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Uh welcome uh Littleton to an abbreviated uh select board meeting tonight. We're going to start uh with the pledge of allegiance. So, if you would please stand. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> I did that too last time. >> All right. So this evening, um I talk a little bit about the process that we went through to uh come to our um a

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selection tonight for town's future police chief. Um we basically started the we put the appointment out actually the uh announcement out um early May was it sometime in May? You would know. Uh we

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wanted to keep it internal um and that's exactly what we did. We had we had four four applicants um all just fantastic high quality um members of the Littleton Police Department current leaders future

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leaders and it was just wonderful being able to interview um and meet with each one of them. So I'm I'm excited about the future of the department just overall. Um so from that we we got the um assessment

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center put together and we had an assessment center done over at the um senior center where we had a contractor come in and and put these put all four to the test if you will uh through some different assessments. some things that

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the assessment team that are familiar with um other towns and things they wanted them to do and then a couple Littleton centric exercises that we thought was important to our community um did a the four of them did a

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fantastic job and then um from that uh we all of us as as a board uh researched and went through the assessment data and everything if you will um and then we conducted conducted individual interviews kind of in a round roundroin

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format. Um, and over at the senior center once again, we individually interviewed each candidate. And pretty much we met in a couple executive sessions to kind of formulate our our plan and discuss how we wanted to move

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forward. And tonight is the culmination of that where um all candidates were absolutely outstanding. like I like I had mentioned, future leaders, I just hope we can hang on to them in Littleton. And um

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far and away, I think Doug Landry um was was the choice of unanimously. And I think you'll see that tonight when we do that um appointment. So, first off though, we got to get through some a little bit of business. Um we're going to kind of it's more of an

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introduction of Doug to the community. Um you think everybody knows every officer in town. It's not not true. Um, so I think it's important for the board. We're going to do a little bit of a around Robin here, just asking some general questions more so it's it's your

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chance to kind of inform your department, maybe what some of your vision is, your expectations, the community, who you are, uh, what your what your plans are, and and what you bring to Littleton. Um, as we expect this to be a long-term relationship, we're we're excited. Um,

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let's see. outside of that I I'm assuming is this all family? >> This is all family. >> Okay. So I Sarah, Wyatt, and Charlotte. I know. Um that's immediate family. The rest of you, welcome and thank you. This is a great occasion. Um we have uh I I

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did want to thank um Chief Patterson. uh it this is, you know, bridging bridging this gap is has been critical and and your guidance kind of getting us getting us to this point and into into September. I truly appreciate and value your leadership and what you've brought

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to the town over the last I don't I don't want to guess how many years. >> 27 >> 27 years. >> Um but Jeff will be retiring on September 1st. So that that'll be our I don't want to call it celebration, but it'll be our next uh big event. So thank you. when I was 18.

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>> Yeah, like I had mentioned this was an internal um process. You know, previous select boards, if you go back, it it wasn't always the case. This is a this is a department that Chief Patterson and Chief Pernard built to be able to do

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this. And it's a testament, you know, to to who who got brought on board and who um finding leaders really across the board and and you know, that showed with with everybody that stepped up and wanted to become chief. It's not easy. Um it's definitely not an easy decision

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to even want to be chief, but to be it, you'll find out, it's not that easy either. Um um so I I just wanted to thank like once again um all all three candidates if you could just kind of step forward because I think it's important that we recognize

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you and your your willingness to to want to take on this job. Thank you. All right, that being said, let's uh move into kind of the informal formal part of the process. So, what we're going to do is we're going to ask you a couple of questions. You can come stand up. Um, you know, we we all have your

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resume. We we've gone through that. Um, you know, you've told me in the past you built to be a police chief. That's kind of what your your goal was at a very young age and it's coming to fruition. So, um I think the just your your

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education, your continued education, your a lot of your coursework and things like that that you've done in the past related to advancing leadership management um and all of those things are are very apparent in your resume. So,

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>> appreciate that. >> Um and so we're now we're going to kind of go around. I'll let I'll let Kyle lead off as the new member of the select board just kind of >> follow script. >> Get you go. Oh, >> you can ask any question you want. >> I appreciate that. >> Not a script follower. I apologize.

