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09-01-1999 PacketSeptember 1, 1999 Board Meeting 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.- 5:45 p.m. 5:45 p.m.- 6:45 p.m. 6:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Committee on the Future Dinner Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee Break Volunteer Fire Chiefs CHESTERFIELD COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AGENDA Page 1 o fl Meeting Date: September 1, 1999 Item Number: Subiect: CLOSED SESSION CounW Administrator's Comments: County Administrator: Board Action Requested: Summary_ of Information: Closed session pursuant to §§ 2.1-344A.5., Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, to discuss a prospective businesses in the Dale and Bermuda Magisterial Districts where no announcement has been made of the businesses' interest in locating in Chesterfield County. Preparer: /~~ ~//~~ Lane B. Ramsey Attachments: [] Yes · No Title: County Administrator 0800:46173.1 I# O© '0 0 0 © © © © ~ 0 © © 0 0 0 ~ -> N JlBImd 0 Jlmmld o · · · · · · 0 0 0 o ~ 0 .< © ~ 0 0 0 Jmallll~ e 0 0 0 o o o o.~ o.~ o o~ © Z~ © © Chesterfield District Chiefs Association Board of Supervisors Meeting- September 1, 1999 The Honorable Members of the Board, The Chesterfield District Chiefs Association would like to extend our thanks for the time to meet with you. We look forward to this t/me every year to tell you what we have done and what we plan to do in the ftmm~ to better and more efficiently provide a valuable resource to the citizens of Chesterfield County. The following items are the key ideas that we feel need to be addressed in the com~g year. The first item is the recruitment and retention study. We thank you for approving this and we hope that you will assist us in supporting what may come out of it. The main item that we may require support with is an enhanced-incentive program. The program'we are currently using has beenin effect for-mmw years and we anticipate that the study will recommend certain changes. The second-item is concerned with the integration of the volunteer and career elements of the fire departmem. As you may remember last year we put a tot of effort into this endeavor. Although this project is not nearly completed, we feet we are making headway. We hope you wilt continue to support this project into the' future. The items we'have identified as our next steps are, staffing of our apparatus and the Training of our people up to the level of our careercourrtcrpm~ as welt as participation in the continuing education programs. The last item that we need to discuss with you is additional funding to handle our emergency medical calls. There are a nnmbex of combination companies that do not have any more than basic first aid supplies on their volunteer apparatus, yet need to train their personnel to an EMT-B level. To make best use of these trained resources we need to equip at least one volunteer _piece of equ/pmem as an EMS unit. The other expense with EMS will be the tm/ning that is required bimonthly to maintain our certification. One way the fire department feels could be a good way to offset these costs for increased emergency medical services would be to charge for services or participate in an EMS recovery program. This would also allow for the fire department to increase our staff'mg of other EMS units while keeping the staffing budget in check. To reiterate, the Chesterfield District Ctfiefs Asmcmtion wotfld tike to thank you for your past support and looks fro-ward to the support you wilt give us in the future for these as well as other projects. As always, feet free-to contact any of us for any help or clarification on these or any other topics we can help on.