White River Township Fire Department

                                                Senior Staff Meeting

           

                                                Thursday, December 2, 2005

 

 

                       

Present:

Chief Tibbetts

Chief Cassin

Chief Slauter

Chief Wilson

Chief Brown

Chief Thacker

Chief Engmark

Lt. Hart

Kim Clawson

 

 

 

 

  1. Chief Thacker stated that the vacant Prevention position would be addressed at Tuesday night’s District Board Meeting.  When this position was created several years ago we did not have Captains.  This position will now be filled with an appointed Captain, as was originally intended before other circumstances prevented that.  Chief Thacker spoke with Jim Dodson about this and he does not seem to have any major issues with it.  We will be promoting from within and we already have one Captain who is willing to go from Merit to Appointed.  If this is approved Tuesday night, Chad Witham is next on the Engineer’s list and will take his physical on 12/9.

 

  1. After discussion it was agreed that Chief Slauter would investigate adding extrication equipment to Engine 53.

 

  1. Lt. Hart gave several reports for the EMS Division:

a.       New protocols will be coming out due to changes from the American Heart Association.

b.      We will also be receiving anti-nausea drugs soon.

c.       Pulse oximeters are no longer considered a BLS skill and any EMT found performing this will now be in violation of state law.

d.      AEDs are coming in soon. 

 

  1. Chief Thacker suggested adding the Ladder and the Engine to PI responses in station 53’s district.  Chief Tibbetts requested that Chief Slauter investigate why the rescue was not sent on a run last week, after it was requested by the Battalion Chief.  Then a decision will be made regarding response changes.

 

  1. Chief Tibbetts stated that the 911 committee will be meeting with the County Council on Monday night and requested anyone that is available to attend.  Chief Tibbetts asked that Chief Slauter provide him with all of the incident reports from our people regarding problems with dispatch so that he has proof that changes need to be made in that area.

 

  1. Policy discussions:

a.       Chief Cassin discussed and assigned job description policies.  Please get these returned by the next senior staff meeting.

b.      Problems with the tobacco use policy.  Chief Tibbetts will have Kim issue a memo on this.

c.       Discipline policy discusses a pre-termination hearing.  This needs to be removed or revised for just full-time personnel.

d.      No changes to sexual harassment policy.  Chief Tibbetts asked Chief Thacker to schedule another training session on this asap and stated that he is surprised that we haven’t had one filed yet.

e.       No changes to grievance policy.

f.        Chief Cassin will begin drafting a policy that makes the department a tobacco-free workplace.

g.       Chief Engmark presented a policy regarding flag use that was drafted by Lt. Williams.  After changes were discussed, Chief Engmark will make the corrections and forward to Kim to be placed into “policy format”.