Pre-Meeting
Report for February 1, 2005
Compiled January 28, 2005
1) Financial update?
Did you resend revised budget to show grass rig and training chief
explorer purchases? If so, did you send
to FPDB?
2) The Station 52 project is still on schedule for a bid
release date of February 1st.
Once out, they are expected to be returned within 30 days. This should give us a project start date
around the 1st of March. The Station
51 project team met again on January 20th with all members present
plus representatives from the architectural firm Senefeld and Associates. The plan revisions were gone over in detail
and several suggestions made by the architects.
The architects will make the plan changes to the drawings and return for
approval of the layout at the next meeting, which is scheduled for February 2nd,
2005 at Headquarters at 9am. They will
also bring information on specific items that will affect the overall project
budget with respect to the specification process. The minutes from this meeting as well as all
meetings to date on this project can be found by visiting the web site at http://www.wrtfd.org/downloads/minutes/other/station51/project.htm. Also, the Technical Review Committee meeting at
the county level for the project got pushed back to February 9th. This was at the committee’s request due to
being over the limit for projects for the January meeting.
3) The Reserve transition is still under way. There are only 5 individuals left who need to
sign releases, but they are all currently on leaves of absence. When they return, they will be asked to sign
the release before working again. There
were two individuals (Erin Hensley and Matt Myers) who were asked not to sign a
release (and subsequently not work for the district) because of issues
pre-existing with the previous corporation.
4) Employee performance appraisal project update: Chiefs Thacker and Slauter met with
5) Safety board document update: due to the passing of Lt. Hart’s father, he
and Chief Tibbetts have not yet met.
They anticipate having a finalized document to present at the March
District Board meeting.
6) Regarding the retirement shortage issues brought up
last month, we are still awaiting numbers from the Deferred Compensation folks
for Chief Tibbetts’ account. However,
Kim’s and Jackie’s have been finalized. Fortunately,
the situation was not as grim as originally thought. The total payments missed to the 457(k) plan
totaled $3,852 for Kim and $2,113 for Jackie.
As it turns out, not investing the money actually saved us (them) money
because had it been invested as scheduled, it would have lost more value than
it would have gained over the period. Please
see the attached files for more information regarding these two payouts. Full supporting documentation showing how
these numbers were arrived at will be available for review at this month’s
meeting.
7) Skillman Ford has advised us that the new Grass Rig
and the final Explorer should arrive around the middle of February. Once the Explorer is placed in service, the
two 1999 Tahoes that were to be sold last year will
be sold during a bid process. We are
going to attempt to have this process complete in time for the March District
Board meeting for a bid opening.
8) That’s it for this month. See you at the meeting…… Scott