please stand by for the san francisco fire commission meeting of january 10, 2024. >> san francisco fire commission regular meeting, january 10, 2024, the time is 902. this meeting is being held in person. members of the public may attend the meeting of the physical meeting location or calling 1-415-655-0001 and using meeting id, 26637253524.

the password is 1234. members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes per agenda item. please insure you are in a quite location, speak clearly and turn off background sounds, wait for the item you would like to address to be called. when press star 3 to be added to the queue. the system will notify when you are in line. callers will hear silence. when waiting for your turn to speak. operators will unmute you. you may also watch live at www.sfgovtv.org. item 1, roll call. president nakajo, present. commissioner feinstein has been excused. commissioner fraser, present. commissioner collins has been excused and chief of department

jeanine nicholson. >> present remotely. >> thank you. president nakajo will read the land acknowledgment. >> thank you madam secretary. by the way, happy new year and year of the dragon. the ramaytush oholone acknowledgment. we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> thank you. item 2, general public comment. members may address the

commission up to three minutes on any matter within the commission jurisdiction that does not appear on the agenda. speakers shall address their remarks to commission as a whole and not individual members or personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion. the lack of response by commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. madam secretary, any member of the public that wishes to comment at this time? >> would anybody like to make public comment? there is nobody approaching the podium. let me check the call-in. caller, would you like to make general public comment? hello caller. >> just listening. thanks. >> pardon me?

>> i'm just calling to listen. no thank you. >> thank you. there is nobody else on the public comment line. >> alright. public comment is closed. madam secretary. >> item 3, approval of the minutes. approval of the regular meeting minutes on march 8, 2023. revised with added public comment. >> thank you madam secretary. any public comment on item 3, approval of minutes for march 8? >> there is nobody approaching the podium and caller, did you want to make public co the minutes? >> no, i'm just listening. >> okay. there is nobody on the public comment line. >> public comment is closed. any questions or discussion from commissioners at this time?

if not, this is action item colleagues. we have a motion vice president morgan. >> question. was this public comment, was that-did that actually occur at that meeting? >> yes, it did and it want wasn't put on the agenda or the minutes. >> i was just trying--okay. >> it was the highlighted portion. >> i got you. thank you madam secretary. >> thank you for your question vice president morgan. any other questions? otherwise i need a motion and second, please. >> yes, i like to make a motion to approve the minutes from march 8 and for december 13. >> we'll take december 13 separately so march 8 and second, please. >> eel i'll second that. >> the motion is unanimous.

minutes from the regular meeting of december 13, 2023? >> any public comment? >> there is nobody approaching the podium and nobody on the public comment line that wants to comment. >> thank you very much. public comment is closed. commissioners, questions, comments? otherwise we'll need a motion and second commissioners. >> eel polk make a motion to approve the minutes from december 13. >> thank you very much vice president morgan. thank you commissioner fraser. >> the motion is unanimous. we are going to take item 4 out of order and go with chief of department report. item 5, report from chief of department jeanine nicholson within the department since fire commission meeting on december 13, 2023 including

budget- >> we know you have to attend the mayor meeting so we'll call you at this time. good morning. >> good morning and thank you president nakajo, vice president morgan, commissioner fraser, maureen and command staff. this is my report. since our december meeting, yes, happy new year to all. i know that mark corso will be speaking about budget later on, so i won't really touch on that, other then to say that, our pandemic impacts are here and we have been asked to eliminate wasteful spending, all departments have been asked that. sorry, also there is a radio on in the background here.

i went to the city emt graduation cohort number 6 in december, and we had a good time. a lot of good people applying for the department as well, which is great news. labor management meeting. good productive meeting and we i think everyone is keeping a close eye on the labor negotiations that are happening with [indiscernible] those typically don't fall on the mayoral election cycle, but this year they do and so that could have real budget impacts. we had our headquarter lunch and thank you to our commissioners who made it and i hope you enjoyed yourselves. we certainly enjoyed having you

there. the drug market accountability center that has been-we have been meeting for the past not sure how many months, 4, 5, 6 months. it is starting to have a really significant impact on conditions in the city in terms of going after a lot of the big drug dealers and it is also--you may be able to see impact on our streets, so that's good news. fire marshal kaufman has been working with president peskin and board of supervisors on the lithroom ion battery legislation. we have seen across the country an increase in these fires nationwide and we had several of our e(own here, so legislation

is needed and this is just the first step in seeing what we can do to make things affor people. we met with the council general of singapore, myself and cd2, 3 and 4. he and his counsel came to headquarters to meet with us and see what if anything they could learn about our disaster planning and just response and then he and his vice chair the next day i saw them at saturday nert class, so really great guy. we had a high level staff meeting yesterday with myself and the deputies and adc's and our health and wellness chief as well, and our division chiefs and i thought it was super helpful to really dig into culture of ownership and

culture of responsibility in this department. it was a productive conversation and we will see some actions being taken out of that meeting. we had the h2 firefighter academy orientation saturday. there were 58 recruits there and that academy starts on the 16th. i also was able to meet and greet our h3 level 2 academy this past monday, the 8th. those are paramedics. there are 5 students in the class. and, we sent out the info about the martin luther king celebration monday, hoping any or many of you can make it. we will be there for sure. i finally want to close with sally sally sally. i know you are there sally and

i'm sorry thank you for your self-less leadership and service down at the toy program for all these years. you have been invaluable to the city and certainly to this department with your work and so, thank you my sister. i wish you well and i know we are all grateful for you and that concludes my report. >> thank you very much chief nicholson. we'll take public comment off cd1 report. madam secretary. >> there is nobody approaching the podium. caller, did you want to comment on the chief's report? >> no, thank you. >> and that is it for public comment. >> thank you very much. public comment is closed. commissioners, in terms of the cd1 report, comment s,

questions? >> yeah, i didn't have a question. i like the glasses chief. i know you have your business. happy new year to you. >> thank you. >> thank you for your report. >> thank you very much chief. have a good meeting and-- >> thank you. >> take care. alright. madam secretary, we took this item out of order, please proceed. >> item 4, presentation of certificate of appreciation. the san francisco fire commission to present a certificate of appreciation to sally casazza, chairperson of the san francisco fire toy program for her many years of service and dedication to the toy program. >> thank you very much madam secretary. i'm going to public comment and then comments from the commission as well. if there is any member from the

or the public--i see president of afa stand and also see chief buford who was past president of 798. chief, come on up, stan. get your microphone on first. >> hello commissioners. firstly, i like to take this time to thank you guys for recognizing sally casazza. she has been a great partner to the asian firefighter association as long as i can remember. i know sally way back when i was union news letter, main line. sally used to work at our union office and she has always been a great friend of mine personally. i'm thankful you are honoring her and sad to see her go. sally, i love you.

