all right it's Wednesday March 5th we will start the public safety Commission meeting um it is 6 o'clock we call the meeting to order and we'll take an attendance
um Jarvis here Burge here Kelly new commissioner Kelly Dixon here David moso great we have a quarum chief all right we're going to move
right into public comment is anybody here present in the room would right there I have public comments you like come on up you can sit here just state your name and your address for us in your city so we can have it for the record
sure um my name is akani um I could spell it if and you give you about two or three minutes we don't time you that's fine we just trust you that's all no of course um I live at 44 East Cleveland um I emailed um I'll
I'll kind of reference that uh there an ongoing issue with the Greenfield Public Library uh I don't know if it's one or more individuals I've spoken with the library uh staff there um they one of the staff seemed to acknowledge um
there's a a strong odor uh Beyond Bo um that kind of permeates the whole second floor um I believe it to be associated with one individual who may not be aware um so I guess I wanted to present this
as an issue to discuss um alternative methods apart from perhaps uh law enforcement uh because if it's a mental health issue if it's if it's someone who's not aware just looking at exploring ways in which the city can
respond to people who have needs who are not being met that are affecting others um in that type of way that's essentially it so so we don't comment back or ask question of course of course um but we thank you for your
time and we will review it and we'll probably be back in touch with you com thank you so much thank you for your comments is there anyone else here in the room that would like to have public comment is there anyone online at this time oh I see a hand up is that you
Stephanie yes it is hi hi Stephanie Duos uh Precinct a I'd like to congratulate and welcome Kelly Dixon to the public safety and I know she'll do a wonderful job um I also have concerns about things that happen in my
neighborhood but I have said them at so many meetings um and I was told that if I have traffic speed or safety issues I should uh relay them to the public safety
commission um I do that on a regular basis I have some uh personal connections on the on the public safety commission but I just wanted to pop in and say you know you guys are all doing a great job from you know every aspect of public safety I do appreciate all the
hard work that the public safety department does from fire police and ambulance services I do see you guys regularly in my neighborhood so I know you're pretty busy but I wanted to thank you guys again for all the hard work and
um thank you thank you Stephanie is anybody else online on Zoom would like to speak public comments all right and one last chance for the room anybody in the room all right I the public comment portion of the
meeting um we don't have meeting minutes to approve we'll have two months we don't have a secretary right now um we have we'll have two months and meeting minutes to approve next time and then and I will put the chore um we'll we'll move on to um new
business and I also um at this time I do want to um wish you know Kelly we appreciate you being here and we're looking forward to working with you um so um congratulations and thank you commissioner thank
you all right I will invite up emergency and medical services and again anybody that comes up and speaks I would like you to state your name and your department and your position just so folks that watch this a month from now on Zoom know who you are we know most of you but folks that watch
it on PD land may not welcome hi hi uh K Angelo operations manager for AMR in Greenfield um welcome back thank you we've continued busy throughout the winter um hospitals are very busy the census everywhere is busy so uh we've been
maintaining an average of 250 transports monthly I did send you over the reports this afternoon for January and February so this should be waiting for you um we really appreciate the partnership with Greenfield fire uh they support us a lot on scene we've been kind of passing calls back and forth to make sure everything is covered and it's been
working pretty smoothly uh we've been working to onboard more employ to our specifically to our Greenfield station we've been doing a lot of coverage uh between two bases uh we have one new full-time paramedic on the overnight uh he's newer to us new to full-time Greenfield however not a new paramedic
at all he comes to us with 20 plus years experience so that's great uh we have two new full-time EMTs that are starting in our um new hire Academy next week who will be predominantly based in the Greenfield station um and then we have one returning EMT who's coming back to us on a part-time basis who has worked
for grainfield for many years so that's great that she's coming back um we have recently done a lot to remodel and improve our station um make it a little bit nicer for them uh new paint new floors new furniture uh full new Supply
closets which is excellent um better for inventory cleaner we used to have it off the garage the dust the dirt from the truck so we've moved it all inside to a different location and that is going great so swing by and take a look it looks great true
um we are excited to participate in the Greenville High School career fair that's coming up next week um we have our supervisor and two of our recruiters are going over to mostly just meet them they're not quite eligible for ENT school yet but once you graduate try to
bring anyone in that's interested so that's exciting we like to participate in all those events um and our biggest news uh we recently we've been working really hard over the last few years to become cast accredit it's essentially the gold standard of ambulance services it's very difficult
to attain um we are the only Ambulance Service in all Western Massachusetts that has recently been accredited so we have full accreditation for the next three years which is huge we've worked for many many years to accomplish this so it's all encompassing of all of our
Western Nest providers um they look at fleet vehicles equipment um response times Staffing the support of your Crews making sure they have all the proper things that they need to get the job done as well as a big focus on patient outcomes to make sure we're providing
good patient care so we had our site visit about two months ago at this point and we found out last week that we are fully accredited we passed us for colors so that's huge news for us we're congrulations on that thank you it's very good news yeah it's really exciting
you'll see the stickers on the check soon am those are our dat you have any questions I hav't added chance to um forward the um your updates for the month but I'll I'll send them to the other commissions do any Commissioners have questions or comments
congratulations thank you very exciting I have one quick question I apologize where is the AMR location here in Greenfield if you're driving down High Street past Franklin it's maybe half a mile further like dling across from the police station okay I know where it is thank you stop in and visit they're
always there thank you for your time okay thank you for having us we're ready for the fire department step up to the plate introduce yourselves to the the zoom folks uh apologize for being a little
late uh the meeting earlier went over longer than I expected and I had to get home for a little bit so the uh approvals for Deputy first I just ask the uh Commissioners can rotate the
schedule so uh before we hold on I have to ask oh sorry um can I have a motion to rearrange the um agenda for I want to put all promotions up
forward move second everyone I thank you sorry I had already sent a letter uh making a recommendation for appointment for deputy chief uh I am pleased to announce uh that Captain mcgyver Peter
mcgyver uh uh went through a long process uh competing against two other fine candidates for the job of deputy chief uh Peter Rose to the top um he has over the last five or six years since he's moved
up from Lieutenant to Captain has been an intrical part of the fire department uh he has embraced learning every aspect of the department including budgeting operations uh and he has taken every assignment that has been thrown his way
uh with uh dignity uh a commitment to get it done um and an unwavering support of the city and the town uh he also is a member of community um organizations like the planning board uh and does a
lot for the community outside of work um he puts in a tremendous amount of time and a tremendous amount of hours uh to the point where I remind him to get home uh because uh um his uh his uh he's got
a beautiful family uh and two beautiful children uh and his wife and and um sometimes telling him to stop working uh uh is is challenging but we we work on that uh but because of that work worth
ethic that he has uh I couldn't be prouder um probably one of the most proudest uh promotions that I put forward to this commission to recommend Peter mcgyver Captain mcgyver as the next Deputy Chief of the Greenfield fire
