2007-11-06 - Board of Fire and Police Commissioners - Minutes Board or Commission: ❑ Fire& Police commission
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Meeting ate: 11/06/2007
Type of Meeting: ❑ Regular Meeting
VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE
Board of Fire and Police Commissioners
Minutes of Regular Meeting November 6, 2007
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 Police
Chief Steve Balinski, Acting Fire Chief Pete Ciecko, Deputy Fire Chief Dan Pearson, and HR
Director Mr. Art Malinowski.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
Commissioner Karge made a motion to approve the minutes of the BFPC Regular Meeting of
October 2, 2007, seconded by Commissioner Lukatsky. The motion was approved by a voice
vote.
CHAIRMAN'S REPORT:
Chairman Viehman reported he attended the walk out of FF/PM Jack Brown. He was very
impressed with the ceremony and thanked the department for the invitation for the Board to
attend the event. He suggested that the department look into the possibility of presenting the
Fire Department Flag at the walk out. Chairman Viehman and Commissioners Karge and
Lukatsky attended the Police Departmental meeting on October 23. All who attended felt it was
a great meeting and thanked the Chief for the invitation.
COMMISSIONER'S REPORT:
Commissioners had no news to report.
CHIEF REPORTS:
Acting Fire Chief Ciecko reported that FF/PM Simmons was half way through the Fire Academy
and was doing very well. Deputy Chief Pearson reported that one FF/PM is off a couple of days
due to a knee injury. Both Acting Fire Chief Ciecko and Deputy Fire Chief Pearson reported
that the new hires were doing very well.
Chief Balinski reported that Officers Hawkins and Gozdecki were doing very well academically
at the Police Academy. Officer Hawkins has been selected as President of the class and as
Honor Guard for graduation. Chief Balinski noted that there will be some movement in
positions in the next few months creating opportunities in the Lake County Major Crimes Task
Force, the Youth Officer position, in Traffic, on the Emergency Service Team (EST) and on
Special Assignment.
OLD BUSINESS:
Deputy Chief Pearson presented the Final FF/PM Testing Schedule.
Chairman Viehman reported that the Lateral Entry Process was still under review by the Village.
He gave the Board a copy of the memorandum presented to Village Manager Brimm.
NEW BUSINESS:
Chairman Viehman opened for discussion the option of requiring a fee for processing the FF/PM
and Police Officer entry-level applications. A number of other municipalities charge a fee to
help offset the costs of the hiring process. It would be a nominal non-refundable application
fee. The Commissioners thought this was a good idea as long as the amount was not excessive.
Mr. Malinowski will explore the fee amount charged by others and report back at the next Board
meeting.
Chairman Viehman would also like to explore alternate polygraph examiner groups for
comparison purposes. This was done recently with the psychological review. There were no
objections by the Board. Chairman Viehman and Mr. Malinowski will look for alternative
groups and try them out over the next few months.
Chairman Viehman asked the Board to review the Rules and Regulations and make any
adjustments for discussion at the next meeting.
ADJOURNMENT OF OPEN SESSION:
Motion was made by Commissioner Loeb and seconded by Commissioner Dibbern to adjourn
the open session and move to Executive Session at 8:05 p.m., for the purpose of reviewing
materials on a Firefighter/Paramedic candidate. All Commissioners present voted in favor of the
motion.
EXECUTIVE SESSION:
The executive session was called to order at 8:08 p.m. Present were Chairman Viehman,
Commissioners Karge, Loeb, Lukatsky, Dibbern and HR Director Mr. Art Malinowski. At
8:32 p.m. a motion was made by Commissioner Lukatsky 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 8:32 p.m. for the purpose of making a position offer.
Firefighter/Paramedic Candidate # 22: David Daugherty. A motion was made by
Commissioner Dibbern, seconded by Commissioner Loeb to make a conditional offer of
employment to firefighter/paramedic candidate Daugherty. Commissioners Karge, Loeb,
Lukatsky, Dibbern and Viehman voted against the motion. No offer will be made to the
candidate.
ADJOURNMENT:
A motion was made at 8:34 p.m. by Commissioner Lukatsky, seconded by Commissioner Loeb
to adjourn the meeting. The meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane L. Dibbern, Secretary
Board of Fire and Police Commissioners