CC - Agendas - City Council - STUDY SESSION - 2/14/2023

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Community First - Courage, Grit, and Duty - Driven by Excellence Page 19 Figure 2. Business Community Service Priorities In the same session as just discussed, the attendees were given a list of current services provided by the fire department, which were described. The choices were to assign a 3 (critical priority), a 2 (important priority), or a 1 (low priority) to the list of services. The respondents were allowed to assign as many 3s, 2s, or 1s as they wished and were also allowed to strike through any service, they felt the fire department should not be providing or add a service the individual respondents believed was missing from what should be provided. No attendees struck through any services, but two attendees separately added “EMTs well-checking frequent system users or post discharge patients.” The group prioritized advanced life support (paramedic) services as the most critical service offered by PFD, followed by fire suppression, hazardous materials, and technical rescue response. Fuels management, community risk reduction (prevention), and public education were scored lowest, but still at or above an important priority. Finally, the attendees were given an opinion poll, where they were asked to check the one box under each of the headings in Figure 3 that most described their perspective. Figure 3. Staff/Response/Cost Opinion Options Staffing Response Performance Cost of Service  Overstaffed  Response too heavy  Too expensive  Staffed appropriately  Response appropriate  Appropriate  Understaffed  Response too slow/light  Underfunded The results of the opinion poll are reflected in Figure 4. 1.92 2.00 2.08 2.31 2.46 2.69 2.92 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 Public Education Community Risk Reduction (Prevention) Fuels Management Technical Rescue Hazardous Materials Team Fire Suppression EMS (Paramedics) ←Low Priority High Priority → 98