 I'm going to call the meeting to order for the licenseeering and safety. We'll start out with a roll call, all the person felling, on the air, all the person Heidemann here, all the person rust is excused, all the person actually not. We'll start out with a pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Alrighty, I think everyone knows everyone here. Let's, I think we're all good here. So we will go with number five approval minutes from March 13th, 2024. Move approval. I'll second. Motion is made and seconded. Any discussion on those minutes? No. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. Those are approved. Item number six, RO number 123-23-24, 318-24 by Chief Montanello. Pursuant to section 24-400 of the municipal code I herewith submit by any report for the fire department for the year of 2023. Thank you. So Alder Felde, I'm going to switch screens. Please let me know if you can see this. Can you see that at all? Are you on the computer? I am. Because I'm wondering if I got it clicked. Okay, I can see all of you sitting around the table. You'd have to share it. Yeah. Okay. Let me. Loser. Let me. I'm sorry, I don't know. I don't know either. Talk to you. Barb, you look nice today. Thank you. I think. If you. The entire screen maybe? No. Oh, okay. There you go. And then. And then you flip up. You hit, got a hit. This. You're going to have to click on that one and hit share. This. I can't read what that says. I think. There you go. All right. Share. And then go over to your other page and she should be able to see. Now can you see the cool looking screen that says fire department on it? Yeah. Oh, good. Thank you. Okay. So thank you for the time. I know we got a lot on there. So I'll make it quick. I'm just bringing you up to speed on the annual report. It was in the packet to Barb. If you want to look at that, but. Just real quick, just some highlights. Of 2023. Obviously we had some more retirement. So we hired the positions to fill those vacancies. So you see the pictures there of the. Five, six individuals, seven individuals. I forgot that we hired. And the last one that just came off probation or will be coming off in April is Andre right there. So. And then we had a promotion to fill vacancy. One of our retirees. So Jordan Judea got promoted to lieutenant in 2023. And then also because of those other vacancies, we filled those driver apparatus, what we call our fire equipment operators. So they got promoted as well. We had a couple of retirements in mid year. So those two were in the year. And then the others were previous vacancies that we were filling. So the good news in 2023, as you're well aware, and thank you for all the support in the past. You approved us to increase staffing. One member per shift. So that will be coming into the future. One member per shift. So that will be coming in 2024. Truly appreciated. And those individuals will be put on the ambulance. Just to start staffing that fourth ambulance. Right now we're doing it in peak hours because we don't have the full. And the other, the other partner is being staffed by overtime, but eventually as we hire these three new people will transition off of the overtime. As much as possible. We're still going to require overtime as well, but we'll do the best we can to get it. We are promoting those three lieutenants to captains, three of the existing lieutenants to captains. We just did that. That will be also coming at the end of April. And we are going to the sixth captain model. So two will be housed at our headquarters station. And then one captain at the outline stations. So, unfortunately, we only had two lieutenants past the captains promotional process. So we'll have to do it again in the fall to get that third captain. This is, this is no, we're not increasing officers numbers. We're just taking three lieutenants and promoting them to captains. So it's the same number of officers in that packet. You also saw some of our incidents that we had some statistics over the last five years. One thing note that we, you can see in 2023, we were just a smidge under what 2022 numbers were. If you recall in 2022, we had that storm come through in that summer. So in one day we had over 100 calls alone in a two hour period. So it kind of, that storm really skewed some numbers. But, but again, we're still increasing over our average, what we are in the past. So 2022, just because it had that storm was a little bit on the novel design. That's why it was a little higher. But also our, all our paramedics operate under the medical director, which is out of Aurora. Dr. McGlynn is our new medical director. She, what is awesome and phenomenal about her is she's actually spending a day with us every week. So every Wednesday she's at station three and all our members, you know, can stop in, ask questions, talk to her, get to know her. Where in my career, that was never done. I never knew my medical control other than when I interviewed me for becoming a medic. And that was it. So this is awesome. And we operate our licenses are basically under her license. So she, if we do something that she doesn't feel is right, she can actually pull our license. And we, then we don't, we can't operate this medicine. If that makes sense. We did some other things for station five, our engine that's housed out there, we made it, it went from a basic life support to advanced life support. There's no ambulance at station five. So when they get on scene, they can provide ALS care to our patients while the ambulance from another station comes and responds. So during that period of time, they're doing everything that medics do. So that's a great thing. And then I wish Mike was here because he could explain what the LBOs are, but these are crucial timing wise. Orange Cross used to do it before and then in 23, the hospital approached us and asked if we could start responding to our city for those, even though Orange Cross used to, because it's not a 911. It's a transfer from a hospital to a different hospital. So we started doing those in 2023 