Police Department To Hire Two More Officers
The Lisle Village Board approved a request presented by Police Chief James Kosatka to hire two additional patrol officers as well as two part-time community service officers.
Chief Kosatka said he hopes to have two new police officers hired by fall so they can get into the police training academy in October. Two part-time community service officers (CSO's) will be trained and each will work about 20 hours a week. Kosatka said a decision was made last year after he joined the force to buy out the contracts of three police officers to better manage the department. But after they left, three other officers left for various reasons, putting the total count of officers to 26, below the legal number established in a village ordinance. The ordinance stipulates the police department must have at least 28 full-time officers and not more than 35. "We've been trying to be as frugal as possible trying to redistribute the …
Dick
10:10 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
Deficit spending confirmed. Thanks for posting this link, Frank. I note on page 15 of this document (link below) that Finance Director Shiller testified: "According to the testimony Kimberly Schiller, who has been the Village Finance Director for 24 years, the Village has reduced its reserves and is “not seeing any significant upwards trends in any of those revenue sources…” Property and sales … more ›