Public Safety Committee - Regular Meeting

City Hall Council Chambers. Can we have roll call, please?

Councilman Kamant? Here. Councilwoman Ibarra? Here. Councilwoman Coleman?

Here.

K. We have approval of the minutes. Minutes from 10/07/2025. Did everybody have a chance to review the minutes? And are there any changes or concerns or comments that you'd like to make? If not, we'll need a motion to approve the minutes from October.

Move approval. Second.

We have a first and a second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. K. Are there any citizens here to speak on any agenda items? Is there anybody here that wants to speak on any agenda items? I do not see anybody, so we will there would be none, and we will move on to agenda items.

Wait. So you don't wanna talk so you can say that you actually talked at the meeting as well for the record?

No? Okay.

He's here for a a badge.

Right. Right.

I remember those days. Mhmm.

Okay. Agenda items. I believe this is fire chief Carrie's items. So under t m P9331, approval purchase of 110 additional sets of firefighter turnout gear from a one equipment incorporated in the amount of $398,310. Chief Carey?

Yeah. So every year, annually, we replace about 45 to 50 sets of gear. Our goal is to have everybody have two sets of gear. NFPA makes us take them out of service after ten years. So we want that second set so after fire, they can wash them so they can get all the soot off them. You know, it's more for cancer risk than that. This past year, we had to take about a 100 sets of our spear gear out because it was out of date. Our plan was to gradually get them in over time, but in 2027, Illinois passed a law for changing our gear. The new gear, unfortunately, because the technology is not there yet, is only warrantied for a year. Our current gear is seven years.

And it doesn't take as much heat. It's not as good. So we're trying we wanna move it up to get everybody their second set now to avoid that in '27 where we can't get it anymore because everybody really likes the sets of gear we have now. So we did find the money from one of the grants we had when we got reimbursed for that. We have the money for it. And foreign fire tax is going to split the purchase with us. So they're gonna pay half of that 398,000, and then we'll pay the $100,199,000. So this will get almost everybody. It'll get all the ones who actively firefight their second set, and the remainder of them who are engine drivers who normally aren't going into fires, they'll get their second set next year.

Okay. Any questions or comments? I do see

I never would have I'm sorry.

Figure it in.

Go ahead. I never would have guessed if you hadn't said that that keeping the soot and everything on there is a is a cancer risk. Thank you for saying that.

Yeah. That's where you get a lot of cancers in the groin area because it sweats there and the soot sits there. And the new gear, you can only wash six times in its lifetime. Currently, we wash our gear very far. So we wanna get as much of the stuff we have now Yeah. Before. And we're if we get it far ahead now, by the time we have to replace this gear, hopefully, the technology will have caught up. So Yeah. It's just not there yet.

Thank you.

And I see this went out to bid at three different companies, and then I had just one question. So the gear that is outdated, what do we

do with it? So we use it for, like, Citizens Fire Academy, cadet programs. We we kept as much of it as we could for our cadet program that we have coming up, and then we donated it to some other fire departments that also have cadet programs. Because line firefighters can't use it. But other departments that have cadet programs, systems, fire academies, we donate it all to them.

I didn't know that, but great to know. Yeah. Good question.

Yep. Do you have those cleaned before you send them on? Yes. Okay.

Yeah. We clean them. We have extractors at all stages, so we clean them at every station. And then once a year, they have to get inspected, then they get they come in and clean it professionally too. So

Okay. Good. And not within when you give them

away. So that was Yeah. We don't wanna get them right in there.

Liability. No.

That's a great question, Jan.

Okay. So if there's no other comments, questions, is there a motion to approve? And we'll need a second. So

Second.

We have a first and a second to approve the purchase of a 110 additional sets of firefighter turnout gear for May one Equipment Incorporated in the amount of $398,310. All in favor?

Aye. Aye. Alright.

And then secondly, approval purchase of one l p 35 cardiac monitor and three l p 1,000 AED for the city of Joliet fire department from Stryker Medical in the amount of $59,847.12.

Chief? So with the AEDs, I mean, you guys know we've been really pushing CPR AED. We're trying to get more AEDs out of the community. So the AEDs we're buying are compatible with our monitors. The the ADs that we're gonna get rid of are the ZOLL ones that are compatible with our monitors. And what our plan is to try to get them on as many other city vehicles first that need them, and then after that, start getting them to the public. So that's what we're gonna do with all our old ADs. And then the life pack monitor, six of our Amlenses currently have the newest model that offers a lot more features. Three of them do not. So one of these will be for one of those Amlenses that does not.

