White River Township Fire Protection District

Senior Staff Meeting Minutes                                                                                                           July 13, 2001

 

 

Present:                Chief Tibbetts, Chief Brown, Chief Cassin, Chief Thacker, Lieutenant Settles, Lieutenant Alexander and Kim Clawson.

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Meeting called to order at 0900 hours.

 

 

  1. Discussion on new uniform t-shirts.  New design agreed upon and will be on a 50/50 blend shirt.  Chief Brown will take care of ordering these.  Also, effective August 1, 2001 authority Chief Tibbetts, all Chief officers when on duty between 0800-1700 will wear their white dress shirt.  After discussion, all agreed that the name plate should be placed under the badge.

 

  1. At the FPDB meeting 7/11, they agreed to purchase 2 staff vehicles and 1 engine.  Each Battalion Chief will have his own FD vehicle.  A policy will be created regarding take home vehicles.

 

  1. Chiefs Cassin, Brown and Thacker will begin work immediately on the next Battalion Chief/Lieutenant process.  We will be conducting a fast but thorough process in order to present a name at the 8/9/01 District meeting.  The next Battalion Chief will serve as the Operations Chief.  The next Lieutenant that is hired will be placed at station 52.

 

  1. Chief Tibbetts will be on vacation July 26-30, returning July 31.  Chief Cassin will be next in charge.

 

  1. Chief Tibbetts stated that he plans on holding an appreciation day for employees of the fire department on 7/22 or 8/4 at station 53.  This will be an early afternoon cookout/hog roast.

 

  1. Seniority for district personnel will be based on the employee’s official hire date with the District and then in order of test scores.  Vacation/leave requests will be granted in order of seniority and rank.

 

  1. We are having problems getting the sewer work completed in a timely and organized fashion at station 51.  Chief Tibbetts will follow up on this today.

 

  1. Chief Cassin explained how to access the voice mail for the battalion line.  He also stated that he would create a “cheat sheet” for obtaining voice mail messages and call forwarding on the battalion line.

 

  1. Chief Thacker said that he will be organizing a mini-leadership conference after January.  Multiple topics will be discussed over the course of  two weeks, including SOGs, safety, protocols, benefits, administrative procedures, etc.

 

  1. Chief Thacker reminded other Battalions that everyone should respond on a confirmed working incident.  However, only the companies dispatched should respond on alarms.

 

  1. Chief Thacker requested that we develop a response protocol during storm conditions which would cover the necessary modified responses.

 

  1. Lt. Alexander reminded Battalions who are also Paramedics that they are responsible for the station 53 narcotics and EMS equipment.  Please remember to check these items accordingly.

 

  1. Lt. Alexander stated that next weeks trainings will be on SORs.  We are currently experiencing approximately 30%-40% error rate and we should be no higher than 15%.  The next A&R is scheduled at White River Fire Station 53 at 7:00 p.m.

 

  1. Chief Brown gave a brief update on pending district construction projects:

Ø       150,000 sf strip mall south of Home Depot

Ø       50,000 sf strip mall north of BW3

Ø       Menards

Ø       13 unit apartment building

Ø       109 unit row house (with garages under units)

Ø       IMI moving across from Bluff Acres

Ø       Started new middle school.

Ø       Condos on Peterman.