August 29, 2007

 

The South Walton Fire District’s Board of Fire Commissioners will hold a Regular Meeting on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. at the Santa Rosa Beach Headquarters Station.

 

The agenda will include, but not be limited to the following:

 

 

                        I.          Call to Order

*Special Item: Regional Utilities-Impact Fee                 Exemption Request

                        II.          Approval of Minutes

                        III.         Secretary/Treasurer’s Report

                        IV.        Attorney’s Report

                        V.        Chief’s Report

                        VI.        Committee Reports (if needed)

                        VII.       Unfinished/Old Business

                                                Proposed Budget Workshop Follow-up

                                                Expenditure Request

Financial Credit Services Update

                        VIII.      New Business

                                                Firefighter’s Pension Plan-restated plan approval

                        IX.        Public Comment*

                        X.        Adjournment

 

 

*Note:  Persons who wish to be placed on the agenda must contact the Executive Assistant within two days of any meeting and provide the name of the person who will be speaking and the subject to be addressed.

 

If a person decides to appeal any decision made by the South Walton Fire District’s Board of Fire Commissioners with respect to any matter considered at such meeting or hearing, will need a record of the proceedings and that for such purpose may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.

Minutes:

 

South Walton FIRE DISTRICT

 SOUTH WALTON FIRE DISTRICT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

 

Meeting Minutes – September 12, 2007

 

 

 

Commissioners Present:   Maurice Gilbert, Jack Abbit, Donna Crawford, Brian Christenson, Harry Millsaps, Mike Stange

 

Commissioners Absent:  Ed Wright

 

Call to Order:    4:05 p.m.

 

Special Item:            On a motion duly made and seconded, the Board unanimously voted to approve the impact fee exemption requested by Regional Utilities for a 13,200 square foot warehouse in the amount of $5,280.00.

 

On a motion duly made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to approve the minutes of the August 7, 2007 meeting.

 

Secretary/Treasurer Report – Commissioner Millsaps

 

Attorney’s Report – Attorney Ramey

 

On a motion duly made and seconded, the Board unanimously voted to approve Attorney Ramey’s monthly billing statement.

 

Chief’s Report – Chief Talbert reviewed the Emergency Response Activity Report and the Beach Activity Report for August 2007.  Chief Talbert also addressed the recent drowning incidents and the two fatalities in our District. 

 

The Station 3/Headquarters construction/expansion project is scheduled for completion the end of September 2007.

 

Chief Talbert will be attending several speaking engagements in September, including the South Walton Community Council/Hurricane Preparedness and the Santa Rosa Beach Women’s Club/Community Protection.

 

Vice-Chairman Abbit requested an update regarding radios on lifeguard towers.

 

On a motion duly made and seconded the Board unanimously voted to direct the Fire District to aggressively pursue alternatives regarding expansion of the lifeguard program for the South Walton Beach Safety Program.

 

Beaches of South Walton’s Beach Safety Campaign received the “Award of Distinction” from the Florida Public Relations Association.

 

On 9/11/2007 SWFD received an original artwork by local artist, Donna Burgess, who unveiled her 9/11 piece during a brief ceremony.

 

Committee Reports:          None

 

 

 

 

SOUTH WALTON FIRE DISTRICT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

Meeting Minutes – September 12, 2007

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Unfinished/Old Business:          

 

Proposed Budget Workshop:  Chief Talbert reviewed several questions generated from the workshop held on August 19, 2007.  The Board requested that the District explore revenue opportunities in regards to the CR 393 and CR 395 properties owned by the District with the possibility of posting “For Lease” signs on these properties.  Commissioner Stange recommended lowering the impact fee revenue to $100,000 for Fiscal Year 2007-2008.

 

Expenditure Request:  On a motion duly made and seconded, the Board unanimously voted to approve expenditure authorization of $66,759.00 payable to Design/Build Systems, Inc. for original expansion design costs.

 

Financial Credit Services (FCS) Update:  Chief Crawford reported that 981 delinquent accounts totaling $364,865.54 have been turned over to FCS for collection purposes. As of September 1, 2007, $4,432.02 has been collected.  Accounts receivables for EMS billing has increased $180,000 over previous years.

 

 

New Business:

 

Firefighter’s Pension Plan-restated plan approval.  On a motion duly made and seconded, the Board voted unanimously to table discussion on the Firefighter’s Pension Plan until Chief Talbert transmits a letter to the Pension Board of Trustees requesting their attendance at a workshop for the purpose of providing an educational orientation of the changes since the last update.

 

Commissioner Christenson requested the investigation into the possibility of the Fire District amending the current Union contract to include increased funds for SWFD Paramedic students.  Chief Talbert advised that staff is currently working with labor regarding this subject and will advise the Board at a later date.

 

 

Public Comment:   Joyce Owen, Walton Sun

 

 

Adjourned:   The meeting adjourned at 5:14 p.m.