GLOUCESTER COUNTY
FIRE CHIEF’S ASSOCIATION
Ferrell Fire Company
October 15, 2020
The meeting was called to order by Vice President Smith at 1930 hours. The group saluted
the flag the invocation was given by Secretary Glenn Roemmich
Address of welcome was given by Gary Campbell Safety Officer of the Ferrell Fire
Company
NEW MEMBERS:
Chief William Michaels of the Harrisonville Fire Company
Matt Cardile, motion to accept the gentleman into the Association, seconded by, Michael
Carlino, motion passed.
MINUTES OF PAST MEETING:
Fred Lock motion that the minutes of the September meeting be approved as emailed
seconded by, Pat Robinson, motion passed.
FREEHOLDER REPORT: Freeholder Christy stated it was good to see everyone. He
stated that the Neptune System was being returned to the State. More on this will follow.
He stated for everyone to remain safe.
FIRE MARSHALS REPORT: The following is the report:
FIRE ACADEMY REPORT: Bob Hill’s report is as follows:
Gloucester County Chief’s Association
FIRE ACADEMY DIRECTOR’S REPORT
REPORTING MONTH: SEPTEMBER 2020
GLOUCESTER COUNTY FIRE ACADEMY
FIREFIGHTER 1
The fall Firefighter 1 class is underway with 12 students.
Class recently sat for their Hazardous Materials Awareness
and Operations exams. Academy midterm skills exams will
take place in less than two weeks
ACADEMY GENERAL BUSINESS: All academy training props remain
operations and available for company drills. Contact the
academy to schedule your next drill.
TRAINING & EDUCATION ADVISORY COUNCIL:
DIVISION OF FIRE SAFETY
The division with the assistance of Kean University continues
to offer many online programs. To access the brochure and
register, please visit www.keanfiresafety.edu
As previously reported, I have again begun meeting with the
committee to review the exam question bank and practical
skills exam documents. We meet on a weekly basis at the
Middlesex County Fire Academy. Our current project should be
completed in about five week. Thereafter we will begin
reviewing hazardous materials and the driver training
program.
Robert V Hill Sr.
Director I
G.C. EMERGENCY RESPONSE REPORT: Director of Fire Services James Schmidt
reported:
1. The Neptune Equipment is scheduled to be returned to the Division of Fire Safety
within the few weeks. Thank you to all departments over the years that have
participated in training, deployment and housing the components.
2. Apparatus recorders there may be an open microphone issue. Check your recordings
if you discover an issue the County Radio Tech can change the microphone to
resolve same.
3. Pro Phoenix status screen in station / WDA Pro Phoenix App. (Jones) to discuss
more
4. Single Tone for Task Force(s) Alerting, planning on starting next week and utilize
same for upcoming Tender TF drill in Woolwich Twp.
5. SAFRA Meeting conducted via Zoom on October 14, 2020
Key Points:
a.Nov 9
th
thru 15
th
National Traffic Incident Response Week, requesting promoting
the event on FD social media sites
b.In-Person traffic incident management training is being conducted. Instructors
will follow the facility / agency health emergency guidelines.
c.All highway safety information is on the NJTIM.ORG
6. Updated Communications was sent out via email on 9/15 (Advise if you haven’t
received it) Plan Updates included.
a. Acknowledgement of the apparatus resource type
b. Definition updates
c. Vehicle numbering for Specialty and Support Units
d. Alarm Room Contact Numbers
e. Storm Response Matrix
f. Procedure for submitting Response Plans
There was a discussion regarding status screens in the stations, and a question was asked
about having a status screen in the Fire Academy.
Dan Baker motion that the Communications present issues at the Operational meeting
seconded by Bill Bates, motion passed.
FIRE COORDINATION: No Report
HAZ-MAT: Jay Jones reported that they have a few responses mainly due to suspicious
packages. It was also reported that Andrew Halter is a full time County Haz Mat
Technician.
