1 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:46,800 All the order, charter, township, a plimuth, board of trustees, special meeting, Tuesday, September 1, 5, 0, 5 p.m. Okay. Roll call. Chuck Kermey. Here. 2 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,500 Dr. Schrevitz. 3 00:07:48,620 --> 00:07:48,800 Here. 4 00:07:49,580 --> 00:07:50,640 Kim Gatica here. 5 00:07:51,140 --> 00:07:51,720 Sandy Grove. 6 00:07:52,020 --> 00:07:52,140 Here. 7 00:07:53,490 --> 00:07:54,320 Bill Aix. 8 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:55,320 Yeah. 9 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:56,080 On his way. 10 00:07:56,380 --> 00:07:56,460 No. 11 00:07:57,540 --> 00:07:58,200 Tarty. 12 00:07:58,540 --> 00:07:59,160 It's okay. 13 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:01,000 Joe Riley. 14 00:08:01,460 --> 00:08:01,620 Here. 15 00:08:02,180 --> 00:08:03,020 John Stewart. 16 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:04,100 Here. 17 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:05,480 You have a quorum. 18 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:07,220 All right. 19 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:08,520 A pledge of allegiance. 20 00:08:12,260 --> 00:08:14,600 A pledge of allegiance to the flag 21 00:08:14,930 --> 00:08:16,740 of the United States of America. 22 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,520 And to the Republic for which it's 23 00:08:32,030 --> 00:08:35,330 So we're going to modify the agenda a little bit. 24 00:08:35,470 --> 00:08:35,930 It's confused. 25 00:08:36,510 --> 00:08:37,210 We aren't ready. 26 00:08:37,310 --> 00:08:41,930 We're going to have a discussion about a potential settlement of a lawsuit. 27 00:08:42,170 --> 00:08:43,130 We're not ready for that. 28 00:08:45,150 --> 00:08:50,490 So we're only going to be talking about an employment agreement in closed session. 29 00:08:50,490 --> 00:09:01,310 And so, I need somebody to, well, the clerk will read the words and then we'll only say employment agreement. 30 00:09:01,890 --> 00:09:19,230 I make a motion that the Board of Trustees convene in a closed session pursuant to the Michigan Open Meetings Act, MCL 15-.268-H, to discuss the following items that are exempt from disclosure as attorney-client privilege employment agreement. 31 00:09:20,490 --> 00:09:20,730 Second. 32 00:09:21,150 --> 00:09:24,230 Okay, seconded by Doroshavitz. 33 00:09:25,850 --> 00:09:27,690 So roll call vote. 34 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:31,380 Bob Doroshavitz. 35 00:09:31,420 --> 00:09:31,620 Yeah. 36 00:09:34,580 --> 00:09:35,260 Sandy Grove. 37 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:35,740 Yes. 38 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:38,380 Joe Riley. 39 00:09:38,740 --> 00:09:38,940 Yes. 40 00:09:39,700 --> 00:09:40,420 John Stewart. 41 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:41,500 Yes. 42 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:43,240 Chuck Kermey. 43 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:44,720 Yes. 44 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:46,560 Kim Gatica, yes. 45 00:09:47,660 --> 00:09:49,000 And Bill X isn't here. 46 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:54,380 There are majority voting affirmative motion passes. 47 00:09:55,340 --> 00:09:57,880 Okay, so just a little background information. 48 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:05,560 We're doing this at five o'clock to accommodate our attorney, our employees, and others that 49 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:07,660 have activities. 