department like to say anything just hello sure uh hello thank you for for having us tonight um um honored to be here it's uh quite the accomplishment and I don't take that
lightly and uh it's been a journey to get to where we are um but uh look forward to all of the challenges that come forward and uh Deputy Jarvis knows very well the big shoes that he left to
fill uh so I look forward to the task and any questions for Commissioners no surprise yes no go ahead before go first okay yeah pet no no surprise to me Pete that you've worked your way up through
the ranks you you're a hardworking individual um you I was proud to have you on my shift one as a shift Captain I was proud to have you as a firefighter underneath me when I was in charge um you know my paper was was never late when you were on my street so I've known
you for a very long time since you're a little growing up and it's um and it's no surprise to me that you worked your way up through the ranks and uh you're probably still not done because someday jeep was probably looking forward to retirement someday so then
you can take over that um yeah just some days you need to take a deep breath or walk away so be prepared for that it comes with its challenges um yeah the time you want bang your head against the wall but it's all good it's all good so
congratulations any other comments I have a couple um first I want to recognize uh thank you mayor for being at our meeting we appreciate you in the way back um so um generally um when it comes to hiring and promotions Public
Safety commission is involved and I happen to have the pleasure to um sit and observe and also be involved with final interviews um and I think that's in it was an important aspect of it but I want to thank the other candidates too the two other candidates for working
really hard um and um as you know you know it's nerve-wracking no matter how many years you around or who you know the people you know it's you know you're in this process you know so I I appreciate everyone hanging in there um
and um I really appreciate you and I'm proud of you and I know your family is um so I will ask for a motion uh to approve um for chief for deputy chief I need a motion in a second I make a motion that
we send a positive recommendation to the mayor's office for the promotion of Captain mcgyver to Deputy fire chief mcgyver second okay I'll do a roll call uh commissioner Javis yes commiss commissioner Burge
yes commissioner Dixon yes and commissioner MOS yes congratulations so if I could close with a couple remarks about this promotion um just for folks at home and people in the room uh the promotional process for uh
deputy chief was uh a well involved process it it uh there was a a third party evaluation uh company that was brought in and put the candidate through the paces uh and Peter Rose to the top of that as well as the interview process
uh job um job performance uh and Personnel record um Peter has had some setbacks in his career uh not any that were controlled by Peter um and Peter is an example of when things don't go the
way that we hope to in the fire service we keep we keep our head down we plug forward and we keep working towards the end goal and Peter's a prime example of that uh he never gave up he never wavered um uh as a matter of fact U we
had a which I will talk about in a little bit but we had a pretty significant incident that happened this this Sunday uh and Peter got his first taste of uh being the operations uh role in a very difficult uh situation that happened which I will go into in a
little bit um Peter can handle anything that thrown at him he's worked uh very hard to get where he is and again I couldn't be prouder of him so thank you again next uh to my right is Matthew gner Matthew is uh we had a very long
process for entry level um firefighter it result it starts with um a review of their uh applications and the resumés and then from there goes to an interview board uh that's made up of several people
uh including captains a captain a lieutenant a firefighter um they get graded through there uh and then uh that cuts out some of the candidates then the candidates go to a practical um Evolution where they're tested on their
medical skills they're tested on their fire skills uh and Matthew Rose to the top uh with uh the two other candidates that are coming forward for one of them we've already met one of them you'll meet in May uh but he was the number two
candidate uh he comes highly recommended from uh a lot of our internal folks Matthew doesn't have a lot of experience on the fire side uh but what he does have is is character and drive and we are super excited to uh um put his name
forward for recommendation for appointment to the Greenfield fire department as a permanent firefighter what's last name Matthew Gardner Gardner anything you'd like to add well it's obviously a pleasure to meet all of you everyone behind me as well um this has
always been a dream of mine to be part of a fire department and just like to say that I'm very excited and honored to be here and have the opportunity to be a part of such a great team and a family and I'm just excited to see what the future has to bring and I can't wait to get started any questions or
comments so chief M you was the gentleman you spoke to me about that had interviewed at one time no that was Brian the firefighter you met the previous meeting that you pushed forward in the last meeting that's what I thought great okay sorry about that all
right um any questions if not we do a motion motion I'll make a motion that we forward a positive recommendation to the mayor for Matthew as a fulltime firefighter Greenfield fire
department second I'll second that all right we'll do a vote commission JIS yes commission bur yes commissioner Dixon yes and commissioner moso yes congratulations thank you for minute
sure items on the agenda I know you have others lad truck call volume and topics so yeah so the ladder truck that's why I was late today uh we finalized the uh specifications for the new ladder truck uh thank you to the to the mayor and the
city council for um finding the $ 1.9 million for the purchase of the new ladder I think it's pretty remarkable um to be able to uh for the first time that I can remember um in such a a uh tough climate financialized
uh to be able to find the money to pay for it without borrowing uh and and I think that the mayor deserves a lot of credit um when she initially told me that over a year ago um the back of my mind was you know I have never seen a
truck that we haven't borrowed how are we going to get there and somehow she found it um part of that came out of the ambulance revenue account uh part of it was we had to get a different truck that we originally were hoping for uh but this truck that we um that we uh have
secured uh is a great ladder truck it's got um it doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles but it has a lot of things that we need to operate the ladder truck uh with uh I'm super excited about it uh once we finalize the final cost and and
we sign the purchase order for the final amount uh the production will start right away and we should see it in the city uh probably around the end of August early September versus three years so that's pretty remarkable um uh
budget's tight real tight on it but we're going to have a truck that the city can be proud of for uh many years to come so we're excited about that uh the chairman joined us for our meeting today for the final spec meeting if you will um he got the I don't know if he
caught everything that that we were talking about with the truck but uh I think you can share that there's there's no real Frills there's no real real um bells and whistles on the truck it is a it is a work truck um uh that provides
the needs that we have so I'll answer any questions about the ladder questions prob for 10 years on that congratulations thank you it was it was over a decade in the making and uh um I can't thank again I said Thank you again
I'll say thank you to the mayor and our city council uh for really um you know it it was tough for people to make that decision when you look at the firehouse and we have a new firehouse and there's been a lot of capital invested in the firehouse but um we couldn't we couldn't
be more grateful uh it will be able to provide the job that we need to do uh efficient efficiently effectively and keeping our members safe I i' I'd like to thank the mayor again in the city council I did that in an email um that was um for their unwaver and support of
the fire department and the members and the citizens of Greenfield um you don't put you don't put fires out with b and whistles and you don't save people with th whist disable equipment and hard work from the people that you had within so you have a nice piece of shiny truck
that has a bunch of bells and whistles but that doesn't get the job done so it's my can you can you explain to the public um biggest differences between operation of the two briefly not majored you know but just you know yeah like what's the
