watching san francisco rising. thanks for watching. please stand by for the san francisco rules committee meeting of june 27, 2024. >> the meeting will come to order. june 27, 2024 rules committee meeting. i'm supervisor ronan, chair, joined by supervisor walton and committee member safai, we are also joined by aaron peskin. the clerk is victor young and like to thank eugene--i wonder if eugene is new.

welcome, eugene. from sfgovtv. >> public comment will be taken on each agenda. please line up to speak. you may submit public comment writing e-mail to myself the rules committee clerk at victor.young@sfgov.org. if you submit public comment viae-mail it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. you may send written comment tuesday city hall, 1 dr. carlton b goodlett place, 244, san francisco california 94102. silence cell phones and electronic devices. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda july 9, 2024 unless otherwise stated. that completes my initial announcements. >> thank you, please call item 1. >> item 1, charter amendment

first draft to amend the charter to establish the position of inspector general in the controller's office to provide that the inspector general nominated subject to approval to authorize the initiate and lead investigations regarding potential violations of laws or policies involving fraud, waste, abuse, or misconduct to expand authority of the controller's office to issue subpoena and authorize the execute search warts to the extent permitted by state law at an election held november 5, 2024. >> thank you. president peskin, would you like to present the item? >> thank you chair ronan. thank you for scheduling this as the first of the charter amendments that the rules committee is considering for the november ballot and let me just start by thanking the collaborators in

putting this together, starting with my staff,inate, who did a national search of best practices and looked at models from cities around the country and consulting with leading academic experts in the field. let me thank the controller office, greg wagoner and members of his team who had a hand not only in doing audits and running the whistle blower program pursuant to the charter for many years, but also authoring a number of public integrity reports under the leadership of the previous controller recollect , ben rosenfield. let me thank the city attorney office for help and collaboration as thought partners in drafting this

charter amendment. let me just start out with the obvious, which is, government relies on trust, and the erosion of public trust is an erosion of government and our ability to do what government is supposed to do, and the last number of years have been really quite shameful as a number of high profile public integrity scandals have thankfully been uncovered and as somebody who dovoted the lion share of my adult professional life to governance and good governance, it has been devastating and eroded public trust, and these are not new occurrences. the occurrences have gone back long before i was elected 24 years

ago. while i thank the federal bureau of investigation and the u.s. attorney for rooting out corruption in san francisco government, i think it is time that san francisco have the mechanisms in place to clean our own house. we know that in the last half dozen years charges have been leveled against over a dozen people, many of those charges have lead to convictions, including of course the highest profile case of former department head, mohammed nur rurks and it is time to stab the role of a public integrity unit and in doing our research, we relize the gold standard is the inspector general, and most american cities already have one and san

francisco is probably the city most in need of one. this ballot measure takes the best aspects of the strong inspector general model recommended by leading public integrity experts in practice successfully in dozen major cities. it is clear mandate, public accountability and independence. it puts the role within the controller office in order to harness best practice and streamline them with existing functions building on what works at no additional cost to the taxpayers, because the controller's office already enjoys a set aside with room in it for this position. i have a little presentation and if i could ask my staff, nate horelto come forward, we can run through this very brief power point, which you

will bring it up. the inspector general- >> can we have the--thank you. >> thank you, victor. the inspector general would be appointed by our independent controller, i think we all recognize and acknowledge that the controller's office is truly a non-partisan independent office. i have personally experienced that under three controllers. that is a position that is nominated by the mayor and approved by the board and the controller would have the power to appoint this person subject or to nominate this person subject to the approval of the mayor and majority of the board. that individual would not be subject to civil service and as i said, would be funded by the previously

created set aside. let's move to the next slide. as to expanded investigative powers. give the broad anticorruption mandate to receive complaints and investigate, expand the controller's and inspector jen polk subpoena power to include contractors, lobbyist and anyone seeking contracts, grants, loans, permits, license, tax incentive entitlement or other from the city. expand the subject of whistle blower complaints to include contractors, lobbyist and above mentioned permitees. grant powers to execute search warrant which are allowed under state penal code section 830.13 and codify duty to

cooperate for city employees. requires and cooperation and information sharing with the between the inspector general, with ethics, the city attorney, and the district attorney. many of those mechanisms already exist in the charter today and f.1 06. dual reporting to the board and mayor twice yearly by inspector general. internal accountability through required reporting by inspector general with local enforcement entities, ethics, the city attorney and district attorney who receive referrals, as well as the ability for the inspector general to hold public hearings. and then the next series of slides, just compare us to other major american cities, new york, chicago, washington dc, new orleans and los angeles and you

will see that san francisco right now does not have, but this would give us broad subject jurisdiction. it would allow to initiate our own investigations and you will see that virtually every other city ther has those powers. we have ability to accept anonymous reports as most other cities and already have whistle blower protections as do most other cities. if you compare the powers, we are the only city that currently does not have broad subpoena powers in that mandated position, and we are one of most cities have the power of search warrants in a inspector general position. we currently do not have dual reporting requirement, which every other city that we compared to already has . the same with public reporting.

and then if you go to independence, removal protections, thes would provide removal protections as well as given the set aside budgetary protection. that is this high level summary of everything that provides other cities have. my staff worked closely with several public integrity experts and consuted with cities with inspector general positions including jennifer rogers claumia law center for advancement for public integrity and they and others recommended the strong ig model as the gold standard. i like to take a minute to address the concerns raised by staff at the ethic commission and point out i believe important factors. the ethic commissions requested a clause be added to this charter amendment that would explicitly state this new inspector general not

be able to investigate the two sets of laws enforced by the ethics commission, political form act and campaign conduct code. the problem is it would scale back the current authority provided to the controller, even more then the charter currently has. the reality and this is specifically called out, the charter currently and very intentionally does not wall off ethics and district attorney or the city attorney. they have overlapping authority now, and depend on effective cooperation to function. this is how it would continue to function with empowered inspector general in the controller office and exactly how the works in the other model jurisdictions we closely looked at. there is always some overlapping authority and always up to ininvestigative and enforcement

agencies to cooperate and collaborate. the charter already gives the controller ability to [indiscernible] suggested language would take away that ability. if you look at section f.106, and our city attorney can confirm this, the controller shall have there duty to perform regular oversight of the city contractor procedures including developal eing modeling criteria, auditing compliance with city contracting rules and where appropriate investigating cases of alleged abuse or conflict of interest. that is in the current charter. f.107, subsection a, sub1, the controller can investigate any complaint unless they are subject to ongoing investigations by ethic city attorney or district attorney and states the controller impede or delay a investigation. that is already in the charter.

