Monday, March 4, 2013
Minutes: Public Safety: 2/2013
Public Safety Committee
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 6:30 P.M.
Regular Meeting
Evansville City Hall Council Room
31 S Madison Street
MINUTES
1. Chairperson Jacobson called meeting to order at 6:35 p.m.
2. Roll call of committee and staff members present was: Chairperson Jacobson, Alderperson Hayes and Fuchs, and Chief Scott McElroy, and EMS Chief/Coordinator Mary Beaver.
3. Motion by Hayes, second by Fuchs, to approve the agenda as printed. Motion passed.
4. Motion by Jacobson, second by Hayes, to approve the January 2, 2013 regular meeting minutes as printed. Motion passed.
5. Citizen appearances other than agenda items listed-None
6. Old Business-None
7. New Business
a. Motion by Hayes, second by Jacobson, to approve the Operator’s License application for Susan M Nicks. Motion passed
b. Discussion and possible motion to amend the parking ordinance regarding RV parking within city limits of the City of Evansville. There was no discussion regarding this agenda item.
c. Motion by Jacobson, second by Fuchs, to approve recommendation to Common Council approval of the Joint Powers Agreement for 2013. Motion passed
8. Evansville Police Report
There were 1095 calls for service for the month of January, 2013 compared to 899 in January of 2012. Total license plate transactions were 52.
Vehicle inspection training will be attended by Officer Schmidt March 4-7. The entire staff will be completing Intoximeter re-certification training in January and February, 2013. Officers Job and Mahan Strupp will attend the Advanced Patrol tactics on February 12 & 13 and Officers Job, Mahan Strupp and Nankee will attend FTO training February 25 through March 1. Officer Reese participated in the high school civics activity related to the parking policy and fees on January 22, 2013.
Accreditation was started in December of 2012. The process will be costly requiring implementation of different issues; i.e., we needed to install panic buttons in the interview rooms, a flammable liquid storage container is required, etc. Chapters 1 through 14 have been reviewed, with 2, 6 and 13 requiring completion. The web-based distribution system from Deer Creek Technologies is being utilized for all interdepartmental communications, including policy distribution. On-site evaluation is set for November of 2013. The Police Commission met January 9, 2013 and approved the posting/creation for a Sergeant and part/full-time eligibility list.
The squad video cameras have arrived and installation is set for February 12, 2013. Staff will be attending training for the Spillman Records Management system which will continue through June of 2013.
The department has entered into the Rock County Inter-agency Agreement on sharing of information again in 2013. This is a county-wide group with the agreement authorizing the exchange of information between Rock County schools, educators, law enforcement personnel, juvenile justice and human service professionals.
We continue to scan files on a daily basis and updates continue to be placed on the city website.
9. Evansville Medical Service Report
The Wisconsin Emergency Services conference in Milwaukee was attended by Mary and Zachory Beaver. The all-day training for TEMS (Tactical Emergency Medical Services) involved the procedure to use when applying emergency medicine while under hostile environments, and also how to protect ourselves during hostile encounters. The second day of the conference focused on Leadership which reinforced idea/guidelines/procedures on “hard to handle employees” along with the stages of discipline. There was also information presented on how we project to our clients and families.
The training refresher for our two year license renewal is ongoing and will not be completed until the spring of 2014. Recruitment is always an ongoing quest. Mary will be holding a CPR session on Saturday, February 16 for eight students from the Stoughton Daycare.
The 911 center is working on the bugs in the system for the radio upgrade, and new “plugs” are being installed into the Rock County IT system.
Our Tough Books that are used for run reporting data are in the process of being upgraded. Our present Tough Books are becoming too slow for the program that is used to write and upload our reports. We are looking into obtaining quotes for newer laptops. We are also experiencing connectivity issues with our “hotspot” that are used to upload these reports and are working on a solution.
10. Motion by Fuchs, second by Hayes, to adjourn the meeting at 6:41 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Barbara Jacobson, Chairperson
These minutes are not official until approved by Public Safety at their next regular meeting
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I attended the general counsel meeting tonight to voice my opinion on two topics:
1. To advocate support to fund a public works project to fix an engineering error made when my neighborhood sewer was installed. It is causing major damage to my yard, the curb, and the street. It also causes a public safety concern because it leaves up to a foot of standing water in the street and an uncovered man hole that a child could fall in and drown to death. It has been a problem since I built in 2006. The city has tried very hard to fix the problem, but every attempt has failed. I asked that the solution the city Public Works Superintendent has proposed to be funded
2. To express my opposition to the proposed ordinance to ban any type of trailer to be parked on any street in Evansville. It simply did not pass the common sense test in our district. It may have some validity in the historic district where the streets are smaller. But in our neighborhood we have very wide streets and I have never had a problem driving in our neighborhood. I was joined by several of my neighbors that expressed the same opinion. There was only ONE citizen that was for it, the original author of the law, and he does not even in our district.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why my district alderman BARBARA JACOBSON was the ONLY alderman to vote against fixing the engineering error. She truly does not have my neighbors, our kids, or my best interest in mind.
Further, BARBARA JACOBSON was the alderman to motion to pass the trailer ordinance despite the fact that several of her constituents spoke against it, and none spoke for it. Un-believable.
Alderman Jacobson, I truly hope you read this. Please, put your personal agenda aside and start listening to the people YOU represent. Your actions show you do not care what we think is important.
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