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Monterey County Fire
Training Officers Association Meeting called to order at 1040 hours by President Deano Lindsey Meeting Attendees:
Deano Lindsey
Carmel Valley FPD I. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Due to lack of a quorum at the November 2006, October 2006, and September 2006 meetings, a motion was made by Dave Cruz, and a second was received by John Trenner to accept the advisory minutes of the October 2006, and September 2006 meetings, the August 2006 minutes, in addition to the advisory November 2006 minutes, as presented by Secretary Dan Gearhart and posted on the Website. Motion carried. II. TREASURER’S REPORT: Due to a lack of a quorum at the November 2006, October 2006, and September 2006 meetings, a motion was made by Dave Sargenti and a second was received by John Trenner to receive and file the Treasurer’s Report for October 2006, September 2006, and August 2006, in addition to the November 2006 Treasurer’s Report as presented Secretary Dan Gearhart as indicated below: Beginning Checking Account Balance as of 11-01-06: 31,382.85 Expenditures: 11-02-06 Redshift Internet -59.85 11-03-06 DMV Renewal – Trailer -10.00 11-15-06 Kathryn Pernet – Roll of Stamps -39.00 Total Expenditures: -108.85 Revenue: None Ending Checking Account Balance as of 11-30-06 31,274.00 Certificate of Deposit: 6,467.27 Total Assets: 37,741.27 Motion carried to receive and file the Treasurer’s Reports. III. CORRESPONDENCE / ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1. President Lindsey presented a flyer from the Fire Chiefs Association announcing the Fire Chiefs Association Annual Installation & Awards Dinner on Friday January 12, 2007 from 1730 - 2030 at the Pacific Grove Community Center. IV. COMMITTEE REPORTS: A. ICS Committee: 1. John Trenner reported on the progress of the Incident Management Team. The proposal has been presented to the Operations Committee and the County Chiefs. The Chiefs Association had a few questions and would like to see a framework on how the team would work. Possibility of having two teams, or more likely a single team with significant depth at each position. Plan is for a functional team that would most likely operate exclusively in our operational area and would not interfere with the County OES Blue or Gold Teams. Trenner would like to start more detailed planning and design meetings after the first of the year. FEMA funding is available for training and operations of the team. Trenner will be attending an upcoming meeting in Washington DC on team implementation issues. A video presentation was shown that describes the basic functions of an IMT. 2. Safety Officer Class – Stewart Roth reported that the All-Risk Safety Officer class is scheduled for March of 2007 with a student registration fee of $295.00. Class to be run through www.firenuggets.com. More information to follow. 3. Stewart Roth presented a proposal for a Fire Control 5 class from February 20-22, 2007, and then again from February 23-25, 2007, one class at the Monterey Peninsula Airport and one class at the Salinas Airport. Instructor fees would be $2,000 per class plus expenses (rental car, food, lodging). Proposed student registration fee of $95.00. Roth said he would put together the flyer and registrations would be sent to the P.O. Box and handled by Secretary Gearhart and Book Keeper Pernet at Seaside. Motion by Trenner, and second by Sargenti, to authorize $5,500.00 for the two classes with the registration set at $95.00 per student that would include a catered lunch each day. Motioned carried. B. Wildland Committee: Dave Sargenti reported that he has spoken with Division Chief Miles Schuler and said that Miles had agreed to serve as Incident Commander for the 2007 Wildland Fire School. The planning meetings will start in January 2007 prior to the TO meetings beginning at 0930 hours. The proposed dates of June 21-24, 2007 are in conflict with military training activities during the same weekend. Per FHL, the first weekend in June are better dates. FHL will have a better idea of the available dates after the first of the year. The goal is to have the overhead positions filled by January 2007. C. Fire Library: Stewart Roth reported that Dave Brown is looking into the possibility of placing the 24/7 EMS series on the MPC website as a streaming video. As of now, the series can still be checked out through the fire library. Ø This next item was actually covered during good of the order but placed in this section as it relates to the fire library. Dave Sargenti reported that we recently realized that we pay an annual fee to the Office of Education for the fire library. The waiving of the 2006 fees was done without realizing there was an annual fee. Based on the annual fee, we should reconsider assessing the annual fire library dues at $100.00 for volunteer departments and $200.00 for paid departments. Motion by Stewart Roth and second by John Trenner to establish fire library dues at $100.00 for volunteer departments and $200.00 dollars for paid departments starting in 2007. Motion carried. D. Programs: 