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EVANSVILLE POLICE MERIT COMMISSION MEETING AGENDA

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EVANSVILLE POLICE MERIT COMMISSION

MEETING AGENDA

Monday, August 26th, 2024

4:15 p.m.  Room 307, Civic Center Complex

  1. EXECUTIVE SESSION:
  1. An executive session will be held prior to the open session.
  1. The executive session is closed as provided by:
  1. I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(5): To receive information about and interview prospective employees.
  2. I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(6)(A): With respect to any individual over whom the governing body has jurisdiction to receive information concerning the individual’s alleged misconduct.
  3. I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(9): To discuss a job performance evaluation of individual employees.  This subdivision does not apply to a discussion of the salary, compensation, or benefits of employees during a budget process.
  1. OPEN SESSION:
  1. CALL TO ORDER:
  1. ACKNOWLEDGE GUESTS:
  1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
    1. August 8th, 2024 (Johnson-Kincaid, Thompson)
  1. APPROVAL OF CLAIMS:
  1. REQUESTS FOR FUNDS:
    1. Modification to request to purchase a candidate feedback report for the participants of the 2024 Promotional Process for the Rank of Captain. 
  1. PROBATIONARY OFFICER UPDATE:
    1. Update for Probationary Officers in SWILEA and Field Training. 
  1. APPLICANTS:
    1. 24-020
    2. 24-052
    3. 23-077
    4. 24-060
    5. 24-071
  1. REMINDERS:  
    1. The next schedule meeting is Monday, September 9th, 2024, at 4:15pm.
  1. ADJOURNMENT:

USI celebrates award recipients at annual Volunteer USI Recognition Dinner

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Volunteer USI celebrated its 2024 award recipients and dedicated volunteer community during the annual Volunteer USI Recognition Dinner on Wednesday, August 21. This year, more than 610 volunteers were invited to celebrate their involvement.

Volunteer USI recognizes three award recipients each year who have contributed outstanding service to USI and/or the community. The award categories recognized are Volunteer of the Year, Mentor of the Year and Student Volunteer of the Year.

Volunteer of the Year – Lauren Perigo ’13 M’24

Perigo graduated magna cum laude in 2013 with degrees in German studies, mathematics and a certificate in accountancy and earned an MBA in 2024, all from USI. She is a Director at Bridge Alternatives in Evansville.

A devoted alumna, Perigo served as a USI Accounting Circle Young Professional from 2019-21. While a member, she supported USI students, faculty, and staff in identifying objectives, strategies, goals, curriculum components and opportunities related to the Accounting and Professional Services Program.

She has used the skills she developed at USI to become a leader in the community. After serving as a board member for the Warrick Humane Society, she saw a need for more engagement between the dogs and the community. In 2019, she created the “Warrick Tails on Trails” program. Each Saturday morning, Perigo coordinates up to 50 volunteers to help dogs get the exercise they need, walking trails in Warrick County.

Her leadership has fostered an inclusive group of volunteers united by their love of animals. Often, dog walkers fall in love with their next family member and adopt a dog because of this program. Tails on Trails continued through the COVID pandemic, offering an opportunity for community members to socialize and exercise at a distance.

One of her five nominators writes, “Lauren’s contributions to USI and the community are a testament to her dedication and passion for making a positive impact on the world. Her volunteer work has not only improved the lives of animals and community members but has also promoted a sense of social responsibility as people learn more about rescuing animals and become advocates themselves.”

Mentor of the Year – Lindsey Mehringer ’10

Mehringer received degrees in radiologic and imaging sciences and health services from USI in 2010. She is a sonographer at Ascension St. Vincent Evansville and is credentialed in abdominal, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatric and vascular sonography. She is one of only 16 people credentialed in all four of these specialties in Indiana.

Mehringer has significantly impacted USI and the greater community through her mentoring activities. As a clinical preceptor at Ascension St. Vincent Evansville, she is responsible for coordinating clinical educational experience and communicating with the sonography faculty at USI. She graciously works with sonography students each semester, which allows the sonography program to provide quality clinical educational experience for its students.

She mentored 13 diagnostic medical sonography students in the past year, devoting more time than anyone else in the program.

Overseeing these students requires a substantial time commitment. Sonography students participate in clinical education for eight-hour shifts, three to four days per week. She does this in addition to her responsibilities as the department’s lead sonographer, which includes scanning patients, assisting the radiologists in performing invasive procedures, and creating work and call schedules. Lindsey has been instrumental in the sonography program’s national certification exam pass rate of 100%. She also has served as adjunct faculty for the Diagnostic Medical Sonography program.

