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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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Notice of Meeting

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Fire Protection

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Meeting

Event Start Date & Time

April 2, 2019 07:00 PM

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Notice of Meeting Northwestern Special Service District (Fire Protection) April 2, 2019 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/vote on amending Policies and Procedures to adopt International Fire Code 6) Discuss 2019 Elections 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 - MARCH 5, 2019 BROOKSIDE FIRE STATION - BROOKSIDE, UTAH The meeting was opened at 7:00 PM. Board members present were Steve Haluska, Chairman, Frank Bistolfo, Treasurer, Kathy Tanasz, Clerk, Kathy Vause and Vic Middleton, Board Members. 1) Pledge of Allegiance - Led by Steve Haluska 2) Monthly Accounting Discussion - An opportunity to discuss any accounting matters Roger may have for the board. Roger said he had been contacted by Mr. Williams from a contracting company for the Holmes Ranch. They were building a 2,480 square foot building with a small meeting room, restrooms and a kitchen. He wanted to know how much they owed then he set up a time to meet with Roger but never showed up. Roger felt Mr. Williams had hoped the charge was $ .50 but it's actually $2.00. Steve said he'd been contacted by a Central resident who wanted to pay their fee but had lost their statement. Steve said they could mail it, meet with Roger in town or bring it to the meeting tonight. They said they would come by the meeting but they did not show up to pay. 3) 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. There were no minutes from last month's meeting as it had been cancelled due to bad weather. Steve asked if there were any items to be reviewed. There were none. Vic Middleton made a motion to approve the Consent Agenda 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 - No one was present for a hardship case. 5) Discuss 2019 Elections - Kathy T. said there are two board member positions up for elections; Vic's and hers. May 24 we'll post a notice of the election and then the declaration of candidacy is June 3 - 7. The district runs the notice in the newspaper and we also post it within the district. Steve said the code now only requires we publish the announcement in the newspaper as a legal notice and we do not have to post it in the area. Steve asked Kathy T. to verify the code before she proceeded with the postings. Kathy V. said she would publish the election notice in the 'Chat' newsletter if Kathy T. would send her the verbiage. Frank thanked Vic for serving on the board. Vic thinks this is his last meeting before he and Jan move out of the area. Frank also wanted to encourage Kathy T. to run for reelection. She said she planned on it as far as she knows. A discussion was had about Vic's vacancy for the remainder of his term. Whoever fills that position will have to run for the new term which begins in 2020. 6) Discuss Veyo Fire Station Wish List - Chris wasn't at the meeting to report for Veyo. Kathy T. said the board had asked in the January meeting that the list be sent out to each board member for their input on prioritizing the projects. She did that and Steve, Frank and Kathy T. responded with their ideas. Kathy V. did not feel she could effectively participate as she's never been to the Veyo station and she was not comfortable yet with her knowledge of the workings of the fire stations. Vic was out of town so he could not respond. After some discussion about the list priorities it was decided the board would meet at the Veyo station before the next board meeting, inspect what has already been accomplished and move on from there with the list. Some contractors were suggested and talk of selling the cameras was also had. A tentative meeting was scheduled for Thursday, March 28 at 11:00 AM at the Veyo Fire Station. Steve would ask Chris to meet the board there if he was available. 7) Station Chiefs reports - Dan said it wasn't too busy. There was an apartment fire in Veyo and an illegal burn in Gunlock. Steve said burn season was open but it's closed now because the clearing index has been too low so the webpage is not turned on. Dan was concerned about the amount of rain forecast for the area and flooding. Dan got sand and sandbags from the county. Central has 2,000 sand bags, Brookside has 4,000 and Gunlock has 4,000. UFRA Wildland and Engine training is in April and he thought there were three or four people going. Dan thought it was going to be in Hurricane over by Purgatory. Steve Brown is going to go through Fire I and II over in Washington. He also did the flashover with Jeff Klemp and both of them liked it. Steve had the same thing as what Dan did. He too, has about three firefighters interested in the UFRA training. Steve said he could send his brush truck. If it's in Hurricane they probably won't be putting them up overnight. It has to be over 50 miles he thought. Steve reported on the page outs and how busy they'd been. In 2018 we had 62 page outs; 52 weeks in the year so that's roughly one every 5 1/2 days. So far this year we've had 8 page outs. It's our slow time of the year, averaging about 1 every week so he doesn't think we're going to fall much behind last year, depending on what happens with