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EXECUTIVE FIRE OFFICER DESIGNATION.
Presented by: Chief Gary E. Curmode, Fire Chief.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: To recognize Fire Marshall Tavis D. Leake on the attainment of his Executive Fire Officer designation.
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Background: Fire Marshall Tavis D. Leake has fulfilled all of the requirements of the Executive Fire Officer Program (EFOP). The EFOP is the U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA) premier executive education program with a limited capacity of participants each year. The EFOP was designed to provide senior fire officers and others in key leadership roles with an understanding of:
· The need to transform fire and emergency services organizations from being reactive to proactive, with an emphasis on leadership development, prevention, and risk reduction;
· Transforming fire and emergency services organizations to reflect the diversity of America’s communities;
· The value of research and its application to the profession;
· The value of lifelong learning; and
· Enhanced executive-level knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to lead these transformations, conduct research, and engage in lifelong learning.
The program contained diverse executive-level curricula, one core course per year for four years. Each course lasts for a period of two weeks. The program also required a commitment to complete four applied research projects, which was a post-course activity for each course.
History of the EFOP
EFOP began as a three year professional development program in 1985 expanding to its current length (of four years) in 1988. The post-course Applied Research Project (ARP) component was implemented in 1990 and many of these ARPs are now archived and available to the public through the National Emergency Training Center Learning Resource Center. Twenty-five years later USFA/NFA is nearing a threshold of 3000 EFOP alumni and a completion rate of ARPs in the thousands. Together, EFOP alumni and their research have resulted in significant changes to fire/e...
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