2008-12-02 - Board of Fire and Police Commissioners - Minutes Board orCommission: ❑ Fire& Police commission
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Meeting ate: 12/02/2008
Type of Meeting: ❑ Regular Meeting
VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE
Board of Fire and Police Commissioners
Minutes of Regular Meeting December 2, 2008
CALL TO ORDER and ROLL CALL:
The meeting was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Chairman Viehman in the Chief s Conference Room of
the Village of Buffalo Grove Police 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 Lukatsky made a motion to approve the minutes as corrected of the BFPC Regular
Meeting of November 4, 2008, seconded by Commissioner Karge. The motion was approved by a voice
vote.
CHAIRMAN'S REPORT:
Chairman Viehman offered no report from the chair.
COMMISSIONER'S REPORTS:
Commissioners had no news to report.
CHIEF REPORTS:
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Chief Vavra reported that the department is back to full duty with the exception of a FF/PM
with a double hip replacement and he is expected to return to light duty in January.
He reported that there were two recent fires. One was a house explosion that injured the
occupant and the other a fire to a commercial structure. There were no injuries to any
FF/PM.
There will be a Blood Drive on Dec 12 from 8 AM to 11 AM at Station 26. This Blood Drive
is a competition between other Fire Departments in Lake County.
Battalion Chief Tierney's last day will be January 12. On January 13 at 8 AM, a flag
ceremony will take place at Station 26 and there will be a luncheon on January 14 at 12
noon.
Lt. Postma will be promoted to Battalion Chief and FF/PM Anderson will be promoted to
Lieutenant
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Chief Balinski reported that Officer Schlenker will been released from Field Training on
December 12.
Officer G Vingan will be leaving the agency the first week of September 2009. Chief
Balinski will be looking for an end of the year replacement so he/she may start the
academy in early 2010.
He reported one office is on a light duty assignment.
Chief Balinski thanked the Fire Department and Commissioner Lukatsky for attending the
"Officer Georgie"event.
The Make an Angel Holiday Party will be held on December 12 at 6 PM. Sponsorships are
available.
The Annual Holiday Party will be held at the Wildfire Restaurant on December 19 at 2 PM.
Chairman Viehman congratulated the entire department by for receiving several accolades at
the national Association of Chiefs of Police contest. BGPD won for its safety and
education programs for its size and also for having the best traffic safety program in the
country. Also the department ended up winning a Ford SUV to use for a year.
Chairman Viehman reported that the Annual Police Meeting was excellent. Also attending
were Commissioners Karge and Lukatsky.
OLD BUSINESS:
Chairman Viehman reported that there was one request for verification of the Police Sergeant results.
The data was reviewed and verified.
The preliminary posting of the Sergeant list will be published on December 3.
A motion was made by Commissioner Dibbern, seconded by Commissioner Loeb,to approve the
Preliminary Police Sergeant Eligibility List. The motion passed by voice vote.
It was noted that the inclusion of the Deputy Chiefs in the process was very successful.
NEW BUSINESS:
Chairman Viehman asked the Commissioners to review the Fire Lieutenant Promotional Testing
Cycle Calendar for preferred testing dates.
Commissioners are welcomed to attend the Tactical portion of the test but they must be in attendance
for the entire day.
ADJOURNMENT OF OPEN SESSION:
Motion was made by Commissioner Lukatsky and seconded by Commissioner Dibbern to adjourn the
open session and move to Executive Session at 8:15 p.m., for the purpose of discussing a FF/PM
conditional candidate. All Commissioners present voted in favor of the motion.
EXECUTIVE SESSION:
The executive session was called to order at 8:17 p.m. Present were Chairman Viehman, Commissioners
Loeb, Karge, Lukatsky, Dibbern and HR Director Art Malinowski. At 8:24 p.m. a motion was made by
Commissioner Loeb and seconded by Commissioner Dibbern to adjourn the executive session. All
Commissioners present voted in favor of the motion.
RETURN TO OPEN SESSION:
The open session resumed at 8:25 p.m. for the purpose of making position offers.
Firefighter/Paramedic Candidate 41: Daniel L. Pasquarella. A motion was made by Commissioner
Karge, seconded by Commissioner Lukatsky to make a conditional 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
conditional offer of employment.
ADJOURNMENT:
A motion was made at 8:34 p.m. by Commissioner Loeb, seconded by Commissioner Dibbern to adjourn
the meeting. The meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane L. Dibbern, Secretary
Board of Fire and Police Commissioners