* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. RECORD, BUT I AM NOT [00:00:01] IN COURT RIGHT NOW, SO. OKAY. UH, GOOD MORNING. WELCOME EVERYONE TO THE AUGUST MEETING OF OUR PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE. WELCOME BACK TO COUNCILMAN MKI RODRIGUEZ, WHO WILL BE HERE ANY MINUTE NOW. AND WELCOME TO OUR NEWER MEMBERS, UH, DR. SOUK COUNCILMAN, DR. SOKO, COUNCILMAN MARINA RITO, AND COUNCILMAN MARK WHITE. I'M EXCITED TO WORK WITH YOU, EACH OF YOU ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE. AS YOU KNOW, THIS IS ONE OF THE TOP ISSUES, PUBLIC SAFETY THAT OUR COMMUNITY BRINGS UP CONSISTENTLY. SO THIS IS A, IN, IN MY BOOK, ONE OF THE, THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMITTEES. IF THERE'S ANY ITEM YOU'D LIKE TO WORK ON WITH THIS COMMITTEE, PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO LET ME KNOW. IF THERE'S A, AN ISSUE AND A TOPIC, UM, THAT WE CAN BRING TO PUBLIC SAFETY TO MY COMMITTEE MEMBERS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. THAT GOES FOR THE PUBLIC AS WELL. UM, AND MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL RULE COUNCIL MEMBER COR PRESENT, COUNCIL MEMBER MCKAY RODRIGUEZ. COUNCIL MEMBER RETE GATO HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER WHITE CHAIR CAVEO HABER BERDA. HERE, CHAIR, WE HAVE A QUORUM. THANK YOU. UH, AS A REMINDER TO OUR COUNT, OUR COMMITTEE, UH, WE, WE, YOU'LL HAVE SEVEN MINUTES FOR THE FIRST ROUND AND THEN THREE MINUTES FOR THE SECOND. AND THE REASON WE SHORTEN THAT UP A LITTLE BIT IS 'CAUSE THERE'S JUST SO MUCH ON A PUBLIC SAFETY AGENDA. UM, SO WE WANNA GET ALL OF OUR ISSUES IN. UM, AND SO WE'LL START [Approval of Minutes  ] WITH, UH, THE, THE FIRST ITEM, ADDITION TO, UM, THE APPROVAL OF LAST MEETING'S MINUTES, WHICH WAS JUNE 20TH. UH, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES IF I WASN'T CLEAR OKAY. WITH THE MOTION. A SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION PASSES. AND WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA WE HAVE ON THIS. UH, AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE A LOT OF OF ISSUES AND TOPICS TO DISCUSS AT PUBLIC SAFETY. SO WE HAVE A CONSENT AGENDA, JUST LIKE WHEN WE HAVE A SESSION, YOU COULD PULL ANY ITEM FROM CONSENT. UM, ARE THERE ANY ITEMS THAT WANNA BE, THAT Y'ALL WANNA PULL FROM CONSENT? OKAY. UM, WE'LL MOVE OVER TO, UM, A PUBLIC COMMENT. YEAH. UM, SO WE'LL MOVE [Public Comment  ] OVER TO PUBLIC COMMENT. WE DO HAVE SOMEBODY SIGNED UP TODAY. UH, MS. HENRIETTA LAGRANGE. MS. LAGRANGE, IF YOU WANNA COME UP TO THE PODIUM AND YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES, MA'AM. AND THERE'LL BE A, A, A BEEPER TO LET YOU KNOW. YOU CAN LOWER THAT IF, IF YOU NEED TO AS WELL. OKAY? YES. I FORGOT TO GROW . I HEAR YOU. GOOD MORNING. MORNING. MY NAME IS HENRIETTA KETA FLORES LA GRANGE. THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE. I SAW YOUR TOPICS OF CONVERSATION THAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU, AND THERE'S TOO MANY OF THEM FOR ME TO SPEAK IN TWO MINUTES. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO THANK CHIEF MCMANUS, WHO I SEE ON TV AND NOT ABLE TO HAVE A MEETING WITH HIM 'CAUSE HE'S SUPER BUSY, BUT ALSO CHIEF HOOD. AND I JUST FEEL LIKE ALL THE TOPICS THAT YOU HAVE ON THE AGENDA, I WANNA SUPPORT. MY SON IS A RETIRED FEDERAL AGENT, SO PUBLIC SAFETY, PERSON SAFETY, COMMUNITY SAFETY, OR VERY, VERY DEEP IN MY HEART. I LIVE, I WAS RAISED IN THE WEST SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO, AND I CONSIDER MYSELF THE MAJORITY OF THIS TOWN, BUT THIS TOWN SEES ME AS A MINORITY STILL. SO IT'S DIFFICULT FOR ME TO COME, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A LOT OF THESE AGENDAS APPROVED. BUT I ALSO FEEL LIKE THERE SHOULD BE, OR LOOK FOR MORE GRANTS AND MONEY FOR PUBLIC SAFETY. AND, UH, I FEEL LIKE ALSO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT NEEDS SOME KIND OF, UH, THAT FORM THAT IS, UH, I KNOW IS CARCINOGENIC TO LOOK INTO IT. AND I KNOW I'VE TALKED TO SOME PEOPLE AND I FEEL LIKE THAT HE IS DOING A GREAT JOB IN RESEARCHING THAT. SO, UH, THANK YOU. THANK YOU MS. LAGRANGE. THANKS FOR TALKING WITH US TODAY. UM, SO [CONSENT AGENDA  ] I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA. OKAY. UH, WITH A MOTION. AND SECOND, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? OKAY. UM, ALRIGHT. WE'LL [Briefing on  ] MOVE ON TO ITEM FOUR. AM I IN ORDER HERE? YES. OKAY. UM, UH, OH, A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF OUR PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE. AS, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE WELCOME, UH, OUR, OUR THREE NEW MEMBERS, AND I ALSO WELCOME YOU BACK, COUNCILMAN, UH, THANK YOU'ALL FOR BEING HERE. AND WE'RE GONNA GIVE A JUST A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE [00:05:01] JUST TO SET, SET THE TONE AND UNDERSTAND ANY, ANY, UM, ANY RULES. AND WE'RE GONNA HAND IT OVER TO, TO MARIA. THANK YOU CHAIRWOMAN AND GOOD MORNING. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE. THIS IS JUST A BRIEF PRESENTATION TO TALK ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMITTEE, THE CHARGE THAT WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN BY THE MAYOR, AND GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE TOPICS THAT WE FREQUENTLY DISCUSS, THE DEPARTMENTS THAT COME AND PRESENT, AND THE PROCESS, HOW WE SET THE AGENDA. SO ON THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, THIS IS A, THE PURPOSE OF ALL OF OUR COUNCIL COMMITTEES IS FOR THIS COMMITTEES TO SERVE AS ADVISORIES TO THE FULL COUNCIL WHEN IT COMES TO ISSUES RELATED TO THOSE ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN PUT ON THE CHARGE OF THE COMMITTEE. AND, UH, BE ABLE TO HAVE MORE IN-DEPTH DISCUSSIONS BEFORE WE BRING AN ITEM TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR FULL APPROVAL. ALSO, COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN INITIATE AND OVERSEE THE DEVELOPMENT OF CITY POLICY BEFORE WE BRING A RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION. NOW, IN TERMS OF THE, THE CHARGE OF OUR PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE, WHAT WE ARE IN CHARGE TO DO IS TO OVERSEE ALL THE MATTERS RELATED TO PUBLIC SAFETY. AND THAT INCLUDES FIRE PROTECTION, UH, EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, AS WELL AS LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ANIMAL CARE SERVICES. SO THAT IS THE, THE CHARGE OF, OF WHAT, WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. NOW, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA ON THE NEXT SLIDE, SOME OF THE DEPARTMENTS THAT COME AND PRESENT TO YOU ON A REGULAR BASIS, UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. WITHIN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, WE HAVE THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, EEM AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE. SO THEY WILL COME ALSO AND PRESENT ABOUT THOSE TOPICS. THE METRO HEALTH DEPARTMENT, WE HAVE A LOT OF, UM, INTERSECTIONS, UH, THE WORK WE DO IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND METRO HEALTH, UH, FOR INSTANCE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION, AS WELL AS OUR ANIMAL CARE SERVICES AND MUNICIPAL COURT. THOSE ARE TYPICALLY THE DEPARTMENTS THAT COME, UH, ON A FREQUENT BASIS. NOW, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE TOPICS THAT YOU WILL SEE, AGAIN ON A REGULAR BASIS, TO KEEP YOU UPDATED OF HOW AS AN ORGANIZATION WE ARE MANAGING PUBLIC SAFETY. UH, WE WILL PRESENT QUARTERLY CRIME STATISTICS. UH, THE POLICE CHIEF WILL COME ON A QUARTERLY BASIS AND DO THAT. THE FIRE CHIEF WILL ALSO COME AND PRESENT ON A QUARTERLY BASIS, STATISTICS RELATED TO FIRE RESPONSE. WE ALSO, UH, BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION MAJOR PUBLIC SAFETY PROGRAMS, AND THIS WILL VARY FROM YEAR TO YEAR, DEPENDING ON THOSE ISSUES THAT WE'RE WORKING ON. BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, A VERY IMPORTANT ITEM THAT YOU GONNA HEAR TODAY IS OUR FIRE ACCREDITATION. IT'S ACTUALLY A RE-ACCREDITATION PROCESS THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY UNDERWAY. THE VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION PLAN UPDATE. THIS IS A PROJECT THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN WORKING ON IN CONJUNCTION WITH U T S A. SO WE'LL BRING UPDATES TO YOU, OUR GOOD NEIGHBOR PROGRAM, WHICH IS A NEW PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE LAUNCHED. AND WE ARE, YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR MORE ABOUT THIS ON THURSDAY AT THE BUDGET WORK SESSION VIOLENCE PREVENTION THAT IS MANAGED BY METRO HEALTH. UH, AND WE'RE CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH A STRATEGIC PLANNING, SO WE ARE GONNA BRING AN UPDATE TO YOU TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT WE HEARD FROM STAKEHOLDERS IN THE COMMUNITY. