BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
July 18, 2007
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT Page 2
AHPA STAFF PRESENT Page 2
MEMBERS PRESENT Page 2
GUESTS PRESENT Page 2
THANK YOU NOTES / FLOWERS Page 2
NEW SWORN MEMBERS Page 2
NEW CIVILIAN MEMBERS Page 3
MEMBERS WHO HAVE RETIRED Page 3
MEMBERS WHO HAVE LEFT DPS Page 3
NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Page 3
DEATHS – LINE OF DUTY/FAMILY Page 3
CONSENT AGENDA Page 6
GUEST SPEAKER – DIRECTOR ROGER VANDERPOOL Page 6
GUEST SPEAKER – CHIEF JACK LANE Page 7
GUEST SPEAKER – CHIEF MIKEL LONGMAN Page 7
GUEST SPEAKER – PHILIP CASE Page 8
LABOR REPORT Page 8
LEGAL REPORT Page 8
RAFFLE REPORT Page 8
20-YEAR RING PRESENTATION Page 9
TREASURER REPORT Page 9
ASSOCIATION LAND & BUILDING REPORT Page 9
STRATEGIC PLAN Page 9
NEW BUSINESS Page 10
OLD BUSINESS Page 10
REQUEST FOR FUNDING Page 10
NEXT MEETING Page 10
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The meeting was called to order at 0900 hours by President Jimmy Chavez at the MTBA building located at University & 32nd Street, Phoenix, Arizona. President Chavez led the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance.
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:
President Jimmy Chavez; Immediate past President Andy Swann (Absent); Executive Officer Pat Eagan; D-2 & Northern Vice President Mark Haughey; D-3 & Recording Secretary Jim Bee; D-4 John Smith; D-5 (Metro Central)(Proxy) Pat Eagan;
D-7 Raul Garcia Jr; D-8 Korey Lankow; D-9 Robby Craig; D-11 Bert Chaney; D-12 Nathan Teel; D-13 (Metro East) Bill Rogers; D-15 Mike McCall; D-16 Matt Rosemryer; Northern/Western Air Rescue Pete Sadler; OCI & Executive Vice President Bob Gilbert; OCN/1 John Eccles; Retired Northern Zone (Proxy) J.R. Ham; Retired Central Zone (Proxy) J.R. Ham; Retired Southern Zone (Proxy) J.R. Ham; Civilian Central Zone I (Proxy) Vicki Williams; Civilian Zone II Vicki Williams; Civilian Central Zone III Chris Ramsey; Civilian Southern Zone & Southern Vice President Celina Murrieta Gonzales; Civilian Northern Zone Rebecca Smith; Retired Civilian Betty Gallery; Treasurer Dave Schroder. Assistant Treasurer & Ring Coordinator Beverly Fuller.
AHPA STAFF PRESENT:
Executive Secretary – Colleen Girard
Legal Counsel – Greg Robinson
Legal Services – Janet Feltz
Michael Napier
Anthony Coury
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Director Roger Vanderpool
Chief Mikel Longman Peter Onni
Susan Snow Gregg Girard
Stuart Anderson Neil Finch
Brad Power Rich Thacher
Gerald Brown Randy Arthur
GUESTS PRESENT:
Chief Jack Lane
Philip Case
FLOWERS / THANK YOU LETTERS
Flowers – Bill Cramer Sr
Thank You Letters – None
NEW SWORN MEMBERS:
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Jeffrey L. Eavenson #4492
Jamie E. Contes #5768
NEW CIVILIAN MEMBERS:
Robert Hochstetter #6918
MEMBERS WHO HAVE RETIRED:
Sherrill “Woody” Wood #1472
Michael A. Godinez #3813
Susan D. Snow #3833
Gloria I. McPherson #3901
MEMBERS WHO HAVE LEFT DPS:
Sworn: Lewis S. Shupe #5567
Civilian: Robert H. Schermer #5941
NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERS:
Alan K. Graham
Robert L. Pucker
William B. Perkins
DEATHS – LINE OF DUTY / FAMILY:
Retired Sworn Reserve William “Bill” R. Cramer, Sr passed away on July 17, 2007.
Since the first of the year there have been 101 Police Officers killed in the line of duty nationally. Nineteen Officers have died since the last meeting.
Eight were killed by gunfire
Five were killed in automobile collisions
Two were killed in motorcycle collisions
Two were struck by vehicles
One was killed during a pursuit
One was killed due to weather/natural disaster
Five were from Municipal Agencies
Nine were from County Agencies
Three were from State agencies (California Highway patrol, New Mexico State Police, and Indiana State Police.
One was a State Corrections Officer (Utah)
One was a Tribal Officer (Fallon Paiute-Shoshone, Nevada)
All nineteen were male
1) Deputy First Class Hilery A. Mayo Jr.