and the average time when Orange Cross was doing it was 78 minutes from door to door. Ours is now an average time of 40 minutes. So those, that 20 to 30 minute difference is saving, saving lives and they've acknowledged us many, many times already. So that's a phenomenal feat we're very proud of. Some purchases that we made, in 23, we are continuing our purchases of turnout gear. Again, with 75 members, they're only good for X amount of years, 10 years typically, unless you use them more and more and more, that's even less. So we try to rotate and keep our gear within that timeline. So we're working on that. We replaced windows and doors at station four that were molding and leaking. So obviously they were not as efficient as could be. So we brought them up to speed. And then you approved that, so we really, really appreciate that, even though it's still not here. It won't be here for a couple more years. We just got word that this has nothing to do with our anniversary of 23, but our other set two years ago, you approved. Hopefully we'll be here by June. I think here's crossed. So it's still backlogged like everything else. The turnout gear now, does it have an expiration date on it? Yeah, yeah. But you can decrease it by more usage as a way. So yeah. So to say, is it like a 10 year or something like that? 10 years, typically the many vectors, like that's a max like Chicago, Milwaukee, New York that use it more, have more fires. That might be a seven year or a five year. Okay. We're at the 10 year mark. So yeah, we don't, if we got exposed to a lot of chemicals, it would even decrease it more. But no, we're at the 10 year mark and we're trying to keep our gear all replaced. The goal of many moves on cheap romance or even before cheap romance was to have two sets per person. Okay. Because if you go into a fire, you're wearing your gear. Now you can't use it for, so you want to get all the car synergy out. So you got to wash it. Well, we got to have that spare gear because you're still on duty. And so that's why we kind of wanted to move for the two sets, but they're just so expensive. It's hard to do that with our large numbers. So yeah, good question. Thank you. Some capital projects we purchased in 23. Obviously the station three land acquisition, again, thank you all for your support. It's now in the closing phase of it. The land was, the council approved the land purchase. So it's just now the reality of when the closing is all that. So I don't have a timeframe, but we're excited. Thank you all for all the help that you put into it and all that Chuck and the council for their approval because it is well, well needed as you know. So just some of the quick things that it identifies. They'll bring it up to ADA compliance with the new station, the showers, my favorite picture there. It's just even for men. It's not good. So it'll be gender neutral shower bathrooms, which is great, more energy efficient and as well as some of the pipes that are failing. And then one of the big things too is our emergency generator. Remember, we have to have a generator. We've got to be able when we lose power in the city or anywhere, we got to be able to still respond, open the doors, et cetera, et cetera. Our emergency generator is no longer supported. As I mentioned, hearts are TPW won't even, they can't, they're trying to do the best they can, but the band aids are failing. So fire prevention. So we had our third annual fire academy. So we had a smaller class this year, but hopefully next year or this fall when we do it again, you all will be able to attend if it fits your schedule. We continue with our school programs, educating over 3,000 students in our community. And then one thing that we had started again, we do our WHBL on air every third Friday. It's third Friday, my apologies, not third Thursday. Third Friday of the month. So AC Lubbert usually goes there and does it because he does a great job speaking up. I don't like talking on the radio. But yeah, we'll do safety tips, anything that, or if there's certain fires that are reoccurring or kind of being, you know, this is consistent, we'll bring up safety tips for that. Training, we migrated into a new training software, which has allowed us to track our training. So it looks like we've done a tremendous, tremendous amount of training. We're still doing the same training, maybe a little more with time, but it's our tracking software that was failing. We weren't able to track everything that we were doing. So now we are, which is a phenomenal thing because this will help us meet our ISO goals. So yeah. And then, as you know, we had our sister city visit. So that was one of the big things that we took around the city and got him to do some of our training and participate in some of our training events. We also brought in a yoga, a humble warrior project does yoga. So I remember all three shifts did yoga to try to help with our mind. And then that's a program that we really like and the guys liked. So we may continue to implement it. This young lady that owns the humble warrior, she did it for free for first responders. So it's no cost to us, which we are grateful for. And the crews actually liked it. So we'll continue to bring that each year to our department. So I'll be glad to answer any questions, but I appreciate the time for that. On the medical director, is that, does that change every couple of years? Since she works for Aurora, is she assigned to you? And then, well, she left Aurora, then you'd have to get somebody else. But normally, how long are they in place? Yeah, they're typically in place for a while. So when I first started five years ago, it was Dr. Zills. And because they started taking over so many different medical, emergency medical services departments, he was just too busy. So he is actually split the split. So he's South in Drafton. And Dr. McGlynn, which you saw a picture of, she's actually housed out of Aurora here. Okay. Or in Coler. So she is actually local and she lives in Drafton. So she's not planning to go anywhere. So