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jurisdiction and will address to the commission as a whole and not to individual, commissions or department personnel, and the commissioners are not to enter into debate with the speaker, the lack of response does not

necessarily constitute the agreement with or support of the statements made during public comment. thank you madam secretary. can you please call out for approval of the minutes? >> comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item three, approval of the minutes, discussion and action to approve the meeting minutes of august 10, 2016? >> thank you, is there any public comment on the minutes as submitted in seeing that no one wants to come to the podium, public comment is closed. i will go to my fellow commissioners, beginning with commissioner excuse me vice president cleaveland? >> i move to approve. >> thank you. >> seconded by commissioner

hardeman. all in favor signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> okay, thank you. >> i did not receive a copy of the minutes for august 24th. did the rest of the committee? >> yes, they were sent separately. >> they were emailed and then --. >> okay. can we hold that item over, i have not had a chance to review those minutes. >> okay. thank you. we will put that on the agenda for the next meeting. item four, chief of the department's report, report from chief of department on current issues activity and events within the department since the fire commission meeting of august, 24, 2016, including the academy and strategic planning and the 150 anniversary up date and special events and communication and out reach to other government agencies and the public and report from

operations on over alarms, and including greater alarm, emergency medical service and bureau of fire prevention and investigation and airport division. >> thank you madam secretary. good morning, chief of the department, hayes-white. >> moving into the division of the training and the academy. >> the class is in the 15th week and we started with 54, and we have currently, 52, one with a resignation and returned back to station 49 and the other person was released last week. due to performance issues. so as you now this this academy is 20 weeks and we have 52 minutes remaining in the academy and we started with 54.

the 121st academy is schedule to begin on november 28th. with 54 members, 12 will be selected from station 49. and the other 42 will be coming off the ntn, the national testing network test. examination. backgrounds are under way for that class. and selections will be made within the coming month, hopefully of october for the placement in the november class. and we are also screening not just for november, but for the class that is anticipated in june as well. >> with regards to strategic planning, the committee willing meeting next week on the 21st at 11 a.m. and what the subcommittee has done in that comprises of or of planning and finance director mark, olivia and your commission secretary working with some of

the subcommittees, we have heard loud and clear that we wanted a little bit more robust level of detail for that report. so the committee has subcommittee has added the narratives to the goals and the strategies and the part to sort of beef up the draft and that will be emailed out to all of the committee members prior to the meeting on the 21st so that they can absorb it and come ready to comment at the meeting. and we anticipate getting final feedback at that meeting, incorporating those changes, and our goal will be then to bring the final draft back before the fire commission. >> with regards to the 150th, anniversary, that we have been celebrating all year, i would like to most recently acknowledged that we talk about the volunteer event last month which was prior to the last commission meeting and a lot of hard work was put into that event which turned out very well. we had a very special meaningful

event in conjunction with 9/11 as you know commissioners every year since 9/11 we have done a ceremony at each of our stations including our airport station, this one and this year was highlighted in the public safety building adjacent to station four, where we were thrilled to be able to unveil a piece of the structural piece of the world trade center, which was unveiled on sunday morning in the early morning on sunday, and we will find a per nant home at our fire headquarters there was a lot of work p ut into making that event happen, as i had acknowledged in my remarks, contacted by mr. harry and his sister betty was a hero that day. she was one of the flight attendants on flight, 11 from boston that was headed to los angeles and it was the plane, the first plane that was deliberately flown into the north tower of the north trade center. he had brought to my attention the ability to be able to request an artifact or a remnant

of the trade center and we were late in the game of making the request, i sent the letter last july and we are favorably considered for that piece in october. and there was a lot of low gis tic tikz to get it to be here for the 9/11 ceremony and so i would like to acknowledge police olivia that helped to put that together and make that a reality as well as all of the members of the bureau member of the equipment which is under the support services and the captain and his team were wonderful in assisting us with not just the event on sunday, but all of the logistics in getting that piece across the country and placed and then mounted for presentation. and so we look forward to, we don't have a date yet, but we look forward to that dedication ceremony at fire headquarters in the near future and we will keep you postd on that. >> related to the 150th we are looking forward to next weekend, the september 24th and 25th, the

civic celebration of the 150th anniversary, former deputy chief of department richard is the chair of that event. working very diligently with the members of the guardians of the city, including phil, in the president retired captain jim lee. as you know au are all invited to the grand, parade that will begin at ten a.m. and there will be ceremonies at noon and a host of activities in and through sunday to celebrate the 150th, there will be interactive displays and we are all looking forward to that very much, and so, hope for see you out there and we have had a great we have had a great turn out for volunteers, and a lot of it, and so i believe that things are looking good and i am going to have a meeting later this afternoon to talk about the final details and i think that there will be an express conference on the day before on september 23rd and we will provide you with the details

with that. as they get unveiled to me. in october the 9th through the # 5th is fire prevention week which we have every year and we are going to be highlight and providing a few more give aways to the public and making sure that we continue to educate our public about how they keep themselves safe on an order day and in the event of a disaster as well. on the 17th of october to monday morning and we will be commissioning the fire boat, and there is a meeting of the members of the naming committee. to finalize the names for the fire boat and i believe that is schedule for next week. and in november, we have our film fest and the president covington has been a part of the creation and the development of that weekend at the main library and it is a free event to the public and to the members, of course. and then we will have a final event birthday celebration we will acknowledge everyone working that day on saturday december third as well, as well as have the celebration at the

san francisco zoo for members that would like to attend that. with regard to a few other on nounsments that we are also very proud of. which is yesterday, the lieutenant who over sees pretty much the length of time that has over seen the program and i think that she is one of my first appointments in 2004 and so she is in the 13th year as the coordinator and she was back in the white house yesterday receiving an award for the program. and private announcement that started in the emergency agency fema and announced the winners of the 2016, individual and community preparedness awards of which the nert program was a recipient of the john d whole community preparedness award, and so the lieutenant went back

to receive that award at the white house yesterday and so we continue to be very proud of our program and i know that president covington you are a graduate of the program and it is a wonderful way for the public to have sort of that community connection and be that much more prepared in the event of a large scale disaster, and really some of the tips you learn can be helpful in your every day life as well. so congratulations to the program specifically and for her passion and all of the ininstructers for the program as well. >> and a few more items of interest and good news, is he has come before the fire commission i believe at least on two occasions that is firefighter dwane ekart who has been at the home of our firefighters and safety education. advice for the programs for five years as you know that was originally over seen by lieutenant greger. and he is responsible for more than a dozen fire department ininstructers that give 30 minutes instruction to the

