Lions EMS

Executive Board Meeting

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

 

 

Attendance

 

Kelly Gilsenan

Kevin Mnich

Nicole Gerber

Jay Preciado

George Apostolopoulos

Jessica Paciorek

Regina Cummings

Tom Paulmann

Jim Garvey

Mike Rossetti

 

 

Nicole Gerber (President)

 

Next drills – oxygen usage and radio etiquette

            -all members please bring radios with you

-if we’re going to use OPS for a drill scenario, we need to put out a message saying we are doing so.

            -skit to act out radio usage

                        -we should have one bad one and one good one

                        -follow skit up with small group work to go over radios

 

Are all crews getting in touch with their crew chiefs? – Mostly, yes

Has all equipment been available in the closet? – Yes

 

George Apostolopoulos (Deputy Chief)

 

-New schedule has been posted

-New responding numbers will be done soon

-Standby credit list has been prepared

 

-Copies of standby reports

            -To make them official – voting

                        Ύ exec board, 2/3 general members must support

            -should have a training session on how to use them

            -designed to reduce use of regular call reports for the standby itself

 

-Standby this Sunday

            -George will be crew chief

 

-Powderpuff football standby

            October 8th 12-4pm

            2 shifts

            Crew chiefs needed

 

Motion to vote on standby call sheet – George (2nd, Jay)

            -Discussion

                        -Nicole-motion to end discussion (2nd, Kevin)

                                    -Discussion ends with unanimous vote of present members

-Unanimous vote of present members to approve the standby sheet

-General membership will see the sheet at the next meeting and vote at the one after that. Will be added to the SOPs following the vote, if approved.

-Motion to use the standby sheet in the meantime as a trial run – Kevin (2nd, Jay)

            -No discussion

            -Unanimous vote of present members

 

Regina Cummings (Training)

 

-Letter to Pennington Road got lost

            -contacted Scott Sferra, he will take care of helping organize our classes

                        -Need to pick weekends for CPR

                                    -The new recert class is 4 hours long

-People who have expired cannot do CPR on a call, but can go on calls so long as they register in a class

-We will have a class for our members and then an open enrollment course for psych, nursing, etc.

-Oct 14th will be the cutoff for our members, after this date expired people will be removed from crews.

                                    -Cost is unknown

                                                -Will likely be more than in the past.

 

-Blood borne pathogens training will be done during one of our meetings

            -Find out when our training person can do it

                        -New person, no response yet

            -Takes 30 days for CEU credit to go through

 

-Core 13

            -likely mid November

 

-EMT class

            -Capital Health – January class

            -Mercer Fire Academy – also in the spring

            -Nothing can be held on campus b/c the state has to approve training facilities

            -Freshman can get approval for cars if they are registered for the class

 

-Does anyone want first responder training?

            -Contact people after the membership directory is done

 

-First Aid – through Pennington

            -Kevin cannot teach one until the Spring

            -Dates: any weekend except breaks, and after CPR

 

-Defensive driving course for campus

            -We can use this as a fundraiser

 

-ITLS

            -the new BTLS – Scott recommends this course

 

-need to book rooms, especially for core 13

-previously held some classes in eickhoff first floor rooms; core 13 may want a bigger room, the social science building has been used previously

 

 

Jay Preciado (Exec VP)

 

-Nicole and Jay(alt) will volunteer as reps for our campus activities cluster

 

-Will take care of figuring out who will be suspended from being on crews after the CPR date is set – will email people who are expiring.

 

-Placing T-shirt order soon (after next meeting)

 

 

Jim Garvey (VP of Member Services)

 

-the police party is being shelved because of no response from Campus PD

            -maybe we can spend the budget on a Halloween party/meeting for Oct 25th

 

-First aid council meeting coming up soon

            -we will send some members (Jim, Andres, Kevin?)

 

-We should nominate a student leader of the month

-we should take advantage of this – not many people do, so we have a good chance of winning

                        -an individual thing, so bring it up at the general meeting

 

-Community fest 10am-8pm (6pm?)

            -will be working EMS with Pennington Rd

                        -BP screenings also at our table

                                    -Publicity is working on a brochure/pamphlet

            -The crews will be made up of a CC, EMT and a 3rd person (EMT or FA)

            -Will bring the backboard – demonstrations possible

            -We will be using our standby uniforms

                        -Pickup/signout of uniforms will be organized

                                    -Jim will email crews

                                    -Nicole/George to coordinate distribution

 

-Patches

            -will get some made

            -looking for a good template

 

 

Jessica Paciorek (Secretary)

 

-Steve Steinway contacted me looking for a letter to take to court

            -Jay will take care of writing/sending the letter

            -We are only writing a statement detailing how many hours he has done

 

-Member directory coming soon now apps are in

 

-Birthday list coming soon

 

-Will work on reorganizing the email inbox

 

 

Mike Rossetti (Treasurer)

 

-Our account was frozen because of a missing receipt, but it is fixed now

 

-We got approval for 2 new radios - $571.50

            -includes 2 new chargers and shipping cost

 

-Waiting for a check from Bruce for more standbys - $250

 

-Senior gifts were mailed by Regina, she will submit a receipt for reimbursal

 

 

Kelly Gilsenan (Fundraising)

 

-Six Flags Fundraiser is October 29th from 12-8pm

            -Looking for volunteers

 

-No loop bus this semester – maybe in the Spring

 

-Andres had some ideas; working through these

 

 

Tom Paulmann (Publicity)

 

-Publicity committee meeting this week

            -excellent refreshments J

 

-Exec board members emails will be going up on the site – an fyi

 

-We may work on a banner for the student center

            -need to pick up the forms

 

-Applications have been put up on the website

            -working on the returning members application

 

**Info for website**

 

Name

Major

Year

Certifications

Kelly Gilsenan

Philosophy

2009

NREMT-B

Kevin Mnich

Nursing

2007

NREMT-B, Firefighter

Nicole Gerber

Biology

2007

NJ EMT-B

Jay Preciado

Math

2007

NJ EMT-B

George Apostolopoulos

Biology

2009

NREMT-B, Firefighter

Jessica Paciorek

Biology

2007

NJ EMT-B

Regina Cummings

English/Secondary Education

2007

NREMT-B

Tom Paulmann

Mechanical Engineering

2009

NREMT-B

Jim Garvey

English/Secondary Education

2009

First Aid, Firefighter

Mike Rossetti

Biology

2007

First Aid

Andres Acosta

Nursing

2009

EMT-B

Red denotes crew chiefs (Andres is co-CC)