however, well intentioned the overly ridged carve out will do more harm then good. investigations may start in one place and end up somewhere else asthy unfold may uncover different types of conducts in areas of law. instead of referring a investigation the moment there is a possible ethic violation, this gives the inspector general the flexibility to work cases for high level enforcement if they deem that the best course of action, and again, ethics in writing already has the ability to assert that controller's investigation would impede or delay an investigation. when considering changes to our charters important we not be overly prescriptive. instead of setting each jurisdiction behind a wall we should see adding to the investigative capacity and there is plenty public integrity work to go aroupd. round. finally colleagues and coordination

with supervisor walton to avoid confusion, this charter amendment also specifically calls out that the current ig position in the sheriff office be called the sheriff inspector general, so there is no confusion. and i am available to answer any questions and would be delighted if we could continue this item to your next meeting, because we are meeting and conferring with the municipal executive association this afternoon. >> no problem. supervisor walton. >> thank you so much chair ronan and thank you president peskin. just wanted to say thank you for coming up with a strategy to try to distinguish the difference between the office of inspector general for the sheriff department oversight board, and that body. that was the only question i was going to have and i appreciate the work on that.

thank you. >> thank you supervisor. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you. thanks supervisor peskin for this work. i want to add a few words to this. >> i neglected to thank you for your early cosponsorship supervisor safai. >>eme polk deeply offended, please remove me as a cosponsor. just joking. [laughter] thank you. no, listen, i think any of us that worked in this building and been on the board for the last 6 or 7 years, but particularly the last 4, it has been very discouraging to see the level of corruption that prevaded city government. multiple department heads, multiple commissioners, multiple front line staff. to see people taking money that was

intended to improve small scale community projects and buying products and selling them on the internet to enrich themselves, having friends and family active false employees to enrich themselves. it literally brought a cloud over the gurmt and there are so many wonderful city employees in the city and county of san francisco that literally dedicate their life to making this city what it is and one of the best cities in the united states. but this is something that has gone on too long, and part of the reason i put my name as a cosponsor is because we need a position at this level that has the power that this is proposing to investigate. one thing to have a hotline,

and people whistle blow, another thing to have the investigative powers and the subpoena powers to call people in as investigations begin and information is brought. i agree with supervisor peskin, often times you don't know where someone will end up when the conversation begins so we done want to limit in any way. i think this is a step in the right direction. i think we have a duty to rebuild public trust, and ethical behavior begins with us at the top. the leaders of this city, and so, i'm very strongly in support of this. in many ways, this was long overdue, so i believe that the voters of san francisco deserve the opportunity to weigh in on this, make the adjustment and the charter begin to restore trust and also insure that the public employees, people that are the front line workers, those that work

in these departments, their moral is impacted. i have spoken to them. they feel discouraged in all of these departments that this corruption has prevaded. they feel discouraged and wept to restore that. we want them to understand we are here to support them and make a real ly strong step in the right direction so thank you supervisor peskin and i'm happy to be a cosponsor of this. >> thank you. >> thank you. colleagues i wanted you and the public to know that i did take the ethic commission letter quite seriously. i talked to both president peskin and city attorney office about it. the crux of the concerns-their concerns are, there is basically too many cooks in the kitchen, and i don't necessarily agree with that. i think right now we have you

know, really responsible adults who share jurisdiction over several matters and act like professionals and get in a room and look at their limited resources and decide who will take the lead over a particular type of investigation and i think adding one more leader into that discussion--it is from the same office that already is in the mix, so it is not radically changing in many ways what is already happening right now. and then, you know, in talking to city attorney gibner, the way he explained it is, it would really require sort of a out of control person in this role who really just can't get along with others, or wants to make a name for him

or herself. really doesn't cooperate and goes above and beyond their duties. i said in that case, we have more protection in this regard then if there was a rogue da or rogue city attorney or rogue controller, because in this case, the controller could just fire this person if they got out of control. there wouldn't have to be a recall or election in the future. i really don't agree with the contents that letter, and years ago, when i worked for supervisor compos, i worked on public advocate piece of legislation that shared similarities to this and always thought it was a good idea. i thought having a city employee who's at the leadership--the number one job is exclusively to look and

become a expert and truly understand what is happening in the city to prevent fraud and corruption, it makes a lot of sense. the city attorney has a lot of responsibility. the district attorney does as well. the controller does as well. to have a position who's full time job is to focus on this and work with all the different departments and make sure that we are using resources in the most useful way, it makes a ton of sense to me. i want to thank supervisor peskin putting this forward. i like to be added as a cosponsor mr. clerk. with that, i will open this item up for public comment. >> yes. members of the public who wish to speak should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. you can proceed. >> good morning supervisors.

supervisor peskin, thank you for bringing this forward. i support the idea of the inspector general. my name is barbara, second generation san franciscan. my grand daughters are fourth generation. i'm very concerned about city hall, city politics and all the current concerns raised. supervisor peskin, i really appreciate your comments about looking at best practices in other cities. i think that is always very important when you are considering a change and thank you very much and i support your legislation. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> any additional speakers on this matter? i do not see additional speakers. i believe we can close public comment. >> public comment is now closed. i am going to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair while we wait for meet and

confer to finish. can we have roll call on the motion? >> motion to continue the matter to the call of the chair, walton, aye. safai, aye. ronan, aye. the motion passes without objection. >> motion passes unanimously. thank you president peskin. >> thank you. >> mr. clerk, please read item 2. >> item 2 is charter amendment firs draft to amend the charter of city and coupty of san francisco to provide for the election of director sof department of police accountability held november 5, 2024. >> vice chair walton. >> thank you so much chair ronan and thank you for making sure we heard this item today. this amendment is about electing the director for the department of police accountability and this is

really about establish mechanisms to insure that accountability and build trust between low enforcement and the public. independent oversight helps to bridge the gap between law enforcement agencies and the communities that they serve. thus, improving public safety in the longrun. our city has not been immune to instances of police misconduct and butality that challenge the very principals of justice, equality and community. from the tragic death of mario woods, alex, kenneth, lewis, to the national tragedies of george floyd, briana taylor, freddy gray and countless others. these instances serve as stark reminders of the urgent need for continued reform. we should not have to prioritize accountability and transparency

only when tragic incidents occur in our communities. as a city that values justice accountability and safety, we cannot afford to turn a blind eye to these realities. we must strive to implement robust oversight measure that empower independent bodies to thoroughly investigate any allegations of miscublth. miscublt. misconduct. i doopt to address concerns that were brought up about this charter amendment. the city can legally create an elected position with this type of employment qualification. the city can and sometimes does give other duties to elected officers by ordinance. for example, the city attorney serving as the supervisor of records.

