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i 1 of near and longer term public policy issues that the town administration need to address and plan for: Report of the Fire & Rescue Department • The protection of our water ways and water d source, continue to actively explore the most fi effective ways of wastewater treatment, To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the improvements of water quality of our ponds and Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: ° bays, and the funding of the associated costs. It is my honor to communicate to you the 2013 • Continue to examine different and more cost Report of the Mashpee Fire&Rescue Department. effective methods to control the future costs of household waste collection and disposal. Our Mission C • Recommend methods to control the cost of "The Mission of the Mashpee Fire & Rescue T municipal government while promoting non- Department is to minimize loss and suffering within I property tax revenues in order to maintain a sta- our community. We accomplish this by education, ble property tax rate. training and the mitigation of emergency incidents c • Provide sufficient fund balance reserves to off- within the limit of available resources". c set losses of non-property tax revenues, includ- ing increasing the funds in the tax stabilization Personnel fund to at least the statutory minimum of 10%of As your Acting Fire Chief, I am proud to work the annual municipal budget, or approximately with thirty three full-time and two administrative well- $5,000,000. trained and dedicated employees. Their work to Finally, volunteer service to a community is a accomplish the Mission of the department many times desirable and essential component of municipal goes unnoticed but they are always here ready to serve. government. Any resident of Mashpee interested in he current authorized strength of this department serving on the Finance Committee,or who might have questions about serving on the committee, please e- is thirty-two operational members (4 captains, 4 mail the Finance Committee through the town web-site: lieutenants,23 firefighters, 1 Fire Prevention/Inspector and 1 call firefighter) 3 administrative members (1 www.mashpeema.gov or write to my attention,care of Chief, ,1 Admin Secretary and 1 Billing Clerk) for a Town Hall. Most of the committee meetings are total of 35 members, as of December 31,2013. televised on the local community channel—Channel 18. In September we said good bye to George Baker Respectfully submitted, your Fire Chief of 20 years and an employee of the George C. Schmidt, III, Chairman Town for over 25 years. The knowledge and Charles E. Gasior, Vice Chairman commitment he had for both the Citizens and the Mark A. Davini, Clerk Department members will be missed.He had built this Christopher J. Avis Department during the Towns growing years having to Bno look 5 and 10 years down the road in order to assure Sal V. Theresa HiKleCook the department would be ready to serve the citizens they are sworn to protect with the best equipment and Oskar H. lenert training money could buy. In April the Fire and Human Resource Department posted the exam notice to create a new list of candidates for hiring.This list of over 100 applicants were screened initially and completed a written test in May. The top 17 from the list of the candidates that passed the exam were granted an interview from a panel of three Fire Department personnel and one from the Human Resource Department. All 17 received a final one on one interview with the Fire Chief.In June a scored list of the 17 was certified. 90