White River Township Fire Department Senior Staff Meeting July 10, 2003
Present:	[P] Chief Tibbetts		[P ] Chief Cassin	[P ] Chief Brown
	[P] Chief Slauter		[P ] Chief Thacker	[P ] Chief Young
	[P] Kim Clawson		[ ] Others:

1. Chief Tibbetts stated that it will be the District Board’s decision as to who we sign as our insurance provider for the department.

2. Chief Tibbetts still has no certificate of insurance from Ed Carlson.

3. Discussion on changing the minimum requirements to NOT include on duty training hours. Everyone in favor of this. Scott will re-code FireHouse software and send a memo to everyone via email.

4. Battalion Chiefs need to better enter staff activities (hours) in FireHouse. A couple of recent PR details have been missed.

5. Personnel updates:
1. Rick Cooley & Kevan Crawley: resigned and gear has been returned.
2. Scott McCaugna, Mike Phillips, and Rick Taylor: released for inactivity. No gear received yet.
3. Joe Marsh and Mike Schilling: on leaves of absence. See FireHouse for exact dates.

6. Pager update:
1. After January 1, the District will pay for officers to have EITHER a pager or a phone…not both. If you still want both, you’ll need to have it payroll deducted.
2. After January 1, the District will no longer pay for outside people to have a pager.
3. If pager problems persist, even after we change to the new model, everyone will be forced to go to their own account.

7. Lt. Smith is working on storage options utilizing the empty space in the station 53 break room.

8. Chief Cassin announced that the State just passed a bill, HB1808, which allows volunteer firefighters to earn up to $20,000 per year, instead of the previous $10,000.

9. Discussion on moving the fire department to all shift positions. This would decrease costs for work comp, tuition, uniforms, etc. However, you may get an untrained person to fill that shift, you will be eliminating a significant amount of the roster, and only two people applied for the last open shift position. It was decided that open hours pages would be monitored.

10. Discussion on 2004 budget.

11. Command staff SOG discussed.
1. Chief Young would like to revise the command worksheet. Chief Slauter stated that this has already been updated but can still be updated more.
2. Chief Cassin suggested a command “packet” with each chief officer contributing.

1) Chief Young will complete the safety packet.

2) Chief Thacker will help Chief Slauter with operations.

3) Chief Brown will complete the logistics.

12. Chief Thacker checked on the upcoming Paramedic course through Community Hospital. We do have two positions available to us. It was agreed that interested parties should submit a letter to Chief Tibbetts by July 21^st. Positions will be awarded based on seniority, activity, dedication to department, etc. Chief Thacker will post a memo on this.

13. A recent incident occurred where personnel are ordering PPV movies over the cable system. Unfortunately it was unable to be proven who ordered these movies. The pass codes on all cable boxes have been changed.

14. Greg Maxwell has changed his mind and opted to grieve his suspension.

15. Engine officers need to begin enforcing the following items:
1. Close cab doors and compartment doors. This should prevent injuries and missing equipment.
2. Chauffeurs should not be talking on cell phones when driving apparatus, especially when responding on emergency runs.
3. Backers must be utilized!

16. Chief Young is still working on the safety vest issue.

17. A stolen property report has been taken by the JCSD regarding the missing special events radio.

18. Chief Slauter has been in discussion with dispatch regarding the VHF system, as well as other problems we are having.

19. Discussion on boundaries for automatic mutual aid with Greenwood Fire. Chief Slauter will contact Chief Dhondt to get this cleared up.

20. Discussion ensued regarding the working environment at all stations, but primarily station 53. Due to the sensitive nature of the topics discussed, this will not be included in the minutes.