[3. FIRE BOARD REPORTS] [5.A. PRESENTATION OF PERSONNEL] [6. CONSENT AGENDA] [7.A. FIRE CHIEF'S REPORT – CHIEF BRANDHUBER] [7.B. COMMUNITY RISK REDUCTION DIVISION’S REPORT - ASSISTANT CHIEF PERRY] [00:22:59] ONE THAT GRFD RECEIVES COMMERCIAL REQUESTS AND THAT THESE REQUESTS [00:23:05] ARE MADE BY COMPANIES WHO OBTAIN THE DATA TO SELL IT. REQUESTERS ARE CHARGED $50 BLACK COMMERCIAL REQUEST FEE PER OUR FEE SCHEDULE. DO WE ALL… DO WE ALWAYS CATCH THEM, OR ARE THERE AT TIMES THAT SOME OF THEM SLIP THROUGH THAT WE'RE NOT CHARGING [00:23:20] OR HOW DOES IT WORK? MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD [00:23:24] WHEN A COMMERCIAL REQUEST IS SUBMITTED, THEY'RE REQUIRED BY LAW TO DECLARE THAT THEY'RE A COMMERCIAL ENTITY THAT THEY'RE GOING TO SELL THE DATA. WE DO HAVE THAT ON THE FORUM THAT THEY DISCLOSE IT. HOWEVER, WE AREN'T ALLOWED TO PURSUE IT. SO IF WE THINK IT'S A COMMERCIAL REQUEST, AND THEY DID NOT DECLARE IT, WE AREN'T LEGALLY ALLOWED TO [00:23:44] PURSUE THAT THEY'RE COMMERCIAL. BUT MOST OF THE TIME THEY'RE PRETTY HONEST. WE HAVEN'T ANYBODY HAD ANYBODY THAT WAS A COMMERCIAL THAT DIDN'T DECLARE IT AND THERE ARE VERY FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. WE HAVE ONE ENTITY THAT SUBMITS IT MAYBE QUARTERLY FOR DATA AND WE WORKED WITH OUR ATTORNEY TO ESTABLISH THE $50 FLAT FEE FOR THE COMMERCIAL REQUESTS [7.C. SUPPORT SERVICES DIVISION’S REPORT - ASSISTANT CHIEF CESAREK] OKAY, THANK YOU. ANYBODY ELSE? MADAM CHAIR, WE DO HAVE CAPTAIN RYAN WARD HERE FOR THE LEADERSHIP TEAM. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. LEADERSHIP REPORT. MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, IN HONOR OF WHAT VICE CHAIR VETTI SAID FOR RECOGNIZING AND HONORING 9/11 AND THE 343 FIREFIGHTERS THAT DIED THAT DAY AND ONE FIRE PATROLMAN. AND THE OVER 1,000 FIREFIGHTERS THAT HAVE DIED OF CANCER SINCE THEN, I THINK IT WOULD BE PREFERRED TO HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR THAT. THANK YOU. MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. SEPTEMBER'S BEEN BUSY FOR THE LABOR GROUPS THIS MONTH WITH LABOR DAY. WE PARTICIPATED IN THE PIMA COUNTY LABOR DAY CELEBRATION WHERE WE HANDED OUT BOTTLES OF SUNSCREEN TO KIND OF PUT OUT THERE THE EFFECTS AND CANCER, THE EPIDEMIC THAT HAPPENS IN THE FIRE SERVICE. WE ALSO HANDED OUT OUR PETS IN THIS HOME STICKER, WHICH I THINK IS A GREAT STICKER THAT WE HAVE. IT JUST SAYS [00:25:07] WHAT PETS ARE IN THIS HOME, SO IT LETS US KNOW IF WE ARRIVE AT YOUR HOUSE AND THERE'S NOBODY THERE TO TELL US WE KNOW WHAT PETS ARE IN THERE. WE CAN JUST KIND OF HELP OUT ANY WAY POSSIBLE. ALSO, JUST SOME UPDATES. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN IT OR NOT, BUT THE AG HAS FILED HAS JOINED PART OF THE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FOR THE FIRE TRUCK CRISIS, WHICH I THINK EVERYBODY IN HERE HAS KNOWN AND THE SEEN THE BACKLOG AND THE COST OF WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH FIRE TRUCKS. AG MAYS HAS ADDED FIRE DISTRICTS TO THAT AS WELL. SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO FOLLOW ALONG CLOSELY AND SUPPORT ANY WAY THAT WE CAN WITH THAT. SO IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL BE HAPPY TO TAKE THEM. OKAY, THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORT. OKAY, MOVING ON TO ERIC PERRY, ASSISTANT COMMUNITY RISK REDUCTION, WHICH SHE'S ALWAYS WORKING HARD ON THAT. THANKS, ERIC. MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, YOU HAVE MY REPORT. I HAVE NOTHING TO HIGHLIGHT. I'M READY FOR QUESTIONS. IF YOU HAVE ANY FOR ME. YES, YOU HAVE TO GO AHEAD. THANK YOU, PERRY, I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE YOU AND CHIEF WILSON FOR THE GREAT BREAKDOWN ON MILEAGE COSTS FOR SERVICE CALL THAT REALLY HELPS CLARIFY MY QUESTION AND TOM'S QUESTION. I THINK SO WE APPRECIATE THAT AND THE OTHER IS ON THE FINANCE WE SAID WE HAVE A NUMBER OF OVERPAYMENTS SO WE GET MORE MONEY THAN WE'RE SUPPOSED TO. MADAM CHAIR, BOARD MEMBER BETTY, WE OCCASIONALLY, AS WE ARE CLEANING UP OUR INVOICING PROCESS AND OUR PAYMENT PROCESS, WE WILL HAVE AN INVOICE THAT COMES THROUGH VIA EMAIL OR AN INVOICE THAT ALSO THEN IS DUPLICATED IN IN OUR OPERATIVE IQ, THE PA SOFTWARE THAT WE UTILIZE. SO THAT'S WHERE SOMETIMES THOSE OVERPAYMENTS COME IN. SOMETIMES THEY ARE OVERPAYMENTS DUE TO MISSING US AS THE ORGANIZATION, MISSING PERSONNEL ACTION FORM FOR SOMEBODY. SO THEN WE WILL HAVE OVERPAYMENTS TO AN INDIVIDUAL THAT NEED TO BE PAID BACK. SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO TRACK AND CLEAN UP IN OUR OVERALL FINANCE CLEANUP AND MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THOSE DOWN TO ZERO, BUT THAT'S WHY WE WANTED TO TRACK SPECIFICALLY THOSE THINGS, SO WE CAN LASER THEM AND GET THEM KNOCKED OUT. OKAY, THANK YOU. YES, SIR. YOU STATE THAT MCGOVERN CONSULTING HAS CONTINUED TO ASSIST US WITH DEVELOPING A NEW ORGANIZATIONAL IN MIP. CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT A LITTLE BIT? MADAM CHAIR, YES, WE HAVE, AS WE HAD MENTIONED TO THE BOARD A WHILE BACK, WE DECIDED WITH THE START OF THE NEW FISCAL YEAR TO BASICALLY SET UP A NEW INSTANCE OF GOLDER RANCH IN MIPR ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE. OKAY. SO THAT IS STANDALONE FROM THE PAST YEARS. SO THE PAST YEARS ARE ONE INSTANCE AND THEN THIS IS A NEW INSTANCE, AND OUR GOAL WAS TO START FRESH MOVING FORWARD. WE'RE STILL GOING THROUGH THAT PROCESS, AS YOU'LL SEE WITH WITH INTERIM DIRECTOR SARGENT'S PRESENTATION. WHERE THERE'S STILL SOME CLEANUP TO DO, PARTICULARLY IN TERMS OF WORKING WITH THE CONTRACTOR THAT WE HIRED TO GET CLEAN STARTING BALANCES. OKAY. BUT THAT'S STILL IN PROCESS. BUT AS WE PROGRESS THROUGH AND GET THOSE CLEAN STARTING BALANCES AND START LASERING SOME OF THE INVOICE PROBLEMS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE [7.D. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES & FIRE RESPONSE DIVISON’S REPORT – ASSISTANT CHIEF GRISSOM] WE THINK THE REPORTING'S JUST GOING TO GET BETTER AND BETTER, AND WE'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE A GOOD GOOD CLEAN FINANCE PROCESS, HOPEFULLY SO OKAY THIS PEACH JAR DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT PROGRAM FOR OUR EMPLOYEES, RIGHT? SEEMS LIKE A GREAT WAY TO. MADAM CHAIR, I'M GOING TO LET CHIEF WILSON ADDRESS THAT. IF YOU DON'T MIND. GOOD MORNING, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. SO CREDIT TO DAN HAVENECK FOR FINDING PHGR THROUGH HIS YEARS OF TEACHING IN THE AMPHI SCHOOL DISTRICT AND PEACH JAR BASICALLY UTILIZES AMPHI HIGH SCHOOL OR AMPHI SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND IS ABLE TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION MONTHLY TO ANYBODY WHO IS ENROLLED IN THE AMPHI SCHOOL DISTRICT SO WE GET A REPORT AND IT WAS GREAT TO SEE THAT ROUGHLY 20,000 PEOPLE WERE TOUCHED BY THAT EMAIL THAT WE SEND OUT EACH MONTH. SO IT'S PRETTY COOL [00:30:15] I KNEW THAT AMPHI HAD A PROGRAM, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS CALLED PEACHJAR, SO THAT WAS WHY I ASKED ABOUT IT. IT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT PROGRAM. THANK YOU. YEAH, THANKS. I'VE GOT A QUESTION. DEPUTY CHIEF WILSON. DON'T SIT DOWN. ON THE CRT MILEAGE BREAKDOWN, I NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A LADDER TRUCK THERE, AND I WAS TALKING TO BOARD MEMBER BETTY ABOUT THAT. HE INFORMED ME THAT THERE WERE SIX RESPONSES FROM THE LADDER TRUCK ON A CRT CALL. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY THAT IS [8.A. DISCUSSION AND/OR POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING THE APPROVAL OF THE 2026- 2027 STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN (SBP) PROGRESS UPDATE TO THE 2025-2030 SBP] LOOKING SO TRYING TO GATHER THE INFORMATION. YOU SAID THERE WAS SIX PUBLIC ASSIST BASICALLY. NO, I THINK IT WAS DIFFERENT REPORT. AND IT'S EMS UNITS. AND THE LADDER TRUCK WAS NUMBER 6 IN THE VOLUME. SO I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY SOMETHING FOR CHIEF GERSON. I GOTCHA. OKAY. MADAM CHAIR, BOARD MEMBER SCHELLENBERGER. YEAH, THE LADDER TRUCK WILL STILL RESPOND TO PUBLIC ASSIST AFTER HOURS. WE DON'T WANT, YOU KNOW, A THEY'LL RUN IN THE… WHEN THE CRT TRUCK IS OUT OF SERVICE, ANY UNIT THAT IS IN SERVICE WILL STILL TAKE THOSE CALLS. THE AREA OF STATION 375 IS A HOTBED FOR SNAKES, SO WE STILL DO RUN SNAKES WITH OUR LADDER TRUCK IN THAT AREA, S THANK YOU. WELL, AND I… THE FLEET COST COMPARISON WERE INTERESTING NUMBERS WHERE CLEARLY RUNNING THE CRT TRUCKS IS ONLY 55 CENTS PER MALE PER MILE, SO OBVIOUSLY THAT'S THE MOST COST-EFFECTIVE WAY OF DOING THINGS, BUT I'M SURE THERE ARE TIMES WHEN WE CAN'T HAVE A TRUCK AVAILABLE, SO THAT MAKES TOTAL SENSE. BUT THANK YOU FOR THESE NUMBERS. VERY HELPFUL WITH SEEING WHAT THE ACTUAL COST IS. SO THANK YOU. OKAY, ANY MORE QUESTIONS? OKAY, SO THEN LET'S MOVE ON TO GRAHAM. LAST WEEK WHEN WE HAD THE INTERNET OUTAGE, WE DID FIND SOME SPOTS I DIDN'T KNOW THE LANGUAGE THEY WERE SPEAKING THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT AND KNOWLEDGE AND THE COMBINATION OF THAT IT TEAM TOGETHER TO FIND SOLUTIONS LIKE I SAID, I CAN'T SPEAK. MOODLE TO OUR IT TEAM MIGHT NOT HAVE HEARD EVERYTHING THEY HAD BUILT LAST WEEK AND THEN ALSO ON OUR ANNUAL REPORT, WHICH WE INAUGURAL OR THE EARTH HERE PUTTING OUT AN ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE ORGANIZATION IS GOING TO END UP LOOKING LIKE I'D LIKE TO ALL OF OUR PROGRAM YESTERDAY WE SENT THAT AND GOING FROM THE PDF FILES THAT WE'VE BEEN PRESUMABLY PRINTED ROOF SO THAT WE CAN SEE HOW EVERYTHING AND ALSO EVERYBODY THAT CAN I ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT COURT MAY HAVE YEAH, YOU MENTIONED OF FLEET METRICS, PERCENTAGE OF OUT-OF-SERVICE TIME BETWEEN SCHEDULED VERSUS UNSCHEDULED MAINTENANCE. 68% SCHEDULED EXPLAIN THAT METRIC. I DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE JUST THROW IT OUT AS VERY SIMPLE, LIKE AN OIL CHANGE, RIGHT? YOU KNOW YOU HAVE AN OIL CHANGE NEED TO GET DONE. SO WE HAVE SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE FOR ALL OF OUR APPARATUS, AND THEN WE HAVE THE TIME WHERE SOMETHING FAILS ON THE APPARATUS. SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET A DIFFERENTIATOR BETWEEN THE TIME WE SCHEDULED IT AND A VEHICLE IS OUT OF OKAY, THAT MAKES SENSE. OKAY, I'VE GOT A COUPLE MORE HERE. WHAT IS IT? YOU MENTIONED PERCENTAGE OF ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS COMPLETED FOR ALL ICA CLAIMS. WHAT'S AN ICA? OH EMPLOYEES THAT ARE HURT WHILE THEY'RE ON OKAY. THAT WAY WE CAN SEE IF THERE'S ANY ROOT CAUSE THAT HAS SIMILARITY. MAYBE WE HAVE A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THAT FAILS, THAT'S CAUSED AN INJURY IN THE WHOLE PLACES [00:35:11] TRYING TO DO A TRUE REVIEW TO ENSURE THAT ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES ARE OKAY. ALSO UNDER THE PROCUREMENT SUPPLY TEAM, INVENTORY KITS IN OPIQ. THERE ARE GROUPS OF INVENTORIES CALLED KITS. WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED THE KIT SET UP THE SYSTEM OF AMBULANCES. BUT YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO DO THIS ON THE FIRE TRUCKS AS WELL. IS THAT POSSIBLE? MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, MUCH LIKE WE'VE BEEN DOING WITH THE QUASAR BUILDING IS TO TRY TO GET A HANDLE ON ALL OF OUR INVENTORY ACROSS THE ENTIRE DISTRICT. AND THE THE SUPPORT SERVICES TEAM HAS FOUND A GREAT WAY UTILIZING THE OPERATIVE IQ SOFTWARE TO MAKE IT EASIER, QUICKER, MORE ACCURATE ON THOSE THAT ARE DOING TRUCK CHECKS IN THE MORNING. TO USE THE KIT FUNCTION TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE THEN CAPTURING WHAT INVENTORY IS ON THE APPARATUS ACROSS THE DISTRICT. SO IT'S GOING TO HELP WITH ALL OF OUR INVENTORY, OUR ORDERING, AND THEN MANAGEMENT OF ALL OF THOSE SUPPLIES. OKAY, THAT MAKES SENSE. OKAY, THANK YOU. A QUESTION ON THE QUASAR WHAT'S THE UPDATE ON THAT MADAM CHAIR, BOARD MEMBER BRADY QUESAR PROJECT HAS BEEN MOVING IN IN A GOOD DIRECTION. WE DID HAVE A LITTLE DELAY WITH SOME PERMIT PROCESS AT THE COUNTY, WHICH IS PRETTY NORMAL WITH ALL OF OUR PROJECTS. STARTING NEXT WEEK, WE ARE GOING WITH THE MILLING AND THE PROCESS OF REPLACING THE ASPHALT WHICH IS GREAT TO SEE. THAT'S THE LAST LITTLE SPOT. DIVISION CHIEF NORTH IS EXCITED. HE GETS TO SNAG A TRENCHER THIS WEEK AND GO DO SOME TRENCH WORK, WHICH HE'S BEEN WAITING TO DO. AND SO WE'RE IN A GREAT SPOT THAT HE'S GOING TO BE GETTING THE PAVEMENT AND EVERYTHING INSTALLED OVER THERE NEXT WEEK. SO ACTUALLY, SORRY, SIR, THAT IS THE FOLLOWING WEEK. IT'D BE THE WEEK OF THE 28TH WHEN THAT ASPHALT WILL BE INSTALLED. OKAY, CHRIS GRISSOM. MORNING, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. YOU HAVE MY REPORT. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. I DO AND WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE OUTSTANDING WORK THAT OUR SUPPRESSION CREWS HAVE BEEN DOING OUT THERE. IF YOU SEE IN YOUR REPORT, WE'VE HAD A HANDFUL OF HAZMAT CALLS. AND A HANDFUL OF HOUSE FIRES AND SOME VEHICLE FIRES, AND THAT JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT THEIR HARD WORK AND TRAINING IS PAYING OFF AND WE'VE HAD NO INJURIES AND THE CREWS ARE REALLY DOING A GREAT JOB OUT THERE FOR THE PUBLIC. SO I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THE GREAT WORK BY SOME OF OUR SUPPRESSION CREWS WELL, I JUST WANTED TO COMPLIMENT YOU AGAIN ON THE TRAINING AND ALL THE PROPS THAT YOU'RE PUTTING TOGETHER FOR TRAINING. YOU MENTIONED INTRODUCTION OF SMOKE MACHINES AND A NEW STRIP MALL PROP. YEAH, MADAM CHAIR, THE WORK OF THE CADRE UP THERE, THEY'RE BUILDING A STRIP MALL PROP SO THEY CAN THEY CAN PRACTICE ON HOW THEY PROPERLY VENTILATE STRIP MALL FIRES, AND HOW THEY CAN SAFELY FIGHT THOSE TYPES OF FIRES. THEY'RE TRICKY FIRES THAT AREN'T YOUR EVERYDAY TYPE FIRE, LIKE A HOUSE FIRE, SO THERE'S SOME DIFFERENT TYPES OF TACTICS THAT THEY HAVE TO DEPLOY TO THOSE TYPES OF FIRES. OKAY, LET ME SEE, I THINK I HAD ONE MORE. I WAS JUST ON YOUR REPORT, YOUR INCIDENT TYPES THAT YOU LISTED TOWARD THE BACK. I WAS WONDERING THERE'S ONE THAT IS UNDER MEDICAL ILLNESS, AND YOU HAVE ALTERED METAL MENTAL STATUS. AND THEN ANOTHER ONE IS LISTED AS PSYCHOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR ISSUES. IS THERE A DIFFERENCE? I DIDN'T… IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO? OBVIOUSLY, THERE MUST BE. OBVIOUSLY, YOU WOULDN'T PUT THEM DOWN. IT'S DIFFERENT. MADAM CHAIR, I'LL DIVISION CHIEF JASON TAYLOR SPEAK ON THAT. GOOD MORNING, MADAM CHAIR. THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO CATEGORIES IS ONE IS MORE OF A MEDICAL ILLNESS AND THE OTHER IS BEHAVIORAL. OKAY, GOTCHA. I MEAN, THEY CAN CROSS, BUT THAT'S THE GENERAL DIVIDER. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANYBODY ELSE? ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON THEN. DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING APPROVAL OF THE 2026-27 STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN PROGRESS UPDATE TO THE 2025-203 SBP MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, BEFORE TURNING THIS OVER TO ASSISTANT CHIEF PERRY, I JUST DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY FROM OUR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM TO OUR DIVISION HEADS, ALL OF OUR PROGRAM MANAGERS, EVERYBODY THAT'S HAD AN INPUT INTO EDITS TO OUR STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN. IT'S BEEN A TON OF WORK, AND I JUST DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY, AND THEN TURN THIS OVER TO ERIC. HE'S GOT A GREAT PRESENTATION FOR YOU. THANK YOU. MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AS YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR, I BELIEVE EARLY LAST YEAR, WE ADOPTED THE STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN. PART OF THAT STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN WAS THAT IT'S A WORKING DOCUMENT. [00:40:08] SO THE GOAL WAS THAT EVERY YEAR WE REVISE AND REVIEW AND UPDATE SO THIS IS A PROGRESS REPORT ON WHERE WE CAME OVER THE PAST YEAR IN TERMS OF OUR STRATEGIC RESULTS, AND THEN WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT FOR THIS NEXT YEAR. AND THEN WE WILL BE ASKING FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE UPDATED STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN MR. SCHELLENBERGER, DID YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, SIR? OKAY. I LOOKED LIKE I HAD A QUESTION. YOU DID. I THOUGHT YOU HAD RAISED YOUR HAND. I APOLOGIZE. NOW THAT YOU MENTIONED IT, IS THIS GOING TO BE AN ANNUAL REVIEW OR BIANNUAL, OR MADAM CHAIR, MR. SCHELLENBERGER. YES, THAT'S THE PLAN IS TO DO IT ANNUALLY. AND THAT WAY, AS WE GROW AND AND PROGRESS IN ACHIEVING THE GOALS UNDER EACH OF OUR STRATEGIC RESULTS WE WILL UPDATE THOSE AND PURSUE NEW GOALS. WE WILL ALSO LOOK AT POTENTIALLY AT TIMES WHETHER WE NEED TO REDO THE WHOLE OF THE DOCUMENT DEPENDENT ON IF THE ENVIRONMENT OUT THERE HAS CHANGED, IF THE THREATS OUT THERE HAVE CHANGED, THINGS LIKE THAT YES, SIR. GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YEAH, I HAD A COMMENT. WELL, I JUST I HAD A QUESTION UNDER COMMUNICATIONS. YOU MENTIONED THAT THE DISTRICT MADE MEANINGFUL PROGRESS TOWARD IMPROVING ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND TRANSPARENCY. INITIAL EMPLOYEE SURVEY RESULTS INDICATE THAT 50% 56% OF MEMBERS UNDERSTOOD MANAGEMENT DECISIONS. BUT THE LONG-TERM GOAL IS TO HAVE 75% OF OUR EMPLOYEES UNDERSTAND THOSE DECISIONS. SO I'M ASSUMING WE'RE WORKING NOW TOWARD THAT GOAL. MADAM CHAIR, THAT'S ABSOLUTELY AND I DO HAVE A PRESENTATION HERE I'LL GO THROUGH AND I THINK THAT'LL PROBABLY ANSWER A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS, BUT I'LL DEFINITELY BE AVAILABLE FOR MORE SPECIFICS AS WELL. LET'S DO IT SO 1ST THINGS FIRST, ST THE STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN IS WORKING. WE'VE MADE MEANINGFUL PROGRESS ON OUR GOALS. SOME OF OUR STRATEGIC GOALS. WE HAVE THE PROGRESS HAS BEEN JUST THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED WE COULDN'T MEASURE IT, AND WE NEEDED TO VERY CLEARLY ARTICULATE IT THAT'S SOME OF THE UPDATES HERE. BUT WE'VE ALSO MADE SOME GOOD MEANINGFUL PROGRESS AS WELL. SO IF YOU LOOK AT THIS OVERVIEW OF THE RESULTS, 91% OF INTERNAL, 90% OF EXTERNAL [8.B. DISCUSSION AND/OR POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING A REQUEST TO OPEN AUTOMATICALLY RENEWING CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT FOR FUTURE ASSIGNED FUNDS] EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS STATED THEY WERE TREATED WITH RESPECT. 92 VERSUS 89 FOR KINDNESS OR COMPASSION. 81% OF EMPLOYEES STATE THAT THEY EXPERIENCED THE FAMILY CULTURE. WE WERE ABLE TO, AS PART OF THIS PROCESS, CLEARLY DEFINE THE FAMILY CULTURE AS WELL, AND THAT'S ATTACHED AS AN APPENDIX ON THE STRATEGIC UPDATE PLAN. WE DO HAVE THE METRIC OF 56% OF THE EMPLOYEES UNDERSTAND THE DECISIONS BEING MADE BY MANAGEMENT, WHETHER THEY AGREE OR NOT. SO YES, THAT DEFINITELY CAUSED CONCERN, BUT IT'S A BASELINE FOR US TO MEASURE AGAINST AS WE INSTITUTE THINGS LIKE TAILBOARD TALKS AND THINGS OF THOSE NATURE. SO HOPEFULLY, AS WE INSTITUTE THOSE PROGRAMS, THAT WILL BE COMING UP. SO IT'S DEFINITELY A FOCUS OF OURS. 95% OF OUR ANNUAL PHYSICALS, WE FOCUSED ON SUPPRESSION ANNUAL PHYSICALS, 95% IS WHERE WE ENDED THE YEAR NOT BAD. WE'D LOVE TO BE 100%, BUT I DON'T THINK WE'RE EVER GOING TO BE 100% DUE TO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE OUT ON LEAVES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, SO WE'RE PRETTY HAPPY WITH THAT. AND THEN, IN TERMS OF OUR FIRE TURNOUT OBJECTIVE OF 130 FOR THAT TURNOUT TIME, 1 MINUTE AND 30 SECONDS, 100% OF THE TIME WE ACHIEVED THAT THIS PAST YEAR. AS FAR AS, SORRY, UNDER THAT, THE EMS COMPLIANCE OBJECTIVE, ABOUT 82% WAS OUR COMPLIANCE WITH FIRE TURNOUT OR TURNOUT TIMES FOR EMS. THAT'S 1:15 FOR THE TIME FOR THEM TO GET DISPATCHED AND GET OUT ON THE TRUCKS AND GET OUT ON THE ROAD. THE DIFFERENCE IN THOSE 2 IS MAINLY BECAUSE WE GET A LOT MORE EMS CALLS. SO WE'VE GOT A LOT MORE DATA ON THAT. SO BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THEY'VE BEEN WORKING DILIGENTLY ON AS WELL. SO AS FAR AS RESULT ONE, WHAT WE HAVE DONE IS THESE ARE ALL ANNUAL METRICS WE WILL BE RESETTING THESE OR RESURVEYING THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS THE EMPLOYEES TO RESET THESE FOR THIS YEAR COME JANUARY. BUT RIGHT NOW, ALL WE'VE DONE IS TAKEN THOSE GOALS, BASICALLY KINDNESS AND COMPASSION, RESPECT, THAT WE'VE ADDRESSED THEIR PROBLEMS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE, AND WE'VE ROLLED THEM OVER AND JUST RESET THE DATES ON THAT [00:45:12] SO THAT'S THE UPDATE FOR RESULT ONE. RESULT 2 COMMUNICATIONS ONE OF THE WE JUST ROLLED OVER THAT GOAL OF 75% OF SURVEYED MEMBERS UNDERSTAND MANAGEMENT DECISIONS AND WHY THEY'RE MADE. AND THEN WE'RE WORKING ON THINGS LIKE TAILBOARD TALKS AND AND THE LIKE TO INCREASE THAT NUMBER. AND THEN WE INSTITUTED A GOAL SPECIFIC TO TAILBOARD WHERE BY JULY 1ST, 2027, WE WOULD HAVE DONE AT LEAST NINE MONTHLY TAILBOARD TALKS RESULT THREE, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. WE HAVE SOME QUARTERLY GOALS ON THIS, BUT BASICALLY THIS IS FOCUSED ON THE GOALS UNDER THIS ARE FOCUSED ON DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS. WE IDENTIFIED WE DON'T HAVE A LEADERSHIP PROGRAM [8.C. DISCUSSION AND/OR POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING POLICIES: 708- PUBLIC ALERTS; 1005- LIMITED USE OF FRAGRANCE PRODUCTS; AND 1038- FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE] CLEARLY SET FOR OUR ADMIN PERSONNEL TO PROMOTE SUPERVISOR FOR BATTALION CHIEF THAT'S INTERESTED IN MOVING TO DIVISION CHIEF OR FOR BATTALION DIVISION CHIEF THAT'S INTERESTED IN DEPUTY CHIEF. SO WE'VE SET SOME GOALS TO INSTITUTE AND BUILD THOSE THOSE TRAININGS WITH ADMIN SUPERVISORS. WE DID HAVE JUST A TRIAL WHERE THE ADMIN SUPERVISORS PARTICIPATED IN OUR RECENT LEADERSHIP CLASS AS PART OF EVALUATING THAT FOR MOVING THAT FORWARD STRATEGIC RESULT FOR IS HEALTHY WORKFORCE. THAT'S WHERE WE GET OUR 95% OF SUPPRESSION EMPLOYEES THROUGH THEIR