We were asked recently about officer positions, and eligibility of points. In this particular fire department, there are five fire companies. In addition, there is a “rescue squad”, the membership of which is comprised of members of the five fire companies. The rescue squad is responsible for rescue operations – cutting cars, and similar type operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This rescue squad has an elected captain. The question is, can points be awarded to the rescue squad captain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the heart of the issue is the definition of “elected or appointed position” in the statute, which is: line officers, department or company officers and president, vice president, treasurer and secretary of a fire company or department. <\/em>In this instance, the individual is the captain of the rescue squad, and the squad is not a fire company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A position was taken that the captain of the rescue squad cannot be given points as an officer. However, I think it is reasonable for officer points to be given if the rescue squad captain is considered a “line officer” in the by-laws. Since a captain typically is considered a line officer, it would seem appropriate to give that person the allotted points for an officer. We would suggest to ensure that, in this instance, the by-laws reflect that the rescue squad captain is a line officer, thereby making it clear points for holding this office can be earned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another note about officers – committee members, or committee chairpersons, do not meet the definition of an elected or appointed position, therefore are not eligible for points under the officer category. This was corroborated in a recent audit by the Office of the State Comptroller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We were asked recently about officer positions, and eligibility of points. In this particular fire department, there are five fire companies. In addition, there is a “rescue squad”, the membership of which is comprised of members of the five fire companies. The rescue squad is responsible for rescue operations – cutting cars, and similar type […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,5,6,7,8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}