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Saint Cloud Fire Department, MN Fire Protection Master Plan- Executive Summary Document Executive Review Document Purpose of This Report The full report described in this Executive Review Document details the study of fire protection services in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Specifically, the study involves the Saint Cloud Fire Department. The first section of that report provides a thorough and detailed evaluation of the agency, its management, its assets, its operations, and its service delivery. The second section identifies the anticipated changes in the population, risk factors, and service demand that will be faced by the Saint Cloud Fire Department in the future. The final two sections of the report provide feasible strategies for changes in the overall organizational structure of the fire department, as well as recommendations for specific changes in the deployment of facilities, apparatus, and staff necessary to achieve the target levels of performance identified by the communities. Short and mid-term strategies provide recommendations for organizational or program changes that can be implemented within the next one to three years. The staff of the Saint Cloud Fire Department and the City have provided a great deal of written and verbal information to us. Many of the staff members have been generous in their effort to provide us with accurate and complete information. We are grateful for their able assistance and cooperation throughout this process. We recognize that information, by its very nature, is often incomplete as it changes from moment to moment. Every effort is made though, to compile data that are as comprehensive and as accurate as possible. Our information gathering process includes a broad evaluation checklist of each organization, measuring results against acceptable industry standards and good practices. Whenever possible, we make quantifiable comparisOns to other fire service organizations. Checklists and documentation are followed up by one-on-one interviews with key staff members from the agency and every program area. The full Fire Protection Master Plan report document is over 150 pages in length, with 56 charts, maps, or tables and contains detailed analysis and recommendations of both a policy and operational nature. This Executive Review Document is intended to provide those elected and appointed officials who have policy-level responsibility for this fire protection system with the primary findings of the report. In this document, detailed analysis is summarized and operational-level recommendations are not included. Instead, the intent is to allow policymakers to focus on critical issues and decisions affecting the future health and welfare of the fire protection system in the City of Saint Cloud. 2