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS ANOTHER TOPIC THAT WE BRING, UH, AND PROVIDE UPDATES TO THIS COMMITTEE. ALSO, IN TERMS OF MENTAL HEALTH, UM, THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE WAS IN CHARGE OF DEVELOPING AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR THE USE OF ARPA DOLLARS. SO WE'LL BRING UPDATES ON THE, ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WORK PLAN. AND ALSO, UH, THROUGH THIS COMMITTEE, UH, THERE WAS A RECOMMENDATION TO ADD ADDITIONAL, WHAT WE CALL SA CORE TEAMS. THAT IS A TEAM COMPRISED OF A PARAMEDIC, A CLINICIAN, AND A POLICE OFFICERS THAT RESPOND TO MENTAL HEALTH CALLS. SO THIS COMMITTEE WILL RECEIVE UPDATES ON THAT PROGRAM, AS I MENTIONED, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANS AND PROGRAMS. UH, AND WE ALSO TAKE YOU TO THE FIRE TRAINING ACADEMY AND THE POLICE TRAINING ACADEMY. SO YOU CAN SEE FIRSTHAND, UH, WHAT IS THE TRAINING THAT OUR FIRST RESPONDERS, UH, RECEIVED ON WHEN THEY GO THROUGH THE ACADEMY. SO THAT, UH, CONCLUDES THIS BRIEF PRESENTATION. AGAIN, WE JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE, UH, IN THE NEXT, IN THE NEXT MONTHS. AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO ARCH CHAIRWOMAN. THANK YOU, MARIA. UM, SO YOU MENTIONED THE TRAINING. WE TRY TO GO ONCE A YEAR, UH, TO BOTH POLICE AND FIRE ACADEMIES. IT'S BEEN, I'VE DONE IT A COUPLE TIMES NOW. IT'S BEEN VERY EYE-OPENING. UM, IT REALLY HELPS ME TO UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BETTER THE PERSPECTIVE OF, OF A FIRST RESPONDER. NOT IN ANY WAY TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY DO, BUT JUST THAT LITTLE BIT IS REALLY, REALLY HELPFUL. SO, UM, NOW THAT WE HAVE A NEW COMMITTEE, WE'LL PROBABLY DO IT SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. [00:10:01] UM, BUT WHEN WE TALK PUBLIC SAFETY, THERE'S A LOT MORE THAN, UM, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, POLICE AND FIRE, THE MAIN THINGS. BUT, UM, AS, AS MARIA MENTIONED, ANIMAL CARE SERVICES, UM, EVEN LIGHTING, UH, IS A PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE. MENTAL HEALTH, WE TALKED ABOUT THE SA CORE TEAM. UH, THE IDEA STARTED WITH THIS COMMITTEE. WE'VE EVEN HAD BEXAR COUNTY, THE DA, WE'VE HAD, UM, JUVENILE COURT JUDGES, UH, COME AND TALK WITH US. SO WE, WE GET, UH, I I WILL SAY CREATIVE WHEN IT COMES TO PUBLIC SAFETY, BUT PUBLIC SAFETY JUST ENCOMPASSES SO MUCH WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY. SO, UH, I WELCOME YOUR IDEAS AND THOUGHTS ABOUT ISSUES TO BRING TO THE COMMITTEE. AND AND OF COURSE, AS ALWAYS, THAT GOES FOR THE PUBLIC AS WELL. UM, AND SO WE'LL START A ROUND OF QUESTIONS. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS, CONCERNS? COUNCILMAN MAKI RODRIGUEZ? THANK YOU. UM, AND CONGRATULATIONS, CHAIR ON A, ON A, THIS IS YOUR THIRD TIME CHAIRING. UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING I ALONGSIDE YOU WITH IT. I JUST WANTED TO, UM, ADDRESS MY NEWEST COLLEAGUES. UH, IT MAY NOT COME AS A SURPRISE TO, UH, THE NEW MEMBERS THAT I'VE BEEN CRITICAL OF MANY POLICE PROGRAMS. AND I OFTEN QUESTION, UM, THE NEED FOR A CONSTANT AND INCREASING FLOW OF RESOURCES TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHO OVER DECADES, UM, IN MY OPINION, HAS NOT PRODUCED A REAL CHANGE IN THE REALITY OR PERCEPTION OF THE SAFETY, UM, AT LEAST IN MY DISTRICT TWO COMMUNITY, AND IN THE EXPERIENCES OF MUCH OF THE BLACK, UM, AND L G B T Q COMMUNITY IN SAN ANTONIO. AND SO, I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR, THIS IS A, THIS IS A ROLE I TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY BECAUSE ALTHOUGH I SERVE ALONGSIDE SOME VERY THOUGHTFUL AND INTELLIGENT COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, WE DIFFER IN OUR APPROACH TO PUBLIC SAFETY, UM, AND TO POLICE, PARTLY BECAUSE OF OUR LIVED EXPERIENCE. AND BECAUSE, UM, I BELIEVE THAT RACIAL AND ECONOMIC DISPARITY HAVE ROOTS IN THE OVER POLICING OF OUR BLACK, INDIGENOUS, AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES WHO DON'T GET THE SAME OPPORTUNITY OR THE SAME LEVEL OF, UH, FORGIVENESS AS OTHERS, UH, OR OTHER WEALTHIER PARTS OF, OF TOWN. THERE'S A VERY STRONG TRADITION OF EQUATING PUBLIC SAFETY TO, UM, THE NUMBER OF POLICE OR THE PRESENCE OF POLICE WHEN IN ACTUALITY, SAFETY IS, UH, AS THE CHAIR JUST MENTIONED, AND IS BRIEFED AS LISTED, UM, MUCH MORE PROFOUND AND MULTIFACETED THAT, AND IT NEEDS TO INVOLVE OTHER DEPARTMENTS SUCH AS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. UH, JUST TO NAME A FEW, UM, THERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT I LOOK FORWARD TO COMING BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE. UM, SUCH AS THE STREET LIGHTING INDEX THAT I PROPOSED AS PART OF THE 2021 BUDGET, OR, YEAH, 2021 BUDGET. UM, THE A C S MASTER PLAN, UH, BY THE CHAIR AND MYSELF, SEPARATE FROM THE A C S STRATEGIC PLAN. I THINK, UH, THAT'S SOMETHING I LOOK FORWARD TO US HAVING CONVERSATION ABOUT, UM, AS WELL AS THE OFFICE IN CR OF CRIME AND RECIDIVISM PREVENTION, C C R THAT WAS FORWARDED TO PUBLIC SAFETY. UM, I'LL JUST REITERATE THAT I'M GOING TO BE ONE OF THE LARGEST CRITICS OF THE POLICE BUDGET AND OF POLICE PROGRAMS SPECIFICALLY WITH, UH, GRANTS LIKE WE JUST APPROVED THAT REQUIRE MATCHING BECAUSE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IN TOTALITY OF $622 MILLION BUDGET, THERE'S ALWAYS GONNA BE ROOM FOR EFFICIENCIES AND IMPROVEMENTS. AND I JUST WANNA, UH, LAY THAT OUT FOR ALL AS WE MOVE FORWARD. BUT THANK YOU, CHAIR. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN MKI RODRIGUEZ. ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? OKAY, UH, COUNCILWOMAN RETO. YEAH, I JUST WANTED, OH, SORRY. UM, TO QUICKLY HIGHLIGHT AN ITEM THAT ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE YESTERDAY EVENING, UM, IN DISTRICT SEVEN, THERE WAS A CITY EMPLOYEE, AND SHE WAS, HER AND HER HUSBAND WERE WALKING THEIR DOG, AND THEN ANOTHER LOOSE DOG CAME OUT. AND SO THEY START LIKE CHASING IT AWAY. UM, BUT THEN, UH, THE, THE PEOPLE WHOSE LOOSE DOG IT WAS GOT IN A TRUCK AND LIKE CHASED HIM WITH A KNIFE, AND IT WAS JUST HORRIBLE. AND SO, I THINK WITH THE NUMBER OF LOOSE DANGEROUS DOGS, LIKE, WE'RE GONNA START SEEING THIS FRICTION MORE AND MORE. SO I'M PUTTING THIS OUT THERE SO THAT WE CAN ALSO JUST GET ON A C S AND I MEAN, LUCKILY THE CITY EMPLOYEE WASN'T HEARD AND SHE REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO SS A P D. UM, I, I'M NOT SURE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE RESPONSE FROM SS A P D, BUT I MEAN, THESE TYPES OF THINGS ARE GONNA KEEP HAPPENING WITH THESE LOOSE DOGS. UH, AND SO I'M JUST RAISING AWARENESS TO IT. THE POINT WELL TAKEN, WE, WE DO BRING A C S TO THIS, UH, TO THIS COMMITTEE BECAUSE IT'S PUBLIC SAFETY, UM, UH, AS WE ALL BECAME VERY AWARE A FEW MONTHS AGO. UM, BUT, UH, BUT POINT WILL TAKE HIM. ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? OKAY, LET'S MOVE. OH, UH, COUNCILWOMAN DR. CORE. SO I JUST, UM, I'M NOT SUPER AWARE OF LIKE, GRANT PROCESSES THAT WE HAVE. THERE WAS AN INCIDENT, UM, RIGHT DOWN THE STREET OF KIM MINISTRIES THE OTHER NIGHT THAT GOT CAUGHT ON FIRE. UM, AND I KNOW THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS OUT THERE, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT SUPPORT. BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WAS ANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR US AS A COMMITTEE TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT IN THE EVENT THAT, UM, AND IT WAS AT GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH, AND IT WAS ONE OF THEIR FACTOR, UH, WAREHOUSES THAT, UH, PROVIDES A LOT OF GOODS FOR, UM, OUR COMMUNITY. I THINK THERE'S THAT OPPORTUNITY. UM, WE CAN, WE CAN [00:15:01] TALK ABOUT SPECIFIC ITEMS TO BRING HERE TO SUPPORT. UM, ANYTHING ELSE? ALL RIGHT. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM FIVE. UM, VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS BRIEFING ON THE FIRE ACCREDITATION PROCESS AND STRATEGIC PLAN. AND WE'LL LEAVE IT TO, UM, CHIEF HOOD. I'M GONNA BE GIVING YOU SOME, UH, INFORMATION. IF YOU COULD JUST HOLD ONTO IT AND I'LL WALK YOU THROUGH IT. UM, AGAIN, MADAM CHAIR, IT'S AN HONOR TO WORK WITH YOU. AGAIN, WE APPRECIATE YOUR, UH, ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT OVER THE YEARS. UM, AND TO OUR NEW MEMBERS, WELCOME TO PUBLIC SAFETY. I, I DO THINK THIS MOST IMPORTANT COMMITTEE THAT WE HAVE, SO EVERYBODY CALLS 9 1 1. SO WE WELCOME YOU AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO, UM, IMMERSING YOU IN WHAT WE DO. UH, I KNOW COUNCILWOMAN CO WE'RE GONNA MEET WITH YOU TODAY. SO ANYTHING THAT YOU ARE NOT GETTING QUESTION ANSWERED, WE WILL WALK THROUGH A LOT OF THAT STUFF WITH YOU THIS MORNING. WE'LL GO AHEAD AND START. UM, THIS IS PROBABLY THE THIRD TIME WE'VE BEEN FORWARD TO PUBLIC SAFETY TO TALK ABOUT OUR ACCREDITATION PROGRAM. AND WE'RE REALLY, REALLY PROUD OF THIS INFORMATION THAT WE'RE GONNA BE SHOWING YOU AND SHARING WITH YOU TODAY, AND PROUD OF THE, UH, WORK THAT THE, UH, THE TEAM HAS DONE. SO, UM, ACCREDITATION IS, UH, DONE BY THE, UH, COMMISSION OF FIRE PROTECTION ACCREDITATION INTERNATIONAL. AND SO IT INVOLVES THE PILLARS OF BASICALLY ORGANIZATIONAL INVOLVEMENT. YOU'LL SEE THROUGHOUT OUR PROCESSES OVER THE YEARS THAT WE INVOLVE UNIFORM CIVILIANS, AND YOU'LL ALSO SEE THAT WE'VE IN INVOLVE THE COMMUNITY IN, IN DEVELOPING THIS. IT'S INFORMATION BASED. WE RELY HEAVILY ON, UH, ROBUST AMOUNT OF, OF, UH, METRICS, UH, INTELLIGENCE GATHERING THAT YOU WILL SEE. UH, IT'S A SELF REALISTIC, UH, ASSESSMENT OF OURSELVES. WE THINK WE ARE ONE OF THE BEST DEPARTMENTS IN THE NATION, BUT WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE AREAS THAT WE CAN IMPROVE ON. SO WE, AGAIN, ARE LOOKING FOR CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT IN ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS. SO BASICALLY, UM, WE'RE ONE OF THE FEW DEPARTMENTS IN THE NATION THAT HOLDS A CLASS. ONE, UH, I S O, WHICH IS THE INSUR INSURANCE SERVICES OFFICES. UN UNDER 1% OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS IN THE NATION HOLD THIS. AND THIS BASICALLY, CLASS ONE VALIDATES THAT WE HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE, THE FIRE SUPPRESSION INFRASTRUCTURE, BLESS YOU, FIRE SUPPRESSION INFRASTRUCTURE TO RESPOND TO THE RESIDENCES AND BUSINESSES OF THIS JURISDICTION. UM, THE ACCREDITATION PROCESS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW. UH, ONLY 13% OF THE POPULATION IS SERVED BY AN ACCREDITED AGENCY. AND, AND THERE'S ONLY 308. MOST OF THESE ACCREDITED AGENCIES ARE SMALLER JURISDICTIONS, MILITARY, UH, BASES. VERY FEW METRO FIRE DEPARTMENTS IN THE NATION BOTH HOLD BOTH OF THESE DISTINCTIONS. AND SO THERE'S ONLY 116 OF THOSE, AND WE ARE THE SECOND LARGEST METRO CITY TO HOLD BOTH. SO BE EXTREMELY PROUD OF THAT. THIS WORK HAS, UM, BEEN GOING ON FOR 15 YEARS, AND I APPRECIATE MARIA'S SUPPORT, CHERYL'S SUPPORT, AND THE PREVIOUS COUNCILS AND MAYORS TO GET US TO, TO MANAGE THESE TWO DISTINCTIONS. SO OUR ACCREDITATION, BASICALLY, IT VERIFIES THE LEVEL OF OUR SERVICE. WE COULD SAY ONE THING AND WE COULD PUT A PROGRAM OUT THERE, BUT IS IT WORKING? UM, DOES IT PROVIDE THE, THE, UH, THE SERVICE THAT NEEDS TO BE, UH, PROVIDED TO OUR RESIDENTS? IT CONSIDERS ALL ASPECTS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. SO WE ARE A FORTUNE 500 COMPANY AS FAR AS MANAGING RESOURCE, AS FAR AS TAKING CARE OF PEOPLE AND EQUIPMENT AND BEING ABLE TO RESPOND AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE. SO IT LOOKS AT ALL THE ASPECTS OF THE DEPARTMENT, AND IT'S CENTERED AROUND THREE DOCUMENTS. SO THE THREE DOCUMENTS IS A STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH IS A SMALLER DOCUMENT THAT YOU HAVE. AND SO WE HAVE COMPLETED THAT. UH, THE LARGER BOOK THAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE IS OUR, OUR COMMUNITY RISK ASSESSMENT AND STANDARDS OF COVER IS A HUNDRED PERCENT COMPLETED IN DRAFT FORM. AND THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE RIGHT NOW. UM, I CAN'T THINK, THERE'S NO OTHER DEPARTMENT, I DON'T THINK THAT HAS PUT TOGETHER THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE IN THIS BOOK. AND THEN, UM, NEXT THING IS A SELF-ASSESSMENT MANUAL WHERE WE LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE DOING AND WE, WE, UM, ASSESS OURSELVES. SO THIS IS A STRATEGIC PLAN. WE CAN GO OVER THAT IN MORE DEPTH AND DETAIL WHEN WE MEET WITH YOU. UM, I KNOW COUNCIL MC, KEY RODRIGUEZ AND SHARE, YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH AND SEEN THE STRATEGIC PLAN, BUT IT IS, AGAIN, A, A GREAT PIECE OF WORK THAT BASICALLY SHOWS WHAT WE'RE DOING. SO THE PLAN REPLACES, IT'S A FIVE YEAR CYCLE. IT REPLACES, UH, OUR 2018 PLAN. UH, WE HAD A CONSULTANT COME OUT AND FACILITATE. WE HAD AN INTERNAL EXTERNAL, UH, STAKEHOLDER PROCESS, UH, AND WE [00:20:01] BROUGHT, UH, RESIDENTS IN. THEY IDENTIFIED THINGS THAT, UH, WE SHOULD CHANGE AND THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT CHANGE. UH, WE LOOKED AT THEIR EXPECTATIONS. THIS WAS FACILITATED A GROUP AT OUR FIRE ACADEMY. WE INVITED SEVERAL MEMBERS FROM THE COMMUNITY AND YOUR COUNCIL DISTRICTS WHO PARTICIPATE AND THEN DEFINE THE PROGRAMS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE TO THE CITY. AND IF YOU LOOK AT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE HIGHEST ONES UP THERE, FIRE SUPPRESSION, EMERGENCY MEDICAL, THAT'S THE COMMUNITY'S, UM, ASSESSMENT OF WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT. BUT WHEN I LOOK AT THIS, AND I SEE TWO THAT ARE VERY LOW IS PUBLIC EDUCATION AND FIRE PREVENTION. WE HAVE, UH, HAD SEVERAL FIRE FATALITIES THIS YEAR. HOW DO WE CONTINUE TO EDUCATE OUR SENIORS? HOW DO WE, UH, PROVIDE INFORMATION AND A DIGITAL DIVIDE TO PEOPLE? HOW DO WE PREVENT FIRES BY MAKING SURE PEOPLE HAVE SMOKE DETECTORS BY ELIMINATING OCCURRENCES OF HOARDING? SO THOSE THINGS DIDN'T RISE TO THE, UM, NUMBER THAT THE FIRE SUPPRESSION DID. BUT IF WE'RE TEACHING PEOPLE NOT TO FALL, IF WE'RE, IF WE'RE DOING THINGS TO MAKE THEM SAFER AND EDUCATE THEM, THEN THOSE PROGRAMS SHOULD BE JUST AS HIGH AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED. SO THE INTERNAL, WE HAD 40 INTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS. THIS WAS OVER A THREE DAY PERIOD WHERE WE BROUGHT PEOPLE OUT OF THE FIELD. WE BROUGHT UNIFORMS, WE BROUGHT CIVILIANS. UH, IT WAS A HOLISTIC GROUP THAT KIND OF TOUCHED EVERY PART OF OUR DEPARTMENT, PARTICIPATE IN A THREE-DAY FACILITATED DISCUSSION. SO OUR MISSION STATEMENT, WE, UM, CHOSE THIS MISSION STATEMENT FIVE YEARS AGO. IT'S A GOOD STRONG MISSION STATEMENT. UH, WE DON'T WANT TO COME IN AND CHANGE A MISSION STATEMENT EVERY FEW YEARS BECAUSE WE, WE DO BELIEVE THAT WE'RE DEDICATED TO DO THE RIGHT THING. AND WHAT IS THE RIGHT THING? THE RIGHT THING IS THAT YOU ARE EMPOWERED TO TAKE CARE OF THE COMMUNITY IN AN ALL HAZARDS ENVIRONMENT. UH, WHEN I STARTED FIREFIGHTING, THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS AS FAR AS HAZARDS, WE HAD NO COMPREHENSION WE WOULD EVER BE DEALING WITH OR RESPONDING TO. AND SO IT IS A ENCOMPASSING ALL HAZARDS, UH, RESPONSE THAT WE PROVIDE YOU. AND WE'RE GONNA BE COMPASSIONATE AND WE'RE GONNA BE PROFESSIONAL. SO OUR MISSION STATEMENT HAS NOT CHANGED, AND WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THAT. UH, OUR VALUES, OUR VALUES ARE SERVICE ACCOUNTABILITY. WE ARE FAMILY AS A ORGANIZATION, AND WE GO OUT AND TAKE CARE OF THE RESIDENTS OF THIS COMMUNITY AS IF THEY ARE FAMILY MEMBERS, BECAUSE EVERYONE STATISTICALLY WILL CALL 9 1 1 IN THEIR LIFETIMES. SO, AND AGAIN, THE DEDICATION. SO THAT'S OUR, BASICALLY OUR VALUES STATEMENT. THE GOALS ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN ARE ALWAYS GONNA BE TO ENHANCE THE INTERNAL COMMUNICATION OF THE ORGANIZATION. WE ARE A LARGE ORGANIZATION. HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE? HOW DO WE MAKE SURE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON? HOW DO WE, UH, COMMUNICATE TO GEN GEN Z X Y AND, AND KEEP OUR, OUR MORE SENIOR EMPLOYEES ENGAGED? UH, HOW DO WE OPTIMIZE AND FORMALIZE TRAINING PROGRAMS? A LOT OF THE INCIDENTS WE GO ON, WE HAVE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FROM THEM AND TRAIN FROM THEM, ACQUIRE, IMPROVE STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITIES. OUR ORGANIZATION HAS MORE BUILDINGS THAN ANY DEPARTMENT IN THE CITY. AND SO, AS I SAY, ACQUIRE, WE'RE TRYING TO LOOK FOR PROPERTY RIGHT NOW FOR NEW FIRE STATIONS THAT WILL COME ONLINE. HOW DO WE MAINTAIN THEM? AND HOW DO WE TAKE CARE OF OUR, OUR APPARATUS AND OUR EQUIPMENT, CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE OUR MEMBERS ARE HIGHLY MOTIVATED AND EXCEPTIONALLY TRAINED. WE WANT TO ENHANCE THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF EACH PERSON. IT'S A VERY DANGEROUS JOB. AND SO HOW DO WE TAKE CARE OF THEIR MENTAL, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGES AND MAKE SURE THAT WHEN THEY COME TO WORK, THEY'RE PREPARED, AND WHEN THEY GO HOME, THEY'RE PREPARED THE SAME WAY, UM, STATE THE ART TECHNOLOGY TO