coming up on oakdale update we'll chat with washing county sheriff bill hutton will tell you the winners of the acorn award and will give you an early look at the holiday helping hands program which is quickly approaching stay tuned oakdale update is well i have mine a graduate degree from the university of river falls and from there i received my masters from the university of st thomas so i do have a masters and i also attended the f b i s national academy were selected law enforcement of forest lake about boners the boundary of the city well me and all the way down to the south then we're a very small slice of hastings is in washington county as well and then of course we how do you patrol that hole that much area how many people do you have or how do you you have substations or how do you control that's a big distance you know it is a huge area there's thirty three cities and towns ships within this really of washington county now you know like the city of oakdale they have their own police department so the washing county sheriff's office does not do if you will routine police patrolling within the cities that have their own local law enforcement agency but the others we do and it is a vast on kind of boundary or area to cover we do have substations i'll give you a great example the city of hugo they have thirty proximately thirteen thousand people in the town thirteen plus we have officers or deputies who report directly to that area someone said of coming to washington to sheriff's office in stillwater they go directly to that area we began that at the end of two thousand and eight beginning of areas instead of the deputy coming right to the sheriff's office to get roll call to go right to the area the cars are there got to be smarter than that i mean but you know it's more efficient if you think about it it's twenty five to thirty minutes one name or something we do have the contract we've we've had a contract for many years but we just over the last you know three for you yours began with the remote site so that was exactly sure if a deputy was on or his or her way back to the sheriff's office and a call came out they would turn around or we'd have a deputy who was a general car roll in for that so it would take longer our response time would take long  twenty four hour nine one one service to the citizens of washington county it's they handle you know life can up the top of my head the number of calls that we handle but we are twenty four seven for washington the entire county so there are no other dispatch centers in washington county so if a call were to come in the city of oak hill it immediately goes so if you was a resident of o p l you call nine one one it goes to the washington county dispatch center and we will then dispatch the o p l officers non emergency phone calls also come in to the washington county dispatch center where we dispatch o p l or able to provide whatever services is needed that does that take longer i mean go all the way to stillwater and back to you know it's actually more efficient it is yes that's where all the nine one one calls come in that's where the records management system is that's where if you figure it we have ten law enforcement agencies in fourteen different fire departments within washington early instead of having twenty four different different this bad centers to aid each of those we have one making it more efficient raible to provide a better service so of so it's a very complex does well in for instance about sixty percent sixty five percent of all nine one one calls now were made from cell phones really so if you think about it  landline you know land lines what we lose your home phone all that information is in there in a limited come the dispatch will think about the complexity and the technology that is needed if a nine one one call comes in again sixty five percent the call nine one trick if they come in and there's a lot of people can talk if there's an injury in the call nine one one from their cell phone we have to have the technology available to us in order to find out where that person is only very it's interesting everybody enforcement officers within washington county that about sixty of them are assigned to the patrol division so they again they're either in the contracts or they're out and about in a general area in the township providing services is something again to bring this back to the city of oakdale if an event were to occur within the city of oakdale a significant event we have cars to assist as well so when they're off doing your general routine patrol answering service calls if a significant event were to happen let's say in oakdale then we would respond but likewise if a significant event is to occur within  investigation division we have a several areas within that i have specialized services we have i can act which is internet crimes against children which is computer forensics we have fraud we have youth that happened my house because i live in oakdale they're pleased to take care of this sort of thing right you are correct but if they needed helpers expertise would they come to you well not necessarily expertise because again i was in  you know when i started a sheriff in two thousand and seven we average population was two hundred five fortunately and it's a good thing our average population below about one fifth the right now but it's still a significant part of what we do are we can hold up to two hundred twenty eight prisoners each day but again again we're averaging about one hundred fifty hundred fifty couple each day but i tell you what it's not like you just throw approach jail right correct ok who pays for that that prisoner being there is that just come out of the general county feet that comes from the levee exact ok so that is a county levy that comes to cover  individual let's say an individual pickup in oakdale for burglary and the appeal officers will drop the individual off of jail they get booked into jail then they put into intake and then they put into general population but all that again clothing feeding housing personnel all the things that go into that do come from county level or well just as an aside to that is how the the crime rate in in the wash and county how is it going or down or what's cooking their crime since about two thousand and seven two thousand and eight in washington county has been going down which is great again fantastic you know when law enforcement talk about crime we talk about them in part one and part two crimes part despite what we see on the news about you know the recent tragedy that occurred within the city of oakdale so those are pretty high profile contant kind of things