NEW BERLIN – Several topics were discussed at Tuesday's board of trustees meeting in the Village of New Berlin, including inaccurate meeting minutes, $10,000 or more worth of discrepancies in ambulance calls, and the purchase of new thermal cameras.

Before the meeting commenced Trustee Carol Riley announced the village's meeting minutes, which serve as the boards official public record, should not be used as a reference for the meeting's occurrences. Officials said the minutes did not always reflect what took place.

"The best thing is to come to the meetings and to hear it firsthand––not taking things off of the minutes, especially because the minutes are old," said Riley.

After the official meeting began, New Berlin Fire Chief Barry Jacobs, spoke about the recent purchase of new air packs for the fire department.

"There's a grant for $89,702 that will cover the cost of purchase, but we'll have to pay five percent of that, or approximately four to five thousand dollars," said Jacobs. The board was in support of the purchase under the stipulation that none of the air packs go to waste.