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PEQUOT LAKES FIRE DEPARTMENT MINUTES OF THE OCTOBER 14, 2009 MMETING The monthly meeting of the PLFD was called to order by Chief Nelson, 20, members were present. The minutes of the last meeting were not read due to a motion passed to not read them. Truck and equipment checks were discussed. Grass truck #2 is out of service and the truck will be returned to the DNR. All other trucks checked OK. The rescue vans will change numbers as the red van is now at the Breezy Station and will be termed #2. The white van at the Pequot Station will now be known as Rescue #1. During the equipment checks tonight, some of the air packs were found with loose hose connections. We need to make sure these are always tightened when in service. The financial report was next. Our checking account new balance tonight is at $13031.29. During the month we paid $29.50 to Schaefers Foods for orange juice and Crisco. Deposits for the month were $50.00 for sausage purchased by Szymanski and Ackerman. Another $10.00 was deposited from John Marchwick for his use of some of our tables. The fire fund balance is at $106,723.09. Evenson motioned to approve the financial report, second by Oaks, motion passed. Tom notified us that the City would like us to lower our budget by another 5 %, which is about $7800.00. We can make cuts of $2000.00 for training, $1000.00 from the fuel budget, and also another $5000.00 from budgeted fire call revenue, which will meet the requirement. We cannot make any cuts on our capital outlay budget which is used for major equipment needs. The safety topic tonight is to be aware of solar panels which could be installed on buildings in our fire district. Some of these panels could be for hot water or for electrical power. Do not break the glass or any parts of a panel if you encounter one. For old business, our fire prevention at Eagle View Elementary School proceeded very well. We had 11 fire fighters help with the presentations to the students. Our open house also went well. We served about 175 hot dogs and lots of other food. We could use more plastic fire hats next year. Another improvement would be to have better advertising, such as radio promotion from our local stations. The results from our recent equipment needs survey placed air packs and a better grass and brush fire truck as our most important needs. One thing noticeable on our fire budget was the fact that our members wages total about $32,000 for 31 fire fighters who meet twice a month and respond to approximately 30 fire calls each verses the payroll wages for 5 council representatives total of $26,000.00.