2026-11-05 - Police and Fire Commission

Recording in progress. >> Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the November 5th regular meeting of the Police and Fire Commission. We'll begin with uh roll call. Let the record show um

Commissioner [name redacted] is excused. Commissioners [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted] are attending via Zoom. Commissioner [name redacted] is here in the room. Next item is

approval of the agenda. You all had it emailed to you. If there are no changes or additions, uh consider that approved by unanimous consent if there are no objections. Any objections? All right.

Approved. And approval of the minutes. There was one set of minutes from the Thursday, October 8th meeting. Any changes or corrections to those? There are none. If there are no objections, I'll

consider those approved by unanimous consent. Any objections? All right. Information. Nothing to report. A couple of things to add. On um October 13th of this year, the uh local council of the Boy

Scouts uh have their Golden Eagle event, which is their annual big fundraiser recognition event at Lambeau Field. And this year, they recognized frontline heroes, and there were some folks from our

organizations that were part of that. So they um uh recognized people involved in law enforcement, um fire, EMS, education, and healthcare. And so from the police side, through their uh roles both in

policing and in military, uh [name redacted] and [name redacted] were recognized. And from the fire side, Chiefs [name redacted] and [name redacted], and then [name redacted] as well. So those five

people were recognized from our groups. And uh I don't want to steal from you, but a lot of uh interviews coming up next week for captains and commanders. So that's what I have. That's your way to

start, Chief Davis. >> Sure. Yeah. And as you mentioned, uh next week we will do panel interviews with uh I believe we're at four candidates each for the rank of captain and commander. I think

commanders are on the 11th and captains are on the 12th. And then the next step after that for people who score a passing score on that and a resume review will be a one-on-one interview with me and

then we'll put everyone on an equally ranked eligibility list and those are in anticipation of vacancies at the end of the year. Um on the recruiting and staffing front uh right now we are at 175

officers. 153 of whom are deployable. We still have a number out on various kinds of leave uh related to illness and injury primarily. Um and then counting officers in the academy and some projected

hires we're projecting being at 181 at the end of the year and that is takes into account three anticipated retirements. So that's better than it has been in a while. So we're gradually chipping away

at those vacancies. Um the only other update that I have is on the facilities front. Our uh consultants came back with uh uh very very rough plan for how we might rearrange things in our existing

facility. And so the next step will be to finalize that and then present Council with some options hopefully either by the end of the year or shortly after the first of the year. >> All right. Any

questions for Chief Davis? All right, thank you. >> Yeah. First I want to start off with thanking our fire prevention team. Lieutenant [name redacted] and Captain [name redacted], they visited 31

public and private elementary schools and reached more than 1,400 kindergarteners during fire prevention. All that's kind of wrapping up this month. We had the event over at the Rust yesterday where

we were able to meet with all the eighth grade kids for the career fair. Us and PD we had our booths right next to each other and got to connect with all the eighth graders in Brown County on career

fair day. So that was also a successful event again. We have two open positions right now. We have three anticipated retirements, two captains and one battalion chief coming up in December. We also

have one position to fill from our 2026 budget that we had reclassified into a division chief position. So we'll be looking to start some hiring processes for those chief positions and we already have

the hiring process underway for the firefighter positions to hopefully fill those for a spring recruit academy. We have a couple grant funded positions in the org chart that need to be approved at

budget time. We do have a grant pending approval. We submitted some information for that today that was required. So we hit that benchmark and then we'll wait to see what's asked of us that's for

funding another division chief of community risk reduction and then some of our MIH team to work with the community with our community paramedicine programs. So we'll look to stay on top of that

grant, follow follow the things required of us for that and hopefully be able to add a couple of grant funded positions to help out with some of the needs in the community that way. So, Oh, the other

thing is we've got a couple on light duty yet too, so we're down uh I believe it's three. Three on light duty four. We have one coming off light duty shortly. One will be coming off light duty in

about a week, so we'll get them back in the mix. That's all I have. If you have any questions, let me know. >> Any questions? >> Chief Ray, I got a question. This is [name redacted]. >> Yeah. >> Um