biggest differences going to be out on the street in using that new new truck yeah so the biggest the biggest difference is is that our current ladder truck is what we call a platform or a tower truck which means that there's a working platform on the end of the ladder uh that allows firefighters to
get in the platform and not have to climb the ladder it provides a a an easier platform to work off of um than than a straight stick out you'll ask well why why are we downgrading well it's not really a downgrade what we gain
from the different the the new truck without the basket on the front of it and it a straight ladder truck we have uh some more maneuverability uh we don't have seven feet out in front of you uh the weight of the truck is is much less uh which is a concern going over bridges
in town um uh it is easier to set up easier to maneuver it has a larger water tank than the current truck uh and so there's some upgrades yes you cannot dispute that the platform is easier to work off of but our ladder
there are times where because of that massive platform we're not able to get to the roof or the upper stories of a building because trees are in the way wires are in the way we have easier access to get to that with the ladder it just means the way that the firefighters
are going to have to work is going to be different I started my career on a straight stick ladder um uh before we got the platform that's how much I date myself uh and although it is different and it and and sometimes it can be more
challenging it is a safe efficient operating platform uh I shouldn't say platform but a stable area to work off of it's going to take training there are two people within the department that remember what it's like
to work off a straight sick everybody else has worked off a platform so the way that we're going to accomplish that is we're going to drill very very hard uh and we're going to get the firefighters comfortable with the change of of piece I've already committed to
the firefighters that we're so busy on shift that you will drill a lot on shift with this truck but when the truck is new my my goal is to be able to pull them off duty as a shift all right here's the truck go no interruptions go
learn the truck climb the truck set the truck up um and over time uh it'll be second nature and so like a lot of fire departments when doing the research versus platform for the straight stick a lot of departments I talk to that have
straight sticks they actually prefer the straight stick over over the platform for us it's going to be a learning curve and we need to be very sensitive to that and we are going to provide whatever we can to make sure that our firefighters transition to that
well thank you for that information the only thing that I would add is um I know uh just being on the calls that the companies both companies will be up here for an introduction when it's delivered and uh just remind us of the dates because I know that I want to
be there sure and VI that I'm sure other um Commissioners might want to be there too sure so thank we'll do that uh I'm happy to report that finally the new ambulance has been delivered we are waiting for the we have a an automatic
lift system for the stretcher in the back of the ambulance it is currently the one that we currently have is in the old A2 that needs to be swapped out to the new A2 um uh once that's done then we'll equip it will reach out to oems
and get it uh licensed and hopefully get it on the road soon it's a beautiful truck if you have the opportunity to go see it um uh you should see it it is uh it's a little bit different than what we've been used to we've been used the larger trucks with the ambulance this
one is a 5 pour 550 but gives us um uh four-wheel driver uh capabilities in the winter which has been problematic in the last few years so what's the estimate of it being on the road mon maybe I still we still have to
provide training everybody has to drive it get comfortable with it comfortable with the operations on it for probably a month that's the goal so I have two last things the first one is I want to talk a little bit about about an incident that happened on
Sunday uh we had a uh structure fire on School Street uh early in the morning on Sunday uh fire was in the number the second four or what we call the number two four extending up into the attic um I'm going to use some fire jargon here
uh so bear with me uh this is what we refer to to in our industry a bread and butter operation meaning that this fire that we have is what we what we do a lot of uh over the years this has been the
type of fire we have multi two and a half story woodf frame multi-unit apartment building you know fire extending on on on the second floor um the guys did a an aggressive attack uh we went to a second alarm um we were
about 15 minutes into the incident uh one of the re Reef relief Crews of off duty guys our mutual Aid wasn't on scene yet our our RIT team wasn't on scene yet Mutual Aid was just arriving we had one engine from Turners but the rest of the
the engines were in uh still inbound one of the off-duty Crews uh engine two made access to uh the top four re re relieving the first crew uh they went into pole ceiling and when the fire is
burning up in the attic we make holes in the in the ceiling to be able to get to the fire uh when the crews went in uh they started that operation and there was a catastrophic failure of the uh ceiling and joist um connections of the
attic uh in the entire span of the room that they were operating within uh collapsed suddenly without warning uh trapping two of the firefighters uh with debris and and fire above them the first indication that we
had a problem was the lieutenant uh that was um uh towards the window on the aide or the front side of the building uh we could see we could we saw the ceiling come down we saw him um I didn't see it
the F uh the safety officer next to me uh said I think this Lieutenant's in trouble and we looked up and sure enough the ceiling was on top of him uh we could only see his helmet and we could see the fire uh rapidly taking off um
the lieutenant the other lieutenant in charge of that crew was in the doorway of the room called in uh a Mayday uh called it as urgent but it was transmitted as a Mayday our dispatcher right on the spot transmitted the MayDay let everybody know that there was a
problem going out uh the other firefighter was trapped under the debris on his stomach um spread out on his stomach with a ceiling on top of him the other Lieutenant helped him out he went grabbed the nozzle knock
down a lot of the fire and then the two of them were able to all three of them work together to get this roof structure or the ceiling structure off of the other firefighters uh both firefighters were transported to the hospital one has
returned to work the other one hasn't returned to work I'm happy to report it's not life-threatening injury that this firefighter had uh but he still uh had significant injuries enough to keep him out of work for a little bit um we were 10 minutes into the fire I've done
this particular type of fire um many many many times in my career uh and never had we had a a catastrophic failure that early into the incident uh it was um difficult uh uh but everybody
did their job and uh they were quickly um removed from the building Turner Falls was assigned to to the rescue um Captain mcgyver uh was the operations chief he assisted with me getting a plan of action into place where we're
throwing ladders we're getting Cruise we're we're we're getting a lot done the whole incident happened two minutes exactly from the time of collapse to the time that they were removed uh and we cancelled the the m uh I only point that out um because
um um if it wasn't for the training if it wasn't for the experience if it wasn't for a bunch of stuff and just luck I think the circumstance could have been a lot different um and so I I am so proud of this department uh and the
composure that they kept and and everybody um uh coming to help um I do want to recognize uh our Police Department in AMR AMR was able to transport both of our firefighters our Police Department was initial on scene
uh and they were able to clear the building for us um um they do a they do a great job and we appreciate um they gave us an update of hey you got fired on the number two floor on on the north side of the building so that that
triggered some stuff in Bound so they did a great job as well um or dispatcher I'm going to go back to that real quick our dispatcher to recognize that the firefighters were in trouble and start the procedure without even thinking
about it uh letting everybody know um I called her today she happens to be working today uh and I couldn't be more proud of of of what she uh did as well she was really on the spot so um so I'll take any questions about that incident
if anybody I'll just um comment um that's why that's why we train on Mayday um I I'll speak as the old old fire chief deputy chief that's why we train on them we train on them we
train on them and um so when stuff like this happens you you um you become you don't it's not reactive it's active you you know what to do you know what to do and the dispatchers know what to do um hopefully Pete they don't do what they
