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MEMORANDUM DATE: : February 27, 2009 TO: Bill Malinen, City Manager FROM: Richard B. Gasa tea , Fire Chief R: Budget Reduction Plan To achieve the $48,000 reduction necessary to balance the 2009 budget, we propose reducing the on-duty part -time shift staffing by 12 shift hours per day (a day is defined as a 24 -hour period). A. reduction of 12 lours each. day equates to the elimination of seen part-time shifts per week (one shift each 24-hour period). This wild be accomplished by having one scheduled position working i,ng less hours each shift. The affected employee would be rotated each week so each fire-fighter is impacted by reduced hours plan. Each shift will maintain a min -imum of staffing of four firefighters. Thus, if the fifth scheduled. firefighter were to report off, the shift would run with fir and no hours would be reduced for that shift (because of the swings would be achieved from the fifth firefighter reporting off): Fart -time firefighters working nighttime shifts would end heir shift at 1 ; pm (versus working until 61: ar . Part - time firefighters wo rl ing daytime shifts would start their shift at 10: 0 Oam (versus 6: 0 Oam) . This equates to a 12- hour reduction. in. part - time staffing each 2 -hour period, bet een the hours of 1 1 0 Opm and 1 :a.m. As proposed., this plan is expected to create a budget savings,-- $48.647.