Kanabec County First Responder Team, Inc.
Meeting Minutes from 01/31/07
Meeting was called to order at 1714 by Cheryl Blegen.
Attendance: Cheryl Blegen, Kelly Caswell, Tony Hallin
Financial Statement: CFO Tony Hallin reported the checkbook balance and all expenses and incomes
Minutes: Minutes from the last meeting were read and approved with no corrections
Old business: Minnesota grant deadline February 1st. This looks like a dead end, as no monies to be given for equipment and this is a reimbursement type of grant. New donations were reported; Mail was read and approved to be discarded.
New business: New Donation received from Akkerman-Ingebrand Funeral and Cremation Services for $100.00; a discussion was held regarding meeting with the surrounding EMS groups, this is tabled to the next meeting for further discussion; it was discussed that a policy was needed re: current first responder cards; a meeting with Emmanual Lutheran church was made for October 4th, 2007. Cheryl reported the Sheriff's Office will contact us once a frequency has been aquired, they are having a hard time locating a free one; Cheryl is continuing to check the Onegozie grant opportunites; an update letter was drafted by Cheryl, read and approved for distribution to our applicants. Kelly has set up a username and password for us to use on www.mnciminals.com for background checks, she also did some testing of the different sites and recommends this one; Tony already reported on the Minnesota grant dead end; Township letters were printed and signed by all, will be mailed tonight. Tony presented the pull tab letter dilema, Kelly will look into; a new Thank You card was presented and approved for use; Protocols have been delivered to Dr. Hussain for approval; Release of Information is a dead end now with new background check service; Tony reported on changes to the website.
Projects were assigned to individuals as follows: Cheryl Blegen continue weeding through the Onegozie grant opportunities, contacting granters as needed and she will mail out the Thank You cards needed now and in the future. Kelly Caswell will assist Cheryl with the Onegozie grant opportunities, she will review the list of pull tab organizations and create a list of local one's to contact, and she will check with Kanabec publications on price of a 1/2 page ad for our thank you. Tony Hallin will mail merge the applicant update letters and mail out, correct our current volunteer application, make ammendments to our website, send out information/application to new applicant from website. All will come up with their idea for the thank you ad and circulate it to the other board members.
Next meeting to be determined.
Meeting was adjourned at 1820 by Kelly Caswell.
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