are you uh so the hiring for the uh fire department, are you creating a list or do you have a list already created? >> We're utilizing the interns that didn't have the opportunity to apply this last

go around to start with uh for a hiring process through our Public Safety Answers platform. Um we're going to see how many We're currently going through the evaluations of all their uh three question

interviews, grading those, and then we'll see how we land uh with candidates that way and then uh reevaluate how many actually positions we need here shortly with retirement letters that will uh end

up coming in at the end of the year. If if we can't If we can't uh fill the recruit academy off of those interns, uh we will then put a a secondary process out uh for anybody to apply. >> Got you.

Okay, thanks. >> Yep. >> Okay, any other questions? All right, thank you. As soon as we get through the budget status report and let you guys go because the rest of us The next item is budget status

report. Um fire recruit >> I see the um the next meeting date? >> Oh, excuse me. Yes. The uh next regular meeting date would be December 3rd. And uh as usual, we'll kind of pen We'll pencil that in

and depending upon if if the police have some candidates that you want us to review later than that or prior to that, we can make it later on that to fit. And same way with you guys if have anything.

there. >> Good. >> All right. Um budget status report. Um Those all look really good. Fire recruiting we've only spent 20 28% of the annual amount even with hiring a chief. So you guys were pretty

cheap to process from that. And and even uh even the rest of it for uh physicals and and uh uh that we're only at uh under 70% spent uh for fire and uh 67% uh on uh police. So uh good shape budget

wise. So if there are no questions I will um consider a motion to receive and place on file the budget status report. Is there a motion to >> So moved. >> Moved by Commissioner [name redacted]. >>

Yes. >> Seconded by >> Seconded. >> Seconded uh Which one of you was that? Was that [name redacted]? Okay. Seconded by Commissioner [name redacted]. Um Any discussion? Hearing none all those in favor.

>> Aye. >> Aye. >> Any opposed? Any abstaining? All right. And the next one is consideration with possible action on the request to approve the monthly bills uh all psych evaluations and physicals on

those. So if there are no questions I'll entertain a motion to approve those. >> So moved. >> Moved by Commissioner [name redacted]. >> Seconded. >> Seconded by Commissioner [name redacted] that time,

right? Okay. >> Yes. >> I can't see your mouth move on the screens in there. Uh so we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none all those in favor. >> Aye. >> Any opposed? Any

abstaining? All right. We'll pay the bills. All right. The rest of it's uh routine stuff. So thank you guys. >> Thank you. >> And at this point we'll go into uh item F3 review patrol officer candidate

backgrounds. The commission may convene in closed session pursuant to section 19.85 paragraph 5 sub and F Wisconsin statutes to consider employment, promotion, compensation, or performance evaluation

data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercise responsibility. The commission may thereafter reconvene in open session pursuant to sections 19.85 paragraph 2

Wisconsin statutes to report the results of the closed session and consider the balance of the agenda. Is there a motion to go into closed session? >> Motion to yes. >> Second by Commissioner [name

redacted], seconded by Commissioner [name redacted]. All those in favor? >> Aye. >> Aye. Any opposed? All right, we're in closed session. >> Recording started. >> All right, we are back in open

session. While in closed session, we reviewed the backgrounds of three candidates. We chose to continue two of those candidates in the hiring process and chose to reject one candidate. With that, that

completes our agenda. So if there are no objections, I will >> Do you just need a confirmation? >> Oh, yes. Thank you, [name redacted]. Yep. I like a motion to confirm that report. >> Move to confirm.

>> Motion by Commissioner [name redacted]. >> Second. >> Seconded by Commissioner [name redacted]. Any further discussion? All right, hearing none, all those in favor of confirmation of that report,

signify by saying aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Any opposed? Any abstained? All right, thank you. And thank you, [name redacted]. With that, it completes our agenda. So if there are no objections, we will

consider the meeting adjourned by unanimous consent. Any objections? All right, thank you all for joining. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Have a good