White River Township Fire Department

Staff Meeting * February 25 & 26, 1998

Wednesday (25th) meeting called to order at 1300 hours. Present: Mike Dutton, Dave Sherfick, Travis Sichting, Scott Cassin, Troy Wymer, Chad Abel, Joel Thacker, Eric Brown, Steve Coover, and Kim Clawson.

IF YOU WERE UNABLE TO ATTEND, REMEMBER TO CONTACT YOUR

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

1. Training files are now at station 51 in the personnel files.

2. Daily attendance records will be tracked in FireHouse, under the member’s “History” tab, instead of attendance cards in the brown box. Be sure to put your name on each entry.

3. Technical services division now has solutions and deadlines from the Goal Setting Meeting.

- Improve training on SOGs and policies. 3/1/98. Training Captain.

- Upgrade station 52’s computer. 6/1/98. Division Chief

- Auto upload and download of FH. 6/1/98. Division Chief

- New memos, policies, & SOGs out with paychecks. 2/1/98. Division Chief

- Re-address policy manual w/current officers. 2/25/98. Division Chief

4. Policy manual changes have been made available and placed in the station book. Contact Scott with any questions.

5. Battalion Aide program will begin in May for Cadets, Reserves, and Auxiliary. They may also be making progress reports on F1 for liability coverage.

6. Discussion on Officer Promotion Process. Perhaps add tabletop scenario to use as determining factor if two candidates are closely ranked. “Past Performance” refers to one year time period. If no objections, this will become policy.

7. Doing better on this year’s budget than last year. Chief Dutton asked all Division Chiefs to be cognizant of their own budget and to stay within their limits. Major purchases will not be made until the sale of appratus.

8. Personnel updates. Thom Hord, released; Bob Cesnik hired as reserve; Brian Griffith hired as reserve.

9. Chief Dutton gave update on FPDB. District survey will be a joint venture between this department and the FPDB.

10. Schedule changes for EMAS A shift will be effective March 1. New medic and new EMT, although, Beard will still be the medic