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Options

Service Models

  • Fitch 2 station model
  • Fitch prioritized EMS model
  • Reestablish Edmonds Fire Department
  • Create Regional Fire Authority with other cities
  • Annexation to South County Fire under different terms
  • Contracting with Shoreline Fire Department RFA
  • Continuing the current contract with South County Fire

Operational Strategies

  • Edmonds FD provide contract services to Woodway
  • Edmonds FD & private EMS augmentation
  • Cost plus contract with Mukilteo
  • Optimize station locations to service the community
  • Port Authority responsible for the marine unit
  • Back to basics in fire protection and EMS
  • Separate Fire and EMS
  • Police with BLS training

Financial Measures

  • Enable benefit charge structure
  • Establish public safety office to reduce overhead
  • Alternate funding sources (grants, etc.)
  • GEMT reimbursements
  • Increase EMS levy rate
  • Levy lid lift
  • Impose fire impact fees on new construction
  • Issue bonds
  • Reduce other costs

Administrative Actions

  • Renegotiate SCF contract
  • Renegotiate a better agreement with the RFA
  • Review 2016 Fitch report ideas
  • Study fire station locations

Policy Considerations

  • Different business models
  • Stylized levels of service
  • Service efficiency improvements
  • Legislative reform

Talking Points

  • A NO vote buys us time to fully explore less costly solutions, equal to or better than our current services.
  • Let’s explore options as a community. Bring in new voices and ideas into the conversation.
  • Prior studies have not been inclusive of other options available. The $40,000 Fitch report only looked at four alternatives in a time-compressed manner. Compare that to the $64,000 the city is spending on a consultant to sell us on the results of this flawed report.
  • Even buried within the Fitch reports are previous studies which highlighted that alternative, less costly solutions are available, but they were conveniently overlooked.
  • Behind these organized groupings on this chart are over 40 ideas to reduce cost and improve service levels stylized to our needs. And this would be just the beginning of something big if just given the time to fully evaluate.