ENABLE US TO PROVIDE, TO PROVIDE EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE. WE WILL TALK ABOUT OUR GOOD SAM APPLICATION, WHICH AGAIN, IS A STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY. SO WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT, MAKE SURE EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT. AND THEN HOW DO WE LEVERAGE THAT FOR MORE TECHNOLOGY IN THE FUTURE? BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT WE CANNOT ALWAYS SOLVE, SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS WITH FIRE TRUCKS AND AMBULANCES, UH, DELIVER PERTINENT, ACCURATE, TRANSPARENT INFORMATION TO OUR COMMUNITY, UH, AS FAR AS SAFETY, AWARENESS, AND EDUCATION. SO THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE AS GOALS AND OBJECTIVES THAT ARE IN THAT STRATEGIC REPORT AND HOW WE, UH, ACHIEVE THOSE. SO THE NEXT BOOK THAT WE'RE GONNA SEE IS THIS HEAVILY BIND BOOK RIGHT HERE. AND, UH, IT'S OUR COMMUNITY RISK AND STANDARDS OF COVER, UM, DOCUMENT, WHICH THE LAST ONE WE DID WAS PROBABLY A COUPLE POUNDS HEAVIER THAN THIS ONE. AND THIS IS BETTER PAPER. IT, IT IS REALLY WELL DONE. AND SO I'M GONNA TAKE YOU THROUGH A LITTLE BIT OF THAT BOOK. BUT FIRST I REALLY WANT TO TAKE TIME TO, UM, INTRODUCE MY, UM, PLANNING TEAM. AND SO, CHIEF MIKE MULLINS OVER HERE, ASSISTANT CHIEF BRIAN O'NEILL, UH, MARK GUY, AND ADAM AND [00:25:01] MIKE, YOU GUYS WANNA STAND UP OR RAISE. SO AGAIN, UM, OUR CIVILIANS ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS ANY FIREFIGHTER. AND AGAIN, THE WORK THAT THEY HAVE DONE, UH, SPEAKS FORTH IN THIS BOOK. SO, AGAIN, THE OTHER MEMBERS THAT ARE NOT HERE, YOU CAN SEE THEM UP THERE. BUT AGAIN, TEAM, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US TODAY. SO THE FIRST DOCUMENT THAT WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT, IF YOU COULD TURN TO TAB ONE IN, IN THIS, UH, BIG BOOK. AND SO TAB ONE, BASICALLY IT JUST TALKS ABOUT THE, THE CHARACTERISTICS AND THE PROGRAMS OF THE ORGANIZATION. AND THEN IF WE LOOK AT THE PLANNING ZONE ANALYSIS, AND THAT'S WHAT I REALLY WANNA SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON, IS THE, THE PLANNING ZONES. SO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE, UH, A PLANNING ZONE THAT WE'RE GONNA QUICKLY GO OVER, UH, ONE IN YOUR DISTRICT. ALL OF YOU HAVE DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF PLANNING ZONES. AND WE TALK WHEN WE, UH, MEET WITH THE NEW COUNCIL. WE DO NOT POLITICIZE FIRE EQUIPMENT. SOME OF YOU WILL HAVE STATIONS IN A PLANNING ZONE. SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE MORE THAN ONE. SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE, UH, ONE ON THE BOARD OF THESE PLANNING ZONES. BUT BASICALLY, WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE PLANNING ZONES, WE LOOKED AT CENSUS DATA, WE LOOKED AT RESPONSE TIMES, WE LOOKED AT EQUITY SCORE, WE LOOKED AT CLINICAL DISPATCHER UTILIZATION, TIME OF DAY, FIRST SCENE ANALYSIS, INFERS REPORT. UH, WE LOOKED AT A WHOLE BUNCH OF FACTORS FOR EACH ONE OF THESE PLANNING ZONES. AND, UH, WHETHER THERE'S A HOSPITAL, WHETHER THERE'S A REFINERY, WHETHER THERE'S A FREEWAY. AND SO I WANT EACH OF YOU TO TURN TO PAGE 1 44 IN THIS BOOK, IF YOU CAN, AS WE GO TO, UH, 1 44. AND THAT SHOULD BE PLANNING ZONE 1819. AND SO WE LOOK AT PLANNING ZONE 19. AND AGAIN, WE'RE JUST HIGHLIGHTING WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS PARTICULAR DISTRICT, UH, OR PLANNING ZONE. UH, YOU SEE WHAT THE, UH, THE POPULATION IS, YOU SEE WHAT THE TOTAL DAYTIME POPULATION IS. WHAT IS YOUR WORKING POPULATION THAT'S COMING IN? UH, WE SEE THAT THE CHILDREN AS FAR AS, UM, ZERO TO 18, WE SEE THE NUMBERS OF SENIORS IN THAT DISTRICT. WE SEE THE MEDIAN AGE, WE SEE THE HOUSEHOLD, WE SEE THE MEDIAN INCOME. AND, UM, ALL OF THESE NUMBERS ARE WHAT WE HAVE. ALSO, YOU'RE GONNA NOTICE THAT THERE ARE HOSPITALS. UH, THERE ARE NO HOSPITALS IN THIS ZONE, BUT THERE ARE TWO ASSISTED LIVING. THERE ARE TWO NURSING FACILITIES. THIS INFORMATION IS CRITICAL FOR US IF WE HAVE POWER OUTAGES, IF WE NEED TO EVACUATE AN AREA. AND THAT NURSING HOME IS THERE, UH, TWO ADULT DAYCARES. UH, WE HAVE ONE LOW WATER CROSSING. SO AGAIN, THIS IS INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE FOR EVERY ZONE. AND SO IF WE GO TO PAGE TWO 20, AND WE'LL LOOK AT ONE MORE, UH, COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO. SO COUNCILMAN. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, ZONE 38 IN MY BOOK. AND SO, AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE TOTAL POPULATION IS CLOSE TO 30,000. THE DAYTIME POPULATION IS ABOUT 31,000. YOU SEE THE AGES OF YOUR POPULATION. YOU SEE THE, THE MEDIAN AGE, THE HOUSEHOLD, UM, YOU SEE THE BUSINESSES. AND THERE AGAIN, IF WE GO OVER TO LOOK AT, UH, THE NEXT PAGE ON 2 21, YOU SEE WHAT THE EQUITY SCORE IS. SO AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING AT EQUITY IN EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. AND SO WE'VE USED A GOOD SAM APP, WHICH IS A REALLY GOOD INDICATOR OF EQUITY OF WE USE IT 186 TIMES IN YOUR DISTRICT. WE HAVE, UH, SAVED RESOURCES 126 TIMES. SO WHAT THAT MEANS, COUNCILMAN IS ENGINE NINE OR LADDER NINE OR ENGINE FIVE IN YOUR DISTRICT. MAYBE THEY ONLY GOT UP ONCE AFTER MIDNIGHT AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO GET UP THREE OR FOUR TIMES BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THAT RESIDENCE ISSUES WITHOUT SENDING THEM TO THE HOSPITAL. SO WE ESCALATED CALLS 33 TIMES. SO THAT, WHAT THAT MEANS ALSO IS BECAUSE OF THE INFORMATION THAT WE GOT, MAYBE WE SENT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 'CAUSE THE PERSON WAS HAVING A STROKE, WE COULD SEE THEIR FACE AND WE KNOW THAT WE GOTTA SEND 'EM TO A STROKE CENTER. UH, AND THEN IN THIS, UM, SO IN THIS, IN THIS, UM, THING, WE SEND, WE, WE, WE SHOW EXACTLY WHAT GOOD SAM IS DOING. AND THEN IF YOU TURN THE PAGE, WE LOOK AT THE TIME OF DAY OF INCIDENT BY DISTRIBUTION, AND IT'S PRETTY FLAT AS FAR AS THERE'S NO GLARING DAY THAT IT'S BUSIER. AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT THE TIME OF INCIDENT, YOU LOOK AT WHAT TIMES THOSE CALLS ARE OCCURRING. SO THIS IS ANOTHER WAY HOW WE STRATEGICALLY DEPLOY OUR PEAK E M S UNITS, BECAUSE WE ARE LOOKING AT THIS TYPE OF DATA WHEN PEOPLE ARE HOME, WHEN THEY'RE NOT, UH, [00:30:01] WHAT TIME OF CALLS ARE RUNNING. AND THEN, UH, WE'LL GO OVER TO PAGE 2 23 AND ALL, PEOPLE ALWAYS ASK, WHAT ARE THE TOP 10 CALLS IN MY DISTRICT? SO AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE WHAT, UH, SOME OF THOSE CALLS ARE. AND SO, I'M SORRY. AND THAT'S GONNA BE ON 2 22. SO SICK PERSON, M V C, MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION, BREATHING PROBLEMS, FALL CHEST PAIN, UH, SEIZURE ASSAULT. SO THOSE ARE THE, THE TOP 10 CALLS IN THOSE YEARS. AND SO AGAIN, THEY CHANGE, BUT AGAIN, JUST GIVES US GREAT, GREAT INFORMATION AS FAR AS WHAT'S GOING ON. SO, UM, STANDARDS OF COVER, AND WE TALK ABOUT STANDARDS OF COVER. UH, STANDARDS OF COVER IS BASICALLY HOW WE RESPOND, WHAT RESOURCES WE SEND, UH, WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES WE HAVE IN CERTAIN AREAS. SO EFFECTIVE, UH, RESPONSE FORCE. AND THAT IS, UH, IF WE HAVE A HOUSE FIRE. UM, THERE'S A STANDARD AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT BASICALLY SHOWS HOW MANY RESOURCES SHOULD BE RESPONDING ON A HOUSE FIRE. SO WE GET A HOUSE FIRE, WE HAVE, UH, MULTIPLE, UH, FUNCTIONS THAT NEED TO BE, UM, DONE SIMULTANEOUSLY, AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THOSE UP ON THE SCREEN. AND SO FOR EVERY HOUSE FIRE WE RESPOND ON, WE'RE SENDING THAT AMOUNT OF RESOURCES. UH, IT ALSO DIVES DEEPER INTO, UM, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE, UH, UH, EFFECTIVE RESPONSE FORCE, IT TALKS ABOUT OUR MEDICAL RUNS. IT TALKS ABOUT HIGH-RISE FIRES, EVERY TYPE OF INCIDENT FROM TRENCH RESCUE TO WATER RESCUE. IT SHOWS US THE AMOUNT OF RESOURCES THAT RESPOND. AND AGAIN, WHEN WE GO THROUGH THIS, WE HAVE TO VALIDATE WE ARE SENDING THIS AMOUNT OF RESPONSE THROUGHOUT THE CITY. SO IT ALSO LOOKS AT OUR RESILIENCY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN HANDLE MULTIPLE INCIDENTS BY SENDING UNITS, SO OUR TIME REPORTING. SO IT, IT'S BROKEN DOWN IN FRACTILE TIMES WHERE YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE ALARM HANDLING AS FAR AS HOW FAST THOSE UNITS ARE GETTING OUT. UM, AND YOU KNOW, HOW THE DISPATCH THE TRAVEL TIME. AND THEN WHEN WE LOOK AT THE EFFECTIVE RESPONSE TIME FOR THE TRAVEL TIME, WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF THOSE UNITS THAT ARE RESPONDING TO AN INCIDENT. UH, FOR PURPOSES OF COUNCIL REPORTING THOUGH, WE LOOK AT BASELINE TIMES AS FAR AS WHEN