Record #: Or2015-145   
Type: Order Status: Failed to Pass
Intro date: 3/18/2015 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Public Safety
Final action: 5/20/2015
Title: Call for establishment of procedures for donation of outdated or unserviceable fire equipment to developing countries for firefighter's use
Sponsors: Burke, Edward M.
Topic: CITY DEPARTMENTS/AGENCIES - Fire, - CITY DEPARTMENTS/AGENCIES - Fleet Management
Attachments: 1. Or2015-145.pdf
Related files: SO2015-3674, R2015-407
Committee on Public Safety
 
ORDER
 
WHEREAS, the Chicago Fire Department occasionally upgrades equipment that has become outdated or obsolete; and
 
WHEREAS, such equipment formerly used by the Chicago Fire Department may nevertheless remain useful to firefighters working in developing countries; and
 
WHEREAS, many countries in the developing world are in need of such equipment and are eager to receive donations from the City of Chicago; and
 
WHEREAS, the City of Chicago intends to provide much needed assistance to firefighters working in developing countries; now therefore
 
BE IT ORDERED, that the Commissioner of the Chicago Fire Department and the Commissioner of the Department of Fleet and Facility Management are hereby ordered to provide the Chairman of the Committee on Public Safety with a complete inventory of outdated, obsolete, decommissioned and unserviceable fire equipment such as, but not limited to, ambulances, fire trucks, sirens, hoses, defibrillators, two-way radios and bunker gear; and
 
BE IT FURTHER ORDERED, that the Commissioner of the Chicago Fire Department and the Commissioner of the Department of Fleet and Facility Management are hereby ordered to develop a procedure under which such outdated, obsolete, decommissioned and unserviceable fire equipment shall be conveyed to the Fellowship of Christian Firefighters International for the purpose of donating such equipment to developing countries for firefighters' use.
 
 
 
 
 
EdWard M. Burke, Alderman, 14th Ward