The City of Salem ("the City") is seeking proposals from qualified professional consultants to perform a staffing study of its Fire Department. This study is being conducted as part of the City’s agreement with the Firefighter’s Union. The City and Union have agreed to form a staffing study committee to achieve the mutually beneficial goal of determining the appropriate staffing level for the Department. The City and the Union will each assign up to four members of the Committee, which will work with the selected vendor. Identify current baseline fire department services, service levels and budgets, including response times, staffing, station location, major equipment and any other applicable factors (this should be a minor part of the final report & staff will be capable of providing data). Identify no less than five comparable cities within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with like population, demographics, infrastructure and building use and type to Salem. Evaluate Salem’s response times to alarms to comparable communities and any identified industry standards. Is Salem’s minimum number of firefighters* providing adequate response time? *10 firefighters for a phone alarm, box alarm or central station call and 3 firefighters for an alarm activation or medical call.
