October 30, 2024 - 9:00 AM - Fire Commission Board - Apparatus and Future Needs Subcommittee Meeting Minutes

10 + JOHNSTONCOUNTYFIRE PROTECTIONSERVICEDISTRICT APPARATUSANDFUTURENEEDSSUBCOMMITTEE October 30 , 2024 The JohnstonCountyFire ProtectionService District Apparatus andFuture Needs Subcommittee meetingwas heldonWednesday , October 30 , 2024 at 9 00 am in the JohnstonCounty EmergencyServices JCES 911Training room Present Chris Ellington , JerryHolland , JoeyCreech , ZachHowell , Chad Stephenson , JosephRadford , ChuckAlford , Trent Lassiter , LarryHodge AlsoPresent DeputyDirector JoshHolloman JohnstonCountyEmergency Services , RyanParker JohnstonCountyFire Marshal , JordanPiper JohnstonCountyDeputyFire Marshal , DevinCreech Johnston CountyAdminAssistant 1 Meeting Called to Order Fire CommissionChairmanChris Ellington called the meeting toorder at 9 am 2 Approval Discussion of Agenda Upon a motionby JosephRadford , secondedby JoeyCreech , and carriedunanimously , the subcommittee approved the agenda as presented 3 Outline of Subcommittee Fire CommissionChairmanChris Ellingtonprovided a brief overviewof the subcommittees charge , highlighting that the mainpriority is to create a formal Fire Service Apparatus Request Policy , whichwill be recommended to the Fire CommissionBoard 4 Appointment of Subcommittee Chair Fire CommissionChairmanChris Ellingtonopened the floor tonominations for the Apparatus andFuture Needs subcommittee chairman Amotionwas made by JoeyCreech to elect LarryHodge as the chairman , secondedbyZachHowell Page+ 5 Approval Discussion of Meeting Schedule ChairmanLarryHodge presented the proposedmeeting schedule to the subcommittee A recommendationwas made to change the Januarymeetingdate to January8th , and to adjust all meeting start times to8 30 am JosephRadfordmoved for its adoption , secondedby JoeyCreech 6 Discussion of apparatus request policy JohnstonCountyFire Marshal RyanParker presented a workingdraft of JohnstonCounty’s Fire Apparatus Request Policy and explained the mainpoints JosephRadford raised a question regarding the departments identified in the policys purpose He askedwhat wouldhappen if a department is 52 fundedby the town , it operates independentlybut is contractedwithboth the town and the county ChairmanLarryHodge askedwhether a department replacing an existing truckwith a used truck , for which the payment is writtenby the fire department , needs to follow the policy In response , Ryan confirmed that the transactionwouldneed togo through the county The subcommittee deliberatedwhether fire chief vehicles , brush trucks , andother smaller - ticket items wouldbe included in the policy Additionally , they considered concerns about price inflation fromvendors resulting from30 - dayquotes and standardquarterly increases , as well as how ISO ratings wouldbe affectedwith specialty apparatus Theydecided that the due diligence period shouldbe 60days , and that there will be a quarterly schedule for presenting apparatus requests , including those that maybe anticipated for the future RyanParker suggested adding the Emergency Services Director toSection32 The subcommittee agreed tohold a special meetingonNovember 12th at 8 30 am to finalize a formal recommendationof the Fire Service Apparatus Request Policy for presentation to the Fire Commission 7 Staff Updates RyanParker shared a brief explanationof the apparatus data that has been collectedby staff , whichwill be presented at the next meeting 8 Committee Member Comments There were no comments from committee members There beingno further business , JerryHollandmoved to adjourn ChuckAlford seconded the motion , whichwas carriedbyunanimous vote The meeting adjourned at 10 26 am Page