FY2024 Adopted Operating and Capital Budgets

FY2024 Adopted Budget Organizational Budgets

Division of Fire & Rescue Services

Strategic Goals

Improve cost effectiveness of fleet management

County Strategic Goal Alignment: Public Safety, Transportation Continue to implement the established apparatus and equipment replacement schedule to reduce maintenance costs and out of service time for emergency apparatus

FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023* FY 2024

Annual Maintenance costs of County owned Fire Engines (Pumpers)

Target Actual

--

--

30,000 37,440

25,000

28,370

45,912

--

*As documented in FASTER software as of February 10, 2022

County Strategic Goal Alignment: Improve the reliability of fire and emergency medical response services Public Safety Monitor growth and response trends to ensure citizens receive timely and effective emergency services

FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023* FY 2024

Fire/Rescue's Response Time Success by unit response ( *As of April 30, 2023)

Target Actual

--

--

98.50% 98.75%

97.83% 98.00% 98.23%

--

This metric looks at the fire department's ability to respond within acceptable time frames. The county is broken into areas by population density and response times tracked. Those geographic areas are defined as; urban with a response within 4 minutes, suburban with a response within 6 minutes, and rural with a response within 8 minutes.

Reduce emergency medical response to chronic health conditions

County Strategic Goal Alignment:

Public Safety, Public Health & Human Services

Continue to build partnerships with Public Health, Social Services, and Frederick Health Hospital to deliver "home-based" paramedical service to chronically ill patients

FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023* FY 2024 75.00% 75.00% 80.00% 80.00%

Reduction in EMS usage after discharge from the MCH Program

Target Actual

67.33% 80.00% 80.00%

--

*through February 10, 2022

This metric looks at three of the county's top EMS system utilizers and the percent reduction in their use of 911 services upon their discharge from the mobile community healthcare program.

349