did to me when the chief was on vacation decided to have Mayday call at drill at 2:00 in the morning and then tell the deputy chief and the old man wakes up with his heart 100 miles an hour thinking that that I missed a call and we had firefighters trapped in a fire
but it was a real dispatch but they forgot to inform me but hopefully they don't do that to you because it's a shock to your system when it happens um but yeah training kudos to the dispatcher uh to to do it it's a very stressful situation that that they were
put into that and this is something they do every day the week it's not something we don't every day of the week where we train for all the time we train as a rip team we train to get guys out of trouble when they get in trouble so hoodles good job everybody and I'm glad everybody's
home safe I'd like to say something on behalf of the citizens of Greenfield and the commission and personal I want to thank you all the public safety folks that were involved
in this I would I'm very proud of you I'm very thankful and I'm sure the citizens of Greenfield are too I know um I was there uh to observe as a commissioner and um every time I go to observe whether it's the police department or the fire department the
thing I notice most is just the the the focus and the the calm concern just you you always just getting the job done and you're not thinking about it you know you know folks like me are sitting here you see the Flames jetting out of the
roof or you know and you know the hundred people are around and you know I'm pacing back and forth you know nervous and you folks are just doing your job Emergency Services dispatch police and fire I thank you and the citizens
should be proud to what you guys and gals do every day um the um it's it's um when you're sitting there watching it it's uh quite amazing um how everyone just handles the
business so thank you so lastly at the request of the chairman I requested something just one thing yes uh this is a list of our uh
equipment um and I'll run through it really quick so before you do that just to note um I did ask both Chiefs to supply me us with a list of all their registered Vehicles
including water flotation and four-wheel vehicles and not VIN numbers but just the list in what the gates are of those Vehicles just so when we go into conversations um with ourselves or Poss with the mayor or other people that we have an idea what each department has
instead of kind of playing a guessing game so I thank both Chiefs for sending me a full list um the other day when I asked thank you y no problem uh I'll just real quickly go through it uh to highlight uh the the trucks if you if
you look at this you can see the vehicle ID what it's grouping is and primary use is the make and the model and the manufacturer date and the end of Serv life expected date you'll notice that we have some vehicles that are beyond the
end of life service date um uh but uh so that's the list so starting at the top I've also color coded based off of its functions blue being EMS green being uh Marine uh
yellow being um apparatus orange being administrative and and gray being um uh support uh the first one we have A1 A1 is uh uh 2022 expected end of life at
2037 uh that is our Frontline ambulance A2 is a 2009 Horton uh that is the one we're retiring this month and if you look down at the bottom there are future apparatus that have yet to be delivered
H2 is although it's here it's not in service it should be by the end of the month going down next is uh the boat um boat one is a zodiac a nine person Zodiac boat um that was purchased in
2020 in 2006 uh slated to be replaced in 2026 boat two is uh in the um most simplest of phrases is a bingy um where it's more for the smaller Rivers where
if we put a line across and we have to um scoop people across the river with the small boat we can take it in with one or two people to get to the smaller um rivers that we have uh brush one is a Wildland uh truck
it is an F450 purchased in 2020 uh slated to be replaced in 2040 car one is a Chevrolet Tahoe 22 uh purchased in 22 slated to be replaced in 29 that is the chief's
command car THV means take home vehicle uh that is assigned to the chief at Department car two is a Ford 150 uh it is assigned to the fire prevention officer uh he responds 24 hours a day uh
he has a pickup because he carries things like ladders to check smoke detectors and other equipment that would fit into an SUV uh car 3 is a police Interceptor 20177 uh this was donated or um in
exchange with Deerfield PD it is the gray uh small Cruiser that we have uh carf uh car 4 is the red explorer that is a 2020 and that is the Deputy Chief's car car five is another police
interceptor that was a um um the PD the Greenfield Police Department uh an old Cruiser that they took offline uh and that is used for training or a spare car as needed uh we had we send a lot of uh folks away to training and to save on
mileage that's what that car is used for uh I will say that that car it is the plan to remove that car out of service once the prime mover um gets there which I'll get into in a minute engine one is a
2006 uh Pierce Contender uh saber um slated to replace 2026 that's probably going to be pushed off quite a bit because of the new truck uh engine two is an AO XT 2014 uh slated to
replace in 2034 engine three the newest truck that is a both a pumper and a rescue uh on a 2021 impel uh Pierce they're all Pierce uh stated to replace in
2041 Engine 4 was a commercial uh cab it is a freight liner 2022 purchased uh slated to placed in 2042 our cabota is a two-person cabota uh that is used to access the woods for
rescue uh it has a stretching stretcher unit in the back it also carries equipment during uh rescues out in the woods it also uh does a lot of work with uh Wildland fires uh and trucking people and Equipment into the woods uh and it is used heavily at our details whether
it's warm toown Green River Fest or uh the fairgrounds so we can get quick access to uh patients um the police department has um SUV as well uh they are set up for completely different
missions their Hall people ours usually does patients and and and Equipment um the coda trailer purchased the same year uh the MDU trailer MDU is mass Decon
unit uh that is a 2005 that was a grant funded to all communities that had a hospital uh to provide uh Mass Decon which are basically portable shower units the public health trailer was a
covid grant funded for the Department of Public Health here in town because we have the equipment to move that large trailer because we have the manpower to assist with that uh we have the ownership of that uh and we maintain
that for them but it's their trailer to use for uh Health purposes we also use it during details as a u as a place for uh uh firefighters to get out of the
weather uh and uh if we need to a command post um so that's you'll see that up at the fairgrounds at wormtown Green Riverfest and stuff like that Tower one is the 2000 uh truck uh replacement 2020 that is the one that
will be replaced with the new ladder uh which will be a 2025 expected delivery in September uh utility one is a 2014 slated to be replaced in 2029 it's a Silverado 350 and basically it is what
it's what the title is it is a utility truck it's our allpurpose pickup truck including uh our DPW does a great job uh but uh we use that to plow out our driveway we use that for uh other
plowing activities our DPW is is really good at what they do uh but sometimes we need to have that capability of of cutting in a road when we're going out on a fire call um and they may not be in the part of town that that uh benefits
that it's also used to uh haul equipment um it's used at every fire scene to pick up hose packs dirty dirty gear uh it's used at what you would use a pickup for The Shelter trailer is a roughly a
2015 and that houses all our shelter supplies including cots linen uh and things needed to operate a mass shelter future apparatus we talked about latter one in the new ambulance uh the one I want to highlight is the prime mover the
prime mover uh is a uh Dodge Ram pickup u a larger pickup that has a cap on the back that will be used to move all the heavy equipment that we have all the trailers that we have it'll be uh outfitted with
the Drone program uh so the Drone equipment will stay on it so it's charged and ready to go uh it will be used uh we house um uh the western Mass Tech rescue trailer uh which has all the
supplies for the te Tech rescue um equipment on it this truck will be responsible for towing that uh this truck was a three-year uh process uh working on acquiring uh through Homeland Security uh the tune OFA I think it's
around about a $130 um piece of equipment that uh Homeland Security is providing to the city for zero cost other than maintenance and fuel on that and again I mentioned that carire 5 is coming off
the line so the insurance for that car the fuel for that car uh I'm hoping that we will see a net zero increase to the budget um operating budget because of this vehicle and we're very fortunate that Homeland Security funded this project like I said it took three years
