you guys could be out here. this is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a significant impact as you can see. what an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. >> for sure. >> we have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. so i think that's the richness of the mission and it always has been. it's what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i love it so much.

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>> you may also watch live at www.sfgovtv.org. item one roll call. >> president morgan present. >> vice president fraser. >> commissioner nakajo presents. >> commissioner feinstein has been excused and commissioner collins is whusz jeanine nicholson, chief of department. president morgan will read the ramaytush ohlone ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement. >> ramaytush oholone land acknowledgement: the san francisco fire commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush (rah-my-toosh) ohlone (o-lon-ee) who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory.

elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. rights as first peoples. thank you, item by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment.. okay. madam secretary any public

comment at this time. >> nobody is approaching the promoted owe podium. >> no one on the call >> no one on the call in [discussion and possible action]discussion and possible action to approve meeting minutes.• minutes from regular meeting on may 22, 2024. >> so madam secretary any public comment? >> on this. >> nobody approaching the podium and none on the line. >> commissioners any motions. >> i move we accept the minutes. >> i second that. >> commissioner nakajo the motions is unanimous and approval the minutes minutes from the special meeting on may 31, 2024. >> any questions or comments from the fellow commissioners.

>> motion? >> i'll move to approve the minutes. >> okay. >> i'll second that. >> commissioner nakajo, aye. >> the motion is unanimous. >> the motion is unanimous. item >> the motion is unanimous. item 4. >> 4. chief of department's report [discussion] report from chief of department, jeanine nicholson. budget academy and communications and outreach to oat government agencies and the public and. >> report from operations, deputy chief darius luttropp. and omc deputy chief sandra tong will be continued she's been ensued from this meeting.

>> all right. good morning. >> commissioner nakajo and commissioner feinstein and staff. >> jeanine nicholson, chief of department. this is my respect the previous commission meeting in may. >> it been all budget all the time and all hands on deck represent this 10:00 a.m. number 8 on the docket and prior to this myself and 2, 3, or 4 dr. have met with the 5 members of button and finance committee supervisor chan act supervisor mandelman who is number 2, and supervisor preston and laid out what our budget looks like and

um, some of the challenges. so i'm looking forward to um, to doing this friday. and then i know that director corso has been working with the budget analyst have to put their eyes on everything we should have the final from them today and then we'll aspect with the budget and finance committee on friday and then after that that is a week until um, the 21 when he go back to the budget committee to finalize the budget a lot of work so many work like everybody who has done that work especially mark corso one of the

unsung heroes of the department and working with chief and his staff on medical reimbursement for the street crises response for our paramedicine responses we do get reimbursement medi-cal for work but not yet for community paramedicine so we must go through the department of public health to get this done for medi-cal reimbursement you up to $3,000 per call. and it is pretty complicated and it is taking some time. but i have been assured my dps will work with us to get this done have to go through them medi-cal only wants one main entity within the

city and county of san francisco. so we have to go do dph to get this done and more to follow in the months to come. thank the command staff for the memorial day service nancy pelosi was there and many, many veterans a shout out to all the veterans in the fire department. for the work they've done and continue to do. many of i attended the one hundred and three three graduation they were up and coming in the second week and in the field it was a really nice graduation thank you for attending and pretty packed house. fit seven hundred people that recent pretty full. (clearing throat) we also have made offers to the

one hundred and three 4 class um, we're hoping to have 54 members in this class and it is due to start i believe um, the 24 june this monday. >> i attended an event in the fillmore called grilling in mow and they've had had event 17 years the fire department received an recognition from the folks that put that event on just for our work in the community. um, really nice event and great music and barbecue that was um, a fun event and glad to be there. we continue our retreats myself, 2, 3, 4 and

director corso to talk about the high-level projects and status of certain things and just been a very helpful to tool for me and us. we then met with the controller's office on possible projects we could have them do for us over the next year. and um, of course, i don't have it off the top of my head but in terms of whether necessary looked fee replacement plan for us or an ems staffing model or what have you we give them our top projects in order and they will determine what they um, what if anything they'll do for

us for this year's projects (clearing throat) speaking of fleet replacement chief will talk about the status of our rigs. and it is a great concern for me. and something advocated for for an amount of time you'll get an update on that a very clear and helpful update for you all to see. i attended emergency city leaders graduation we tried to send a couple of our members to different programs that department of high-rise will you tell us u puts on to help our folks so this we servant our fire marshall and i went to the graduation and they got a lot out of class we try to send

members to a lot of the membership classes and think it is super important i want to acknowledge didn't get acknowledgement our fire marshall fire marshall ken cofflin when i get a call if city hall or someone it concerned about something he just jumps into action and a good relationship with on the city folks and knows his job and knows what he's talking about and gets things deny i am to shout out to you conveniently for your work. thank you very much. i really it is great to know you're always on it so,

thank you. >> um, we also had an opportunity deputy chief of ems yesterday more to follow on that and 7, 8, 9 to acknowledge um, neil assistant ems today his last commission meeting and he's crying in the back somewhere. so but neil thank you for all the work you've done for the city and for the department over is years and um, you know, you have made a significant impact on how um, things are run in the city when it comes to crises and paramedicine and the like. as well as ems so thank you for all your work and i'm i wish you a happy retirement the you're not retiring working somewhere else

