FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE
Public Safety Subcommittee
October 24, 2023
1 Scott Westrope, Fire Chief
UPDATES
October 24 Updates:
• Staffing
• Fire Stations
• EOC
• Fleet
• Recruitment and Diversity Task Force
• Countywide Sale Tax Measure (proposed)
Updates under separate agenda items, October 24:
• SAFER Grant Implementation
• Vegetation Management
Future Updates, January 23
• Countywide Sale Tax Measure
• Ground Ambulance Contract and FRALS Contract
2 Staffing Updates
• Position Control List – 157 FTE:
• Operations
• Two vacant positions
• Academy in works to
include SAFER employees
(12)
• Fire Prevention
• Full staffing
• Administration
• Full staffing
3 Fire Stations
Fire Station 5 (Fountaingrove):
• Construction underway (grading/site preparation)
• Physical construction beginning approximately June 2024 • Estimated completion date April 2025
Fire Station 8 (Roseland):
• Finalizing community feedback for Hearn Hub
• In the design phase of the design/build process
• No finite start date or completion date
4 Emergency Operations Center
Based on $1M federal earmark with 33% cost match
• Goal is a full time, “hot” EOC
• Project manager selected and engaged
• RFP completed to select firm to engineer and design seismic retrofit requirements
• Currently under negotiations with selected consultant - on schedule for November pending cost and approval authority
• Design completed within 120 days, tentatively estimated at March 2024 • Once the seismic retrofit design is complete, RFP will be issued for construction phase
• Estimated to begin April 2024
5 Fleet
Current apparatus on order:
• Type 1 Fire Engines – 7
• First arriving (2) – Spring 2024
• Second arriving (5) – Fall 2024
• Type 6 Fire Engines – 2
• Fall 2023
• Quick Attack Vehicles – 2
• Purchased by the Santa Rosa
Fire Foundation via a grant
from the Community Fund
• October/November 2023
Planned orders:
• Tillered Ladder Truck – 1
• 4-year delivery time 6
Recruitment and Diversity Task Force
Recruitment and Diversity Strategic Plan
• Reimagined with SEED Collaborative to
the “SRFD Equity Plan”
• Developed Recruitment and Diversity
Task Force (RDT)
• Institutionalize the structure to
implement, monitor, and evaluate
the seven recommendations of the
Equity Plan
• Enhanced engagement and outreach
• Schools
• Civic Organizations
• Women in Public Safety Day
• Working on funding mechanism for
Explorer Post
7 Proposed Sales Tax Measure
Countywide Fire Service Sales Tax Measure:
• ½ cent general sales tax
• Revenue goes directly to local fire departments
• Qualified and placed on March 5, 2024 ballot
Santa Rosa to receive:
• Approximately $9M per year in direct allocation
• Additional $1.525M in savings with indirect funding
• Construct two new fire stations / one relocated station • Hire 35 new employees:
• Two new engine companies
• One new heavy rescue company
• One additional on-duty Battalion Chief
• Two additional vegetation management inspectors
8 Questions?
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