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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 25, 2019 Page 7 Chair Schroeder asked if there was anything else the Council wanted the Com- mission to work on other than what the Commission is currently working on. Mayor Roe did not think there was anything else at this time. Recess Mayor Roe recessed the meeting at approximately 6:38 p.m., and reconvened at approximately 6:39 p.m. b. Receive Fire Department Presentation for Phase II Staffing Needs Mr. Trudgeon briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the RCA and related at- tachments dated March 25, 2019, and to focus this discussion on whether the council is prepared at this time to direct staff to focus on implementation of staff- ing for 8 on a shift based on the information provided. Fire Chief O'Neill and Assistant Chief Bresnahan made a presentation to the City Council regarding Phase II staffing needs for the Fire Department. Councilmember Laliberte did not dispute anything said about the community of Roseville being different, unique, or having different types of calls and needs than neighboring communities. She was not necessarily disputing the number of eight based on what is provided currently for services in the community. If anything, it is unfortunate that the City did not look at selection of staffing at five back when the City was talking about full time, part time and certainly the City did not know there would be the attrition the City has. In her mind, there is no doubt that the City needs to figure out how to budget for the staffing and to move forward. She stated she was looking forward to the conversation with her colleagues because that is the hardest part. She thanked the Fire Department for bringing the infor- mation forward. Commissioner Etten appreciated the Fire Department bringing up the concerns of the fire fighters going into fires and having the backup crew available and certain- ly for the people who may be in the structure. He wondered how that works with the auto-aid with surrounding communities. Chief O'Neill stated each department first needs to be self-reliant and there is no department out there that doesn't do that in conversations had as far as auto aid or mutual aid. It starts with supplementing the Fire Department's services. The Fire Department needs to be able to first respond to any fire within the City with the assumption that the Fire Department will not get any auto or mutual aid. After that, there are agreements with most of the City's neighbors for auto aid or mutual aid due to the fact that the Fire Department tries to staff for about ninety-nine per- cent of what the Fire Department gets and ask for help for the one percent. With that, that is how the agreements are formulated. In scenarios where there is a structure fire, it is currently set up where the on-duty crew responds to the fire with a call-back for off duty part-time and full-time fire fighters to respond to the