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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING February 27, 2023 6:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 2 of 22 passed hazardous materials operations. We're firefighter I or II state certified, first responder or EMT, and then hazardous materials as well. The 2022 emergency call activity by City: Long Lake represents 14.15 percent of all our calls; Medina , 5.34; Orono, 72.16; Minnetonka Beach, 6.5 percent; and Mutual Aid is 1.86, for a total of 100 percent. There have been some questions about what a “good intent” call is and that's any alarm that gets sounded and gets canceled before we go in service. The first unit average on-scene time by City and said the total average is 9 minutes and 1 second. In 2022 we had an average of 13.5 members respond per call which is a pretty good average. A total of 44.3% of our calls happened weekdays between six and 1800 hours. Call hours per City in 2022: Long Lake with 893; Medina with 307; and Minnetonka Beach was 417 (a big bulk of that number was due to that Minnetonka Beach fire), Orono was 4,932, and mutual aid was 240 hours for a total of 6,789 firefighter hours. Firefighter Kelly Shaughnessy retired with 46 years of service.. Sam Paulison, Lance Swearingen and Veronica Vasina are our newest additions to the fire department. Gardner outlined training goals for 2023 and named the top five responders at each of the two Stations. We added a couple of milestones that are noteworthy this year. Chris Adams, Pat cotton, and myself all started pretty much the same day, 15 years ago. Chris Rhea and Ben Veach are five years. Upcoming events include the pancake breakfast April 23; The long Lake Fire Department Memorial 5K in July; the open house in October, and then the SBB toy and food drive in December. Seals said Gardner had given statistics on the average number of firefighters responding per call, but asked if he knows how many or the percentage of Station 2 firefighters respond during daytime hours. How broad are we looking for support of Station 2 during the day because we know people are working? Her second question was, for each of the cities, what are the statistics on the difference in response time when it's daytime versus evening. She apologized for not bringing up those questions earlier when Gardner had asked and said she understood if he had to come back with those answers. Gardner said it's just a matter of pulling the data so we can certainly do that. I don’t want to give you misinformation so I can get that for you. CLERK REPORT 8. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES a. City Council Meeting Minutes of January 9, 2023 b. City Council Meeting Minutes of January 23, 2023 c. City Council Meeting Minutes of February 13, 2023 d. City Council Work Session Minutes of February 13, 2023 City Clerk Carlson presented two options for approval of the City Council minutes and the work session minutes for the meetings that have been held in 2023, adding that staff is also looking for formal guidance as to how the Council would like the minutes prepared for future meetings. She said at the January 23 Council meeting, draft minutes for January 9 were removed and tabled because Councilmember Benson had found inaccuracies concerning discussions had at the meeting. The minutes were brought back to the