Monday consent approval leaves only insurance details to work out with Boyd

The Stanley-Boyd area has a new full-time police officer, and his name is Shaun Starck. Starck, approved in the Mon – day April 4 consent agenda upon motion by Laurie Foster seconded by Holly Kitchell, already works part-time for Stanley, but will soon split his time between Stanley and Boyd as part of a shared services police agreement. The Village of Boyd will meet later in April after Starck chooses an insurance plan, to which the Village will contribute as part of the deal.

The hire of Starck fulltime, meanwhile, will allow for both Stanley and Boyd to achieve their goals for reten – tion and coverage.

One of three applicants total for the position, Starck is a 2012 graduate of Stan –

ley-Boyd High School. Fol – lowing graduation Starck obtained an associate’s de- gree in criminal justice from Chippewa Valley Technical College and is employed full-time with the City of Augusta, also hired parttime with the City of Stanley in June of 2020. He is mar – ried and has a young child as well.

As to the other two candi – dates for which applications were received, Weiland said that both resided well outside the Stanley-Boyd area, and that the third had not even re – sponded to follow-up seeking an interview.

As such, and with summer a less than ideal time to seek more candidates for the hiring process with departments na – tionwide struggling to retain staff, Weiland said he would be open to starting the service agreement "at any point after April 30, 2022." The post, with an initial tri – al period of one year to work out any issues in the contract, would then ostensibly become a multi-year contract position.

Moving from police into fire, the report by Fire Chief Korey Hagenson noted that the ISO audit had been done and that he was trying to get the fire department from an ISO 5 to an ISO 4, effectively improving the rating that insurance com – panies use to anticipate risk in FULL-TIME

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providing issue. "It will be three to four weeks until I know how the fire department side did," Hagenson said in his report. Next asking what it would take to start getting fuel at Kwik Trip as they were "very good at donating food and drinks to us" for longer or bigger emergencies, Hagenson listed the work done over the past two weeks with regard to the fire department, as follows: • Completing the ISO audit • Doing the Fire report for Main Street fire • Cleaning the Decon room • Finished stripping on the old brush truck • Loading the hose on engine 2 • Repairing the coolant hose and prime line on engine 1 setting up an aerial class, and • Finishing a Fire House grant. As to the next two weeks, Hagenson said the following was planned: • Entering the Fire House grant • Helping with the hydrant flow test for ISO.

• Ordering radios that were applied for in a grant • Receiving a check from the Chippewa County grant • Answering fire prevention questions from North Side Elevator • An SOG update • MABAS (mutual assistance) newsletter covering the tornado • An operations plan update • Starting to get pump and aerial certifica tions done. • Fire and EMS reports On a final note for the ISO audit, Chief Hagenson said some comments from the auditor had been received.

"He made a comment about painting the hydrants to match the pressure of that hydrant," Hagenson said, adding, "It would help us on a fire scene to know. He also stated that we are at the top of our fire flow pump volume," with Stanley needing another engine at the station if it got any bigger.