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>> Quickly, just quickly, very quickly, I just want to say I'm extremely honored to be here. Extremely humbled throughout this whole process to even be able to participate. You guys coming in today making this special like kind of moment for us. And then obviously the the people in the room are, you know, people

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I love and extremely important to me. Obviously, my family, my mom, everyone here, so my brother, and uh just thank you all for being here today, and I'm excited to present myself to you tonight for sure. >> Awesome. Thank you. And we're going to entrust you with all their >> Yeah. This is probably the most stressful part of this entire assessment

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process because these people definitely know me and I'm excited to present to them, you know, what I did throughout that process tonight hopefully. But, um, I do care a whole lot about these people and the town. So, I'm excited to to kind of speak to you on that tonight. >> Great. Thank you. >> Yeah, of course. >> All right.

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All right. So, I mean, I know I heard a lot about this in the interview process, but the public didn't hear about this. So, what I'd like to hear from you is how have your career experiences as well as your education prepared you to serve as chief of police? >> Of course. No, thank you for the

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question. Um, so my career experiences, uh, and my education, I guess I went to Westfield State College. Uh, uh, growing up, I, again, this sounds silly, but I knew I wanted to be a police officer when I was like 5 years old. It was a DARE program in school and uh I was I was chosen as the candidate that the

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student that won the program. So that kind of put me on the trajectory of like I'm going to be a police officer. So uh Westfield State was a natural selection for me. I was able to go and continue playing team sports. I played football. I was an owl. I was proud to be an owl. Uh and then while I was there education

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wise I was able to get two uh bachelor's degrees. One in criminal justice. They you know have an outstanding criminal justice program. And then as well I I picked a second major in psychology. I thought it would equate and relate to my job, you know, throughout that uh throughout my career. So after or during

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college, I went to the Reserve Police Academy and my junior year I started working as a special police officer in Nantucket. Um went back to college, finished my senior year, went back to Nantucket where I worked the summer and then stayed on uh for three more years full-time with the Nantucket Police

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Department. Had an amazing experience. Love everyone out there. such an opportunity for growth on Nantucket. They were super supportive of their new officers because we were on that literal island. So, we were able to get uh tons of training and the experience out there was was amazing. So, at one point at or

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at a point I knew it was time to get off the island. Uh my family was obviously were local. I grew up in Shirley. Um I had internships in Shirley and they the officer always spoke so highly of Littleton police. It was kind of like the beacon at the time back in the early

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2000s and uh so I was like when this opportunity arose for me to come to Littleton and it was time for me to leave Nantucket obviously I put right in was amazing uh opportunity for me and my family to be local again and then we're living right in Shirley so right where I

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grew up. So um and then my professional career you know I worked as hard as I could as a patrolman. I've always had that growth mindset of like what's next? What can I do? like part of my service is how am I going to make myself better and that what that turned into was also how can I help other people so I became

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an instructor as I became you know proficient at things how can I be more of a service to the community to the other police officers so I spent over 10 years teaching for the policemies in the area um worked my way through as a

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patrolman in Littleton um participated in all our community policing events throughout that time as much as I could do here as a patrol home and I was taking on those responsibilities. I was fortunate enough to get promoted to sergeant. Again, uh I love that experience. I love to be a road boss and a supervisor here and and work the the

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streets of Littleton with my team. Um during that time, I had an amazing opportunity to join the Neml SWAT team. It kind of gave me a bigger reach uh outside of the community of Littleton. So I was able to go to high-risk incidents that are kind of low occurrence in in many towns, but they

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when they do occur, it's it's critical incident for most towns. So I spent uh 7 years on the SWAT team and 10 years on their regional response team. So bigger picture outside Littleton. I think the training I received from that was amazing. And then about 5 years ago, I

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kind of saw where Littleton was heading um and with the retirements that were coming in the future. And so I kind of looked at myself, thought what my plan was for the future, how my service could kind of change and evolve over time. I was kind of middle of my career and uh

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the lieutenant's position was open within our department. So I made that decision to kind of set the SWAT thing aside and really focus on uh the administrative side of things. So I put myself through a master's degree uh public administration master's degree.