i don't know whereby nothing can stop you and congratulations and give him a couple of minutes to say a few words sometime today that would be great. >> come on down neil (laughter). >> need to give you a time limit and we have three minutes right and can't agriculture with you fire marshall. >> this is the first time i've been up here at the commission meetings so thank you for letting me. commissioner nakajo and chief and president morgan and colleagues. thank you. >> um, yeah. no it's been a wild ride 0 thirty years a long time and certainly an honor to

serve this city. um, so many you different capacities it is hard to believe. and, of course, i'll continue to try to find ways to help, you know, the people of san francisco the department and my professions and colleagues, you know, i think the thing i look back and the biggest honor has been to work with fellow, you know, paramedics and firefighters the most is responding to calls and being shoulder to shoulder with the people that all have the same goal in mind so certainly it is starting with the paramedics the biggest honor to try to help my colleagues, you know, who were absorbing a lot of the issues related to the several on the streets and helping them. and helping our hospitals and helping the people on the street

as well as up and coming it is hard to get someone to get someone when a person is in cardiac ari hope it is shown that and always to help my colleagues and help the people we serve and certainly an honor to be a chief and work with all of you as well i appreciate all of you and appreciate everybody out there and yeah. >> thanks. >> (laughter). >> thanks chief appreciate that give a round of applause. >> (clapping) deputy chief sandra tong something you can read into the

record for lack of a better term commissioner nakajo and president morgan secretary i'm assistant deputy it's been a long time coming. is ill and property some that remarks in honor of chief asked me to read them and gave my permission to add my own comments and let you know what it is mine and not here's or hers and june 28th will retiree starts in ems in westminster massachusetts working an ambulances still in high school and before working in san francisco chief worked in alameda county as a paramedic for 4 years that's where i met neil and started as a paramedic

in oakland and the came one year later i thought a seasoned veteran (laughter) and let him know that that's when i first met him, i was 25 and the was 21 or 22. and 19 did 4 he was hired a as paramedic with the san francisco department of public health and one year later i thought hired with the health department and show learning channel called paramedics traveling in city to city doing donate o documentaries on ems providers and think that see the person think halloween ropdz to 9-1-1 in a pirates costume with a par rot on his shoulder i was in 1997 with the paramedic division

merged with the fire department. since this time cross-trained and paramedic and promoted to paramedic captain and in many roles training captain and it was during if era when to was um, working um, for the depth the division of training and teaching advanced prehospital trauma life port. support to keep the students engaged demonstrate what it is like for a hallow organ to have the trauma have a watermelon in the front of class and get a sledgehammer and smash that watermelon sending watermelon everywhere you have to be there and if you're in the front right now i experience it good well in

2004 created the medical home team he alone respond in a van concentrating many with substance abuse and had substance abuse issues governor gavin newsom was mayor of san francisco and there was a community town hall meeting neil another paramedic were selected to speak i don't remember the topic and afterwards neil was there with thirty page document he wrote getting a degree in social welfare in uk berkley at that time and waited for then mayor 92 so on so many i have an

idea. and i was there and mayor newsom said i'll have any people look at it from that point mayor newsom helped him get started and chief tonga a precursor to the paramedicine and a model captain known by the call sign ems 6 was a 1 person street crises and overdose team his role he was a senior to those on the streets and those of us respond repeatedly to the same people but for the appropriate for the entering room we can call ems 6 captain gave us hope a frequent 9-1-1 will get the

help they needed at that time neil was a very, very - we've been close friends affair thirty years i was working as firefighter and paramedic he was ems 6 and i decided to ride along with him and that was a it's been a long time coming. for me someone experiencing homelessness with social needs that was not a call i wanted to go on but i would like to move up and astonished what neil is doing we climbed down into a utility evaluate and found someone that had been living there got him to a shelter and spent over an hour talking to someone in a sro through the closed-door i couldn't believe that neil was talking to this

person it was astonishing i couldn't understand how someone how a paramedic who a paramedic is a lower end of the medical hierarchy but a neil told stories a lot of stories of backroom deals and negotiating and applying i couldn't believe that was true and so, now that i have been everything he was doing was mind blowing to me. after the home team got shut down he continued looking for ways to help people and did asthma outreach on his own a

documented machine and have members do pulmonary testing and got national awards he's won more awards than i can count. he's one paramedic of the year at least twice and in addition to a person reilly looking for new ways to help the public at the bottom he's an excellent clinician and paramedic in jeanine nicholson, chief of department. after i say promoted and in 2022 deputy chief of ems during the tenure instrumental in helping the department navigate and uncertain time day to day operational changes and managing supply shortages and messaging the field with the

latest information and focused on the demands it oemgs operations to manage the increasing call volume and metrics incidents but reviewing the ambulance schedules and designed the popular 13.33 hour shift schedule and constantly looking for ways to improve the webs welfare and to push the city so our crews can get out of public eye and take a break bought the practicing at the top of the clinical license and been a member to participate in ems research any problem or question was an opportunity to create a program to address the issue. and the would have a multi page

proposal ready in a couple of days and throughout his long career been an advocate for ems for those who provide the care and those who receive it. so though i know you're not done with coming up for solutions for the next ems problem or crises enjoy your retirement (clapping.) he's worth is; right? >> (laughter.) >> yeah. i just want to salute you for a your long story career since 1994 that's a long time and grateful to have you in