uh for it to become a reality should be here this summer um and that's the list of equipment we have the only other piece of equipment that you should be aware of is and the apparatus for we house a department of fire Services
hazardous materials truck it is a a a Hazmat truck that has about a million dollars worth of a meters and equipment on it um the way that the HazMat team works in the state it's run by the state fire Marshall's office but they preposition strategically preposition
these trucks all over the Commonwealth and they put them in departments that have people that are on the team we have three members that are on the team uh and that truck is housed here they carry their own insurance uh they paid
the the the connection for the electricity we pay for the electricity for the truck uh but we have no other cost other than we house it here in our garage um and the reason why we do that is because that's the only Hazmat resource in Franklin County uh and it
needs to be available in quick response uh for uh the county which benefits specifically Greenfield having that uh capability available quickly wasn't sure I was expecting to go through the whole list but that's okay we appreciate that now now Chief
Dodge is kind of in a pickle because um any questions from Vision all right again I thank you for supplying me with the request that I made the other day and I'm sure there'll be more conversation um ongoing for both
departments yeah so so um the the overall goal with this is is um uh to Define what our replacement plan is and to try to get this in line with the city's plan as well as you can say other than the engine and and some minor
things um the fire department's really not in a we're not going to have to go back for a while engine one's going to be an issue but we're going going to make engine one limp along for a while uh because of the new ladder truck and the changes with the more water and the
pump on the ladder truck all right I will uh invite this patch tonight C Hunter I'm the dispatch supervisor for nice to see you again welcome commissioner Dixon to the board so I'll give you our call volume
for January and February those meetings um we took 1,953 911 calls in January we took 1,856 in February our documented calls for service for January were 3,399
uh for February 3,262 so we were very busy um we unfortunately are down to two pums U one of our pums whom you met several meetings about uh dispatcher Luda sh
shova uh she unfortunately had to leave us um her work and personal and educational uh commitments were a little too much so we're very sorry to see her go um we do have a cur current uh trainee full-time traine Trevor brunette
who the board met a few months ago uh he is in the second part of his training right now he is in fire we call it fire skills training so he's focusing on fire training right now um if he continues at the pace that he's at we expect him to be done by the end of the month just in
time for uh spring and uh summer vacations uh so what that does is brings us to a place where we can uh staff what we call our vacation relief spot um it's extra dispatcher essentially will cover long-term absences and vacations uh so
that POS having that position filled definitely saves us a ton in overtime and stress on the dispatchers as well um summers are quite busy with vacations as you can imagine uh our we have one perdm that was uh in sort of a long-term part-time
training Madison gerell she has finally finished her training um she was doing part-time training with us because of her College schedule we're happy that she's finished her training and should be uh starting to take shifts in the next couple weeks so we're excited about
that as well I'm happy to say that uh Lieutenant Alex Coy from the fire department and I along with Chief stran have been working um for uh the better part of six or seven months to update our fire protocols for dispatch um they were a
little outdated and so we worked together to to get that um up to up to date uh so I sent that back to Alex and uh he's going to do I guess a final review with the chief and hopefully we'll have that by the end of the month I'm
hoping because you guys were so supportive the board was so supportive of getting my position out of dispatch and into the office we have I have been able to start our QA program uh quality assurance uh so for the first round uh I chose five random calls for each
dispatcher uh and instead of going to each dispatcher and addressing calls I did sort of a global review of all of the dispatchers calls and and I'm now starting to give them feedback um places where we we can definitely use some improvement and places where we are excelling I'm happy to say that we're
doing a very good job or the dispatchers are doing a very good job um we have a uh prospective new pum trainee uh hopefully coming up soon uh HR has made a conditional offer to him um and it's
now at the background stage uh so I have put in a request to uh one of the sergeants who is in charge of um getting the background done background done uh so hopefully we'll have that pretty soon I'm happy to also say that our CIT training critical incident training
which we've talked about uh every dispatcher is now trained with the exception of one prium dispatcher and she's going to be taking the class in June so we will now all have CIT training so definitely uh our mental health calls seem to be uh increasing
every month so that will definitely be put to good use um speaking of training uh on the 27th of this month uh we Greenfield will be hosting uh Progressive law enforcement Consultants uh they are local to Massachusetts um I think Grandy is where
they're out of um so we'll be doing a uh training called active threat response for dispatch I can give you a print out of this description of the clouds and when is the class it's going to be the 27th it's going to be here at the
firehouse uh Chris fronos and his wife Jessica I believe is her name uh he's a retired police officer with I think 35 40 years experience uh his wife Jessica is a current part-time dispatcher for the town of ammer actually uh with many
years experience um we're excited looking forward to that and just a couple other things I would just like to mention a couple of calls that uh one that fire chief touched on this batch has had a couple of calls
in the last month or so that were pretty traumatic for us um the structure fire on 75 75 School Street as the chief mentioned that's a pretty traumatic call that's one that a dispatcher never wants to hear a Mayday um we consider the
police officers and firefighters our families and so we worry about them as much as their families at home do uh so that was pretty scary for the dispatchers uh I would like to recognize uh dispatcher Johanna guod and Avon mumblo uh dispatcher guod was actually
the dispatcher who accepted the MayDay and put her training to use and was instrumental in helping the firefighters to get out safely uh certainly we send our hearts go out to the firefighters certainly and hope that they are doing well and our hearts go out to uh those
that were affected by the fire as well F uh back on February 19th there was a uh call that ended in a short police chase as well as a crash uh it started out as a motor vehicle
theft uh with less than a minute uh the dispatchers took the information got the description of the stolen vehicle out to officers uh within a minute and a half they had given them all of the descriptive information location information they had uh less than six
minutes into this call an officer had spotted the vehicle unfortunately it had a short police chase occurred and then a pretty serious motor vehicle crashed into another car um they ended up having to contact a LifeLight had to come for one of the
occupant um excuse me uh EMS had to come I think that one of the pieces of of these types of calls is that people Miss is that because we do have this one call this one serious call going on that everything else stops in town and
unfortunately that doesn't happen and so at the same time these two dispatchers had a pretty serious disturbance going on that required multiple police officers and EMS to respond to that call as well so they were juggling those two calls uh so I I would like to rec
recognize dispatcher Mark Lavin and again dispatcher Ivon mumblo happened to be working for this call as well uh they did a fantastic job uh did miss a beat got help where it needed to go and I think uh in that case
definitely uh helped to prevent other accidents or injuries to the public so very proud of them think that's all I have unless you guys have any questions questions from Commissioners
statements thank you so much for anybody here that hasn't seen the new Dispatch Center and I urge you please go up and see it any tours even Anthony have you been up there have you seen the Dispatch Center
okay great I think it's really impressive and I think what you do I mean you have police and fire offic is behind you and I'm sure they appreciate everything you do and I hear it and I see it so please thank those dispatchers for we definitely will and we appreciate
