Yeah, I did too, but I'm gonna start and she can come in.

Is that okay?

Yeah.

Okay, thanks.

Good morning.

I'm gonna call this Board of Fire Commissioners meeting to order at 1001.

Thank you.

And good morning.

We'll move to uh salute of the flag.

And Mr.

Maybury, would you be so kind?

Of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under odd indivisible with liberty and justice call.

Thank you.

We'll move now to roll call, please.

Chair Andreola present.

Vice Chair Garcia here.

Commissioner Hill is absent.

Commissioner Clark.

Commissioner Herman.

Here.

Fire Chief Edwards.

Deputy District Attorney Gustavson.

And I'm Yvonne Strickland, Deputy Clerk.

Madam Chair, you have a quorum.

Thank you so much.

We'll move now to item three, which is public comment.

Public comment commenting this item will be willing to pre-person and may pertain to matters both on and off the board of fire commissioners agenda.

However, action may not be taken on any matter raised during this public comment period until the matter is specifically listed on an agenda as an action item.

The board will also hear public comment during individual action items with comment limited to three minutes per person.

Comments are to be made to the Board of Fire Commissioners as a whole.

Do we have any public comment?

Oh yeah, go for it.

Commissioner Hill Hill arrived at the meeting at 1002.

Yes, she did.

And uh we have nobody signed in to speak.

Thank you so much for noting that Commissioner Hill arrived.

Thank you.

Okay, hearing no public comment, we'll move to item four, which is Commissioners and Fire Chiefs announcements.

And I understand, Chief Edwards, you have a special announcement as well.

I do.

I I have a somber announcement this morning.

Um we had some information shared with us yesterday from our partners at Lake Valley Fire Protection District.

Um that they lost uh a member of their organization in the line of duty um yesterday, May 4th.

Um his name was Engineer Neil Scheibel.

Um he suffered a medical emergency on duty on April 29th and passed away yesterday.

Um just a very very sad story.

Um we did provide them some coverage on Saturday with an engine company, and we're standing by to assist them and however they may need that uh in the future going forward.

Um but I would like to ask that uh in memory of Engineer Scheibel and uh the ultimate sacrifice that he made that we could take a brief moment of silence for him and his family.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Do you have any other announcements, Chief Edwards?

I do not start with Commissioner Clark.

Do you have anything?

I just want to thank the uh department for their uh green waste um removal, and I guess not removal, but uh uh acceptance of of green waste from from the citizens.

Uh talked about all over the community, or nothing but good things, and uh so I just wanted to thank you.

The the public appreciates your doing that.

Thank you.

Commissioner Hill, Commissioner Garcia, Commissioner Herman.

Thank you.

Then we'll go ahead and close the item four and move to consent items, which is 5A through L.

Are there any items that you would like to either discuss or have pulled?

Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion at this time.

I move to approve, second.

We have a motion and a second.

Is there any public comment?

Thank you.

There's nobody signed in.

Thank you so much.

Any further discussion?

Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries unanimously.

So we'll close out item five and move to item six.

And that's a recommendation for the board to acknowledge receipt of Trucking Meadows Fire Protection District single auto report.

So Chief Edwards, would you like to open this?

Sure.

So this is the recommendation for the board to acknowledge receipt of the Truck E Meadows Fire Protection District single audit report.

Auditors report on compliance and report on internal control over compliance for the fiscal year ended June 30th of 2025 as presented and authorize the district to proceed with the distribution of the single audit report for public record as required by law.

And this is an action item.

And we have our CFO, Crystal Sublet to present.

Thank you.

Um I am bringing our auditors and also present the CEFA.

Um he will be able to give you more information.

The reason I just wanted to let you guys know that the reason why we are not presenting the CEFA with the audited financial statements is due to the delayed um federal government's compliance being released.

And at this point, I would like to introduce Kurt Schlicker from Id Bailey.

Welcome.

Thank you, Kurt Schlicker, partner with Id Bailey for the record.

Crystal asked me to speak today just to give you a brief overview of the single audit, um, the results for the year, kind of that process.

So the single audit requirements are if an entity spends historically $750,000 in federal awards, they're required to have a single audit, audit of federal compliance, which is changed to a million now going forward.

The district met that threshold for the year-ended uh June 30, 2025.

So we performed a single audit.

However, as Ms.

Subblad said, there was a delay in the compliance supplement being released by the Office of Management Budget.

That's a federal agency, which is the audit program for auditors to follow.

That was delayed until the day before Thanksgiving.

We received that information, performed our procedures basically after the holidays, completed them in the spring to then present to you today.

The results of the audit resulted in two findings for the district.

We had one with respect to procurement, suspension, and debarment.

And what this requirement really says is before you purchase goods with a vendor in excess of 25,000, you make sure that they're not federally suspended or debarred from doing business under a federal award during our audit procedures.

The district couldn't provide evidence that that procedure was performed.

So that's the nature of the finding.

We're not saying that the vendor was suspended or debarred.

We're just saying the check was not verified.

And then the second finding is with respect to reporting.

Um actually through pass-through grant with the county, and it was reporting back and forth between the county and the district.

And we noted that the reports completed by the district were in error.

Granted, the other side, the recipient of those reports were the county, and obviously with the close working relationship between the two entities.

Nothing negative really resulted from the reporting error, but we have to report on internal controls.

And so the internal control did not catch the errors.

So unfortunately, the errors were of a magnitude that we had to qualify the opinion with respect to reporting because the reports were were essentially um, I don't want to say completely wrong, but uh wrong in multiple categories.

So overall, we didn't find any unallowable costs, nothing that would necessitate repayment of funds or anything like that.

It's really internal control matters related to checking for suspension and debarment and then trueing up um reporting and reconciliation of those reports ascending to the grantor.

In essence, that's the results of our um single audit procedures this year, but I would be more than happy to answer any questions that any of you may have.

Thank you.

Well, thank you for doing a thorough job.

I don't know any audit that is 100%, and it sounds like in the big picture, this is not anything to be concerned, although internal controls are always important to follow, and it's helpful to make sure that we have the audit.

So I'll open it up to questions.

Commissioner Herman, do you have anything?

Commissioner Garcia.

Uh thank you for the report.

And do you with um that finding we do we need to make some changes internally that um you see a recommendation for to ensure that we don't do that again?

Our last audit, we got quite a few docs for TM.

Uh, but this is only two, so that's positive.

Uh, but just want to make sure that we're doing what we can to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Yeah, thank you, Kurt Schlicker, partner Fly Bailey for the record.

Um, I you know, my recommendation for procurement suspension and debarment is to build into the procurement process and um a step or a checklist step that verifies the entity was not suspended or debarred.

Um for reporting, I think there needs to be, if possible, you have a small accounting department, but if possible, building in some segregation of duties to provide for a review of the report prior to submission.