in section 13.102, all references to instance run-offs was removed because the most common term now is rank choice voting so we cleaned up the language to avoid confusion. in regards to the salary of the position, this provision allows the civil service commission, the flexibility to look to various manager classifications within the determining salary base. because sthra range due to the different sizes and functions of different departments, the civil service commission will make a judgment about which one department head salary classes is most applicable to the department of police accountability director position. we specify the focus should be on non-elected city department heads, because the salaries of elected department heads are set under the county surveys, which have no relevance to the dpa director and this would create a first of its kind

position. i'm proposing this charter amendment to make sure this position should be elected, because when members of the public see allegations of misconduct being investigated by impartial bodies and not beholden to a department or anyone, the trust and integrity of the police force is fostered. this enhances community police relations, promoats transparency and cultivates a culture of accountability that benefit every resident of our city. this is about public safety for everyone. i do want to thank the deputy city attorney, christina for helping work on this important measure. nely from my teal and also want to take the time to thank cosponsors supervisors safai, ronan and supervisor preston. i would have a couple other things to add after we go to public

comment, but i will also have to continue this as we need to have meet and confer with mea as well. thank you chair ronan. >> supervisor safai. >> i think that one thing that we see a lot in this building is, the political wind shift when it is convenient to be a part of a particular movement or particular moment. people will jump in and then when they feel it is not as convenient or supportive they wake away. y walk away. one thing we have done and proud to have been a part of is tremendous amount of justice refomp. form. this is a positive step in the right direction because if we want to insure true accountability, the person that serves in this pz should not be

beholden to the person that appoints them and their political point of view. this should be a objective position and i think this is the right way to reform this. not to say the person that serves in the position right now is in any way, but this allows this more freedom to be as objective as possible and not subject from political pressure that appointed them and i think that is a important aspect of what we are trying to reform here, so i appreciate it and also want to say thank you to the person who served in this position. paul henderson. i think he has done a tremendous job, but at the end of the day, having the voters directly weigh in on this position allows for more freedom in terms of how this position should be connected. thank you and thank you supervisor walton for bringing this forward. >> thank you supervisor safai.

i agree. i think the independence that would be afforded the person in this position is worth trying, and by electing this person to this person being appointed, brings that independence with it, so thank you for bringing it forward and i'm happy to be a cosponsor. with that, mr. clerk, let's open public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. is there anyone who would like to comment on this matter? >> hi. barbara--again. thank you having this hearing. i worked at the department of occ for 15 years before it was

department of police accountability. i was a director for the berkeley police review commission, the independent police auditor in san jose. i'm past president of the national association for police accountability, and am a current and have been a member that association for 30 years. i'm very concerned about this legislation. i totally agree with all of your statements that this should not be a political position. i'm concerned that having that person run for office would make it more political. best practices in oversight are that you hire a head hunter and bring in candidates from all over the country who are current directors who have experience in this field. these other directors from other agencies are not going to come to san

francisco and run against whoever is running for this office. we want competition between people who have proven themselves as accountability experts, not political people. i agree that there have been political appointments in this office. it should not be a political appointment. it should be as i said, competition between experts in the field. i like the idea of for the inspector general to have the controller's office decide who can be that elected person. why not do a charter amendment to have the controller's office help to make that appointment? but making it a position where people are running for office is going to further politicize it and make it less effective. thank you for your

consideration. >> thank you. any other members of the public who would like to comment? no other speakers. i believe we can close public comment. >> public comment is closed. supervisor walton. >> thank you chair ronan and definitely appreciate all the conversations we had around this charter with colleagues, with the public and experts in the field and understand concerns about over politicizing a position. i do really want to state that, this is really about being proactive and about making sure that we are not waiting for negative incidents to happen in our communities before we do something that is going to really create independence in our oversight, and make our law twice before ntities think they are over zealous sometimes in their policing. i do want to state for the record too, if we really want to have

complete independence, an office should not beholden to the mayor office or this board of supervisors. currently as a department head, the dpa leader is beholden to the mayor's office and therefore really cannot be afforded the true independence of what is needed to investigate and fully have the power to conduct independent investigations. i want to state much like supervisor safai, for me this is about policy. this is not about the current leadership of dpa, it is not about the current leadership of the mayor's office. this is really about policy and place that creates the independence we want to see when we have someone who has to investigate some very serious allegations when it comes to mistakes made by folks in our law

enforcement entities. it is really about accountability and strengthening ability of this office, but i will say that we do have time to have more conversations. we will be meeting with community and are meeting more with the leadership of the city and of course we have to meet and confer with mea so i do want to continue this item. >> continue to call of the chair? >> call of the chair. >> thank you. i just want to say, have so much respect for barbara and your decades and decades of experience, so i will look forward talking to you more in the break that we have, because i just value what you have to say on this issue tremendously, so thanks for coming out and thanks for giving your public comment. it is being taken seriously and heard. appreciate you. and witht that, mr. clerk can we have

roll call vote on the motion? >> on the motion to continue the matter to call of the chair, walton, aye. safai, aye. ronan, aye. that motion passes without objection. >> motion passes unanimously. thank you. mr. clerk, please read item 3. >> charter amendment (second draft) to amend the charter of the city and county of san francisco to establish within the charter the department of emergency management, the position of the director of the department, and the director's qualifications and appointing authority; at an election to be held on november 5, 2024. >> supervisor safai. >> [unable to hear speaker] i don't have much to say about this to respect everyone's time. i like to continue this item again. i think there is more discussion to be had. i still stand by this and think

it is a really important charter amendment. i think having the requisite qualifications for head of department of emergency management is a important thing we should put in the charter. similar to the conversation we just had about the politics infusing oversight and accountability in the police department, i think prior to this leadership here, there have been time s when we haven't necessarily put people in the head of the department of emergency management that needs minimum qualifications necessary. i think mary ann cellar has done a wonderful job and tremendous in terms of our leadership, but i still thinking having the requisite requirements for the leadership of the department is a important thing, so i ask to continue this item and we can continue the conversations. you can continue to call of the chair. >> like to open up for public comment. >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak should line up to

speak at this time. each speaker is allowed two minutes. is there anyone who would like to comment on this matter? there are no speakers on this matter. >> public comment is now closed. roll call vote on the motion. >> yes, on the motion to continue the matter to call of the chair, walton, aye. safai, aye. ronan, aye. that motion passes without objection. >> motion passes unanimously. mr. clerk, is there any other items on the agenda? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> the meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

