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Exhibit C <br />The City of Orono received 81 online comment cards from both residents and non-residents as of close <br />of business on May 18, 2023. These are all included in Exhibit C. The online comment form is still live <br />and will be so until close of business on June 7, 2023. The remaining online comment cards, along with <br />these, will be included in the June 12, 2023 City Council Packet. Staff thanks all citizens and community <br />members who took the time to complete the forms. There are some good comments and questions. <br />Below are some of the top questions: <br /> <br />Why start a fire department? The answers to this question are on slide 4 of the presentation and listed <br />in the executive summary of the needs assessment. <br /> <br />What is the cost to Orono residents per year? Slides 8-11 and in section 6 Courses of Actions we list out <br />a cost per household for Orono for each of the different COAs. You can see both the costs with and <br />without partners. To arrive at the cost with partners, we assumed that we would have our current three <br />partner cites. We added more detail to Section 6 because of these online comment cards. <br /> <br />Are there problems with the current service? There are no complaints with the service provided by the <br />firefighters. They do an amazing job with the limited resources available to them. The issue is with the <br />City of Long Lake and having limited input into the administration of the Fire Department and the feeling <br />of not being a partner.