So I think if you just focus on segregation of duties and report prep and then building that suspension and debarment procedure as a preliminary procedure into your procurement actions, I think it'll solve both of them pretty quickly.

Great.

Well, our chief has taken notes, so I think that we we know what we need to do for next steps, but thank you very much.

Commissioner Clark.

Thank you, Madam Chairon.

And thank you.

I salute you for your good work.

And this is how there's there's so many other things.

If you heard me at other commission meetings, there's so many other things in the county that if they get caught before they get too far off the rails, it it prevents a lot of other issues.

I mean, all you have to do is look at the local news.

We've got the alternative sentencing, we've got the we've got judges, we've got issues with the Reno PD.

There's all kinds of things that are that somehow or another the county gets involved in.

And so having good eyes on it and uh doing a good good quality audit, it just it just saves a lot of uh heartache in the end.

So thank you for your good work.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And I'd also like to recognize that we do have Ms.

Sublet here.

And I think when you are new, there are new eyes.

So it'll help strengthen the ability to look at tying everything.

And um I too remember there were some other findings that um it's it's to be honest, here we're human and there's always going to be something.

And um to only have two, I I think is commendable, but to have zero is the ultimate goal.

So thank you.

This is an actionable item.

Is there any public comment?

There is not.

Hearing that there's no public comment, I'll entertain a motion at this time.

So moved.

Okay, we have a motion by Commissioner Hill.

Do I have second?

Second by Garcia.

Any further discussion?

Hearing none, I'll call for the vote.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, or you can hit the button, or you can say any opposed.

No, it's a motion carries unanimously.

Thank you so much.

We'll move now to item seven.

Chief Edwards.

Item seven is the International Association of Firefighters Local 2487 report.

I do not see a representative here today.

They're been busy finishing the Green West pickup in Sun Valley, I believe.

Okay.

Absolutely.

All right.

Well, if they come, we'll certainly open up the opportunity for them to speak.

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

Chief Edwards.

Item eight is the fire chief's report.

I did want to touch on a couple of items that I shared in here.

Uh, the first being our community report.

Um, I really want to express my gratitude to Adam Mayberry uh for compiling this information and putting this document together for us.

Um I'm extremely proud of our organization and the men and women who step up every day uh to serve um our community um from our firefighters on the front lines to all of our various support personnel.

Um it takes a village.

And while we sometimes only see the ones that are responding to the emergency, there's a lot of things that go on behind the scenes uh to make that even possible.

Um I did want to share some uh statistics uh from this report.

Our responses increase by more than 42 percent.

Um and this is attributed to our automatic aid and mutual aid uh agreements.

So uh ensuring that our community gets the closest unit uh available when they call 911.

Our EMS responses increase by more than 14 percent.

Um and I think it's important to note too that our operational readiness doesn't just happen by circumstance.

Um, it's very intentional in how we provide training.

And our members increase their training by 28% last year, and everything from fire and emergency medical training uh to technical rescue and hazardous materials response.

Um making sure that we're staying um prepared to meet the community's needs when they call 911.

Um our wildland fuels division treated more than 460 acres, um, collected more than 4500 cubic yards of vegetation through the green waste program and treated more than 47 acres through prescribed burns uh to make our community more resilient.

Uh our fire prevention division completed more than 1,558 plan reviews, uh, performed 354 defensible space inspections, and this is on top of hundreds of annual business inspections that they're also doing uh at the same time.

And this is on top of hundreds of annual business inspections that they're also doing at the same time.

Our fleet and logistics division was also very busy.

They implemented the new state of the artal protective equipment cleaning facility at Barron Way.

And it's really a testament to the hard work of the men and women in this organization.

So just wanted to bring some attention to that.

Switching gears a little bit, we talked about the REMSA franchise agreement last month through my update.

As included in this month's update, an item for reconsideration was not included on the District Board of Health's April meeting agenda.

Dr.

Kingsley did provide a brief update on the 19 items that were discussed for consideration as amendments to REMSA's franchise agreement in the future.

And the District Board of Health was scheduled to begin those negotiations, or Dr.

Kingsley and his team are going to begin those negotiations.

Actually, they started yesterday with RemSA.

He's going to provide an update on that process at this month's District Board of Health meeting.

So we look forward to hearing what the outcome is of those negotiations.

And then I also included a one-page information sheet in this uh report about weeds, invasive species, and hazardous fuels uh information.

Um as the seasons turn, although we wouldn't know it today with the the weather and what we've had the last couple of days.

Um but our vegetation is going to start growing very rapidly here in the near future.

Um when that happens, we see an increase in the number of calls to our fire prevention division and to uh code enforcement about uh vegetation complaints.

And in the past, often those calls were routed to each other.

So if they called us, we would route them to 311.

And if they called the 311, they would route them to us.

And there's nothing worse than somebody calling needing answers and not being able to provide those answers.

So this document helps to answer a lot of those questions, um, provide some guidance and hopefully eliminate those calls back and forth between the agencies and understand have a better understanding of what we're able to enforce as the fire district or code enforcement.

Umber that they can call the community can call and reach out that we'll send a defensible space inspector out to meet with them and speak directly to their concerns at their parcel so that they can also reduce their fuels, um, practice you know solid fuel management uh mitigation techniques and maybe get some home hardening uh recommendations at the same time to help them to be more resilient to wildfires in the future.

So we posted that information to our website, and I know uh the county is also post that information as well.

So uh we'll watch and see how this works this year, um, and then we'll reconvene sometime in the fall to see if we need to address things again or make any changes to this document moving forward.

So excited for that.

Um, and then just some of our March call statistics.

Um, we responded to 1,597 incidents.

Uh 788 of those were medical.

We arrived at 247 incidents in Reno as part of our Auto Aid Agreement, and Reno arrived at 72 incidents within our jurisdiction.

And we arrived at 59 incidents in Sparks, and Sparks arrived at 28 incidents in Truckee Meadows.

Um, and some prevention statistics.

Uh building construction remains steady in the region.

We reviewed 88 plans last month for new projects.

Uh, we completed 64 new construction inspections, and the team completed 49 business inspections.

Um, that concludes my report.

Happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, Chief Edwards.

I I would just like to add that on that a big thanks to the document that you created, and it's my understanding those are going to be shared at all the cabs as well.

So yes.

Any questions?

Commissioner Versailles.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh, Chief, I really love the community report.

So thank you to staff for putting that together for us.

I'm looking at page five where it's comparing 2024 to 2025 and uh showing a 55% increase due to the expanded agreement for auto aid.

Um, so I know we see in our monthly um reports, you know, what City of Sparks is doing, what City Arena is doing, what we're doing.

I was just curious if you knew if the other agencies are reporting similar metrics to their city councillors or if that information is being disseminated to the other electeds on those governing bodies.

I do not know, but I could follow up on that.

