{"id":29,"date":"2015-12-20T08:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog2\/?p=29"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:36:50","slug":"raleigh-strategic-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/raleigh-strategic-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh Fire Department Publishes Strategic Plan, 2015-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We covered the future plans (prospective or otherwise) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legeros.com\/ralwake\/photos\/weblog\/pivot\/entry.php?id=7003\">Cary<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legeros.com\/ralwake\/photos\/weblog\/pivot\/entry.php?id=7002\">Apex<\/a>\u00a0in their respective prior postings. Let&#8217;s look at the city and see what they&#8217;re cooking for the next five years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.legeros.com\/ralwake\/photos\/weblog\/images\/2015-12-20-rfd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" align=\"top\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Raleigh Fire Department recently produced a five-year strategic planning document. A copy has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legeros.com\/ralwake\/raleigh\/history\/newsletter\/\">posted to the RFD newsletter [archive] site<\/a> and accompanies an article about the plan in the fall 2015 issue. The plan was created by a thirty-two member planning committee during a series of meetings this summer. It was developed with inputs gathered from a stakeholder survey in May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Five goals are outlined in the Strategic Plan: promoting workforce excellence, adjusting operational and support staffing levels, strengthening functionality and condition of infrastructure, automating business systems, and enhancing public communication. The thirty-four page document concludes with appendix materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legeros.com\/ralwake\/raleigh\/history\/newsletter\/pdf\/strategic-plan-2015.pdf\">Read the strategic plan<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look closely at staffing, apparatus, and facility objectives through 2020:<\/p>\n<p>Staffing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hiring 20 firefighters per year, from F17 to F21, to optimize supplemental staffing levels.<\/li>\n<li>Expand Operations with second Division, e.g. Three Division Chiefs, three Aides, and three Battalion Chiefs<\/li>\n<li>Expand Services with a Division Chief, a Battalion Chief, an Emergency Fleet Parts Coordinator, and a Fire Equipment Inventory Coordinator<\/li>\n<li>Expand Training with an Asst. Career Development Coordinator (Lieutenant), and a Fire Academy Training Officer (Lieutenant).<\/li>\n<li>Expand Office of Fire Marshal with a Division Chief, a Public Information Officer (PIO), three Fire Educators, four Deputy Fire Marshals, and a Training Officer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apparatus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Implement multi-year replacement schedule, as part of fleet management program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facilities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Renovate legacy fire stations to improve them. Planned schedule:\n<ul>\n<li>Station 5 (FY16)<\/li>\n<li>Station 2 (FY16, FY17)<\/li>\n<li>Station 10, Station 15 (FY17, FY18)<\/li>\n<li>Station 8, Station 16 (FY18, FY19)<\/li>\n<li>Station 9, Station 17 (FY19, FY20)<\/li>\n<li>Station 18, Station 19 (FY20, FY21)<\/li>\n<li>Station 4, Station 20 (FY21, FY22)<\/li>\n<li>Station 21, Station 22 (FY22, FY23?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Relocate two legacy facilities:\n<ul>\n<li>Headquarters (Office of Fire Chief, Office of Fire Marshal, etc.) and Station 1 (as joint facility)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Station 3<\/li>\n<li>Station 23<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Add additional fire station:\n<ul>\n<li>Station 30 (see page 10 for map of city growth areas. Includes both in-fill and expansion areas.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Develop a [new] training center that includes an emergency vehicle driving course.<\/li>\n<li>Improve (e.g., likely expand) Services facilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technology<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Move from legacy mobile data terminals (MDTs) to hybrid tablet and cloud-based systems.<\/li>\n<li>Move to new computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What would six battalions look like? Page 32 has a prospective map:\n<ul>\n<li>West Division\n<ul>\n<li>Station 1, 2, 3, 10, 26<\/li>\n<li>Station 4, 9, 15, 16<\/li>\n<li>Station 5, 6, 8, 14, 20<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>East Division\n<ul>\n<li>Station 7, 11, 12, 21, 27<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Station 19, 22, 25, 28<\/li>\n<li>Station 17, 18, 23, 24, 29<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.legeros.com\/ralwake\/photos\/weblog\/images\/2015-12-20-rfd2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" align=\"top\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fraleigh-strategic-plan%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"29\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Raleigh Fire Department Publishes Strategic Plan, 2015-2010\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fraleigh-strategic-plan%2F&text=Raleigh+Fire+Department+Publishes+Strategic+Plan%2C+2015-2010\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"29\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Raleigh Fire Department Publishes Strategic Plan, 2015-2010\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fraleigh-strategic-plan%2F&description=Raleigh+Fire+Department+Publishes+Strategic+Plan%2C+2015-2010\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"29\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Raleigh Fire Department Publishes Strategic Plan, 2015-2010\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-pinterest\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We covered the future plans (prospective or otherwise) of Cary\u00a0and Apex\u00a0in their respective prior postings. 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