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Minutes:
Membership Meeting on February 18, 2010 Host: Romulus Fire Dept
Next Meeting: March 18, 2010 in Van Buren
Attendees: Belleville (Bill Emerson), Canton (Mike Rorabacher), Dearborn Heights (George Zalucki), Detroit Metro Airport (Craig Carnell), Farmington Hills (Corey Bartsch), Garden City (Bill Forbush), Huron Twp (Dave Russow), Northville City (Jim Allen & Steve Ott), Northville Twp (Rich Marinucci), Novi (Frank Smith & Jeff Johnson), Plymouth (Mark Wendel), Redford Twp (Jim Gomulka), Romulus (Dave Allison & Phil Wagner), Sumpter Twp (Les Powell), Taylor (Vince Fedel & Ed Sierota), Van Buren (Darwin Loyer), Wayne (Mel Moore & Shawn Bell), Westland (Bruce Tenniswood), Ypsilanti Twp (Eric Copeland & Phil Stachlewitz).
Guests: Carol & Emily from Jarvis, CWW – Marsha Bianconi and Carolynne Stabnick with MJ White & Son.
12:05PM Meeting Called to Order
President Rich Marinucci welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and thanked Chief Allison for hosting. Roundtable introductions followed. Minutes from last month’s meetings were also accepted unanimously.
Officers’ Reports:
President: Plaques were presented to Chief Fedel & Chief Smith for their dedication to our association, and well wishes for their retirements. Last meeting’s minutes (Jan 2010) were unanimously approved and accepted. Rich asked if someone would attend the next Metro Detroit Incident Management Coordinating Committee meeting on April 16th,. Meeting held in Detroit. Chief Carnell offered to attend in Rich’s absence. Phil Wagner also commented on the importance of our presence at this meeting. Yesterday was the MMRMA meeting, Rich distributed a handout for the Traffic Management policy. See specs in Rich’s handout materials.
VP – Bill Forbush had no report.
Secretary: No Report
Treasurer: Phil S. gave the Financial Report. There is $58,808.17 in the checking account. This report was accepted. (Chief Allison made motion, seconded by Chief Wendel)
OPEN INVOICES as of 2-18-10
Overdue Invoices 46,904.30
09/24/2003 30 - incident - EQ (VanBuren Inc.) 1,240.00
07/28/2005 87 - incident - Republic Waste 1,475.50
01/07/2009 237 - incident - 9 mile road run 8,322.50
06/02/2009 252 - z-Charter Twnshp of Ypsilanti 1,619.00
10/07/2009 272 - incident - Ash Road Huron Twp 13,068.00
12/11/2009 275 - z-Charter Township of Redford 15.00
01/25/2010 282 - z-City of Dearborn 12,755.26
02/04/2010 283 - z-City of Dearborn Heights 8,409.04
Phil presented next year’s budget to association. In-depth presentation followed. Chief Bartsch ensured us that WW is still pursuing every grant funding opportunity, especially via UASI. Proposed Budget was unanimously accepted - Chief Tenniswood made motion, seconded by Chief Bartsch.
CWW Report: Marsha Bianconi asked if anyone has anything that needs to be proposed to the CWW board. Rich stated that in the near future, Western Wayne would like to present to the board (possible Canton POS video) a five-minute quick overview. Bruce Tenniswood asked Marsha for a brief explanation of the Consolidation-topic senate bills.
Emergency Management:
No Report
Training Report:
RAFT has several training classes this fall.
Officers Classes –
Awareness Level Jan 25-29 in Sterling Hts and Ops starting Feb 22-26
Inspector class held in Harrison Twp in April
All info can be found on their website (www.raft911.org)
Medical Report:
Chief Forbush gave a brief report: Region 2 South Funding model e-mail was sent out to pertinent communities. Allocations for Fire Depts in Western Wayne area seem sufficiently increased most likely due to our HEMS membership. These distributed funds needs to be spent by the end of this month. Should we take a position that unassigned funds be routed to the special rescue teams, instead of individual communities. A unanimous motion and approval of this suggestion was supported. Two CQI reports need to be completed by June. If you’re using some form of Data Submission, start submitting it. Feel free to contact HEMS for more info. Chief Rorabacher reported the Board of Trustees meeting last week. Discussed the H1N1 vaccine, and the epi incident that occurred a few months ago.
Hazmat Report
Chief Bartsch had no report.
USAR
Chief Bartsch reported that attendance at training has been steadily declining. Remember, if one of your employees isn’t going to attend training, the dismissal permission must come from you, the Chief of the Dept.
Downriver Report:
Chief Fedel stated that Chief Hogrebe from Allen Park will be the new chair of this assoc. MDPH-EMS is considering requiring all private to reach agreements with every municipality in order to respond lights & sirens through the community.
Other Chiefs Report(s):
IAFC – FRI in Chicago in August. Remember, you can use the $500 education reimbursement from WW.
MAFC
Winter Conference in Feb 27-28, 2010. MIChiefs.org for registration details.
SMAFC
March 11 – Larry Merrill (Executive Director, Mich Twps Assoc) in Sterling Heights
April 1st – Vendor Show 10AM-3PM. Special 8:30AM presentation (in cooperation with MPFFU) by Randy Mantooth on CO Poisoning.
May Installation Luncheon in Pittsfield Twp
Old Business
MABAS
Chief Marinucci asked about turning in completed MABAS run cards. In the future, they’ll be turned into the state. Right now, just keep them internal. Jeff Johnson suggested to formalize your MABAS forms with your dispatch centers. They need those run cards, as well as your command staff. There is a lot of MABAS information on the MIChiefs.org website. Chief Tenniswood suggested a standard sign-off sheet be distributed. Chief Gomulka confirmed that box alarm cards need not be turned in until neighboring communities sign on.
Chief Rorabacher reported on the status of the Interlocal. We hope to have it adopted within the next couple of months.
Condolence Policy report from George Zalucki. In-depth review and discussion of handout which details the framework of proposed policy. Bruce Tenniswood made motion, seconded by Carnell, to have tiers of condolence funding (i.e. $500 for category 1-2, $250 for Category 2-4, and $100 for Category 5-6). Discussion followed, $500 was only max number. LODD’s involve much emotion. Policy as written provides appropriate discretion to Board Members. Send flowers & card automatically. After much discussion, Bruce Tenniswood made motion to only send flowers & card (up to $150 total cost). Unanimous acceptance of $150 across the board.
New Business:
Linda will resend updated membershiproster – with Bob Miljan HEMS, Madelyn Williams (DTE) and Marsha Bianconi are included.
1:10 PM Meeting Adjourned - Next Meeting in Van Buren on March 18.
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