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Attachment 2 8A Page 18 City of Redwood City FY 2009-2010 Budget Amendments - September 2009 Detail of Recommended ProJ!rammatic ChanJ!es GENERAL FUND Fire Department Employee Costs Supplies and Services Internal Services Capital Allocations (451,900) (0) (0) Total: (451,900) Percentage of Reductions: -2.9% Employee Reductions in FTE Vacant 0.00 Filled 1.00 Total 1.00 Description of Proposed Reduction The departmenrs reductions include eliminating 1.0 FTE Administrative Clerk It ($78,123) position, reducing Operations overtime by $300,000. Additionally, reflected in the numbers but not in the employee reductions FTE count above, is a shift of a 0.50 FTE, Fire Prevention Officer from the Fire Department to the Community Development Services Department. Service Level Impacts The Administrative Clerk II (E770) position is assigned to the front office at Fire Administration. Eliminating this position will impact customer service, public education request processing, phone/counter service coverage and it will impact office efficiency and business continuity by reducing capacity for payroll, permits, record keeping, workers compensation processing and mail distribution. This reduction will increase workload of other clerical staff including the Fire Prevention Secretary. The reduction in Operations overtime will result in the closure of Engine Company 9 for approximately sixty 24-hour shifts this fiscal year. The closure of E9 still allows Station 9 to remain open because Truck Company 9 is housed at Station 9; therefore, no stations in Redwood City will be closed. Based on past experience with E9 closures we have found that the periodic closure of E9 has caused multiple impacts both to emergency response and administrative activities. In general, the closures of E9 over the past few years have negatively impacted many areas and we anticipate the following to occur with the closures this fiscal year based on past experience: . One Fewer Fire Company available for response 60 shifts per year (E9) . Longer response times into the Downtown for an Engine Company carrying hose and water for suppression activities. . Longer response times for the second arriving Engine Company when the first or second arriving company should have been E9 . Greater reliance on Menlo Park Fire to respond directly into Station 11's area (Friendly Acres & CSA-8) and indirectly to fill positions on multi-company responses that E9 would have filled 8