schools city wide regarding safety education, to stay low and go, and property use of how you use, 911 and 311 and so he has been acknowledged by fire house magazine as part of the honor ee as part of the program and so he will be receiving that award the week of or during the october 18th to the 22nd, for the during the fire house ex-poe in nashville tennessee. and so congratulations to firefighter ekhart and as well as that same conference of the fire house expo and like to acknowledge what you have heard of before but they were nationally recognized now and that is the fire department station seven was given the 2015, fire house unit citation for valor and this is with regards to the rescue or the multiple rescues during a

structure fire at 24th and cap on march 11th, 2015. and the editor of the magazine expressed his personal appreciation saying that it is good to recognize them for their actions in 2015, because of them, many civil ans are alive today, engine seven and rescue squad two, you are truly america's bravest and so they will be also be receiving that recognition in nashville, tennessee so we are proud of all of our members and we are also proud that they are being nationally recognized. for your consideration, i would like you to consider adjourning this morning's meeting in memory of firefighter peyton hunter who passed away last month. that concludes my report. >> thank you.

>> is there any public comment regarding the chief's briefing? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. and i will go to the commissioners betweening with cleaveland. >> thank you for your comprehensive report, a couple of questions, how many people are currently on the national testing roster, i guess? waiting patiently or impatiently to be selected as a san francisco firefighter. >> i don't know specifically it is in the range of approximately 3,000 to 3500. my understanding. the last time i looked. >> okay. thank you. in terms of the strategic plan, it would be nice to or for us to get some of the input before you actually have the final strategic draft. i know that we have a meeting coming up next week. >> right.

>> which is good. >> but i would also like to have the rest of my fellow commissioners that are not directly participating on that subcommittee to get all of the input so that they have an opportunity to sort of review it and make the suggestion and suggestion the changes perhaps before we get that final draft. >> no problem. >> once we have the final draft, it is difficult to change a lot of stuff. you know? >> understood and that is not a problem at all. >> in terms of, i think that it was wonderful that we got the piece of the world trade center from the fire department in new york. that was a wonderful thing that they gave us. and we are going to put it in the headquarters. and the headquarters is going through sort of a renovation, or what are they doing? it is all torn up. in in any case. >> not any more. >> since we moved our commission meetings, the lobby is 99 percent done, all of the boards are down. >> yeah. >> all right, then. >> yeah, i stand corrected. >> so we will have a nice place to display it. and i think that it is something

that i hope everyone in the city will take the opportunity to drop by and check it out because it is very important thing for us to remember and we are honored to have that piece for the city and county of new york. i would like to congratulate olivia for getting that. i mean i think that she is and the members of the bureau of equipment all should be congratulated for helping to make that happen. that was a big deal. in terms of the fire prevention week, i mean there is a lot of heightned awareness of how we need to prevent the fires in our city, what is the department specifically planning to do during that fire prevention week and how will they be out reaching? is there a program of activities and is there a list of things that they will be directly doing? are we going to put together some psas for the public will be made aware that it is a fire prevention week and here are tips on how to keep your place safe? i just think that we need to do

a little bit more in terms of out reach and so i wanted to ask you chief if we have a specific plan and if we don't, let's put one together. >> sounds good. we have all of our stations that week that will have the signage over the station and encourage to come in and obtain the fire prevention and safety materials and i believe that we also and which we try to do every year and and we try to get it in for the vote's pamphlet and there is an opportunity to put the public pieces of materials in, including the program that we submitted as well as a piece on fire prevention, and the fire safety and that hits all of the registered voters. and which will be arriving right around the time of fire prevention week. i know that we have ordered some extra materials in multiple languages, regarding fire safety in the home. exit drills with your family, and we have items for adults and we have items for children which

will all be passed out and i believe also in conjunction with the drill in october, we will be providing the bureau type of material, public education materials. >> i think that pretty much covered everything, and i don't know if our fire marshall, he is nodding. and in conjunction, but that is pretty much. >> get us that list. >> of all of the things that you are going to do. >> it is really posht and there are a lot of avenues and i know that we have a public information officer that is out there. and but there is so much that we can get for free. you know? you know, advertisements and newspapers and magazines shgs and psas on the video, and i mean that there is always a filler, and they need the filler, and it may run at 5:00 in the morning. but it is going to be on tv. so, i mean, it just would be great to have our fire marshall do a psa, or a video, and send it out to all of the tv stations so they will run it during the fire prevention week and make them famous. but we will get the word out

about the fire prevention and maybe we can have it done in several languages, and so i am just switching it as an opportunity to highlight the fire prevention during that week. and it is reach out into as many avenues as we possibly can to make, to get the message out. >> thank you president cleaveland and i do want to add that captain mary shay and russell and i believe that it is lieutenant shay and from the bureau five prevention has been very involved in the 150th planning and most of the meetings regarding continued out reach. but certainly you have the excellent ideas that i will pass along. >> i will appreciate it. >> sure. >> and lastly i want to congratulate lieutenant erika and the program and she is just really created and shepherd a wonderful program and their program is a model in the nation. and she is rightly recognized and i am proud of her. >> thank you.

>> thank you vice president cleaveland. commissioner nakajo? >> thank you, madam president. good morning. good morning chief hayes-white and i wanted to give a couple of comments off first of what the vice president talked about was the nert program and the recommendation of that and the recogniti recognition. and i want to make an acknowledgment because the commission was at the 9/11 ceremony and the hong family in terms of that piece from new york. and i want to extend my appreciation to the support services because when i got there, and i saw where it was mounted, you could not really

tell until yourself and lee, and the chief chap lin unveiled it but as you unveiled it, just looking at it, it has such a profound impact. and so, i just think that again, with the vice president cleaveland's remarks that once we do get it to headquarters it is going to just be a great thing for everybody to take a look at. >> the question that i wanted to see if we could ask was in terms of of the 121st class you are going to be able to have the selection process be completed by projection of october? no later than, but my goal is by the end of october and no later thoon the first week in november, because we would like to give at least, and we strive to give two weeks notice for the members that are selected for the academy and i have to submit in november but i always try to like to give more time, so where i will be doing the backgrounds

