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Krusak said total emergency responses rose to 13,422 last year, a 58% increase since 2006, while the department's staffing and deployment model remained essentially the same. He noted the department last met its effective response-force standard for structure fires in 2019 and that large new subdivisions north of Shepherd now sit outside the city's target response windows. A 10.5-minute effective response-force target for structure fires, Krusak said, is increasingly difficult to meet under current deployment.

The plan would initially staff an additional engine (nine positions) and reallocate truck coverage to improve both fire and medical response. Subsequent years would add two-person squads (six personnel per squad) to increase medical response, staff a Station 7 for northwest growth, expand prevention and records support, and fund facility improvements including a long-term headquarters/briefing room redesign.

Krusak told the council the city's apparatus procurement lead times have stretched to four years and that a planning timeline must account for vehicle and station build times. He also urged investments in prevention and public education programs and noted successful recent steps: a new Station 2, Lucas automatic CPR devices and restored inspection capacity after hiring a second fire inspector.

Council members asked about the plan's pace and suggested staff accelerate land acquisition and vehicle orders because of long build times. Krusak said staff had already begun looking for parcels in the Heritage Grove area and will coordinate with planning staff. The council asked staff to include the fire requests in the citywide five-year forecast and to return with costed capital and operating figures.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Clovis City Council Meeting - February 18, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","Fire Chief sought Measure Y funding to staff a new engine in year one, add squads and open a northside Station 7 later in the plan, citing a 58% rise in call volume since 2006 and stretched response times in expanding neighborhoods.","taxTitle","Clovis, Fresno County, California","taxId",3674,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6323954,"Clovis Police present five-year Measure Y staffing plan aiming to rebuild investigations, traffic and homeless outreach",3627,9186000,12813000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2340268-6421e836b2a12422107413ae872ed730&start=9186&end=12813","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2340268-6421e836b2a12422107413ae872ed730/thumbnail_9186000.jpg","/articles/6323954/Clovis/Fresno-County/California/Clovis-Police-present-five-year-Measure-Y-staffing-plan-aiming-to-rebuild-investigations-traffic-and-homeless-outreach","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6323954-140fe2b68b4c6eb276c8fa6d4629f422/orig.mp4?Expires=1770959664&Signature=c3X2mW7Tpc~kAE~HXFyoVjSN9Pzhes--EY2c4VcXMQIIZDhhIv20CXk-MRZJ0TdKexgDcyKIs5pQ26oFz8foW89VxxACe89qP2hxNfZVbs90KcsySzDkn2wXWeTWiutyN7nwKC0aWdSgcAjTK3AtzBYq2JtsWDwnrOtuchfl5kf7jZ5rq5IE2AzTVzoJ6Do0kY8HJR2aPGhYBHh859vYgdFtlqqWh9w18qTJ6xiYHLWgeD0cBhZIrODWmkmzQ2K70BNBHHrc3ZjaDQiOIwDCCNUMAoSkDQfYAoA~G91ryR0J5cna7lRWyGddekJzzop03~roMy4ksIhxkdLa4pGn1A__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Police Chief Kirk Fleming presented a detailed five-year staffing and program plan tied to Measure Y revenue during the Feb. 20 council meeting, seeking to restore units cut over the prior decade and to add investigators, traffic officers, homeless liaisons and professional support staff.

Chief Fleming told the council the department has grown to 125 sworn officers (with five funded by a retail theft grant) but remains below historic per-capita staffing; he urged the council that Measure Y provides a chance to restore a \"30/30\" staffing balance between proactive and reactive duties. The plan asks for 37 sworn and 18 professional positions over five years (55 positions total) to bring investigative capacity, traffic enforcement and community-response teams closer to the levels recommended in earlier staffing studies.

Key elements in year one include adding three sworn officers, an animal-services officer, a community-service officer and records staff; the department is sequencing hires so newly trained officers can be released from patrol and redeployed into specialty units. Fleming highlighted several recent initiatives: an added weekend swing shift that raised proactive activity 23% in a six-month comparison; an organized retail theft grant that produced hundreds of arrests; and a mental-health liaison pilot that chief staff said reduced repeat mental-health calls by 20% in one year.

