The Police and Fire Commission met on July 15, 2026, at the Public Safety Building Lower Level (with remote Zoom access) to review monthly reports, approve departmental minutes, and act on eligibility lists for fire and police promotions. All five commissioners were present: Vander Bloomen, Sauer, Zigmunt, Wellner, and Schema. No public comment was offered.
All right. Roll call. We have all commissioners present. Public comment. There's nobody here, nobody online. Consent agenda. Are there any corrections to the minutes at all? No. Okay. Then we have the police department monthly report. Yeah, so I reviewed the uh the monthly reports. Um a little bit of uh fall in calls for service uh from June 25 compared to June 26. Uh we're roughly three, three, four hundred down, um, as well as calls for service. Um, we're right around, let's say 500 uh below we what we were at in 2025 at this point of the year. Uh charges year to date, um, very consistent. 136 in June of 25, 135 in June of 26. Uh OWIs last month, we had a total of seven. Uh are there any other questions or concerns that you gentlemen have? Fire department. Um, yeah, in reviewing ours. Uh we're pretty much right on uh pace with where we are last year. Um nothing jumps out. Um fire calls are up a little bit last month. Um total call volume is also up just a little bit from the prior year if you compare the uh uh months, um, but it's nothing that uh either way that jumps up at us. So it's always just a steady incline that we're uh getting a little busier every year as far as that goes. Sure, yes. Um so building inspection uh in reviewing that data that was put out obviously this time of year is construction time, so I know permits and uh projects are up over the last month or two. And uh I know I reviewed this a couple we'll say a week ago, but it also looks like um our uh more on pace, I guess, when it comes to those statistics to potentially uh be a little bit busier or a little bit more we'll call it value as well as projects, maybe a little bit further ahead than last year. Um but it all depends on how the rest of the year goes. So they started at um date for the credit community meeting. Yes, all you're talking out on the end of Waldo and kind of Bay Shore Drive. Yep, yep. Yeah, the uh credit union. So yeah, that started that is let's see once I believe that's in here what the value of that was. Um 3 mil 581 grand. Yep. So that's that's a big project. Um otherwise on the Nash Avenue, there's another uh storage unit going up there. Um and I think like another big one that just came across our bigger project is the remodel of the old uh office max building. So let's go. Um two, they're actually gonna be splitting the building. Um it is going to be, I think, pet smart and five five below, I was gonna say five under, five below, which is like uh Dollar General type uh yeah type uh store, I guess. Oh, is how it was explained to me. Appreciate it. How many dollars otherwise? Yeah, yeah, whatever. Whatever. Um read someplace that there's been several um like brush fires that seem to be caused by fire uh train. So um yeah, we've had we've had uh um I couldn't give you the exact number, but I know probably approaching half a dozen because it's been a dry year out on that West Custer area where I don't know if you ever heard of extra tech plastics, um kind of where Jagaman stamping, things like that. The rail line runs through there, and I know they've had some uh uh grass fires, vegetation type fires after a train goes through there.