are being completed at this time, and i will be conducting interviews and part of this month and into october. >> okay. >> and that is saying that the class that as president that we 120th the graduation date is december. >> and the graduation date is 120, they are in the 13th week and their graduation date is november 4th. >> okay. that is right around the corner. >> okay. >> okay you mentioned there is a june class, of 2017. is the june class 2017 the first class schedule for the calhoun year 2017? >> yes. >> and is that 2017 calendar year going to have two classes of h2s? >> correct. >> okay. >> and one thing that i did mention since the last meeting although i believe that we made you aware of it, so we are in

the process of evaluating and we will definitely have two classes in 17, and we were very grateful to the recipients of another grant for the staffing grant and the 8.5 million dollars and so that will also augment our staffing model and so we will be, and it is a division of training is very busy with the training. that they are conducting with the current class and then they have the follow up, 6 months and the annual testing. and so it is busy and it is a good problem to have. because you will have to when we receive those funds we need to modify and then increase the number of classes so we are in the process of doing that at this time. so there will be at least two classes in 17. >> okay. part of that, equation, or analysis is that there might be a potential for a third class? >> at some point. so i think the grant itself, needs to be acknowledged and

expended and so it is basically covered, similar to the last grant, and additional 36 firefighters. and for a two-year, period of time and at the end of those two years they get absorbed and they are part of our and they become part of the budget that needs to be addressed with the mayor's budget office. but that is what we are analyzing right now, commissioner how we are going to work all of that in. >> all right. so it sounds like it might encompass, 2018 as well as a possibility? >> possibly to have a third class either, whether it is in 17 or 18. >> okay. >> and then as the point of information, because this is great news and good news. who is principlely responsible for us to be able to be awarded this grant? >> so the people that are responsible for reuping and reapplying. >> did you or the responsibility unit? >> it would be mr. corso. >> director of finance, mr. corso. >> that is correct. so he stays on top of the grants

and often times the chief goes from the land and security on this one it is a straight staffing and we have applied for it year after year, and most of time that the departments that were awarded the grant have laid off and it has repaired the workforce and we kept applying over and over and many years we received, no award. >> and so pretty soon i will know the last two years to receive 8.2, and 8.5. we are very proud of that. indeed, chief, i wanted to acknowledge that, because again, for your discretion, i don't know if the director wants to address that process. but, for me, it was really unusual, that we were awarded back to back. and i just think that it is really a credit for our department mr. corso and the staff that work with him. >> thank you and part of the application, which i think that or the strategy since, there are many years that we were not

award and we have got the good portion of support of yourself, and both of the executive and legislative branchs of government we did not have the layoffs of the uniformed personnel but our strategy in the application process had a lot to do with our or the changing dynamics of our city, the growth and the traffic pattern and the fact that we do see development in the south east sector of the city. and so even though we did not layoff, we do anticipate and a need for more staffing to address or our growing population and our growing communities and you look at mark and the south east sector and the treasure island, development and so a lot of that went into the thought process. and on our application and we articulated clearly, the fact that right now, that we are existing and we have been working this way and we have additional challenges that need to be addressed and i think that was, one of the reasons why it is an application was looked upon so favorably. >> i really appreciate that

chief. and that insight and a little bit more of that information, and vice president cleaveland and colleagues and it sounds like it is components of the plan as well because part of our challenges are looking at san francisco through an enlarged land if you will. and that is going encompass all of the development and obviously from bay view hunter's point throughout the city and i think that it is a great thing. and sow i wanted to congratulate the department and director corso for this accomplishment and we will be interested in how that rolls out. there is a part to this that at one point that i made some reference to and it does not have to be aaddressed today ad all but i want this to be able to at least be part of a contemplation of information that might be able to come back. but i made a comment that with these classes that the department in general was getting younger. and i know that we are conscious of the retirement system as well. part of that is that if the

working membership is younger, part of that is express and know how, which is the officer level, whereas with the social mobilities and the importance of having these exams, and these officers levels and starting from the age of 20s to the 30s and bcs and ascending to the chief's ranks and to me, is i just have a question of continuing ministry of the infrastructure so that we don't lose all of that veteran quality experience both as the military organization in terms of what we have to deal with, because again in the large department, we have to be accountable. and so those kinds of things are i am interested in. to see where that looks like, and as we have these officers in the advancement and so that is just a comment. and thank you very much, and president. >> thank you commissioner.

commissioner hardeman? >> thank you, madam chair. >> commissioner, we are running into all of the things tonight and we would love to hear any of the safer grant that is going to be and that will account for 36 people, the new one that you got a couple of weeks ago. >> correct. >> so that will not be a class of 54. that will be a class of 36. >> what we did for the last grant was we incorporated the 36 in to the 54. i am going to ask mark to maybe explain that a little bit better. with how it all works. >> thank you. good morning, i hopefully at the next meeting will have more information as it come forward for approval for you, but just for the background, the current i believe that it was the 119th that graduated in january or started in january of this year

so 36 of those are paid for and are being paid for by last year's grant and that will cover two years of employment and similar along the lines of the new grant, it will cover 36 and as the chief mentioned it was a class of 54 and we anticipate doing the same this time. it is just that 36 of those will be funded directly by the grant. >> thank you m >> the other thing while we are on that chief h the november 28th class, can you describe a little bit i think most of the people in this room but just toito refresh our memories the numbering system or how low you went been, 8 or 9 and how many vets were there any vets that were able to take advantage of the new national ranking system that gives us an advantage to vets and any information on that?

please? thafrpgz. >> from my understanding is that there was opportunity for someone that served ournks. >> from my understanding is that there was opportunity for someone that served our country to have the it incorporated into the score. >> we are proud to say that we have many members select and successfully complete the academy that have served our country. and so for the class coming in, typically with this new system i have the people that have passed the rank for the low or the high score of 3, down to the ranking of 12. what i have done for previous classes i do have the ability to select anyone off of the list. what i have done in the last class since we have had this process is, i have gone down to level 8 for selections. and looking i, you know, apply

several pieces of secondary criteria, previous experience in the fire service or medical field. education, construction background, military, bi lingual and there is a host of secondary criteria that i look at which making these difficult selections it is very competitive and there is a lot of qualified candidates. >> great chief, not all people score very well on tests. that is why if you just took everyone norton it not necessarily would be the best candidate just the best skorers i would like to see the opportunity how you decided to docorers i would like to see the opportunity how you decided to do that. the other thing. i am not an early person and i am trying to fight in this cough that i got from my grand sons, whatever he gets i get it. so i am trying to stop it i am going to sleep in but i got up

