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Roseville Fire Department requests $53.3 million for FY26 and one new in‑house plans examiner
Summary
Fire Chief Ryan Harrigan presented a $53.3 million operating request for fiscal 2025–26 and proposed hiring a full‑time fire plans examiner to reduce reliance on third‑party reviews and improve turnaround.
Fire Chief Ryan Harrigan told the City Council at the May 28 budget workshop that the fire department’s proposed operating budget for fiscal year 2025–26 is $53.3 million, an increase of roughly 5.5% from the current year driven mostly by personnel costs.
Harrigan outlined four department divisions — administration, operations (staffed by career personnel across nine stations), fire and life safety (the fire marshal-led prevention and inspection program), and support services (fleet, facilities and IT). He said operations account for about 80% of the department’s expenditures and that staff responded to more than 20,000 calls for service in calendar year 2024.
The presentation included a request to create one full‑time fire plans examiner position, pending establishment of the new classification. Harrigan said that bringing some plan review work in‑house would reduce dependence on contracted reviewers for new construction, improve consistency in code interpretation, and shorten turnaround times. The department currently collects approximately $300,000 annually in plan review and permit fees and spends about $70,000 on contracted plan review services.
Harrigan also described fleet replacement plans (one Type 1 engine, two command vehicles and one staff vehicle; lead times for apparatus remain three to four years) and budgeted roughly $2.5 million in fleet replacements for FY26. Other FY26 requests include funding for an internal multi‑week fire academy, an EMS and data analytics module for report writing, a policy management platform, modest one‑time funds to support nuisance alarm billing through the permit system, facility maintenance increases and funding for the Peer Connect wellness program (to be funded via opioid settlement funds). Harrigan said the department’s listed FY26 projects total about $312,000 in identified items that qualify for specific funding streams.
Council asked for nuisance alarm statistics; Harrigan said staff would provide them. The department’s presentation closed with a summary of accomplishments, including opening Station 8 and completion of a derailment training facility done in cooperation with Cal OES; no council action was taken at the workshop.
