Good evening, everyone, and welcome to our city council meeting for November the 14th.

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Mayor Clouds.

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Nicholas.

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Uh oral communication.

We have a few items on there.

The first item is invite Chief Waugh to do a presentation of awards and commendations.

Chief.

Thank you, Mayor and Council, for the opportunity today.

Obviously, we've got a packed house.

If the rest of the officers out, come on in.

You can stand right in the doorway in here.

So at the Corney Police Department, we we uh we do uh do our best to recognize um great work above and beyond uh what there's what our police officers are sworn uh to do.

And it's it's my pleasure to be here tonight to recognize six officers.

Um this is for a variety of of um extraordinary efforts over the past year beginning back in May.

So I was gonna start with with Officer Schwartz and Officer Dostel.

And if you wouldn't mind, I'm gonna read briefly on on uh two items that we've got an awards and accommodation committee at the Carney Police Department.

So these these um efforts are are presented uh by their supervisor or by a co-worker, and it goes through the committee, uh, and then a recommendation is is provided for me on these recognitions.

So the first recognition tonight will be for these for officer Schwartz and Officer Dostel on May 14th, 2023, and they were they were recommended by their Sergeant Sergeant Shannau, who's also here tonight.

On May 14th, officers were responded to a shots fired call in the 1,000 block of West 23rd Street.

Upon upon Officer Zach Schwartz's arrival to the area, he contacted a male subject near 23rd and 7th who was bleeding from his right leg in the rear of a vehicle.

Officer Dostel and Officer Schwartz assisted the male by cutting clothing and applying a tourniquet to his right leg, which had a large laceration from being stabbed.

An ambulance was called and he was transported and treated for his injuries at Good Samaritan Hospital.

While this subject was somewhat uncooperative with police and medical staff uh later on with this incident.

I believe the he was appreciative of officers' assistance in applying the tourniquet to his injured leg.

While this was a very chaotic and dynamic situation, both of these officers acted calm and professional when dealing with this subject and other subjects who were who were very panicked over the incident that had happened.

Officer Schwartz and Officer Dostel remained remembered their training, relied on their training, applied their training, and didn't hesitate to act accordingly with this incident.

Their actions prevented further blood loss and calmed down other subjects who were also panicking in the area.

And Officer Doston and Office Schwarz, you want to come on over here, please.

I'm gonna read one more.

On June 11th, 2023, Officer Dostel and Officer Zach Schwartz were dispatched to a home on a report of a subject who was unresponsive and not breathing.

When officers arrived, they learned that an adult female had died inside the home.

It was an in-home uh death, very tragic.

Family members were obviously in shock over the passing of their mother.

Officer Dostel and Officer Zach Schwartz were polite, courteous, professional, compassionate with the family, and they offered their condolences to the family and support with whatever they might need throughout the process.

Officer Dossell and Officer Schwartz informed the family they would come back the next day, which was their day off to assist this family with removing and disposing of a mattress that had been soiled by their by their deceased family member.

And this family needed some help.

And these guys did this on their own time.

They went back the next day, they collected the mattress and they disposed of it for this family using their own time, their own vehicle to get that done.

That's above and beyond.

And that's what police officers do in this community.

They take care of our community when they need it.

So with that, I'd like to present both Officer Dostel and Officer Schwartz with the Carney Police Department Certificate of Accommodation.

And both both of the uh citations are the same in recognition of your quick and courageous action in the service of the Carney Police Department in the city of Citizens of Carney, Nebraska on May 14, 2023, presented to Officer Ben Dostoe and Officer Zach Schwartz, yeah, come around this way.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

The next awards we're going to present are for three of our members, or actually four.

There's two separate cases, so we'll we'll do the first one.