So, I take this to mean: a month's gone by, we received, we didn't look at it, we're not going to look at it, go away!

I would add that we have 2 closed Fire Stations and have suffered nothing from the service side.

So, another month gone by, and Vallejo's fat cat union bosses still can't bother to acknowledge receipt. Why do we even bother to hold elections any more?

Once again, SCF reminds me that yet another month has gone with no reply -- not even an acknowledgement -- from city government. Why should the busy people at City Hall bother themselves to respond to the comments of a sole citizen?

1 - Because, as my message shows, unchallenged data published by the city itself, and widely disseminated elsewhere, indicates that a very large city agency responsible for spending a large (very large!) fraction of our city's budget is doing so in a manner that grossly ignores actual needs and requirements, and..

2. Because -- so regularly overlooked or ignored by our city's employees, and so-called representatives -- this is a democracy.

SeeClickFix: "Your issue has been outstanding for 91 days.If your issue hasn't been fixed yet, please click below to comment or share. Otherwise, you can close the issue."

SEECLICKFIX: "Your issue has been outstanding for 121 days. If your issue hasn't been fixed yet, please click below to comment or share. Otherwise, you can close the issue"

Another 30 days without acknowledgement, demonstrating yet again the interest and respect our city employees have for those who pay for their record breaking salaries, benefits, and retirement, and -- in this case -- 90% inappropriately applied budget.

I wonder does anyone have access to comparative data for Taxpayer Satisfaction vis-a-vis Employee Satisfaction for Vallejo?

121 days later, it should be apparent that Justine, nor anyone else in this city manager’s office have no answer for this.

"anyone else in this city manager’s office have no answer for this". Yes, of course, we all know that City Hall has no control over the Fire and Police Departments. But surely the Union bosses can see that their equipment and procedures are obsolete and irrelevant. Revamping services and saving money on budgets could make them heroes, and free up cash for even grander pay and benefit packages.

Obsolete + 181 days, and counting. Here's to the return of district voting, and the end of special interest control of City Hall.

I feel like somebody’s going to get to this soon (and close it). It appears that recently see click fix is being cleaned up of dead, inactive and very old issues.

If any citizen concern that City employees choose not to address can be ruled "dead" or inactive, and closed, then there really doesn't seem to be much point in having See.Click.Fix at all! Maybe it should be consigned to the trash can along with Coffee with the Cops, Participatory Budgeting, and those other cons that allow City staff to claim they care about the wishes of the citizens they otherwise roundly ignore!

It’s really to general with no specific issue. I’ll wager the next post says the same. SCF is for specific issues. Any time I have tried a general complaint like this it won’t even post, edited out by the censor.

Absolutely. There's nothing specific: about: "one of the most expensive city departments is fully equipped and staffed to handle 8-10% of its job responsibilities, while spending 75% or more doing something entirely different". Thanks for the correction.

UPDATE: CITY MANAGER'S BI-WEEKLY REPORT, January 11, 2019; The Vallejo Fire Department responded to 1,099 calls for service during the month of December 2018

including:
Building/Structure FIRE 6
Vehicle FIRE 6
Trash/Rubbish FIRE 12
Vegetation FIRE 1
Other FIRE 6
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TOTAL FIRES 31

and

EMS calls 775

31 out of 1099 calls for fire service, 775 (71%) for emergency medical service. And they don't tell us how how many of those Fire Department EMS calls were then duplicated by a call for the perfectly able, city contracted ambulance service. For how many (major and minor) emergency medical calls are we paying for the attendance of a necessary ambulance plus a redundant, fully equipped, and manned fire appliance?

Maybe this will help explain, since you will not be receiving a response from the city on this site, guidelines require them to stick to the “canned” responses.

No medical call is “routine.” Most require assessing the patient, obtaining their vital signs, providing oxygen therapy, and moving them, at a minimum. EMS may also need to place an advanced airway, administer drugs intravenously, or monitor cardiac conditions. All of these procedures are completed more efficiently when the appropriate amount of help is on scene. EMS/Ambulance is a crew of 2. Efficient care the goal, and efficient care often is the difference between life and death.

Unfortunately, units have no way of knowing what they will encounter on a call until they arrive. They work in a “what if” and “all risk” business. Responding to the unknown is public safety.

Thanks for the help.

"Unfortunately, units have no way of knowing what they will encounter on a call until they arrive. "

.. and so it's necessary to send an EMS ambulance plus a fully equipped and crewed fire truck just in case of spontaneous combustion of the patient? Really, is that your argument?

In my neighborhood (yours may be different), we regularly see the EMS ambulance arrive simultaneously, or even before the city fire vehicle(s), Sometimes, the fire truck just moves on, other times the truck and crew hang around in the street, while the ambulance crew handle the emergency. Is that what you call "efficient care".

Hey, and while we're on the subject of obsolete emergency management methodology, have you ever looked at the insurance industry data on residential rebuilding costs incurred from direct fire damage relative to the much higher costs of "efficient care" of fire department activity, and resulting water damage?

It's time we put some 21st century science and technology into this 19th century activity.

I’ll let NPR news explain,
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/11/523025987/why-send-a-firetruck-to-do-an-ambulances-job

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That's what I like to see; decisive and effective action by our city government. Taxpayers money well spent -- well, and truly spent!