And my second question would be who's analyzing this.

Um I I don't know the exact start date of when everything kicked into gear for automatic aid, but I'm curious to see if there's any person from TM or any of the fire agencies that are really kind of diving into the automatic aid data that is starting to reveal itself because we're X number of months in, or you know, getting probably close to a year.

I can't remember when our last joint meeting was.

But um, I'm just curious what the trends are there uh holistically.

So the trends are that we're seeing uh an you know a very high increase in the number of calls that we're dispatched to.

Um, but a lot of that is also contributed to the dispatch on the back end.

Um, because if we were had the same platform or same CAD for dispatch, we could eliminate uh a lot of those dispatches because you're also thinking about we're sending a fire engine from Reno and we're sending a fire engine from Spark or for TM to an EMS call with REMSA.

And we really only need one of those fire engines.

But because of the limitations in technology with our current CAD systems, uh, we're needing to send both those resources to make sure that we're getting the closest one to that emergency.

And oftentimes after that dispatch occurs, there's a lot of communications back between the individual dispatch centers to figure out who's the closest.

And then one will continue to the emergency, the other will cancel.

Um so we can actually reduce a lot of these calls once we get the new Octave uh CAD up and going, um, and then look at regional dispatch as well.

Um there's a there's a lot of efficiencies to be had by that that I think you'd see these numbers come down.

We're still going to respond into uh Reno uh with the high frequency.

It's just the the nature of uh location of our firehouses and the call volume and where their firehouses are located.

But I think that's part of being good regional partners and making sure that we have the closest unit to those responses.

So we could look at that a little bit closer, but that's kind of why those numbers are elevated.

They're inflated and we're very much in a holding pattern until we see the new CAD system come online.

So thank you.

Any other questions?

Commissioner Hill.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Similar to Commissioner Garcia, uh, I want to see how we can um eliminate, you know, it going out to calls when we're just turning around.

And I know when I was uh doing my shadowing at stud, that happened quite a bit.

And also our fire um uh staff have the this app on their phone where they're seeing the other um uh engine and then deciding, you know, what whether they can call it off themselves and having that discussion.

And I don't know if there's a problem with that or if if I'm like it do we need to wait.

I know this I'm probably simplifying things because I'm not in the intricacies, but if there is an app that they have on their phones, why are we waiting on this dispatch?

I'm like, can we do this ourselves?

I'm like, this is crazy because um waiting for the CAD because it's just taking so long.

And I'm is this ever are we ever gonna see a product at the end here?

I'm I mean it's it's very frustrating and concerning, especially if we are being dispatched and potentially getting into an accident because we're being dispatched, or we know we're using our resources.

We could have staff that are training, which you talk about.

You've done a really great job of making sure that our team is just continuing to improve and train um since you've come on board.

But I I don't know if I'm offering any suggestions that make sense here, but um, I just feel like this is not sustainable because we we are the agency that's being dispatched way more, like doubly we just saw this month alone.

So that technology you speak of is uh the first due application.

Um so I think all of our agencies have it.

It's um I don't think it's being used to its full capacity.

And I think part of that is also due to the testing and the implementation of this new Octave CAD or previously hexagon CAD.

Um there's only so much capacity within the different dispatch centers and trying to integrate a new technology and get everyone on board to use that um with limited capacity is is very difficult.

Um but to your point, yes, we we use that.

I know our members in the field use that uh every day to see where the closest units are.

So as they get in the apparatus to respond to the emergency, they can see where the neighboring agencies uh are before they even get on the radio and switch uh dispatch frequencies to kind of help uh determine if they're gonna be the closest or the other agency is gonna be closer to that emergency.

Um following up on the octave implementation, there's there's been a lot of conversations the last couple of weeks about the challenges uh to get that up and going.

Um this week, uh Octave is committed to having a lot more engineers and their personnel in uh the area to help uh set up that software and work out some of the bugs that seem to be more on the law enforcement side with mobile field reporting and so forth.

Um, but every time they make an adjustment to that end of the software, it has an impact back on the CAD.

Um, and so trying to work out all those those bugs in the system have been challenging, but hopefully we'll see some progress this week to really um move this project forward because as soon as we can get that ready to go and get everyone trained up, um, then we can move that forward for implementation.

Um, and even being in different dispatch centers, having that uh operational insight to where vehicle uh apparatus are located and that technology with uh automatic vehicle locators, we'll be able to dispatch the closest resource.

And our teams have done a lot of work on the back end uh to set that up uh when those um that CAD goes live for run strings and so forth to make sure we're dispatching the closest unit, looking to pull that ABL location of that apparatus so that we're not getting those unnecessary ring downs and to respond just to pull out on the apron and and back it back into the firehouse.

So I think that efficiency is coming.

I wish it would come sooner, as many of our firefighters I think do as well.

Um, but it's we're just at the mercy of that technology.

Thank you, Commissioner Clark.

Thank you.

Uh Chief, I just wanted to ask you about the uh building.

You said building permits, and you were inspecting uh new construction.

Do you see that staying steady?

Have you seen any decline in your review of plans?

So I only have two months of data to look at.

Um, it's been pretty steady the last couple of months, but this is one of those items on why I want to report it out every month that we can use as a leading uh economic indicator for the region for us.

Sure.

Um we'll see.

Um, last year was a pretty good year for building uh new permits and new businesses.

So we'll watch those trends as the in the future to see how they they progress and make adjustments accordingly.

Sure.

We we've heard it certain different reports that that may be slowing down.

I just want to, you know, yours is a piece of the puzzle.

We can also look at the building permits as are issued.

We can also look at the assessor's office when they're they're uh reviewing uh uh partially completed buildings and that type of thing.

So just another piece that can help us keep keep a good handle on what's really taking place in the new construction.

I mean, new construction comes on in full, there's no cap, there's no depreciation, it's uh it's what we're looking for.

And uh so thank you for adding to that, giving just another perspective on on that particular part of the uh budgetary process here.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Um, I just want to follow up to on I do remember when the uh auto aid agreement, and at that time it was just for six months, and it's been past six months, and so I'm just wondering if there's an opportunity to look at um whether we can do some things given that Octave has taken longer than anyone anticipated, and I know they're working hard, and we are aware that they are working hard, but I do think that there's an opportunity as Commissioner Hell stated.

I I too saw when I went on right alongside there seem to be um opportunities for efficiencies that you've already mentioned.

So I don't need to go into all the detail other than to say that if we might be able to open that up in terms of a discussion, maybe we can get ahead of it.

And maybe that since everyone obviously the AVL is an issue in terms of not all jurisdictions having EO the AVL at the dispatch location at RemSA, which also is another preventative measure.

But I think having not only the if inefficiencies that's clear, but the fact that you may be taking away an essential um response and delay because you have two vehicles essentially going out and cruise, and there might be something else that comes up, and that then delays.

