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ATTACHMENT "A" Members in good standing with the Winecoff Volunteer Fire Department (WFD) at the time of the merger shall be offered membership in the Kannapolis Fire Department (KFD). W.F.D. members who do not meet the current K.F.D. physical agility standards will become members having fireground activities limited to vehicle operation, pump operation and other duties as may be assigned on an incident scene. Special member membership will be subject to compliance with other requirements such as their level of participation in responding to calls, training, and meetings. Junior Firefighter members of the W.F.D. in good standing at the time of the merger will become members of the K.F.D. and remain as Junior Firefighters. Upon reaching the age of 18 and completing high school, the Junior Firefighters will then become regular frrefighters so long as they comply with the requirements of membership required of other fu'efighters. All members receiving compensation in the amount of $600 or greater will receive an IRS Form 1099. Physical ability testing is used as a tool to assess fire department applicants' physical abilities and to acquaint them with the type of activity they might expect to he asked to perform on an incident scene. K.F.D. personnel who were members prior to the institution of the physical ability testing, though not required to complete the test, are required to attempt the test for their own benefit. W.F.D. members would be encouraged to attempt the same. The physical ability test does not have a time requirement attached to it. It is the intent that the apparatus and equipment owned by the W.F.D. at the time of the merger will remain assigned to the Winecoff station for a period of not less than five years from the time of a merger. It is not the intent of the current K.F.D. administration to reassign the equipment to another station even after the five years. Minor maintenance of K.F.D. apparatus is performed by K.F.D. personnel as allowed. Other maintenance is performed by appropriate private repair facilities. Routine preventive maintenance is performed by private contractors, usually at the KF.D. The size of the Board of Trustees of the Local Relied Fund is established by General Statute and could not be expanded. The fire department does appoint two members to the Board and, consequently, could appoint a representative from the Winecoff community, at the discretion of the members of the depa,xment. The current K.F.D. administration would encourage and strive to accomplish this at the next Board election in January 2000. The current W.F.D. has expressed a desire to continue to assist Odell Fire Department on a mutual aid basis. It would not be the intent of the K.F.D. administration to discontinue that arrangement. To the contrary, it is to the benefit of all parties for the mutual aid arrangements to continue as they are now established. A merger would not preclude any mutual aid assignments, but would continue them as per the City of Kannapolis contract with Cabarrus County. First alarm mutual aid response with the City of Concord would continue from the Winecoff Station as per the request of the W.F.D. The first alarm response area would, ho~vever, be reduced from the current area and would include 1-85, Country Club Drive and other parts of the former Parkwood Sanitary District. It would not include the Carolina Mall and NorthEast Medical Center except on a mutual aid assignment for second alarm.