we hope to have her for quite some time. Dr. Kunkel was the previous one before her. He was in the military and he actually got a job with the Navy doing some things down in, out in California. So he couldn't do this. So that's why he left, but he was doing a good job too. And also on the retirement. So it was like 13 years and 17 years. So these were people that we hired from previous. Okay. Yeah. Now those were mid-year. Those were the only, because we had retirement previous year. So that's why we hired seven. Right. Those two retired mid-year. So that's why they were. It was like they weren't here for 25 years. That's, so. Correct. They had experience elsewhere. Yeah. Yeah. So that's why it was such a short time for them. Right. Thanks. Yeah. Explain the question. It's not an inner report, but I guess it's just a general question. It's like, do you have like, like, do you, do you, if say you get a really bad call, do you guys have like a question? Like, do you talk about the yoga thing? Do you guys have like a, like almost like, where they bring, where they can see psychology? If they get, so if you get a bad call, that's like really can mess with you. Yeah. Excellent question. So we do, actually we just utilized it last week. If you recall, we had, there was a shooting on the south side. Yeah. And so our members, the way that transpired is typically, typically they wouldn't have a debrief for that kind of a, because usually it's a PD incident where we go to assistant. Sure. In this case, it was toned out as a regular EMS call. Okay. Not regular, but an EMS call. Sure. And so our members were there, because police was busy. They're doing other things. Yeah. And so it ended up that our guys, when they got there, we didn't, they recognized that it was a gunshot. Yeah. And they were basically, if I could say it this way, they were in harm's way. Sure. And it kind of, it's really set in after the call. Yeah. It did affect them. So we ended up doing what we call a debrief, a critical incident stress debrief. So CISD, we called outside help member to come in and talk to our members of following shift date, because it really did, because they could have been, you know, that's, our guys aren't trained for that, you know, like PDs. Yeah. And even sometimes some of the incidents when you have, you know, that fire and it's things happen. Yep. Yep. Okay. So yeah, good question. Yep. We did that. So thank you. Any other questions? Looking for a motion? Motion to approve or accept. I'll second. Okay. Seconded. Any other comments? All in favor. Aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. That is approved. Number seven, resolution number one 95 2324 resolution authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into an agreement for the urban search and rescue emergency response services for the period July 1st, 2024 through June 30th, 2026. Thank you all the Decker. So a couple of years ago, you approved allowed us to become part of the Wisconsin state task force response task force one, which would be a response within the state or outside the state if needed. And that's been going great. We have our working on getting seven of our members. We had three original and now we, we're getting those four trained up. So this is just the contract that we have to do every two years for the state. So it's no, nothing's changed. Everything's reimbursable. If we get deployed by the state or the feds, you know, again, it helps us. In fact, I think I mentioned it too. We had two deployments this past two months ago or within two months, one to Elkhart Lake and then one to Usberg. So the training that they got and they're learning there. Remember they were bringing back to make us better. So yeah, we just assisted. We had two of us going to the, the state or the state or the city of, of Cory County as well. So it's those are not reversible. That's a mutual aid. But it helped. Our guys weren't trained and yeah, so it is a great thing. So we really appreciate your support. Thank you again. Be glad to answer any questions. Well, I, I think it's a really, the program anytime we can get in there to help to get in there. Plus it's necessary for the rest of the citizens to stay in this program. Move to proof. Excuse me. Looking for a second. I'll second. Okay, she's made the second in any other discussion. All in favor. Aye. The opposed. Chair votes aye. That is approved. I didn't see you sneak in. Number eight, resolution number 190 2324 318 24 resolution authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a group of Waukesha County Technical College for the clinical experience with the Sheboygan Fire Department. Okay, thank you again. So when we have medics students that need clinical time, in this case Waukesha County needs our we need to be classified as a clinical site. So this was just one of the contracts that they have a standard thing. So it is just no different than LTC or what we've done recently with MATC or working on in order for us to allow non Sheboygan members to ride a gain experience clinic clinical time. We have to get this signed. So that's all it's requesting that attorneys went through it and and both actually both attorneys to make sure all the language is good and it's just again to allow medics students or EMT students or from Waukesha to come ride with us because we're busier and gain experience. And it's a good thing to get them absolutely wonderful. We show them Sheboygan and go oh well we need some people. We already had an applicant from and from MATC which is out in Milwaukee. We So it is a phenomenal program. So I really appreciate the sport and doing that as well. But yeah this is a good recruitment tool. And even if we didn't get anybody to get them the experience too. Absolutely. Yeah. Any other questions, comments? How long is the program? I'm just kind of curious. So every class is different obviously. This again all based on how many contexts it gets. So that's what we're not teaching them. They're gaining experience on the ambulance. So we're proctoring.