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2839 SPECIAL MEETING OF JANUARY 16, 1969 The special meeting of January 16, 1969 was called to order at 8:00 P.M. with the following members present: Mayor Tr~arkentien, Clerk Taylor and Councilmen Black, Stone and Ecklund. Also present was Attorney Seed. Fire Department As a starting point, Attorney Seed advised the Council Relief Association to place a maximum on each benefit. Legislation: Section 2 deals with the Pension for firemen. The Pension would be $x.00 for each year of service or a maximum total of $10,000. To qualify :for the Pension, the fix~en must be 50 years of age with at least 20 years of active duty or more with the fire department. Sickness and injury benefit is $5.00 per day but no longer than 12 weeks unless it was in the line of duty. Presently, there is no provision for volunteer firemen who are injured in the bne of duty. They would receive the $5.00 per day for 12 weeks and then nothing as it now stands. It was suggested that the volunteer firemen who are disabled in the line of duty receive a pro-rata pension according to their years of service in the department, They could not collect, however, until the age of 50. At that time, they would receive preferably a lump sum apportioned to his number of years of service. Death Benefit - Helbig advised the Council that at this time the volunteers perfer to have a lump sum death benefit in the amount of $2,000 instead of the widow benefit. It does not, nor does it intend to, take care of any children. He also advised that tY~e current by-law provides for $750.00 funeral benefit out of the line of duty before retirement. $1,000.00 death benefit in the line of duty before retirement. $2,000.00 death benefit after retirement. The lump sum goes to the widow or children. Section 7, Page 5 deals with the conversion to a Metropolitan Fire Department; this is only a possibility at the present time. The Council asked Chief Helbig what happens to the Relief Association Fund (RAF') upon discontinuance of the department. He stated that upon disbandment, it would go to the fire department. The Council wanted to know if the department were disbanded, if all the funds could be divided up according to the months and years of service to the department. The Attorney suggested that this be expressly provided for.. Those on duty and in good standing at the time of disbandment would qualify but those receiving a full-time pension at that time would have to have a provision covering them. It was decided that no provision would be put in to provide for this possibility of discontinuance of the department. Helbig was asked what the possibility was of member contribution to the RAF. He replied that at the present time, the Fire Department writes a check for $2.00 a member per year to the RAF.