FY2021 Adopted Budget

FY2021 Adopted Budget Organizational Budgets

Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services Division

Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services Division The Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services (DVFRS) Division serves as a liaison to the Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services community. The Frederick County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association is an organization of 25 volunteer fire, rescue and emergency medical service companies throughout the County. The volunteer companies provide fire department facilities, apparatus and over 600 active operational members who support emergency response on various types of incidents. In addition, many of these companies have extremely active administrative members who participate in the business operations to include fundraising activities, which help in maintaining state of the art fire stations and apparatus to serve the residents and visitors of Frederick County. The Division consists of four full time employees who work on initiatives in support of over 2000 administrative and operational volunteers. The positions included within this Division are a Director, Assistant Chief, Administrative Coordinator and Volunteer Recruiter. Funding within this budget is used to support all of the above listed entities for services such as staff salaries and fringe benefits, volunteer firefighter medical

physicals, recruitment, volunteer incentive initiatives (Length of Service Awards Program), and the volunteer corporation matrix system, which funds equipment, maintenance, operational expenses and utility costs. The Specialty Teams are made up of both volunteer and career personnel who respond on hazardous materials, technical rescue, swiftwater and wildland incidents. The Division of Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services plays an important role in each volunteer PHPEHU¶V SURJUHVVLRQ ZLWKLQ WKH )UHGHULFN &RXQW\ )LUH DQG 5HVFXH 6HUYLFH IURP WKHLU LQLWLDO RULHQWDWLRQ WKURXJK WKHLU participation as an incentive recipient in the Length of Service Awards Program. The Division is an operational component within the Division of Fire and Rescue Services chain of command.

Strategic Goals Improve effectiveness and reliability of fire and emergency medical response services Plan and coordinate volunteer personnel capabilities to continue meeting regulatory response requirements. Continue to upgrade special operations response services and volunteer participation. Improve retention of volunteer personnel Enhance training of volunteer leadership in mentoring of new volunteer members. Develop participation incentives tailored to the next generation of volunteer Firefighter/Emergency Medical Technician. Make better use of technology for required volunteer training.

Improvements to comprehensive membership database system Establish a personnel management module to include training certifications and compliance standards.

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