commissioners. board of supervisors. sffd command staff and guests. i'm lieutenant mariano that you join us all today for the outst fire chief of the san francisco er0 years. jeanine nicholson ic to the citizens of san francisco. it is my privilege to present to you the honorable mayor, london to her accomplishments. mayor breed. thank you all so much for being here leader and extraordinary public who has dedicated her life to the san francisco fire department for over 30 years, and who, when i asked to serve as chief it is one of incredible accomplishments to have selected beloved in this department and in every corner of this department and so many

capacities, a paramedic, a lieutenant, a battalion chief, deputy chief you all the jobs. so when you think about someone like that, it is rare indeed to have someone serve as chief who understands intimately all the details of what thato it was such an honor for her to agree the work that she did while she served as the of this department. most of the work i mean, who would have thought that we'd be facedonce in a 100 year global pandemic and the fire de our response. we still had work to do, and decisions had chief nicholson stepped up to help make those decisions in and strength. because we know that san francisco, at any given time, whether it's aarthquake or a fire, we know that san francisco is a major cedicated leadership. someone who understands what to do it. and that is jeanine nicholson in a nutshell.and when to do it. also, i want to express my of the work that she

did and when i say so much of the work the ems six and what that did to help crisis on the streets, the street crisis response team, and i see helps to lead those efforts. san franciscost to do that work. and the work that you put in place to response team and to help pivot to a new kindchallenges that we have faced in san francisco éñ been a model to oth country. people have duplicated the work that we didder chief nicholson's leadership. i also am so proud done to diversify and uplift this department through programs like city emt, which weng kids who grow up in san francisco, part of this department but aren't quite ready. the leadership of the black firefighters, i see antwan here. all the work that they have done to help make it possible students that you have brought into the department, hasin a model for the rest of the country to follow. i can about the accomplishments of chief n easy, and when i say had

our conversations. we were pretty much always on the same page and she got the job done. whether it'sers who are joining us here today, we appreciate your leadership astaff and the rank and file and other members of the depart. she knew the firefighters of this department. she knew the paramedics of this department and the work we number tations built including finally, finally station 49, that is really an to use, user friendly remember what the old station was like, this was a our ambulance fleet, helping to address mandatory overtime, you name it. the leadership and creativity of the leadership was instrumental in helping move this forward and keeping it on the right pathedibly grateful for her leadership. the in this capacity, the first lgbt fire chief city's history and one of the a leader of san

francisco that i have worked with. andtamento her leadership that other foling us here department heads, members of the public are joining us here today, is a testament to her leadershipbridges that she built in order to accomplish her goals. i am really going to miss youryour leadership, your advocacy, and i am so grateful that over the years we have developed an inship. chief nicholson, we are grateful for your service here francisco. it has really been my privilege and my !u ve mayor with you, as the fire chief of were an incredible partner. i am happy for you and your i know you won't be far away. so on behalf of the 7ucity and county of san francisco, thank you for your extraordinary service. thank you for your extraordinary leadership your retirement. thank you y'all gonna make

me cry. sit down. there's no crying in the firehouse. wow thank you, mayor breed. i'm not great at taking that in so just give me a moment but thank you, thank you, thankou. greetings, everyone. i am still your san francisco fire ch just yet. and let's just clear up some rumorsbecause i have some health issues, and that's al say about it there is no forced retirement. there's none ofis happening. i am retiring because i've been for years to take care of themselves, and i have. and so my body has fin to listen to that advice. and so that's what doing, so like, wow, what an opportunity this has been, what a wild ride. it hasi kidding me?

