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The North Metro area of Allina Health now has 4 supervisors and 120 direct reports for Mr. Matteson. There are 29 ambulances with 21 ambulances on the street at peak times. C. Volunteers in Public Safety (YIPS) Commissioner Woods presented the following items of note: • The monthly VIPS meeting will be tomorrow, November 26th • The VIPS assisted at the Fire Department Open House where they sold bike helmets and did KidID. There was a good crowd for this event. • A fingerprinting retraining session was done. • The blood drive on November 12th was a success. D. Public Safety /Homeland Security Update Director Jacobson reported our new Police Officer hires which include Matt Farmer and Ian Craig are progressing well in their field training process. Officer- Farmer is anticipated to be completed with his field training in mid to late January and Officer Craig will be completed in early to mid February. Both are also fire fighters and we are happy to have them on board. We have made conditional offers of employment to 10 paid on -call Firefighters. We will plan to have them start early January pending successful backgrounds, physicals and psychological evaluations. We will have several police officers participating in "Tip a Cop" at Champps on Wed night from 5 to 8 pm. Officers will be assisting wait staff with serving food and beverages with "tips" being contributed to Special Olympics. We will have 9 or 10 police staff participating in this event. Commission Chair Robert Allen will conduct a year end report to Council at their regular meeting on Tuesday, January 14th at 6:30 pm. Each Commission presents a year end report to Council once each year. On November 12th several Public Safety personnel received a Life Saving Award for their response on July 21" to a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) at the regular City Council meeting. Mr. George Mattson suffered the SCA and first responders including Officer Matt Voeller, Officer Kathy McNeely, Sgt. Andy Masterman, Paramedic Ryan Dougherty, Paramedic Joseph Gottwaldt, and Dispatcher Anton Fehrenbach worked together to ensure that Mr. Mattson received prompt care. A shock was delivered with an AED and Mr. Mattson eventually survived the SCA. Our department has had 3 "saves" since December 2012; Commissioner Woods' granddaughter, Mr. Matteson, and another one not wanting recognition. Council Liaison A. Council Report Council Member Bauman reported the Council will be going thru utilities; the Council reviews each one. The Council approved the 3rd quarter financial statements.