To Be Held At: Houston FD Training Val Jahnke Training Facility

Meeting Agenda – August 11, 2016 1000 – 1200

To be held at: Houston FD Training Val Jahnke Training Facility 8030 Braniff St Houston, TX 77061

Agenda

1. Welcome – Skip Parker

Is anyone here new to a TRANSCAER® meeting?

Last state meeting was on 12/03/15 at Dupre’ Logistics in Channelview, TX

2. Approve Minutes of Last Meeting –

Motion –

3. Financial Update – Tina Mikes

 Last meeting total was $ 13347.22

 Current total is (write in) $

NOTE - We will need to non-board members to stay for approximately 5 – 10 minutes after the meeting to review the treasury records as required by the by-laws.

Accept current treasury amount –

Motion –

2nd –

4. Current status of Texas Transcaer® - Statement by Skip Parker – Discussion will be open later in the meeting for continuation of Texas Transcaer.

5. Your current Board and positions. Elections must be held.

1 TEXAS 6. Transcaer webpage update – Vern

7. Membership Update – Amy

 Amy will review current info.

8. Texas TRANSCAER® - our address is PO Box 1834 – Deer Park, TX 77536. Skip has 1 key. A 2nd key needs to b3 purchased and held by a different board member that can check the mail box as needed.

9. Non-Profit Status update – Skip will provide info on this contact with a Tax Service.

10. Create new or updated “Job Descriptions” for each position and solicit help from others when the officer is too busy with his / her company responsibilities. Or perhaps co-chair a position.

This came up in the last meeting. Has anyone from the board been able to complete a job description?

11. Training Event Updates – All Discuss and Organize

 Training opportunities – All

Training Requests –

 Houston Fire Department Training Academy – Will be discussed by planning members.

 San Marcos FD Battalion Chief – Training Aaron Crawford 100 Carlson Circle San Marcos, TX 78666

Chief Crawford has returned the training application which was forwarded to our Railroad group for proper distribution and planning. Where do we stand on this request?

 The Dow Safety train will be running in Texas. Update from Chris Harvey

 Chlorine Institute training coming to Texas in 2016. Update from Kevin Machemehl

12. New Business

 Open Discussion

2 TEXAS  Plan dates for next meeting –

13. Closing remarks

Thanks,