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August 29, 1984 Ralph McAllister Fire Chief Moscow Fire Department Moscow, Idaho 83843 RE: Fire Truck Damage Liability Dear Ralph: Universityotldaho Plant D•v•sron Mosco·.v. ldano d3843 (208) 885·6\>.16 In the letter we sent you the end of July, we addressed issues of the University housing the 80' platform fire truck on campus. Carol Grupp, the University's Risk Management Officer, has brought to my attention some concerns that our State insurance program has with respect to liability coverage. Therefore, she is asking that I extend this clarification to you as an addendum to the letter of my understanding on our working relationship. Specifically, I wish to insert a sentence and reword the second sentence in paragraph three of that letter to read as follows: "The City agrees to carry comprehensive and collision damage insurance on the truck and to advise the University of the amount of the deductible obligation. The University will be liable for any damage up to the amount of the comprehensive collision deductible in the insurance maintained by the City on the truck and such damage that may be caused to the truck during the University's use. The City will continue to take care of its liabilities for any damage that may be incurred during its use under official City business." This should then avoid duplicate insurance coverage on the part of the University and the City. We feel that we have an obligation to take care of our problems when we are responsible, but we do not feel we should be liable for any more than the deductible. If this creates any problems with your understanding or the City's insurance coverage, please feel free to _ contact Carol Grupp. ICAH/nlc cc: Carol Grupp ---PAGE BREAK--- Universityotldaho Physical Plant 01V1S10n Moscow, ldaho/83843 Ralph McAllister, Chief Fire Department 603 S. Main Moscow, ID 83843 Re. Warehousing Aerial Platform Fire Truck Dear Ralph: August 1, 1984 Per our conversation, the University of Idaho Physical Plant Division will provide appropriate space to warehouse the aerial platform truck. It is my understanding that the truck is currently certified and needs to be parked in a suitable facility to maintain the certification. It is also my understanding that the City will carry the necessary insurance on the truck and will provide for oil changes and grease maintenance required to keep the truck operational. The University currently has four employees certified to operate this equipment. It is our understanding that we will be free to use it as our needs dictate as long as those four certified individuals or any other employees of the Physical Plant who may become certified operate this equipment under their direct supervision. In addition to this, the Physical Plant employees (Pope and Baxter) will be required to check and exercise the equipment one half hour per week to keep it operational. The University will be liable for any damage that may be caused to the truck during its use, and the City will be responsible for any damage caused to the truck during use at fire calls. It will also be our responsibility to keep the truck filled with gas whenever we use it, and, in turn, the City will keep it filled with gas on return from fire calls. If this does not meet with your understanding, please·advise me of any discrepancies, and we will correct them immediately. In addition to the warehousing of this equipment, we will also agree to paint the repairs on the truck at no cost to the City of Moscow. Such arrangements will be made by Jack Hamilton with our Paint Shop at a time most appropriate to put a new coat of paint on the repaired areas. KAH/ss Sinceaely, / - / Kenneth A. Hall cc: David L. Me Kinney, Don Amos, Carol Grupp, Jack Hamilton, Don Huskey The Ul"'lvers,ty of lda[o .s an eQual c.oportur.1ty aH1rmat•ve act1cn empicyer and educat1onai 1nst.tut1on. ---PAGE BREAK--- city of .no scow 603 123- H MAIN MOSCOW IDAHO 63643 TELEPHONE 862·2631 AREA CODE 206 , • , • o • ) I I' • • o; FIRE DEPARTMENT Mr. Ken Hall, Director Physical Plant Univeristy of Idaho Moscow, ID 83843 Dear Ken: March 23, 1982 You can no doubt help me out with a safety concern I have on campus. Since the cave-in of the old steam tunnel on the south side of the Administrative Building, I have had some thoughts about the remaining tunnels throughout the campus and their ability to uphold the weight of some of our equipment. The aerial platform truck weighs 36,220 pounds, with 23,100 pounds on the rear axle. When in a working position the rear of the truck rests on four outigger pads measuring 14 inches x 14 inches. taking the weight off the wheels. If the pads were to break through with the boom up, it could possibly turn the truck over or ram into the side of a brick building causing injury to the occupants of the basket and property damage. Our pumper trucks weigh approximately 26,000 pounds each. Can you furnish us a map of the existing tunnels on campus to use in training and alerting our personnel of their locations? Also, could your engineers furnish information as to which ones they feel would be safe for us to work over? And those they definitely feel are old and unsafe. I would appreciate this information if available. Thank you Ken, for your time and effort on this situation. REM: kk Sincerely, Chief Ralph E. McAllister Moscow Fire Department t