Williams questions FDNY on EMS response time disparities by neighborhood

Okay, last question.

Long-term racial equity goal included analyzing EMS response times alongside neighborhood demographics to identify racial disparities in emergency response.

Has the department already identified disparities in medical emergency response times across neighborhoods?

So you all said that you were going to do that, so I'm just following up on what you guys said.

I would say that we consistently and routinely monitor call volume in all areas of the city.

And as call volume is increasing in certain areas, in those areas, we redeploy units into those areas to be able to address the call volume that we see.

That could include running extra units in that area.

It could also, as we look at the city as a whole, it could include just taking, in that moment, units from other parts of the city which are not as busy and relocating them for a period of time into that area until we're able to get a handle

on the amount of calls that are happening in that specific area.

Okay, just to clarify though, the question was like, have you identified any disparities based off of geographical location, but we can continue later.

Okay, great.

Oh, did you want to?

Just to answer, I'll give you a little bit of more clarity on the budget you asked for, the equipment budget.

For fiscal year 26, our budget was about $7,000, and I think we are on par.

Sorry, $7 million.

Sorry, $7 million.

Sorry.

We spent $14 million the previous campaign and $12 million the fiscal year before that.

And a lot of that is tied to the campaign that we're in.

So for the fire campaign, we do ramp up quite a bit more.

There's a lot of overtime spend.

And there's also a lot of money that we spend on advertising.

So it does fluctuate, but $7 million for fiscal year 26.

And we anticipate around that same amount for fiscal year 27.

Thanks.

Okay, great.