BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

103 W CAREFREE DRIVE

April 14^th, 2010

BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:

STATEMENT: The use of the tape recorder is an aid for the Recording Secretary and is erased after the minutes are transcribed.

INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS:

PRESENTATION OF MINUTES:

REPORT FROM BURLINGTON JUNCTION RESCUE SQUAD:

REPORT FROM HOPKINS RESCUE SQUAD:

REPORT FROM RAVENWOOD RESCUE SQUAD:

REPORT FROM TRI-C RESCUE SQUAD:

REPORT FROM MARYVILLE RESCUE SQUAD:

PRESENTATION OF TREASURERS REPORT:

PRESENTATION OF BILLS TO BE PAID:

PRESENTATION OF REVENUE AND EXPENSES:

PRESENTATION OF OPERATION MANAGER= S REPORT:

PRESENTATION OF TRAINING MANAGER= S REPORT:

PRESENTATION OF BUSINESS MANAGER REPORT:

EMPLOYEE CONCERNS/REQUESTS:

MEDICAID WRITE OFF= S:

OLD BUSINESS:

Closed meetings and closed records authorized when, exceptions.

610.021. Except to the extent disclosure is otherwise required by law, a public governmental body is authorized to close meetings, records and votes, to the extent they relate to the following:

(3) Hiring, firing, disciplining or promoting of particular employees by a public governmental body when personal information about the employee is discussed or recorded. However, any votes on a final decision, when took by a public governmental body, to hire, fire, promote or discipline an employee of a public governmental body must be made available with a record of how each member voted to the public within seventy-two hours of the close of the meeting where such action occurs; provided, however, that any employee so affected shall be entitled to prompt notice of such decision during the seventy-two-hour period before such decision is made available to the public. As used in this subdivision, the term "personal information" means information relating to the performance or merit of individual employees;

(13) Individually identifiable personnel records, performance ratings or records pertaining to employees or applicants for employment, except that this exemption shall not apply to the names, positions, salaries and lengths of service of officers and employees of public agencies once they are employed as such, and the names of private sources donating or contributing money to the salary of a chancellor or president at all public colleges and universities in the state of Missouri and the amount of money contributed by the source;

(14) Records which are protected from disclosure by law; any other business that may come before the board

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

7:30 P.M.

BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Walk, Tobin, McPherson, Redden, Standiford and Allen were all present.

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: No one was absent.

MEETING CALLED TO ORDER: Tobin called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m..

INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS: There were no guests present.

PRESENTATION OF THE MINUTES: The minutes were presented to the board members and there was a correction on the members present, Brian McPherson was absent, it was stated he was present and absent. That was corrected. Standiford made the motion to approve the minutes with the correction and Redden seconded the motion. Tobin called for a vote. Standiford, yea, Allen, yea, Walk, yea, McPherson, yea, Tobin yea. Motion carried.

REPORT FROM BURLINGTON JUNCTION RESCUE SQUAD: All is fine.

REPORT FROM HOPKINS RESCUE SQUAD: Everything is good.

REPORT FROM RAVENWOOD RESCUE SQUAD: All is fine.

REPORT FROM TRI-C RESCUE SQUAD: All is fine.

REPORT FROM MARYVILLE RESCUE SQUAD: All is fine.

PRESENTATION OF TREASURER= S REPORT: The report was presented to the board members. US bank dropped the interest on the money market account to .01% and there was no notification given t o the treasurer, so it was decided to move to another money market account at Nodaway Valley Bank for 1%. All transfers can be done via the internet and the sales tax money will continue to be deposited into the US Bank account and transferred to the NVB account.

After the discussion Standiford made the motion to approve the treasures report as presented and Allen seconded the motion. Tobin called for a vote. Standiford, yea, Allen, yea, Walk, yea, McPherson, yea, Tobin yea. Motion carried.

PRESENTATION OF BILLS TO BE PAID: The bills to be paid were presented. There was a question about a light that was purchased through employee receivables. Redden made the motion to approve the bills to be paid and Standiford seconded the motion. Tobin called for a vote. Standiford, yea, Allen, yea, Walk, yea, McPherson, yea, Tobin yea. Motion carried.

PRESENTATION OF REVENUE AND EXPENSES: The report was given to the board members. Stands as presented .There was a question about where to place a Life Pak repair, it was decided to place it in the medical and operating account.

PRESENTATION OF DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS: Florea began his report by informing the board members that there will not be a closed session.

Item two was to inform the board members about a PO that went over $500.

Item three was to inform the that sales tax for the month of March was $94,433.97, that is $445.92 more than last year at the same period.

Item four was to discuss the health insurance bids for the employees. There was a bid for Blue Cross Blue Shield and for Aetna, with another company , Star mark, being thrown out because it had not gone through underwriting and the bid was not firm from either company that was bidding it. There was a discussion about the deductible and out of pocket costs, as well as the premium to the district. After the discussion, Redden made the motion to go with Plan B from Blue cross and to take the $500 deductible, and to see if the company will waive $125 off the deductible for the year, and Standiford seconded the motion. Tobin called for a vote. Standiford, yea, Allen, yea, Walk, yea, McPherson, yea, Tobin yea. Motion carried.

