The First Meeting of the Wake County Fire Commission – November 24, 1998

Digging through the early years of the Wake County Fire Commission this morning. They were created as an advisory board in 1998, as a recommendation of a 1994 fire service study, and supplanted the Wake Council Fire Chief’s Council, which previously served that role.

They discussed such things as:

  • Meeting dates, time, and location.
  • Role of the commission.
  • Contract and contracts.
  • Personnel retention and recruitment programs.
  • ISO and consultant reports.
  • Appointed subcommittees for Capital Improvement Projects, Budget Review, Contract and Performance Requirements, and Planning.
  • The planned 800MHz radio system.
  • Current priority issues of the commission.
  • Funding distribution/service district budget development.

Read the entire minutes of that first meeting by drilling down into www.legeros.com/ralwake/docs/wcfc.

I’ve conveniently downloaded as both individual and compiled files from the official site.

Who’s Who

Present and accounted for were these familiar names:

  • Blaine Parks, Citizen/Consumer (Alternate) Mitchell, South Region/Primary [GFD]
  • Rodney Privette, East Region/Alternate [RRFD]
  • George Mills, North Region/Primary [BLFD]
  • Ned Perry, Citizen/Consumer [Retired CFD]
  • Bonnie Woodruff, Citizen/Consumer
  • Bill Stevenson, President of Firemen’s Association
  • Cloyce Anders, External Facilitator (Non-voting)
  • Ray Echevarria, Interim Director-Fire/Rescue Division
  • Ed Brinson, West Region/Primary [SCFD]
  • Max Ashworth, Citizen/Consumer
  • Tom Vaughan, East Region/Primary [WFD]
  • Chuck Sannipoli, Citizen/Consumer
  • Tony Chiotakis, West Region/Alternate [MFD]
  • A. C. Rich, North Region/Alternate [SHFD]

Absent were:

  • Ken Farmer, South Region/Alternate [FVFD]
  • Nancy Schwarm, Citizen/Consumer

Recognized were:

  • David Cooke, Deputy County Manager
  • Tim Lanier, Interim Public Safety Director
  • Chris Perry, Shift Supervisor-Fire/Rescue Division
  • Sherry Scoggins, Executive Secretary

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