50 00:10:08,340 --> 00:10:18,840 It's not a clandestine motion, and we are also planning to potentially make a decision 51 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:23,240 at the end in open session if the board wants to do that. 52 00:10:23,740 --> 00:10:31,460 And we are doing this today because the candidate may have potential other offers, 53 00:10:31,820 --> 00:10:36,260 and we need to give the person the proper time to evaluate their offers. 54 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,760 And we want to win this person over to plim a township we hope. 55 00:10:41,260 --> 00:10:43,220 So we're going to discuss that now. 56 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:46,220 So how do we go into closed session? 57 00:10:46,220 --> 00:10:49,420 I just made my head into a closed session. 58 00:10:49,860 --> 00:10:51,780 Yeah, I just made the motion that we do it. 59 00:10:52,060 --> 00:10:52,800 Okay, so we're there. 60 00:10:53,180 --> 00:10:56,720 So I can just have a little bit of a close session. 61 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:02,020 Let's stand and have a 30 second moment of memory 62 00:11:02,020 --> 00:11:04,840 for the firefighter, bigger. 63 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:09,480 Thank you. 64 02:02:56,880 --> 02:03:00,440 Return to open session at 701. Go ahead. I've 65 02:03:02,620 --> 02:03:12,540 got a roll call. Well, who did the second? Somebody's got a second. Let me, let me, let me, let me read the motion into the record. Well, first, we need to come back. 66 02:03:15,040 --> 02:03:16,320 Seconded by Riley. 67 02:03:20,610 --> 02:03:23,990 Roll call. John Stewart. Here. 68 02:03:26,110 --> 02:03:27,370 Joe Riley. Yeah, 69 02:03:29,810 --> 02:03:32,570 this is yes or no. No, it's just yes or no for going back to open. 70 02:03:32,570 --> 02:03:36,190 in session? Yes. Bill Eiches? Yes. 71 02:03:37,270 --> 02:03:38,490 Dandy Groves? Yes. 72 02:03:39,570 --> 02:03:40,330 Yomgetica? Yes. 73 02:03:41,410 --> 02:03:42,370 Dr. Shevitz? Yes. 74 02:03:43,110 --> 02:03:44,150 Chuck Kermey? Yes. 75 02:03:45,010 --> 02:03:47,450 We have a motion to go back into open session. 76 02:03:48,850 --> 02:03:50,970 So what do you want to do, John? You want to read the motion? 77 02:03:50,970 --> 02:03:52,150 He's going to give us some education. 78 02:03:52,670 --> 02:03:57,690 Yeah. I want to read the motion to you as that I would recommend the Board of Proof 79 02:03:57,690 --> 02:03:59,650 and make it so inclined to approve the contract. 80 02:03:59,650 --> 02:04:10,550 So move that the Board of Trustees approve the Deputy Chief of Police Employment Agreement 81 02:04:11,580 --> 02:04:21,070 as presented with an effective date of September 26, 2026, 82 02:04:23,940 --> 02:04:26,280 and to authorize the Township 83 02:04:26,280 --> 02:04:34,960 Supervisor, Township Clerk, and Chief of Police to sign the agreement for the position 84 02:04:34,960 --> 02:04:36,120 of Deputy Police Chief. 85 02:04:37,540 --> 02:04:41,440 So I'm not going to mention, you're not going to put his name in the convent. 86 02:04:41,540 --> 02:04:44,840 I've asked for his name, so I can go ahead and present it. 87 02:04:45,340 --> 02:04:48,040 Is the September 26th the right date? 88 02:04:48,400 --> 02:04:51,600 That's the, yeah, the Chief just confirmed that that will be the effective date. 89 02:04:52,620 --> 02:04:53,080 Okay. 90 02:04:53,920 --> 02:04:55,480 It's not a Saturday or something. 91 02:04:55,480 --> 02:04:58,760 It's a Saturday, the 26th of the Saturday. 92 02:04:59,220 --> 02:05:00,240 26th is a Saturday? 93 02:05:00,680 --> 02:05:02,620 What's not, can we do it on a Monday then? 94 02:05:04,120 --> 02:05:05,380 That's a good cheeky, sorry. 95 02:05:09,730 --> 02:05:11,810 Let's just take our time and get it so we. 96 02:05:11,970 --> 02:05:12,110 Right. 