Minutes of the regular meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners held on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 in the Lower Conference Room, 3 Main Street, Newtown, CT. Chairman Mattegat called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.
PRESENT: C. Mattegat, G. Finnegan, R. Simon, D. Giannini. ABSENT: R. Connor. ALSO PRESENT: Chief Kehoe, one member of press.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. None noted.
MINUTES. Upon motion of Commissioner Connor, the minutes of January 3, 2006 and the addendum were unanimously approved as presented.
CHIEF’S ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT (January, 2006). Overtime is within the monthly goal. Budget balances, GL Accounts were unremarkable. Fleet has no changes since last month. The Patrol Vehicle Replacement Report for 2006-2007 was distributed to the Boards of Selectmen and Finance and will be given to the Legislative Council. Personnel new hires are doing very well at the Academy. One was injured and was out for a week. Officer Richter is doing remarkably well in field training. Training was in the report. Several Letters of appreciation were received. Parking deck project electrical work will be put off due to a lack of funding. Canine program. Officer Stinson did a remarkable amount of work to solicit funds for a replacement vehicle including selling
tee shirts. Annual Statistical Data Report was prepared and distributed to the press. LEEG Grant of $2,500 will be used for traffic enforcement in the spring and early summer. Advisory Committee for the Queen Street project held a meeting. The STC approved the Pitney Bowes project as presented.
CAPTAIN’S OPERATIONAL REPORT (January, 2006) was presented by Chief Kehoe and included Motor Vehicle Activity Report, DUI Report, Monthly Calls for Service and two months of the Detective Division Report.~ Also included was the Statistical DUI Enforcement Report for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. Local Law Enforcement Block Grant letter listed our expectations.
OLD BUSINESS. None noted.
NEW BUSINESS
Application for Edona Commons Residential Development, Church Hill Road. The applicant will be asked to attend the March 7 meeting. Commissioner Simon moved to table the application and to invite the applicant to attend the next meeting to give a presentation. Second by Commissioner Finnegan and unanimously carried.
Secondary Employment Request Officer Costello. Commissioner Simon moved to approve the secondary employment request of Officer Costello, second by Commissioner Giannini and unanimously carried.
FY 2006-2007 Budget Requests. Chief Kehoe reported that the Board of Selectmen requested that the Department try to find other ways to fund the purchase of six replacement patrol cars. He advised the Board of Selectmen about other funding options and is waiting to hear from the First Selectman. Lt. Mooney is commended for his excellent report to the Board of Selectmen. Included in the budget were small capital projects such as a power system that will prevent outages which occur frequently. The Board of Selectmen will look at alternative ways to fund these, such as LOCIP.
Policy and Procedure:
Sick Leave & Employee Dependability (Revised) #1-18, Supervisor Performance Evaluation System (Revised) #1-13, Officer/Detective Performance Evaluation System (Revised) #1-22, Employee Injuries (New) #1-23.
Commissioner Giannini moved to adopt Policies and Procedures Sick Leave & Employee Dependability (Revised) #1-18, second by Commissioner Simon and unanimously carried. Commissioner Simon moved to adopt Policy and Procedure Supervisor Performance Evaluation System (Revised) #1-13 and Policy and Procedure Officer/Detective Performance Evaluation System (Revised) #1-22, second by Commissioner Finnegan and unanimously carried. Commissioner Simon moved to adopt Policy and Procedure Employee Injuries (New) #1-23, second by Commissioner Giannini and unanimously carried.
Replacement of the Department’s All-Purpose Command Vehicle. Chief Kehoe reported that the present vehicle has been owned by the Department since 1988 and is rusting out. There are also tremendous electrical system problems. There was discussion about the specifications and the bidding process.
Commissioner’s Participation (next agenda). The Board commends Officer Stinson for all he is doing to raise funds for the canine program. Chief Kehoe said that he is very self-sufficient.
Executive Session. Commissioner Simon moved to enter executive session at 8:20 p.m. to discuss police union contract negotiations and interview probationary police candidates and to invite Chief Kehoe to attend, second by Commission Finnegan and unanimously carried. At this time the clerk left the meeting.
Ann M. Mazur, Clerk
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