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BOARD MEETING AUGUST 8, 2005
TYPE: REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING CALL TO ORDER: 7:02PM ROLL CALL: POWER WEBB, CHAIRMAN MINUTES: READ AND APPROVED TREASURERS REPORT: READ AND APPROVED. TWO LARGER SUMS WERE SPENT FOR ARIZONA STATE LAND AND CANYON STATE EMERGENCY. THESE WERE ON GRANTS WHICH WE HAD TO SPEND IT BEFORE WE CAN GET MONIES BACK. ARIZONA STATE LAND, WE SPENT $3,490.00 AND WILL GET 90% OF THAT BACK. CANYON STATE EMERGENCY WE SPENT $7,747.00 AND WILL GET 90% OF THAT BACK. $6000.00 WAS PUT ASIDE FOR A HEART MONITOR. A GRANT FOR ANOTHER $8000.00 ALLOWED THE DEPT. TO PURCHASE THE HEART MONITOR FOR $12,761.00. CHIEFS REPORT: RAY REPORTED 14 CALLS FOR THE MONTH OF JULY. 8 EMS CALLS, 2 SMOKE REPORT CALLS, 1 WILDLAND FIRE CALL (WORKED 2 DAYS ON THIS FIRE), 2 FALSE ALARM CALLS, 1 SPECIAL DUTY CALL AND 8 DAYS AT A WILDLAND FIRE IN THE DESERT. 2 TRAINING SESSIONS TOTALING 6 HOURS. CORRESPONDENCE & OTHER INFORMATION: WE HAVE TWO PEOPLE APPLYING FOR THE OPEN BOARD POSITION. THOSE BEING DON WEESNER FROM KOHL’S RANCH AND JIM OLIVER FROM CHRISTOPHER CREEK. REIMBURSMENT FOR IEMT CLASS: A DISCUSSION AND ACOUNTING OF THE EXPENSES INCURRED BY DON RHODES FOR HIS IEMT CLASS WAS MADE BY THE BOARD. THE BOARD DECIDED TO POSSIBLY REIMBURSE MR. RHODES FOR $4500.00, THE COST OF CLASSES IF TAKEN IN GLOBE INSTEAD OF FLAGSTAFF, WHERE MR. RHODES CHOOSE TO GET HIS TRAINING. POWER MADE A MOTION TO REIMBURSE DON RHODES $4500.00 IF HE AGREED TO BE MORE AVAILABLE TO THE CHRISTOPHER/KOHL’S FIRE DEPT. IN THE FUTURE AND SIGNED THE AGREEMENT WHICH STIPULATES THAT MR. RHODES MUST ATTEND 51% OF TRAINING SESSIONS AND NO LESS THEN 35% OF EMERGENCY CALLS FOR THE NEXT 2yrs. MIKEY SECONDED THE MOTION AND MR. RHODES AGREED TO THE BOARD CONDITIONS. ALL TRAINING APPLICANTS MUST GO THROUGH THE FIRE CHIEF AND THEN THE FIREBELLES NO EXCEPTION. CALL TO THE PUBLIC: FIRE CHIEF RAY LARSEN ASKED FOR SOME CLARIFICATION TO OUT OF DISTRICT CALLS WHEN IT INVOLVED LAW-ENFORCEMENT OR OTHER FIRE DEPT PERSONNAL. POWER RESPONDED THAT THE DECISION IS UP TO THE FIRE CHIEFS DISCRETION OR THE OFFICER IN CHARGE AS TO WHAT OUT OF DISTRICT CALLS SHOULD BE RESPONDED TO. BUT THESE CALLS SHOULD BE BILLED TO THE RECEIPANTS. RAY MADE A SUGGESTION THAT A REVISION BE MADE TO THE RESOLUTION THAT CLOSES THE DISTRICT. DALE ASHBY RE-ENTERATED THAT THE RESOLUTION MAY NEED TO BE REVISED. THIS ISSUE WILL BE PUT ON NEXT MONTHS AGENDA. THE FIREBELLES PRESIDENT, SANDY KALMAR REMINDED EVERYONE OF THE SILANT AUCTION ON SATURDAY, SEPT. 3rd. AND THE ICE CREAM SOCIAL SEPT 4th. BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS, POWER MADE A MOTION TO ADJORN. MIKEY SECONDED, THE MEETING ADJORNED AT 7:32PM. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
MARGOT HOLMES-FISH, SECRETARY
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