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CITY OF OCALA

FIRE ASSESSMENT STUDY

Final Technical Report

June 29, 2023

Benesch City of Ocala

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CITY OF OCALA

FIRE ASSESSMENT STUDY

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. Service Delivery, Methodology and Legal Requirements

Benefit from the Availability of the Fire Department

Benefit from the Active Use of the Fire Department’s Services

Legal Requirements

Special Benefit and Fair Allocation Analysis

III. Calculation of Fire Assessment Rates

Assessment Factor

Fire Assessment Funding Requirement

Incident Data Distribution by Land Use

Fire Assessment Cost Allocation

Property Units

Calculated Fire Assessment Rate Schedule

Appendices:

Appendix A: Ocala Fire Rescue Incident Data

Appendix B: Ocala Fire Rescue FY 2023 Budget Summary Detail

Appendix C: Property Code Classifications

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I. Introduction

The City of Ocala implemented a fire assessment program in early 2021, which was further refined in late 2021 to incorporate additional residential and non-residential land use categories.

The study was updated in 2022. To reflect the most recent budget, incident data, and property unit data, the City retained Benesch in association with Susan Schoettle-Gumm, PLLC to prepare a fire assessment update study. A fire assessment is an annual charge applied to each property in the City that typically is collected through the property owners’ tax bill under Florida’s Uniform

Assessment Collection Act. This document provides an explanation of the methodology used to calculate the fire assessment rates and the findings of the fire assessment study.

Fire Departments’ primary function/goal is to respond to fire and medical incidents within a criticial time frame to save lives and structures. Availability of this service on a 24-hour basis for seven (7) days a week along with the appropriate use of these resources is critical for the entire community during incidents by saving lives and protecting property, and through reductions in insurance premiums and increased property values.

Fire rescue services in Ocala are provided by the City of Ocala Fire Rescue Department. This study includes the Fire Department’s budget associated with providing fire rescue and medical service with the exception of advanced life support (ALS) services. As discussed further in the Legal

Requirements section of this report, fire assessments may not include costs related to non-traditional fire department services such as ALS. The portion of the Fire Rescue Department’s budget associated with ALS services is excluded from the calculation of the Fire Assessment rates developed in this report.

Consistent with the current adopted methodology, this study uses a methodology that combines benefits received from the availability of the Fire Department with use of its resources, including equipment and personnel, for non-ALS incidents to determine the relative special benefit received by and allocate costs to each assessable property.

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II. Service Delivery, Methodology and Legal Requirements

The City of Ocala Fire Rescue Department (OFR) provides fire rescue services throughout the city from seven fire stations, including:

- Fire Station No. 1 – 505 NW MLK Jr. Avenue;

- Fire Station No. 2 – 2701 SE 36th Avenue;

- Fire Station No. 3 – 320 NE 8th Avenue;

- Fire Station No. 4 – 3300 SW 20th Street;

- Fire Station No. 5 – 2340 NE 25th Avenue;

- Fire Station No. 6 – 5220 SW 50th Court; and

- Fire Station No. 7 – 885 SE 31st Street.

As mentioned previously, the study methodology has two components:

• Benefit received from the availability of the Fire Department on a 24-hour, 7 days a week basis, and

• Benefit received from the actual response to events.

Benefit from the Availability of the Fire Department

The availability of the Fire Department’s services benefits properties in terms of insurance premium reductions as well as an increase in property values even if services of the Fire

Department are never directly utilized by an individual property.

Measurement of a community’s fire protection services is provided through the Insurance

Services Office (ISO), which collects information on municipal fire protection efforts throughout the United States. Ratings by the ISO are accepted by the insurance industry and by fire departments nationwide as the industry standard for measuring a fire department’s capacity and ability to suppress fire incidents. For each community, ISO analyzes relevant data using its Fire

Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS). The three primary areas of data analyzed include 1) fire department fire alarm and communications system, 2) fire department staff and equipment, and

3) water supply system available to the fire department. In turn, the FSRS is used to assign a

Public Protection Classification (PPC) from 1 to 10 (commonly referred to as a fire department’s

“ISO Rating”). An ISO Rating of Class 1 represents excellent public protection, while an ISO Rating of Class 10 indicates that the community's fire-suppression program does not meet ISO's minimum criteria. Participation in the ISO program aims primarily to provide a community with

June 2023 3 Fire Assessment Study an objective and standard rating system used nationwide that assists fire departments in planning and budgeting for facilities, equipment, and training. In addition, ISO ratings are used by many insurance companies to establish appropriate fire insurance premiums for residential and commercial properties within that community, thus providing a financial incentive for communities that choose to improve their fire protection services. This reduction in insurance premiums for structures and property is a special benefit to property supporting the fire assessments presented in this study.

Studies conducted on the impact of ISO ratings on insurance premiums documented that an improvement from Class 10 to Class 7 reduced insurance premiums 30 percent to 40 percent for residential properties. An improvement from Class 10 to Class 6 or better resulted in insurance premium reductions of 15 percent to 20 percent for office buildings.

The current ISO rating in Ocala is Class 2/2X. Class 1 and 2 ratings are achieved by approximately

35 percent of the communities in Florida. Figure 1 presents the distribution of ISO Ratings for

Florida communities.

Figure 1

Distribution of ISO Ratings for Florida Communities

Source: Insurance Services Office; Public Protection Classification

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Benefit from the Active Use of The Fire Department’s Services

Approximately 76 percent of the incidents responded by OFR are medical in nature and 24 percent are fire related. As mentioned previously, this study examines the use of total available resources in responding to these incidents to allocate a portion of the costs to assessed properties. The Department has the capabilities to respond to fire incidents at any of the buildings in the city regardless of size.

Legal Requirements

There is a substantial body of case law in Florida upholding the authority of local governments to impose special assessments for fire rescue services. See, for example, Fire Dist. No. 1 of Polk

County v. Jenkins, 221 So.2d 740 (Fla. 1969); Lake County v. Water Oak Management Corp., 695

So. 2d 667 (Fla. 1997), City of North Lauderdale v. SMM Properties, Inc., 825 So.2d 343 (Fla. 2002), Desiderio Corp. v. City of Boynton Beach, 39 So.3d 487 (4th DCA 2010). The authority of local governments to adopt and impose special assessments for fire rescue services and to develop fair and reasonable assessment apportionment methodologies was recently reaffirmed and unanimously upheld by the Florida Supreme Court in Morris vs. City of Cape Coral, 163 So.3d

1174 (Fla. 2015). This case upheld the City of Cape Coral’s fire assessment program that recognized insurance savings, reduction in financial liability, and enhanced property values were among the special benefits to property received from the Fire Department’s services. This case also approved the availability-based benefit approach that is being incorporated into this study.

