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Fire Board Agenda Item FY�
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MEETING DATE:August 14th, 2013
AGENDA ITEM: Fire ChieYs Report
• The two new members,loe Bye and Brian Theisen started on June 11th and are doing great.
They will be starting the Fire Fighter class in September with a completion date of December
21st. After the�rst of the year,Joe wiU be taking his First Responder ciass. (8rian aiready has
this class completedj They both have already been working on their class B license.
• Membership—the department is at capacity of 3Q Members.
• C?n lune 29th,the department was able to da a house burn off of Cedar street and got some
great training. On August 3rd, we were able ta do another house burn on St.8ens campus
with even more great training. All went very weli,except we did have a little smoke issue
with the ane o�lune 29th.
• Jaanne Zipp,who cleaned the Fire Hall meeting room,kitchen and restrooms once a week
decided that she wanted to retire fully and resigned at the end of 1uly. We are currently
working on finding a replacement.
• No word yet on the DNR or Midcontinent Grants that we wrate for.
• Our New Air Packs should be arriving soan from Metro Fire. The department decided to go
with MSA air packs which is also what 90%af our Mutual Aid departments use,which will
make things a lat easier when we work tagether. SCTCC has shown interest in our old packs
and 1 will be meeting with them in the near future ta see what we can get out of them.
• I met with Nancy S+cott and Ann Reisch!about DAMA box issues getting an new commercial
business's. She stated that she didn't know our think that it was her job and that she has
made contact with Stearns County and#hat they witl hand out the DAMA box application with
the permit that they give out. i tald her that we had a discussion back when Wenner Gas
moved into the township and didn't get a box on and that she agreed to take care of doing
this, but if the county is willing to do it, I was fine. As lang as somebody does it.
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