[0:01] Yeah.

[0:03] Recording in progress.

[0:05] Yeah.

[0:07] Got a few more.

[0:12] Yeah.

[0:13] It sounds like the perfect job for you, too.

[0:18] What amazes me, Ari, is how much they're charging to do work.

[0:22] So it'd be another program, wouldn't it?

[0:24] Yeah, it'd be a program.

[0:27] You want to sign some, or do you want to?

[0:29] I'll pass it back to Ari.

[0:42] Maybe I'll sign them.

[0:43] If not, we can do it.

[0:45] If it's bugging your hands, don't worry about it.

[0:47] We can do it.

[0:49] Are we okay to get started?

[0:54] We have us a quorum so let's hope more shows up. I don't know what would be going on. Marks here, he's in the break room. Is there somebody online? Marks here, okay. Okay, sounds good. I'd like to welcome everybody out to the Wasats Fire Protection Service.

[1:12] it is January 3rd at 3.30, uh, 2026, um, members of the board that are present, is everybody

[1:21] except for Candle Crittenton and Luke Searle. Hopefully they will come. Um, first thought

[1:26] among the agenda is the, uh,

[1:30] approval of the December 9th minute meeting, minutes.

[1:35] Can you pull those up on our screen? This, I'm just, the agenda thing is good.

[1:41] I

[1:49] should also probably make notice that our teeth is at a training end until now, Eric.

[1:57] Both to have it last year and it somehow got pushed back or canceled or moved or something.

[2:04] I'm sure it's somewhere pleasant.

[2:10] That's not pleasant.

[2:11] I'd say like San Diego, or something.

[2:13] Well, take it in that direction this time of the year.

[2:15] I know in Utah we never have trainings in Tallilla.

[2:18] No.

[2:19] Do you have a panel meeting?

[2:24] No, they don't have them.

[2:25] Sorry, why we're waiting.

[2:26] We don't have them in like places that people don't want to go.

[2:33] Okay.

[2:35] On my commotion that we approve the minutes of our December 9 meeting.

[2:41] I'll second that motion.

[2:43] I've got a motion for Colleen and a second from Carl. All in favor?

[2:47] Aye.

[2:48] That passes five to zero.

[2:50] Next item on the agenda is the warrants.

[2:54] Do I have warrants in the amount of?

[3:03] Oh, that's right. I wondered why there was two it seemed like that was a mistake because they were both in line

[3:07] Okay, well, I'm gonna still yep. Let's go ahead back and we'll also do the

[3:12] Minutes for our budget hearing which is on December 9th. Also

[3:17] I'll make a motion we accept those minutes as presented

[3:22] Got a motion from Carl and a second from Colleen. I'll in favor. I

[3:26] That passes unanimous that makes sense on the agenda. They're just both the same thing written twice

[3:33] Okay. Next is the approval of the warrants.

[3:38] It's

[3:40] not opening up right now. What do you have? Do you guys, when do you guys have those?

[3:45] There's really not a whole lot of change on the warrants other than this time period, that free pay periods included in it.

[3:54] Okay. So that was a pretty big jump, but other than that there is not a whole lot that's different on the warrants.

[4:00] What is the total?

[4:02] one million four hundred forty nine thousand one hundred sixty three dollars

[4:05] sixty three cents. That almost sounded like a motion. I'll make up. Okay. Make a motion. I'll make a motion to prove the warrants in that

[4:13] amount. Second. Okay I've got a motion from Colleen and a second from Eric. All in favor. Aye. Aye. That passes unanimously.

[4:24] minutes for its chief report. I think we're going to give us, yeah, that all right. Yep.

[4:30] Go ahead.

