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Evaluation Criteria for Vacant and New Positions <br />Fire Technician – New Position <br />By: Dean Kapler, Fire Chief <br />1.Is the position essential? <br />As with other departments, record keeping is an activity that will continue <br />through time. The Public Safety Data System (PSDS) has given public safety an <br />incredible tool to capture and analyze data, but the data entry portion remains. <br />2. Is the position critical? <br />Explain how this position is key to achieving the strategic goals identified by <br />the City Council. <br />As part of the city’s Strategic Plan, this key position will ensure that we continue <br />to be an effective organization through proper documentation kept for incident <br />reports, details of responses, periodic reporting, insurance premium information, <br />staff certifications, payroll entering, time off/vacation leaves and other general <br />administrative duties. <br />Can the duties be re-engineered or automated? Please explain. <br />With the PSDS, the original goal was to substantially reduce the efforts of <br />entering data. Although there are many “hands free” data gathering tools <br />available, there still remains a substantial amount of entry, gathering and analysis <br />that needs to happen on a periodic basis. <br />Can the duties be reassigned temporarily or permanently? Please explain. <br />Police and Fire did combine these efforts in the past and the end results were <br />favorable. With the PSDS, a more specialized effort is needed in both departments <br />rather than a general Public Safety presence. Currently fire command staff (Fire <br />Marshal and Fire Chief) are completing these tasks, keeping in mind that the <br />PSDS is only partially implemented at this time. <br /> <br />