THAT FIRST UNIT ARRIVES. UM, SO WHEN WE DO THE SELF-EVALUATION, UM, IT LOOKS AT EVERY DIVISION, EVERY PROGRAM WE HAVE CREATED. SO WE ARE A, UM, A FIRE DEPARTMENT THAT'S CREATED A LOT OF PROGRAMS OVER THE YEARS. SO THE MORE PROGRAMS WE CREATE, UM, THE MORE CRITERIA THAT WE END UP HAVING TO WRITE. AND SO IT EVALUATES EVERY DIVISION, EVERY, UM, BASIC, UH, FUNCTION THAT WE SERVE. AND SO THERE ARE 90 CORE COMPETENCIES FOR AN ORGANIZATION TO EVEN APPLY FOR ACCREDITATION. WITHOUT THOSE CORE 90, UM, THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE. SO WE HAVE OVER 250 CRITERIA THAT WE HAVE TO, UH, WRITE ON. SO WE LOOK AT OUR GOVERNANCE ADMINISTRATION, WE LOOK AT OUR ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING, WHAT ARE OUR GOALS OBJECTIVES, WE LOOK AT FINANCIAL RESOURCES. AND THEN CATEGORY FIVE BASICALLY SHOWS WHAT OUR RESPONSE PROGRAMS ARE. AND IT DIVES HEAVILY INTO EACH AND EVERY PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE TO WRITE ON AND BE ABLE TO PRESENT DURING ACCREDITATION. CATEGORY SIX IS PHYSICAL RESOURCES. HUMAN RESOURCES IS SEVEN, TRAINING COMPETENCY, UH, ESSENTIAL RESOURCES. IT LOOKS AT OUR WATER SYSTEM, LOOKS AT OUR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF AND OUR IT CAPABILITIES. UM, CATEGORY 10 EXTERNAL SYSTEMS RELATIONSHIPS. AND THEN CATEGORY 11 IS HEALTH AND SAFETY. SO EACH ONE OF THESE, WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO DESCRIBE WHAT THE CRITERION IS WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO EVALUATE TO PROVE THAT, UM, THAT DESCRIPTION FITS. AND THEN, UH, WHAT DO WE PLAN TO DO TO MEET FUTURE CRITERION? SO AGAIN, A LOT OF WORK, A LOT OF EFFORT THAT WE GO THROUGH. UH, FOR THIS. SO OUR PRO OUR PROCESS RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE, UH, COMPLETED THE COMPLIANCE REPORT. THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS SITTING IN FRONT OF YOU. WE HAVE REGISTERED FOR RE-ACCREDITATION. UH, WE ARE UPDATING OUR DOCUMENTS AS WE SPEAK AND MEETING WITH YOU AND PRESENTING THEM AS PART OF THAT, UH, WE ARE, UH, BEGINNING OUR SELF, UM, ASSESSMENT PROCESS, UH, TO BECOME A CANDIDATE AGENCY. WE WILL HAVE SITE VISITS BY A TEAM OF FIVE TO SIX PEOPLE, UM, FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND NORTH AMERICA THAT ARE GONNA COME OUT HERE AND SPEND TIME IN THE CUBICLE, SPEND TIMES AT THE STATIONS, SPEND TIME GOING OVER BOOKS, PROCESSES, TRAINING, AND EVALUATE US ON A SITE VISIT. SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT AND WE WILL BE PREPARED. OUR COMMISSION HEARING IS GONNA BE IN MARCH IN ORLANDO. UM, THE LAST TIME WE WENT, WE WENT THROUGH WITH FLYING COLORS THE FIRST TIME AROUND, THE FIRST TIME I WITNESSED ONE, I SAW A COUPLE DEPARTMENTS THAT [00:35:01] DID NOT PASS ACCREDITATION THE FIRST TIME. AGAIN, OUR PLAN IS TO PASS ACCREDITATION IN MARCH. UH, BUT SPEAKING TO YOU AND SHOWING YOU THIS INFORMATION IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE VERY PROUD OF AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND IT. I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING WITH EACH OF THE NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS AND ANY OF THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT WE WILL GO THROUGH THIS BOOK AND LET YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT. BUT AGAIN, VERY COMPREHENSIVE AND I THANK MY TEAM AND I STAND FORWARD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU, CHIEF, AS ALWAYS A GREAT PRESENTATION. UH, I THINK IT'S WORTH NOTING, UH, 1%, UH, YOU MENTIONED OF THE FIRE. YES MA'AM. FIRE DEPARTMENTS IN THE COUNTRY YES. HOLD THIS ACCREDITATION. IT'S SOMETHING TO BE VERY PROUD OF. ABSOLUTELY. AND I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT Y'ALL WILL PASS WITH FLYING COLORS IN MARCH. UM, AND I, I THINK WE SOMETIMES WE'RE A LITTLE TOO FOLLOW IN, IN THIS CITY, RIGHT? WE WE HAVE A REALLY GREAT, UM, FIRE DEPARTMENT AND I THINK, UH, WE'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO CONTINUOUSLY APPROVE, OF COURSE. YES MA'AM. BUT, UM, WE HAVE TO GIVE YOU GUYS, UM, LADIES, DO YOU, WE REALLY HAVE AN INCREDIBLE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT. UM, THE, I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND I'M CURIOUS, WHAT AGENCY, UH, AWARDS THE ACCREDITATION? IS IT A FEDERAL AGENCY OR NO, IT'S A CENTER FOR, UH, THE CCF. I JUST SAW THAT C F A I. YEAH. WHAT IS THAT? YEAH, SO IT'S A CENTER FOR, UH, FIRE ACCREDITATION INTERNATIONAL, AND THEY'RE PART OF I C M A. OKAY. YES MA'AM. OKAY. OKAY. I WAS JUST CURIOUS. UM, AND CAN YOU DISCUSS A LITTLE, UM, SO ONE OF MY BUDGET ASKS WAS, UH, FOR A NEEDS ASSESSMENT STUDY. YES, MA'AM. AND I UNDERSTOOD THAT THE ACCREDITATION PROCESS WAS GONNA COVER THAT. WILL YOU DISCUSS HOW THE ACCREDITATION PROCESS COVERS THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT STUDY? SO, AND I'LL, I'LL GO BACK TO THE I S O RATING. SO BASICALLY, I S O IS GOING TO LOOK AT WHERE OUR STATIONS ARE LOCATED, WHAT OUR WATER SYSTEM LOOKS LIKE. WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT OUR COMMUNICATIONS, UH, LOOK AT OUR AVAILABILITY TO GET TO A CERTAIN LOCATION, LOOK AT WHERE OUR HYDRANTS ARE LAID OUT. AND SO THAT IS BASICALLY LOOKING AT THE FIRE INFRASTRUCTURE, AS I MENTIONED, TO SEE WHETHER WE CAN SUPPORT 1.6 MILLION PEOPLE. SO THAT IS THE I S O RATING. AND SO THAT IS AGAIN, TELLING ME HOW MANY FIRE TRUCKS, HOW MANY, UH, HYDRANTS WE NEED, THINGS LIKE THAT. SO THE ACCREDITATION HIGHLIGHTS A PROGRAM. SO WE CREATED A QUARTERMASTER PROGRAM. UH, MOST DEPARTMENTS DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THAT OR THEY DON'T HAVE IT. SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO VALIDATE THE NEED AND THE EFFICIENCIES OF THAT PROGRAM. SO, UM, THE, IT'S GOING TO LOOK AT EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM, VALIDATE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROGRAMS, AND THEN HOW DO WE FILL IN THE NEEDS OF THOSE PROGRAMS AS FAR AS PERSONNEL. SO A NEEDS ASSESSMENT IS WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO AS SOON AS WE GET DONE WITH THIS, UH, SITE VISIT, STARTING IN THE FALL TO LOOK AT, OKAY, WHAT OTHER THINGS DO WE NEED AS FAR AS AN ORGANIZATION, NOT NECESSARILY FIRE TRUCKS, BUT INFRASTRUCTURE THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED. I S O IS GONNA COME OUT AND SAY, OKAY, YOU KNOW, TO STAY ON PACE, YOU'RE GONNA NEED TO ADD A LADDER TRUCK. WE'VE GOT A LADDER TRUCK COMING ON IN THIS FALL LADDER 45 OUT IN YOUR DISTRICT. SO IT'S GOING TO LOOK AT THOSE NEEDS. AND SO WITH I S O, WE HAVE TO STAY ON PACE WITH, UM, OUR BUDGET FORECAST, OUR FINANCIAL FORECAST TO PLAN AHEAD. SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE DOING. WE KNEW WHEN WE WENT THROUGH I S O, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO ADD TWO LADDERS IN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME. SO WE'RE ON PACE TO, TO MAINTAIN THAT. I S O THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL DO TO LOOK AT THE INTERNAL THINGS THAT WE NEED TO ADD FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. SO ONCE WE HAVE THAT NEEDS ASSESSMENT OR THE ACCREDITATION, UM, WE'LL, FOR, FOR NEXT BUDGET, WE'LL KNOW EXACTLY WHAT EQUIPMENT, WHAT INFRASTRUCTURE, WHAT, UM, WHAT WE NEED. YES MA'AM. OKAY. IS THERE ANY, AND MAYBE THIS IS PARTLY FOR YOU TO MARIA, IS THERE ANY, UM, ALLOCATION SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT BUDGET? UM, IS THERE AN KIND OF A SET ASIDE FOR EQUIPMENT WE MIGHT NEED ONCE WE FIND OUT IN MARCH OR I GUESS THIS FALL, A NEEDS ASSESSMENT. SO WE CAN DO IT A LITTLE SOONER THAN, THAN THE NEXT BUDGET. WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW IN OUR TWO YEAR BUDGET, COUNCILWOMAN IS AN ADDITIONAL ENGINE AND FISCAL YEAR, YEAR 25 WITH THAT INCLUDES 15 NEW, UH, FIREFIGHTERS IN THE, IN THE, IN THE TRUCK. OKAY. SO THAT'S WHAT'S INCLUDED. UM, OTHER THAN THAT, WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE SET ASIDE FOR 25. SO AS CHIEF MENTIONED, ONCE THEY COMPLETE THAT NEEDS ASSESSMENT, WHICH WILL BE ON TIME FOR THE FINANCIAL FORECAST, UM, 'CAUSE YOU'LL BE DONE PROBABLY IN FEBRUARY, MARCH? YES, MA'AM. AND WE COME TO THE COUNCIL IN APRIL, THEN WE'LL HAVE THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, ON TIME FOR THE BUDGET. RIGHT. YOU, YOU KNOW, AND IT, IT REALLY PREVENTS US FROM UM, SAY 2007 WHEN I GOT HERE, WE WERE FLYING IN THE BLIND. OKAY, WELL WE THINK WE NEED SOMETHING OVER HERE, OR PEOPLE ARE SAYING WE NEED SOMETHING OVER THERE. AND SO THIS WILL ALLOW US AND FUTURE COUNCILS, FUTURE [00:40:01] FIRE CHIEFS, FUTURE CITY MANAGERS, THAT THEY HAVE A PLAN. SO WE KNOW THAT FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS WE'RE GONNA BE, UH, MONITORING THIS PLAN FOR CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT AND THEN START GETTING READY FOR ANOTHER ONE. OKAY. BUT WHEN YOU SIT DOWN AND TAKE A LOOK AT THIS, IT REALLY EXPLAINS THE SAN ANTONIO FIRE DEPARTMENT FROM FRONT TO BACK IN THIS BOOK. GREAT. WELL, I LOOK FORWARD TO GOING THROUGH IT. IS THIS BOOK, UH, OR WILL IT BE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC? IS IT ONLINE? IS THERE LIKE SUPER SECRET ? IT'S JUST TO THE STATIONS RIGHT NOW. OKAY. SO AGAIN, IF, IF, IF WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT'S THE BEST THING, BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE ACCREDITATION MEANS AND WHAT THE OTHER DISTINCTION AS FAR AS BEING A CLASS ONE MEANS. OKAY. AGREED. UM, THE DR UH, UH, COUNCILMAN COUNCILWOMAN, DR. CORA WAS ASKING IF IT'S IN A P D F, WHICH I'M SENSING THAT SHE LIKES PDFS, . YEAH, I HAVE THE OPPOSITE ISSUE. I, I NEED TO LIKE, WE, THE BOOK, WE CAN GET YOU, WE CAN GET YOUR P D F, UH, AND, AND COUNCILWOMAN, WE'RE GOING TO MEET YOU AT 1130, SO WE CAN ALSO WALK THROUGH A LITTLE BIT STUFF AS WE ALSO GIVE YOU SOME OTHER INFORMATION. I DO WANNA GET A LITTLE INTO THE WEEDS CHIEF, CERTAINLY. UM, JUST A LITTLE BIT 'CAUSE I HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT, AND I'M STILL ON PAGE 2 21, LOOKING AT PLANNING ZONE 38. UM, CAN YOU, CAN YOU TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT TOP TABLE WHERE YOU HAVE ALARM HANDLING TURNOUT TIME? CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT JUST A LITTLE BIT? OKAY, SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PAGE 2 21? YEAH. ON ANY OF THE PLANNING ZONES, I GUESS UNDERNEATH THE PLANNING ZONE SUMMARY, YOU HAVE A TABLE, UH, IT SAYS 90TH PERCENTILES BENCHMARK. YES, MA'AM. SO, UH, BASICALLY IT LOOKS AT, SAY, WE'LL GO TO PAGE 2 21. WE'LL LOOK AT, UM, FY 18 TO 22. SO THE BENCHMARK WAS, UH, FOR ALARM HANDLING WAS TWO MINUTES AND UM, 21 SECONDS. AND SO, UH, WE WERE, UM, YOU KNOW, RIGHT THERE COUPLE YEARS, LITTLE BIT LE LITTLE BIT OVER. UH, AND THEN, SO BASICALLY THE ALARM HANDLING IS WHEN SOMEONE CALLS 9 1 1, IT'S USUALLY GOING THROUGH THE P PSAP. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE US TO GET THAT CALL OVER TO OUR DISPATCH? HOW LONG DOES THAT PROCESS TAKE? AND IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OTHER DEPARTMENTS IN THE COUNTRY, IT MAY TAKE FIVE OR SIX MINUTES BECAUSE THEY'RE COMPETING AGAINST AGENCIES. UM, AND THEN THEY HAVE A HUMAN THAT IS DISPATCHING OUR DISPATCH, IS DONE BY A COMPUTER, WHICH IS, IS A LITTLE MORE, UM, SUSTAINABLE VERSUS SOMEONE WITH THE EMOTION SPITTING OUT CONSTANTLY FIRE TRUCKS AND E M S RESPONSES. IT'S DONE BY A COMPUTER. SO HOW DO WE GET THOSE CALLS OUT AS QUICK AS WE POSSIBLY CAN. AND SO, UM, TURNOUT TIME, TURNOUT TIME FOR NON-MEDICAL IS JUST BASICALLY GETTING ON THE TRUCK. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE US TO GET FROM THE TRUCK? IT COULD BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. IT COULD BE SOMEBODY'S IN THE SHOWER, SOMEBODY'S WORKING OUT. SO THOSE TURNOUT TIMES THAT YOU SEE 1 51, 1 47, 1 50, THAT MEANS THAT THEY'RE IN A STATION. IF THEY ARE OUT ON THE ROAD, THEY'RE NOT GONNA HAVE A TURNOUT TIME BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA BE ON THE ROAD TRAVEL TIME. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE US TO GET TO POINT A TO POINT B? WHAT IS THE TRAVEL TIME? AND THAT'S BASICALLY IN THIS PLANNING ZONE, WHETHER THERE'S TRAFFIC, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE US TO GET THERE? AND THEN THE TOTAL RESPONSE, SO IF YOU LOOK AT, UM, THAT SAME YEAR FOR 22, IF YOU LOOK DOWN FOR TOTAL RESPONSE, TOTAL RESPONSE WAS 1317. AND THAT IS TO, UM, GET AN EFFECTIVE RESPONSE FORCE THERE. THAT'S TO GET ALL THE UNITS THERE. OKAY. SO THAT KIND OF EXPLAINS THAT PIECE, BUT IT DOES FOR EVERY, EVERY DISTRICT. OKAY. THANK YOU. YES, MA'AM. AND MY, MY LAST QUESTION, THE DO THE PLANNING WELL, IS THERE A MAP THAT OVERLAYS THE PLANNING ZONES WITH COUNCIL DISTRICTS? YES MA'AM. WE COULD GET THAT POINT. DO WE HAVE IT IN HERE OR NO? DO YOU MIND DISTRIBUTING IT TO THE COUN, THE FULL COUNCIL? PROBABLY NOT JUST THIS COMMITTEE. YEAH. OKAY. SO HOLD ON. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE. YEAH, YEAH. SO EACH PLANNING ZONE, SO YOU MAY HAVE EACH OF, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF PLANNING ZONES. I THOUGHT WE HAD. UH, OKAY, HERE WE GO. SO, OH, I SEE. YOU CAN SEE THE CITY. OKAY. SOME PLANNING ZONES ARE HUMONGOUS AND SOME IN THE, UH, YOU KNOW, DOWN IN THE CORE OF THE CITY, THEY'RE SMALLER. BUT AGAIN, THAT WOULD BE REALLY EASY TO OVERLAY THAT WITH THE DISTRICT. VERY EASY TO DO, IF YOU DON'T MIND SENDING IT OUT TO AT LEAST THIS COMMITTEE, BUT PROBABLY THE FULL COUNCIL I WOULD IMAGINE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT. ABSOLUTELY. WE CAN DO THAT FOR YOU. OKAY, THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? COUNCILWOMAN ? YEAH, I WAS CURIOUS. UM, WE GET A LOT OF REQUESTS FOR SPEED BUMPS OR TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES FROM RESIDENTS IN DISTRICT SEVEN. SO I DIDN'T KNOW HOW THEY INTERACTED WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT [00:45:01] DO, IF Y'ALL ARE SEEING WHAT PUBLIC WORKS IS DOING ON THE STREETS AND, AND IF THAT IMPACTS Y'ALL'S RESPONSE TIME AT ALL. UH, YOU KNOW, PERSONALLY, FIRE DEPARTMENTS DON'T LIKE SPEED BUMPS. . YEAH. UM, AND SO IF YOU GET, UM, IF YOU GET A BUNCH OF SPEED BUMPS IN A COMMUNITY, IT SLOWS US DOWN ABOUT EIGHT OR NINE SECONDS EVERY TIME WE HAVE TO SLOW DOWN BECAUSE WE CAN'T EVIL KL THOSE SPEED BUMPS IN THOSE BIG TRUCKS. SO WE DO WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH PLANNING, UH, AND STREETS. WE DO HAVE, UH, TIMES WHERE PEOPLE WILL, UM, PUT THEIR OWN SPEED BUMPS UP IN A, IN A NEIGHBORHOOD AND SOMEONE WILL COMPLAIN AND WE'LL GO OUT WITH, WITH PLANNING OR STREETS TO LOOK AT THAT. SO ANYTHING THAT'S GONNA IMPEDE US AS FAR AS GATED COMMUNITIES, AS FAR AS, UH, SPEED BUMPS, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT ARE IMPEDIMENTS THAT WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT AND WORK THROUGH PLANNING OR THE DEVELOPER OF A OF A, OF A PROJECT. YEAH, I MEAN IT IS JUST, I THINK JUST SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION. 'CAUSE WE DO GET SO MANY OF THOSE REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL STOP SIGNS AND SPEED BUMPS AND OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T WANNA SLOW THE FIRE, UH, OUR FIREFIGHTERS DOWN. BUT, UM, AT THE SAME TIME TOO, SPEEDING WAS GOING RIGHT. AND, AND, AND AGAIN, WE, WE WORK VERY SEAMLESSLY WITH THEM, BUT WE DO HAVE OCCURRENCES WHERE SOLOMON WILL, AND IT WAS IN MY, DOWN THE STREET FROM ME IN D 10 AND THEY PUT THESE BIG MONSTER SPEED BUMPS UP ON OAK LINE AND IT WASN'T, WASN'T CLEAR THROUGH PLANNING. SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT. THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN. COUNCILMAN, I'M SORRY. COUNCILWOMAN. DR. COR . UM, I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE DENSITY MAP IN CORRELATION TO THE EQUITY SCORE. I'M SORRY, LIKE THE DENSITY MAP IN CORRELATION TO THE EQUITY SCORE. YES MA'AM. AND SO IT SEEMS LIKE THE DENSITY MAP IS, IS IT CORRELATED TO THE EQUITY SCORE AT ALL? AND CAN YOU KIND OF DESCRIBE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT THE EQUITY SCORE, WHAT FACTORS IT TAKES INTO CONSIDERATION? LIKE I UNDERSTAND THE, HOW YOU GET THE NUMBER, BUT WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT TAKES INTO HOW DO YOU GET A NINE VERSUS A TWO? OKAY. UH, COUNCILWOMAN, IF I MAY, AS WE'RE GETTING THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO TALK ABOUT THE DENSITY MAP AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO THE EQUITY MAP, I CAN ADDRESS THE EQUITY ATLAS THAT WE USE. UM, OUR OFFICE OF UM, UH, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION MANAGES THAT PROGRAM AND IT'S A MAP THAT COMBINES THE DEMOGRAPHICS RAISE AND INCOME OF OUR POPULATION. AND THE LARGER THE PERCENTAGE OF MINORITIES AND THE LARGER THE PERCENTAGE OF A LOW INCOME GIVES YOU A HIGH EQUITY SCORE. SO A 10 IS THE HIGHEST EQUITY SCORE THAT COMBINES THE MAJORITY OF THOSE TWO ITEMS THAT I MENTIONED. AND THEN YOUR LOWEST EQUITY SCORE IS THE LESSER THE PRESENCE OF LOW INCOME AND, UH, AND RACE. BUT IF IT'S JUST LIKE IF I CALL IN FROM A HIGH, UH, AREA WITH A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, LOW, ALL OF THOSE FACTORS COMBINED, THEN I AUTOMATICALLY GET A 10. IT'S NOT LIKE TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION HOW FAST THE RESPONSE TIME IS OR HOW. SO