Fire Chief Edwards.

Here.

And DA Gustavson.

Present.

Madam, you have a quorum.

Thank you.

I'd like to now move to item three, public comment, please.

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Hold on, one sec.

There's nobody signed in.

Thank you.

We'll go ahead and now move to item four, Commissioners and Fire Chiefs announcements.

Chief Edwards.

I do have one item, uh, an update to the agenda before you today is item six.

If we have a we have a correction uh to the name of the fire marshal, it's actually Jennifer Williamson, not Jennifer Williams.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Any other comments?

Commissioner Clark.

No.

Commissioner Hill?

Commissioner Garcia.

All right.

We'll move now to item five, the consent items.

Do we have any public comment on consent?

There's nobody signed in.

Thank you so much.

We'll go ahead and if anyone wants anything pulled.

If not, I'll entertain a motion at this time.

We have a motion by Commissioner Garcia and a second by Commissioner Hill.

Any further discussion?

Hearing none, I'll call for the question.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries unanimously.

And if it pleases the board, uh, we'd like to combine item six and seven, if that's okay.

So I'll call on Chief Edwards for that, please.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

If you don't mind, I'd take uh items six and seven down at the podium with Chief Shum and our rest of our members from the organization.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Sorry about that.

So wake up for everyone.

Wake up.

Uh good morning.

Uh record Joe Shum, Division Chief Operations.

Uh here today uh to do two things.

Uh the first thing is to pin officially some individuals who have completed their probationary year.

Uh they were promoted a year ago, and today marks the final step in their confirmation into their new positions.

Uh they passed their probationary periods and they uh had to do test books and quarterly check-ins uh and progress reports and evaluations along the way.

So this milestone uh in their career is is important to them.

This is important to us, and we look forward to everything that they're gonna continue to do in their professional development and uh contribution to the community.

Uh first, I'd like to invite uh fire engineer Samuel Dobson and his wife Sydney down.

And as they as they make their way down, I'll read a little bit about Engineer Dobson.

Uh he grew up in Janesville, Wisconsin, and later moved to Southern California, where he graduated from La Quinta High School in 2012.

Sam began his career as a first responder at Remsa in 2016, becoming a paramedic in 2019.

In 2020, he was hired by Truckee Meadows and completed the Capital City Fire Academy.

Since then, he's been uh involved heavily in our paramedic preceptor program.

He's joined the Hazmat team and the REMS team.

Today, like I said, Engineer Dobson is being pinned by his wife Sydney.

I'll throw in there that he's got uh a support clan behind him of his family.

Uh and they'll come down uh for pictures with us uh here in a moment.

Uh next I have uh fire captain Casey Marvin and his wife Rebecca.

Casey Marvin began his public safety career in the wildland arena.

Uh he served with Silver State Hotshots before joining Truckee Meadows in 2012.

He attended paramedic school while working at TM, graduating in 2014, and in 2020, he was promoted to engineer.

And in 2020, he was promoted to engineer.

He served as an engineer and a cadre member for four different fire academies, teaching our new recruits.

He serves on our operations committee and helped develop our rescue and search manual, our truck manual, and he became the first person at Truckee Meadows Fire and Rescue to complete the smoke diverse twenty.

That's a six-day, 60 hour course that's physically and mentally intensive and providing advanced training for firefighters that not everybody gets to go do or complete.

Captain Marvin is active as a wildland heavy equipment boss, task force leader, division supervisor trainee, and is a part of the water entry team and hazmat team.

Yeah, come with okay.

Next is uh Fire Battalion Chief Ryan Whitlock.

He's being pinned by his wife Elise.

And he's got his Klan.

The Littles.

Uh Chief Whitlock is a native of Northern Nevada, graduated from Incline High School.

Uh Ryan served eight years in the United States Air Force before becoming a firefighter paramedic for Story County in 2006.

In 2013, Ryan moved to Truckee Meadows, where he worked through the ranks of engineer and captain, serving as a captain from 2017 until his promotion in 25.

Ryan is also a part of our local 2487 eBoard, serving in various roles since 2014.

And he serves as a district vice president for the professional firefighters of Nevada since 2020.

He currently oversees our SCBA program and other logistical support committees.

He's a member of the water entry team and the hazmat team.

All right.

Now I'd like to welcome up our new fire marshal, Jennifer Williamson, and her husband Daniel.

Jenny brings extensive knowledge and experience in the fire service and fire prevention.

She holds a bachelor's degree in fire service management, a master's certificate in fire protection engineering, and a master's degree in business and public administration.

She began her fire service career in 1996 as a volunteer firefighter and transit transitioned into fire prevention in 2001.

In 2016, Jenny relocated to Nevada, where she served as a fire inspector too with the Carson City Fire Department.

In 2024, she joined the Nevada State Fire Marshal Division as a plan examiner, too.

Her professional background includes inspections, plan reviews, fire investigations, and public education.

Jenny is actively involved in several professional organizations.

She serves as the regional chair and treasurer for the Fire Prevention Association of Nevada, president of the Nevada Chapter of the International Association of Arson Investigators, the Nevada Public Education Representative for the National Fire Protection Association, and is an active fire board member for Central Lion Fire Protection District.

She also holds a fire marshal designation from the Center for Public Safety Excellence and is certified by the Nevada State Fire Marshal Division.

Outside of her professional work, Jenny also enjoys camping, hiking, and fishing with her husband and their three dogs.

So Jenny is joined here today with several family and friends who have been huge supporters and mentors to her throughout her career.

And pinning her today is her husband, Daniel Cheney, and the government.

Okay, we're going to move into uh the awards that are being presented today.

Uh first up, we have fire engineer John Sabin.

Uh John Seaban is receiving the life saving award today.

This is for members of the department that are principally involved in saving the life of another person.

October 30th, 2025, he was off duty at an event at the Elks Lodge when someone nearby began choking and collapsed.

Realizing what had happened, he stepped into action and performed a Heimlich maneuver.

After several attempts, he was able to clear the blockage so the person could start breathing again.

He stayed with the individual calmly, guiding them as they cleared the rest of their airway on their own.

Thanks to his quick thinking and training in a dangerous situation.

This was resolved safely, and those around him were very grateful for his his actions.

Okay, next we have firefighter paramedic Austin Mitchell and Matthew Newtal.

These two firefighters will were assigned to Medic 46 in Spanish Springs.

They resulted responded to a medical call that involved an overdose within the Sparks Fire District.

Both Medic and Engine 46 were initially dispatched.

They arrived, and then transport was initiated by Medic 46.

Shortly thereafter, while driving down the road and transporting towards St.

Mary's, the patient deteriorated and lost consciousness.

Without assistance from the engine, uh Firefighter Mitchell alerted his partner, who was Firefighter Newtal, to the patient's condition.

Newtal pulled the ambulance to the side of the road, notified dispatch of the need for additional resources, and joined Mitchell in the back to provide life-saving care.

The crew used advanced airway management procedure to secure the patient's airway, and then shortly thereafter, the patient became pulseless.

