Speaker 1: Recommendation to authorize the city manager or his designee negotiate and execute a ten year agreement for temporary assignment of vehicle or equipment with State of California Office of Emergency Services for the type one fire engine to be utilized for statewide mutual aid response.
Speaker 0: Do we have any speakers on that item?
Speaker 1: We have no speakers.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, he's a staffer.
Speaker 0: You may proceed. Good evening.
Speaker 6: Excuse me.
Speaker 0: You may proceed.
Speaker 6: Good evening, Madam Mayor. Council members. City staff. I'm Doug Lang, interim fire chief. I have some good news for you tonight. All right. The fire department requests. Approval to apply for a free fire engine in the state of California. Office of Emergency Services. And to authorize the city manager to enter into an agreement. For the temporary assignment of that vehicle. California Office of Emergency Services are responsible for coordinating the response and recovery to all hazards in the state of California. Oh yes. Assist local governments in that plan and recovery and response to mitigation. Efforts through a master mutual aid plan. As part of that plan. Since 1950, OAS has provided local fire departments with fire engines. The type? One type. To be added to their fleets. Fully equipped with equipment. Those those fire engines can be used as reserve equipment or in local disasters or emergencies. So as far as reserve equipment, we do have some reserve fire engines. However, a lot of the time they're already in service because other vehicles are in the shop. Whether there's simply a siren that's broken or a pump that needs to be repacked. So adding an additional engine to our fleet would greatly help us be prepared to protect the city. These fire engines are multipurpose. They're for structural firefighting. They're also outfitted as wildland fire engines and as a light rescue type three rescue vehicle, as urban search and rescue. The urban search and rescue portion of this makes us trained and available and equipped in the event of incidents such as earthquakes that we'll be able to get in there and rescue people in collapses, shore up buildings with showering, use simple tools to move heavy objects so that we can get to people. In return. It makes us available as a mutual aid resource. We have to staff that vehicle and respond as needed and called upon by the state, within the state and even out of the state. The cost for personnel is then reimbursed to the city, so there's still no cost to the city for this. The Fire Department is required to maintain the vehicle in the same standard that we maintain our own vehicles. So we'll be doing our daily, weekly, monthly checks, getting them serviced as needed. However, the cost of that maintenance will not exceed $100 if it exceeds $100. The state of California. Oh, yes, except that Bill. Big benefit to the city is that we receive a resource with $367,000 for free to add to our fleet to help us build our ability to respond to emergencies. As we look to the future and make the city more resilient. Having those additional resources, especially at no cost to us hit it. It's a good deal in the event of a emergency such as the arson fires that we had recently. We can recall our staff. They come they come in to help. But sometimes when they get to the fire houses, we don't actually have a fire engine to put them on. We can send them to the scene so they can assist at these major events. However, if we had an additional fire engine in our fleet, we could put them on that rig and they could respond to additional calls as they came in. Also the fire department responds as a mutual aid company. We did this last year two times in August and September to wildland fires. We were reimbursed for staff cost and the cost of the equipment. However, when we respond on our own fire apparatus, that decreases. What we have in the city to protect what we have here. Also, its wear and tear on our vehicles when they're out in these forest trees are falling. The the possibility of them getting damaged is great. So having the ability to send an OS engine, which the state owns to these events will be very beneficial. In closing, I recommend that you allow us to apply for this free fire engine and allow the city manager to execute an agreement for the temporary assignment of the vehicle
Speaker 0: . Thank you. Council questions. Comments. Oh.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 0: So moved I.
Speaker 4: I would be happy to move approval of item 60.
Speaker 0: I think we just. You didn't know you.
Speaker 4: Had a second and.
Speaker 0: A second. Any comments? You. Any comments before you call for your vote?
Speaker 4: I would just say I did speak to Interim Chief Long today who answered my questions. This vote will decide and would require no extra personnel or equipment, saves the wear and tear on the FDA vehicles and can be used in our city as well for a variety of uses. And we did assist in mutual aid this summer with some of the wildfires around the Sacramento area and with the Sacramento. But that was wear and tear on our own equipment. And this is enables us to provide mutual aid when we're requested. And there may be times when we need to be the ones doing the asking. So I'm all in favor.
Speaker 0: Thank you. All those in favor. I oppose motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much. Right now. We're going to move on back to 6 a.m..
Speaker 1: Introduction of ordinance repealing ordinance number 3116, which approved development agreement signed between the City of Alameda and Teal Partners, ILP governing the Del Monte Warehouse Project for Real Property located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Sherman Street and one of Vista Avenue in the introduction of ordinance repealing ordinance number 3115, which adopted the Del Monte Warehouse Master Plan and Density Bonus Application for redevelopment and adaptive reuse of the property located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Sherman Street and one of us two Avenue.
Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager, or His Designee to Negotiate and Execute a Ten Year “Agreement for Temporary Assignment of Vehicular Equipment” with the State of California Office of Emergency Services for a Type 1 Fire Engine to be Utilized for Statewide Mutual Aid Response. (Fire 3200)