Posted on: October 14th, 2012

Notes on the September 20, 2012 Gold Hill Fire Protection District Board meeting

By Gretchen Diefenderfer.  For the official minutes, contact Dave Sturtz, Secretary,  at dave@nullsturtz.org.

 

NEXT FIREBOARD MEETING will be Thursday, October 18^th, 2010, 7:00 p.m. at the Community Center.

 

The meeting was called to order by President Donal Maloney.  Present were Donal, Dave Sturtz, Rick Geesaman, Chief Chris Finn, and Gretchen Diefenderfer.

 

Minutes of the last meeting were approved.

 

OLD BUSINESS

 

Cistern Easement  – is at the attorney’s office per suggestions in the language by Paul Robert’s attorney.

 

Board Training – They are looking at mid October.  The attorney will look at dates and get back to the board.

 

Banking – Chris has emailed the info on the account signers and hasn’t heard back from Adriana.  Donal will email her to remind her to get the information to Chris so he can get it to the bank.

 

Website – Dave has worked some on it (http://www.goldhillfire.org/).  It has the transparency notice on it although not much else.  He’ll keep plugging away on it.  The site that Adriana registered (http://goldhillfire.com/) still has some Word Press stuff on it and he has asked her to take it down.

 

NEW BUSINESS

 

Budget Process – It’s up and coming.  The board will be working on it for the next couple of months.  Chris will give the board spread sheets with their basic income – tax money, grant money and donations, as well as expenses for the last couple of years.  They budget high so if they get additional money so they can spend or save it without going through a re-budgeting process with the State.  He has to get ahold of DOLA.  The tax base went down and because of Tabor, etc., and the State 5% rule, our mill levy, which was 7.499 has been adjusted down to 7.47.  The tax base was ratcheted down because of the fire and once it goes down, it can’t go up without a vote.

 

Chris puts the basic budget together for the board to work on, but he would like more input from the board.  The building needs a fair amount of work.

 

Grant – Kris Gibson will get the figures on the SCBA Grant and our required match.

 

Melodrama – He has heard from Maggie that they will getting donations from the Melodrama performance.

 

Training – There was a good training last week on pumps and some motivated new trainees.  They really need everyone to show up for at least ½ of the trainings.  Calls are a team effort and it helps to have trained together.

 

Google Calendar – Dave Sturtz will set up a Google Calendar and put a link on the website to it. Trainings are the 4^th Thursday (classroom training in the evening) and the second Saturday  (hands on training in the daytime) of each month.  The email list should also be working now.

 

Chris added that there will be a change in the training schedule in November – car fire and extrication training will be on Nov. 29^th.

 

They have a new chief in Sunshine – Steve Waltman – he is actually a rocket. scientist.