and what a day. that really kutos to your staff to put it together. and not to name any individual person. but it was just the best. it was so much of an honor to be there for the 9/11 down at the public safety new station four. just sitting right there with yourself and your police chief, the mayor president covington and up in the first row. and then the commissioners the opportunity to sit there. and then when we went over to saint monica where my dad spent as a kid and so i was thifrnging about them when i was over there and because he lives on the 35 lth. and so he actually made it for years ago, but, then father green and in the chaplin for the police department and then the

archbishop op that were able to get the archbishop op out. and very nice, and then the respect that you and snap give to the commissioners pretty much in the front row. chief, and the commissioner and commissioner clavlin and the commissioner and mark was in there and doing it and so, then the front row, grass who was really are the leadership of the fire department sat in behind us and i am thinking we still have to have this backwards and that is the respect that is always shown to the commissioners. it is very, it is very appreciated. because they are really the people, and that deserve everything. and they still because of the nature of the way fire departments you know the types of things it is very it is a great pleasure to be on this commission and to be able to participate in that ceremony and that day.

it was spectacular and a huge crowd and the camaraderie anoung all of the retired firefighters are there and the present firefighters. and it was spectacular and the whole day. and everybody on your staff if you think allowed, i know, but really need a pat in the back and to be able to participate in it, this is an average citizen is quite an honor and i really appreciate it, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioner hardeman, well i will join the course that is heaping praise upon them. and i agree on the ceremony on sunday morning as to 6:45 a.m. was very touching. it was just a wonderful day of

remembrance for the 434 firefighters that were lost in the collapse of the world trade center 15 years ago, time goes by very, very quickly. and then to have hef the artifacts or relic from tworld trade center was amazing and as you mentioned we were late in our question, and i think that piece of steel was waiting for us. waiting to come all the way across country. to be here with us in san francisco. and i also want to thank miss camlin for, you know, just staying within him and being on the phone, and thanks to mr. ong for prompting us to even make the request. so when it does go to headquarters, i think that is

going to another wonderful ceremony so thank you for everyone involved. the fabrication of the pedestal is magnificent and it is very, very good. and so, i also want to heap praise upon lieutenant erica and she is just gathering in the awards. >> which is very nice. and we want to see that award perhaps at the next meeting. she can bring it. along with dwuan and i am sorry what is his rank? >> firefighter. >> and duane and i think that it would be marvelous for him to come as well. to show us his award and to be acknowledged in person. and then there is station seven, yes, station seven and they are receiving the valor award; is

that correct? ? >> correct. >> so it was wonderful and t representation may be the captain from station seven could come and i think that it is important for them to so we can haep the praise upon them in person. and rather than be electronically. and i am glad that commissioner

hardeman asked about how we were going to fill in from the 36th to 54 members of the class. so i think that we will be in good stead. as we move forward. and so november fourth is that there are currently 52 members of the class. >> yes. >> 52 members. >> any one in danger of not making that? i hope that all 52 do. but sometimes. so there are some members in the recruit academy that have accumulated a number of deficiency and i believe that

there is a testing and october. and exceeding the deficiency count and there are a few more that are close. >> i wish them all the best of luck, we need you and so stay diligent and stay hopeful. any way that we can bolster prevention week and any way that we can bolster of what it is that we offer to the public? or advertise to the public? i think would be very, very good.

i think that if the lieutenant shay who showed us on the 150th anniversary, meetings, she showed us a series of very, very good psas. that perhaps can be shown at the fire houses during prevention week when the people are coming in and out. and if he can put them on our website as well, that would be, would be good. >> certainly and i know that the 150th committee has a meeting at the end of this month on the 29th and so i will ask lieutenant shay and captain russell to provide the up date for the fire prevention plan at the meeting for the fire prevention. >> very good and we have the two day event on september 24th and 25th, if there can be some hand out information to the people who are coming to that event. we are expecting thousands. about prevention week, and then i think that that would be good as well. >> okay. >> and perhaps, you know, the

addresses of all of the fire houses or something of that nature. along with what they can expect. you know, fire alarms, and give away,s and the smoke detectors, and i do believe that the prevention is going to be having a table at the weekend event on the 24th and 25th. we will have handouts. >> there are going to be so many people that are going to be tourists so we can talk about that. >> okay. >> we can talk about that later. >> okay. >> thank you, i think that is all that i have. commissioner nakajo has additional comments. >>i i have two questions, chief when did that class 121 start? >> november 28th. >> so that training officers they don't get much of a break. what deputies like? is that a three week break in there? >> roughly, yes. so graduation on november 4th,

and class starts on the 28th and we had originally schedule for the 21st, though and in my opinion it is giving them an extra week and although, it is a grind, and so, in order to effect all of the people that need to hire in anticipation of a large number of retirements in 17 and 18. it is an ambition schedule but we need to keep it that way for obvious reasons. and because we are anticipating a large number of retirements and we don't want to get back into having a heavy reliance on the mandatory over time. >> and i support that, because we know what mandatory over time does to the department in budget and in moral. >> again, i know that the holidays will be coming and again, the great appreciation for the training officers that are out there doing their job. mr. corso you were talking about these grants and the 8.2, and

8.5 that are run for consistently two years, expenditures after you said for the director corso. >> correct, they are both designed and we can do the budget on them to cover the salaries and budget for 36 members for two years. >> what happened after two years, is that rolled over to our responsibility within our budget request? >> correct. >> so those members then will become absorbed into the fire department. and they will replace the retired employees, or hopefully, increase over all staffing but they do become absorbed into the department's budget and over all staffing model. >> so through that retirement and with thegs two grant classes, is there some what of classes, is there some what of a an a class or an expenditure in that. >> during what time period? >> meaning as you absorb this into our fund request that that becomes more dollars than we need to absorb or request in our budget or we have the means to

be able to pick that up? >> correct, we are working closely with the mayor's office on the five year projections and going forward and retirements and new hires are part of that. and so, the hope is that we will be increasing over all our net staffing which will come with additional costs and we will report closely with the mayor's office on that. >> through the retirements and we will have the savings. >> correct. as so as we hire the additional members and hopefully as we increase the over all net staffing we will have the additional cost and there will be savings on the back end of having more personnel. >> is that savings or does it break? >> believe that it is more expensive with the additional personnel but that is something that we are working with the mayor's office on. in the future year budgets. >> thank you very much >> thank you commissioner nakajo. >> before we hear the operation's report, the folks who are standing in front of the doorway he can.

