##VIDEO ID:Bf1fphV-BuY## so we have a couple of appointments this evening and it's awesome now to congratulations on two new members coming into your into your uh police department it's awesome well let's hear about him and vote him in first before I accept it I don't want to jinx myself I you know what I I know what your vote is so come on up are you calling me up yes I am great I just want to start by saying thank you guys so much for being able to hold this meeting so that we can get them appointed this full-time position has been um posted since mid mid to end of May um and this is the first gentleman that we've had the first candidate we've had who not only um met the posting requirements but also met our standards for our back ground so we're very happy um to request that James Fitzgerald be appointed to a full-time police officer for the town of Newbury he's got three years experience um in Deerfield his family is relocating which is what brings them to us in our area um he's got all the certifications necessary through post and all the training requirements so he meets all eligibility for um for appointment so I appreciate your consideration for him how luck are you we um I feel very lucky yes yeah pardon me just checking the battery yeah okay we're good sorry thank you nope thank you and then so do you want to do them one at a time or do both go ahead Madam chair if I may oh Jesus oh sorry um your letter says that this will be the 11th chair filled and there's 12 yes 11 slots yes and there's 12 total available correct do we have a plan in the in the future for filling that 12 slot try we're still trying real hard so it's it's posted as it's posted as a position it's posted the position is posted yes good enough I think after uh last week's um commendations that it will um bring more PE more people to the to the table and say I want to be a participant in the town and I you know that was a great ceremony last week um all everybody deserved all of that thank you I think we're a great town and Department to work for and actually we're we're sort of out of protocol here because we should have motioned already to accept the position I apologize uh you want to do it now a second yeah I I I motion to to accept James fitgerald and appoint the full-time Police Officer James Fitzgerald to the new police department and second motion approved all those in favor all all in favor all in favor hey I'm new at this game any opposed thank you all right now before we get started on the second one Jeff do you want to um I'm looking for my page y motion to okay okay uh I make a motion um that we appoint a parttime police officer Robert Adams to the newy police department position of time y yes second all in favor or discussion discuss do you want do you want to say anything about them I I would love so part-time police officers that used to be called reserves for us the Commonwealth got rid of the reserve status now everybody who works as a police officer has to have full-time Academy certification which he does um he worked for Rowley Police Department uh through Patrol and detectives from 2012 to 2023 at which time he went to work for the Secret Service full-time um we still partner with him he is a network I wrote this down a network intrus intrusion forensic analyst so he works with computers and evidence that are uh electronic evidence um he has asked to come work part-time for us um as an officer working shifts because he worked so hard for his officer certification in order to maintain it you need to be a working police officer um we would be very lucky to have Bob Adams as a part-time officer our part-time officers we use to try to absorb overtime in the budget so if somebody's out sick or on vacation or we have additional assignments that we need um we try to fill them with part-time officers before we fill them with uh full-time officers at an overtime rate so he would be our third part-time officer for the Department if appointed awesome it's great but and the note of secret service is are we talking Federal yes okay yeah and his employer there's no conflict um of Interest or anything is he still employed for this he is it's his full-time job um he would be working part-time for us picking up shifts that's great big eyes open yeah is there do we any limit on how many part-time offices we could have I I didn't think so no and you said this would be the third this would be our third mhm well we just did we just have a little jackpot here I feel as that we did I've worked with um Bob I've worked with Bob Adams for years when he was in Raleigh and I was here as he made it through the ranks there and I know first here on the quality of work um that he does deputy chief wowski works with him in his new role um when the deputy chief excuse me um does his internet crimes space things and we're very lucky to have him so he's got the black suit and the sunglasses hypothetically great awesome I think it's uh you know like I said we just I think we hit the jackpot with a couple of different uh people that we're bringing on board and I'm thankful for that thank you Jeff anything any any other discussion good all in favor I I thank you and again thank you for holding this special meeting we're looking forward to getting them appointed so we can get them in the schedule I really really appreciate this thank you so much every everything we can do to make the town a better place is what we're going to do thank you thank you motion motion to agend anything anything from the people that came uh this evening is there a moment can you is there going to be a comment well can if anybody would like to make a comment can they this evening Tracy um it's not on the agenda I think you know chair sitting as the chair I I I um I welcome any any kind of comment I'm going to hold you to like two two minutes it's only going to be 30 seconds promise even better yeah Mike Doyle 6 Morgan AV new came to the board six seven weeks ago about the media committee oh uh chairman Greco gave the answer to the board all I'm asking is I heard chairman Greco's no hasn't been discussed as a Bo you're a board of five all I'm asking is would you put on the agenda and discuss as a board not one person making the decision that we're not having a media committee okay um I think it's important I think it's in the contract with with with h cable I think we're supposed to have a media committee um if you could provide us with that that information um that would be great and um the other thing is that um it will be taken under strong consideration to be put on a f a future agenda thank you that's all I'm asking thank you um may I ask Tracy um if we actually I just I just want to expand on it a little bit with with the I think the peg funds in that account is probably more important to discuss as a board prior to especially like the articles in the warrant coming out uh I would like to personally see may be a on the agenda that that we we could even have it a dual discussion where we're talking about the media committee and the future of the PID funds I would like to add that to an agenda and I understand that um you know Alicia has full control over how she wants to set her agenda up and I'm just throwing that out there that's all we're just throwing it all out there got it and on that note I uh motion to adjourn already yeah everybody else happy okay second need to vot on second all in favor I hi good night everybody thank you for coming