Big Country Firefighters Association
Meeting - January 26, 2004

Place - Tye Community Center


Host Dept - Leuders


Time - 1900


Training - AEP - Electrical Safety


Call meeting to order:


Roll Call:
- Albany, Buffalo Gap, Hamby, Hawley, Jim Ned, Merkel, Mulberry Canyon,
Potosi, Roby, Roscoe, Sipe Springs, Trent, Tye, View, Shackelford County


Minutes from last meeting:
- Motioned to accept; Potosi, 2nd by Tye - carried


Treasurers Report:
- Checking: $1,309.44
- CD: $4,454.77


Announcments:
- SKYWARN class set for Saturday Feb 28 from 9am-4pm with an 1:15 lunch, @
ACU.  Additional class schedules for other areas can be found on the website.

- Hawley is having a raffle for sweetheart package at the Embassador Suite -
1 night stay for Valentines Day - Cost is $2 each or 3 for $5

- Annual Upper Leon Fire School will be held Feb 21, 2004.  FMI, see the online
brochure located on the training page.

- Thanks to Hoss Smith for donating VHF antenna and heliax (sp?).  Donation
saved BCFFA losts of money!

- There is lots of money left over from the TFS grants for training and tuition-
over $1.6 million.  Get it before it goes to something else.


Old Business:
- List of available videos from the new training library can be found on the
"Training" page of the web site.  Committee to be formed to decide where to
store library, length of time you can check them out etc...

- Firefighter I training to be held next meeting.  From there, we will go down
the list posted on the website.


New Business:
- NOMINATIONS for Officer Positions:
President: Don Russom - nominations ceased, elected
V. President: Gary Armstrong - nominations ceased, elected
Secretary: Kenton Kidwell - nominations ceased, elected
Treasurer: Randi Watson - nominations ceased, elected


Adjourn Meeting: Motioned by View, 2nd by Roscoe - carried

- SH