Item five was to discuss a repeater for the Burlington Jct, Elmo and Clearmont area. There were two bids for the project. One from Midwest Mobile Radio wanted the district to purchase all equipment and they would place it on their tower and the bid from Haug offered the same agreement or a rental agreement for all equipment and the tower space. There was a discussion about the benefits of both. Redden made the motion to place the repeater on the Braddyville tower that Haug owns, for the rental of $160 a month with the contingency to continue with the annual appropriations for the next five years, and the rent will start when the equipment is installed and running completely, Allen seconded the motion. Tobin called for a vote. Standiford, yea, Allen, yea, Walk, yea, McPherson, yea, Tobin yea. Motion carried.

Item six was to inform the board members that several items broke down in the past month. These included a Life Pack 12 monitor, an ice suit was leaking, the office shredder, unit 136 generator, an office phone and the power washer. The ice suit has been sent to the company to see if it can be repaired, the shredder was replaced, the Life Pak was fixed, for a cost of $5,321.00, a new phone was ordered and the work on the power washer is ongoing.

Item seven was to inquire about the 911 signs. Redden and Standiford will continue to work on this.

Item eight was to discuss upgrading the Life Pak12's to Life Pak 15's. Florea discussed the improvements on the machine. After a discussion, this was tabled until a later day.

Item nine was to inform the board members that Al= s Heating and Cooling will be making the specs for the radiant heaters for he bay.

Item ten was to discuss purchasing two new Chevy chassis= s to remount two ambulances. There was a discussion about which unit would be first to be remounted, unit 131, and the other unit is 139. Lifeline has about 12 chassis= s in stock, and will do the remounts starting in June or July. Lifeline can put a box that is currently on a Ford chassis onto a Chevy chassis. Allen made the motion to purchase two chassis= s this year and remount unit 131 first and unit 139 if there is time this year and Standiford seconded the motion. Tobin called for a vote. Standiford, yea, Allen, yea, Walk, yea, McPherson, yea, Tobin yea. Motion carried.

Item eleven was to inform the board members that there are 15 new first responders taking the class, but two are not from the county. Florea asked if there was going to be a charge for those two people. After a discussion, it was decided not to charge for the class as the individuals may stay in the county and become a part of the first responders.

Item twelve was to discuss the need for a computer server for the office. With the new update for the billing software, it has to be done. There training on the updates will be approximately $1,250 and the server will be approximately $ 4,500, for an estimated cost of $6,750, which could be higher or lower depending on travel cost and if the district can split some of the costs with surrounding districts. McPherson made the motion to approve the purchase of the new server and update and Standiford seconded the motion. Tobin called for a vote. Standiford, yea, Allen, yea, Walk, yea, McPherson, yea, Tobin yea. Motion carried.

Item thirteen was to inform the board members that unit 131 is back from the shop and the cause of the noise is in the engine. The oil was sent for tests and there were no metal shavings or anything foreign in the oil.

Item fourteen was to discuss the generator maintenance agreement. There are two bids to go over. One is with the current company, Comet Industries and the other is from Absolute Comfort. The bid from Comet was $1,543 for two visits a year and from Absolute $677 for two visits a year. There was a discussion. Walk made the motion to approve the bid from Absolute Comfort and Redden seconded the motion. Tobin called for a vote. Standiford, yea, Allen, yea, Walk, yea, McPherson, yea, Tobin yea. Motion carried.

There are some items that the board members need to think about purchasing in the future and Florea will have a bid for a new garages door for the North bay for the next meeting.

PRESENTATION OF TRAINING MANAGERS REPORT: Estella Myrick reported that there were 17 who attended the disaster drill training.

Item two was discussed, this was the first responder class.

Item three was to inform the board members that there will be a radio class in the near future.

PRESENTATION OF BUSINESS MANAGER= S REPORT: Lager started the report by informing the board members that the Regional EMS met on the 3^rd. The next meeting will be held at Nodaway County Ambulance on April 7^th.

EMPLOYEE CONCERNS/ REQUESTS: None brought to the board.

MEDICAID WRITE OFF= S: Standiford made the motion to write off the amount of $2,035.76 which includes the Medicaid/Medicare and Redden seconded the motion. Tobin called for a vote. Standiford, yea, Allen, yea, Walk, yea, McPherson, yea, Tobin yea. Motion carried.

OLD BUSINESS: The rescue dinner was discussed. This was tabled.

NEW BUSINESS: Standiford asked about placing ice suits on all the rescue squads. He had thought that was to have happened some time back. The only unit that has the ice suits is the Maryville unit. There was a discussion about how many suits per rescue unit would be needed and it was decided that there would have to be four suits on each unit to be used correctly. Florea is to come back with on 16 suits for the next meeting.

Florea brought up a letter from a lawyer asking that the district accepts a lowered payment from one of their clients. After discussion it was decided not to take the settlement and a letter will be sent to the lawyer discussing the reason.

ADJOURNMENT: Allen made the motion to adjourn the meeting and Standiford seconded the motion Tobin called for a vote. Standiford, yea, Allen, yea, Walk, yea, McPherson, yea, Tobin yea. Motion carried.

Meeting adjourned at 9:05 pm

Recorded by LaRee Lager

Nodaway County Ambulance District

Signed:

John C. Redden, Secretary