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A city presenter summarized the program's objective: provide small, once-only awards to small businesses and community projects to prototype products made from recycled materials and to help those projects qualify for larger state grants. Examples shown to the committee included prototypes such as textile recycling and small-scale construction components made with recycled materials.

Presenters said funded projects must produce a final report summarizing results; those reports would be public and intended to help other businesses replicate successful approaches. The program also aims to generate evidence to attract larger state funding. Committee members discussed appropriate award sizes for microgrants and the distinction between this pilot funding and other recycling funding sources such as CalRecycle; presenters said the pilot is intentionally small-scale to create proofs of concept.

The committee recorded votes in favor by Councilmember Rodríguez and Councilmember Bloomenfield; the motion passed.

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Chief Robert Barna (identified in the record as the project lead for the initiative) told the committee that repeated over-ordering, expired supplies and disconnected inventory systems have created inefficiencies. The pilot would test RFID tagging, Wi‑Fi connectivity at shops/stations and software to track stock levels and reduce waste. Presenters told the committee they currently lack full-time positions dedicated to inventory management and that connecting data streams and improving predictive ordering were central goals.

Committee members asked whether the project qualified for innovation-fund support rather than regular budget funding, noting other departments have built similar systems. Presenters said the pilot includes technology elements (RFID tagging, connectivity) and data-integration work that the department considered innovative and not fully budgeted. Committee members pressed for quantified savings and for coordination with other city programs that have implemented similar systems.

The committee's recommendation established a new appropriation for the Fire Department's inventory-management pilot, transferred $350,000 from Innovation Fund 105-10, and authorized the department to make technical modifications necessary to implement the project. The recommendation required the Fire Department to monitor expenditures and report back to the Innovation and Performance Commission on fund accounting, lessons learned and obstacles. The committee vote was recorded as in favor by Councilmember Rodríguez and Councilmember Bloomenfield; the motion passed.

","The committee approved a $350,000 innovation-fund appropriation to pilot RFID/Wi‑Fi tracking and inventory systems for the Fire Department's medical supplies, aiming to reduce waste, improve readiness and enable predictive ordering.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6580640,"Committee approves $52,000 to digitize fire incident reports and enable online payments",376,2157000,2533000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3076555-d9c2b9fc6f6b60162be49a909884bc03&start=2157&end=2533","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3076555-d9c2b9fc6f6b60162be49a909884bc03/thumbnail_2157000.jpg","/articles/6580640/California/Committee-approves-52000-to-digitize-fire-incident-reports-and-enable-online-payments","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6580640-8fb171ef93c5b83afd0622ffccd54577/orig.mp4?Expires=1771204197&Signature=XiWMB-VzTQ1uz40gEnq0CLSJVPgW~3abfyx6R5w66-Hq0EdBAXHUlsbqRzC~RY-yrsM-iKzKlnwrmDGegGKjK1XdtKYirXIlN7lQ9I0BZQzMwJJdkTLxEQ9lP3U9dDoqGhE05Un-I7w4dNbxDtG2L2U0~k0Bx86MjW0mvgZIZlxL8m1gOYejdM1FzIW3Zobog-6BGz9brJbDPSkhRXS5ujRLk7VK6iWXlKptAlXl0TYd0XojLMMLRMS9Ow5e0ip1OsqVxKNBs48CIq4LbKvH6B47IcXDA6hgc1f02cG6WlUp-mTND4ueCa2l660mFgOAko5G7jrKpG24Ai9Gzss86g__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Innovation and Performance committee approved a $52,000 appropriation from the Innovation Fund to digitize Los Angeles Fire Department incident reports and add an online payment option.

Drew Streper, identified in the record as the department's public services lead, described current procedures that require customers to submit checks and wait days or weeks for a mailed, printed incident report. Streper said a web-based portal would let customers pay by card, receive PDFs within minutes and reduce staff time spent processing payments and printing reports.

Committee members asked about the citywide payments infrastructure and whether Finance Department systems would be used. Streper replied the project will coordinate with the Office of Finance and that the department's current Records unit is small; the portal would reduce manual workload. The committee's recommendation instructs the Fire Department to monitor innovation-fund spending and report lessons learned and obstacles back to the Innovation and Performance Commission.

The committee recorded votes in favor by Councilmember Rodríguez and Councilmember Bloomenfield; the motion passed.

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Karina Afwork, identified in the record as an environmental engineer in the city's waste management division, presented the pilot plan and said it would begin with up to 20 restaurants to test automated grease-removal devices intended to capture high-quality brown grease that could be converted into biofuels. Afwork said the pilot will compare passive grease traps and newer automatic removal devices, measure yields from different restaurant types and assess whether a local market (World Energy and others were mentioned) would pay for the collected feedstock.

The committee and presenters discussed site selection criteria (restaurant size and activity level, eligibility exclusions for restaurants with large underground interceptors), expected unit costs and pilot scale. Afwork said unit costs vary by device maker; she cited a range with a lower bound around $3,500 and average near $5,000 per installation, and she described the pilot as intentionally small. Speakers raised concerns about permitting and construction-review costs and whether the pilot contained enough installations to reach a critical collection mass for buyers. One committee member proposed authorizing expansion authority to add more installations quickly if the pilot shows promise.

The committee's recommendation approved the $200,000 transfer from Innovation Fund 105-10 to the Bureau of Sanitation (department 556-50, account 569303) and added authorization for the Bureau to seek an additional $250,000 to expand the number of installations in identified neighborhoods. The recommendation required the Bureau of Sanitation to separately monitor and report innovation-fund spending and to report back to the Innovation and Performance Commission on fund accounting, lessons learned and obstacles. Presenters mentioned interest from World Energy as a potential recipient of the collected feedstock; the committee did not commit specific off-take agreements in committee.

Councilmember Rodríguez and Councilmember Bloomenfield recorded votes in favor; the measure passed in committee.

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The committee approved the appropriation after a presentation from police reviewers who said the online tool would replace the department's annual printed use-of-force report with a more interactive, searchable dataset. Committee members who recorded votes on the item were Councilmember Rodríguez and Councilmember Bloomenfield; the measure was approved in committee.

Committee members and department presenters said the pilot would make use-of-force data more accessible to the public and could reduce production costs of the annual printed report. A presenter identified in the record as Captain Spanish described the pilot as a move from a static PDF to an interactive, geocoded panel that would allow searches by neighborhood, time, officer tenure bands, and other parameters. Captain Spanish said the department estimated a pilot cost of $125,000 and projected recurring savings versus the printed report format.

Presenters also described scope and maintenance considerations. They said the pilot would integrate multiple departmental data sources and would require initial vendor work and some ongoing validation by department staff. Sergeant Amware and Officer Iván Lucero accompanied the presentation and were listed as attendees from the department.

The committee's formal recommendation text instructed staff to: establish a new appropriation titled “Department of Police — Use-of-Force Panel,” transfer $125,000 from the Innovation Fund (account 105-10), fund services/contracts (account 100-70-003040) for vendor work, and require the LAPD to separately monitor innovation-fund spending so any unspent funds can be returned. The recommendation also instructed reporting back to the Innovation and Performance Commission on fund accounting, lessons learned and obstacles, and authorized the department to make technical modifications necessary to implement the tool as described in the report.

Councilmembers on the record for the committee vote were listed as Councilmember Rodríguez (yes) and Councilmember Bloomenfield (yes); the committee motion passed.

The pilot will proceed to the next scheduling step for mayoral and full council consideration as required by the city's process for innovation-fund appropriations.

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