Well good evening everyone and welcome to our city council meeting for April the 25th.

We've got a very special council meeting tonight.

So to start it all off, if you would rise, we'll have a moment of silence, followed by the presentation of colors by the Kearney Police Department.

So we'll have a moment of silence.

Thank you.

Presentation of the colors.

Okay, would you please join us in 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 invisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

In accordance with section eighty-four fourteen twelve of the Nebraska revised statutes, a current copy of the open meetings act is available for review and sponsored in all the council chambers.

Mayor Klaus here.

Bush Cutter.

Here.

Okay, and Oral Communications.

This time we'll have uh uh Chief Waugh um and police officers uh Hosick and Schroeder uh come up and Chief uh feel make the uh oath of office and all the things that you do with the with the pledges.

Very good.

Thanks, Mayor, Council, City Manager, City Attorney.

Thanks for the opportunity to be here today with all this wonderful vote.

I'm gonna I'm gonna look at them so I would take care of my coming back to the outside.

Um but this is another wonderful moment for the Carney Police Department for the city of Carney and Buffalo County for that matter, where we're having an opportunity to welcome two new members to our team, two new police officers, two um dedicated um folks that are service to me for many years to come.

So with that, I'd like to invite uh Derek Hospital.

Come on up, and Michael Schroeder to come on up.

I want to talk a little bit about each of them if you guys can stand right over here.

So this is a really a unique opportunity for us.

We actually hired four police officers off of our last uh hiring round of hiring.

Uh two of them are basic recruits.

Um is actually um Grant Bush Doctor.

You might recognize the name, I might be a proud dad in the room somewhere.

Um Michael Reegotype, they'll start on Sunday, they'll be gone until August.

So this class will be a total of four new police officers for Carney.

But tonight's about these two gentlemen.

These two, these two uh flying police officers join us with experience, so they're lateral hires from other agencies in Nebraska, and I want to talk a little bit about each of each one of these folks.

And I take notes not to say names wrong in the past.

So uh this is Officer Derek Hosick.

Uh he's born in Kearney, attended Carney High School, and graduated from Carney High School, I should say.

Graduated from UNL with a degree in uh criminal justice, and he started career with Johnson County Sheriff's Office brief about a year and a half, year and eight months or so.

Uh and then he went on to the Beatrice Police Department where he served since 2015 before moving here to Carney to come back to be closer to home.

He left the actors police department as a sergeant and at a canine hammer.

And with a wealth of experience as a SWAT operator, a field training operator, uh he's he had attended multiple leadership um training opportunities and education to be a better member of his department, which will add value to our department, I'm sure.

Tactical courses, uh criminal interdiction, working the dog out on the interstate, I'm sure, uh, and other administrative funds.

So it's really wonderful when we can have a the caliber of officer from another department interested in coming to the Carney Police Department will add immediate value to our day one, hands down, I guarantee it.

Next to Officer Hosick is Officer Micah Schroeder.

He's also born in Kearney, went to Gibbon High School, also attended UNK before entering the Nebraska Army National Guard.

He's also a lateral hire.

Comes up from the Garing Police Department with nearly eight years of experience.

Where he gained experience working uniform patrol, field training officer, criminal investigations, you work narcotic, he worked with the wing task force, which is a federally federal federal partner task force uh out in the western part of the state, uh very similar to what we have around here, ours called Trident.

Um that's always a uh honor honorable position to have when you're working as a task force officer with the federal with the other FBI or DEA or a combination of both U.S.

Marshall Service.

So again, that just that just uh shows the experience you have.

Also a SWAT operator and a defendant tactics instructor.

And today Mike is joined by his wife Bree and their two children, Brett and Hayden are here, and other family members and friends uh that are here for this special moment.

I always I always find this moment really wonderful when we see our own uh police officers and police sergeants and police commanders from Carney Police Department that are here to support those of you that are joining our department.

We look at the Carney Police Department as one big family, and I promise you that's how that's how we treat everybody that comes through our doors and serves this community.

This city council will support you 100%, our mayor, our city manager, this community uh will be behind you 100%, just as I am, and I'm super excited for each of you to join KTE, uh our civil service commission members, one of them is here today.

Um so nothing but support.

You've got a friend, your friend here from the Brack State Patrol, Trooper Rice.

We know Trooper Rice, he's part of our community as well, it's pretty awesome when there's that connection uh when you've found it into Carney.

So with that, I'd like to ask our city clerk to uh administer the oath of office.

I do solemnly that I will support the constitution of the United States.