Under Florida case law, the services or improvements funded by the assessment must have a logical relationship with and provide “special benefit” to property, and the assessment methodology must apportion the costs in a fair and reasonable manner. A local government’s legislative determination of special benefit and fair apportionment should be upheld by a court unless the determination is arbitrary and not supported by competent, substantial evidence.

Sarasota County v. Sarasota Church of Christ, Inc., 667 So.2d 180, 183 (Fla. 1995) (citing City of

Boca Raton v. State, 595 So.2d 25, 30 (Fla. 1992). In City of North Lauderdale v. SMM Properties, Inc., 825 So.2d 343 (Fla. 2002), the Florida Supreme Court reaffirmed that traditional fire protection services such as fire suppression, fire prevention, fire/building inspections and first response medical services (BLS) provide special benefit to property but held that advance life support (ALS) and medical transport do not have a logical relationship to property. The City of

North Lauderdale decision limits a fire assessment to that portion of the fire department budget that relates to traditional fire services, including first responder services. The use of historical demand for fire protection services, by reviewing calls for service, was upheld as a reasonable

June 2023 5 Fire Assessment Study and fair basis for apportioning fire protection costs to assessed properties in the City of North

Lauderdale case. In Desiderio Corporation, et al. v City of Boynton Beach, et al., 39 So.3d 487

(Fla. 4th DCA 2010), a method of allocating budget costs between fire rescue costs and ALS costs was approved as a fair and reasonable way to identify and remove ALS costs from the calculation of a fire rescue assessment.

The fire assessment methodology contained in this report is consistent with Florida case law and uses a combination of availability-based and resource utilization-based approaches. The calculations exclude the portion of OFR’s fire budget and incidents associated with non-traditional emergency medical services, such as ALS, through a budget analysis, and allocates costs to assessed properties based on historical calls for service to quantify relative demand for and benefit from fire services by different land uses and properties.

Special Benefit and Fair Allocation Analysis

Fire services, facilities and programs provided by the City provide special benefit to assessed properties and have a logical relationship to the use, value, and enjoyment of such improved property. There are availability, or standing watch, benefits that come from the 24-hour, 7 days a week availability of fire service and first responder services as well as the more direct benefits from the responses to incidents by the Fire Department. Benefits include protecting the value and integrity of improvements and structures, protecting the life and safety of intended occupants in the use and enjoyment of property, lowering the cost of fire insurance by the presence of professional and comprehensive fire services within the city, and containing fire incidents with the potential to spread and endanger other property.

As detailed later in this report, the Fire Rescue Department budget has been analyzed by cost categories to exclude costs related to providing ALS and to include in the assessable costs only costs reasonably related to the provision of traditional fire services, including for example, fire suppression, fire prevention, fire/building inspections and first response medical services (BLS).

The assessable costs were then allocated to land uses based on a combination of availability of the service and historical usage of fire services by the land use types. The analysis includes multi-year records of calls for service and the total department resources used in responding to the incidents to obtain a larger sample size and more stable resource distribution.

The costs allocated to the Residential Land Use, which includes single family, multi-family, and mobile home categories, are distributed on a per dwelling unit basis for several square footage tiers for development in the city. The number and size of dwelling units on an assessed property

June 2023 6 Fire Assessment Study is obtained from the property database maintained by the Property Appraiser in the normal course of performing his or her constitutional responsibilities. The fire assessment for any residential parcel is determined by the number of dwelling units multiplied by the applicable residential dwelling unit rate for each residential category as determined based on the type of residential development and the size of the dwelling unit(s).

The costs allocated to the Non-Residential Land Uses are distributed based on square footage tiers for four different categories (commercial, industrial, institutional and government). Square footage data for non-residential structures on assessed property is obtained primarily from the property database maintained by the Property Appraiser in the normal course of performing his or her constitutional responsibilities with some additional data provided by the City from on-site inspections of structures. The use of square footage tiers for Non-

Residential property is fair and reasonable because the demand for fire services is not precisely determined by the actual square footage of a structure and the application of square footage tiers to Non-Residential structures is a fair and reasonable method to apportion costs among benefitted buildings that create similar demand for fire services.

Finally, a separate rate is calculated for vacant developable property based on resource utilization, adjusted to reflect lesser benefit received by vacant properties compared to the property with structures and people. The resulting share of the budget is divided by the number of vacant parcels to calculate the assessment rate.

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III. Calculation of Fire Assessment Rates

There are several components in determining the fire assessment rate schedule:

• Assessment factor

• Fire assessment funding requirement

• Incident data distribution by land use

• Fire assessment cost allocation

• Land use data

• Calculated assessment schedule

These components are discussed in further detail below, resulting in the calculated fire assessment rate schedule for the City of Ocala.

Assessment Factor

The first component in calculating the City’s fire assessment rates is to determine the assessment factor, which includes analysis of total department resources used in responding to incidents as well as the number of incidents. This assessment factor is used to identify assessable costs in the Fire Department budget by excluding costs related to ALS when a cost category represents a mix of assessable and non-assessable costs. The distribution of incidents was analyzed in terms of advanced life support (ALS) versus fire and basic life support (BLS). This analysis includes incident data from March 2016 through

December 2022, for a total of almost seven years of incident data. Table 1 provides a summary of the seven-year average that incorporates the recent incident activity. Throughout this study, a seven-year average is used to minimize temporary fluctuations in any individual year. The portion of non-ALS incidents, measured through the allocation of total resources to these incidents, is approximately 81 percent and is used as part of the budget allocation process.

≈81% of the Fire Department’s resources are used for non- ALS incidents.

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Table 1

Distribution of Incidents

1) Source: Appendix A, Table A-1

2) Source: Appendix A, Table A-2

3) Source: Appendix A, Table A-3

4) Source: Appendix A, Table A-4

Fire Assessment Funding Requirement

Table 2 provides a detailed breakdown of the FY 2023 assessable budget for the City of Ocala Fire

Department. If a given expenditure is associated with non-ALS services, the entire amount is included in the assessable budget. When an expenditure is determined to be related to both ALS and non-ALS services, 81 percent of the amount is included in the assessable budget. All ALS-only expenditures are excluded. In addition, all dedicated revenues are subtracted in a similar manner. Finally, miscellaneous expenditures related to the assessment program are added to determine the full assessable fire budget.

