The fire chief highlighted the need to align the fire department's new strategic goals with the city's 20-year comprehensive plan to prepare for ongoing growth, high-rise developments, and potential annexations. Later in the meeting, city officials proposed creating a six-year capital improvement plan for city facilities to better manage project timelines, cash flow, and debt service for upcoming public works initiatives.
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City Council Workshops · Aug 24, 2026 · 29:34–29:46 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: comprehensive plan affordable housing annexation capital facilities
What was said
28:31 at where the workloads are becoming the greatest where the changes in the city of Vancouver what dynamic trends do we need to adjust to to be more contemporarily relevant to provide optimal service to our community. They'll partner with and lead embed performance practice and daily operations. In fact I established a performance measurement committee at the VFD with our current business intelligence analyst but also with Portland where he's going to be working on this with us CCFR District 6 so we're getting their data people and we're leaning forward on our capabilities and the economies of scale that we will derive from effective management and the potential regional fire authority in the future. So we're trying to build these partnerships and do these things together. CCFR District 6 Portland said they're going to build a plan with the exact same format because it shows unification and they like the format enough to say hey that works for us and they're in our program learning how to do it.
29:31 So we're enjoying those relationships so we're leaning way ahead on potential for RFA or even annexation in the future if that happens. The other one I'd like to address is I did talk about our support specialists I've got these a little out of order on mind so I'm sorry about that so the BIA is our data analyst unit and the support specialists there is oh this one is a two for the with the fire marshal's office. They assist with billing and collection permits and fees and they are 90 percent cost effective or revenue replenishment. They're very close to that. They lost a half a person not literally but halftime equivalent in the fire marshal's office and supporting them with one full time would be very helpful with all the permits and the things that are going on in in our fire marshal's office. They provide a wide variety of administrative support with data
30:30 entry records management report preparation. We have software that's been antiquated and you've approved concourse software for our fire marshal's office and our fire marshal is telling us that they it's going to be extremely helpful because it will help them keep up with the developers
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direct keyword 29:34–29:46 comprehensive plan, affordable housing, annexation, capital facilities
act same format because it shows unification and they like the format enough to say hey that works for us and they're in our program learning how to do it. So we're enjoying those relationships so we're leaning way ahead on potential for RFA or even annexation in the future if that happens. The other one I'd like to address is I did talk about our support specialists I've got these a little out of order on mind so I'm sorry about that so the BIA is our data analyst unit and the support specialis