R11229ATTACHMENT E
City Council Meeting: February 25, 2020 Santa Monica, California
RESOLUTION NO. 11229 (CCS)
(City Council Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA,
CALIFORNIA, ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF A REPORT ON THE STATUS OF
STATE MANDATED ANNUAL FIRE INSPECTIONS IN THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 13146.4.
WHEREAS, California Health & Safety Code Section 13146.4 was added in
2018, and became effective on January 1, 2019; and
WHEREAS, California Health & Safety Code Sections 13146.2 and 13146.3
require all fire departments, including the Santa Monica Fire Department, that provide
fire protection services to perform annual inspections of every building used as a public
or private school, hotel, motel, lodging house, apartment house, and certain residential
care facilities for compliance with building standards, as provided; and
WHEREAS, California Health & Safety Code Section 13146.4 now requires all
fire departments, including the Santa Monica Fire Department, that provide fire
protection services to report annually to its administering authority on its compliance
with Sections 13146.2 and 13146.3; and
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WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Santa Monica is the administering
authority of the Santa Monica Fire Department, and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Santa Monica intends to comply with
the requirements of the California Health & Safety Code by acknowledging the attached
compliance report from the Santa Monica Fire Department’s Fire Chief (the
“Compliance Report”), attached hereto as Exhibit 1.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Santa
Monica that the City Council, expressly acknowledges receipt of the Compliance Report
in accordance with California Health and Safety Code Sections 13146.4.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
________________________ LANE DILG
City Attorney
Exhibit 1 Compliance Report
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EXHIBIT 1
Santa Monica Fire Department
333 Olympic Drive 2nd Floor
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Bill Walker
Fire Chief
City of
Santa Monica
February 25, 2020
Mayor and City Council
After the tragic 2016 “Ghost Ship Fire” in Oakland that killed 36 people, Senator Jerry Hill
introduced SB 1205 The Fire protection services - Compliance Reporting. The bill was passed,
and Section 13146.4 was added to the States Health and Safety Code last year.
With the signing of SB 1205 (Hill) on September 27, 2018 by the Governor, the California Health
and Code was amended by adding Section 13146.4, that requires that all fire departments
required to perform annual inspections pursuant to Sections 13146.2 and 13146.3 shall report
annually to its administrating authority on its compliance with Sections 13146.2 and 13146.3.
These sections mandate that annual inspections of all public and private schools, hotels,
motels, lodging houses, and all apartment buildings be performed by the fire department. The
purpose of annual fire inspections is to mitigate known hazards, reduce risk to the community
and ensure reasonable compliance with the California Fire Code. The Fire Department
completed all initial annual fire inspections of these facilities for Fiscal Year 2018-2019.
The California Building Code also specifies that condominiums should be considered
apartments for building code application. An apartment shall consist of three or more attached
units and excludes all duplex style buildings. Last fiscal year, the Fire Department inspected
3,829 apartment/condominium buildings with three units or greater.
This bill requires every city or county fire department or district to perform the above-described
inspections to report annually to its administering authority on the department or district’s
compliance with the above-described inspection requirements. The bill also requires the
administering authority to acknowledge receipt of the report in a resolution or a similar formal
document. Further, the acceptance of this compliance report and the recommended Resolution
fulfill the statutory requirements contained in California Health and Safety Code Section
13146.2, 13146.3 and 13146.4, as amended by SB 1205.
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The following is the mandated reporting of the inspections from the Santa Monica Fire
Department for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019.
Occupancy
Type
Inspections
Completed
Total
Number
Percentage
Completed
Schools Public 18 18 100%
Schools Private 40 40 100%
Jails SMPD PSF 1 1 100%
Multi-Family
Residential
Three Units + 3,829 3,829 90%
In total, the Fire Department has conducted 3,888 mandated annual inspections during the
Fiscal Year 2018-2019 and completed initial inspections of all known buildings and structures
required to be inspected within the California Health and Safety Code mandate.
In addition to the mandated reporting of the specific occupancies above, the following are the
remaining inspections conducted by the Santa Monica Fire Department on an annual basis,
reported for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019.
Occupancy
Type
Inspections
Completed
Total Number Percentage
Completed
Business and
Mercantile
3,693 4,221 88%
Assemblies,
Institutions,
Schools,
Hospitals
386 410 94%
Highrise 72 72 100%
Hazardous
Materials
Hazmat 281 303 93%
Underground
Storage Tanks
39 39 100%
New
Construction
1436 1571 (Prior Year)
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Adopted and approved this 25th day of February 2020.
__________________________
K e v i n M c K e o w n , M a y o r
I, Denise Anderson-Warren, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do
hereby certify that Resolution No. 11229 (CCS) was duly adopted at a meeting
of the Santa Monica City Council held on the 25th day of February 2020, by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Davis, Himmelrich, Jara, Morena, Winterer,
Mayor McKeown
NOES: None
ABSENT: Mayor Pro Tem O’Day
A T T E S T :
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Denise Anderson-Warren, City Clerk
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