Council considers making police sergeant position hourly and fast-tracking auxiliary trainer appointment

The Village Council discussed an ordinance to amend the compensation structure for the police sergeant position to hourly pay and a separate ordinance to commission an auxiliary trainer for the police department. Council members debated waiving further readings so the auxiliary trainer and a sergeant appointment could be completed sooner.

The discussion centered first on timing. One councilmember urged waiving the remaining reading "so that the trainer guy doesn't go somewhere else and so that they can get a sergeant appointed sooner than the end of the year." Council members exchanged views on whether to rush the auxiliary-trainer appointment; one said the trainer Aaron "is okay" with not rushing because he is starting teaching school. Another member asked whether converting a sergeant to hourly would create an additional sergeant position; staff clarified that creating another sergeant would require creating a new position so there could be two sergeants (one on each shift).

Members asked about hours and shift coverage. Council discussion indicated the intent was to cover day, second and third shifts and to have sergeants distributed across shifts; estimates of hours varied in discussion and were not settled. No formal motion to adopt the compensation-change ordinance was recorded in the transcript excerpt.

This item remained at the discussion stage in the meeting record: councilmembers debated waiving readings and clarified that adding a sergeant position would require a separate creation of a slot rather than the pay-change alone.

Councilmembers asked staff to provide final ordinance text and staffing/hours detail for a later vote.