Everest Metro Police Joint Finance Committee

Meeting Minutes of Joint Meeting of the Everest Metropolitan Police Department Joint Finance Committee and the Everest Metro Municipal Court Finance Committee, dated 10/30/18 Present: Hooshang Zeyghami – Trustee; Village of Weston Jon Ziegler – Trustee; Village of Weston Barbara Ermeling – President; Village of Weston Kregg Hoehn – Mayor; City of Schofield Denny Richmond – Alderman; City of Schofield Dan Vergin – Alderman; City of Schofield Milt Olson – Chairman; Town of Weston Clay Schulz- EMPD Police Chief Kristine Weirauch – Municipal Court Judge Jessica Trautman – Finance Director; Village of Weston Jenna Trittin – Deputy Finance Director; Village of Weston Kristy Isberner– EMPD Administrative Assistant Shane Heilmann – EMPD Administrative Captain Rob Dickerson – EMPD Operations Captain Absent: I. CALL TO ORDER A. Alderman Vergin opened the meeting at 1600 hrs. Roll call. B. Approval of minutes of meeting held, May 30th 2018. *M/S/P Ermeling/Olson II. NEW BUSINESS - EMMC A. Review and possible approval of the 2019 EMMC Budget – Judge Weirauch presented the proposed 2019 EMMC budget. She said everything is much the same as last year’s budget with a few adjustments – there was a 2% salary increase for the court clerk and the printing budget increased by approx. $200 due to the copier lease going up. The total budget increase was a little over $2,000. A motion was made to approve the budget as proposed. *M/S/P Richmond/Zeghami B. Audit RFPs for 2018 audit discussion – Finance Director Trautman stated that Krause & Howard was bought out by Kerber Rose, so the 2017 audit while still completed by Don Stebenow, was actually completed by Kerber Rose. Kerber Rose’s process for completing this process is different that Krause & Howard’s was and Finance Director Trautman suggested that now would be a good time to look at requesting RFPs for the upcoming process. III. MUNICIPAL JUDGE’S REPORT A. 2018 EMMC Budget Status update – Judge Weirauch stated nothing to report. IV. NEW BUSINESS – EMPD A. 2019 Wage increases for non-represented personnel – Chief Schulz stated that Kristy was on a wage freeze through 2019, however he would like a 2% increase for all other non-represented employees for 2019 which would mimic what the contractual union employees are receiving. A motion was made to approve the wage increases. *M/S/P Zeyghmi/Ziegler B. Review and possible approval of the 2019 EMPD Budget – The Chief stated that the total budget increase will be approximately $86,653. Some of the major budget  impacts for 2019 include, hourly wages due to contractual increases and funding a new SRO for three months, both of which had already been approved. Other impacts out of the chief’s control include workman’s comp mod factor which is still high for another three years due to a knee injury and Detective Weiland’s death. Natural gas, switching garages for vehicle maintenance, humane officer contract and cat contract, and gas prices being unpredictable, as well as vehicle/computer upgrades. A motion was made to approve the 2019 budget as presented. *M/S/P Ziegler/Zeyghmi C. Audit RFPs for 2018 audit discussion – Finance Director Trautman stated that Krause & Howard was bought out by Kerber Rose, so the 2017 audit while still completed by Don Stebenow, was actually completed by Kerber Rose. Kerber Rose’s process for completing this process is different that Krause & Howard’s was and Finance Director Trautman suggested that now would be a good time to look at requesting RFPs for the upcoming process. V. CHIEF’S REPORT – A. 2018 EMPD Budget status update – Chief Schulz stated expenditures and slightly under and revenue is over, so we should end the year okay. VI. REPORTS: Chairman Olson stated they needed to get together to work on the chief’s evaluation and Alderman Vergin added that they recently learned that this cannot be done by the police commission, so Joint Finance will have to do it. VI. DATE FOR NEXT MEETING: TBD VII. ADJOURN: Meeting was adjourned 1635 hrs. *M/S/P Ermeling/ Ziegler