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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Protection 02-09-1999ST CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING AMENDED TO: Thomas Dorsey FROM: Julie Speer COMMITTEE TITLE: Public Protection DATE: February 9, 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. Update on Jail Panels NEW BUSINESS: 1. Medical Examiner's Report 2. Reports: Sheriff, Chief Deputy, Patrol & Jail Captain A. Jail Assessment B. Line Item Transfer from Jail budget C. Municipal Billings. D. Emergency Communications/Command Post Van E. Counter Terrorist Training F. ERU Team Equipment G. Dept. Night Shoots at Cylon range *H. Impound Lot Charges *I. Introduction of St. Croix County K-9 Unit *J. Expenditures from Polk/St. Croix Drug Fund 3. District Attorney's Report 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: 01/13/99 COPIES TO: County Clerk Notice Board/News Media Committee Members *ADDITIONS/CHANGES/CORRECTION ST CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING TO: Thomas Dorsey FROM: Julie Speer COMMITTEE TITLE: Public Protection DATE: February 9, 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. Update on Jail Panels NEW BUSINESS: 1. Medical Examiner's Report 2. Reports: Sheriff, Chief Deputy, Patrol & Jail Captain A. Jail Assessment B. Line Item Transfer from Jail budget C. Municipal Billings D. Emergency Communications/Command Post Van E. Counter Terrorist Training F. ERU Team Equipment G. Dept. Night Shoots at Cylon range 3. District Attorney's Report 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: 01/13/99 COPIES TO: County Clerk Notice Board/News Media Committee Members *ADDITIONS/CHANGES/CORRECTION J PUBLIC PROTECTION COMMITTEE MEETING February 9, 1999 MEMBERS PRESENT: Chuck Mehls, Bill Krueger, Bob Gunderson and Tom Irwin. Julie Speer was excused. STAFF PRESENT: Sheriff Dennis Hillstead, Administrative Assistant Mary Martell, Patrol Captain Robert Klanderman, Jail Captain Karen Humphrey, Medical Examiner Marty Shanklin and Renee Carufel. Patrol Officer James Sander with Chance, canine member, was also in attendance. Meeting called to order at 9:00 a.m. by Chuck Mehls due to the absence of Chairperson Speer. Motion to adopt the agenda as published by Krueger/Gunderson. Carried. Date of the next regular meeting is March 9th at 9:00 a.m. Motion to approve the minutes of Jan. 7th by Krueger/Gunderson. Carried. INTRODUCTION OF ST CROIX COUNTY K-9 UNIT: Mehls introduced Officer James Sander with his K-9 dog, Chance Chance is a cross of Doberman and Rotweiller which is called a French German Shepherd. Sander explained the dog is highly trained in tracking, especially to go after hot human scent and searching buildings. Chance had 14 weeks of very intense,,training and is even able to track in snow with his eyes. Snow does not hold human scent. He is also trained to scent crushed vegetation which helps track footprints in the grass. He is especially trained to protect the officer he serves at all times. Sander has a remote which will let Chance out of the car so he can be of assistance if he is in danger. UPDATE ON JAIL PANELS: Humphrey reported Lang & Associates are still on schedule and plan on installing the panels by May. MEDICAL EXAMINER'S REPORT: Shanklin reported on one autopsy for January. A gentlemen, who was involved in a car accident, died very suddenly a couple of days after the accident. Death was from the accident. Motion by Krueger/Irwin to approve the bills of $4082.68. Carried. JAIL ASSESSMENT: Humphrey reported the need for a video camera in the jail to tape any inmates who become violent or have to be moved from one cell to another. This is a good silent witness and inmates cooperate more if they know they are being taped. Humphrey told of an incident in the Jail where it took six officers to try and move an inmate to a different cell. Three of the jailers were hurt. Humphrey submitted bids from seven different stores and decided the one from Best Buy of Maplewood was the best package deal. Motion by Krueger/Gunderson to purchase a Sharp VL-E760U camera and battery, tri-pod, bag, tapes and lens cleaning kit for $850 from Best Buy with funds from the Jail Assessment fund. Carried. Humphrey explained the need for breathing masks for the jailers in case of fire. She has nine on hand but needs an accessible cabinet to store them. Motion by Gunderson/Krueger to purchase this cabinet for $352 from Anderson Cabinets from Jail Assessment fund. Carried. Discussion on the cost of boarding prisoners and how viable it is to ship inmates off to Texas or other places. Irwin read an article about no smoking or sugar in jails but inmates are able to purchase these as rewards. Hillstead said we are going to have competition with renting jail space because of all the new jails being built in surrounding counties. LINE ITEM TRANSFER: Humphrey reported the line item forovertime went over budget in 98. Motion by Krueger/Irwin to transfer $7741 out of the