grants and donations. 26:51.000 --> 26:58.000 So in 2025, we went out and sought a variety of different grants for things that we knew were pricey, 26:58.000 --> 27:02.000 and we were looking for alternatives to tax dollars. 27:02.000 --> 27:06.000 A couple of things that we were able to accomplish with that was an incident command post, 27:06.000 --> 27:09.000 where SC Johnson donated us $90,000. 27:09.000 --> 27:16.000 We were then able to use some opioid funds in order to supplement that in order to be able to pay for the entire 27:16.000 --> 27:19.000 command post without any tax dollars at all. 27:19.000 --> 27:26.000 We purchased an outdoor drone, which is a larger drone that spectrum gave us roughly almost $12,000 in order to purchase, 27:26.000 --> 27:34.000 but then we also used donations for another interior drone and then asset forfeiture funds for another interior drone. 27:34.000 --> 27:40.000 So right now our drone program is roughly three brand new drones from last year that we didn't pay anything. 27:40.000 --> 27:42.000 The village did not pay anything for it. 27:42.000 --> 27:48.000 We also started a tactical team last year, and all of the operators needed some level of baseline training. 27:48.000 --> 27:54.000 The state provided us with a $10,000 training grant to allow them all to go through the National Tactical Officers Association training, 27:54.000 --> 27:59.000 which is essentially a higher level training that you can get throughout the country. 27:59.000 --> 28:03.000 It's a relatively expensive training, but it trains guys very, very well. 28:03.000 --> 28:08.000 And then we had some side things that we were given throughout the course of the year. 28:08.000 --> 28:10.000 For example, the fire suppression tool. 28:10.000 --> 28:21.000 That is a tool that you can use in order to throw into a confined space in order to hopefully suppress a smaller fire before the fire department gets there. 28:22.000 --> 28:26.000 We do have a couple of specialty units that we're kind of proud of. 28:26.000 --> 28:27.000 First is the canine unit. 28:27.000 --> 28:30.000 So you've got Grizzly, Aspen, and Kala. 28:30.000 --> 28:33.000 Both Grizzly and Aspen are roughly three years old. 28:33.000 --> 28:36.000 They've been on patrol for roughly two years. 28:36.000 --> 28:40.000 And they're both dual purpose narcotics and patrol dogs. 28:40.000 --> 28:45.000 They're on second shift and the one's on a power shift and then Kala's in electronics detection canine. 28:45.000 --> 28:59.000 What I mean by that is Kala sniffs for phones, SD cards, zip drives, anything that might have a glue to it, that's what she's smelling. 28:59.000 --> 29:01.000 She's smelling the glue from the chips. 29:01.000 --> 29:03.000 And that's how she's detecting that stuff. 29:03.000 --> 29:10.000 But it's used a lot for electronics, investigations, child pornography, things of that nature. 29:10.000 --> 29:13.000 Our drone team, as I mentioned earlier, 29:13.000 --> 29:15.000 we had a drone. 29:15.000 --> 29:19.000 It was an older first generation, probably five years old when I got here. 29:19.000 --> 29:25.000 It was one of the priorities that we embarked upon was to get a good functioning drone team. 29:25.000 --> 29:27.000 Like right now we have three drones. 29:27.000 --> 29:33.000 And one of the things that we noticed that we're actually in the process of implementing right now is it sounds simple, 29:33.000 --> 29:36.000 but we're putting the numbers back on the roof of the squad cars. 29:36.000 --> 29:40.000 We've noticed that through the drone deployments, the drone is up. 29:40.000 --> 29:47.000 And it can say, hey, there's a squad car over there, but they don't know where there is, where we're putting numbers back on. 29:47.000 --> 29:52.000 Another one of the adjacent jurisdictions, when they heard we were doing it, they're like, hey, actually we're going to do that too, 29:52.000 --> 30:00.000 because they've noticed the same thing with their drone team is it would be much easier to be able to see the roof of the cars with the squad numbers on them. 30:00.000 --> 30:03.000 Our joint tactical team, as I mentioned, we have a joint tactical team. 30:03.000 --> 30:06.000 Originally formed for Mount Pleasant, Caledonia and Sturdevan. 30:06.000 --> 30:09.000 When Sturdevan collapsed, Mount Pleasant and Caledonia continued to press forward with it. 30:09.000 --> 30:18.000 It's 18 operators, and they train once a month in order to be more proficient on a lot of the things that are necessary to be safer. 30:18.000 --> 30:27.000 And when you think tactical, I want you to think more tactics, not necessarily guys that have more guns or things of that nature, 30:27.000 --> 30:29.000 because that's really not what it's about. 30:29.000 --> 30:39.000 Being able to use drones, cameras, and tactics to put technology into a residence or into a business or into a structure before you have to put people in there. 