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. Me.oraa... e October 3.198' To: Mayor and City Council Fro.: Fire and Emergency Services Department Re: Long Range Plan ud Redeployment Proposal Stafr in the Fire lAd Emergency Services Departmenl. have completed a long-range pluning process ud are bringing before the Council two items for Council consideration. The first is the cItaCt Long RAnge PlaA Cor Fin: ud Emergency Services, wbicb is elpected to provide cUtecUon and policy guidance for the department. over the nelt. l' years. The plan document. covers every phase of department responsibility, including fire suppression, fire prevenUon, emergency medical services, and related emergency ud support. activities. The draft. p!an is orguJzed into seven sections; four of these sections--Metro Services, Code Developme.at lAd Enforceme.at. Department. In r ra.st.ru cture, lAd Public Educatio.a--bave bee.a been before the PllUl.aing Commissio.a, wbicb amended ud .aow forward them to the Council. Three additional sections or the plaA--Emerge.acy OperatJo.as, Buman Resources ud Training. ud Department Administration--are being reviewed by the City's ezecutive JIluagen, but. are included in the dntt. docume.at to allow Cor public review ud comment. e The planning process begu in mid-1984. In order to give the department's employees a sense of ow.aership, SUld due to the technical aspects of masty of the department's operations, the initial step in developing the plan was the formation of a .aumbet of commiuees, made up of department members. The initial recommendations of these committees were plaCed into plaA format, at which point a Cit.ize.a Advisory Group 'VIIS formed to: 1) review the draft documeat. to easure that it. was complete. practical, ud understaDdable to the general public, 2) advise planning committees of community conceras not adequately addressed in the draft, SUld 3) inform their constituent groups of the pJanning process. solicit input, and support the ptan through adoptioa. After coasulting with staff in the City Manager's Office, the following groups/orguiZations were invited to provide representation on the CAG: Eugene Area Chamber of Comaerce. LAae CoUAty Board of Commissioaers. Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board. Lane County Chapter of the American Red Cross, Lane Community College Advisory Board, LaAe CoUAty IAsuraace Agents Association, Laae COunty fire Defe.ase Board, City of sprlllgCield, Lane COunty Medical Society, Neighborhood Leaden. the local chapter of the Americaa Associatioa of Retired Persons, and the League of Wome.a Voters. The CAG was chaired by Gerry Gaydos, the Chamber of Commerce represe.ataUve. and .. member of the PlaA.aing COmmission. FoUowlag the CAG's review SUld modification of the document, It was pUblicized through the aews JDed~ and presentaUo.as oa the proposed plan were made to the Neighborhood Leaders, the Chamber of COmmerce PlUning and Land Use Subcommittee, ud the Joint. ComJaiUH on ECOJlomic DevelopmeJ1t.. la additioa, the e 1'~ was the topic of a aumber of presentio.as made by department staff to various CJVJC groups. The ptanning CoJlUllissioa. following.. worksessioa oa the pJaa. held .. September 17 public hearing on the plSUl. receiving written testimony on the document from the Chamber of Commerce ud the laAe CoUJlty Homebuilders AssociatioJl.