Her nominator writes, “Lindsey is an alumna of the program of which she now serves as a mentor. This makes her an ideal teacher and role model as she has experienced the exact same educational journey as her mentees and is able to empathize with them in their struggles and triumphs.”

Student Volunteer of the Year – Tamia Smith

Smith is a senior psychology major with three minors: Africana studies, sociology and Spanish.

She is highly respected among her peers and is known throughout the campus community for the relationships she has built during her time at USI.

Smith joined the Student Ambassador Organization during the Spring Semester of her freshman year. Her work with this organization has been vital to the University’s recruitment efforts. In her first semester as an Ambassador, she was recognized as the Top New Member for her outstanding volunteer efforts, having donated more time to the program than any other Ambassador. For the past two years, she has been recognized as the Top Overall Ambassador. Smith is quick to provide extra tours to groups visiting campus.

As current President of the Student Government Association, she dedicates time to ensuring students have a voice on campus. One of her main goals for the 2024-25 academic year is to continue creating diverse spaces for students of all races, ethnicities, genders and sexualities to be seen and heard.

As a mentor for the Emerging Leaders program, Smith helped future campus leaders harness their strengths and identify ways to create a positive impact on our campus. She also assisted with coordinating social events, a retreat and a ceremony for graduating members. She planned weekly leadership sessions for 40 first-year students, all in addition to mentoring participants and attending weekly meetings.

In addition to these volunteer efforts, Smith is involved in USI’s Riley Dance Marathon, serves as an Orientation Leader for incoming new students and participates in the Black Student Union.

Her nominator writes, “Tamia exemplifies our culture of care on campus in her interactions with families as a Student Ambassador. During large scale events, Tamia is often one of the last Ambassadors to leave because as she is so engaged with the families; she ensures all their questions are answered and they have seen everything they want to see. She truly understands what it means to support her community and finds ways that set a positive example for all students on campus.”

Board of School Trustees of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation Meeting

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The Board of School Trustees of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation will meet for the regularly scheduled Board meeting Monday, August 26, 2024 at 5:30 PM in the Board Room of the EVSC Administration Building located at 951 Walnut Street, Evansville, IN. Board meetings can also be observed by tuning to EVSC’s radio station, 90.7 WPSR or live streamed online at https://www.wpsrhd.com/.

As previously advertised, the Board of School Trustees will also hold two (2) Public Hearings to take public testimony from Vanderburgh County residents regarding the following: Building Projects for the General Obligation Bond 2024B and Site Projects for the General Obligation Bond 2024B.

Prior to the regularly scheduled Board meeting, three members of the Board, along with district administrators, will hold a Town Hall beginning at 5:00 PM. This Town Hall is for Vanderburgh County residents to speak directly with Board members in attendance about issues involving EVSC schools. The Town Hall will be held in the Technology and Innovation Center located at 951 Walnut Street, Evansville, IN. Members of the public who would like to attend the Town Hall should register by completing the Town Hall Registration Form located on our website at district.evscschools.com.

HELL HATH NO FURY!

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GAVEL GAMUT

By Jim Redwine

www.jamesmredwine.com

(Week of 26 August 2024)

HELL HATH NO FURY!

Abigail Adams (1744-1818) was the wife of our second president, John Adams, and the mother of our sixth, John Quincy Adams. She wielded great influence over both but could not secure for women the right to vote. Her effort in the cause of female rights is exemplified by the following excerpt from one of her numerous letters to John while he was deeply involved in the Continental Congress:

“- I long to hear that you have declared an independency [from Great Britain] – and by the way in the new Code of Laws [The Declaration of Independence and new Articles of the Confederation] which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice or Representation.” (April 1776)

A mere 144 years later most American women who were twenty-one years or older got the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. However, in the meantime there was hell to pay for a lot of people who forgot the aphorism, “Hell Hath No Fury Like Women Scorned!” (from a 1697 English play by William Congreve, 1670-1729). Perhaps John Adams and his fellow Founding Fathers, they were all men at the Continental Convention, should have listened. Perhaps they might have saved the United States 144 years of angst and saved themselves many nights on the couch.

It is not as if women, and a lot of men too, were not struggling mightily for many years to give females equality. Such courageous heroines as Dolly Madison (1768-1849), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) and Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) were marching lecturing, writing and enduring social, political and even physical danger in the cause of female suffrage. And in my own family my grandmother, who had no right to vote until she was well beyond 21, instilled in my mother, who well remembered when women could not vote, the debt she and other women owed to those pioneers. The best way to repay it was to exercise their dearly bought franchise. My 87-year-old sister Janie was imbued with this burning ardor as is my wife, Peg, who is not 87 but whose dearly departed mother lit that same flame in her.