30:39.000 --> 30:47.000 But by getting these guys trained, what we're seeing is a ripple effect, where the guys on the shifts are actually being safer, 30:47.000 --> 30:55.000 and more tactically proficient because of the 10 guys that we have that are trained to a higher level. 30:55.000 --> 31:01.000 Is that ripple effect is rippling its way throughout the department, which is, again, safer for everybody. 31:01.000 --> 31:05.000 Last year, we also put out, it's called a protect initiative. 31:05.000 --> 31:09.000 Protect is proactive operations, traffic enforcement, and crime suppression team. 31:09.000 --> 31:13.000 It ran roughly from June 20th through August 31st. 31:13.000 --> 31:19.000 This year, we're going to do the same thing and run it from June 1st through August 31st. 31:20.000 --> 31:28.000 The SRO comes out of the schools, which gives us a little bit more resources, and we didn't staff a temporary detective spot in order to be able to put two people out. 31:28.000 --> 31:30.000 And their job is proactive enforcement. 31:30.000 --> 31:32.000 They do traffic enforcement throughout the summer. 31:32.000 --> 31:36.000 They're in the hotels, they're frequenting bars. 31:36.000 --> 31:38.000 They're trying to get in front of problems. 31:38.000 --> 31:45.000 They're a problem-solving group that just gets out, and they have time to do other things. 31:46.000 --> 31:53.000 Our regular police officers are doing traffic and proactive enforcement all the time, but they're doing it in between calls for service. 31:53.000 --> 31:57.000 They can't strategically do it, where people might complain that they've got speeders on their block. 31:57.000 --> 32:05.000 We might not have a squad that, during normal hours, that can sit on that block because they're jumping from call to call to call to call to call. 32:05.000 --> 32:14.000 Now, in the summer, from June 1st to August 31st, we might have that capability because now we've got a car that we've pulled out to just do proactive stuff. 32:15.000 --> 32:19.000 There's stats and the things that they accomplished are in the report. 32:19.000 --> 32:21.000 Oh, actually, I got it right here. 32:21.000 --> 32:30.000 So, as you can see, about a hundred and close to 200 traffic stops, 13 felony arrests, 35 misdemeanor arrests, 15 municipal. 32:30.000 --> 32:38.000 Canine utilization 18 times, season narcotics 39 times, and three guns during that summer months last year. 32:38.000 --> 32:43.000 So this year, they're going to be out doing some of the same stuff. 32:44.000 --> 32:47.000 And sort of like fire was mentioning training, training is super important. 32:47.000 --> 32:54.000 So on a regular basis, we have to complete 24 hours of training every year based upon state standards in order to keep your certification. 32:54.000 --> 33:05.000 The police department roughly triples that, and we're about 98 hours of training in order to be able to keep our guys proficient in all the different disciplines, not only just regular straight up police work. 33:05.000 --> 33:08.000 And we're at an accredited agency. 33:08.000 --> 33:16.000 So in 2025, we were reaccredited for another three years, which means we're meeting the highest standards of law enforcement best practices. 33:16.000 --> 33:31.000 There's only maybe 10% of the agencies in Wisconsin are widely accredited, but it's a lengthy comprehensive process, but it shows that you're doing things the right way. 33:31.000 --> 33:36.000 Any questions? 33:36.000 --> 33:37.000 Go ahead, Ron. 33:37.000 --> 33:38.000 Okay. 33:38.000 --> 33:43.000 Again, Chief, I don't have any question, but my comment to Chief Alice also applied to your team. 33:43.000 --> 33:44.000 Congratulations. 33:44.000 --> 33:45.000 Thank you. 33:45.000 --> 33:50.000 And thank you for keeping us safe, and please extend my compliment. 33:50.000 --> 33:56.000 I do want to make a, I do want to comment you for two more items that, in your slide. 33:56.000 --> 34:05.000 Number one, one of your slides said that the Chicago police came to, to learn from the Mount Pleasant for the best practices. 34:05.000 --> 34:15.000 Great testimonial, probably one of the top three or four or five police forces in the country are coming to Mount Pleasant to learn the best practices. 34:15.000 --> 34:17.000 So great testimonial. 34:17.000 --> 34:20.000 And the other one is that I'm very impressed too. 34:20.000 --> 34:26.000 And I believe the reason is like one of your slides says that your training is about four times what the state required. 34:26.000 --> 34:29.000 So keep it up and thank you for your service. 34:29.000 --> 34:33.000 Thank you. 34:33.000 --> 34:45.000 Chief, I just wanted to echo my earlier words where I was talking about the fire department and how important it is to be visible and the different programs that they're involved in to remain visible. 34:45.000 --> 34:55.000 And I just wanted to say the same thing regarding what the department does as well to remain visible. 34:55.000 --> 35:10.000 And if I can just use a small example, a number of months back we lost a firefighter and I was part of the funeral procession, which was very long and it went through multiple municipalities. 