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Yes. Good evening, everybody. This is the start of the Georgetown Township Fire Protection District. 00:00:02
Monthly Meeting We call these a short meeting hopefully. 00:00:09
To fulfill our required financial responsibilities as the Board of Trustees for the Fire District. 00:00:12
So in interest of trying to get through this quickly, I'll just go ahead and get started. We do have a quorum. 00:00:19
I have myself, Michael Moody, Jeffrey McNulty. 00:00:24
And Dave here, here. 00:00:27
Mark Ringenberg was going to attempt to join, but. 00:00:29
Was not certain he was going to so I don't see him online but he may join us later. 00:00:32
So. 00:00:38
The approval of regular meeting minutes for the January 30th meeting. 00:00:39
I think. 00:00:44
There's a paper copy of that if you have not seen that yet. 00:00:45
If you look that over, can I have a motion to approve the meeting minutes? 00:00:49
Dave, thank you. 00:00:54
2nd. 00:00:58
You are going to do it. What do you want to do or not? 00:01:02
OK. Any discussion? 00:01:04
No. All in favor, aye. 00:01:06
Aye, OK, that passes 30. 00:01:08
New business approval of claims. 00:01:11
So I'm going to read through these real quick so we get it on the record. 00:01:16
We are approving. 00:01:20
Vouchers January 29th, 2025 to February 27th, 2025 in the amount of $71,417.62. 00:01:21
Angie, I forgot, should we do these separate motions for the administrative and payroll? 00:01:34
OK, so can I have a motion to approve the allowance of vouchers as stated? 00:01:39
Thank you, Jeffrey. 00:01:45
2nd. 00:01:49
Thank you, Dave. All in favour, aye. 00:01:50
That passes 30. 00:01:52
And we each need to sign. 00:01:56
I don't think it matters which side of this one. 00:02:00
OK. Then we have approval of payroll. 00:02:03
January 20th, 2025 to February 2nd, 2025 in the amount of $73,477.11. 00:02:08
And February 3rd, 2025 to February 16th, 2025. 00:02:17
$70,960.82. 00:02:23
So can I have a? 00:02:27
Thank you, Jeffrey. 00:02:29
Thank you, Dave. 00:02:32
All in favor. 00:02:33
It passes 30. 00:02:35
Thank you. 00:02:43
Yep, there are two different forms that need signatures. 00:02:44
OK. The financial report, this was populated to the board by e-mail the first week of February. 00:02:47
Does anybody have any questions, comments. 00:02:54
No. OK, can I have? 00:02:59
An approval to accept the reviewed financial reports. 00:03:01
And I have a page here signature from. 00:03:06
Our financial officer that he has reviewed them also. 00:03:08
So an approval to accept the financial reports for January of 2025. 00:03:13
Dave, thank you. 00:03:19
Second, Jeff, all in favor. 00:03:21
All right, 30. 00:03:24
Thank you. 00:03:26
OK. 00:03:30
10 year population growth appeal. This also was distributed by e-mail. 00:03:32
We've been talking about this for almost a full year now. 00:03:36
The processes that we have to approve it in a public meeting. 00:03:41
And then it goes before the county commissioners. 00:03:44
And they approve it and then it goes to the state. 00:03:47
As a final step. 00:03:50
So can I have a motion to approve the 10 year population growth appeal as prepared by Baker Tilly? 00:03:51
Dave, thank you. 00:04:00
2nd. 00:04:01
When do we do discussion? 00:04:03
Yeah. 00:04:06
OK. Second by Jeff. All right. Any discussion? 00:04:07
Can you? I didn't have a. 00:04:10
Great games to fight Saddam Reef all the way through it. 00:04:12
Just a brief on what it says and what it. 00:04:19
I'm sorry, I've got to hear somewhere I don't. 00:04:27
Want to say the wrong thing? 00:04:30
OK, so. 00:04:48
Fire districts in the state effectively have two ways of being able to ask for increase in revenue. 00:04:49
There's. 00:04:55