your hard work and we're very happy that you're not on the desk uh I know you like to be on the desk in a while but we're really happy that you are not in the benefits of being we're seeing the benefits of you not being on the D so thank I appreciate that and I
would just like to say again that we definitely appreciate your support for our new center uh now that we've been in there for a short time um it's it's a definitely a change it's a positive change we appreciate the citizens of Greenfield the mayor Town Hall the city council everyone um supporting that and
everyone that worked so hard to get us there so appreciate of that well thank new radio system working uh definite huge improvement from what we were what we were coming from okay yes I mean there's there's been a few bugs but um
we've worked pretty closely with uh Kurt from pitville Communications and um Captain MacGyver or I'm sorry Deputy Chief mcgyver from the fire department several uh Lieutenant Kimbell as well he helps us out quite a bit with that I personally could hear the difference in
it on Sunday at the playround is um definitely a lot clearer and crisper well and there's a lot of I there's a lot of places in town where before officers would go into buildings and we wouldn't be able to hear them they'd have no connection at all and so that's
a vast Improvement so yeah I had question uh not related to that but um so does dispatch call LifeLight are you in charge of calling LifeLight you make the call okay I just was curious about that okay great well thank you for your
time so I'll invite the police department up because they showed up on time I was driving who was driving I was driving that's [Music] why do we need like 15 chairs here
or little bit of a crew come on don't be shy I'm not afraid of you the wrinkled copy I have lots of questions too right so um you jump right to it we can jump right to it yes we can move we
can move on to the promotions and right first and then we back track so I want to recommend to the public safety commission the promotion of detective Brandon lagoy to Sergeant and the promotion of Sergeant J
binsky to Lieutenant and they're here before you and are more than happy to talk at length to their I Brandon happy to answer my questions thank you um any comments or
questions before I ask I think we had these gentlemen talk to us not too long ago you know I was going to ask everyone a question and put you on the spot but I didn't ask Peter so I'm going to give you the break and not ask you questions
how that a fair fair we we've talked we've talked enough promised I promised okay um we're gonna do one at a time um so uh let's do
Brandon first I need a a motion and then a second sorry okay over there we have people in the room that can help you I call compressions I move that we uh accept the recommendation
of Brandon legoy as our Sergeant second okay we'll take a roll call vote commissioner Javis yes yes commissioner Burge yes commissioner Dixon and M Carol might have to think
for a second no I I give you my thumbs up congratulations you want you want to add anything or you can I don't think so yeah about what I don't saw uh I mean I am excited to get back on the road and
hopefully make a positive impact uh on the PD and I assure both of you that I will still come Ser so I'll keep will'll keep you to that we have no doubt we're looking
forward to uh you being a uh a leader for one of the shifts and for the uh the officers so we look forward to all uh everything you're going to be doing for us so thank you all right all right next we have a lieutenant
to do I have a motion anyone of course it is my pleasure to move that um that we accept the recommendation of promotion J buttinsky to
the second second all right roll call vote M Javis yes commissioner bur yes commissioner Dixon yes commissioner Maro yes congratulations I don't have much to say like you said
we just talked U you know just over a year ago some things have changed some things haven't uh excited for the opportunity going to be an adjustment getting away from the what I call police work and more towards desk but we'll see
how things go and excited to keep moving forward you still going to come do pizza correct brand in City's coming to do I'll be there I'll be there once in a while we're trying to get him what what we we look forward to uh everything
you're going to do the department so thank you thanks conratulations want to do the rest of the introductions and then we move on yes uh first of all to welcome Hunter zma he's our he's in our third phase of
fto training right now right been hopefully finishing up the next couple weeks and it'll be the newest of the new uh but shift probably midnights I would say more than likely midnights uh he come he's a transfer um well fresh out of
Academy about a say about a year ago and then he worked at wear PD uh he leral over to us and he's finishing up his fto training right now good congratulations thank you sir a couple other movements oh yeah well usually you said
no one's getting off the hook I'm holding you usually I don't let anybody off the hook nice tonight um I'm definitely excited for the change it was a change that was much needed for just my personal background of going from 40 minutes to work every day to 20 and then I feel
like I've been welcomed with Open Hands by the entire department I'm looking forward to a long successful future with the police department the only advice I can give you is listen to the folks that you're being trained by because they're a good group of people they have a lot of knowledge and education and experience
so what you need you will get from them yes sir I would absolutely agree I don't think we need to do an approval he great over us thank you we had a couple other changes uh officer Henry he
decided to go back to the midnights he likes chasing chasing down he he likes that officer Zoe Smith has our new uh downtown officer um she's what three three weeks into now I yeah I think I
just started my fourth week fourth week now hearing nothing but good things throughout the downtown um we're excited um I we spoke today about the job and she's very excited to to be doing it so
it's I think it's a it's a good move officer Henry's doing what he loves to do and officer Smith is doing what she likes to do so she liar um I'll say I this this position is really uh why I got into police work why I've stayed in police
work for so long and it's just building those relationships with people um you know the people that come downtown the people that stay downtown the people that work downtown um all that and just really making sure that um the people for whom Greenfield should be accessible to it remains accessible to them and
they feel like that they're a member of the community that they are so it's it's been an honor we appreciate we need it it's been something the mayor has wanted for a long time and um I think it's made a big difference I hear from business owners in community um
they feel really good about it um and you're going to have an office space yes the uh I mean the chief can probably speak to it but that downtown substation I'll speak to it I guess yeah but I uh I've been getting anywhere between 10 and 15,000 steps in a day just walking the beat so if you
see me I'm like overly friendly you'll have to tell me to shut up so come over say hi make small talk all that stuff well you're going to fit in well downtown and again the I I know because I get phone calls and the business owners are over the moon about
your presence so thank you for that you I Echo that praise after praise after praise out of the gate it's good stuff one final change that's going to put us to the test absolutely there is no question about
this I'll share so since uh Sergeant binski will be now Lieutenant binsky uh Sergeant cluder will now take over his job as the special unit Sergeant um the special unit position started with me several
years ago U Jay took it over did great things with it and better than you better than me that's his only the only thing we asked was you know make it better and he did better uh now we're asking the same of Sergeant cluder and hopefully she just continues tradition
just making the job is the best that can be um yeah we're we're excited you know people are getting into different roles and you know knocking off some of the rust and little different positions and good it's all good people look at me
with the side eye when he says that yeah com he wants you to speak I'm all choked up saying it it was his it was his baby right so Des on yeah I mean there's room for improvement when it comes from himself this um so no I'm really looking forward to it my favorite time in the police
department thus far has been my role in the detective Bureau and when I became a supervisor I was no longer doing that work so part of what Jay was doing uh and what Chris was doing before was supervising the detective Bureau uh so that is something I'm really looking forward to to diving back into uh Jay
did some pretty impressive things I have big shoes to fil um so I'm looking forward to the opportunity to show what I can do in that position but Jay really laid a fantastic foundation for me to build on so I'm really looking forward to what this position entails and seeing what I
