STE. GENEVIEVE – The minutes of the March 16 meeting of the Ste. Genevieve County Ambulance District Board of Trustees meeting have been released.
STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTY
AMBULANCE DISTRICT
Regular Open – Board Meeting Minutes
Place: Ste. Genevieve County Ambulance District House 1
3 Basler Drive, Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
March 16, 2026
CALL TO ORDER:
Bill Everett called the regular meeting to order at 5:15 p.m.
ROLL CALL:
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:
Vice Chairperson, Bill Everett, Sub-District 4
Secretary, Nick Werner, Sub-District 3
Treasurer, Carl “CJ” Okenfuss, Sub-District 5
Member, Dennis Jokerst, Sub-District 2
Member, Nathan Wolk, Sub-District 6
BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:
Chairperson, Ernie Weiler, Sub-District 1
EMPLOYEES PRESENT:
Kendall Shrum, EMT-P, Administrator
Dawn Sevier, EMT-P, Operations Supervisor
Mary Grieshaber, Office Manager
Dale Whitener, EMT-B, Captain
Ken Nichols, EMT-P
RECOGNIZE VISITORS FOR PUBLIC COMMENT: None
EMPLOYEES TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: None
BOARD MEETING MINUTES:
A motion was made and the February 19 th Regular Board Meeting minutes were approved:
APPROVAL OF THE REGULAR BOARD MEETING MINUTES:
Made the motion: Dennis Jokerst
Seconded the motion: CJ Okenfuss
In favor: All
Opposed: None
TREASURER’S REPORT
Ambulance revenue was down last month. Property taxes are down a bit. It depends on when people pay their taxes. Ozark Gas is the oxygen and propane. Feathershark is our IT company.
Wright Express is our fuel. Marzuco’s is appliances for House 3. Repair of transfer case on one of the Dodges is the Speeds amount. Chat GPT is the AI support for Kendall.
A motion was made to approve the bills and checks for payment as presented:
APPROVAL OF BILL PAYMENTS AS PRESENTED:
Made the motion: Dennis Jokerst
Seconded the motion: CJ Okenfuss
In favor: All
Opposed: None
A motion was made to approve the Treasurer’s Report as presented:
MOTION TO APPROVE THE TREASURER’S REPORT:
Made the motion: Nick Werner
Seconded the motion: Nathan Wolk
In favor: All
Opposed: None
A motion was made to approve write-offs in the amount of $5,283.95 as presented.
MOTION TO APPROVE $5,283.95 TO BE WRITTEN OFF:
Made the motion: CJ Okenfuss
Seconded the motion: Nathan Wolk
In favor: All
Opposed: None
DIRECTOR ‘S REPORT:
February
Total Calls 214
Emergency 162
House 1 -84
House 2 -39
House 3 -39
Transfers – 50
House 1 – 20
House 2 – 16
House 3 – 14
PR/Standbys 2
House 1 – 1
House 2 – 1
House 3 – 0
2026 YTD Calls 214
January 2025 Calls
Emergency 135
Transfers 56
PR/Standbys 5
2025 YTD Calls 196
January 2024 Total Calls
Emergency 157
Transfers 35
PR/Standbys 2
2024 YTD Calls 194
Equipment
8967 is throwing a 4 X 4 error code and it won’t engage in 4-wheel drive.
8927 is clunking when you put it in drive. It drives okay when it gets going. We need to have Speeds look at.
We need to order IV pumps. The pumps are needed for some of our medications. Our current ones are just worn out. The vents will need to be replaced later this year or early next year.
Training
All is going well with the EMT class and monthly CEUs.
We will be having airway April. There will be RSI training and policies implemented. We will be doing refresher on it every six months. The protocols are there and training needs to happen before we can do the RSI. We are currently doing igels. Paramedics need to be able to intubate. Videoscopes were finally sent back to us after being without them due to a recall.
Staff
We have been working hard getting new hires in and trained due to losing two full-time employees. Dawn has been working hard filling the open shifts. We only had five shifts of overtime this month. We have one employee out on short-term disability. She is due back next week. There are some promising candidates coming in as new PRN employees.
House 2
The House 2 generator is having repairs due to the freon freezing.
911
May 3rd is the go live date for the new digital system. We have ordered an updated pager for House 3. Digital pagers will still work on the old frequency. By year-end, the digital system will be P25 compliant. Each agency will be responsible for their own radios. There may be some issues working around communications with everyone until all equipment is updated.
Patient Care
We are currently reviewing the transport destination policy. The more times we go on longer transports, we will not have available trucks. There had been four times in the past week of having no available ambulance in the county.
Drug Tracking
The DEA are changing drug requirements. Kendall and Dawn met with a drug tracking software company today. The software will be able to track all our drugs in inventory and when they expire by using codes to scan. This will eliminate paper logs and errors in transposing numbers making our drug system more streamlined.
A motion was made to approve the Director’s Report
APPROVAL OF DIRECTOR’S REPORT:
Made the motion: CJ Okenfuss
Seconded the motion: Nick Werner
In favor: All
Opposed: None
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
House 3
The House 3 generator needed an overspeed repair. It was likely messed up while being moved to the new location.
We have the cabinets adjusted to work with the appliances. The shower doors were picked up at Lowes and will be installed later this week. Feather Shark was there today making adjustments to the door lock. The remaining issues will be resolved and we will move the crew into the new building by the end of the month
There were no smoke detectors figured in for the new building. Kendall will contact BT Electric to have them hardwired in. There will also be a CO detector installed in the utility room. The safe room should arrive by early April. We are looking to be moved in by end of the month.
Kendall will get with Brad of Centermark to get the remaining issues fixed.
A motion was made to make the final payment to Centermark and address any remaining issues under warranty.
MADE THE MOTION TO MAKE THE FINAL PAYMENT TO CENTERMARK:
Made the motion: CJ Okenfuss
Seconded the motion: Nathan Wolk
In favor: All
Opposed: None
Some repairs and cleaning of the house is necessary before we can consider selling the existing House 3.
NEW BUSINESS: None The regular meeting adjourned.
ADJOURNMENT: Meeting ended: 6:22 p.m.
Made the motion: Dennis Jokerst
Seconded the motion: CJ Okenfuss
In favor: All
Opposed: None
NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING: The next regular meeting is Monday, April 20th at 5:15 p.m. at House 3.
Minutes submitted by Mary Grieshaber 3/17/2026