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Board meeting called to action April 14^th 2015 at 4:30pm, Location was the High Ridge Fire Department during the spring training.

Those in attendance were:

• Mark Stinson
• Bill Hills
• Steve Stewart
• Byron Long

 First order of business was the overview of the High Ridge training, Overall everyone was in agreement that the training went well, all of the surveys came back very positive and the High Ridge Fire Auxiliary went out of their way to furnish us with breakfast and lunch. They accommodated us in every aspect. Bill Hills discussed that we need to get a Plaque to honor the High Ridge Fire Department for their hospitality and all agreed. Bill was going to check on the wording of the plaques in the past and check out on getting one; we can make arrangements to present the plaque to them as soon as we get it. Steve reported the training was a success but if we grow much more in attendance at High Ridge we will need to have other options for space, all agreed, we maxed out the High Ridge Fire Department.

 Discussion on the next Training, Bill Hills announced the dates would be October 13^th through the 15^th 2016 and would be held at the Overland Park Fire Training Center. Some discussions took place about once a year training but with the success of the High Ridge training we tabled this for further discussion.

 Classes discussed for the October 2015 training are as follows:

1.  Pierce Aerial training, Bill and Mark will contact Sal at Conrad’s to see if he can help us obtain that training.
2.  Keith Klassen has agreed to train CAFS and pump training for us again.
3.  Bill and Gary will check if Spartan has an opening for us in October, they both will teach classes that will help with EVT prep.
4.  Steve will do his EVT management class
5.  All agreed that we would like to have Terry do his Ambulance Test prep class again.

 Any other suggestions for training classes please get to me as soon as possible.

Discussion took place on Elections; it is time to elect a new board: I will work with the current board to post the positions and start taking nominations. Any suggestions for Board member please plan to nominate and we will vote on those nominations in July during our yearly meeting.

HEAT EVT of the year was discussed and the presentation to the awarded individual will be at the October training.

Final discussion was on the cost of the website and since we did not have current information it was decided the Board will hold a special conference call to discuss if needed. Bill was going to check with John Alden to see if that was necessary. I will advise if a conference call is needed.

Meeting ended at approximately 5:00pm.