[4:33] December because of our weather patterns, I think some of our numbers are down a little

[4:38] bit. But they're they're also increased a little bit on the EMS side for slips, trips

[4:47] and falls within the county. I won't repeat some of the things that you see on the on your agenda

[4:55] packet but it does run the gamut from vehicles to burns to also we had quite a few station

[5:07] tours in the month of December and also we assisted the officers with the shop with cop

[5:14] and had one of our crews there and then towards the end of the year we had our

[5:20] the family Christmas where Santa Claus comes and the public as well to see him

[5:26] on the truck so it was there were less calls this year but we were almost just

[5:35] as busy with the trainings and everything associated with it as far as

[5:41] some of the station information goes chief is working on station 56 with UDOT

[5:48] and getting some of that right away that's still ongoing and also on the

[5:55] properties adjacent with the new station at station 57.

[6:02] Any

[6:05] other

[6:06] questions that you guys have? No.

[6:12] Jason do you know why what's what's different

[6:15] about the revised fraud risk assessment questionnaire.

[6:19] Kirsten is going to talk a little bit about that and talk about those adjustments.

[6:25] Do you want to do that now?

[6:26] Yeah, let's go ahead and do that and then we'll come back and we'll do the division

[6:29] updates.

[6:31] It's actually really simple.

[6:33] So at the very bottom of the fraud risk evaluation, there's a line for an internal

[6:38] audit that the district doesn't have an internal audit department and doesn't conduct

[6:43] internal audit so we just had to remove what had been added to that they're

[6:47] still in a very low risk category so it didn't change their category it just is

[6:52] removing the points that have been added for that we're just updating it so I can

[7:00] send a correct point to the state.

[7:04] Seeing that could I get a motion to

[7:05] approve the revised updated 2025 progress. I'll make that motion as

[7:11] presented. Second on Mark. All in favor? Hi. Hi. The passage is 5 to 0. So now we'll come back to

[7:19] division updates. First to be Jason.

[7:25] This year was what you would call a banner year based upon

[7:30] the growth of the department. The first of the year began on the second week of January with

[7:40] one of our well our largest hire to date which was 11 with the first recruit camp

[7:46] that you guys have been involved with. Part of our adjustments as we were

[7:54] moving forward was changing our paging within the district. Instead of paging

[8:00] specific units we went to a response plan. What that response plan allowed

[8:06] us to do was page, not just specific units, but areas as the new stations were in play,

[8:15] which allows us to access CAD to CAD with Summit. So if we have a big incident at MCI or any

[8:24] other incident that requires other units, we can do that through a CAD to CAD system

[8:31] them now. Instead of just calling over and saying, hey, can you send some, dispatch can

[8:36] already have those preplans in place. And so it reduces what the IC has to do to get

[8:42] resources for help. We spent last two weeks or two weeks ago helping south summon on

[8:49] a structure fire. And part of that came in because of those response plans that

[8:54] were in place. We're in the middle of working those with other agencies that

[9:01] across the Wasatch Front for our high-rise and also our school shootings and things

[9:06] like that to prepare for those cases so that if they do come dispatch doesn't

[9:12] become the dumping ground of I need this I need this I need this it's already in

[9:16] place and they can hit buttons and get those resources very quickly.

[9:22] Also with

[9:23] that we had to update our paging systems within the station so that as

[9:27] As pages come out, specific stations get paged instead of everyone hearing those tones.

[9:36] So if hideout gets a page, no one else hears that unless their units are needed for that call.

[9:42] And in the rooms, depending on what apparatus they are, red lights turn on,

[9:47] and the individuals that are on an ambulance, if that's needed, they're the ones that gets paged,

[9:52] and the others don't get disturbed until their units are needed.

[9:57] So does that suggest that before if you received a page you'd have to go through like a qualifying

[10:04] step to see if it really pertains to you?

[10:05] The page was everyone got it.

[10:08] The saying so before you'd have to be like is that for me or not?

[10:10] Correct.

[10:11] And so when everybody wakes up they're like let me look through this list of information

[10:17] to see if I need to go.

[10:19] Now you know.

[10:19] If you hear it you go.

[10:21] Correct.