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Um, I was fortunate enough to be chosen to go to a command college through the Southern Police Institute, um, in the University of Louisville. Um, so that was a three-month program that was extremely helpful in my position as lieutenant, and I know what it's going to be as as chief. Um, it was helpful

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throughout this process for sure. Um, and still still having that mindset. Here I am today. I'm I'm scheduled and I'm uh signed up for a Suffach University certificate program in municipal policing or leadership municipal leadership coming this fall. So, I'm excited for that. But that being

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said, right, an entire career of teaching, being a police officer, moving up through the ranks, being extremely fortunate, having great support from my family, from my peers, my chiefs that I previously worked for, that's what got me here today is is is really the people around me that have lifted me up and supported me and allowed me to uh to

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kind of work towards all the uh all the things I saw in front that I could I could accomplish or attempt to. But yeah, >> thanks. >> Of course. Of course. >> Yeah. So, um, this is something that you and I talked about during our interview, and it's something that really impressed

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me. So, I'm pleased to be able to, um, ask you this question so that everybody can hear your answer. Um, what is your vision for the Littleton Police Department for the next 5 years, >> right? So, now I have to recall what I said correctly and what a change, right?

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Exactly. Um, no, I think it's been pretty consistent throughout and and it was and it's it is honestly to lead the organization, be a leader within the organization that the officers that are here are proud to work for, right? One that they come in every day, they feel

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they know they're valued, they feel valued, they they have a a leader that they know they can trust, right? Those relationships are built on trust, respect, mutual trust. Um, and I think I put in the work over the years to try to earn that trust with my peers and uh and

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and now this team. Um, so to again come into work, lead a department that the department that the officers are excited to be uh for and then it's twofold and really and lead that department that the town is proud of, right? So to be the beacon in the region of like this is

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what the expectations are for a police department. These are the people that work for our Littleton Police Department. We know them. I think, you know, for the years I, you know, I've coming on my 14th year now here in Littleton and, uh, you know, it's kind of turned the page where it's like, I don't really know anybody anymore. And I

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think we can get past that. I think with a 24 full-time, 40 person staff, like there's opportunities for us to be like, I know officer Far, I know Officer Graham, and and and just have that investment in the officers from the community. And I think it's going to be

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reciprocal both ways. And we're going to when we see that, we see it now. we have a great community policing um partnership and and programs that we've already doing, but really just elevate that and then and really again be the beacon in the region and and just like you know again that mutual respect

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amongst the community and the in the department which is there. It's just going to grow. >> Oh, that was it. >> Yeah, appreciate it. That was it was close. >> Check. How would you build trust, transparency, and meaningful collaboration between the

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police department and the Littleton community while ensuring public safety? What specific initiatives would you implement to achieve the vision? >> All right. I think a huge part of trust starts with communication and we talked about this uh throughout the process. um

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that uh communication, the relationships that are there before things go bad that it just can, you know, where we can come together and we can have that open communication. And that's something that I've had throughout my career, that open door of police chief who at any time you can come in and meet with them and and

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and get an answer on something or or um or just have that simple conversation. Um but I think for me, it's going to be modeling good behaviors. It's going to be leading by walking around. It's not someone who can just sit in my office all the time, but so I'm going to be

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within the department and the community. You're going to see my face. You're going to see me around at community events, community meetings, community groups. Uh in the department, they'll see me. I've got some plans. They don't probably know, but maybe come work a couple late night shifts maybe here and there if I can fit it in. But I got some

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ideas to to try to be out there and so I'm not just stuck in my office. But that open door is there. Um the uh the communication is key for the trust um and and just that piece of respect and as long as uh you know we're on the same page with that and my the people here

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the team here know that and and it's honestly the truth um I think we're going to be great and the same thing with the community. I keep saying the team but we're we're just equally that that relationship is equally important. So and then so to speak to that how do I do that? Um, I'm already, you know,

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thinking through like the next 90 days and how I'm going to do things, but, you know, the like just like the select board, the open office hours with the chief for the community, having things like that, you know, getting ahead of things by having these, you know, town hall discussions, open forums, uh, you

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know, that collaboration of like transparency, right? being engaged with the select board daily, weekly, whatever it takes to have these meetings so that everyone within your team, within our community knows what's going on the on the police department and again they're proud of it. So just getting ahead of

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that stuff. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, thank you. >> Great coming over here. >> Yeah, >> so selfless. >> Congratulations, sir, >> sir. Thank you. Great to have you here. >> Thank you. >> Um, what will your approach be to