congratulations. >> thank you very much firefighter stan yee. chief buford. >> good morning. thank you president nakajo, vice president morgan, commissioner fraser. yes, this is a great honor and are thank you for the opportunity to speak. i had the pleasure of knowing sally for many years, even beyond her days with the toy program. first got to meet her when she was volunteers for boys and girls club. from there, she started working with our toy program. had the pleasure working with her both in the administrative role and as a support volunteer. i can say that her dedication to the citizens of san francisco went way beyond just providing toys. year-round she was there whether disaster of fire in san francisco, if there were floods or other disasters like wild land fires in other cities.

she made sure every child who suffered disaster know they were thought of and loved and for that i was always grateful for her work. she will be a huge loss to the program so we thank you very much sally for all you did and thank you for the opportunity to speak on her behalf. >> thank you very much chief buford. chief brown. >> good morning. chief of department deputy and maureen. sally, thank you. thank you for your generous spirit.z% it was infectious and everything you brought to the program you inspired me to do more with the community, so i just want to take a brief moment to thank you so much and i hope that i continue to have a connection with you. thank you. >> thank you very much chief

brown. chief ma, please. >> morning commissioners. chief of department. on behalf of the firefighters and this department i like to say thank you so much sally for your many many years of giving. i have been involved with the toy program, it is a fantastic program and really does speak to the heart of this department in connecting with our community and giving back to the community and to the families and the kids who really need our support, so thank you so much for your dedication, sally. amazing. thank you. thank you. >> thank you very much chief. at this point, chief-- >> good morning and happy new year president nakajo, vice president morgan, president

fraser, maureen [indiscernible] deputy chief of administration and like to take a moment to thank sally for all of your work and dedication over the years. sally became manager at the toy program and moved to the chairperson in 2014. her duties were enormous from fundraising to grant writing to managing the 600 barrels throughout the city and county of san francisco and so much more. through her tenure, sally not only developed community relationships, but relationships within the department, but more importantly, built of family of 300 plus individuals that over her tenure delivered over 200 thousand toys and more then 40 thousand families. it has been a increable journey and we are so so happy and sad for your retirement, but we

thank you sally for everything you have done for the community of san francisco and for this fire department. >> thank you very much chief. at this point, is there any other member of the department? again, thank you to the chief cd1 and any member of the public that wishes to comment at this time? >> caller, did you want to make public comment on item thank you. >> there is nobody else on the public comment line. >> thank you very much. public comment is closed. any comments at this point from the commissioners before we do the presentation? vice president morgan, would you like to give a few words? >> yeah, i just want to thank sally for angelic work and helping the kids =eand especially all over san francisco and in the bayview and i know our union participated in the toy drive a few years and our

administrative assistant got a great pleasure out of that. somehow it didn't connect this year, but we'll get it going again with my union hall that i'm presently working for and we got a great kick out of participating in that as well to give joy to had the kids that might miss that part of the season. it is honor to present you with this certificate and a honor to meet you and sorry you are retiring. thank you. th >> thank you very much vice president morgan. commissioner fraser. >> thank you. i know i only met you, but it is always really important to recognize contributions from people like you to the department and to the city. even if it feels like second nature to you, you deserve the accolades and deserve the recognition. i think freely helping others

to do something and think of others not only inspires people as they already mentioned, but it feels good and that's the secret of your activities so congratulations and glad i can be here to chime in on recognizing your efforts. thanks sally. >> thank you very much commissioner fraser. at this point, i'll give a few comments and then present the certificate to you sally and we have to ask you to come up here and receive it. you can come up here. come on. since we are talking about you. since everyone has been talking and giving accolades. >> let me do my comments and we'll get this going. we are real happy you are here. it is a honor and privilege. for myself, i'm always talking about longevity and relationship with the fire

department. 27 years. unofficially a member of san francisco. i talk often about the 4 alarm fire in my house arson while in the 8th grade morning star school. being in san francisco, there are certain things that just come out of. identification of san francisco. this is my interpretation of a japanese american kid growing up in japan town anis the 49ers, the san francisco giants and for me particularly was the san francisco fire department toy program. for the life of me, it seems i have always known about it and being japanese american, nothing wrong witht not receiving for a toy, but my community, culture and family it is hard to ask for something when you don't have it, so i always imagine as a kid that toys is really really important and so when i finally became a commissioner and i was part of

the family of the department with the toy program the san francisco fire department barrels all over the place, firefighters, volunteers and part of being a commissioner i wanted to and i remember back in the day going and volunteering to the toy program and i was told to report it to sally and i didn't know who sally was and i dont think sally knew who i was because i am just wearing my outfit and i went there and was able to interact with folks that were volunteers, fire members and nobody knew who i was but you were always so gracious in terms of greeting me and introducing me and putting me to work immediately. i appreciated that because some of the young members there at the time who are now in department used to say i never knew that was you, but i felt i was part of that, so i just

wanted to say that as you retire how much appreciation we the commission and department members have in terms of your contributions. you are san francisco born and raised. you did 20 years at at&t. you did 25 years at 798 and 20 years of that you coordinated the toy program. on that behalf and part of the commission we thank you for your contribution and your hard work to the san francisco fire department toy program. thank you so much. >> thank you commissioner. >> if we can present this to sally and then we'll give you a few-give you some words to express. in the appreciation from the commissioners, thank you very much sally. >> thank you commissioners, command staff, public, everyone here today.

actually, i don't know if commissioner nakajo remembers that he came to at&t when i was working there when jesse jackson was there and they were on a huge bus i think it was outside and that's the first time i remember meeting you, so that was over at 370 third street at the at&t building and i ran the telephone pioneers of america, thn e noat the time and after that i went to work in san ramon and decided i didn't like the commute to san ramon every day so got a job at the union and the chair person for the toy program. i are wanted to also thank my husband roger willhelm who is here. he is my latest victim and great promoter of me and what i enjoy doing and maureen, you are the lady from headquarters

i think i haven't met? >> [indiscernible] >> the new commissioners, i moat met you before at the toy program. it has been a great ride. i will miss the job and also look forward spending more time with roger. roger and i have recently gotten married and we'll do some cruising. it is a sad and very happy day. thank you to the caw command staff. they are all great people. i have my favorites and like to get to know others better. have a great day and appreciate the acknowledgments. >> thank you very much sally and congratulations. [applause] congratulations and congratulations roger on your recent wedding as well.

madam secretary. >> okay. we will go back to item 5. we will now hear report from operations deputy chief darius luttropp on report on overall field operations including greater alarm fires bureau of fire prevention and investigation and training within the department of airport division. >> good morning. deputy chief operation darius luttropp the report for december 2023. if we go to the slides. so, 2023 closes with december. december was not an unusual month for total overall volume. consistent with the month before. there was omone greater alarm

in the month that was on the 11 at 720 masonic avenue, third alarm fire, box 64464. box 4464 occurred at 320in the morning, 720 masonic between grove and hayes. chief ken yee isn't present but he was the incident commander. a full box struck for 3 story as you see, that is consistent with the rest of the block so we had buildings contiguous to each other with the same basic layout. first on scene was engine 21 which encountered from this picture was not arrival picture but there were fire showing from the sidewalk level throughout the building. three floors of fire on arrival. the officer struck a working fire and despite that heavy volume of fire they went to work doing the primary mission,

which is the search and rescue and extinshment of the fire to protect occupants in the building. they did attempt to make entry in the structure, but were not able to progress very far with the single line. battalion 5 received all most immediately after 21. they respond from the same quarters and noted both the building to the left and to the right the bravo and delta exposures were both also beginning to light. there was fire showing definitely over the roof line of both buildings and heavy smoke production on the interior and they realized they had to shift tactics and strategy in that moment and redirect 21 to the left hand side to the bravo building to try to supress the fire there and hold it to its building of origin.