1. Highway Traffic Safety Dan Gearhart reported that the Highway Traffic Safety Sub-Committee met on November 16, 2006 at Salinas Rural to review the revised guidelines that included the input from law enforcement. The sub-committee approved the revised guidelines. The revised guidelines with law enforcement input were delivered to Chief Kelley on December 6, 2006. Chief Kelley has since distributed the revised guidelines to the County Chiefs for review. E. Training and Standards: Ron Stefani reported that the last Chiefs meeting was a dinner meeting and there was no information to pass along. F. Website: The County Chiefs Association has selected a website development group that is currently working on building the website. The plan is to keep the TO website in operation until the Chief’s website goes on line. Agreement was reached that the TO’s will have a “page” on the Chief’s website rather than a link to our current website. The webmaster can be reached at: kim@bluepacificcomputer.com V. OLD BUSINESS: 1. Movement Drills: Dave Sargenti reported that after bringing the issue to the Operations Committee, he wrote a draft movement drill policy. The draft policy will be sent to the TO membership along with the December 2006 minutes for review and discussion at the January 2007 meeting. 2. Change from fiscal year to calendar: Dan Gearhart reported that our accountant just wanted to make sure that we still desired to change from a fiscal year to a calendar year. The membership agreed that changing to a calendar was still our desire. 3. Membership: Dan Gearhart reported that dues invoices for 2007 were mailed out last month. To date, we have received nine paid memberships for 2007. Starting in 2007, only paid members will be allowed to vote during the meetings. VI. NEW BUSINESS: 1. Stewart Roth reported that there will be a retirement party for Chris Smith from Monterey Fire on Saturday December 16, 2006. Based on his past involvement with the TO’s, Stewart Roth proposed the TO’s recognize his involvement during the retirement party. President Lindsey directed John Trenner to obtain our standard TO plaque for presentation to Chris Smith at the retirement party. VII. GOOD OF THE ORDER: 1. John Trenner reported that the Training Officer’s laptop and projector are in need of replacement. Direction was given to John Trenner to explore replacement of both the laptop and the projector and report back at the January meeting. 2. Dave Sargenti reminded the group that the Fire Chiefs had directed the Training Officers to develop a Wellness and Fitness program following the presentation by Jeff Field at the August Chief’s meeting. Deano Lindsey reported that he has spoken to Jeff a couple of times and Jeff indicated that he does not have the personnel as of yet to start work on this program. Deano Lindsey said he would speak to Jeff again before going to the Chiefs about if the Training Officers are the appropriate organization for developing a countywide wellness and fitness program. 3. Michael Hewston reported that Fort Hunter Liggett Fire will be conducting a Scott SCBA technician class from January 22-24, 2007. Contact Michael Hewston if interested in attending the class. 4. 2007 Officers: As with past practice, current officers will move up to higher positions in 2007. Dan Gearhart has requested to stay as Secretary for 2007 to continue the work of re-organizing the historical files of the Training Officers and to assist the Book Keeper with the Training Officers finances. Request was met without opposition and Dan Gearhart will remain as Secretary for 2007. Dave Sargenti will then move to President in 2007. Deano Lindsey then opened nominations for Vice-President. Motion by Dan Gearhart and second by Stewart Roth to nominate Dave Cruz for Vice President. Dave Cruz was present and accepted the nomination. Deano Lindsey then closed nominations. Motion by Dave Sargenti and second by John Trenner to elect Dave Cruz as Vice President. Motion carried. Officers for 2007:
President Dave Sargent 5. 2007 Meeting Schedule: The 2007 meeting schedule was formalized and will be distributed with the December 2006 minutes. 6. Deano Lindsey reported that for those members who belong to the training JPA, the Fireblast Trailer is returning after repairs have been made. More information will be available at the next JPA meeting. 7. Outgoing President Deano Lindsey thanked the membership for their support in 2006 and was encouraged by the increased dialogue between the County Chiefs and the Training Officers. President Lindsey stated that we did achieve some of our goals in 2006 and believes the Training Officers are going in the right direction, especially with the emphasis once again being placed on the Wildland Fire School. VIII. ADJOURNMENT: Motion made by Stewart Roth, and second by Ron Stefani for adjournment. Motioned carried. Meeting adjourned at 1238 hours. Date: January 11, 2007 Host / Location: North County Fire
Protection District Time: 0930 hours – Wildland
Committee Minutes prepared by: D. Gearhart, 12-15-06
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