DATE:
March 26, 2024
CATEGORY:
Consent
DEPT.:
Fire
TITLE: Adopt a Resolution Acknowledging
Receipt of the 2023 SB 1205 Mandatory
Fire Inspection Report
RECOMMENDATION
Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View Acknowledging Receipt of a Report Made by the Mountain View Fire Chief Regarding the Required Annual Inspection of Certain Occupancies Pursuant to Sections 13146.2 and 13146.3 of the California Health and Safety Code, to be read in title only, further reading waived (Attachment 1 to the Council report).
BACKGROUND
California Health and Safety Code Sections 13146.2 and 13146.3 require all city or county fire departments to conduct annual fire inspections in every building used as a public or private school, hotel, motel, lodging house, or apartment house, as well as certain residential care facilities. Senate Bill (SB) 1205, approved in September 2018, added California Health and Safety Code Section 13146 requiring all city or county fire departments to report compliance with the mandated inspections to its administering authority. For the Mountain View Fire Department, the administering authority is the Mountain View City Council. The R esolution presented with this item (Attachment 1) provi des the required report to the Mountain View City Council summarizing the Mountain View Fire Department’s compliance status with these mandated fire inspections.
ANALYSIS
The Resolution formally reports that Mountain View Fire Department personnel completed
99.8% of the annual fire inspections at occupancies required to be inspected in California Health and Safety Code Sections 13146.2 and 13146.3. The inspections of these buildings and structures are summarized below by occupancy category. The occupancy categories are further defined in the attached resolution.
• Educational Group E Occupancies: Sixty-four (64) Group E occupancies exist in the City of Mountain View, and all Group E facilities were inspected in 2023.
Adopt a Resolution Acknowledging Receipt of the
2023 SB 1205 Mandatory Fire Inspection Report
March 26, 2024
• Residential Group R Occupancies: Nine hundred eighteen (918) Group R occupancies exist in the City of Mountain View, including 19 R1 and 899 R2 facilities. Nine hundred sixteen (916) Group R facilities were inspected in 2023. The two R2 occupancies that were not inspected in calendar year 2023 were inspected in January 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT—There is no fiscal impact associated with this Resolution.
ALTERNATIVES
1. Do not adopt the Resolution.
2. Direct staff to provide additional information.
3. Provide other direction.
PUBLIC NOTICING—Agenda posting.
Prepared by:
Carrie Sandahl
Fire Marshal
Approved by:
Juan F. Diaz
Fire Chief
Audrey Seymour Ramberg
Assistant City Manager
CS/AS/4/CAM
141-03-26-24CR
203903
Attachment: 1. Resolution