Prevention

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City of Portland Fiscal Year 2026-27 Proposed Budget Public Safety > Portland Fire & Rescue > Prevention Prevention Budget Revenues by Fund 2023-24 Actuals 2024-25 Actuals 2025-26 Revised Budget 2026-27 Proposed External Revenues $5,011,415 $4,992,021 $5,282,000 $6,510,240 General Fund $4,852,259 $4,992,021 $5,062,000 $6,290,240 Grants Fund $159,155 $0 $220,000 $220,000 Internal Revenues $10,758,484 $9,083,581 $6,526,941 $6,473,932 General Fund $10,760,177 $9,083,581 $6,526,941 $6,473,932 Grants Fund ($1,693) $0 $0 $0 Grand Total $15,769,899 $14,075,602 $11,808,941 $12,984,172 Program Expenses by Major Object Program expenses only include personnel, internal materials and services, external materials and services, and capital. 2023-24 Actuals 2024-25 Actuals 2025-26 Revised Budget 2026-27 Proposed External Materials and $581,879 $236,535 $501,598 $596,432 Services Internal Materials and $708,861 $675,751 $365,767 $395,676 Services Personnel $11,210,506 $11,965,679 $11,055,919 $11,992,094 Grand Total $12,501,246 $12,877,965 $11,923,284 $12,984,202 Program Description and Goals The goal of the Prevention Division is to save lives, property, and the environment by preventing fires before they start, and to identify the cause and origin of fires. Under the direction of the Fire Marshal, the Prevention Division works to reduce the frequency and severity of fires and other life-safety incidents through a multi-disciplinary approach that includes education, engineering, and enforcement. The greatest allocation of personnel within the Prevention Program is to Fire Inspector work, which is community-facing direct connection of the bureau's inspectors to businesses and property owners throughout the city. This group is also responsible for plan 662

City of Portland Fiscal Year 2026-27 Proposed Budget review and integrates its work with the Portland Permitting & Development (PP&D) process. Collaboration with PP&D and other bureaus, like Transportation, is an opportunity for continued growth as we continue to recognize the interconnectedness of our work, process, and impacts. Services Community education efforts, FireWise community support, plan review, building and system inspections, testing, and maintenance review, code enforcement, arson investigations. Equity Impacts Prevention is one of the areas of greatest opportunity for PF&R to prevent the disproportionate impacts of fire to indigenous people, refugee and immigrant communities, people of color, and people with disabilities. The Prevention Division is able to target populations most at risk, working alongside community members to provide information, education, and resource information specific to their needs (i.e. provide community safety home fire checklist information in ten different languages, visual smoke alarms for those who are Deaf and/or hard of hearing, etc.). Changes to Program There are no noted changes to this program area for FY 2026-27. 663

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