Come Out With Your Hands Up!

The Official Unofficial Minutes of the WL BOA
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You may see a patrol car from Platte Woods or Lake Waukomis in our fair City from time to time. No, they didn't lose they way in the detour and got lost. They are probably here responding to a call for assistance. The officers of these two cities and WL have reciprocal commissions, allowing them to respond to calls without having an officer from the respective city at the scene. This is especially helpful for our small departments where an officer is already on a call and another call comes in with no backup readily available. The BOA voted this week to renew the reciprocal agreements already in place.

One concern has been what seems, at time, a disproportionate number of calls we respond versus calls they respond in our City. Chief McMullin mentioned he has surveyed the situation and the results indicate some times "we win/lose" "it depends". It does warrant monitoring, we don't want to end up covering "gaps" in those cities because they don't have full time coverage.

Speaking of gaps, Tony White, during Public Comments mentioned his concern regarding the starting pay for part-time officers. This past summer the City hired temporary help @ $12 to do manual labor. We pay our new part-time officers $13. It has become more difficult to find part-time officers...wonder why? Think we are going to have to buck up and open our wallet to find quality officers to protect us. The 09 Budget talks have begun. Jerry gave a top line at the BOA meeting. More discussions to follow. Do you care how your tax money is spent?