64-09 Consultant for consolidation of fire services

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Feasible Delivery System Strategy Changes ESCI will develop and analyze various resource deployment strategies for providing emergency services with the specific intent of identifying the option that can deliver the optimum levels of service to the community as it will exist in the future, based on the previous projections of service demand and community risk. Recommendations will be provided identifying the best long-range strategy for service delivery and the impact of initiating such a strategy. Objective 3-D: Review/Revise Standards of Response Using the previous analysis of community risk, ESCI will recommend any necessary revisions of these departments' standards of response and key performance objectives and will ensure that the standards are reasonable and consistent with industry practices and benchmarks. • Classification of incident risk types for deployment planning • Critical tasking analysis for identified incident risk types • Needed fire flows for identified incident risk types • Special equipment/apparatus needs for incident risk types • First-due unit arrival response time objectives for incident risk types Effective force arrival response time objectives for incident risk types • Dispatch call processing time objectives • Company turnout time objectives ESCI will consider and analyze any long-range options for a regional approach to resource deployment that will maintain or improve the region's level of service towards the identified performance objectives and targets. This may include but is not necessarily limited to the following options; • Specific recommendations regarding any relocation of existing facilities • Specific recommendations regarding general location of future, necessary fire stations • Specific recommendations regarding any potential elimination of existing fire stations • Specific recommendations regarding selection and deployment of apparatus by type • Specific recommendations regarding the deployment or distribution of any paid career or part-time on-duty personnel • Specific recommendations regarding the deployment special units or resources Objective 3-F: Projected Performance ESCI will evaluate and present (in graphical and descriptive format) the deployment option(s) • Degree of effectiveness or efficiency benefit to be gained through its implementation • Extent to which it achieves established performance targets • Potential negative consequences Consulting Services Contract -City of Bay Village, Ohio, on behalf of the Westshore Council of Governments Page 10 of 16