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The City of Manitowoc Police and Fire Commission met on the date indicated above; the agenda and minutes list the meeting as Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 4:30 p.m. in the Public Safety Building lower level and via Zoom. The provided timestamp for this summary is October 14, 2026, 20:45 UTC, which differs from the agenda and minutes date; this discrepancy is noted. All five commissioners were present: Vander Bloomen, Sauer, Zigmunt, Wellner, and Schema.
Call the meeting to order. Roll call. We have all commissioners present. Public comment. There's nobody here from the public. Review the consent agenda. Are there any changes to the minutes at all? And then we'll go over the we'll start with the police department monthly report. Yeah, uh thank you. Just a few things to point out. Uh no drastic changes here. Uh yearly totals for calls for service. Um September 20th through September of 25. Um compared to 20 uh September of 26th, we're down approximately uh 600 calls for service. Um traffic citations, uh, September 25 to September 26. We're we're off on citations this month. Um I's uh six in the month of September. Um traffic crashes are down uh through September 26th compared to September 25. Um totals would be uh 761 year to date 727 uh year to date and 26. Uh so if you gentlemen have any questions or anything I can clarify on here, I'd be more than happy to vote. And we'll do the monthly metrics by your department. Sure. Um thank you. Nothing really um out of the ordinary here. Um basically we're right on par with uh all the numbers. We're on a we we did a little forecasting. We are on ahead of last year's numbers a little bit that uh we should you know depending on how the last couple months uh roll out here that will be another record year, which means uh more calls than the previous year, but just looking at everything, everything is basically on par with past months, nothing out of the ordinary with any of it and the increased volume is impressive with Orange Cross at Holy Family regularly now yeah. Our nine one our 911 calls are what is driving driving it. Our 911s keep going up every year. Um wanna say significantly, but uh enough that that keeps driving that call volume up building inspection? Sure. Um I spoke with uh the building inspector supervisor and he really um uh for this information and uh he said they're right on par. Um they're looking at um the biggest thing is that what they budgeted for permit fees they've already met that uh total this year, and um so they're on pace to uh do real well. So meaning everything is remaining steady if not above um last year with the building inspection portion of it. Any questions on that? Any question for either chief? There ain't that. I'll take a motion for approval of the consent agenda. So move. Second, second all in favor say aye. Aye opposed, so move. Item 26-0926 police department patrol officer eligibility list. Uh yeah, we uh recently interviewed a uh Thomas Bianchi.