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MEMORANDUM DATE: December 3.0, 1986 TO: Mayor and Councilmembers FROM: David M. Childs, City Manager ITEM: Consideration of Change in Compensation for Fire Department Volunteers ISSUE: I have received a request from the Fire Department Reserves for an increase in- pay. In their memo to me they make the following points: "A. . Pay has remained the same for the past 14 years; B. Drills, emergencies, and fill-in time are important for the- running of an efficient and effective Fire Department; C. Desire to be in line with other communities, when con- sidering total benefits" . Their proposed pay increase is as follows: 1. Drills from $7. 50 to $8. 50 per drill. 2. Call-ins (fires, emergencies) from $7. 50 for first hour, then $4. 00 each hour to $8. 50 for first hour then- $5.00 each hour. 3 . Fill-ins from $4.00 per hour to $5.00 per hour. Total cost of such increases on an .annual basis would be $4 ,575.00. BACKGROUND: ' In 1981 the City entered into an agreement with the Volunteers whereby a pension was' established in keeping with nearly every other volunteer department in the entire state. The 'City agreed to assign the 2% fire aid to the pension fund and to make additional annual payments over . 4 years which_ would make the fund solvent. The total of all these payments -was not to exceed $22,000.. The final payment has been made with- total City cost. actually being $19,000. Also discussed at that time was that because of the pension program, no increse in fill-in and drill and fire pay would be given for a few years. It is 5 years since that agreement.