Public Safety Committee - Regular Meeting

04:00. Call the meeting to order. Broke call. Matthew Sauer is on vacation, so he has been previously excused. Otherwise, we're all present. Public comment. We have nobody here from the public. Are there any corrections to the minutes from our last meeting? Okay. We have February or January police department report.

Do I do both of them? Yeah. January and February. Great. So in front of me, you should have both the January and the February monthly reports. I don't see anything real real out of whack. Crashes are are up a little bit this year, both both months. Obviously, weather is probably a a factor there. Other than that, traffic citations and and warnings are both up a little bit this year. We have more staffing this year, and I think that's probably a reflection of that. If you have any questions, I'll be more than willing to answer any questions that you have. Any

questions for the chief? You wanna talk on your yearly report? The annual report? Yeah.

What we put together, obviously, it's pretty large reports. Do you guys have a hard copy at all? Or No. Electronic one. Because it's an

electronic agreed to print one if somebody wants one.

Okay. And nobody wanted one?

I'm trying to conserve resources,

I believe. Yeah. That's not a bad idea. Pretty much so similar as the past few years we put together in the report. It is a lot of work, but I know the PFC here is asking, do we want to keep doing this? We do. We feel like it's a good look back occasionally. Hey, when did this happen? What did that happen? What happened this year?

But also, like, a historical look at this fifty years from now, somebody will read that and, you know, what we did back then and have some historical values. So the report, pretty much all the information in there doesn't change necessarily from your year. It just gets updated on what what happened this year. So if you have any questions about the annual report, I'd love to answer that. But it's also it's always available online to anybody that wants to look at it.

Then we have Manitowoc Fire Rescue monthly in January and February. So once again, have the copies in front of you there. One thing that I will bring to your attention right away is that there were some changes to the layout of the document, basically because as of the first of the year here, fire service changed from what used to be our national fire incident reporting system to one that is called NEARIS. So National Electronic Reporting Incident System. So with that, however, it's I haven't personally been able to use it at great use right now, but it's supposed to be a friendlier version and allow for better statistics to be taken out and give us better up to date information nationally of everything that's occurring in the fire service.

But with that being said, as you can see on page one there, we had to kind of change the way we did our fire incident types. And what we laid them out there for you were the seven main ones that they basically keep track of. Each one of those can be broken down smaller, but for the purposes of this report, they're kind of lumped together. So unfortunately, we look at structure fires. If we have any significant ones moving forward, we'll be sure to like to share those with you.

But this report here, when you talk about fire, it could be anything outside, any vehicle fire, rubbish fire, stove fire, oven fire. So moving forward and talking with the assistant chief, what we'll do is if we do have a structure fire at a particular month, we'll give you more of an update of what happened and so forth of information you might want to know about that. But, unfortunately, it's just one thing that I'm not necessarily happy about with that the lack of that report because we also lose that dollar value. But there is a way that I can go back or administration can go back and we can get those statistics for council or for the mayor if needed to talk about property loss, property saved yet. Just it takes a little bit more work than it is to put it on a monthly report here.

We do plan having that for our annual report as well, though. But right now, for a month, you'll notice that that's not part of it. Page two, basically, still the EMS. No anomalies that I really haven't shared with you there. I'm still proud that our out the door times are still at a percentage above our goal of 90% there. And just any questions you might have, I'd be happy to answer at this time.

You might wanna put the month and year on that second page, at least the month. Because if we mix up our pages here,

we have no clue what it goes with. Understood. Actually, I'll try to do is just make sure I do it back to back. It doesn't run through with the color. I'll try to do it that way as well, sir. But, yes, we'll make a note of that. That's scary. That's fine. I catch that.

You can always tell by the charts.

Right. The charts will have January and February.

Right. Year and above.

Understood. Any questions for the change? Building inspection?

Building inspection, once again, January, February reports in front of you. No anomalies really to share there. Staff is being kept real busy with doing their progress inspections. So as you can see, there's a few coffee shops going up and around the city of Manitowoc recently. And just a lot of, additions and renovations that are being done to other current commercial properties within the city.

There'll be some I don't wanna say few or larger announcements, but I know the mayor has his annual breakfast on Thursday, so I don't wanna give out too many things that he might be sharing, but there are some projects that are on the docket for a possibility of actually starting here in 2026 yet. Probably the biggest news, if you don't mind, just more or less of a point of personal privilege probably, is April 6 will be Bill Nichols' last day as our lead building supervisor. April 2, we're gonna have a coffee for him at from eight until noon. If you're interested, you wanna stop by if you've ever had dinner. Any dealings with Bill Nichols?

Many years, Nichols Electric. And very fortunate we brought him

on

as our commercial electrical inspector. And he also comes with his commercial plumbing and commercial building and all the residential codes that you would need. And he was just a great find for the city at the right time. And he's earned his retirement. And April 6 will be his last day. So that'll be the biggest change that we'll be looking at in the building inspection responsibility of the fire rescue department.

Last chance for any question of either chief. No. Looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda.

So moved. Second. Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye. Opposed? So moved.

Then we have item twenty six zero one eight one police department captain patrol eligibility list. With

my retirement in a couple of weeks and captain Jansen taking over as assistant police chief and opening a third shift captain. We had one person apply for that, that was Lieutenant Bob Arps. What we're hoping for is that we would approve him to be an eligibility list so we can't promote him. He is a seasoned lieutenant, a great person, he's been doing a great job as a training lieutenant right now. However, before that he was a shift commander patrol lieutenant as well, so he knows what he's doing. John has his resume and application if you guys want to take a look at that or if you haven't already seen it. I'm

familiar with Robert, so

how long would you need to, not long?

Ah, yeah, six months. That's about three months, One month, seven days, whatever you like. Generally, we either do six months or a year, so I would just do six months. Our plan is to promote him, or I should say, Assistant Chief Musial's plan is to promote him when I retire.

I'll make a motion to submit Robert Epps name for eligibility list for capital control for a six month period. Second.

Any further discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? So will.

Thank you. Notice is hereby given that the above governmental body may adjourn into closed session during the meeting as authorized by section 19.851 c of Wisconsin statutes, which authorizes the governmental body to convene in closed session for the purpose of considering employment, promotion, compensation, or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility. The suspect specific subject matter that may be considered in closed session is twenty six dash zero one seven three, police department employment performance update. Twenty six dash zero one seven four, fire department employee performance update. And twenty six dash zero one seven five, interview internal applicant for the position of fire chief.

20 I need a motion to convene into closed session.

So move. Second.

Back in session regarding item twenty six dash zero one seven three, police department employee performance update. Need a motion to place on file.

So move. Second? Second.

Any discussion? All in favor, aye. Aye. Opposed? Item number 26Dash0174, fire department employee performance update. Need a motion again placed on file. So moved. Second. Any discussions? All in favor, say aye.

Aye. Opposed? So moved.

Item number 26Dash0175, interview internal applicant for the fire department fire rescue chief. Need a motion to approve an eligibility list with the name of.

Place on file.

Want that

on Dash0175. Is it interview internal applicant for the position of fire rescue chief. That's just to place on file.

Okay. Just to place on file. That's the motion. Second. Any questions? All in favor, say aye.

Aye. Opposed? So move. Oh, see

we have a separate one. Okay. 26Dash0176, established a fire rescue chief eligibility list. We first we

we

Motion for adjournment. Move to adjourn.

So or second.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

So

move. Berger. I wasn't

kidding.