Three-year population growth appeal in a 10 year. 00:04:56
Georgetown Fire has never asked for an increase to our levy. 00:04:59
But in order to stay. 00:05:04
Viable with the amount of service that were. 00:05:10
Providing the community. 00:05:14
We are now asking for. 00:05:16
The 10 year population growth. 00:05:18
And what that does is it's a simple math. 00:05:21
The population is compared for 10 years ago. 00:05:25
And then you get a percentage increase and the document shows that there was a 13.37% increase. 00:05:28
The state then says you have to deduct 6% from that. 00:05:35
So you end up at 7.37. 00:05:39
It cannot be more than 15%. So we're we're in that area or between 6:00 and. 00:05:43
15. 00:05:48
And Baker Tilly. 00:05:50
Then says that that 7.37 as they calculated it. 00:05:52
Goes. 00:05:55
To the. 00:05:57
Net assessed value. 00:05:58
And that will. 00:06:00
Estimated increase in the levy of 2026. 00:06:02
$572,175. 00:06:05
And to be clear. 00:06:10
We are asking for this. 00:06:11
As a fall back in case. 00:06:13
The fire territory does not move forward. 00:06:16
We're not asking for this in addition. 00:06:18
To all the presentation on the fire territory. 00:06:21
What was that number? 00:06:25
572175. 00:06:26
Any further discussion? 00:06:35
OK. 00:06:39
So we have a. 00:06:40
Motion in front of the board to. 00:06:44
Accept and approve that 10 year population growth appeal and then take it forward to the Commissioners. 00:06:47
At the earliest. 00:06:53
Meeting that we can, which would be next Tuesday. 00:06:54
So if there's no further discussion. 00:06:57
I'll call for a vote all in favor. 00:07:00
Aye, 30. 00:07:02
OK, the next item. 00:07:06
Franklin Township has published a request for proposal. 00:07:09
RFP to provide Fire Protection service to their community. 00:07:13
There are some specific things that they asked for. 00:07:19
It has to be. 00:07:24
Sent in March 14th. 00:07:26
No later than. 00:07:29
I know that. 00:07:31
There's probably some frustration on our board with. 00:07:32
What happened with Franklin Township that we agreed to contract and provide Fire Protection service in 2024 with them, but it was 00:07:37
with the understanding that we were going to work together. 00:07:41
And the creation of the fire territory, and they decided to step back from that right now. 00:07:46
And they are asking us again if we would be willing to submit a bid. 00:07:51
I'll offer my thoughts. I think we should. 00:07:57
I think that we should do it for $10,000, which was more than we did last year by a little bit. 00:08:00
And it also. 00:08:06
8000. 00:08:07
And we also include language in the request. 00:08:08
That we are making this proposal. 00:08:13
With the understanding that we're going to continue to work on what's next for Franklin Township and Fire Protection Service. 00:08:16
We're not saying what it is. 00:08:22
But we're not going to. 00:08:23
Allow the public to think we'll just keep contracting to do this year after year after year. 00:08:26
So. 00:08:32
Can I make a proposal? 00:08:33
In the chair, do I have to stand up? 00:08:35
Can I make a proposal that's sitting in the chair? 00:08:42
OK, umm. 00:08:44
So we can talk about it some more. 00:08:45
I know this kind of came up. 00:08:48
Last minute we have not had a lot of discussions about this, but I would like to make a proposal that. 00:08:49
Any individual board member that wishes to work with Chief Wiseman. 00:08:55
To generate a response to the RFP. 00:08:59
To provide Fire Protection service to Franklin Township in the amount of $10,000 for the rest of this calendar year with the 00:09:02
caveat. 00:09:05
That it is understood by both parties. 00:09:10
That we work together on what the future of Fire Protection. 00:09:13
