White River Township Fire Protection District

Board Meeting Minutes

August 6, 2003

 

District Board Members Present:  Paul Kite, Butch Sutton, and Jon Raker..

 

District Employees Present: Scott Cassin, Eric Brown, Don Young, Joe Settles, Casey Arkins, Bruce Alexander, Kevin Skipper, Joel Thacker, Carey Slauter, Nick Alford and Kim Clawson

 

Corporation Members Present: Mike Hoffman, Mike Combs, and Tony Slusher.

 

Others Present: Curt Coonrod.

 

 

Meeting called to order at 7:03 p.m.

 

  1. July 22 minutes were reviewed.  Motion by Jon and 2nd by Butch to approve as written.  All in favor and motion carries.

 

  1.  Bill Patterson has moved out of our area and has resigned from the District Board.  Chief Thacker is working on a replacement member.  No comments heard.

 

  1. All of station 52 post-tornado construction/repair issues have finally been resolved.

 

  1. We are still working with Earthtek for the station 53 drip system problems.  There is still a question of exactly how much water we use each month.

 

  1. Curt Coonrod stated that the 2003 budget has not yet been officially approved.  Motion by Butch and 2nd by Jon to approve the resolution accepting the 2003 budget.  All in favor and motion carries.

 

  1. 2004 Budget Form 1 was presented.  This includes the appeal and there are no changes from the public hearing.  Motion by Jon and 2nd by Butch to accept the 2004 budget as presented.  All in favor and motion carries.   Attachment A.

 

  1. Brian reviewed out insurance policy and found that Scott Cassin and Mike Tibbetts do not need to be bonded because the policy includes at $300,000 employee theft policy which Brian says is better than a bond.

 

  1. Curt presented to separate time lines for applying for the fire loan.  Attachments B and C.  Everyone agreed that they felt better presenting the fire loan request at a separate meeting from the tax levy appeal.  Therefore, we will be following Attachment B for the fire loan (discussion and vote at District meeting September 2nd and Local Government Tax Control Board Hearing on October 23). 

 

Per Curt, each $1 property tax will generate approximately .50 CAGIT.

 

The 2003 fire loan will be called “Capital Land Acquisition and Building Improvement” and will be advertised for $1,700,000 with the potential for reducing this number in the future.

 

  1. Paul stated that there was no further pressing business at this time.  Hearing no objection, meeting adjourned.  Next meeting will be September 2, 2003 at Fire Headquarters at 7:00 p.m.