as subsequent units aprived the truck raised the area ladder to the delta, which is the right hand exposure building. split their crew, which is a common tactic to maximize the efforts of the entire company so they can search the interior and begin attack on the interior and conduct roof operation. a fire like this it is imperative because we know the fire transition to the highest point quickly and it was in the attic spaces of both buildings on arrival so they were going to hold it in plac division 2 arrived and immediately saw the need for additional resources and struck a third alarm and shifted the tactics from the command perspective and began to assign basically these two buildings as acting as independent fires by turning into divisions and giving a chief responsibility for all the responsibility of fire attacks, search, rescue,

ventilation that occur in any structure fire, it allows for greater accountability, the safety of members. it allows for the efficiency of operations and chief put that in place quickly knowing that the fire was not going to go out until the main body of fire in the 720masonic was addressed. limiting it to the building of origin became the tactic and as well as search and rescue for any occupant of any belding. the fire had advantage over us. on arrival we have a building that is fully involved in flame and what happened at 720 masonic was heavy renovations going on so it meant open framing in all the dwelling spaces. open framing we have quick transition fire. you dont have any protective

sheetrock or plaster normally in a building and also allowed it to transition, had free movement from the front and the rear of the building. easy access in front and rear. that allowed the fire to push completely through the building and ingulf the rear deck which meant anybody in the structure was trapped by fire and that tfs imperative for us to get to them as quickly as possible. the other thing about open framing and the amount of fire involved on their arrival is we knew there will be a collapse. gp was aware from the start. the companies on the scene were cognisant of it all most immediately so the expectation early on was we have a collapse of at least the roof portion of this building. in a building like this, a wood frame typically we don't see it push the walls as much as we would in other masonry construction but they kept the

front of the building clear and fought the fire with a eye towards imminent collapse. when the fire did collapse, the roof, it brought it down onto the floor plate of the third floor which collapsed that because it was subject to heavy fire. once those two pieces of the building collapsed it created void spaces and made a difficult fire to fight from the exterior and the tactic of employ master streams which i'll get to in a moment was not going to be effective totally and the coordination of both the bravo and delta once they had the fire in those buildings contained, their tactic moved to suppressing the fire in 720 masonic by breaching walls and applying water to the building frometer

. once those plans were in place and working and we had 3 alarms q worth of companies on the field and a strong water supply in the area, the use of a multi-versal from a engine in the front of the building was taken on. so, at this point, with coordination and very very close coordination with the companies operating on the scene, a heavy master stream or multiverseal device, a very large nozzle applying huge amounts of water to the fire. this seems on outside like a easy thing to do. we often think of water like a light rain or dew or seems manageable, but a master stream like this is putting out thousands of pounds of water a minute.

if you take gallon you convert to weight any water that isn't evaporated or turned into steam taking the heat out of the fire becomes a load on the structure, so there can't be units operating in harms way or especially units that can be struck by this stream. the weight of this water is massive and intense. in the rear of the building, as we continued our search and rescue operation, we have a dedicated company. the truck companies are great at searching and rescuing from structures but they were heavily occupied in other fire tasks so luckwethe rescue squad who made it through the rear and incouptered two people forced to jump from the rear of the building. they made rapid communication. they packaged very carefully the two people and were attempting to get out of harms way when the tradesman became

unattainable so couldn't return the way they had come. they quickly went through the rear fence of the bravo exposure and transported to the hospital. this fire initially because of the contiguous nature of the construction, there was a concern that this fire always had the potential to extend beyond the buildings you see in this picture. that is always a concern in the city of san francisco. it is the reason our staffing is what it is. the reason we are equip in the tactics we use. our practiced for that type of event. initially 44 evacuated from the block. we were able to maintain a safe haven at john adams community college the street, so luckily on a cold night we had a place for people to get out of harms way and in the end due to the bravery, the strong work, the training, all the things that go into the operation of san francisco fire

department, 7 people were displaced and we don't like to see anybody displaced from 44 to 7 was quite the boom. i find myself in a position again and promise i will tell you when i think we are failing, we are not failing. this is a fire that had a huge head-start with the potential to expand well beyond the footprint it was contained to and the bravery, ingenuity and strong work chief of operations are doing with all the membership down to the line firefighter emt and paramedics showed itself again and close 2023 with commending them for the strong work at this fire. as you can see, with 3 alarms of fire, they were cognisant keeping the front of the building open and at this point

the master stream is no longer in operation, but good the scene. close 2023, give a greater alarm report not included in the commission report unfortunately. i apologize. there were 17 total greater alarms 2023. the bulk held to second alarm. there were three, 3 alarm fires including the major incidents and then the only the incident on octavia of this year. another fast moving fire with open framing and contained in the building of origin primarily. that does end the slide show. as i always promise to this time i will be brief. i promise. in the bureau fire prevention investigation, most of the great work was highlighted by the chief in her report. the fire marshal continues to lead on emerging issues for

fire safety and fire protection. i did point out in your report last timeb there is a large uptick in the notice of violation and the notice of complaints and this is merely a lag in implementation of policy and the fire marshal is working diligently to clear all the notice of violation and complaint. i thank you for his work. at the division of training-at the airport division, chief darcie continues fto manage the airport with the tremendous amount of dedication and eye to task improving the airport at every turn. you can see from their included sfo, [indiscernible] news letter, all the good work he is doing with his training

initiatives and then as this has expanded and it allows participation from field companies to also receive this training, he's really used it as a recruitment tool and really strengthened the capability of the airport division and my initiative for him in 2024 is to to the city and have greater interaction between operations as a whole in the suppression unit with airport operation so we have a better understanding of airport operations. division of training, chief miles work continues unabated. there is a slight lull between the 2h2 classes but as chief mentioned we are starting h2 academy tuesday and h3 is in process. started this week, so there will be at this point hopefully 5 new members in the paramedic rank at station 49 and i hopefully graduate all 58 of the h2.

the graduating class when it was added to the field in december did great things for our numbers as far as overtime, et cetera, but it is always good to have new members in the field because it spurs the teamwork and the ability to train new members always inspires everybody else to be better. we always look forward getting new members in the field. i will be brief. i'll close with the report there. thank you for your time. >> thank you very much chief. madam secretary, is there public comment on chief luttropps report? >> there is nobody approaching the podium. >> this is public comment mary, this is the time. please.