Looks like in Franklin Township. 00:09:17
And this is. 00:09:21
Open to multiple and yeah. 00:09:23
Anybody can. 00:09:26
Submit a proposal. There are some qualifiers. You must be certified as a fire department. You must have EMS, basic life support, 00:09:28
non transport. 00:09:32
Training time and some other things like that. 00:09:37
So can I have a? 00:09:43
I made a motion. Can I have a second to that motion? 00:09:46
Dave, I think I heard you first. 00:09:50
Any future discussion? 00:09:53
So we're just. 00:09:58
Having command staff write up the proposal. 00:09:59
With our ability. 00:10:04
We're not finalizing anything. 00:10:06
Give them the authority to find us. 00:10:09
Which I'm OK. 00:10:12
I was just going to pass it over. 00:10:13
If the board wants to look it over officially. 00:10:16
After it's prepared. 00:10:19
I am advocating that we have a meeting on March. 00:10:20
Temp I believe at. 00:10:24
Another board meeting before the fire territory meeting so we could ask them to bring it back for our final approval. 00:10:25
If that makes. 00:10:31
More comfort. 00:10:33
I mean I I. 00:10:34
I'm comfortable with them, I trust them. 00:10:35
Well. 00:10:38
When we do this. 00:10:40
Enable Chief Wiseman, working with the board individually if necessary, to prepare a proposal to submit. 00:10:42
And he'll come back and brief the board at the next meeting, but we've already given him the approval to submit it in case 00:10:50
something happens. We don't have that meeting or something like that. 00:10:54
Is that that OK? 00:10:58
You OK? 00:11:00
All right, so. 00:11:01
We have any further discussion? 00:11:03
OK, all in favor, aye? 00:11:05
All right, that passes 30. 00:11:07
OK, we've got just a couple of things left. 00:11:10
We have. 00:11:16
We have two engagement letters for the district. 00:11:17
These are just annual. 00:11:20
One for legal. 00:11:22
And it's just the name changed pretty much. 00:11:24
No. 00:11:26
Has revised rates in it, but. 00:11:28
Oh, that's right. 00:11:31
He wants more money. 00:11:33
This hasn't been distributed yet with the new numbers. 00:11:40
Why don't we do that? 00:11:44
I wouldn't mind if we share it with the board and then they have an opportunity to read it over. OK, so we'll table that. 00:11:46
But we can go ahead and do the Monroe Shine one this has been. 00:11:51
Actually, from December we've had this so. 00:11:54
I did not see changes. 00:11:57
Between the scope of the work that Monroe Shine is currently doing for us and what we expect them to do. 00:12:00
So can I have a motion to approve the engagement? 00:12:06
Letter from Monroe Shine. 00:12:09
For the accounting services they provide us. 00:12:10
Thank you, Jeff. 00:12:14
Thank you, Dave. Any discussion? 00:12:15
No all in favor. 00:12:18
Aye, 30. 00:12:20
OK. 00:12:21
So this is a second. 00:12:24
Last item on the agenda is chiefs report that was distributed electronically by the chief. Does anybody have any questions or 00:12:26
comments? 00:12:30
No. OK, Can I have a motion to accept the January Chiefs report? 00:12:35
Dave and 2nd by Jeff. Any discussion? 00:12:42
All in favor. 00:12:46
Aye, 3. 00:12:48
Oh, I was going to say, that's the quickest meeting we've ever had. 00:12:51
Since Mr. Reinhardt is not here. 00:12:55
What one of the other gentlemen preferred to step in and act as chairman tonight so we can get these meeting minutes on. 00:12:59
As. 00:13:05
As vice chairman. 00:13:06
It's like acting. 00:13:08
OK, which one of you wants the big hat? 00:13:10
Jeff gets it by default. 00:13:16
OK. Anything else business before the board? 00:13:19
OK. I'll take a motion to adjourn. 00:13:23
Thank you, Jeff. We are adjourned. 00:13:25
