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As an department employee, what do you believe is your role in helping the department to achieve its priorities and goals?

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What do you believe the top strategic priority or goal should be for the department over the next 1-5 years?

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Name the top department successes over the past 2 years.

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Identify the most critical area for improvement in the department over the next 1-5 years.

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Identify the biggest threat to the department in achieving in its goals over the next 1-5 years?

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Name the top challenges the department faced over the past 2 years.

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Moved forward from 1October, strategic planning, training completed, active assailant training

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Bringing back heavy rescue full time.

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Built special events team to meet the demand.

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Two hundred events attended Community Outreach Division.

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Improve community outreach process, information sharing, number of events expected to participate in, etc.

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Improve focus on employee wellness, both mental and physical wellness, including nutrition.  Especially important with staff shortages. Look at ways to include all staff, regardless of union status

Best practice: South Metro in Colorado, comprehensive program to address wellness, including risk management, injury prevention.
Best practice: City of Henderson

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Ways to increase participation in wellness classes/opportunities

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Ways to increase participation in wellness classes/opportunities

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Mindset about wellness classes is changes, include a more comprehensive, continuous approach rather than one-off classes.
EAP program - some seeking help are turned away, some providers do not want to work with EAP due to lack of funding.

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Need to sustain program to expand learning opportunities, build on training for complex coordinated attacked. CCFD leadership in this area should be maintained.

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Off duty/on duty - opportunities to participate on duty.

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Mental and physical check ups at least annually (Chief Steinbeck.)

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Finding Qualified Individuals for Positions

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Finding Qualified Individuals for Positions

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Floor personnel, mechanics, knowledge of PPE, apparatus, warehouse experience. Many unqualified individuals that require extensive training.

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Funding, OT, backfill, off-duty training, cost of training, take a look at how we can best deliver and maximize training opportunities.

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Chief Steinbeck encouraged staff to submit training requests and identify possible training opportunities.
Use a strategic process for identifying outside training opportunities and identify training sources.
Seek grant opportunities for funding training.

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Pumpers, aerials, admin vehicles to support operations. Need flexibility in purchasing. Delayed timelines for acquiring new apparatus - 2-3 year timeframe. Limitations on vendors and requirements for vendors. Causing delay in being able to be fully operational.

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Lack of Understanding of Role as staff members

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Lack of Understanding of Role as staff members

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Blackmon - expectation of participating in plan. Reach out to chain of command to find out how you can be involved. Lots of opportunities and challenges - staff help is needed to identify issues and to offer solutions. Help with better understanding of what the issues are from staff perspective.

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Seek opportunities for grant funding.

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Provide opportunities for staff to have input into training, special events feedback for improvement opportunities, evaluations, surveys, seeking input.

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Last plan did not include measures. New plan needs to include ways to measure improvement. Keep simple, include benchmarks of success.

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Steinbeck - need staff help on identifying issues and solutions. Different levels of involvement expected depending on staff level and division. Need divisions to identify resources, ways to fill gaps, 5 to 10 year planning timeframe.

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Touchstone - need to identify growth patterns, strategic location of resources and timing of placement of resources. Need to coordinate with Comprehensive Planning, Building Department, call volumes, service changes over time, need to acquire and evaluate data to help make decisions. Seek feedback from CCFD employees to get feedback directly from the community to identify needs.

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Special Events - F1 Race 2023 and Super Bowl 2024

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Special Events - F1 Race 2023 and Super Bowl 2024

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Prevention Concern - What planning has been done, what resources are needed, logistics, how will issues be addressed? Increase communication/involvement in planning and decisions related to those major events.
Steinbeck - F1 and Super Bowl planning processes have begun. Meetings have occurred to start to address issues. Need to improve communication and information sharing at the division level and ask for feedback from division members, especially Prevention and Suppression. Meetings will increase.

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Look at ways to recognize/reward staff, give kudos to staff, "atta-boy"
Samuels - working on improvements, looking for suggestions
Steinbeck - employee morale and satisfaction are at the top of the list for improvements.

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Look at ways to improve Dispatch, including options for separating out CCFD dispatch from City.
Steinbeck - ideally, co-location with LVMPD if funding is available.