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St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, Louisiana
Age 32 Years of Service 10
Killed Saturday, June 9, 2007
Automobile Collision
2) Officer Robert Franklin Dickey
California Highway Patrol
Age 37 Years of Service 5
Killed Sunday, June 10, 2007
Automobile Collision
3) Chief of Police Randy Lacy
Clay City P.D., Kentucky
Age 55 Years of Service 23
Killed Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Gunfire
4) Patrolman Christopher Mirabal
New Mexico State Police
Age 34 Years of Service 9
Killed Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Motorcycle Collision
5) Sergeant Linden (Beau) Raimer
St. Tammany Parish Sheriff”s Office, Louisiana
Age 35 Years of Service 10
Killed Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Weather/Natural Disaster
6) Deputy Kelly James Fredinburg
Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Oregon
Age 33 Years of Service 8
Killed Saturday, June 16, 2007
Automobile Collision
7) Officer Frank Denzinger
Floyd County Sheriff’s Office, Indiana
Age 32 Years of Service 4
Killed Monday, June 18, 2007
Gunfire
8) Corporal Scott Wheeler
Howard County P.D., Maryland
Age 31 Years of Service 6
Killed Monday, June 18, 2007
Struck by vehicle
9) Sergeant Justin Thompson
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, West Virginia
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Age 25 Years of Service 5
Killed Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Automobile Collision
10) Corrections Officer Stephen Anderson
Utah Department of Corrections
Age 60 Years of Service 22
Killed Monday, June 25, 2007
Gunfire
11) Deputy Sheriff Charles Cook
Buchannan County Sheriff’s Department, Missouri
Age 28 Years of Service 3
Killed Thursday, June 28, 2007
Vehicle Pursuit
12) Deputy Sheriff Michael Page
Bowie County Sheriff’s Department, Texas
Age 34 Years of Service 8
Killed Saturday, June 30, 2007
Gunfire
13) Police Officer Adam Joseph Menuez
Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribal P.D.
Age 27 Years of Service 5 months
Killed Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Automobile Collision
14) Master Trooper David Rich
Indiana State Police
Age 41 Years of Service 18
Killed Thursday, July 5, 2007
Gunfire
15) Deputy Sheriff Joshua Norris
Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, Louisiana
Age 22 Years of Service 1
Killed Thursday, July 5, 2007
Gunfire
16) Police Officer Dayle Weston (Wes) Hardy
Plano P.D., Texas
Age 31 Years of Service 12
Killed Saturday, July 7, 2007
Motorcycle Collision
17) Police Officer Robert (Bobby) Kozminski
Grand Rapids P.D., Michigan
Age 29 Years of Service 7
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Killed Sunday, July 8, 2007
Gunfire
18) Sergeant Karl Strohsal
Longwood P.D., Florida
Age 58 Years of Service 32
Killed Saturday, July 14, 2007
Struck by vehicle
19) Police Officer Russel Timoshenko
New York P.D., New York
Age 23 Years of Service 1
Killed Saturday, July 14, 2007
Gunfire
For more information on these officers, refer to www.odmp
[Officer Down Memorial Page])
A MOMENT OF SILENCE WAS HELD
CONSENT AGENDA:
Last Month’s Minutes
Seat Proxies
Motion from Vicki Williams, seconded by Celina Murrieta-Gonzales, to accept the consent agenda. Motion Passed
GUEST SPEAKER DIRECTOR ROGER VANDERPOOL:
Director Vanderpool advised that Executive Staff will now be back at the monthly meetings since Meet & Confer is over. He was not in favor of Meet & Confer, that he wanted everyone at the table for discussions. The Department’s budget increased by 6%, there was good movement for sworn, but civilian pay needs to be addressed, and health insurance for our retirees needs to be addressed. The Department received funds for the new Tucson Crime Lab, and for new support positions. There have been several Executive Staff positions changes:
a) Chief Longman & Chief Gillette switched positions
b) Chief Nyhart, Chief of Staff, Criminal Investigations
c) Brian Wilcox moved to Narcotics
d) Lt. Ticer took over as Legislative Liason
e) Commander Raynor now at special projects: Fake Id task force
and possible Capital Police moving to DPS.
f) Commander Denlinger took over Intelligence
g) Commander Halliday took over CETF functions
Upcoming events:
a) TABLETOP – multiple state emergency tabletop training problem coming in August
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b) IACP (International Assoc. Chief of Police) conference,
Department will be receiving two awards, one for damming warrants & one for Federal Motor Carrier.
c) Super Bowl – cost to the Department is looking at $1 million hit to our budget, there is no extra money to help fund this cost.
d) Next May Deputy Director Dave Felix retires
e) Looking at an increase for the use of Department vehicles at ADOT construction jobs.
f) Looking at changing the time line in the hiring process, right now it is approximately 60 days, would like to get it down to 30 days.
g) Capital improvements:
a. New Tucson Headquarters building
b. Looking at buying the ACTIC building, rent is approximately 1 million.
GUEST SPEAKER CHIEF JACK LANE:
a) New uniforms:
1) Bids will go out within 15 days, whoever gets the contract has to have stock on hand within 120 days.
2) Sworn will get measured at the District office, company will have this on file, to allow on-line ordering.
3) Uniforms will be 60% cheaper than what we are paying now.