And the other two, when we order the next two Amlenses, which come up next year, they'll get those this year, actually, later in the year. So this will get us every ambulance will have the current monitor, and then we're just updating our ADs to match the monitors, and then we're gonna use our old monitors to be replaced, hopefully, on other city vehicles that need them.

Okay. Any questions or comments? No. Sounds like it. Alright. I'll need a motion and a second. Move to approve.

Second.

We have a first and a second. All in favor?

Aye. Aye.

Nobody in opposition. Thank you, chief. We do have a resolution. Here you go. Ordinances, there is nothing resolutions. Resolution authorizing execution of an intergovernmental agreement between the city of Joliet and Will County. Chief?

Yeah. So the city of Joliet radio was operating on Starcom. It's encrypted. Nobody can scan or hear us. But when we go mutual aid outside of the City Of Joliet, they use an 800 system that we can't talk to them.

Or last night when we had the Amazon warehouse fire, we had, the cook come in with a big ventilation fan, and we couldn't talk to them on the way in because they can't reach us on ours. So by getting on the county system, which is free, then we'll be able to talk to everybody else, and they'll be able to talk to us. And this also works for the police department, and it'll work for other city vehicles that they can use some of the old radios to talk to each other for water main breaks. If we have snow events, we'd all be able to talk to each other with our old radios and the CERT team, and it doesn't cost us anything.

Question. What time did it happen last night?

It started at 03:30. We were there till about 10:30 or eleven.

And how was it a huge fire?

It the fire wasn't necessarily

asking because I didn't hear anything about it at all.

Yeah. It wasn't a surprise. Usually, when we have a fire at a warehouse, there's media everywhere and no I think it was how remote that warehouse is. Nobody knew.

Yeah. Nothing on the ABC News, I witnessed, because they all Yeah.

They're usually there. Like, for IKEA, they were all over the place. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It was a fire started in a storage rack. The sprinklers kinda kept it in check, but when we got there, the building was full of smoke. Fire was still burning because the sprinklers that's what they're do. They're intended to keep it in check, but it it won't completely extinguish it. And then we had to get in there, extinguish it, and pull all that material off the racking. So it just took a long time to to get it out. Wow. Wow.

Not a word. Not a word. I'm off at five it's like a 05:00 news. You know? Yeah.

I was I was shocked too. I was waiting for the phone calls.

Any That's good, doc. Any other questions or comments in reference in reference to the resolution? No. Good. We have a motion to approve. A first and a second? Second. Alright. All in favor? Aye.

Thank you. Alright. Thank you.

Thanks, Steve. Be safe.

Thank you.

I'll probably

have you, if you don't mind, comment tonight. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure everybody like to hear, you know, how it all went. So Perfect. Alright. Thanks. Any new or old business not for final action or recommendation? Janet? No. I'm good. Susanna?

No. Thank you.

Okay. I don't have anything either.

Just call the news when we have a big deal. Every little town. Oh, there was a garage fire and the cat, you know,

was Yeah. We had two fires yesterday, I don't think either one of them got got up.

Okay. We don't we do not have any new or old business. Is anybody that has any pop public comment? And I do not see anybody here.

Do you have any public comment?

No. Okay. Alright.

So with Just for the record to be legal Yeah. So we can get it as our badge. Just come up and state your name. Okay? And what badge you're working on? It's just the three of us.

Jonathan. Right?

Go on, buddy. And

you'll be on the record. Okay?

Makes this person. Just introduce yourself introduce yourself.

That's all.

I'm Jonathan from Joliet Hill, I'm working on the citizenship in the community in Maripatch. And my requirement I have to do, I have to attend a city council meeting or any type of meeting to to ask my question, which is about. So that's why I have attended this week. Yay.

Thank you. Awesome. Thank you. Good luck.

For coming.

Hope you go all the way to Eagle Scout.

And I think you're you're gonna have to do it again

for Elliot and Al. So

No. No. No. Was that was not real.

Okay. If we don't have anything else

Does he have something else?

You have something else? He needs to talk himself.

Yeah. Oh, okay.

Okay. Okay. Motion to adjourn then.

So moved. Second.

Alright. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you.