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FROM : Contra
�.: PHIL BATCHELOR, County Administrator
Costa
DATE *. March 12, 1987 County
SUBJECT: REVISION OF FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Approve revisions in the five year plan and proposed Fire Suppression
Benefit Assessment Program for the Contra Costa County Fire Protection
District.
BACKGROUND/REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION:
The Chief of the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District has submitted
the attached letter dated March 10, 1987, proposing changes in the
District' s five year plan and proposed Benefit Assessment Program.
The recommended changes would increase the amount to be raised by the
benefit assessment for additional staff and some non-recurring costs from a
total of $12,978 ,878 to $20,487 ,451 over the five year period. The
original amount was based on salary levels that existed approximately two
years ago. The recommended increased amount provides for salary increases
approved by the Board in September of 1986 and includes a growth factor to
cover estimated future salary increases over the five year period.
Recommended revisions also include changes in the schedule for adding new
positions. At the suggestion of representatives of the six cities served
by Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, the amount of the benefit
assessment to be levied in the, first and subsequent years will be based on
funding 30 additional firefighters needed to meet current staff shortages.
The first year assessment rate for a single family residence would be
$15 . 00 per year. That rate would rise annually in relation to salary
adjustments for the 30 positions. As new fire stations are built, the rate
would rise to provide staffing for those new stations to a maximum rate of
$52. 00 per year.
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cc: CCC Fire Protection District ATTESTED
County Administrator PHIL BATCHELOR. CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
County Counsel SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Mr. R. M. Nyman
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M382/7-83 BY DEPUTY
March 10, 1987
To : Contra Costa County
Board of . Supervisors
as the Board of
Directors of the Contra
Costa County Consolidated
Fire Protection District
From: William F. Maxfield, Chief Abd —
Consolidated Fire District
Subject : District Five Year
Plan -- request
for revision
In the course of making a final review of the proposed Fire
Suppression Benefit Assessment portion of the subject plan 's
financing and discussing this and other portions of the plan with
representatives of the six cities served by the district, we have
determined that it is necessary to revise the amount proposed to
be realized annually from this source .
In its original form, our plan proposed to raise a total of
$1, 180, 000 over the first three years of the assessment program
for non-recurring costs of acquiring apparatus and furnishings for
proposed new stations and other facilities . A total of
$11, 798, 878 was proposed as the five year cost of adding, on a
staged basis, a total of 87 new fire fighter and support positions
to staff new facilities and to meet current staff
shortages . (A grand total of $12,978, 878 from the benefit
assessment source . )
By direction from the county and as noted in our financing plan
recommendations, no allowance was included for pay increases or
other adjustments for the proposed new positions .
The cost estimates for the additional personnel are now well
over two years old, and as noted above, did not include any
allowance for increases.. Since that time, substantial changes in
the pay and allowances for our staff have been negotiated . This
has resulted in the need for significant adjustments in the
benefit assessment portion of our Five Year Plan financing
proposals . The necessary adjustments recognize the higher
starting costs for new positions as well as cost increases for
future years covered by the Five Year Plan .
If the addition of staff were to follow the original Five Year
Plan schedule, the total cost for the benefit assessment portion
of the plan ' s financing would increase from $12, 978, 878, covering
non-recurring equipment and apparatus costs as well as the new
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staff, to $20, 487, 451, over a five year period . However, the
consensus of the representatives of the six cities meeting
recently to review our plan was that the district should only
cover existing staff shortages out of the proposed assessment for
1987-88 . Assessment rates would be increased annually as
necessary to cover the higher costs of new positions financed by
this program and to cover additional personnel required to staff
new facilities that are under construction and will be ready for
occupancy during the next assessment year . (This would undoubtedly
reduce the maximum assessment cost over the five year period from
the estimated $20, 487, 451, because there will likely be some lag
in the completion of new facilities from that envisaged in the
Five Year Plan. )
The net effect of the changes in the current and projected cost of
new positions and the scheduling of new personnel, would be a
first year ( 1987-88 ) assessment rate for a single-family residence
of $15 per year . This would cover the hiring of 30 fire fighters
to meet current staff shortages . That rate would rise as salary
costs increase and as new personnel are required to staff new
facilities, to a maximum rate of $52 per year, several years from
now. These assessment rates include all costs of the assessment
program.
The county' s fire district financing consultant is in agreement
with and supports the changes outlined above .
It is RECOMMENDED that the Board of Supervisors :
approve the above outlined change in the district ' s plan and
proposed Fire Suppression Benefit Assessment program.
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