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Yes. Good evening, everybody. This is the start of the Georgetown Township Fire Protection District. 00:00:02
Monthly Meeting We call these a short meeting hopefully. 00:00:09
To fulfill our required financial responsibilities as the Board of Trustees for the Fire District. 00:00:12
So in interest of trying to get through this quickly, I'll just go ahead and get started. We do have a quorum. 00:00:19
I have myself, Michael Moody, Jeffrey McNulty. 00:00:24
And Dave here, here. 00:00:27
Mark Ringenberg was going to attempt to join, but. 00:00:29
Was not certain he was going to so I don't see him online but he may join us later. 00:00:32
So. 00:00:38
The approval of regular meeting minutes for the January 30th meeting. 00:00:39
I think. 00:00:44
There's a paper copy of that if you have not seen that yet. 00:00:45
If you look that over, can I have a motion to approve the meeting minutes? 00:00:49
Dave, thank you. 00:00:54
2nd. 00:00:58
You are going to do it. What do you want to do or not? 00:01:02
OK. Any discussion? 00:01:04
No. All in favor, aye. 00:01:06
Aye, OK, that passes 30. 00:01:08
New business approval of claims. 00:01:11
So I'm going to read through these real quick so we get it on the record. 00:01:16
We are approving. 00:01:20
Vouchers January 29th, 2025 to February 27th, 2025 in the amount of $71,417.62. 00:01:21
Angie, I forgot, should we do these separate motions for the administrative and payroll? 00:01:34
OK, so can I have a motion to approve the allowance of vouchers as stated? 00:01:39
Thank you, Jeffrey. 00:01:45
2nd. 00:01:49
Thank you, Dave. All in favour, aye. 00:01:50
That passes 30. 00:01:52
And we each need to sign. 00:01:56
I don't think it matters which side of this one. 00:02:00
OK. Then we have approval of payroll. 00:02:03
January 20th, 2025 to February 2nd, 2025 in the amount of $73,477.11. 00:02:08
And February 3rd, 2025 to February 16th, 2025. 00:02:17
$70,960.82. 00:02:23
So can I have a? 00:02:27
Thank you, Jeffrey. 00:02:29
Thank you, Dave. 00:02:32
All in favor. 00:02:33
It passes 30. 00:02:35
Thank you. 00:02:43
Yep, there are two different forms that need signatures. 00:02:44
OK. The financial report, this was populated to the board by e-mail the first week of February. 00:02:47
Does anybody have any questions, comments. 00:02:54
No. OK, can I have? 00:02:59
An approval to accept the reviewed financial reports. 00:03:01
And I have a page here signature from. 00:03:06
Our financial officer that he has reviewed them also. 00:03:08
So an approval to accept the financial reports for January of 2025. 00:03:13
Dave, thank you. 00:03:19
Second, Jeff, all in favor. 00:03:21
All right, 30. 00:03:24
Thank you. 00:03:26
OK. 00:03:30
10 year population growth appeal. This also was distributed by e-mail. 00:03:32
We've been talking about this for almost a full year now. 00:03:36
The processes that we have to approve it in a public meeting. 00:03:41
And then it goes before the county commissioners. 00:03:44
And they approve it and then it goes to the state. 00:03:47
As a final step. 00:03:50
So can I have a motion to approve the 10 year population growth appeal as prepared by Baker Tilly? 00:03:51
Dave, thank you. 00:04:00
2nd. 00:04:01
When do we do discussion? 00:04:03
Yeah. 00:04:06
OK. Second by Jeff. All right. Any discussion? 00:04:07
Can you? I didn't have a. 00:04:10
Great games to fight Saddam Reef all the way through it. 00:04:12
Just a brief on what it says and what it. 00:04:19
I'm sorry, I've got to hear somewhere I don't. 00:04:27
Want to say the wrong thing? 00:04:30
OK, so. 00:04:48
Fire districts in the state effectively have two ways of being able to ask for increase in revenue. 00:04:49
There's. 00:04:55
