Fire and Police Commission adopts consent items and approves promotions by roll call

The Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission moved through its consent agenda and personnel items on Jan. 22 after an extended public-comment period and a presentation on vehicle-pursuit policy.

The commission adopted the consent agenda containing routine meeting minutes and job announcement resolutions. Later in the meeting the commission approved a promotion to emergency communications officer 3 (item 20) and two fire-captain promotions (item 21) by roll call vote; each roll call returned unanimous "aye" votes.

Roll-call votes recorded the following votes on the emergency communications promotion: Commissioner Burgos, aye; Commissioner Evans, aye; Commissioner Fung, aye; Commissioner Ramey, aye; Commissioner Snyder, aye; Commissioner Spence, aye; Commissioner Spencer, aye; Commissioner Ward Patterson, aye; and the chair voted aye. The same pattern of unanimous support was recorded for the fire captain promotions.

Items 17 and 18 (communications related to other MPD policy changes and community/problem-oriented policing) were held to a future meeting. The executive director also presented the FPC staffing and operations report (item 19), and staff noted an uptick in stability after two FPC staff promotions in 2025.