Excerpts from the ChicagoTribune.com:
When John-Paul Schilling took on the role as head of the Carpentersville Fire Department earlier this summer, he also took on the challenge of completing a 100 Day Plan.
In less two months on the job, he had accomplished seven of his 10 goals. At Tuesday’s Village Board meeting, Schilling said all 10 have been met.
The plan was established through the collaborative efforts of the village administration, battalion chiefs, and executive board members of the fire department’s full- and part-time firefighters’ unions.
Overall objectives included increasing communication; improving training, safety and risk management; and increasing personnel collaboration through the creation of various committees.
Other goals included developing a criteria process and procedures for the recruitment and hiring of part-time firefighters, researching and determining the cost-effectiveness of a project management software tool, and conducting periodic meetings with battalion chiefs and lieutenants, as well as labor management officials.
“And what happens next is we enter into probably about a yearlong strategic planning process that will include internal and external stakeholders as we move along,” he said. “But (the plan), with the assistance of the manager and the participation of the unions, has really come together and given us a really good launch into a good, successful program.”
