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pfcm041918 Approved CITY OF MUSKEGO POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSION MINUTES April 19, 2018 6:00 PM Muskego Police Department, W182 S8200 Racine Avenue CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Commissioner Kuwitzky at 6:00PM. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL Roll call was taken with Commissioners Kuwitzky, Mooney, Whittow, and Kuspa present. Chief Rens was in attendance, and Commissioner Glazier was excused. STATEMENT OF PUBLIC NOTICE The meeting was posted 04/13/18. APPROVAL OF AGENDA ITEMS APPROVAL OF MINUTES Minutes from January 18, 2018. Commissioner Mooney made a motion to approve the minutes from the January 18, 2018 meeting. Commissioner Whittow seconded. All in favor. PUBLIC APPEARANCE REPORT FROM POLICE DEPARTMENT Chief Rens updated the commission on staffing. We are currently at full staff with two officers in the FTO program and two people in the academy. Graduation for the academy is 05/10/18. The formal swearing in will maybe take place at the department awards ceremony on 05/15/18. Next week the Chief will be posting for the SRO position as Officer Cortese will be coming out of the school. They are hoping to have interviews the week of 05/15/18, so the new SRO can be in position for June. Officer Johnston was appointed to Detective and has been filling in when time/staffing allow. She should hopefully be dedicated full time to the bureau in June. The detective bureau has been extremely busy already this year. Commissioner Kuspa asked the Chief if he plans on asking for more officers based on the growth of the City. The Chief agreed that the two more they were given this year will help and yes he will be asking for more in the future. The Chief advised that the department went with the VieVu cameras and they came in last week. They will be distributed and put into operation in the near future. The transport van and chair are both in. The van will be going in for detailing soon and training on the use of the chair will take place in the next few weeks. The department annual awards ceremony will be on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. The City will be accepting bids for the new police department. We are hoping to be in the new building by Fall of 2019. OLD BUSINESS NEW BUSINESS Officer Diedrich arrived and gave the commissioners a demonstration with Sirius and his new body camera. CLOSED SESSION DATE OF NEXT MEETING th July 19 2018 ADJOURNMENT Commissioner Mooney made a motion to adjourn, Commissioner Whittow seconded. All in favor. Meeting adjourned at 7:08PM.