Board of Fire Commissioners LINDENWOLD FIRE DISTRICT No.1 Monthly Board Meeting Minutes

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1 Board of Fire Commissioners LINDENWOLD FIRE DISTRICT No.1 Monthly Board Meeting Minutes Meeting Date: May 16, 2011 Meeting Place: Fire Administration Building Meeting Called To Order: 7:40 pm Members of Board Present: Chairman Clifford Ruth Vice Chairman Mark Blair Secretary Wayne Hans, arrived late Treasurer Raymond McManus Commissioner Steven Schwegel District Clerk Kathleen Crockett Solicitor David Capozzi Salute the Flag Sunshine Law Comm. Ruth In accordance with the NJ Sunshine Law this meeting has been properly advertised and is open to the public. The public portion will follow the regular business of the Board. Roll Call Commissioners Comms. Ruth, Blair, McManus and Schwegel present. Comm. Hans will be arriving late. Minutes of the Previous Meeting Motion made by Comm. McManus, seconded by Comm. Blair to accept the previous month s minutes as they are available to the public upon request. All in favor, ayes have it. Correspondence Cl.Crockett Incoming A letter was received from the Borough of Lindenwold inviting the Fire Department to the Memorial Day tribute to be held at Lindenwold Park on 5/30/11. The titles for the KME s have been received from SunTrust. The annual meeting minutes were received from the NJ Association of Fire Districts. Outgoing A letter was sent to the NJ Dept. of Labor & Workforce Division of Public Safety & Occupational Safety & Health in response to a Notice of Order to Comply requesting an extension for several citations received after an inspection of Station No. 3. A letter was sent to all Camden County Municipalities inviting them to a meeting on 5/23 regarding the Regionalization of the Camden County Fire Service. A letter was sent to Deborah Jackson of Lindenwold Boro providing the 2011 Ethics Forms for the elected officials of Lindenwold Fire District No.1. Comm. Ruth: Any other correspondence? (hearing none) Treasurer s Report Comm. McManus As of May 16, 2011: Capital Reserve CD 103, General Checking 361, Payroll Checking 11,

2 Treasurer s Report continued LEA Trust Penalty 15, LEA Dedicated Penalty 7, Petty Cash Accumulated Depreciation (1,092,279.56) Capital Assets 2,513, Amount for long term obligation (1,201,163.96) Total Assets 720, Motion made by Comm. Blair, seconded by Comm. Schwegel to accept the Treasurer s Report as read. Any questions? (hearing none) Roll call vote, all yes. Payment of Bills Comm. McManus Comm. McManus: In front of you, you have a list of 38 bills totaling $31, Motion made by Comm. Blair, seconded by Comm. Schwegel to approve the payment of bills. Any questions? (hearing none) Roll call vote, all yes. COMMITTEE REPORTS Budget Comm. Blair Comm. Blair: Nothing to report. Insurance Comm. Blair Comm. Blair: I participated in a telephone conference this morning on the claims made at JIF. Sale of Assets Comm. Blair Comm. Blair: Nothing to report. Recruitment / Membership / Incentive Program Comm. Blair Comm. Blair: After I finish up the television commercial which I have to contact the high school about, I ll check into getting some signs put around. I talked to the Chief about it last week briefly about getting signs like you see for the carnival and stuff like that. Hydrants / Water Comm. Blair Comm. Blair: B/C Schwegel and B/C Hoag are going to be starting on the hydrant adapters in the next two weeks I believe. That s it. Chief Nolan: Did we ever get that list that Steve requested for the hydrants? Comm. Blair: I have it. Chief Nolan: Can you get it to them because they want to start right away. Comm. Blair: Yes. Chief Nolan: Thank you. Communications Comm. McManus Comm. McManus: I just ordered five new pagers, everybody should have Minitor V s now. We re going to take the 3 s and 4 s out of service and inventory. We ll see if Mark can get some money for them on GovDeals. Apparatus / Fuel Comm. McManus Comm. McManus: As far as I know, everything Is pretty good on the trucks. I ve got to take Steve s car on Wednesday down to Vineland Electric. Evidently the new battery isolator they put in went bad, that s why he s having radio problems. Computers Comm. McManus Comm. McManus: Everything is good with the computer system. If anybody has any problems, let me know. Assist Personnel Comm. McManus 2