My sister is a testament to how sacred many women, and many men also, hold the right to vote. Janie has been diagnosed with a slowly progressing but debilitating illness that many would have called uncle to before now. However, I am confident nothing will prevent her from participating in an election that might result in our first female president. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote that I bet included Janie’s. But she and her distaff cohorts now have another chance. I have no doubt my beloved, and committed sister will make it to November 05 and, hopefully well beyond, the medical folks are of the opinion that they have no opinion. “It will be what it will be”, they say.

I think it may turn out that Peg’s mother, my mother and even our grandmothers and great grandmothers, all of whom have gone onto their rewards, may find some way to join Janie and Peg at the polls November 05, 2024, only 248 years after Abigail’s entreaty to John. Of course, many will exercise their rights in support of their contemporary female hopefuls but many women will vote for men on the ticket. And many men will freely vote for the fairer sex but will also support the men on the ballots.

In other words, gender will no longer be, and should never have been, a determining factor in either choosing a candidate or having the right to make such a choice. Congratulations to all of us for no longer basing our vital political selections on sex, no matter what that designation may be. Abigail should be beaming wherever she is.

For more Gavel Gamut articles go to www.jamesmredwine.com

EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT

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USI Volleyball projected to finish 6th in OVC

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EVANSVILLE, Ind.- University of Southern Indiana Volleyball is projected to finish sixth in the Ohio Valley Conference Preseason Poll voted by the conference’s head coaches’ and sport communicators.
 
The conference returns all 11 OVC schools from the 2023 season. The schedule features an 18-game conference slate nine home, nine away playing nine OVC squads twice. The regular season champion hosts the OVC tournament to culminate the seasons efforts in an eight-team single elimination tournament. 
 
Following a second-place finish in 2023, Southeast Missouri State University was picked to finish first in the preseason poll. The Redhawks received 167 total votes and six first-place votes. The 2023 regular season and tournament champions, Eastern Illinois University were selected right behind SEMO with 166 total votes and five first-place votes. Morehead State University also received five first-place votes coming in at third with 163 total votes. Morehead State was eliminated by the Eagles last year in the OVC tournament quarterfinals.
 
Tennessee Tech University returns multiple key returners including two on the All-OVC Preseason team. The Golden Eagles earned 153 total votes along with four first-place votes to place fourth. Lindenwood University also earned two All-OVC Preseason team members. The Lions are projected just above USI at fifth with 145 total votes and one first-place vote.
 
After a vastly improved 2023 conference season making it to the conference semifinals, the Screaming Eagles earned 97 total votes at sixth-place. USI returns four of the six starters from 2023, looking to rely on key returners to step up, along with the addition of two freshman and two key transfers. Rounding out the final five is University of Tennessee at Martin (84), Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (83, one first-place vote), Western Illinois University (74), University of Arkansas at Little Rock (51), and Tennessee State University (29).
 
As part of the OVC’s preseason announcement, junior middle hitter Bianca Anderson (Chicago Heights, Illinois) represented USI on the 2024 OVC Volleyball Preseason Players to Watch List. Anderson looks to continue to improve, stepping into a bigger role in 2024. The middle hitter nearly doubled her production in 2023 collecting 244 kills, 63 blocks, along with leading the team in hitting percentage at .259.
 
USI kicks off the season with three straight road invitationals, matching up with three different schools at each invite. The Eagles open the season traveling to Bradley University (Aug. 30-31), University of Florida (Sep. 6-8), and Indiana University (Sep. 13-14). The squad returns to town to play at University of Evansville (Sep. 17), before their home opening weekend in a re-match with UE (Sep. 20), along with a battle against Indiana University Indianapolis (Sep. 21). USI starts conference play hosting SEMO on back-to-back days (Sep. 27-28).
 
2024 OVC Soccer Predicted Order of Finish
(as voted on by the league’s head coaches and communication directors)
1. Southeast Missouri (6) – 167
2. Eastern Illinois (5) – 164
3. Morehead State (5) – 163
4. Tennessee Tech (4) – 153
5. Lindenwood (1) – 145
6. Southern Indiana – 97
7. UT Martin – 84
8. SIUE – (1) 83
9. Western Illinois – 74
10. Little Rock – 51
11. Tennessee State – 27

2024 OVC Players to Watch
Kaitlyn Flynn, Eastern Illinois
Allie Otten, Lindenwood
Bella Cherry, Little Rock
Peighton Isley, Morehead State
Sydney Hummert, SIUE
Abby Johnson, Southeast Missouri
Bianca Anderson, Southern Indiana
Sagaia Reilly, Tennessee State
Mallory Jenkins, Tennessee Tech
Dylan Mott, UT Martin
Maggie Craker, Western Illinois

Eagles kick off home slate with draw against Robert Morris

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Eagles kick off home slate with draw against Robert Morris

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Women’s Soccer recorded a 2-2 draw against Robert Morris University Thursday night to open the Screaming Eagles’ 2024 home slate at Strassweg Field.
 