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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 with people who live both in and out of 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 your home 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 their home. >> it is 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 of living in san 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 . >> my name is ana renzi. i'm a fire investigator for the city and county of san francisco. the job of a fire investigator is to go after the fire has been put out and to determine the origin and the cause of the fire. so we are the people who after the firefighters have come in and done their magnificent work to extinguish the fire, we go through the fire scene and we are able to find how the fire started. just showing up, being who you are can mean a world of difference to someone. when someone sees you as an identifiably queer person, an identifiable female presenting

person or a person of color walk into their home, they can feel more comfortable and more trusting just knowing that you are around and that you may have some insight into their situation and to their community needs that others may not have. the san francisco fire department i'm proud to say goes out of its way to recruit women, minorities, and to the lgbtq+ community, we are awaiting you and wanting you to come join us as a san francisco fire department. no one is going to represent us like you are going to represent us. no one is going to care for our communities and for our departments like you are going to come and represent our communities and our departments. i am a proud black queer member of the san francisco fire department and i'm especially proud to be part of an

organization that respects and values our diverse communities in san francisco. [♪♪]

>> good evening. this is the fire commission regular meeting june 26, 2024 and the time is 502. this meeting is held in person. members of the public may attend the meeting to observe and provide public comment at the physical meeting location or by calling 415-655-0001 and using meeting id, 26618763620 and the webinar password is 1234. members of the public may participating remotely may access the meeting and participate by following the instructions below. members of the public may address the commission up to three minutes per item. please insure you are in a

quite location, speak clearly and turn off background sounds. wait for the item you like to be address to be called. press star 3. the system will notify when you are in line. callers hear silence waiting for your turn to speak. opraert may unmite. you may watch live at sfgovtv.org. morgan, present. fraser, present. nakajo, present. feinstein, present. collins, present. chief of department jeanine nicholson, present. president morgan will now recite the land acknowledgment. >> i sure will. the ramaytush oholone land acknowledge. san francisco fire department 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 pub wlck comment. members of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. speaker shall address remarks to members as a whole. commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion. the lack of response by

commissioners or department personnel does not constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. >> madam secretary, is there any public comment at this time? >> there is nobody approaching the podium. and anybody on the public comment line, please press star 3 if you wish to make public comment. and nobody is raising their hand. public comment is closed. >> affirmative. >> item 3, approval of the minutes. discussion and possible action to approve the special meeting minutes from june 7, 2024. >> is there a motion fellow commissioners to approve the minutes for the special meeting on the 7th?

>> i move we approve the minutes from the special meeting june 7. >> i second. >> i was excused. >> commissioner nakajo, aye. collins, aye. okay, the motion is 3 for a and 2 excused. it passes. and then we have the meeting minutes from the regular meeting on june 12, 2024. >> is there a motion to approve the minutes for june 12? >> yes, i move we approve the minutes for june 12. >> i second. >> nakajo, aye. feinstein, [indiscernible] collins, [indiscernible] the motion

passes 3, 2 excused. is there any public comment on the minutes? i see nobody approaching the podium and nobody has their hand raised on the public comment line. item 4, chief of department report. report from chief of department jeanine nicholson on issues activities and events in the department since the fire commission meeting june 12, 2024, including budget, academy, special events communication and outreach to other government agencies and the public. and report from administration, deputy chief shayne kaialoa report on administrative division fleet and facility status update. finance support service and homeland security.

>> good evening. i am your san francisco fire chief jeanine nicholson and this is my report since the last commission meeting june 12. we had many attended a city emt graduation. as you know, city emt is one of the pipelines for employment into the san francisco fire department. to date, not at this particular graduation, but to date, they graduated 100 people from their classes and we have hired 25 of them. we are hiring 1 in 4 people from city emt. granted, not all of them have gone all the way through the academy, but it has been a good pipeline and it's

really working out i think for both sides, so more to follow on that. they finally had a hundred graduates total. also attended a h3 level 1 graduation friday, 12 new emt ready to go on the ambulance and sthat good thing, because we started the 134th h2 academy where we took 11 people from station 49 and put them in the firefighter academy, so basically a wash, but the 134th academy started past wednesday with 54 people and myself and chief luttropp and chief kaialoa addressed the academy that day. as you may know i went to the swearing in of our commissioners for their new terms. commissioner collins and commissioner

nakajo and commissioner morgan was there as well. you're a busy busy man. yes, you are president. president morgan. congratulations on your new terms. after that, it is pride month so happy pride month everyone. there was a photo with mayor london breed for department heads and for commissioners and commissioner fraser and i both attended. we had our monthly labor management meeting last week. went well. as they have been going of late, which is good. and then we had our budget presentation. first on the 21, was the first day of our presentation. i presented for 5 minutes and it is tough to get everything in in 5 minutes, but we did what we could and were asked some questions about

our fleet specifically, and between the 21 and 28 we were working with the budget legislative analyst. they always want to cut. they always want to cut things from budgets and so we were able to hold our own and come to an agreement. they are getting about $400 thousand back out of a $525 million budget, so we'll take that. but, we still have the big risks we have that we spoke about with our rigs and with our stations and that is still of major concern, so i will continue conversations with mayor's office and supervisor next week to you know, we got to figure something out. it can't continue like this, we got to figure something out. speaking of our stations, civil

grand jury report came out called ed builder san francisco designing constructing and maintaining city infrastructure, june 20, 2024 and i did read through it and i will be sure to for ward that to all the commissioners if you need a little light reading or want your blood pressure to go one way or the other, but it was--yeah, it said some things. i would-i don't know how much there is in the way of teeth bit eel polk let you be the judges. very interesting about the money we pay and where it goes. i thought it only went to public works, but it turns outs it goes elsewhere as well. to a portion of the city central service costs. i need to do some more digging