wildland and all that. Dan talked about state grants and the license plate grants. Steve and Dan neither one received any grant money last year. Unfortunately, things have tightened up with grants. Dan said costs associated with extrication were about $2,200 for each bag or get the whole kit for $5,000. The hydraulic rams with chalks run about $1,000 for 3 at rescuetools.com. Steve said Dan's got the extrication gear on his engine in Brookside so he'd like to put the lifting rams or the air bags on the Central engine. No sense duplicating the gear as it's expensive and they don't use it that often. They work together anyway so they can work it out. 8) Board Member Comments - Kathy V. said she recently sold a property in Central to a man who would like to do a concealed carry class for anyone who would like to attend. She didn't know if there was anyone in the area who already does them or how that works. Kathy V. wondered if you needed to shoot with the training. Frank said it used to be like that in Utah but not any longer. Steve said there were several classes in St. George. Kathy V. said they'd like to do it specifically for people up here and just charge a nominal fee, like $20. The board members thought it was a good service to provide. Additional discussion about where to hold the class was had. Kathy V. is going to see how many people are interested before moving forward. Vic was concerned about having it at the fire station because it was a profitable endeavor. It might have to be a public service class. Kathy V. will look into public interest first. Frank didn't have any board member comments. Kathy T. said she had a list for '2019 continuous notes for discussion' and they could be talked about in the work meeting following tonight's board meeting. Steve said he had a few comments about the Veyo RV park. He's getting a lot of questions. He's gotten yelled at, lawsuits threatened against the district, lawsuits threatened against him, supposedly the fire district is stopping the project - it's not - and is the fire district for it or are they against it. Steve keeps telling everybody 'neither'. So just to make a clarification, the way he sees it and this is Steve's opinion is - the fire district is neither for nor against the RV park. He believes we're here to try to make sure the codes are followed if and when it's built. If they want any opinions on the Veyo fire departments ability to handle a situation if the RV park is built Steve thinks at that time, we'll address that. He was also asked about a lot of talk concerning a 'will serve' letter and if we would offer one or not. After discussing this with the planning department, Steve and Kathy T. talked this over. When the district was designed or built or put together by resolution it was basically a will serve letter within the resolution for all private land in the district. So, as far as if we're going to exclude something, we may have to go somewhat against that original resolution. But, depending on what basis we're using to exclude also; such as if they put an oil refinery out here, well, we can't do that. Kathy T. said they have to be up to code. In her opinion, she doesn't think that should be entirely up to the county. It bothers her that they're very laxed with code and there's no code enforcement. There's no follow-up with the building department and this is going to be a conditional use permit. She personally thinks this puts our firefighters at risk because there's projects out there that probably should never have been passed. Kathy V. agreed that it also puts our communities at risk and our residents. Steve said the perfect example with this code thing is, a week or so ago he talked on the phone with Kurt Gardner, the building inspector, and Steve said to Kurt that he assumed it would be International Fire Code and NFPA 1194, the rules for campgrounds and RV parks. Kurt said yeah, it's going to be that, he thought it was going to be 1142. Steve said no, 1194 is the code number. Kurt said 'No, we don't have that'. So, the question Steve and Kathy T. have is, if the county doesn't have a copy of the code, how do they enforce it? Kathy T. also said how do they even write it into the requirements to get their conditional use permits or any type of building permits for that matter if they don't have the code? How can they pass on the plans if they don't know the code? Monte Holmes ranch is considered rural recreation. It follows under that RV park/campground code. Brad Wallace in Central is also building a campground and it falls under that code. Of course, we know about the RV park in Veyo. How did these other ones get through if they don't have the code? Steve said we would continue this discussion at a later time. Vic didn't have any board member comments. 9) Adjourn - Steve Haluska made a motion to adjourn and Frank Bistolfo seconded the motion. All voted Aye. The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 P.M. Approved ____________________________________________Date_____

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Meeting Location

436 E. Wells Fargo Drive
Brookside, 84782-6028
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Mark Cain

Contact Email

mcain@nwssd.utah.gov

Contact Phone

435-375-9699

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April 01, 2019 09:24 PM

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April 01, 2019 09:24 PM

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