Mitchell and New Thal initiated CPR and ALS, ultimately achieving return of spontaneous circulation.

Because of where Medic 46 was, Sparks Ladder 51 became the closest next available unit.

They arrived, hopped in the back, and assisted with care so that transport could continue.

While en route, the patient again lost pulses but were regained prior to arrival at the ED.

We're happy to report that the patient remained hospitalized for six days, but was ultimately discharged on Christmas Eve with no deficits.

Sorry, on November 6th, 2025, while responding to an emergent patient transfer between the Spanish Springs standalone ER and Renown, Firefighter Watson encountered a critically unstable patient experiencing a life-threatening heart rhythm.

This required constant advanced care to keep the condition from worsening.

When the hospital ran low on a critical medication that was needed, uh he used supplies from his own unit, Medic 46, and even called for engine 46 to bring additional medications.

Thanks to his fast thinking, teamwork, and ability to adapt under pressure.

Enough medication ultimately was provided until Care Flight arrived to transport the patient.

His decisive actions and decision played a key role in achieving this outcome, and he's very deserving of this out this recognition.

Congratulations to everyone.

And thank you all for everything that you do.

And congratulations again.

I know why we wouldn't play again.

Okay, great.

Congratulations again to everyone.

We'll go ahead and move now to item number eight.

Chief Edwards.

Yes, so item eight is an International Association of Firefighters Local Twenty Four Eighty Seven Report.

Hello.

Good morning, Commissioners.

Mark Thyer, President, Local Twenty Forty Seven, Trucky Meadows Firefighters.

As you know, as you can see, our people work very tirelessly in the community at work and also outside of work.

For example, John Seaban was not at work when he had that life saving event take place.

Furthermore, we're very much invested in our community, as is evidenced by some of the events we have coming up.

On April eighteenth, many of our firefighters are participating in a soccer or football tournament, depending on how you look at it.

So it is a charity tournament.

It is firefighters versus law enforcement officers.

And I have to mention we took home the trophy last year, so my expectations are really high.

And it's been a fantastic fundraiser for the Children's Cancer Foundation.

Once again, it's law enforcement versus firefighters.

And I'm confident that this year the law enforcement won't cheat enough to get ahead of us in the final round, but we'll see about that.

In uh March and April, um, we sent delegates to the uh legislative conference in Washington, DC, where we not only um sponsored legislation that supports firefighters nationwide um through uh turnout development, cancer reduction, things of that nature.

We also had the opportunity to speak with our representatives, our Nevada representatives to talk about issues locally, like um the development of a fire station in Washoe Valley and any federal help that could be applied there.

Um finally, we just got back from an education conference where we sent 11 of our members, the future of our union.

The guys are going to come up and take my spot.

This is an education conference uh and it covers all sorts of topics from uh collective bargaining to employee representation to uh public speaking.

Um, and we even have some actual fire-related classes there so guys can go have fun on their training and not just sit in a classroom talking about negotiations.

Um with that being said, uh, it has been a very busy month for the firefighters of uh 2048 seven.

And I did have the opportunity to see at least a couple of you on the campaign trail, and I appreciated the invite to participate in those things.

So um, best of luck in those elections and uh I look forward to working with you in the future.

And I'll see you next month.

Thank you.

Can can we just wait real quick and see if anyone has any questions?

Anyone have any questions?

I do.

Um where is the location for the goals for hope?

Uh we'll be at the uh UNR stadium, uh Mackey Stadium.

So it's you know, they they fill it out mostly supporters of the police, believe it or not.

Um, I don't know what that's about, but we're trying to increase our numbers on this side.

So we'll be at Mackey Stadium on April 18th.

Um, and I believe it's 4 30 in the afternoon is is start time.

Okay.

And then is the Northern Nevada Cancer Foundation that golf tournament is still at Red Hawk.

Uh this year it's going to be at Lake Ridge.

Oh, it's going to be at Lake Ridge.

Okay.

Maybe we can have that information sent to us.

That might be helpful.

Absolutely.

I'll get that forwarded it directly to you.

Susan get back to my seat.

Thanks for your update.

All right, you're very welcome.

Have a great day.

You too.

All right.

We'll close item eight, move to item nine, fire chiefs report.

Chief Edwards.

All right.

Uh, so you know, following up with uh what Captain Thyer was saying, March was a very busy month for us in the fire district.

Um, so I made some updates here to the Chiefs report, uh, a few changes.

You'll notice that there's not a capital projects update on this one.

Um, not a whole lot to report in that arena, so that'll come back in future months.

Um, but I did want to update um some of the hard work and highlight the hard work of our fire prevention staff.

So you're gonna start to see those statistics every month.

Um we have a small but mighty team in fire prevention, uh, three and a half people, um, but they do a tremendous amount of work there.

And I think that important that those statistics and that data that they they have is very important because it's also a leading economic indicator in our region.

So as we see uh a lot of projects coming online, new projects, new plan reviews.

Times are good as we start to see those also start to shrink or pull back, or the scope and the scale of those projects starts to shrink.

We can probably start to assimilate that you know the economy starting to pull back as well.

So this is also one of those things we can use to gauge uh future economics uh for the district and so forth, so we can plan accordingly.

So we'll be providing those updates um on a monthly basis.

Uh one of the big items uh in your packet uh this month was the RAM uh the REMSA franchise agreement.

Um essentially there was a lot of confusion about what could be amended after the agreement was approved back in January, and to help identify specific areas of concern, Northern Nevada Public Health and District Board of Health uh held stakeholder workshop meetings to better understand what our concerns were.

Um Truckee Meadows uh fire district had three primary concerns with the agreement, and really these were all driven out of concern for the well-being and safety of the citizens of Washoe County.

Um that included the re reintegration of the joint advisory committee language back into the agreement, um, ensuring that the closest ambulance, uh regardless of agency is dispatched to priority one or priority two um incidents, and those are the highest level medical calls.

And uh the third item was that there should be priority to performance metrics, and priority two calls are those that are right on the cusp of becoming party one.

They could be life-threatening, um, but at the current agreement, there's no performance metrics uh associated with those calls to make sure that we're meeting those time standards or even have time standards associated with them.

So uh the District Board of Health brought together these stakeholder workshops at the first workshop, uh, Dr.

That absent any technical errors in the agreement that there wouldn't be any changes in the current agreement as it was approved.

But they would take into consideration all these other items that we brought forward.

And then they would sit back down with REMSA through a negotiation process to see if they couldn't uh amend the agreement to incorporate these items.

Um the crux of that is that REMSA has to be amenable uh to those changes.

So if they say no, that the changes don't happen.

Um so there was two meetings.

There was a lot of consensus amongst the three fire agencies of the items that were discussed.

Um we got through three topics in a two-hour meeting.

Um, and I think there's a total of 19 topics in all.

Um, and so towards the end of that first meeting, uh deputy district attorney uh read provided two different paths to move forward.