PHYSICALS, WE'VE ALSO FOCUSED THIS YEAR ON NON-SUPPRESSION EMPLOYEES, AND WE'D LIKE TO GET AT LEAST 75% OF NON-SUPPRESSION PERSONNEL TO PARTICIPATE IN ANNUAL PHYSICALS. AND THEN WE'VE GOT ABOUT 42% OF OUR PERSONNEL THAT HAVE ATTENDED A STRUGGLE WELL. WE'VE SET A GOAL BY 2029 TO HAVE 80% OF THE DISTRICT. THAT'S JUST A REPEAT GOAL FOR THIS YEAR. MOVING ON TO STRATEGIC RESULT 5 WE HAVE DECIDED THIS THIS NEEDED SOME SOME MORE REFINEMENT TO GET SPECIFICS ON WHAT WE'RE MEASURING. SO WE'VE SET A GOAL VERY CLEAR GOAL OF 5% REDUCTION IN FALL INJURIES OR FALL INJURY TYPES OF CALLS BY JULY 1ST, 2030. AND WE'RE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS WITH OUR NIMBLE APP AND PRESENTATIONS ON THAT. WE'VE IMPLEMENTED [8.D. DISCUSSION AND/OR POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING THE GOLDER RANCH FIRE DISTRICT RECONCILIATION AND MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR JULY 2026] WE'RE WORKING TO IMPLEMENT SCHEDULED CRT HOME SAFETY FALL ASSESSMENTS WE ARE STILL WORKING ON OUR END, WE'VE JUST RENEWED THE GOAL ON OUR EMS AND FIRE TURNOUT TIMES. AND THEN WE ARE MORE DELVING INTO THE TRANSFER TIMES BETWEEN OUR PRIMARY PSAP. SO BASICALLY, WHEN YOU CALL 911, THE FIRST PSAP PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT THAT ANSWERS IS YOUR PRIMARY PSAP. THEY THEN TYPICALLY TRANSFER YOU TO OUR SECONDARY PSAP, WHICH IS THE CITY OF TUCSON. WE DON'T HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING RIGHT NOW, VERY CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIME THAT THAT TRANSFER TAKES. SO WE'RE DELVING INTO THAT. AND THEN DUE TO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE UNCOVERED AS FAR AS FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY, WE HAVE ADDED A ADDITIONAL STRATEGIC RESULT FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT TRYING TO GET A PLUS OR MINUS 3% VARIANCE ON THE DISTRICT BUDGET. THAT'S GOING TO BE A AN ONGOING GOAL OBVIOUSLY, BUT THAT'S ONE THAT WE'VE INSTITUTED AS WELL AS WE'VE SET THE CLEAR GOAL THAT WE'VE DISCUSSED WITH THE BOARD IN THE PAST ABOUT FUNDING THOSE THOSE EMERGENCY RESERVES THAT WERE SET ASIDE OR THAT WERE MENTIONED IN THE THE TRYING TO THINK WHAT THAT THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT RULES THAT THE BOARD APPROVED. SO WE'D LIKE TO HAVE THOSE IN PLACE BY 2030 AND FULLY SEGREGATED. AND THEN THE REST OF THE PLAN REALLY FOCUSES ON THE OPERATIONAL ASPECT OF IT. EVERYBODY HAS REVIEWED AND REVISED THEIR MEASURES FOR THEIR PROGRAMS THAT THEY USE TO MANAGE AND MOVE FORWARD THEIR PROGRAMS TO ACHIEVE THESE STRATEGIC GOALS. SO REALLY, THAT'S THE REST OF IT. WE'VE DEVELOPED SOME GOOD BASELINES. THE IDEA IS THAT THE BASELINES DRIVE THAT ACTIVE THAT, EXCUSE ME. GOT OUT OF SYNC WITH MY POWERPOINT HERE. THAT THE BASELINES DRIVE THAT ACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF THOSE PROGRAMS SO THAT WE ARE EMBEDDING OUR STRATEGIC GOALS INTO THE DAILY WORK OF THE DISTRICT. [00:50:13] AND THAT IS MY LONG-WINDED UPDATE. OKAY. I APPRECIATE YOU SITTING THROUGH IT. ANY QUESTIONS? NO, ANY QUESTIONS I THINK WE'RE GOOD. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MA'AM. THANK YOU. A LOT OF GOOD WORK, CHIEF. I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE PROPOSED 2026-27 STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN UPDATE AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE 2025 OR 2025 2030 STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN LOOK AT THAT WE HAVE A MOTION SECOND ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? SEEING NONE, ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED NO MOTION PASSES. ITEM B, DISCUSSION AND OR POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING A QUEST TO OPEN AUTOMATICALLY RENEWING CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT FOR FUTURE ASSIGNED FUNDS. CHIEF. MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, WE'RE GOING TO TURN THE MICROPHONE BACK OVER TO ASSISTANT CHIEF PERRY. OKAY I GUESS I FELT LIKE I NEEDED TO MONOPOLIZE THE MEETING THIS THIS TIME AROUND. THAT'S OKAY. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING. THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT. MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, IN CONJUNCTION WITH FINANCE DIRECTOR OR INTERIM FINANCE DIRECTOR, JEFF SARGENT, WE HAVE WE HAD ABOUT $1.2 MILLION PLUS SOME OTHER FUNDS THAT WERE SET ASIDE LAST YEAR AS QUOTE UNQUOTE SINKING FUNDS, THINGS FOR FUTURE CAPITAL PURCHASES, THINGS FOR LEGAL ELECTIONS, THINGS LIKE THAT WE ARE ASKING THE BOARD TO ALLOW US TO OPEN A CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT ACCOUNT SHORT TERM WHERE WE PLACE THOSE FUNDS, THAT WAY THEY'RE SEGREGATED, THEY'RE SEPARATE FROM OUR DAY-TO-DAY FUNDS. THEY'RE STILL EARNING SOME INTEREST, BUT THERE'S NO FEES TO EARN THAT INTEREST. AND THEN WITH THE SHORT-TERM RENEWING, WE CAN ACCESS THEM ONCE IT'S TIME TO EXPEND THOSE FUNDS. SO THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE OF WHAT WE'RE ASKING IS JUST THE ABILITY TO OPEN UP WHAT WE DEEM AT THE TIME THE BEST SHORT TERM CD WITH CHASE BANK. THE RATES HAVE BEEN AROUND 2.8% FOR 30 30-DAY TERM OF A CD. SO THAT WOULD AUTOMATICALLY RENEW EVERY MONTH, BASICALLY, IF THAT'S THE ROUTE WE WENT. BUT WE'RE JUST ASKING FOR THE LEEWAY TO OPEN ONE UP THAT SEEMS THE BEST AT THE TIME. TO MEET OUR YOU KNOW EXPENDITURE GOALS AS WELL AS OUR INTEREST GOALS. SO I'M ASSUMING, ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE OUT DIFFERENT ONES WITH DIFFERENT AMOUNTS? AND DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS SO THAT YOU'RE MORE FLEXIBLE AND AS TO WHEN YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND CASH THEM IN. MADAM CHAIR, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT TRUE LADDER CD STRATEGY. WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS WE WOULD BASICALLY SEGREGATE THESE FUNDS THIS TIME WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, THIS YEAR WE HAVE COMMITTED SOME SINKING MONIES SO AT THE END OF THE YEAR, WE WILL PUT THOSE INTO THAT PILE OF MONEY IN THE SAME AUTO-RENEWING CD. AND JUST KEEP GOING FROM THERE. SO IT'LL BE BASICALLY THE SAME ACCOUNT, IT'LL JUST AUTO-RENEW, BUT IT WILL HOPEFULLY SEGREGATE THOSE FUNDS SO WE DON'T INTERMINGLE THOSE WITH OUR DAY-TO-DAY OKAY, WELL, I'M ALL FOR GAINING INTEREST RATHER THAN PAYING FEES. YES, MA'AM. MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE. ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE REQUEST TO OPEN AUTOMATICALLY RENEWING CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT FOR FUTURE ASSIGNED FUNDS. THIRD SECOND I'LL SECOND THAT. OKAY, WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? SEEING NONE ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE OPPOSED NO MOTION PASSES. ITEM C, DISCUSSION AND OR POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING POLICIES 708 PUBLIC ALERTS 100S LIMITED USE OF FRAGRANCE PRODUCTS. THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND 1038 FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAF MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, THE 3 POLICIES ARE IN THE PACKET. WE DO HAVE DIRECTOR DELONG HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT THE BOARD MAY HAVE. AND JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THE EFFORTS THAT GO ON TO GET THESE POLICIES TO THE BOARD. THEY'VE GONE THROUGH THE CHAIN TO WHERE WE'VE HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW THEM, MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE COVERING EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED BEFORE THEY PRESENT BEFORE WE PRESENT THEM TO YOU. THANK YOU TO THE HR STAFF AND EVERYBODY THAT'S INVOLVED WITH THAT PROCESS. SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DIRECTOR DELONG IF THE BOARD HAD ANY QUESTIONS ON THESE THREE. [00:55:08] GOOD MORNING, CHAIR AND BOARD MEMBERS. EVERYTHING IS THERE IN THE PACKET. HOWEVER, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN THEM ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTION? NO, NO QUESTIONS ABOUT POLICY THIS MONTH I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, BUT I WANT TO COMMEND YOU ON YOU AND YOUR TEAM ON THE PROCESS OF GOING THROUGH IT AND MAKING SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS NOT ONLY LEGAL, BUT AS HELPFUL AS POSSIBLE TO THE DISTRICT. AND I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE POLICY 708 PUBLIC ALERTS, 1005, LIMITED USE OF FRAGRANCE PRODUCTS AND 1038 FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE SECOND. WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? SEEING NONE, ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED, NO. MOTION PASSES. ITEM D, DISCUSSION AND OR POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING THE GOLDEN RANCH FIRE DISTRICT RECONCILIATION AND MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR JULY 2026 MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, I'LL TURN THE MIC OVER TO INTERIM DIRECTOR JEFF SARGENT TO DISCUSS THE FINANCIALS. SO YOU WANT TO DO JULY OR AUGUST 1ST THEY'RE ALL COMBINED. OKAY, GOTCHA. SO THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY. MADAM CHAIR, IF I COULD STEP IN REAL QUICK, LET'S GO WITH THE JULY BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE TWO SEPARATE MOTIONS IF THE BOARD DOES DECIDE TO APPROVE BOTH. THAT MAKES SENSE. OKAY, LET'S DO THAT. OKAY, SO I'LL GO THROUGH AND POINT OUT WHICH ONE'S WHICH SO JUST TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW WHERE CASH IS, THERE WAS A IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE REPORTS THAT WERE GENERATED AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE BANK STATEMENTS, YOU'LL SEE A HUGE FLUCTUATION BETWEEN THE BEGINNING AND ENDING OF A MONTH DEPENDING ON WHERE THE CASH ENDS UP BECAUSE WE HAVE THE SWEEP FUND NOW, SO WE'RE AVERAGING IN THE 7 MILLION RANGE IN THE CHECKING ACCOUNT DURING THE DAY, BUT AT NIGHT WE'RE AT 200,000, AND IF WE CLOSE ON A WEEKEND WHERE THE BANKS CLOSED, THE END OF THE BANK STATEMENT WILL SHOW HER AT 200,000, AND SOME OF THE REPORTS WILL SHOW THAT, HEY, WE HAVE ACCORDING TO MIP AND OUT OUR FINANCE SOFTWARE, AN OUTSTANDING AMOUNT OF CHECKS FOR LIKE $1 MILLION ON A 200,000 IN THE BANK. ARE YOU BOUNCING CHECKS? NO, NOT AT ALL. ALL RIGHT, THANK GOD. IT LOOKS INCREDIBLY STRANGE, BUT THE MONEY IS ALL IT'S STILL IN OUR POSSESSION, IT'S JUST IN A DIFFERENT ACCOUNT NUMBER, AND THAT'S WHY IT'S SHOWING, YOU KNOW, OUR MAIN ACCOUNTS AT 200, BUT WE HAVE A MILLION OUTSTANDING IN CHECKS. BUT THEN THE SWEEP FUNDS GOT THE 7 MILLION IN IT. OKAY. AND THEN IT GOES BACK IN THE MORNING. SO WHEN YOU'RE SEEING THE REPORTS WE'RE JUST BRINGING THIS UP AND SHOWING IT TO YOU BECAUSE YOU KNOW I I WOULD BE WORRIED WHEN I SAW THAT. WE'RE ALSO BRINGING THIS UP. THE SECOND ACCOUNT IS WHERE THAT ACCOUNT'S GOING TO GO AWAY. AT 90 DAYS PLUS FROM THE START OF THE FISCAL YEAR, THAT'S A BENEFIT WE DON'T OFFER ANYMORE, AND ANY FUNDS THAT ARE IN THERE. THERE'S SPECIFIC IRS RULES ON WHERE THAT GOES. MOST LIKELY IT'LL BE USED TO PAY FOR HEALTHCARE RELATED EXPENSES, BUT THAT'S JUST IN ONE MORE ACCOUNT THAT IS GONNA END UP GOING AWAY AFTER 90 DAYS, BECAUSE THE EMPLOYEES WHO HAD CONTRIBUTED TO IT HAD FROM 90 DAYS FROM THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR TO SPEND OUT ALL OF THEIR FUNDS AND WHATEVER THE BALANCE IS LEFT OVER AT THE END IS… IS FORFEITED AND USED FOR HEALTHCARE STUFF. OKAY. SO THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THAT, SLIDE THERE FOR YOU OKAY, SO THE JULY REVENUE. YOU'VE NOT SEEN THIS REPORT BEFORE, AND SO I'M GONNA YOU USED TO GET A AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET THAT WAS CREATED AND KIND OF SHOWED A LESS DETAILED VERSION OF OF THE REVENUE THAT CAME INTO THE DISTRICT AND THE TAX BALANCES. SO ONE THING TO REMEMBER WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO GET TO WHERE ALL OF OUR REPORTS ARE GENERATED OUT OF A SYSTEM AND NOT OUT OF A SPREADSHEET. AND WHEN YOU SEE AT THE TOP WHERE IT SAYS GRFD 7 OF 26 THAT DOESN'T MEAN MOVING FORWARD THAT IT'S JULY OF 26. THAT'S THE DATABASE NAME IN MIP WHEN WE STARTED THE NEW DATABASE FROM SEGREGATING THE LAST 12 YEARS TO A CLEAN DATABASE. AND SO ALL THE REPORTS YOU SEE GOING FORWARD ARE GOING TO SAY THE SAME THING AT THE TOP. GRFD 0726. [01:00:04] IT'S THE NAME OF THE REPORT, AND THEN WHY IT SAYS UNPOSTED TRANSACTIONS INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT. IT'S HISTORICALLY, YOU WEREN'T SEEING WHAT WAS UNPOSTED WHEN THE REPORTS THAT WERE GENERATED AND PUT IN THE BOARD PACKET. WHY ARE THERE UNPOSTED TRANSACTIONS? I WOULD BE ASKING THAT QUESTION. THE ANSWER IS, AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS CLEANUP PROCESS AND DIALING IN ALL OF THE ELECTRONICS OF MAKING STUFF TALK TO ONE ANOTHER IF WE POSTED THE TRANSACTION EVERY SINGLE TIME. AND THEN HAD TO MAKE A CHANGE, WE WOULD THEN HAVE TO REVERSE THE TRANSACTION. AND WE WOULD HAVE HUNDREDS OF POSTS AND REVERSALS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE FOUR PAYROLLS THAT WERE IN JULY AND AUGUST WE SPENT PROBABLY CLOSE TO 30 H ON THOSE DIALING IN THE CODING TO MAKE SURE THEY CAME ACROSS SO IT'S NOT A MANUAL UPLOAD. I MEAN, TECHNICALLY IT'S MANUAL BECAUSE WE'RE TAKING IT AND WE'RE PUTTING IT IN THE SYSTEM. IT'S NOT AUTOMATIC, BUT IT'S NOT US HAND TYPING IT IN. AND SO THAT'S WHY SOME OF THE TRANSACTIONS ARE UNPOSTED. IT'S JUST GOING TO SAY UNPOSTED WHETHER YOU HAVE POSTED OR UNPOSTED TRANSACTIONS BUT I WANTED TO EXPLAIN THAT. SO TAX YEAR TAX REVENUE PRIOR YEAR WE DON'T HAVE, AND IT SAYS 0 BUDGETED, BECAUSE WHEN WE BUDGETED WE DIDN'T HAVE A TREND TO REALLY DETERMINE WELL, A GOOD TREND TO DETERMINE WHAT TAX REVENUE CAME IN FROM PRIOR YEARS. SO WHEN WE USED TO BUDGET WHICH I'M ASSUMING WILL BE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR COMING UP. WE JUST BUDGETED 100% OF WHAT WE THOUGHT THE ASSESSED VALUE WAS AND JUST KIND OF WINGED IT. ON THE PRIOR YEAR TAX REVENUE. AND SO YOU'LL SEE A CURRENT YOU'LL SEE A BUDGETED NUMBER IN THERE IN THE NEXT BUDGET BUT THERE IS NO CURRENT YEAR, BECAUSE IN JULY THEY'RE STILL PUTTING IN THE TAX NUMBERS THAT YOU ALL HAD APPROVED. AND SO THEY HADN'T STARTED COLLECTING THE 26 OR THE THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR'S TAX YET. SO THAT'S WHY YOU'RE ONLY SEEING PRIOR YEAR THERE. WE BROKE OUT ALL THE INTEREST INTO DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS. THAT WAY WE KNOW WHICH ONES ARE LIKE BOND INTEREST WHERE WE HAD TO PAY THE MONEY LAST YEAR FOR THE WE EARNING THE EXCESS INTEREST AND HAD TO PAY MONEY. SO YOU'RE NOT RELYING ON JUST THIS GIANT INTEREST NUMBER THINKING ALL OF OUR ACCOUNTS ARE DOING GREAT AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF EXTRA MONEY BECAUSE SOME OF THAT'S GOING TO HAVE TO GO BACK ESPECIALLY IN THE BOND DEPARTMENT THEORETICALLY, BUT WE'RE SPENDING THE BOND MONEY DOWN AND IT SHOULD ALL BE GONE BY THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR ON THE PROJECT UP AT THE FLEET AND TRAINING AREA. SO THIS IS THE JULY REVENUE REPORT. THIS IS THE AUGUST REVENUE REPORT. THIS ALSO SHOWS NOW YOU CAN SEE THE CURRENT YEAR TAX IN THERE. THE CURRENT YEAR BUDGETED PERIOD TO 67 IS OFF OF WHAT WE COULD GET OFF THE COUNTY WEBSITE AND KIND OF AVERAGE FOR WHAT WAS COLLECTED IN A AUGUST. THEIR COLLECTION PROCESS IS SPORADIC AT BEST, AND SO WE HAD TO MAKE SOME, YOU KNOW, GENERIC ASSUMPTIONS, AND SO THAT'S KIND OF BE VARIED ON THERE. AND THEN AS YOU CAN SEE GOING DOWN, WE HAVE A LOT MORE DETAIL. WE STILL HAVE A MISCELLANEOUS PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH THE MISCELLANEOUS IS THERE ARE A LOT OF ITEMS GOING IN THERE, LIKE SALE OF DISTRICT ASSETS AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS, SO THAT IS ONE AREA. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT THAT IS, WE CAN MAKE A SEPARATE MISCELLANEOUS REPORT THAT'S BROKEN OUT. BUT TO HAVE A KIND OF CONCISE REPORT, WE GROUP THINGS LIKE, SO TAX REVENUE CURRENT YEAR IS FDAT, AND IT'S PIMA AND PINELLAS TAX BOTH IN THERE. SO THESE ARE GROUPINGS OF INDIVIDUAL LINE ITEMS IN THE GL. AND SO WE COULD DO A SEPARATE ONE ON MISCELLANEOUS, BUT THAT OBVIOUSLY IS, YOU KNOW, YOUR GUYS' CONVERSATION WITH THE CHIEFS BUT I KNOW I'VE BEEN HARPING ON MISCELLANEOUS SINCE I'VE BEEN DOING THIS INTERIM THING. AND I'M NOT A HUGE FAN OF IT UP THERE, BUT ALSO THIS REPORT WOULD BE AN ENTIRE AN ENTIRE SCREEN LONG AND THERE WILL BE A BUNCH OF THEM THAT DON'T HAVE BUDGETED NUMBERS IN THERE, BECAUSE THIS SALE OF DISTRICT ASSETS, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THAT'S GOING TO BE. WE DON'T KNOW WHEN WE'RE GOING TO SELL. SO IT'S KIND OF EXTRA CASH IN. SO SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT THERE. [01:05:05] EXPENDITURE. NOPE, THIS IS THE YEAR-TO-DATE TOTAL OF REVENUE. SO WE'RE AHEAD BY 243,000 THE SWEEP INTEREST IS LOW BECAUSE WE DON'T GET WE DON'T GET THE AUGUST NUMBER TILL SEPTEMBER OF WHAT THE INTEREST WAS. SO THAT'S WHY WE ONLY HAVE JULY SWEEP INTEREST IN THERE, AND THAT WAS ONLY 2 DAYS. WE DON'T HAVE THE 30-DAY NUMBER IN AUGUST BECAUSE WE DON'T GET IT TILL THE BEGINNING OF SEPTEMBER. OKAY. SO THAT'S WHY THAT'S OFF. AND I DID NOT FIX THE TYPO. WHY ARE THESE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES SO HIGH FOR THIS YEAR AS OPPOSED TO YEAR TO DATE 20,000. SO THAT COULD BE SOME OF THE HOLDOVER FROM AT THE END OF LAST YEAR WE HELD ALL THE SUBSCRIPTIONS. OH, OKAY. AND TO GET THAT RATE INCREASE IN. AND SO WE HAD TO DO THEM ALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. MY GUESS IS THAT HAS TO DO WITH THAT, AND THEN ALSO IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, WE'VE HAD SOME CHALLENGES BOOKING THE SUBSCRIPTION REVENUE. IT'S BEEN DONE A COUPLE DIFFERENT WAYS. OKAY. WE WEREN'T BREAKING IT OUT WHEN THE MONEY ACTUALLY CAME IN. WE WERE WAITING AND DOING A JOURNAL ENTRY AT THE END. AND SOMETIMES THOSE JOURNAL ENTRIES DIDN'T GET DONE. AND SO OUR BOOK SUBSCRIPTION REVENUE IN MIP, WHERE WE DEVELOP THE TREND FOR THE BUDGET OFF OF MIGHT BE A LITTLE LOW COMPARED TO WHAT THE ACTUAL SUBSCRIPTION REVENUE IS. SO THAT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE 2 THINGS MARTHA HAS GONE TO, AS SHE'S INPUTTING THE REVENUE INTO MIP AND THE DEPOSITS ARE COMING IN FROM THE BANK. DIVIDING THEM AT THE TIME OF DEPOSIT INTO SUBSCRIPTION SO WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THE JOURNAL ENTRY. IT'S A SLOWER PROCESS, BUT IT'S GIVING US CLEANER INFORMATION. SO SHE STARTED THAT A FEW MONTHS AGO. SO BY THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR YOU'LL HAVE MORE ACCURATE NUMBERS OF WHAT ACTUALLY WAS IN SUBSCRIPTION REVENUE VERSUS AMBULANCE REVENUE. THESE ARE OUR BALANCES FROM PIMA COUNTY FOR ALL THE DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS, THE TWO BOTTOM ONES ARE THE BONDS CHIEF CESARIC IS DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB OF SPENDING ALL THAT MONEY AND MAKING OUR INTEREST PROBLEM WITH EARNING TOO MUCH INTEREST GO AWAY ON THOSE AS WE FOUND AS THIS PROJECT. JUST THAT WAS PIMA. THIS IS PINALS FOR THE AUGUST NUMBERS LAST MONTH WE GAVE YOU THE JULY NUMBERS IN THE PRESENTATION, SO I DID NOT DUPLICATE THEM FOR THIS PRESENTATION. OKAY, MOVING ON TO EXPENSES. THESE ARE JULY'S EXPENSES. SO NOW, WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS 05,000, 6,265 ON THE LEFT OR MY LEFT. IT'S PROBABLY YOUR LEFT, TOO, DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT. BUT THOSE ARE THE SAME EXACT CLASSIFICATIONS THAT YOU SEE WHEN WE PRESENT YOU THE BUDGET. OKAY, SO THE ONE PAGER THAT YOU GET ON OUR BUDGETS. WE BUILT THESE REPORTS TO MATCH THAT SO YOU CAN LOOK BACK AT THE BUDGET DOCUMENTS, YOU CAN LOOK BACK AT AND SEE, YOU KNOW, ARE WE ON TREND OR NOT SO OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A VARIANCE OF A MILLION FOR IN JULY. TWO OF THOSE, THERE'S TWO THINGS THAT EQUATE TO ABOUT 800,000 ONE OF THEM IS WE HAVE TO WRITE THE CHECK STILL FOR WORKERS' COMP. WHICH IS LIKE $400,000. SO THERE'S 2 ITEMS LIKE THAT THAT WE STILL HAVE TO SEND THE MONEY OUT FOR BUT THE REST OF THAT, LIKE WHEN YOU GET DOWN TO CAPITAL LEASES CAPITAL AND LEASES THAT $1.1 MILLION VARIANCE IS WHEN WE DID THE BUDGET IN FEBRUARY WE ASSUMED THAT THAT BUILD OUT WAS GOING TO COST US 4.4 MILLION UP AT TRAINING AND FLEET. AND WE JUST PUT IN A QUARTERLY OF 1.1 MILLION. SO THAT WAS SAID WE WERE GOING TO CUT A CHECK IN JULY FOR 1.1 MILLION TO THE CONTRACTOR, WHICH WE DIDN'T DO. WE STILL OWE THAT MONEY. WE'RE STILL GOING TO SPEND IT. WE HAVE A DIFFERENT SPENDING SCHEDULE THAN WHAT WE BUDGETED. [01:10:11] BUT WE'RE SPENDING A LITTLE BIT PER MONTH, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE LARGER TRANSACTIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. BUT SO THAT NUMBER WILL WILL WASH OUT AT THE END. SO THAT'S THAT WAS JULY. AUGUST YOU'RE STILL WE'RE STILL SEEING SOME OF THE VARIANCES BUT THEY'RE STARTING TO BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, KIND OF BALANCE OUT WE HAD A LOT OF WORK GETTING JULY READY TO GO AND MADE A LOT OF PAYMENTS IN AUGUST, WHICH WERE MAKE THIS KIND OF BALANCE. WE'RE AT THE ONE THAT I WANT TO BRING UP IS THE 9,000, YOU KNOW IT SAYS 383,000. THAT WAS A TIMING ISSUE HISTORICALLY. IN ALL THE BUDGETS, IT SHOWS THAT THE MULTI ENGINE PER PURCHASE PAYMENTS FALL IN JULY. THAT'S NOT WHEN THE PAYMENTS ACTUALLY FALL. THEY FALL IN AUGUST, BUT I THINK THEY WERE GETTING BOOKED BACK INTO THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR. I'M NOT SURE WHY. SO THIS IS TRULY WHERE THE WHERE IT FELL. SO WE'LL HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND THIS SHOULD WASH OUT BY THE END OF THIS BUDGET BECAUSE WE BUDGETED THE ENGINE PURCHASE, BUT IT'S REALLY AN AUGUST THING. WE BUDGETED IN JUNE SO IT WAS BEING BUDGETED IN JUNE, BUT PAID IN AUGUST AND SO BY THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR, THAT NUMBER SHOULD WASH BACK OUT TO TO BALANCE AND THAT PRETTY MUCH EQUATES RIGHT NOW FOR OUR MOST OF OUR OVERAGE PROBLEM. AND THIS IS JUST ALL THE EXPENSES YEAR TO DATE. WE'RE