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-'ity of <br /> <br />River <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Item # <br /> <br />4.6° <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Pat Klaers, City Administrator <br />Mayor & City Council <br /> <br />Bruce A. West, Fire Chief <br /> i! <br /> <br />May 15, 2000 <br /> <br />Fire Inspector]Administrative Assistant Position <br /> <br />In the 2000 Fire Department Budget, under the personal services category, is <br />another full time employee position. This full time employee has been <br />discussed as either a fire inspector, assistant fire chief, or other position titles. <br />I would like to give a brief overview of our fire inspection program and then <br />give my recommendation on the full time employee position. <br /> <br />The fire inspector position has been discussed at the City Council level and at <br />this time we are using one part time inspector. Since my last council update, <br />part-time fire inspector Cliff Anderson has been hired as a full-time fire <br />inspector for the City of New Brighton. Prior to Cliffs leaving as a part-time <br />fire inspector, he and Steve Greene were conducting inspections throughout <br />our community for compliance with the 1997 Uniform Fire Code. Steve Greene <br />is very limited in the amount of time available to assist the fire inspection <br />bureau at this time. Steve's full-time employment limits his available hours for <br />conducting fire inspections on a part-time basis. Currently, Steve is assisting <br />with pre-fire planning on our computer aided fire zone software. At the same <br />time, the part time inspectors are completing a fire code inspection, the <br />inspectors are conducting pre-plans on all of our commercial and industrial <br />facilities to enhance our fire department's response. Our fire inspection bureau <br />has made tremendous strides in fire inspection visits within the community. I <br />realize that sometimes our fire inspection visits may be controversial in <br />nature, but our fire inspections are for the safety of the employees of the <br />business and the general public who visit them. <br /> <br />The use of part time fire inspectors to conduct site inspections has been a slow <br />process in visiting all of the commercial and industrial facilities within the city <br />of Elk River. Currently our fire inspection program has completed <br />approximately one-third of the facilities within our community. The initial and <br /> <br />13065 Orono Parkway · P.O. Box 490 · Elk River, MN 55330 · TDD & Phone: (612) 441-7420 · Fax: (612) 441-7425 <br /> <br /> <br />