WPD Patrolman Cox, Mayor's Secretary Retiring
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
Cox is retiring effective Aug. 2 after 28 years of service.
Cox was hired as a radio dispatcher on Dec. 1, 1982. He started as a street officer in July 1986. During his time at WPD, he has served as a member of the Fatal Alcohol Crash Team as a certified crash reconstructionist.
He is currently secretary of the Indiana Association of Certified Accident Investigators, a gang specialist, serves as Indiana Chapter President of the Midwest Gang Investigators Association, and has worked on all three shifts as a patrol officer.
In 2008, he took on the role of animal control/ordinance enforcement for the department, and still serves in that position. He also is the department safety officer and liaison to the local Emergency Planning Committee.
The board approved Sam Weaver to serve as Cox’s replacement at a $1,610 bi-weekly salary.
In other business, Mayor Joe Thallemer announced Michelle Bormet, mayor’s secretary, is retiring after 23 years effective Aug. 29. She has served under three mayors.
Thallemer and Jeff Grose, board member and councilman, thanked Bormet for her service to the city.
“I appreciate all the work she has done and the dedication she has to our community,” Thallemer said.
Grose said when there is a question Bormet always is there to answer it.
The board approved a new hire salary for Staci Young, currently Warsaw Parks Department recreation director, who will serve as the mayor’s secretary effective Aug. 3. Young’s salary will be $1,557.70 bi-weekly.
The board also reviewed an unpaid sewage bill for two apartments at 760 W. Eagle St. owned by Kenneth Anglin.
When the apartments were added to the home there was concern over how to handle the septic system that was being used and the sewer line that was available.
Anglin, who rents out the two apartments above his home, pays for the septic tank to be emptied once a year.
He said since he has this expense it is unfair to pay monthly sewage fees on each of the apartments in addition to his own home, as directed by city ordinance that requires each dwelling unit to be charged for sewage.
“All I want is something fair. I’m not asking to get out of paying it,” Anglin said during Friday’s meeting.
The building and planning department has no records or or plans for the addition to the home and there was never any wastewater charges billed to Anglin other than that of a single home, according to Jeremy Skinner, city planner.
The board approved discounting the payment from $4,694.40 to $4,000 to be paid over a year.
Also during the meeting, the board reviewed an unbilled wastewater charge for Dewayne Busz, who owns a home at 628 S. Lake St. He purchased the home in 2005 and the property has not been billed for wastewater. The unbilled total for the past six years is $2,347.20.
The board tabled approving the waiver until after seeing if a demolition permit has been applied for with the building and planning department for the home that has been unoccupied.
In other business, the board approved:
• A $3,650 contract with Custom Fencing, Warsaw, to replace evidence cage fencing at Warsaw Police Department’s garage. The installation is necessary for WPD to secure evidentiary items in the storage area, according to Scott Whitaker, WPD chief.
• Getting quotes to replace WPD’s animal control vehicle.
• A taxi cab permit for Kerry Clear, Yellow Cab, Warsaw.
• A $3,414 grant from the Indiana Arts Commission to the Warsaw Parks Department to support the Central Park Concert Series.
• A $21,500 contract with DT Construction, Silver Lake, to replace doors at the new city hall on the east side.
New hire salaries were approved including: Elizabeth McKinley, parks department recreation director; $21.16 hourly; Nick King, airport manager, $1,701.93 bi-weekly; Andrew Wright, park laborer, $14.28 an hour; and K. Joe Phillips, Warsaw Wastewater Treatment Utility employee, $15.29 an hour.
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Cox is retiring effective Aug. 2 after 28 years of service.
Cox was hired as a radio dispatcher on Dec. 1, 1982. He started as a street officer in July 1986. During his time at WPD, he has served as a member of the Fatal Alcohol Crash Team as a certified crash reconstructionist.
He is currently secretary of the Indiana Association of Certified Accident Investigators, a gang specialist, serves as Indiana Chapter President of the Midwest Gang Investigators Association, and has worked on all three shifts as a patrol officer.
In 2008, he took on the role of animal control/ordinance enforcement for the department, and still serves in that position. He also is the department safety officer and liaison to the local Emergency Planning Committee.
The board approved Sam Weaver to serve as Cox’s replacement at a $1,610 bi-weekly salary.
In other business, Mayor Joe Thallemer announced Michelle Bormet, mayor’s secretary, is retiring after 23 years effective Aug. 29. She has served under three mayors.
Thallemer and Jeff Grose, board member and councilman, thanked Bormet for her service to the city.
“I appreciate all the work she has done and the dedication she has to our community,” Thallemer said.
Grose said when there is a question Bormet always is there to answer it.
The board approved a new hire salary for Staci Young, currently Warsaw Parks Department recreation director, who will serve as the mayor’s secretary effective Aug. 3. Young’s salary will be $1,557.70 bi-weekly.
The board also reviewed an unpaid sewage bill for two apartments at 760 W. Eagle St. owned by Kenneth Anglin.
When the apartments were added to the home there was concern over how to handle the septic system that was being used and the sewer line that was available.
Anglin, who rents out the two apartments above his home, pays for the septic tank to be emptied once a year.
He said since he has this expense it is unfair to pay monthly sewage fees on each of the apartments in addition to his own home, as directed by city ordinance that requires each dwelling unit to be charged for sewage.
“All I want is something fair. I’m not asking to get out of paying it,” Anglin said during Friday’s meeting.
The building and planning department has no records or or plans for the addition to the home and there was never any wastewater charges billed to Anglin other than that of a single home, according to Jeremy Skinner, city planner.
The board approved discounting the payment from $4,694.40 to $4,000 to be paid over a year.
Also during the meeting, the board reviewed an unbilled wastewater charge for Dewayne Busz, who owns a home at 628 S. Lake St. He purchased the home in 2005 and the property has not been billed for wastewater. The unbilled total for the past six years is $2,347.20.
The board tabled approving the waiver until after seeing if a demolition permit has been applied for with the building and planning department for the home that has been unoccupied.
In other business, the board approved:
• A $3,650 contract with Custom Fencing, Warsaw, to replace evidence cage fencing at Warsaw Police Department’s garage. The installation is necessary for WPD to secure evidentiary items in the storage area, according to Scott Whitaker, WPD chief.
• Getting quotes to replace WPD’s animal control vehicle.
• A taxi cab permit for Kerry Clear, Yellow Cab, Warsaw.
• A $3,414 grant from the Indiana Arts Commission to the Warsaw Parks Department to support the Central Park Concert Series.
• A $21,500 contract with DT Construction, Silver Lake, to replace doors at the new city hall on the east side.
New hire salaries were approved including: Elizabeth McKinley, parks department recreation director; $21.16 hourly; Nick King, airport manager, $1,701.93 bi-weekly; Andrew Wright, park laborer, $14.28 an hour; and K. Joe Phillips, Warsaw Wastewater Treatment Utility employee, $15.29 an hour.
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