So I think there's um we all recognize there's room for improvement, but if there is an opportunity to open up that discussion, um given that other things seem to be taking a little longer than one would like, maybe that might be the catalyst to to look at that.

So it's something I I think we're all interested in hearing more about.

So appreciate it.

Thank you.

All right, I'll go ahead and close uh item eight and move to item nine.

Chief Edwards.

All right.

Item nine is a recommendation to approve the purchase of 71 KNG M150 mobile wildland radios and miscellaneous wildland radio accessories in an amount not to exceed 295,500 from Black Point LLC located at 1407 Arlan Lane, Gardnerville, Nevada, 89410, utilizing Nevada's purchasing statewide contract number 99 SWC NV22 10244 pricing.

And this is for possible action.

Thank you.

Does anyone need any additional information on this?

Seeing none, I'll ask for public comment at this time, please.

We have no one signed in.

Thank you so much.

I'll request a motion to be considered by Commissioner Hill.

Second.

Second.

Second by Commissioner Herman.

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 it's on your screen as well.

We'll go ahead and move to item 10.

Chief Edwards.

Thank you.

Item 10 is a recommendation to approve the purchase of 62 self-contained breathing apparatus and associated equipment in the amount of 560,220.22 cents from MES, located at 12 Turnberry Lane, Sandy Hook, Connecticut, 06482.

And this is for possible action.

Thank you.

I'll just call for public comment at this time.

We have no one signed in.

Anybody likes to have any information or questions about this item?

Hearing none, I'll ask for a motion at this time.

So moved.

Commissioner Hill has motioned.

We have second.

Second by Vice Chair Garcia.

Any further discussion?

Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

And pressing the screen appropriately.

Any opposed?

Motion carries unanimously.

We'll move now to item 11.

Chief Edwards.

Item 11 is a recommendation to approve the purchase and installation of 65 R2400 cradle point routers, including antennas and miscellaneous accessories, and an amount of 218, 186.74 cents with an additional 10% contingency to accommodate potential price increases for a total amount not to exceed 240,005 from Lear as part of an update to the Trucky Meadows Bio Protection District's communication systems.

And this is for possible action.

Thank you.

Any public comment?

There is no one signed in.

Any further information on this item?

Hearing none, I'll call for a motion at this time.

Vice Chair Garcia made the motion.

Do we have second?

Second.

Commissioner Herman, any further discussion.

Hearing none, I'll call for the question.

All those in favor signify saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries unanimously.

Well, there's three items of lots of wonderful robust equipment and even from Gardnerville.

So cool.

And thank goodness for the Pennington Foundation.

And the Pennington Foundation.

So grateful isn't that great.

Yeah.

That's awesome.

Don't want to lose the big appreciation there.

So we'll move now to item 12 of financial presentation.

Chief Edwards.

Item 12 is a financial presentation on the status of the fiscal year 2025-2026 general fund and capital project funds as of March 31st, 31st, 2026.

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

Thank you, Ms.

Sublitz.

Good morning.

Just give me one moment.

I need to pull up my of course.

Take your time.

Okay.

So good morning.

And the first thing that we're going to be talking about is the me learning, remembering how to use this clicker.

Okay.

For this is our our financial resource results for March 31st, um, fiscal 26.

Our revenues are at 77% of budget.

Um property tax collections are at 95.8%.

Uh, we're just expecting one small, one smaller payment towards the end of the year.

Uh consolidated taxes, we've received 7.23 million.

We still have five more payments to receive for that.

Um, the revenue, the remaining revenue categories are trending as expected.

We still have we're still waiting for some receipts for outstanding fire billing um and working very hard on that.

The from the expenditure side, we are at 65% of budget.

Salaries and employee benefits remain the major cost driver, representing 79% of the total annual budget.

Year to date salaries and wages is 60.67.9% of budgeted amount.

Year to date and employee benefits are 64.3% of budget amount.

And which both of those are operating favorable.

Services and supplies are at 46.9%, and capital is at 97.

Oh, I'm jumping ahead there.

Services and supplies are at 46.9%, and that's just reflective of the everybody being cost um cognizant of what what we're spending.

Capital projects slide is not up there.

So I will talk about the capital projects fund.

Um transfers from the general fund received are at 95.8%, aligning with the property tax timing.

Capital revenues depend on project milestones.

Um recent major receipts include the 8 million from Apple reimbursement, 3.2 million from Pennington, and the expenditures are 63.2% of budget.

And then for the extraordinary repairs and maintenance, we're at 6.7% of budget.

I'm expecting that to go up.

We've had a couple of repairs come in that we've had to take care take care of.

Any questions.

Thank you.

Do we have any questions from Ms.

Subblett?

Thank you so much for your thoroughness on everything.

I um I really appreciate that you give us information ahead of time.

So thank you.

Sometimes numbers need a little bit of time to look through.

So thank you for doing that.

And learning.

And it takes a little bit of time to learn.

Yeah.

So well, I don't know.

You're hitting the ground pretty good there, it seems to me.

I I've had a lot of really, really good support.

It's been nice.

That's great.

That's great to hear.

All right.

This is a non-actionable item.

So if there aren't any questions, we'll go ahead and close that and move to item 13.

Chief Edwards.

All right.

Item 13 is a presentation and discussion of the fiscal year 2026-2027 tentative budget, including key priorities, plan projects, and proposed updates.

Staff will also seek board direction on any recommended changes to be incorporated into the tentative budget, which will come back before the board for public hearing and possible adoption of the final budget on May 26, 2026.

And this item is for possible action.

Thank you.

Miss Seblett.

First, I wanted to start by saying I I alluded it to her earlier.

I've had a lot of really tremendous support.

Um, could not have pulled this off without all the all of the knowledge from the team, the division chiefs and their team, and then my team, and of course, Chief Edwards.

Um it's been it's been a fun road.

I'll say that.

Um, as we look to the coming year, our focus means on strengthening our core services, supporting our workforce and investing in the resources, as you saw from the things that we just you guys just approved.

Um, these priorities guide us how we allocate our budget and ensure we continue delivering exceptional service.

Um, some of the priorities that that are important to the district is to continue delivering um 24-7 fire and EMS service to across the district, build and sustain workforce capacity by filling vacant positions and supporting a strong capable team, um, advanced training and operational readiness through essential fire, EMS and specialty team development, maintain and modernize equipment and facilities to ensure safe, reliable, and ready operations, um, and then enhance community safety through risk reduction programs, safe development standards, and response responsible fiscal stewardship.

So I will go ahead and start with the next the first slide.

So, what I have up here for you guys is a trend of our tax revenue history for the general fund.

Um we are we were at a 9.2% increase for fiscal 26 forecast from the Department of Taxation.

As you recall, when I presented in April, we were we were slated to be a 9.2% increase again.

