Minutes: Public Safety: January 2012

Public Safety Committee Wednesday, January 4, 2012 6:30 P.M. Regular Meeting Evansville City Hall Council Room 31 S Madison Street MINUTES 1. Chairperson Jacobson called meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. 2. Roll call of committee and staff members present was: Chairperson Jacobson, Alderperson Hayes, Alderperson Fuchs absent, Chief McElroy, and EMS Coordinator Mary Beaver. Others present were Josh Manring. 3. Motion by Hayes, second byJacobson, to approve the agenda as printed. Motion passed. 4. Motion by Hayes, second by Jacobson, to approve the December 7, 2011 regular meeting minutes as printed. Motion passed. 5. Citizen appearances other than agenda items listed – Josh Manring, 56 Cortland Drive, introduced himself as a candidate for City Council. 6. Old Business - None 7. New Business – a. Discussion and possible motion to sponsor an ordinance in response to Wisconsin Act 97 relating to the closing hours for certain alcohol beverage retailers. Committee discussed this issue and decided to leave the ordinance with no change to the hours of operation. b. Motion by Jacobson, second by Hayes, to recommend amending Ordinance 2011-18 No Parking to read “with no parking on South Fourth and Badger to South”. Motion passed. Motion by Jacobson, second by Hayes, to deny recommendation to amend “South Madison Street from Church Street to city limits”. Motion passed. 8. Evansville Police Report – There were 1,082 calls for service in the month of December, 2011, compared to 923 for December 2010. December’s license plate transactions totaled 39. Range training was completed December 28, 2011. Chief presented the 2012 tentative part-time clerical staffing schedule totaling 1044 hours. Administrator Wietecha approved the carry-over from 2011 into 2012 to bring three part-time officers on board. The fourth officer, if approved will be limited to Court Officer and special duty events only. We hope to appoint the following part-time officer candidates at the January 12, 2012 Police Commission meeting: Zach Anacker, Michael Mawhinney and Ian Reilly as new part-time hires; Cristian Bennett recently resigned as full-time, would like to remain on a part-time basis; and Matthew McElroy new part-time hire, limited to Court Officer duty and special events. Office Rich DeMarasse has resigned as part-time officer. Chief will be on vacation March 8 and 9, with Lieutenant Koehler in charge. Police Officer evaluations will be conducted by the Chief and Office Koehler. We continue to work on accreditation. Administrator Wietecha continues to work on the snowmobile/ATV route. LTE staff Matt McElroy and Rachel Marx were utilized during the last week of December while the police secretary was on vacation. All case files were scanned for 2011 through the end of the year by Matt and Rachel during this time, using 344 hours of the original 400 hours budgeted in June, 2011. We continue to scan files on a daily basis, but usually only those needing to be sent to the District Attorney. New portable, squad and base radios have been received and installed. All radios are to be programmed, installed and operational between November 18, 2011 and March 30, 2012. Testing of the equipment will begin on April 1, 2012, with old frequencies being used while testing is being done. Radios will then be reprogrammed between May 16, 2012 and January 1, 2013. On January 1, 2013, all narrow banding is to be operational. 9. Evansville Medical Service Report There were 395 runs for 2011. All EMS personnel have been renewed in their CPR, along with renewal of Mary’s CPR instructor license. Mary will be out of the office from January 13 through 22, 2012. Zach Beaver will be point of contact during my absence. Mary will be attending St. John’s Church service to assist the Mason’s in their donation of an AED. There will be a short training on CCR and AED after the service. Mary and Zach attended a grant writing exercise in hopes of acquiring monies to offset the purchase of the new radios. It looks hopeful and we are waiting for “official” confirmation as of this date. We applied for a “unified” grant in hopes of offsetting the Police Department’s and Fire Department’s purchase. Mary will announce to this public once we have confirmation and monies in hand. The new hospitals for Mercy North and St. Mary’s-Janesville will be opening next week Monday. Mary will be attending an EMS tour on Saturday, January 8, 2012 of Mercy North to gather information for EMS staff. 10. Motion by Jacobson, second by Hayes, to adjourn the meeting at 7:14 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Barbara Jacobson, Chairperson These minutes are not official until approved by Public Safety at their next regular meeting