the city of san francisco and is standards you set throughout the fire department and been a gift to the san francisco. thank you. >> and i'll see if the other commissioners have something to say. >> oh, yeah chief i'll keep it brief i have so many admiration and spent a little bit of time with you and terror that making changes always is hard especially in a big city like we're in around here the types change requires commitment and energy all of which you have quite a bit in this wonderful thing a gift to san francisco and all the fellows and sisters in the fire department and i guess to all the citizens and wish i well thubdz i hope you'll

come back and tell us more don't work too hard to took taking a break congratulations. thank you very much. and yeah. he know you're going to visit the commission meeting we're going to dedicate this one to you. watch reported session of this meeting. um, commissioner nakajo thank you, thank you president morgan and vice president fraser and chief is not here but again, you can be late to her i'm appreciative having an it's not for chief to come up and address the commission. i think always

that many of our members they retire um, i don't don't remember occasions sometimes an occasion i thought that was appropriate that chief and t were able to come up here you're right. i can't recall verbalizing and in you chiefs for this message i gave as well as interpretation of your own experience each one of us has an experience i want to touch about it how important to do this kind of session and how hard and difficult to maybe sit this but it is significant and important. and i think you augment to take in whatever you want to take in on our last day if you want to

smile go ahead and do that or cry i understand you have so understand we're going to miss you and part the three are for members not hear myself we'll get by a keep on moving and god help us by the kind of vision i remember the stories and entity chief when i was in the station i believe when jeanine nicholson, chief of department. was the captain and you rode along and the story goes as soon as i got in this you throw me our thesis and everything we understand has today and again, as a commissioner served 28 years may i in terms of what you attributed and for myself elevated the concept of ems

paramedics and emts and elevation to the department i was here with the merger occurred with the transition of metrics to the fire department and now we are one family one culture one department. i appreciate and thank you for that for myself you elevated that and to consider to see your contribution it is pretty amazing. i'm you're valuable and a guy like me or commission in the department tough not to be part of that contribution i want to say directly and to tell you how much as a commissioner, i appreciated the fellow colleagues as well and exciting to see you - for the city and county of san francisco in everything.

>> pretty amazing to get it punch i appreciate that and soars the opening statement and paramedics that is truly another thing for the department not everyone can be - so thank you for that and for giving me the opportunity. >> thank you commissioner nakajo. >> at that point i will check in with madam secretary any public comment before we go to the chiefs report. >> any public comment on the chiefs report? >> nobody approaching the podium and no one on the public comment line. thank you. madam secretary i guess you've up chief the floor is yours. >> good morning commissioner nakajo and president morgan and command staff and moreno and deputy chief for the month of,

nay. this is my report and get this slides. >> up on the computer? >> there we go perfect, thank you. >> so in the month of may there were a slight uptick in the number of boxes but work and fire is subsequent and two great alarms to report first great alarm on the second of may, this box 1535 initial report fire coming from the roof avenue corner building and 41 arrived on scene and passed that on to other chief and found do fire quickly in the rear of the building but because of space able to as at an a boiler fire

stand not walls and they were quickly able to extinguish it at box is 5 three 5 and a second alarm was where i reside an extensive over hail to make sure it is not extended on the top of the building that if and strong work by everybody involved and second alarm was box 3542 on the together of may. and commander that was achieve a captain this was a fire initially report on the fourth floor of the very large building mercy i'm sorry - housing for elder many sdashltd and when units arrived on scene

went for the fourth floor we believe the fire was sprumsz by a sprinklers the fire starred on the third floor and smoke conditions were not improving on the third floor that was an extensive overhaul with the void spaces protected by plywood and required chainsaws too, so those actions multiple multiple rescues i'll detail why in what few minutes had additional companies with all the staffing available able to complete a significant number of rescues and thank you for establishing a medical group the occupants were

assembly in a common space and able to get a head count and diagram what was not evacuated and effect the others involved. other complicating factors it beside that was the water supply the chief has addressed and tightened up the operations for this type of combined fire sprinklers and stamp system that i want as well as the previous second alarm will be issued to companies and a new product calling it an action attached it to the back of the power point and will talk about that many a moment but water is established and the rescues were accomplished the fire was contained but to get into the roof space. the roof presented another unique challenge it had

a type of installation that is uncommon in the city of san francisco the company was able to make the communication and make an adjustment despite the number of solar panels on the roof all in all it effected the operations. another extradition complication and we're keen to protect the staffing model and the unit if you can too go to the box and look at the units listed out the first chart is out of the second truck is the second shock at the time the third truck was at another dispatch water leak the 16 truck was dispatched and the first truck to arrive at the incident the 5 truck 6 was on a lift and

the 7 truck was at central shock we go through so on a regular day in disaster operations or great storm on trucks are busy doing a lot of work in the city the second truck was truck 7 the quarterly at 19 and folsom very, very far in the street. this chief had a multiple resources available in the other calls and water leak and dispatch had additional staffing all in all the amount of staff that arrived that tradition is normally in a row that the incident commander is reefdz and held because of complexity of the incident this box was listed as a second alarm

