Item 2: Functional Consolidation of Fire Departments

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ATTACHMENT C USAR Team Response is managed by the coordination of on duty team members that arrive at the scene and then function as team members or respond to station 2 to staff USAR apparatus and respond to the scene as a team. The truck company stations are consistently staffed with at least one USAR team member to assist with size up, coordination, and equipment needs for incidents that can be supported by on duty team members. The State of Oregon USAR South Team is comprised of 50 members from Eugene, Springfield, Corvallis, Albany, and Salem and is deployed by the SFMO. Description of Cooperative Service Delivery Model: The delivery model would allow for focused staffing and boat response from stations that are best positioned to deploy to the launch sites in each jurisdiction. A WRT presence at stations 4, 6, and 11 would allow for rapid deployment to the launch sites at Hayden Bridge, Alton Baker, Armitage Park, Celeste Campbell, “D” street, and allow for a reserve boat launch at the unimproved launch at Beltline. All trucks and towers could have WRT staff that could respond to the launch site however the interest will be to keep trucks and towers in service for fire response when possible. A cooperative service delivery for USAR would function by having the closest truck/tower company respond to the incident and begin size up and initial operations with the crew and equipment on trucks. The Rescue Unit from both jurisdictions (Heavy Rescue 5 and Rescue 2) would respond with USAR staffing to the incident location to coordinate a full on-duty team response. Alternate support stations would house support equipment such as lumber trailers and the Air and Light Unit would respond from Logistics to support the USAR response. Identify potential increases and consolidations in FTE: The Eugene WRT team is presently at 18 with the capacity to fully staff at 24 team members. Springfield WRT is currently staffed with 24 personnel. Six additional personnel are in the initial training process. Ten personnel are qualified as boat operators. Six of those are cross- trained as SRT and included in the WRT total number listed above. The Eugene USAR team presently has 17 members with the capacity to staff to 18 members. A combined team of 36 members would allow for consistent first response staffing at the truck/ tower stations (Stations 1, 2, and 5) and at the support stations (Stations 8 and 11 in Eugene and Station 3 in Springfield). This model would allow for support stations to respond to confined space permit emergencies when the trucks and towers are unavailable. Springfield current has 16 personnel fully trained and 2 additional personnel have begun training. Full staffing is 6 per shift. What positions will be consolidated through attrition: The possibility exists to reduce team members through attrition from 44 to approximately 30 positions with the predominant staffing and equipment responding from Stations 4 and 6. The reduction from certification pay will allow for on duty drills to be proctored by off duty shift team leaders. The potential exists to consolidate the responsibilities of multiple team advisors and shift team leaders into one district chief team advisor and one shift team leader. These positions would not result on cost savings 42 ATTACHMENT 3