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PUBLIC SAFETY
COMMITTEE
COMMITTEE ROOM - March 9, 1998
3:30 p.m.
PRESENT: Larry E. Sconyers, Mayor; Handy, Chairman; Kuhlke, Mays,
Shepard, members; R. Oliver, J. Wall, Legal Counsel; R. Few, Fire
Department; P. Tucker, EMA Director.
ALSO PRESENT: Sylvia Cooper, Augusta Chronicle; Stacy Eidson,
Metro Spirit; Lena Bonner, Clerk of Commission, Belinda Brown of
the Clerk's Office.
A request from the Fire Chief to approve adoption of Minimum
Performance Standards for the Fire Department.
MR. SHEPARD: So move.
MR MAYS:
Second.
Mr. Kuhlke: Do you foresee any problems in doing this, people
that can't meet the minimum performance and you can't transfer
them, do you anticipate as you initiate this that you will have
some folks in your department that you can't allow to stay in the
department?
Chief Few: It may create a problem if I don't. The problem
is that the only way we know that we are getting our engine
companies or ladder companies to function out on the fire scene is
that we will have to test them in a non combat situation rather
than wait until they get out on the fire ground and then assume
they can't do the job. I have put in every measure that you can
think of and in fact we will be able to go back and do remedial
classes. One thing about this is that the State requires us to be
able to meet these standards. I'm only implementing some of the
State standards and a few more that perhaps, we have to perform if
we got out there on a day to day basis. We have an excellent
training department that if someone can't meet the standards now
can go bac~ and option back to the Fire Department and go through
the training department and they will bring them back up to
standard.
Mr. Oliver: I am totally supportive of the standards.
Obviously you don't want a firefighter out there who can't meet the
standards. I feel that we have to recognize that the!:e is a
possibility that there may be some people that may not meet them.
Motion carried unanimously.
A request from the EMA Director to approve the nominations for
appointment (by Georgia DNR) of the following individuals, for
three year terms each, to the Local Emergency Planning Committee
(LEPC): Appointments to become effective on April 13, 1998.
Pam Tucker, EMA Director
Terrell Washburn, Chemical Transporter
Dr. Emma Santini, Hospital Representative
KathrYn May, School Teacher & Audobon Society
Willie W. Law, IV, Citizen Representative
Chief Howard Willis, Fire/Haz-mat Team
Ralph Herndon, Health Department
Capt. P. A. Williams, Sheriff's Department
Rev. Silas Hawkins, Citizen Representative
Buck Griffith, Industry Representative
Bill Foster, Augusta Tech/Environmental
Fred Reed, Citizen Member
Virgil Fowler, Industry Representative
Art Rider, Industry Representative
Bobby Scott, Industry Representative
Kathy Gazette, Fort Gordon/Nat. Res.
Robert Pavey, News Media (Print)
Chief Dennis Atkins, Fire Dept.
Wesley Ott, Industry Representative
Tom Schneider, EMS Representative
Bobby Brown, Industry Representative
Freddie Lee Handy, Elected Official
Earl Hilson, Industry Representative
Reserved School Board
MR. KUHLKE:
So move.
MR. SHEPARD: Second.
Motion carried unanimously.
With no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned.
Lena J. Bonner
Clerk of Commission
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