Audience: Budget Committee, Technology Committee, Administrators
Purpose: To be read and responded to by Budget Committee and to inform priorities of the Technology
Committee.
Instructions: Please fill in the following as needed to justify your requests.
If you're requesting classroom technology, see http://www.chabotcollege.edu/audiovisual/Chabot%20College%20Standard.pdf
for the brands/model numbers that are our current standards. If requesting multiple pieces of equipment, please rank order those requests. Include shipping cost and taxes in your request.
Please note: Equipment requests are for equipment whose unit cost exceeds $200. Items which are less expensive should be requested as supplies. Software licenses should also be requested as supplies.
Please note that Fire Technology Equipment funding comes from Perkins VTEA or Measure B sources.
2012-13 Budget
Requested Received
EQUIPMENT-6000
Project or Items
Requested
16 Gauge Steel Top
Mobile Service
Bench 1000 lb
Capacity, 2-door, 3 drawer #1AAF6
20-foot wood wall ladder, Alaco Ladder company
30 Helmet Shields
10 Structure
Helmets
2 Replacement
Construction lights
32 Petzl Helmet
Headlamps
$
2013-14
Request
Rationale*
$121,155
1400 Needed for moving the Hose Repair
Machine (weighs over 400 pounds) in the new Fire/Police training room in PE
Complex. Too risky to have students lift and move when machine is needed.
3200 One of the wood 20-foot single section wall ladders was on loan to the Chabot
Fire Academy. The ladder is due to be returned to the host agency, so Chabot
Fire Academy will need a new 20-foot wood ladder to maintain the current
Academy training schedule each year.
1700 Current 20 helmets and new 10 helmets need helmet shields that identify wearer as Chabot College
Student Firefighter. Currently, there are no identifiers on helmets.
2200 Need 10 more Ben Franklin 2 structure fire helmets for student firefighters in
Work Experience program.
1400 120 volt exterior lamps needed for outdoor training in poor exterior lighting conditions. Must be capable of running on 120 volt system.
3800 For student safety, helmet headlamps would be used during Fire Academy when students need to train in the dark twice a week throughout the

Auto Extrication Ram
Jammer
Milwaukee Sawzall
#6538-21
10 Structure Coats
10 Structure Pants
Rotary Saw Diamond
Blades
Thermal Imaging
Camera, Charger and
2 batteries
Replacement
Aluminum Ladders –
24-feet
Essentials of Fire
Fighting and Fire
Department
Operations 6 th
Edition Instructor
Resource Kit
600 feet ½” Rescue
Rope, (400 – yellow,
200 white) @.97/ft
Wildland Coats (10) semester.
300 This auto extrication support tool keeps the current hydraulic rams from slipping out of car door frame when students activate the e-Draulic Hurst
Ram tool.
275 This tool is used in auto extrication for accessing the interior of the car through the roof or door. Currently.
Borrowing from Fire Department if available for loan.
10000 Need 10 more small, medium and large structure fire coats for student firefighters in Fire Academy and Work
Experience programs.
8000 Need 10 more small, medium and large structure fire pants for student firefighters in Fire Academy and Work
Experience programs.
700 This is for replacement blades needed as current blades wear out from use of
72 students per school year.
10500 This is the 3 rd year requesting this rescue device. During Fire Fighter
Safety and Survival training, this tool is used to locate downed firefighters.
Accessing tool for loan during training is increasingly difficult since most fire departments do not have surplus thermal imaging cameras at this time.
2500 This request is to replace the final two aluminum ladders used in the Fire
Academy.
600 Includes all of the teaching materials for the new Fire Fighter 1 Academy curriculum to comply with revised
State Fire Training requirements. This resource kit covers materials taught in seven Fire Tech courses (50, 51, 52,
90A, 90B, 90C & 91D).
700 Need to replace rescue safety rope that was compromised through shock loading.
1150 Need 10 more small, medium and large wildland fire coats for student firefighters in CAL FIRE Wildland
Academy and Work Experience

Wildland Pants (10)
4 - 2.5” Elkhart
Select-O-Matic Fog
Nozzles
4 Elkhart Select-O-
Matic Nozzles, 1.5” thread, break apart
2 – Aluminum Piston
Intake Valve 5” Storz x 6# F NST
Hose Tester, 4 outlet
Unit
Barcode Heat press
Ajax Air Hammer
Heavy Duty Rescue
Kit 811 RK
75 Interspiro
Carbon-Fiber
Wrapped Cylinders
@ 875 ea. [1/2 funded 2012-2013]
2 - Large SCBA
Storage Rack for 45 min. cylinders
72000 35000 programs.
930 Need 10 more small, medium and large wildland fire pants for student firefighters in CAL FIRE Wildland
Academy and Work Experience programs.
5000 Over half of the Fire Academy nozzles for large hoselines do not work and are used as “dummy nozzles.” The four nozzles requested would be used during the charged hoseline and live fire training components of the Fire
Academy.
3500 Over half of the Fire Academy nozzles for small hoselines do not work and are used as “dummy nozzles.” The four nozzles requested would be used during the charged hoseline and live fire training components of the Fire
Academy.
1800 Air chisel unit for auto extrication training. Currently, borrowing air chisel from local Fire Department if available.
37000 This is the remaining replacement set of cylinders for use with donated SCBA packs.
3800 Angled shelving unit for holding SCBA cylinders with valve protectors for increased safety. Allows for air circulation around cylinders so that they dry completely. This unit will help keep cylinders from being stacked on floor and accidentally tripped on.
3200 Replacement intake valves for fire engines.
3500 Unit designed for testing Chabot
College fire hose to NFPA standard pressure to ensure hose is safe to continue using.
1000 The heat press applies the bar code garment labels to the firefighter protective clothing to make issuing and returning of equipment loaned to

Circul-Air Corp Dual
Purpose Hose Dryer students more efficient.
13000 This drying cabinet permits rapid drying of wet fire hose and wet structure fire clothing. This permits clothing and hose to dry effectively prior to storage, and reduces mold and mildew from forming on damp equipment.
* Rationale should include discussion of impact on student learning, connection to our strategic plan goal, impact on student enrollment, safety improvements, whether the equipment is new or replacement, potential ongoing cost savings that the equipment may provide, ongoing costs of equipment maintenance, associated training costs, and any other relevant information that you believe the Budget Committee should consider.