can do yeah you need Community involvement this is the person you talk to I got you yep she will she will put bodies wherever you need them y zo and I have already been walking downtown chitchatting about uh what our our thoughts are and some plans of things that we can do especially when the
weather gets nicer because when we walk down time and it rains not great for my hair so but it is what it is but we were walking prior to this that's why the hair looks the way it does Dave can attest this but no I'm I'm really excited for the opportunity
and see what other things yeah things can come out of [Music] it pearls when it rains yours yeah that well thank you all for your uh presence here tonight we greatly
appreciate it and we appreciate the updates and uh we look forward to uh nothing but good things from all of you thank you hang out here all you want or you can Retreat ret thank you all
again uh on that note it goes without saying uh not easy processes that we had to go through for the promotions Etc um like the fire chief had indicated it's there's no single phase to it there
are interviews there's um background checks into past performance um a project is issued to them that they have to complete and it's basically has to do with something they
could potentially face in their new position as a sergeant or Lieutenant um and everybody it it's shocking how well and how close our candidates come and it's and the good part the best part
I say of our promotional process is we summon the aid of a lot of other commanding officers from other agencies that hopefully don't know our so they can be as objective as possible and consistently upon them
leaving after doing what they do they beg to take our employees with them because they bring so much to the table so it just makes our decision far more difficult when it comes down to having to pick one in this particular case we would have five or six individuals
buying for a single position so we can only fill one and it's it's hard we wish we could give them all out but we just can't do that so um I think we got round pegs round holes at the conclusion of these promotional processes um so I look forward to the
future we made good changes like I said it's always being she gets complimented I'm getting emails daily about her uh you know her visibility downtown um we're hoping to add to that as you know as we move forward too
so substation is coming together they just threw another work change at us but we're going to fight this fight we're going to get through it and we're going to have a substation at some point in it has a front has a front it has a front glass
you're doing pretty good um the deputy chief is settling into his role um in the not too distant future the The Command Staff will meet we're going to Iron Out tasks lists for all the different positions and then
when we're prepared to do that we will have a total staff meeting with all supervisors and we'll lay out the marching orders so I think we're pretty close already figure it out um see Pamela is in the audience I
just want to say to her that I heard you I got your message sorry I didn't get back to you and we do have something in the works so I just wanted to let her know that um we can go over to Stats so for
January total calls for us were 3,563 that was actually down 28 calls from the previous month time spent on those calls was 1646 hours which is up seven hours in the previous months call handled in the downtown business
District 308 which is up four calls so we continue to have 10 plus calls downtown every single day we will continue to add to that what we're what we're seeing is more and
more sort of proactive type of police calls and not quality of life concerning police calls if you can get what I'm saying not pulling people off Main Street handcuffs every single day
um there was a time as you are all well aware that that wasn't the case we were pulling people off Main Street I think our presence and our response to downtown has proven productive and I think it will only get better as we do
incident reports issued in January was 138 that was down 49 reports we had a lot of snow people probably stayed in accident reports issued 43 which actually with the snow
was down 14 arrest reports were 58 that's up 11 that's physical arrests citations issued were 226 that's down 26 Special Report was shown de with a lot of that today
um at the time I this the promotions were pending and we were doing interviews for special unit Sergeant so as you know now Megan cluder is moving into that role with that just for the Public's um knowledge she'll end up
having an office in the detective Bureau because she'll actually be the detective supervisor we're moving with these with these promotions I initiated actually a sort of structural change in inside the
PD whereas like positions will be in like areas of the building so special unit and detectives will be in what we know is the detective Bureau I'll back the the first offices you encounter when you come into the building out of roll
call will be more civilian officers right and the reason for that is Rebecca Jernigan has to do Firearms licensing and other tasks that cause her to bring people in and out of the building it'll
there so then um Chief Deputy Chief and lieutenants are back around the corner with the executive assist so and then as you know where the report stations are and the patrol supervisor so we are doing a little bit of movement um it's
actually my opinion worked out well things are looking cleaner we're organized we're getting better there's still a lot of movement that needs to be made we're moving what we call a ready room which is all the stuff that the officers grab on their way out the door def fibs radar handheld Radars things of that nature we're we're going to set up
the room that they were doing roll call in recently as a sup To Nuts ready rub they're going to have everything they need in their Cruiser Keys radios that whole thing so um the special unit Sergeant according to the newly minted deputy chief that will be her first fun
task to tackle so see how go they just filled it with desks so it's going to be fun I think that's a great idea the whole shift and the moving around and the organizing in the public being limited to and not having a walk space and the offic is having that
room ready to you know start their shift end their shift and have everything they need in there it's a really good idea uh Main Street substation is as you know underway um report stations we are talking about we as you know we did the Dispatch
Center the room is looking a lot better we put a facelift on that at next to no C we've painted various areas with the help of House of Corrections um no cost of Labor whatsoever they come in and they'll spackle lightly and they'll paint we
painted the entire detective Bureau all the supervisor offices uh so basically every area in the building other than the patrol dominated areas have been given a somewhat of a facelift and we don't want
to forget about them so I met with the finance director early last week trying to figure out a way to fund just some enhancements aesthetic more than anything enhancements to uh the report station areas so it's obviously a much
bigger area it's the entire center of the police department but we're only talking about a coat of paint maybe changing ceiling tile and maybe building a couple L-shaped walls that desks will kind of sit in so um I don't know if we
showed you the plant what or not what we were happy to do that uh we have we're not moving anywhere on that yet because we'll be Mountain mounting stuff to the wall to the ground we'll need a building permit so we're working out the minutia of that right now yeah they're five foot
walls U but we have to do it so um a lot of nuts and bolts to work out but our goal is to hopefully show them that we haven't forgotten about them either and that you know they deserve that that whole entire area hasn't been touched in over a quarter decade since we moved in
we've done nothing to it so cabinet doors are falling off the carpet's shot ceiling shot um I think if you want to pull out any drawers that handles and drawer faces fall right off so we still got our hammers from the dispatch I still got my
in my spee ready on a serious note I can only say it's about time you know and I think if it wasn't you know for you thought interest in support of
uh that you know I mean you know people don't want to I mean I I I I remember what the coet was like two years ago walking through there or three years ago and it's you know you they need a place uh I mean if you if you look at uh how the the firemen and women feel when they
walk in here and they sleep in here right it's a great feeling and you deserve the same so what you're doing what you're doing is is uh ad we pay the price I just smashed another fig I'll probably lose that was Chris hitting you with the hammer and missing the he had
