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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 7, 2019 Page 14 be a subsequent call where there would not be a person in the station. Although if medical, there would be two going out in one unit and if there was a third call, there would still be a subsequent unit available. He wondered if that was the thought behind the statement. Fire Chief O'Neill stated that was what he was indicating. Fire Chief O'Neill and Assistant Fire Chief Brosnahan continued with the presen- tation to the City Council. Councilmember Willmus asked what the average response time is right now and what would be the average responses time with increased staff Fire Chief O'Neill stated the average response time right now is three and a half minutes. The response time will continue to be three and a half minutes if addi- tional staff is added except for the'fact that the second call would also be three and a half minutes instead of ten to twenty minutes that currently occurs if the Fire Department can get there at all. There are a lot of situations where the Fire Department does not even attempt to get to many of the second and third medical calls because it would not be timely to get to them in a twenty-minute mark. The Fire Department would be able to get to the second or third call in three and a half minutes if staff was increased. Fire Chief O'Neill stated the Fire Department believed eight is the right number of staff because it gets another truck on the street and provides them with 33 per- cent more opportunity to respond to the second or third emergency, depending on what it is. It also does not leave the station empty and he believes it to be a con- servative number. Roseville still has one of the leanest staffed Fire Departments in the Metro. Councilmember Laliberte stated Roseville does not want to over utilize and rely on other cities to help staff the Fire Department but she wondered what other cit- ies in the surrounding area do to staff their Fire Departments. She asked whether the other Fire Departments rely on Roseville to help staff their Fire Departments. She wondered if there was any data available for that. Fire Chief O'Neill reviewed how calls are dispatched within the area for all of the surrounding cities. He thought the program was working but was driven by the location of the unit, not really by need. He stated the Fire Department does have agreements within the County for mutual aid and Roseville is actually looking to expand the working relationship with the cities around Roseville. This is based not only on Roseville's needs, but the other city's needs as well. He stated all Fire Department are experiencing some form of fatigue as far as volunteerism and getting trained Fire Fighters. Each Department is a little different. He stated Ro-