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X. OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE <br />This section will review the ongoing administrative issues and meetings during the <br />month. This includes meetings, policy issues, ordinance changes, and personnel issues. <br />And, this also includes meetings of a county wide, regional, and/or statewide basis on <br />public safety related issues. <br />The annual Public Safety Dept. Meeting was held on Monday, March 2nd at the Public <br />Safety Center. Our new Chaplain Dan Carlson delivered the invocation. The Delisi <br />family were guests and spoke about the annual MDA Muscle Walk. City Manager Dean <br />Lotter gave a State of the City review and our guest speaker was Mona Dohman, <br />Commissioner of Public Safety for the State of MN. We also gave out several awards to <br />include the following: <br />• Sgt. Steve Moore recognized for 25 years of service <br />• Firefighter Arnie Bona recognized for 30 years of service <br />• Deputy Director Dan Olson recognized for 30 years of service <br />• Officer Scott Kingslien received a Letter of Commendation for a Robbery <br />investigation <br />• Officer Matt Farmer received a Letter of Commendation for a significant drug <br />arrest <br />• Several Stork Awards were given out by Dave Matteson of Allina to Officer Troy <br />Hyland, Officer Scott Kingslien, Sgt. Mitch Singer, and PSO Adam Nelson <br />• PSO Dave Cameron received a Life Saving Award <br />• CIS (Det. Lochen, Det. DeBoer and Det. Sypniewski) received a Unit <br />Commendation <br />• Several members received the Public Safety pin including Officer Cody Amberg, <br />Officer Matt Farmer, Officer Ian Craig, PSO Charlie Prasek and PSO Adam <br />Nelson <br />• Firefighter Charlie Prasek received the Golden Pager Award <br />• Several members received a Special Commendation to include Officer Hyland, <br />Officer Wakasugi, Officer Farmer, Officer Krebsbach, Sgt. Singer, Officer <br />Hamdorf and Deputy Director Paetznick for their response to the Knollwood <br />Drive homicide <br />• Officer Tyler Wakasugi received the Traffic Safety Officer of the Year <br />• Officer Matt Farmer received the Police Officer of the Year <br />• Capt. Mike Schute received the Firefighter of the Year <br />14 <br />