Attendance Guideline
Purpose
This attendance guideline is created to provide a way for the Fire District to assure adequate continuing education by mandating minimum attendance at drills and training sessions by all volunteers.
Scope
This attendance guideline is created to provide a viable, consistent way for the Fire District to assure that all members adequately participate in training and continuing education as appropriate to their level of certification.
Responsibility
It shall be the responsibility of all Fire District personnel to assure that the intent of this order be followed.
Procedure
All members of the Fire District will be required to attend 50% of the District’s scheduled drills per year, unless an acceptable excuse has been submitted and approved by the Division Chief of Training or the Fire Chief.
Day drills approved by Division Chief of Training will count as regular drills and apply to the attendance minimum of 60 hours per DPSST annual requirements for FFI.
Approved outside training will count toward this minimum attendance guideline. Training with other District employees is imperative to maintaining competency with District equipment and teamwork with District employees.
Violation of this policy is subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination covered in the disciplinary action SOG.