GLOUCESTER COUNTY EMS: Outreach training is still available, also continue to
use caution due to Covid 19.
N. J. DIVISION OF FIRE SAFETY: No Report
N.J. STATE FIREMEN’S RELEIF ASSOCIATION: Glenn Roemmich advised that
the Annual Memorial Service held during the Convention is now available on the State
Web Site:
N.J. FIREMENS HOME: No Report
N.J. EXEMPT ASSOCIATION: Glenn Roemmich nothing to report.
LAW & LEGISLATION: No Report
BANQUET COMMITTEE:V Dan Baker reported:
2021 Banquet Committee Report
Banquet contract was signed on September 16
th
will be held on Thursday January 14, 2021
at Masso’s Crystal Manor. Cocktail hour starts at 6pm.
Monthly Meetings. You will sign the sheet for the organization you want tickets for. Cash,
Check or Voucher are all accepted.
Anyone that has items for the Chinese Auction please let someone on the committee know.
Chief’s:
1. If you had any mentionable moments from 2020, new truck, grants etc, send me an
email: bakesquad3@gmail.com
2. Door prizes will be a department T-Shirt, we will have the department name, chiefs
name and contact number.
Guest Speaker is confirmed. Bud Henkels who teaches Firefighter Awareness in
Lightweight Building Construction at the Montgomery County, Pa Fire Academy and
throughout the Philadelphia Fire Department.
AWARDS COMMITTEE:
Glenn Roemmich advised that anyone with nominations for awards should have them to
the committee before the December meeting or bring them to the December meeting. The
award period runs from December 2019 to the end of November.
NOMINATION COMMITTEE: The nominating committee report is as follows:
The following is a list of those who expressed to the committee an interest in being an
Officer and the Office they were interested in:
President: No Nomination
Vice President: No Nomination
Secretary: Glenn D. Roemmich
Membership Secretary: Larry Crane
Treasurer: Bob Hill
Trustees Anthony Baldasaro
Joe Petsch
Eric Farley
Delegate to the Executive Committee: No Nomination
BY-LAW COMMITTEE: No Report
ST. FLORIAN COMMITTEE: Nothing to Report
BEAREAVMENT COMMITTEE: No Report
SPECIAL COMMITTEES:
RADIO COMMITTEE: Will report on items at the Operational meeting.
TECH RESCUE: No Report
TENDER TASK FORCE: Chad Hitzelberger reported that they had met last month, and
will be holding a drill on the 24
th
of October.
FOAM STRIKE TEAM: Jeff Pfeiffer reported that the task force is exploring training
possibilities while keeping in mind Covid 19 safe practices.
LARGE DIAMETER HOSE TASK FORCE: No Report
TRAINING/FIRE ACADEMY COMMITTEE: No Report
CORRESPONDENCE: None
PAYMENT of BILLS: Bob Hill reported that we had received a bill from Fire
Cmpanies.com. The bill will be tabled for now.
TREASURER’S REPORT:
DATE October 15,
2020
REPORT MONT
H(S)
September 9, 2020 - October 14, 2020
STARTING BALANCE $ 13,767.40
5
TOTAL OF DEPOSITS $
285.00
TOTAL OF EXPENSES $
33.00
ENDING BALANCE $ 14,019.40
RECEIPTS
CAMPTOWN $
35.00
JANVIER (2020 DUES) $
150.00
CAMDEN CITTY (LEADERSHIP 2020) $
100.00
TOTAL ALL RECEIPTS $
285.00
EXPENSES
09/21/20 360
ROBERT HILL (FILING ANNUAL STATE
REPORT)
$
33.00
TOTAL EXPENSES $
33.00
SUNSHINE
FUND
$ 1,652.50
9/9/2020
JANVIER
DUES
$
25.00
9/9/2020
CAMPTOWN
SPLIT
$
17.50
$ 1,695.00
AS OF
13-Mar
ASSOCIATION TOTAL WORTH $ 14,019.40
TOTAL WORTH SUNSHINE FUND $ 1,652.50
ASSOCIATION WITHOUT SUNSHINE FUND $ 12,366.90
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED
Robert V Hill sr
Treasurer
Matt Cardile motion to accept the treasurer’s report seconded by
Dave Raso, motion passed.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
NEW BUISNESS:
Vice President Smith appointed the following as the Web Site Committee:
Dan Baker
Robert Leahy Jr.