97 02:05:24,270 --> 02:05:25,070 September 28th. 98 02:05:25,230 --> 02:05:29,430 So, September 28th is a Monday, which, yeah, 99 02:05:29,510 --> 02:05:31,410 that's probably the beginning hold on. 100 02:05:31,550 --> 02:05:34,470 You see that at the beginning of a, yeah. 101 02:05:34,670 --> 02:05:35,230 I believe it is. 102 02:05:35,830 --> 02:05:38,430 That's the first day of a pay week at least. 103 02:05:38,430 --> 02:05:39,430 So 104 02:05:41,440 --> 02:05:45,440 I'll make that motion as read by Council. 105 02:05:47,720 --> 02:05:48,440 Can I do that? 106 02:05:48,700 --> 02:05:48,800 Yep. 107 02:05:49,080 --> 02:05:49,200 Yeah. 108 02:05:49,920 --> 02:05:51,020 We have a second. 109 02:05:52,180 --> 02:05:53,080 A second. 110 02:05:57,810 --> 02:05:58,170 So. 111 02:05:58,310 --> 02:05:59,170 Roll call vote. 112 02:05:59,450 --> 02:06:00,050 The second did. 113 02:06:00,650 --> 02:06:01,290 Wiley. 114 02:06:04,260 --> 02:06:04,900 All right. 115 02:06:05,020 --> 02:06:05,620 Roll call vote. 116 02:06:06,980 --> 02:06:08,000 Chuck Kermey. 117 02:06:08,280 --> 02:06:08,600 Yes. 118 02:06:14,660 --> 02:06:15,840 Bob Dorschevitz. 119 02:06:16,000 --> 02:06:16,180 Yes. 120 02:06:17,780 --> 02:06:18,680 Sandy Gross. 121 02:06:18,980 --> 02:06:19,100 No. 122 02:06:22,120 --> 02:06:22,680 John Stewart. 123 02:06:22,680 --> 02:06:26,460 I would appreciate 60 seconds before my vote. 124 02:06:27,460 --> 02:06:29,700 Does that mean you want to go to somebody else first? 125 02:06:30,120 --> 02:06:30,240 No. 126 02:06:31,380 --> 02:06:31,500 No. 127 02:06:31,880 --> 02:06:31,940 No. 128 02:06:32,380 --> 02:06:33,000 No. 129 02:06:33,420 --> 02:06:39,380 A week ago my wife accurately described this as, trust me. 130 02:06:40,900 --> 02:06:44,680 This issue to hire the deputy chief was taken off the agenda. 131 02:06:44,680 --> 02:06:57,350 in the past two hours I have been presented with abundant information in 132 02:06:57,350 --> 02:07:00,110 regard to this applicant. 133 02:07:04,360 --> 02:07:10,620 I am satisfied with same and I'm ready to go onward 134 02:07:10,620 --> 02:07:18,400 and forward. I'm sure as I've asked this chief Nitel to encourage our 135 02:07:18,400 --> 02:07:29,360 applicant to consider locating to this northwest corner of Wayne County and I'm sure he will 136 02:07:29,360 --> 02:07:41,560 find it highly advantageous for a man in his 30s who has a wife and children and I want to 137 02:07:41,560 --> 02:07:46,320 We welcome him at the September 10th meeting. 138 02:07:46,820 --> 02:07:47,700 I vote yes. 139 02:07:51,390 --> 02:07:52,200 Bill Ikes? 140 02:07:52,920 --> 02:07:53,160 No. 141 02:07:55,680 --> 02:07:56,420 Kim Gatica? 142 02:07:57,280 --> 02:07:57,440 Yes. 143 02:07:58,160 --> 02:07:58,640 Joel Reilly? 144 02:07:58,980 --> 02:07:59,400 Yes. 145 02:08:01,910 --> 02:08:04,210 You have a majority voting in the affirmative. 146 02:08:04,490 --> 02:08:05,110 Motion passes. 147 02:08:07,990 --> 02:08:11,970 Thank you for putting your trust in us and our chief. 148 02:08:12,980 --> 02:08:14,590 We're going to make you proud. 149 02:08:15,610 --> 02:08:16,350 Okay. 150 02:08:16,350 --> 02:08:17,590 I have heard the same. 151 02:08:17,870 --> 02:08:18,230 Thank you. 152 02:08:19,690 --> 02:08:21,390 Chief, you have made representations 153 02:08:21,390 --> 02:08:25,910 that he will be here next Thursday night, September 10th. 154 02:08:27,210 --> 02:08:28,550 Yeah, all in the right answer. 155 02:08:28,730 --> 02:08:28,890 Okay. 156 02:08:32,050 --> 02:08:33,010 Can I just say one thing? 