Three-year population growth appeal in a 10 year. 00:04:56
Georgetown Fire has never asked for an increase to our levy. 00:04:59
But in order to stay. 00:05:04
Viable with the amount of service that were. 00:05:10
Providing the community. 00:05:14
We are now asking for. 00:05:16
The 10 year population growth. 00:05:18
And what that does is it's a simple math. 00:05:21
The population is compared for 10 years ago. 00:05:25
And then you get a percentage increase and the document shows that there was a 13.37% increase. 00:05:28
The state then says you have to deduct 6% from that. 00:05:35
So you end up at 7.37. 00:05:39
It cannot be more than 15%. So we're we're in that area or between 6:00 and. 00:05:43
15. 00:05:48
And Baker Tilly. 00:05:50
Then says that that 7.37 as they calculated it. 00:05:52
Goes. 00:05:55
To the. 00:05:57
Net assessed value. 00:05:58
And that will. 00:06:00
Estimated increase in the levy of 2026. 00:06:02
$572,175. 00:06:05
And to be clear. 00:06:10
We are asking for this. 00:06:11
As a fall back in case. 00:06:13
The fire territory does not move forward. 00:06:16
We're not asking for this in addition. 00:06:18
To all the presentation on the fire territory. 00:06:21
What was that number? 00:06:25
572175. 00:06:26
Any further discussion? 00:06:35
OK. 00:06:39
So we have a. 00:06:40
Motion in front of the board to. 00:06:44
Accept and approve that 10 year population growth appeal and then take it forward to the Commissioners. 00:06:47
At the earliest. 00:06:53
Meeting that we can, which would be next Tuesday. 00:06:54
So if there's no further discussion. 00:06:57
I'll call for a vote all in favor. 00:07:00
Aye, 30. 00:07:02
OK, the next item. 00:07:06
Franklin Township has published a request for proposal. 00:07:09
RFP to provide Fire Protection service to their community. 00:07:13
There are some specific things that they asked for. 00:07:19
It has to be. 00:07:24
Sent in March 14th. 00:07:26
No later than. 00:07:29
I know that. 00:07:31
There's probably some frustration on our board with. 00:07:32
What happened with Franklin Township that we agreed to contract and provide Fire Protection service in 2024 with them, but it was 00:07:37
with the understanding that we were going to work together. 00:07:41
And the creation of the fire territory, and they decided to step back from that right now. 00:07:46
And they are asking us again if we would be willing to submit a bid. 00:07:51
I'll offer my thoughts. I think we should. 00:07:57
I think that we should do it for $10,000, which was more than we did last year by a little bit. 00:08:00
And it also. 00:08:06
8000. 00:08:07
And we also include language in the request. 00:08:08
That we are making this proposal. 00:08:13
With the understanding that we're going to continue to work on what's next for Franklin Township and Fire Protection Service. 00:08:16
We're not saying what it is. 00:08:22
But we're not going to. 00:08:23
Allow the public to think we'll just keep contracting to do this year after year after year. 00:08:26
So. 00:08:32
Can I make a proposal? 00:08:33
In the chair, do I have to stand up? 00:08:35
Can I make a proposal that's sitting in the chair? 00:08:42
OK, umm. 00:08:44
So we can talk about it some more. 00:08:45
I know this kind of came up. 00:08:48
Last minute we have not had a lot of discussions about this, but I would like to make a proposal that. 00:08:49
Any individual board member that wishes to work with Chief Wiseman. 00:08:55
To generate a response to the RFP. 00:08:59
To provide Fire Protection service to Franklin Township in the amount of $10,000 for the rest of this calendar year with the 00:09:02
caveat. 00:09:05
That it is understood by both parties. 00:09:10
That we work together on what the future of Fire Protection. 00:09:13
