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Barkhamsted Fire District

Board of Director’s

Monthly Meeting

September 14, 2005

 

President Winn called the meeting to order at 7:35pm.

 

Corrections to last month’s minutes:

A motion was made to approve minutes as presented by K. Hansen and 2nd by T. Collins.  Unanimously approved.

 

Treasurer’s Report:   

The treasurer’s report was handed out by A. O’Toole and reviewed.

A motion was made to accept the Treasurer’s Report as presented by K.Hansen and 2nd by T. Collins.  Unanimously approved.

 

Bills:

 

Riverton:

Riverton Vol. Fire Co. (Reimb.)                        $    360.00                   New Equip.

Hoffmann Hardware                                         $      80.24                   Build. Maint.

Park Place Hardware                                       $      75.03                   Build. Maint.

Fleetmasters                                                     $    532.61                   Equip. Maint.

Carin Industries                                                $      58.91                   Build. Maint.

Riverton Vol. Fire Co. (Reimb.)                        $ 2,265.00                   New Equip.

 

Barkhamsted East:

Patterson                                                          $    114.84                   Build. Maint.

Canton Auto                                                     $      68.86                   Equip. Maint.

PacGraphics                                                     $    513.50                   SCBA Capital

 

Pleasant Valley:           

K. Cyr (reimb.)                                                $      23.00                   Misc.

Shipman’s                                                        $   199.00                    Equip. Maint.

Northwest Auto                                                $     91.16                    Equip. Maint.

Tractor Supply                                                 $     24.17                    Equip. Maint.

Shipman’s                                                        $   275.86                    Equip. Maint.

FleetMasters                                                    $   239.08                    Equip. Maint.

Firematic                                                          $   251.80                    Equip. Maint.

Canton Auto                                                     $       9.44                    Equip. Maint.

Hoffmann Hardware                                         $     32.60                    Equip. Maint.

 

 

 

 

District:

Occupational Health & Rehab.                          $    115.00                   Health & Safety

Pullman & Cromley                                          $ 8,858.05                   Legal

Shipman’s                                                        $    343.00                  

PacGraphics                                                     $    513.50                   Capitol

 

A motion was made to accept and pay the bills as presented by K. Hansen and 2nd by D. Ransom.  Unanimously approved.

 

Correspondence:  Three letters were received from the web site; one looking for D. Healy and two looking for patches.

 

Fire Marshal Report:  Monthly report was unavailable.

 

Paid Fire Fighter:  Monthly report was unavailable.

 

Chief’s Reports          Calls    Firefighters     Fire police       Juniors

Barkhamsted East             4               8                  3                      0

Pleasant Valley                 9             20                  4                      4

Riverton                          5             20                  6                      9    

 

 

Committees:

 

Capital:                       Nothing at this time.

Insurance:                   Insurance cards have arrived and will be given to Marq to distribute.

Fire Fighter Awards:  2005 rosters were turned in and a general discussion was held about how awards are given.  Each department will come back with one or two people to be on a committee to review how awards are to be given.  One individual is in question.

                                    A motion was made to award $500.00 per person by K. Cyr and 2nd by N. Bird.  Unanimously approved.

Health & Safety:         Physicals will be held on October 24, 2005 at the Methodist Church in Pleasant Valley, beginning at 5:30pm.

Policy:                         The committee met on August 25th and the majority of the meeting was spent setting up accountability tags with Matt Ludwig.  They still need some and will continue to try to get the rest done.  The committee also talked about Emergency Vehicle Driver Selection Guidelines and discussed changing the upper age restriction.  A motion was made to approve the guidelines as presented by N. Bird and 2nd by T. Collins.  Unanimously approved.  The next meeting will be held on September 29, 2005  PVFD at 7:30pm.

                                    President Winn passed out background check forms for each department; when someone new applies they will need to complete the form and give it to A. O’Toole. She will in turn write a check and send it to the CT State Police for processing.  The report will then be sent back and is to be placed in personnel files.    

                                    President Winn also passed out a list of department members with birthdates and drivers license numbers for the chiefs to review.  The chiefs need to review these lists and get back to him with any corrections for worker’s compensation.

SCBA:                         Inventory handed to each department – Pleasant Valley has put theirs on vehicles already and they are in use.

Communications:        Dave wants to meet to figure out an order.  The chiefs need to talk to him.  Chief Lagassie discussed no communication in Decon

                                    trailer during recent accident.  They are getting additional equipment through the Homeland Security money.

 

 

Old Business

 

Barkhamsted East Station and Pumper: The first bill has been submitted and the roof is 90% complete.  They are waiting for the electrician. 

Dry Hydrants:  One more to go at Boulder Ridge.

State/FEMA Grants:  Nothing at this time.

Riverton Septic System: Nothing at this time.

Riverton Water System:  Board of Directors approved repairs but did not approve testing.

            President Winn consulted an attorney.  The following were points of the conversations:

1.  He sees no problem but does not think we should take ownership of property due to contaminants – phase 1 of the study should be done.

2.  We need consider if we need to obtain a permit from the DEP to take water from the river.

3.  We need to consider the liability if we know there’s a failure in the system.

The benefit to the District to take over the system is that Hitchcock has very little down there now and we won’t be able to get a dry hydrant put there because of that. 

To test the pump system would cost $1,250.00.  A motion to proceed with the pump testing of Riverton Water System in an amount not to exceed $1,250.00 was made by K. Cyr and 2nd by T. Collins.  Unanimously approved.

 

Sexual Harassment Training:  Nothing at this time.

 

New Business

President Winn brought information on replacements for Marq’s van so the Board could start look into it.  Jamie is concerned about a tow vehicle.

A motion was made to ad the discussion of a new vehicle to the agenda by T. Collins and 2nd by K. Cyr. Unanimously approved.

 

Two issues regarding a new vehicle; Joint training to places like academy is one and the other is the towing issue.  We need to determine what exactly this vehicle is going to be

used for before we purchase it.  A committee was formed and includes President Winn, Jack Rebick and Ken Cyr. 

Jamie also brought up that Fleetmaster’s found many things wrong with the mini-pumper.  We need to move along the fire truck committee or we will have to invest money into the mini-pumper or take it out of service.   President Winn will be talking to the committee about this issue as well.

 

A motion was made to adjourn the meeting by T. Collins and 2nd by K. Cyr.  Unanimously approved.

Meeting adjourned by President Winn at 9:42pm.

 

Attending:                               Directors                                Departments

                                                Andryzeck                                 Chief Lagassie

                                                Bird                                          Chief Gillen

                                                Collins                                       Chief LeGeyt

                                                Cyr

                                                Hansen, K.

                                               

                                               

                                                O’Toole, A.

                                                Ransom

                                                Winn

 

 

Respectfully Submitted,

 

 

 

Julie Hansen,

Assistant Clerk

 

 

*  The next meeting will be held on October 12 at the Riverton Station.

 

 

 

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