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City Council Regular Meeting - 07/10/06 Minutes - Page 22 Roll Call Ayes: Maschka; Pust and Klausing. Nays: Kough and Ihlan. 7. Fire Department Daytime Staffing Issue Fire Chief Rich Gasaway reviewed ongoing problems in daytime turnover, recruitment and retention costs, and consistent staffing concerns in the department to find quality part-time daytime available firefighters. Chief Gasaway noted that this is not a Roseville-specific problem, but was a challenge in most metropolitan area fire departments using volunteers and paid-on-call staffing. Chief Gasaway clarified that this was a problem only for daytime shifts, not for nighttime shifts, due to conflicts with regular job schedules. Discussion included weekend coverage concerns, if any; turnover; 2003 - 2006 status of current Roseville's 30 firefighters; reasons for leaving (i.e., moving from area; retirement; job change and no time available; disagreement with department mission; life change and no time available; medical; and disciplinary issues); cost to recruit, hire, train a paid-on-call firefighter; cost of turnover from 2003 - 2006 non-retirement resignations; and a history of staffing program. Chief Gasaway reviewed how the program worked; benefits of the existing and proposed systems; current challenges of daytime staffing program; problems with inconsistent staffing; and presented three options for Council consideration and their specific challenges. Chief Gasaway noted the improvements from previous Council action increasing hourly pay in improving recruitment and retention. The three options were: I) Continue daytime staffing program with intermittent coverage and part-timers working full-time hours; or 2) Discontinue daytime staffing program; or 3) Stabilize the daytime staffing program. Chief Gasaway more specifically reviewed department-wide problems with inconsistent staffing and services; unsupervised Fire Department Daytime Staffing