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VII. Com 4/27/77 Approve Assistant Manager noted that the Council should keep in mind the separation of financing from servicing. He said in regard to financing, the cities would bear the initial cost but the unin- corporated areas would buy in when they needed the service. He note~ that the expansion of County services had never been en- gaged in, but that they would have a direct impact on the city. Mr. Hamel questioned whether the decisions made regarding annex- ation in the River Road and Santa Clara areas would be made by Lane County or whether the people would make the decisions them- . selves. Manager noted that the Wastewater Management Commission has to recommend to the County the decision to determine the financing boundary but the service boundary would be the entire metropolitan area. He said to follow the historical p~ocedures of the city and to have some control over future ,annexation, it needs this policy. He also noted that the Council needed to realize that if it is a metropolitan area financing district and is voted in, then that means these people will be entitled to receive sewer service and annexation for large areas within the urban service boundary would be very doubtful because they would then have the sewer service they needed. Mr. Hamel moved seconded by Ms. Smith to conceptually approve the sewer service and annexation position paper. Motion carried unanimously. Presentation of Master and Satellite Fire Service Proposal for Concept Approval--Memo distributed to Council. Chief Ev Hall, Fire Department explained that in order to provide an acceptable level of service to all areas of the city at less expense than would be incurred by traditional methods, the Fire Department is proposing a system of master and satellite stations. He said this would somewhat minimize increases of future Fire Department costs, yet provide an acceptable level of fire suppression protection to the community. The plan has the advantage of reducing the number of personnel needed for response to certain alarms, using comparative- ly low-cost fire equipment and giving quicker initial response to portions of the community where the present response time is inade- quate. The adoption of this concept would improve the proficiency of the Department and provide greater safety to the community and firefighters. Jerry Runyon, with the use of several charts, explained the site locations, service station, and response time to calls in fire de- mand zones affected by the new plan. He said this new concept would result in increased protection and give services to an ex- panded area of the community. Chief Hall said he was asking for endorsement of the concept so the Department could proceed with purchasing land for the additional sites, noting the money was provided by Revenue Sharing funds. He said there had been identi- fication of two fiscal years that did not have to come in consecu- tive order but the identified plan had to be implemented in its sequence and not in a piecemeal order. He explained the phases of conversion and identified problem areas such as Fox Hollow and Amazon, noting those would have to proceed as growth dictates. 313 5/9/77 -- 18 . - .