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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, November 16, 2015 Page 22 questioned the quality of and service to Roseville citizens if units are outside the community. Councilmember Etten noted that, even if the City of Roseville could respond to another jlirisdiction's neighborhood based on the availability of its full-tiine staffing model that still put that staff outside the City for inedical calls. Chief O'Neill noted there would be a higher number of responses; but noted the coinplexity of the issue, with not all fire departments responding to medicals (e.g. Little Canada, Falcon Heights or New Brighton), and stated that the Roseville Department would not provide that service in those cases. Councilmember Etten aslced if this would be subject to a joint powers agreement through this process; with Chief O'Neill responding that only on the fire side if a department didn't currently offer one, the City of Roseville would not provide that supplemental service for those jurisdictions. Chief O'Neill advised that the cities being served would involve the Cities of Shoreview, Arden Hills and St. Paul, and possibly a portion of the City of Maplewood. With existing capabilities available through the Roseville staffing inodel Mayor Roe aslced if a medical unit was serving one particular medical emergency, did it still have the ability and equipment to respond to another as well. Chief Brosnahan stated that the Roseville staff and equipinent would remain in Roseville for responses. Under the closest unit response scenario, Chief Brosna- han reviewed various potential situations if both Roseville units were responding, no matter whether in Roseville or elsewhere and a third medical emergency caine forward, dispatch would figure out who met the best ability and turnout to re- spond. Chief O'Neill noted that this was no different than the current situation, with not a day going by that such vohime didn't occur, noting today it happened three differ- ent times. Mayor Roe clarified that he was addressing his specific concerns to cardiac calls. Chief Brosnahan advised that, depending on call vohime, dispatch would deter- inine if Roseville or another unit could respond quicker than Roseville could re- spond even if within Roseville. Councilmember McGehee asked the process to be followed if both the City of St. Paul and Roseville were outside of the city and then another call came in, how fast would response time be for a cardiac event if Roseville EMT's were respond- ing elsewhere.