[10:21] They've got a screen in their room and they can select their apparatus that they're

[10:27] on that day, and those individuals would get that call.

[10:32] It does help with sleep as well.

[10:36] Instead of everybody being woken up,

[10:39] you can get a little bit of sleep,

[10:41] even though you are woken up in between for other calls.

[10:47] Also, in the process of looking at what an MCI looks like,

[10:54] we have taken this year and focused

[10:57] focused on some of our high-rise operations. As we get MITA coming into our area and other

[11:03] St. Regis and some of these bigger buildings, it changes the way that we have to operate.

[11:10] And so taking the floors, basically as a group or a division, and we work according to what

[11:16] floor that incident is on, and then we have individuals that are on the floor below

[11:21] to be prepared to go and take the place that those individuals when they get

[11:26] exhausted or need to come out from their artifacts.

[11:32] Fire Marshal Nearing says

[11:33] done a lot to prepare us on some of the structural side of putting some things

[11:39] in place so that we don't have to bring our air bottles down. We can get

[11:43] that in in place so that we can fill those air bottles without shuttling

[11:47] them back and forth all the time. And probably one of the bigger but last is looking at our

[11:55] software and what that looks like for how we operate on a day-to-day basis. We have moved

[12:02] to a platform called FirstDo. It took out four different platforms that we were using

[12:09] and combine them into one. So it is more comprehensive on doing reporting in doing our pre-plans and

[12:18] also how we have asset management in the stations and also with our equipment. And so it gives us

[12:25] the ability to, when they do a report and they're on a given apparatus, that information is included

[12:33] it in that report. Instead of spending so much time manually typing things in, it is

[12:39] populating from the calls. So it shortens that time that the crews are putting the effort

[12:44] into. And then last but not least, the training portion, our training captain, Geardon, has

[12:54] done a really good job in implementing evaluations monthly. That's for the fireside in the

[13:01] So they're given what's called the JPR, the job performance.

[13:06] They spend time during the month going through that information.

[13:10] And the last week of the month they have a scenario that they are tested on those skills.

[13:18] And so that's allowed us to see where we have holes as a department and where we can

[13:22] put our emphasis on training to be better prepared for incidents that come.

[13:28] Do any of you have any questions on any of that at all?

[13:35] I'll say.

[13:36] I think we got a lot to go, but it's been a really good year and it helps us on a trajectory to make a lot of changes this year as well.

[13:47] Thank you.

[13:48] Next we will go prevention.

[13:49] Quinn.

[13:52] So just a quick synopsis of 2025 for the Fire Prevention Bureau.

[13:57] We ran through 867 building permits, some of those require two, three, four reviews.

[14:04] Building permit inspections, we had just under 1900.

[14:08] Business inspections was roughly just a little north of 500.

[14:12] DRC reviews for developments just through county alone.

[14:16] The review process was 110.

[14:18] We did implement revised home hazard assessment in preparation for House Bill 48.

[14:24] lot assessments that came through. That was a big lift by the crews. Our big push was to have the

[14:29] crews go out and interact with the public to get out and about and see them. We had 61 of those,

[14:34] which is a voluntary program in preparation for House Bill 48 assessments. Another thing that

[14:40] the crews did a really good job with for 2025 was our big push was to update the GIS mapping

[14:48] system to show all of the hydrants that have been installed. Once we start listing out how

[14:52] many special service districts and water districts and city water we have a lot to cover on the

[15:00] Existing GIS system that Claire and Ivan have been excellent to work with, we showed we had

[15:05] about 3,000 hydrants, but there was large swaths of the county that you could tell were missing

[15:12] existing hydrants. So the crews and the prevention division went through. They inspected each

[15:16] hydrant to make sure we can get the caps off, clean the threads, make sure we have adequate

[15:20] distance to get the hoses on, to be able to get it so we can have a rapid access

[15:24] with the valves. We ended up about 4,700 hydrants. So they logged about 1,700 which is a big step forward

[15:34] working with Keeber City, Midway City, JSSD, Charleston, all of these water districts so that on our

[15:41] mapping system the first due that Jason talked about has a response module that is we're responding to

[15:46] a commercial fire or residential fire on that response map will show the closest hydrant so that

[15:52] It's not show up to the fire when everything's hitting the fan,

[15:55] try to find the hydrant.

