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Ramsey, Nowthen, St. Francis, Oak Grove, and Bethel, Minnesota <br />Feasibility Study for Shared or Cooperative Fire and Emergency Services <br />Figure 5: Summary of Foundational Policy Document Elements <br />Bethel FD <br />Oak Grove FD Ramsey FD <br />St. Francis FD <br />Titles of Policy <br />Documents <br />Policies and <br />Procedures <br />Anoka County <br />Chiefs <br />SOGs <br />City Employee <br />Manual <br />Fire Department <br />Handbook <br />SOGs Personnel <br />Policies <br />Anoka County <br />Chiefs <br />SOGs <br />City Personnel <br />Policies <br />Quality of Administrative <br />Policy Documents <br />Well organized and <br />complete <br />Well organized and <br />complete <br />Well organized and <br />complete <br />Well organized and <br />complete <br />Important Civil Liability <br />and Risk Management <br />Policies Present <br />Yes <br />Yes <br />Yes <br />yes <br />Quality of Standard <br />Operating Policies <br />Very good <br />Very Good <br />Very good Very good <br />Adequate Operational <br />Scene Guidance <br />No <br />Yes <br />Yes Yes <br />While each department operates under its respective municipality's policy document, all presented <br />operational documents that are well -organized and nearly complete. All study agencies should ensure <br />that specific scene guidance is included as part of the operational documents supplied to personnel. <br />Moving forward, the departments should work together to establish a common set of operational <br />policies and procedures to increase the consistency of service delivery across the region. <br />Organizational Design <br />Most fire departments and emergency services agencies are structured in a typical "top down" hierarchy <br />where the fire chief reports to a board of directors, city administrator/manager, or city council and the <br />remainder of the fire department is under his/her direction, usually consisting of several assistant or <br />deputy chiefs, line officers, and operational firefighters. Often span of control becomes an issue as <br />departments grow and the ability of supervisory personnel, either career or volunteer, becomes <br />overextended. In historical military literature, the origin of modern span of control theory, an individual <br />in a stressful situation should have no more than six to eight personnel under his/her command. ESCI <br />evaluated the organizational structure of each study agency as illustrated in the following figure. <br />rr Ct+nivlam g <br />page ?5 <br />