The following is directly from page 9 of the COFAC recommendations.

Recommendation: Our committee recommends that the City Commission establish a goal to initially reduce costs from the current $206 per capita to $150 per capita, halfway to the $93 average per capita costs of the four comparable cities. It is further recommended that Traverse City ultimately reduce its per capita costs closer to the average of the four comparable cities.


The committee further suggests the 13 following possible ways to reduce per capita costs:

I. Reduce Staffing-

2. Focus on fire prevention instead of fire suppression in order to reduce staff-

3. Charge for false alarms of 3 or more to the same address in one year -Fire inspectors are to  
    respond to fire and medical calls-

4. Full compensation for airport firefighters from Cherry Capital Airport-

5. Respond to priority I medical calls and only when North Flight is not available to respond to
    priority 2 and 3 medical calls -Hire volunteer/part-time firefighters to supplement staff-

6. Move to defined contribution retirement plan and consider options for health care savings
    with co-pays comparable to local private sector-

7. Join GT Metro Fire Department-

8. Reduce number of fire stations

9. Establish a public safety department with the police department-

10. Charge for our full costs for responding to mutual aid calls -

11. Hire independent contractor to negotiate labor contract-

12. In the interest of transparency, negotiation should be completed with open instead of    
      closed sessions -

13. Make calls to 550 Munson Ave (Urgent Care) only when North Flight is not available to do
      transport to Munson Medical Center Emergency Department-