Southern Indiana (0-1-1) started the match with an energetic burst, getting on the scoreboard in the seventh minute of the match. USI’s first goal of the 2024 regular season was scored off a header by redshirt freshman Eva Boer (St. Charles, Illinois) on a pair of connections from midfielder Pilar Torres (Chula Vista, California) and sophomore midfielder Kerigan Kivisto (Collierville, Tennessee) to give USI an early 1-0 advantage.
 
USI’s defense played a strong first half against an impressive offensive attack from Robert Morris (2-0-0). Redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Anna Markland (Hoover, Alabama) made a spectacular save on a one-on-one attempt against Robert Morris’ front line.
 
Southern Indiana continued to develop opportunities deep into Robert Morris’ defensive third. Junior defender Brynn Quick (Cottage Grove, Minnesota) had a scoring opportunity off a corner kick that was saved, but in the last 90 seconds of the first half, junior forward Payton Seymour (Louisville, Kentucky) doubled USI’s opening-half lead to 2-0 by finding the back of the net off an assist from junior midfielder Emerson Grafton (Camas, Washington) and freshman midfielder Josie Pochocki (LaGrange Park, Illinois). The Eagles’ 2-0 lead carried into halftime.
 
Out of the break, USI’s defense continued to withhold the pressure from the Colonials, including a quick save by Markland. On the flip side of the field, the Screaming Eagles’ continued their offensive pressure with three shots in the first 10 minutes of the second half, including a shot at the top of the box from Torres that flew slightly above the crossbar.
 
However, Robert Morris ramped up its attack and pushed numbers forward. The Colonials pulled within a goal, 2-1, in the 65th minute on a header by junior forward Paloma Swankler that bounced high and into the goal.
 
The Screaming Eagles created multiple attempts toward an insurance goal, featuring three shots in a two-minute span. Seymour nearly had her second goal of the evening with a header that grazed the outside part of the post and out.
 
The relentlessness of Robert Morris eventually led to the game-tying goal in the 84th minute on a lofted breakaway shot attempt by graduate senior forward Haleigh Finale. The 2-2 score held firm in the final minutes.
 
For the contest, Southern Indiana outshot Robert Morris, 19-15. The Screaming Eagles placed 10 chances on goal. Not only scoring a goal in the game, Seymour tallied a team-high four shots with two on frame. Kivisto had three shots to go along with an assist. Boer finished with two shots, including the game’s first goal. Between the posts, Markland totaled three saves.
 
Next up, the Screaming Eagles embark on a two-game road trip that begins Sunday at Noon (CT) against Eastern Kentucky University. Coverage links of the match can be found at usiscreamingeagles.com.

 

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VUVB starts season strong with Region sweep over Wabash Valley

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VUVB starts season strong with Region sweep over Wabash Valley

VINCENNES, Ind. – The three-time defending Region 24 Champion Vincennes University Trailblazer volleyball team opened their 2024 regular season Thursday night in the Physical Education Complex in style by winning over Wabash Valley College 25-11, 25-8, 25-14.

The win extends VU’s winning streak over Region 24 opponents to 39 matches.

Vincennes opened the season strong in the first set, scoring six of the first seven points to grab an early lead before extending their lead to 13-5 midway through the set.

VU closed out the opening set of the season on a 10-2 scoring run to take set one 25-11 over the Warriors and gain the early 1-0 match lead.

The Blazers continued to ride this momentum into set two, again jumping out to an early 6-1 lead before using a 7-0 scoring run to build a 16-6 advantage.

Vincennes gained complete control of the set by closing out set two on with nine unanswered points to take the second set 25-8 and gain a 2-0 match lead.

Set three got off to a slow start for the Trailblazers as the visiting Warriors looked to avoid the sweep.

Wabash Valley used an early 5-0 run to swing the momentum and built a 12-10 lead midway through the set.

Vincennes responded very well in front of the home crowd, scoring 13 straight points as part of a larger 15-2 scoring run to close out the second set 25-14 and finish out the three set sweep over Wabash Valley.

