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Home My WebLink About2015-03-04 PACKET 04.A.i. REQUEST OF CITY COUNCIL ACTION COUNCIL AGENDA MEETING ITEM # m DATE 03/04/15 � � � � � PREPARED BY: Public Safety Craig Woolery ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT STAFF AUTHOR ********��**********�**�****�*******�*****�************�***** COUNCIL ACTION REQUEST Pass a motion to accept and place on file the January 21, 2014 minutes of the Public Safety, Health and Welfare Commission meeting minutes. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Pass a motion to accept and place on file the January 21, 2014 meeting minutes. ADVISORY COMMISSION ACTION DATE REVIEWED APPROVED DENIED � PUBLIC SAFETY MEETING 02/24/14 x x SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS � MINUTES: January 21, 2014 meeting minutes of the Public Safety, Health and Welfare Commission ADMINISTRATORS COMMENTS ` �? t � i y Administrator Date ****�*�***********:�*****�********��*****�******* COUNCIL ACTION TAKEN: ❑ APPROVED ❑ DENIED ❑ OTHER Cottage J Grove PUBLIC SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE � Pride and PrOSPerity Meet C O M M I SS I O N MINUTES OF MEETING January 21, 2014 Pursuant to due notice, a meeting of the Public Safety, Health and Welfare Commission was held at the City Hall. 1. REGULAR MEETING 01.A. Call to Order: The January 21, 2014, meeting of the Cottage Grove Public Safety, Health and Welfare Commission was called to order at 7:00 pm. Members Present: Nick Maciejewski, Dave Barkow, Jodi Lewis, AJ Janssen, Kellie Eigenheer, Kent Griffith, Lori Hedican Members Absent: None Staff Present: Captain Pete Koerner, Fire Chief Rick Redenius 01 B. Approval of Minutes Commission Co-Chair Jodi Lewis presented the October 15, 2013 minutes of the Public Safety, Health and Welfare Commission minutes for review and approval. On a motion by Commission member Kellie Eigenheer, seconded by Commission member AJ Janssen, the October 15, 2013 minutes were accepted and approved by the Commission. Motion carries. 01 C. Approval of Aqenda Commission Co-Chair Jodi Lewis presented the January 21, 2014 agenda of the Public Safety, Health and Welfare Commission for review. On a motion by Commission member AJ Janssen, seconded by Commission member Lori Hedican, the January 21, 2014 agenda was accepted and approved by the Commission. Motion carries. 2. OPEN FORUM Commission Co-Chair Jodi Lewis invited citizens present to address the Commission regarding any matters that were not on the approved agenda. There being no items, Commission Co-Chair Jodi Lewis closed the Open Forum segment of the meeting. 3. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT No items submitted. Page 2 PSHWC Minutes January 21, 2014 4. OLD BUSINESS None at this time 5. New Business 05.A Administration — Discuss Commission Terms and make recommendations for 2014 Public Safety Commission Chair and Vice Chair Jodi Lewis stated she could serve another two year term. The following members stated they could not serve another term: Nick Maciejewski, Dave Barkow and AJ Janssen. 05.B Consider change in Regular Monthly Meeting Date Captain Koerner wanted input from members as to their consideration to changing the meeting from the third Tuesday to the second Tuesday. On a motion by Commission member Lori Hedican, seconded by Kent Griffith, to change the meeting to the second Tuesday of the month. Motion carried. Captain Koerner will inform the City Council and City Administrator of the recommended change to the meeting day. 6. RESPONSE TO PREVIOUSLY RAISED COMMENTS AND REQUESTS None at this time. 7. COMMISSION COMMENTS AND REQUESTS None at this time. 8. STAFF REPORTS 08.A Police — Captain Koerner informed the Commission of the following: Captain Koerner informed the Commission that the City Council has appointed Council member Dave Theide to be Council Liaison to the Public Safety Commission for the 2014 calendar year. On this Saturday, January 25, 2014 a benefit will be held at the VFW Red Barn in Cottage Grove for Sergeant Greg Brysky. He said that for more information they can go to bryskybenefit.com. Encouraged to purchase tickets in advance on line and he encouraged anyone considering going should purchase them in advance. Also this Saturday, Council will be holding a workshop with all department heads, for information regarding accomplishments and long term goals. This is an ongoing process from the city's Good to Great retreat from 2012. Public Safety has been busy preparing information to give to the Director of Public Safety for sharing at the workshop. Page 3 PSHWC Minutes January 21, 2014 He advised the Commission the Police Department is in the process of hiring three officers to fill vacancies created by Officer/Paramedic Tim Morning, who was hired by our fire department as a fire fighter/paramedic; Sergeant Greg Brysky, who has retired and Officer Gina Lamers just recently gave her notice of intent to retire after 36 years working for the city. We are also hiring three Community Service Officers to fill vacancies. 0�.� Fire — Fire Chief Redenius informed the Commission of the following: Call reports for December — 28 Fire and EMS 246 responses. 2013 totals — 2,437 EMS related calls, 280 fire related calls. 703/26% of those responses had overlaps. Due to the fire department going to the Duty crew system our response times have dropped drastically, our entire EMS response area (which includes Cottage Grove, St. Paul Park, Newport and Grey Cloud) and fire response with mutual aid, our medical response time is 6 min 15 sec, and our fire response time is 7 min 25 sec, compared to the metro average is around 9 min. We are well below the metro average. He gave a monthly average for the last 5 years (from 2008 to 2013). He stated things stay pretty consistent, however, there were some spikes in the past two years, attributing that to relatives coming to town and the start of the fire calls due to CO calls. He added that we are still waiting to hear if we have been awarded the SAFER grant that was submitted in 4t" quarter of 2013,. Fire department recently held our Department Appreciation dinner. Awards were given out. Fire Fighter/EMT Mike Gabrielle was awarded Fire Fighter of the Year award as well as the amount of duty crew hours worked during a year with a total of over 860 hours in 2013, Call Response award, (EMS related ambulance responses), went to Devin Radke, with a total of 280 responses. 08.0 Council Recap No recaps at this time. 9. ADJOURN Motion to adjourn the meeting by Commission member Kent Griffith, seconded by Commission member Nick Maciejewski. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 7:20 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Cyndee Engfer Administrative Secretary