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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Protection 06-10-19997 ST CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING TO: Thomas Dorsey FROM: Julie Speer COMMITTEE TITLE: Public Protection DATE: June 10, 1999 NOTE DATE CHANGE TIME: 9:00 A.M. LOCATION: Government Center CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING: ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 1. View Jail Panels NEW BUSINESS: 1. Medical Examiner's Report 2. Reports: Sheriff, Chief Deputy, Patrol & Jail Captain A. Jail Assessment Report B. Budgets C. New,Positions for the Sheriff's Dept. 3. District Attorney's Report A. Legal Secretary Request 4. Child Support Report 5. Bills & Vouchers* * These will be presented by each Department at the time of their report. ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING: ADJOURNMENT (Agenda not necessarily presented.in this order) SUBMITTED BY: Julie Speer DATE: 5/17/99 & 5/26/99 COPIES TO: County Clerk Notice Board/News Media Committee Members *ADDITIONS/CHANGES/CORRECTION e r ST CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING TO: Thomas Dorsey FROM: Julie Speer COMMITTEE TITLE: Public Protection DATE: June 8, 1999 TIME: 9:00 A.M. LOCATION: Government Center. CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING: ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 1. View Jail Panels NEW BUSINESS: 1. Medical Examiner's Report 2. Reports: Sheriff, Chief Deputy, Patrol & Jail Captain A. Jail Assessment Report B. Budgets C. New Positions for the Sheriff's Dept. 3. District Attorney's Report A. Legal Secretary Request 4. Child Support Report 5. Bills & Vouchers* * These will be presented by each Department at the time of their report. ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING: ADJOURNMENT (Agenda not necessarily presented in this order) SUBMITTED BY: Julie Speer DATE: 5/17/99 & 5/26/99 COPIES TO: County Clerk Notice Board/News Media Committee Members *ADDITIONS/CHANGES/CORRECTION PUBLIC PROTECTION COMMITTEE MEETING June 10, 1999 MEMBERS PRESENT: Julie Speer, Bill Krueger and Bob Gunderson, Tom Irwin and Chuck Mehls. Meeting called to order by Chair Speer at 9:00 a.m. STAFF PRESENT: Sheriff Dennis Hillstead, Chief Deputy.Ron Volkert, Patrol Captain Robert Klanderman, Jail Captain Karen Humphrey, Administrative Assistant Mary Martell, District Attorney Eric Johnson, DA Office Manager Debra Staberg and Renee Carufel. Meeting called to order at 9:00 a.m. by Speer. Motion to adopt the agenda as published by Krueger/Irwin. Carried. Date of the next regular meeting is July 8th at 9:00 a.m. Mehls requested a correction to the May 7th minutes to read: This committee would like to have .a written protocol for deceased disaster victim processing from Shanklin. Irwin asked to have the munitions identified as bean bag rounds under replacement clothes and munitions for the ERU. Motion to approve the minutes after these corrections was made by Mehls/Gunderson. Carried. MEDICAL EXAMINER'S REPORT: Chair Speer explained Shanklin's report as he was on vacation. Four autopsies were preformed last month. Irwin would like more details put on the medical examiners report. Motion to approve the bills of �$8891.71 by Krueger/Mehls. Carried. DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S REPORT: Johnson is requesting a full time permanent secretarial position. No staff has been added since 1993. The number of cases has increased over the last three years (almost doubled since 1996) and we should have over 14,000 cases in 1999. Consensus of the committee is there is a real need for more help. There is adequate space in the office for an additional secretary. Motion by Mehls/Krueger to approve the full time position for a cost of $41,000.. Carried. Roll call vote - all yes. Motion by Krueger/Irwin to approve the bills of $1546.08. Carried. Carried. VIEW OF JAIL PANELS: Panels arefinally in place and almost finished._ The committee will view the new equipment in July. SHERIFF'S REPORT: Hillstead reported we have received the Drug Task Force grant. He informed the committee of the moves that havebeen made to new positions. We have hired more female jailers also. Hillstead reported on the concert Memorial Day weekend in Somerset. PATROL CAPTAIN'S REPORT: Klanderman informed the committee of three fatal accidents during the month of May, a 20 yr. old female, her 1 yr. old son and also a 77 yr. old male. Both were car accidents. He also reported on the number of arrests made during the concert. JAIL ASSESSMENT REQUEST: Humphrey requested new carpeting for an area in the Jail. Motion by Krueger/Mehls to approve spending $2914 from the Jail assessment fund. Carried. 1fj BILLS & VOUCHERS: Motion by Krueger/Speer to approve $18,270.78 for the Sheriff's department and $36,682.70 for the Jail. Carried. Average daily population was 96, down a little for May due to the construction in the Jail. Revenues for the month of May were $141,594.83, most of which is returned to the general fund. NEW POSITIONS: Hillstead requested a position reclass for Jail Sergeants. Sergeants in the jail are pay grade 7 and sergeants on patrol are a pay grade 8. These two positions should be the same grade. Maybe there will be more interest and desire to work in the Jail if there were these positions to advance into. Discussion was held on the importance of the sergeant positions. Hillstead requested four sergeant positions;::for the Jail for a cost of $5303 per position. Motion by Irwin/Krueger to add 4 non -union jail sergeant positions for the Jail. Carried. Roll call vote- all yes. Motion by Krueger/Gunderson to request the review of a move from pay grade 7 to grade 8 for -.all non -union sergeants. Carried. Roll call- all yes. Hillstead requested the temporary investigator position be made permanent. We have received grant money for another investigator and would like to make this position permanent. We have six full time investigators, to work strictly on drug cases which only leaves four investigators for all the rest of the county investigations. Motion by .Krueger to add a full time investigator second by Mehls. Carried. Roll call vote, all yes. Hillstead requested three additional patrol officers. Hillstead explained the response time between calls and getting to the scenes is too long. He explained the real need for more patrol officers. Irwin was excused at 11:45 a.m. Motion by Mehls to approve hiring of the three new patrol officers and not to be contingent on the COPS grant. Second by Speer. Carried. Roll call vote- all yes. Martell requested one law enforcement clerk. This is not a new position but was left vacant as of 5/9/97. We need to fill this position at this time. Motion to approve the law enforcement clerk by Krueger/Mehls. Carried. Roll call all yes. Chief Deputy Volkert reported one of the drug investigators needs a new pager. Motion by Krueger/Mehls to take $66 from the Drug fund to buy a new pager. Motion by Krueger/Mehls. Carried. CHILD SUPPORT: The committee reviewed the information given to them from Child Support. Motion by Krueger/Mehls to approve spending $180 on installation of the new locks for her office. Carried. Motion to adjourn at 12:15 p.m. by Krueger/Gunderson. Tom Irwin, Secretary Renee Carufel, Recording Secretary