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2008 Fall Trailride Minutes
Aug.31, 2008
Massacre Rock State Park, ID - Hosted by Power Co.
Commander Brett Mackert called the meeting to order
INVOCATION: Mike Oliverson
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Kelly Colton
ROLL CALL
OFFICERS:
Commander: Brett Mackert Present
1st Vice Commander: Rick Pruett Present
2nd Vice Commander: Mike Oliverson Present
Secretary: Brian Lenz Present
Treasurer/ Quartermaster: Steve Clinkscales Present
Communications: Jim Gay Present
10 counties being represented
Past State Commanders present: Pete Williams, Stan Fenn, Walt Charles, Cole Colvin, JD Drury, Gordon Wothe
National Officers present: Commander Ron Stillwell; 1st Vice Commander Mike Oliverson; 2nd Vice Commander Kelly Colton
Past National Commanders present: JD Drury, Sandra Drury, Gordon Wothe, Marie Wothe, Cole Colvin
A moment of silence was held for those deceased:
DeLoy’s wife, Kathy, (Butte) recently passed away; Curtis Voyak (Franklin); K9 Officer Aster (Power)
& Virginia Bogart who is ill
Brett presented DeLoy with a card & expressed sympathy for his loss
HOSTING UNIT REMARKS
Pete Williams: “On behalf of Power County, we hope you’ve enjoyed yourself & gotten enough to eat. We hope you enjoyed the GPS course. The sheriff was unable to attend but extended his welcome & thanks for coming.
Everyone applauded the Power County Team for the nice job they did this weekend.
OFFICERS REPORTS:
Commander, Brett Mackert - Brett has been working with Sheriff Wes Collins on acouple of different issues, and will go into that later.
1st Vice Commander, Rick Pruett - Since last meeting, Rick has been working with Brett on the traveling reimbursement funding for state meetings. He has volunteered Salmon as the host of the 2009 Winter Meet, and has been putting together some 40th Anniversary Logo wear for next year’s events.
2nd Vice Commander, Mike Oliverson – Attended the National SAR Convention in Bear Lake & was elected National 1st Vice Commander. I have been working on the ISSAR scrapbook, made phone calls to get biography information from PSC’s; needs Brett’s profile.
Communications, Jim Gay- Jim spoke at the last meeting regarding the grant with the state EMS “P25 radios”. Their unit was turned down because of not enough inter-agency exercises. They are auditing to see “inter-operability” with ambulance & fire crews, but another round of grants is coming around. The deadline is 2013 to update to P25 radios. Your unit must be 100% NIMS compliant & have your interoperability exercises complete. You will be audited.
Secretary, Brian Lenz -
Treasurer, Steve Clinkscales- Steve reviewed the balances in the accounts: Total = $5,980.15 with
$1,104.15 in the general fund, and $4,876 in the training fund. Zone balances are: North $2,106; West $2,233; East $537
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Bylaws- 0
Webpage- Brett would like to see unit’s who have good knowledge/skills/expertise to post contact info to the web so they may contacted for training purposes.
Everett Bogart Award – Because of a lack of committee members in the past few meetings, they were unable to meet previously. But they did meet at this time & selected a recipient for the Bogart Award. This will be awarded at the next meeting.
UNIT REPORTS:
Bannock, Steve Clinkscales – no report
Bonneville, Stan Fenn - no report
Butte, DeLoy Braswell- no report
Franklin, JD Drury - We’ve been fairly quiet, worked security at the 3 night rodeo; Forest Service.
Fremont, Kent Daniels – We had a drowning; ran Mesa Falls Marathon control. Fundraisers: 2 Demolition Derbies (Aug & Sep) and fed ~300 bike riders dinner.
Gooding, Tony Funk – We did fair parking & garbage pickup for a fundraiser. Two call outs. One, a teen with a twisted ankle, low angle evacuation & fly out. We had a truck driver lost dog at Malad gorge, but because he was from out of state, where they are billed if they speak to SAR, he wouldn’t talk to us.
Salmon, Rick Pruett - 4 extrication calls; medical at demolition derby, 2 four-wheelers, airplane crash, parachute failure, body recovery, suicide Hayden Creek
Lincoln, Jim Gay - Since last meeting: numerous traffic accidents & 2 extrications, assist w fair & rodeo; 1 school urban wilderness survival runaway; received $8,000 equipment grant.
Mini-Cassia, Walt Charles – ?
Power, Pete Williams – 2008 YTD:6 searches. 1) gentleman kicked in head by horse. 2) fisherman out of gas against rocks. 3) Severe weather road closure. 4) boat motor seized up. 5) boat motor 6) drowning victim – Bingham & Summit Co. assisted. The victim surfaced 28 days later. Logged 1410 vehicle miles, 135.5 boat & jet ski hours, 8 dog hours, 6.5 hours dive time, & lots of meals. Total cost of search was $19,926.70 including the cost of replacing Summit County’s sonar unit. Costs incurred through the county for deputies time and travel and marine patrol were $10,768.
National SAR Officers elected from Power County: Commander Ron Stillwell and 2nd Vice Kelly Colton. Expansion of our PC SAR building is complete. We acquired another Rhino through Yamaha’s law loan program & Bruce Ashby in Pocatello. We purchased 2 new sea-doo jet skis from Intermountain marine, funded through a grant that was written through Idaho Dept of Parks & Rec through waterways improvement fund. We are in the process of trading two of our older four wheelers for one new Polaris 500 4x4. Our Annual Salmon BBQ was a huge success this year, serving approx 1700 people. We prepared breakfast for 2 days for the POW/MIA Rally held at Bannock county fairgrounds. Money raised was donated back to the POW/MIA going toward funding for Pocatello Veterans home. Our dive team is making great strides, recruiting members, & coming along well.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
Search Reimbursement- new forms were approved just prior to the summer meet and put on the ISSAR Website as well as the Sheriff’s Association webpage. Pretty much the same form, but they are asking for a longer narrative, so the new form has additional space for narrative.
Minutes: Mitch Hansen made a motion to approve Summer Convention minutes as printed; seconded. Motion carried.
NEW BUSINESS:
State Meeting Training Reimbursement – Brett Mackert has been working with Wes Collins on getting approval for state meetings to be covered as a training expense. Wes stated that units can turnin training request to the state sheriff’s Association and as long as your sheriff has signed off on the request as a training, Wes wasn’t going to question it, and will sign off on it as well.
This is a resource for your unit to attend the state meetings & funds will come out of the Sheriff’s Association training budget.
County Insurance – Brett is going to look into coverage if a member is hurt or killed while in service.
UPCOMING MEETINGS:
These are special 40th Anniversary Year meeting/events, let’s have a great turnout.
Feb 27- Mar 1, 2009 Winter Membership: Salmon County -
July 2009 Summer Convention: Fremont County
2009 Fall Trailride: Franklin County
No further business or announcements. Brett Mackert entertained a motion to adjourn. Meeting adjourned.
Submitted,
Secretary Brian Lenz
Commander Brett Mackert