157 02:08:33,510 --> 02:08:33,630 Yeah. 158 02:08:34,610 --> 02:08:35,050 Yes. 159 02:08:35,410 --> 02:08:38,270 We'd like to thank you, Chief, for putting together 160 02:08:38,270 --> 02:08:43,810 such a in-depth review of all candidates interested in this. 161 02:08:44,370 --> 02:08:46,330 It seemed like you put a lot of work into it 162 02:08:46,330 --> 02:08:51,990 And I look forward to working with the new hire soon. 163 02:08:52,010 --> 02:08:53,090 Thank you. 164 02:08:55,340 --> 02:08:56,720 We know the public comment. 165 02:08:56,980 --> 02:09:01,180 Yeah, public comment on anything. 166 02:09:04,860 --> 02:09:08,600 I guess the first question is do we have the name of this? 167 02:09:09,780 --> 02:09:11,240 Chief Deputy Chief? 168 02:09:13,700 --> 02:09:14,800 Yeah, I think we can disclose it. 169 02:09:14,880 --> 02:09:16,100 Yeah, Samuel Miller. 170 02:09:16,780 --> 02:09:17,240 Sorry, what? 171 02:09:17,580 --> 02:09:18,140 Samuel Miller. 172 02:09:20,180 --> 02:09:21,300 Samuel Miller. 173 02:09:21,300 --> 02:09:24,320 And this person doesn't live in the township? 174 02:09:24,720 --> 02:09:25,200 Correct. 175 02:09:25,740 --> 02:09:27,480 Is your requirement to live in the township? 176 02:09:27,480 --> 02:09:29,980 No, the state law does not permit that. 177 02:09:30,360 --> 02:09:32,000 Okay, and I guess I had another question. 178 02:09:33,840 --> 02:09:41,980 The other day, see how you mentioned, the second fire station was closed for certain 179 02:09:41,980 --> 02:09:42,180 hours. 180 02:09:42,340 --> 02:09:45,420 Is there a way for the public to know or get notified when those things are closed? 181 02:09:46,620 --> 02:09:47,820 That's a very good question. 182 02:09:48,240 --> 02:09:50,520 You mean notify the public on a regular basis? 183 02:09:50,520 --> 02:09:50,880 Yeah. 184 02:09:51,360 --> 02:09:53,440 How would you recommend doing that to Facebook? 185 02:09:55,630 --> 02:09:56,790 On the website. 186 02:09:57,430 --> 02:10:00,970 An amber alert saying that it's not an emergency that it's closed. 187 02:10:03,520 --> 02:10:04,700 We could work on that. 188 02:10:04,800 --> 02:10:08,140 Maybe the fire chief can come up with a creative way to do that. 189 02:10:08,540 --> 02:10:14,060 It was relative that the hours were distributed to Sandy Growth. 190 02:10:15,180 --> 02:10:16,800 I saw an email, right? 191 02:10:17,620 --> 02:10:20,820 No, the hours were distributed by reading to the end of the month report. 192 02:10:22,460 --> 02:10:25,020 Okay, but there was an email this afternoon, I think. 193 02:10:25,220 --> 02:10:26,060 I haven't seen it. 194 02:10:26,060 --> 02:10:27,120 Not, I think, I know. 195 02:10:27,340 --> 02:10:29,700 I haven't seen it, I did request it. 196 02:10:30,280 --> 02:10:38,900 And it gave the reason why we have been down since about February, I don't know the exact date. 197 02:10:39,360 --> 02:10:44,640 Four officers, four firefighters, that's nearly 20% of the workforce. 198 02:10:44,640 --> 02:10:51,480 And it's for work and non-work-related disabilities. 199 02:10:54,560 --> 02:10:55,280 I should know. 200 02:10:55,400 --> 02:11:00,980 We're managing that, and then that's one of the reasons why we have mutual aid. 201 02:11:01,480 --> 02:11:04,640 And we've given a lot of mutual aid to surrounding communities. 202 02:11:05,680 --> 02:11:08,740 So we're doing a very good job. 203 02:11:09,160 --> 02:11:16,260 Our people are working very hard to ensure that our stations are covered by the way. 204 02:11:16,260 --> 02:11:21,220 that station, even though it's the closest to the freeway, it takes the longest 205 02:11:21,220 --> 02:11:26,680 time to get to the freeway from that station. It's the least strategic one we have, 206 02:11:26,780 --> 02:11:33,720 I guess, because of the way the freeway came in at M-14, when years ago M-14 wasn't 207 02:11:33,720 --> 02:11:33,960 there. 