Minutes
Executive & Program Committee Meeting
February 12, 2007
Small Conference Room, McClellan, California

In Attendance:  Marty Scheuerman, Carolyn Higgins, Kathleen Schori, Kathy Murphy, Jeff Schori, Carol Rice, Jeanne Mannle, Ray Dampier

Secretary-Treasurer Report:   

• The transition of financial documents between past Sec/Treas (Marty Scheuerman) and new (Kathleen Schori) has not occurred yet.  Marty and Kathleen will meet to transfer finance documents/ledgers prior to the next meeting.
• Per report from Scheuerman –
  • Broke even from 2006 Conference
  • Outstanding Bills
  • Couple of refunds - (paid registration; person could not attend – requested refund
  • Couple of outstanding bills – (speaker plaques)
  • Have approximately $8500 in bank
• Website Update – Marty helped Carolyn access the website.  Carolyn is now the webmaster and will maintain the site.  For additions and deletions contact Carolyn
• Correspondence Received – Scholarship application from Tom Brennan, as student at Shasta College – directed to Carolyn Higgins

2006 Conference Recap

• Vendor Reviews positive
• Desert Research Institute informal field trip highly regarded
• Golf Tournament – Successful, recommend doing again

Scholarship

• Carolyn reported that she would be sending the scholarship solicitation announcement and application to all colleges within the 3 states having wildland fire curriculum.  See attachement below.

• Deadline for applications – September 1, 2007
• Members urged to spread the word
• Suggestion by Carol Rice to include selected college instructors to review and rank the scholarship applications
• The scholarship winner(s) will be awarded the scholarship at the annual Fall meeting.  They will be encouraged to attend the conference and offered a compensated room.

Fall 2007 Conference

• Theme – “Shifting Policies & Practices”
• Dates – October 17 &18, 2007
• Location - Peppermill Casino & Resort
• Possible Program Topics –
  • Inspector Generals Report: - Appropriate Management Response
  • Possible panel discussion – “Shifting the burden” on the following topics:
    • public sharing fire suppression costs
    • charge costs to local government for allowing intrusion into wildland
  • Liability Issues – Thirty Mile Indictment
  • Classification of Federal Fire fighter series – technician vs. professional series
  • What constitutes structure protection
  • USFS teams to Australia
  • Fire Policy – What is the current policy
  • Aviation Policy changes
  • Parcel based mitigation funds – Case study - City of Oakland
  • California Wildland Urban Interface building standards
  • World Wide Climate Models – Lawrence Livermoor Labs
  • Global Warming – Fact or fiction
  • Esperanza
  • Carbon Sequestration
• Determine need for other meeting rooms for associated groups
  • BOD – Ed Hollenshead
  • Fire Equipment Committee – Dave Sinclear
  • Coop Fire Meeting – Dennis Orbus/Wayne Ching
• Continue BBQ with vendors and encourage additional outside vendor displays and demonstrations
• Include Agency equipment – especially new Apparatus
• Maintain Same Registration Costs as 2006

New Business:

• Jeff Schori suggested that we include a link to the vendor’s web pages onto the CNH webpage.  We would only provide the link for the vendors that register for the 2007 Fall conference.  Once the registration is received the link would be posted.

Next Executive & Program Committee Meeting – March 2, 2007 at Reno Fire Department -Station 1
200 Evans Avenue
Reno, Nevada