One was we could continue this process, continue to discuss these items, and we can make notes on them and come back and try to negotiate those into an amendment to the current agreement or into future agreements, or she provided a second option, which she did determined to be more of a nuclear option, and that would be a vote for reconsideration uh to revote on the uh the uh the agreement that was presented, given that there were so many items uh that needed to be changed that came to light afterwards.

Um we finished the meetings on April 1st, um, not only you know tackling three items, they essentially said, hey, we need to schedule a couple additional meetings.

We came back and met again on our sorry, we met first on April or March uh 18th.

We came back on April 1st to cover the rest of those items.

We're actually able to complete the rest of those 19 items at the April 1st meeting.

So we canceled uh the subsequent meetings after that.

Um, and then it was kind of shared with us that the district board of health would take all those items um and then they would work through the negotiation process to see if they couldn't include those in future uh recommendations or uh future agreements.

So I wanted to share that with you as uh you know, REMSA affects all of us, it's uh big to our district.

We have a contract with them, so the items we brought up also would impact the fire district, but I truly believe that it's what's best for our community members that we are providing that highest level of service, and we should make sure that these items are memorialized in those agreements to make sure that we are providing uh or achieving that level of service uh for the community.

Uh there's also a regional update in here as well for regional operations.

Um, some big things have happened over the last month.

We met uh with the partner agencies and we've standardized a radio programming.

Um, so all of our mobile and rate uh portable radios will have a standard uh programming load to them.

And exciting uh that we meet this week to discuss um the programming of CAD specifically to emergency response for the fire districts and the fire departments.

Um so hexagon, which is now known as Octave will be a big uh component of this conversation about how we want to program that.

And another topic of that uh discussion will be um AVL, the automatic vehicle locators to make sure that we're sending the closest unit on the fire side.

Um, and this will also help to make us be more efficient and reduce that duplication of sending multiple units to the same call that aren't necessary because we don't have the technology to support it uh today as well.

Um this past month, we also had our first uh community meeting for the regional fire service uh study board.

Um that meeting was held on March 19th.

Emergent Global Solutions provided an overview of the project and provided an opportunity for community members to provide some feedback there.

And then they also uh the partner agencies and emergence global solutions um come together uh released a public survey.

Um that's on all of our websites.

So anyone can go on there and click the link to provide their feedback on that survey.

Um important that survey is open uh through the end of April.

So April 30th, 2026, that survey will close.

So anybody out there that hasn't had an opportunity to provide their feedback, please do so and go to any of the the jurisdictions websites and there's a link on there to uh provide that feedback.

And the last item just our call statistics.

Um in February, we had 1,588 incidents.

Uh 774 of those were medical, 25 of those were fires.

Um trucking meadows responded into Reno, arrived on scenes 278 times.

Reno came into Truck E Meadows 78 times, and then Trucky Meadows responded into Sparks 56 times and Sparks responded into Trucky Meadows 27 times.

So that concludes my report.

I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, Chief Edwards.

Any questions?

Yes.

Thank you very much, Chief.

On AVL, is everyone in the region on the same page on that?

So we'll find out this week when we meet.

There's been a lot of conversations about that.

That would be our hope.

Okay, that's wonderful.

I'm so happy to hear that.

And I don't know, I don't want to put you on the spot, Madam Chair, but as our rep on RemSA, do you want to give us just like where we are at on that?

Yeah, out of current professional courtesy, I was gonna let everyone ask questions and certainly provide an update.

So if you would be okay, I'd like to go ahead and finish the question.

Absolutely.

But I do actually thank you.

Commissioner, well, I'm going to do that now.

Mr.

Clark, do you have any?

So uh I I would like to really share uh a couple pieces of information to um Chief Edwards report and and thank you, by the way, for keeping everybody apprised because there's so much going on and there's so many moving parts, and you know, um whether it's the regional fire study that you know, Vice Chair Garcia chairs or or certainly the um navigation through this Remsa agreement has uh everyone really I think collectively understanding how important our community is and how important and life-saving uh agreements are actually should be obviously and are taken very seriously.

And so there was a couple things that I want to clarify.

Um I am the vice chair of the Northern Vada Public Health, and um I just want to add that reconsideration was made by a member of that board at our last meeting, and um that is going through its process in terms of um as you know, reconsideration made by a member who uh voted in um the affirmative, the majority has the ability to do that, and the chair has the purview to put that reconsideration item on the agenda, and I think we're all hopeful that that is um followed through with.

But I would say that there um I participated in the April 1st as just a guest listening.

I uh listened to the one hour and 58 minutes of the March meeting, which I wasn't able to attend because I was chairing the Tumwa board where I would have been there.

I think the board as a whole is very committed to getting this right the first time.

That's what I will say.

I'm not speaking on behalf of the board, I'm speaking for myself in terms of my observation of the commitment of all the board members on the Northern Nevada Public Health or the Department of Um Board of Health, essentially, the district board of health.

And the reality is a lot of I think really great things came out of the workshops that Chief Edwards spoke about, including all jurisdictions really sitting down and working through various components that they can all agree upon, essentially.

And that's really what the idea is.

We need to have everybody on the same page.

We need to have everybody with truly their their uh agenda to do the right thing for the right reasons to help our community be the best it can be and to save lives.

And the reality is is that those items that were discussed in the workshop are being compiled, and we're hoping to see the follow-up of that.

I think that uh there'll be more discussions uh that will take place and where this lands, I hope is an opportunity again to get this right the first time.

There's been a lot of information just in closing that seems to have been revealed after the vote.

Again, I'm speaking for myself.

There was a lot of information that has critical components that need to be addressed.

And um those three have been actually brought up by the fire chief, but there were several others from other jurisdictions.

But I do want to reiterate that I think everybody can agree when anyone picks up the phone and there's a life-saving situation that needs attention.

The person on the other side wants to know that the closest unit is is arriving.

They don't need to know why or who, or they just need to know it's the fastest, it's available, and it's going to be there with the trained professionals that we all are proud to support in our community.

And so the priority two calls um, I think are really important.

Putting the Jack back, um, the joint advisory committee back in, and then looking at trying to uh expand some additional authority with the MSAP board.

So there's just a lot that's happening, and um, I just wanted to make sure that everyone on this board um and anyone who's interested knows that reconsideration has been made.

So that's on the record.

So I don't know if that I answered your question or not in terms of giving you an update, but I'm not sure.

I just appreciate you representing the region so well.

Thank you so much.

I know it's a lot that we're dealing with this year as a region and trying to work through.

So I appreciate your leadership.

Thank you.

And Chief, thank you for I feel like the timing of you coming into the organization and you coming into regional conversations that we've been having have been very helpful because there's no, you know, past baggage that you bring.

So I feel like you're a great convener.

And so just keep us posted on how we can support you.

And I'm just thankful to the chair for your leadership for this board and the region.

So thank you.

Yeah, and I I really should just add one other thing.

I think that to your point, um, again, Chief Edwards, thank you.

And and thanks to the team.

And it really is a team effort from TM in terms of having um a consensus and and representation and what those um factors are and why they are critical and why they're important to be addressed.