apec? are you kidding me? like what else you knownd, you know, it's been awesome to work for a groundbreaking and glass ceiling busting ma know, and you've been a mentor to partner with me, and i just. we've done so muc good stuff for this department, some of which you you know, so it's, to my fire commission frazier, former president and former president, commissioner feinstein commissionero. you are my kind of people because you don't have you're doing, but you do it because yout's huge to me. you are my i got to say. so thank you forjust everything for what you've done for me and for the department. and then, before i get to my folks, i want to thank all of my-o> city that are here. rob smuts, thank

you for being here on maryn's behalf for the dem doctor d.p.h. thank you brother. my otherorbes from the port. thank you my sister, for, my wingman right here. chief wingman. i'll always be your pilot. all right. i got you and joaquin torres. thank you being here. i appreciate you and i don't know but i'm really sorry if i'm missing somebody. so thank you to the here, again, you all are like the doing this out of ego. you're doing it because you care, you're doing it because you want to do the next right thing. whether it'suild training center, whether it's running our airport or our diversity, equity and inclusionyou're doing it because you care and you all thank you. you always have the mission at i'm gonna try tog. sandy, you've been my wing woman for five five years. thank you. sister. couldn't have done it without you, butcivery single one of you. there's no

crying in baseball. all right? right, let's carry on i want to give our civilian staff in a in a uniform department. it's really hard be a civilian. and our civilians keep us afloat. going, and they get a lot of grief from some of our folks. and get the. oh, you're a hero, kind of business. and so i just w s, jesus e for five years, like shepherding me and herding me and politely tapping me on the shoulder. was no nagging at all. that was great. but man, she runs a tight ship and that office doesn't f you. and all the rest of the civilian staff and then, you know all of the department at in ems or communityo/ paramedicine at prevention, like it takes aillage. none of us

do this alone. i didn't get here alone, we don't do this alone. and we don't do it without the boots on the ground am i allowed to say damn sorry anyways,'t know how i got this lucky. i really d i won the lottery in 1994 whe>÷n i the fire department, and i did, like. are you kidding m and i don't know how i've managed to be the chief don't know what happened but i guess i just put my foot on the pedal and going since then. all right, who's messing with the lights? who's me right, well, as long as you can see, no. but, you know breed swore me in, i said that i loved this department and this city, and that's still true, to work diligently to move the department forward. and i think we that. i think there have been a lot of really good and you know, like it my business to advocate for this department it's it it certainly

helps coming up through the ranks and knowing goes on out there in the field and what you all need. and and what ithen you don't have something, somy business to advocate for the departmentor e government that didn't necessarily understand what we didas not just important to say, we need this, this is what we do. oh you do that do that. and here's what we can't do if we don't have that they're safer, and the city is safer. franklyw it goes in public safety. and, you know andn i said stuff in meetings, it wasn't particularly popular, me sometimes. but, i think as firefighters and paramedics and emts, we're practical people. and we just want to say what's what get on with the business of doing what needs to be done to take care of the field. that's what we do. we're doers in this department, and we get stuff i said, a lot of collective and there's more in process. i feel like this

command staff has really empowered fos he department to take on some of the work, becauseho's a better subject matter expert on surf rescue than somebody w rescue qualified swimmer out at, you know, a station in develop these policies, help us figure out what equipment we way too much work for all feel like that has also continued to growf ownership and responsibility. helped with succession planning, as you know i'm all about succession planning, andent to, to i don't want to just hand somebody and go, yeah. all right. have at it, we' in our career like i have at it. we know what's going on. and so the succession planning efforts we've done i think, have really, you know, really served us well and will continue to serve us the training center land. wow. thank you, mayor breed, for helping us get that that bond for us. and

then thank you for the extraget to get that piece of land that wedn't u another $7 million. i know that was not given sort of budget deficits, but we were seven acres of land for a training center. we don't have a ta department. so this was huge to get that years. it took a ton of people in the city to get of advocacy at the state level as well. but we got it done. and now we have, chief miller running the show on that. and, it's in good hands. it is in good hands. we're going toining center and, i just won't be using it which is as going to be a great training center. so, you, we've, not to bore you all to death,isaster preparedness was a big thing i talked about to thehen i was interviewing. and chief brown has really done so muc work on that with getting incident managementms up and running, helping with mutual aid stuff and, and j yeah, doing a great job. we are more with training and equipment now for a disaster

than we have that's all i want to do is justoving the needle. i won't say a needle moving the. youi mean? forward a little bit. just one foot in doing the next right thing, also, we've hired over 640 people in the last five years in a0 member department, thank you f that, to grow our emsow to meet the demand in the city and community paramedicine,so on the suppression side, we were working mandatory overtime all the time. it was really it was tough on people and their families, and nowung department. but you know what? our operations aretight. like, really good. that fire that, y'all went to in july, that was sort of the hoarder's greater alarm, i don't know, kudos to aces that that ran that show. seriously. so anyway, staffing, right? staffinghat we've we've gotten numbers back up and don't worry, i won't time here.

