Allow changes to current staffing levels and adjust recommendations accordingly?
With the changes in staffing levels, you can easily calculate how many more or less units you have at your disposal. You can then use ADAM to add/drop units, view the impact within minutes and come up with your own recommendations. While ADAM doesn’t make recommendations, you can come up with recommendations that you know you will be comfortable with, all this within 1/2 hour or so. ADAM is also used as an objective data based tool showing the negative impact immediately of staff cuts based on historical data. It is thus imperative to have a simple to grasp map-based tool with easy rapid access to its adjoining supportive incident data that allows city budget officials to quickly grasp the negative impact of staff cuts and realize the probable impact may be too negative compared to other budget considerations. Thus it has also proven itself to be a robust information tool for defending the fire departments budget. We are in the stages of constructing a Master Plan. Has anyone used the