>> it is bigger then i am. >> make sure you speak loudly in the microphone mary. >> thanks commissioner nakajo, vice president morgan and commissioner fraser and are all of the fire department here. making me nervous all these important people in one room. i was fortunately awake and fully clothed working on my computer in my dining room at the time of this fair, and had decided it might be time to go to bed. i never go checking out my front door and what appeared to me was a red fog out in the street, which made me a little supicious. opened the door in time to see ash coming my way to the north of the main fire building, and

immediately ran back, got my phone, called z- 911. as i was talking to the 911 operator i could hear the fire trucks coming in response and i told her, i can go, i hear them coming. she said no, we need more information from you. tried to help out as best d and was getting more nervous by the minute as i am now, and we tried to tell her what homes had people in them, where they might be in #ythe buildings and i don't know whether my information was helpful, but i hope it was. about that time i dont know whether it was engine 21 or engine 10 that pulled up in front of my house, but one of them did-someone jumped off the truck, ran to my gate, was

going to pry it open and i buzzed him in, which i think shocked him. then he was going to head for the upstairs door and i said, i got a key, here let's let you in. and then he said, you better get out of here, so grabbed a coat, had my phone in my hand and i don't think i had the keys to the house, but i may have. i ran out and was absolutely in shock at what was before me next door. that house was just completely ingulfed and such array of flames. >> you have about 30 seconds mary. >> i think what i want you all to know is that the fire department did its job. there were i understand over a hundred fire fight rs there and they worked diligently to get that fire out so the whole block didn't go up and i thank

you all. thank you commissioner. >> thank you very much mary. any other member of the public wish to give public comment at this time? >> would you like--hello? >> yes, hi. this is herald dunn one of the owners of 720 shz masonic and i wanted to thank everyone involved. i'm in the hospital with my wife who is beginning pt and i hear the report and it sounds like to you guys it is just your job, but we were completely over-taken by this fire. we woke up to a fnt smell of smoke and at the time we looked

at a exit they were all blocked and we had to jump from the third floor balcony and the report mentions locating us and packaging us up for delivery, but there is no question our lives were saved bay the work and professionalism of everyone involved. my wife was in the yard with a broken femur, pelvis, hips, ribs, spleen, broken lumbar [indiscernible] we were surrounded by a fence beginning to burn and if not were for the extrication we would have parished there and a little emotional about this, but we can't say enough to express our gratitude and i wanted to make sure we said that. you want to say anything natalie? >> thank you so much. [indiscernible] i'm grateful to all involved and all of you

that risk your lives for everyone. thank you see >> thank you all of you. >> would you mind stating your name, sir? >> my name is herald dunn. that was my wife, natalie bower. >> thank you very much. >> yes, thank you all again. >> thank you very much madam secretary. thank you mr. dunn, madam bower. anybody else in terms of public comment? >> there is nobody else on the public comment line and dont see anybody approaching the podium. >> public comment is closed. any comments or questions from the commissioners for cd2 at this point, please? vice president morgan. >> thank you for your report chief luttropp. can you hear me?

it's on. chief, back to the masonic fire. the neighboring homes, were they severely damaged as well? >> yeah, that was the additional displacements were the homes were heavily damaged,b the roofs were open, there were fires in the wall and attic spaces and a lot of water was used to fight this fire and space. >> yeah. i want to thank you for your public comment. sorry-hopefully you are [indiscernible] sorry for loss. thanks for coming. oh, god. yeah. >> [indiscernible] >> and you answere, why did it go up so fast. because it was a hollow shell and that's unfortunate and roof was dangerous to be on top of and stuff and thank god nobody else was hurt accept the

people trying to save lives, but sometimes in a dense city like this, it is even a fire could be even more you know, you know, dangerous and catastrophic unfortunately. you know, thank god no life was lost and the rest is replaceable. and i just want to commend all the companies and chief malone and all the other chiefs that was in this report and rescue squad 1 for helping the civilians who had to jump and all the other engines for doing such a great job on this fire. i'm glad you guys are here today and you look well. thank you. >> thank you very much vice president morgan.

commissioner fraser. >> yes , thank you. first of all, thank you chief luttropp for your report. very vivid report. th who asked the question i was curious about the both the adjacent buildings and i guess what it boils down to is what mary herald and natalie already shared. they have a perspective that i certainly don't áfhave and hopefully most san franciscans won't have to have, but if we ever do, what a relief, what a gift, what a inspiration, what a comfort that actions of the san francisco fire department took that night and so thanks to you and to everybody who shared their stories today and thanks to all the firefighters who were there. it is an amazing thing. thank you so much. >> thank you very much commissioner fraser. again, deep appreciation.

mary is a dear friend and colleague, former board member. former executive director to you a board member of [indiscernible] coming this morning. call-in from mr. dunn, mrs. bower. periodically chief we get your report as part of incidents and fires and there is so much appreciation in terms of the written report and narrative report within it and there is a lot of fires and depending upon where it is, but again if we are able to hear public comment from the residents itself it means quite a bit. i also want to thank the staff, command staff, the members who responded that day, but to all the members of our department for taking care of business and job and appreciate your keen oversight in that as well. one question on that fire.

i'm always curious as to when residents are displaced and they were able to stay what i call old lowel high school john adams how does that occur as instantaneous as a fire, is that designated? can you explain how that occurs because i'm grateful for that to occur, just curious how this happened? >> so, we have a great partnership with most of our city partners and we have the assistance and in that case once 44 people are displaced and on the sidewalk, we get assistance from partnering transport or the sfpd maintaining the perimeter. i believe in this , the incidents commander asked the police to make contact with the community college and they were able to gain entry after hours with the assistance of the community college.

we have partnership obviously with the red cross, the red cross is our primary point of contact for those displaced by fire, for temporary assistance, for dwelling, for that night or for time. we've just recently as a side-note updated our communicationsthof other city resources now are available displaced by fire and we created a card, a clearinghouse on a card with information for people who are displaced, so hopefully they get tied into city services and other non profit services much more quickly. >> i appreciate that chief, because again, for us it is reported to the fire suppression, dealing with it monitoring it after the fire, but then there is whole other life beyond the fire with residents and i'm glad the commission is to hear about the network that is set up. appreciate that very much.