and staffing wise and the system does order nearly three-quarters of the staffing but thank the chief for the work on this incident. i attached to the rear of your slide presentation. an example of after action report that issued so since 28 fillmore a roof operation and the chief had the company officer of truck prepare a document this is our goal moving forward that somebody had a unique incident or unique exchange will present that information to out to everyone in the field and available to all officers what have discusses and chief can discuss the operations and we look forward to these coming out frequently a great educational benefit improvement of

operations so the fire marshall has a chance to present a portion of his staff today. kind of abbreviated report nothing toward the notice to improve or violations with the inspection program is on track and one arrest for arson in the reporting period if you go to the small outside fire map i know that a favorite of the commission of late as you can see they remainder a problem but concentrate and not a problem throughout the city. for other work that fire marshall accomplishes in his office had a number of meetings with our work group for our policy design with mta and coming to a census on a

plan of work and design standards that will be for the coming that work continues and additionally i'll leave it at that. >> for the airport division the chieftains to do great work a couple of things to highlight the transition to the non-poly the non- former is delivered will be operational and significant number of his staff to dallas to get trained in the lastly technique and this is a big month are for the chief and interaction with the fire scope and with the fire department there state committees. no words. >> wasn't me (laughter). >> i'm sorry.

>> all right. and the chief also conducted a vow last year scale experience called the bay x experience in the month of may and units responded and in the report. they had a heavy hazmat component and thank you to the chief for that effort and division of training proud moment 1 hundred and three three class thank you for attending we look forward to serving in the next class this month and additionally the chief was heavily involved with millers design of the future training facility that is going very well we're in a much better place than i exceeded to be and thank you to the chief for that and they also completed a new educational mou with the city

college it is greatly expanded the enter action with the classes we'll offer in their umbrella which will us to receive the benefits and codify the classes and additional education the chief is trying to drive. chief is inmentality in getting that money through. and a fun one i don't have pictures of a fire blanket demonstration for electrical vehicles with the chase center a whiff product and expansion into our operations with that blanket system and lastly, i want to say a few words about the chief also. i appreciate chief we had

conversations about that in the past how much i admire you and respect you when ems 6 was a new program chief and i were fire officers with a heavy, heavy impact by ems of one of the goals for committee ems and others programs beyond a great benefit to the people they serve and helping the communities and the in the greater city of san francisco. and firefighters and emts and paramedics always there for the membership in the field i know the membership in the field appreciates him and chief if we allowed the busiest companies in the world to celebrate him they would celebrate him. thank you, again. chief and that concludes

my report. >> at that point madam secretary is there any public comment? >> there nobody approaching the podiums and no one on the line. >> commissioners you have any as he may deem appropriate. >> for deputy chief darius luttropp frazer frazer sorry. thank you. for your report it is interesting that a list of we're - during the greater alarm was scary but i'm sure everyone learned from that moving forward thank you for sharing that (clearing throat) and also thank you, again, for the outdoor fire masks i understand that and it is favorite. i had a question about the phone you mentioned for the airport the non- p pack phone is that available for other kinds of fire locations by the airport

or this is particularly assigned to the airport environment. >> the field of operations with traditionally had a way to deliver foam by that is adopted as industry standard will be always the fire operations general. >> that's great. um, the the other thing is you know that the number of solar panels on the roof for one fire is that something problematic or do they get taken off in a fire how do you approach that i see them everywhere not a bad thing but in a fire and they're a great thing can be a blue ribbon panel to the operations objective limit the space where we can have ventilation we don't want

to remove them or disturb p them and any light that touches the panels including just the lights for the operation to generator electrical we have a long stavndz that is zika the power from the solar panels so they're not charging the building covering them, but in general don't we don't try to disturb the panels in possible in our report i didn't put it in the power point but how narrow between the panels. >> very interesting report. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> hear from commissioner nakajo. >> president morgan and chief for our comprehensive reported i look forward to the presentation by the fire prevention outreach

and acknowledge the chief for the airport news letter the photos in the news letter and the work you're doing that i very much appreciate it i want to say as chair chief thank you very much for your crew for the rest of seniors over there think fillmore street. senior complex. thank you very much. chief. thank you. mr. president. >> um, thank you for your report. deputy chief darius luttropp sounds like last month too big fires there within kind of hurt me the one that (rustling of papers.) fillmore with you're generous about throwing the contractors

under the bus in you're description i guess i will hopefully the superintendant did references and hopefully the names were not larry, mow and curly this is horrendous what kind of shortcuts with people, you know, and fires sounds like it traveled real fast behind the walls and i like the description i put in the report how the fire travels late lateral and all the units effects in the fire could have been a lot worse thank god thank you for the work you did on that fire and um, that is i'm speaking the right one 1727 fillmore street.

