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Committee approves $52,000 to digitize fire incident reports and enable online payments
Summary
The committee approved a $52,000 transfer from innovation funds to the Fire Department to digitize fire incident reports and add an online payment option so customers can purchase reports by credit card and receive PDF copies electronically.
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.
