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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 25,2011 Page 2 Councilmember Pust announced the next meeting of the "Beyond the Yellow Ribbon" campaign on July 28, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the Willow Room at City Hall. Councilmember Johnson welcomed Connor Rohloff from Boy Scout Troop #31 in the audience tonight. a. Ramsey County League of Local Governments (RCLLG) Report on Shared Fire Services C ouncilmember Johnson noted a recent meeting of the Ramsey County League of Local Governments (RCLLG) in Shoreview, MN of which he is a board member representing the City of Roseville, along with Alternate Councilmember Pust. Councilmember Johnson advised that he, Councilmember Pust, and City Manager Bill Malinen had all attended for a discussion of trends in firefighting, including shared fire services. Councilmember Johnson advised that Fire Chief Tim Boehike of the Lake Johanna Volunteer Fire Department (LJVFD); Fire Chief Steve Luekken of the Maplewood Fire Department, and City of Roseville Fire Chief Tim O'Neill had been at the meeting and participated in the presentation. Councilmember Johnson advised that the presentation and discussion provided an overview of station design to facilitate changes in services and how they're pro- vided; ways shared services are already being used, whether an agreement is in place or not; and how surrounding departments select their equipment to comple- ment each other in the region to avoid redundancy and/or purchase of specialized equipment not used frequently. Councilmember Johnson advised that the City of Maplewood and the LJVFD was also in a process, similar to the City of Roseville, in paring down or re-evaluating their stations to adjusted service models. Coun- cilmember Johnson noted that the City of Maplewood had their own ambulance business for some time, and their rationale for this lucrative business was to use those excess profits for needs in the Fire Department. Councilmember Johnson asked that Chief O'Neill come forward with a summary of the meeting, as well as activities that had occurred since that meeting to further that dialogue. Chief O'Neill advised that Fire Chiefs within Ramsey County are always pur- suing ways to assist each other and reduce costs; and noted the auto-aid agree- ment between the City of Roseville and the LJVFD to send a crew from a respec- tive department to the other area for any major events, part of a three (3) year agreement that had worked well. Chief O'Neill also noted the existence of the Technical Rescue Team between the departments that had been operating over the last eight (8) months to share training and equipment costs. Chief O'Neill noted that both departments were paged for certain events, and responded with fully- trained teams, and would continue to work together from that shared services perspective.