Fire and Rescue Committee — Minutes

FR Agenda 9-4-25 5621 Town Hall Road, Delavan, Wisconsin 53115 (262) 728-3471 - FAX (262) 728-3473 Email: bthummel@townofdelavan.com Office Hours: M – F, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM OFFICIAL NOTICE The Town of Delavan Fire & Rescue Committee held its monthly Meeting on Thursday September 4th , 2025 at 5:00 PM at Fire Station #1, 5698 Town Hall Rd., Delavan WI 53115. 1) Call to order/Roll – by Chair Thummel at 5:00 PM; Bores excused; Hansen, Ryan Flitcroft present 2) Declaration of quorum for doing business by Thummel 3) Approval of the Agenda - motion to approve by Burns, second byThummel, carried 6-0 4) Approval of the minutes of the regular Fire & Rescue Committee meeting August 7th , 2025 – motion to approved by Burns, second by Thummel, carried 6-0 5) Communications: flyer was received from Walworth County noting increased events of Overdose 6) Comments and Suggestions of Citizens present regarding Items on the Agenda (Comments limited to 3 minutes please) – no comments 7) Old Business: (a) Discussion/possible recommendation: 5/10 year Strategic Planning –no report (b) Discussion/possible recommendation: Accounts Receivable and collections – Update Handouts provided and it continues to reflect the lower numbers of collections/receivables; continue efforts to improve these collections (c) Discussion/possible recommendation: County F&R Committee Study – Jarosz received a recent draft for review and made some corrections to the info (d) Discussion/possible recommendation: F&R Reports – recommend that the reports continue to reflect the mutual aid breakdowns for possible action, to evaluate any data that shows imbalance in MA calls vs mutual response (e) Discussion/possible recommendation: Tower Ladder truck repairs and timeline for ordering new truck - Tower truck up and running at this time; expense for new truck estimated at $1.9 M/2 years until delivery (f) Discussion/possible recommendation: Improving EMS response times for outlying Town residents and boundary review – Knipper to meet with City of Delavan Schroeder and Griffin, Finance Director re: boundaries revision potential and mutual response times between City and Town to be a target goal and best use of each dept. resources; FR Agenda 9-4-25 (g) Discussion/possible recommendation: Personnel Update – Henke and Goff not long with dept., both were on probation status; Anna will not be returning to EMS; Sept has one EMS leaving (h) Discusssion/possible recommendation: 2026 budget – draft Fire/EMS 2026 budget reviewed and will be presented to upcoming Finance Comm. (i) Discussion/possible recommendation: Review of July 5th events and possible additional equipment – Jarosz noted that planning should include a dedicated boat that can provide site protection/assist with rescue efforts and crowd directions. 8) New Business: (a) None 9) Monthly Bills: Review and Approve – motion to approved payment of bills by Knipper, second by Burns, carried 6-0. 10) Comments and Suggestions from Citizens present regarding items not on the agenda - None 11) Date of Next Meeting: TBD due to early in October , 2025, 5:00pm at Fire Station #1 OR potentially postpone one month 12) Adjournment – motion to adjourn at 6:30 PM by Knipper, second by Burns, carried 6-0. Date: October 2 , 2025 Committee Members: Bill Thummel – Chair Jeff Flitcroft - Assistant Fire Chief Mary Knipper – Co-Chair Mike Burns - Citizen Member Jamie Jarosz - Fire Chief Mary Bores– Citizen Member Michael Petkoff - EMS