>> that's right. >> a total of a 50 units. >> 50 units and one hundred people displaced. >> amazing no one got seriously hurt you guys did a great job and i commend you and all the companies that worked on that and almost a third box stricken on that one that's the one, huh? >> the number of units involved. >> uh-huh. so it probably is unlivable now. >> i hope they're returning. >> oh, i want to commend you guys for the great work and sorry for the bad contractors (laughter). >> no chief it's in the report thank you to the chief for her extensive report but a personal connection throughout the

incident was exemplar. >> good. >> i commend you, too. >> and what's the chiefs name, again. >> drive by. >> okay. >> yeah other than that one just stuck irritate to out /* /* out to me and i don't have anything else to say we'll continue on back to madam secretary to >> 6. update on status of sffd fleet [discussion] deputy chief shayne kaialoa to provide and update on the department's fleet status. >> i it out we're doing

on the agendas have yeah. >> we have - >> fire marshall. >> we have what. >> fire marshall conference report. >> on this one it says. >> sorry i crossed out the wrong one. >> item 5. >> sorry >> sorry deputy chief shayne kaialoa. [discussion] fire marshal ken cofflin and inspector tomie kato to provide an update on current community outreach and education efforts. >> good morning president morgan and vice president fraser and command staff thank you for allowing the fire marshall office time today to bring to the commission meeting and introduce you to the

bureau of fire prevention & investigation we play a roll in the areas but for those of you who don't know fire prevention is for the bureau of fire prevention & investigation from review for safety for the public and our firefighters conducting the emergency operations and issuing permits for events and meeting complaint of insuring the city's now housing is fire department safe for our residents. while developers with building more fire resistance treasures the items inside the house will continue to burn. >> the bureau feels one of the best ways to reduce in the home presidents make sure we are dedicated in fire safety that's where our team comes in i want

to introduce you to inspector tomie kato to helm for more than 6 years and one person of the commission seen many, many times during the depth report discussing dbi the concepts in the power point slide probation officer with others always representing the fire department in the best light and working to make sure the fire department is seen by residents not just through emergencies and educating anyone about fire safety and interact roll being a leading example not only working in fire preservation in the best practices but her and her team offer support to the d e i interest through job fairs and

another events and at the high school ems high school in building their knowledge of fire prevention and education introduce you to inspector tomie kato. >> come on up. >> i'll be quicker. >> thank you fire marshall ken cofflin good morning commissioner nakajo and vice president fraser and commissioner nakajo and vice president fraser and command staff and over present. >> thank you for this opportunity. to be here today before you my introduction stated i'm currently a fire inspector with the education team and i thought it it it would be nice to give you a brief history for this you haven't seen this program grow over the years. um, so we have

some photos that um, my new teammate can - or fire marshall ken cofflin will move through i joined the team in 2017 and learned from fernando at that time there were was a program in place after the rash of fires in the mission district in 2015 and the program was a joint effort between the department of building inspection and oats fire department to bring education and awareness to the residents of san francisco. so under this mou a presentation was developed and a workshop was

formed called fire safety in the home. and this in the workshop we um, talked to the residents of san francisco about the top causes of fires in the home, how to prevent them, smoke and carbon dioxide alarms what to do if you get trapped in and fire and all about is in 2018 we

south expanded our services in the community a new van to transport augural the equipment that was wonderful and um, we collaborated with another entities um, throughout the city. we worked with our pio john baxter and we created district safety fairs we can get into the various district throughout the city. as one of the goals to reach every community in every corner of the city and to the different underserved or at risk communities as well. um, we added - established relationships with many communities goes to accomplish this and at those events set up

information booths in which we distribute and staffed with fire inspectors we with the help of volunteers many of our h20 volunteers cc sf and the fire students and also the san francisco fire reserves come out to do community service and help us deliver fire safety information into the community. with their help we have reached 10 of thousands of our san francisco residents and visitors. additionally um, we formed a core competent our committee outreach and reimbursement community are recruitment and education that's why we call it core a mouthful (laughter) so the core committee was

developed to um, to coordinator and streamline the departments in relation to recruitment and education and report to our chief in all aspects of that. the um, in 2019 our biggest year we were reaching more people out in the community with that vital safeties and strengthened other relationships with the office of civil engagement and immigrant affairs they were instrumental in our language interpretation getting the information to montana lingual community and

community centers of san francisco and themay the record show and near and dear to my heart we work closely with them. >> and other agencies throughout the city such as police department, sheriff's department, and even the california highway patrol during the pandemic we had to adopt in early 2020 for a couple of years we did manage to also get creative with the help of pio jonathan baxter create sfgovtv helped us produce over 20 videos about safety. and strengthened our presence on social media. so

we could reach for people during those times. um, we also went virtual so the workshops were available over zoom and we're able to continue our work and worked with bigger associations like property management companies and landlord association and sro collaborations to deliver the messages. in 2022 and or late 2022 and 2023 was the world started to row open we forged new relationships and expand our

teaching certification to have a program and working with additional quits such as city emt and the fire ems career pathway program as admission high school and cloobd clerk of the board of supervisors with the new office of diversity equity and inclusion we collaborated with the employee groups like agent firefighters association and the united fire service women and the together we have been able to help them decimate more information about the career opportunities in san francisco fire department. >> we also completed several projects for the facetiously

fire marshall ken cofflin such as a development of the internal news letter from the office of fire marshall to help disseminate information and into our members into the fire station of what is happening inside of prevention and um, we worked on several campaigns informational campaigns regarding the new fire codes and legislation around sleeping area requirements and our last with the live in on bat lithium battery legislation we posted a new web page at sf fire.org back/safety and into the future we have two any team members who are trained and ready to go. um, they were ready to continue this

important work. um, of the co e program you may have heard of inspector storm here with us today, however, mendosa is here with us and i am excited to introduce them and i know i'm confident they those two will carry this program and the important work into the future with bright fresh ideas for getting out our messages. thank you very much. >> thank you for this opportunity. to speak to you today. it's been my pleasure and honor to serve the department and community i look forward to any questions about the program. >> thank you inspector tomie kato and before fire marshall ken cofflin.