my only two comments of the report was again, off of airport report. i again appreciate the photos. they had that photo of the christmas party and they look like they were having so much fun. i wish i was there. that seems like a joyous occasion. also curious in the training report, several photos. there is photo on page 31. i dont know if you have it to the public, i know they don't have it. page 32, the bottom page, this is apparatus. what is that apparatus? >> yeah, i had a feeling you might ask about this. this is a old boat house, a portion of one of our old fire boats that they are using because of its weight and size to stimulate a large object on

the car for training paramedics and crush syndromes and other injuries associated with being crushed. it is a fun piece of history that's available on the treasure island site and they are using it in a novel way. >> okay. thank you for that explanation. it looked like that, but i wasn't sure. thank you very much for your comprehensive report chief luttropp. madam th report from ems and community paramedicine, deputy chief sand raw sandra tong on ems and community paramedicine division. >> good morning. sandy tong, chief of ems community paramedicine. this is my report for december. under the report of ems division, chief we do a 4 month

look-back. $@&thiss is a average of our call volume, time on task, market share use [indiscernible] we have been consistent of the call volume over the month of december the previous 4 months but saw a uptick in time delays in terms of the off-load at the hospital so the times were significantly extended during some of the times on those last few days of december. seems to have improved more since this last week in january, but in general, we pretty much consistent with the call volume and our time on task. we averaged about 366 calls with 77 percent of the market share. on new years eve we did see uptake also in calls after midnight otherwise the day was pretty regular until after midnight when i think all the parties started to let out and we did see a significant number

of incidents having occurred between the hours of 12 o'clock and 6 a.m. one thing that i noted in the report that you saw, every day our members are doing tremendous work trying to address the medical and traumatic injuries that happen in san francisco. one thing that was noted in our report was, our emt freder canner, he was at ucsf in the parking lot and he heard screaming nearby so went to investigate and saw somebody trying to hang himself from-i don't know what particular device, but just immediately went to go and lift this person up to prevent him from hanging and then called at the same time on his radio to get some help, so he was able to get while people responding continue to hold this person up until police and other members came to assist and literally

saved this person's life. we have put him in for a commendation. here you see some additional pictures that also chief luttropp shared regarding the rc training we had for new members as well as current members of our rescue captains. they were able to practice and sort of examine and look at a number of scenarios in terms of multi-casualty incidents and how they would make sure they run that medical portion of the incidents, as well as looking at and these pictures highlight what can happen to a person who is trapped under a device for significant time, which we call crush syndrome, so they as the clinical supervisors were looking what they would be doing and how to direct the crews when trying to save somebody from and extricate somebody from this predicament.

december 12 mayor breed came to station 49 to express thanks to members on apec. she spent quite a bit of time with all members and able to answer questions, address concerns considered informal event, it was deeply appreciated by all of us. during the week of or couple weeks of december 15-24, the union square alliance hosted the wenter walk. this was at union square where they closed stockton street from post to o'farrel and [indiscernible] polar bears and fun things for kids to do. spca showcased animals so they requested we provide whether was a ambulance or fire engine or truck to come and be available for the kids and parents to explore, so we did

that during all those days. ems and cp celebrated the holidays and on christmas we had a hosted meal by--it was basically supported by the officers of ems and cp but we had members who helped with the cooking. we had our emt clark stern who brought his industrial grill to the station and they bbq tritip, chicken and had sides and cookies so a time for all members working that day and had to sacrifice time from families to meet and eat together and enjoy that day and so we are very thankful for all the support we received to get our folks in there. for community paramedicine under chief simon pang, a number of activities that occurred during the month of december. chief april slone visited all of the sfpd captains during the

monthly meetings so it was a opportunity for her to talk about some changes that have been happening with the scrt, changes to the special [indiscernible] upcoming and so able to answer and clarify some of our operational procedures with them. we also had chief mason meet with portland oregon folks seeking to get additional information about our programs and how we developed our programs. this is just a one of a number of opportunities that wehave done in the city with other jurisdictions and other counties and cities. chief slone also has been working to identify me of the more criteria and other processes we need to do to address the new sb43 senate bill and this expands the definition of gravely disabled to include those that have been disabled due to substance use disorder. so, we have been asked to come up with a list of people who we

think might qualify and provide that to the city so we can continue to do additional follow-up with them. and finally, we were civic bridge application we put in and this was partnership between the private sector and city department or city agency to look at a particular item issue and so we will be working with private partner to look at the ems6 program and how to better define metrics and how to better define how we can perform better in terms of dealing with both particular clients or frequent utilizers of 911. that will be a-i believe it is a 16 week program that we'll be working with them. and here you see data we have from our ems6 scrt and overdose response team and this continues to outline the work

we have been doing every day on the streets. the cp and ems crews continue to offer subox on to those suffering from overdose and this month we had 10 of those start. finally in your report you see the jar of jellybean s and gummy bears and gum balls and this was during our santa breakfast. we had all of the participants look to see and count and provide their best guess for the number of jellybeans, gum balls and gummy bears. i dont know if you had a guess. i knroe chief luttropp put in a flb. number. do you recall? 2872. anyone want to challenge that? >> in the jar? 500. >> anybody else?

[laughter] >> i ate half the jar. >> you dont have perspective how big the jar was but there were 3415 candies. >> wow! >> congratulations to camille. she is the daughter of paula parrush and had a guess of 3201 so really close. now she has a life time supply of gummy bears and jellybeans. thanks to chief chelsea myer and nick for coordinating all the holiday events ems and cp did whether the meals, the santa breakfast and finally, congratulations sally. know you will love your retirement with your new husband roger. thank you so much for everything you did and it is well deserved. that's my report. thank you.

>> [indiscernible] >> i don't see anybody approaching the proceedium. there are two lines here. caller, would you like to make public comment on chief tong's report? no comment. >> no comment? >> correct. >> caller, would you like to make public comment on chief tong's report? hello caller? and they are not responding. that is all on the public comment line. >> public comment is closed. commissioners, questions, comments for chief tong? vice president morgan. >> i'll go real quick. thank you for your report chief

tong. i notice on the first page here, the narcan use was down in november and december. is that in relation to all the police activity that went on the last couple months? hopefully. >> it fluctuates so we are not able to make definitive predictions as to why some of the ergone down, but we like to think that yes, that is due to our efforts to try to get people before they actually overdose and some of it may be increased pressures in the community. >> yeah, obviously you noticed a slight difference towards thend of the year, which was good. i just want to commend emt caner for saving the guy's life. that was good work. that guy was lucky. and captain jeff for the

overdose work he did with people saving the-i guess someone had a cardiac arrest in relation to opioids. does that happen a lot? >> yes. >> that is scary. i just want to commend that and that's all i got. thank you for your report. >> thank you very much. commissioner fraser. >> thank you. great report. thank you chief tong. really really interesting. couple questions and also for sure i second the commendation presentation for ems caner, that is terrific and everyone 's work is terrific. the statistics you provided us month to month on the first page of the report and i know you will get some help from you said the outside vendor for some research and looking back how we are doing or what we do how we compare with other cities our size. if we look at anything like

that? >> we can get you more of that data. general call volume? >> call volume, some of the narcan use. some of the cities may or may not use it, but if there is comparables please let me finish maureen, all that dinging. how we compare with other cities i think would be interesting to me, but perhaps something if possible to look at. the other thing is, i wanted to shout out to you all is the page on individuals experiencing looks like ems6 is way over half of our calls are people experience homelessness in the last 6 months. for some of our calls but fire, i mean medical is quite a bit lower then that so i think that is really important

statistics for us to talk about, dive into, keep gathering are the numbers of people over the incidents that ems6 responds to and all our services, medical services that people experiencing homelessness and what that entails for the response to set deliver services on the street and outside. that's an additional set of skills, equipment, time i would guess there is additional things that happen rather then running into somebody's house and there is water available or other things available, a pillow or blanket, that things are available. it is just tougher work to do that on the sidewalk, so i just noticing that. anyway, the report was great. it is really interesting and look forward hearing about as you go forward some of the research that yohave in mind. i think it is going to be important for us and certainly for the whole city.