So um, you have a great team and great leadership, and so thank you.

More to come.

More to come.

If there's not anything else, then I'll go ahead and close item nine and move to item 10.

It's a review and discussion on possible approval of the annual employment performance evaluation process for Chief Edwards.

And if I could, um, I believe Carla is going to come up and help us with this.

Morning, commissioners.

Um, my name is Sandy Francis, executive assistant for the Trucky Meadows Fire Protection District.

I'm standing in for Carla, the HR manager.

I'm just gonna say you don't look like Carla, but thank you.

You're welcome.

So I'm gonna present the proposed evaluation process, which is very similar to those conducted for the previous fire chief.

Included in the proposed evaluation process is a participant list and evaluation criteria based on Chief Edwards' 2025-2026 goals and objectives.

Therefore, your approval and modification based on your feedback, the valuation criteria, which is tailored to each participant group will be sent out via survey monkey to the individual invited participant groups and will be open for approximately two weeks.

Their responses will be anonymous, and the HR manager will compile the results and bring them back to the June meeting for Chief Edwards complete evaluation.

And if you have any questions or need clarifications or modifications, I would be happy to make note for you.

Did anyone have any questions or anything?

Um is it possible?

The um evaluation for the stakeholders in terms of the list of the stakeholders.

Can that be sent to all the commissioners in case there's somebody that we think may be uh additionally appropriate with the stakeholder piece?

Absolutely, absolutely.

That would be great.

That's all I have.

Oh, Commissioner Hill.

Uh I'm just I is this the first time we've had the other fire chiefs on the as stakeholders.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, because um that just again shows that there's a lot of regional cooperation and working together.

So um I'm I'm looking forward to hearing the input.

I hope uh are our uh responses weighted more than the outside people, or is everyone weighted the same?

Um believe they're all weighted the same.

They are um given to you separately, so you can see and put your weight into it.

They aren't all combined in one pile, they are still given to you anon anonymously, but in the group, like this is the fire commissioners, this is a state external and direct.

So you can see that.

Okay, thank you.

Vice Chair Mercy.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I just have a quick question for the chief on attachment three, um, your goals and objectives.

I was just hoping you could uh talk to us about how you came to those goals and objectives and what the process was for you.

Yeah, thank you for that.

So when I first came in, um part of the idea was through a listening uh session with all the firefighters and all the members of the organization is to develop that 180-day plan.

Um and so from that 180-day plan, uh, there was three priorities that came from that, and that was um fiscal health of the organization, um, dispatch and internal uh organizational communication.

So those quickly became uh a priority and a goal uh for me to evaluate.

Um and then throughout that, we also looked at some other items to help support that, which would be the the plan to increase the district's fund balance so that we would have fiscal uh solvency um as we had a very limited fund balance last year and uh created some difficulties in August time frame last year for us.

Um we also wanted to look at opportunities to fund the Washa Valley Consolidated Fire Station.

I heard that loud and clear my very first day here at the district and uh our community members in the audience.

Um so I know that's a priority and trying to figure out how do we do that with limited funds.

So trying to think outside the box there and and how we can make that uh a reality for our community members.

And then the next item is supporting regional fire protection efforts.

Um and so uh regional dispatch.

Um, this is this is where we really get a lot of efficiency is through dispatch.

Everything has to start with dispatch.

So um really trying to be uh a catalyst uh with our partner agencies to to make that a reality.

We've also had several studies in the region that have also identified regional dispatch as a as a priority and it should happen.

Um so trying to dust those off and try to say, hey, why why aren't we doing that?

Let's let's figure out what the barriers are.

How do we remove the barriers and to bring this to fruition?

Um the other part of that is our regionalization um efforts with standard operating policy so that we can function as one organization regardless of the patch or the emblem on the side of the fire engine or the or the ambulance.

Um and that's also um further enhanced through multi-agency training.

Um, and so we saw that through this year with the acquired structure, bringing companies together, Reno had a building there, invite us out with Sparks and so forth, so that we can actually take these policies and try to operationalize those with our members so that we can function uh better together and more seamlessly uh across agencies.

Um the other goal there, obviously Fire Station 35 started before I arrived.

Um so we're gonna see that that project through and that's coming to fruition uh should wrap up uh probably end of June, beginning of July.

Um our non-supervisory group for local 2487 is in uh collective bargaining right now, so we're working through that.

Um, and then the other part that I added here at the end is it's just really about building strong relationships.

Um, and that's not just with our internal stakeholders, but our external as well.

Um, because at the end of the day, when we can do that, we can provide a better and a higher level of service to the community.

And it really it all starts with relationships and being able to see differences and different perspectives and trying to find um consensus um when there's disagreements and so forth, so that we can move uh key initiatives forward.

Um and that's been a big focus uh throughout this last year.

I think um my follow-up question is uh in comparing attachment three to attachment two.

How many of the questions on the survey monkey will be linked to his goals and objectives?

Or are they just kind of in general, just more broad?

They're more in general, okay broad.

All right, thank you.

And then when the performance evaluation comes back for the actual evaluation, you're at that point you're able to update next year's goals and objections so he can have a list and then they could be more tailored to that, if that's what you wish.

Great.

Any other questions or comments?

Um I I feel compelled to mention this because every board I've been sharing, I've always and I apologize.

I'm just seeing the actual list of the um stakeholder evaluation list, and that's why it was, but I'm gonna bring it up and see what the consensus is of my colleagues.

I I think direct reports are always important, but I do think the next level is all is equally important because and I've had this conversation with Chief Edwards, so this isn't a surprise, but I feel that whenever you're the head of whatever the organization, CEO, those direct reports are obviously carrying out whatever the vision and and the board's direction in terms of strategy and what have you.

But that next level is the effectiveness of of going down to that next level in terms of good communication, good leadership, the implementation of how that's managed.

And so I don't want to be you know putting a wrench in in the engine here, but I do think going down to that next level of reporting is very, very effective because it helps Chief Edwards or any CEO or any president, whoever the lead is, to be able to see how effective they're actually going down into the organization in terms of leadership and supervision.

And so um that has happened on various other boards that I've been involved with.

So for full disclosure performance evaluations is something that um I have some experience in doing.

So if it's not um anybody has any opposition, I'd like to add that next level.

Absolutely.

I think adding the next level would be great.

My question did sometimes the next level below can be quite large.

It can is picking a random or did you want everyone or just like a sampling random sampling of that next level?

Because it it can get very large.

I know, and that's why I'm feeling bad that I should have actually done this prior to this meeting.

If we can filter that out a little bit, I think that would be helpful.

But I do think that I would like to talk to Chief Edwards and you and Lori about that.

If the board is so inclined with moving forward with whatever that level is, because I can't answer that right now myself.

Madam Chair, I I appreciate the suggestion in other organizations like the school district or the university.

Um typically what the larger organizations will do is just do a broader climate survey for all uh classified and unclassified staff to take that litmus test on the climate and the overall um well-being and health of the organization.

