September and were very pleased that long last that system will be in place and greatly help our ability to track projects to keep track of our work and allow much more robust access for the public to see how were doing on development so moving on to case and permit volume trends. We are continuing to experience unprecedented volume growth both in terms and various planning cases. We have seen this growth over four years and case volume is projected to double with the year to year growth. By increasing more than 1100 permits and cases in the current fiscal year compared to year over year growth of 500 or less permits in prior years so were seeing more than double the normal pace. We have seen Significant Growth in many applications including environmental applications, Building Permits and unusual number of projects that are alterations to existing buildings and because of that since so much of the building stock is old it increases the need for us to look at historic nature of our bui
The committee clerk, is miller and i would like to thank sfgov tv and madam clerk are there any announcements . Please be sure to silence all cell phones, items today will be on the june 24th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Today we have a few scheduling conflict, so we will be calling things out of order. Could you call number 32 hearing on the budget and legislative analysts performance audit of the Fire Department. Campbell will be presenting on this. Good morning. Amanda was the manager and she has a brief powerpoint and we are available with any questions that you may have. Okay. Good morning supervisors, in response to a finding, and the budget and legislative analyst procedure audit of the Fire Department, they conducted the audit with the narrow focus on the allocation to the resources to the Emergency Medical Services at the Fire Department our analysis resulted in three major finding areas, staffing operational inefficiency and alternative to ems since 19
Request. And in addition to three ambulances. That is so the equipment and the staffing to the tune of about 3 Million Dollars as well as restoring an h43 position or an operation section sheet and so i think that chief to answer your question specifically, supervisor tang, this will not get us into compliance, but it is heading in the right direction and i think that it will show that we are seriously, looking at getting back to where we need to get, recognized in that there were four years of uncertainty. And what we also agreed to, and it came up through, a suggestion and made at the mayors Budget Office and kate howard that although we did not get the 42 members that we were requesting we were getting 16 and the agreement could have a work group and really analyze this impact of this additional 16 members and how that works towards getting to that percentage. And all of the while looking at our response times as well. And in the work group will be will be comprised of the Fire Depa
Our analysis resulted in three major finding areas, staffing operational inefficiency and alternative to ems since 1997 the San Francisco Fire Department has provided emergency responses to two types of calls in 911 and Emergency Medical Services and suppression, and as this table shows a number of calls for medical services exceeds the number of calls for suppression, in 2013, 77 percent of all calls. From 1991 to 2008, the city maintained an area for area of responses in San Francisco this is a designation that is granted by the state ems authority, which restricts the number of providers to enable a predictable response through a central dispatch system, they enabled it in 2012, and enabled the fire amount to respond to a minimum of 80 percent of ambulance responses. In San Francisco, the Fire Department is not the only ambulance provider, for 911 medical calls. Although, currently two other providers, those are king american and amr that provide ambulance response for advanced call
With the states mandates with eoa. We worked closely with the Mayors Office during the budget cycle and allocated to fire 16 additional f. T. E. S as well as some ambulances. There was a budget Analyst Report on the ems for the system heard last week and the recommendation was hiring additional 16 personnel. While we dont feel that will resolve all of the issues currently with the ambulance system we are committed to working with the Mayors Office and work group with the Fire Department, mayor, controller as well as the medical director to iron out the complex issues of. There are many issues currently with the ambulance system. As a whole there isnt sufficient Resources Private and both Fire Department to handle the current call volume. Over the past five years we seen the medical call volume increase 25 . Walking around you will see additional personnel and people the city is busier in general and that is reflected in the call volume. In addition to the demands of market share there