Um almost immediately after this meeting, I received a phone call from the Department of Taxation that they had an error in the calculation of our number and several of the agencies from southern Nevada.

Um, and that change was to the tune of above 900,000.

That is reflected in this budget.

Um, and I just wanted to make sure that I pointed that out.

They're related to octane.

You know, yeah, they need it before we have right.

Yeah, maybe before we have right.

I know that the Department of Taxation Kelly did not really want to make that phone call to me, but um I'm glad that we got that before this final presentation or before the budget was adopted.

Um currently the general fund revenues for projected fiscal 26.

We're projecting the final revenues to be 55.4 million for fiscal 27.

We're budgeting 59.6 million.

Um and then the general fund expenditures again, salaries, wages, and benefits are the hard the higher part of our cost.

We are budgeting 50.7 million in expenditures.

Um for fiscal 26, we're projecting 50.7 million in expenditures to end the year, and then we are projecting 56.4 million for fiscal 27.

So one of the things that these are several of the points that I want to make about the general fund.

Um I'm gonna put mine up here if I can't see that.

There we go.

So the agency implemented several key cost saving measures, um, including uh tightening mission critical spending, um implementing division wide cost reductions, temporarily suspending OPEM trust contributions.

Uh a point here I want to make is that I did have a con I did have a meeting with our actuary.

Um we had decided not to contribute to OPEP the remainder of the year to about 1.2 million.

We are also not going to be contributing in fiscal 27, and we will still be fine.

We're 92% funding, and we're not at risk to go below that.

A lot of that also depends on the market, but at this point in time, having that conversation with the actuary just kind of firmed up that that thought process.

Um, and then we had a several, we had a salary, a big salary savings from unfilled vacant positions.

Um additional actions taken.

I actually we have a one-year pause on, we did a one-year pause for wet and hazmat teams, um, dozer REMs in the AACT program, um, and then reductions in various other discretionary costs.

Overall impact, um, I want to make sure that I that I talk through this not too quickly.

For fiscal 26, the overall impact is we have we are projecting to have a $684,000 favorable um revenue, meaning that we're projecting to be $684,000 higher than what we budgeted.

Um, we are projected to have a $3.9 million favorable expenditure.

Um, so we are coming in $3.9 million, projecting to come in $3.9 million less than what was budgeted, and then the transfers out are also favorable of $306,000.

That being said, when when you compile all these favorable outcomes, we are projected to be for $4.9 million favorable for fiscal 26.

Um, a good majority of that is due to the OPEB and to the salary savings for the unfilled positions.

As promised, the major changes from the prior slide for fiscal 26 projected actuals.

Um we had a revenue decrease of 877,000, 558 was due to having um a better handle of what we had an additional month of our um actual numbers, so it allowed us to project um accurately for the more accurately for the remainder of the year.

Um, and then we had a miscellaneous decrease of 327,000 due to the temporary suspension of fuels program funding.

That's the capital, the capital um capital repairs and maintenance and fleet and logistics that the fuels management program will be contributing to once we reinstate that MOU or yeah, that policy.

Um for expenses, the major changes was was I didn't have capital reconciled or completed.

Um, and we have a $557,000 expenditure related to two brush trucks.

Um, and then we had additional these decreases and increase across division budgets as updated actuals improved accuracy of projections.

This is for fiscal 26 projected actuals for fiscal 27 general fund projected revenues.

Um budgeted revenue is expected to exceed pull up my unfortunately.

My glasses do not help me see up there.

So FY27 budgeted revenues are projected to exceed FY26 projected revenues by approximately 4.2 million.

1.7 million is due is from the department of taxation.

They increased 5.8%.

That's an additional 1.7 million for property taxes.

And then $2.2 million over projected actuals.

So we have $1.7 million projected higher than budget from last year, and then $2.2 million higher than projected actuals.

Consolidated consolidated tax increases.

We have $344,000 over prior year budget from the Department of Taxation, a 2.8% increase, and then $293,000 over fiscal $26 projected actuals.

Addition, additional item of note for the revenue is we have included in this budget the $1.3 million for the North Township 22 revenue.

And then in the major changes from prior presentation is the corrected tax from the Department of Taxation Revenue and then adding the North of Township 22 revenue of 1.3 million.

So the general fund tentative budgeted expenditures.7 million.

Salaries, wages, and benefits are 4.8 million of that.

We are filling 10 positions that were were remained unfilled in fiscal 26.

Sorry.

One for training, one 40 hour fire captain for prevention, one fire inspector investigator, and one fire mechanic.

We are expecting a 1.3 million dollars in anticipated retirees, retiree payouts, 1.1 million is in expected overtime costs with the opening of station 35.

These costs stem from reassigning three captains, engineers, and firefighters who previously previously served as floaters, helping to reduce district wide overtime.

They will be now dedicated to staffing station 35.

3.25% cost of living adjustment for two labor groups and the unrepresented employees.

We are expecting a workers' comp increase of $450,000.

We are expecting services and supplies increase of $1.4 million.

This is broken down high level, $500,000 in new costs related to the North of Township 22.

These are the items that we got together as a team within the district, so had several meetings to discuss what items needed to be done and then prioritize those.

An increase in overall expenditures of 1.1 million due to the addition of the 711,000 high priority items, the estimate and the 500,000 in the north of township cost, and then an expected increase of the 450,000 for workers comp.

On the next slide, this is just a list of the 711,000 items that were discussed in the district of what needs to be a priority for fiscal 27.

I can read through these if you like.

The highest ones being the L3 Harris Mobile TriBand Radios and Accessories for 225,000, portable VHF radios for 170,000, rope rescue program training and equipment, a total of 142, helmet replacement 60,000, water entry team program, overtime refresher PPE 56,000, headquarters parking lot asphalt repairs 35,000, pump test.

This is a one-time cost of 8,000 first watch ongoing conversion and maintenance 5200, hose and ladder testing 5,000, and then the MDT and wireless maintenance 5,000.

So this is the general fund tentative ending fund balance projection.

We're projecting the beginning fund balance, so ending of fiscal 26, beginning of fiscal 27 of 8 million.

We're anticipating 59.6 million in revenues and 56.4 in expenditures.

Other financing uses, these are our transfers to our other funds.

We'll be able to see the detail on that in another slide of 4.8 million, and then a projected ending fund balance of 6 million 450,000.

This gives us an 11.44% of expenditures projected for fiscal 27.

The capital projects fund.

I did not have the slide for you guys last time.

We are having a projected beginning fund balance of 4.4 million transfers in.2 million, and then a projected ending fund balance of 4.6 million.

This includes the part of the monies are going out and coming in for some of the pending grant items.

We're expecting those, I believe, in the summer, sometime at some time this summer.

So that all rolls forward to fiscal 27, the revenue related to it and the expenses related to the type one engines.

