 they probably got them hooked up in the other room, I'm not sure. We'll have a pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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 of the minutes of June 18th? Any discussion? All in favor say the five a say and I. Oppose? Motion carried. Under 1.5 discussion on police department hiring procedure. Steve with chief. Sorry. Can you hear me better now? No better. So they're still both active candidates in our process. Thank you. They're both still active candidates in our process and I'm in contact with them and I expect to communicate with them in the future as we go through another process. The six candidates you're going to see today are the results of the after the assessment center we identified nine candidates and we're sending you six for interviews. Three have been excluded in the background phase. Okay. I want to thank you, Captain Cobb, for the report. It shows how much it takes to bring down the final candidates and things. You would have interviewed people from out of state if they had come through with all the necessary preliminaries, right? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Captain Cobb, there were a couple of candidates. You made some reference in your very fine report that one through seven weren't invited, but it appeared that number one and number three weren't part of our interview process. Were they not available or have they been hired somewhere else? I identified nine people that we did background investigations on and three people were excluded in the course of the background investigations. I see. So it's possible that the number one ranking could have been excluded as a result of the background? Okay. Thank you. I must have missed that in the thank you. I have my report, but I don't know. I must have missed that. Okay. Sorry about that. Thank you. That's why we do backgrounds. Yeah. I find out. Thanks everybody. Did we get the background done on the last guy? The background is not concluded yet. Okay. I've asked for a copy of the draft as far as it is completed so far, but I've been in contact with the investigator and there's no exclusions and so far it looks to be a very routine background. Okay, but we won't have that today though. I can give you details of it prior to his interview. Okay. And how many do we need right now? Right now we have two open vacancies and I anticipate two in the very near future within weeks. So there's two immediately and then two very shortly? Yes. For practical purposes, I would say we have four vacancies. And there's only one on the list yet that we're waiting for? So we had one approved candidate who was deployed overseas working on a conditional offer. We anticipated that she was going to return August 1st and we were going to begin her academy training August 24th. She wrote me yesterday and withdrew from candidacy at our department. Okay. Jane? I just want to say thanks to the investigators who did the backgrounds. Very thorough and interesting in terms of what you know and seem to be asking the same questions no matter who was the investigator and you know I appreciate their thoroughness and it's a much better understanding of who we have facing us. I will certainly pass that one. Thank you. So with the candidates we're going to be interviewing today I believe there's what there's two that are certified. There's three certified. Well two that are certified by the state of Wisconsin. Right. One is a working police officer in another state and he's signed up to take the reciprocity exam has not taken it yet. But there's a requirement that he take and pass the reciprocity exam within one year of employment. So I view that as some a little bit of a challenge but it's I think we can work through that fairly easily. And then three require academy training. So we have two openings currently. Is the intent that after we create the pool today you will select two candidates to make job offers to? Yes. I guess we are often asked by the candidates what will you know what will be the process afterwards. So it's nice for us to be able to tell them okay the the intent is you know four job offers will go out or whatever it is we just want it you know that's why I'm asking. Yeah sure so to repeat we currently have two vacancies right now we will have two more vacancies we have a known retirement on August 1st and we have another employee that that will most likely be off the payroll my guess is on July 17th. So that will be two additional vacancies and so we're going to need to identify four people to start with that we can provide offers to. For those that are certified not such a big deal but for those who aren't certified they need to go to the academy and and academies start in August and so if we're going to get them started we need to identify them and give them job offers now pending those vacancies occurring. Right. So really four to start and we have another officer that that we believe based on what the officer shared with us that there's a potential that really in the same time frame there's a potential for a fifth vacancy so we need to to plan that out too as best that we can. Okay thank you. Like a chief any other discussion if not we'll move on. Chief Larry. Chief with with the the fact that there's been some vacancies and those haven't been filled and those dollars thus haven't been spent is it possible then for should we if we feel there are five good candidates here that we would pass on to you recommendations for five to be hired and could you make offers knowing that you have those savings or do you have to wait for this fifth individual to actually. So my belief is that we'll be able to make offers based on on the vacancies occurring essentially we can make that as part of the offer that as long as this happens. Okay and like I said two of them are definitely are known they're going to happen. So I don't see anything that really prevents us from giving them offers at this point. Okay thank you. All right so chief I guess what you're saying you're going to give there's going to be two offers today and then two more or can you offer four today? For sure my belief is we would be given three offers and within the next couple days I will have paperwork I'm sure that we can give the fourth offer. Thank you chief. Any more discussion? If not I need a motion to go in a closed session. I move that we go into closed session. We have a second. Second. Roll call. Gene. Hi. And Henry as well he's not on so and hi. So we are on hi. Oh okay Henry we didn't know where you were we don't have a picture of you. I think you're hooked up in the other room we'll get you pretty soon. That's unfortunate. Yeah okay. We have to rely on our memory. All right we are in closed session to create a hiring pool for the sporting police department of the following people Taylor Johnson, Ellis Kirk and Witch, Charles Allen, Isaiah Trussell and Isaiah Calhoun. We have a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All favor signify we say say aye. Aye. Oppose? Aye. Motion carried. Like to make a motion to go to adjourn? Any discussion? All in favor signify we say aye. Aye. Oppose? Aye. Motion carried. We are adjourned.