WWDDVS EMS Commission

EMS Commission Meeting Minutes Meeting Date: July 11, 2024 The Meeting was Called to order by Chair Dean Grosskopf at 7:00 pm. Commission Members Present at the meeting: Village of Waunakee: Robert McPherson Village of Dane: Roger Schmidt Town of Westport: Dean Grosskopf Town of Springfield: Art Meinholz Others present at the meeting: WAEMS Chief Scott Russell WAEMS Deputy Chief Dustin Riggs Absent Town of Vienna: Dakota Cable Town of Dane: Rich Haag Confirmation of Open Meeting Compliance  Public posting, official notices, and online availability were confirmed by Chief Russell for open meeting compliance. Public / Membership Appearances  None Review / Approve Minutes  The minutes of the regular June 2024 EMS Commission Meeting were reviewed. A motion to approve the June 2024 EMS Commission Meeting Minutes was made by Schmidt, second by Meinholz. Motion carried 4/0. Review / Approve Expenditure Statements  The expenditure statement for June 2024 was reviewed. A motion to approve the June 2024 Expenditures as presented was made by Schmidt, second by McPherson. Motion carried 4/0. Chief’s Report We extended one offer to a part-time employee that will be starting mid-August when she moves to town. We have three interviews this month for part-time employees. We should finally be seeing M22 back from Kayser this week after the air conditioning work that needed to be done. The lights for M26 will be arriving sometime the week of the 15th. We will schedule the repairs on that one for as soon as possible and hopefully will be back to normal vehicle operation shortly. We had out State inspection on the one ambulance that was here. Everything went very well. We only have a couple of small things to fix up. He will be coming back out to do the other two ambulances once they are both back up and running. The new scales have been installed and everyone has been trained up on them. We are already seeing the improvements of weight calculations. This is the program that will see us be able to submit all of our Medicaid calls for additional reimbursement every year. We are still waiting for final federal approval but have all of the data ready to go for when it is approved. It is still slated to be backdated to include 2023. Still waiting on “go live” timeframes for this one. There are some questions revolving around whether or not Wisconsin falls into the OSHA requirements for public employees. I am working on getting a confirming answer on this right now. I have not heard from the Study team at all since the last meeting. I will be reaching out to them proactively at the end of the month if I still don’t hear anything. The onboarding with Applied Tech is going well. We are looking into dates for next week to get them out for the hardware installation. Unfortunately, the offboarding with Elevity is not going great. I am still working through everything, but there is a good chance that we will have to get the attorney involved in the process. Old Business  No discussion had. New Business  Discussion was had regarding the Town of Springfield EMS Borders and where response times may be able to be improved. No action was taken. Miscellaneous Business / Forthcoming Events  None Next EMS Commission Meeting is scheduled for August 8, 2024 at 7:00 pm at the EMS Station. A motion to adjourn was made by McPherson, second by Meinholz. Motion carried 4/0 at 7:31pm. Respectively Submitted by: Scott Russell Waunakee Area EMS Chief