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Thank you for the opportunity to come together and conduct the business that has been laid

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before us. We want to thank you for all of the men and women who served in our public

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safety services. We just ask you to lead, guide, and protect them as they go about doing

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the statutes and doing the work that has been given and put into their hands. And we ask

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I make a motion to approve. I move by Ms. Hayes, seconded by Mr. Whalen. Any questions? All in favor? All in favor? All in favor? All in favor? All in favor? All in favor? All in favor? All in favor? All in favor? All in favor?

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Second by Ms. Hayes, any questions? All in favor? Aye.

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I have approval of claim. Public property is $92,403.88. Public safety is $152,733.30.

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So moved.

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So moved.

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Do I move on.

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Second by Mr. Wheeler.

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Any Dunkin' Donuts?

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All in favor.

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All in favor.

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Aye.

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All in favor.

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Aye.

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Are you sure you signed those?

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Just please.

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Public comment, got standing room.

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Patrick, Pat, mine will be short.

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We have the NAPTO program,

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which is a school that will graduate in April.

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The suppression units that were put out,

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and we are off and running in February.

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You're gonna love next week.

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So, that's all I have for my report.

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Now, do you want me to go right into your new business

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or do you want me to wait?

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You can wait.

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Okay, you wait.

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I'll tell you what, since you got the floor anyway,

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you might as well go and do the department's report.

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Okay, so the coroner's report is for January 58 total deaths, 49 were natural, two were, two lost their lives to a fire in Cedarville and seven are pending.

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Now at your request from the last meeting, I was able to get some 24, 25 stats.

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So, I will do a stat that Montana gave me.

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In 2024, we had 263 medical,

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and I'll tell you what that is in a second,

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medical deaths, in 2025, we had 288,

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a medical death versus a coroner death means

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a doctor signed off on the death certificate.

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The coroner signed off on 285 in 2024,

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and 248 in 2025.

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The comparison for natural deaths in 24 were 511.

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In 2025 were 485.

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In 2024, we had 30 accidental deaths.

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In 2025, we had 17.

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In 2024, we had nine, sorry, two suicides.

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In 2025, we had nine suicides.

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In 2024, we had three homicides.

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In 2025, we had one homicide.

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In 2024, we have two undetermined.

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And in 2025, we have two undetermined.

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So there's the comparisons from 2024 and 2025.

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And if you need that, let me know.

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Any questions?

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Thank you, thank you.

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Okay, Emergency Management Agency.

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Thank you, good evening everybody, I'll be brief also.

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We are having two classes again, we talked about last month.

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First one is the Homeland Security Exercise

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Evaluation Program, that's going to be held

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April 1st and 2nd, it's on a courthouse.

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Right now I think about nine people

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signed up for that by the time that people gate comes around.

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I also have scheduled the NIMS overview for senior officials,

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executives, electors, appointed class.

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That is scheduled tentatively right now

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for March 7th, Saturday morning.

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I want to speak with Carl Larson a little bit

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about my concerns getting the county board together

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and the Open Meetings Act and all that stuff.

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I want to make sure that what I need to do

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when I'm speaking with Jordan,

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I want to make sure I get to post an agenda.

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There is a clause in the Open Meetings Act for training,

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which is what this says,

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but we want to make sure that we have all of our

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T's, cross, and I's, and that is the same.

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Okay.

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Our office is continuing to work on our credentialing

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and our emergency operation plan review.

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It's due this year,

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but we still have no final date as when it's due.

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We got a region two meeting coming up at the end of the month.

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I hope to get some more guidance upon that meeting,

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but as it stands right now, there is no set date,

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So we're moving forward and it's going to be probably later this fall, I think, for the visiting group.

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I had some good news today. I received a final check. I received a check earlier in January, a second, for $18,114.

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And then today I received the additional $4,200 for the Emergency Management Preparedness Grant.

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That's the outstanding grant that I was worried about getting paid.

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got paid in full as of today.

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So we got that out tomorrow.

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At this point, I still have not applied

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and we are not allowed to apply for fiscal year

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2075, 2086.

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Hopefully that will come.

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Okay, but I'm not as responsive right now.

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You say, what else?

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I think that's about it.

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Any questions from this big question?

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Thank you, good job.

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and that. Okay. We'll move on to nothing for the old business, but go to the new business.

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Very simple. This is, it looks worse than it is. So the first order of business that

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was mistakenly left out of the contract that was signed was the declaration that the PDPA,

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which was the union representation for our union, was removed and the FOP was put into

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to that spot.

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Apparently what I was told by the attorney

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is that you have to declare that in all the contracts,

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which they didn't both sides miss that.

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So that's what the first part is.

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That will be added to all three contracts.

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Article five, not accrued for time off and not getting paid.

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That is for all three contracts also.

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This is for the person that has an injury off duty.

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They've used up all of their FMLA.

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They've used all of their sick time, all of their vacation,

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all benefit time whatsoever.

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And now they're actually going to George's office

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and paying their own portion of the insurance.

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What I suggested to the union,

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which they agreed with me, which is unheard of,

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as I said, why would they accumulate seniority

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if they're not really working at all?

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Both sides agreed to that.

