July is always our busiest month.  With fireworks shows in both Sandy and Estacada and Timberfest the 4th of July was quite the celebration.

Later that same week we moved on to the Parade, Kids Parade, and Mt. Festival over the weekend of the 9th.  Everything went well and there were no problems reported.  It is always nice to get these events behind us.

On July 19th we held another negotiation meeting with the Sandy Police Officers Association.  Things are almost complete and firmed up.  We should have a draft proposal for the council on the August 15th agenda.

On July 20th we were visited by the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.  We are working with them to try to get more training regionally, to avoid the travel to Salem.

Sandy PD staff conducted Run Hide Fight training for the Sandy Hospice group.  We had great fun and they won us over by having donuts.

We set up the preliminary Sandy PD Mobile App.  We are still adding some content, but it should be ready to roll out sometime in August.

On June 6th we had our second negotiations meeting between the City and the Sandy Police Officer’s Association.  Things are moving along well and we should have a new contract soon.  There will be some delay because of vacations.

On June 7,  SPD hosted the Cascadia Subduction Zone exercise.  Department heads, elected officials, school officials and every SPD employee where in attendance.  We left the table top exercise with a good appreciate for how important self preparedness is and an action plan to help get the rest of our community prepared.

That afternoon, several SPD staff participated with the City of Estacada in a table top similar to ours.

Then to end the week SPD staff participated with the Oregon Trail School District with their tabletop exercise.

We conducted interviews for Diane Reed replacement on June 14th, hiring Nick Weltch. He starts in July so they will have a little over a month to work together before Diane departs.

On June 17th, Chief Yamashita conducted a self defense class for young women at the Community Center.

Oregon Trail School District staff and Chief Yamashita were asked to speak at a school board administrators conference about the steps we’ve taken to secure our schools. This spurred other speaking engagements for the group including the Oregon Emergency Managers Conference in October.

On June 27th, we had our accreditation renewal inspection and passed. We are accredited for another three years.