FY2023 Adopted Operating and Capital Budget

FY2023 Adopted Budget Organizational Budgets

Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services Division

Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services Division The Division of Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services (DVFRS) serves as 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 500 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. We will be establishing a diversity workgroup to address recruitment, retention and diversity issues within the Division while ensuring and promoting a diverse workforce connection with senior leadership of various minority populations and target recruitment through various cultural resources. The DVFRS 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/Deputy Chief, Assistant Chief, Administrative Specialist, 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 Division is an operational component within the Division of Fire and Rescue Services chain of command. DVFRS plays an import DQW UROH LQ HDFK YROXQWHHU PHPEHU¶V SURJUHVVLRQ ZLWKLQ WKH )UHGHULFN &RXQW\ )LUH and Rescue Service, from their initial orientation through their participation as an incentive recipient in the Length of Service Awards Program.

Strategic Goals

County Strategic Goal Alignment: Improve retention and recruitment of volunteer personnel Good Governance

Ensure effective leadership development through training and mentoring of new volunteer members; Develop participation incentives tailored to the next generation; Enhance use of technology for required training

FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023

Retention and Recruitment of Volunteer personnel

Target Actual

100 157

100

100 171

100

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Enhance the personnel management database module to include training certifications & compliance standards

FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023

Training certifications & compliance standards database module (new for FY22)

Target Actual

500 467

500

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