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--- bulletins:2024_in_review [2024/12/02 15:29] – Brigade Tek Admin
+++ bulletins:2024_in_review [2024/12/02 15:51] (current) – [Peter Fox] Brigade Tek Admin
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 ==== Workload ====
-We were a little slow during the end of 2023, and mostly current on all work. That has not been the case at all in 2024. Which is good! But now, we're being backed up a little to chronically. It takes longer to get stuff fixed than I think it should.
+We were a little slow during the end of 2023, and mostly current on all work. That has not been the case at all in 2024. Which is good! But now, we're being backed up a little **too** chronically. It takes longer to get stuff fixed than I think it should.
 Our operating model to-date is: hire part time technicians, who have a full time fire/rescue job. This worked well, because if we didn't have work it wasn't a problem for the employee to skip a day. But I'm not sure this modus operandi is sustainable for future growth. While growth is NOT our objective (SERVICE is our core focus), we need to grow to keep providing the same level of service to existing and new departments.
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 I'm not sure I have the answers to this problem. Nor do I believe there is a single correct solution. Kind of like our checklists evolved over time, with several solutions that worked for better or worse, I think we need to try something out and see how it works for us.
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+===== Meet the Team =====
+==== Peter Fox ====
+I live in Clover Hill with my wife Amanda, with our children Kate (2) & Victor (1). I like tinkering with things and starting new hobbies. I start more hobbies than I finish, but a few have stuck. I was homeschooled through grade school, then went to Hickory Hollow Christian school for High School. I was born in PA, moved to Charlotte Co., VA when I was 9, then here when I was 13. When I was 12, I started working on lawnmowers for some neighbors, and mowing grass for people. I'm forever indebted to a few folks who I called scores of times for questions. We didn't have internet at first, so I had to wait for shopping trips to town so I could use a computer at the library. One day, I biked 16 miles (round trip) to the library to look up some parts. Then we got dial-up internet.
+After moving here, I continued working on things in our garage for a short time, then I got a job at Valley Tool Repair. I worked there through high school. I joined Bridgewater fire as soon as I got my license, then took fire academy followed by EMT. I was hired by Rockingham County Fire & Rescue in November of 2016, with a group in what I think was the first SAFER grant.
+==== Adrian Shirk ====
+==== Clayton Armstrong ====
+==== Wendall Pence ====
+==== Timothy Earley ====