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officer. but short of that i'd like to acknowledge the ability to talk about the budget for 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 >> i want to acknowledge our chief operating officer as well as the budget analysis and right now the budget analysis has an audit going on in which they're looking at our staffing on little ems side brought before conceding we're all looking forward to the audit specifically to staffing. labor they did an audit on overall departmental operations but more with our ems staffing. so we'll be going through slide number one. and we'll come up first and have
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hard copies for your as well >> this slide basically give us an omaha budgeted in total our budgeted is $356 million for the 2014-2015. of which $329 million is operating budget covers the fire desperation and the specialized unit and the fire investigation unit and the training distinction and our support bureau. the non-you fund is the airport which are fully funded by airport and the port of san francisco. the next slide give us a brief overview regarding the sources of our budget. here's a look at the source that make ups our budget the dependent on the general fund to fund our operations about 70
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percent and the remaining are from state revenues and public safety sales tax and those are the ways in which the department generated the medical emergency services. and but you can see the general fund is 2/3rd's of our funding. particularly we've seen grant funding for our department. next slide as we look at how the department has a program funding break down the large majority is designated for operations which are the direct fire desperation and this medical services provided to the public including did staffing of our fire department's station and ambulance here. as you know the department has a
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minimum staffing in addition, we have a dynamically deployed ambulance model. the budget covers all the administration and support functions including the workers' compensation and the bureau of fire prosecution prevention and investigation and do you have a question supervisor wiener. the vast majority of our budget in salaries and fringe benefits is 84 percent that leaves us with a challenge of 11 percent to maintain the infrastructure it's an aging infrastructure i'm sure you're aware of with the department to maintain our daily operations and as well as capital and equipment replacement when the builders passed the easter bond it helped
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with the project and we looked forward to continue on with the funding in the future. before moving to our budget proposal for the next two years i want to reiterate the current year some of the police department will see the graduation we have graduated 43 and another bunch will be gratulating. we're happy with the elective branch of the government like the police department we need more people coming in our police department there were literally years we didn't hire anyone. so the public safety hiring
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model is on deck. we've been provided with an overview new hires their anticipated to exposed our retires and we're looking at thirty retirements and as i stated we'll have 82 new hires into the department this should have a reduction in our overtime and i'll explain what's happening with the new construction you see in the mission bay. as a result of the net increasing with the staffing we're lower than the previous fiscal year the amount of overtime is directly related to the police department to the number of personnel we have on staff. in addition, we have worked closely with the department of hearsay and the local 798 to have a hard cap of 11 hundred hours this was fully implemented
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this past fiscal year we see a performance if our fire prosecution due to do on and on construction >> supervisor wiener. it's staffing positions it's similar where the staffing wise for a number of years it caused a slight overtime which part of that was intentional strategy but i know we've shipped this where we're increased staff where do you see the trend over the next 3 to 5 years with the staffing levels what that is going to mean in terms of overall furnishing of the department and overtime >> at one point we had close to 18 hundred employees about 10
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years. and we dropped to 1371 it was fiscally efficient but became problematic. we were at the point we're very, very low. i don't think we'll be at the opinion over 18 hundred employees because from a fiscal stewardship that is not necessary but certainly over 14 hundred is way too low so we're getting into the 15 and 16 hundred range >> is that open mall from your point of view. >> the budget analysis came back with the number although it was higher than we actually thought. i believe it's the 16 hundred range but we're building up certainly over 15 hundred and still analyzing that but it will
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have a direct impact and lower some of the overtime because the staffing is going up. we're going to have one academy place through 2017. and because there was no hiring done between 18981 and 87 we won't have people maximizing out so there are be a few years ago we're in the thirty to 40 range over the next 4 years although looking at down the line there will be large amounts of people looking at a retirement >> okay. >> there's a lot of similarities between the fire my safety one of the reasons our overtime will go down not
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dramatically in a fashion we'll be staffing little rock around november or december that is 9 more full-time equivalent so what occupier overtime. as we look at the projects hunters point and other locations we're going to look at the fire protections >> i among you've talked about that a few times the fire trucks and the size of them turning the road us of the fire trucks so i my understanding is that the department is dpraul replacing your fleet because their quite old and that your - i read in
