The Washington Fire Mechanics held a board meeting on November 28th at the State Chiefs Office in Olympia. The Board discussed the yearend financial reports and how we showed a positive year for our section compared to previous years. This year’s workshop planning has started already and we discussed a few suggestions such as getting the classes secured and registration information out to the membership earlier to provide a larger window for registration. We discussed picture collection for our historical archive of events, if any member has pictures of our event and would like to send them into us it would help immensely in photo documentation of our events for future generations to enjoy in our slideshows. New options are being explored for events, T-shirts, and giveaways, if you have ideas for content on the shirts please send them over to the group. As most of you may be aware, we had an incident with injury this year at the creeper drags and as a result, we are no longer able to continue this event. We discussed better ways to market the scholarship and sponsorships that are available, please remember to submit a request, these are awarded annually and cover registration and lodging, all you have to do is get there. Due to our newer location for the annual workshop we are still fine tuning little details to make it run as smoothly as possible, we reviewed the comments received and have started to take action on some items to improve the overall event. This year we are exploring the option of online preorders of shirts, this may allow us to produce a different style of shirt in addition to our normal tee and accommodate the influx of special request shirt sizes, be on the lookout for information on that. This would allow you to order the shirts prior and pick up at the conference. A committee was formed to set criteria to be approved for an instructor of the year award. The car show will be a large portion of our events new direction, and our new board member Arnie is heading this large coordinated effort. Our next planned meeting is scheduled for early February and dates will be announced as soon as they have been selected.