2009-01-06 - Board of Fire and Police Commissioners - Minutes Board or Commission: ❑ Fire& Police commission
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Meeting ate: 01/06/2009
Type of Meeting: ❑ Regular Meeting
VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE
Board of Fire and Police Commissioners
Minutes of Regular Meeting January 6, 2009
CALL TO ORDER and ROLL CALL:
The meeting was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Chairman Viehman in the Administration
Conference Room of the Village of Buffalo Grove Fire Department. Commissioner Dibbern
called the roll and noted for the record that a quorum was present at the meeting. Present were
Chairman Viehman, Commissioners Karge, Loeb, Lukatsky, and Dibbern. Also in attendance
were Fire Chief Terry Vavra, Deputy Fire Chief Dan Pearson, Police Chief Steve Balinski and
HR Director Art Malinowski.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
Commissioner Loeb made a motion to approve the minutes of the BFPC Regular Meeting of
December 2, 2008, seconded by Commissioner Lukatsky. The motion was approved by a voice
vote.
CHAIRMAN'S REPORT:
Chairman Viehman thanked the Commissioners for attending Fire Department Lieutenant
Orientation.
COMMISSIONER'S REPORTS:
Commissioners had no news to report.
CHIEF REPORTS:
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Chief Balinski reported that there were 5 PPR Post Conferences for Sgt. Positions.
Chief Balinski reported that one officer is on a light duty assignment and another will
be out 4-6 weeks due to a shoulder injury.
There will be two openings as a result of some career movements. Cpl Rodriguez
will be going from adult investigations to patrol and Cpl Positano will be moving
from youth officer to patrol.
Chief Balinski reported that the department received a congratulations letter from
AIM for the recent awards received from the Association of Chiefs of Police
Conference.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Chief Vavra reported that there were 4911 calls in 2008. About 70% of those calls
were for medical treatment.
Chief Vavra reported that one FF/PM is back to full duty and one is off on light duty.
A promotional ceremony will be held on January 12, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at Fire Station
26 for the promotions of Lt Postma to Battalion Chief and FF/PM Anderson to
Lieutenant.
OLD BUSINESS:
The Police Sergeant Final Eligible Register was issued.
The 2009 Entry Police Officer Testing Cycle was approved.
The physical agility portion of the Police testing will be overseen by the BGPD.
Fire Lieutenant Oral Testing will take place on Saturday February 21 at 7:00 a.m. There are
22 candidates.
NEW BUSINESS:
Chairman Viehman reviewed the annual report of Board activities. The Board met a total of
22 times in 2008. Chairman Viehman thanked the Commissioners for their volunteer
services as well as Chief Balinski and Chief Vavra and their staffs for their assistance.
He also thanked Mr. Malinowski for doing much of the behind the scenes work.
ADJOURNMENT OF OPEN SESSION:
Motion was made by Commissioner Lukatsky and seconded by Commissioner Loeb to adjourn
the open session and move to Executive Session at 8:03 p.m., for the purpose of discussing
personnel. All Commissioners present voted in favor of the motion.
EXECUTIVE SESSION:
The executive session was called to order at 8:06 p.m. Present were Chairman Viehman,
Commissioners Loeb, Karge, Lukatsky, Dibbern and HR Director Art Malinowski. At 8:08
p.m. a motion was made by Commissioner Dibbern and seconded by Commissioner Lukatsky to
adjourn the executive session. All Commissioners present voted in favor of the motion.
RETURN TO OPEN SESSION:
The open session resumed at 8:08 p.m. for the purpose of making position offers.
Firefighter/Paramedic Candidate #1: Daniel L. Pasquarella. A motion was made by
Commissioner Dibbern, seconded by Commissioner Karge to make a final offer of employment
to firefighter/paramedic candidate Pasquarella. Commissioners Karge, Loeb, Lukatsky, Dibbern
and Viehman voted in support of the motion. Chairman Viehman will contact the candidate and
make the final offer of employment.
Pending acceptance of the offer, the swearing in will be conducted at Station 26 on January 12,
2009 at 7:00 p.m.
ADJOURNMENT:
A motion was made at 8:10 p.m. by Commissioner Dibbern, seconded by Commissioner Loeb to
adjourn the meeting. The meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane L. Dibbern, Secretary
Board of Fire and Police Commissioners