can you please move to this side in case the people come in later, okay? thank you. >> good morning, commissioners and good morning chief this is my operation's report, deputy chief, mark for the month of august. within this reporting period, there were two grade alarm fires. one of them was located at 143, 147, san jose avenue, and elizabeth and 24th street and this was on august 26th, and the cause of the fire is under investigation and the incident

commander was the assist apartment chief, and this fire was in the second building, where it occurred, and the fire was on the first floor with extension to the other two floors and the ceiling and walls were opened from the previous fire. so the bravo building had to be checked for extension and we were notified after the fire knocked down there was work in the fire building and all crews were deconed on the scene before they got back on the rigs in the fire houses. >> the second greater alarm was on august, 25th. between mary and 6th. and this was the four story type of three residential and there were no injuries. and there was no exposure damage. and the presence of the cause of the fire is under investigation. the commander of this fire was assistant chief acting assistant chief kirk richardson. >> so the first on the scene at this fire was engine one and reported the fireworking right away, it arrived in one minute

and requested a second alarm. the building was built to the 1906 earthquake and was retrofitted in 1969, at the time of this fire the building was empty and under renovation for the future tenant and we had these calls for fires just like you do for your page in the middle of the night. i turn on the radio to give the chief an up date or know if i have to respond. when i turned this one, i heard engine one, water in the fire and i thought that it whats going to be a routine working fire and then the next chance mission was a minute later, division three arrived in front said that we have heavy fire in all floors, and i knew that it was going to be something pretty extensive. and they did a great job with this fire, all inits they got lines on all floors, and the chief from two remained calm and the fire he hadded up the elevator shaft. the fire below and protected each other. and this was a fought fire and

it was, it is very surprising to me that they protected and saved the rest of this building and so i would like to commend they who went to this fire. and the other incidents of note, august 4th, responded to a technical rescue aboard the vessel, and was in the service. and a male required the low angle and confined space rescue. and our crews self-initiated the drill at the same ship earlier this day and worked with the safety crew during that drill. that effort contributed to the safe and efficient rescue of the victim. for august, 22nd, the fire crew at the building on the roof during morning commute hours, it was a high media event, they worked with the local agencies to provide the traffic options. the incident resolved with no injuries and no displacements this was a business building. and it ended up being a flu fire. on august 23rd, two pedestrians that jumped the sidewalk at center and market. this occurred during the commute hours and result inned three

critical injuries and, responded to work with the sfpd at this incident. and community out reach. i would like to remind the public to sign up for imagine node identification by texting alerts to 888-777, on august, 15th, our fire prevention and our pio held a fire prevention and presentation at 1825, mission street and the senior housing building. and the presentation was well received and generated a lot of request ez from tenants and staff and all of which were able to answer to site, given in accomplish and in spanish. >> the fire investigation of the fire prevention and the pio have been working with multiple community groups to set up the fire prevention and education frequentations throughout our city. we are also asking whether the topics that they would like specific to their location. and these presentations will be noted in future briefings. prevention and education. prevention in the pio have been working and in our own city

service to produce, prevention and education material in multiple languages as of this date, we have material, and english and spanish and chinese, more languages are in the works and should be ready in the fee thank you. on to the emergency medical services. we are on the scene 9 and a half minutes 90 lth percentile and i am happy about that. with he have captured in the month of august the market share was 75 percent. and we had 5085 transports. the completed the emsa, inspections of all of it. and all passed and permitted. before the next 12 months. also happy to report that interester views were completed and 56 names were submitted to the chief for her review, the continued ongoing meetings with the ems data group, considering that being created by the controller's office and as you know the wall time is a concern of ours and we want to get them out of the hospitals once they get there and bring in the

patient they can finish the paperwork and to get them out sooner. >> up date. we are going to give a presentation later just as you know, the meetings are ongoing with dhr and the city attorney's office 798 and the ms option association. the division of fire prevention and fire investigation, plan check and up date. and they picked up the kevin garntechlt. and the projects are continuous and still under review. on the traffic which is the transportation advisory staff committee up date. the vision zero, and we received the requests for our review and

comment. and that includes sidewalks, streets modifications and map approve alz and streets and sidewalk street and modification with 23 ongoing reviews, were reviewed for impacts to the building, fire protection access. collapsable, and they have requested that we test a 24 inch diameter baller used in other cities, that returns to the up right position. the application is not specified as of yet and it is under review by the bureau of equipment. give you an up date, and the dialogue which we have done before. the sfmta proposed installing the additional speed humps throughout the city and despite the opposition and we are working together and included in the 59, and 31 speed humps were proposed on jfk drive from the standing and highway and this is in the park and that was the

unique situation. so we did not oppose the jfk humps however the remaining 28 were opposed by us and withdrawn by sfmta and so that is a good thing, we do not oppose the speed cushions. i think that it is a good collaboration. on to the bureau and the fire investigation. the number of active fire investigation reports in the month of august 2016 is 98 and this reflects the reduction of any reports from the previous month. the report includes the following types of fires. and that concludes my report and i am hope for questions. >> thank you very much chief. excuse me, is there any public comment? on this chief's report? >> for operations?

public comment is closed and i will go through my fellow commissioners beginning with vice president cleaveland? >> thank you. madam president and thank you chief for your report. a couple of questions. it could be under going remodelling. >> it is my understanding that it is under the investigation. >> we have no information, >> i am sure that they have information. >> we don't have the open investigation and so i can't share it here. >> okay. >> so there is no, and at this point, you don't know whether it was an accident or it was arson? >> i would not comment on that at this point, with what --. >> okay, what i know. >> okay.

what happened with the bay and now, and this guy fell into a confined space just exactly what happened? >> well, somewhere on the boat, i am sure that he might have fallen into a compartment where they had to go in there and retrieve him and so it might have been where it was a type and we can get down in there and package him up and in the low angle it is basically anything less than vertical or if there is a rope or a system failure, for instance and the rescuer will not sustain a serious injury or a death shths and so we try to keep it at a safe angle and it is not that far up and everybody is secured and they have to make sure that for the confined space as well that the atmosphere is obviously breathable and and so both come into the information. >> i wondered what the details were. >> and so he fell into a compartment. >> it is like a weird thing. >> and theyed to get him out. and sometimes it happens on a

ship. >> right. >> we want to commend you for the department and for trying to get the education out to the public and that is a good and it is put tg in multiple languages is absolutely required these days. in san francisco. and i appreciate the department is moving forward to do that. i would like to commend and he is adamant about debting it done, and i would like to commend the ems division for their rapid response. and over the past month, and for all of the transports that they have to neighboring and i have one question on hh, and you are doing the interviews and submitted 56 names to the chief of the department. and when are you going to deploy, hh? >> well, we have the hh support already. >> my understanding is that we have already 52, at this time.