thank you. >> thank you very much commissioner fraser. just a couple questions chief for myself. not a question, comment. i really enjoyed the fact and i know the commissioners do too, you take the time and you have the staff or volunteers to do holiday christmas parties. i just think they make so much sense for those members who work on the holidays, christmas and to have that recognition. i think that is really really important. my other question specifically in terms of the street crisis response team for the data of december 1-31, i think it was 1140- >> sorry can you repeat that? >> i think that number is 1140 on street crisis team off your chart. >> yes. >> december 1-31. i'm again just want to be clear, because of the holiday and such, is that increase

number comparative to about 900 that pretty average? >> let me look at my last month. there is assumption because of the holidays there is more needs but that isn't quite true of the public out there we just have needs period in san francisco. i know we have been running around 900 responses average. that is what i think. >> in the month of october we had 1251 calls for service and in november, 1037. >> so ose. that is large number still. thank you very much chief for your comprehensive report. i appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. >> madam secretary. >> okay.

item 6, overview of the city's budget instructions and process for fiscal years 2024-2025 and 2025-2026. presentation from mark coursey deputy director of finance and planning on the fire department's upcoming budget process. overview of city's budget process and are timelines, mayor's office budget instructions and fire department budget updates and priorities for the upcoming budget process. discussion only. >> thank you very much madam secretary. thank you very much director corso for your patience. please present this item. >> good morning commissioners. chief maureen. give me one second here and i'll bring up the presentation you should have before you.

good morning again. mark coursey, finance and planning at the fire department here to officially kick off the fire department's upcoming two year budget process for the two fiscal years starting july 1, 2024. this is a rolling two year budget just like normal as it has been in the past i guess 10 years now. just a few talking points for today. just this is more of a overall presentation on the budget process as a whole. timelines, guidelines, budget instructions from the mayor office and a start to begin discussion on the fire department specific budget that will be more in depth in the meetings, but happy to take questions on anything related to that. just going over the process

timeline and background recollect update on the city financial plan, some information communicated to us you may have seen in the news but want to highlight a few main points. what the specific instructions are to city departments and the department specifically and then just the timelines overall both for what will be coming before you as the fire commission and then what the timelines related to the city process and again, happy to answer any questions that you may have. a high level summary on timelines and this is consistent with the regular annual process. the one dif rnsh is 2020 with covid pandemic. since that time we have been back to a more normal timeline with higher deficits, but timeline has been pretty consistent since then. december what is called the joint report is released and we'll tong about that in a second. that kind of forms and feeds

into what budget instructions are given by the mayor office to various city departments. departments then work on their budgets and submittals up until the deadline to submit, february 21. the mayor office takes all those city wide proposals, takes a look what departments are proposing in addition to other structural issues throughout the city and the mayor needs to present to the board by june 1 the city charter a balanced budget for the city. at that time the budget and the board and budget analyst review. there are budget hearings throughout the month of june and everything wraps up early july or late july and then for approval and mayor signing off on it. as mentioned this is rolling two year budget. it is two years, but we look at every year we look at the next two years out and so at this point for the last year second year is now our first year this

year, so nothing in the second year is fixed in any way. there are city departments mainly non general fund that do a 2 year fixed budget and you are only doing this every 2 years unless there is jjmajor change other just two years, this is still a annual rolling process. as i mentioned the first domino to fall in this so to speak is the release of the city joint report, which is a report from the mayor's office, controller's office and budget legislative analyst. the board taking a look at the city finances, not just this year or next year but over the next 5 years, a update to the 5 year financial plan and this gives overview of projected revenues, expenditures, number of assumptions related to bal lt initiatives, trends that can be identified, any other big items that would have fiscal impact on the hothat, there are developed

projections of budget surplus or deficits over the next 5 years and level of reductions are what makes those budget reductions and instructions from the mayor's office and this is no-there is no difference to that process this year. this released in december and i want to highlight things before i get into budget instructions. this is a very high level chart that boils down the city issue is that revenues are steadying but expenditures are growing and out-pacing revenues quite significantly and what that results is a significant deficit not just next year and the outgoing years and worse in the outgoing years. there is discrepancy between projected revenue and cost going out and that is what drives that deficit and a lot is structural. you sfwill see and talk what is

requested of departments, but even if departments gave back everything requested of them through the budget instructions there are still a number of things that is not going to solve the deficit so a number of structural issues the mayor office needs to deal with. here is brief chart showing revenue impablth from covid so on the left there is the pre-covid revenue levels. since that time we see decrease of approximately 20 percent and many revenues are going to take a significant time to recover. the main issues as mentioned that feed into that expenditure out-pacing revenues. the city is recovering but main economic drivers will take longer then the city would like to recover to where they should be. so, just spoke to many points, but this is highlight of the joint report. revenues are stabilizing. they are growing slowly, but

expenditures are far out-pacing revenue and that results in a neb,deficit for the city salary and benefits continue to grow and healthcare cost increasing. there are a few assumptions for growth mainly tied to cpi for wages and non labor items, contracts, et cetera and last budget process there were a number of one time sources, one time sources of funding used that are no longer available going forward, so that obviously impacts the overall picture. in addition, some projections do not-projections from the joint report do not include the assumption of recession occurring so that is a risk that is laying out there. and then as we move along in this process, this will be updated in three months in march based on any additional information that is available and in general it d march but nothing hugely where it will

solve near close to what is in the deficit barring unforeseen impacts. as far as overall dollars, the joint report projects approximately $800 million deficit over the next 2 years and that is the budget process we are talking about the number highlighted there. as you see, that number is projected to grow year over year. that's compounds on itself, but there are number structural issues that need to be addressed that make up the huge number but the city right now for departments we are looking at the 2 year projection of $800 million. given these challenges the mayor's priorities are similar to what they have been in previous years, even given the fiscal difficulties that remain ahead. improving public safety and street conditions, city wide economic vitality, reducing

homelessness transforming mental health service and accountability and equity in servicesk' and responding. departments are requested to view all aspects of the budget through these lens and look for efficiencies, look for additional ways of doing business that can create operational and cost efficiencies. moving to the specific instructions given by the mayor office to departments. as mentioned with that significant deficit of approximately $800 million 2 years departments propose to or requested to propose 10 percent reduction in general fund support and each year with 5 percent contingency and for the fire department that 10 percent equates to $12.24 million. the 5 percent is half of that, $6.12 million. given the size of as mentioned before the overall deficit, all departments gave 10 percent in each year that still would not solve the deficit problem, so there are structural issues

the city is looking at. the chief mentioned a couple things in her report that will impact the process. this is election year. there is complications from that and in addition, the other then police and fire all the labor contracts are up, so those are in process negotiations are ongoing but those will a fiscal impact to the city over the next few years. so as far as the overall timeline, december instructions were released the jonet joint report released. the 6 month report for the current fiscal year will be released if there is projected benefits or savings that will be factored into the city deficit but we are working with the controller and mayor office on our portion of that. february 21 budget submissions due to the controller and mayor office from all city departments. march through may during that period there will be a update to the joint report from