So I would just say um for this first year, this is already a very extensive list, and I'm wondering if if you know we could keep it as is and then um revisit the more general survey.

Uh, does TM do any climate surveys to date or no okay?

Um I'd be open to that.

I just think for uh an annual performance evaluation for a new chief year one, you know, it's it's already a very extensive list, is just my initial reaction.

So now I hear you.

Did you have something, Chief Edwards?

Yeah, Madam Chair, if I may, um we did try to incorporate your suggestion there by taking it to the next level below.

So we incorporated the division chiefs into that as well.

So these aren't my direct reports.

Okay.

Um fair enough.

If you'd like, we could actually expand that out to the battalion chiefs as well.

How many battalion chiefs are there?

Um there's seven.

Can we do that?

Are you are you okay with that, Vice Chair?

And so that that reflects again my conversation with Chief Edwards for full transparency and going down.

And I appreciate Vice Chair, your point about at some point.

There is, I think, an important part of having uh a litmus test, if you will, on the health of the organization, but I'd like to go ahead and then add those battalion chiefs.

Any objection?

Hearing none.

So if we could just add the battalion chiefs, and then um that would be really helpful.

So if there aren't any questions, or any public comment on this particular item.

There's none.

So hearing none and no other discussion, I'll entertain a motion to approve as noted.

Madam Chair, I move to approve the employment performance evaluation with the amendment to add a fifth group that includes the battalion chiefs.

Thank you.

We have motion and a second.

Any further discussion?

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Or on your screen, too.

Motion passes unanimously.

Thank you.

All right, thank you for the discussion and appreciate the opportunity to add that.

We'll move now to item number 11.

All right, item 11 is a recommendation to approve the creation of one public information officer position, including job specification, benefits, and a salary range of 67,600 to 93,600 with an estimated hire date of June 15th, 2026.

Freeze the fire communications manager position, effective July 17th, 2026, and approve the updated job specification and corrected salary ranges for the deputy fire chief position as follows.

Please fire PRERS members, 189,000 to 241,238, and regular PERS members, 210,101 dollars to 268,154.

This is for possible action.

Any questions?

Yep.

Commissioner Hill.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Is this because Mr.

Mayberry is um retiring?

Uh I am I'm all in, and I'm I appreciate the new structure that you're seeing, and I think finding um a new person will be really tough.

I hope we're gonna uh do something for Mr.

Mayberry.

Okay, great.

Um, but anyway, uh end of an era, but uh yes, I I'm fine with this change.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Vice Chair Sia.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Just uh um clarifying question.

So we freeze the fire communications manager position um effective of July of this year, and then how often will we re do we have to approve the freeze year after year, or is it just kind of in perpetuity?

It's just in perpetuity.

Thank you.

Great.

So, yes, just to confirm this is Adam Mayberry sah, I guess not your official send-off, but it's it's the first phase in that.

That's how I see this juncture.

All right, hearing nothing, I'll go ahead and entertain a motion to approve as presented.

Madam Chair, we have public comment.

There's none.

Well, you see, Miss Gusenson, thank you so much.

I gave you an opportunity.

Is there anything else you'd like to share?

Yeah, but please, thank you.

All right, so moved.

We have a motion by Commissioner Hill.

Second, second by vice chair.

Any further discussion?

Hearing none, all those in favor signify by pressing the appropriate button for your decision.

Okay, all those in favor signify by saying aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries unanimously.

Thank you.

We'll move now to item number 12 of financial presentation.

Chief Edwards.

Yes, so item 12 is a financial presentation on the status of the fiscal year 2025-2026 general fund and capital project funds as of February 28th, 2026.

And we have our CFO, Crystal Sublet, to present.

Are you getting settled in?

This is for the next item.

Oh, okay.

Um, good morning, commissioners.

Um, Chief Edwards.

Um, so actually, I think I put the let's see, Jenna.

So for for February, uh, as of February, let me put this stuff aside.

Get all my ducks in a row here.

Um, as of February uh 28th, 2026, we're at about 67% of the year.

Um middle one.

There we go.

Uh, our our revenues are at 35.8 million, which is about 65.1% of what we're expecting.

We have another big, we actually already received our next um revenue, which will be reflected in next month's um financial statements.

Um, and our expenditures are we're operating favorably at this point in time.

Um, our expenditures are approximately 57.3% of what we budgeted through um as of this time of year.

Um the all of the agency, and I'll go further into that when we get into the budgeting presentation or the budget presentation, but the agency has um done a really good job of of watching this the spending and um doing mission critical spending um and we're actually operating favor favorably for the salaries, wages, and budget, which is the biggest part of our expenses for the capital funds.

Um, the expenditures are 49.7 in capital projects and zero percent in extraordinary repairs and maintenance fund.

Um, we do have some capital projects that we'll be wrapping up towards the end of the sorry forget to do the next button.

Um we do have some capital projects that we'll be wrapping up or close to wrapping up by the end of this fiscal year.

Um, and so that I expect that to go up in the next in the next couple of financial reports, the next couple of months.

That's really all I have to present on the financial statements.

Any questions?

Any questions for sublett?

Now I can see you guys.

Yeah, I was just I was also asking how you're doing.

Oh, I'm welcome again.

Thank you.

Three months and getting settled.

Um diving right in.

Yes, head first, or drinking from a fire hose, however, you want to.

But everybody has been very nice and and patient with me.

I have lots and lots of questions, and so that's been nice.

And one of the things that I will say um is that I find it refreshing that the division chiefs and the battalion chiefs um all know their stuff, their financial stuff, and I don't know that I've ever walked into something like that.

So that is nice to know that they understand their budgets.

That's a testament to leadership and experience and how important it is, and yours as well.

Thank you for complimenting that.

So thank you for what you're doing.

This is not an actionable item.

Um, so I'm going to ask one last time if anybody has any questions.

Great.

We're gonna go ahead and close that item and move to item 13.

All right, item 13 is a presentation discussion to include any recommended changes of the preliminary tentative budget for fiscal year 26-27.

And this is for possible action.

And again, we have our CFO, Crystal Sublett, uh, to give us a presentation.

I will start with saying that if you ever want to learn something fast about an agency, start during budget season.

You'll get to know everything.

So, first I want to discuss a little bit.

And at this presentation, this presentation is to review the preliminary budget, including discussion of priorities and projects contained in the budget and for the board to make any recommendations for changes to be included in the final tentative budget.

The budget will come back in at the May 6th meeting.

And then again, the final budget at the May 9, hopefully at the May 19th meeting with a public as a public hearing to be adopted.

The next thing that I wanted to talk about really quick is that I know this is a long meeting for at least for this group that I've been with.

I'm used to probably four to five hour meetings in my prior life, but um so we started the budgeting process basically when I first started.

Uh we started doing supplemental budget requests throughout the whole agency.

Um and then we did a walkthrough of that within our agency to prioritize all of that.

Um one of the things that um Chief Edwards has had asked is that it be a very transparent process.