>> i want to say thank you to inspector tomie kato and mendosa and unfortunately, as mentioned self-direct whose taking over the lead of the group can't be here do she didn't say as a father of die-hard swift any had to see taylor swift the tickets are impossible to get we all know who storm is i'm providing a presentation back on the screen you recognize him folders you expect to see caller jenny in many events and commissioners introduce yourselves or get a free gift. so i want to say that thank you to inspector tomie

kato for 27 years in the department. >> so - (clapping). >> thank you, any questions for us? >> one i was going to ask i will the bilingual communities and you answered it already about the fire safety education outreach stuff i guys are doing that is great stuff and continue the great work and congratulations in our retirement. >> thank you so much. >> commissioner. >> what can i say inspector tomie kato with the huge impact really, really want to graduate

congratulate and lift i up for that work i can tell by our personality you don't get a lot of attention but makes a huge impact. um, and the initiative about the publicity son the public - yeah, the publicity son and service that is incredible what you've done and another loss for us but congratulations and wish you a happy retirement and something tells me you're not going to be idle i have been experience they're different now i hope to come to the event i need to bone up on what current frshz are so i'm not the only one in the city to benefit so

thank you for your presentation. >> >> commissioner nakajo. >> thank you president morgan and vice president fraser. >> lieutenant and inspector i um, going to give remarks and focus on the presentation on your work and go into remarks. >> i know we have one more presentation but seems has to do with with folks retiring and again, you're up here on perhaps you're last presentation to this commission. i also think of you and the formation of this program because i was a expiration and in terms of a commission we were contained in the mission in the mission

neighborhood. as a outreach to the community because of their communities voice. and i recollect the members of the community coming on the line gave them a vehicle to express they're concerns but the compleblts it is a lot within the mission that's the way i looked at it extensively the residents came out what was important for the department to do something about that and in an organization was part of it because it became education and plugs and then focused on other issues bike multiple units, etc. so the formation in the history talking about it in the mission as yourselves well mendosa and thank you, for taking it over a lot of work has accomplished

during our era. i was going to ask how many years the fire marshall provided 27 years 6 years with the fires prevention is about communities of color marred for the department the department as far as i'm concerned, you're faced men and women that you rupert and in a booths out there into the community always looks good you're smiling and open and assessable this is really important to me about customer service it's what it is for me, the more language the more you have to do that's the way i look at it and over the years in terms of truck logo and how it looks and how you folks delay area that is very nice to me

professional level i'm proud that you guys are out there and more importantly you're assessable i want to say that and 20 videos and education all of that didn't used to have that you'll be surprised nothing to watch on tv i got to admit i watch the government stations sometimes that's how bad i am and once again a profile of a firefighter or woman i'm sitting there virginia senate finance committee and wanted to say that and finally, 27 years in the department i appreciate it very much but. thank you very much. on behalf of avenue this department you'll be darryl

missed and look for a vehicle that you vietnam talked about you as well and found out some vehicle. thank you very much. and thank you, mr. president. and. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner nakajo. >> and inspector tomie kato i have no further questions unless you want to add. >> if you want to look for videos hashtag sfpd safe and i would like to introduce jennifer mendosa can talk about the program will go in the future. >> um, thank you, president morgan and president torres and commissioner nakajo i was not sure i was going to speak 0

chief - i was asked briefly what inspector storm and i are going to take the program and honestly we came inspector storm came a year before me we needed people power. and so we've gotten behind her she's laid the ground work and done the work and all the contacts and that was like a train that needed people on board to keep it moving. and inspector storm helped with revising the power point presentation to make that more current and tayloring to participate audience that is at risk for residents throughout the community and going forward in question feel lucky to have

learned from someone that has been here and knows the community and program. um, and we love that she trusts us been hard because she's done so much of the work. we want to taylor to revise our power point presentation to some of the stuff with the residential care facilities and property management group we can get larger audience and just focusing on more of the specific unique populations that the city has few we have she's done so much like i said, we, grow the program with the hench of the fire marshall again, thank you commissioners and chief inspector tomie kato and fire marshall for this report and we

look forward to coming to more of these and going from here. >> thank you inspector mendosa. thank you. >> all right. fire marshall fire marshall ken cofflin are you done (laughter). >> public comment? >> all right. thank you. >> fire marshall fire marshall ken cofflin yeah at that time madam secretary any public comment? >> there is nobody approaching the podium and none on the line. >> okay. >> i guess we're ready for >> 6. update on status of sffd fleet [discussion] deputy chief shayne kaialoa to provide and update on the department's fleet status. president morgan and command staff i'm so deputy chief shayne kaialoa. and a brief overview of the fleet i'll

touch on four things the fleet summaries and chaimg risks in regards to our fleet. san francisco is i con sorry about that with a unique building environment surrounded by water think that side san francisco fire department we think engines and ambulances i want to bring to you will have the enormous fleet deal with the challenges in the city and county of san francisco. both land and water based if you look at it short list it seems short didn't give the number of apparatus but as far as battalion and rc scope in