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recruiting, developing, and retaining highquality >> personnel officers? >> Of course. Of course. I think I was, uh, set up, you know, uh, for success by, uh, Chief King and Chief Bernard. Um, I said I came here just, I'm in my 14th

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year. When I came on to Littleton PD, we were full staff and I was the 13th officer. And now we're at 24. And uh we've got a personnel plan over the next 5 years of additional uh officers that we've already have part of our strategic plan. So we know as the town grows,

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there's the likeliness of that we're going to have to grow and we're preparing for that now. And we're working, you know, collaboratively collaboratively with the town on that. But uh the retention part, super uh knock on wood, we we we don't have that problem here. Like we have openings

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because uh we've got some retirements, right? We've got we're going to have two openings coming up that we're excited for. Um Chief Bernard has retired recently and Chief Patterson has announced his retirement retirement. So, we're excited. Uh and what what recruitment looks like is I think again

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being that beacon and knowing there's a lot of excitement here in Littleton PD. We might even be able to get some officers in our area and our region or or nationally just like hey this is the place I want to work. I want to have my professional career here. So, recruitment of trained, experienced

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officers or if not, we go and uh we hit the streets and we we do a good campaign on uh on recruitment and we we've had excellent results uh with that. You know, um our newest officers we've sent to the academy. We had one graduate last Monday and we're super excited. He hit the road running uh on Wednesday after

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the uh the graduation. So, Officer Puya um and we've got Officer McCabe, you know, coming uh July 29th. So, we're excited. Um, I think just the product that we're going to put out is going to be a recruiting piece and then we're going to utilize that technology and all the things out there that we can to uh

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to sell ourselves. But I don't think it's going to be hard to to once they see this team that's already established uh and the excitement that's going to come with the next six months of promotions and movements and things um to get some other uh assets to us to the town on board.

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>> I appreciate it. Thank you. >> Copy six. >> Sure. Yeah. So, what would you want Littleton residents and department employees if you're thinking about a year from now? >> Yeah. >> What would you want them to say about your leadership?

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>> Um, thank you for the question. I think that that I'm present that um that I'm trustworthy that um you know that there is the relationship there. It's just not show that there's a uh there's my heart is

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behind it. um that I this community has done so much for me and my family over the 14 years. Um so grateful for that. Uh and that's just going to show for the next 15 or however long, right? So um I think what they're

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getting is stability with me cuz I'm committed to Littleton like like extremely. And uh I may not live here, but I spend probably most my time here. And uh I built relationship. There's people in this room. There's community members that I've built relationships with already that are here supporting me

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today that I've met through, you know, their relationship to Littleton, which is amazing. And uh the friendships I've made. So, in in ways of leadership, I just want them to know I'm available to them. Um respectfully, I'm going to be doing all all this job and I'm excited

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for the work that comes on with it. But, uh but I am available to the public here and there. I want to hear their concerns. I want to work collaboratively with them. Um, and if they do have concerns, please bring them to me and we'll work with them >> for sure. >> Yeah. Thank you.

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>> Yeah. >> Um, I guess I'll do uh this is a kind of a slam dunk one, I guess, but be tricky. >> Um, you know, I'm going to add a little bit to it. A couple things, you know, really didn't come out in those questions. What What motivates you? I mean, what motivates you to come to

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work? I know it wasn't, you know, something that >> that was one of our but I was just thinking about listening to you. What what's the reason >> there's come to work? >> There's so many things. Um >> say that sense of service. Um

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my family, you know, get emotional. Um but uh the way I was raised, you know. >> Yeah. But uh it's just it's always been there, you know, being sports teams, captain of the team, this but and and then that sense of service is like which

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I think everyone in the back of the room signed up for is how can I help people, right? And uh I've done it in so many ways, you know, whether it was just as a patrolman going to, you know, a standard call uh you know, or just being there at someone's worst time as a and being a

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supervisor and helping a young officer. One of the most rewarding things I've ever done is being an instructor. I've been able to touch, you know, so many officers in in these critical skills of safety and and you know, life-saving techniques that I was teaching at the academy, but uh it's just really just

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looking left. I'm I'm that guy that's like looking right, how can I help somebody? Like if something h like who needs help? And it's just always been there. So, and I'm a curious person. I like learning, you know, can continue to stay educated. Um, I know I'm always a

