KING COUNTY FIRE TRAINING OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION
MEETING MINUTES
Mercer Island Fire Department
June 5, 2008
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King County Fire Training Officers’ Association MinutesJune 2008 Page1
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King County Fire Training Officers’ Association MinutesJune 2008 Page1
MEMBERS & GUESTS:
* Mike GeppertEastside Fire
* Mark WeldonBellevue Fire
* Elenjo SchaffEastside Fire
* Phil CaneBoeing Fire
Kevin OlsonValley Regional Fire
Paul StrongValley Regional Fire
Roy GunsolusRenton Fire
Todd ReynoldsSnoqualmie Fire
Greg BawdenDuvall Fire
Matt CowanMapleValley Fire
Rick AshlemanShoreline Fire
Rachel GarliniShoreline Fire
John JerinKingCountyEMS
Patty OusleyKingCountyEMS
Mike McAuliffeBothell Fire
Mark MuschNorthshore Fire
Mitch SauerNorthshore Fire
Roger KacmarcikKent Fire
Marty GrishamTukwila Fire
Jeff DidonatoMapleValley Fire
Cindy McMahanKCFTOA
Brian McMahanWSFTEF
* Executive Board Member
The monthly meeting was called to order at 0910 by President Mike Geppert at Mercer islandFireTrainingCenter. Following the traditional flag salute a roundtable introductions was done.
MEETING MINUTES:
After a correction of a couple of names in the minutes, amotion was made by Warren Merritt and Paul Strong to accept the May minutes as distributed by Elenjo Schaff. Motion passed.
TREASURER’S REPORT:
Phil Cane read the Treasurer’s report is as follows:
Checking Account:
Beginning Balance (05/01/08) $66,349.29
Deposits$13,110.00
Withdrawals$71,056.88
Interest Earned$ 2.05
Ending Balance (03/27/08)$ 8,404.46
Savings Account:
Beginning Balance (03/01/08)$25.084.09
Deposits$50,000.00
Interest Earned$ 9.04
Ending Balance (03/27/08)$ 75,093.13
Grand Total All Accounts:$83,497.59
Question was asked of Phil about the intent to put some of our funds into investments and what was the status on that. Phil reported he and Cindy would be making that move soon.
A motion was made by Warren Merritt and seconded by Kevin Olson to accept the treasurer’s report as read.
CHIEFS’ COMMENTS:
Warren Merritt reported there was going to be a meeting on June 25 to review the Fireground Expertise Curriculum as they were waiting for feedback from Zone 3. They are still aiming for a final approval by August.
Commendation letters were going to be sent out to the additional members that assisted with the EVIP curriculum.
GUEST SPEAKER(S):
Don Warner, Paramedic with Shoreline Fire, has his own moulage business called Monsters, Moulage, and Mayhem. He can provide basic or advanced moulage training to your personnel, or can assist with training, MCI, DWI or any other kinds of drills. Elenjo Schaff at Eastside Fire is hosting a class taught by Don Warner in June and highly recommends the usage of moulage for CBT classes to add more realism to the scenario. Patty Ousley also uses Don for the EMT final exams, and he also assists with the moulage for the EMS Online modules. For more information, contact Don Warner at:
6327 150th Place SW
Edmonds, WA98026
Phone: 206-940-7777
Email:
AFFILIATE REPORTS:
KING COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT & REGION 6 HOMELAND SECURITY TRAINING & EDUCATION COMMITTEE:
Marty Grisham reported Heather Kelly had sent out an email regarding grant money being available from the State. They are having a meeting on June 10 and wanted input for training ideas. If you want grant funding, you will need to go through the group representative for each of the categories. He continued by reporting the Training & Education Committee is building a 5-year training plan so if anyone has ideas for training not normally on their training schedule that the region can benefit from, please submit it to one of the committee members as soon as possible.
KINGCOUNTYEMS:
Patty Ousleyreported that for the past two years they had a working relationship with Seattle Fire and though it worked well, they would not be able to use the Joint Training Facility for the upcoming class. So the locations of the 2008 Fall EMT Class are scheduled as follows:
- Tuesday Lectures at BellevueFireTrainingCenter
- Saturday practical skills sessions will be at Eastside Fire & Rescue
Application Deadline is: July 11
Student Pre-testing: August 5
CPR Testing & Orientation: August 19
First Lecture: Tuesday, September 2
First Practical: Saturday, September Practical Final: Saturday, November 22
State EMT Written Exam: Tuesday, November 25
The letter to training officers will be sent out via email in the beginning of the following week.
John Jerin also spoke to the membership about the plan of an EMS Online structure change. He disseminated a proposed schedule for 2009, 2010, and 2011 modules. With the feedback of the value of the Street Medicine module, they are planning the six annual modules to include Street Medicine in two of the three year cycle. On the third year, Infectious Disease will be part of the six required courses. After a discussion of the membership, there were several departments that used the online Infectious Disease module to supplement their annual requirement, so John indicated they would continue to include Infectious Disease on the other two years, but it would be under the “On-going classes” section and not placed in the regular schedule.Discussion ensued and ideas were presented on topics for the infectious disease modules. John also added that the software requirements are changing to be able to improve the videos to a larger size.
LABOR & INDUSTRIES:
Mark Soltow was not present to report.
REGION IV:
Mark Adler was not present to report.
STATE FIRE TRAINING & SAFETY OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION:
Bob Joneswas not present to report.
WA STATE FIRE SERVICE TRAINING:
Bob Jones was not present to report.
KITSAPCOUNTY TRAINING OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION:
Wayne Kier was not present to report.
PIERCE COUNTYMETRO TRAINING ASSOCIATION:
Bryan Pearson was not present to report.
