Resolution - #82-107 - 07/27/1982

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Councilmember VanWagner intr~ucedthe following resolution and moved for its adoption: RESOLUTION #82-107 WHEREAS, the City of Ramsey joined the Cities of Anoka and Champlin in forming an Ad Hoc Tri-City Fire Service Study Committee in March 1978 for the purpose of studying and reporting on fire protection in the three above communities; and WI~REAS, the following named persons were appointed by their respec- tive Cities as indicated above to serve on this Ad Hoc Tri-City Fire Service Study Committee: Mr. Gary Reimann, Councilman, City of Ramsey Mr. Lloyd G. Schnelle, Administrator, City of Ramsey Mr. Charles Sell, Mayor, City of Anoka Mr. Jerry Dulgar, Manager, City of Anoka Mr. Don Hostetler, President, Anoka Fire Relief Association Mr. Doug Freeby, Fire Chief, Anoka Fire Deparment Mr. Jake Strouss, Assistant Chief, Anoka Fire Department Mr. Dale Winch, Councilman, City of Champlin Mr. Paul Welter, Citizen and Committee Chairman, City of Champlin Mr. Don Hartman, Administrator, City of Champlin and; WHEREAS, the Ad Hoc Tri-City Fire Service Study Committee completed the study in February 1979 and submitted a formal report on the following areas covered in the study: 1) Current Fire Protection Situation; 2) Fire Protection Analysis; and 3) Potential Enhancement Fire Protection; and WHEREAS, the Ad Hoc Tri-City Fire Service Study Committee Report con- clusion stated the following: 1) First, the Anoka Fire Department should continue to serve as the only fire suppression service in the Tri-City area. Contract communities receive extraordinary value for their fire protection expenditures. Nearby communities who started their own fire department, it was noted, paid much more for fire protection than the Tri-City contract Cities. 2) Secondly, communities in the Tri-City area should work together to bring fire contract wording more in line with actual Anoka Fire Department prac- tice. The communities should also consider extending the duration of fire con- tract and sharing more equitably the cost of equipping and operating the Anoka Fire Department. Also, the contract should be for a longer period of time which would enable longer range planning. 3) Third, the governing bodies of Tri-City communities should appoint a committee to study the possibility of organizing a Tri-City Fire Protection Bureau as described in Section 3 of this report. 4) Fourth, Tri-City communities should adopt the Minnesota Uniform Fire Code and identical amendments. Appendix C contains a sample ordinance for adopting the Minnesota Uniform Fire Code. The communities should also specifically grant fire code enforcement authority to designated inspectors of the Anoka Fire Department.