3 Fire Department Equipment Comm. Schwegel Comm. Schwegel: B/C Hoag is supposed to meet with me in the middle of June to start finalizing an equipment order. He s supposed to receive a list on June 1 st from all the officers on their wish list. Turn-Out Gear Comm. Schwegel Comm. Schwegel: I had to send out quite a bit of turnout gear for repair as it was cited during our OSHA inspection. I had to get two members resized for their gear. That s all I got. Uniforms Comm. Schwegel Fitness Center Comm. Schwegel Administration / Personnel Comm. Ruth Comm. Ruth: Monday, the 23 rd of May I will be meeting along with Comm. Schwegel with Mayor s and other Fire Districts throughout Camden County for the regionalization of the County Department. We had a meeting a couple months ago, and the group of Commissioners that were here from the other Fire Districts of Camden County have agreed to bring in the Mayors from the towns that do not have Fire Districts to start up a Shared Services and steering committee and committee for apparatus and different things. That s going to take place on Monday night. Were you able to get a hold of the Chief s Association? Chief Nolan: Yeah, they re coming. Comm. Ruth: Good, so hopefully it will be very productive for us. Fire Official Administration Comm. Ruth Comm. Ruth: I have no report. Bureau of Fire Prevention Comm. Ruth Comm. Ruth: I have no report. Training Report Comm. Ruth Comm. Ruth: The training report was read aloud. A copy is attached to the minutes, submitted by B/C Schwegel. Building Maintenance / Grounds Comm. Hans Fixed Assets Comm. Hans Health & Safety Comm. Hans Liaison to the District Chief Comm. Hans Chief s Report Chief Nolan: First with the meeting you re having on the 23 rd at the County Chief s meeting, it was brought up about what the first meeting with Cappelli and the Freeholders. All that basically happened was everybody that s on the committee was given sub-committees and they will start working on such things as truck purchase, building purchase, how they re going to come up with a pay system, all those kind of things is what the sub-committees are doing. Then the sub-committees will meet every other month, then they re hoping by December to have something formulated. Cappelli basically came out and said that the Fire Department wasn t the main attraction in doing this, it was the Police Department, and the Fire Department got drug into it. Does he think it s going to work? He brought up about Fire Districts and how there are so many disciplines involved that it might not even work for the Fire Departments. So having the meeting and trying to get to him to get somebody on those 3

4 Chief s Report, continued committees definitely is a good idea if we can get some people because there is a lot of stuff that if we had a say in part of it coming from the District s end, that would help. I don t know if I brought it up last month, but the Fire Academy has been bought by the College. We re thinking it s actually going to be a good thing because they are educationally based. The Dean has told us that they don t plan on raising any prices as long as the Academy stays proficient and they continue to do classes. That s one thing that Sandrock brought up was that we need to keep coming to the classes they have. We also then brought up that they need to get some new classes. That is being developed for the fall, they re looking at new classes they re going to have. The College is actually going to work with a degree program again through Pat Bigus, he s in charge of the Fire Science program, so there is going to be more classes even some Saturday classes that will count towards your degree once you ve actually signed up with the College. Ff. Brezee was in the meeting with the coordinators and they all think it s going to be a good thing so hopefully there isn t too many changes. The Fire Watch Program with Tammy DeLucca was moved to the College, so we still have a Fire Watch program. If you have to make contact with her, her cell number is available or you can her. That program was valuable. It had 3,100 clients who have gone through the program since its inception. There were four last week, in one week alone. So the program is worth saving, and the College picked it up. That s all I got. President s Report Comm. Ruth: President s Report? (no President s) Solicitor - D. Capozzi Sol.Capozzi: Nothing to report. Resolutions Comm. Ruth Comm. Ruth: We have a resolution to approve the 2010 Audit. (the resolution was read aloud, a copy is attached to the minutes.) The affidavit states that the commissioners have all read the audit, and it is being sent to Trenton Resolution and Affidavit of the 2010 Fire District Audit Motion made by Comm. Schwegel, seconded by Comm. Blair to accept the 2010 Audit report and affidavit. Any questions on the Resolution? (hearing none) Roll call vote, all yes. Comm. Schwegel: I just wanted to make a note that there were no recommendations in it, and I d like to thank Kathy for a great job. Comm. Ruth: Yes, another year with a clean audit. Old Business Comm. Ruth Comm. Ruth: Old Business? (hearing none) New Business Comm. Ruth Chief Nolan: I d like to thank Comm. McManus for all the work he s done at Battalion 2 to get the OSHA stuff done. (see additional New Business after the Closed Session) Public Portion Comm. Ruth Motion made by Comm. Blair, seconded by Comm. Schwegel to open to the public. All in favor, ayes have it. (hearing none) Motion made by Comm. Blair, seconded by Comm. Schwegel to close to the public. All in favor, ayes have it. Open to Commissioners Comm. Ruth Comm. Ruth: On June 11 th, I ll be attending the NJ State Fire Districts Association meeting again in Howell Township if any of the Commissioners are interested in going. Anything else from the Commissioners? (hearing none) Closed Session Comm. Ruth Motion made by Comm. Schwegel, seconded by Comm. Blair to go into Closed Session. All in favor, ayes have it. 4

5 Open Session Comm. Ruth (Comm. Hans arrived to the meeting at 8:19 pm) Motion made by Comm. Blair, seconded by Comm. Schwegel to come out of Closed Session at 8:24 pm. All in favor, ayes have it. New Business Continued Comm. Ruth Comm. Ruth: We re back in regular session at this time. I d like to go back into New Business, it s back open again. Comm. Schwegel: I d like to make a motion that we hire J & J Staffing to supply us with somebody to cover the office for us when Kathy s away on Monday s, Wednesday s and Friday s from 9am to 1pm. Comm. Hans: Who is J & J? Comm. Schwegel: They re a temp agency. Motion made by Comm. Schwegel, seconded by Comm. McManus. Any question on the motion? (hearing none) Roll call vote, all yes. Comm. Ruth: Anything else under New Business? (hearing none) Comm. Schwegel: Do you have anything you want to bring up? Comm. Hans: No, I don t have much. Just a couple things about building, but I can wait till next month. Adjourn - Comm. Ruth Motion made by Comm. Blair, seconded by Comm. Schwegel to adjourn the meeting at 8:26 pm. All in favor, ayes have it. 5