almost done. just a couple dozen more pages. as the mayor said community paramedicine right misunderstood by some, but it isnative to policing. it is it need. and, and it is san francisco's program hasd under simon pang has developed the statewide curriculum for community paramedics in the state like he's got he's gotountry calling him. i don't know how you have time to do your own job, we'll talk about that later, but. addressing unhoused crisis and the opioid crisis an and all of that. you know, we health and safety of our members with having a matt alba there. you wellness safety division because, mental health is a thing amongmts. we see a lot of stuff that nobody else sees. and cancer is a big deal

as well we prevent that? and so we've been working with, you know, to get pfas free got we have doggies now that you can pet to lower but we have all sorts of other resources too, and, you know and we're doing all sorts ofeat stuff. we're going to have a usar team here, like we have needed a usar team here, urban search and rescue team here for a long time. and working with the state on that. so like i won't to see it to fruition, but it's going to be pretty great to deploy that here or elsewhere, you like the mayor said we got through covid, we staffed apec whenever something needed to be done during these past five years, you all just stepped up and did it, and i'm so grateful for that. and that. when we needed to staff apec, you you stood up and needed to get through covid, you staffed the operations center. youand the trucks and the ambulances. when we didn't know what the heck just went out there and did your jobs. and that's what i. really, one thin do want to talk about that i spoke to the

mayor about when i w interviewing for this position years ago. is sort of thedi equity and inclusion office and initiatives under under adc sean i was really in doing some things differtly in the department in the way we hired. i didn't want to berson like picking people, and so we set out and we you know, panels of firefighters paramedics, emts that are interviewing folks. you're the ones going to be working with these p years. who do you want to work with? you know what names get referred up to me. and i work with to pick folks that will be a good fit for our department. and, it's, you know, i think a lot of that was born out of wh from. i came around during the consent decree when the department was ordered to div fortunate enough to get hired then, andh@ i also am a woman in a man's profession. and so i see happens. i've, you know received or of

that stuff and so i get it things that need to change and, you knowfrom the lgbtq community, i, i have an insight into discrimination and that haserstand all different communities. and, other thing is, you have the lived experience has been super importantwant to start an emt m,anted to diversify our ems ranks. and so i, talked to a woman named attica bowden who, you know, who was an assistant fire marshal in our depw to teach nert together. i said i want to doo diversify ems. it was mostly white men. no offense. white men are some of my best friends. but. but, you know diversify it because i know it's important to showing up to you in your time of need that look like you. and so i do this thing. and so she created a program where we take in and e media that's here listening.

you should do a feel good story. thisf that's been happening behind the scenes in my humble opinion, that mayor breed has spearheaded, whether it'snities for all or the office of economic and workforce development that joaquin used toz6 in charge of, there is some good stuff going for, at risk youthro that typically is black and brown. youngple. and, it brings them in not just for an emt class, but for wraparound services. because we're about, we're not just about diversity, we're about equity. and so some folks didn't have the same experiences i had growing up to a good education. they had access to ari it is. right. and so we wanted toed, whether it was trauma counseling, life coaching, financial literacy, whatever to make them as capable as possibl in succeeding. and some of that came from the lived experience of our mayor, i remember mayor you saying you were doordash because you wanted to work at an

internship weren't getting paid. and so, you know, you still had to hustle andñá listen to stuff like that and you go, oh, alght, s people and 100 of them haverom a city emt, and we've hired 25 of them in our d contributing members of our department. we didn't change any standards. been such a cool program. i could talk for days, but i know some folks are getting but to the media, i say doe of the black women in this city have have put together. that' have gotten a step into the middle class in this fire department. the other 75 have gone her things. some of them work for other ambulance companies. police officer just all sorts things. so that's life changing, life changing. and know, i also just want to say that this hish. as we know the last five years has been really, really challenging for a lot of us. whether we lost a family member or a spo is, or one of our own firefighters. and early n

