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Special City Council Meeting <br />August 27, 2001 <br />Page 4 <br /> <br />will be required to take this EMT training class, if it is pushed through, and <br />at the end of the class he will have two months before he is eligible to retire. <br />He felt it would be a waste of city money to train this person. Mr. Holbert <br />said nine of the men who would be required to take this training will be <br />eligible to retire within two to five years, along with the four Deputy Chiefs <br />and one Training Officer who will not be making medical calls at all. He <br />said that when non-EMT's retire, they are replaced with an EMT. It was <br />their assessment that by leaving the current policy in place, eventually the <br />entire department will be staffed with EMT's. Mr. Holbert suggested in <br />order to save the $80,000.00, replace the men who are retiring that are not <br />EMT's with trained certified men. <br /> <br />Mr. Halbert advised that during this past fiscal year, the Fire Department <br />has lost five firefighters to other jobs and most of the men who left stated <br />that the reason they did leave was because of salary concerns, and some felt <br />that the City Council did not take the department seriously. He said that <br />last year they came before the City Council telling them that it cost <br />approximately $7,000.00 to hire and train a new firefighter, which does not <br />include salary. Mr. Holbert spoke regarding training firefighters, the cost, <br />what it cost when the city loses a firefighter to another city, salaries, and <br />the pay scale of the city. <br /> <br />Mayor Pfiester thanked Mr. Halbert for his input. <br /> <br />A motion was made by Councilman McCarthy, seconded by Councilman <br />Gray, to bring Agenda Item No. 4, consider possible action on direction to <br />city staff regarding the preparation of a new Lease Agreement between the <br />City of Paris and the Archers for Christ for use of properties located at <br />Lake Crook, Agenda Item No. 5, approving and authorizing the execution <br />of a Lease Agreement with the Red River Valley Fair Association for the <br />ball park facility known as Reece Field, and Agenda Item No. 6, <br />consideration of and action on authorizing the installation of a window in <br />each of the north side doors of the main terminal at Cox Field Airport as <br /> <br /> <br />