Looks like in Franklin Township. 00:09:17
And this is. 00:09:21
Open to multiple and yeah. 00:09:23
Anybody can. 00:09:26
Submit a proposal. There are some qualifiers. You must be certified as a fire department. You must have EMS, basic life support, 00:09:28
non transport. 00:09:32
Training time and some other things like that. 00:09:37
So can I have a? 00:09:43
I made a motion. Can I have a second to that motion? 00:09:46
Dave, I think I heard you first. 00:09:50
Any future discussion? 00:09:53
So we're just. 00:09:58
Having command staff write up the proposal. 00:09:59
With our ability. 00:10:04
We're not finalizing anything. 00:10:06
Give them the authority to find us. 00:10:09
Which I'm OK. 00:10:12
I was just going to pass it over. 00:10:13
If the board wants to look it over officially. 00:10:16
After it's prepared. 00:10:19
I am advocating that we have a meeting on March. 00:10:20
Temp I believe at. 00:10:24
Another board meeting before the fire territory meeting so we could ask them to bring it back for our final approval. 00:10:25
If that makes. 00:10:31
More comfort. 00:10:33
I mean I I. 00:10:34
I'm comfortable with them, I trust them. 00:10:35
Well. 00:10:38
When we do this. 00:10:40
Enable Chief Wiseman, working with the board individually if necessary, to prepare a proposal to submit. 00:10:42
And he'll come back and brief the board at the next meeting, but we've already given him the approval to submit it in case 00:10:50
something happens. We don't have that meeting or something like that. 00:10:54
Is that that OK? 00:10:58
You OK? 00:11:00
All right, so. 00:11:01
We have any further discussion? 00:11:03
OK, all in favor, aye? 00:11:05
All right, that passes 30. 00:11:07
OK, we've got just a couple of things left. 00:11:10
We have. 00:11:16
We have two engagement letters for the district. 00:11:17
These are just annual. 00:11:20
One for legal. 00:11:22
And it's just the name changed pretty much. 00:11:24
No. 00:11:26
Has revised rates in it, but. 00:11:28
Oh, that's right. 00:11:31
He wants more money. 00:11:33
This hasn't been distributed yet with the new numbers. 00:11:40
Why don't we do that? 00:11:44
I wouldn't mind if we share it with the board and then they have an opportunity to read it over. OK, so we'll table that. 00:11:46
But we can go ahead and do the Monroe Shine one this has been. 00:11:51
Actually, from December we've had this so. 00:11:54
I did not see changes. 00:11:57
Between the scope of the work that Monroe Shine is currently doing for us and what we expect them to do. 00:12:00
So can I have a motion to approve the engagement? 00:12:06
Letter from Monroe Shine. 00:12:09
For the accounting services they provide us. 00:12:10
Thank you, Jeff. 00:12:14
Thank you, Dave. Any discussion? 00:12:15
No all in favor. 00:12:18
Aye, 30. 00:12:20
OK. 00:12:21
So this is a second. 00:12:24
Last item on the agenda is chiefs report that was distributed electronically by the chief. Does anybody have any questions or 00:12:26
comments? 00:12:30
No. OK, Can I have a motion to accept the January Chiefs report? 00:12:35
Dave and 2nd by Jeff. Any discussion? 00:12:42
All in favor. 00:12:46
Aye, 3. 00:12:48
Oh, I was going to say, that's the quickest meeting we've ever had. 00:12:51
Since Mr. Reinhardt is not here. 00:12:55
What one of the other gentlemen preferred to step in and act as chairman tonight so we can get these meeting minutes on. 00:12:59
As. 00:13:05
As vice chairman. 00:13:06
It's like acting. 00:13:08
OK, which one of you wants the big hat? 00:13:10
Jeff gets it by default. 00:13:16
OK. Anything else business before the board? 00:13:19
OK. I'll take a motion to adjourn. 00:13:23
Thank you, Jeff. We are adjourned. 00:13:25
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