PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
JUNE 12, 2006
COUNCIL
CHAMBER
Adjourned: 6:54 p.m.
Present were: Chairperson Councilor Joseph M. Petty
Councilor
Paul P. Clancy, Jr.
Councilor
Philip P. Palmieri
Councilor
Gary S. Rosen @ 6:05 p.m.
Also: Fire Chief Gerard A. Dio
District Fire Chief Timothy
Gray
President Local 1009
Firefighter Frank Raffa
VP Local 1009 Fire Lt. Donald
Courtney
City
Clerk David J. Rushford, clerk
1. Relative to the severity of fires in the
City of Worcester in 2004.
#13B CM April 5, 2005
Recommend File
2. Relative
to Structure Fires – calendar year 2003.
#13A CM March 30, 2004
Recommend File
3. Relative
to tracking records of Structured Fires.
#13A CM May 18, 2004
Recommend File
4. Relative to Structure Fires.
#13A
CM November 9, 2004
Recommend File
5. Relative to number of structure fires in Worcester in the last
ten years and the number of filled firefighter positions in each of those ten
years.
#13A CM December 14, 2004
Recommend File
6. Relative to calendar year 2005 data on house and business structure fires in the City of Worcester.
#15A CM March 7, 2006
Recommend File
7. Relative to the Investigated Structures for the Calendar Year
2004.
#13 A CM March 1, 2005
Recommend File
8. Relative
to the Fire Fighters Arbitration Award.
#13A
CM August 17, 2004
Recommend File
9. Transmitting award notification regarding the FFY04 Citizen
Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program prepared by Gerard A. Dio, Fire Chief.
#30 CC June 21, 2005
Recommend File
10. Relative
to FY05 Local Emergency Planning Committee Grant.
#15C
CM August 16, 2005
Recommend File
11. Relative to the location
of equipment received under the Homeland Security Grant.
#13A
CM March 8, 2005
Recommend File
12. Relative to arson statistics for the past
five (5) calendar years in the City of Worcester.
#13A CM April 5, 2005
Recommend File
13. Relative to a follow-up report on arson related fires in the
City of Worcester.
#19A
CM July 19, 2005
Recommend File
14. Relative
to blasting in the Malvern Rd. neighborhood.
#13A CM April 26, 2005
Recommend File
15. Recommend that Eighty Six Thousand Dollars ($86,000.00) be transferred from Account #91C780, Citywide Capital Equipment, and appropriated to Account #26C701, Fire Department Capital Equipment, for the payment of contractual obligations related to the completion of the establishment of the McKeon Road Communications Center, as approved in the FY2005 Capital Improvement Budget.
In City Council September 13, 2005 #33A CM Order adopted
8 –0. Also referred to Public Safety for informational purposes only.
Recommend
File
16. Request that Forty One Thousand and Twenty Dollars and Twenty
Three Cents ($41,020.23) be authorized from FY05 Fire Department Ordinary
Maintenance, Account #260-92000 to provide funds for the purpose of payment for
prior year invoices.
#28H CM January 25, 2005
Order adopted – In Committee for informational purposes
Recommend File
17. Relative to public safety programs that are in place between the
Worcester Police Department and the Worcester Fire Department.
#15A CM April 25, 2006
Recommend File
18. Relative to new regulations with respect to Fire Safety in
Places of Public Assembly.
#15B
CM December 6, 2005
Recommend File
19. Relative to listing the fifty-nine (59) city properties that are
subject to Chapter 304 of the Acts of 2004, “An Act Relative to Fire Safety in
the Commonwealth.”
#15A
CM December 20, 2005
Recommend File
20. Relative to a new law dealing with the carbon monoxide alarms in
residential buildings.
#15A March 21, 2006
Recommend File
21. Relative to workforce levels and the resulting impact to the
Worcester Fire Department during the summer months.
#15B CM April 4, 2006
Recommend File
Chairman’s
Order request the Fire Chief report to the City Council how he intends to
provide for fire safety after the summer of 2006 and for the summer of 2007.
Chairman’s
Order request the City Manager provide the City Council with a report detailing
the overtime pay for Fire Department for Fiscal Year 2006 and how it impacts
the Arbitrator’s award.
Chairman’s
Order request the City Manager provide the City Council with a report comparing
fire staffing levels in Worcester to other like communities in the Northeast.
22.
Relative to the move of the Emergency
Operations Center previously located at 50 Skyline Drive to 76 East Worcester
Street.
#13C CM January 4, 2005
Recommend File
23. Relative to long-term enhancements to the Emergency Operations
Center located behind 141 Grove Street.
#15B CM April 25, 2006
Recommend File
24. Relative to long-term enhancements to the Emergency Operations
Center located behind 141 Grove Street.
#15A CM May 30, 2006
Recommend File
25. Relative to offers made to outside agencies to use the planned
Emergency Operations Center located behind 141 Grove Street.
#15A CM May 2, 2006
Recommend File
26. Transmitting information that compares the base pay for Worcester Firefighters with their counterparts in the cities of Springfield, Providence and Boston.
#89a CC August 17, 2004
Recommend File
27. Transmitting information regarding the cost to the City of the
arbitration award given to Firefighters Local 1009.
#89b CC August 17, 2004
Recommend File
28. Request adoption of the attached summary and resolution
establishing the National Incident Management System (NIMS) as the standard for
incident management in the City of Worcester.
#15A CM November 15, 2005
In Committee December 5,
2005– Held
#15A CM, November 15, 2005
Recommend Approval of the Enclosed Resolution
29. Relative to the Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS).
#23A CM November 15, 2005
In Committee December 5,
2005 – Held
#23 A CM,
November 15, 2005
Recommend File
Chairman’s Order request the City Manager provide the City Council with an all-encompassing report concerning any and all public safety grants that have been accepted and utilized to train citizen groups.