November 17, 2008

November 4. Received an invoice from Coventry Safety Products in the amount of 379.78 for the hard hats, safety glasses, and leather work gloves. In the October report I stated the quote from Coventry Safety was $327.50.  (The reason for the increased price from the October quote is this.  When the order was placed with Coventry Safety, they only sold gloves by the dozen and would not break open a package. We could not get 25 sets of gloves in multiple sizes.  We had to order a  dozen gloves in each size, medium, large, and extra large, for a total order of 3 dozen gloves.)

November 10. received an invoice from Shipman’s Fire Equipment Co in the amount of $4625.00  for the 2 additional sets of turnout gear, and 1 additional helmet.  .

November 14. A grant request was made to DHS in the amount of $4357.00

November 17. Received an email confirmation that the grant request for $4357.00 was accepted and approved, and the treasurer should see an electronic deposit in 3-5 business days.

Received the  hard hats, safety glasses, and leather work gloves GT Safety Products

Status of  funds:

  $61,156.00  Federal share awarded.

  $59,357.00  Federal share requested & received to date.

  $  1799.00    Remaining balance of the federal share.

  Due to the federal rule that we cannot spend more then $5000. without federal approval, we will be $17 short of spending the entire grant. In order for us to spend the remaining $17 we would have to petition the feds for approval, and spend that money on fire prevention items only. For several reasons that is not feasible.

$4625.00      Shipman’s

  $379.78      Coventry Safety

$5004.00      Total 

Friday of this week I will petition the feds for the remaining $1799.00.

  When the invoice for shipman’s is paid in full that will complete the expenditure of all monies, both federal and  Western Coventry’s share.  The only remaining thing left to do is write and submit a closeout report with the feds.

Respectfully submitted

Robert Mann, Captain