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Council Minutes of 11/21/2006 months, they received 8,000 calls for fire or EMS. The North Olmsted dispatch center handled 3,035 calls for fire and EMS in 2005. Response time is calculated from the time the call is received at the station and until the unit arrives on the scene. The average time in North Olmsted is 3-4 minutes, in Westlake it is 5 minutes and 43 seconds after participation in the CDC. Prior to participation in the CDC, their time was 6.5 minutes. Westlake is approximately 16.2 square miles. The placement of our fire stations helps our fire fighters and EMS to access all areas of our city in a short period of time. The only financial information presented was a statement that our 2005 cost would have been approximately $240,000. Additional printed financial information is needed to determine what our total costs will be and what the actual costs of the CDC center are and what they are comprised of. The CDC has 7 full-time and 6 part-time dispatchers. One part-time dispatcher left the employ of the CDC in the first 8 months of business. The original man~wer was 7 full-time and 7 part-time employees with 2 supervisors. North Olmsted has 9 full-time and 3 part-time dispatchers. All calls originate within a particular community, are transferred to the CDC, and then transferred to the fire station/EMS unit within the community in which the call originated. All calls generated within the City of Westlake are answered by the Westlake FireBMS units unless mutual aid is requested because all available units are in use. The question of automatic aid versus mutual. aid was presented. The CDC does not possess the technology or equipment to implement automatic aid. Automatic aid would require a GPS system within each vehicle, so the location of the closest available vehicle could be dispatched to a situation. The original participation costs were broken down to 10% of the cost would be divided between all communities and 90% would be based on a community's population. The Westlake Fire Chief stated that now the cost will be apportioned according to how many fire fighters you have on your ordinance. (After 8 months of operation, there are still many questions of rules of operation, procedures, etc. which need to be worked out and finalized. The implementation. of automatic aid is one of these issues. Mentioned several times was North Olmsted ability to change policy if we are a member of the CDC. If we are only one vote in five, it may be difficult to change anything. In the future, participation may be a viable alternative. The committee voted unanimously to not recommend passage of Resolution 2006-183. • Ordinance 2006-184, an ordinance amending the Traffic Control File of the City of North Olmsted to provide for prohibiting the standing ar parking of motor vehicles at any time and at any location on either side of Claque Road from Lorain Road to Broolcpark Road and declaring an emergency. A brief discussion followed. The committee voted unanimously to recommend approval of Ordinance 2006-184. • Chairperson Orlowski distributed some information and a survey which requested information from a number of communities regarding the bulk storage of salt within their communities and how they may address this issue. As the information was new to the members of Council and the late hour, it was decided to withhold discussion for another time. 8