208 02:11:34,620 --> 02:11:39,380 So I'm assuming, like, when the consulting report comes out, they'll address that issue 209 02:11:39,380 --> 02:11:41,000 and anything else related to that. 210 02:11:41,040 --> 02:11:41,920 Pretty sure they will, yeah? 211 02:11:41,920 --> 02:11:46,660 And I would like to add the fact that the firefighters have a contract with the township 212 02:11:46,660 --> 02:11:50,000 deployment that guarantees a six-man minimum, which we are not getting. 213 02:11:50,560 --> 02:11:53,280 So it is an issue to be aware of. 214 02:11:53,620 --> 02:11:54,280 Okay, thanks. 215 02:11:54,700 --> 02:11:57,820 Can I just add too that the amber alert's not the platform, but 216 02:11:57,820 --> 02:12:01,960 you were right Susan, it's the next, so the next all is what we do the communication for 217 02:12:01,960 --> 02:12:04,440 accidents and areas to avoid. 218 02:12:04,700 --> 02:12:08,900 It will be next all not amber alert, those are specifically for children. 219 02:12:09,600 --> 02:12:12,100 Mr. Supervisor, are you able to make a one comment on that? 220 02:12:12,520 --> 02:12:12,720 Yes. 221 02:12:13,260 --> 02:12:16,680 Just to touch on Mike's question about does he live in the township? 222 02:12:17,600 --> 02:12:24,880 We've done a lot of research on this, and it's very uncommon for these type of positions to live in the township. 223 02:12:25,500 --> 02:12:30,200 So we are lucky that our police chief does, but it's not common across this area. 224 02:12:31,200 --> 02:12:31,820 Thank you. 225 02:12:32,200 --> 02:12:38,320 Western Wayne County, what we're referring to, has very few chiefs that live in the community in which they police. 226 02:12:38,320 --> 02:12:39,460 It doesn't make it right. 227 02:12:39,660 --> 02:12:41,000 We're glad we have it. 228 02:12:41,260 --> 02:12:43,440 We've always had that in Plymouth Township. 229 02:12:44,100 --> 02:12:47,720 All we've had four police chiefs in our history. 230 02:12:48,600 --> 02:12:51,480 I think your number four, all have lived in Plymouth Township. 231 02:12:55,660 --> 02:13:00,360 What, what am I, we've got, what, you want to go before or after the whole road? 232 02:13:00,540 --> 02:13:02,000 It's her turn, she was an intrusion. 233 02:13:02,200 --> 02:13:09,160 Well, I just want to remind everyone that Lake Point has something like over 800 homes, okay? 234 02:13:09,160 --> 02:13:17,440 and I have heard of rumor where we might even be considering closing that station which 235 02:13:17,440 --> 02:13:20,520 I think would really be a mistake. 236 02:13:21,880 --> 02:13:28,380 And it's bad enough that you shut it down at the first signs of not having enough staff. 237 02:13:29,220 --> 02:13:35,840 And obviously that's telling me that we need to add staff as soon as possible. 238 02:13:35,840 --> 02:13:39,500 And, of course, that's not particularly easy. 239 02:13:39,700 --> 02:13:44,800 It's not easy finding the young people are not going into fire and or police. 240 02:13:45,080 --> 02:13:54,040 It's not that easy to find highly qualified, and especially when the firefighters have to not only be 241 02:13:54,040 --> 02:14:01,980 qualified for plummet township as far as their firefighting skills and emergency skills. 242 02:14:01,980 --> 02:14:09,240 but they have to be advanced life support paramedics and that is one of the 243 02:14:09,240 --> 02:14:14,080 recall one thing that makes it more difficult to find them so we need to 244 02:14:14,080 --> 02:14:21,660 hire we do need to not close late points Wilcox station and we need to come up 245 02:14:21,660 --> 02:14:29,500 with some way of letting residents know when that station is closed and I'm not 246 02:14:29,500 --> 02:14:35,220 That being a smarty, but what will they do with that information by knowing it's closed? 