White River Township Fire Department

Staff Meeting * December 17 & 18, 1997

Wednesday (17th) meeting called to order at 1218 hours. Present: Mike Dutton, Carey Slauter, Troy Wymer, Eric Brown, Kevin Skipper, Kim Clawson, Jeremy Pell, Joe Marsh, Scott Cassin, Joel Thacker. Meeting adjourned at 1325 hours.

Thursday (18th) meeting called to order at 1230 hours. Present: Mike Dutton, Troy Wymer, Mike Hoffman, Steve Mourer, Kim Clawson, Travis Sichting, Eric Brown, Dave Sherfick. Meeting adjourned at 1315 hours.

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1. Budgeted 3% for merit raises in 1998. Copy of proposed evaluation form handed out. All agree with new set up. Need to define “average”, “above average”, and “below average” on instruction form.

2. Tanker 52 must be shifted in to and out of pump gear very slowly! Engine 51 (Smeal) needs to have the fan shroud welded and it can be done only at Stoops or Clark. Engine 52 (Freightliner) has a short in the wiring which causes marker lights and one headlight to go out occasionally. Arrangements for repairs are being made.

3. Met with FPDB. Operations part of contract is looking good. Still hung up on hiring/firing of personnel. FPDB was very reasonable with contract negotiations. Until finalization of property boundaries with neighbor, gifting of assets is on hold.

4. FPDB still owes us $49,870 which we will receive around the 27^th. That will get us through January payroll. The following distribution will be 1/31/98 provided that the contract is signed.

5. Key storage box is in and will be mounted in E52 for storage of medic keys. E52 will be inspected 12/29 at 0900 hours. Tom Arkins and Joel Thacker will be present. Chief Dutton requested that Joel give Bruce Alexander a couple of Mega Codes before releasing him to work as a paramedic again.

6. Jeremy Pell will be heading a committee to organize a formal promotional process. Also on that committee is Travis Sichting. Jeremy will post a memo and get a couple of firefighters on the committee as well.

7. EMAS problems that Chief Dutton is addressing are: 1) run with kerosene in creek and 2) Greenwood FD apartment fire.

8. At the beginning of the year, training may be changed from what is currently scheduled to train on the new equipment coming in.

9. All officer vacancies have been filled, per policy manual.

10. Reminder to use appropriate radio traffic. NOT engine 52 is “on the street” or “okay on the run”.

11. If a vehicle is being used for errands and doesn’t have a full staff, don’t mark it in service on the radio and don’t respond it to runs. Notify battalion 5 via pager when a vehicle goes off station.

12. Jewelry policy will be posted and enforced on both male and female employees.

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13. Scott is still waiting on return calls for the Centrex system. He’s also still working with Brownsburg FD to install a modem line between the stations.

14. Carey will be fit testing for masks very soon.

15. On call EMS supervisors, starting 1/1/98, will be: A shift, Tom Arkins; B shift Joel Thacker; C shift Scott Cassin. Joel will post a memo on this.

16. Jeremy Pell will speak with Laura Morical on removing our rescue from their dispatch protocols on cardiac arrests in Perry Twp.

17. Mourer is using wrong policy for RIT team trainings. Carey will get him the appropriate one.

18. Mike Phillips needs to return the bar for Perry Twp’s engine and fix the downstairs sprinkler at station 51.

19. Jerrod Myer was approved on Wednesday’s meeting to move to compensated. However, after Thursday’s meeting, Jerrod will not be moving to compensated until Travis does a thorough personnel file check. If everything passes, he will then be promoted.

20. Daily Journal will be at station 52 on 12/29 to photograph and do article on ALS program.

January’s staff meeting will be canceled in lieu of Goal Setting Meeting on January 30 & 31 at Community Church of Greenwood.