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student. That's my mindset. I can always learn more. So, I just I'm not one to just kind of sit there and uh I'm I'm pretty active. So, um I'm just motivated and uh and and I'm, you know, I see that I'm not done yet, right? I there's so

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many things I still want to do that. There's so many things I think I can offer. Um and just going to continue to continue to go. I appreciate it. >> Great. Um, you know, I had a question here that we kind of put in. >> Why why Littleton? I know you kind of

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touched on a little bit earlier, but what what's >> For sure. I mean, >> a lot you had a lot of opportunity. Obviously, being on SWAT and everything else to to move. >> For sure. I'm I'm totally vested in Littleton. Um, like I said, when I left Nucket and I guess I could have gone anywhere and I knew I wanted to come

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home, you know, to where the family was. Um, and I'm glad it happened that way, right? So, Littleton, uh, going all the way back to that internship in high school, right? The those officers driving around were like talking Littleton up. They had the best cruisers. They had all the like the coolest things. I was like, "Wow, do

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they they make the most?" I'm like, "Okay, I should probably go there." Um, so, you know, that kind of stuck with me throughout the years. And then just like my my obviously experience here, I've been so fortunate. I've been so supported by Chief Kelly who hired me.

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Um, Chief King, who was during his tenure was so supportive of me, allowed me to be on the SWAT team. Um, Chief Pernard, who brought me into this um, lieutenant position during his tenure and was kind of like the look behind the curtain and I was kind of be able to see

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like, oh, this he really um, can't thank him enough. took me with him everywhere, you know, you know, kept me close and uh really included me in in the last three years in in what he was doing. And it was just uh you know, something that I enjoyed. I I I love the interpersonal

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side of that, the the relationships that the chief is able to build. Um but really Littleton like amazing community, right? The people here have been amazing. The the residents, the business owners, um the other department heads, the other

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departments, the fire department, the DP, like from from every department, light department, everyone we get to work with. It's just everyone's excited. Everyone is appreciative of being here. And uh I think that's what I think I love most is the relationships. Um and I

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see the growth that Littleton has, the opportunity here is is uh is amazing. and and uh I'm here for it. I'm here for it. So, thank you. >> Yeah. >> Um almost done here. >> Yeah. >> Just uh I I want you to just remember the people in the back room are your greatest asset.

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>> Yeah. >> You're also a responsibility. So, >> yeah. >> Um but you know um I would expect you to depict Jeff's brain over the next what are we at 90 whatever days 60 whatever days. >> Yeah. >> Don't ask him. So,

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>> I I hear you. And I've got like I have nervousness in my voice. I can hear it cuz cuz I'm just thinking about them, you know? So, it's like I feel like throughout this process when we were doing our one-on- ones, I was it was good, but I'm like and I and it's not about me. I'm super humble guy, super appreciative guy, and it's really about

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the team. Like, no one does it by themselves here. This department from the newest officer to the most senior is is a unit, and the only way to accomplish things is is together. So, I know that uh and the ones again, we knew this wasn't like an appointment, so I

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even beyond appreciated that they're here. It's just to hear this like kind of last part of this, but the support of the the officers that couldn't be here and things. Um it just means so much. So, I appreciate that. >> All right. I guess if nobody else has any questions, it's what do you have of

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us? >> Give us give us give us a question. >> Right. Well, I'll tell you what, SWAT guy, all the things. Probably an emotional guy, too. So, you know, so you know, and very caring guy. So, you know, um and and I think that's a good thing.

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And um but I'm so excited, so thankful um of all of you throughout the process. Um through uh the HR director in town, the you administrators team, right? She's back. Ex. Exactly. puts a lot of work in.

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>> It's a ton of work. Um, and I know that. I see that throughout. And, um, you know, I'm excited for the opportunity that Littleton has here. Like I said, um, you know, we didn't like the 90-day strategic plan, question, all those things. I was, but we do have an

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exciting time, right? We going to be looking for a deputy chief. We're going to be looking for lieutenants. Uh, sergeants are moving up. Those internal hires. I'm excited for that time where, you know, promotions are happening. there's excitement around that. Um there's opportunity for officers to move

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shifts if that betters their family, which is amazing. Um so we've got a cool exciting 6 months that we're going to harness as a team and uh and I think we could all look forward to that, the town as well cuz and again and then as we

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spoke many times like the community policing, this is what you can expect in Littleton. So it's been a huge part of our of our you know our identity for so long. um the programs that you know officers in this room started from the ground up whether it was Explorers years

