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pfcm101719 Approved CITY OF MUSKEGO POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSION MINUTES October 17, 2019 6:00 PM Muskego Police Department, W182 S8200 Racine Avenue CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Commissioner Mooney at 6:00PM. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL Roll call was taken with Commissioners Mooney, Whittow, Kuspa, Glazier and Jaske present. Chief Rens was also in attendance. STATEMENT OF PUBLIC NOTICE The meeting was posted 10/16/19. APPROVAL OF AGENDA ITEMS APPROVAL OF MINUTES Minutes from August 8, 2019. Commissioner Whittow made a motion to approve the minutes from the above meeting. Commissioner Kuspa seconded. All in favor. PUBLIC APPEARANCE REPORT FROM POLICE DEPARTMENT Chief Rens advised that the department’s new K9, Obi, has been certified and working on the road as of this week. Officer Slamka and Obi attended training for 5 weeks and are both very eager to get out and do their job. Chief Rens advised that because the K9 squad is not finished yet, Officer Diedrich and Sirius will be on late shift and Officer Slamka and Obi will be on early shift so they can share a squad. Once the squad is ready, they will stay on those nd shifts as part of manpower, and the department will have a K9 scheduled every day on 2 or rd 3 shift. Chief Rens advised that our open house was last week and approximately 200 people attended. The citizens were impressed by the building and very supportive of the opportunity it gives us to grow as a department. For the most part everything is complete, except a few minor details. Chief advised that the old building is pretty much empty and is being used for rd 3 quarter training. The department’s newest Officer, Sidney Temple, started this week, he is currently on dayshift FTO and came to our department from the Kenosha Police Department. Officer Speich is off FTO and on his own on early shift. Officer Weinkauf completes his FTO th tomorrow and starts dayshift on the 19 , on his own. The department held testing and interviews for the new dispatcher position. The background investigation is about to begin on the top candidate, and we are hoping for her to start in November. Chief advised the new Ford Explorers seem to be well liked by the officers and they will slowly be phased into fleet and the Tahoes will be phased out. There was a brief discussion on heroin and methamphetamine use in Muskego and the use of vaping devices. The police cadets were involved in a National Pistol Championship in Johnston, Iowa and did well. Commissioner Kuspa advised he is was present, as an advisor with Community Resource Officer Jeff Sartorius, for the cadets and was extremely impressed. Two of our stnd cadets took 1 and 2 place overall. Commissioner Kuspa said the cadets did an amazing job, and even if all of them could not attend the event, they trained as a team and he was very proud. The commissioners requested the cadets come to the next meeting to be introduced to the commission and share what they do in the cadet program. OLD BUSINESS NEW BUSINESS CLOSED SESSION Commissioner Whittow made a motion to go into closed session. Commissioner Glazier seconded. All in favor. The commission entered closed session at 6:51PM. Commissioner Kuspa made a motion to end the closed session. Commissioner Glazier seconded. All in favor. Closed session ended at 7:21PM. DATE OF NEXT MEETING January 16, 2019. ADJOURNMENT Commissioner Whittow made a motion to adjourn, Commissioner Kuspa seconded. All in favor. Meeting adjourned at 7:22PM.