ALS Non-ALS ALS Non-ALS ALS Non-ALS ALS Non-ALS

2016 10.3% 89.7% 10.7% 89.3% 10.2% 89.8% 10.5% 89.5%

2017 12.3% 87.7% 13.2% 86.8% 12.6% 87.4% 13.0% 87.0%

2018 11.6% 88.4% 15.6% 84.4% 15.3% 84.7% 15.5% 84.5%

2019 17.4% 82.6% 21.2% 78.8% 20.6% 79.4% 21.0% 79.0%

2020 22.1% 77.9% 27.8% 72.2% 28.5% 71.5% 28.0% 72.0%

2021 21.2% 78.8% 24.2% 75.8% 25.3% 74.7% 24.5% 75.5%

2022 14.7% 85.3% 19.9% 80.1% 20.2% 79.8% 20.0% 80.0%

2016-22 15.6% 84.4% 19.2% 80.8% 19.2% 80.8% 19.2% 80.8%

Year Frequency

(1) Staff Time

(2) Vehicle Time

(3) Total Resources

(4)

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Table 2

Ocala Fire Rescue Maximum Assessable Budget (FY 2023)

1) Source: City of Ocala. Detailed expenditure data is provided in Appendix B, Table B-1

2) Total expenditures less total revenue

3) Statutory discount can reflect up to 5% reimbursement, which includes 4% to offset statutory discounts received for early payment pursuant to the Uniform Assessment Collection Act and 1% reserve for delinquencies and under-collection. Used a 2.5% reimbursement of the total net expenditures based on the City’s historical average property tax revenue loss due to early payment discounts over the last three years.

4) Sum of net expenditures (Item 2) and total miscellaneous assessment expenditures

5) Reduced FY 2022 budget figure that is the basis for the current adopted fire assessment rates

Total

Budget

Adjustment

Factor

Fire

Assessment

Budget

Expenditures (1)

- ALS and Non-ALS $18,282,799 80.8% $14,772,502

- Non-ALS $288,140 100.0% $288,140

- ALS and Non-ALS $3,316,248 80.8% $2,679,528

- ALS and Non-ALS $260,167 80.8% $210,215

Subtotal - Expenditures $22,147,354 - $17,950,385

Less: Revenues (1)

Fire False Alarm Fees $14,000 100.0% $14,000

Fire Plan Review $175,000 100.0% $175,000

State Shared Revenue-Firefighter Suppression Comps $30,000 100.0% $30,000

Marion County Automatic Aid Reimbursement $252,700 80.8% $204,182

Fire Pension Reimbursement $14,364 80.8% $11,606

Subtotal - Revenues $486,064 - $434,788

Total Net Expenditures (2) $21,661,290 - $17,515,597

Miscellaneous Assessment Expenditures

$437,890

$437,890

$17,953,487

$16,486,107

$9,765,000Total Funding Requirement_Addendum (FY 2022 Adopted) (5)

Description

FY 2023 Fire Budget

Personnel:

Operating:

Capital Outlay:

Statutory Discount(3)

Total Fire Assessment Funding Requirement

Total Assessable Budget(4)

Total Assessable Budget (FY 2022)

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Incident Data Distribution by Land Use

The third component in calculating the fire assessment rates is the demand for fire rescue services by land use, which will be used for the “resource-based” benefit component. The approach used in this report is a widely used and accepted method of identifying the historical relative benefit from and demand for fire services by various land uses. This benefit allocation is used to fairly and reasonably distribute the fire rescue assessed costs to land uses.

To determine the historical demand for fire rescue services by each type of land use, a review was completed to quantify the number of incidents and resources related to each incident by land use. As discussed previously, this approach provides an understanding of the utilization of fire rescue services by each land use. To complete this analysis, based on available data, incidents for the past seven years (2016 through 2022) were obtained from the OFR and analyzed. OFR also identified incidents that had an ALS component. These ALS incidents, as well as others that cannot be attached to a land use (such as traffic accidents or other outside incidents), were excluded from the analysis.

Distributing the cost based solely on the number of incidents does not reflect the full level of resources used by each land use. Therefore, the total resources were reviewed, which take into consideration incident duration, number of vehicles and staff used in addition to the frequency.

As shown in Table 3, residential incidents account for most of the fire rescue resources in the City of Ocala, with the commercial land use also accounting for a large portion of resources.

Table 3

Distribution of Total Resources by Land Use

Source: Appendix A, Table A-8

Land Use

Resource

Distribution

2016-2021

Resource

Distribution

2016-2022

Change

Single Family/Mobile Home/Duplex 37.3% 36.7% -1.6%

Multi-Family 13.5% 13.6% 0.7%

Commercial 38.1% 38.5% 1.0%

Industrial/Warehouse 3.4% 3.5% 2.9%

Institutional 3.1% 3.0% -3.2%

Government 2.0% 2.0% 0.0%

Vacant 2.4% 2.6% 8.3%

Agricultural 0.2% 0.1% -50.0%

Total 100.0% 100.0% -

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Although approximately 2.6 percent of the resources are used by vacant properties, because vacant properties do not have buildings and people present, the benefit received by these properties is more limited compared to improved properties. The suppression of fire on vacant property benefits vacant property, but also benefits the adjacent improved properties and their occupants by the containment of the spread of fire. Therefore, it is reasonable to allocate half of the vacant land resource utilization to vacant land in the assessment calculations. The rest of the resource utilization is redistributed among other land uses, as shown in Table 4.

Table 4

Distribution of Total Resources by Land Use with Vacant Land Adjustment

Source: Table 3, vacant land use is reduced by 50%, which is distributed among other land uses

Fire Assessment Cost Allocation

The fourth component in determining the City’s fire assessment rates is the allocation of the assessed costs to land use categories, based on the total fire assessment funding requirement and distribution of total resources. Table 5 presents the fire assessed cost allocation by land use/rate category. As shown, single family and commercial land uses account for approximately

76 percent of the budget.

Per State legislation, agricultural land uses are exempt from fire rescue assessments. Florida

Statutes Section 170.01 (4) provides that, with limited exceptions, a City may not levy a special assessment for fire protection services on lands classified as agricultural lands under Florida

Statutes Section 193.461 unless those lands contain a qualified building. Therefore, the portion of the budget associated with agricultural fire rescue incidents cannot be recovered through the

City’s fire rescue assessment and will be excluded in the remainder of this report. Similarly, the

Land Use

Resource

Distribution

2016-2021

Resource

Distribution

2016-2022

Change

Single Family/Mobile Home/Duplex 37.80% 37.19% -1.6%

Multi-Family 13.70% 13.78% 0.6%

Commercial 38.60% 39.01% 1.1%

Industrial/Warehouse 3.40% 3.55% 4.4%

Institutional 3.10% 3.04% -1.9%

Government 2.00% 2.03% 1.5%

Vacant 1.20% 1.30% 8.3%

Agricultural 0.20% 0.10% -50.0%

Total 100.0% 100.0% -

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City does not assess government properties and will need to supplement the revenue loss through the General Fund.

