Firewise Meeting May 14, 2025
LCMC Board Room
Zoom meeting was called to order at 10:00am by President Alec Pennington
Present were board members: Alec Pennington, Gary Nelson and Kathy Stafford.
Community member attending: Sandy Stafford.
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With a motion by Alec and a second from Kathy, the minutes of the April 9th, 2025, meeting were approved, all in favor.
Treasurer Report – Gary Nelson.
The Treasurer’s Report had been previously published separately. With a motion to approve by Alec and a 2nd by Kathy, the Financial Report was approved, all in favor.
Old Business
Assessment Training – Gary and Alec will handle as needed if get requests.
Still need to update signature cards with the banks. Gary will contact Umpqua.
Burn Ban banners – Gary will talk to Ray to see if he still has the artwork from the main sign that we can use to create the design of the Burn Ban banners. Alec will make a drawing of size of banner and locations for grommets.
Discussed finish work on the shed – all that is left is trim on the eaves and enclosing around base perimeter of shed with 1/8” hardware cloth. This will be ad hoc when time and weather are in sync.
Discussed needing to fill the storage tubs: After Wildfire Preparedness day this is much less urgent since we gave away most of the promotional items at the event. Will be giving the rest away at Stump Dump. This alleviated the urgency in getting the stuff out of the cardboard boxes for better protection.
Disaster preparedness day –Discussed options for the day
Kathy suggested asking the Sheriff to speak at day.
Alec – will contact Steve Finley/Red Cross if they would like to attend
Kathy will ask her church if they would like to be a partner and help organize with Firewise and St. Germain
Alec will confirm Colony Surf/Lake Cushman CERT wants to attend and display
Sandy Stafford suggested doing a CPR class – Alec will talk to FD 18 and/or Red Cross about attending
Gary suggested some sort of Food Truck, specifically an Ice Cream Vendor; Kathy indicated the Masons do an ice cream trailer at a local fair – she will contact them to see if they still have the trailer and if they would like to attend
New Business
Wildfire Preparedness Day After Action Report – General feeling was very positive both in how the event was run and how the attendees responded.
We need to do better to schedule and stay on schedule with the day’s activities –i.e. speakers stick to time slots and time limits; when holding raffle(s).
We discussed and generally agreed to putting the schedule of the day’s events on the event flyer: schedule of speakers and raffles.
It was decided we liked the way Gary broke up the raffle into two sessions with both sessions having inexpensive and expensive items offered.
We need to get a better accounting of the raffle tickets sold and reconcile number of tickets with amount of money paid in. Also need to have a bucket for raffle money received and a separate bucket for donations received so we can properly account for the two sources.
Need better control when counting monies received – communicate when taking the money from the table; two persons counting the money, writing a receipt with both persons signing the receipt.
Board Resignation – Since Dave Peterson is moving out of Lake Cushman and is resigning, Alec will contact Dave and ask him to formally submit his resignation so we have a record of his resignation. Email resignation is acceptable and can be noted in the next meeting’s minutes.
Motion to adjourn: Gary 1st, Alec 2nd; all in favor.
Next regular meeting will be on June 11, 2025, at 10:00 am in the LCMC Boardroom.