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continued to increase and have reached a point where it is no longer sustainable for part time <br />employees to manage. <br />The emergency services are the most demanding of volunteer activities today. The physical and time <br />demands associated with training; responding to incidents; maintaining facilities, apparatus, and <br />equipment are grueling if not managed properly. In today’s hectic world, strong leadership is required to <br />make the fire department that will attract volunteers. Fire departments can no longer count on the <br />children of current members following in their parent’s footsteps. Nor can they count on a continuous <br />stream of community people eager to donate their time and energy to their local volunteer fire <br />department. Adding to the problem, departments cannot rely on members staying active in the <br />volunteer fire service for long periods of time. <br />The continued increasing difficulty in recruitment and retention of day time available firefighters has put <br />a strain on the day time available staff and the department response has suffered. Therefore the fire <br />department day time staffing needs to grow with the growing community. <br />Staffing Plan <br />FY23 <br />In fiscal year 2023 the Fire Chief recommends that the department moves forward and hire a full time <br />Fire Chief. This position is needed with the rapidly growing community and the many hours spent on <br />administrative duties to keep the department operating. Routinely the part time chief spends numerous <br />evenings at the fire station, even as late at midnight, working on department operations. Trying to <br />manage and run the department while still working 40+ hours per week at a full time job, while also <br />managing family obligations, leaves little time for the chief to spend the needed time and effort to <br />effectively manage a department of 22+ people. The fire chief routinely spends numerous hours during <br />their normal job work hours, conducting fire department business. Whether it is responding to emails in <br />a timely fashion, or responding to staff or citizen inquiries. Additionally, the fire chief is unable to work <br />collaboratively with other city staff. With the fire chief unable meet during the day when other staff are <br />working, this limits the collaboration the fire department can have with city staff. This also limits the fire <br />chief’s ability to effectively manage people during the day. <br />Additionally during this time, some salaried staff will need to remain. The duties of 11 different people <br />would certainly overwhelm the daily work of just 1 full time Chief. Therefore even after a full time chief <br />position is filled, the salaries of the Deputy Chief and the Assistant Chief should remain. Even though <br />some of the duties that the Deputy Chief and Assistant Chief are assigned would be completed by the <br />Full time Chief along with the duties of the Fire Marshal, Administrative Captain and Administrative <br />Lieutenant. Duties that the Safety Captain, Training Captain, Safety Lieutenant, Training Lieutenant and <br />Chief Engineer would need to be absorbed, and the Deputy Chief and Assistant Chief would continue to <br />assist the Fire Chief in completion of these duties. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
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