Table 6

Fire Protection Cost Allocation

1) Source: Table 5; total resource distribution from 2016 to 2022

2) Reduced assessment funding requirement from Table 2 multiplied by portion of the resources (Item 1)

Property Units

The fifth component in determining the fire assessment rates to allocate the assessed costs to property units (e.g., dwelling units or square footage on parcels) within each land use. This was accomplished by developing an assessment roll database utilizing the most recent data from the

Marion County Property Appraiser. The database includes both properties that are tax exempt

(i.e., governmental uses) and non-tax exempt, and all units were used in the assessment calculations.

For residential land uses, the total number of dwelling units within the city was determined. In addition, the square footage of each unit was also noted. In the case of apartments, because the square footage of individual units in an apartment building was not available in the Property

Appraiser database, an average unit size was calculated based on total square footage and total number of units. For the non-residential (i.e., commercial, industrial/warehouse, and institutional structures) land uses, the total living floor square footage was distributed into square footage tiers.

Table 6 presents a summary of the total property units calculated for each land use category.

Land Use

FY 2023 Portion of Total

Resources(1)

Share of FY 2023

Maximum Assessable

Budget(2)

Funding Requirement - $17,953,487

Single Family/Mobile Home/Duplex 37.19% $6,676,902

Multi-Family 13.78% $2,473,991

Commercial 39.01% $7,003,655

Industrial/Warehouse 3.55% $637,349

Institutional 3.04% $545,786

Government 2.03% $364,456

Vacant 1.30% $233,395

Agricultural 0.10% $17,953

Total 100.0% $17,953,487

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Table 6

Property Units in the City of Ocala

Source: Marion County Property Appraiser

Calculated Fire Assessment Rate Schedule

Residential and Non-Residential Land Uses

As discussed previously, this study uses a methodology that combines benefit to the property from the availability of the Fire Department as well as that received from active use of its resources. More specifically, the following steps are completed in the calculation of assessment levels:

• Seventy percent of the budget allocated to residential land uses is distributed among all dwelling units equally. Similarly, 70 percent of the non-residential budget is distributed equally among the total non-residential square footage. This distribution accounts for the benefit received by each property from the availability of the Fire Department’s services.

• The remaining 30 percent is distributed to each land use based on use of resources.

The use of 30 percent for resource allocation and 70 percent for availability is due to the industry standards1 that indicate that a station that is active more than 30 percent of the time tends to experience inefficiencies in terms of addressing concurrent incidents, personnel fatigue, lack of training, among other issues.

1 Center for Public Safety Excellence and Commission on Fire Accreditation International, CFAI Standards of Cover, 5th Edition

Property Rate Category Unit Total Number of Units

Residential

Single Family/Mobile Home/Duplex dwelling unit 18,274

Multi-Family dwelling unit 11,245

Residential dwelling unit 29,519

Non-Residential

Commercial square footage 18,955,466

Industrial/Warehouse square footage 21,850,514

Institutional square footage 4,934,866

Government square footage 6,155,759

Non-Residential square footage 51,896,605

Vacant Land

Vacant parcel 4,191

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Tables 7 and 8 provide these calculations for residential land use categories. As presented in

Table 7, the portion of the budget allocated to residential land use categories is $9.2 million.

Seventy percent of this budget is allocated among all dwelling units in the city (29,519) equally, resulting in the availability portion of the assessment rate ($217 per home).

The remaining 30 percent of the budget is distributed between the two residential categories based on their use of resources. Single family/mobile home/duplex units utilize approximately

73 percent of the residential resources while multi-family homes (apartments and condos) use the remaining 27 percent. Distribution of resource-based budget portion in this manner results in a resource-utilization rate of $110 per dwelling unit for single family residential land use and

$66 per dwelling unit for multi-family residential land use.

Sum of these two components result in an overall non-tiered base assessment rate of approximately $327 per dwelling unit for single family/mobile home/duplex residential land use and approximately $283 per dwelling unit for multi-family residential land use.

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Table 7

Calculated Base Residential Fire Assessment Rates

1) Source: Table 5

2) Budget portion of each residential category

3) Source: Table 6

4) Budget allocation divided by dwelling units

5) Total residential budget of $9.2 million multiplied by 70% to calculate availability portion

6) Total residential budget of $9.2 million multiplied by 30% to calculate resource utilization portion

7) Resource utilization portion of the budget (30%) allocated to single family/mobile home/duplex

8) Resource utilization portion of the budge (30%) allocated to multi-family (apartments and condos).

9) Sum of availability-based rate of $217 and resource-utilization based rate of $110

10) Sum of availability-based rate of $217 per unit and resource-utilization based rate of $66

Once the base fee for each residential category is calculated, a tiered schedule is provided in

Table 8. The resource-based portion varies by size of home given that larger homes tend to be more valuable. A review of average home values by size of home in Ocala obtained from Marion

County Property Appraiser database supported this relation.

This tiered approach is supported by the fact that a large portion of the benefit to the property is derived from the availability of the Fire Department in the form of reduced insurance premiums and increased property values, which in turn suggests lower savings from insurance premiums and lower property values for smaller homes. As mentioned previously, the review of the data from the Property Appraiser database suggested that smaller houses have a lower value compared to larger homes.

Property Rate

Category

Budget

Allocation(1)

Distribution of

Residential

Budget(2)

Total Number of Units(3)

Fire

Assessment

Base Rate per

Unit(4)

Single Family/Mobile Home/Duplex $6,676,902 73.0%

Multi-Family $2,473,991 27.0%

Total $9,150,893 100.0%

Availability Portion 70%

70% of Total Budget (5)

$6,405,625 - 29,519 $217.00

Resources Portion 70%

30% of Total Budget(6) $2,745,268 - 29,519 $93.00

Single Family/Mobile Home/Duplex (7)

$2,004,046 73.0% 18,274 $109.67

Multi-Family (8)

$741,222 27.0% 11,245 $65.92

Total $2,745,268 100.0% 29,519 -

Calculated Rate per Unit 70%

$326.67

$282.92

Single Family/Mobile Home/Duplex(9)

Multi-Family(10)

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The tiered rates are calculated by developing an Equivalent Residential Unit (ERU) factor for each tier based on the ratio of the average size of each tier to the average size of the entire residential category. These ERU factors are then used to distribute resource-based portion of the fee in a tiered-manner as opposed to using the group average shown in Table 8. The resulting rate is added to the availability-based portion of the rate to determine the final tiered rate for each residential category.

