| Taney County Ambulance Board Meeting Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Chairman Kenny Nave called the meeting of the Taney County Ambulance to order at 19:00 on January 16, 2007. Attendance: Chairman Kenny Nave, Treasurer David Rozell, Vice Chairman Tim Ford, Board Member Scott Novak, Board Member Dale Sanders and Board Member Rod Romine present. Others present: Steve Harris, Katie Sharpe, Richard Cotter, Melissa Stiffler, Jeff Hawkins, Kent Vanderpool and Caleb Berkstresser. APPROVAL OF PRIOR MINUTES Director Rozell made a motion to approve prior Board minutes dated December 19, 2006. Director Ford seconded the motion. The motion passed by vote: Director Nave (Yes), Director Rozell (Yes), Director Ford (Yes), Director Novak (Yes), Director Sanders (Yes), Director Romine (Yes). APPROVAL OF FINANCIALS Director Rozell made a motion to approve December financials. Director Romine seconded the motion. The motion passed by vote: Director Nave (Yes), Director Rozell (Yes), Director Ford (Yes), Director Novak (Yes), Director Sanders (Yes), Director Romine (Yes). New business Steve advised our annual banquet is this Friday at 6:00pm at College of the Ozarks. Steve presented a 2006 summary. We had 7207 patient contacts with 5073 transports. Novak presented a letter from Leon Combs requesting ambulance services for Bradleyville. Discussion was held regarding the statistics that have been presented to Mr. Combs. Steve advised that TCAD does provide an ambulance for the events mentioned in the letter. Further discussion was held about the costs involved in a full time ambulance station. It was suggested that Katie write a letter to respond to Mr. Combs. Receivables Melissa advised receivables for December 2006 were $148,313.29 and we ended 2006 with $1,564,825.51. Year to date write off's for 2006 totaled $357,131.75 and disallowed amounts were $336,586.82. MOTION - WRITE OFF ACCOUNTS Director Rozell made a motion to write off 7 accounts totaling $1389.71. Director Novak seconded the motion. The motion passed by vote: Director Nave (Yes), Director Rozell (Yes), Director Ford (Yes), Director Novak (Yes), Director Sanders (Yes), Director Romine (Yes). Collection agency Sanders inquired how much of our annual receivables comes from NCO. Melissa will get those numbers to bring to the next meeting. Operations Jeff advised that TCA 7 is back and Ron is striping it this week. Rescue Net Tablet is going better than hoped. Operations building Steve advised that we have added tile at Central quarters. We have installed exercise equipment at Central also and will be dropping the YMCA in the near future. Dispatch Kent advised that he was awarded $32,930 for a 2005 grant that we requested $89,000 for. This will be used for new radios. IT Caleb advised he has been working with Jeff on launching the RescueNet Tablet program. He advised we had a soft go live date of January 8. The crews are now using the new program but are still using paper trip tickets as well. Steve advised we wouldn't have been able to do this without Caleb. Education Richard presented some 2006 totals to the Board. We issued 2621 CEU's last year and 2049 hours of that was for employees. He also presented EMT-B and EMT-P licensure information. He stated he currently has 8 signed up for EMT class. HR Katie advised she currently has a new policy manual template from the American Ambulance Association that she is working on. ADJOURN Director Nave made a motion to adjourn at 19:45. Director Rozell seconded the motion. The motion passed by vote: Director Nave (Yes), Director Rozell (Yes), Director Ford (Yes), Director Novak (Yes), Director Sanders (Yes), Director Romine (Yes). |