District 5 Report     

January 12, 2010

VP - Ricky Burns

1.     Altus- Nothing New

2.     Anadarko –   Nothing New

  3.  Chickasha –   March 10^th Arbitration date set for grievance regarding  

  shift exchange      

4.  Duncan – Represented President in disciplinary hearing, Fire Chief was seeking three days off with no pay, settled on one day off with no pay. Will have another hearing on a different issue sometime in the near future. Members of the department issued a vote of no confidence in their Fire Chief, waiting to see what their City Manager does with it.  

5.      Fredrick- Nothing New

6.      Mustang – City hired new City Manager

7.     Newcastle – Nothing New

8.     Lawton –  Filed one grievance in regards to a recent promotion. One of the members believes he was discriminated against based on an on the job injury.   

EMS COMMITTEE REPORT

            Had conference call with Chalk, Jimmy Johnson (ambulance provider), and Greg Reid (ambulance provider) to discuss HB 1888 and possible alternatives.  The newest version of HB 1888 doesn’t include any changes to the Duty to Act however both Greg and Jimmy said they are going to try to go through the Dept. of Health to get the rules and regulations changed. We came up with possibly another solution and that is all EMS providers must come up with mutual aid agreements with the other EMS providers in their area to ensure that there is coverage. Not sure if this is going to work but its something to work with.