something to do with I'm sure it was I have he need to pay attention but anyway that's on a serious note thank you for yeah Cruisers um three were approved on the capital side a financial order was being created by our finance director
that will have to go through city council so hopefully that goes smoothly and as soon as it does we'll order three new mayor and I spoke we're talking about the possibility of one of them being an electric vehicle M so I met again with Carol
Collins who I thoroughly enjoy and she's working on maybe getting us a sort of a two-place charging system sort of the part before the horse kind of thing to buy the truck I asked it was actually interesting if we bought a lightning truck fully electric lightning truck the
charger they give you it only takes about 40 hours to charge it not very much light quick so we have to get one of the class two or level two Chargers that Carol has now she has grant money for it so we're
working that angle so if we can get a two-place charger my mindset has is that one of the Chargers is obviously earmarked for our electric car and another one can be for the public so we kind of kill two birds with one stone and if we ever expand our electric Fleet we have a second place the plugin you
have a third place to plugin there's two right out in front of this building here different different real estate we'll give it to Zoe and she can plug in here there you go never her part sideways I think there's a car in it not different real estate go take a look at two charges right want to take a look at
I think we got a hybrid and you met Hunter we we meant to bring him last time he did not you guys did the recommendation for promotion um so as you know um detective Cory green was offered that position U
but for family in personal reasons he declined at this time um doesn't make him any less of a candidate he is absolutely a strong runner in this promotional process um we talked it was tough it was really tough
for him um to get the acknowledgement that he's done such a good job recently um it's hard to not be able to accept it but it just doesn't make sense right now you couldn't make any promises as of where he's going to be you give promoted you kind of go to the bottom of
the junior ladder and he's you couldn't you couldn't make any promises of anything so uh but I appreciate your involvement in backing those promotions it's going to help a big deal uh budget report
we're tracking we're tracking really well in 25 uh in spite of having to do a pretty significant buyback um as you know our deputy chief retired in November and he was from the old regime where
they saved everything so he got a pretty significant check when he left he was owed it you know it's it's fair he he packed that that time away um but it did smack us a little bit we have taken steps this entire fiscal year to
counteract that and we're in pretty good shape we Chris and I monitor the budget monthly we're actually gaining ground a all the time I'm hoping our goal is to not have to ask for anything at the end of fiscal year um I guess if it was to end today that's a good
goal well I mean like I said we didn't anticipate $150,000 in BIO so but we haven't we haven't brought on our 35th person so it it came with a cost how's the over
time great no we're doing good yeah everything to ask you Chief back there I'll ask next time oh we're in pretty good shape um excellent I think the formulation of
these special units that we have are sort of hitting the nails on the head and accomplishing a lot of stuff the right way and it's solving a lot of problems that we probably would have faced on the Fly before one for example is the next page
is co response um we just met today and they interviewed two new co-responder candidates both of them seem to hit home runs in my book experience yeah really good indiv we have one right now right are we down to one we have two but one's on maternity
yeah that's right okay she was recently promoted too so her role will change she her co-response is be very limited since her um acceptance of a higher position have one active one active but uh we interviewed for two today uh one that
second one was I believe chosen oh yeah yeah second both brought a lot to the table yeah it's amazing where this is kind of evolved I mean for example this the one the first we interviewed today was in co-response pack probably for the last
15 years I mean it's not new but it's evolving and and a lot of individuals are wanting to come and jump on the Green Field B because we're just we're just doing a lot of things right so um as you can see in in January there the
correspond had 30 total calls so at least one a day and then some um they did 26 in-person responses nine were virtual um as far as Hospital hospitalizations go three section 12s were issued four went voluntarily
thankfully no officers were injured and during their calls there was one either arrest charge or Su so we keep them safe and they keep you know they do what they do and it's again this continues to be a highly successful program I don't see it going
away I see it expanding if anything um and in that in that respect that's exactly part of why we have a civilian liaison and they help us immensely with what we're trying to do even though she don't call me she don't write anymore I don't I don't know where the heck she is
anymore don't get her mad she's mad I don't have her substations on yet I get it you got the Salvation Army for me though yeah what Salvation Army well I'm doing the the supervising anything else oh welcome
aboard um thanks for coming thanks for being here we need you more than anything else we're running short of a quorum we we'll have we'll have seven soon working very close with the mayor no we appreciate it look forward to working with you well thank you any
questions comment comments oh you know I have a comment always so um yeah kudos to you guys for the jobs and things do the um I always say I didn't want to be a police officer I'd rather be running to buron building so L lot easier job so um
I just like to say that I'm glad glad you're doing some face lifts to the building I know what it's like to work in a building that's needs a lot of work I I retired from one like that and now they're in here so I left and they got a new building so that goes to show me so
and I know the town will work hard um hopefully there's some grant money that comes available for police and get you out of the um get you out of the health health building that you're in and into a professional building soon maybe before you leave time yeah I doubt it the mayor's back there shaking her
head but no but um it it will be it will be something that I'm sure that everybody has their focus on and not not keeping her and I'll remind people every once in a while just because it's welld deserved people need to appreciate we're kind good please stop up we'll show
we'll show you what we did a little not that I'm saying that the town isn't they know they know so oh we've got a lot of support for that it's been on waver the support mayor's office in the city city council
so so so what you're saying is this another setback for that place I just don't think you walk no just a standard setback for that I see there's windows in it I think there's a door where Leaps and Bounds we
just pick floor color actually so we're doing all right floor color floor color sand flooring colored sandun yeah thank you for your time I'm G to end the conversation thank you um just a couple
minut things for the commission Commissioners and is can you can you find out if a public safety Commissioners can um um monitor or maybe just watch watch
this training for sure and let me know absolutely um I'd be interested others might be but just you know not participate just observe one more thing I forgot to add the guy that got us the badges he doesn't do that anymore so I got to find another supplier okay you
the three of you have the same badge right now yes find another supp okay we can use the one uh I think I have the information yeah I think I have the information from where we got the
last all right so just so you all know I will send this out uh there's been some changes with the charter I don't know if you've gone online and seen the new Charter but we'll review it I'll put it on the um agenda for next month so we could just talk about it um and you know
that the one of them was the um we're uh went from five to seven Commissioners uh that changes our quarum um responsibility so we have to have four folks here so I I beg the three of you to keep that in the back of your mind it's uh we could have a non- voting
meeting uh with the generosity of the mayor if we don't have four but we need four of all us to make any significant voting um and then we'll talk about the voting of our positions and how that has changed next time okay so um um I think
we're at the point where I would ask for a motion to end the meeting and you can go home before you want to submit monly report oh sure we didn't go over that but that would be great yeah just not a lot yeah it's okay
if we have any questions we'll bring it up next one thank you for that motion to adjer Second all in favor all thank you all appreciate congratulations [Music]