FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE
Public Safety Subcommittee
April 23, 2024
1 Scott Westrope, Fire Chief
Staffing Updates
• Position Control List – 169 FTE:
• SAFER employees (12)
• Operations
• 13 vacant positions
• Four graduated from Academy on April 4
• Six graduating from Academy on May 16
• Continuous recruitment
• Next Academy planned for end of June
• Fire Prevention
• Full staffing
• Administration
• Full staffing
2 Fire Stations
Fire Station 5 (Fountaingrove):
• Construction delayed by winter weather
• Physical construction beginning approximately June 2024 • Estimated completion date April 2025
Fire Station 8 (Roseland):
• In the design phase of the design/build process
• No finite start date or completion date
3 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
• In build process
• Quick Attack Vehicles – 2
• Purchased by the Santa Rosa Fire Foundation via a grant from the Community Fund
• Received and in build-out
Planned orders:
• Tillered Ladder Truck – 1
• Approved by City Council via Consent on April 9, 2024 4 SAFER
$7.08M Grant for 12 FTE over
three years
• Staffing ALS Squads
Update:
• Within the period of
performance
• Employees hired
• Phase One vehicles – quick
attack vehicles purchased by
SRFF
• Phase Two vehicles – PSAP
allocation in FY 24/25
• Planned operationalization –
July 1, 2024 5
Sales Tax
Implementation:
• FSWG
• City
• Department
Measure H:
• Passed by voters
• Timelines
• Threats/Reflex Time
• Direct Funding:
• +/-$8.5M/year
• Indirect Funding
• $1.5M/year
• REDCOM
• Lexipol
• Technology
• Training
• Vegetation Management
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