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City of Huntington Beach
File#: 25-169 MEETING DATE: 4/15/2025
Subject:
Department Services and Budget Overview
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City Attorney's Office Divisions & Services
The City Attorney's Office provides leadership and oversight in Advisory Services, Litigation Services, and
Criminal Prosecution Services Citywide.
Advisory & Legal Services and Litigation Services and Support Criminal Prosecution
Support
• Provide ongoing legal advice to all City • Defend all civil matters involving • Actively prosecute misdemeanor
Departments through Request for Legal City/employees including Police matters, Penal Code and Municipal Law
Services: land use decisions, contract disputes, violations that occur in Huntington
1. Opinions personnel grievances, automobile Beach
2. Resolutions accidents, slip and fall injuries and
3. Ordinances constitutional challenges • Works closely with the Police
4. Agreements • Over 90 active cases in the last 12 Department and the Orange
• Advise City Council and Boards& months County District Attorney's Office
Commissions • Actively pursue relief on behalf of the on investigations and prosecution
• Perform Diversionary Hearing for Code City for injunctive relief, collections, of misdemeanor cases
Enforcement subrogation, writs, appeals and amicus
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• Review and approve insurance forms • Represent and defend staff at Over 1,303 cases referred from the
and indemnification waivers submitted to depositions in third party litigation in Police Department for prosecution
the City which the City is not a party. in the last 12 months
• Coordinate Public Records Act • Administer Civil Citation Hearings for • Provide legal advice, legal
responses Citywide Citations throughout the City opinions and training to law
• Provide advice and Citywide Training on • Defend Civil Citation Appeals in Civil enforcement personnel
Brown Act/Ethics,AB1234, Public Court
Records Act, Public Contract Code • Process and review all subpoenas
• Advise regarding changes to Federal served Citywide
and State law impacting City
Operations & Performance Data
2023-Sued the Department of Finance and won recovering roughly $33 million on behalf of the City
2024-Settled with Amplify (Oil Spill)for $5.3 million on behalf of the City
2024- Recovered approximately$435,000 in attorney's fees and costs on behalf of the City
In the Last 12 months:
• Handled nearly all lawsuits in-house, saving the taxpayers millions of dollars. 90+ cases in FY24/25
• Provided consistent enforcement of all City Ordinances, which requires many times obtaining Court orders for
enforcement
• Provided hundreds of legal opinions to departments and countless hours of legal counsel to the City and City
Council
• Managed over 60 Civil Citation Hearings
• Responded to over 600 Request for Legal Services from all City Departments
• Responded to over 220 Public Records Requests
• Prosecuted over 1 ,200 cases by our in-house Criminal Prosecutor NTINGjO�i
• Successfully represented the Police Department in numerous ongoing criminal discovery requests ••;F9�\
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What Can We do to Save Money?
• Continue to bring all cases, to the extent possible, in-house
• Eliminate a Senior Deputy City Attorney position
• Continue to ask current staff within our department to do more with less
• Consolidate work, which includes combining the functions of Chief Assistant City Attorney
and City Attorney
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Fire Department Budget
FY 2024/25 Adopted All Funds Budget - $64,175,533
FY 2024/25 Adopted General Fund Budget - $62,525,176
General Fund - $62,525,176
Non-Operating Operating
Expenses, Expenses,
$3,112,107 $8,010,900
Fiscal Year FY21/22 FY22/23 FY23/24 FY24/25
Grants Awarded to the Fire Dept* $56,199 $176,291 $239,566 $1,025,624
`Award amounts are based on the date of the grant award letters.
Personnel Services,
$51,402,169
All Fire Dept Revenues
10 Year Actuals
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r,w Huntington Beach Fire Department: 20-Year Incident Volume Trends (2003-2024)
■ mTotal Incidents «GEMS 22,290J
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The Huntington Beach Fire Department has seen a significant rise in incident volume over the past two decades.Total incidents have
nearly doubled, increasing from 11,636 in 2003 to 22,290 in 2024. EMS calls have also grown substantially,rising from 9,042 to 18,278
in the same period.This upward trend underscores the increasing demand for emergency services in Huntington Beach, particularly for
medical emergencies,which continue to account for the majority of calls.
