Produced in multiple languages. But i cant speak to specifics on that. But as we understand, they are. Thank you. The table on this slide shows the percentage of female applicants from 1988 through 2009. As you can see over recent years, the number of female applicants has been trending down. So even though currently the composition of female employment in the Fire Department work force is meeting that ten percent threshold, the decline in the number of applicants seem to indicate that attention should be focused on recruitment efforts and we have recommended that the Fire Department develop a recruitment strategy and plan and that they coordinate with employee organizations actively around their individual recruitment efforts. We also recommended that as the department of Human Resources implements its new testing model by which firefighters will be tested for recruitment into the department, that they provide dhr provides the chief and commission ongoing performance results of that m
Produced in multiple languages. But i cant speak to specifics on that. But as we understand, they are. Thank you. The table on this slide shows the percentage of female applicants from 1988 through 2009. As you can see over recent years, the number of female applicants has been trending down. So even though currently the composition of female employment in the Fire Department work force is meeting that ten percent threshold, the decline in the number of applicants seem to indicate that attention should be focused on recruitment efforts and we have recommended that the Fire Department develop a recruitment strategy and plan and that they coordinate with employee organizations actively around their individual recruitment efforts. We also recommended that as the department of Human Resources implements its new testing model by which firefighters will be tested for recruitment into the department, that they provide dhr provides the chief and commission ongoing performance results of that m
The voters and the board of supervisors approved f. It requires the Fire Department to maintain all fire stations in place and located as of in 2004 and it required 24 7 fire station staffing. This table shown here shows the current annual count and percentage of the uniformed employees at the San Francisco Fire Department by race. It shows that break down of fiscal year 08 through fiscal year 1315. The Fire Department maintained a work force with from the range of 48 to 52 percent, minority representation over those years. And obviously that exceeds the 40 percent established by the consent decree. Moving on to our findingment our first finding was related to organization and management and recommendations focused on issues of transparency. We made two recommendations to the Fire Commission with regard to the documentation of their meetings. We recommended that meeting minute be transcribed completely and posted to the Fire Commissions website and we recommended that the Fire Commissi
Fire commission with regard to the documentation of their meetings. We recommended that meeting minute be transcribed completely and posted to the Fire Commissions website and we recommended that the Fire Commission consider relocating their meetings to city hall in order to increase participation of the public and to insure video recordings of those meetings through sfgovtv. We wanted that to be publicly documented and sources are allocated between the ems some suppression function to insure quality patient care and safe response time. As you may have seen on the previous slide, we recommended that recruitment responsibilities be clarified. Until 2002 the Fire Department had a dedicated recruitment staff. Since then and since the transfer of the testing functions from fire to the department of Human Resources, the responsibility for recruitment has been unclear and theres no City Department thats recruiting perspective fire employee and that responsibility has fallen onto various empl
Are there done in multiple languages . As we understand it, theres recruitment materials produced by the employee organizations that are produced in multiple languages. But i cant speak to specifics on that. But as we understand, they are. Thank you. The table on this slide shows the percentage of female applicants from 1988 through 2009. As you can see over recent years, the number of female applicants has been trending down. So even though currently the composition of female employment in the Fire Department work force is meeting that ten percent threshold, the decline in the number of applicants seem to indicate that attention should be focused on recruitment efforts and we have recommended that the Fire Department develop a recruitment strategy and plan and that they coordinate with employee organizations actively around their individual recruitment efforts. We also recommended that as the department of Human Resources implements its new testing model by which firefighters will be