december and in addition update to the 6 month for the 9 month report. june 1 is deadline for the mayor to submit a balanced budget to the board. june we have committee hearings and reach out to various supervisors and have our presentation before the budget and finance committee and july final negotiations occur and budget heard at the board. for the commission portion of it, today is just a general overview of instructions. we'll have more conversation about the fire department's specific issues oen the next meeting on the 24. on the 14 draft budget submitted to commission for approval. we can get into what that looks like and imagine similar years, but that's the last meeting before the february 21 submission deadline. there is budget legislation pertaining to transparency and

public hearing for departmental budgets. the schedule meets that so that isn't a issue there. if there are any outstanding issues coming from that february 14 meeting we can have a special meeting prior to the february 21 submittal, but that is at the discretion of the commission. and then we are submitting on february 21 and i do want to highlight every year not just this year, but we are submitting february 21, we are still negotiating, discussing and having ongoing conversation with the mayor office up until late may when they finalize their just because we submit that does not end the departmental phase and-ends department phase but does not end the participation in the negotiation process. with that, happy to open to any questions. >> that thank you very much director corso. at this point, madam secretary do i need to take public comment off this--? >> yes, we do. >> i call for public comment at

this time. >> there is nobody approaching the podium and nobody on the public comment line. >> thank you very much madam secretary. public comment is closed. we'll take quick questions, comments from the commissioners. at this point. vice president morgan. >> thank you for your report. >> thank you. >> i had a question about the graph on page 6 in the purple area. real estate, why is the transfer tax low, 20 percent, can you explain that again? in the purple graph there. >> yeah, i can get you more information. i think that partly is due to volume and partly due to evaluation pricing. there is number of tax implications from the real estate market that impact the overall budget deficit. there is some don't know which section, the housing from the appeals board, but property tax

appeal that take a little while to go through. >> prop 19 or whatever that is? >> i can get you specific information but there is a variety of impacts from covid impacting real estate across the board. >> okay. it was just surprising. drastic decline, 20 percent. >> thank you very much vice president morgan. commissioner fraser. thfor your report, however depressing it was, happy to hear and learn it so thank you. just a quick couple quick questions. on the back on the fellow commissioner was on, page 6. only to say those of us who do drive in san francisco can be heartened the parking tax remained stable as a source of revenue for san francisco. in fact, it may have increased if i'm looking at this accurately. i just think that's wild.

wildly bazaar and maybe a little funny. the other question i had was about the mayoral budget priorities and maybe you are not the right person to answer this, but my question is about the 4th bullet on that page, accountability and equity in services and spending. is that more of a philosophical position or are they talking about something across departments, across neighborhoods? is there something more concrete in that or isit a basic philosophical underpinning to the budget priorities? >> i would say it is both. both in everything that departments do. they want departments to analyze through that lens and also want to examine and make sure that city contractors and non profits, those contracts people are doing what they have been told to do so making-holding people with contracts accountable, but also having that lens through any

department, the mission of the department through that len as well so part of both. >> that's good to hear. part of the accountability is potentially auditing some bigger contracts or bigger volume of contracts that the city has with agencies outside of city services? >> correct, that is an initiative from i believe there is some reports done by the controller's office on that to that record for auditing, but that is point of emphasis. >> looks like we have our work cut out for us. >> yes. >> i'll continue to contribute to the parking revenue as best as i can going thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you very much commissioner fraser. thank you very much director corso. we'll see you at this next scheduled briefing. >> great. thank you. >> on the 24 of this month. thank you very much. madam secretary. >> item 7, fire commission annual statement of purpose 2024. discussion and possible action

to adopt the 2024 annual statement of purpose. >> i will take public comment on this fire commission annual statement of purpose for 2024. >> there is nobody approaching the podium and there is nobody on our public comment line. >> public comment is closed. commissioners, this is a annual statement of purpose. i don't know if you have this right in front of you. i know the public may not, but i think and will take advice on this, if we could maybe narrate this into the record so the public knows what we are adopting. does that make sense? and if we could commissioner fraser-- >> [indiscernible] >> right. would you participate with me and perhaps do the first section of the san francisco fire department and then perhaps we can get involved with vice president morgan to take items 1, 2, 3, 4, to the

end of fire commission and i'll finish with the last 4, how about that? that work? >> yep. >> thank you. commissioner fraser. >> annual statement of purpose, 2024. the mission of the san francisco fire department is to protect the lives and property of the people of san francisco and its visitors from fires, natural disasters, accidents, hazarddize material incident and other causes requiring a v# rapid and skipped response by land or water. serve the needs of most vulnerable residents through community paramedicine and save lives and reduce suffering by providing emergency medical services. prevents harm through prevention service and education programs and provide a work environment that is free from harassment and are discrimination and values health wellness cultural diversity and equity. >> thank you very much commissioner fraser. vice president morgan. >> to this end, the fire

commission will number 1, set policy support administration accomplish the mission of the department. two, support the administration efforts to enhance and support the collaborative work of the department membership and public stakeholders and delivery of fire suppression, fire prevention, emergency medical services with the focus upon a common public good. three, encourage and support the to development and implement system to improve fiscal responsibility to enhance the budgeting process while maintaining and protecting essential public service including fire protection fire prevention and emergency medical services. and four, encourage and support the administration to develop and--[talking on the phoneline]

i'll start over. four, encourage support the administration to develop effective physical fitness and wellness programs to promote helt safety welfare of members of the department and public. >> thank you very much vice president morgan. encourage and support the administration succession plan to include equitable career development and promotion. six, actively encourage and support recruitment and education in the community to being highly qualified applicants of the department who reflect the city's historical diversity. seven, continue to work with the administration and city attorney office to review and when necessary revise official department policies and procedure. lastly number 8s, contribute to common good conducting open meetings regularly and convening such additional meetings as deemed necessary to inform and educate the general public work of the san francisco fire commission and san francisco fire department.

adopted at the regular meeting of the san francisco fire commission meeting on january 10, 2024. madam secretary. >> okay. we need a motion to adopt this annual statement of purpose, 2024. >> yes, i like to make a motion to adopt the annual statement of 2024, madam secretary. >> thank you vice president morgan. >> i will second the motion. >> thank you commissioner fraser. madam secretary. >> nakajo, aye. motion is unanimous adopted january 10, 2024. item 8, adjournment. >> before i do adjournment i want to congratulate the fire stations who won their christmas decoration competition. >> who was it? >> that first prize was to station 39. >> 39. >> second prize to station 12. third prize was to station 13

and fourth to station 18 and thank you commissioners, you were one of the judges i thank you very much. we want to congratulate. thank you, this meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