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That's all that provision is.

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and that will be in all three contracts.

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Well, any questions with that, Ronnie?

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You're looking at me.

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It's bad, it's bad, it's not good.

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Okay.

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Article 14.1, that was a provision for people

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that had X number of service years.

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Deputy here in Corey was mistakenly put in that.

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She had two less years than she was supposed to.

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Her final year or her final wage increase is this year.

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year, this was her 21st year that was mistaken.

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We thought she was at 23 years or at least ripped it at the time.

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So this is her last year.

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So it's actually a cost savings because she didn't get moved up to the top of the line.

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She actually went with what the contract says for 2026 at 21 years old.

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That'll be in the only in the LE contract.

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And then the last section 23.4, the emergency response team,

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Burbage was inaccurate and mistakenly left out for the training.

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This would give members the ability to receive cash for overtime for training.

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We've never done that.

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It was time and a half, time only they do not get cash for training.

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So that was left out.

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The way you actually read it is they could take either.

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Thank goodness.

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We had a couple of people of the old timers that were like, Hey,

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can we pay cash for this?

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And I said, absolutely not.

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And then we looked at it.

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So I immediately contacted our attorney and he contacted the FOP and they knew what we had met, it was just mistakenly taken out.

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So there's absolutely no wages, there's no cash, there's none of that in any of this contract updates.

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So there's more wording than anything else then?

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That was left out, correct.

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And all this stuff was done from day one. We knew about it, it was a handshake agreement until they could get the verbiage the way they needed it and that worked.

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That's an example of a person who might be living in a department who has not worked in

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pregnancy.

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That would be one.

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So it's, and I'm not saying every pregnancy, so you have some.

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So you have somebody that gets hired.

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They just get out of PTI.

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They're on in the agency for two months.

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They're pregnant and they have complications.

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Well, being there less than a year

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and or somewhere around a year,

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you're only going to have about 40 hours of vacate

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or a comp time.

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And you're not at that time,

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you didn't have vacation at all.

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So they ran out of their time right away.

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They're on FMLA.

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their job is still secure for the 12 weeks, but then you stop getting paid.

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So now you're stopped getting paid.

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I have four new recruits coming in.

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Why would that person still be getting seniority?

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And really the only thing that seniority gets you is bumping rights.

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So now you've been working this whole time and that person's not, and you want

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to bid for that day shift, they haven't been on, they can bid for that day shift

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before they even came back to work.

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So now I have an open day shift.

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So that's how that whole thing happened. If we wouldn't have saw that firsthand, I probably would have never thought of it, but that's not right.

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I don't know if women can be penalized.

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No, no, no, no, no. Don't take it as a penalty for women. Okay, you're on for the exact same scenario and you break your legs skateboarding on your own off time. Same thing.

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same thing. That I understand. The pregnancy is not an accident. It is a life experience. It's, it's a life event. Well, but if you're not getting paid, if you put yourself in that predicament, and you're not, you don't have the time, you're not getting paid. And that's not us. I mean, that's, that's all of us. You don't, you don't have any time. So you're not getting paid. The lawyers looked at that? This is it.

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So why are we trying to go against it?

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I should never use the pregnancy.

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No, the broken leg skateboarding, I agree with you.

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But to be perfectly transparent, that's what happened is you're not working.

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You're back, you're on two months and now you're gone.

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It's not fair that you can actually be off for however long you're going to be.

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And then there's a day shift open and you can bid on it,

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which locked everybody else that you haven't even been there and now you have to go back to an

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FDO program because you haven't been there long and that's how this whole thing came up. I said that's

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not fair. And the same thing goes if you have 20 years on. If you have 20 years on and you run out

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of time, you're the person that's using all of your sick and every time you get a day you take two,

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you should not get seniority. You should have planned for that. So hopefully this is going

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how many times do I see this happening in the future? Zero.

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But we wanted to make sure it's covered. That's why the union had no problem with it.

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I'm not saying anything.

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You've got to do it. You've got to just...

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No, I just...

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This is kind of, yeah, okay.

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The union agreed?

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I would say don't use this as an everyday job. This is law enforcement or fire, somebody that you have to have there. And I can't have anybody extra. So if I have five females that just happen to be pregnant at the same time, what's that do to my office?

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Jack, and it's not picking on that. If I have, if I have five males that all break their legs skateboarding, yeah, no, I won't. So I have to do something.

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No, I understand. But like I said, leg was a much better example than becoming pregnant.

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But that's what actually happened. So I used Monique. We'll actually have it.

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Okay. So it says it's approval. So we have to vote on this next.

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It just has to go to the board. I think it has to go to the board.

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To follow the code because that's an actual agreement.

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It's approved.

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That's presented.

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It's approved by Mr. Whalen. All three?

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Yes, sir. All of us.

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Second by Mr. Newton. All in any court. Any, any, any, any court.

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You know, I'm taking them all free at once. Something else.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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All opposed?

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Aye.

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Any time that's on the committee member.

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And none.

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I had you.

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So, gentlemen.

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I'll second.

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Then move to second. Good night.

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I would remind her finance is Friday morning.

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Yeah, we moved off.

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Okay.