and we are going to try to get 50 more out on the streets and, so we have 100. >> i got it. >> and i bloo everybody that training if i could add, begins on september 26th and two weeks, and then it will leave early in october, the week of october 8th, so it will begin there write outs in the field and last for about a month, and then, they will add to the amount that we already have deployed. and so, i believe that it is 52, 54, starting on the 26th. >> thanks. >> so at this point, we have not had an opportunity to access the effectiveness but we are going to be able to do that. >> i would. >> do that. and i would say the assessment is the proof is in the pudding. and i think that since we have gotten the hh and we will be able to sustain our staffing model and our response times for reaching them. so. >> that is great. >> the additional will help us to and we will be able to take them off the street for a little while and back them up so that

they can get more intense training that we have not been afforded the opportunity to do. when we had toe make our response times. >> and in your opinion, is it, is the h8, a good stepping stone into the fire department? >> yes, it is. >> so, it is a dual and i think that some people are interested in you coming into the san francisco fire department. but i think that there is also a faction of them that like to keep the job they have. and use this job, i would say as a side job, but to pick up a lot of good experience. >> how does someone apply for the h8 position? >> dhr website. >> right through the dhr website. and it is clearly listed and everything and so anyone in this room or anyone listening can go on the website and check it out and maybe use that as an avenue to join? >> right now we are looking for the paramedics, but yes. >> exactly. >> it is a good route to get into the department. >> thank you. >> under the plan checks section, i wondered if we were

over budget, in other words, we are pulling in more revenue than we budgeted. and maybe some of that money can be allocated to prevention, education if you will, fire prevention and education? maybe our fire marshall can answer that, he has got his fingers on the numbers, probably coming in on the it. >> if you like to and he could. >> if you could? >> it is always good to hear from our fire marshall >> my understanding the way that the budget works and mark can elaborate in more detail on this, if it is not budgeted we cannot use the funding if we have a surplus at the end of the year, whatever that surplus may be, and unless it is ear marked already for somewhere in the budget we cannot use those funds. >> you don't get the ear mark it yourself. >> yeah. >> you get to out ahead of that and be part of the budget process. >> i am glad that you are over budget. >> we are at the time. >> and that is good. >> and it is like the fire

marshall to talk specifically about the recent just within this week the acting appointments that we are going be making to further the investigation. >> yes. >> yes, thank you, chief. >> this week, actually yesterday, the chief announced some acting positions two of them, are in the investigation units and one of them will be the community out reach person and one will serve on the 24 hour shift and seven of them will be acting and age force of which the majority of those will go, and well, those positions will be used for the new fire complaint section as well as the community out reach team. >> i think that it is all great and i mean when we have it and we get the extra money and we are over and we are permitting and the inspections. little great that we can use that money and roll it back into hiring additional people to be arson investigators. and hiring people to do the out reach to the community. i think that is great, that is a good allocation or a reallocation if you will of the moneys that we bring in from permitting and inspections.

>> agreed, and the surplus reflects the increase in volume and so there is more demands on the current staff. >> right. >> so it is, so we need to support our current staff and with these positions. >> absolutely. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> and one final question for you chief, maybe two. on the ballers and the collapsable ballers, i mean, what kind of testing needs to be done? i mean that they used tho s in dc everywhere. >> and so, what is the website, and what do we, are we just deciding where we want collapsable balancers? >> well actually the mta and i am sure that dpw they have where they want to put them and i am sure that it was the safety of the pedestrians and but as far as i am concerned and as far as the testing goes that they don't damage the rigs and that they actually do come back up after we hit them. and that will be my main concern. but the ballers from an operational standpoint.

>> yeah, and they are placed and yeah, they have been tested for years, and in dc and so it is like. >> with the work they work, install them. yeah, yeah, exactly. >> i don't know how expensive they are, pretty pretty expensive, but it certainly gives you the advantage of being able to close the office space or a street or an, ally and make tg accessible when you need it for emergencies. >> right. >> it is user friendly. >> exactly. >> the same thing goes with the speed bumps verses the speed cushions. and i certainly hope that the sfmta will be in agreement with the fire department's need to have more speed cushions rather than the speed bumps. >> i think that they are willing to work with us according to what i would witness and say earlier. >> i hope that they will be able to continue and do for that. >> and thank you for your report. >> thank you vice president. >> commissioner? >> thank you, madam chair. >> and chief, this is the very good report. and you are always good in

comprehensive but this report, with the information is particularly good. in my terms. and just in the alarm in your reference for the 447, 449, and the fire. and the crew that was out there. part of our packet, in the back is the news release. and it has the information of all of the units that were out there that day. there is not a page number but it is the second page in that section. and i just wanted to let the public know but also the commissioners where affordable to information as to who was responding out there, that particular date. is that, the list, chief? >> that is the list. >> all right. >> i just think that again, your remarks because many of us, myself, have and was in that fire scene for your description, and the circumstances are real

important. and on page 2, the same thing that the vice president said, the community out reach section. and in my professional life, and i am the executive director of the senior center and so in the concept of education and even the fire prevention, i know that the seniors are the best audience for that. and being long term residents. and so again, i appreciate the presentation by the crews. and at 1825, mission street and again, it is good to hear that there was bi lingual. and the san francisco and the language affordability is something that we definitely need to have. on page 3 on the top of that, that is 1650, soda street happens to be a senior residents in japan town, and so i know what that facility is and those individuals and again, i want to acknowledge all of the crew that was out there doing the

education piece. and on particularly, i am pleased that on the bottom section of the emergency medical severings the statistics and 91 hpt 4 percent under ten minutes, and capturing 75 percent of the market share. outstanding. >> again, with he know that we pay attention to that, and that is an oversight, but to be able to come into compliance, and not just for the first time now, in the consistent basis. but to also give your comments back to the effect of the h8 which i see here, and i do agree, that i think that it is a good enter level to the department and because more familiarity are the personnel and the officers of the department is just to be the pose tifz in terms of that frment and the division of the fire prevention and the investigation, and all of these permits issued in the collection, again. and very appreciative of that and i just wanted to move then

to page 6, after the chief's presentation on speed bumps and cushions, and it is amazing how when it becomes in terms v san francisco and when we turn it around to what that is. and i do appreciate that information. and thank you very much. chief. >> thank you commissioner. >> and thank you, are commissioner nakajo, and commissioner hardeman? >> thank you madam chair, as usual, chief, very detailed and easy to read and well appreciated and getting it to us the friday before the meeting. and it is extremely difficult on you. but we --. >> thank you, chief franklin.

