We'll call the finance and taxation committee to order the clerk.

Please take roll call.

Alder Jewart?

Here.

Older Tolman.

Here.

Older Schaefer.

Here.

And Alder McGuire.

Here.

All right.

Are there any corrections to the October 13th?

Meeting minutes.

Hearing none.

Those will stand as written.

First order of business discussion and possible approval fire departments requests to purchase Lion Bullseye V3 Pro Digital Fire Extinguisher Training System.

Good

evening, Chief Roofer here.

Both businesses and the community in general.

Right now, the department uses an old um they call it an LP tree, which is basically a bunch of pipe that's been threaded together and in a configuration, and then there's a hose that goes to an LP tank.

And while it works, uh it's it's not the most ideal situation.

Um from a safety perspective, and and two from uh just it's very dependent on weather.

Um, and it's also pretty costly because uh you have to actually use fire extinguishers, so you gotta disperse uh the dry chemical out of the extinguisher, and then that creates uh, you know, if you have a large class, potentially some environmental issues, um, but the recharging of the extinguishers uh can run upwards of close to a hundred dollars um an extinguisher.

So it gets very uh costly from a consumption standpoint.

There's an environmental impact and there's a safety impact.

Um so we've been looking at some systems um as as the demand continues to increase uh for this kind of training.

And we found this uh bose eye uh fire extinguisher training system.

Uh Deputy Chief Purdue actually did the research on this and um brought in the sales rep and did a demo for the department and um went through the stuff, gave us a couple different proposals, uh three different proposals actually gave us.

Um, and we chose kind of the the middle of the line.

The the the Cadillac, so to speak, was about 33, 34,000, and we stripped out some things that we didn't feel um uh they were nice, but they weren't really needed um and and got it down to a little bit um more reasonable level.

Uh we have the money uh for this in our budget uh through through prioritizing our expenditures over the past year, uh and we're looking for approval uh to go ahead and make that purchase here in 2026.

Are there any other companies that would do the same thing or just curious?

Um we didn't really find anything that offered uh even anything remotely close to this level of product.

Um it's it's a pretty nice setup.

It it is digital, um, it's completely clean, it uses um a large sensor, it looks almost like a small space heater, and then it have we have two different extinguishers in there.

The extinguishers actually um blow out like air, uh, so you can feel the pressure like you would normally be using a fire extinguisher.

They mimic that that feel.

Um, they pull the pin,

they

actually go through the whole process that the students do, and then the sensor can tell whether or not the extinguisher is being used properly, if it's being sprayed at the right height, if it's being uh swept at the at the right uh speed, and then we can change the level of difficulty as well, so we can adjust it for school age children, middle school children, and adults, um, depending on what we want to do.

So there's there's there's quite a few features in it.

Uh the system we're looking at also incorporates um the pole stations, so we can simulate like in schools and businesses that have uh fire monitoring systems and have those those drop-down pole stations.

We have um Bluetooth set up for that as well.

So no, there really wasn't anybody else that had anything even comparable to be honest.

So it shoots out just compressed air or

it's it's it's like a compressed air.

I don't I don't know exactly what it does.

I mean, we don't have to fill it.

So it it models the weight and and the whole the pressure off the hose when you squeeze it, models um a standard like five pound or 10 pound extinguisher.

But you can

just refill this or I don't know.

You just charge it, recharge it, yeah.

There's no environmental, there's no chemicals.

Um it I think I think it'll it'll produce, I think the guy said a hundred and fifty or a hundred and seventy cycles before you have to charge it or do anything.

Um we have a pretty big demand.

We're currently um working with a a business in town to to train 90 plus employees.

Um so when you think about doing that with with regular dry chemical extinguishers, I would probably take 15 to 20 extinguishers that would be knocking off.

Plus, we gotta have the weather this year comes in a case, it's in wheels.

Uh we can do it at the fire station, we could do it at the local business, um, and we can do it year-round.

I'll make a motion to send this on to I guess we gotta send it on to council or just