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Committee approves $350,000 pilot to modernize fire department medical-supply inventory
Summary
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.
The Innovation and Performance committee approved a $350,000 transfer from the Innovation Fund to pilot an inventory-management system for medical supplies used by the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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…
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