[15:57] The crews, the battalion chiefs and captains

[15:58] can have a plan in place before that.

[16:00] So that was a really big lift

[16:01] that the crews did an excellent job with.

[16:04] It was about a five to 10 minutes process per hydrant.

[16:07] So it is a lot to do.

[16:09] We'll now do that, break those 4,700 into thirds

[16:12] and hit every hydrant every three years

[16:15] so that we make sure in the event of a fire

[16:17] we have access to adequate water.

[16:20] We did complete a nearest transition, so since I believe it was in the mid-1970s, the United

[16:28] States Fire Administration used National Fire Incident Reporting or NFERS.

[16:33] We were allowed to onboard mid-November, so from November till December 31 has been

[16:38] a big push to move completely over different reporting platforms, so we did move that

[16:43] over.

[16:45] Lastly, to cover is we do now have additional information on House Bill 48.

[16:52] As of Saturday, I believe the state sent out the draft map, and well, we've had the draft

[16:58] map.

[16:59] They sent out some of the administrative rules and the fees, so we know a little bit more

[17:02] about that.

[17:05] We have some questions about the map, so Troy's working through his state contacts

[17:10] to get a meeting to kind of discuss why some areas were left out, what we can do

[17:15] to more accurately reflect our area, but some of the additional information that

[17:20] we have on the fees. So from 2026 to 2028 it's a flat fee. So up

[17:28] to 3,000 square feet is $20, 3,000 to 6,000 square feet is $60 a year. Over

[17:34] per $6,000 is $100 a year. Once we hit 2028, then there will be a set fee per square footage

[17:43] of the home, and that's when that fee will escalate that works in conjunction with that

[17:48] high-risk map that we want.

[17:50] These are in the wooey areas, right?

[17:51] Yep, all in the wildland. So this is a smaller portion of the wildland urban interface in

[17:56] areas that are at a higher risk of large-loss fires. So they will assess a fee. These

[18:02] home hazard assessments that we talked about were in preparation for the

[18:06] assessments. We're meeting with Dustin and the county because the way the

[18:10] legislation works now is the state will work and have an agreement with the

[18:14] county. Our purpose moving forward is to have our people be able to go out and

[18:21] help the citizenry with these inspections to see what they can do. We

[18:25] feel like we can get out in a more rapid manner and interact with our

[18:29] our response area in the community area quicker.

[18:32] We've met with all of the municipalities

[18:34] because House Bill 48 requires every municipality

[18:37] to adopt the wildland urban interface.

[18:41] We're meeting with all of them.

[18:42] We have not pushed them to adopt it yet

[18:44] where we didn't have a map.

[18:46] We didn't have the needed information

[18:47] to really make an educated decision on that.

[18:50] So we're independences adopting tonight.

[18:52] We're meeting with Midway tomorrow.

[18:54] We've met with Daniel Charleston.

[18:56] Hideout has already adopted it.

[18:57] so we're well on the way to move through with House Bill 48 as we get the needed information.

[19:05] So that in a nutshell is all I have unless there's any questions from the board.

[19:13] Thanks.

[19:13] That's good.

[19:14] Thanks, Clare.

[19:15] Thanks a bunch.

[19:16] Clare, thank you.

[19:17] You're next.

[19:19] Yeah, man.

[19:20] Thank you.

[19:23] You know what?

[19:24] I get to work with some pretty amazing people.

[19:28] Next time you would you bring them?

[19:31] I'm going to bring them and introduce them to you, next, board meeting.

