White River Township Fire Department

Staff Meeting * January 30, 1998

Friday (30th) meeting called to order at 1830 hours. Present: Mike Dutton, Jeremy Pell, Scott Cassin, Eric Brown, Tom Arkins, Sean Atkinson, Kim Clawson, Mike Hoffman, Joe Marsh, Jeremy McKee, Jim Meacham, Joe Settles, Kevin Skipper, Ray Skipper, Carey Slauter, Joel Thacker, Troy Wymer

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LIEUTENANT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING ANYTHING THAT WAS DISCUSSED.

1. Discussion on putting 5th seat back into E51. McKee will investigate possibility of

moving seats closer together.

2. Pell: Use of weight room at 52s. Currently being used as storage room. Decided to

buy thick pads, move weights to ‘smoking area’ and turn weight room into a 2nd crew room with TV and couch. Pell will follow up.

3. Introduction of battalion aid program by Division Chief Cassin.

4. Carey proposed permanent station assignments of personnel. Subcommittee of Pell,

Slauter and Thacker to establish criteria for this.

5. Change policy 107 (mileage reimbursement) to read “all department members”. This will also include mileage reimbursement for those classes required by WRTFD. Scott will take care of.

6. Carey discussed fireground communications. Use sector assignments instead of car

numbers. Do not use someone’s name on the radio! Use uniform sectors and benchmarks. Need to host a training session for all officers so that uniformity can be obtained. Carey will follow up.

7. Marsh discussed clearing intersections on the air. Each battalion will address that with their EMAS crew as well as their own people. Marsh will issue a memo.

8. Slauter presented handouts on new accountability system. New tags have been

ordered and should be in soon. Using the month of February to train members and have the new system go into effect March 1. Everyone now has three tags, one of which is a paper laminated with Velcro on the back. The velcro tags will be used to track rehab accountability. Proposal to have EMAS Paramedic & EMAS EMT tags. All in favor of new system.

9. Pell presented new accountability/command board. Will go in service March 1.

10. Personnel update: Brian Sauer & Rob Pickett released. Scott Wiegle & Jerrod Myer moved from reserve to compensated, effective immediately. Dan Reed has requested, and been granted, a 90 day leave of absence. This is in effect February 1 through May

11. FPDB update given by Chief Dutton. Both Department and District Board

have signed the contract. In the new contract, the FPDB has the right to suspend any employee by notifying the Chief in writing. The Chief will then investigate it and report back to the FPDB with his findings. The Asset Gifting Resolution has been signed, although there is one minor glitch: Bosma thinks there is a penalty clause for paying the station off early but he is checking into it. Last Tuesday Chief Dutton notified the FPDB that $125,000 of the Build Indiana Fund would be available the week of March 14. At this time, they are trying to decide what they feel the best way to spend the money is, or which type of account to put it in.

12. Budget update by Chief Dutton.

13. EMAS update. The incident that occurred last A shift has been taken care of. Effective immediately, each Battalion officer now has the right to discipline the EMAS crews. Remember to enforce all policies equally.

14. Division Chief Cassin stated that Dr. Fried would like to see more ALS runs. If our

medic arrives on the scene first, EMAS medics are to let our medic do as many skills as possible. Write up exactly what you do - no more “ambulance assists”! We will lose our certification if we don’t generate adequate reports!

15. Starting February 1 every report entered into FireHouse will start as fire report. Be

careful when entering personnel responding. Scott gave brief update on FireHouse software and will issue a memo to the department.

16. Marsh stated that the new rescue will not be done until end of March, therefore it will

not be in FDIC show.

17. Kim presented new system for purchasing. This will be in effect starting February 1. She will issue a memo to all officers.

18. Proposal to re-alignment of districts discussed. Decided to leave as-is.

19. When writing up maintenance requests, be sure to use id number of the truck. Marsh has posted a list of id numbers at both stations.

20. Recommendation for Tony Slusher to be cleared as chauffeur of station 52 apparatus. All in favor.

21. Special Operations Captain position opening has been posted.

22. No further new business. Staff meeting adjourned. Next staff meetings will be 2/25 & 2/26 at station 51.