Story Mill Rural Fire District
Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes
Mareh 31, 2022
‘The Board of Trustees meeting of the Story Mill Rural Fire District was called to order at 6:30 pm at Room
325 of the Norm Asbjornson Hall on the MSU Campus ~ Bozeman, Montana.
Persons present: Trustees Linda Willmuth, Kathy Campbell, Tom Moore, Andy Epple, Dan Archer, and
trustee elect Paul Griffin
Notice of the meeting was made by the district’s website (storymillfire. weebly.com).
Agenda Items:
1) Presentation of Treasurer documents and duties from outgoing Trustee Linda Willmuth.
a. Hard copy map of district and accessing tax roles to determine district membership.
b. Hard copy binders, location of documents within each.
c. Review notes generated by Linda Willmuth about timetables and contacts information,
d. Initial assignment of duties and contacts:
1. Andy Epple to work on mapping updates. Suggestion from Tom Moore to
have access to district map on our website.
2. Kathy Campbell to contact Kim Norby/Laurae Clark (C.O.B.) to receive
monthly reports and for payment inquiries, Ange Furlong (Payne West
Insurance) regarding Board Liability Insurance, Eric Semerad (Gallatin County
Clerk and Recorder’s Office) to update his contact person regarding elections
documents, Kari Powers (State of Montana) regarding contact person for
Annual Report, and Justine Swanson/Jay Bates (Gallatin County Accounting)
to update contact person receiving annual budget, and annual report
information,
3. Dan Archer to contact Jay Bates (Gallatin County Accounting), to update
district checkbook signatures authorization.
e. Trustee Willmuth reviewed procedures she’d used in the past to complete the various tasks
and duties,
f. There was discussion from the Board about pulling some of the non-financial duties from the
‘Treasurer’s position and reassigning them to other Board positions to reduce the workload on
the Treasurer. It was agreed this would be discussed again at our general meeting in May
2022.
Other Business:
1) Kathy Campbell graciously agreed to begin filling the Treasurer's position as Trustee Willmuth is
transitioning out of that position.
2) Andy Epple made a motion to make Kathy Treasurer Elect until our official elections. The motion
was seconded and passed unanimously.
3) General agreement was made to schedule our annual meeting May 24, 2022.
4) Public Comment — no members of the public were present, and no comments were received.
5) Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned about 8:03 pm.
Poiatdes ribet by Lira Crate”