35:10.000 --> 35:22.000 And what I was noticing is in the other municipalities, the officers would be sitting in their warm card drinking coffee because it was a really crummy day. 35:22.000 --> 35:48.000 But when we got to Mount Pleasant, I noticed to a person, every patrol officer was either actively out in the intersection, directing traffic or standing at attention, not saluting attention, but alert and paying attention and showing respect to the motorcade as it went past. 35:48.000 --> 35:58.000 And it's not glamorous work when your shift supervisor says, hey, go traffic this intersection. 35:58.000 --> 36:11.000 But it just proved to me again that if our people are doing the small things and paying attention and doing them right, then we know that they're out there doing the big things right too. 36:12.000 --> 36:21.000 I just wanted to let you know that the visibility matters and they should be proud of themselves. 36:21.000 --> 36:22.000 Thank you. 36:26.000 --> 36:27.000 Thanks, Chief. 36:27.000 --> 36:28.000 Thank you. 36:35.000 --> 36:36.000 All right. 36:36.000 --> 36:37.000 Public comment. 36:38.000 --> 36:43.000 Members of the public are welcome to provide comments on any matter. 36:43.000 --> 36:46.000 Please fill out a comment form and the President will recognize you. 36:46.000 --> 36:49.000 Use the microphone and state your name and address for the public record. 36:49.000 --> 36:51.000 Comments are limited to three minutes. 36:51.000 --> 36:53.000 Anybody signed up for public comment? 36:53.000 --> 36:56.000 Nobody signed up going once, going twice. 36:56.000 --> 37:02.000 In that case, we'll close public comment and we'll move on to the consent agenda. 37:03.000 --> 37:08.000 Mr. President, I make a motion to approve the items and consent agenda presented. 37:08.000 --> 37:09.000 Second. 37:09.000 --> 37:12.000 So I hear a motion and a second. 37:12.000 --> 37:14.000 All in favor signify by saying aye. 37:14.000 --> 37:15.000 Aye. 37:15.000 --> 37:16.000 Aye. 37:16.000 --> 37:17.000 Opposed? 37:17.000 --> 37:20.000 So the consent agenda is approved. 37:20.000 --> 37:27.000 It's not approved. 37:27.000 --> 37:30.000 It's not approved. 37:30.000 --> 37:32.000 So let's. 37:32.000 --> 37:33.000 It was. 37:33.000 --> 37:35.000 It was tonight. 37:35.000 --> 37:37.000 The big deal was last meeting. 37:37.000 --> 37:43.000 Thank you for showing up to the consent agenda. 37:43.000 --> 37:51.000 A discussion possible motion to approve resolution 8-2026 authorizing the redemption of the note anticipation 37:51.000 --> 37:52.000 notes. 37:52.000 --> 37:55.000 Series 2028 dated March 15, 2022. 37:55.000 --> 38:03.000 Mr. President, I'd like to make that motion to approve resolution 8-2026 authorizing the redemption 38:03.000 --> 38:05.000 of the note anticipation notes. 38:05.000 --> 38:09.000 Series 2022A dated March 15, 2022. 38:09.000 --> 38:10.000 Second. 38:11.000 --> 38:14.000 Claude or Kathy or both are neither of you. 38:14.000 --> 38:19.000 If you just wanted to touch on what we discussed in the calm meeting and why this is coming 38:19.000 --> 38:21.000 to approval today. 38:21.000 --> 38:22.000 Certainly. 38:22.000 --> 38:29.000 As the resolution states, this is a prepayment of the 2022 borrowing that we received in the 38:29.000 --> 38:31.000 amount of $20 million. 38:31.000 --> 38:34.000 This was a note anticipation note, which it was anticipated. 38:34.000 --> 38:37.000 We would be bonding for this in the future. 38:37.000 --> 38:45.000 We do have enough reserves in our 10-5 accounts in order to prepay this and pay it back here 38:45.000 --> 38:46.000 early. 38:46.000 --> 38:48.000 Tremendous news. 38:48.000 --> 38:49.000 Tremendous. 38:49.000 --> 38:51.000 You know. 38:51.000 --> 38:52.000 So. 38:52.000 --> 38:53.000 Yeah. 38:53.000 --> 38:55.000 If the news media is paying attention. 38:55.000 --> 38:57.000 Anytime the. 38:57.000 --> 39:04.000 The village gets to pay off a debt obligation early. 39:04.000 --> 39:05.000 That's good news. 39:06.000 --> 39:11.000 It's because we have healthy teds and we have the means and ability to do just that. 39:11.000 --> 39:16.000 And by paying off early, what sort of savings are we seeing? 39:16.000 --> 39:20.000 Somewhere between five and $600,000 will save in interest costs. 39:20.000 --> 39:21.000 Wow. 39:21.000 --> 39:23.000 Given more compelling. 39:23.000 --> 39:24.000 Thank you, Kathy. 39:24.000 --> 39:25.000 Front page use. 39:25.000 --> 39:26.000 Yeah. 39:26.000 --> 39:27.000 Very good. 39:27.000 --> 39:28.000 Yeah. 39:28.000 --> 39:33.000 So on that note, because it is a resolution. 39:34.000 --> 39:35.000 Oh. 39:35.000 --> 39:36.000 Yeah. 39:36.000 --> 39:39.000 We'll do a roll call. 39:39.000 --> 39:40.000 Caris. 39:40.000 --> 39:41.000 Aye. 39:41.000 --> 39:42.000 Batia. 39:42.000 --> 39:43.000 Aye. 39:43.000 --> 39:44.000 Ventrini. 39:44.000 --> 39:45.000 Aye. 39:45.000 --> 39:46.000 Washburn. 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