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Good morning CFTDA!
Just a friendly reminder that the deadline for membership dues is coming up on April 1st! For those that have paid thank you very much! For those that have not yet paid, please contact Scott Jaeggi to ensure you are up-to-date. We know that if your school is paying for you it may take time.
Additionally, each school should have received your survey link for the Fire Technology side, we are working on the EMS-specific survey and that should be hitting your inboxes in early April. All surveys must be in before July 1st. This information is invaluable to our programs. If your school has not seen an email from either myself or Jeff Baumunk please let us know. Again, thank you very much to those who have already completed them.
Have a great weekend!
Very Respectfully,
Peter Cacossa
Good afternoon everyone!
We just wanted to give everyone a heads up. Jeff Baumunk and I will be sending out the electronic course catalog survey here shortly. It will be on Microsoft Forms and fairly easy to complete in 10-15 minutes. It will go to one designee per school so there will not be any duplication of work if you want to let us know who that designee will be you can let Jeff or I know. As a heads up, there will be a second survey going out for the EMS side as well. Here is the breakout of schools between the two of us:
Jeff
- Allan Hancock College 11. Palomar College
- Bakersfield College 12. Rio Hondo College
- College of the Desert 13. San Diego Miramar College
- Crafton Hills Community College 14. Santa Ana College
- El Camino College 15. Sierra College
- Glendale Community College/Verdugo Fire Academy 16. Solano Community College
- Imperial Valley College 17. South Bay Regional Public Safety
- Moreno Valley College/Ben Clark Training 18. Southwestern College
- Mt. San Antonio College 19. Victor Valley College
- Oxnard College 20. Yuba College
Peter
- American River College 11. Las Poistas College
- Butte Community College 12. Los Medanos Community College
- Chabot Community College 13. Merritt College
- City College of San Francisco 14. Modesto Jr. College
- College of the Sequoias 15. Monterey Peninsula College
- College of the Siskiyous 16. Porterville Community College
- Columbia College 17. San Mateo College
- Cosumnes River College 18. Santa Rosa Junior College
- Fresno City College 19. Shasta Community College
- Lake Tahoe Community College
In an effort to determine the effectiveness of the COVID protocols implemented by ARTP’s in their fire programs, the CFTDA E-Board surveyed their membership in November to solicit their feedback. You will find a report on these responses enclosed. If you have any questions regarding its findings, feel free to contact CFTDA Secretary Randy Collins at: [email protected]
Please see the attachments for information regarding San Diego Miramar College’s Company Officer 2B and 2C courses.
Please click the link below to view the recording:
2021 Membership dues are due January 1, 2021. If your institution pays your dues, please submit your purchase order requests early to get the process started. If paying by Zelle, please use the attached instructions.
For assistance, please contact Scott Jaeggi at:
562-941-4082 ext. 33
CFTDA CHALLENGE COINS PROPOSAL
Following our September Zoom Meeting, a subcommittee comprised of Randy Collins, Pete Cacossa, Jeff Baumunk and Tommy Tunson met to develop a design for a Challenge Coin to be presented to the membership for approval. To that end, a design has been selected and a proof enclosed. While not shown on the proof, the organization’s mission statement (Dedicated to Promoting High Quality Fire Technology Education and Training) will be engraved on the edges of the coin.
OCTOBER 9 STEAC MEETING NOTES
Notes from the October 9 2020 STEAC meeting have been posted for your review. Those items of particular interest to the membership have been highlighted in yellow and include:
- Addition of Jones and Bartlett’s Wildland Firefighter Principles and Practices as an approved textbook to the FFIC Course Plan (along with the previously approved Bill Ties’ IFSTA text.
- Waiving the AS Degree requirement for the Chief Officer Cert. for 2 years providing candidates meet one of the 4 options identified in the SFT report. This was the meetings most controversial topic with it originally proposed for 4 years with the TO’s & CFTDA advocating reducing to 2 years. After a spirited discussion, it narrowly passed with the two year provision.
- A confirmation from Chief Henning that the new fee schedule will go into effect Jan 1, 2021
- A presentation from Dr. Tunson on the Transformational Organizational Model, Bridging the Racial Divide that he presented to us at our last Zoom meeting. The item has been agendized for the Jan STEAC meeting.
If you have specific questions regarding the meeting, feel free to contact Randy Collins at [email protected]