VSFA_RedBook2019

Recruitment & Retention: No Report

Credential Committee – Second Reading Buster Insley reported there are a total of 41 members and 194 Votes. Submitted by Ferrell Adler, Ronald Hite, and Buster Insley. Unfinished Business: Larry Gwaltney reported on the Joint conference with VAVRS. Have been having joint committee meetings and have gotten further than ever before. Registration fees stay the same. Will have separate meetings, training will be merged, and social events will be joint. Will drop our ems contest. Have ambulance EVOC as well as truck rodeo. Not much will change in our schedule. VSFA committee members are Pete, Ken, Jimmy, and Larry. Hopefully will have more vendors. Name will be First Responder Virginia. In the future there may be other organizations who may want to come on board if this works. This will be 50/50 partnership between the 2 associations. Meeting in Room 105 tomorrow. Have not discuss the meet your host on Wednesday night yet. A picnic will be on Thursday afternoon will be added since VAVRS has this now. Joint conference only partnership. Will possibly still do our own memorial service. Will be a joint conference on August 6-10, 2019 here in Hampton, VA. 2020 – proposal go to Virginia Beach in September will use their headquarters. Have not gone deep into this want to see how 2019 goes. September room rates are cheaper. What we do in 2019 will incorporate in 2020. Dates are the same as Neptune festival. Use multiple hotels and the room rate are cheaper than here. Registration fees will stay the same. Everything will be split 50/50 even losses. Walter Robertson as if there was any talk with the Chief association? Larry said he feels they are not interested in this venture and looks like will not be compatible. Registration fees are much higher. VAVRS is reducing their fees from $75.00 to $50. 00. After a discussion Larry asked if they are in support of the 2019 and 2020 joint conference with VAVRS. President Byer said we can vote by a hand vote. Larry ask who would support the 2019 and 2020 joint conference by a show of hands? Show of hands was 90 percent for. Newsletter: Pete Kirby reported the contract with the Virginia Firefighter newsletter came to an end. He had been searching for other ways to partner with other organizations at a low cost. Past May visit fire expo in Harrisburg PA. Found a publisher who may be willing to partner with us. They are publishing this newspaper in several states in NW. They are not in Virginia and are willing to launch a VA fire news edition. If this moves forward, there will be a cost to the Association. Some focus on postage for sending the publication out on a bi-monthly basis. Hopefully will be able to send 5 to 6 copies to all departments in the association. If goes through will have dedicated sections for our department news. Will be 36 to 40 pages. 1 fire vendor already wants to advertise in it. If you are interested in looking at the newspaper Pete has 2 copies. You can get with him throughout the conference and let him know what you think. Election of Officers: The floor was opened at this time for nominations for each office. After 3 announcements for nominations for each office a motion was made to close nominations. Results are as follows: Jimmy Byer was nominated for President – Charlie Singleton made motion for nominations be closed, Buddy Smith 2 nd . Motion passed New Business: No new business to report

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