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� <br />Request for Council Action <br />Date: 1 0-2-00 <br />Item Number: C-6 <br />DepartmentApproval Manager Approval Agenda Section <br />Consent <br />Item Description: Approval to Erect Temporary Fire Department Recruitment Signs <br />BACKGROLJND: The fire department utilizes a variety of inethods to recruit new firefighters including <br />posters, newspaper articles, word of mouth, flyers, and our web site. The department's Recruitment <br />Committee has recommended the purchase and erection of temporary signs to be placed in front of each fire <br />station for the purpose of recruiting new members. These red metal signs, designed in collaboration with our <br />Public Works Department, will be 60" long and 60" high. Five inch white reflective letters will read: <br />"Roseville Fire Department taking applications for part-time firefighters" and will include a telephone <br />number and web site. Each station will have two signs that will be joined at the top with hinges and will be <br />placed in a teepee fashion on the front lawn of each fire station during times when the department is <br />recruiting new members. <br />POLICY IMPLICATIONS: It has been the policy and practice of the Council to review all City department <br />signs for compatibility with adj oining properties. <br />FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS: The cost of the signs will be funded from the existing fire department <br />budget. <br />STAFF RECOMIV�NDATION: Staff recommendation is for Council to approve the use of temporary signs <br />by the fire department as an inexpensive means of recruiting new firefighters. <br />COL7NCII, ACTION REOLTESTED: Approval for the fire department to erect temporary signs in front of <br />each of the fire stations for the purpose of recruiting residents to become firefighters. <br />