STILL SHOWING THE WORKERS COMP PROBLEM THAT SHOULD WASH OUT WHEN WE MAKE THAT PAYMENT INSURANCE FOR CURRENT YEAR ACTUAL. TIMING THOSE THINGS JUST CAME IN FROM SO OUR INSURANCE VENDOR JUST SENT THOSE IN IN THE LAST FEW DAYS OF OUR EXPENSES. THIS WAS WE WERE KIND OF ON A ROLLER COASTER WHEN WE WERE DOING THE BUDGET AND WE WERE LOOKING AT HERE'S THE TOTAL AMOUNT. SO THE BUDGETED AMOUNT IS IN THERE. IT'S JUST THE TIMING ON THINGS AND WERE WE PAYING THEM ON TIME? WERE WE PAYING THEM ACCURATELY? WERE THEY BEING INPUTTED ACCURATELY INTO MIP IS ALL STUFF THAT WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT SO IT MAY HAVE BEEN A JULY INVOICE THAT WAS PAID IN SEPTEMBER. IN THE BUDGET, AND THEY CODED IT AS AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF SEPTEMBER AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE INSTEAD OF JULY, AND IT WASN'T IN THE TREND OR LIKE, THERE'S WE KNOW THE EXPENSES BUDGETED, IT'S ON TARGET, WE JUST HAVEN'T PROCESSED THAT BILL YET FOR THE INSURANCE, BUT WE JUST DID RECEIVE THEM IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS. THE PARS ACCOUNT, WE'RE STILL BUILDING THAT OUT INTO MIP, YOU'LL START SEEING IT AS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE REPORTS. THAT HAS A, YOU KNOW THAT HEADING ON IT OF GRFD070 OR 2026. BUT I DID INCLUDE IT BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT BEEN NORMALLY SEEING THIS. THIS IS THE ACCOUNT THAT USED TO BE YOU KNOW, 4 POINT SOME MILLION DOLLARS, AND THEN THE DECISION WAS MADE TO TAKE THAT MONEY FROM THERE AND PUT IT TOWARDS THE UNFUNDED LIABILITY WHICH LEFT US WITH YOU KNOW THE $300,000 THAT ARE IN THERE RIGHT NOW. CITY OF PART OF THE CHALLENGE WITH THE EXPENSE STRUCTURE AND THE OH, I FORGOT THE OTHER $400,000 THING FROM THE PREVIOUS PAYROLLS. WE GET FUNDING FROM THE STATE. AS A THERE'S THEY DO HAVE THIS INSURANCE THING AND THEN WE GET A CREDIT AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT GOES TOWARDS PAYING OUR PSPRS OBLIGATIONS THAT USED TO BE APPLIED A LITTLE BIT EACH PAYROLL. THEY CHANGED THEIR PROCESS ON THAT AND NOW THEY'RE APPLYING IT ALL FOR THE FIRST SEVERAL PAYROLLS OF THE YEAR. SO OUR PSPRS PAYMENTS HAVE BEEN ZERO. BUT THEY'RE BUDGETED NOW HISTORICALLY, AND I DON'T KNOW WHY, AND THIS IS OUR WALKER ARMSTRONG GROUP IS HELPING US CLEAN THIS UP. [01:15:03] IS WE NEVER REALLY BOOKED THAT MONEY COMING IN FROM THE STATE TO THAT OFFSETS OUR PSPRS. IT WAS KIND OF LIKE FREE MONEY THAT NEVER REALLY GOT PUT INTO ACTUALLY INTO MIP. I'M ASSUMING THE AUDITORS KNOW ABOUT IT AND IT WAS IN THE LAST FINANCIAL REVIEW, BUT I'M NOT 100% SURE. LIKE I SAID, WE'RE WORKING WITH WALKER ARMSTRONG ON THAT. BUT WE SHOULD BE BOOKING THAT IN AS AN ADDITIONAL FORM OF REVENUE. AND THEN BALANCING OUT THE PSPRS AMOUNT. SO THAT'S A CURRENT PROJECT. BUT SOME OF THE DISCUSSIONS HAVE BEEN ON THAT MONEY THAT'S AN OFFSET, AND WE'VE BUDGETED FOR THE PSPRS EXPENSES OF BUILDING THIS PARS ACCOUNT WITH THE AMOUNT THAT WE BUDGETED AND TAXED FOR THAT IS BEING OFFSET BY THAT OTHER THAT OTHER MONEY THAT WE'RE GETTING FROM THE STATE IS KIND OF A WAY TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BUILD UP THE PARS ACCOUNT TO HELP WITH THE UNFUNDED LIABILITY BUT IT'S ON A LOT OF EXPLANATION FOR TWO PICTURES, BUT IT'S JUST THERE'S A LOT GOING ON AND I TRYING TO GET YOU AS MUCH INFORMATION SO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE, BUT NOT FREAK YOU GUYS OUT TOO SO AND SHELBY'S GOING TO TAKE OVER THE BILLING PART OF IT, AND THEN I'LL WRAP IT UP. GOOD MORNING, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. FOR AUGUST, WE HAD A TOTAL OF $533,269 IN TRANSPORT REVENUE. THAT IS UP 31% FROM AUGUST OF 2025. SO THAT'S WHAT THAT RIGHT COLUMN IS, IS IT'S GOING TO COMPARE IT FROM THE PRIOR YEAR MONTH. WE ALSO HAD A BUSY MONTH OR 633 TRANSPORTS. THAT'S ABOUT 20 TRANSPORTS A DAY. WE BUILD OUT 1.2 MILLION IN CHARGES. HOWEVER, BECAUSE WE HAVE 71% OF OUR TRANSPORTS WERE MEDICARE, 8% WAS MEDICAID OUR COLLECTIBLE NET CHARGES ARE $595,665. AT THE BOTTOM, WE HAD OUR MEMBERSHIP ENROLLMENT. YOU'RE GOING TO START SEEING THESE GO DOWN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR BECAUSE OUR ENROLLMENT PERIOD, WE TRY TO DO IT ONCE A YEAR. BUT WE DO HAVE PEOPLE WHO ENROLL IN OUR MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. IT'S PRORATED, SO THE AMOUNT IS NOT THE AMOUNT, AND OF COURSE IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A LUMP SUM OF EVERYBODY JOINING AT ONE TIME. WE'VE HAD 30 ENROLLMENTS THIS MONTH WITH A REVENUE OF 3,146, AND THERE WERE 09,880 THAT WE HAD TO WRITE OFF FOR OUR TRANSPORT REVENUES, WHICH 32 OF THEM WERE TRANSPORTED THE NEXT SLIDE, THIS WASN'T IN LAST MONTH'S BOARD MEETING, BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE A SLIDE. THIS IS JUST KIND OF YEAR TO DATE. SO TRANSPORT REVENUE FOR JULY AND AUGUST 1 MILLION WE'VE HAD A TOTAL OF 1,231 TRANSPORTS. AND OUR MEMBERSHIP ENROLLMENTS, AGAIN, $181. THAT IS KIND OF I MEAN, IT'S SHOWING LOW, BUT REALLY WE WANT ALL OF OUR ENROLLMENTS IN JUNE BECAUSE OUR FISCAL YEAR STARTS 7-1. BUT LIKE JEFF SAID, WE HAD TO SEND OUT OUR RENEWALS A LITTLE BIT LATE JUST BECAUSE WE DID OUR RATES WITH THE STATE A LITTLE BIT LATE. SO A LOT OF THAT MONEY TRICKLED IN. THIS REPORT IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO GROW. THIS IS OUR CASH COLLECTIONS. SO FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, YOU'LL SEE 543,000 IS WHAT WE COULD COLLECT. AND THEN 595,000 IS WHAT WE CAN COLLECT FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST. ALL THE CHARGES BILLED YOU'LL SEE FOR AUGUST, WE COLLECTED 20% OF THAT REVENUE WITHIN THE FIRST MONTH, $121,000. AS THIS MONTH, AS THE YEAR GOES ON, YOU'LL CONTINUE TO SEE THE NUMBERS TYPICALLY, WE COLLECT MOST OF OUR MONEY WITHIN 45 DAYS. THAT'S OUR AVERAGE. SO NEXT MONTH YOU'LL SEE A SLIDE THAT KIND OF SHOWS WHERE OUR MONEY IS SITTING. IT'S A IT'S GOING TO SHOW LIKE OUR AGING REPORT, SO WHERE OUR MONEY IS SITTING WITHIN ZERO THROUGH 60, 61 THROUGH 90 DAYS, AND 90 PLUS. REALLY, THE SWEET SPOT IS YOU WANT TO SEE YOUR HIGHEST NUMBER IN 0 THROUGH 60, BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO TELL YOU THAT WE ARE, [01:20:01] GETTING THE BILLS OUT FASTER AND COLLECTING, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THAT 45 DAYS. SO THAT'S WHERE YOU WANT YOUR HIGH NUMBER TO BE. BUT AS THE MONTH GOES ON, YOU'LL SEE EVERYTHING MONTH TWO IS USUALLY GOING TO BE YOUR HIGHEST [8.E. DISCUSSION AND/OR POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING THE GOLDER RANCH FIRE DISTRICT RECONCILIATION AND MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR AUGUST 2026] PERCENTAGE OF COLLECTIONS. AND THEN LASTLY, THIS IS OUR COLLECTION AGENCY REPORT FOR AUGUST. WE SUBMITTED $31,000 TO OUR COLLECTION AGENCY, AND WE PAID A TOTAL OF $270 IN THE COLLECTION FEES OF THE MONEY THAT THEY COLLECTED. AND THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT. SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY, AS YOU NOTICE, THESE ARE STILL NOT IN THE SAME FORMAT AS THE OTHER REPORTS. SO THIS IS STILL DATA THAT'S COMING OUT OF THE BLEND SOFTWARE. THAT'S NOT DIRECTLY GOING INTO MIP FOR US TO GENERATE THOSE REPORTS. WE ARE TRYING. IT IS ON THE LIST OF THINGS TO DO TO WHERE AN MIP REPORT WILL SHOW THIS, BUT WE STILL HAVE TO WORK WITH THE FOLKS FROM OUR BILLING SOFTWARE TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT MORE AUTOMATED MOVED ACROSS. SO FOR NOW THIS IS THE REPORTING STRUCTURE, HOPEFULLY BY THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR, YOU'LL SEE THAT HEADER, THAT SAME HEADER ACROSS ALL THE REPORTS. THAT'S OUR GOAL. BECAUSE THAT WAY YOU CAN BE ASSURED IT'S COMING OUT OF THE SYSTEM AND NOBODY IS PROVIDING ANYTHING OTHER THAN DATA THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WE'RE RELYING ON IN THE SYSTEM. THIS IS ANOTHER ONE THAT THIS IS THE WILDLAND REPORT. THIS IS COMING DIRECTLY OUT OF THE WILDLAND SOFTWARE THAT FROM THE STATE THIS WILL ALSO BE AN MIP REPORT. WE ARE IN THE PROCESS CURRENTLY OF BUILDING OUT THE AR MODULE WITH THE ABILITY TO TRACK THE SAME DETAIL THAT THE STATE DOES AND THAT DATA SHOULD GO ACROSS TO THAT AS WELL. SO IN THE NEXT MONTH OR 2, YOU SHOULD SEE THIS AS A MIP REPORT, WHICH WILL SHOW YOU, LIKE, WHAT'S OUTSTANDING FOR YEAR-TO-DATE AS WELL. BUT THIS IS JUST SHOWING YOU THAT WE ARE PROCESSING THROUGH COLLECTING IT. YOU KNOW, I I'M SORRY TO SAY I DON'T NECESSARILY READ THE BOARD PACKET, SO I'M NOT SURE WHAT ERIC REPORTS ABOUT, BUT WE ARE UNDER 60 DAYS ON OUR BILLING AS PER THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE STATE FOR WILDLAND. AND SO GENE'S BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD ON MAKING SURE ALL THAT HAPPENS. TIMELY. SO THIS IS OUR OUR OUR WILDLAND AND THAT'S ALL THE SLIDES I HAVE. I WILL TELL YOU THAT I HAVE APPRECIATED THE LAST SIX MONTHS WHATEVER THE OUTCOME OF THEIR SELECTION PROCESS IS, I GUARANTEE YOU A GOOD TRANSITION, AND I THANK YOU FOR THE PATIENCE YOU GUYS HAVE HAD WITH US OVER THIS TIME FRAME. AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO KEEP CONTINUING TO WORK REGARDLESS TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE TRANSPARENT AND CLEAR INFORMATION. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. I HAVE A QUESTION IT USED TO BE THAT WHEN I RECEIVED ALL MY BILLS FROM MY TAX ASSESSOR. USUALLY THEY'RE DUE IN OCTOBER AND DELINQUENT IN NOVEMBER. NOW THEY'RE DUE IN MAY. DO YOU KNOW WHY OR ANYTHING ABOUT THAT CHANGE? AND I KNOW THEY ALL WENT UP AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE A USUALLY YOU CAN YOU CAN APPEAL YOUR TAXES. THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE APPEAL PERIOD. AND THE ONLY THING I THINK OF, I KNOW THEY HAD SOME HASSLES DONE AT THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE AND HAD TO FIRE SOMEONE. SO I'M JUST WONDERING IF MAYBE, BUT IT JUST SEEMS SO UNUSUAL THAT WHY THEY WOULD CHANGE, YOU KNOW, I WAS GETTING READY… I WAS SITTING DOWN, I WAS GETTING READY TO GO AHEAD AND START PAYING THEM, AND THEY'RE NOT DETAIL-MADE. THAT'S NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. I DON'T KNOW IF… MAYBE YOU HAVE SOME INSIGHT. YEAH, I DON'T, BUT WE'LL BE HAPPY TO RESEARCH IT. AND THAT'S GOING TO AFFECT OUR BUDGETING, TOO. OH, YEAH, BECAUSE IF TAXES AREN'T DUE TILL MAY. YEAH, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD LOOK INTO IS OBVIOUSLY WITH THE NUMBER OF PROPERTIES THAT YOU HAVE AND RIGHT? IF IT'S AFFECTING YOU, IT'S PROBABLY AFFECTING OTHERS. SO WE'LL LOOK INTO IT. OKAY, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I HAVE ONE COMMENT. SURE. ON THE GRFD07 2026 FORMAT REPORTS I NOTICED IN GOING DOWN THROUGH ALL THE STATIONS. THERE'S A LOT OF VARIANCE IN SOME OF THESE AREAS. AND I UNDERSTAND THIS MAY BE IN THE WORKS ALREADY, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A NOTATION PUT ON THOSE REPORTS. WHY THERE'S A HUGE VARIANCE. LET'S SAY 3 TO 5% VARIANCE ON WHAT WHAT WE'VE BUDGETED. [01:25:06] THAT WAY THE WEAKENS AND THEN KEEP THOSE NOTES OR THOSE COMMENTS ON THE REPORT EACH MONTH AS WE GO, THEN WE CAN LOOK DOWN AND SEE YOU KNOW, THIS MONTH THE BOARD SERVICE WAS WAY OFF. WELL, IT'S BECAUSE THEY HAD A BIG PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THEY BOUGHT THEN THE NEXT MONTH, MAYBE SOME OTHER REASON, OR MAYBE THEY WON'T BE ON THAT REPORT, BUT IT'S THE HISTORY OF WHAT'S WHY VARIANCES ARE HAPPENING IN THESE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS. OKAY, SO YOU'RE REFERRING TO THE REPORT THAT IS BROKEN OUT BY INDIVIDUAL DEPARTMENTS, CORRECT? SO, YEAH, PART OF WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THAT, TOO, AND I DON'T KNOW IF CHIEF PERRY, IF YOU WANT TO JUMP IN, BUT I WOULD IF YOU DON'T MIND, MADAM CHAIR, BOARD MEMBERS, SCHELLENBERGER. WE ARE TRYING TO PUT THE ONUS FOR BUDGET MANAGERS ON THE BUDGET MANAGERS FOR THEM TO REPORT ON THOSE VARIANCES. WE CAN LOOK AT AS WE GET THE NUMBERS DIALED IN HAVING SOME SORT OF REPORTING FUNCTION WHERE WE GENERATE SOMETHING FROM EACH OF THE BUDGET MANAGERS. BUT I WOULD ASK FOR JUST ANOTHER MONTH OR TWO OF SOME PATIENTS OF US GETTING THOSE NUMBERS DIALED IN SO THAT THEY CAN TRULY HAVE GOOD, ACCURATE NUMBERS TO SPEAK TO. IF THAT WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE TO YOU, AND WE WILL WORK TOWARDS GETTING SOME SORT OF REPORTING FORMAT WHERE WE CAN SPEAK TO EXACTLY THOSE VARIANCES. WOULD THAT WORK FOR YOU, MR. CHALLENBERG? RIGHT. YEAH, IT AND IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF BLANK SPACE UNDERNEATH THOSE REPORTS THEN WE COULD PUT ALL THESE NOTES MONTHLY NOTES IN THERE, AND I WOULD HOPE THAT THAT THOSE BUDGET MANAGERS WOULD BE ABLE TO BE THE ONES THAT GIVE US THE REASONING FOR THE VARIANCES AND SO FORTH. MR. SCHELLENBERGER, THAT'S ABSOLUTELY THE GOAL. YEAH. YOU ALSO SEE A LOT OF IN THOSE MORE DETAILED REPORTS, YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF UNBUDGETED THINGS JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE BUILT MORE DETAIL IN SINCE WE BUDGETED. SO AGAIN, IT'S JUST A MATTER OF US WORKING THROUGH THIS PROCESS. BUT YES, WE WILL DEFINITELY WORK TOWARDS THAT ACCOUNTABILITY. THAT'S WHERE WE WANT TO BE AS WELL. GREAT. THANK YOU. THAT'S PERFECT. THANK YOU. OKAY, SO, WE NEED DISCUSSION UNDER POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING THE GOLDEN RANCH FIRE DISTRICT RECONCILIATION AND MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR JULY AND FOR AUGUST. LET'S DO THEM IN TWO SEPARATE MOTIONS. SO FIRST WE'RE GOING TO DO THE JULY REPORT SO MAY I HAVE A MOTION YES, MADAM CHAIR, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE AND ACCEPT THE GOLDER RANCH FIRE DISTRICT RECONCILIATION AND MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT FOR JULY AS PRESENT JULY 2026 AS PRESENTED. SECOND, WE HAVE A MOTION. SECOND. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? SEEING NONE, ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED NO MOTION PASSES. NOW, ITEM E, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING THE GOLDEN RANCH FIRE DISTRICT RECONCILIATION AND MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR AUGUST 2026. MAY I HAVE A MOTION, PLEASE. MAKE A MOTION TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AUGUST REPORT. OKAY, IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? NO MOTION PASSES. DO WE HAVE ANY FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS THAT YOU'D LIKE ON THE OCTOBER 20TH AGENDA? OKAY, THEN CALL TO THE PUBLIC. WE'RE OKAY. SO I'LL ACCEPT THE MOTION TO ADJOURN. OKAY, IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? NO. MOTION PASSES. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE TODAY. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.