THERE'S NO RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WORK OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. WE USE THE EQUITY ATLAS FOR A LOT OF PROGRAMS ACROSS THE CITY TO, UM, DISTRIBUTE RESOURCES, FOR EXAMPLE, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BEING MORE IMPACTFUL, MORE TARGETED, UH, IN SOME OF THE AREAS OF THE CITY. BUT IN TERMS OF THE RESPONSE TIME, UH, THAT IS THE SAME ACROSS THE CITY. UH, WE JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, UH, FOR THIS COMMITTEE IN TERMS OF THOSE CALLS THAT WE GET, ESPECIALLY FOR MEDICAL CALLS AS WE IMPLEMENTED THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE GOOD SAM APP THAT IS HELPING, UM, EVERYBODY ACROSS THE CITY. BUT THERE'S A HIGHEST CONCENTRATION ON THOSE AREAS OF THE CITY THAT HAVE A HIGH EQUITY SCORE. SO, SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE A HIGH SCORE. VERY GOOD, VERY GOOD RESPONSE MARIA. SO, UH, COUNCILWOMAN IN EVERY CALL THAT, UM, WE, WE WENT ON, WE LOOKED AT THE TYPE OF INCIDENT AND WE SCORED IT ON THE, UH, EQUITY SCORE. SO EVERY INCIDENT WE HAVE SCORED THE DENSITY THAT YOU SEE IS JUST A DENSITY THAT AS FAR AS IT RUNS. AND SO, OKAY, SO BUT HAVE YOU ALL DONE THE RESEARCH OF BECAUSE, SO HIGHER EQUITY SCORE THEN JUST MEANS HIGHEST NEEDS ARE LIKE, UH, LOWER IN COMMUNITY, LOWER INCOME COMMUNITIES WOULD INHERENTLY THEN HAVE HIGHER EQUITY SCORES, RIGHT? YES MA'AM. WELL, AS FAR AS OUR GOOD SAM PROGRAMS, YES MA'AM. WE ARE REACHING AREAS OF OF COLOR AND SO YOU SEE THOSE SCORES HIGHER. SO IS THERE AN OVERLAY WITH INCIDENTS BY RISK LEVEL AND SERVICE TYPE AND EQUITY? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? LIKE WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY? YES, YES. UH, WE HAVEN'T DONE A MAP LIKE THAT, BUT WE CAN DO ONE. THE ONE THAT WE HAVE DONE IS, UM, AND I'M LOOKING AT CHIEF MCMULLEN'S, THE ONE THAT WE HAVE DONE SPECIFICALLY IS FOR THE GOOD SAM APP. 'CAUSE WE WANTED TO SEE HOW WE WERE IMPACTING OUR COMMUNITY, BUT WE, WE CAN DEFINITELY DO IT FOR ANY OF THE OTHER RESPONSES OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. OKAY, COOL. AND THEN THE LAST QUESTION I WANTED TO ASK WAS, UM, I'M SURE YOU'VE HEARD OF THE A R T THAT'S COMING, UM, [00:50:01] DOWN SAN PEDRO, UM, AS A PART OF THE VIA PROGRAM AND THERE ARE SOME CONCERNS FROM RESIDENTS ABOUT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT NOT BEING ABLE TO GET TO, RESPONDING TO CALLS SPECIFIC. IT'S, I'M LOOKING AT PLANNING ZONE SIX. THAT'S THE ONE THAT'S I THINK GOING TO BE MAJOR REFLECTED, BUT THE TWO, UH, ZONES THAT ARE GOING TO BE AFFECTED ARE I GUESS SIX AND 28. SO I WASN'T SURE IF YOU GUYS HAD LIKE, AS A PART OF THIS TAKEN A LOOK AT IS THAT, IS THE A R T GOING TO AFFECT Y'ALL'S ABILITY TO GET HOMES IF THERE'S A FIRE? SO, UM, AND IT'S FUNNY, I WAS PART OF THE LIGHT RAIL IMPLEMENTATION TEAM IN PHOENIX WHEN THEY WENT THROUGH AND, AND WE HAD MEMBERS THAT WERE ASSIGNED TO WORK WITH PLANNING WORK WITH THE DEVELOPERS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD HYDRANTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD ACCESS TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ACCESSIBILITY. UM, THERE'S A PROJECT THE AT THE ALAMO RIGHT NOW. AND SO WE WORK WITH THEM, OUR FIRE PREVENTION OFFICE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN GET IN ANY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT ARE THERE PLUGS, IS THERE ACCESS, IS THIS STREET TOO NARROW? CAN WE GET OUR FIRE TRUCKS DOWN THESE STREETS? THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT IN ANY TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT THAT'S GOING UP. UH, BUT WE HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING SPECIFIC FOR THE A R T YET. NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE NO MA'AM. BUT, BUT AGAIN, WHEN THAT PICKS UP, YES, WE'LL BE A PART OF THAT. ALSO, I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THAT OFFLINE WITH YOU JUST BECAUSE I'M REALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, INVOLVED WITH BE, UH, HERE SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT THEY HAVE AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT. UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? COUNCILMAN MKI RODRIGUEZ? THANK YOU CHAIR. UM, AND I AM, SO I'M WANTING TO BRIDGE A CONVERSATION THAT WAS HAPPENING AT THE CHECK COMMITTEE, UM, LAST TERM THAT I'M SURE IS GOING TO CONTINUE ON. AND I KNOW THAT, UH, BOTH COUNCILMAN GRITO AND COUNCILMAN CORE, UH, SERVE ON THAT COMMITTEE. UM, AND ONE OF, AND IT'S IN PART DUE TO THE CLOSURE OF TEXAS VISTA, UH, ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE. AND THERE WERE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, ASSERTING OURSELVES IN CONVERSATIONS AROUND, UM, HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND SPECIFICALLY FULL HOSPITALS. AND SOMETHING THAT I THINK BECAME A CONVERSATION WAS, UH, TRANSPORTATION RATES, THE, A CHANGE IN TRANSPORTATION RATES, UH, POST THE CLOSURE OF THAT HOSPITAL. AND IT MADE ME THEN THINK ABOUT THE EAST SIDE AND HOW, YOU KNOW, SINCE I WAS SWORN IN, I HAD, I'VE SAID AND EXCLAIMED THAT THERE WAS, THERE'S NO HOSPITAL ON THE EAST SIDE. AND SO WHAT I WOULD WONDER IS, UM, HOW DO THE E M S TRANSPORT RATES COMPARE WITH, UH, IN DISTRICT TWO AND ON THE EAST SIDE WITH OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY? AND I THINK MAYBE THAT'S JUST A COLLECTION OF CERTAIN ZONES. IT MIGHT NOT EVEN NEED TO BE THE FULL DISTRICT, BUT I'M WONDERING IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS READILY ACCESSIBLE OR IS IT SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE A FURTHER ANALYSIS OR SOMETHING ELSE? SO YOU'RE ASKING FOR TRANSPORT TIMES OR RESPONSE TO? SO WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN THIS BUDGET UPCOMING IS WE'VE ADDED SOME PEAK HOURS TO PROVIDE ANOTHER E M S UNIT DOWN ON THAT SIDE OF TOWN. BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS, AND IT'LL BE MURPHY'S LAW THAT WE GET TWO TRANSPORTS OF TWO OF OUR MEDIC UNITS FROM DOWN IN THAT AREA AND THEY BOTH GOTTA GO TO MEDICAL CENTER. SO THEN THEY'RE OUTTA SERVICE FOR AN EXTENDED AMOUNT OF TIME. SO IF I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH RESOURCES DOWN THERE TO RUN THOSE CALLS, THAT'S WHERE THE CHALLENGE IS. SO THE CHALLENGE IS NOT NECESSARILY THE HOSPITAL TIME, BUT IT'S HOW QUICK DO I GET THEM BACK IN SERVICE? 'CAUSE IF YOU, IF WE'RE, IF I PUT YOU IN AN AMBULANCE, WE'RE NOT GONNA GO LIGHTS AND SIREN WAY UP TO THE MEDICAL CENTER, WE MAY COME TO A CLOSER HOSPITAL BECAUSE YOU ARE A CRITICAL NEED. SO AGAIN, IT'S GETTING THOSE UNITS BACK IN SERVICING. SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE GONNA ADD ADDITIONAL PEAK UNITS DOWN THERE TO, TO DEAL WITH THAT. UH, AGAIN, WE'VE DEALT WITH THOSE SAME HOSPITAL ISSUES. THERE'S A LACK OF HOSPITALS SOUTH IN THE CITY AND THAT, THAT IS A CHALLENGE FOR US. SO AGAIN, WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE RESOURCES FOR THE TURNAROUND TIME COMING BACK TO GET THOSE UNITS IN SERVICE. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW WITH THE BUDGET. I HEAR YOU AND I, YES, I WANTED TO ADD TO WHAT THE CHIEF MENTIONED, THE ANALYSIS THAT YOU ARE DESCRIBING AS SOMETHING THAT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT DID AS WE WERE PUTTING TOGETHER THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND THE CHIEF RECOMMENDED THAT WE ADDED, AS HE MENTIONED, ADDITIONAL PEAK HOURS TO ADDRESS THE TRANSPORT. SO OUR RESPONSE TIMES BASED ON THAT ANALYSIS WOULDN'T BE IMPACTED BY THE CLOSURE, BUT THE FACT THAT THE, OUR FIREFIGHTERS AND PARAMEDICS HAVE TO DRIVE FURTHER OUT TO TAKE THOSE PATIENTS, AS THE CHIEF MENTIONED, HAVING THEM COME BACK, UM, WOULD, WOULD BE IMPACTED. SO, AND, AND WHAT WE'RE DOING IS SPECIFICALLY ON FIRE STATION 21, UH, TODAY WE HAVE A, WHAT WE CALL A HALF PICK UNIT. YES MA'AM. THAT, UH, SERVES, [00:55:01] UH, FOUR DAYS A WEEK. WE ARE EXTENDING IT TO SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. AND OUT OF THOSE THREE DAYS, UH, BASED ON THE ANALYSIS DONE BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, THAT THAT UNIT WILL BE AVAILABLE 24 HOURS AND THE BALANCE OF THE WEEK WILL BE AVAILABLE 12 HOURS. AND WITH THAT, WE FEEL COM CONFIDENT THAT IT WOULDN'T BE AN IMPACT TO OUR RESIDENTS THAT WE SERVE IN THAT AREA OF THE CITY. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THAT. AND I THINK WHAT I'M, I THINK WHAT I'M ASKING, AND I'LL USE WHAT I THINK MY CONSTITUENTS CARE ABOUT MOST, WHICH IS FROM THE TIME THAT THEY PLACE THEIR CALL TO THE TIME SOMEBODY ARRIVES, THAT WOULD BE TOTAL RESPONSE ACCURATE OR IS THAT, SO BASICALLY THE TIME THAT IF, IF YOU LOOK AT THE TIME THAT YOU CALL AND ENGINE FIVE GETS TO YOUR HOUSE, IT MAY BE SEVEN, IT MAY BE EIGHT MINUTES. AND SO I'M GETTING ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT TO YOU IN EIGHT MINUTES. SO I'VE GOT A PARAMEDIC ON YOUR FRONT DOOR THAT THEY'RE TAKING CARE OF YOU. IT MAY TAKE LONGER FOR THAT AMBULANCE TO GET THERE, BUT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT AS FAR AS YOU KNOW, UH, THE BASELINE TIME, THE TIME YOU CALL, THE TIME I GOT THERE TOOK ME EIGHT MINUTES. BUT IF I'M LOOKING AT A HOUSE FIRE AND WE LOOK AT THE FRACTAL SCORES, I'M LOOKING AT THE TOTAL RESPONSE. I MAY HAVE A FIRETRUCK THERE IN EIGHT MINUTES, BUT IT MAY TAKE ME ANOTHER 15 TO GET THAT SECOND LADDER IN THERE. MM-HMM. . SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE E R F. BUT AS FAR AS ME GETTING SOMEBODY YOUR DOOR, OUR A L S TIMES ARE WHAT WE SEE AS FAR AS LIKE SEVEN, EIGHT MINUTES WE REPORT TO COUNCIL. BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT EFFECTIVE RESPONSE FORCE, WE'RE LOOKING AT EVERYBODY COMING IN AS FAR AS EVERYBODY GETTING THERE. AND AGAIN, UM, WITH THE FIRETRUCKS AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'LL GO THROUGH WITH NEW COUNSEL. WE HAVE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT ON EVERY SINGLE FIRETRUCK TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE TAKING CARE OF THE PATIENT VERSUS WORRYING ABOUT THE TRANSPORT INITIALLY. AND WE'RE TRANSPORTING ABOUT 30% OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE GO ON RIGHT NOW. SO HAVING THE A L S ON THE FIRE TRUCKS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, I GUESS THE QUESTION THAT I'M ASKING. SO TOTAL RESPONSE HERE IN THIS TABLE THAT I'M REALLY JUST TRYING TO CLARIFY DEFINITIONS FOR MYSELF AND I'M BETTER UNDERSTAND. OKAY. SO I CAN, UH, SO WE ARE, WE ARE LOOKING AT BASELINE TIMES AS FAR AS THE BASELINE TIME FOR A UNIT TO GET THERE. AND THEN WHEN WE LOOK AT THE E R F, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE EVERYBODY TO GET THERE IN A HOUSE FIRE? SO, AND SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT HAVING SIX UNITS COME IN CHIEF, IF I MAY, I THINK WE'RE A LITTLE, GETTING A LITTLE, I'M GETTING A LITTLE CONFUSED WITH ALL THE ACRONYMS. UM, I THINK OKAY, SO THE, OKAY, SO SLIDE 19. I'M SORRY. SO IF YOU LOOK AT, IF YOU LOOK AT THE FRACTO, WHICH IS 90%, SO I'M GONNA LOOK AT A HUNDRED CALLS AND I'M GONNA TAKE THE 90TH CALL AND, AND CALCULATE THAT. SO IT, IT'S FRACTILE. SO FRACTILE IS REALLY, UM, DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. THAT'S WHY WE GO BY THE BASELINE TIME AS FAR AS WHAT IS TAKING A UNIT TO GET THERE. SO THE ALARM TIME HANDLING IS GOING TO BE A, A PART OF IT. THE TURNOUT TIME FOR THEM TO GET DRESSED IS ANOTHER PIECE OF IT. AND IF IT'S A FIRE, THE TURNOUT TIME, THEY HAVE TO PUT THEIR EQUIPMENT ON BEFORE THEY GET ON THE TRUCK. THEN THE FIRST IN TRAVEL TIME. SO THE FIRST IN TRAVEL TIME IS GONNA BE, COULD BE EIGHT MINUTES AND 10 SECONDS. BUT FOR ME TO GET EVERY PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THERE ON A FIRE, IT MAY BE THAT EXTENDED TIME. 'CAUSE I HAVE FIRE TRUCKS COMING FROM ALL OVER THE CITY AND, AND I KNOW IT'S, IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION. ON PAGE 332 OF THE DOCUMENT, THERE'S DEFINITIONS FOR EVERYTHING ON THE, THE, THE, UM, CHART THAT THE CHIEF DESCRIBED. AND I THINK IT'S HELPFUL AS YOU, YOU GO THROUGH IT IN TERMS OF THE TOTAL RESPONSE TIME AS THE CHIEF MENTIONED, IS FOR THE TIME THAT THEY'RE STARTING AT THE POINT OF CALL AND YOU, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CHART, UM, AND ENDING WHEN THE COMPLETE EFFECTIVE RESPONSE FORCE TIME ARRIVES ON SCENE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I, AND THE REASON, AND YOU'VE SHARED A LOT OF GREAT INFORMATION, BUT THE POINT I WAS TRYING TO GET AT WAS IF WE'RE LOOKING AT TOTAL RESPONSE, TOTAL RESPONSE TIME, UM, OR EVEN THE UP TO THE FIRST END TRAVEL TIME, UM, WHAT IS, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ARE THERE AREAS, IS IT CONSISTENT ACROSS THE CITY OR ARE THERE AREAS OF THE CITY IN WHICH IT TAKES A LITTLE BIT LONGER? AND HOW DO WE ADDRESS THAT? AND I IMAGINE THAT IT SOUNDS LIKE YES, WE ARE GOING TO ADDRESS IT. WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN IS ACTUALLY SEEING THAT SO THAT I, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE BASIS WE'RE USING TO MAKE X, Y, Z DECISION. THAT'S [01:00:01] WHAT I'M ASKING FOR. AND THEN THE SECOND PIECE OF THAT IS, UM, A QUESTION. IT'S MORE FOR MARIA, BUT HAVE WE CONDUCTED A STAFFING ANALYSIS FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT? WE HAVE NOT. COUNCILMAN AND AS THE CHIEF MENTIONED, AS SOON AS THEY'RE DONE WITH THE VISIT THAT IS PENDING FOR ACCREDITATION, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WILL BEGIN WITH A NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND WE HOPE TO HAVE THAT COMPLETED BY MARCH, UM, IN TIME FOR THE, FOR THE BUDGET CYCLE FOR NEXT YEAR. AND THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT WON'T JUST BE INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL AND THAT THOSE NEEDS IT WILL INCLUDE STAFFING. IT WILL INCLUDE STAFFING, YES, SIR. OKAY. YES. AND, AND SO THE, THE THING ABOUT LIKE IF I S O CAME IN HERE TODAY, WOULD WE HAVE THE RESOURCES TO, TO BE A CLASS ONE? YES, WE HAVE THE STAFFING AND THE FIRE TRUCKS, YES. DO WE HAVE OTHER NEEDS THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS? YES. AND SO WE'RE DOING SOME OF THOSE IN OUR BUDGET, LIKE QUARTERMASTER AND SOME THINGS LIKE THAT TO HELP SUSTAIN US. BUT AGAIN, WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR FIRE STATIONS, THEY'RE STRATEGICALLY DEPLOYED. GOING BACK TO THE QUESTION THAT YOU ASKED FOR EARLIER, AND THEN THE SYSTEM IS RESILIENT. LAST SUNDAY WE HAD A SECOND, WE HAD TWO SECOND ALARM FIRES WHERE WE USED OVER 50 PIECES OF EQUIPMENT ON ONE FIRE. SO WHEN THAT HAPPENS, WE MOVE FIRE TRUCKS AND AMBULANCES TO FILL IN THOSE GAPS. SO AGAIN, THE SYSTEM IS RESILIENT AND AGAIN, IT, IT'S NO TELLING WHERE AN INCIDENT MAY OCCUR. IT MAY OCCUR ON THE FAR SOUTHEAST SIDE. I'M TAKING A BUNCH OF RESOURCES TO THAT SIDE OF TOWN RIGHT THIS MINUTE, WHAT'S LEFT, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO COVER THE CITY AND BE RESILIENT WITH THAT. SO AGAIN, IF WE COULD PUT A FIRETRUCK ON EVERY CORNER, WE WOULD, WOULD THAT BE EFFICIENT? NO. AND SO AGAIN, THE SYSTEM IS RESILIENT AND SO WHEN YOUR UNITS ARE OUT, SOMEBODY ELSE IS COMING IN TO REPLACE 'EM IN YOUR, IN YOUR DISTRICTS. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME GO OVER COURSE A LITTLE BIT. YEAH, OF COURSE. I'LL JUST, UM, ADD, THE REASON I ASKED THAT QUESTION IS I'D BE VERY INTERESTED IN THE KIND OF STAFFING ANALYSIS THAT WE DID FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. AND I'M THINKING OF THREE MAJOR DEPARTMENTS. I'M THINKING OF THE POLICE, FIRE AND A C S. UM, IT SOUNDS LIKE FI THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS GOING TO BE COVERED, BUT FOR FUTURE, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY CONVERSATIONS, I THINK AN ANALYSIS LIKE THAT FOR A C S WOULD IT BE APPROPRIATE TO DETERMINE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALLOCATING FTES AND WHATNOT WHERE THEY SHOULD BE? YES. COUNCILMAN, THANK YOU CHAIR, OTHER ROUND. OKAY. THANK YOU CHIEF. APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU ALL. UM, AND I, I DON'T THINK WE CAN OVERSTATE AGAIN JUST HOW, UM, WHAT A GREAT JOB Y'ALL ARE DOING, HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU. WE ALWAYS OF COURSE WANNA GET THANK THESE GUYS BACK HERE. THEY'RE AMAZING. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THE QUESTION THAT YOU ASK ON THE COUNCIL AND THE DISTRICT YEAH. EQUITY IS ON PAGE 12. OKAY. WHAT? THREE 12. THREE 12. THREE 12. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND WE, WE WILL POUR OVER THESE. WE MAY HAVE SOME INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONS FOR YOU LATER WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO AT NIGHT, LOOK AT THIS. OKAY. . THANK YOU CHIEF. THAT'S RIGHT, . THAT'S RIGHT. ALRIGHT, WITH UH, NO OTHER QUESTIONS, CONCERNS. WE'RE ALL, WE'RE ALL DONE FOR THIS MEETING. UM, THANKS, UH, FOR A PRODUCTIVE MEETING. I LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, TO CONTINUING THIS WORK WITH ALL OF YOU. AND AS ALWAYS, PLEASE UH, REACH OUT IF THERE'S ANYTHING Y'ALL WANNA DISCUSS HERE. AND I THINK I ACTUALLY HAVE SOME GOOD IDEAS FROM, FROM THIS MEETING. SO I APPRECIATE YOU AND THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED. THANK YOU. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.