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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-03-13 Council MinutesMarch 13, 2000 Fire & Capital Committee Meeting ISO r—m pP , Present Jim Hanger Otto Hoff Marl Vetter Jane Allan Lonnie McCook Mr McCook presented the Committee with a quote on fire gear and truck equipment received from Garnie Bauer, Fire Chief from Torrington Mr McCook asked Garnie to go over the quote and explain the request The Committee thanked Garnie for coming in i D rc"" and discussed the quote The Committee recommends this quote be referred to the Regional Fire & Disaster Coordinator and Assistant Administrator to go over and bring back a recommendation to the Committee after the Coordinator has a look at the department. Mr McCook presented the requests for the Administration 2000 capital budget Jennifer Deak entered the meeting to explain the need of these items as follows 1 Lexmark Laser Printer to be used for water billing and utilities $4500 00 _ . 2 Lexmark Laser Printer to be used by the Municipal Admirustrator - $3000 00 J tv 3 Fax machine - $2500 00 a 4 Photocopier — Up to $18,000 00 The Committee recommends to purchase the equipment up to $28, 000.00 plus GST, as soon as possible Jennifer Deak brought the invoice from Richards Consulting for discussion A letter had been written to them requesting a breakdown of the invoice for $7539 22 including GST ,� W MO The Committee recommends to pay this invoice, as is, and be done with these 0 consultants Mr McCook asked the Committee if he could contact Mr Keith Marten to put on a course for use of fire extinguishers for upgrade on Employee Day The Committee recommends Mr McCook contact Keith Martin to put on afire f0 to tem extinguisher course Mr McCook asked the Committee for direction with the Fire/Disaster Coordinator so everyone is clear on what is ahead The Committee recommends these comments as direction I The Coordinator works tlirough arinunistration to revise the fire agreements to reflect the County's direction 2 To work on and put in place a basic level of training for all departments and set goals (Example fire fighter 1, firefighter II, and Pumper A) These departments have to be accountable along with having proper training for liability purposes 3 Implement "Incident Command System" as a Standard Operating Procedure for all County departments 4. At this point in time the County is willing to provide one pumper and one tanker to its County departments along with recognizing two rescue units in Linden and Three Hills. S County fire chiefs will report and answer to the Coordinator who in turn answers to Administration. 6. The Coordinator and Administration will make recommendations to they L-- appropriate committee level as to the needs of the department. �,li, of 7 Administration will report to Executive or Council on the day to day running of the departments by the Coordinator. Mr McCook reported he is still working on the tankers for water trucks A motion was in place last year for the Committee to purchase a tool shack for the road crew up to $15 000 00 which was not purchased The side mount mower was discussed along with the lack of fire budgets from the departments The Committee recommends that it go to Strathmore to look at tool shacks on March j-1) f0c, mss 24, 2000 and to get a motion from Council on the dollar limit to be spent. Also, no side 'Q PU- mount mower to be purchased at this time. The County will set the fire budgets based on previous years. j The meeting adjourned at 11 35 A.M I* • J Public Works 9uperintendent