Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Four new reserve officers sworn in Tuesday bring numbers to seven.
The Mendota Heights Police Department began a reserve unit in 1967 to support the sworn police officers working in the field. The program fell by the wayside until 2009 when the unit was revived under the guidance of volunteer Captain Jerry Murphy, who was the remaining member of the original program. Tuesday night, the department swore in four new reserve officers. The Reserve Unit also accepted the resignations of two officers, who are leaving for family and work obligations according to Sgt. Brian Convery, bringing the number of police reserves to seven. It takes 42 hours of basic training in addition to volunteer time and extensive background checks to make the cut. Two of the reserve officers recently completed formal programs to …
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Monday, April 18, 2011
One bike found abandoned at Henry Sibley, another found hanging in a tree.
All information was taken from the Mendota Heights Police Department incident summaries from March 29-April 14. April 12 A driver pulled over on Highway 110 had new tabs that did not show up in the system, no license and no insurance. The driver told police he’d been pulled over the day before in St. Paul for the same thing. April 11 A black BMX bike was found abandoned at Henry Sibley High School. April 10 A wedding ring was reported stolen from Hokah Avenue. A squad pulled over to help a driver noticed a car drive by under the speed limit that may no attempt to move over a lane. That driver was pulled over and appeared impaired. The suspect had multiple aliases and warrants. A car parked at St. Thomas Academy was reported vandalized. …
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
The city may have to pay out a lump sum for earned vacation benefits before it can start enforcing a cap.
The city of Mendota Heights is known for providing good benefits to its employees. But when Mendota Heights City Administrator David McKnight started inspecting the books last year, he realized that some city workers have been accruing vacation hours worth thousands of dollars. Rather than enforcing a city policy that unused vacation must expire at the end of every year, the city has been allowing the hours to accrue, and paying off sometimes-sizeable lumps of vacation benefits in the case of a retirement. Now, 15 employees with the city have vacation balances that exceed 200 hours each, and the city faces the task of paying down those hours in 2011 dollars before it can start enforcing their own statute again. The cost? $114,142 and …
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Tim Minea
12:01 pm on Friday, February 4, 2011
All right you rubber- neckers, let's move it along. Nothing to see here, just a little accounting fender - bender. And after all, this is a police matter. No need to trouble your little heads. Mere matter of accruals, hardly worth a second look. more ›