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BOARD OF DIRECTORS - ACTION SUMMARY
Wednesday, May 16, 2001 - 6:00 p.m.
Administration Building
2101 Hurley Way, Sacramento, CA
CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order by Vice President Goold. Board Members
Present: Engellenner, Goold, Jones, Stewart, Trujillo, Vanderveen, Valley;
Deputy Chief Raddigan, Fire Chief Martinez [arrived 6:30 pm], Board Clerk
Tilson. General Counsel Price, Directors Granados and Horel, absent.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
PUBLIC OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST
WITHIN DISTRICT JURISDICTION INCLUDING ITEMS ON OR NOT ON AGENDA
None.
CONSENT AGENDA:
1. Board Meeting Action Summary-May 2, 2001
2. District Claims - April 30, 2001
3. Deposit Report-2001
· Board Action:
Engellenner/Trujillo - Approve Consent Agenda. Six Directors voted in
favor, Director Stewart abstained. Directors Granados and Horel, absent.
Motion carried.
ACTION ITEM(S) None
PRESENTATION ITEM(S):
1. Preliminary Budget 2001-2002-(Simcoe)
Presentation received.
§ Preliminary Budget required to be adopted by June 30, 2001
§ Projecting a 5% increase in property tax revenue
§ Budget breakdown:
Funding:
Total Annual Revenues $ 86,297,044
Fund Balance (Portion of One-Time Costs) 1,016,878
Total Funding $ 87,313,922
Budget Components: % of Annual Revenue
General Operating Budget $ 84,272,122 97.65%
Capital Investment Program 2,000,000 2.32%
One-Time Expenditure Plan 1,041,800 1.21%
Total Budget $ 87,313,922 101.18%
§ Director Vanderveen recommended (1) job titles be cleaned up, (2)
items in the one-time Expenditure Plan be prioritized, (3) multiple new
fire stations be built for the next few years and the budget allocation be
increased to $4 million per year for construction.
§ Reference to job titles and job descriptions to be the same in all
District labor agreements and documents.
· Board Action:
General consensus to place the Preliminary Budget, as submitted, on the
next regular agenda for action.
2. LAFCo Commissioner Update-(Horel)
Tabled.
3. Board Workshop Meeting-May 12, 2001
Deputy Chief Raddigan stated the Workshop was extremely successful.
Invited further comment and input.
Fire Chief Martinez arrived at 6:30 p.m.
PRESIDENT'S REPORT: None
FIRE CHIEF'S REPORT:
(Taken out of order after Committee and Delegate Reports)
§ Incident activity report:
q Fire at the Aladdin Restaurant, 535 Fulton Avenue, is under
investigation and may be arson. Captain Kevin Almeida suffered a
fire-associated knee injury; an employee also was severely burned.
q Shooting at the Health Club at McClellan .
q In-flight emergency at McClellan-the District responded well and met
all the appropriate criteria.
§ Attended a Public Workshop sponsored by the City of Sacramento at
the Howard Johnson Hotel on Bradshaw Road soliciting input from the
Rosemont residents and businesses on becoming a part of the City of
Sacramento. Flyer on meeting distributed to the Board.
GENERAL COUNSEL'S REPORT: None.
COMMITTEE AND DELEGATE REPORTS
Communications Center Delegate-(Vanderveen)
q Presented a report on the Comm Center Workshop meeting of May 1. A
Service/Support Survey was sent to the five member agencies for comment
and return this Friday. District staff recommended five functions as the
Comm Center role, all dealing with resource deployment and dispatch-other
functions to be performed by the Agency using available in-house technical
expertise.
q Delegate to carry forward the recommendation to include a two-thirds
vote be required to authorize the supplemental listed functions requested
by smaller agencies, with the individual agencies to pay for the service
as opposed to all agencies paying on a call volume basis.
Regional Fire & Rescue Training JPA-(Stewart)
§ Next meeting: Monday, May 21 at 10 a.m. at McClellan Park, Building
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Policy Committee-(Goold)
§ Next meeting: June 6 at 5 p.m.
Finance Committee-(Vanderveen)
§ Next meeting: June 6 at 9 a.m.
BOARD MEMBER QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS
Engellenner:
¨ For planning purposes, inquired about the regular Board meeting falling
on July 4, a holiday.
The Board, in adopting its Policies and Procedures, provided for the
regular Board meetings to be changed to July 11 and July 25, and August 8
and August 22; resuming the normal schedule of the first and third
Wednesday in September. Special notice to be posted on the District web
site.
Goold:
¨ Inquired about status of signage on District apparatus.
Fleet Manager Wasina stated it is a high priority and about 75% - 80%
complete.
Vanderveen:
¨ Distributed to the Board a copy of the completed SRFECC Service/Support
Survey and Comments from the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District staff
to be submitted to the Comm Center. Board input welcomed.
Martinez:
¨ On May 4, 2001, Nicholas Tomich died. He was a member of the Board of
Directors for the Carmichael Fire District for 20 years and was on the
Board when it took action to form the American River Fire District in the
merging of the Arden and Carmichael Fire Districts.
ADJOURNMENT:
Meeting adjourned at 6:50 p.m. in memory of former Director Nicholas
Tomich.
Charles A. Horel, President Gay Jones, Secretary
Charlotte Tilson, Clerk of the Board
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