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Volunteer Section <br />Report by Chief Tom Brandt. <br />Chief Brandt thanked Commissioner Stabo for coming to their meeting on Saturday.It <br />was a productive meeting. Now that the end is in sight, people are getting reinvigorated <br />to put more time required to get this done. They are currently on schedule to complete <br />by the end of this year. With that comes the introduction of more “hands on”training <br />program. <br />One of the things that came up was the volunteer recruitment that they have been <br />pushing for. They came up with a plan. Noni Sanford has volunteered to represent <br />them at EMS week May 30, 2010. Chief Oliveira offered them some space in their tent <br />at EMS week. They are hoping to generate some interest. <br />Fire prevention week coming up. They will make extra effort to have volunteers <br />present. <br />Regarding capital improvements, trusses were being sent on Sunday for the Fern Acres <br />(5 Delta).The next meeting will be August 21, 2010 at 7 Bravo in Kona. <br />Chief added that they did receive confirmation of an award from the Rural Fire Fighters <br />Assistance Program. It’s an application that was submitted to the National Park. <br />Fifteen thousand six hundred dollars ($15,600.00)will be coming to the Department <br />from the National Park Service. <br />Chief thanked Fire Management officer Joe Molhoek from Volcano National Park as one <br />of their mutual aid providers. Not only does he come out and assist with operations,but <br />with particular grant applications, he helps with processing the application and walking it <br />through the process for the Department. Chief stated they are currently working on their <br />next application. They are aggressively seeking out whatever sources of monies that <br />they can find. <br />Chief also thanked Commissioner Stabo as well as other commissioners that have <br />come in the past…whenever commissioners come to the volunteer officers meetings, it <br />shows the importance and support of the volunteer program. <br />Chief stated they talked about the tsunami incident. They worked on a draft policy that <br />was ran by the volunteers at the last meeting and everybody supported it. The policy <br />was, once they go into a tsunami warning,what would be the responsibilities and <br />actions of the volunteers. They are putting it into a formal policy so that they can help <br />their families prepare for what could happen in the event we do activate them during a <br />tsunami warning. <br />6 <br /> <br />