The remaining items, as you saw in the earlier um board reports, are gonna be expensed in fiscal 26, and the revenue from the Pennington grant related to those items will stay in fiscal 26.

The extraordinary repairs and maintenance fund, um, beginning projected beginning fund balance of 75,000 transfers in.

This is also a Paul FM policy that we have of 316,000, other revenues.

This is the investment earnings estimate, and then expenditures of 176,000 with an ending fund balance of 216,000.

Capital projects fund changes.

That's the incremental increase of the percentage of property taxes that we are taking to put aside, transferring into the capital fund for future capital costs.

Um the dedicated revenue source is the 4.33 percent of property tax revenue.

Uh the FY26 capital expenditures include 255,000 in loose equipment for type one, 712,000 for SCBAs, 173,000 for MDTs, 123,000 for the mobile routers, and 293,000 for the VHF radios.

The three type one injuries engines are going to be delivered in fiscal 27.

That's about three three million, a little over three million.

Um we already have that that funding in the capital projects fund from prior years and also from the Pennington grant.

The extraordinary repairs and maintenance fund, that is resolution TMO6-2025.

And that also has an incremental percentage allotted from the property tax revenue.

It does not revert to the general fund.

Dedicated revenues for fiscal 27 are 1% of property tax revenue, provides funding for maintenance or upgrades to current facilities and equipment.

What we're expecting in fiscal 26, the repairs that have not hit the March financial statements is we have 36,000 in headquarter awning and front door repairs, 53,000 in roof replacement for station 39, and then 9,500 for an irrigation leak for investigation and repair.

The sick annual comp benefits fund projected beginning fund balance was 53,000, transfers in of 1.3 million for the the projected retirements or the projected retirement payouts.

And then of course the transfer out for that with an ending fund balance of 53,000.

The emergency fund projected getting fund balance is 2.4 million.

Of course, that depends on if we have any in district fires between now and the end of the year.

The stable stabilization fund is a projected beginning fund balance of 695,000, investment earnings of five, budgeted expenditures of 550,000.

The debt service fund.

These are our are we have four bonds.

These are payments expected for fiscal 27.

An item of note is that in fiscal 30, one of our debt payments will be satisfied, and we will no longer have that.

Emergency medical services fund.

Emergency, we're expecting a beginning net position of 3.5 million.

Operating revenues projected to be at 3.2 million operating expenses, 6 million, and a net at it operating at a net loss of 2.8 million.

Change in net position of 2.8 with an ending fund balance for fiscal 27 to be 716,000.

Items of note for the emergency medical services fund.

The tentative budgeted revenue includes a projected, I gotta pull it up on here, sorry.

It includes revenues to be projected at 2.2 million for transport services.

Ground emergency medical transport GEMT is projected to be at 1.1 million.

An item of note is that the GEMT provides reimbursements for from Medicaid for two years in arrears.

So the 1.1 million is not going forward after fiscal 27, it should be around 2 million.

The reason why it is lower is because we had three major fires during that time that was used for the the calculations for this reimbursement.

We had the Davis, the Callahan, and the Gold Ranch fires in fall of 2025, so that did affect our reimbursement for fiscal 27.

Tentative budgeted expenditures includes salaries, wages, and benefits for four permanent employees and 18 rotating ambulance staff, 5.1 million, one EMS division chief, three EMS coordinators, and 18 personnel are assigned to the ambulance.

Services and supplies are roughly 626,000, primarily for professional services and medical supplies.

Um, and then just to an item of note for the ending fund balance for the EMS fund.

This is a full accrual-based um fund, so it does include any um any entries related to compensated absences, depreciation, um, OPEB and PERS accruals.

So that does hit the fund balance.

Workers comp, we are anticipating a beginning net a beginning net position of 1 million, um, no operating revenues, operating expenses of 507,000 and an ending net position of 576,000.

And I would like to before I dive into explaining this slide.

Um, I want to give you guys some background on where this slide come from comes from.

Um, so when you're looking at the slide, one thing to note is that the axis on the left is related to revenues and expenditures because they're in the 50-60 million.

The axis on the right is related to fund balance, projected fund balance in dollars, and it also includes the transfers out of the general fund.

Um, so Chief Edwards and I worked on a uh forecast, a five-year forecast, historical forecast.

Uh, we we created a five-year model, we used third-party analysis from Dr.

Eugenia Laramore, also did a historical analysis based off of our audited financials.

Um, and then we we have we used fund policies to come up with these numbers as well, including debt, capital, and extraordinary repairs and maintenance for revenue.

I use Dr.

Laramore's current study for property taxes and consolidated tax projections.

She did a study for us for just those two revenue items this year.

Um, and then for um other revenues and expenditures, I used a prior study that she did.

I also use included the North Township 22 revenues and expenditures, and I looked at historical information.

Um, just to give you some background on Dr.

Larimore, she is a PhD MBA and is a principal of EK Economic Consultants.

Um, she prepared both the 2026 revenue protections report and the January 25 TMFD five-year revenue and expenditure report.

She specialized in min she specializes in municipal revenue forecasting, tax modeling, and long-range financial planning or analysis, and she also has an exterior an extensive experience in working with Nevada public agencies.

Summary of her revenue projections are based on assessed value, tax caps, new development and abatement trends, C tax projections informed by informed by countywide taxable sales trends, population growth and per capita income changes.

The AB 104 revenue was modeled using CCRT, RP, TTGST, and gaming tax components with conservative growth factors.

Um, and then other revenues are forecasted using historical patterns, inflation expectations, and program level funding assumptions.

Expenditure projections based on wage growth factors, benefits, inflation, and CPI-driven services and supplies.

These combined inputs allow the model to reflect both current economic trends and established district policies regarding fund reserves, financial stability, and statutory debt requirements.

While the fund balance shows a negative trend in future, we cannot legally have a negative ending fund balance.

The purpose of presenting this in this manner is to ensure district remains proactive, transparent, and forward-looking into financial decision decision making in the future.

I want to, I know that Chief Edwards has some added comments that he would like to talk about these two slides.

Thank you.

Yeah, this is um pretty sobering when we see this.

Um I think we expected this, or I expected this when I stepped into this role and some of the challenges we were experiencing.

Um but my hat's off to the entire team for what we've been able to do the last year.

Um, and I think uh to CFO sublet putting this together so that we can use this as a tool to um forecast what impacts are ongoing costs of the district.

It's one thing to spend one-time money, it's a whole nother to spend some uh ongoing costs to the district.

Um, I think this also really highlights the fact that we cannot afford to bond uh another fire station right now.

Um, and we're gonna have to find another way to build the Washa Valley Fire Station taking on that debt, um, we can't afford it.

Um, even with if you look at year fiscal 31 on the next, the next slide actually shows a little bit better.

