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Memo <br />Serving the Communities of Orono, <br />Long Lake and Medina <br />With pride and professionalism <br />To: Scott Johnson City Administrator of Medina and Dustin Rief City Administrator of Orono <br />From: Fire Chief James Van Eyll <br />CC: Scott Weske, City Administrator of Long Lake <br />Date: 08/14/2018 <br />Re: Purchase of replacement hose due to hose failures <br />The Long Lake Fire Department is required to have our fire hose tested and we use a company called <br />FireCatt to perform the test and we have used them since 2013. This past year we had a higher than <br />usual failure rate of 12.76%. The average age of the hose that failed was 16.9 years. This high failure <br />rate has left us short of the required amount of large diameter hose to put on our new engine. Our plan <br />was to not order new hose for the engine since we would have enough existing hose to outfit it with. This <br />is now not the case. We have two quotes for replacement hose. API from Clarey's is $550.00 per <br />hundred -foot section and Key from Jefferson is $551.44 per hundred -foot section. We have purchased <br />from Jefferson in the past due to faster delivery times. The reason for the memo is that while we try to <br />anticipate some loss of hose in our operating budget, we didn't anticipate losing over 1,000 feet of LDH. <br />This could at the end of the year put us over budget. We will do our best to tighten the purse strings <br />moving forward. We wanted to let our cities know that we have a rather large unforeseen expense that <br />could negatively impact our operating budget. As per section 14 of our contract, your city has 21 days to <br />approve or disapprove in writing. Please let me know sooner if you can so that we may have the new <br />rescue pumper up and running. <br />If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact me to discuss. <br />Thanks <br />James Van Eyll <br />Chief, Long Lake Fire Department <br />