Baltimore City Council
File #: 20-0627    Version: 0 Name: Baltimore City Fire Department - Reporting Requirements
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed
File created: 10/5/2020 In control: Mayor
On agenda: Final action: 12/7/2020
Enactment #:
Title: Baltimore City Fire Department - Reporting Requirements For the purpose of requiring the Fire Chief of the Baltimore City Fire Department to report annually certain information to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; and requiring the report to be made available on the Department’s website.
Sponsors: Shannon Sneed, Kristerfer Burnett, Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, John T. Bullock, Ryan Dorsey, Danielle McCray, Mayor Brandon M. Scott, Leon F. Pinkett, III, Zeke Cohen, Robert Stokes, Sr., Sharon Green Middleton, Edward Reisinger
Indexes: Baltimore City, Fire Department, Reporting Requirements
Attachments: 1. cb20-0627~1st, 2. Agenda 20-0627, 3. Finance 20-0627, 4. Labor Committee - Comprehensive Fire Department Equity Report, 5. Law 20-0627, 6. Labor Committee - Comprehensive Fire Department Equity Report, 7. Meeting Minutes - 20-0627, 8. cc20-0627~1st(Comm), 9. Labor - Hearing Notes Bill 20-0627, 10. Council Bill 20-0627 Baltimore City Fire Dept. - Reporting Requirements, 11. 2nd Reader Amendment 20-0627~1st(Comm), 12. 2nd Reader 20-0627~1st(Sneed - Floor), 13. 20-0627~3rd Reader

Explanation: Capitals indicate matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

 

                     * Warning: This is an unofficial, introductory copy of the bill.

                     The official copy considered by the City Council is the first reader copy.

                     Introductory*

 

                     City of Baltimore

                     Council Bill          

                                                                                                                                                           

Introduced by: Councilmember Sneed and Councilmember Burnett

                                                                                                                                                           

 

                     A Bill Entitled

 

An Ordinance concerning

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Baltimore City Fire Department - Reporting Requirements

For the purpose of requiring the Fire Chief of the Baltimore City Fire Department to report annually certain information to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; and requiring the report to be made available on the Department’s website.

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By adding

Article 9 - Fire Suppression and Prevention

Section 1-9

Baltimore City Code

(Edition 2000)

 

Section 1.  Be it ordained by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

 

                     Baltimore City Code

 

                     Article 9.  Fire Suppression and Prevention

 

                     Subtitle 1.  Fire Department

 

§ 1-9.  Reporting requirements.

 

(a)                     In general.

 

On or before January 31 of each year, the Baltimore City Fire Chief shall report the following information, disaggregated by race and gender (excluding names),  from the previous calendar year regarding the Baltimore City Fire Department to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore:

 

(1)                     the number of uniformed personnel working in fire suppression and the emergency medical services division;

 

 

 

(2)                     the number of supervisors by rank assigned to fire suppression and the emergency medical services division;

 

(3)                     the number of uniformed personnel assigned to fire suppression and the emergency medical services division who were promoted to a supervisory rank in the previous calendar year; 

 

(4)                     the number of high school students who were in the Department’s high school program;

 

(5)                     the number of high schools students who received EMT certification from the Department’s high school program;

 

(6)                     the number of high school students who were hired by the Department after completion of the Department’s high school program and graduation from the Department’s Training Academy; and

 

(7) excluding those counted in paragraph (6), the number of individuals who graduated from the Department’s Training Academy and were hired by the Department.

 

(b)                     Other reporting requirements.

 

On or before January 31 of each year, the Baltimore City Fire Department shall also report the following information from the previous calendar year to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore:

 

(1)                     the number of uniformed personnel who are residents of Baltimore City;                      

 

(2) the number of uniformed personnel who were suspended with pay;

 

(3) the number of uniformed personnel who were suspended without pay;

 

(4) the number of discipline charges filed against uniformed personnel, as well as the number of charges that were sustained and the number of charges that were dismissed;

 

(5)                     the number of recruiting events in Baltimore City that the Department sponsored or participated in;

 

(6)                     the number of citizens who have added their names to the citizen contact recruitment list; and

 

(7)                     the number of community-based town hall meetings conducted by the Department.

 

(c)                     Public availability.

 

The reports required by subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be made available to the public on the Department’s website.

 

Section 2.  And be it further ordained, That the catchlines contained in this Ordinance are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this or any prior Ordinance.

 

Section 3.  And be it further ordained, That the first reports under this section shall be due on or before January 31, 2021, and shall include information from each of the previous 5 calendar years; thereafter, each report need only include information from the previous calendar year.

 

Section 4.  And be it further ordained, That this Ordinance takes effect on the 30th day after the date it is enacted.