One System for Every Meeting, Standby, and Detail
Departments run on far more than calls and drills. Monthly business meetings, standbys at the high-school game, the Memorial Day parade, a line-of-duty funeral, the pancake-breakfast fundraiser, a Saturday work detail at the station — they all take people's time, and in a volunteer or combination department that time has to be counted. Command Established gives you one place to schedule those events, take attendance, and turn participation into Length of Service Award Program (LOSAP) credit your board can actually report on.
Track Every Event That Counts
Create an event for any of the activities your department runs outside of training and incident response:
- Meetings — business meetings, officer meetings, committee meetings
- Standbys — game-day, festival, and special-event coverage
- Parades — community parades and processions
- Funerals — line-of-duty and honor-guard details
- Fundraisers — pancake breakfasts, boot drives, banquets
- Community service — school visits, station tours, public education events
- Work details — station and apparatus work parties, grounds, and projects
- Other — anything else your department needs to log and credit
Each event records its type, a scheduled date and time, a duration, and either a station or a free-text location for off-site activities. (Drills and training keep their own home in the Training module, so your participation records stay clean and your LOSAP categories don't get muddled.)
The events list — every meeting, standby, detail, and fundraiser in one place, tagged by type and status with the attendee count for each.
Turn Attendance Into LOSAP Credit
Open an event and record who showed up. For events where time on task is what matters — standbys, work details, fundraisers, and community service — you can log minutes completed per member, not just a checkbox, with room for a note next to each name. For the rest — meetings, parades, funerals — attendance is the credit: one entry per member who participated.
That split mirrors how most LOSAP point systems actually work: a flat point for showing up to a meeting, and hour-based accrual for the standby you covered for six hours. Every attendee is recorded once, attributed, and tied to the event, so the numbers you report later trace straight back to a real roster.
The attendance tab — mark who was there, and log minutes completed per member for hour-based events like standbys and work details.
A Clear Status for Every Event
Events move through a simple, honest lifecycle: scheduled, completed, or cancelled. Put next month's meeting on the calendar as scheduled, mark it completed once it's happened and attendance is in, or cancel it if the standby gets called off. An event can't be marked completed before its scheduled time — so a roster never gets credited for something that hasn't happened yet.
An event detail page — type, schedule, duration, location, and status up top, with attendance ready to record below.
Take Roll in Seconds with Copy From Previous
The same dozen members cover most standbys. The same officers make every business meeting. Instead of re-checking the same names every time, copy attendance from a previous event of the same type and adjust from there. Recurring rosters take seconds, and the people who consistently show up get consistently credited.
Pull the LOSAP Report When the Board Asks
When it's time to certify points — for a board, a town, or a LOSAP administrator — generate an attendance report across a date range and event type. See participation summarized by member and by event so the question "who qualified this year?" has a defensible, on-the-record answer instead of a shoebox of sign-in sheets.
The attendance report — participation rolled up by member and event type for any date range, ready for LOSAP certification.
Filter, Find, and Keep the Record
Filter the events list by status, type, and date range to answer real questions fast: every standby last quarter, every meeting a member missed this year, every fundraiser since spring. And because participation records are part of your department's permanent history:
- Archive, don't delete — cancelled or old events are archived, not erased; they stay readable for audits and LOSAP review.
- Full attribution — every event and every attendance change is tracked with who recorded it and when.
- Permanent history — the roster you certified points from last year is still exactly as you left it.
Ready to Retire the Sign-In Sheet?
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