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Board authorizes professional services and schedules hearing to pursue Department of Public Safety
Summary
The Board approved resolutions to authorize the village to obtain professional consulting services and to schedule a public hearing on creating a Department of Public Safety. Confidential Assistant Joel Stern told the Board the initiative began at a prior meeting; details about scope, budget and staffing were not included in the minutes.
Confidential Assistant Joel Stern told trustees that at the prior meeting the Board had initiated a plan to create a Department of Public Safety and that the Village needed a resolution to obtain professional consulting services and to schedule a public hearing on a local law to establish the department. The minutes record his statement that the prior meeting began the initiative and then show Resolution No. 041 authorizing the village to enter agreements for consulting services and Resolution No. 042 scheduling a public hearing on the proposed Public Safety local law. Both resolutions were recorded as passed with the usual 3–0 recorded vote and two absences noted earlier in the minutes.
The minutes do not include the scope of the proposed department, an estimated budget, staffing plan, or a timeline for implementation; the record therefore shows the Board authorized procurement of professional services and set a hearing but did not record substantive policy details. Joel Stern's characterization of prior action is recorded in the minutes but the supporting consulting scope and cost estimates are not in the meeting record.
