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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 25, 2019 Page 8 station and the help comes from the neighboring cities. How that help comes or where it comes from differs depending on the location of the fire. Councilmember Etten stated regarding the call-back, does the Fire Department have guidelines for the full-time fire fighters that covers where those employees can live? Chief O'Neill stated there is not because State Statute does not allow the City to mandate where a full-time employee lives. Councilmember Etten asked if it delays the Fire Department's call-back response time in that situation. Chief O'Neill stated the farther the employee lives, the longer the delay it is. Councilmember Etten stated that is the concern for him regarding going to a full- time staff one hundred percent of the time. This would be extending the call-back response time frame instead of shrinking it. Chief O'Neill stated that was correct and what the Fire Department is looking at is the concept of when the Fire Department finally gets to eight on duty, the Fire Department will need to know the fire will be fought with the employees on duty and the people coming to call-backs would be to support the next incident that comes up and will probably not make the scene at all due to the auto aid and mu- tual aid helping fight the fire. He noted that is similar to sixteen part-time fire fighters the department has now. He stated one of the things the Fire Department is looking at is not moving to eight on duty in one year as he does not believe that is feasible. The Fire Department is looking at a period of time to do that, looking at the attrition numbers of the part-time staff, and telling themselves that by the time the Fire Department gets to 2021-2022 timeframe, which is probably the ear- liest, the Fire Department would be able to achieve the goals talked about and will be down to a handful or less of part-time staff and with that, staff would not be able to get a truck out regardless of their proximity to the station. Councilmember Laliberte stated Councilmember Etten was talking about the auto aid from neighboring cities and the backup response, and while the City is having the conversation about becoming self-reliant on its own, she would ask what as- surance does the City have that the City's neighbors are having this same conver- sation and working to become self-reliant as well. She thought maybe the Ram- sey County League of Local Governments needs to have that conversation be- cause it is fine if Roseville works to become self-reliant and important to the City but if the cities surrounding Roseville really see Roseville as their backup so those cities don't have to become self-reliant, then that put pressure on Roseville.