Um the fund balance decreases uh and what the the negative amount is, um, but that's because that we have a uh a bond debt of 486,000 a year that drops off.

Um I think the other important part to note in all this is that the EK economics uh forecast for 2025 showed us to be 3.5 million upside down this year, and we've turned that around.

So I think being intentional in how we view this and how we view our spending, um, it doesn't have to be this dire, but it's gonna take constant attention, and we have to be very nimble and willing to flex in certain areas to stay within our means until property taxes can increase or see taxes increase to our expenses.

Um this year we got hit with about a half million to maybe more uh increase and workers' compensation insurance, and that wasn't just unique to Trucky Meadows, that's the region as a whole, as one of the largest providers decided they no longer want to provide work our workers' compensation insurance.

Um, so these type of external factors are also having an influence on this budgeting that we're gonna have to be more mindful of as we move forward, but I think there's a lot of opportunities to live within our means.

I think we've demonstrated that over this last year, and we'll continue to demonstrate that moving forward, but really trying to show if we don't do anything different than what we're from today, this is this is the future, and we're we're not sustainable.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Anybody, Vice Chair Garcia?

Thank you.

I um we we see the similar trends at the county and our budget staff, you know, they presented if we do nothing, FY31 is looking really, really bad.

Um, so that's the same case for TM in this presentation.

If we do nothing, and so that kind of leads me into my next question for you.

On page three of the staff report, you know, we're very sensitive to positions that are frozen.

Um because of the you know, 77% of district funding relating to uh salary and benefits.

And so I had a question about how those five uh vacant positions were identified, uh, what the process was for identifying those five, and then to you while the chief answers that if he can, and then if you could answer what the spending um the salary savings on those five positions were.

I didn't catch it when during your presentation.

I and I didn't know if you had that handy.

So I can look it up.

Okay, great.

So those five positions were also left uh frozen in the previous in the current fiscal year budget.

Um, and as we've worked through this year, we've identified that yeah, would it be nice to have these positions?

Absolutely.

Um, it reduces workload and better distribution of work.

Um, overall, though, for the impacts of the organization, it's they're not sustainable.

So the idea is we'll just freeze these permanently, and then when we want to bring a position back, we'll bring it back to this entire board as a recommendation, whether that be mid-budget year or would that be at it next year's uh budget presentation uh to move uh to increase staffing in some of these areas.

Okay, thank you for the reminder.

Yeah, is it okay if we go and then she can if she finds it, she can see any other questions?

Commissioner Hill.

Thank you.

And on the workers' comp, didn't it also increase because of the change of the law from special session for this next budget cycle, that 500,000, or is that just the increase of the insurance cost?

Um are you referring to the legislation for the the heart and lung increase?

Um that may have some of it.

It didn't necessarily impact us as much because we didn't have uh new cases uh with that legislation.

Um, but what the the bigger increase was we also have our our EMOD, our our variable that they use to calculate what our our rates are also went up because we had a couple injuries over the last couple of years as well.

Because it says in the staff report on the workers comp, it says the district made its final payment of the fire five-year buyout.

So that was for Reno.

Um, our agreement with Reno from 1617, and now is only responsible for heart and lung worker compensation client uh claims filed after July 1st, 2012, and that those um estimates are about 500,000.

Um is that was that due to that change in legislation, or is that just what that's the reality of I think that's what we're still um responsible for from that the separation back in 2012.

Okay, so no not a big change there, and then just a real quick question on the Apple staffing of the Apple station.

So uh to Vice Chair uh Garcia's point on the open positions plus the 10 open firefighter positions that are still being held.

Uh would the reason that our overtime is going up is because we have to staff the Apple station with existing staff because we can't afford to hire new staff.

And I I was curious, I think that Apple's the reason that the and I don't know, we don't really have a historian, although maybe the um uh commissioner uh Herman could tell us this, but when we required the Apple station, I think it was because when Apple built their facility, they got tax abatements.

So is that true?

Do you remember that, Commissioner Herman?

Vaguely remember, yeah.

Anyway, so I don't know if that's like it's I just am I'm just saying this is directly correlated to the fact that we're also potentially although I don't want to speak out of school, I just want to make sure that I'm saying the right thing, not receiving the tax revenues that we need to on that um development.

But anyway, um uh I think that the team has done a great job.

I'm kind of blown away.

Remember, we were in crisis literally a year ago, and um, so great job, chief, and great job to the whole team.

That this is leadership.

I know it's hard to not buy everything that you want, and um, and we've got to go advocate for our district at the legislature because this is just not sustainable, and having people work overtime that were floaters that that also is a it's not a sustainable situation for our district either.

So I just I commend the team and I'm glad that we did that forecast.

Um, so we could see pen to paper how bad it is, which we all of course uh know that, and uh we'll continue to see what we can do to advocate for our district to ensure this sustainability of our district for the future.

So thank you.

Any other questions?

Commissioner Clark.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam, it's a little stand.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Yeah, I I've got a uh commend uh the chief.

You kind of walked into this uh this situation.

This didn't happen overnight.

We should have had this report three or four years ago and the heads up, and and that's why I always want to audit and and have notifications.

This again, I don't I don't think this happened overnight.

I think this is was headed a certain way, and then you just happen to kind of inherit it.

So thank you for the report.

Thank you for sharing this.

And and I want to emphasize, you know, it brought was brought to my attention.

There's so many different components and so many little pieces, and pretty quick it adds up to some real money.

But uh, with the uh talk of uh Reno annexing some of our our property uh in the county, and and that so that'll that'll remove some of the the income that we have we looked forward to, and also uh we're gonna get a uh a one-two punch on that because we'll still be responsible for for uh protecting those properties and won't have any income.

Is that is that a correct statement, uh chief in that particular area out in district two?

In certain areas for sure.

So we don't get the money and we still get to do the work, and we're still struggling financially.

That's just to put it mildly.

So thank you for the report.

And and this is the kind of thing that needs to be out there in in the open.

So folks understand this.

I know the chief has been very uh uh transparent with with the unions and uh the fire firefighters uh union and and letting letting them know what what's really taking place and and people need to understand that the chief didn't bring this on us.

It it it became it actually got put on him.