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the paper actually that the department is going to move forward with 25 or $30 million purchases in new fire trucks did the press get that right. >> correct. >> how many trucks. >> we're looking at about $28 million request. in 2009 our fire commission passed a resolution specifically related to a american people race and replacement program and every year we've fallen short of that we're making do our fleet is old we're getting our money's worth i had to say wait this is not 1991 but 3 fire trucks when suggested it be modern 5 years old so the revolution b every
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year we should have two trucks that are the american people raced that do the ventilation tools and four engines and 5 ambulances every year so every year we request that amount. however, we have in the pipeline - okay. in terms of what we have an order i believe is i have it here - temple engines, 6 trucks and we're in the process of ordering 10 more ambulances >> what's the status of vehicles. >> the engines and trucks are in the process of being build. >> so you put in a request to
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the mayor's office. >> it was $28 million to breakdown temple trucks because we're playing catch up and 10 trucks, 20 engines and 35 ambulances their huge numbers because we're behind and 25 command vehicles and that totals about $28 million. >> have are you in terms of the contract do you have any contracts with that or are you going to answer into a new contract with the manufacturer so we've been having i'm sure you're aware of i'm a huge advocate of the fire department they do a terrific job in so
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many ways and actually, the last two thank you's we've had fires on walter street and another street the fire department has done a wonderful job and the fire yesterday it is shocking the fire could spread to other buildings so but as you also know we have pedestrians getting hit on our street. we've had an ongoing duration about street weight and bulk outs and pedestrian safety engineering changes on our street it's a policy directed to the board of supervisors and the mayor and the voters as well in prop b. we are trying to make our streets safer for all users.
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easier to cross, more complete streets and neighborhood kind of character. i know the fire department is at times raised concerns about some changes or some street weighs they want the streets to be wider in relation to the trucks being able to turn without hinging on the opposite lanes and so forth. i know we've worked through a lot of the issues but it's an ongoing source of tension and tension can be a good thing we have a lot of calls and dialogues but it occurs to me that, you know, fire safety and pedestrian safety are not new things. and, in fact, the fire department epic center of
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everything because the fire department responds to other emergencies as well as the accidents on your streets so that's all the fire department. and see i guess the question is really in terms of the design of the size of the fire trucks should the department be looking at getting somewhat smaller trucks or trucks with smaller whole bases so to get a smaller turning radius i'm not suggesting little toy trucks imperfect good size trucks but it's worth exploring whether they can be somewhat smaller any kind of changes that make it easier to maneuver and turn because i just don't want this
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tension to continue where there's a fire safety and farther ability for the trucks. i want to explore the option. i know in the past the department has expressed the concerns with smaller trucks. i know that cities have smaller trucks and the department has smaller trucks so i'm occurs how you respond no exploring that possibility >> thank you for your question. as you indicate we're the first responder to any emergency which includes bicycle injuries or car collisions so we fully embrace and support the policy the city has brought for the record. i agree our mission statement is
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for the pedestrian safety issue we say pride ourselves on getting to the emergency on 3 to 5 minutes. we can look at that i know there was someone that was brought out as an expert that talked about smaller apparatus. we've done some checking most of the apparatus are standard but if they need more horsepower because of the typography of the city they're carrying heavier equipment and water. there's not a whole lot of real estate on the apparatus because not only the medical that can have space there's tools and equipment and breathing apparatus and ropes. again, we, look but i sure you
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for most urban jurisdictions i don't believe our trucks are bigger they're considered standard. there's stringent standards it went forward they require the rigs s are some of them have gotten bigger because of the emotions standards we need horsepower too. i'm happy to continue, in fact, i've talked about to the fire chief in portland that's the same kind of issues there. one more point it's about navigating around the corners and another important piece is access that seems tight to me that are it was difficult to
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maneuver your apparatus you have a huge block it was very tight not only in turning the corners that's not a problem that day but the access of the street width was difficult because when we go to work putting the hydraulic jake's out was challenging. so i know that this is something you feel strongly about and i'm sure we can work it out >> i've been told that milwaukee and anaheim have tripod other ways. i know this comes up around the bulk outs we're having a discussion around the street width in the hunters point but even if we never made many
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changes there's so many streets in san francisco that are already narrow and have been for decades >> when - i get that i'm sorry if i interrupted but i feel strongly i say if my son is saying everyone is doing this. so i know that chinatown we're the second most densely populated city >> some say what makes a city a city they don't have a huge freeway but having streets that are safer for pedestrians its wideer so this will be an ongoing conversation i think, you know, and i appreciate if
