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Special Service District

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Northwestern Special Service District (Washington County, Utah)

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Administrative Control Board

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May 1, 2018 07:00 PM

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Notice of Meeting Northwestern Special Service District (Fire Protection) May 1, 2018 at 7:00 PM Brookside Fire Station 436 E. Wells Fargo Drive, Brookside, Utah 1) Pledge of Allegiance 2) Monthly Accounting Discussion (If necessary) - Roger Ogden 3) Consent Agenda Consent Agenda - The consent agenda is a means of expediting routine matters that come before the Board for approval. The consent portion of the agenda is approved by one (1) non-debatable motion. If any Board Member wishes to remove an item from the consent agenda, that item becomes the first order on the Regular Agenda. a) Monthly Expenses b) Monthly Financial Report c) Previous month's minutes Regular Agenda Items: 4) Discuss/vote on hardship cases for standby fees 5) Discuss Burn Permits 6) Discuss/vote on Washing Machine 7) Discuss Veyo Fire Station Wish List 8) Station Chiefs reports 9) Board member comments 10) Adjourn Items for discussion MUST be placed on this agenda by 2:00 P.M. WEDNESDAY preceding the meeting date by contacting Kathy Tanasz, District Clerk at 435-574-3536 or 435-632-2930. REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS: The NWSSD will make every effort to provide reasonable accommodations to disabled members of the public to access meetings. Please call (435) 574-3536 or (435) 632-2314 if you have any special needs.

