Speaker 4: Item 15 and 15 is a report from the office, councilwoman stacy mango and councilwoman susie price with the recommendation to request the city manager and fire department to present to the Council the timeline for implementation of plus point.
Speaker 3: Councilman Mongo.
Speaker 6: I think we have a staff report.
Speaker 3: Yes, we do. We have Deputy Chief Rich Brown.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Mayor. Members of the council. Just a quick report on Pulse Point. For anybody that doesn't know what Pulse point is. It's an innovative, new location aware phone application that empowers everyday citizens to provide lifesaving assistance in the case of sudden cardiac arrest. We think in the fire department, this is a great asset for us and also a great asset for the citizens of Long Beach. We've been working on this project for quite a while and I want to thank our biggest partner, Technology Services, Chris Tony's office. And Jane Takano has been working really hard in getting this application up and running. We're almost there. They've also helped us with the with the initial cost for this application. So I want to thank Curtis and his group for that as well. We also are working with dignity excuse me, dignity, health, St Mary's Medical Center with the ongoing costs. We plan on rolling this out in the next few weeks. And we'd also like to have this available for October 4th. Ready Long Beach event. So we're working hard to make sure that that happens. We're working with Pulse Point on a marketing plan, which we will roll out to the council each council district and be able to get this to everybody. And this this application will also be part of our Go Long Beach Fire app. And I'd like to thank the Council City Manager's office for their ongoing support. And we would definitely need each council office to help us with with with the marketing plan when we roll this out to the citizens. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Councilwoman.
Speaker 6: I want to say what a step forward this is. Early. When I took office, I received an email from a neighbor in the fifth District who had called 911, and while they were waiting for ambulance services to arrive, they were very fortunate that the neighbor across the street knew CPR and came to the aid, and the paramedics who arrived on scene were very thankful for his service. And this is really a tool that empowers constituents throughout the city and visitors to be able to support those who need the most care as our communities age and our calls for service from medical issues increase. This is going to be a vital component of our plan to deliver services. I want to thank the police, the fire department and the union who we've talked to about this and how supportive they are. And we look forward to launching this in a great partnership together, in a way to best serve constituents with technology, which is where we all need to move forward.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Councilwoman Pryce.
Speaker 8: I want to echo what Councilwoman Mungo just said. I think that the use of technology to help residents partner with our local city departments is something that we should be looking towards with every single one of our departments is how we can get our residents more engaged and involved and really partnering with the city to deliver services in this situation. The app will actually allow people who have the expertize and the background to be able to assist someone in a life threatening situation. So I think it will be very beneficial and I'm glad that we're moving in this direction. The question that I would have is, is there going to be any training or do you anticipate any training for our firefighters and paramedics regarding this particular app and maybe how they would respond to it or anything of that nature?
Speaker 7: Councilwoman Price. We don't need any additional training. I mean, all our paramedics and our firefighters are well trained in in this particular expertize. But what we will do is we will market it to our firefighters as well when we roll it out and make sure that they all have it on their their phone so that they understand what pulse point is and what the what they can expect or possibly expect when we have a life threatening emergency that there may be. Unlike the past, there may be more citizens willing to assist with their with their expertize in CPR as well. So we will do a marketing plan to our our own employees as well to make sure that they understand this as well.
Speaker 8: In terms of our marketing plan for the community, I'm assuming that we're going to target those who are volunteers in this city to help with emergency situations and CPR certified that we know of.
Speaker 7: But this goes hand in hand with actually the American Red Cross, which does a great job of citizen CPR. So we'd like to get everybody involved with Pulse Point and the people that don't know CPR. The app itself actually has the instructions on it, number one. But number two, is it also jointly with the American Red Cross will help us market to the Red Cross, their CPR program.
Speaker 8: Great. I want to thank Councilwoman Mongeau for raising the awareness on this issue and bringing this item forward. Thank you.
Speaker 6: Could you also for a quick moment, tell about the resource? I'm notification where the nearest equipment is nearby for citizens to utilize for. I can't remember the acronym right now.
Speaker 7: I should. I'll pass that to firefighter Jay Kaplan. He's actually my point of contact on Pulse Point, so he can explain that briefly. I think accounts will go.
Speaker 3: As far as the application goes. It has multi multifaceted in the fact that there is the IED or the automatic external defibrillator component, which facilitates those that are responding, those citizen responders, to identify the locations based on based crowdsourcing, so to speak, on where those located AIDS are throughout the community. So individuals that have this application can utilize that phone or their Android phone, take a picture of it, uploaded it, and then we can validate.
Speaker 7: That that exact exactly exists within the community.
Speaker 3: And then once that is substantiated by us, it'll be loaded up in the application as part of a mapping feature. So the individual knows where the IED is in close proximity to where they would be working that cardiac arrest.
Speaker 6: That's fantastic. Not only for those who have the volunteer capabilities, but even our peace officers often want to know where the nearest IED is. And that's very helpful. Thank you for Councilwoman Price for joining me on this. Thank you to the fire department for all your hard work and being at the forefront of technology to make sure that our residents are best protected. Thank you to everyone.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Consul Richardson.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Councilmember Mongo, for bringing this forward and raising awareness on this issue. And. And, you know, Jakey, we're looking pretty good on on TV the other day protecting our our homes and residences, building those berms and say like twice. Just wanted to say this is a this is a great. This is this is the type of stuff we should be working on. It's really exciting. I'd love to see the next iteration of this plan and see how the we can take this, you know, take a similar approach and apply it to all the folks who are smart, trained, you know. Shameless plug. Me and my wife or cert trained. I you know, I call on all of you guys to take the weekend course. If you can't find the six weeks to do six or eight weeks to do the full class, do the the three day full day program. I think a pro, you know, pairing an app like this to mobilize the CERT folks would be a cool idea as well. So I just want to chime in and say good idea and thanks for bringing this forward. Miss Mongo.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Councilmember Andrew.
Speaker 0: Yes, thank you, Mayor. And I also would like to echo that because it's something I was very fortunate to be able to use in my one time spending money with my kids for about two weeks up at Saint Mary's. And these individuals are able to do the same thing we're talking about here. And I don't think anybody will realize how important this can happen, you know, in your neighborhood around that school grounds, anywhere. If these kids get this kind of training and ourselves, it could really save some lives. And I want to thank the fire department for putting this out in front. Thank you, guys, again.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Any public comment on the item? So please cast your votes.
Speaker 4: We have a motion here.
Speaker 3: There was emotion. There's been emotion in a second. Any public comment on the item? Seeing none. Please cast your votes.
Speaker 4: Motion carries nine votes. Yes.
Speaker 3: Next time.
Speaker 4: Item 16 is a recommendation to request the city attorney to prepare an ordinance pertaining to sales taxes in the city of Long Beach for review by certain city officials.
Recommendation to request City Manager and Fire Department present to Council a timeline for implementation for Pulse Point, including any planned marketing and outreach to the community in order to facilitation enrollment.