Cross_cutting

6:51 And then even more specifically, we always champion the value of smart tactics, specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely. So if we establish focus groups to develop these tactics that have a great level of specificity, so it's tailored to the needs of our community, but it also factors in our capacity to be able to provide those needs. So in this safe and prepared community proposal, we are also talking about staff positions that could be factored into this as well. All right. And of these staffing support positions and the funding that I would like to address, too, we have, for lack of better terms, a benevolent altruist in CC Fire District 5. After talking to them at our commission meetings and sharing with them our plan and the endeavors that we have moving forward, communicating what we need to get there.

7:48 And they have graciously initially signed a commitment and ILA, interlocal agreement, and that's transitioned into an amendment to support the positions that I'm going to talk about. Our VFD vision is to be a regional leader in public safety and emergency services, forging unified partnerships and safeguarding our community. And that is not a rhetorical statement. All of the statements that we have in there are sincere and evaluating. Thank you. And so we started off a program called High Performance Organizations and invited our regional partners from Portland, from Camas, from Gresham, Salem, the VPD, District 3, District 6, CCFR. And we've been doing a program for four months to cultivate

8:46 these relationships so that we can operate on a larger scale to provide optimal services. We know our size and we know that we have great people doing a fantastic job in this organization. However, we do have limitations. We have 53 people on duty every day. That's not enough to handle a major high rise fire or a wild land conflagration or even sometimes a multi casualty incident or active shooter hazardous materials with 25