Georgia Public Safety Educators’ Association
Meeting Agenda
GPSTC
August 21, 2014
I. Welcome---introduce training segment:
Jonathan Fuqua, City of Covington Fire, presented the BullEx fire extinguisher simulator.
Prices range from $4, 000-$5,000.
II. Amendments To Agenda
III. Approval Of Minutes From Last Meeting- June 19, 2014
Motion to approve:
Seconded by:
IV. Treasurer Report
1. Balance of $5,009.09 per Pres. James Wise. $1302 deposited from the Motorcycle
Ride.
V. Grants
VI. Committee Reports –With Discussion
1. SFMO- V. Pres. Karla spoke on the following:
***Donna Lee, American Red Cross was introduced and spoke about the Red
Cross’ partnership with Disney on the Pillow Case Project.
***There were 346 attendees at the 2014 Symposium. A huge thank you to
everyone that helped with the Symposium.
***The 2014 Life Safety Awards Luncheon will be held at GPSTC on Oct. 30th in
Bays A&B.
***Prevention forms are on the website if you do not have a copy.
***They are in the process of updating the Child Care Fire Safety Curriculum to
include new requirements of adult day care. An email with updated information
will be sent out when this is completed.
2. GFA-Rodney spoke on the following:
***The Oct. 20th-24th Alternative Teaching Methods (Clown School) class is
subject to being cancelled due to low enrollment. There is a need for at least
eight more people in order for this not to happen.
***Fire Prevention Lab bids to close in under two weeks.
***Georgia Forestry are looking to landscape the outside of the Lab using
Firewise guidelines.
***A few classes that are going to be taught starting in 2015 are Campus Fire and
Life Safety, Campus fire and Life Safety 2, Campus Fire and Life Safety 3
3. SFBF4. GFBF-Dana emailed the following information as GFBF was not able to attend:
Family Weekend-September 5th -7th at Will-A-Way. This is for any burn survivor
and their family and/or caregivers. Applications are available on the website at
www.gfbf.org. Please call Dana with questions.
World Burn Congress-October 22nd -25th-Sponsorship applications available at
www.gfbf.org. This a conference for burn survivors, family and friends of burn
survivors, fire service, and burn care professionals interested in learning more
about the burn injury experience. Please call Dana if you have questions or go
online to complete an application.
ABLS classes- September 8th at Grady and October 3rd in Savannah. For more
info or additional classes contact Tequila if you are interested in attending or visit
website.
Special Events:
(This is event not on the website at this time) 1-800 Board Up-Charity Golf
Tournament, Oct. 20th in support of GFBF will be held at the Northwood Country
Club in Lawrenceville. $100 per player or $360 per team of 4.
Boot Drive: Not too late to participate in a boot drive. Call Venessa for more info
and/or if supplies are needed.
Last but NOT least....thanks for the ongoing support and partnership! Check
the website for other special events and/or fundraisers. And as always, feel
free to call the office with any questions or concerns.
VII. Purchase Requests
VIII. Upcoming Requests from Members
Jonathan Fuqua advised the City of Covington Fire will be hosting an event on Oct. 16 at
Wal-mart (10300 Industrial Blvd). They are in need of clowns and/or educators. Please
contact him via email (jfuqua@cityofcovington.org).
IX. Upcoming Events:
Sept. 6th and 7th-FireFighter Weekend, GPSTC Forsyth, GA
Sept. 16th-20th, 2014-Georgia Fire Service Conference Macon, GA---for more info on
Conference, see previous emails. If you are not attending the Conference but are
working the booth, you can go the gsffa.org and print off an exhibitor’s pass.
***Sept. 17th, 11a-12a-Unification Meeting
***Sept. 18th, 5:30p-7p-Exhibit Show-We will have a booth. Email James if you’d like to
volunteer.
***Sept. 19th, 9a-1p-Exhibit Show-We will have a booth. Email James if you like to
volunteer.
Sept. 27th, 10a-2p-2014 Gwinnet County Public Safety Fall Festival-Coolray Field, 2500
Buford Drive in Lawrenceville.
X. New Business:
***Pres. Wise the route for the 2015 Motorcycle Ride will change.
***Pres. Wise and Rodney are discussing a possible trip to Carroll County (which will
include two other counties) for education for their personnel. They are looking at the
second week of November and staying for a week. More info to be announced as it
become available.
***Nancy, Warner Robins Fire, asked about the status of the Youthful Firesetter
Program.
IX. Next Scheduled Meeting-Oct. 16, 2014
XII. Close Meeting
Roster:
Matthew Kelley-GDC Fire Services-fc-dodgsp@dcor.state.ga.us-478-230-4803
Claudie Nash-Atlanta Fire-cnash@atlanta.ga.gov-404-392-0400
Joanne Lynch-Kids R Us-kidzareus@bellsouth.net-404-597-7260
Nancy Smith-Warner Robins Fire-nsmith@wrga.gov-478-293-1029
Rodney Pickle-Georgia Fire Academy-rpickle@gpstc-478-993-4392
James Wise-State Fire Marshal’s Office-jwise@sfm.ga.gov-404-831-8241
Derrick “Chewy” Adams-Butts County Fire-chewy33@gmail.com-678-233-4781
Jonathan Fuqua-City of Covington-jfuqua@cityofcovington.org-404-925-7295
Karla Richter-State Fire Marshal’s Office-krichter@sfm.ga.gov-404-463-6512
Sunni Lee-State Fire Marshal’s Office-slee@sfm.ga.gov-404-656-0419
Willie Johnson, Jr.-Macon-Bibb County Fire-willie.johnson@macon.ga.us-478-808-8364
Marcus Turner-Putnam County Fire-pces204@yahoo.com
Shawne Shores-Gwinnett County Fire-shawne.shores@gwinnettcounty.com
Wanda Sue Maddox-Henry County Fire-wsmaddox@co.henry.ga.us-678-300-1939
Laura Coleman-Forsyth County Fire-llcoleman@forsyth.co.com-770-205-5699