cortez. i don't think there's anything harder than losing one more recently we lost steven silvestri and we steve in between there and others. and so itm is, a reality for us, but it hard on us. but it also shows what we're made of when we come together. and that has been yeah, that's been super know, carrying that and, so thank for, for doing that with me. an:rd, you know, w we carry on because we, you know, we other things, you know, i'm hbecause somebody like me recruited me back in the day so if there arere that, you know look like you or don't look like you and we, we're always this is this is, the greatest job i ever could have h, , so a couple of last things, you know, i just want to thank

former chief joanne hayes-white for seeing the, sort of when she selected me as her deputy chief of administration. a ifriends, is called imposter across the face and said, oh, hell yeah, and she pute on this path so i got lucky to whole career. like, who gets to do that? to be of service their whole career,d, know, i just wanted to do the n. we haven't gotten everything we asked for. awe get to be adults about it. and figure out another way, b do need a fleet replacement plan, that is my numero uno. we need a fleet. and so i'm sure somebody will be bugging you mayor in the future. if not me, it might be me. i know but we have been mayor. make no mistake about it. training center. we have not had our b other departments have. sorry. if you guys have. sorry, butv, you know, we have been we have been cared for in so many

ways by this mayor. you know, and again,t lastly, i didn't get here alone. a ton of support along the way. room to this day, and you know, i, into it folks. and again, no crying in baseball. didn't always get it right, but i learned and tried again the let's see what we can do, and so, you know, i feel like my heart wasd, you know. so thank youne in here, every emt, paramedic, youlyst what you know, executive administrator, everybody in every position in this department. ed chu, my c 89th strong brother. you're staying longer than i everybody, it's been much more we know, it's much more than a career. so, agai, thank you to mayor breed

and, to my people, i know you're going to keep on keeping on. and, you know, this is your departme whether you got ten minutes in or 30 years in, it's so own it. and you know, i have faith in you and trust in you that you're going to do that and if you remember the oath, if you remember our mission statement andct can't go wrong. you'll just be able to do the next right thing. so thank yo. ma'am j&j. congratulations, chief, on your retirement you, for all those refreshments in the lobby

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>> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530 feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard forstomers to figure out the different locations and >> one of the main drivers is a stopper mitt center for -- permit center. we are a one stop shop for thosere things. >> this has many different uses throughout if years. >> in 1940s it w coca-cola and the flagship as part are retaining the c center is little working closely with the can we

modernize and move away f paper we use right now to move to a moreorld. >> the digital services team was created7.ó is 2.5 years. our job is to make i to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permi city and county is really ab department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how th departments are structured to navigate through the permitting it is difficult and we have heardple we interviewed. our goal you don't have to know the department. you are trying to get construction or special events might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one which is a huge improvement for the customer staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are morecesses in the

city. there is a huge to do listt we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is a accessory dwelling unit away for people to add extrair home, to convert a garage or add something to thes a very complicated permit. you have to speak to diffet approved. we are trying consolidate to one easy to due process.some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high v permits. they are simple to issuewx another one is restaurant permitting. while the overalle is lower it is long and complicated business process. pe to open restaurants because the navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is tested. >> when people arrive theywhat they are here to. it helps them workout which cue

they neat to be in. anker rapid she can do that.e back ready for your all-in-one location across the many departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. june 5, 2019 the ceremonyrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we willoving next summer. >> the fluld will be building. it was designed wn$ employees will appreciate these amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle c in the basement levels benefiting f use and secured bicycle parking for 300 floors of thing you of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a f manifestation what we are trying to do.

it is allowing tpartments to come together to issue permits to we hope people can digitally to one website for permits. are trying to make it digital so when they come into center they have a-q with experts to guide then rather than fillingin forms. th conversations with our staff. >> commissioner green. commissioner guillermo, present.

, present. commissioner salgado. commissioner chow, present. i note commher way up from the garage. >> wonderful.guillermo to read the land acknowledgment. >> the san francisco health co ancestral homeland of the ramaytush (rah-my-toosh) ohlone (o-lon-ee) who are the original inhabitants of the stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never