Big Country Firefighters Association Minutes Date: Oct 24, 2005 Place: Tye Community Center Host Dept: Jim Ned Time: 1900 Training: Not Available Meeting: I. Call meeting to order II. Roll Call: Not Available III. Minutes from last meeting: John Bogart motion to accept, Ray King seconds IV. Treasurers Report: CD:$4512.79 Checking :$1453.38 V. Announcements: A. Bill Shaw from COG made a presentation on NIMS. He stated we need to adopt NIMS into each association. You can get on the Forrest Service web page @ IS700 and take the NIMS class. Bill Shaw is going to do a "how to" disc to play with before you actually get into the system. Depts have to be NIMS compliant before Oct 2006. B. Letters of resolution were handed out to all depts present, These letters need to be approved by your dept and returned to COG, and a copy needs to stay on file at your dept, also, your city must must have a resolution seperate from the fire dept. C. TRRN- gives a list of equipment in everyone's dept. You have to show the equipment that you get or have already recieved from homeland security monies. There will be a computerized system of all fire equipment. There will also be names and numbers of the people authorized to send the equipment. D. Midland College will be offering a free TRRN training. class is either Nov 26th or 28th. Not for sure which day. You can call 672-8544 for Bill Shaw or Tom (GOG) web page for WCTCOG.ORG then go to contact us,homeland security VI. Old Business A. None VII. New Business A. NONE VIII. Adjourn: SMH