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Administration Professional Standards Emergency Response Marine safety
Fire Deputy Chief Fire Deputy Chief
Principal Management Analyst Fire Division Chief Fire Division Chief
Senior Management Analyst Administrative Fire Captain•
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Management Aide IS)" Senior Management Analyst
Management Aneyst Fire Suppression Marine Safety operations
&Emergency Response
7
j Fire Battalion Chief(3)
Marine Saint.?Battalion
Community Risk Fire Captain(24) Chief
Reduction fire Engineer(24) Marine Satety Captain(6)
Firefighter Paramedic(36) Marine Safety Specialist(3)
fire Marshal
Firefighter(12) Administrative Assistant
Deputy Fire Marshal(2)
Senior Fire Prevention Emergency Management Si
Inspector(3) Resew Vessel Operations
P Homeland Security
Mane Safety Layton;3;
Certified unified Program Emergency Management
Agency Administrator
Training& Special Teams
-.noor Fire Prevention Approximately 200 Recurrent
Inspector Hatmat Response
Marine Safety Battalion
fire Prevention Inspector Chief Lifeguards
Fire Caplan(6)
Training
Fire Engineer(6) Marine Safety Captain
Fire•ighter Paramedic'12) Vacancy Report shows 1
Central Nat°parenting
Administrative Fire Captain Authority
Emergency Medical Services FTE Firefighter Paramedic
Central Net Operations 6 Firemot Administration Marine Safety Battalion
Authority Chief Rank
fire Medical Coordinator
ire L•e�n.r Marine Safety Captain
'g Administrative Fire Captain.
Maintenance Technician
Management Analyst Emergency Transport
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16 Ambulance Operator(30)
• oalend•d eoair..on-Admin Fir•Captain(11 158
um•tad rerm Paa,.on(1)
Fire Department Divisions & Services
The Huntington Beach Fire Department provides the highest quality fire, marine
safety and emergency medical services to protect the community.
Fire Administration Community Risk Reduction Emergency Response and Marine Safety
• Provides management, research, clerical, • Enforces local, state, and federal codes • Provides a professionally trained and
financial, and records support for all Fire to reduce the loss of life and property well-equipped emergency force for fire,
Department programs from preventable fires and other medical, rescue, hazardous materials
• Establishes and modifies Fire emergencies response and Marine Safety.
Department strategies, tactics, and • Provides comprehensive inspections, • Conducts annual life safety inspections,
policies plan review services, public education, education programs, fire service training
• Administers the Central Net Operations fire investigations and public engagement and apparatus, equipment, fire station
Joint Powers Authority Training Center; • Works closely with the business maintenance
and is a member of MetroNet community, other City departments, and • Includes the Emergency Management
• Member of the Orange County-City fire companies to ensure the safety of and Homeland Security Office, which
Hazardous Materials Emergency residents and response personnel and to coordinates special event management
Response Authority protect the economic well-being of the and disaster plans and programs
City • Provide year-round emergency response
on the City's beaches, harbor and off
shore areas that include water rescue,
emergency medical services and code
enforcement
Operations & Performance Data
Calendar Year 2024
• FireMed membership: approximately 17,000 Households
• Number of EMS transports: 14,440
• Performed 112,634 lifeguard preventative actions and conducted approximately 3,896
water rescues
• Public education events and CPR events: Suppression 125 public events + 40 Marine
Safety events. Had 30 CPR training events with over 6300 people trained in CPR
• Total inspections: 9,454
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• Number of JRLG and Sandcrab youths: Approximately 1 ,400 \-57
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Efficiencies/New Revenues Estimates
• FireMed Membership Campaign - $102,000
• Lifeguard Tower Ad Program - $50,000 - $150,000
• EMS Supply Audit and Contract Evaluation - $125,000
• Central Net JPA Contract Evaluations - $99,000 FY25/26 and $125,000 by FY29/30
• Discontinuance of The Compliance Engine (TCE) - Cost to Customer Discontinued
• Fire Prevention Program/Billing/Data Ticket System
• 2024 Renewal of Toyota Contract (24 Vehicles) - $1 ,000,000
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