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Date: 9-3-96 Item No
Item/Subject: Order, transferring $7,900 from the General Fund
Workers Compensation reserve to the Fire Department for Confined
Space Rescue Training.
Responsible Department: Finance
Commentary: We are required by 08H and related regulations to
conduct actual training exercises in closed apace rescue
procedures. This training is delivered by the fire department to
each of the city's departments.
Present funding for the Fire Department are
inadequate to provide
for all the necessary training, as are the budgets of several
General and Enterprise Funds. (See attached.) This action will
allow us to fund training in accordance with OSHA regulations.
Funding will be provided by the General Fund's Workers
Compensation reserves,
, which i currently fully -funded, and then
some,
ordingstoa recent audit report.
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Aeugwal to Councilor Leen September 9. 1996
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(TITLE.) (orber, Authorizing the Finance Director to Transfer
$7,480 frau the General Funds Workers' Compensation Reserve to
the Fire Department to Facilitate Closed Space Rescue Training
By Ne City CmmmW of W CIN ofBnnpor:
ORDERED,
THAT the Finance Director is hereby authorized to transfer
$7,480 from the General Funds Workers' Compensation Reserve to
the Fire Department to facilitate Closed Space Rescue Training.
IN CITY COUNCIL 96-374
September 9, 1996
Passed O R D E R
CITY CLERK Title, Authorising the Finance
Director to Transfer $7,480 from
the General Fund's
Workers
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Facilitate Closed Space Rescue Training -
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Councilmen
96-3)L
AUG 9 1996
TO: RON SELLER, FINANCE DIRECTOR
FROM: C. MITCFIELI.
M. CONFINED SPACE TRAINING EXPENSE
CHIEF CAMMACK AND LT, DUNBAR HAVE BEEN PRESSING ME FOR A WAY TO
PAY FOR THE ADDITIONAL TRAINING REQUIRED BY OSHA FOR CONFINED SPACE
RESCUE. IN JANUARY WE DISCUSSED THE NEED TO FMD A WAY TO PAY FOR THE
INTER -DEPARTMENTAL CONFINED SPACE ENTRY TRAINING REQUIRED BY OSHA
INFORMATION FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SHOWS THAT TWO DEPARTMENTS
CAN BE TRAINED DURING ONE FOUR HOUR SESSION. THIS IS PROBABLY
FEASIBLE FOR ALL DEPARTMENTS
THE COST PER DEPARTMENT TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN TERMS OF
MANPOWER IS NST OVER $3000.00 PER SESSION, OR $150000 PER DEPARTMENT,
THIS REPRESENTS ALL OVERTAfE MONEY AS CHIEP CAMMACK MUST BRING IN
ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL TO COVER DURING TRAINING SESSIONS. OUR
DISCUSSIONS AT THE TBNE CENTERED AROUND THE LACK OF FUNDS IN THE
FIRE DEPARTMENT BUDGET FOR THIS EXTENSIVE TRAINING THAT WAS NOT
ANTICIPATED. ACCORDING TO CHIEF CAMMACK THE APPLICABLE TRAINING
BUDGET IS ABOUT $2500.00. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS NOT GOING TO COVER THE
EXPENSE.
OUR DECISION AT THE TME WAS TO CHARGE EACH DEPARTMENTS TRYING
BUDGET 50% OF THE COST ($750.00) AND TRANSFER THAT INTO THE FIRE DEPT
TRAINING BUDGET. PUBLIC WORKS HAD A PROBLEM WITH THIS AS THEY HAD
CONTRIBUTED BOTH MANPOWER AND MATERIAL TOWARDS THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONFINED SPACE TRAINING AREA AT THE FIRE
DEPARTMENTS TRAINING AREA. 50 % THE COST OF TRAINING IS NOT GOING
TO COVER THESE COSTS.
AIRPORT
PUBLIC WORKS
WASTE WATER TREATMENT
SEWER DEPT.
SCHOOL