And I feel like we've done a very good job of that, and we're continuing to make it a very transparent internal process.

Um, and so we did this prioritization to be we did there's I think like 27 items that were requested.

We did a priority of them, and we have our high priority set.

Everybody decided what was prioritization that is not included in this budget at this time because we're gonna see where we land on our um projected uh fund balance, and then if we have the money to be able to do those priorities, then we will we will come back as a group and those will be in the May presentation if they if we can do it once we find out where our final once we get to the next iteration of our final fund balance.

Um in March, we received the final numbers from the Department of Tax for March 25th.

We received final numbers for the Department of Tax for the project for the for the tax revenues and C tax.

Um, and then we went through each division went through we walked through the budget for what their ex what their expected needs were.

Um, and we actually also did um a walkthrough of what their potential overtime would be.

The salaries, wages, and benefits.

We have a software program that we use called TrueComp, probably one of the best software programs I've experienced.

Um, and we were able to use that and to be come up with a salaries, wages, and benefits budget.

It takes into consideration all the special pays, potential overtime, health benefits, all of those items, and then also any um salary increases, colours, merits, projections for um retirements.

So we were able to use that to come up with our preliminary budget for salaries, wages, and benefits.

And then this month in April, we're here presenting to you today to be able to get your guys' feedback and any recommendations or changes or questions you have.

If we can answer the questions, we will.

I say we.

Um, and if we cannot, we will come back with an answer.

And then the next steps for this process is we'll be back in May.

I can't remember if it's May 6th or May 7th.

Um, we'll be back in May to present a final budget to you guys, and then we have to come back for a hearing for it to be adopted, and then it will be posted to the Department of Tax by June 1st.

Any questions on the key upcoming?

Commissioner Hill.

Thank you.

Uh I'm curious on property taxes.

And uh with the 10% estimate that you've got for the next fiscal year.

Um is that similar to what do you talk to the county?

I'm just I'm forgetting what the county um has.

Sorry, can you can you say that again?

Do you talk to the county when you look at your projected uh tax numbers?

Our tax numbers come from the state.

And that they've oh, the projected 10%.

You're talking about our fiscal 26 projected.

Um, those are what was budgeted, and I annualize those based off of what we've been collecting and taking into consideration that you know the the property taxes is only four times a year.

Then you have um prior year property taxes that sometimes you get in.

And so I did an annualization on that within a reasonable amount.

I took it, I took about a five-year history to see how that how that was growing and how close it came into the the projected from the the department of tax.

We've just been told that we there's like signs, which the chief kind of talked about this with the um the inspectors and the um the plans inspectors um and business inspectors, like uh we need to track and see like is business picking up or is it slowing down?

But we were told that there was some uh signs that uh potentially development is slowing down a bit.

Um, and so I was just curious making sure that we're um you know being conservative with that number.

Um so but you you've done the work um so uh just wanted to make sure that we're talking to all the sources um on those things.

And then I go ahead.

No, go ahead.

Oh, go ahead.

I was gonna say, and I I will do an uh true up before we come back in May to check on those numbers again to see if we're still tracking with that trend, and more than happy to follow up with the the county okay and see what what they're and then projected 10%.

I may be uh off on that, but I was just curious.

Um, and then on the uh frozen positions.

I know we we didn't we freeze firefighter positions last fiscal year, Chief.

So there was a couple of suppression positions frozen, but I think we've been able to accommodate those in this current projected uh tentative budget to change some things.

So and I'll and when I get through to that part of the presentation, I'll have no, it's okay.

It's a good question.

Um any other questions before I start on the presentation.

No, thank you.

Okay, so currently I'm gonna be looking at both.

So currently um we uh we have projected revenues to be at 56.28 million for fiscal 26, and oh it's gonna be fun.

58.5 million projected for fiscal 27.

That's based off of the um actual property taxes and consolidated taxes that were given to us by the state, and then we have all of our other revenue, which includes licenses and permits, charges of services, um, CTAX, reimbursements, um, and other I'm sorry, intergovernmental revenue other than C tax, reimbursements and miscellaneous revenues.

Um, and to go back to your question, um we'll I'll definitely be doing analysis of that with more current information because we'll have the next property tax available when I look at those year to date numbers at that point in time before I come back in May.

And if there's a change, I'll I'll make sure we walk through that in the presentation in May.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

And then for the expenditures, general fund expenditures, projected total expenditures for fiscal 26 is 50 million or 50 50 million 159,000.

Um, and projected budget is 55 million two hundred and fifty-one thousand.

Um, I will say that we in fiscal 26 we are operating favorably um for a few reasons.

Um one of the the primary reasons is that we um elected not to pay the um OPEB to the trust.

Um we are we are 92 percent funded at this point in time as of the last actuarial report.

Um, and so we it in light of the uh cost cutting measures we have elected to um not pay that for this year, so that's part of the cost saving measures.

The other part is um other than general cost saving measures is um salaries, wages, and benefits.

We had some positions not filled, and we um have uh also we I believe we froze some positions last year.

Um, so that would be part of the reason why we have a savings there in our salary wages and benefits savings.

We we are projected to be about three point a little over three million favorable this year, but going into fiscal 27, we will be opening station 35.

So we will be staffing that we are expecting higher than normal overtime in order to staff that and we'll be filling positions um uh uh with normal retrition.

Um, and then the other big part of that is we have several re retirements, so we will have payouts to the tune of about 1.3 million dollars in fiscal 27.

And we do need to one of the things that I'll be working with between now and May is talking to the actuarial about part of the reason why we're so favorable in OPEB is because of the earnings because of the economy, the markets.

So we will be working with um, I will be talking to the actuarial to make sure that we're accounting for that appropriately.

At this point in time, the projected beginning fund balance for fiscal 27 is 9.6 million with these current numbers, revenues 58.5, expenditures 55.3, other financing uses 4.5 with a projected ending fund balance of 8.4, which brings us to 15.2% of expenditures.

The fund balance policy that was put into place is we would like to get to be between 17 and 19%.

So the agency, I've I've touched a few of these.

We've in fiscal 26, they've implemented significant, or we have implemented significant cost savings, agency wide mission critical expend um expenditures, division wide cost cutting initiatives, the temporarily discontinued OPEC contribution to the trust, salary savings, and hold vacant approval positions.

We also did a one-year pause on program budgets for wet, hazmat, the wet and hazmat teams, those dozer, rims, and AACT, and other miscellaneous cost reduced.

This is resulting in projected 3.8 million of favorable outcome in fiscal 26.

And then for fiscal 27 budget, significant items, revenues, revenues are consistent.

When I did a total look at that year over year, the increase was was similar.

Expenditures, we have station 35 opening.

Overtime, um, I will be working with uh Chief Shum and Chief Edwards and Chief Kettering again to reanalyze that.

Um filling of existing remaining fire suppression vacancies.

Um there is a 3.25% cost of living adjustment for three labor groups, 1.2 million for expected payouts due to retirements in fiscal 27, and then we are also going to be funding some necessary training that was deferred from fiscal 26.