SNOHOMISHCOUNTY TRAINING OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION:
Craig Clinton or Art White were not present to report.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ADVANCED PUMP OPERATOR WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:
Gary Sacha wasn’t present to report, but Cindy said the registrations are online and the dates were September 15-19 and will cost $275 per student.
(Committee Members: Gary Sacha, Bob Jones, and Mark Weldon)
EXTRICATION ACADEMY COMMITTEE:
Kevin Olson didn’t have anything to report.
(Committee Members: Kevin, Paul Strong, John Palmer, Rick Myking)
EVIP COMMITTEE:
Kevin Olson reported the EVIP Train the Trainer Classes are being held on July 1 at Kent Fire and July 2 at Shoreline Fire from 0800 – 1700 with a $20 cost to cover lunch per person. There is a maximum of 30 students for each session and a limit of 2 students per agency. Registration can be made online through
(Committee Members: Kevin Olson, Dave Kryger, Bob Jones, Jeff DiDonato, Mike Geppert )
LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUM (PREVIOUSLY CHIEF OFFICERDEVELOPMENTACADEMY):
Kevin Olsonreported they have been interested in getting more training in Safety, Wellness and Fitness for this symposium. They are checking into speakers, but haven’t finalized anything to date.
(Committee Members: Vic Pennington, Mike McAuliffe, Marty Grisham, Kevin Olson)
ODA COMMITTEE:
Roger Kacmarcik reported that the ODA will continue to deliver training that will prepare students to fill the role of company officer and to meet the Fire Officer I & II Standards. Roger continued by telling the membership of the intent to work towards getting college credits for the ODA classes, and we have had some challenges in working out the issues that have come up, and because the original plan was developed with the out-going chair of the committee, it’s difficult to know the original proposal and plan. Although the committee is committed to providing quality classes and instructors to meet the needs of the fire departments, we have some issues to resolve along the way. Discussion ensued regarding upcoming classes that were supposed to be covered by the college and didn’t have instructors. However, the committee worked diligently to provide instructors and the classes will be held as scheduled.
(Committee Members: Roger Kacmarcik , Elenjo Schaff, Rick Myking, Rick Ashleman, Jeff DiDonato, Cari Coll, Rick Newbold,Phil Cane, Cindy McMahan)
TRUCK ACADEMY COMMITTEE:
Marty Grisham and Cindy McMahan reported the registrations are available online and there is still room in both classes.
(Committee Members: Vic Pennington, John Palmer, Bob Whipple)
WEBSITE COMMITTEE:
Jeff DiDonato reported this committee will be meeting later today to discuss options for September when our current contract will need to be renewed. Along with this, the committee will also be discussing options for purchasing a database since our current one crashed and the need has become more urgent.
PURCHASES OF THE MONTH:
- Marty Grisham reported they had some ‘dead spots” in radio communication in the Mall, and so the Mall was forced to place a repeater within their facility.
- Kevin Olson reported Valley Regional Fire Authority was going to be purchasing a Metz Ladder Truck.
OLD BUSINESS:
DATABASE NEEDS:
Jeff DiDonato had reported the latest plan during the Website Committee Report.
.NEW BUSINESS:
There wasn’t any new business to report.
GOOD OF THE ORDER:
- Marty Grisham reported Gary Sacha had been in a motorcycle accident and was doing okay.
- Marty Grisham informed the membership when completing the application form for the Training and Education funding through OEM, terminology tends to be different, so to be sure to not use acronyms for training and equipment exercises.
- Elenjo Schaff had sent out an email with a date to the membership from John Robinson from Kent Fire regarding the ‘free’ trial class being offered. It was scheduled for June 26, which is the “Stand Down for Safety” week, so he will need to change this. Elenjo sent a sign-up sheet around for any interested persons and John will get in touch with them to set a date if there was enough interest.
- Brian McMahan, representing Region 10 reported on the Everyone Goes Home.com Program. He informed the membership of the activities, lesson plans, and videos that are available for use during the Stand Down for Safety week. Also, there aren’t any advocates in KingCounty on this committee, so if anyone is interested they can contact Brian for additional information. The “Courage to be Safe” class that was recently held in Spokane with great interest may be offered in SWWA in the future. This program is designed to talk about safety and the whys for training.
- Rick Ashleman reported they are looking at doing a FallRecruitAcademy, but they need more participants, so if you have anyone to put through the academy, let him know.
With no further business, a motion was made by Kevin Olson and seconded by Jeff DiDonatoto adjourn. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 1120.
(Draft meeting minutes were respectfully submitted by Elenjo Schaff, Executive Board Secretary on June 12, 2008.)
KING COUNTY FIRE TRAINING OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION
PHONE NUMBERS
Phone: 425-255-1241
FAX: 425-749-7274
MAILING ADDRESS
King County Fire
Training Officers’ Association
P.O. Box 3276
Everett, WA98213-8276
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NEXT MEETING
Thursday, July 10, 2008
NOTE: One week later due to holiday
0900 Start Time
KentFire Department
24611 116th avenue SE
Kent
253-856-4330
YOUR 2008 EXECUTIVE BOARD
(Mark Weldon, Elenjo Schaff, Michael Geppert and Phil Cane)
PRESIDENT -Michael Geppert, Eastside Fire & Rescue (425) 313-3301 or
VICE PRESIDENT - Mark Weldon, Bellevue Fire (425) 452-7852 or
SECRETARY - Elenjo Schaff, Eastside Fire and Rescue (425) 313-3393 or
TREASURER - Phil Cane, Boeing Fire (425) 785-8964 or
CONTRACT ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT –
Cindy McMahan – KCFTOA
INSPIRATIONAL NOTE:
“A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
~George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
(1856-1950)
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