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ago, the student academy has been amazing and they're still doing amazing things with that. Um we've got plans for uh citizens police academy. We've even, you know, when Chief Bernard here, we had we had plans for more community resource officer type things where we

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can really get into the churches and the houses of worship and like our partnerships already with the COA and the veterans breakfast, uh, the safe return home program, all these things, um, RAD with parks and wreck. If we could just integrate ourselves, I think there's more opportunity for the the

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department as a whole to get in those things. So, we finally can have a face to, you know, a name with a face when when someone drives by in a cruiser and and the wave is, you know, is uh, you know, reciprocated and and and there's an understanding of who those people are, you know, beyond just that cruiser

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driving by is going to be important. So, be be ready for us to to throw yourselves uh into the community a little bit more and and and just to say that we've already been doing an amazing job, but there's so much opportunity with technology and just different programs that a lot of these ideas are coming from the team behind me. So,

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we're going to have uh a cool time ahead. >> Yeah. You know, it just it reminds me the community policing and the importance of it. But um it's it's uh it I was with uh you I believe Chief Patterson um Detective Donahghue

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>> who else was with us >> Monday. >> Yeah, we went >> uh that was the crew and then the town was with us for sure. >> We we were walking we had to park way away from uh we were in Lynfield at at um off or patrolman uh Pyus graduation >> but to get there we had to walk through

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all of is it Lynfield? >> I'm sorry. I'm sorry. There were fields, >> but it was in Lynn >> through Lynn. And and it just struck me that there we were walking by, there was a father, I guess his I don't know, five, sixy old son, sevenyear-old son. Um we were coming by you guys were in

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uniform and the child jumped up into the father's arms and said, "Oh, is everything okay?" And he said he doesn't talk to police officers. And it just it reminded me that not every community is is like was like this one. So So thank you for the >> community policing side. It's all these

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people in the back of the room that do it every day. So, >> important. >> Um, >> I got nothing else. If you guys have something, say it. >> Do you have any questions of us? >> Yeah. I mean, that was kind of the question I had, but >> I should because we're doing interviews for Sergeant Michelle like that was her

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last question and I was like, "Oh, that was good. I should probably, you know, um, no, I don't have any questions. I know there's going to be a ton of opportunity to to speak with all of you. you know how to reach us >> and I know how to reach you and um the relationship that we've already had uh

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since I've been here and you've all been on the board and even before that is uh is amazing and appreciated. So that's going to continue. But yeah, I am always available and I know that that's the same on the other end. So if I have one, I'll know how to find you. >> Thank you. And Jim, did you have

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anything? I I I want to make sure that you >> No, thank you. I was just I was just going to >> last minute to say nah. First of all, Westfield State grad, way to go. That's it. Um, but uh, I just want to say thank you to his family because he has

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invested a lot of time in this community >> and also going forward um, you know, he, you know, he's going to invest continue to invest that time and I know that's a lot of time away from family and and just thank you very very much for

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letting us have him for a little while. >> Absolutely. >> Appreciate it. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right, we get down to the buckle up business. Let's uh >> I'm going to look for a motion. >> Move to appoint Lieutenant Doug Landre

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as police chief pending successful contract negotiations. >> Second. >> Moved by Mark, seconded by Chuck. All those in favor? >> I. We love unanimous votes and it was so Thank you. And I always want to say

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thank you to Sarah cuz she's go Sarah. >> Picture with the board. Yeah, please. Please. >> We'll be another one once we um do our official. >> Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I know. I appreciate that. >> Take a picture with the department, too. >> Yes. Everyone that came. >> I'll I'll stand behind.

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>> All right. Come on. >> The new cameras can rip you right up. >> Somebody put the cuffs on Jim. >> Spin the podium around. >> Spin the pile. You're >> awfully bossy, Judy.

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>> I can then I can hide behind. >> It's very slimming. >> I'm standing in front of everybody. >> That's the Snapchat one. We had to do that. Snap. >> Are you burning? And then we're taking more pictures.

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>> Whatever you want to do. >> We can do I'll do a motion to second. >> Uh I can go back there for the picture. >> Yeah, let's do a motion. I'm going to do a motion to adjurnn so we can motion to adjurnn. Seconded by Mark. All those in favor.