on that to find out more information and then we can all sit and have a chat about it. [laughter] interesting report. yesterday we had a really large scale drill with pg&e out on treasure island, and it was to--we had smaller drills with pg&e. we do a large drill, we have done a large drill every year for the past i don't know, 4 years maybe, maybe more, not sure, but we had a large pg&e drill with them yesterday on treasure island and basically to simialate what happens after a earthquake. they said it was a 6.1. there was multiple incidents going on in our training area from wires

down, to a gas leak with fire, to people entrapped, to all sorts of different things that our folks had to deal with in real time at the same time and so, really important for us to do that. so we can learn from hiccups we have and we practice like we play and it was really good. i was there for several hours watching and i just appreciate all the efforts that all our members put in from our training division to assistant chief michael thompson our liaison with pg&e and others that worked really hard to set this up. i will also say we did select a new assist want deputy chief of ems. he is not here tonight, nor is

outgoing chief [indiscernible] he is at a conference representing us. chief tony muloy will be in the house at the next commission meeting and you can all meet him, if you have not already. he is a long time member of our department and very very involved with the department and with ems in particular, so on committees and the like. and then, last but not least, sister maureen, i know you are retiring, even though you are going to be back here and there, but congratulations on your retirement and welcome to cathy, who will be your replacement. and that is my report for tonight. >> thank you for your great report chief, as always. i will ask the organization commissioners, any questions from the commission?

commissioner fraser. >> one. thank you chief for your report. just for my own education, the civil grand jury report is released publicly, correct? >> yes. >> is it specifically sent to somebody who is supposed to receive it? besides just anyone in the public, like any officials or the board of supervisors, the mayor office? >> good question. i don't know exactly everyone that it goes to, but yes it goes to officials at city hall. it also was sent to me and i'm sure it was sent to other department heads certainly that have capital projects and then it is also yes, a public document, but i will e-mail all of you with it. >> so, the response to it--is there a response? >> yes, there is a response that is

detailed in here in terms of timeframe that public works has to respond to it, and it will be in writing. i can't remember 60 days or 90 days, but it is all in here of what exactly they need to respond to. >> is there a public comment or citizen comment opportunity on the report? >> that i don't know. but i'm sure we could find out for you. >> issuing the report is great, but hopefully there are formal responses from people that are either requested the report, or have some way-some responsibility for some of the things revealed in the report, and then the whole pub lic gets it, including us, since we are members of the public. how we are able to comment on it. i love to know that.

>> [unable to hear speaker] dpw, they must respond. the fire department could respond and comment if it so chose to do, but has no obligation if my memory serves my correctly to do so. members of the public it is whether they can make their way through the report and may choose to respond or not, but this all kind of comes under the superior court that

oversees the grand jury process, and i know there's no requirement that anybody respond or not or other then the department in question. >> so, on this particular report, it is public works, it is also the board of supervisors and it is also the they are requesting response from about particular sections of the report. >> it would also be good to know what prompted this report in the first place. is it part of a scheduled review by the grand jury? was there a issue the grand jury was asked to investigate more closely? i think that would help us as we decide what our response should be. >> i love to say we had

everything to do with prompting isthe report, but i don't know for a fact, but we can inquiry for you. >> usually the grand jury decides what it is going to investigate, what department or entity that falls within its purview. they make the decisions, usually. >> based on what? >> that i can't answer. that's what- >> that's the question. >> zero in on. do they have a list of possibilities and say we'll pick this one now and someone says we are especially concerned about this, would you investigate? it is just good for us to know. >> thank you very much president morgan. colleagues, to chime in with the discussion, with the question

commissioner fraser, vice president fraser, commissioner collins recollection. if i am correct hopefully or at least accurate, the grand jury is a voluntary citizen body. >> yep. >> and in terms of the experience over the duration of the years, at one point on one of my stays of being a president, the grand jury focus in terms of where the focus comes from, your question, had a critique in terms of the fire department. i remember the water auxiliary became part of the issue. the cooperation nature of what they are looking at, but i found over the years it is always with i think their position is, i'm interpreting, but the critical eye. so, when it comes down--there

is strong criticism one way or another and i had a look at it in terms of objective matter subjective matter of what is your job and what do you want to say with jurisdiction. in one report the fire commission had to respond. i think the it apartment at one point had to respond. it became a lot of work, i put it that way, but that was the spirit of it. nothing went one way or the other in terms of what it is. it was more like a keen eye, but that is just my observation and contribution. to respond is always good. in that body and that ability. thank you mr. president. >> [unable to hear speaker] i am not sure what report you

guys are referring to? can you elaborate on that? >> yes, so it is report done by the civil grand jury. i think made up of 19 or 20 individuals from san francisco and it is called, building san francisco, designing constructing and maintaining city infrastructure. i know they-what they do is they investigate and i know they spoke to some of our members that are involved in our capital projects. they spoke to all sorts of people. they toured different stations, different buildings and they came out with this report and with recommendations. i don't know if they are recommendations or mandated what public works has to do in the future.

a lot has to do reporting and transparency and then they ask for a response from public works and the mayor and the board of supervisors about it. so, but i will text you all the- >> mainly public works correct? >> yes. >> okay. and the fire department was some of the interest as well? >> yes, and we are in this report. yeah. >> were they concerned with the budget or what was their main interest? >> i think that they really scrutinize how the-civil grand jury looks how the city does business and is it efficient and effective, are they wasting money and also looked at the quality of the work, so--yeah. >> that's good.