Um, before I move on to that, um to answer your previous question.

Uh, there were no new positions proposed for fiscal 27, other than the one that was just presented, but that's um because we're losing another position.

Um additionally, the following five existing vacant positions will be frozen for fiscal 26 and 27 as we're focusing on filling the remaining fire suppression positions.

Thus, two 40-hour fire captain assigned to training, one 40 hour fire captain for prevention, one fire inspector investigator, and one fire mechanic.

And then you guys have the detail in I don't have that on a slide.

I'll make sure that gets put on the slide next time.

Um, the detail between all the different divisions on page three of five of the board report.

Um, you'll see the various costs for each of the divisions for overhead, admin, emergency operations, safety and training, fire prevention, fleet maintenance, logistics, volunteer fire, wild land and fuels, and off-district support.

And then the other item is that the capital projects fund.

Um, I I unfortunately did not have enough time to um get all of that reconciled to date to bring that to you.

Um that will be in the the May meeting where we stand there, but we do not anticipate any large capital projects in fiscal 27.

We will be wrapping up several projects in fiscal 26.

Okay, so the emergency fund projected beginning fund balance is 2.3.4 million, reimbursement revenues of 1.5, transfers in of 250, budgeted budgeted expenditures of 1.5, and then a projected ending fund balance of 2.6.

We'll keep in mind that the fund balance policy on this is that it should be at 1.5 million.

So we'll be addressing that as we get closer.

Um, because I'm not sure what we will need between now and the end of the year that we'll need to go through the emergency fund.

Did I skip one?

I'm sorry, second annual comp benefits.

Projective beginning fund balance is a negative at this point in time.

There's a transfer that we need to make internally.

Um, and generally this fund is a wash.

Um, so that will be updated for the next time, but for the May meeting, but at this point in time, this is it's a three 368,000 negative balance.

Um, again, we'll be doing a transfer in fiscal 26.

That won't be negative.

So the stabilization fund is um a projected beginning fund balance of 700,000 investment earnings, they're higher than what's represented here, but that could change at any point in time.

Um, and then budgeted expenders expenditures of 550,000 with a projected ending fund balance of 150,000.

I do not anticipating needing any to make any transfers from that fund at this point.

Uh the debt service fund, um, we have four debt um debt agreements.

Um this is the these are the breakdown of the payments every year for throughout the year.

Uh we have a projected bidding beginning fund balance of 446,000.

Um cost, a debt expense cost of principal and interest of 1.3 million, and to have an ending fund balance of 446,000.

The emergency medical services fund.

Um, this is just some general information.

It's our only business type fund at this point in time.

Um it's includes salaries and benefits for four permit positions plus 18 rotating ambulance staff, one EMS division chief, three EMS quarter court coordinators, 18 personnel.

Um they are full accrual, so we have to account for that in our budgeting process, accruals for compensated absences, OPEB PERS, and they have depreciation.

We also record depreciation for them.

Um their beginning net position is expected to be 6.3 million operating revenues of 2.9, which is a conservative um estimate, operating expenses of six million, and then operating net loss of 3.1 million, non-operating income of nine um with an ending fund balance to be projected at 3.1.2 million.

The workers' comp fund, we have a beginning net position of 1 million, operating expenses of 500,000 and a net ending net position of 576,000.

Um TM covers TM retirees who retired with City of Reno under the pre-2012 agreement.

There's approximately 37 retirees.

Expenses are estimated, change in claims, and the cash balance of 2.4 million is expected to cover all the future costs.

We do have a reconciliation for that that Cindy Vance had created and a way of keeping track of that.

Make sure I didn't miss anything on my other notes.

I think that's it.

You guys have questions, um requests.

Thanks.

Thanks for your thoroughness and going through all of this.

Would you be able to send all of us the presentation?

Yes.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Commissioner Hill.

Oh, sorry.

Cool, cool, sorry.

Commissioner Clark, go ahead.

Okay.

Thank you.

Um with the $1 million overtime, because we had to fill the news station.

That's also because we can't hire additional firefighters, right?

We will be hiring in in our salaries wages and benefits budget for um operations, emergency operations.

We have accounted for those filling those positions.

It is an addition to filling those positions.

Okay.

So we are adding positions.

We're filling positions that we haven't built.

Right.

So the last okay, that's what I was asking.

So last fiscal year, we froze firefighter positions.

You're looking at me like we didn't do that.

I swear we did.

And that's so we're filling those now.

That's where I'm just a little, I just want to make sure I understand that.

Um, but while you're looking that up, um, do we put the intergovernmental transfer of $1 million for PIL in there?

No.

That is not in there at this point.

Are we just waiting until the county approves the budget?

And then we'll augment.

So we've had that conversation.

Uh, assistant county manager Solaro and I have met last week uh to talk about the interlocal agreement.

So apparently that money has already been set aside in the upcoming fiscal budget.

Um, and it's just a matter of putting that interlocal agreement together to finalize that.

But that has not been incorporated yet into this this budget.

Okay.

And then um, heart and lung, the last session, there was some changes made to that, and I was just curious that that will affect our budget.

The if we've like looked at that or I mean it's hard to know.

Um, but um, so commissioner, I could probably speak to that as well.

So that that all falls back to our work comp carrier of what other than those new liabilities will be.

And we were noticed uh this past month that our current work comp carrier is no longer going to ensure fire districts.

Uh so we're working with our insurance provider to find a new work comp carrier, um, and we're actively engaged in that right now.

And then they'll give us the estimate of what they think that new liability okay.

Um looking forward to seeing that.

Um, and then uh sorry, back to the frozen positions.

So we're just I don't know.

I'm sorry, I don't know if we froze positions last year.

I do know that we didn't fill several of the fire suppression positions.

Um we are freezing five this year, and I can let you know here in just a minute how many firefighter positions we are filling.

Okay, thank you.

Commissioner Clark.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I've got a first of all commend you for the great report.

Uh there's a lot to digest there.

And this thank you.

Um to um my colleague uh Commissioner Hill's point about uh possibly uh contraction of uh development.

Um I'm not sure if that's happening or not, but but uh what I want to ask a question about is uh there's an area apparently in district two that uh may be annexed into the city of Reno.

And if that happens, will that constrict our our budget for uh and how much would that uh affect our budget?

And and if you don't have those numbers right now, we can uh look look for a report from the chief on that.

Uh it's my understanding that there's a a subdivision that that may be annexed into the city of Reno.

And uh and uh I want to find out more about that.

Uh that'll certainly uh constrict our budget for the uh fire board here.

So we can get that information.

I'd appreciate it.

Thank you.

And I don't have that information right now, but I don't come to the case.

Uh it's uh it's in the wind, it's out there, it's being discussed.

People are talking about it, and and and that could be an ongoing problem for the county is as there's uh uh annexation into other uh municipalities, then we lose uh a certain uh tax base for our our district.

So I think that's something that we should keep an eye on in the future.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

I think it's a really good point, and I would say even your point about discussions, I think are ensuing.