Glenn Roemmich
WEB SITE: Dan Baker presented the following proposal for the web site:
SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT
PROPOSAL
EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
To provide the Gloucester County Fire Chiefs and Fire Officers
Association a web based platform to provide information for users
interested in their contents. The web application will be used by the
GCFCA to post information and updates, retain a space for participating
stations and districts to have information displayed, to display
information about the Association’s Executive Officers, provide
information and guidance for bereavement, maintain an honor list for
LODDs, display task forces and their composition, a place for publicly
downloadable documents, a space for general links for their users, and a
calendar area to display events and notable dates. The website will be
contained under the domain, “gcfca.com” and will be publicly accessible
for relevant features. Features that require authentication and
authorization will only be accessible by members of the Association
using unique credentials per member. The website will be hosted and
maintained on a server provisioned by Aaron Belz Web-Development,
hosting terms will be provided when milestone 1.1 is conducted; this
ensures we evaluate needs properly and thoroughly.
1.
Current Site Analysis
After taking preliminary analysis of the current platform for the GCFCA I
have concluded that the Wordpress installation is out-of-date (creating
possible entry methods for malicious intent), there is no valid SSL
certificate being forced for the application (which is out of current
standard), the packages for the site are taking roughly 7MB of data per page
load with the average (of 10 fresh requests) time-to-content being 17.4
seconds. I have also found that during this time 253 subsequent requests
were placed by the page of which, 39 resulted in a fatal error, 6 resulted in a
warning (requests were made from Google Chrome Version 85.0.4183.121
x64). My findings can be summarized as, this is very much unacceptable for
any website - let alone a site with an average view count
per-day of 340.
2. Obstacles
Our obstacles for developing and implementing a new site include the
migration of existing data, providing training for relevant users, and
introducing the new site’s capabilities to the end users. We may also
consider integrations with other systems; for example, Facebook to gather
posts and import them into the site.
4.
Budgetary Risks
Budgetary risks include sudden growth in requirements and breakdown of
specification. These each can be mitigated by following our milestone and
reporting process (below), frequent meetings between us and members of the
GCFCA that are contributing to the new website project can mitigate sudden
growth in requirements, and consistent reviews of progress and plan will
reduce the likelihood of specifications being overlooked.
5. Hardware
We are creating an entirely responsive website, this allows for mobile
devices, older devices, and devices ranging in size and computing power to
use the site in its entirety.
6. Software
Our software will be built upon the Laravel 8 MVC PHP 7.4+ platform and
hosted using NGINX - we will be using MySQL as our relational database
driver and Redis as our caching solution. For our frontend stack we will be
using Bootstrap 4+, TailwindCSS, and Vue/Alpine JS. We will be cognisant
of possible security vulnerabilities from within our chosen technology stack
and will patch these vulnerabilities as quickly as possible.
7.
Our Aim
We are aiming to create a new site from the ground up that looks and conveys
professionalism and regard for the end user. We would be designing a platform
to be intuitive and provide relevant information to users in a timely manner.
This includes the time it takes to load the site, and it includes the time it takes
for a user to gain the information they are visiting the site for. We strive to
cater to the needs defined in subsequent meetings with the GCFCA. We are
confident that we can provide a website that exceeds expectations and
completely covers criteria.
8.
Milestones, Reporting, and Pricing
This is my estimation of a possible timeline and milestones for the project.
