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Special City Council Minutes -12/04/03 Page 4 Lea1!ue Position #1: "Increased wages for staffing and fire calls; with staffing recommended at $10.00 plus per hour and fire calls recommended at $11.00 plus per hour." Discussion included the minimal increase of $.50 per hour that had been realized for several years, and recommended for 2004 was not achieving Roseville's competition with comparison communities as outlined; the League's prioritization of this recommendation; budge constraints within the City not allowing larger increases; and shift hour comparisons. City Manager noted, for context and clarification, that the shift staffing rate was increased for the time firefighters were on a call-out; further noting that 2004 Budget recommendations identified across-the-board increases of $.50 per hour for all pay ranges within the department. Further discussion include the average amount of time estimated for a firefighter to be on shift and on a call and advantages and disadvantages of increasing staff rates to encourage firefighters to fill those shifts now difficult to staff; numerous salary versus retention ideas; and the number of qualified applications received and those not considered due to compliance with the ten minute response time requirement. City Manager Beets identified the difficult response times between 6:00 - 9:00 a.m. and from 3 :00 - 6:00 p.m. due to part-time firefighters commuting to their full-time or primary jobs; and making them unavailable to respond within the ten minute time. Lea1!ue Position #2: "Reduced Vesting Period from ten years to somewhere between five and seven years." Mayor Kysylyczyn noted that reducing the current vesting period would require a by-law change by the Firefighters Relief Association, followed by City Council ratification. Finance Director Chris Miller concurred.