Attendance: |
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| Craig Ponkey, Vice President | Walt Eastwood, President |
| Anita Holser, Secretary | Bob Bowman, Member at large |
| Owen Gooding, Treasurer | Ron Cross, Member at
large |
| The meeting was called to order at
12:05 pm at the upper firehouse. The minutes of the last minutes were
read and approved. Board of Directors Owen had to leave, so Walt was nominated for President and approved unanimously. Owen was unanimously approved as Treasurer, and Anita as Secretary. Owen left and a few minutes later Craig arrived. Craig and Bob were asked if either was interested in being Vice President. Bob said he was very busy with art shows on weekends this year, and did not think he should be Vice President. Craig said he would be happy to be VP, and was nominated and elected unanimously |
| Roof repairs Ron asked about the roof repairs. Walt said that he had been working on the Cal/OSHA requirements, and had not had time to follow up on the estimates. |
| Cal/OSHA Walt as been working with the CDF and fire chiefs association to determine what we will need to do under the new OSHA regulations for volunteer fire departments. He says that we at least need to put together an IIPP (Injury and Illness Prevention Program). He is working on a draft version along with the CDF training officer. One of the requirements is for each firefighter to have a physical, to make sure they are healthy and to establish a baseline. He's not sure who's expected to pay for the physicals and will try to find out. The training program needs to include First Aid, CPR, and blood-born pathogens. The standard program calls for 240 hours of training, which is not very practical for volunteer firefighters. As long as we are working on the program, we will continue to receive call outs. He's just not sure how much it's going to cost us to meet the new requirements, and where the funding is going to come from. He wants to put the roof repairs on hold until we know for sure how much it's going to cost us. Bob pointed out that it could be years before we know how much the new requirements are going to cost, and we simply can't put the repairs on hold indefinitely. Walt said that was a good point, and that we should probably go ahead and find out how much it will cost to get the roof repaired. Craig volunteered to get a contractor to give us an estimate for repairing the roof. We also need to get an idea of the cost of the materials if we do the work ourselves. There was some discussion about what repairs entailed and how we would go about the project. Craig and Walt will get the estimates together for the next meeting. |
| Pagers Bob will check with Nelson about whether the fix to his pager worked. Bob's pager is still not working. Walt said that he would ask all the firefighters to bring their pagers to the next training and get them all tested. Ron suggested that he have the dispatchers send a reminder over the pagers an hour before the next training session, something that used to be done regularly but discontinued. |
| Badges Walt will check with Mary Ellen about the status of the badges and the First Responder course and where it is taught. |
| Gates and Locks POST would like to take over maintenance of the Casa Loma gate. Bob will talk to Nelson about it. There are concerns about a 24 hour POST emergency number when there are problems with the gate. It was suggested that POST attach a sign to the gate with the 24 hr number to call for emergencies. Walt said he had contacted PGE about replacing the burned out light over the gate and thought they would be up to replace it in the near future. Scott Webster had contacted various board members with concerns about the gate on Uvas road. Someone had bulldozed a path around the gate, circumventing it. Scott offered to move the gate to his property. There was some concern about the three pieces of property which would then be outside the gate. Walt had asked Jim to talk to the residents concerned to get an idea of their preferences. Alternative methods of dealing with the problem were discussed. Walt will investigate and get back to the board with more details. The footbridge remains an issue. The best solution for the problem is to have a bridge put in so residents can get out during flood season. Bob thinks that POST will be able to pursue alternate locations sometime in the near future. |
| Gas Card
Walt asked what everyone thought about having some way of firefighters buying gas for the trucks without having to wait several weeks to be reimbursed. Discussion about various ways of providing this followed. Craig made a motion that we buy two lock boxes and set up two cards with $200 pre-paid gas. Ron seconded the motion and it passed 4 in favor, 1 abstain. Ron will get information about lock boxes, Walt will get a catalog. |
| Fall BBQ The fall BBQ is scheduled for Sept 19. Walt will put together a newsletter in the next few weeks and Anita will mail it to the residents. We will have hamburgers, hot dogs, sausages, tri-tip as usual. The BBQ will begin at noon and should be a lot of fun. |
| The meeting adjourned at 1:30 pm. |
| Respectfully, |
| Anita Holser
Secretary |