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(A) Creation and purpose. The city’s reserve firefighters are hereby created, with the goal to limit the amount of damage, whether it is to property or life, by providing an adequate, well-trained response of suppression forces for major emergencies. The primary objective is to staff the engine and the truck companies on all first alarm structure assignments within five to ten minutes of the alarm. The reserves shall provide an immediate manpower pool in addition to the on-duty forces.
(B) Membership; qualifications; appointment; bond.
(1) The reserves unit shall consist of such number of members as shall from time to time be determined by the Mayor and Council.
(2) The Mayor and City Council shall prescribe the qualifications and standards by which applicants for membership in the reserve shall be governed, and persons possessing said qualifications and conforming to said standards may be appointed to the reserves by the Fire Chief.
(3) (a) To be eligible for membership in the reserves, each applicant must indicate his or her willingness to attend regularly scheduled trainings, on the second or third Monday of each month commencing at 7:00 p.m. and any additional day and time as needed, and not miss more than two consecutive meetings or drills unless excused by the Fire Chief.
(b) Members shall also attend all quarterly department meetings, scheduled for the first Monday in January, April, July and October. Excessive unexcused absences throughout the year shall be cause for possible termination.
(4) Application for membership in the reserves shall be submitted in writing at the office of the Fire Chief. All eligible applicants will be contacted for an oral review before one paid Captain, President of the Reserves, Assistant Fire Chief and the Fire Chief, with any three of the four constituting a quorum. Candidates will be rated on oral, interpersonal and decision-making skills.
(5) Upon acceptance to the reserves, each member of the reserve fire division shall be bonded by the city before being installed in the Department.
(C) Officers.
(1) The reserves shall elect a President, Vice-President and a Secretary-Treasurer. They shall be elected on a rotating basis (President, Secretary-Treasurer and one member at large elected in even years, Vice President and one member at large in odd years) during the first regular meeting held by the reserve company upon its formation and at the regular meeting in July of each year thereafter, by a majority of the members present, and shall hold office for one year, or until their successors are elected.
(2) It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetings. It shall be the duty of the Vice-President to preside at all meetings, in the absence of the President. It shall be the duty of the Secretary-Treasurer to keep a list of all members, to call roll at each meeting and to keep an accurate record of all minutes and finances of the reserves and to provide said records to the Fire Chief.
(D) Fire calls and response. All fire calls and response criteria shall be outlined in the most recent copy of the Constitution and bylaws.
(E) Control. Members of the reserves shall be subject to the control of the Fire Chief and his or her designees.
(F) Rules and regulations.
(1) The Mayor and Council may promulgate such rules and regulations and provisions, and amendments thereto, as may in their discretion be necessary to carry out the express intent of this subchapter, to include a table of organization not in conflict herewith.
(2) The reserves unit may adopt its own rules and regulations to govern its operation in matters not involving fire training and periods of active duty, subject to approval by the Fire Chief.
(Prior Code, § 33.04) (Ord. 21-04, passed 2-1-2021; Ord. 22-18, passed 7-18-2022)
(A) The Mayor and City Council are hereby authorized to employ paid firefighters selected from candidates recommended by the Chief of the Fire Department, the list of which is supplied by the Civil Service Commission. The paid firefighters to be under control, direction and approval of the Chief of the Fire Department.
(B) Any disciplinary action in regard to a paid firefighter shall be as provided by the city personnel policy manual, the state’s Civil Service Act and the collective bargaining agreement.
(Prior Code, § 33.05) (Ord. 21-04, passed 2-1-2021)
Statutory reference:
Civil service, see Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 19-1832 and 19-1833
It shall be the duty of the Assistant Chief of the Fire Department to assist the Chief in matters pertaining to the Fire Department, and he or she shall coordinate all fire practice and training activities and shall chair the Fire Department Safety Committee.
(Prior Code, § 33.08) (Ord. 89-13, passed 5-1-1989; Ord. 21-04, passed 2-1-2021; Ord. 22-18, passed 7-18-2022)
(A) The city, through its Fire Department, will answer all calls for fire protection and will provide fire protection to the property included in the area known as the city’s industrial site subdivision, provided that the owner of such property has paid the amount due for such fire protection as provided for in § 33.09 of this code.
(B) The fire protection will be provided insofar as possible with the water and fire prevention facilities now available, or hereafter to be made available by the owners of the subdivision on their respective premises therein, and in like manner to that in which calls for fire protection are now answered, and in which fire protection is now provided and is to be provided to property situated in the city limits.
(Prior Code, § 33.09) (Ord. 03-23, passed 7-7-2003)
The Finance Director, at a date subsequent to the levy and assessment of property taxes in each year, and at least one month prior to the date in each year when the property taxes fall due, shall by examination of the tax list of the county determine the assessed valuation of the property in the city’s industrial site subdivision belonging to each owner of property situated therein, and from the determination and the levy made on property within the city limits for the purpose of providing fire protection, shall determine the amount due from each owner of property situated in the city’s industrial site subdivision as though a similar levy were being made on the property situated in the subdivision and shall notify each of the owners of the amount due from that owner in payment for the protection hereby provided. For protection furnished to any owner for a part of a year only, the Finance Director shall prorate the fee on the basis of the number of months during which the protection was actually furnished to the owner.
(Prior Code, § 33.10) (Ord. 666, passed 5-18-1949)
(A) The Fire Department shall forthwith move its fire and other emergency equipment and personnel outside the city limits and place them in immediate operation whenever ordered to do so by the state’s Emergency Management Agency and to such place as it shall direct, either in the event of an emergency as defined by Neb. Rev. Stat. § 81-829.36 or in connection with any program for practice and training.
(B) The Legislative Bill 310 and Neb. Rev. Stat. § 81-829.36, enacted with the emergency clause by the sixty-eighth session of the legislature and now duly approved shall insofar as applicable be a part of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 33.11) (Ord. 853, passed 8-21-1957)
REGULATIONS
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