January 5, 2009

Police Advisory Committee update

Two meetings of the Police Advisory Committee are scheduled for January. They are January 13th and January 27th. Both meetings are at the Grand Chute Town Hall at 6:30. Some of you have been asking for updates regarding the merger. December was a slower month for merger talks because of the holiday. A meeting was cancelled on Dec. 30th to allow committee overseer Virchow Krause time to examine how many additional officers Grand Chute could use if the department stays autonomus.

At the last meeting, Virchow Krause presented three different formulas on how each municipality would finance the merger. These formulas are percentages based off of three scenarios: Population, number of service calls and equalized values. I'll try and scan in this document this week. Numbers weren't plugged in to the formulas at this point. The committee is supposed to receive this information at te January 13th meeting.