>> i have not had the questions, your reports have been oifesh ent. >> the 14 single alarms, congratulations to all of those leaders from getting those out. and to the chief franklin and the chief richardson, and the two alarms, good job. and the center that was opened that just died recently, and had the funeral and his name was richard, and the greatest guy that i ever worked with, in relation to unions. and he had a deal with all of our unions in town, and when he opened up, we were all fighting because it is just this new facility and we had the old brook and we had the hotel and we were trying to coordinate who

did what work and it was a real struggle and he put together all of us to be compatible, and my union actually does most of the work there and the stage hands and electricians and the teachers and all kinds of different other crafts that work there too. a and. and he put together something that is the best run convention center in the united states. and it was just -- he was an oakland kid and raised in oakland and he was 7 or 8 years old. and just contemplating retirement and he worked quite a while. and we went down to long beach and ran the convention center down there and then we hired him as part of a group along with the bunch, and a bunch of the other folks and a bunch of union leaders, and we interviewed and then hired dick and he stayed on, but the guy was most remarkable, he had the most terrible problems, and things that people did wrong.

and he treated people so kindly, that didn't deserve it. and i mean that, i mean but still his attitude was to give everybody a second and a third chance. and then after profitable, and expanded from the original, to the moscony north and west and now they are doing east as you said, and now it was all under this guy's leadership and i don't know if i met a guy and my life who had his attitude and was able to deal with people as he did, so he was a big robust guy and a big heart of gold and just like not to me, and just on here and san francisco lost the treasure. and the big crowd at his service memorial on monday. and what a wonderful gentleman, and i hope that all of us that dig him, remember to say hi to his wife and kids because he was

terrific. >> thank you, commissioner hardeman, all right. and thank you chief for your report. and chief i just have a few questions. and one is not about it, but it is the fact that the san jose avenue fire.

i >> in the rescue, it is important to say that we don't have a height limit as to who is accepted into the department and this is one of the benefits of not having a height limit and the ability to to do the confined space rescue, so i think that it is a benefit to everyone in the city to have the people of different heights and builds >> we take all sizes. >> if you can do the jo be you are welcome. >> so the bfi, and the fp and pio and i just want to echo what my other commissioners have said, very good work on that.

>> i am going to be in new york and i think that it will be the final meeting in order to wrap it up. >> okay. so by the end of october. yes. >> does that policy come to us, for approval? >> but you can see the draft and i don't see anything wrong with that. >> okay, thank you, and i don't think that it is necessary. >> okay. >> in this case. >> nimentd and

>> and under the inspection, sfat us report, on page 4, and the fourth item down, complaints, and do you or someone else on staff, do you have a break down as to what the subject of the complaints are? and i think that as much as we can in the future, we should track the hording complaints. because that is a danger to the person who won't release a lot of the things they required as well as to the people as far as

the hording, and it is referred to the hording and the captain that heads the ace and it is an effort between the departments and the city attorney and the dbi and health and etc. and so they all live underneath the hording cases. >> chief? >> yes. >> ace, and accelerated. >> the number of code enforcement. >> yes. sorry. >> so, we can break that out as well. if you are interested >> item five, presentation from michael mcdowell from then and now.

>> he was actually a native son and went to the sf state and as a reserve firefighter. >> and as you are aware, the san francisco, fire department volunteer era ended in just 150 years ago. and some of you may know that the department began on december

third, 1866. and we have the technical difficulty. >> so, and more precisely, the steamer ra took the full force on that date. the steam fire engines required horses to bring them to the fires. and the horses required that the care be given by full time employees. a few of the chiefs of the paid department were former volunteers. >> a number became exempt firefighters, and those exempt kept the old fire house, and

kept the old fire house and hand pumper and responded to what we know as the greater alarms. but that was pretty much it for the volunteers. or was it? most were located what we called downtown. and the couple of south of market. and an another at 17th and velencia, 48 citizens and property owners, mostly buchers and carpenters and formed a volunteer company and petitions for support, and the board purchases a lot at 14th avenue and m street. and rail road avenue. and and here is a clue, known as

san francisco volunteer engine number one. the service as the team fire engine eleven of the paid department. and again, volunteers seem to recede on to the horizon until 1906. and in this book, san francisco

burning, about the 1906 earthquake and fire, and dennis smith asserts that much of the city burned because spontaneous volunteers were turned away or shot under the marshall law, if the people have been allowed to defend their homes and businesses and their neighborhoods, and alongside firefighters, and perhaps, half of the city could have been saved. and a number of people have snuck back to their homes, and saved them. there is also, citizens who took a stand were firefighters at the golden hydrant. and finally stop the fire at 20th and church streets. several pieces of apparatus and thousands of pieces of hose were lost in the earthquake and fire. the earthquake and fire destroyed the quarters of 21

fire companies. and given that there were only 38 fire companies at the time of the fire, this was a significant loss. one company lost one quarter that was lost was engine 37, on utah street. that went without a home for two years. and this photograph that i had shown, basically is typical and there were many companies that had cover for their house or their horses or a tent or a temporary building structure for the men, or the most important thing to take care of was the horses. during that time, the citizens of nearby university now, and foreign for the volunteer company and the university mound hose too, until the station, 37 could be rebuilt. and a portion of the city had no fire protection prior to 1906 and formed the clean park volunteer company. after the break in fire, that company was in service at least

until 1908, when the engine 38 was established in san jose and ocean avenue. >> through the early years of the 20th century, the department built more stations giving better coverage throughout the city. transition from horses to motorized fire apparatus, and led to even faster response times. by the time lily statue a memorial to the volunteers was dedicated in washington square park in 1932, the idea of volunteer firefighters seemed kwant. the events of december, 7th, 1941 changed that, the citizens of san francisco and the federal government, felt that san francisco could easily be a target. to complicate matters, hundreds enlisted in the military,

hundreds of non-civil service firemen were appointed but the concern was that the city forces were overwhelmed if the city was attacked by bombs. >> they were added to train a force of auks silry firefighters. 104 stations were authorized. and every school yard, every city park, was to have, the fire station. by december of 1942, auxillary bumps have been delivered to the city civil defense program. there were at the high water mark, 148 of these pumps were delivered, and some were meant to be towed by the taxi cabs.