Table 8

Calculated Tiered Residential Assessment Rates

1) Source: Marion County Property Appraiser

2) Average size of each tier is divided by the average size of the entire category

3) Resource utilization-based portion from Table 7 multiplied by ERU (Item 2)

4) Source: Table 7

5) Sum of resource-based portion (Item 3) and availability-based portion (Item 4)

6) Fire assessment rate (Item 5) adjusted down slightly to neutralize revenue generation

Table 9 provides similar calculations for non-residential land uses and calculates assessment rates on a per square foot basis. Consistent with the methodology described previously, 70 percent of the non-residential budget is allocated among all non-residential square footage equally and 30 percent of the non-residential budget is allocated based on resource utilization of each non-residential land use.

Resulting rates are then applied to the mid-point of square footage tiers to develop the tiered non-residential rate schedule on a per parcel basis. These calculations are shown in Table 10.

Square Footage Tier Average Size

(Sq Ft)(1)

Equivalent

Residential

Unit (2)

Resource-

Based

Portion (3)

Availabilty-

Based

Portion (4)

Fire

Assessment

Rate per Unit (5)

Fire

Assessment

Rate per Unit

ADJUSTED(6)

Single Family/Mobile Home/Duplex Tiering $109.67

1 to 1,000 sf 821 0.57 $62.51 $217.00 $279.51 $276.33

1,001 to 1,600 sf 1,300 0.91 $99.80 $217.00 $316.80 $313.20

1,601 to 2,500 sf 1,981 1.38 $151.34 $217.00 $368.34 $364.15

>2,500 sf 3,166 2.20 $241.27 $217.00 $458.27 $453.06

Multi-Family Tiering 70% $65.92

1 to 1,000 sf 778 0.54 $35.60 $217.00 $252.60 $249.73

1,001 to 1,200 sf 1,081 0.75 $49.44 $217.00 $266.44 $263.41

>1,200 sf 1,437 1.00 $65.92 $217.00 $282.92 $279.70

All Residential Units 1,436 - - - - -

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Table 9

Calculated Base Non-Residential Fire Assessment Rates

2) Budget portion of each non-residential category

3) Source: Table 6

4) Budget allocation divided by square footage

5) Total non-residential budget of $8.6 million multiplied by 70% to calculate availability portion

6) Total non-residential budget of $8.6 million multiplied by 30% to calculate resource utilization portion

7) Resource utilization portion of the budget (30%) allocated to each non-residential category. Government properties will not be charged an assessment; however, to ensure that other non-residential categories are not being charged for the portion of the budget associated with government properties, this portion of the budget is separated

8) Sum of availability-based rate of $0.115 per square foot and resource-utilization based rate for each land use

9) Fire assessment rate (Item 8) adjusted upwards to neutralize revenue generation

Property Rate

Category

Budget

Allocation (1)

Distribution of

Non-Residential

Budget(2)

Total Square

Footage (3)

Fire Assessment

Rate per

Sq Ft(4)

Commercial $7,003,655 81.8%

Industrial/Warehouse $637,349 7.5%

Institutional $545,786 6.4%

Government $364,456 4.3%

Total $8,551,246 100.0%

Availability Portion 70%

70% of Total Budget(5) $5,985,872 - 51,896,605 $0.115

Resource Utilization Portion

30% of Total Budget(6) $2,565,374 - 51,896,605 $0.049

Commercial (7)

$2,098,476 81.8% 18,955,466 $0.111

Industrial/Warehouse(7) $192,403 7.5% 21,850,514 $0.009

Institutional(7) $164,184 6.4% 4,934,866 $0.033

Government(7) $110,311 4.3% 6,155,759 N/A

Total $2,565,374 100.0% 51,896,605 -

Calculated Rate per Square Foot

$0.226

$0.124

$0.148

N/A

Calculated Rate per Square Foot: ADJUSTED

$0.260

$0.143

$0.170

N/A

Industrial/Warehouse(9)

Institutional (9)

Government(9)

Government (8)

Commercial(8)

Industrial/Warehouse(8)

Institutional(8)

Commercial(9)

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Table 10

Calculated Tiered Non-Residential Fire Assessment Rates

1) Mid-point of square footage ranges, capped at 300,000 sq ft

2) Source: Table 9

3) Mid-point (Item 1) multiplied by the total parcels (Item 2) for each tier

Vacant Land

As discussed previously, 50 percent of the resources allocated to vacant land is used in the assessment calculation for the vacant parcel assessment rate. This adjustment was made to recognize the fact that vacant property derives less benefit from the Fire Department’s availability and services compared to developed properties with buildings and more people. As shown in Table 11, this adjusted budget was divided by the number of parcels to determine the assessment rate of $55.69 per parcel.

Square Footage

Range

Mid-

Point (1)

Commercial

Rate per Sq Ft (2)

Commercial

Rate per Parcel (3)

Industrial/

Warehouse Rate per Sq Ft (2)

Industrial/

Warehouse

Rate per

Parcel(3)

Institutional

Rate per Sq Ft (2)

Institutional

Rate per Parcel (3)

