Big Country Firefighters Association
Meeting - February 23,2004	
				
PLace-Hamby Fire dept

HOST- MERKEL

Time - 1900


Training - Firefighter - 1


Call - meeting to order:


Roll Call:
Abilene, Albany, Buffalo Gap, Dyess, Eula, Hamby, Hawley, jim Ned, Lawn, Merkel,
Mulberry Canyon, Roby, Roscoe,Sipe Springs, Trent, Tye, Sweetwater, shackeford Co.,View


Minutes from last meeting:
- Motioned to accept; Hamby, 2nd by Roscoe - 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.

- from the Department of Public Safety, Texas Traffic Laws For Volunteer Firefighters
- "Red Blue and/or White lights, can be used by Volunteer Fire dep[t."

- This comes from the Texas Department of Public Saftey Offic of General Counsel
- Mr. Jeff Lopez

- Trent fund raiser March 16th 5:00 pm  $5.00 a person


- Nick Harrison ;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...

- Committee meet and the library will be stored at the Trent City Hall in the safe
- active members of the BCFFA will be able to check out tapes for 30 days, each active dept
- can have 4 members on the list for check out,best or one way to get tapes, you could request 
- then at BCFFA MEETING AND PICK THEM UP AT NEXT MEETING.


New Business:
- mOTION WAS MADE TO BUY BLANK TAPES TO RECORD AND USE SO THE ORIGINALS WOULD NO WARE OUT OR BE LOST
- A $150.00 LIMIT WAS PUT ON THIS MOTION BY eULA AND 2ND BY rOSCOE.


Adjourn Meeting: Motioned by View, 2nd by Alanby carried
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