He came from a city that that was used to uh some struggles, and uh so it's almost like uh you're the right man to to solve this problem.

open so folks understand this I know the chief has been very uh uh transparent with the with the unions and the fire firefighters uh union and and letting letting them know what what's really taking place and and people need to understand that the chief didn't bring this on us it it it became actually got put on him he came from a city that that was used to uh some struggles and uh so it's almost like uh you're the right man to to solve this problem you you've got the background you you've got some subject matter expertise in this so thank you for the good work you're doing commissioner Herman um I have said this many times before and and it's probably not welcomed but our development isn't paying for itself and this is where a problem began development and abatements it's it's wicked that's what's killing us and now annexation so the list continues um I have a couple questions um you mentioned that the uh 2026 um in terms of suspending the OPEB funding and thanks for even clarifying that you verified and vetted that discussion with the actuary I think that was really appreciated and you mentioned it was 1.2 for 2026 and that will then also apply for 2027 is it still going to be 1.2 no and that's a good question so 2027 was going to be about 136 okay and the 1.2 for 26 was what was remaining because we did make a payment okay at the beginning of the year in that discussion was there long-term discussion of how long you're possibly going to be looking at this given the fact that um you know you've done this five year projection um i didn't share the five year projection with the actuary but um the one of the conversations that we did have was um monitoring it and making sure that we're we're our goal is about a 75 percent funding um and we have some work that we have to do around that to get the the right policies in place for that um the the one of the things that we also talked about was the fluctuation of the market they're gonna be doing a full actuary so they do a full report every other year they're gonna be doing a full actuary report for this year um and so we'll be using that information for future forecasting well I think we all can probably be very appreciative to all those actuaries out there because we're in the wild wild west right now when it comes to what they do takes we really are in the wild wild west and that doesn't make the anything easier especially when you're looking at long-term investment funding so having said that I want to just move to the next question I have on the um slide that you um projected for 20 the FY 2027 tentative final budget for the projected fund uh ending fund balance you have that it's 11.44 percent of expenditures but what is the goal I can't remember the goal for the fund balance in a perfect world what what would we be at where would we want to be the policy that was that was adopted is 17 to 20 percent okay and and I just want to make a clarification this is only over the expenditures it's the general expenditures it does not include the other financing uses so it does not include the transfers that we're making to the other funds okay based on that and where where do you think we may land projected wise with the fund balance for fiscal 27 I'm hoping 11.44 percent okay I'm just but I yeah I it could be it could be more yeah there's it could be okay especially if we continue to um watch our our costs okay for the future and then the last question is just because obviously the Davis fire have we been fully reimbursed for every single expenditure on the Davis fire is there anything outstanding I don't know the answer to that question.

I don't think there is anything else standing on the Davis okay great I was gonna ask some information about positions but that's already been asked um I just want to make a comment I too would like to uh thank you for Chief Edwards for literally not only coming in having 180 day plan and looking at financials as a major part of that right away from the get go not even having your your both feet planted and so I think Miss Sublett it's great that you and the chief and everyone else who participated in looking at this projection and working with Dr.

And there are efficiencies, and there's inefficiencies right now in terms of response.

And I think if we can look at how we can help with that, I think that would be another because wages and salaries are always the most expensive.

Any organization, it doesn't matter what you do.

And so I think if we can look at what we can do from a policy perspective to increase those efficiencies is really really helpful.

And I am also hoping that in the future we can have uh updates as we move forward.

I realize so we have still a process that we have to go through for final approval of the budget.

So I do think it would be helpful, given that this slide, and so they may even be another um.

I know that there's a lot of lines here that go in various ways, and they're all kind of in the wrong direction.

But it might be nice to see some comparables of how we might be moving out of whatever it might be, whether it be moving for the better or having to pull back for the worse.

So I think this was a great, great um deep dive that you did, Chief Edwards and this SCFO sub life.

I mean, just you reading off all of the resource that you used and putting this together, it took a lot of time.

So I really want to thank both of you for doing that.

And anyone else who was involved in that.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

This is an actionable item.

So do we have any public comment?

I have oh, you have more?

I have an answer.

Um, you have I'm sorry, that's right.

I apologize.

So it's roughly about eight to 900,000, and that's a quick estimate.

Okay, thank you.

Quick calculation.

And just a quick follow-up.

Um, I know we're getting an update about the collective bargaining, and I saw a bullet point on the staff report saying that the 3.25 cost of living adjustment for the three labor groups has already been folded into this uh budget for FY2627.

So for what we anticipate that will roll out from the collective bargaining, that's already been folded in, is what you're saying, or it will be.

The 3.25 is already folded in.

Yeah.

I don't think that we have any any other pending financial notes.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Do we have any public comment?

We do not.

Okay.

Um, hearing that we have no public comment, I'll entertain a motion.

Move to approve the tentative budget.

Commissioner Hill made the motion.

Do we have a second?

Second by Vice Chair Garcia.

Any further discussion?

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries unanimously.

Thank you.

Thanks for all your hard work.

It is.

And it was very, it was very educational.

I bet.

I learned a lot.

I bet.

Still, I'm still learning a lot.

Thank you.

All right.

We'll move now to item 14, Commissioner and Fire Chief's announcements.

Chief Edwards.

All right, commissioners, fire chief announcements, requests for information and topics for future future agendas.

This is a non-action item.

No discussion among commissioners will take place on this item.

Do you have anything?

I do.

Uh love to celebrate the work of Chief Eisenhagen and his team over this weekend.

And they collected over 400 loads of green waste on Saturday and Sunday at Silver Lake and Washoe Valley as part of the green waste collection.

So uh big thank you to you and your team for that.

Yay.

And a reminder that pile burning is no longer permissible in the district.

Um, and we'll look to reopen that this fall.

And that concludes.

Last day just happened, right?

It was just the last day, the other day.

And Madam Chair, I forgot to ask the chief at the beginning of the meeting.

Um, did we have any uh lightning related fires that impacted the district yesterday?

I was trying to follow along.

We did respond to at least one in Collin Ranch.

Um, I don't do we have others.

That's okay.

Uh, for the record, Chris catching deputy chief checking minute's fire.

Um, we had multiple incidents with the lightning strikes, uh, one in Sun Valley, but the rain put it out.

Um, the biggest one was in Collin Ranch, where we had a lightning strike that actually hit a gas line in a yard.

Um, the gas ignited, and then it started catching the shrubbery on fire next to it.

So both Reno Fire and Trekkie Meadows both responded.

Um, they were able to keep the shrubbery damped down, dampened down until MB Energy showed up and shut the gas off.

That's that was the biggest incident that we had from the lightning strikes, but we did have multiple starts, but the rain put most of them out.

Thank you.

I think we have to continue to ask Chief Kettering as many questions as we possibly can between now and July.

July.

So let's keep the questions.

Anyone have any questions for Chief Ketron?

Thank you.

We'll work on that.

All right.

Hearing no other discussion or announcements, we're going to go ahead and close item 14 and move to item 15, public comment.

So item 15 is public comment.

Comment heard under this item will be limited to three minutes per person and may pertain to matters both on and off the Board of Fire Commissioners agenda.

Comments are to be made to the Board of Fire Commissioners as a whole.

Do we have any public comment?

We have none.

Thank you.

We'll go ahead and close item 15 and we're going to move to item 16, which is a closed session.

Would you like to actually share any details that you think are important for us on this?

So we're adjourned at 11 27.

And we're going to do a closed session upstairs.

Thank you.