With the Sandy Police Department moving away from the contract with the City of Estacada, our focus has been on the budget impacts as a result of the change. City Manager Yamashita has worked with our finance director and myself to minimize the effects of the budget shortfall this may cause. I am very pleased with all the hard work everyone is putting in for the good of our department.

We are in need of all the officers here in Sandy. Our community is growing at a pace that seems almost unbelievable, yet we have not increase our sworn officer number for quite some time. Bringing these officers back to Sandy represents a huge opportunity to increase police coverage and other opportunities that I have been working on for some time now. More on that later.

It seems we have had some terrible luck with injuries to officers lately. Just when one comes back to duty, another injury happens. Currently, Officer Kevin Way is out with a non work related injury and is slated to return to duty on May 18th. He is resting at home and doing well.

I have been working with Oregon Trail School District Superintendent Bayer for some time now regarding an additional School Resource Officer in Sandy. We have come to an agreement and will present that to council possibly in June. More to come on that as well. This is great news for our department and the school district.

Summer is just around the corner with the first major event happening in mid June. The police department is already preparing for this.