“From beginning to end, our serving was really next level,” VUVB Head Coach Gary Sien said. “We finished with six aces, but that’s not how we judge effective serving. We want to target certain players and take them out of their offense. Wabash Valley has a nice middle attack but we didn’t really get to see that tonight because we took them off of their passing game. To be able to run the middle, your passing has to really be on point right at the net. So we wanted to take that away and also target certain players to take them out of the game, tire them out and take them out of their rhythm.”

“Our serving was very effective at that,” Sien added. “It was a tough serve and was able to move the passer around. When you have that and you set it up to where you kind of know where the offense is going to go, then you have a very strong block and we had that tonight as well. It’s not a stat that’s tracked, but we got a number of points tonight on shots that Wabash Valley hit out because of our block.”

“Elisa had a big blocking night and she was in several plays where she would block two or three,” Sien said. “The first couple didn’t get down but she kept after it and got the block kill. Elisa, Dylan and Libby each had some big serving runs in the game as well. Elisa and Dylan each had 12 serving attempts and Libby had 27. When your servers can get that many attempts, that means you are going on some big runs. Libby finished with 27 attempts and only one error, that means we scored. We always want our setters to be some of our top servers and she was pretty strategic throughout the match.”

The Trailblazer offense was led by a two-headed attack from sophomores Laura Tavares (Merida, Venezuela) and Isadora Dias (Rio Grande de Norte, Brazil).

Both hitters led the Blazers with nine kills each, while Tavares added two blocks and one set assists and Dias added a pair of aces and two digs.

Sophomore Elisa Dalla Pozza (Vincenza, Italy) had a very nice match at the net, finishing with four kills, a team-high six blocks, including four solo blocks and a pair of aces.

Freshman Paulina Fister (Tuszyn, Poland) played well in her collegiate debut, finishing with three kills, four digs, one ace and one set assist.

Sophomore Allison Czyzewski (Louisville, Ill.) finished her night with two kills and one set assist, while freshman Martyna Sadowska (Pila, Poland) and sophomore Libby Mehringer (Jasper, Ind.) rounded out the VU offense with one kill each.

Sadowska would also add one dig and Mehringer would lead the Blazers with 12 set assists, one dig and one ace on the night.

Sophomore Dylan DeCoursey (Montgomery, Ind.) also helped run the VU offense, finishing her night with nine set assists and one dig.

Sophomore libero Grace Flexter (Oblong, Ill.) rounded out the VU box score with some outstanding defense on her way to a team-high seven digs and three set assists.

“I thought Isadora had a nice match tonight,” Sien said. “She only recorded two digs but she read the offense really well and she didn’t really play any defense last year. I thought she serve received very well. That’s another part of the game I thought we did really well. I thought we serve received extremely well tonight and finished with only one error as a team tonight.”

“Serve receiving is so mental,” Sien added. “You have to be out there and just be so confident. If you feel off, frustrated or scared, you are never going to get that. I always found as a player that was a very tough skill. If we handle that part well and are able to run our offense, then that prevents teams from being able to go on runs against us.”

“Elisa did really well tonight with her blocking,” Sien said. “Isadora had a good all-around game, hitting and playing back row. Laura swung really well. I said in the season preview, if you give her a nice set, it’s hard to stop her. I thought Grace had a pretty nice match too. She read the offense really well and serve received extremely well. Libby ran a really nice offense, served really well and played some good defense. So we had several players who had really nice matches out there tonight.”

“But it was the mentality that we want,” Sien added. “During the scrimmages we were up and down, but tonight we weren’t waiting for one person to step up, everybody stepped up. We grew up a little bit from yesterday’s scrimmage. There were times when we played okay and there were time when we just played bad but that’s why we scrimmage. I thought we took some big steps forward as a team from yesterday to tonight.”

The Trailblazers will look to keep this early season momentum going into their next match when VU hosts Region 24 opponent Shawnee Community College Saturday, Aug. 24 inside the Physical Education Complex for a Region 24 doubleheader.

The first match of the day is set to begin at 12 p.m. eastern, with match two to follow.

“We have to stay on task,” Sien said. “Shawnee is going to be a much different team than Wabash Valley and we have to treat them like we did Wabash Valley. We can’t take anybody for granted. We’re not going to disrespect someone. We are just going to play hard and compete. Otherwise, we’re just wasting our time.”

“Everybody better come ready to play with back-to-back matches,” Sien added. “We rarely play back-to-back matches, especially at home. We just have to be competitive. It doesn’t matter who is on the other side of the net. Every game is big, that way we are consistent in our mindset. Our goal is to treat Shawnee like we did Wabash Valley. If we do that, then we will be fine.”

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