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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, October 21, 2024 Page 3 o New Firefighter Niko Willrich Council President Schutt stated, I will turn it over to Chief Carcioppolo for some comments. Chief Carcioppolo stated, thank you, Council President. Tonight is a really joyful night. I just wanted to underscore that it's all possible because of the support of Mayfield Village Council. Niko, Jeremy and Brad all were initially interviewed after Council approved our modification to the wage ordinance for part-time employees. That brought them on over the last couple months through our interviewing and background process. They have been working with us part-time. That's a testament to your support of our department. I want to thank everyone from Police and Fire for coming. As you can see, there's a huge turnout. I am proud of all of them. Both Police and Fire do an amazing job of their services. I wanted to also thank Administration, Mayor Bodnar because all of this is important. The swearing -in process is important. To cover Niko real quick, a couple years ago, Gino DeLuca brings Niko to my office and says, hey, Niko's working with us. He's a good dude. He wants to talk about being a fireman. I talked to Niko and told him what he needs to do. Two years later, he's interviewing for part-time. He was on our full-time list. We moved him through that process. He's now our fullest full-time member. That's a testament to Gino's ability to find character because these jobs are hard as you have been all told. It's hard with shrinking interest in our field to find good employees and good staff that will stay. These three members we are swearing in tonight are good examples of what it takes to make it in our field. Without further ado, you can bring up your family and whoever you want pinning you. Council President Schutt administered the oath of office to Niko Willrich as Firefighter for Mayfield Village, Ohio. Council President Schutt stated, congratulations. o Part-time firefighter Brad Richmond o Part-time firefighter Jeremy Chepes Council President Schutt stated, I will turn this over to Chief Carcioppolo for his comments. Chief Carcioppolo stated, thank you. Brad and I met because he was a part of the grant that the State had for our health and wellness program. He was actually our personal trainer who came to the Fire station. He has a 4-year degree in exercise physiology and he worked over the Fire Department guys pretty good for a while. We got to know him. While he was doing that he was also going to school to become a firefighter/paramedic. He is done with his fire school and he is currently finishing his paramedic school right now. It was easy to interview and get to know if he was capable of fitting in with us well and that he is. So now he is one of our part-timers.