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Town ponders pool while police get new Tasers

Posted on 22 October 2008

Muller Pool committee members Don Page, Lucas Konger and Liz Schemm are shown at a fundraising booth during Turlte Days Festival in June.
The Churubusco Town Council talked with two members of the Muller Community Pool committee at Wednesday’s meeting, telling them they still are considering donating two acres in the park for the project, but first must have an attorney hammer out the legalities.

Board president Viv Sade told pool representatives Liz Schemm and Lucas Konger she also wants to speak to park board members individually to get their thoughts on the project before proceeding. She said she plans to go to the November park board meeting.

Jeff Schenher, an audience member, said the town should consider selling the property to the pool committee and then putting that money into an escrow account in the event that the pool goes bankrupt.

“That would pay for the taxpayers having to fill that hole in the park,” Schenher said.

The Council plans to discuss the issue further at their second meeting in November when their attorney has finished the project research and after Sade talks to park board members.

In other business, Chad Fulkerson, town marshal, reported to the council that his department had purchased four new Tasers, three for three of the four full-time officers and one for a reserve officer - because Fulkerson said, those were the only ones so far who were certified to use the Tasers.

Fulkerson said it should eliminate the use for pepper spray and he will rewrite the operations manual to include a statement noting that a Churubusco Police officer must be certified in Taser use before he/she can be armed with a Taser. 

 

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