2020 September Agenda Minutes

AVENEL BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS

Thursday, September 24, 2020 AGENDA MEETING 6:00 P.M.

 

DEAN C. MANENTE, BOARD PRESIDENT

• Personnel

• Fire Prevention Bureau. 

• See F.O. report. 

• Training.

• No report

• Year End Stipend. 

• No report.

• Annual Budget / Workshop Hearing(s).

• Map Books.

• See F.O. report.

• Personnel Appointment

• No report 

            Other 

• Budget workshop date. October 29, 2020 @6:00 p.m. will check with Mike Klepchick for his availability 

 

 

 

 

JOHN M. MITCH, 1^ST VICE PRESIDENT 

1. Hydrants. No report

1. Insurance (Comprehensive, Health, Life, etc.).

1. Work Crew.

• No report.

1. Website.

• Updates being added to website

1. Medical.

• No report

Other

• Holiday motorcade
• Budget workshop date 
• Motion detectors in bathrooms 

 

 

KEITH ADDIE SECRETARY

• Additional headsets have been installed on all apparatus. They all have (4)
• Hamilton’s pager was given back
• 3 pagers went out to the newest members

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRUCE MIZAK, 2^ND VICE PRESIDENT 

• 5-3 replaced passenger side belt 
• 5-2-5 monitoring an oil leak
• Air pack repaired
• 5-2 check engine light was on. Dan checked the oil
• Transition over to our new Rep for gear has been a little rocky
• Global was bought by MSA 
• New firefighters are in temporary gear. Mentioned looking into renting gear.

GREGORY CZOCH, TREASURER

 

1. Buildings and Grounds.

• Fire Alarm System.

• Sprinkler System.
  • Sprinkler was broken. American Lawn came out to make repairs

• Keyless entry system.

• No report.

• Security Camera system.

• No report.

• Lawn Maintenance.

• No report

• Snow Removal.

• No report.

1. Radio Room Upgrades.

• No update.

1. Other.

• Ordered new chairs for Chief’s office 
• Fixed key fob issue
• Shed – Bricks were uneven, will need to be redone. Should be done by next week 

      4.   Communications / Correspondence.

 

 

 

CORY SPILLAR, FIRE OFFICIAL 

• Discussed with Principals Fire Prevention talks, once school returns. Individual classrooms.
• Open House is cancelled.
• Attended and passed 3 hour tested training – Fire Investigation for Fire Officers 
• Amazon – 1 Paddock St. open. Complex design, Chief informed.
• Imminent Hazard issued – Home Depot 1555 St. Georges Ave. Failure to maintain Fire Alarm System, unable to silence system.
• Map Book – Chris 
• Pre – Plans – Danny 
• Solar Panels – Frank 

 

AYMAN ELBAYAR, FIRE CHIEF 2020 

 

• Calls for the month of September 
• First drill on Sept. 9^thwent well
• (3) new members sworn in the month of September 
• Jimmy Boelhauer will be trained on 5-2-5 
• First live burn will be on October 7^th. Meet at the firehouse at 6:30 p.m.
• Sternesky is on light duty 
• Two parties in Avenel park this weekend. Mentioned having an engine present 
• Township Officers meeting. Addressed sanitizing supplies 
• Hamilton has resigned 
• Call last week took 10 minutes to respond 
• Second batch of masks came in 
• Motorcade committee has been set up 
• Might have to put 5-3 out of service for 2 days for motorcade 

 

 

 

 

MATT MIZAK, 

• Asked to activate an Instagram page. Danny and Matt Mizak would be the Administrators. 
• All posts to be approved by Comm. Addie prior to posting on social media.

 

DAVID EIDSON, BUSINESS ADMINISTATOR

• Bureau tablets can be pushed off until next Spring 
• Radio Room printer is working out well
• Verizon coming out to hook up a new fax line 
• Updated security cameras software. Processors are too slow to handle the video system.
• Received some quotes on new cameras 
• District 1 spoke to Comm. Manente about a Shared Service Agreement to wash their gear and they will do our FIT test
• Gear rack- Personnel lockers 
• Winter uniform jackets, jackets 
• Personnel files are still being worked on 
• LOSAP – Wisol is entered, and the (3) newest members will be entered as well.
• ID machine - problems being resolved. They will be giving us a new machine. 

PUBLIC - No public 

Meeting Ended at 8:15 P.M.