I guess maybe this is more a question to the mayors budget office. You may not know but in terms of facilities and wifi we purportedly have it in this building and its horrible and just like the Market Street wifi is horrible and so many of the city provided Wifi Networks are in inadequate and at least we have it and it works sometimes and i guess more of a question for d tbut a broader question. I mean city facilities we should have free Wifi Everywhere but particularly in city facilities. If we cant put it in our own facilities how do we roll it out to the whole city . I dont know if you can comment on that. Sorry to put you on the spot. I think thats why i am here. Thank you for the question. As i think the cao talked about last week dt and coit put together a connectivity plan that is part of the plan adopted by the board this week. The first issue is connectivity of the city buildings and the First Priority is the fire stations. The fire chief and i just spoke about this issue yes
Of paused . We have not been funded to keep up with that plan but we do have commitments from the Mayors Office that for example we have asked to play catch up and asked for 50 million to get to where we need to get. There are standards that we should adhere to that the National Fire Protection Agency calls for. And we have rigs on the streets beyond what the guidelines say should be used as a front line apparatus. We were given 50 million and we were given the information and only 17 million is in the budget for fleet so the 50 million request is unreasonable and we get that but the good news we will work with the Mayors Office to obviously not get it in one year but a phased approach to get us back on track because we did have years we had a lot of rigs coming in but they need to be retired at the same time so we want to get back to a plan where were able to make it reasonable year in and year out. Related to facilities and capital. The department operates 50 facilities and three at
Growth period and were currently at our highest day time work force population and night time resident population in the citys history which is a good thing but it presents challenges for all of us. It manifested in increased call volume for the department. This shows over the course of the last decade calls look like. The major driver is our increase in medical calls. If we project out the remainder of 2015 at current levels we would see a 9 over 2014. We have been busy in the First Quarter of the year and 15 increase in the last five years and means that our ems system has been strained both on the ambulance side and the suppression side and its not just an ambulance showing up but a Team Approach and a fire truck is dispatched to start the triage and the symptoms the patient is having. I would like to talk about our work group. I believe all are aware of it and in support of it and born out of the Mayors Office. Would like to credit kate howard for that. We received partial funding
Department. Thank you for being here. Thank you chair farrell. Good afternoon members. Committee. Joanne hayes white and assisted by mark corso. You will have the presentation provided to you in hard copy and then were going to set up it but i would like to get started first of all by thanking for the opportunity recognizing our analyst from the Mayors Office of budget and kate howard. Were working closely with the mayors Budget Office on this years budget and have an opportunity to restore and rebuild some of the department that we had to reduce in sort of the lean economic years. We will go ahead and get started. Today i wanted to talk about i have 14 slides for you. What i am going to talk about the overall operational trends and you can see on the slide that is before you. Those are some of the areas we will highlight and i am happy to answer questions at the conclusion or during the presentation. So starting off with the operational trends as you know San Francisco is in a growth
Alison news of weinsteins death is certainly heartbreaking for his neighbors in rockville who wrapped yellow ribbons around trees generating hope for his return. Kevin lewis continues our Team Coverage from rockville now. Kevin . Kevin hi there alison. Weinsteins wife eileen received a phone call from president barack obama yesterday. The president expressing his sincere sorrow and apology. No sign of the family at the home today. But loved ones have been stopping by all morning and afternoon. Many have left flowers below a large maple tree in the front yard. One individual left a loaf of bread on the front doorstep. Weinstein is a native of brooklyn new york. Back in 1977 he moved to the washington area. His wife eileen and two daughters, they lived here in rockville but weinstein spent most of his time working abroad. He lived through an earthquake in Central America and navigated his way out of africa. In 2004, a consulting job sent him to pakistan where alqaida operatives caught hi