Chief Edwards, did you want to add anything to that?

I I did thank you, Commissioner, for that that question.

Um, we are watching that very closely, so that's the LaDera uh annexation down in South Reno.

It's uh approximately 112 or 116 acres.

Uh we did look at the the property tax assessment to that.

Um this last year was less than a thousand dollars to the district.

Um, but it is definitely worth keeping an eye on because for two reasons.

One, all these continued annexations are going to continue to reduce the revenue to the fire district.

Um, and when we take on projects, we buy fire apparatus, we build new firehouses, we take out bonds based upon what we think our tax revenues are, and when those revenue um based on property taxes continue to shrink, we're gonna have some fiscal challenges in the future.

Um, and so that's definitely something that's on our radar, something we're looking at.

Um, the second component to that also is um who's providing the service to that area uh after that annexation.

Um then that's a big concern because while we're losing the property tax revenue from that, we're probably still gonna be the one to provide uh the bulk of the the fire protection services to that area for the unforeseen future.

So thank you for that answer.

I mean we we can't control this.

I mean, these are ticking time bombs that could happen just about anywhere in the county where it's uh it's a one-two punch for us.

We lose the revenue and then we provide the service, and so uh that's just uh unsustainable.

So we need to really keep an eye on it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other questions from Ms.

Sublet?

I have an answer for the we we have nine firefighter um vacancies that we are working on filling for fiscal 27.

Thank you.

We should put that in the report so we can celebrate um that because that was a bummer last fiscal year when we couldn't fill those.

So thank you.

Great.

Hearing no other questions, I'm gonna call for public comment at this time.

There is none.

Oh, wait.

Nope, there is none.

Okay.

So this is an actionable item, is my understanding, or is it not?

It's it's actionable in that if you guys have questions or recommendations of what you would like me to add to the PowerPoint presentation or bring back on in the May the beginning of May meeting.

Well, we heard the addition of the positions.

Is there anything else?

Hearing none, I'd like to go ahead and entertain a motion at this time, please.

So moved.

Commissioner Hill is the motion vice chair.

Hearing none.

All those in favor signify by saying I think you could press the appropriate button for your vote.

Any opposed?

Motion carries person did not.

Yay.

Yeah.

Okay.

So it motion carried unanimously.

Thank you so much.

And thank you for your great presentation and for all your hard work.

Thank you.

Yeah, appreciate it.

We'll move now to item 14, Commissioners and Fire Chiefs announcements.

Chief Edwards.

Thank you.

I have two announcements.

The first is that we're partnering with some other public safety agencies, uh, emergency management, Sheriff's Office, Red Cross, and some others at a fire prevention fair uh for our senior citizens up at the Cold Springs Community Center on Thursday, April 23rd from 11 to 1 p.m.

And then we've talked a lot over the last couple of months about the weather and the the forecast for the predictive analytics for this upcoming fire season.

Um so really trying to impress upon people to do everything they can now before we get into fire season to um mitigate their fuels and uh home hardening and so forth.

Um we are also gonna have our spring green waste collection um Saturday, May 2nd at the Silver Lake uh fire station, and on Sunday, May 3rd down in Washoe Valley.

Um that information is on our Chucky Meadows website at TMFPD.us.

And that's it.

Great, thank you.

Commissioner Clark.

Thank you.

Um I just want to uh recognize, re-recognize everyone that was awarded uh uh promotions and uh and uh recognize today for life-saving commendations.

I mean, this just shows that the the all the firefighters are woven into the fabric of our our community on or off duty.

They seem like they're never off duty.

If they're awake and they're somewhere and something's happened, they they jump in and uh with their training, and we're proud that they have the training, the certificates, all the all the training they need, and and uh and it's just uh a value to add it to to the whole county when when they're out and about and and off duty.

Uh these folks are selfless, they jump in and then uh try and uh do the best they can for the such such situation, and uh that goes right back to you know who's closest, who's who's most available to help.

And uh it doesn't get any closer than that when you're at a dinner party and somebody's choking and and you jump up and save their lives.

But uh, you know, that's something that we need really need to focus on here is who's the most available, who's the who's the closest, who can jump in and help when when citizens need help.

So I enjoyed that.

I'd like to hear a bit more.

I think it was uh Captain Uh Marvin.

Was that uh uh the the course he took with uh 60 60 hours and 60 days?

Is that is that what I heard?

What exactly was a fire uh smoke jumping?

What what exactly was that again?

Um could you give us a moment and tell us about that?

It sounds uh sounds like you went through uh Hell Week or something with uh the training.

Sure, why not?

We're proud of you.

Go ahead, yeah.

Yes, please.

I didn't I didn't mean to put you on the spot, but it just sounded uh this is the type of thing we normally hear here at the the the fire board with that type of training.

Well give us a little background.

Sure, sure record.

So the the question exactly is you just want me to expand on what was the training and then tell us how the how that helps you and yeah, so the the program itself is designed for firefighter survival and search and rescue, and uh it's designed to physically and mentally stress you so that you're able to make decisions when you're tired and exhausted.

So they really beat you up physically and mentally through um PT, and then they throw scenarios at you under live fire conditions where you have to go in and make a grab.

And some in some situations it's uh extraordinary how you would use your PPE at SCBA uh in order to make a grab, whether it's for your brother or one of the citizens that's trapped.

So uh it started in the early 80s in Georgia and it's since gained traction.

Uh they they're kind of like the Navy SEALs of the fire service, is what they claim to be.

Yeah, that's what I thought I heard.

Um, but yeah, that's that's pretty much what is.

I saw an opportunity to put myself in a situation to gain more experience and knowledge, and I went after it, and I'm happy to come back and spread that knowledge uh across the region, not only at Druckie Meadows, but I've I've shared that training with Reno and Sparks, and uh since since that time now I'm part of uh a cadre that goes across the West Coast and teaches what I've learned there.

So yeah, that's that's pretty much it.

Fantastic.

You also do the water rescue as at that point.

Water rescue as well, yeah.

All right, yeah, here's our lead for the water rescue right here.

Fantastic.

Casey Marvin, how many Nevada firefighters have completed the program successfully?

There's there's uh four of us now, actually.

Uh and just recently a second member from Truck E Meadows just made it through the program.

So four total in the state of Nevada.

So a very elite group then.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you for your service.

Absolutely.

Thank you much.

Sure.

Thank you.

Commissioner Hill.

Vice Chair Garcia.

Well, thank you so much.

We're gonna go ahead and close item 15 and call for public comment at this time.

There's nobody signed in.

Thank you.

We'll go ahead and close public comment.

We are going to have a closed session at this point and then call for adjournment after it's through.

So I'll go ahead and call for the closed session at this time.

Uh thank you, Madam Chair.

Yep.

If I can just put on the record that if anyone is interested in providing public comment after the closed session, um, the closed session will be located upstairs from this uh room in the caucus room, just directly up the stairs.

And if anyone wants to provide public comment, we will be opening the door and asking for that at the end of the closed session.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

All right.