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The Charles County Board of Fire and Rescue Commissioners held its regular monthly meeting on December 18, 2025, at 5:00 PM. Chairman Lynn Gilroy presided, with members Bill Deere (Vice Chairman), Natasha Suba Perry (online), and Robert Ansel present. The meeting covered financial reports, project updates, and administrative matters.
The meeting adjourned with a motion and unanimous vote. Chairman Gilroy wished all first responders and families a happy holiday and prosperous new year.
Welcome to the December meeting of the Charles County Board of Fire and Rescue Commissioners. My name is Lynn Gilroy, and I am the chairman. I also represent the Charles County Volunteer Firemen's Association. With me tonight are some of the other members of the board. Mr. Bill Deere, who is the vice chairman and represents the Charles County Association of Emergency Medical Services. Bill. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We also have online with us Miss Natasha Suba Perry, who's a governor's appointee. Natasha. Good evening, Mr. Chairman. And finally, at this point in time, we have uh the other member of the board, Mr. Robert Ansel, who is a county commissioner's appointee. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We'll start off this evening with the approval of the minutes. Bill, I think you had some minor changes. I've got like three corrections. I've spoken to the secretary about uh all are on the last page. Uh first one's under capital quarterly projects, uh midway down uh where it says waller VFD, it should say purchase of SCBAs. There's one too many A's in there. Okay. And then on line 16 uh should read something like uh FY26 November distribution of fire and low SAP funds, and then the same thing on line 17 should read FY26 November distribution of EMS and Low SAP funds. Okay, is there any other corrections make a motion to approve with corrections? Okay, motion to approve the corrections. There's second second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. The chair also votes aye. They approved as corrected. Next on our agenda is the LOSAP report for November 2025. Uh Mr. Chairman, the November 2025 Low SAP report. Uh totally starting off uh November as of November 3rd of 2025 and truest, we had a total of 23 million four hundred and eighty-three thousand six hundred twenty-four dollars six cents. Wilmington trust, we had one million two hundred uh sixty-five thousand eight hundred and twenty-three dollars six cents. So for total funds at the end of November, we had a total of twenty-four million seven hundred forty-nine thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars twelve cents. At the end of October, we had 23 million six hundred and fourteen thousand eighty-nine dollars forty-five cents. So we saw a change in value of one million one hundred and thirty-five thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars sixty-seven cents. Out of Wilmington Trust, uh, we have a total of three hundred and twenty-six distributions or disbursements, uh, which is an increase of two. We've so we paid out a total of ninety-six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars sixty-four cents in benefits, had one death benefit of five thousand dollars. We had one reissue of a distribution payment of two hundred and twenty-five dollars, and the distribution payment for the two new uh enrollees, a total seven hundred and thirty dollars. So total expenses from Wilmington Trust was one hundred and two thousand nine hundred five dollars sixty-four cents.