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the department could do the analysis. >> milwaukee i'll talk with you. just a few more slides actually. two more slides. i want to talk about the major changes. it's a challenging year in there are a lot of asks coming from the presented their warranted the first one is - that's actually, the next slide can we go to that. it's an infusion of close to $10 million in our medical emergency services. basically not only would it be to meet the terms in its mandated for the city but just
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for the david operations because we're in a period of uncertainty for a while there was a lack of funding for the ucsf depiction. the state has ruled the city can maintain the services for 9-1-1 emergency services under the circumstances we adrenalin a minimum of 80 percent with two private ambulances companies making up the slack. we don't have sufficient resources to meet the 80 percent so we've asked additional equipment and services to increase the division. it comes in under $10 million. outside of the e o a issue we
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need to replace some of the ambulance fleets that's outdated. that's a policy discussion we're currently discussing that with the mayor's office. the second two proposals in 2014-2015 are for the fire investigation. and as to increase the staffing model we slung in 2009. the fire and police team we're proposing to restore it back to two investigators a day on a twenty-four hour period. in 2009 we decided that it was a tough decision but we needed to make reductions. and over time the staffing reduction was shown to have an adverse effect on safety and we
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support and our commission supports that we fund the second investigator and secondly a recent audit we're asking for additional personnel in our recruiting efforts. the last two fiscal years the staff of our department both uniform and civilian was reduced because the lack of resources. so we have asked that we restore a planning and recruitment position of the battalion chief targeting the new hiring in the department of human resources and testing the model >> supervisor avalos.
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>> thank you, chief thank you for your presentation. a couple of things. i met with some firefighters early this year that brought up the kroument and brought up the inclusive operating agreement. a kroument they talked about how there's a testing program that is still enabling people to apply to the fire department and not having to come to san francisco to get the test. i think we're trying to have local hiring and local residents that type of system allows for anyone else over the country to be a firefighter. so what are your thoughts of the system >> we're working closely with the human resources the police department has opted the
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continuous testing network where you described you can there's various testing sites throughout the united states. and this is something new the the last time they tested firefighters was in 2009 there were 10 thousand people that took the test on away one day but you're describing people that live closer it's valuable to have someone that knows the city or is familiar with the city. the police department from what i understand has given the thumbs-up as well as the commission and the d hr is working on it we've met with them several times to talk about the skeptic circumcision on the national model there have been shawn's for the criteria to be
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looked like the previous occupations and services between the community and that there will be value given to that as opposed to someone taking it out of the country. it's dizzy but there are ways in which - >> it's a clear selective process taking the test in san francisco i think that helps to assure that more folks who are local can apply to the department rather than bangor main. >> i think the - in a lot of ways there's incentive in that in terms of the margaret and recruitment where it was only one day you miss the window but the stuns testing someone what
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go on their convenience to take the test but i know the candidate to go to a website and apply and take the test to became a firefighter or police. we've expressed our concern related to the local hire or maybe the preserve of local hiring >> it's a policy goal for the city and the residents would like that as well. last year, we created a housing fund for people to relocate to san francisco to be able to purchase hopes it's a effort to have to make sure that san francisco, you know, public safety personnel know the terrain >> yeah. there are 33 percent
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of us in uniform are residing in the city i want it to be higher but the rest of the bulk in the hiring 33 percent is something to build on. >> right. what's happening with the conversations with the mayor's office the mayors budget office what's before us i think we're seeing a figure of $10.8 million to fund the department wants but what happens if by the don't fund is it whether will we receive a different kind of services >> so we've been in discussion with the mayor's office with our request it's $10 million. the other two pieces are the investigator positions and the recruitment positions it's penn
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$10 million for staffing and about 42 new hires for the ambulance and equipment. it's time sensitive we believe because there were a period of time when the operating area was deemed to be not in effect for a 3 beyond a reasonable doubt period of time from 08 to 11 and then it was restored to the state level. the agreement was we'll restore the operating area but you must go back to the numbers and model at that time, it was transporting 8 percent of the patient population to call 9-1-1. we've been ramping up from of 6 to 67 percent and now about 73 percent it's an improvement