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Orono Fire Needs Assessment <br />62 | Page <br /> <br />7.3 Recommendations for 2025 <br />The recommendations below should be started in 2025 due to a need or the item has a longer <br />lead time. We will break them out into each category. <br />7.3.1 Personnel <br />1. Station 1 Firefighters – The City of Orono will need to hire part-time or paid-on-call <br />(POC) firefighters. The firefighters need to be hired about 6 months prior to responding <br />to calls in this service area. These firefighters will be used on-call and for the duty <br />crews. <br />2. Fire Training Chief – The City of Orono and the Orono Fire Department should hire a full- <br />time fire training chief. The Fire Chief should create a position profile and job duties for <br />this individual in 2025. This new position will need to respond to calls for emergency <br />service during the day. This is a position, once established, could be used by our <br />surrounding fire departments for fire training on a contract basis. It also could operate <br />the joint Fire Police Training Facility, if one is built. The posting should occur at the end <br />of the year and the start date should be January of 2026. This investment would help <br />our fire department become even better, similar to Plymouth, Minnetonka, Chanhassen <br />and Chaska. This training officer could be contracted out to surrounding fire <br />departments as recommended in the Assessment of Shared Services19 conducted by <br />McGrath Consulting Group in July of 2016 <br />7.3.2 Apparatus & Equipment <br />1. Personal Protective Equipment - The City of Orono will need to outfit each firefighter <br />with PPE. Staff recommends purchasing the PPE and adding it to the Capital Budget <br />plan and replacing it every five years. This will give a firefighter a front set of PPE and a <br />backup set of PPE after year five. Staff recommends that this PPE be funded through <br />the operating budget uniform line item by annual transfer to the Fire Capital Fund. <br />2. Fire Equipment for Station 1 - The City of Orono will need to purchase equipment for <br />Station 1. This could be equipment that was donated to the City of Long Lake or other <br />equipment needed Fire Station. <br />3. New Pick-up Utility – The City of Orono should start the process of specification and <br />ordering a new pick-up utility vehicle. This new vehicle would be used to transport hose <br />and equipment from scenes along with the ability to transport people. It would also be <br />used by firefighters for transport to classes. <br /> <br /> <br />19 Assessment of Shared Services: Shared Training Services, Staffing and Personnel Deployment for the Long Lake, <br />Loretto, Maple Plain and Mound Fire Departments by McGrath Consulting Group, Inc. July of 2016