Members in Attendance: Mary Duncan, Ray Williams, Joan Rosecrans and Harold Alexander.

Others in Attendance: Marian Kelly, Jodi Sandquist, Maurine Sanford, and Sherry Alexander

Approval of Minutes: Minutes read and approved as read.

Additions to the agenda: None

President's Report: The board needs another board member to fill out the board. Dave Gentry who was on Red Feathers Fire Dept about 20 years ago has shown some interest. Sherry Alexander was asked if she would have any interest in serving on the board. She is thinking about it and will let us know.

Treasurer's Report: Joan read the bills, they were discussed and approved. A motion was made to transfer $15,000 from checking to savings at Colorado Trust. Motion carried. There was some discussion about the budget. A motion was made to accept the budget as presented. Motion carried. There was a question about the need to increase our mill levy. Joan did not feel that an increase was necessary at this time. No action was taken at this time.

Secretary's Report: None

Fire Department Report:

	Fire calls: None
	EMS Calls: None
	Admin Meeting: 1
	Training: 1
	The slash pile was burned this month

OLD BUSINESS

Grants and Projects: We have 2 proposals for grants from Fox Acres, #1 is a golf tournament in May. It is for the fire departments in the area. We amended the amount that we are requesting to reflect purchasing narrow band VHF pack sets instead of standard VHF radios. We also amended the amount to reflect a narrow band VHF radio for the new Tender. #2 is for the Fox Acres community fund. We have submitted a request for $200 for a Red Cross CPR class DVD to be shared with Fox Acres. Ken May's wife works at UNC in the grants department. She looked into grants that may affect us and sent us a list. She will also help us with the grant requests. FVA and RFA Grants are available this year but the applications have to be in by the end of January. Joan will fill out the applications and request 2 radios.

A $100 check was received for the Ken Hood memorial fund. We have $2400 in the fund and we need approximately $4000 to purchase all of the water/ice rescue equipment. We will have a discussion at the next admin meeting to make a decision about the purchase. The total for the equipment is $4125. Kay Hood asked if we had all of the money we need to purchase the equipment. Mary will talk with her about this.

Firewise: Jody received the information from AvTec about the sirens system fro Crystal lakes. They are proposing 2 sirens, one in the 6th filing and one in the 12th. This first phase of the system will cost about $23,000. The next phase will be approx $18,000. The cost will ultimately be about $10,000 per siren. Jody will call Cathy Reynolds and check on a Homeland Security grant.

NEW BUSINESS

Jody has had some of the firefighters request that their driveways be plowed by the Road and Rec. Association. The R&R board has some reservations about doing this because of the time required. We do not feel that this is something that is necessary. The R&R currently plows the area around the Fire Barn.

Sherry Alexander asked what impact the airport being sold will have on the fire department. Mary stated that the county will have a very large say in what is required. We will keep using it for our LZ until we are told that we can't use it anymore.

Next meeting: Feb. 22, 2007. There will be a special meeting for the financing of the new Tender prior to the next regularly scheduled board meeting.

Meeting Adjourned at 20:15

Harold Alexander
Secretary

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