4) Uniform allowance will be paid in 2 payments
1) First payment will be out August 1
2) Looking at the cost of body armor, price keeps
going up.
b) Looking at hiring detention officers, who will be crossed
trained with 287G (ICE).
c) District 12 completed MDC install, District 2 in the works
d) Deployment of LPR (license plate readers) will expand
e) Photo enforcement – Department taking over photo enforcement from Scottsdale, signing an IGA with them. Looking at expanding program, entering IGA with Maricopa. Would like to have money from tickets come to DPS which will be one of the targets of the AHPA legislative agenda.
f) Sgt. Promotions – working at placing Sgt’s where they want to be, might wave the 1 year placement requirement.
g) We have 71 people in the hiring process right now; there are an additional 46 openings in Highway Patrol.
GUEST SPEAKER CHIEF MIKEL LONGMAN:
a) The Department co-hosted the FBI training conference in Phoenix.
b) We are hiring 4 background investigators, 1 polygraph examiner.
c) We have hired a new Human Resource manager.
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d) Looking at the re-location process for our employees, we
are allowing up to $1500.00 for expenses.
e) Looking at moving the Department into the concept of Intelligence led police/enforcement.
f) Armory looking at expanding list of approved off-duty weapons.
g) Re-fit of a seized building, located at Hayden & Frank Lloyd Wright to be used as a East Valley Headquarters.
GUEST SPEAKER PHILIP CASE:
a) This years budget was 6-7% increase, last year was 25%
b) Sworn received a pay raise 0f 5.75%, Civilian received 3.25%
c) We hired 13 new crime lab personnel
d) Looking at expanding DNA program, approximately $2 million
e) Expanding the Phoenix Crime lab by 12,000 feet
f) Hiring 11 new criminal support personnel, (4 in the criminal history unit), (4 in the access integrity unit), (2 in tracking non-ferrous metals).
g) Expanding GIITEM (10th largest agency in the State)
h) Increase in fingerprint technology
i) Safety & safety equipment – (vests, rifles, tasters, & driver’s training)
j) FY 2009 Budget items:
1) Pay
2) Technical equipment
3) Hiring support personnel
4) Records accounting & management
LABOR REPORT:
Jan Feltz reported that there were no cases at AZ POST. There was a change in the employee Support Observer program, 13-3811.01 (This would provide written notice to employee prior to the hearing on what the investigation is about. Support Observer can ask when tape recorder is activated.)
She introduced Anthony Coury, new attorney in their office
LEGAL REPORT:
Greg Robinson reported on the following matters:
1) Signed the new contract with Brent Wyatt West on the magazine.
2) Filed a lawsuit in justice court on due to a non-paid member loan.
RAFFLE REPORT:
Colleen reported that the raffle tickets should be in this week.
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20-YEAR RING PRESENTATION:
President Jimmy Chavez presented the following members their 20-year rings:
Richard Thacher
Neil Finch
Brad Power
Jerry Brown
Randy Arthur
Stuart Anderson
TREASURER REPORT:
General Checking: $ 124,785.65
Savings: $ 6,014.07
Merchandise: $ 16,995.06
Bass: $ 1,766.13
Rodeo: $ 4,090.52
Golf: $ 30,613.48
Raffle: $ 43,558.44
Charities: $ 25,908.40
PAC: $ 32,613.45
Merrill Lynch $ 485,944.00
Monument Account $ 14,037.00
Snedaker Account (Originally) $ 40,084.00
(Remaining) $ 21,784.00
Funding Requests (Budgeted) $ 5,000.00
Sick & Distressed (Budgeted) $ 4,000.00
Western Air Rescue (Donation) $ 1000.00
May (2007) $ 435.00
Balance $ 565.00
ASSOCIATION LAND & BUILDING:
President Chavez advised the Board that the appraisal on the Forest lake property came in, and we are starting the price at $225,000. Jim Bee will post signs on the property this Saturday. For more information contact Jim if interested in buying: 928-368-5446
Executive Vice President Bob Gilbert took over the meeting due to President Chavez leaving to catch a flight to Alaska. (Western States Conference).
STRATEGIC PLAN:
The following items are listed for next year’s Legislative agenda:
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1) Pay for sworn & civilian employees
2) Locate another pay fund for pay parity
3) Employee protection program:
a) Change RICO policy for employee coverage
b) Redaction process
4) Retiree health care
5) Dispatchers move into CORP
Asked to provide information on bills introduced by the Association, and what happened to them.
NEW BUSINESS:
MADD presented to the Association a plaque for our support.
OLD BUSINESS:
None
REQUEST FOR FUNDING:
Dave Schroder made a motion to fund two hole sponsorships for a golf tournament to benefit a Tucson Police Officer’s family due to medical problem, total $200.00. Motion seconded by Becky Smith. Motion passed
MOTION TO ADJOURN BY DAVE SCHRODER, SECONDED BY ROBBIE CRAIG.
MOTION PASSED.
NEXT MEETING:
Next meeting will be held on Wednesday August 15th, 2007
At 0900 hours at the same location on University & 32nd Street (I-10).
Respectfully Submitted,
Jim Bee, Recording Secretary
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