[19:37] I thought it was interesting listening to Jason talk about this transition to this first

[19:44] due, this new platform.

[19:47] That's huge, huge for, you take these people who have worked with a platform for so many

[19:55] years and all of a sudden midnight Clint flipped the switch January 1 and said

[20:01] now you're gonna use this platform and they've they've done good to conform so

[20:07] it's been pretty awesome. Just two or three things that I'll share with you

[20:12] from an EMS perspective.

[20:16] One of the things that we're working,

[20:20] let me back up, I

[20:22] a passion for community outreach and education. When we respond to a cardiac arrest, we're

[20:32] about 8% effective in our outcomes. And if you think about that, if you have a pro quarterback

[20:42] that's 8% effective, he's probably not going to be there very long. But it's not because

[20:50] we don't do a good job. We have time and distance that's a factor. Our department

[20:57] themselves does an amazing job running a cardiac arrest. But what's going to

[21:04] make a difference to change that outcome is that community outreach and

[21:09] education. Teaching people to do hands-only CPR, teaching them how to

[21:16] use an AED. So Heidi Heller and myself, along with others, are working on those programs.

[21:24] I just had the opportunity to be in a state EMS committee meeting. Just came back from

[21:32] there. That's one of the things that we're going to work on there to change the outcomes

[21:39] in in our cardiac arrest. So really excited about the program. I could go

[21:46] into detail but you'll hear more about this. One of the things also that we're

[21:53] working on from an EMS standpoint is a critical care program.

[22:00] So in the EMS

[22:04] world you have EMTs, you have advanced EMTs, you have paramedics, you have

[22:10] critical care paramedics.

[22:13] We have right now two critical care paramedics. We have some

[22:21] who are in the program and we're working with our medical control physician Dr. Kemp to build

[22:28] this program which will be a huge advantage to our community and the ability that these

[22:38] guys will have and gals will have when they respond to calls so that's a

[22:43] program we're working on right now as well. Also when Jason talked about MCI's

[22:51] mass casualty incidents we just recently put together some what I call

[22:58] mass shooter kits. Doesn't sound good, Colleen, but hope we never need them.

[23:07] Hope

[23:08] apparatus is equipped with a bag that is specific to that sort of things with

[23:17] tourniquets and quick clock gauze and the things necessary for those types of

[23:23] events. Hopefully we'll never need them. We want to prepare for the worst and

[23:30] hopefully deliver the best. So just two or three things that we've been

[23:36] working on from an EMS perspective. Any questions you might have?

[23:46] Spencer, I'll bring those other guys next time so you can meet them.

[23:50] Okay. Thanks for all you guys do. Thanks for your support. Thanks, Carl.

[23:55] They

[23:58] weren't on the agenda, but would you like to talk?

[24:02] The only other thing we have is the advisory commission.

[24:06] Did we have a meeting after this month?

[24:09] As was discussed last time to move the advisory commission meetings to quarterly, there's a

[24:16] discussion on having the meetings in February, February 5th, May 7th, August 6th, and November

[24:27] 5th to kind of streamline a little bit so that we can finish some of the heavy tasks

[24:33] that are going on right now.

[24:36] Did

[24:44] you have anything Dustin from the mission at all?

[24:50] Thank you. Anything else from the board?

[24:55] We'll look to adjourn.

[24:57] I'll second that.

[24:59] I've got a motion to adjourn from Mark, a second from Colleen.

[25:01] All in favor?

[25:02] Aye.

[25:06] Sorry, Kendall, I should have-

[25:07] Recording stopped.

[25:08] But I guess you never got to vote on anything.

[25:10] Nope.

[25:11] Except for to adjourn.

[25:12] I had my mind at this point, I was trying to, okay, which one should we do it for?

[25:18] Luckily for me, but I'd have been here at three, I guess, luckily for, all right.

[25:23] You had to figure out if somebody else would be in his area, he said something about 3.30.

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