White River Township Fire Protection District

Pre-Meeting Report for June 8, 2005

Compiled June 1, 2005

1) No new news on our end regarding the building projects (Station 52 room addition and the new Station 51 building). The department’s legal counsel was working on finalizing a contract the wrapped both projects together. An update is anticipated at the board meeting. We did receive the deed to the land on Olive Branch Road and has been filed.

2) The Fire Protection Ordinance proposal was officially delivered to the County Commissioners last month and we are awaiting their response. We have not received any feedback at this time, but will keep it on the agenda in case something comes in.

3) The first of the two Tahoes has been officially sold and we have since closed the deal. The second is in the process of being sold to the Center Grove School system as a security vehicle.

4) We have not heard anything from the benefits sub-committee regarding the three policy change proposals introduced last month, but we will leave it on the agenda in case there is an update. To summarize, they are:

1. Change the bereavement leave from one automatic day to two with a possibility of a third granted by the fire chief if the funeral is out of state or other extenuating circumstances occur.

2. Combine the Personal Leave and the Perfect Attendance Days together and add them as additional vacation days instead. This would eliminate the need for tracking these additional days.

3. Reduce the comp-time accrual ceiling to 120 hours down from 480 hours to provide a reduction in overall outstanding liability.

5) We have been successful in obtaining a grant from the Department of Homeland Security to be applied toward a Fire Safety Trailer for the Public Education Division. Our portion of the grant will amount to somewhere between $6900 and $9300 depending on how competitive the bidders are. Chief Brown has been working with the department’s legal counsel on the steps required to secure the grant. The item has been placed on the agenda in case action is needed and to provide feedback if warranted.

6) The final item concerns the budget for 2006. Everyone should have received a copy last month as part of the fiscal worksheets that were handed out. There have been some minor tweaks since then, so I’m re-sending those worksheets along with separated versions of just the three major funds (General, Cumulative, and Debt) to make it easier to review. The green-highlighted column is the proposed 2006 budget.

7) That’s it for this month. See you at the meeting…… Scott