Good morning. I am new to GACE. My name is Brad Todd; I am the Chief of Police for both Nahunta Ga Police Department and Homeland Ga Police Department. According to both charters, the Chief of Police is responsible for both police functions and code enforcement. Both have never been involved in code enforcement, and both have figured out they really need code enforcement. With the funding issues small departments face, no one wanted to really take on the code enforcement role, and I have found, you really need code enforcement. I started researching and reading a lot and found this organization. I also found policing has no idea what all goes into code enforcement, and you cannot do the job if you don't know the job. My goal is to get familiar and know the code enforcement role and then get other officers involved. I am excited to be here and learn from all of you. Through research I found Mrs. Joyce Depp with the Brunswick Code Enforcement, and she was very helpful and guided me on what I needed to do to get started. I look forward to learning and being here.

Welcome Brad! We have a lot of great folks in our organization and are here to help in any way we can!! Hopefully see you in Augusta at the next conference.