MARYSVILLE – The City Council will discuss tonight a mediator’s plan to continue Regional Fire Authority talks with District 12 and Arlington.
The plans says the parties’ discussions will focus on confirming process issues, and then determining desired service levels, costs and governance for a sustainable and affordable RFA.
The goal is for the Planning Committee to issue findings and recommendations confirming:
• Whether the committee believes an RFA could provide the same or better service levels, based on specific assumptions about staffing, facilities, equipment and funding;
• The understanding of the RFA committee about potential cost savings, efficiencies and avoided costs from an RFA in the near term and over time;
• A proposed approach to reach agreement on governance and the other components of an RFA plan; and
• A recommendation to the respective governing bodies whether work should continue to the next phase, which would be the completion of an RFA Plan.
If there is agreement to continue beyond December, the schedule would be structured to complete the RFA Plan in time for the August 2018 primary election.
Consultant Karen Reed wants the three parties to answer these questions.
1. Is your jurisdiction willing to continue the RFA discussion with the other two jurisdictions? Knowing what you know, do you see enough positive potential for an RFA to be willing to work over the next several months to develop an RFA plan involving all three jurisdictions?
2. What values and principles are important to your jurisdiction in this discussion?
3. Are there any process changes you would recommend to make future deliberations more constructive?
Addendum: At last evening’s RFA Planning Committee meeting, the group agreed that it would be most
helpful if each jurisdiction could share their answers to these three questions in writing with one
another in the next couple of weeks so that, assuming all three want to proceed, we can make the July
meeting as productive as possible.
The meeting starts at 7 at City Hall.