0 - 2,000 1,000 $0.260 $260.00 $0.143 $143.00 $0.170 $170.00

2,001 - 3,000 2,500 $0.260 $650.00 $0.143 $357.50 $0.170 $425.00

3,001 - 4,000 3,500 $0.260 $910.00 $0.143 $500.50 $0.170 $595.00

4,001 - 5,000 4,500 $0.260 $1,170.00 $0.143 $643.50 $0.170 $765.00

5,001 - 6,000 5,500 $0.260 $1,430.00 $0.143 $786.50 $0.170 $935.00

6,001 - 7,000 6,500 $0.260 $1,690.00 $0.143 $929.50 $0.170 $1,105.00

7,001 - 8,000 7,500 $0.260 $1,950.00 $0.143 $1,072.50 $0.170 $1,275.00

8,001 - 10,000 9,000 $0.260 $2,340.00 $0.143 $1,287.00 $0.170 $1,530.00

10,001 - 12,000 11,000 $0.260 $2,860.00 $0.143 $1,573.00 $0.170 $1,870.00

12,001 - 14,000 13,000 $0.260 $3,380.00 $0.143 $1,859.00 $0.170 $2,210.00

14,001 - 16,000 15,000 $0.260 $3,900.00 $0.143 $2,145.00 $0.170 $2,550.00

16,001 - 18,000 17,000 $0.260 $4,420.00 $0.143 $2,431.00 $0.170 $2,890.00

18,001 - 20,000 19,000 $0.260 $4,940.00 $0.143 $2,717.00 $0.170 $3,230.00

20,001 - 25,000 22,500 $0.260 $5,850.00 $0.143 $3,217.50 $0.170 $3,825.00

25,001 - 30,000 27,500 $0.260 $7,150.00 $0.143 $3,932.50 $0.170 $4,675.00

30,001 - 35,000 32,500 $0.260 $8,450.00 $0.143 $4,647.50 $0.170 $5,525.00

35,001 - 40,000 37,500 $0.260 $9,750.00 $0.143 $5,362.50 $0.170 $6,375.00

40,001 - 45,000 42,500 $0.260 $11,050.00 $0.143 $6,077.50 $0.170 $7,225.00

45,001 - 50,000 47,500 $0.260 $12,350.00 $0.143 $6,792.50 $0.170 $8,075.00

50,001 - 60,000 55,000 $0.260 $14,300.00 $0.143 $7,865.00 $0.170 $9,350.00

60,001 - 70,000 65,000 $0.260 $16,900.00 $0.143 $9,295.00 $0.170 $11,050.00

70,001 - 80,000 75,000 $0.260 $19,500.00 $0.143 $10,725.00 $0.170 $12,750.00

80,001 - 90,000 85,000 $0.260 $22,100.00 $0.143 $12,155.00 $0.170 $14,450.00

90,001 - 100,000 95,000 $0.260 $24,700.00 $0.143 $13,585.00 $0.170 $16,150.00

100,001 - 120,000 110,000 $0.260 $28,600.00 $0.143 $15,730.00 $0.170 $18,700.00

120,001 - 140,000 130,000 $0.260 $33,800.00 $0.143 $18,590.00 $0.170 $22,100.00

140,001 - 160,000 150,000 $0.260 $39,000.00 $0.143 $21,450.00 $0.170 $25,500.00

160,001 - 180,000 170,000 $0.260 $44,200.00 $0.143 $24,310.00 $0.170 $28,900.00

180,001 - 200,000 190,000 $0.260 $49,400.00 $0.143 $27,170.00 $0.170 $32,300.00

200,001 - 250,000 225,000 $0.260 $58,500.00 $0.143 $32,175.00 $0.170 $38,250.00

250,001 - 300,000 275,000 $0.260 $71,500.00 $0.143 $39,325.00 $0.170 $46,750.00

300,001 or more 300,000 $0.260 $78,000.00 $0.143 $42,900.00 $0.170 $51,000.00

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Table 11

Calculated Vacant Parcel Assessment Rate

2) Source: Table 6

3) Budget allocation (Item 1) divided by number of parcels (Item 2)

Property Rate

Category

Budget

Allocation (1)

Total Number of Parcels (2)

Budget per

Parcel (3)

Vacant Land $233,395 4,191 $55.69

Appendix A Ocala Fire Rescue Incident Data

June 2023 A-1 Fire Assessment Study

Appendix A

This appendix documents the incident data analysis conducted as part of the technical study.

Incidents over the past seven years were analyzed to estimate demand from each land use for fire rescue services. Tables A-1 through A-8 present this analysis.

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Table A-1

OFR Distribution of Incidents by Type of Service

Source: Ocala Fire Rescue

Table A-2

OFR Distribution of Staff Time by Type of Service

Note: Staff time is measured by multiplying the number of incidents by average response time (from alarm to clear) with the average number of personnel on scene

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Fire: 3,586 20.8% 4,891 22.4% 3,985 24.6% 3,083 19.7% 3,047 18.6% 4,107 20.9% 8,492 34.7% 23.7%

Medical: 13,711 - 16,943 - 12,227 - 12,586 - 13,321 - 15,561 - 15,958 - -

-ALS 1,787 10.3% 2,690 12.3% 1,884 11.6% 2,731 17.4% 3,610 22.1% 4,172 21.2% 3,590 14.7% 15.6%

-Non-ALS 11,924 68.9% 14,253 65.3% 10,343 63.8% 9,855 62.9% 9,711 59.3% 11,389 57.9% 12,368 50.6% 60.7%

Total: 17,297 100.0% 21,834 100.0% 16,212 100.0% 15,669 100.0% 16,368 100.0% 19,668 100.0% 24,450 100.0% -

ALS: 1,787 10.3% 2,690 12.3% 1,884 11.6% 2,731 17.4% 3,610 22.1% 4,172 21.2% 3,590 14.7% 15.6%

Non-ALS: 15,510 89.7% 19,144 87.7% 14,328 88.4% 12,938 82.6% 12,758 77.9% 15,496 78.8% 20,860 85.3% 84.4%

2020 2021 Average %

Distribution

(2016-2022)

Incident Type

2016 (March+) 2017 2018 2019

Staff Time Percent

Distribution Staff Time

Percent

Distribution Staff Time

Percent

Distribution Staff Time

Percent

Distribution Staff Time

Percent

Distribution Staff Time

Percent

Distribution Staff Time

Percent

Distribution

Fire: 5,352 29.0% 6,969 30.1% 6,260 34.8% 6,318 32.2% 5,592 26.5% 7,104 29.8% 9,233 35.8% 31.2%

Medical: 13,096 - 16,210 - 11,741 - 13,319 - 15,472 - 16,679 - 16,574 - -

-ALS 1,966 10.7% 3,050 13.2% 2,808 15.6% 4,171 21.2% 5,848 27.8% 5,747 24.2% 5,146 19.9% 19.2%

-Non-ALS 11,130 60.3% 13,160 56.8% 8,933 49.6% 9,148 46.6% 9,624 45.7% 10,932 46.0% 11,428 44.3% 49.6%

Total 18,448 100.0% 23,179 100.1% 18,001 100.0% 19,637 100.0% 21,064 100.0% 23,783 100.0% 25,807 100.0% -

ALS: 1,966 10.7% 3,050 13.2% 2,808 15.6% 4,171 21.2% 5,848 27.8% 5,747 24.2% 5,146 19.9% 19.2%

Non-ALS: 16,482 89.3% 20,129 86.8% 15,193 84.4% 15,466 78.8% 15,216 72.2% 18,036 75.8% 20,661 80.1% 80.8%

