Council - Special Meeting

Do you want to go back next, or do you want to go back? The flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Second.

All those in favor?

Aye. Opposed? Okay.

Hiring a K-9 officer, position, discussion, and approval. I make a motion to hire Glenn Weber at $52,000 a year. I second that motion. Any other discussion? Wait a minute, wait a minute.

We're hiring a canine physician. We're hiring a lover to be a canine? Yes, that's what we want.

Canine, well, that's for the two.

I have an issue with the $52,000.

The reason why I say that is because it sets the precedent that we can't afford to sell.

If he were coming in at day stay, I wouldn't have an issue. But it's two things. It seems to be unfair to pay him more money to come in and start back. And the fact that we're not giving raises to other employees this year. And the fact that he's negotiating a starting salary, and that's a precedent that has not happened before with the city of Cuba. And it opens all kinds of issues. And I wouldn't make that statement without consulting people that know more about this than myself. And it's not a good thing to start.

Does the city of Cuba have a lateral pay policy?

Explain what you mean.

Laterally paid exhibit. Laterally, that means they have a, well, military-wise, time of service, recognized time of service, and not necessarily time of station.

If you remember, Jennifer, that's true if you're still an employee, right? We have promotions based on what's the... How's the payroll set up? What's the salary?

Yeah, if you're an employee.

Yeah, if you're an employee. The issue is he brings eight years experience as a cop. He works his eight years in Cuba. He knows the streets. He's ready to get in a car and go tonight. He's been a K-9 officer and that's a position that he just can't put on anybody because he doesn't want to do that job. I don't disagree with him. He has left. And I talked to some of the other officers and they're okay with it because they know that he's going to relieve them. And he can jump right in and go.

Have we ever hired another police officer with experience at a higher faith?

It has been. It's been a lot. I think Betty Post was hired at a higher faith.

It was Betty Post, and she was hired at more money because she had experience. Because she had experience. Was he? That's what he said. Was his daughter? And more wine?

No, it was a female, right? I was going to ask, but I don't know if I would have known that right here.

I have two squads running when we're full staff and I have two of the school and I have two command people that help me with daily stuff and I have one detective. Out of 14, we have 8 that are scheduled on the road. Now when there's vacations, there's holidays or whatever else and people are heading off.

All the officers work and work the road. They're all white police officers. How many officers?

How many officers don't work the weekend at all? Work the weekend, like Friday, Saturday, Sunday?

Generally, my school resource officers during the year don't work any weekends.

Just wondering. And as far as what this gentleman said, I sort of agree with that because once you open a can of worms in every department,

I generally don't ever come in and recommend that we pay anybody with experience, and we haven't been passed any higher than starting salary. This is just the only applicant we have that's qualified to run a K-9. I did check with the with the training facility and it's not going to cost them anything to get trained. If we get that dog with somebody else, it'll be a month of training and $4,000 basically. I have a question.

How old is the dog? Two years. I was just curious. Six to eight years of service is what you typically get. Yeah.

We've got about six years of that dog's life. Yeah, but what does the dog actually do? It's a single-purpose dog. We didn't pay the extra money to have it trained. We can in the future still. It'd have to be a bite dog or a tracking dog. Right now it's just a drug dog with the potential of... I would ask that question. I didn't know that. Along with that also comes with the potential of drug money and stuff that can be seized and stuff like that if it's associated.

Has it seized any money yet?

That one has not. Our previous dog has.

And we're down three officers this afternoon.

Jennifer, what did you find out on the grant?

There's been a callback on this grant. So we had on our application of the 2024 timeline, that's all we had to meet. So we can retire the dog at any time and we are okay to retire the dog and we do not have to have a H-9 officer or dog according to the grant.

Isn't it a great benefit to have a drive dog in the city?

I believe so, yes.

And three officers down right now. Well, I mean, according to the drug, the dog hasn't had any drugs, so what if the dog died from the city? It hasn't had any drugs, and, I mean, in the application to the opioid board, it was supposed to find some drugs, so, I mean, it comes to existence.

How do we know there hasn't been drugs?

You just said that.

I didn't say the dog hasn't found drugs. They haven't found any drug money.

I apologize.

How many times have you used a dog this year? The dog is utilized not only by ourselves, but also with Highway Patrol, and it always gets called out quite often by Highway Patrol.

Anybody else? Okay, we have a first and a second. Do a roll call to it.

I have reservations, but I wouldn't say yes. No.

No. No. Yes. Should we hire? Not at $52,000. You cannot afford it.

My answer is going to be no.

Really work at $40,000? Nope. Nope. Nope. I didn't let those in. We'll not set a precedent to bring somebody in and hire them.

We've already had somebody hired.

It's not up for discussion anymore. Okay. Moving on to the hiring of the animal control officer. Discussion is approved.

I have an application for Timothy Isom for the animal control position. He could start June 30th. That would be a recommendation I have for counseling.

Anybody review the application, the first and the second? What was the available start date? July 1st? June 10th. June 10th.

June 30th.

I'll make the motion.

Any discussion? Any discussion at all?

Your roll call, Lou? Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. That's going to be a council decision.

What are you going to do with that?

Well, you're still looking for your dog handler, right? If you can find somebody that's going to work for the money.

Who's going to take care of Hope Wall? We're on a highway restarting July 1st.

You guys are nuts. Tell that to you. Yeah. You guys are nuts. Three of them are officers for the school. Geez, Jeff. They'll vote.

You guys are nuts.

Okay. We'll have that on the next agenda. Until you retire the dog, does it find somebody in the meantime? What's that? I said, if you don't find somebody in the meantime, then at the next council meeting, we'll discuss retiring the dog.

I mean, if I find somebody, I mean, it could be July 7th, but I can present to anybody. But we'll know whether or not you found somebody, right?

But you have a hiring freeze going into July 1st.

Well, it is what it is.

And then we vote on the adjournments.