[music] my name is husheem anderson a lieutenant with the san francisco fire department born and raised in san francisco, grew up in western addition. both my parents worked for the city. my dad was a custodian with san francisco school district and mom a muni driver. when i grew up in san francisco i never thought of the fire service as a career. not because i didn't want to be a firefighter, i just didn't know anything about it and it was literally the experience of trying to figure what i was going to do with the next part of my life where i decided to go to city college and take a couple classes. that is when i discovered there was actually a fire science program

program emt program and paramedic program. if it wasn't for that opportunity to get the education training and meet several mentors that are some of my grood friends today, i don't think i ever would are have pursued this was interested in becoming a paramedic so i did work experience at the ems division when it was actually in the presidio, completed that program, did my paramedic internship at the same time i volunteered with san francisco fire reserve and able to learn a lot of hands on skills associated with becoming a firefighter. san francisco went through a period of 7 so we hired about a 130 people off is the first fire test that and ever sat for, so i took that test, did pretty well on it test, interviewed, didn't do as well as i liked so they hired 130 people off that list and didn't

hire again for another 7 years, so here i was training to do a job where i was really excited, but there were no jobs after 911 so things slowed down and once the fire department started hiring again i the second class hired full time in 2012. because of the experience i had here at city college, it was always really important for me to be able to give back. so, when i got to the fire department, i didn't have a college degree, and in order to teach at a community college you need a college degree, so quhile i while working as a firefighter i got my degree from saint mary college a bachelor degree. i teach firefighter 1 and 2 curriculum for the program at the college. after i promoted to lieutenant, then i applied to be a instructor down at the training

academy because i always loved to teach. my past experience is really helpful in terms of how i'm able to break down information and pass it alodge to brand new firefighters. so, for myself, i didn't know very many people of (color who worked in the san francisco fire department. as african american working in this department i always felt a obligation to be that example, to provide a roadmap for folks who look like me, who come from communities that i came from to make sure they have the same opportunities. now as a san francisco firefighter i can tell you if you work hard, you get along with people, you will be welcomed into this department but we can also do a better job of representation. to me as a company officer when i'm on the fire engine or truck it is so helpful to have a rig where members can relate to the public we respond to.

to me that cultural diversity of the members on our fire engines, on the ladder trucks is important because if we can do a better job of representing the community that we are serving, i think we do a better job of relating to the community that we are serving, and to me that is something that is really important. >> hi today we have a specsan francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about san francisco's earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. ♪

>> the next episode of stay safe, we have alicia johnson from san francisco's department of emergency management. hi, alicia thanks to coming >> it is a pleasure to be here with you. >> i wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in san francisco. >> well, one of the most things that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate state. having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really important and being able to know how you are going to communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if is uninhab hitable. >> how long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in san francisco. >> it depends on the severity

of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many after shocks we have. >> what kind of neighborhood and community involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. >> it is important to have a good relationship with your neighbors and your community. go to those community events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you. it is important to have a battery-operated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the community around and how you can communicate with other people. >> one of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. >> yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored them remotely.

so a title to a home, a passport, a driver's license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the cloud, the same is true with any vital information on your computer. back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. >> in your home you should be prepared as well. >> absolutely. >> let's take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. >> we have no water, what are we going to do about water? >> it is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water able to use on a regular basis, both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. >> we have this big container and also in people's homes they have a hot water heater. >> absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out regularly you can use that for

showering drinking and bathing as well >> what other things do people need to have aren't important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation. >> here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. and this a manual can opener your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find it in your kitchen. >> yes. >> so in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. >> having an ice chest on hand is really important because your refrigerator will not be working right away. it is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. >> and here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. >> i hope that you have an alternative one at home. >> oh, i forgot. >> and in this is really

important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. >> i have them right here. >> good. excellent. that is great. additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. markers if you want to label things if you need to, to people that you are safe in your home or that you have left your home. >> i am okay and i will meet you at... >> exactly. exactly. water proof matches are a great thing to have as well. >> we have matches here. and my spare glasses. >> and your spare glasses. >> if you have medication, you should keep it with you or have access to it. if it needs to be refrigerated make sure that it is in your ice box. >> inside, just to point out for you, we have spare batteries. >> very important. >> we have a little first aid kit. >> and lots of different kinds of batteries. and another spare flashlight.

>> so, alicia what else can we do to prepare our homes for an earthquake so we don't have damage? >> one of the most important things that you can do is to secure your valuable and breakable items. make sure that your tv is strapped down to your entertainment cabinet or wall so it does not move. also important is to make sure that your book case is secure to the wall so that it does not fall over and your valuable and breakables do not break on the ground. becoming prepared is not that difficult. taking care of your home, making sure that you have a few extra every-day items on hand helps to make the difference. >> that contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. >> absolutely. >> if you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for

joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building >> the vibrant south of market neighborhood in san francisco is deep lee rooted filipino if fluences to shape the cultural identity. soma pilipinas known for [indiscernible] night life and art scenes is home to growing filipino community that thrived for generations. >> soma pilipinas is a community, the village that has been over a hundred years in the making. this is home to many generations of filipino from the turn of the century, to the present. continues to be a gateway

community for a lot of filipinos just arriving from the philippines. >> one of sth most prominent scines is filipino owned businesses become staples in the neighborhood. restaurants like manila bowl and jp restaurant offer [indiscernible] >> we call it [indiscernible] this is my passion. everybody's who came right now. we feel good right community is like a family. >> the eatery serve mouth watering dishes and provide a sense of home to the filipino community, preserving traditions passed down generation. >> a filipino restaurant utilizing california ingredients we honor traditional family recipe

[indiscernible] we shop in the market 2 to 3 times a week. we make the filipino cuisine proud in san francisco. >> along with the culinary desan francisco top mix aulgists. filipino artistry is a facet of soma pilipinas rich tapestry. the filipino cultural heritage district transformed public spaces into canvases that depict the stories and experiences of filipino americans. >> parlt part of the work we do is support filipino artists to work m really create and develop community based art. this is murals and designs that really reflect the rich history, the culture and the struggles and triumps of the filipino community. >> the presence of the filipino cultural center which offer

workshops, language classes and community resources is a testament to the community efforts to preserve and promote the heritage. >> features the [indiscernible] philippines which is a indigenous community weaving textiles and tapestry for hundreds of years so proud to feech were modern ones and very antique ones and showcase fashion from the community and we are inviting everybody to come experience that with us. >> the center not only caters to the filipino community, but welcome all who wish to learn about and embrace this culture. >> we want to develop a cultural district where you have the young generation learn their history, language and culture and where you have also the seniors be part of the cultural and share their stories and their traditions, and continue to grow young in the neighborhood. >> the intersection of

technology and culture in this part of san francisco provides a unique back drop for a thriving community embracing the past while looking to the future. the filipino influence ingrained in soma serves as remindser of the power of cultural diversity and importance of celebrating in our ever changing world. commenced the board meeting of the board of education for the san francisco unified school district for january three nine 2024, is now called to order at 5:01 p.m. roll call

please. thank you. commissioner alexander here, commissioner fischer here. commissioner lamb. commissioner motamedi here. commissioner sanchez. vice president. wiseman. ward. president. boggess here. commissioner did i just do? commissioner alford. that's for okay. yes sorry. gotcha. all right. perfect. so so at this time, before the board goes into closed session, i will call for any