and in part two crimes are more of the what i call the quality of life kind of things people smashing your mailbox to breaking into your car causing damage that number is going down as well but is not gone down as much in reason i still kind of trying to figure out why we're  court building in a go about their business but some significant things occur within the courts we have i have fourteen people assigned to the courts of vision i have to come in or sergeant and then folks that provide security within the courtroom there is a statute that says that the county sheriff will provide security to the courthouse so our goal is to make that court building a safe place for people to go to conduct their business now folks ma speeding ticket they want to walk in through there and walk into the court in deal with that either they have a court trial for it or they go and they meet with a hearing officer or whatever we want to make sure that's a safe environment for them because there are other things that happen within the courthouse as well there homicide trials there are burglary trials or civil trials there are all the other trials that are connected to each observer and so i times it can be on pretty tense area and so we want to make sure it's a safe environment for those that there's it there for those that weren't there in for those that it would conduct business ok is that security or are they regular police officers are we it's a mixture we have and we also have court security deputies swimmer licensed peace officers well we are so out of time it's ridiculous here but do you get a role in here and there was so much to cover i think we're going to have to have you back another time because there's just more and more to cover  sounds great that ok with you yes or very well thanks for joining us today in oakdale update thank you it's not time for our defining development segment each month we profile a different business in our community here's this month's business owner oster bender was on hand as were various city officials venturing to other mcdonald's franchises in the area and is excited to serve customers in oakdale oh i hope that you do expect fast service and his wife nancy are longtime oakdale residents will transform their backyard into a paradise of wild flowers plants and shrubs for their efforts the scooter has recently received special backyard wildlife certification from the national wildlife federation you provide year round food water nesting area and areas for animals to raise their young and then you are eligible to just receive that certification as backyard wildlife habitat glenn and his family love to sit out on their deck and admire all the wildlife the yard attracts the variety of flowers that we have it attracts a lot of different themselves woodpeckers come through a lot of cardinals chickadees hatches you know we've got a nice diversity of birds even though the scooters like working in the yard the wildlife habitat doesn't take up much of their time the biggest work load is like right in the spring when the weeds and the grasses they don't want in there start a certain selves and if you kind of get ahead of that do some good kind of weeding right at the beginning of the spring  then it's just some spot weeding the rest of the summer which is really not a lot and then you're good you know so you know it's not mow and every week it is no fertilizing going on  it is actually pretty low maintenance overall it's time for short break but first here is this month's trivia question the o p o recreation department as part of their fall festival activities will again have a haunted hayride for you along the trails of oakdale park on thursday october twenty seventh from six to eight pm there will be a haunted graveyard torture chamber haunted ship wreck and much more trivia question is how many years has a recreation department held the haunted hayride is it five years ten years or fifteen years ago the answer later in the show a gray what do you do when in the bushes oh nothing just doing some bird watching yeah yeah you know this doesn't seem like such a great place for bird watching all right i was just trying to get a look inside my city hall i don't know any other way to get information greg you're such a silly man you don't have to be a creepy spy why don't you just watch g t n t t s yeah g t n the government television network it's on cable channel and they've got a ton of information of everything that's going on in the twelve different communities in the northeast suburbs of ramsey and washington county no kidding you mean i can get all this information by watching channel sixteen at my own home you welcome back to oakdale update each year several thousand dollars of gifts and food are donated to help families and or deal through the o b p s holiday helping hands program here's a closer look at this program which will be happening again before you know it every year hundreds of families in our community go without over sixteen years ago the business and professional association founded the holiday helping hand know is still there and it just seems to be expanding in the early is a distance of the first times when you get all of this with one santa one pickup truck and about five monitors i think maybe me at one or two or three families is donated and will go right to the famil we need help we need your support reach out your hands and help us not only provide tests to this building but provide hope that brighter days a act to come your delegation to the holiday we're almost out of time but first let's answer a trivia question we asked you how many years as a recreation department held a haunted he ride the correct answer is fifteen years the recreation department started the haunted hayride the year after moving into the nature center building at forty four forty four headley avenue nor the participants at this year's event will need to be aware of ghosts and goblins that haunt the parks as they traveled on to trails of the oakdale nature preserve on thursday october twenty seventh they will enjoy spokeo refresh once upon their return and can make a craft to take home with them for more information or to register call the recreation department at six five one seven four seven three eight six zero zero that's all we have time for for everyone at the city of oakdale thanks for watching we leave you this time with photos of the acorn award winners each year the city receives nominations for its acorn awards which recognizes well maintain a static lee pleasing properties that go above and beyond typical maintenance this year properties were selected in five categories to receive the twenty eleven