Gauntner said he appreciates all of Byers’ hard work as chief and his commitment to Madison Township.
“I work with a very good group of people in the Police Department and township government.” “I had considering retiring and moving on, but I’m very happy with the township,” he said, during a July 6 telephone interview. Six years later, in 2021, Byers said he had been contemplating retirement from the Madison Township Police Department and pursuing other career opportunities that had become available to him. “It’s a big responsibility, but I feel up to the task due to the amount of time I’ve been here and the support I’ve gotten from the officers of this department, from the trustees and from the community, and together, I think that we can get things done,” Byers said at a trustee board meeting on July 24, 2015, when township leaders authorized his promotion. He filled a vacancy left by Chief Leonard Del Calzo, who retired following 30 years with the department.Īfter Byers directed the department on a temporary basis for about three months, trustees appointed him to the official capacity of Madison Township police chief. In 2015, Byers who then held the rank of sergeant, was named interim chief of the Madison Township Police Department. He joined the Madison Township Police Department in 1994, after working a short time as a Madison Village police officer. Trustees also agreed that the $8,259.19 being cut from Byers’ original annual salary could be used to pay the township’s current part-time officers to work additional hours of road-patrol duty.įor Byers, the retire-rehire resolution allows him to extend his 27 years of service to Madison Township.
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