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OPPORTUNITIES 1. Support from Council for imuroving fire department services: The fire department has identified a number of opportunitiesfor improving services. Many ofthe opportunitiesmean doing things differ- ently than how they have been done in the past. Many of these improvements can be done without addi- tional funding for the fire department. In order to make these improvements, we need the support of Council. 2. Collaboratewith police on response to medicals, allowing police officers time to focus on new ini- tiatives (i.e. commercial aatrol and traffic enforcementl: The fire department would like to work collaboratively with the police department to improve the quality of inedical care to Roseville residents. This would be accomplished by having the higher-trained (EMT) firefighters respond to medical calls, freeing police officers to clear the scene quicker. This would help the police department increase their focus on commercial patrol and traffic enforcement. 3. Imnrove aublic safetv to residents bv resuondin� to traffic accidents with iniuries with the (al- readyl on-dutv firefivhters: Some of the most dangerous intersections in the state are located in Rose- ville and traffic congestion continues to rise, which leads to more injury accidents. For proper care, a critically injured traffic accident victim needs a minimum of three persons to provide care at the scene and they need two medically trained attendants to care for them during transport to the hospital. Also, during accidents the need to ensure the proper flow of traffic and the preservation of a potential crime- scene are duties that the police must currently do in addition to patient care. The fire department cur- rently responds to roughly one-half of all injury accidents in Roseville today. However, we are dis- patched after the patients have already been cared for and our role is to clean-up the hazardous materials (anti-freeze, oil, gasoline, battery acid). If allowed to respond at the on-set of the emergency, the fire- fighters could assist in providing medical care, then clean-up the accident scene. This can be accom- plished with no additional tax dollars. 4. Better use of firefighters' time and improve overall training bv conductin� training while fire- fighters are on-dutv: The most valued contribution that a volunteer firefighter makes to the commu- nity i s the gift of their time. We have made some wonderful strides toward improving how we use their time. One remaining opportunity is to provide their training while they are on-duty instead of having all of them come back another day to get their training. This change is a win-win. The firefighters' time will be better utilized and they will get more (and better quality) training because training will be con- ducted on every shift and the smaller groups will mean more personal attention to their needs. In order to accomplish this, the department is requesting to hire a full-time training manager who will focus on managing this program. This goal can be accomplishedwith no additional tax dollars because the money saved from having all the firefighters come back on another night and the money saved by not having to hire outside trainers for city-wide mandated training will pay for the position every year. 3