Okay, good afternoon.

The time is now 240 PM, and I'll go ahead and call our public safety committee meeting to order.

Madam Cook, could you please call the rule?

Councilmember McKee Rodriguez.

Councilmember Castillo.

Councilmember Spears.

Councilmember White.

Chair Corps?

Here.

Chair, we have a quorum.

Awesome.

Thanks.

So we have just a few items on the agenda.

It's a shorter gender than normal because we were going to go uh do a visit, but we'll plan a different time to do that to make sure everyone can attend in a safe way.

So we'll go ahead and start with item number two, which is oh wait, let's do um, oh, we don't have minutes.

Oh, we do.

Item number one, approval of minutes from the May 28th, 2026 Public Safety Committee meeting.

We have a motion and a second.

Is there any discussion?

Okay, all in favor?

Any opposed abstentions?

Okay, motion carries.

Alright, the second item on the agenda is our fire department performance metrics.

For those folks that are here, there is a copy that's printed for you all if you'd like next to the water bottles.

Um, and so we're gonna go ahead and scroll through this.

I don't know if Chief, if there's anything that you want to highlight from the memo, please.

Good afternoon.

Um I just wanted to uh provide an overview of the um fire stats that were provided to you.

Um hopefully by now you've had an opportunity to look them over, but I would like to present some highlights.

Um in terms of incident activity for FY24, there were approximately 247,000 incidents.

Uh in FY25, there's been approximate or there was approximately 253,000, so an increase of about two and a half percent.

Uh FY26 year to date is trending ahead of prior years.

So uh with this, we uh recognize that demand for service continues to increase as the community grows.

As far as uh in EMS demand, continues to represent roughly 78 to 80 percent of all incidents.

Uh medical calls remain the primary driver of workload, and um there's various breakdowns that we've provided in the document, broken out by council district, and moving on to response time performance.

Overall performance year over year remains stable and it has slightly improved in FY26 year to date.

Average citywide response time improved from eight minutes 38 seconds in FY25 to 8 minutes 32 seconds in FY26 year to date, while the 90th percentile also improved from 12 minutes 39 to 12 minutes 27.

So data obviously it helps us identify areas where growth and traffic patterns possibly are creating pressure on the system.

Um we also have a breakout of the geographic activity, which shows the activity per broken down by council district and districts one, two, and five generated the highest incident volumes.

There are certain stations that continue to experience significantly higher workloads than others, but uh again, station 32 was identified as the busiest station, followed by several other high-volume companies.

These stats help guide the staffing and apparatus placement, so we continue to monitor those very closely.

Um, oh okay.

And then on fire prevention, I would like to highlight a few items.

There have been more than 15,000 inspections that have been completed.

Prevention efforts remain one of the most effective ways to reduce fire loss and improve life safety and efforts with uh community education and code enforcement continue to be a critical component of our mission.

We also have a breakout of the community programs, MIH, continues to connect with residents, or connect.

They continue connecting residents with appropriate resources.

Thousands of contacts have helped reduce the strain on the 911 system and improve patient outcomes.

So overall, the story behind all of these numbers is that demand for service continues to grow.

Our personnel remain committed to provide excellent service, and these trends reinforce the importance of long-term planning through our upcoming needs assessment, staffing analysis, facility planning, and deployment strategies.

So at this time, I would like to ask the committee if there are any areas within today's presentation that you'd like us to explore in greater detail.

Thank you, Chief.

I'll start with my colleagues and then I'll I just have a couple of questions.

But uh councilman Castille, would you like to start us off?

Thank you, Chair and thank you, Chief, for the presentation.

In terms of areas to dive deeper into, uh, in terms of the mobile integrated health care unit, I'm uh curious in terms of some of the trends that we're seeing with overdose prevention, right?

Is it opiate stimulants and or synthetic?

Like what are they responding to and what is that trend look like now?

Um, and then a couple of questions that I have in terms of the information on table eight.

Um, for example, with the lift assist, um, how many of those typically uh r result in transport to a hospital?