Fire Board Minutes
September 18, 2008
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Crystal Lakes Fire Department Fire Board Minutes September 18, 2008 |
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Ray Williams called the meeting to order at 19:05. In Attendance: Sherry Alexander, Ray Williams, Ed Miller, and Harold Alexander Absent: Mary Duncan (excused) District Members in Attendance: None Visitors in Attendance: Warren and Barbara Kroeker Approval of previous minutes: A motion was made to accept the minutes from the August meeting. It was seconded and passed. The minutes were accepted as presented. Agenda Additions: Harold: Engine 2 update; Sherry; feedback from the EMS call; 2009 budget. A motion was made to accept the changes, it was seconded and passed. Approval of Bills and Appropriations: Sherry went over the bills. A motion was made to accept the bills it was seconded and passed. President’s Report: Ray reported that Mary has been sick following her surgery but id doing better now. She is scheduled to be moved to rehab tomorrow. Secretary’s Report: None Treasurer’s Report: Sherry presented the Treasurers report. A motion was made to accept the Treasurers report as presented, seconded and passed as presented. Fire Department Report: No Report Grants and Grant Projects: Sherry stated that we received a 50/50 grant from the forest service to purchase items like fire shelters. We should get the money in January of next year. Firewise: None OLD BUSINESS The parts for Engine 2 were incorrect. Jim Beck has located the correct part and it should arrive on the 19th. He has already replaced the water pump and hopefully we will get the truck back next week. Ray stated that he spoke with Tony Simons form LCES and he didn’t say that a sprinkler system was redundant at the Kroeker property at Pearl Vista. He also spoke with Karin Madson at Larimer County Planning and she also did not say anything about the redundancy statement. Ray also talked about the hearing that will take place on the 13th of October. The county commissioners will make a decision based on information received from the district and Larimer County Emergency Services. Ray talked with our attorney and he asked if we have our own fire code for the district. When he replied no the attorney said that we default to the county’s fire code. Sherry stated that the information we received from the county stated that sprinklers are required. Warren Kroeker said that his attorney said that we are discriminating against him for requiring sprinklers at Pearl Creek and not in Crystal Lakes. A long discussion then followed due to his work on mitigation not being complete when we toured his property. We agreed to revisit his property on Sept 29th at 1:00pm so he can show us what he has done to finish the mitigation. We will meet at the fire station and follow him over to the property so he can prove that it is only a 10 minute drive from the station. NEW BUSINESS Sherry talked to Bev at the office and she said that the patient from our recent EMS call is out of the hospital and was very impressed with his treatment and how fast he was transported to the hospital. Mary and Maurine drove his wife to the hospital and stayed with her until her husband was stabilized. He gave a $100 donation. Sherry passed out copies of the 2009 proposed budget to use as a worksheet. She stated that we have received most of our warrants for the year. She also stated that we did not make much interest from the Colorado Trust account because we don’t have much money in that account. Sherry stated that she is the treasurer for the auxiliary and would like the board’s permission to move some of the auxiliary’s money into a savings account with Colorado Trust where it can earn some interest. A motion was made to allow this. It was 2nded and passed. We discussed what to do about sending a letter to Larimer County about the Pearl Vista situation and a motion was made to send the letter that Harold had written to Karin Madson at the County Planning Office. The motion was seconded and passed. The letter is due tomorrow so Ray will fax a copy to her and Ed will hand deliver the signed copy to her. If the board is satisfied that Pearl Vista is safe without sprinklers then we will attend the hearing and reverse our stand. Sherry also stated that we need to reserve a place for our Christmas party and decide what we want to do about gifts for the members of the department. Public comments: None The next meeting will be October 17th 2008 at 19:00. It was moved to adjourn and seconded. Meeting adjourned at 20:42 Harold Alexander Secretary |
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