salary budget and transfer into the overtime budget. Carried. There were funds left in the salary budget because there was an employee on unpaid leave in 1998. MUNICIPAL BILLING: Sheriff Hillstead explained that municipalities want the county to help with bookings and fingerprinting. We have been charging for this in the past but Hillstead suggested discontinuing this as the paper work costs more than the bill is worth. Municipalities can impose fines and if the person cannot pay them they can be sent to jail for which we will continue to bill. Motion by Krueger/Irwin to eliminate municipal charges for booking and fingerprinting. This motion does not include charges incurred by persons being incarcerated due to municipal court action. Carried. Motion by Irwin/Gunderson to drop the City of Hudson's bill of .$455.98 in lieu of the help with the investigation of the suicide that happened in our jail in 1998. Carried. Hillstead also suggested we receive a radar unit from the City of New Richmond, which they are no longer using, towards their bill of $1265. This will be subject to appraisal of value of the radar unit. Dan Breymeir,is officially hired as the patrol sergeant. EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS/COMMAND POST VAN: Mehls explained the need for a different command post van. He suggested Emergency Government Department, Sheriff's Department and Dispatch all contribute toward this purchase which could be around $40,000. Discussion was held on possibly asking the community for donations. No action taken at this time. COUNTER TERRORIST TRAINING: Mehls informed the committee if there is enough interest within the county, we might be able to get the State to bring the training to St. Croix County. We need about 24 people. It was suggested to contact the surrounding counties to see if they would be interested . ERU TEAM EQUIPMENT: Due to a recent incident where officers suffered frostbite because they had to be out in the snow and 1 f freezing rain from before sun up until after 1:30 p.m. more winter/rain gear for the ERU team is needed. A request was made for $2800 for two snow ponchos, four snow camo cover shirts, four pairs of bunny boots, eleven ECWCS pants & parkas and four camo ponchos from the Polk/St. Croix drug account. Motion by Krueger/Gunderson to spend up to $2800 to buy the needed gear for the ERU. Carried. DEPARTMENT NIGHT SHOOTS AT CYLON RANGE: Klanderman wants two night shoots this summer. One neighbor is not pleased with this because of the noise. Klanderman will talk to the town chairman as to when this will happen. The DNR has indicated that they will not renew our contract for this shooting range after the year 2001. IMPOUND LOT CHARGES: Martell informed the committee that we are looking for a $10.00 per day charge for leaving cars in the impound lot after the Department is finished with the investigations. Motion by Gunderson/Krueger to charge $10 dollars a day for impound storage. Carried. Two drug investigators are requesting permission to go to school in Kansas on how to disassemble methamphetamine labs. They need a very extensive physical before they can be admitted. Motion by Mehls/Krueger to authorize them to take the physical and pay for any part of the bill not covered by insurance from the drug fund. Carried. The officers,will each get $1600 worth of equipment free from this school. EXPENDITURES FROM POLK/ST. CROIX DRUG FUND• Captain Klanderman asked the committee to consider buying jackets for the Drug Task Force with a special logo to identify drug enforcement officers for a cost of $58.00 each. They also need two cellular phones for a cost of $199 each. Motion to approve $748 for the jackets and cellular phones by Gunderson/Krueger from Polk/St. Croix Drug fund. Carried. Sheriff Hillstead reported the Cops Grant will run out in April of 2000. We must maintain a plan to extend this service after the grant or we will not be eligible for future grants. He also said there is a need for someone in the Sheriff's department to coordinate the new computer program. Department personnel should possibly have compensation for all the computer work that needs to be done. BILLS & VOUCHERS: Motion by Krueger/Irwin to approve the Jail 1998 bills of $17,945.76 and the 1998.Sheriff bills of $5566.81. Carried. Motion by Krueger/Mehls to approve the 1999 Jail bills of $39,557.05 and the 1999 Sheriff's bills of $9778.68. Carried. The revenue for January was $184,037.79. The average daily population for the month of January was 104. Captain Klanderman reported on the disposition of the old radios which were sold to various county fire departments. DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S REPORT: Motion by Krueger/Gunderson to approve the bills of $2773.12. Carried. CHILD SUPPORT REPORT: Irwin commented the Child Support office is doing a fine job with collections compared to state averacrea after reviewing the report fro Motion to adjourn at 11: Tom Irwin, Secretary Renee Carufel, Recording