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To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Jeff Carman, Chief, Contra County Fire Protection District
Date:	February 25, 2014

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF THE MORAGA ORINDA FIRE DISTRICT

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 02/25/2014

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, Director
Candace Andersen, Director
Mary N. Piepho, Director
Karen Mitchoff, Director

ABSENT:

Federal D. Glover, Director

Contact:

Jeff Carman, 925-941-3300

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: February 25, 2014
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

ACCEPT a verbal update on the status of the Moraga-Orinda Fire District.

FISCAL IMPACT:

No fiscal impact.

BACKGROUND:

The Moraga Orinda Fire District has been working closely with other local fire district on a number of issues including, mutual/auto aid, conceptual discussions of constructing a multi-jurisdictional station (Station 46) serving the greater Lamorinda area and participating in discussions with Fitch and Associates over the course of the ConFire Operational Study.

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

Fire Chief Stephen Healy will provide a verbal update to the Board of Supervisors on the status of the District and be available to answer any questions of Board members.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

The Board will not have accepted the report from the Moraga Orinda Fire District.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

No impact.

CLERK'S ADDENDUM

Chief Stephen Healy provided the Board of Directors with the following highlights:

In November of 2013, the staffing model in rank & file was reduced from 19 to 17; A third ambulance unit is in place in Orinda, all three are cross-staffed; There remains an ambulance unit in Moraga; Data collection over several months indicates virtually no impact on response times; A steady increase has been observed in requests for services for plan checks and new construction permitting; Received a grant to hold an event on April 30th at St. Mary's College related to urban/wildland interface issues; The annual open house will be held on May 17th, Wildfire Preparedness Day; Received a grant from the Diablo Fire Safe Council for a vegetation mitigation project on Muir Trust property off Miner Road; Including tonight's graduates, there will be 500 CERT volunteers in the LaMorinda area; The community known as Sleepy Hollow has achieved the designation "Fire Wise', the first and only in Contra Costa County; Received a grant for Community Awareness Emergency Response for the 2014 Lamorinda Great Shakeout, and had excellent participation; Finalized a Memorandum of Understanding with the Town of Moraga to provide them with backup EOC support; Completed a mutual response agreement with the City of Berkeley for fire prevention services in the Tilden Park area; The mine-tunnel rescue team for the Caldecott Fourth Bore project (completed) has been disbanded and some remaining funds from the project will be directed to safety signage at the exit in the eastbound side.

Chief Healy acknowledged the same challenges to service delivery and operational costs as all other fire service agencies are experiencing, but assured the Directors the district is solvent at this time.

The Board of Directors ACCEPTED the report.