The Board of Public Safety held its 18th scheduled meeting of the year on September 23, 2026, at 1:02 p.m. The board approved several routine items, including road closures, dumpster requests, departmental reports, and special event permits. All votes were unanimous with no opposition noted.
All right. I want to welcome everybody to the City of Evansville Board of Public Safety meeting. It is our 18th scheduled meeting of the year. Before we get into the agenda, let's stand for the 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. Okay. Let's uh go ahead and start uh on the agenda. Old business. We have items that we went ahead and had consensus votes on online. We're going to go ahead and approve those as they are listed on the agenda. So I'm going to move we make a motion to approve the ratification of those items. I will second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Same sign opposed. Those items are approved. If we move to the second page of our agenda, departmental reports. The first one up is the police department, Captain John McQuay. Thank you. We are requesting uh approval of the River Patrol Interlocal Agreement between the Evansville Police Department and Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office, and it just kind of tightens up some uh some understandings as far as the river patrol who is responsible for what portions of that. So that's not that's I just a real quick quick question. So on the river patrol, does that then uh extend over into the Pigeon Creek area or not? Well, as far as the the jurisdiction for patrol, uh the waterways have kind of a joint jurisdiction between all of the parties that uh but the uh the waterways. Okay. Uh what this interlocal agreement specifically references is the river patrol boat, uh, who's responsible for storage and titles and license and all that stuff. So it it divies up where who covers what expenses for the river patrol between the county and the city. And just to confirm, is this like the the first river patrol boat that the city and uh sheriff's office have kind of jointly? Uh it is it's the first one in in my history with the police department. I don't know if if we go back 30, 40 years if there was one, but this is this is the first one in recent history. Gotcha. Okay. So counselor, we're we are good. Yeah, it's been reviewed legally and uh Manburg County's attorneys have signed off as well. All right. Any questions? No. All right, I move we make a motion to approve the uh police department that we had tabled the equ at the request for the approval of the local cooperative. I will second. All in favor say aye. Aye aye. Same sign opposed. That is approved. Thank you very much. Next up is the ever busy fire department and deputy chief Kim Garrett. Good afternoon. Uh first item we have is to request permission to advertise bids for an emergency boat. Okay, so we're gonna questions on that?