Total estimation of man hours: 144
Total estimation of price for
milestones 1-5: $1,800.00 Price
estimation per month (for hosting):
$30.00
Payment terms will be based off of the estimated price for the milestones
and payments to be made 25% on 2020-10-16, 25% on 2020-11-06, 25% on
2020-11-20, and remaining
25% on 2020-12-14.
Milesto
ne
Tasks Reporting Hrs Date
1 - Analysis
1.1
Analysis and design stage,
gather data and create system
mockup
Email report
with
mockup
requesting
comments
20 2020-10-
15
1.2
Architecture design
None
4
2020-10-
16
1.3
Design work plan
Client
meeting to
review
work plan
10 2020-10-
22
2 - Development
2.1 Create database None
5
2020-10-
26
2.2
Create initial application
structure
None
5
2020-10-
27
2.3 Create basic application features Email report
30
2020-10-
29 -
2020-11-
04
2.4
Check in meeting to review
progress
Client
meeting
2
2020-11-
05
2.5 Implement more features Email report
20
2020-11-
06 -
2020-11-
12
3 - Testing
3.1
Open Beta (allowing some
members to use on a staging
environment)
Client
meeting
-
2020-11-
16 -
2020-11-
25
3.2 Implement feedback from 3.1 None
20
2020-11-
26 -
2020-12-
03
3.3 Finalise documentation None
15
2020-12-
04 -
2020-12-
09
4 - Training
4.1 Training via presentation Client
meeting
3
2020-12-
10
5 - Deployment
5.1
Deployment to gcfca.com
Email report
10
2020-12-
13 -
2020-12-
14
PERSONAL NOTE
My name is Aaron Belz and I am a 21 year old firefighter
for the National Park Fire Department, I’ve been in the fire
service since 2016 and I graduated fire school in Fall 2017. I
have a lot of passion, respect, and gratitude for the fire
service and the people involved; seeing the impact that we
each have each day in our communities is a humbling and
gratifying experience that I am proud to be able to have. I
have been programming since I was 11 and began making
websites around 12. Throughout my whole life I have
always striven for making good change. I have been
fortunate enough to be able to do this in both the fire service
and in programming. Hence I am here trying to merge the
two things I am most passionate for. I would love to provide
my services to the people who share in the honor that I’m in
the fire service to uphold. It would be a privilege to
contribute meaningful development for a cause that is so
close to home, figuratively and physically. I appreciate your
consideration and I am eager to communicate about this
project. If you have any questions both personally or
professionally my cell is (856) 981-6863.
Thank you,
Aron Belz
NOMINATION’S:
The following is a list of those who expressed to the nominating committee
an interest in being an Officer and the Office they were interested in:
President: No Nomination
Vice President: No Nomination
Secretary: Glenn D. Roemmich
Membership Secretary: Larry Crane
Treasurer: Bob Hill
Trustees Anthony Baldasaro
Joe Petsch
Eric Farley
Delegate to the Executive Committee: No Nomination
The floor was then opened for nominations:
President: Matt Cardile Dan Baker/Bill Bates
Vice President: Steve Smith Declined the nomination
Dan Baker Rob Leahy/Bill Bates
Secretary: Motion to close
Membership Secretary: Motion to close
Treasurer: Motion to close
Trustees: Motion to close
Member to the Executive Committee
Steve Smith Declined the nomination
Mark Gismondi Dan Baker/Matt Cardile
Dan Baker motion to close the nominations until the November meeting,
seconded by Fred Lock, motion passed.
CAMPTOWN: $ 37.00
GOOD & WELFARE OF THE ASSOCIATION:
Vice President Smith advised that the following items will be discussed
during the Operational Meeting:
RIT Guidelines
Live CAD
Mayday
Staffing
Active 9-1-1
PLACE OF NEXT MEETING: November 12th Woodbury Fire
Company meeting at 1930
Roll Call Taken by the Secretary
Matt Cardile motion to adjourn seconded by Dan Baker
motion passed.
Meeting adjourned at 20:14 hours.
Respectfully Submitted
Glenn Roemmich
Secretary