>> this is something maybe we can put on the agenda for further discussion. we are going little off topic because it isn't agendized. >> i mentioned it in my report so-- -yeah. i mentioned it. >> there was a san francisco chronicle article, so i mean-- >> good idea. okay. >> one more quick question. is the report is posted somewhere now? >> yes, i'll send you the website. >> great. >> i guess maureen didn't get that report? >> i don't know. i don't know how it was e-mailed, and e-mailed to. if it was--it was e-mailed to me, but yeah. >> not to go to be far in the weeds. i just want to-i appreciate your report. i just want to thank you for coming to our swearing in and i'm sorry i missed the cake cutting today and like

i say, congratulations to cathy and congratulations to maureen on her retirement. i'm allowed to say that, right? [laughter] and another thing, i want to congratulate the chief on 12 new emt's and also want to thank you and chief kaialoa for expressing the need to update the fleet, to educate us on that, because we need to know that stuff too, you know? and i also want to shout out to commend the president of local 798 for writing that letter to the board of supervisors of giving some very detailed reasoning why we need to update the fleet and why it is so important for the fire

department. i just wanted to put that out and are thank you guys for your great reports. we'll do-i'll do whatever i can to help and you know that and other then that, i'm pretty updated. our occasional check in times so i don't have further questions. at this time, i ask madam secretary, is there any public comment? >> there is nobody approaching the podium and [indiscernible] caller, would you like to comment? >> yes. eileen boken rks coalition for san francisco naerbds. neighborhoodss. the zoom link did not open until 512 and pass general public comment but i like to speak on general public comment at this point.

i'm speaking on my own behalf. it is regarding dedicated awas. the following projects have dedicated on site awaus piping. mission rock with 12 housing units, potrero power station with 2600 housing units, pier 70 with 2150 housing units. [indiscernible] 700 housing units. balboa reservoir with 1100 housing units, however, larger then any of these other projects is stonestown with 3500 housing units. last year both planning and dpw confirmed that stonestown would have on-site dedicated awaus piping to make it consistent with other brookefield projects. on january 22 of this year, at the board of supervisors land use and transportation committee, the

puc confirmed there will be a hookup to stonestown. may 9 regarding the stonestown project there was no mention by staff or the project sponsor about awas during presentations. however, at the may 28 meeting of the puc commission, it was stated that stonestown would not have on-site awas piping and pay for hose tenders at the june 24 meeting of capital planning committee on stonestown infrastructure financing district, oewd stated this is because there is no puc hook up nearby, however there is a hook up 7 blocks away, 19th avenue and another 14 blocks away at ocean avenue and victoria.

the fire department prove this fee out in the largest of the housing projects is incomphensible especially with balboa project only a few blocks away. thank you. >> anymore public comment? >> there is no more public comment. >> okay, i guess we are ready for chief kaialoa's report. you ready, chief? >> good evening. president morgan, fraiser i, commissioner feinstein collin, nakajo, maureen. shayne kaialoa deputy chief and report for may 2024. we will begin with home land

security under chief brown. also highlight chief josh smith who works for chief brown in the office and what those two individuals managing many many events throughout san francisco. some in may were the beta breakers event planning meeting. the fleet week exercise and planning meeting fleet week overall planning meeting. that exercise is a joint exercise between the navy, marine corps, cost guard, dem, sfsd and participating agencies. to respond to local disasters such as earthquakes and wilds fires. fleet week discuss the various coordination of local state and federal agencies and partner surrounding the event of fleet week, a very large event throughout that week, takes a ton of coordination and planning and chief brown and josh or section chief

josh smith are continually busy with those meetings. i say meeting as one meeting that they are going to. there are multiple meetings throughout that planning process and all the planning processes throughout those events in the city. also looking forward in situational awareness, chief brown and josh smith looking for major events coming up with the nba all star game, super bowl 2025, world cup in 2025. and also the fire department coordination meeting. on top of all that work which is nothing compared to what is in the report and all the things home land security is doing, chief brown continues her coordination of our san francisco presence at the fema california task force 3. also, some things we dont discus in the

meeting for security purposes are the high level dignitary visits to san francisco being coordinated through home land security along with local state federal partners through operations to assist with those visits. also the emergency action plan development for all of these events. every single one of the events that come to the city have an event action plan for the san francisco fire department. it is developed with the leadership of chief brown, section chief josh smith and folks from the field, including chief pablo[indiscernible] and many others coming to assist putting those plans together for fire department. when the event is happening, there is a very clear plan of the date, times of the event. communication plan, medical plan, many others in that plan.

it take a ton of coordination and time. also on the left there you see coordination meeting with oakland fire department, san francisco with chief buford, [indiscernible] to discuss opportunities to support one another. we are right across the bay from each other so discused how to support each other training, best practice and what we are doing to help our fire departments to move forward and opportunities they have been using through the naval academy and merit college and specialized training. moving on under department equity inclusion under shawn buford, this office with assistant deputy chief buford and anderson is very very busy through recruitment through the

eefforts of the office and initiatives and the coordination of the [indiscernible] 134 academy heavily on that unit in terms of helping developing that list. posting interviews. sending that list to chief nicholson for the selection process to the final academy, and also supporting those candidates to insure they have the right documentation, the right certification they need to be successful in the process. they are now look ing to 135 academy to look at the list, develop that list, working with dhr to administer the first round of interviews, selection to the chief interviews and then final

selection that academy with chief nicholson. working with ems as we hire our folks from the ambulance into suppression. that team in the office working with section chief--to smooth that process out in terms of what our folks need to do in ems to move to suppression so it is a cleaner transition and they understand the process better. also in the month of may, they presented at department of rehabilitation youth fair about career opportunities with the san francisco fire department. the program for youth are ages 16-24 and allows employers educators labor unions and workforce professionals to address these young youth and deliver opportunities to them and one of those being specifically to the san francisco fire department, whether ems or suppression. continuing the work with the

san francisco consurivation corp. in the past i briefed for cohort 1 lead by battalion chief and training those folks and wild land firefighter along with his cohort and that discussion continues interest cohorts 2, 3 and 4 between the month of august and january. also, working through the process of hbcu internship. happy to announce we have three interns at the san francisco fire department that started this month and will brief you further in the next month. beyond that, they also presented at the may day may day regarding the same efforts to recruit our young folks into the fire services and educate on what the san francisco fire department does. moving to recruitment and

outreach with officer anderson. very busy. i just highlight a few working through that fire candidate testing center list. coordinating fire candidate training center prep class. this class better educates the individuals and on the process that test and how to be successful in the test and give resources to assist in being successful and that is one reason why we went to the fire candidate testing center. and like i mentioned earlier, working with chief on the ems2 suppression move. lieutenant anderson gave remarks on behalf of chief nicholson at the ccsf academy graduation in the month of may. under health and safety, battalion chief alba, not many changes here, just the studies discussed before. still moving forward with the