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NORTHWESTERN SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICT MINUTES OF MEETING - APRIL 3, 2018 BROOKSIDE FIRE STATION - BROOKSIDE, UTAH The meeting was opened at 7:00 PM. Board members present were Steve Haluska, Chairman, LuAnn Carpenter, Vice Chairman, Kathy Tanasz, Clerk, Frank Bistolfo, Treasurer and Kathy Vause, our new Board Member. 1) Pledge of Allegiance - Led by Steve Haluska 2) Monthly Accounting Discussion -This is a new regular agenda item to give Roger an opportunity to discuss any accounting matters he may have for the board. Roger didn't have anything this evening. 3) Consent Agenda - Steve asked if there were any items to be reviewed. Kathy Tanasz had a correction from last month. An item was on the agenda (#8) for a discussion and vote but it didn't require a vote. She wanted to make sure that was noted in the minutes. Frank wanted to bring to the attention of the board a computer technician in Dammeron Valley who was phenomenal at computer data recovery and repair. Frank had to use him recently and he wanted to recommend him. His name and contact information are: Frank Kuehnel, Comtec Solutions 1052 West Coyote Way, Dammeron Valley, Utah 84783, Phone: 435-668-5180, Email: Frank @comtecsolutions.us. LuAnn explained the consent agenda process to Kathy Vause, our new board member. LuAnn Carpenter made a motion to approve the Consent Agenda with corrections and Kathy Vause seconded the motion. All Voted Aye. a) Monthly Expenses b) Monthly Financial Report c) Previous Month's Minutes Regular Agenda Items: 4) Discuss/vote on hardship cases for standby fees and billing issues - No one was present for a hardship case. Steve said he received a $98.00 standby fee check that was mailed to the Central Fire Station. He called the person who sent the check to let them know they had mailed their payment to the wrong address. 5) Revisit Agricultural Land language - In the past we didn't want to hear about ag land because we don't bill it. Now someone has decided to build a house on ag land. By law we charge standby fees and impact fees on all new construction. The owner has approximately 150 acres up on the corner of Pinto Road and SR 18. Steve didn't understand how anyone can build on that type of land without rezoning but the owner said they were not doing that. Steve called the county tax assessor and he said they will automatically take one acre of the property and reappraise it as primary use land. To be able to pick up these types of situations for billing purposes Roger will have to pay attention to any ag land that has new construction on it. Roger said he will look it up as the owners want to pay an impact fee for construction. He will have to check the county website and look them up on an individual basis. Roger didn't feel this would be an issue. 6) Discuss/vote on late fee per parcel - Normally our invoices are for one parcel but we do have some that are one invoice for multiple parcels owned by the same person. The question is do we charge one late fee for one bill or do we charge 10 late fees for the 10 parcels that are listed on one bill. After a discussion about several different scenarios in which way we could proceed a motion was made by LuAnn Carpenter and seconded by Frank Bistolfo to charge one late fee per statement. All voted Aye. 7) Discuss Veyo Fire Station Wish List - Steve gave Kathy Vause some background on this agenda item before the board discussed it. LuAnn went on a tour of the station and took several pictures which she showed to the board members. Richard Petty showed LuAnn some things then she and Chris also talked about some things. She talked about the flag, the stucco, the broken window, and putting in a door. Chris's son Wyatt was going to do an Eagle Scout project and is still hoping he can pour the concrete around the building. Richard has put in beadboard, done a lot of mudding and taping, worked on the bathrooms, put in baseboards, etc. He has done quite a bit of work. Richard asked Steve if he could use the building for his wedding ceremony so that is his incentive to get the building done. LuAnn said Richard is needing funds to buy materials and has to go through Chris. She wants to know if she can help out instead. Kathy Vause told the board about her realty company that takes on projects to help out communities. She was wondering if that is something they could help out with. Steve said he would like to see the Town of Veyo get involved in the project instead of providing the means to get it done. Kathy Vause asked why that hasn't been done before and there were a few different answers such as leadership, lack of interest and cooperation from the residents. 8) Discuss Firefighter training - LuAnn gave an overview of Thursday night training. The discussion here was about feeding the firefighters a meal. Steve wanted to know if they were coming to training to train or coming for the meal. He also felt they were coming for the meal but they weren't answering the pager for a callout. LuAnn felt the meal was part of recruitment and retainment. Steve said if they're showing up for training to be trained, fine but if they're showing up for a free meal he doesn't want them. How do you measure someone's intentions? Several different scenarios were discussed. Frank gave several examples of different ways to offer incentives to firefighters. Kathy Vause felt we should feed them. Steve asked LuAnn to keep record and compare who shows up at Thursday night trainings to who does stuff around the stations and who shows up on pages and let's see how it goes from there. Kathy Tanasz said she supports feeding the firefighters. Steve wants to know if the firefighters that are coming to training are also coming to page outs. It's a real problem because so many of the firefighters are not responding to pages. 9) Station Chiefs reports - Chris was not at the meeting so there was no report from Veyo. Dan said it's been quiet. Steve talked about a burn at the Holmes Ranch. A hired hand was burning trimmings on an old burn pile. It was a weird set of circumstances. Steve also talked about Jimmy Pierce's house fire. It was a total loss. There were a couple of medical pages during the month also. 10) Board Members Comments - Kathy Vause met with Bevan Killpack. She is coordinating the CWPP counsel for the surrounding communities. It is a one-year commitment. She wanted to know if the board members had any recommendations of people who might be willing to help on the counsel. LuAnn suggested Janet Casteel, Brenda McAlister and Sue Morris, all from Veyo. Kathy Tanasz suggested Brad Eyre from Brookside. Kathy Vause will be working the SR - 18 corridor. Kathy Tanasz offered to send Kathy Vause information she might have from working on this project twice in the past. LuAnn welcomed Kathy Vause to the board. She was also going to report on the washing machine information but that has been tabled until next month. Kathy Tanasz reported that James Tanasz received the gift card from the district for his work on donating signage and he said thank you very much. She also said Bill Becker passed away on April 2. He was the past fire chief in Central. Steve said there was going to be a memorial put on by his family at the Central Fire Station on April 28. Frank didn't have anything to comment on. Steve brought thumb drives and passed them out to the board members to use to back up station business on their computers. Steve reported on what was happening with the Rockville/Springdale fire department. The county has stepped in and given it over to the Hurricane Valley SSD until the end of next year. They're trying to give the residents a chance to figure out how they're going to pay for their overpaid SSD operations. Steve asked the question; If a firefighter goes out and buys, with his own money, his own PPE gear and something goes wrong, where does that put us liability wise. Kathy Tanasz thought it would depend on if the gear was current in terms of NFPA standards. Frank said we needed to make sure the gear was in compliance. Steve said if the gear is current he didn't feel we would be liable. Frank thought we should have the firefighter sign a waiver. Steve felt the same way. Steve also wanted to make the board aware of the burn permit problems we have going on in the district. Burn permits are being issued by the internet website with no authorization from any fire chiefs. LuAnn wanted to know where we're at legally on that. The state law says that a fire chief has to inspect and issue a permit in our area but it's not happening. Also, we've had property owners call dispatch with a bogus burn permit number and get a new burn permit. Frank said we should issue fines but Steve said we don't have that authority. There was additional discussion and this subject will be put on next month's agenda for additional consideration. 11) Adjourn - LuAnn Carpenter made a motion to adjourn and Kathy Vause seconded the motion. All voted Aye. The meeting was adjourned at 8:40 P.M. Approved ____________________________________________Date________________

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436 E. Wells Fargo Drive
Brookside, 84782
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