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City of Taylorsville Newsletter
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TVPD Celebrates Fifth-Grade Holiday Card Design Winners Get to know the new TVPD. Check this space each month for articles highlighting the units and employees that make up the Taylorsville City Police Department. Congratulations to our two 2021 Taylorsville fifth-grade holiday card design winners — Nevaeh Teo of Acradia Elementary (Mrs. Hunsaker’s class) and Ezekiel Cryer of Fox Hills Elementary (Mrs. Kambouris’ class). It has been a long tradition of the Taylorsville Police Department to solicit help from local fifth-graders to design our official holiday card. In addition to having their drawings featured on the card, the winners will be taken to lunch by Mayor Kristie Overson, Chief Brady Cottam and Dets. Kyle Andrew and Daniel Christensen, who act as liaisons with our local elementary schools. The goal of this program is simply to provide positive experiences between our law enforcement officers and local fifth-grade and elementary school-age students. More than 250 entries were submitted to our holiday card contest this year. As the winners, Ezekiel and Nevaeh, along with their families, attended the Jan. 5 City Council meeting where they were introduced to the council and administration. It was a full house as many of our elected officials were also sworn in that night. Ezekiel and Nevaeh did not shy at the opportunity; they stood before a packed house and were presented as the card winners. Nevaeh’s mom describes her as a blessing to their family and someone who is always kind and willing to help. Nevaeh enjoys P.E. and social studies classes, playing board games and volleyball. Ezekiel is described as fun and outgoing. He loves math, video games, sports and music. Both Ezekiel and Nevaeh, of course, also love drawing. We thank both students, as well as all the fifth-graders who participated. We are also grateful to all educators in the community — their great examples — and recognize the role each plays in shaping our future generations.
TVPD Employee of the Month Please join us in congratulating Records Manager Donny Gasu as our TVPD Employee of the Month. Gasu is a member of our civilian staff and has over 10 years’ experience working in Law Enforcement. Gasu has worked for both Unified Police Department and Taylorsville Police Department. He has also worked directly for the City of Taylorsville as emergency planning manager. In total, he has served the citizens of Taylorsville for more than 12 years. Gasu has served in various capacities, which include evidence technician, emergency planning manager and records manager. Gasu always has a positive attitude and is willing to tackle any challenge or task that is assigned to him. It is this positive attitude that prompted Chief
Brady Cottam to nominate Gasu as Employee of the Month. Chief Cottam described Gasu’s positive attitude as contagious and called his work ethic and willingness to learn as unmatched. As TVPD continues to evolve and implement innovative ideas, Gasu was tasked with creating a new statistical tracking method for the department. This data will be presented at City Council meetings to our local elected, city and police administration officials on a regular basis. Gasu was able to create this while also staying on top of his regularly assigned duties. This newly designed statistical presentation method will help our city leaders determine how to best allocate resources within TVPD and Taylorsville City. We appreciate Gasu’s dedication to the citizens of Taylorsville and Team Taylorsville. We thank him for his service!