with he had to conclude paramedicine buggies and fans and also our archive rescue vehicles and multiple air units and so many more i wanted to touch on that we speak the focus will be on the trucks engines and mr. hornsby but to bring that into view the enormous view that the fire department of san francisco has and the needs there but today focus on the engine and trucks and ambulances. we'll laboratory the fleet summary at the bottom of the sub category longevity and recommendations and talk about those recommendations national fire protection with the recommendation of a fleet within service times of 10 years. and 5 years in reserve and i'll speak on that more as we go through

the slides but to highlight that. first, we'll look at the fire trucks they have the driver and the one hundred foot ladders carries the tools for ventilation and rescue and aspects. i'm going to apologize that says fire trucks that is fire engine we're looking forward the fire engines with 5 hundred gallons of fire hoses a firefighter paramedic and we operate 44 in service engines three 1 percent of those are 20 plus years old and 24 percent

are 10 to 14 years old so just spoke on pa where we're at in the status of engines. >> moving to the trucks 19, two trucks in the city in service a ground ladder and personnel officer and four firefighters responding to rescues. >> 5 three percent of fleet over two years ago this percent or 14 yrlz we operate 50 ambulances and four and a half percent are 10 plus years and three 1, 2 three or correct three 9 are 5 or two years old

we see post covid and precovid made progress on the fleet once we hit covid 19 we faced with challenges of 5 issues and sky robert costs of apparatus. 6 hundred and 60 days for compression and decreased purchasing power and increased costs and our equipment budget apparatus budget. >> decrease on continuity i mean post covid the amount that it costing us to purchase those vehicles we're purchasing one of having to buy from different manufacturers it increases the continuity of our fleet increases costs in repair and

the amount in difference of parts for those apparatus and the training 6 types of apparatus. if i look at the charter to the right one hundred and 16.8 in cost of engines since 2019 and for aerial trucks and for ambulances since 2019. >> so when we talk about is risks and we were talking that 10 year in service first line in service and a 5 years in reserves you look at the apparatus with two plus years old our ability has decreased.

the reality not too long ago two or three months ago a one reserve truck had we lost another truck or two we it is problematic it is why one of the top priorities of chief nicholson to have a fleet that is on the roads twenty-four hours to respond to the city's emergencies you look at the chiefs slide i think that is box 2355 the amount of trucks out of service for maintenance it proposes a risk the other challenge is what about a robust reserve fleet? in time of uptick

with a disaster or bring on more personnel or recall personnel back to the city we need to staff apparatus to put them into the system. so that's where we are at currently with the fleet we wants to bring to our attention we talked about that at the budget meeting and. thank you for your time. >> thanks deputy chief shayne kaialoa. we have questions and now go to public comment or - >> nobody approaching the podium and no one on the line. >> thank you, madam secretary. and vice president fraser. >> thank you deputy chief shayne kaialoa. it is huge topic i'm sure that is the beginning of our discussion about the fleets. can you say a little bit

- it is really helpful for me more myself so learn more about that i'm curious can you say more about the reserved fleets and where we are. >> yeah. >> i mean separate from- >> (multiple voices). >> it is this fleet is left in reserve at the some of the firehouses some at bureau of equipment our other locations left for times of what chief spoke of and box trucks with out of service in maintenance when trucks with down or apparatus an ambulance or truck whatever it maybe. when that truck is or that apparatus is out of service they move into reserve apparatus. >> okay. >> we a like those national fire protection agency recommendations those are 15

years old and out of service at 20 years old. >> okay. >> thank you. the other question i had what i know i understand and correct me if i am wrong don't understand this but your many of our engines have to be custom made cities are flat is our engines need to be super, super sized to get them up hills and other than is corners is that the cost the thirty year charting does that include the additional build out for this special need we have. >> that's correct. >> all of our apparatus are for the types of streets our amount of power our ambulances and trucks need are all delivered with that cost. >> i look forward to next steps in our advocacy and what we need

to do to make sure our fleets are not so old by. thank you. >> thank you. vice president fraser great questions. >> and want to go to commissioner nakajo any questions? >> thank you very much for president morgan and chief i realize an informational presentation. and update i appreciate that really appreciate that i particularly appreciate that analyze and breakdown in terms of years and i appreciate the costs per engine per truck that was comprehensive and having said that following up on vice president fraser question how many reserve trucks do we have

personally. >> kufrnl have 5 reserved trucks in service or - >> ready to be deployed thanks to achieve mullan this is equipment officer and thanks for their work and able to get those apparatus up and running. >> so alright it is mixed use projects and trucks or just engines. >> just trucks. >> okay. and welcome lieutenant. thank you very much. chief mullins and again, this is a presentation i don't expect an answer today what's the plan with the background of membership some other source of revenues we're looking at for the plan of replacement? and in

terms of replacement, what's the sequence we're for the going to get on the numbers but basically the plan at some point i know not today but a contemplation of questions just a question. >> any comment or such that's where. >> yeah. men and women through the want jeanine nicholson, chief of department. we've run a bunch of scenarios with the cost of ambulances and trucks we looked at leasing as well and, you know, as another um, option and the problem with leasing if we lease 20 murnlz this year have to pay that note moving forward what will we get next year and the year after yeah, it is a tight budget year and um, you know, we'll see that happens to budget meeting on friday and the questions that um, they will

