The schedule bump happens in September and March so officers are changing schedules according to what shifts they chose based on seniority. Its always a challenge for my administrative staff making the schedule work during the transition week but once again, they made it happen and all officers are in their new schedules until September when we will do it all again.

With the schedule bump, we were able to finally fill the vacant shift we had for the last six months. Officers Herrera and Wetherbee are both back to full duty and we are finally injury free, knock on wood. This will alleviate all the overtime the department accrued during the time when officers were injured. More importantly, it will take some of the pressure off of my staff from working many extra hours.

I have been working with City Administrator Carey with the city of Estacada on our current contract for some time now. As of the date of this report, the city of Sandy Police Department will no longer provide police services for the city of Estacada after 10/12/18 give or take a week or two. I met with Ms. Carey on 04/09/18 at which time we discussed how we could make this a smooth transition from our service to county service. I am obviously still working on budget issues created by this transition.

Recruit Officer Garrett Thornton graduated from the basic police academy on March 16th. He finished in the top five of his class and represented our city well. We expected no less. He is now in field training and is doing well. We expect him to be on solo duty sometime in early June of this year.