Fleming said the city currently operates at roughly 0.85 sworn officers per 1,000 residents and that the five-year plan would raise that figure toward a more robust level (staff modeled 1.15 sworn per 1,000 at plan completion under population growth assumptions). He emphasized flexibility: \"This plan will be reevaluated every three to six months,\" Fleming said, reflecting changing crime trends and council priorities.

Council members asked about training needs, technology (including a real-time crime center and a drone-first responder program), and the relationship with Clovis Unified for youth services. Fleming said the department intends to work with the schools to re-establish a school-based officer or partnership and to keep community-oriented programs such as explorers and community education.

Chief Fleming asked council for direction; staff will include the police requests in the citywide five-year forecast and return to council with precise budget numbers and prioritization.","Police Chief Kirk Fleming outlined a five-year plan funded by Measure Y that would add professional and sworn staff, restore specialty units, expand traffic enforcement and build a real-time crime center and drone responders. Council requested continued review and budget-level detail.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6323959,"Council approves $121,349 contract with AECOM for zero-emission vehicle transition plan",587,2681000,3268000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2340268-6421e836b2a12422107413ae872ed730&start=2681&end=3268","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2340268-6421e836b2a12422107413ae872ed730/thumbnail_2681000.jpg","/articles/6323959/Clovis/Fresno-County/California/Council-approves-121349-contract-with-AECOM-for-zero-emission-vehicle-transition-plan","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6323959-6a7543ea9b582eff894dd73f140d3c2d/orig.mp4?Expires=1770959664&Signature=DDFEjDaULFJfBf-acR3Kqol18rRktcoq7r6mG9fJubfw1cFcov~WVoEIyObb-apcSL0PBESPOZu84~ZRwbzZfGkiKGM8v7KcLtqq9G3yV39MkB8wLCO8X2YwUOXdkBfh-IMBG3CUyBQLyLPz1Q8IDPSs4~sr2AwhjIzU2jVXNmNqUxSyOWWbBAP47rja24MB2PvQX41WPSyZbiI9S8dmlehu4LYK6bm-~5l8C58tAXUD2TkO08x91~zC9fd0McRkUzIq0A39yBGxxNe6hwAKRqkzFW8xR8wzxcNH-LA7OAXJKD1bzZVCf5GGJc2yS1d8cCEb5bYIOm0znl7eYxdpow__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Clovis City Council unanimously approved a $121,349 consulting contract with AECOM Technical Services Inc. to develop a zero-emission vehicle transition plan for the city fleet.

Staff described the contract as a planning step to comply with California regulations that will require an increasing fraction of medium- and heavy-duty vehicle purchases to be zero-emission. A staff member told the council that regulations require 50% of medium- and heavy-duty fleet purchases to be zero-emission beginning in 2024 and that by 2027 100% of purchases of vehicles over 8,500 pounds must be zero-emission. That regulation will capture solid-waste vehicles and many construction vehicles.

During council discussion members pressed staff on the cost differences between traditional diesel solid-waste trucks and electric models. A staff member said the city has paid about $440,000 for conventional solid-waste trucks; electric equivalents are currently in the roughly $1,000,000 range and do not include charging infrastructure. Staff told the council the AECOM study will analyze capital and infrastructure needs, charging and depot upgrades, vehicle lifecycles, workforce training and cost impacts to users.

Councilmember (name not specified in the transcript) moved to approve the contract; the measure carried 5-0.

Staff said the consultant will provide a transition roadmap that feeds into fleet budget planning and long-term capital forecasting. The study will inform whether and how the city phases in zero-emission vehicles, where to site chargers and how to train staff and maintain vehicles.

