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Thief River Falls council authorizes police hiring notice, promotion and $30,000 vehicle; approves adopt‑a‑garden and higher insurance limit
Summary
At its regular meeting, the Thief River Falls City Council authorized advertising to fill a 17th police officer position, approved the internal promotion of a patrol officer to sergeant, approved a $30,000 investigator vehicle purchase, established an adopt‑a‑garden program, and agreed to pursue raising excess liability coverage to $2 million.
The Thief River Falls City Council on a series of unanimous procedural votes authorized the city to advertise to fill a 17th police officer position, approved an internal promotion to sergeant, approved purchasing and upfitting a $30,000 vehicle for an investigator, established an adopt‑a‑garden volunteer program and authorized staff to pursue increasing its excess liability insurance to $2 million.
Chief Adam asked the council to allow the city to post the vacancy for what he described as the city's seventeenth officer and said the department is trying to recruit candidates as they finish school. “We'd like to get on it as soon as we can,” Chief Adam said, and noted hires would not occur until September. The council authorized advertising the position after a motion from Councilwoman Arled and a second from Councilman Preem.
On personnel, Chief Adam told the council that Sergeant Chuck Lindgren has retired and that the department conducted an internal…
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