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2005 Goals <br />1. FIREFIGHTERPAY AND INCENTIVES: Obtain Council support and direction for <br />ways to improve firefighter pay and incentives to aid in the recruitment and retention of <br />firefighters. This should include incentives for employers to allow their employees to <br />volunteer as firefighters during weekday hours and incentives for firefighters to purchase <br />homes in Roseville. Additional funding will be required for this goal. <br />2. CONSISTENT STAFFING FOR EMERGENCY CALLS: The Fire Department has <br />made great strides with implementing a station staffing program that provides a crew of <br />firefighters on-duty in a fire station about 85% of all hours of the day. On-duty crews re- <br />spond to emergencies in about four minutes, compared to the seven-ten minutes (or <br />longer) when there is not staffing on-duty. The times when there is no staffing corre- <br />sponds with the times when most of the firefighters are unavailable because they are <br />worlung their full-timejobs. To ensure a quick response to emergency calls, there needs <br />to be a crew on-duty in a fire station, 24 hours a day. Ideally, this crew would be part- <br />time firefighters. Currently, firefighters average about 1,000 hours per year each partici- <br />pating in the station-staffing program. Additional funding will be required for this goal. <br />6 <br />