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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING August 28, 2023 6:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 8 of 15 Johnson moved, Crosby seconded, to approve the Hackberry Park Master Plan. VOTE: Ayes 4, Nays 1 (Benson). ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ITEMS Oakden said land use applications continue to come in. The City is currently working with eight new applications. They have also been working through the text amendment on the retaining wall ordinance and that will come through the Council for public comments. They are getting a handful of complaints about routine items like mowing or vehicle storage because those pick up during the summer. RECESS & RECONVENE Mayor Walsh recessed the meeting at 8:04 p.m. The meeting was reconvened at 8:11 p.m. FIRE DEPARTMENT 17. AUTHORIZATION TO PURCHASE NEW BRUSH MEDICAL RESPONSE UTILITY Fire Chief Van Eyll said he would talk about all the fire-related items in one presentation and then take them one by one. He went over the history of the actions taken by the City Council regarding a fire department since fall of 2022. He said the next step would be to approve additional purchases in order to be able to start serving the Navarre area on July 1, 2024, and adopt an organizational chart. Future steps will be hiring fire fighters, purchasing personal protective gear and setting up a relief association and obtaining a fire ID from the State. Van Eyll said NFPA fire standards require a rescue pumper that is less than 15 years old and a reserve engine less than 10 years old for each station. Orono should have one ladder truck for the department and a tanker at each fire station and also a medical rescue and brush fire truck at each station. The Fire Department CIP shows the items the City owns outright and the items owned jointly with the Cities of Long Lake and Medina. Explaining the CIP chart, Van Eyll said for each year there is an equipment total and levy and grant figures with a total balance at the bottom. The balance at the end of 2023 would be $77,500 and at the end of 2024, $40,000. The numbers start getting better towards 2030, he said. Edwards said the CIP was designed to see how the City could outfit this fledgling fire department without the equipment co-owned with other cities and by spreading the cost over a number of years. The graph shows there is a way to fund this equipment, he said. Van Eyll also showed a chart of when equipment would be needed along with lead times to order. The first vehicle is needed for medical emergencies and brush fires and is the most used vehicle in the fleet. If the City does not buy one of these vehicles it would have to use a larger fire rescue pumper to respond which is harder to maneuver. The purchase cost would be $225,259 with a total cost with outfitting of $355,259 and funded through the Fire Capital Fund. The first rescue pumper would be a used pumper from 2017. Both rescue pumpers, the one owned by Orono and the one owned with Long Lake and Medina, are approximately 20 years old. The City would be able to take delivery on this vehicle by the end of the year. The truck would be coming from Missouri so some retrofitting for cold weather climates would be needed. The purchase price would be just under $485,000 with a total cost after outfitting of $726,255 and funded from the Fire Capital Fund.