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