CHRISTOPHER/KOHL’S FIRE DISTRICT
BOARD MEETING
MARCH 13, 2006

TYPE: REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

MINUTES: READ AND APPROVED

TREASURERS REPORT: READ AND APPROVED

CHIEFS REPORT: RAY REPORTED 3 INCIDENTS FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY. 2 EMS CALLS AND 1 MUTUAL AID W/TONTO VILLAGE (EMS). THERE WERE 3 TRAINING SESSIONS TOTALING 8.5hrs. 2 REGULAR TRAINING SESSSIONS AND 1 SATURDAY TRAINING ON EXTRICATION.

THE GOVERNORS HIGHWAY GRANT HAS BEEN APPROVED.THIS IS FOR MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SUCH AS GURNEY, EXTRICATION TOOLS, ETC. IT IS A REIMBURSABLE GRANT. WE BUY THE EQUIPMENT, GIVE THEM THE RECEIPT AND WE GET REIMBURSED.

CORRESPONDENTS & OTHER INFORMATION: A LETTER WAS READ BY POWER STATING THE RESIGNATION OF SECRETARY MARGOT HOLMES-FISH EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 2006. THE SECOND BUDGET WORKSHOP WILL BE MARCH 17th AT 7:PM AT STATION #51.

DISTRICT CONSOLIDATION: AT LAST MONTHS MEETING, RAY HAD GIVEN THE BOARD A PROPOSED RESOLUTION THAT WAS PUT TOGETHER BY CHARLIE CONOVER, A DIAMOND STAR FIRE DISTRICT BOARD MEMBER. THEY ARE CONSIDERING A CONSOLIDATION OF 6 DIFFERENT FIRE DEPARTMENTS. CHIEF LARSEN FELT THE ONLY ADVANTAGE FOR OUR DEPARTMENT WOULD BE TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD OF OUR PERSONNAL SHORTAGE. AFTER IN-PUT FROM ALL THREE BOARD MEMBERS, AND SEEING NO REAL ADVANTAGE FOR OUR DISTRICT TO CONSOLIDATE, ALSO THE BOARD FEELS THAT THIS CONSOLIDATION DOES NOT WARRANT THE RAISE IN THE TAX BASE SHOULD WE MERGE, POWER MADE A MOTION TO REJECT THE RESOLUTION. JIM SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION PASSED.
FOOT NOTE: THE TAX BASE WOULD GO FROM $1.94 TO ABOUT $2.50 PER HUNDRED.

OUT OF DISTRICT RESPONSES: POWER TURNED THIS ISSUE OVER TO CHIEF LARSEN. HIS RESPONSE WAS THAT DALE ASHBY BROUGHT THE SUBJECT UP SEVERAL MONTHS AGO AND WAS TO INVESTIGATE THIS ISSUE AND REPORT BACK TO THE BOARD. BECAUSE OF FIRES, SICKNESS, SNOW STORMS, ETC. DALE HAS NOT GIVEN RAY THE PAPER WORK YET. THE OUT OF DISTRICT ISSUE WILL BE TABLED UNTIL MAY MEETING.

HOW MEETING MINUTES ARE KEPT AND READ: AT PRESENT THE MEETINGS ARE TAPE RECORDED AND THE SECRETARY TRANSCRIBES THEM AND GIVES THE BOARD MEMBERS AND FIRE CHIEF A COPY OF WHAT THE TAPED MINUTES BASICLY SAY AND THE BOARD APPROVE THEM AT THE NEXT MEETING. JIM FEELS THIS IS CONFUSING AND PROPOSES THAT A DRAFT OF THE MINUTES BE GIVEN TO EACH BOARD MEMBER FOR APPROVAL OR ANY CHANGES THEY WANT MADE. AFTER ANY CHANGES ARE MADE THEN THE SECRETARY WILL RE-TYPE APPROVED DRAFT AND FINAL APPROVAL WILL BE MADE AT THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING.

THE SECOND PART OF JIMS PROPOSAL CONCERNING THE MINUTES AND WHICH IS CONSIDERD THE OFFICIAL MINUTES, THE WRITTEN MINUTES OR THE TAPE RECORDING OF THE MEETING. HE PROPOSED THAT THE WRITTEN MINUTES, AFTER OFFICIAL APPROVAL, BE CONSIDERD THE OFFICIAL MINUTES OF RECORD AND TO DISTROY OR RE-USE THE TAPES. POWER AGREED WITH THE FIRST PART OF JIMS PROPOSAL BUT DISAGREED WITH THE SECOND HALF. JIM WILL RESEARCH FURTHER WHAT IS THE AUTHORIZED MEDIUM IS REQUIRED FOR PERMENANT RETAINTION OF MINUTES.

THE SECOND PART OF THE PROPOSAL IS TABLED.

TOPIC FOR FUTURE MEETINGS: OUT OF DISTRICT RESPONSES.

CALL TO THE PUBLIC: RAY WANTED THE RECORD TO SHOW THAT IN THE LAST 60 HOURS THE FIRE PERSONNAL HAVE WORKED VERY HARD DURING THE UNEXPECTED HIGH SNOW LEVEL DROPPED OVER THE WEEKEND. THEY COMFORTED CANCER VICTIMS, MEDICATION WAS GOTTEN, TRIED VALIANTLY TO REACH A STRUCTURE FIRE THAT WAS LITTERLY UN-ASSESSABLE AND SAVED A TRUCK DRIVERS LIFE IN A BAD ACCIDENT AND WHILE THIS WAS BEING DONE SOME OF THE VOLUNTEERS WENT BACK TO THE CANCER VICTIMS, SHOVELED THEM OUT, LOAD THEIR LUGGAGE IN THEIR VEHICLES AND GOT THEM OUT TO THE HIGHWAY AND ON THEIR WAY. THIS WAS DONE WITHOUT RADIO COMMUNICATION AS THE REPEATER WAS OUT.

BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS, POWER MADE A MOTION TO ADJORN. JIM SECONDED. MEETING ADJORNED AT 7:37PM.

RESTECTFULLY SUBMITTED,

MARGOT HOLMES-FISH, SECRETARY