[indiscernible] study which includes--sulfur rich chemical from vegetables known to repair and nurture our gut, as well as supporting natural detox and address inflammation. the pfas study continues through august and the testing of the turnouts and are pfas through the real life fire fighting. sleep disorder studies continues as well as [indiscernible] looking forward to the fall, chief alba, is looking for cancer screenings and the skin checks. behavioral health under captain heather burin the month of may, the bhu had 75 contacts with issues

surrounding general stress, critical incident response, bereavement for family members and other issues but those are what i will highlight the month of may. along with captain burin's irk with, we are in the final stage of the lactation policy. we received the policy back from the city attorney. the edits are being made to the policy and what those edits and will be sent to the chief in the next week. leveraging on how our folks receive content. the bhu sent a video to the field regarding health and wellness resources. we need to meet folks where they are at and the age of our department and how they are actually absorbing the content, so they sent out video form to the field. as you know, we moved away from the cortico application to

lighthouse. this application is very intuitive and provides quick accesses to resources, therapist, bhu resources, resource library and station finder when i when i was new in the department i needed the station finder. now it was in a map and now on the app with one touch of a finger. healthy recipes and more. we are also offered a chance to participate in a pilot study evaluating a 4 day treatment workshop to address symptoms. this goes back to the lack of sleep in a 24 hour period when you are working those type of shifts. even ems, if you work 12 or more and the stressors and how it effects your sleep and your overall health. we have a few people in that study and i'll brief you when it is done. the office of employee health,

dr. chang and nurse practitioner stephanie phelps, performed screenings at 45 and also the new hires screenings of the 134th h2 academy. also, through the month of may, continue the visit and did take a pause as dr. c took vacation. it has been very beneficial and knew it would be and you heard me speak about developing the culturally competent doctor to understand what we do in the san francisco fire department to better develop relationship with the field and gain that trust of our own physician. more importantly, to listen, to listen and dr. c is doing a great job.

very insightful for him hearing the concerns of the members what has gone in the past and over had history and how we can improve and concerns on their minds of their health and wellness and what they like to see from the office. been a very valuable. also met with the union to discuss annual wellness check we have not for some time and we are there. we have approval from the union. that will be integrated into 30 in 30 out initiative and when that is complete we will share that with you. also met with the community paramedicine division to discuss injury and the challenges that community paramedicine is seeing in their side and how the department physician could help develop initiatives for that type

of injury. also, ongoing discussions with our electric health records. run a couple things in parallel and moving forward will brief you. dr. c published the first office of employee health news letter. chief nicholson is the highlight. dr. c vision is to member spotlight every single addition, so interesting things to learn there about chief nicholson. i can't see it now, chief. you have to read it. we'll send it to you. the news letter what the member spotlight highlights mental health t. is short and sweet, about three pages. it has employee assistant program resources in this first version. he gave a breathing relaxation exercise

and healthy recipe. under the isb, captain well. 98 members participated. background investigations for the 134 were complete in may or on may 24 of 2024. this is the first class that has gone through the electronic background packet and it has been so much better. still work to do, but so much better. creating efficiency, the candidates are able to fill out the packets and upload the resources before they come into see captain well for the intake interview. all breathalizers at division 2 and 3 and airport have past accuracy testing and 3 more breathalizers from the field will be tested in the next month. support services, deputy chief mike mullen, this in no way shape or

form as stated in the past the things i highlight here and many projects you see in your packet are in various stages whether hvac, generators, roofing, multitude of work happening and support services. beyond that work, being done all around the city at all of our stations, supporting the clothing depot, outfitting the folks and academy with the resources they need. managing the bureau of equipment and all of the work on the apparatus and purchasing tools kwr insuring the field has what needs to be successful. but we had 143 service requests, 145 service orders completed, 2 vans put into service and on the right station 9

received their hvac units. thank gosh. it wasn't without a hiccup, but chief mullen made it happen and we are happy that it is complete. same with assistant deputy chief miller. the absolute enormous work happening there under the esr programs. to include the ex fws, the emergency generators, projects in various stages. enormous work. all important. all important this one probably the most important at this time for the fire department is the new fire training facility. schematic design. focus on floor plans and of individual structures and adjacency and how those

floor plans work together. design modifications made to include the driver cone courses within the boundaries of the site. all of our folks that go through suppression are trained on the engine, ambuljs. ambulance. it is challenging to do at treasure island or has become challenging because of the construction there. we have not done it there for some time. looking for a site. we were utilizing the alamany but continues to dwindle. having this on site is very important and integral to the project we keep folks on site. chief is doing a fantastic job with the team to insure adjacencys are corrected and the site can be used in ems and suppression and trainjug specialized training. there is a lot of thought that

going into this plan of how the site is used. we continue the community outreach. met with the bayview hunter point citizen advisory committee. a few more in june. incredible. to go out to the community and present on the fire training facility and what we expect there and intend to do there, but more importantly, to listen to what the community is saying and what their concerns are in that community and for us to address where we can. it is very important and so those have been very beneficial and we'll continue that throughout this process. we also went to the san francisco art commission regarding the art instillation that will be installed at this facility. it was a very good meeting and we look

forward to going back when we have further plans of what will be developed there. something that we have discussed is not just one art instillation, but taking those funds and spreading the art instillation throughout the campus so it is seen in multiple different areas. highlights. >> community outreach and education team at carnaval. as always, delivering those materials to the public. supporting the escape from alcatraz triathlon with over 1600 folks in the water with our water assets. fire station 35 present would a oil painting by artist frank walsh. the jim gallagher competition

may 11, 2024. we have the winner right there, chief luttropp center. 6 minute mile. number one. still got it, buddy. look good. also retired chief--sorry, retired lieutenant [indiscernible] division of training. you were there for unveiling of the artist at headquarters. it was nice to see you all. may 29, this is 133 academy and there are 7 and a half mile run to headquarters where they are greeted by headquarter staff, able to receive comments from chief nicholson and others in the command staff. it is a great end to the academy. the next day they graduate. right there. that is the end of my report. happy to take any questions. >> thank you for your report

chief kaialoa. fellow commissioners--public comment. >> there is nobody approaching the podium and somebody does have their hand raised. would you like to make public comment on chief kaialoa's report? caller? there is no more public comment. >> [indiscernible] >> you need to approach the podium if you-- >> [indiscernible] >> they keep pushing the

meeting, 615 now we have to wait. three times. anyway, i didn't hear the report, so it will be unappropriate for me to comment. simply, there is no fire. that is bazaar. that's it. >> that's it for public comment. >> i just wanted to commend you for the work you are doing with the community in advance. i know that it sounds like you enjoyed the interaction. i know that will bear fruit as the project continues. i also wanted to congratulate you on your presentation to the arts commission. i understand it was very well

received, especially since it was not presented as something cast in stone, but sort of a in process presentation, which is my understanding the right way to do it. thank you for a very positive report. >> thank you. >> [indiscernible] >> chief fraser. i like that. i like the sound that. okay. thank you chief kaialoa. great report. really really interesting and i also appreciate hearing more about the training facility and ongoing work with the commission as well as the community. that training facility is in district 10 of san francisco, correct? that's what i thought. okay. very good. that's where i live. i think that's great.

