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The Board of Public Works and Safety met on Oct. 6, 2026. Roll call indicated Melanie Henderson, John Pickett, and Eric Cry were present and Sullivan was absent. The board approved the Sept. 29, 2026 meeting minutes, then handled police training range improvements, a replacement police vehicle purchase, Fire Department deputy chief job descriptions, a chipper truck bid opening with no bids, event-related agreements, a READI sidewalk contract, and routine claims.
I'll call Melanie Henderson. John Pickett. Yeah. Eric Cry, present. And I am here in the service chair and then the Sullivan's out today. Approval of the September 29th, 2026 meeting minutes. I'll move to the September 29th minutes. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Next up we have Sergeant Tom Faust. We don't see here very often. Steve Norman, that's right. Range improvements. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. I've got our lead firearms instructor. He's uh one of our instructors of a lot of things, but we need to make some improvements to our shooting range. Yep. Uh so he's worked on this for over a year. Yes, correct. Correct. Um so obviously uh our our training, whether it's firearms, physical tactics, any of that, uh, we try to stay as relevant and realistic and and um within best practices as possible. Uh with our range, one thing that we've uh I've been here 25 and a half years. Um, one capability a square range. Um a square range can limit you, uh, but there are products out there that can allow us to upgrade and continue to train to the best possible practices that we can out there. Um so one thing we haven't had, uh at least during my tenure here, is uh moving target system. Um it's obviously I've I've we've had or used moving targets uh at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. They actually use this same company that that we're proposing to use. Uh they've been using them for 20 as long as I've been an officer. So um the project we're asking for is a moving target system that has additional add-on capability over the years. Um we looked at multiple companies, um, all of which are are fairly reputable uh and offer similar type products, but with action target, um they get down to a science um from the get-go from site survey to schematics to everything you need to install a package and a product that, especially in our conditions here in Indiana, is going to work, is gonna have longevity, and will have expandability to it as well over the years if we want to add additional capabilities that they themselves provide. Uh what this project would be proposing is a dual target system that has runners that go back and forth. I don't know if any, I know some of you have been up to the range before. Um, so you know, we have just this the plane targets that just sit right there, don't move, don't turn, don't do anything. Um, so we have to get kind of creative in how we how we do our training to stay relevant and realistic. This will add a capability that we've never had um that honestly is probably one of the the biggest things our officers would face in a realistic real life situation. Bad guys don't stand still. Um train to this level to be able to add this capability, one bad guy moving, or you can do hostile.