Review of 2006 Season

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Review of 2006 Season Finance Lessons Learned

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2006 Stats for Resources for SA

• 2006 began with significant initial attack and
  large fire activity in AR, OK, and TX. The
  907,245 acre East Amarillo Complex in TX, which
  resulted in several fatalities and the loss of 89
  structures,ended up being the largest fire of the
  year Nationally. Fire Activity and resource
  mobilizations to these portions of the Southern
  Area finally decreased in the early fall as El
  Nino conditions brought heavy rains.

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Stats Continued

• With fairly light spring/fall fire seasons and no
  significant hurricane activity, the majority of
  the other Southern Area resource commitments in
  2006 were to support the most active Western fire
  season in several years.

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SA IMT Assignments 2006

• TX January 2006
• AR
• KY
• VA
• FL
• VA
• FL
• WA
• OR
• CA September/October 2006

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Incident Business Lessons Learned in 2006
Assignments

• TX splitting the costs between the Compact
  Agreement and the ROSS ordered resources
• Regional Contracts know what regional contracts
  are available ie Camp in A Box, R5 Agreement
  with Enterprise Car Rental
• Cost Containment.

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Continued

• Cost share agreements none are the same and
  some havent even been written!
• Contract Crews be familiar with the contract or
  be sure you have a crew rep that is
• Cost Apportionment varying methods
• DOCUMENTATION document everything!

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Continued

• Be aware of any Pilot programs for the Region
  you are dispatched to comply with the guidelines
  for that Pilot program
• Lack of PROC/PULs
• Lack of ALL Finance resources
• Dont always count on having Isuite up and
  running. Several contract crews were demobed
  before Isuite was set up. All OF- 288s were
  completed by hand

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Continued

• AUDIT a lot of errors on pay documents received
  at ASC this year HANDOUT FROM ASC
• 2006 Large Cost Review (over 5M) Draft report
  from WO
• Recent Large Cost Review training in San Diego

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Continued

• FS OIG/DHS OIG Audit on hurricane records

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Executive Summary

• Vision
• Align People, Processes, and Technology by
  improving the management of information from
  end-to-end.
• Improve internal controls and audit performance
  by improving acquisition processes, providing
  appropriate documentation for costs, and
  eliminating processing errors such as duplicate
  payments
• Create an infrastructure to provide ongoing
  analysis, cost reviews, and process improvements.
• Enable Business Operations to successfully
  support FAM utilizing core financial data.
• Reduce costs by utilizing fewer people to enter
  data and process accrual and payment data.
• Utilize proven, existing technology to build an
  infrastructure that enables data exchange between
  disparate Fire Aviation, Acquisition Management
  and Financial Management applications.

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EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT RENTAL AGREEMENTS

• Jan 2006 4,219,564.06 182
• Feb 2006 3,133,532.00 107
• Mar 2006 4,662,097.00 285
• Apr 2006 2,712,298.00 167
• May 2006 895,911.00 174
• Jun 2006 1,381,102.00 281
• Jul 2006 4,444,914.00 824
• Aug 2006 14,599,327.00 2024
• Sep 2006 19,712,991.00 2300
• Oct 2006 24,361,889.00 3236
• Nov 2006 5,303,770.00 623
• Dec 2006 12,924.00 1
• TOTAL 85,440,319.06 10204

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Questions??

• OR BETTER YET, YOUR 2006 Lessons Learned!!!!