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<br /> <br />N:\Public Bodies\Agenda Packets\07-16-2018\Final\Laserfiche\9,2 sr Cunningham request.docx <br />7) Until ordinance changes were made by the Council, the operations of the fire department were controlled by <br />policy of the Elk River Fire and Ambulance Board. The fire chief had sole control over assets and facilities, <br />not personnel. <br />8) The full-time city fire marshal was also an officer and an exempt employee. <br />If after reading the Chief’s request you would like to accommodate some or part, following are my thoughts <br />to justify your actions. <br />Regarding Chief Cunningham’s request, the council may, but is not obligated, to make a severance <br />adjustment. Following are a recommendation for the Council to consider if it so chose to make an <br />adjustment. <br />1) When Chief Cunningham was hired, the past practice was for chiefs to be first responders. Apparently, <br />Chief West was a very active responder. <br />2) The number of hours listed are only hours spent on call as a duty officer. If a call came during a shift, there <br />was a 1-hr minimum at the firefighter rate. The scheduling software doesn’t break it out differently. This <br />explains why there were differing annual call hours. 2011 had 5,640 duty officer hours available to start the <br />year. <br />3) There were 8 other officers who should have been available for duty officer. With the active chief, all hours <br />at a minimum should have been equally split by them or roughly 5 weeks per year for 7 officers and 6 weeks <br />for 2 officers. Each week is 108 hours of a duty officer schedule. <br />4) It should be noted he pulled on average 5 duty officer shifts per year after I took him off the schedule in <br />September of 2012. As the department head, I would expect that he’d be a fill in for absences at some point. <br />5) If the two exempt, regular, full-time employees each pulled the extra shifts the 2011 expectation would have <br />been 648 hours at $4.50 or $2,916. August to December of 2010 left 23 weeks or 2 weeks each with 5 <br />officers working the extra week. Again 3 weeks equate to 324 hours or $1,458. 2012 had 36 weeks until my <br />memo removing the chief from the rotation schedule. Over this period of the scenario he would have been <br />responsible for 4 weeks or 432 hours and $1,944. <br />6) If you follow my logic, this accounts for 1,404 hours or $6,318 in additional compensation. <br /> <br />If you have a different method, we can work through this in a work session. If you are comfortable with my <br />process I can add it to a consent agenda in July. Lastly, we have no further financial obligation so if you chose to <br />do nothing, I can relay that message as well. <br /> <br />Financial Impact <br />N/A <br /> <br />Attachments <br /> Cunningham request <br />