ask. and the supervisors on budget and finance committee burglary ask i imagine they will ask us some pointed questions we'll take it from there we advocate for the department advocating for the city and the needs of the city and, you know, our folks have continually put stuff together with duct tape and chewing gum it is amazing how they get the rigs in the our fleet but, you know, just great covid starting to come out of hole of i'm of the deficit with our rigs and you know had one order of 11 engines and 5 trucks and starting to come out of that and then covid hit and um, you

know, 80 it's take place united states 5 years three get our trucks and we had money taken away from the fleet biscuit during covid and so, yeah it is tough times and we are ringing the bell because it is of critical importance and see what happens on friday and keep you posted. >> thank you, chief for that. as well as welcome back from the mayor's meeting and update on is and public health it is real important i appreciate the urgency you're bringing this issue to the commission again you're scenario in terms of what we talked about and presented is

a good comprehensive just clear presentation of need. and i rather as a commissioner the in our scenario budget deficit whatever to be in a scenario of our nominees and how much that will cost at least for us to have those numbers whether that is one or two so planted within the people to estimate the decisions i agree with you totally it is crucial an apparatus as part of our responsibilities at the chief deputy chief shayne kaialoa. >> thank you commissioner nakajo and chief for deputy chief shayne kaialoa. for your reports just to be clear, the difference between is engines and is trucks the engines are the long articulating; right? tom i got it backwards.

>> that's the trucks with the ladders on top so i had that backwards and showing one we don't know the difference anyway we're learning (laughter) i didn't know the covid put such a, you know, monkey whenever in the supply to that decree and thank god, no incidents relating to that as far as duty; right? so engines no trucks or engines breaking down in route to this point and thank god for that and i know the machines i'm sure you know what you need to look shiny and you guys look like you're taking care of your equipment i commends you with what you have to work with but, yeah it is

tough budget year. hopefully some of the programs we mroementsdz will get us some money back like the reimbursement and ambulance situation some kind of and come to some resolution with the turns outs so, yeah looking forward to hearing more reporters anything we can help out we'll assist thank you for your report deputy chief shayne kaialoa. >> i just thank you for i want to say in light of our report the $3,000 per call reimbursement available for medi-cal seems like goes up the list things to get done i don't know how we insert ourselves but seems that is pressure should be

brought to bear to get that higher-up on the activities for dph to help us with that. >> thank you vice president fraser yes that was brought to my attention by the chief a capture of weeks ago and since then spoken with the leadership at dph and just needed to check back with chief to see how things are going but certainly bring more pressure to bear if need be. >> yeah i see no further questions deputy chief shayne kaialoa. thank you for your great report. thank you. >> 8public comment on all matters pertaining to items 8(b) below, including public comment on whether to hold items 8(b) in closed session.

>> nobody approaching the podium and none on the public comment line. >> okay. commission is there a motion to go into closed session. >> >> 8. possible closed session regarding public employee appointment/hiring. code section 54957(b) and san francisco administrative code section 67.10(b). >> yes. >> i move we go into closed session for 7 b. >> i second. >> commissioner nakajo the motion is unanimous we'll go into closed session um. okay.

>> we are back in open session at 1053. a there is nothing to report. >> >> and item 10. >> 10. vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussions held inclosed session, as specified in san francisco administrative code section 67.12(a). [action]. >> i'd like to move that we do for the disclose closed session. >> commissioner nakajo i vote yes, sir. you the motion is affirms we'll not disclose the discussions in closed session. >> >> 11. adjournment. >> adjourn this meeting. >> all in favor, say "aye." >> aye. >> the meeting is adjourned at 1054. >> thank you

[meeting adjourned] meter. >> hello, i'm captain tom the coordinator for the san francisco fire department. this oversight is the three and 4 anniversary of loma linda earthquake i want to go over a few things to help you preparation building a supply kit and supply kit does is not

have to be put together all at once take your time on the website have a list of recommendation and have enough food and water to feed your family through three to 5 days and purchase the fire extinguisher if you have an extinguisher at hand will stop a small fire from being a by fire it is simple to use check the gage make sure it is charged and then repeat the word task task stand for pull to pin aim the novel and screws the trigger and successes to the because of fire the last recommendation to look at the gas meter electrical gas lines cause fires in the loma linda earthquake and we want to show you how to turn off the gay

only turn off if you hear gas or hear hissing and coordinator nathan will demonstrate how to turn that off. >> with a whenever i'm going to turn it over one quarter turn. so in on holler orientation in turn off our gays meter don't turn it back on get a service call from [music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your first encounter with the san francisco fire department?

>> yep. it was super cool! i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. it is actually called, dry sand piper just stand pipe. tomato. you know. yea. >> so, what is coming up next for what is that for? >> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. i close my eye its is like i'm there right now! wow! whoa. watch out, man.

what is that for? >> what is this? these are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. if you can't tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on emergency scenes. >> what's back there? >> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on

the fire engine. >> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and all that. this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. >> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music]

>> mr. will. mr. will. will! >> oh. daydreaming. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music] >> we are ready to start! happy juneteenth! happy juneteenth! for those who are standing, can you come and please sit down, so that we can get started? can we have everyone come and take a seat, so that we can get started? everyone who is standing in the back, there are plenty seats. please come forward and take