247 02:14:36,460 --> 02:14:44,200 I think just not expecting, you know, that they're, you know, if they put in a call that it's going 248 02:14:44,200 --> 02:14:48,600 to be there within two minutes, which is about what they could, they could be at our homes, 249 02:14:49,180 --> 02:14:51,760 almost any home and late point within five minutes. 250 02:14:52,780 --> 02:14:55,580 And I don't think they can make it from here in five minutes. 251 02:14:55,580 --> 02:14:59,740 the analysis when we'll see what happens, but it's possible. 252 02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:27,660 Well, they're pretty fast considering the station here. So, we'll have to look at that and see where it is. I don't know how yet. You know, you know what the railroads are. So, you're only avenue to get to late point. If you've got trouble and light, I just went through. Last week, I had a three car, three engine train. 253 02:15:27,660 --> 02:15:32,540 go through Plymouth, moved up a little further, hit a two engine train. 254 02:15:33,760 --> 02:15:40,940 I heard Levin was shut for 24 hours, so you know the trains are getting only worse. 255 02:15:42,200 --> 02:15:48,560 So counting on Heinz Drive to get the lake point is not necessarily a good idea. 256 02:15:49,680 --> 02:15:54,900 So CSX has been having some problems closing our, 257 02:15:54,900 --> 02:16:02,460 They did joy road for three days and beck road for at least one day. 258 02:16:03,260 --> 02:16:08,680 So there is something going on that our Congresswoman is working on it also because 259 02:16:08,680 --> 02:16:13,420 they don't answer to anyone they accept the federal government because that's who 260 02:16:13,420 --> 02:16:18,880 they're controlling documents come from and they have that attitude. 261 02:16:19,000 --> 02:16:24,820 We were here first and the rest of you guys came later, so top it out. 262 02:16:24,820 --> 02:16:27,460 I said, but you know, when you got a three-engine train, 263 02:16:27,660 --> 02:16:30,020 you can imagine how many cars were on behind it. 264 02:16:30,320 --> 02:16:31,980 So, yes. 265 02:16:33,840 --> 02:16:36,320 Well, first of all, I want to thank Susan 266 02:16:36,320 --> 02:16:37,820 because I've thought about that for years 267 02:16:37,820 --> 02:16:40,520 having lived in Lake Point in the same house for 42 years. 268 02:16:42,760 --> 02:16:46,320 Access to Lake Point, but for being blocked by trains. 269 02:16:47,040 --> 02:16:47,560 What's that? 270 02:16:47,900 --> 02:16:52,300 Access to Lake Point, but for being blocked by trains. 271 02:16:52,300 --> 02:16:56,980 Oh, I am deeply grateful for you saying that. 272 02:16:57,560 --> 02:17:02,260 This afternoon I got six pages emailed to me about Samuel Middler. 273 02:17:04,040 --> 02:17:10,200 Then I'm willing to let anybody review this in my office on Main Street, if you want 274 02:17:10,200 --> 02:17:10,880 to stop by. 275 02:17:11,340 --> 02:17:16,440 There are days that I think more people stop into my office than stop into the second 276 02:17:16,440 --> 02:17:23,260 story, the second floor office of the supervisor because we're so accessible at 1142 South Main. 277 02:17:24,140 --> 02:17:35,760 But finally, the chief has done an extremely thorough, comprehensive search, that's my opinion. 278 02:17:35,760 --> 02:17:48,100 And he has included the professional opinion of several, if not many, other chiefs of 279 02:17:48,100 --> 02:17:56,760 police and most significantly alcox, the city police chief in the city of Plymouth. 280 02:17:56,760 --> 02:17:57,400 So, 281 02:17:59,820 --> 02:18:07,380 we were given a lot of information between five o'clock and seven o'clock. 282 02:18:08,380 --> 02:18:13,260 So I will final comment, I pulled the typical John Stewart. 283 02:18:13,960 --> 02:18:16,100 I called Sam Miller at four o'clock. 284 02:18:16,910 --> 02:18:19,080 He returned my phone call at 430. 