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Department Approval �4�� Request for Council Action Manager Approval G.l. Item Description: Part-time Firefighter Pay Increase Backqround Date:o2/ii/o2 Item Number: V• B. Agenda Section Reports/Recommendations The City of Roseville employs part-time firefighters and officers (supervisors) to provide fire and rescue services. The Fire Department's si�ty-five firefighters and officers perform a variety of duties, including responding to ca11s for service from home, working on-duty shifts in fire stations, training fire prevention activities, and maintenance work details. Efforts to raise the Department's professionalism ha�e increased the workload and training requirements on active firefighters and officers. On average, a Roseville firefighter or officer works appro�mately 770 hours per year for the Department in addition to their full-time job. Aside from a city-funded pension (through a relief association), part-time firefighters and officers do not receive any other benefits that bear a financial burden on the City. Fair and competitive pay is a tool that can aid in the recruitment and retention of quality firefighters and officers. In 1999 a pay progression plan for part-time firefighters and officers was introduced in an effort to improve the compensation for the work the firefighters and officers perform. This plan included a fifty-cent per-hour increase in ca11 pay and shift pay. The 2002 proposal is: CALL PAY' POSITION Firefighter Lieutenant Captain District Chief Deputy Chief SHIF"T PAY All positions 2001 $8.00 per hour $8.50 per hour $9.00 per hour $9.50 per hour $10.00 per hour 2001 $6.00 per hour 2002 Pronosal $8.50 per hour $9.00 per hour $9.50 per hour $10.00 per hour $10.50 per hour 2002 Proposal $6.50 per hour � Note that Call Pay far Firefighters and Officers working a shift is in addition to their Shift Pay. Hence, a Firefighter called out to a fire while staffing a S�lli currently earns $14 per hour while responding to that call ($6 shift pay +$8 call pay). Under the 2002 Proposed pay increase, that same Firefighter working a shift would earn $15 per hour when responding to an emergency call ($6.50 shift pay + $8.50 call pay).