Lebanon Selectmen's Meeting Agenda for Monday evening 11/9/15

 

 

 

November 9, 2015

SELECTMEN’S MEETING

 

AGENDA: 5:00 PM Fire/EMS Budget

Veterans Occupational Licensing Assistance Event Scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 10, in Gardiner, Maine

 

 

Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Dept. of Professional and Financial RegulationAndroscoggin Room, 76 Northern Avenue, Gardiner

Information or directions can be obtained by calling 207-624-8605.   

In advance of Veterans Day, Governor Paul R. LePage and Commissioner Anne Head are highlighting an ongoing initiative at the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation (DPFR) to make occupational licensing in several professions quicker and easier for veterans with relevant military training and experience.

Governor LePage signed Public Law Chapter 603 in 2012 to ensure that veterans are given full credit for applicable military training and experience when they apply for an occupational license from the Department’s Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation. 

These recent new laws provide the Department with greater flexibility in evaluating and crediting military experience toward license and continuing education requirements.  It should also assist veterans and spouses by permitting them to acquire a license by endorsement if they hold a comparable license in another state for the remainder of the term of that license or until a license is obtained in Maine.  

Additionally, the Department’s homepage (www.maine.gov/pfr) features information to assist veterans in applying their military training and experience toward occupational licensing requirements.  Details about licensing can also be obtained by calling Catherine Carroll at 207-624-8605.  Veterans are encouraged to contact the Department before applying for licensure.  

Lebanon Fire and EMS Congratulates Members on Passing Ambulance Vehicles Operators Course (AVOC)

We would like to send out a huge Congratulations to Matt Morrissey, Matt O'Conner and Isaac Howes  of the Lebanon Fire and EMS, on passing their AVOC Class today.

Matt Morrissey is brand new to the department, he will be attending FFI&II in December.

Matt O'Connor is one of our soon to be EMT's he is waiting for his testing dates and also enrolled in FFI&II in December.

Isaac Howes is a new Advanced EMT to the Department and also enrolled into FFI&II in December.

AVOC stands for  Ambulance Vehicle Operators Course. This was a weekend course held in North Berwick. Students learned to safely drive an ambulance in an emergency situation, Title 29 and how it relates to emergency driving and hands on driver training with an ambulance through a cones course. Before any new member can drive a Lebanon emergency vehicle there are department driving requirements that have to be completed.