285 02:18:21,680 --> 02:18:22,960 Thank you very much and good night. 286 02:18:23,500 --> 02:18:29,900 I do have something I would like to say first and foremost what it would do by finding a way to notify the 287 02:18:29,900 --> 02:18:35,840 public is that it lets them know that there's a staffing problem with the fire department. 288 02:18:36,340 --> 02:18:42,780 In addition to that, the fact of the matter is that the chief fire chief has a procedure here in 289 02:18:42,780 --> 02:18:47,840 Plum of Township right now and that is that on the days that there are six men only on duty, 290 02:18:47,840 --> 02:18:53,140 There is no first response ambulance out of station 1. 291 02:18:53,500 --> 02:18:56,300 We have to wait for station 2 or station 3. 292 02:18:56,500 --> 02:19:01,040 So when station 2 is also closed, we now know we have to wait for station 3. 293 02:19:01,280 --> 02:19:04,020 And I think it's important for the citizens to be aware of that. 294 02:19:04,260 --> 02:19:05,040 That is a fact. 295 02:19:06,080 --> 02:19:14,520 So you're saying station 1 on Haggardy Road does not have an ambulance ready when there's six people on. 296 02:19:14,520 --> 02:19:19,600 That is absolutely correct because the battalion chief has that bright shiny new red truck 297 02:19:19,600 --> 02:19:24,760 that this board bought for him, and that's his vehicle, and the fire chief does not want 298 02:19:24,760 --> 02:19:30,780 the battalion chief transporting out of the community despite the fact that he's a paramedic. 299 02:19:31,280 --> 02:19:37,860 So if they respond, they respond in a fire truck with the battalion chief and an additional 300 02:19:37,860 --> 02:19:41,880 fire fighter slash paramedic, but they can't take you anywhere in the fire truck. 301 02:19:41,880 --> 02:19:52,060 So, I'm just making the point that every day that the staffing is low, six men, there is no first response ambulance out of fire station one. 302 02:19:53,620 --> 02:19:59,680 If they come great, if they come timely, great, but there's no guarantee, that's the biggest issue. 303 02:20:00,320 --> 02:20:04,760 And people at the late point, we can't depend on you either, so I just want to make that point. 304 02:20:06,640 --> 02:20:07,880 Motion to adjourn. 305 02:20:09,060 --> 02:20:10,580 Do we have a motion to adjourn? 306 02:20:11,080 --> 02:20:12,420 I actually want to make comments. 307 02:20:12,480 --> 02:20:12,820 You have to count. 308 02:20:12,940 --> 02:20:13,200 Okay. 309 02:20:13,600 --> 02:20:15,380 I'll be glad to second John's comment, right? 310 02:20:15,980 --> 02:20:19,000 But first off, number one, our police chief is phenomenal. 311 02:20:19,960 --> 02:20:21,340 The entire staff does a great job. 312 02:20:21,500 --> 02:20:25,840 The metrics, top 10% town chips, we applaud the effort, okay? 313 02:20:26,080 --> 02:20:29,640 The search you did is thorough, the candidate's outstanding, okay, for the record, right? 314 02:20:29,840 --> 02:20:30,760 It will help, right? 315 02:20:30,980 --> 02:20:34,320 And the morale will continue to be good, so I applaud what you've done. 316 02:20:34,320 --> 02:20:42,200 Okay, that being said, we've got to work on both sides of the house, right, fire as well as police to continue making this place safe and 317 02:20:42,200 --> 02:20:48,540 resident safer. So with that, that was my only comment and I would like the second John's comment to adjourn. 318 02:20:49,700 --> 02:20:54,500 So I have a motion to adjourn from Stewart, seconded by ICE. 319 02:20:55,220 --> 02:20:55,600 Just two please. 320 02:20:58,160 --> 02:20:59,880 Okay. All those in favor? 321 02:21:00,300 --> 02:21:00,500 Aye. 322 02:21:00,800 --> 02:21:01,100 I 323 02:21:10,240 --> 02:21:11,960 720 p.m. I'm sorry. It wasn't on the