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EMS Advisory Board/Emergency Medical Services Committee: Byron Andrews reported the advisory board met last week. 2 action items came out of that meeting.

1. CPR certification no longer required unless in an EMT class or testing out. 2. Mike Berg has left the office of EMS he was the regulatory compliance officer.

Legislative committee house bill 777 requires consent for a patient before EMS can put them on a helicopter, would have to tell them how much it would cost and have then sign that they understand they would be responsible for the bill. We would become travel agents. The patron pulled the bill, but the patron from the Senate has not. He met with the patron staff last week to take care of this. Overdose reporting bill deals with the Opioid Crisis, wanting everyone, first responder, hospital, law enforcement, Fire and EMS to report into a database that the Commissioner of Health was wanting to set up. The data is already out there so why do they need to set up another reporting system when all they need to do is pull this data out? The patron has been made aware of this and is considering pulling this. Walt Bailey asked what is happening with the Intermediate Program? Will continue until December 2019 when the National Registry will no longer support the test. Replicate multi state compact for certification to cover across state lines only need 10 have 14 on board. Will recognize certifications across state line. They are working to get this in progress. Finance: Ken Brown reported that the Finance Committee had a meeting and they decided to leave the current budget, as is, and will start working on the 2018-2019 budget in which they have the preliminary figures for. This year we are looking at an $18,000 deficit of having to move investment funds over. Keep in mind this does not include the 2017 conference figures. We voted last meeting to do away with all telemarking fundraising. After all information and figuring the projected deficit coming over from the investment funds is $40,000. We need to come up with some fundraising ideas to generate money. Will bring the budget to the next meeting for approval. The Finance committee can easily do the audit on the 2017 Conference once we get the information. Ken reported that Mike is stepping down as Treasurer this year and their needs to be an Audit on the Treasurers financial books and we need to hire one to do it. This is best business practices to have this done with outgoing positions like this. This will be an added expense, but it needs to be done. Also, he suggested the Finance Committee needs to pick the firm to do the audit. Ken said he talked with Larry and Conference will be part of the 18-19 budget as an, addendum so we will have a clear picture of the budget going forwarded. Ken reported that the Line of duty death benefit will be advertised again. The average payout is 2 per year for the last 6 years. The financial committee will bid this out to the 3 companies. Will bring the bids back to the May meeting since the first installment comes due in June, in order, to keep this program going. Jeff Flippo reported that the Fireball whiskey fundraiser that went on last August the Association has not received any money yet. Jeff and Mike have been working together and the check should be in the mail soon. Not sure how much. Jimmy Byer asked if he could get a motion on the floor for the finance committee to take care of obtaining the company to the audit the treasurers books. Ken also suggested to add for the finance committee to do the audit on the conference books themselves once they are received. Ken Brown made the motion for the finance committee to select the company to get the VSFA Accounts audited and for the finance committee to audit the 2017 conference checking account. Tommy Austin 2 nd . After calling for a discussion, Pete Kirby questioned about spending money to pay an auditor since we do not know the cost at this time. Maybe we should not pass this motion at this point until we have some estimate of the cost. Pete went on to say it is appropriate, at this time to have a motion to authorize the committee to investigate hiring an auditor, but we need reflection in the minutes, so we will have traceability to how much was authorized to spend. After more discussion on this matter a vote was taken with 2 opposed. Motion was approved.

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