2020 2021 Average %

Distribution

(2016-2022)

Incident Type

2016 (March+) 2017 2018 2019

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Table A-3

OFR Distribution of Vehicle Time by Type of Service

Note: Vehicle time is measured by multiplying the number of incidents by average response time (from alarm to clear) with the average number of units on scene

Table A-4

OFR Distribution of Total Resources by Type of Service

Note: Total resources are calculated as the sum of total staff time and total vehicle time

Vehicle

Time

Percent

Distribution

Vehicle

Time

Percent

Distribution

Vehicle

Time

Percent

Distribution

Vehicle

Time

Percent

Distribution

Vehicle

Time

Percent

Distribution

Vehicle

Time

Percent

Distribution

Vehicle

Time

Percent

Distribution

Fire: 2,433 30.0% 3,103 30.5% 2,868 35.7% 2,859 33.7% 2,531 27.4% 3,183 30.5% 4,178 36.9% 32.2%

Medical: 5,673 - 7,070 - 5,155 - 5,620 - 6,697 - 7,267 - 7,126 - -

-ALS 826 10.2% 1,283 12.6% 1,231 15.3% 1,746 20.6% 2,632 28.5% 2,643 25.3% 2,278 20.2% 19.2%

-Non-ALS 4,847 59.8% 5,787 56.9% 3,924 48.9% 3,874 45.7% 4,065 44.1% 4,624 44.2% 4,848 42.9% 48.6%

Total 8,106 100.0% 10,173 100.0% 8,023 99.9% 8,479 100.0% 9,228 100.0% 10,450 100.0% 11,304 100.0% -

ALS: 826 10.2% 1,283 12.6% 1,231 15.3% 1,746 20.6% 2,632 28.5% 2,643 25.3% 2,278 20.2% 19.2%

Non-ALS: 7,280 89.8% 8,890 87.4% 6,792 84.7% 6,733 79.4% 6,596 71.5% 7,807 74.7% 9,026 79.8% 80.8%

Incident Type

2016 (March+) 2017 2018 2019 2021 Average %

Distribution

(2016-2022)

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Fire: 7,785 29.3% 10,072 30.2% 9,128 35.1% 9,177 32.7% 8,123 26.8% 10,287 30.1% 13,411 36.1% 31.5%

Medical: 18,769 - 23,280 - 16,896 - 18,939 - 22,169 - 23,946 - 23,700 - -

-ALS 2,792 10.5% 4,333 13.0% 4,039 15.5% 5,917 21.0% 8,480 28.0% 8,390 24.5% 7,424 20.0% 19.2%

-Non-ALS 15,977 60.2% 18,947 56.8% 12,857 49.4% 13,022 46.3% 13,689 45.2% 15,556 45.4% 16,276 43.9% 49.3%

Total 26,554 100.0% 33,352 100.0% 26,024 100.0% 28,116 100.0% 30,292 100.0% 34,233 100.0% 37,111 100.0% -

ALS: 2,792 10.5% 4,333 13.0% 4,039 15.5% 5,917 21.0% 8,480 28.0% 8,390 24.5% 7,424 20.0% 19.2%

Non-ALS: 23,762 89.5% 29,019 87.0% 21,985 84.5% 22,199 79.0% 21,812 72.0% 25,843 75.5% 29,687 80.0% 80.8%

2020 2021 Average %

Distribution

(2016-2022)

Incident Type

2016 (March+) 2017 2018 2019

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Table A-5

OFR Distribution of Incidents by Land Use (Non-ALS ONLY)

Table A-6

OFR Distribution of Staff Time by Land Use (Non-ALS ONLY)

Note: Staff time is measured by multiplying the number of incidents by average response time (from alarm to clear) with the average number of personnel on scene

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Number of

Incidents

Percent

Distribution

Single Family 4,012 37.6% 4,923 36.6% 4,601 44.8% 4,236 43.1% 4,016 41.7% 4,271 36.8% 4,808 36.6% 39.2%

Multi-Family 1,212 11.4% 1,564 11.6% 1,462 14.2% 1,456 14.8% 1,394 14.5% 1,860 16.0% 1,747 13.3% 13.6%

Commercial 4,718 44.3% 6,108 45.4% 3,425 33.4% 3,267 33.3% 3,505 36.4% 4,576 39.3% 5,533 42.1% 39.6%

Industrial/Warehouse 98 0.9% 118 0.9% 128 1.2% 144 1.5% 122 1.3% 177 1.5% 198 1.5% 1.3%

Institutional 198 1.9% 280 2.1% 254 2.5% 255 2.6% 142 1.5% 191 1.6% 250 1.9% 2.0%

Government 180 1.7% 246 1.8% 246 2.4% 263 2.7% 232 2.4% 273 2.3% 276 2.1% 2.2%

Vacant 232 2.2% 215 1.6% 150 1.5% 191 1.9% 207 2.1% 267 2.3% 314 2.4% 2.0%

Agricultural 2 0.0% 6 0.0% 3 0.0% 7 0.1% 10 0.1% 18 0.2% 14 0.1% 0.1%

Total 10,652 100.0% 13,460 100.0% 10,269 100.0% 9,819 100.0% 9,628 100.0% 11,633 100.0% 13,140 100.0%

Incident Type

2016 (March+) 2017 2018 2019 2020 Average %

Distribution

(2016-2022)

2021 2022

Staff Time Percent

Distribution Staff Time

Percent

Distribution Staff Time

Percent

Distribution Staff Time

Percent

Distribution Staff Time

Percent

Distribution Staff Time

Percent

Distribution Staff Time

Percent

Distribution

Single Family 4,142 36.1% 5,128 36.2% 4,650 41.1% 4,373 38.9% 4,420 39.1% 4,433 34.3% 4,948 33.9% 37.0%

Multi-Family 1,345 11.7% 1,707 12.0% 1,531 13.5% 1,503 13.4% 1,656 14.6% 2,070 16.0% 2,046 14.0% 13.6%

Commercial 4,798 41.8% 5,864 41.4% 3,774 33.3% 3,960 35.2% 4,101 36.3% 5,056 39.1% 5,905 40.5% 38.4%

Industrial/Warehouse 389 3.4% 375 2.6% 403 3.6% 401 3.6% 330 2.9% 494 3.8% 599 4.1% 3.4%

Institutional 350 3.1% 491 3.5% 452 4.0% 381 3.4% 287 2.5% 275 2.1% 351 2.4% 3.0%

