 Call the meeting to order. We have roll call. Commissioner Sammit is virtual. Commissioner Hopp here. Commissioner Jones. Commissioner Cayunas. Everybody's here. Can I get you anything before I go? Sure. Have a mute. Hi. I can't hear you. Have Larry mute his microphone. Oh, Larry, can you mute your microphone? Pledge allegiance. It's due to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. What's your pleasure in the minutes of December 21st? Move to approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all favor. Signify with saying aye. Opposed? Motion carried. Hiders for discussion and possible action. 3.1, Suborgan Police Department update on the hiring post. Well, I just wanted to circle back to the eligibility pool that we established earlier or late in the fall and into Christmas. Conditional offers have been extended to Tyler Metelski and Rachel Smith. They're going through their post offer processes right now with their testing and other, the psychological testing and the medical testing that takes place prior to the offer being finalized. We were anticipating starting them on the 22nd of this month. That might have been aggressive. It might be the 28th or first week of March. Other than that, we have one other vacancy. And we have not quite decided how we're going to fill that vacancy yet. We're not going to run an open process until we know really how many vacancies we're going to need into the year. So I've collected about 100 applications right now. They've been screened, and I have them separated for those that I think we would probably evaluate, but we don't know when that evaluation is going to take place. We also have some of the other avenues available to us as well early in the year this year. So right now, I'm not asking for any action, just letting you know that the pool that we have established late last year at this point has been exhausted, but we don't have foreseeable needs in the immediate future that we need to address. So we have two CSOs in our program right now that are both students at Lakeshore Technical College. One is in the second year. He's been working for us for just over a year, and he is a very strong candidate for a police position in the department. And we're keeping an eye on him and his progress and kind of targeting him toward when he finished his school in May of this year toward a position at that time. We have another community service officer. She is in her first year at Lakeshore Technical College. She's been associated with our department for several years through the Explore program also. And she is doing very well up there. She's a leader in her class up there. But of course, there's still 18 months of school left that we have to work with her. But as far as being a CSO, she's establishing herself in the department as a very, very competent CSO. So so far, she is on a very good path. We also just hired a young man who's a senior out at Lakeland University. He's also in the National Guard and a bilingual Spanish-speaking student. Has a lot of attributes that we like at the department that I think make him a very, very strong candidate for a police position if we get a chance to observe those things in his work. He just started a few weeks ago, so we haven't had a lot of exposure to him yet. But I would tell you in the first six weeks or so that we've had him. He's an impressive young man, so. Just to reiterate, the two females you just offered jobs to over there on now, they're both certified, correct? So we offer jobs to Tyler Matelsky and Rachel Smith? Yeah. And they are both certifiable. They both graduated at Academy last summer. OK. An absence of results from the screening they're going through, have they given every indication that they'd be willing to accept the offer? They've both accepted the offer, and we're proceeding with the post-offer testing. Great. Any other questions? If not, thank you. Commission approval for promotion in the Sheboygan Police Department at a rank of captain. Chief Tomakauci? OK, so this should not be unfamiliar to you. You've been aware for a while that Captain Brasser was going to retire. The 29th was his last working day. So the position was posted on November 27th. And we got three lieutenants that responded to the posting. We ran a process with those three candidates. The process consisted of a written assignment, an outside panel interview. Chief Montianguo was one of our evaluators on that interview panel. I put them through a standardized assessment procedure and semi-structured interview to assess their strengths, roles, risks, and motivators. And so that was a process that the psychologist that we work with did a bunch of testing with them and did an interview and then provided feedback to me. And then once the process was all done, he gave individual feedback to them to on things that they could do to continue to grow and develop. So kind of a win-win thing. And then the final thing that we did was a chief's interview with me and the two captains. And so the top rated candidate was Lieutenant Kurt Semple. And that's who I'm here nominating and requesting that you approve that we promote. So number one, I think you know Kurt quite a bit already. And then I've attached his resume. He's a very well-rounded young man. He's been served in just about every position or rank in the department. He was an officer. He was on the street crimes unit. He served as a detective, was a sergeant, a lieutenant. He's been through the whole educational gamut there. He's done very well in school. He's helped us with a lot of the research that we've done to try to improve our practices. And he's very, as most of you know, very involved in the community. So I highly recommend them. And I look forward to him working with us. If you approve his promotion because of COVID, we're going to do a closed promotional process. Really for the candidates and their families. And we're going to do that on Friday afternoon. We're also going to promote the sergeants and the lieutenant that you had previously approved. And then all of those promotions would be effective on Sunday. Jane? I move to approve the promotion of Lieutenant Kurt Zempel. Second. We're going to motion on a second to approve Kurt Zempel. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify with saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Motion carried. Thank you, Chief. I think you made a very good decision. I think Kurt's going to be a great addition to your captain's force. Thank you very much. Review of the job description for the assistant chief in the fire department. I think we all get something on the computer to look at what Chief Montanano had sent us. And it's just a matter of a few changes I think that he was going to highlight for us. Chief? Yeah, so thank you. Everybody got a copy that is hopefully the final draft. There really was not any major changes other than language cleanup. There was a lot of duplication. As Chief Domagowski said a couple of weeks ago or last meeting that the city is going through all the job descriptions and kind of condensing some of them. So it went from like a seven-page document to a four-page document, roughly. Really nothing's changed as far as the criteria, the requirements, educational requirements are all that was existing before. So truly it was more, there was a few areas that repeated a lot of the same work requirements or recommendations, so we cleaned that up and just condensed it. So they are still requiring, we still want them to have an associate's degree to be able to apply. But, and then again, minimum of two years, which is important, two years experience at the rank of battalion chief or higher. So some of the language that we added, again, was just in case there weren't any internal candidates that we would change that. So if the ability for them to apply from the outside and have to be taken through the same requirements as drug testing or medical testing that our firefighters go through when they're first hired. So we wanted to make sure we were consistent. So other than that, unless you guys have any other questions, really there was no major changes to it. There are any questions for the chief, Jane? Just a clarification, what does BLS certification mean through the agency? Yeah, BLS basic life support, so that's EMS related, so yeah. Yeah, okay, thank you. Any other questions? Larry, you have nothing? I can't hear Larry. Nothing at my end, thank you. Okay, I think we would need a motion to approve, Jane. Draft of the assistant chief job description. We got a motion and a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify with saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Motion carried. Seeing nothing else, we need a motion to go into closed session. I'll make a motion to go into closed session. Second. We got a motion and a second. Roll call. Andy? Aye. Jerry? Aye. Jane? Aye. Larry? We are now in closed session.