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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING August 28, 2023 6:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 9 of 15 Next would be a new rescue pumper, Van Eyll said. It would have a two-year delivery time so would be available by January, 2026. The purchase price would be $960,703 with the total cost after outfitting of $1,162,058. Failure to update the older vehicles in this category would result in increased maintenance costs and a failure to meet NFPA standards, he said. Again, the funds would come from the Fire Capital Fund. A Tanker/Tender is needed, Van Eyll said, since a majority of the City, especially in the Station 2 area, does not have hydrants. Failure to purchase this truck would mean having to call for mutual aid from other departments, he said, adding the tanker can also be used by the public works and parks departments. The purchase price would be $336,598 with a total cost after outfitting of $411,598. Funding would be through the Fire Capital Fund ($253,00) and the Sewer Capital Fund and the Storm Water Fund ($168,598). Edwards said Public Works has a similar tanker truck that was in the CIP to replace next year. Van Eyll also showed an organization chart for the new Orono Fire Department. Daytime duty crew would be housed at headquarters. The north station would be future as of Jan. 1, 2026. There would be approximately 18 paid-on-call fire fighters in 2024 out of Station 2 with about eight duty crew members. In 2026 there would be 14 duty crew and 36 paid-on-call fire fighters. The hiring timeline would be to start recruiting fire fighters in 2023. The department will start hiring in September. Key leadership roles need to be hired and the role of training chief would be hired early on. Next would be a fire fighter admin technician. The training chief could be paid-on-call or part-time 30 hours per week training and supervising duty crews. Walsh said this is what the Council had told Van Eyll to do to get the service going by July of 2024. Veach asked if Van Eyll was saying that even if Orono got some of the trucks the City owns back would they still want to replace them. She also asked about posted positions. Van Eyll said by the time Orono could get them back from the City of Long Lake it would be 2026 and they would be close to needing replacement. The ladder truck and the duty officer vehicle had been offered to Long Lake and were refused. They do currently have an Orono vehicle as their duty officer vehicle. Fire fighter positions are currently posted and the next to be posted would be the training officer. Benson asked about the Station 2 service area that is to go to the Orono Fire Department July 1, 2024 out of the Navarre Fire Station. Van Eyll said the City is broken up into CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) zones and that station has two. She asked for a picture of what it will look like for that area on July 1, 2024 if a call comes in. Benson also asked a number of questions clarifying costs, types of vehicles and their uses and capabilities, delivery timelines and payment schedules. Van Eyll said if it was a daytime call there would be four individuals, including himself, that would be on duty. If it’s a larger incident such as a house fire, they would call out the paid-on-call fire fighters to respond and possibly also call for aid. He won’t be able to answer some questions until the conclusion of mediation in September, he said. In areas of the City without hydrants the tanker is used to fill and carry