Scope of work: A standards of coverage study and organizational review for the cities of West St. Paul and South St. Paul South Metro Fire Department. Citygate will conduct a thorough review and analysis of services, staffing, apparatus, and facility options for the Department. Citygate's work includes, as requested, a comprehensive Standards of Coverage document analyzing resource deployment to determine whether the Department is properly deployed to meet its community’s risks and expectations; and a comprehensive review of organizational hierarchy, distribution of workload, and management practices weighed against contemporary organizational principles and business processes. A review of fire station locations and relevant recommendations will also be included, in which Citygate will analyze the Department’s current two-station response model to determine its effectiveness in providing present and future services, with comparative response model options analyzed in parallel. In delivering a report that will help create a template for future analysis, Citygate’s study will examine the effectiveness of inter-jurisdictional response to evaluate the benefits of the emergency services provided by the Department and its partners.