Manitowoc County EMS Association Meeting Minutes 7/24/2024
Host: Manitowoc Fire / Rescue
The 7/24/2024 meeting of the Manitowoc County EMS Association was called to order at 1900 by the president. The meeting is held in person and virtually. The educational portion of the meeting was presented by Dr. Sarah DiMezia for 0.5 hrs. of education.
The meeting proper was called to order at 1929 and roll call taken. A quorum was not present.
Secretary’s Report: The Secretary’s report was presented as printed and a motion to accept the report as written was made by Manitowoc and seconded by Two Rivers.
Treasurer’s Report: Ending Balances: Checking: $3184.96. Savings: $6014.36. 2024 dues are all pain except for Valders. A motion was made to accept the report as presented by Branch and seconded by Two Rivers. Motion was carried.
Old Business:
1. Contact List: The contact list updates were passed around. Items may be sent to the webmaster for other updates. This includes email addresses, phone number, & contact information. Request to add Steven Little sdlittle31@yahoo.com to the list from Kiel was implemented.
2. Committee Reports:
a. Emergency Government/Dispatch/Radio:
b) a) Radio: We still have the normal issues. Motorola XP are not going to be serviceable after July. Start to budget now. Discussion about working with the county for costs.
c) EM: In fall or spring, EMD is looking for a drill and maybe using EMTracker. Discussion about a bus rollover incident in Cleveland has been postponed until spring. The are looking into how to use EMResource for/with the county. There is going to be a table top drill in January.
d) JCD: looking to do some EM resource training with Katherine Johnson from the state.
3. Manitowoc County Sheriff Department: Want to be called to or called off as needed from calls.
4. Protocols: Are in process.
5. Disaster/Training: 9/13/2024 will be a big rescue task force drill at 5:30-9:30.
6. RTF: see above and sign up as wanted. Training is on line. Still room to sign up.
7. Education/Training: Follow the website, HERC, & RTAC emails for educational opportunities. Many seminars via HERC are coming up.
8. Medical Directors: Dr. Sarah working on protocol coordination.
9. MABAS: New app is coming but not here yet. Chris Dallas is the MABAS contact.
10. NEW RTAC/HERC: There are grant monies available for use yet this fiscal year. About $20,000 goes into trauma related events. HERC: still has some funding yet also. See web site for grants and updates.
11. Lakeshore Technical College: Ryan or Rob are available to us as needed and the schedule is out
Old Business:
1. EMS Mutual Aid Agreements: We will add Sheboygan into our plan and also Appleton as appropriate.
2. Manitowoc County Mass Casualty plan: An update of this document is also now online for agencies to read.
3. Vice-president: Still no applicants.
4. Disaster Boxes (black): Still waiting for updates on what the disposition of the 6 black boxes is/was. If your agency held one, what is the status?
5. By-laws: Discussion on opening the by-laws to review them and potentially change the president’s term to two years and the vice president to two years but NOT to directly roll into the president then. Committee to form for this.
6. Haz-mat books: We have 2024 versions available.
New Business:
1. EMS Association Future State: Discussion on what we want the Association to look like in 5, 10, 20 years. How can we improve attendance and the value of the meetings. People are asked to talk to their groups, to brainstorm, and to ask questions of other agencies to look at this. Do we want to meet with the Fire Association? The ambulance meeting that happens at with Emergency management? All options are open. We will also look at how Sheboygan County does things for ideas. What about a multi-disciplinary team with police, fire and EMS? Suggestion of a meeting with boards of fire, EMS and law enforcement.
2. Patient weights: Asking ambulance providers to include a weight when dealing with bariatric patients so that hospitals may deploy hovermats or bariatric equipment asap. Weights > 250 #.
3. Next meeting: September 25, 2024 in Mishicot at 7:00 p.m.
A motion to adjourn the meeting was made by Manitowoc and seconded by Newton. The meeting was adjourned at 1959.
Agency Attendance: Manitowoc, Two Rivers, Branch, Francis Creek, Newton, MTSO
Amy Kohlmann Branch John Biely Francis Creek
Mike Eron MTSO Deb Holschbach Newton
Mark Knier Newton Ben Kraynek Manitowoc
Lori Krueger St. Nazianz Hannah Pfeffer Francis Creek
Todd Blaser Manitowoc Mike Chizek Newton
Dr. DiMezia Medical Director
Submitted: D. Holschbach, Secretary