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Police Chief Wagner:
<br />So real quick, two rock stars here that we feel real confident in their abilities. Matthew
<br />Holdridge has been with the Wadsworth Police Department before signing this way to us. So
<br />far, he's out on his own and doing a great job. Hayden here is an officer of the military
<br />currently and in the academy where he's leading his academy class and expected to continue
<br />that route all the way through graduation in February. So we're happy to have him. Number 48,
<br />49 for our police department. So where we've come, you know if we go back to where we were
<br />15 years ago, we had 57 police officers and we're slowly trying to get back there and do good
<br />work in the community. A couple things about these guys is that, you know, they come on at a
<br />great time. We've probably added three quarters of our police department in the last five years,
<br />and that is somewhat tiresome to hire them and get them trained and everything but without
<br />the help of this Council, the Mayor, Safety Director, all the Directors here at the City, we
<br />couldn't be more happy, congratulations!
<br />If I could, I wanted to just take a couple minutes. You know, we do this bi-annually. So we do it
<br />usually in June and then again in December to recognize the new employees that we've sworn
<br />in as well as present a couple of awards. So if I could, Dispatcher Dana Borsz, if you're here,
<br />come on up. Ricky Juergens and Deric Martin, please. I'm going to paraphrase, but these two
<br />gentlemen and Dispatcher Borsz were on duty back in May 6th of this year where they got
<br />dispatched to a call at the city park where a male was in cardiac arrest, and they responded,
<br />pulled the male out of the car, performed CPR, it was in turn saved his life. So we have to thank
<br />these two officers and accommodations to Dispatcher Borsz for their life-saving efforts back on
<br />May 6th. So without them, who knows where that gentleman would be here today. So, great
<br />job guys.
<br />And then, Shane Wyatt, Billy Dwulat, and hold on, give me a minute, Jimmy Schill. So this is a
<br />little bit more recent. If I was doing this biannually, we would have some time to recognize
<br />these two as we can, but in a little bit similar but different situation, these guys were at Chuck
<br />E. Cheese dealing with a male that was causing an issue there. He turned out to have a warrant
<br />for his arrest. I think he was subsequently arrested. Did that happen? I'm not sure. So as they
<br />were at Chuck E. Cheese dealing with an issue there, of all cases, an unwanted guest, there was
<br />some commotion in the parking lot where they were trying to see when there was a male in
<br />cardiac arrest that they pulled from the vehicle, and subsequently, I think Jimmy got the AED,
<br />and these guys were doing chest compressions on the guy, that essentially saved his life. They
<br />transported him to the hospital and revived the patient. So another great work by our men and
<br />women here at the police department. I can't speak enough for how young our department is
<br />currently and the great strides that we're making every day. I couldn't be happier. These guys
<br />all deserve the round of applause. So anybody that's here, friends, family, that want to come
<br />back to the police department for cake and refreshments, we're going to do that now. Again,
<br />thank you for all of the Councilmembers and the Mayor and Directors for your continued
<br />support. We couldn't do it without you, and thank you all very much.
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