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INFORMATIONAL MEMO <br />Fire Prevention: is expected to remain within the budget set for 2020. Efforts have been <br />made in the past year to bring efficiencies within that office and to address services that <br />have not met the needs of the community. <br />Vacant positions: Two support staff positions have not been filled, one in each of the <br />following divisions; Emergency Management and Fire Prevention. These two positions <br />became vacant during 2019. The savings from these un-filled positions are cost saving <br />measures, however service levels have been affected within the Emergency Management <br />Division and Fire Prevention Division. <br />Consulting Services: Habile and Prothman are two consulting services brought into this <br />process. Habile is the vendor selected to meet one of the provisos of the City Council. <br />Prothman provided a fire service professional (Marcus Kragness) to review and advise the <br />Fire Chief regarding best practices within the fire service. <br />Training expenditures: <br />Boat Program Training_ for past ten years the Fire Department has provided training to a select <br />group of boat operators within department. With the current status of the boat program within the <br />city, all training has been suspended. Most of this training was done on duty with no overtime costs <br />incurred however, there has been a small amount of overtime from time to time during the past ten <br />years. For the budget year 2020 no boat training will be conducted. <br />Rescue Team Training: all rescue type overtime incurred training has been suspended. There is <br />rescue training that is provided through the training consortium. This training is conducted to on duty <br />personnel only, no overtime is incurred. In the past up to $50,000.00 has been spent on rescue <br />team training, most of this was off duty overtime expenditures. The goal is to have zero dollars spent <br />on rescue training during 2020. <br />Mandatory Training: All mandatory training is being identified and cataloged. This includes the <br />following; WAC 296-305, JATC, Blue -card, Peer Support, vehicle operators and health/safety. <br />These types of training are required either by National, State or Local Standards. Much of this <br />training is conducted on duty, however there are cases where overtime costs are needed to provide <br />this training. All other training has been suspended, noted above. <br />Staffing Software tracking: The Fire Department has placed a new staffing management software <br />program into service during 2019. Starting January 1, 2020 all regular and overtime entries are <br />coded in a manner that provides the ability to track all staffing costs in detail. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT <br />With these changes to the Fire Department budget tracking and adjustment efforts, the overall goal is to better <br />track costs and to bring the ending fund balance for the Fire Department 2020 budget within the adopted <br />budget as approved by the City Council. <br />If a budget amendment is needed before the end of this year, these tracking efforts will bring clarity to the City <br />Council concerning the status of service levels and the Fire Department Budget. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />This is for information only, no recommendation offered. <br />NO ATTACHMENTS <br />