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Trustees approve disposal and donation of obsolete fire equipment; department schedules public CPR class
Summary
At the May 12 Morgan Township trustee meeting, trustees authorized disposal or donation of multiple pieces of Fire Department equipment, and Assistant Chief Griffin reported rising call volumes, recent smoke-detector installations and a public CPR class on May 29.
Morgan Township trustees on May 12 approved declarations that several Fire Department items are obsolete and authorized donations or disposal, and heard a department update from Assistant Chief Griffin.
The equipment actions free space at the department and provide parts or training equipment to others. Assistant Chief Griffin told trustees the Historical Society has requested more storage in the community-center room and that the department will give the group additional wall space: "They have come back to the fire department and asked us to give them more room. They want the other wall now also. We gave them 2 walls, but they feel they need a third," Griffin said.
Why it matters: removing unused equipment reduces storage costs and can help nearby agencies or community groups obtain usable items; the department also emphasized public training and steady call volume.
During the report trustees approved three formal actions: declaring two stair chairs unneeded and approved them to be discarded; donating various old Motorola pagers and parts to the Druesburg Fire Department in Indiana; and discarding older CPR training mannequins by passing them to a local church for basic public education. The motions were seconded and recorded as approved by trustees who voted in favor on those items.
Griffin said the pagers are kept only for parts because the township now uses newer radios: "They're not buying new menders, but parts are getting getting harder to find," he said. On the mannequins Griffin explained newer training devices require feedback sensors and the older models lack them but still have basic instructional value for the church.
The department also reported operational statistics. Griffin said responses through January–April were up 19 percent from last year, totaling 185 calls year-to-date with 42 calls in the most recent month; average out-the-door time was 1 minute 46 seconds. The department provided 79 hours of continuing education to crews that month and 356 training hours for the year. He said the department installed four Red Cross-donated smoke detectors in April and is updating the employee policy manual to local paper and electronic copies: "Captain Meyer's been working on that, but that's almost finished," Griffin said.
The department announced a public CPR class scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on May 29; registration is $10 and residents may contact the station at (513) 738-4513 or the department email CaptainYon@jyonatmorgantownship.org for details.
Trustees asked procedural questions during the report but took no further substantive policy actions. The department will proceed with the approved disposals and donations and move forward with the storage changes for the Historical Society.
