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Fire chief Adrian Shepherd and Public Works Director Aaron Burt outline 2027–28 budget priorities; council probes staffing, PFAS and signal tech
Summary
Fire and public works leaders presented the city’s proposed 2027–28 baseline budgets — Fire outlined $92.1M and new emergency‑management staffing while Public Works highlighted PFAS monitoring, septic‑to‑sewer planning and adaptive‑signal failures — prompting council questions about vacancies, apparatus replacement and funding sources.
Fire Chief Adrian Shepherd and Redmond Public Works Director Aaron Burt used the City Council’s April 28 study session to present department overviews that will feed into the city’s 2027–28 baseline budget.
Chief Shepherd said the Redmond Fire Department’s proposed baseline budget is $92,100,000 and covers 168.5 full‑time equivalent positions. He described a new emergency preparedness and recovery budget offer that formalizes emergency management as a standalone function with two FTEs and $977,870 in the proposal. Shepherd also highlighted operational metrics: the department responded to more than 13,700 calls (including about 9,500 EMS responses), reported preliminary cardiac‑arrest survival rates in the low‑50s for recent years and set an internal target of 60 percent.
“Every dollar in this budget supports our commitment to the…
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