FY 27 Proposed Operating Budget

GOALS: To provide administrative support, technical support and training to Harford County Government and Public Safety partners; To conduct two cabinet level tabletop exercises annually testing County response plans to all natural and manmade disasters; To further enhance the County's response to all disasters, DES will acquire CCTV feeds from relevant Harford County critical infrastructure; To develop needs and implementation plan for Next Generation 911 (NG911); To investigate and develop a plan for single site 911 call processing and potential dispatch consolidation; To achieve and maintain answering 90% of all 911 calls within ten seconds and answer 95% of 911 calls within 20 seconds; To maintain operational readiness in the Emergency Operations Center; To pursue a radio and telephone quality assurance program to coincide with our current protocol quality assurance program; To promote public education and awareness; To promote organizational changes in accordance with the DES career ladder to include active supervision and expense control in the 911 Center; To provide effective and efficient HAZMAT response; To assure prevention of HAZMAT incidents through inspection and public education programs; To provide coordinated and specialized high risk rescues in support of the local volunteer and EMS services; To bring greater standardization to EMS in Harford County for the benefit of citizens, providers, and volunteer fire companies; To continue development and build-out of a County career-based EMS system.

DEPARTMENT SUMMARY BY CHARACTER

Emergency Services DEPARTMENT by Character

FY 24 Audited FY 25 Audited FY 26 Approved Budget

FY 27 Proposed Budget

SALARIES AND WAGES CONTRACTUAL SERVICES SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS BUSINESS AND TRAVEL

$28,437,091 $4,258,652 $1,100,217 $1,052,424

$32,215,902 $5,237,142 $1,465,885 $1,010,355

$37,536,311 $6,156,769 $1,209,800 $1,020,253

$39,663,280 $6,848,245 $1,180,200 $1,179,198

CAPITAL OUTLAY MISCELLANEOUS

$6,816

$26,796

$0

$0

$10,067,225 $44,922,425

$8,186,906 $48,142,985

$9,358,858 $55,281,991

$10,831,069 $59,701,992

TOTAL

350