The council directed staff to pursue the contract award and to amend the 2024–25 fleet budget to allocate project funds so the work can begin.
","The council approved a contract to have AECOM produce a zero-emission vehicle transition plan as the city prepares for California emissions rules that will require an increasing share of medium- and heavy-duty purchases to be zero-emission.",{"_33":100,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":101,"_41":102,"_43":92,"_45":103,"_47":104,"_49":105,"_51":106,"_53":107,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":108,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":109,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6323963,"Clovis council sends recycling, organics contract back for separate residential, commercial bids after heated debate",5781,9049000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2340268-6421e836b2a12422107413ae872ed730&start=3268&end=9049","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2340268-6421e836b2a12422107413ae872ed730/thumbnail_3268000.jpg","/articles/6323963/Clovis/Fresno-County/California/Clovis-council-sends-recycling-organics-contract-back-for-separate-residential-commercial-bids-after-heated-debate","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6323963-56d871a5bb31aa0843bbacf083981f5b/orig.mp4?Expires=1770959664&Signature=NFEyJL99dhsx2-ORgekkSjaw0jBNUpWktwvacKnx2VWDxBvkMsyI5VrK0eitrOG-3wGWKWzRBMV9xJP6xkJoui0tFQACN0cDzBt5~K1RAt~4ieDgfeS8LUnCRlEqRFesgENPQhjw0YJgpZZjEofcsQU-2tLvjJYMsvZqfvyrIpfUSy6N5YG60C0b-bZ1pjIYN-w0h1rYjE7qz3RWcSNiQ6PcKgLfWZ~EyxV11u0pqOLHW9Jjort9x-cOHdH6a0TxKLm94ms0H8S-lfwNqscJ3oFq0WEImJ0JYWS5na3Jbcu1WL7-4cmbV9OiAoYNHNbdXqBwLXugos6NK-sk5VXgjw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Clovis City Council voted 3-2 on Feb. 20 to send the city's recycling and organics collection RFP back to staff and require two separate solicitations for residential and commercial service, delaying award of a 10-year contract.

The action followed a lengthy presentation by staff and extended public comment from bidders and residents weighing cost, service assumptions and longer-term risks such as state mandates and future electrification costs. Staff's procurement review had recommended awarding the combined contract to Mid Valley Disposal, which the staff analysis showed as the lowest-cost proposer under multiple assumptions.

The decision to split the RFPs came after council members expressed concern that the original RFP implicitly let proposers set differing assumptions about the necessary level of commercial service. Staff said each proposer submitted its own assumptions about how many commercial bins and how often they would be serviced to meet state law (SB 1383) requirements; staff then applied each firm's rates to each proposer's assumptions and found Mid Valley lowest under multiple scenarios.

Scott Rudels, a city staff member involved in the procurement, told the council that each proposer was asked to estimate the commercial level of service needed to comply with SB 1383 and that, in hindsight, the city could have set a uniform placeholder service level to produce an apples-to-apples comparison. \"In the end, applying Mid Valley's rates to that service is the lowest proposer,\" Rudels said, according to the meeting transcript.

Mid Valley owner Joseph Kalpikov told the council his company compiled detailed route-level data and proposed local operations and a Clovis office. \"We are committed to having office in Clovis,\" Kalpikov said during public comment.

Republic Services representative Ashley Collie said Republic would be willing to negotiate a short-term extension if the council chose to reissue or split the RFPs. Republic and other proposers also urged the council to identify evaluation weights and key priorities so bidders could address them in a revised process.

Several council members said they were uncomfortable awarding a decade-long contract based primarily on price after the lengthy discussion. Councilmember (name not specified in the transcript) moved to send the RFP back to staff for two separate solicitations; the motion passed 3-2. The council directed staff to return with separate RFPs for residential and commercial services and instructed staff to negotiate an extension with the incumbent hauler, Republic Services, to cover any gap while the city reissues the procurements.

Staff warned the council that splitting the contract would require additional time and might not change the eventual outcome; the city attorney clarified the existing RFP does not clearly allow separable awards and that staff could reissue separate RFPs if council directed it. Staff also said the contract transition now planned for Aug. 1 would likely be delayed and the city would need to negotiate an extension with Republic Services.

The debate flagged several recurring concerns: how to set commercial service levels to meet SB 1383 organics-targeting thresholds, the possible effects of future Advanced Clean Fleet rules and vehicle electrification costs on refuse service market structure, and how to measure vendor performance on customer service. Several council members asked for more explicit customer-service metrics and clearer scoring criteria in any reissued RFPs.

Next steps: staff will prepare two separate RFPs (residential and commercial), negotiate with Republic Services on any contract extension needed to maintain service past July 31, and return to council with recommendations and timelines for the new solicitations.","After hours of questioning over assumptions, service levels and price, the Clovis City Council voted 3–2 to return the city's recycling/organics request for proposals (RFP) and issue two separate RFPs for residential and commercial service. Staff had recommended awarding the combined contract to Mid Valley Disposal, the lowest-cost proposer.","actionData","errors"]

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