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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, March 11, 2013 7:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 8 of 27 (4. LMCC UPDATE, Continued) Koenecke indicated the mandate was for franchise fees to be paid for by all three of those entities, which is why schools, the public and government have been included in everything the LMCC does. Schools have been considered to be part of the recipients of the dollars of the subscribers. A fair number of the survey responders indicated they are watching the school related events. McMillan commented the fairness piece is difficult and that she struggles with the idea of Orono cable subscribers paying to tape the city council meetings when the satellite users do not contribute to that. McMillan stated in her view all of the residents should contribute to the taping of the city council meetings. McMillan noted later this evening the Council will be discussing the franchise renewal and that she would encourage the LMCC representatives to stay for that portion of the meeting. McMillan stated given all the different technologies available and the rapidly changing technologies, perhaps it is time for a new business model or business plan to be considered since things are radically different from 30 years ago when the LMCC was originally formed. McMillan commented it is difficult for everyone to keep up with this technology. The City Council took no formal action on this item. 5. LONG LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT – 2012 ANNUAL REPORT Fire Chief James Van Eyll stated the fire department is looking at changing its mission statement since they are looking to place it on the monument outside the fire station. The current mission statement reads as follows: “It is the mission of the Long Lake Fire Department to minimize the loss of life and property for its fire service recipients in the cities of Long Lake, Medina and Orono from fires, natural disasters and life threatening situations.” Van Eyll stated as it relates to the improvements, all the flat work is done and they are working on the granite and the names that will go on the vertical pieces. The work should be completed before the 5K run which year, which is Saturday, July 27th. The leadership in the fire department is still basically the same with only some minor changes. The committee is looking at the overall organizational chart for the department itself and will likely be making some minor changes to that. The fire department currently has 43 active members and there were no members who retired or came off of probation in 2012. Van Eyll indicated he did send nine new applicants out for background checks and that he is waiting for those to come back. Van Eyll stated they will be conducting interviews and hopefully offer employment after that. The department will be adding one new vehicle, which will be delivered in approximately six weeks. As it relates to emergency call activities for 2012, Orono had 313 total incidents, which is just fewer than 80 percent of the total calls, and there were 395 emergency calls in total among the contracted cities. In 2011, the total number of emergency calls was 423, and in 2010 there were 446 emergency calls. The average response time for all calls for .06.34 seconds. One of the main reasons for the decrease in the number of calls is a decline in false alarms. Item #02 - CC Agenda - 03/25/2013 Approval of Council Minutes 03/11/2013 [Page 8 of 27]