the only other comment i had and there was a lot of-so much good stuff in your report, or more a question really. goes back to the beginning about home land security where we have super bowl, nba all star and world cup soccer among others are in 2025, which is next year, correct? wow. seems like a lot of stuff. >> [indiscernible] >> super bowl and soccer in 2026. little break there. >> okay. super bowl and soccer are 2026. next year is just the nba all star. great. >> that's all. >> very good. i was really, wow. congrats on the 134 academy getting started soon, sooner rather then later, and just terrific report all around. thank you, chief.

>> thank you very much president morgan. thank you very much chief for your comprehensive report. i got comment, maybe there is a question in there somewhere about 5 items. just so folks know, i want to cover chief brown in terms of security with a question. refer to chief buford's report. question on the physician office and question on support services. i appreciate the detail you give in your reports. particularly when it comes to the various areas, home land security. my question beyond what was asked is, this weekend is the parade and i heard numbers floating around. i get lost after a million, but i just kind of need to hear little

bit, because back in my mind somewhere is we don't have the casualty bus anymore. i think, not sure. i just want to hear something about it integrated by this report from chief brown and-- >> sure. i will have chief brown come up. >> good evening. thank you for your question regarding our preparation for this weekend. we coordinate and work very well with other departments across the city, specific to our role, the fesivities for the weekend start early friday and so we are coordinating through the operation center that the department of emergency management monitors and dispatch center to provide operations not only to the parade, but

city wide for the friday and saturday events. on sunday the parade is added to the civic center celebration. any event within san francisco that will have a impact by bringing people in must provide a level of response on their own that they bring privately to the event and this event will be divided into the civic center celebration where there is a lot of private assets dedicated to the event, as well as the parade which is free speech liability falling to the city, so in order to address that we have a gap in not having the bus, you are correct, but we will have a med station set up along the parade route that where one of our doctors that works for dr. locoke will be stationed and that allows or ems to be responding along the parade route for any people that are participating, or observing

the parade, but it also allows our ems units to bring a patient to that location and the doctor can rule in or out whether transport is needed. because the paramedics have a responsibility they must transport to higher level of care, we can also provide that higher level of care and do what we call drying up calls that lessen the burden on the hospital system as well. we'll be doing that. >> thank you very much. particularly thank you very much for coming up here and sharing. again, as a san franciscan, when you have all these events, i don't want to say you get used it, but it is sunday. a million people. just like the triangle ceremony, 600. so, for me the report talks about your jurisdiction and it talks about

operation and ems as well and so, again, as a commissioner, i appreciate that and just want to be able to make sure, because seems leak one after another and again, while you are up here, i know there is a lot of approval for mid-week concerts, et cetera. stimulate the economy, but i assume it falls within our jurisdictional. one question, how many personnel do we harness for something like the parade? >> we are dedicating for this 5 als units, the doctor and their team, but it also requires that coordination, so it is a battalion chief embedded as a lee liaison in the police department, staffing in the emergency operation center as well and our hazmat

team on standpoint and have support for hazmat, so there are a lot of elements. to your point, i like to say that we do get in the habit of planning for the same event over and over, but we are really reminded not to be complacent and the news stories we see coming out of for instance, the attack initially considered could have been a terrorism attack. that reminds us things like this can happen so we are constantly monitoring with partners events throughout the country where we can model preparation. >> thank you very much. to the commission and also the san francisco, deeper appreciation chief in terms how much we mobilize. thank you for that question. chief, if i can move on. thank you chief brown.

in terms of chief bufp ford and diversity, chief, i didn't have a chance when you did your report chief nicholson, congratulations. i know vice president fraser talked about the emt graduation and the fact of hundred graduates in terms that. for myself, with the report that comes out, those numbers are successful because of the program and recruitment that we started within the community, so i just think that's a really powerful number. also, the mechanism, because when you give your report as we move folks from 49 over to suppression, we need folks fill the roles in emt, so to me it is like, looking for a source of resources, but the diversity aspeth aspect is good. i want to congratulate on the successf the program. the other thing about the doctor and physician at some point, i know

the commission will be able to meet him, but through just my community, it seems covid has come strongly recently. is that any effect particularly within our department at this particular time or any precautions or shots or readiness, chief? >> [indiscernible] i have seen that in the news. dr. c just returning and we have a meeting tomorrow, and this subject will more then likely come up, but nothing as of yet. >> okay. thank you. last thing in terms of chief mullen support services, chief, i know you are there, but in terms of [indiscernible] when we get a report, i think i have seen this before, but what i like page 3, i don't know if you have it chief, kaialoa, let me know if you are there support service? >> page 33, yes, sir. >> there is listing by station, the current state of the house on all

levels. i knew we used to get it periodically, but to have it extensively all the way down with a description greatly helps. i had 14 different stations chief nicholson, but the details are there in terms of reading if you will in terms of the commissioners and being educated. the other thing is, i appreciate you spending time as a commissioner talking in detail about the importance of the training facility. but also spending the time to talk about the community. i think that's real important for all the years and experiences we had. bayview hunter point, they heard it all. but to have people pay attention from the get-go, i think you really found something. the arts, campus [indiscernible] it is really impressive. anyway, thank you very much chief. thank you very much mr.

president. thank you. >> thank you commissioner nakajo. thank you for your report chief kaialoa. i don't really have any questions. i was just looking at kind of reiterate what vice president fraser was saying, 2025 will be a real busy year as far as big events and everything, and i'm sure you will be prepared with all the great drills that you guys do and collaborate with other agencies and all the stuff we read about in the reports. i'm sure it will go well and sure you goes are well prepared. thank you for your great report and that's all i got. i won't hold you guys up too late. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> item 5, adjournment. >> is there a motion to adjourn? second? >> second.

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