Fire Board Minutes
March 20, 2008
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Crystal Lakes Fire Department Fire Board Minutes March 20, 2008 |
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Ray Williams called the meeting to order at 19:01. Members in Attendance: Sherry Alexander, Joan Rosecrans, Ray Williams, and Harold Alexander. Absent: Mary Duncan (excused). District Members in Attendance: Don Rogers, Ken May, Marian Kelly Approval of Minutes: A motion was made to accept the minutes from the February meeting. It was seconded and passed. The minutes were accepted as presented. Additions to the agenda: Sherry asked to add election news under old business. Marian asked to have information about an AED added under new business. The additions to the agenda were approved. Approval of Bills and Appropriations: Joan read the bills. A motion was made to accept the bills and appropriations as read. The motion was seconded and the motion carried. President's Report: None. Treasurer's Report: The treasurer's report was presented. It was moved, seconded and accepted as presented. Secretary's Report: None.
Fire Department Report: Made by Chief Don Rogers.
Grants and Projects: Joan received $1400 from the forest service for equipment that was applied for last year. She is turning a proposal to the forest service for $8000 at an 80/20% match for nozzles and fire shelters. Kate is working on another grant proposal for us. Firewise: None. Elections: Sherry reported that we have 3 people running for 4 positions. She has cancelled the election and we can appoint members in May. She has to put a notice in the newspaper that the election has been cancelled and appointments made in May. At the May meeting we will have a board election and then the election will be finished. Sherry also talked about the need to have an election Judge that is not on the board due to conflict of interest issues. Before the next election in 2 years we need to find another election judge. Miscellaneous: The VFIS rep will be at our April meeting to discuss our insurance with us.
A motion was made to switch the board meetings to the third Thursday of each month. This change is to align all of the fire department meetings to be on Thursday nights to simplify keeping track of our meetings. The schedule will be: The first Thursday -- training. The second -- administration meeting, the third -- board meeting and the fourth -- the second training meeting. The motion was seconded and carried. Marian spoke with Chris Meeks from Red Feather and she stated that they are getting a new AED that will record its use, and that their old one will be for sale for around $1000. This is about 1Ú2 the cost of a new one. There was some discussion about where we would keep it and the liabilities involved with having it. Joan will check with DOLA for more information and report back to us.
Next meeting: April 17th at 19:00 with a Pension Board meeting to follow the board meeting. It was moved to adjourn and seconded. Meeting adjourned at 19:42.
Harold Alexander |
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