A Kelso Police Department officer was honored Tuesday night for his work in saving a young child in January.

At the Kelso Town Council meeting, Cowlitz 2 Fire and Lifesaving Chief Scott Neves presented Officer Adam Swartout with the Chief’s Coin Award for his lifesaving work.

Neves said on the morning of January 27, an ambulance was dispatched to help a one-year-old child who was not breathing and had no pulse. Swartout was the first responder on the scene and performed CPR on the child until the Cowlitz 2 crew arrived and took over. Neves said the infant’s pulse returned to the scene and he was crying by the time the ambulance arrived at PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center.

“A lot of times you don’t see the exceptional relationship between law enforcement, fire and EMS that we are blessed to have in the town of Kelso,” Neves said.

During the main part of Tuesday’s meeting, city council approved a set of project bids as part of the consents agenda. No items were voted on by the board outside of the consent agenda. The three approved offers were:

Councilors said the final results of the city council’s rules subcommittee will soon be put to a vote. The sub-committee was struck to review the code of ethics and requirements in place for members of council.

Kelso Town Manager Andrew Hamilton answered a question from the committee about taping council members’ text messages for public recording requests. The city recently created Dropbox accounts to make it easier for all councilors to share recordings, but Hamilton said there are no plans at this time to provide official city cellphones to the council.