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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 25,2019 Page 9 Chief O'Neill stated that is not what the Fire Department is moving towards. He stated most of the fire departments in Ramsey County are in different places. Some respond to a hundred calls a year, some respond to thirty-five hundred, and some respond to seven thousand. He stated Maplewood is in the same position as Roseville but are a couple of years ahead of Roseville. Maplewood went through the transition from part-time to full-time and a combination in between and now Maplewood is strictly full-time firefighters and having those conversations to make sure their on-duty staffing is enough to be able to handle their calls first and then if there is anyone available, their fire department can help outside of Maple- wood. He noted Maplewood needs to be able to provide for their own first. Those are conversations at the Chiefs level that are had all of the time. Councilmember Laliberte stated she appreciated the grid the Council received in the packet and asked whether a column should be added indicating if the fire de- partments in other cities feel fully staffed and are the fire departments in those cit- ies having conversations about additional staff. She wants to know that the City's neighbors are also working to become self-reliant. Councilmember Groff stated it needs to be somewhat of an even exchange be- tween Roseville and neighboring cities because the Roseville is spending the tax- payer money on Roseville's Fire Department. That is the Council's primary con- cern. Chief O'Neill stated he agreed whole heartedly and to be honest he thought the neighboring cities had concerns about Roseville not being self-sufficient as Rose- ville does about them. Councilmember Groff indicated he has read the report and sees the need for this but echoes the concerns of the other Councilmembers and how to get the money to do this. Councilmember Willmus stated with respect to some of the bigger picture items, what the neighboring cities are and are not doing is a longer-term question. He hoped that is something the Fire Department and City are seriously looking at as more of a regional model. He thought Roseville should be talking with Falcon Heights and Lauderdale about shared opportunities that are potentially there. He stated the Fire Department should be looking a little broader in Roseville to see if some efficiencies can be gained with a larger regional model, which is something, he would like to see them take a look at. Councilmember Willmus stated with respect to something that can be done in- house, seventy-two percent of Roseville calls are medical and of those, how many are things that are lift assistance. He asked what Roseville is doing to recoup some of those costs.