Government 197 1.7% 292 2.1% 217 1.9% 271 2.4% 234 2.1% 223 1.7% 251 1.7% 1.9%

Vacant 250 2.2% 318 2.2% 284 2.5% 341 3.0% 268 2.4% 328 2.5% 476 3.3% 2.6%

Agricultural 4 0.0% 4 0.0% 15 0.1% 16 0.1% 13 0.1% 62 0.5% 11 0.1% 0.1%

Total 11,475 100.0% 14,179 100.0% 11,326 100.0% 11,246 100.0% 11,309 100.0% 12,941 100.0% 14,587 100.0%

Incident Type

2016 (March+) 2017 2018 2019 2020 Average %

Distribution

(2016-2022)

2021 2022

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Table A-7

OFR Distribution of Vehicle Time by Land Use (Non-ALS ONLY)

Note: Vehicle time is measured by multiplying the number of incidents by average response time (from alarm to clear) with the average number of units on scene

Table A-8

OFR Distribution of Total Resources by Land Use (Non-ALS ONLY)

Note: Total resources are calculated as the sum of total staff time and total vehicle time

Vehicle Time Percent

Distribution Vehicle Time

Percent

Distribution Vehicle Time

Percent

Distribution Vehicle Time

Percent

Distribution Vehicle Time

Percent

Distribution Vehicle Time

Percent

Distribution Vehicle Time

Percent

Distribution

Single Family 1,841 35.9% 2,259 36.0% 2,082 40.7% 1,891 38.3% 1,905 38.8% 1,884 33.6% 2,236 34.4% 36.6%

Multi-Family 586 11.4% 747 11.9% 697 13.6% 654 13.2% 718 14.6% 888 15.9% 894 13.7% 13.5%

Commercial 2,166 42.2% 2,620 41.6% 1,718 33.5% 1,753 35.5% 1,777 36.1% 2,203 39.4% 2,615 40.1% 38.5%

Industrial/Warehouse 182 3.5% 173 2.7% 189 3.7% 188 3.8% 157 3.2% 233 4.2% 287 4.4% 3.7%

Institutional 158 3.1% 222 3.5% 211 4.1% 175 3.5% 135 2.7% 125 2.2% 159 2.4% 3.1%

Government 89 1.7% 134 2.1% 102 2.0% 127 2.6% 110 2.2% 99 1.8% 114 1.7% 2.0%

Vacant 113 2.2% 136 2.2% 119 2.3% 148 3.0% 112 2.3% 135 2.4% 207 3.2% 2.5%

Agricultural 2 0.0% 2 0.0% 7 0.1% 7 0.1% 5 0.1% 26 0.5% 5 0.1% 0.1%

Total 5,137 100.0% 6,293 100.0% 5,125 100.0% 4,943 100.0% 4,919 100.0% 5,593 100.0% 6,517 100.0%

Incident Type

2016 (March+) 2020 Average %

Distribution

(2016-2022)

2017 2018 2019 2021 2022

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Total

Resources

Percent

Distribution

Single Family 5,983 36.1% 7,387 36.1% 6,732 41.0% 6,264 38.8% 6,325 39.1% 6,317 34.0% 7,184 38.8% 36.7%

Multi-Family 1,931 11.6% 2,454 12.0% 2,228 13.6% 2,157 13.3% 2,374 14.6% 2,958 16.0% 2,940 15.9% 13.6%

Commercial 6,964 41.9% 8,484 41.4% 5,492 33.4% 5,713 35.3% 5,878 36.2% 7,259 39.2% 8,520 46.0% 38.5%

Industrial/Warehouse 571 3.4% 548 2.7% 592 3.6% 589 3.6% 487 3.0% 727 3.9% 886 4.8% 3.5%

Institutional 508 3.1% 713 3.5% 663 4.0% 556 3.4% 422 2.6% 400 2.2% 510 2.8% 3.0%

Government 286 1.7% 426 2.1% 319 1.9% 398 2.5% 344 2.1% 322 1.7% 365 2.0% 2.0%

Vacant 363 2.2% 454 2.2% 403 2.4% 489 3.0% 380 2.3% 463 2.5% 683 3.7% 2.6%

Agricultural 6 0.0% 6 0.0% 22 0.1% 23 0.1% 18 0.1% 88 0.5% 16 0.1% 0.1%

Total 16,612 100.0% 20,472 100.0% 16,451 100.0% 16,189 100.0% 16,228 100.0% 18,534 100.0% 21,104 114.1%

Incident Type

2016 (March+) 2017 2018 2019 2020 Average %

Distribution

(2016-2022)

2021 2022

Appendix B

Ocala Fire Rescue

FY 2023

Budget Summary Detail

June 2023 B-1 Fire Assessment Study

Table B-1

Ocala Fire Rescue FY 2023 Budget Expenditures

Source: City of Ocala Fire Department

Account Description Category Revised Budget ALS/Non-ALS

001-019-019-522-52-12020 Salaries & Wages - Gen Empl Personnel $457,326 Both

001-019-019-522-52-15050 Special Pay - Executive Life Personnel $234 Both

001-019-019-522-52-15090 Special Pay - Fire Allowance Personnel $7,620 Both

001-019-019-522-52-15091 Special Pay - Fire Stipend Personnel $1,000 Both

001-019-019-522-52-21010 Fica Taxes Personnel $35,005 Both

001-019-019-522-52-22012 Retirement - Gen Emp - Dc Personnel $22,986 Both

001-019-019-522-52-22039 Retirement - Ff Contract Emp Personnel $27,627 Both

001-019-019-522-52-23010 Life & Health Insurance Personnel $68,892 Both

001-019-019-522-52-24010 Workers' Compensation Personnel $6,750 Both

001-019-019-522-52-31010 Professional Services - Other Operating $143,590 Non-ALS

001-019-019-522-52-31099 Information Technology Alloca Operating $29,542 Both

001-019-019-522-52-34010 Other Services Operating $159,610 Both

001-019-019-522-52-41010 Communication Serv - Outside Operating $32,000 Both

001-019-019-522-52-41099 Ocala Fiber Network Allocatio Operating $145,166 Both

001-019-019-522-52-41199 800 Mhz Allocation Operating $114,165 Both

001-019-019-522-52-42010 Freight & Postage Services Operating $5,000 Both

001-019-019-522-52-43010 Utility Services Operating $200,608 Both

001-019-019-522-52-45099 Insurance Services Allocation Operating $500,337 Both

001-019-019-522-52-46010 Repair &…