August 14, 2025 Minutes
Opening Prayer: Jim Deuel called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. The opening prayer was offered by Mike Miller. In attendance were Commissioners Jim Deuel, Roger Anderson, Mike Miller and Kyle Jacobs. Commissioner Dallin Gamble joined via phone. Fire Chiefs Nic White, Jared Giannini, Joe Schimanski, BC Mitch Bingham, BC Corey Albertson, and BC Greg Bastien. Secretary Nile Hall, and Office Manager Amanda Albertson took minutes.
Budget Hearing FY25-26:
Budget was published in the paper the last two weeks per requirements.
No public comments given from the attendees on the published budget.
Previous fiscal year 24-25 budget was $1,930,000. Proposed budget for fiscal year 25-26 is $2,150,000.
Budget hearing closed.
Reading of Agenda: Mike motioned to modify the agenda to add approval of FY25-26 Budget as an Action Item on the agenda and accept the agenda. Kyle seconded and voting was unanimous by Jim, Roger, Mike, Dallin and Kyle in the affirmative.
Approval of Minutes: Roger made a motion to approve the minutes for the July meeting. Mike seconded and voting was unanimous by Jim, Roger, Mike, Dallin and Kyle in the affirmative.
Budget Review: Nile reports that we will need to use the $200,000 budgeted for transfers as we come to the close of the FY24-25 budget. These monies are set aside for unanticipated expenses to be used as needed and will keep us in line with the approved budget.
Approval of Expenditures: Jim motioned to accept the expenditures of $111,641.58 and $135,192.87 for payroll for a total of $246,834.45. Kyle seconded and voting was unanimous by Jim, Mike, Roger, Dallin and Kyle in the affirmative.
PR Event Presentation:
Todd Stowell President of Hot Classic Nights and Adam Hall Vice President of Hot Classic Nights: We wanted to officially thank you for the support from the District of our Hot Classic Nights event. This year was our 21st year, and our biggest year to date. This year as a board we discussed who else we could donate to in addition to the Senior Citizens Center. We heard you are working on purchasing a ladder truck and we wanted to donate towards that. We would like to present Central Fire District with $5,000 donation. Thank you!
OLD BUSINESS:
- Resin Architecture – Graham Whipple: Discussion/Action Item. Presentation given going over the building bids received. The 60×100 building bid came in at $379,703 which is lower than the original replacement cost provided to us. Metal building companies are guaranteeing pricing for 2 weeks as of now. We would like to request approval to move forward with approving the metal building quote and pick the colors for the building. We are recommending Cool Cotton White, Cool Egyptian White and Cool Granite Grey off the color samples provided. The walk doors can be painted, and we will address those colors later. There is a 16-week lead time for the building once the order is placed and we get a place in the queue for production. Jim motioned to change this item from a discussion item to an action item due to the time limitations. Mike motions to accept the proposal for 60×100, Roger seconded, and voting was unanimous by Jim, Mike, Roger, Dallin and Kyle in the affirmative.
Graham distributed the first-floor plans to Commissioners and Staff for review for discussion. Discussion on the floor plan, additional bid packages needed for the interior of the building and preliminary engineering deadlines. Recommendation from Resin is to move forward on digging out the footings and foundation so we can work on the new footings and foundation.
Commissioners give Resin Architecture and Bateman Hall the authority to move forward with the project as needed to meet the deadlines. Resin and Bateman Hall are given the authority to work with Chief White on all approvals needed.
- Kyle motions to approve 25-26 Fiscal year budget as published of $2,150,000 Mike seconded, voting was unanimous by Jim, Roger, Mike, Dallin and Kyle in the affirmative.
- Full-time Employees: We held the new hire test last month and are pleased to announce we hired Ty Whitmeyer, Austin Frandsen, and Jacob Bohman. This gives us 4 full-time personnel on each shift. We will be holding a swearing in ceremony next month during Commissioner meeting.
- Clark County AB: Jefferson County Commissioners approved the MOU for use of ARPA dollars towards the purchase of the Clark County Ambulance. We are in contact with Clark County and anticipate the purchase to happen sometime in September.
- PIO Truck: We traded in the old C2 vehicle towards a new 2025 Nissan Pathfinder. This allows us to transition the F150 labeled C5 into a Medic chase vehicle. A few minor upgrades will need added to the F150 and we will work on those over the next few months. These will be items like a narc safe, and some additional storage for supplies.
- Platform/Ladder Truck: We were able to go to Pocatello and looked at the truck. Pocatello fire was given approval by their City Council to put it up for bid, they are now going to their City Council on August 21, 2025, with our offer of $85,000. With the donation received tonight the expense to the district would be $80,000 if accepted.
NEW BUSINESS:
- Ammon Smoke Trailer: Bonneville County Fire Ammon division has a smoke trailer for training that has been very well used over the last few years. We have been able to use it for our last academy and training courses as needed. Ammon division is asking the departments in the area who have been using it to help with needed repairs and upgrades. Ammon division is asking for a $5000 donation towards the repairs and upgrades from each agency in the area. We would like to donate $5000 and wanted to let you know about it. We will check to see if there is a date for donations to be due, if we can wait until October 1st we will.
- Engine 166: The district now has E5 and 161 stationed here in Rigby, this gives us 2 class A pumpers in Rigby. We would like to discuss options of possibly selling 166 or possibly donating it to another department in need. Commissioners would like to get a book value on 166 and we can discuss options further.
FIRE CHIEF REPORT:
We would like to modify future agendas to include the pledge of allegiance after the opening prayer. Commissioners are in agreement; agenda will include pledge of allegiance moving forward.
We are in full wildland fire season; crews have been busy.
We will be working with Jefferson County on impact fee implementations within the individual cities of Jefferson County.
Battalion Chief input: Nothing this month.
ASSISTANT CHIEF REPORT:
We had 53 Transports for July; there are 4-8 more we had issues with reports, and they will be in August’s report.
We responded to the fatal motorcycle accident yesterday in Ririe, EMS calls are picking up and we are staying busy.
DEPUTY CHIEF REPORT:
We have been busy. We have been asked to start doing all the plan reviews for Jefferson County, we just agreed to start doing reviews for West Jefferson.
Jim Deuel motions to move into Executive Session as per Idaho Code 74-206 (1) (a) Personnel Issues at 2015 hours. Commissioners, Secretary Hall and Chief White met for executive session.
Main Commissioner meeting resumed at 20:51 hours.
COMMISSIONER REPORTS:
Roger – EMS & Training
Kyle Jacobs – Budget
Dallin – Facilities
Jim – Equipment
Mike – PR
Roger Anderson disclosed he applied for one of the new Ambulance District Commissioner seats.
Mike Miller and Jim Deuel are both planning on running for their current positions in the upcoming election cycle for Fire District Commissioner Seats.
Dallin makes a motion to end the meeting. Mike seconded and voting was unanimous by Jim, Mike, Roger, Dallin and Kyle in the affirmative.
Meeting adjourned 2053
Public Attendance:
Adam Hall
Nik Westfall
Jim Adkins
Lisa Mason
Graham Whipple
Malone – Bateman Hall
Matt Brockbank