by march of 1943, 60,000 pumps were ordered. this is what the concept was to better to get out a small fire than a big one. and also and they were received and mounted on the track chasise. and you can't see it very well,

on this image. but on shore, are scores of white helmeted firefighters. this is a helmet, that was worn by the auxilarry firefighters. and it is distinguished by an maltise cross. issued to the career firefighters and red would be the truck company and blue would be an engine company.

they ordered 2,000 badges for the firefighters in san francisco, and it included commanders and the betal an commanders and captains and firefighter and so on. the word, rescue service was a badge intended for red cross volunteers, who had first aid training. many auxilaries trained in groups were assigned sfd personnel and others trained regularly at their local fire station. and imagine thousands of citizens with helmets and badges able to operate pumps in every corner of the city. and additionally, many blocks had at least, 1 homemade hand pulled cart with a ladder, a

rope, a hose, a nozzle and an ax. and san franciscans if anything, or nothing else, they were certainly prepared for the worse, and again this picture we don't see it very well, but there are firefighters and white helmets and those are our auxiliaries. they responded to the greater alarms. and the all silryes helped directly with the war effort and pictured as an image of them and the career firefighters working together at a major fire at the army quarter master corp warehouse. at the end of 1944, positive out look on the car contributed to the shrinking of the fireman and over 100 pumps were offered for sale. and after the war civil defense program, dwin delled further but there was a resurgence of the firefighters during it is cold

warrior the civil defense era and this involved the smaller number of dedicated volunteers, who worked to hone their firefightering skills. first firefighter reserved badges were issued around 1960, in the program began to evolve into a different kind of existence. the reserves are called out at all third alarms. currently. and have a command structure that parallels that of the career department. so, being a fire reserve is also a great training ground for people who wish to become career firefighters. spirs responders were researched to the very limit, and the preway collapse combined with the scores of the other damage

in oakland was more than the city could manage on its own. the fire departments in the counties sent all of the resources that they could spare to oakland. the question would be, we always have to ask yourselves what will happen when a larger quake hits and hits closer to home. and in a typical disaster, civil an, civilization breaks down and our fellow human beings become the enemy and that was the out look of the general and it was the official view after hurricane katrina in new orleans and that we saw in the normal, and on 9/11, and in new york city. and after hurricane sandy was that most instances and the volunteers provide for citizens, and for the first responders in the hours and sometimes weeks. before state or federal aid, can become a reality.

and in the case of sandy, social media combined with spontaneous volunteers, created the incredibly agile and the needs for the public and the first responders. >> and if we are going to have the spontaneous volunteers, why not train those most likely to step up. so that they can be even more effective when the unthinkable happens. >> san francisco response is neighborhood emergency response training. and that after the 1989 quake, and the prompting of the citizens, and the san francisco fire department formed the nert program, and since then, over 25,000 citizens, have been trained and it is safe to say that there are at least, 10,000 still active in the program. and the mission at the same time is beginning with ourselves we will be prepared to work as an

individual or together as emergency response teams to assist our families in the neighborhood and times of disaster and to be prepared to make decisions that do the most good for the most people. this disaster preparedness and community building in action. we, in san francisco, have a wor world, class, fire department, one of the best trained and equipped, and the volunteerers should be considered and support for the fire department and never a replacement for the career firefighters and however there are times once every generation, or two, when extreme need has exceeded the ability of the san francisco fire department to provide for the needs of our citizens, and it is in these times that they moderately train the civil an support will help to pull us through.

how many people in they are are actually nert trained? >> how many in the room are actually how many reserve firefighters do wre have in the room,? okay. and excellent. >> and on let's see, i would like to whoever, for the person who is responsible for the nert program in sfv i think that this is a piece of history that they should have. who should i present this to?

was issued in 1972, and it looked like the helmets of world war i and this would have been worn by every block, and at an air raid warden in san francisco.

>> he is were the only helmets that there was actually a red or a blue dot on the back and you could see that you have a career dedicated firefighter. >> and okay, and this flag? >> up. >> okay. >> so, this was another way to sort of mark a rallying point during an emergency. and it would have been used by any of the civil defense workers particularly all silryes. >> wonderful, thank you very much. >> okay. >> thank you. >> and is there any public comment on the presentation?

>> okay, seeing none, public comment is closed. but please remain at the podium, and we will see if the commissioners have comments. i believe that commissioner cleaveland has a comment? >> thank you, president and thank you mr. mcdowell for this really good history on our reservist program. i wanted to ask you, how many current reservists do we have in and how do they sign up, if the people out there in the public want to become a fire reservist, how do they do that? >> okay. >> that is an excellent question, currently there are 40 reserve firefighters. and they have, again they have a command structure and they last report i heard they actually drill and train on the weekly basis, and i believe that it is thursdays. >> okay. >> and you should be able to go on-line, and be able to have contact information for the

division commander of the reserve program. >> this would be on the san francisco fire department website. >> i believe so. >> yes. >> i believe that it is so. the fire reserves are under the direction of our division of training? >> and as he stated, they do convene every thursday night. for approximately two hours. and there are certain time periods during the year where they are recruiting. when i was the director in july, there may be some active recruitment, and under way at this time, i just saw a flier just starting. and so there is information on the website and i believe. >> i am just looking for avenues of stepping stones if you will for the people who are interested in careers as firefighters and here is an accident way acc excellent way to get reserved and learn a lot and then you are going to be much more likely to be selected as a full time

professional firefighter down the road. so thank you again for your presentation. and thank you for your leadersh leadership. >> oobtly absolutely, and so the career and fire programs because they grew out of the civil defense and originally you had the career volunteers and over the last 20, or 30 years and that has evolved in to more the people, seeking the careers in the fire service. >> okay. it is an excellent, question. >> thank you. >> >> thank you. commissioners and thank you, madam president and i personally as well as being the member of the commission as mr. mcdowell want to thank you for your excellent presentation and it just helps to get you this kind of visual with the mysticis his information as well to connect the dots in terms of our rich history with the present day and again i wanted to make sure that we had the name and the fire reservist. >> yes, it is ricardo.

>> yeah. >> thank you very much for your participation, this morning as well. >> thank you. >> commissioner hardeman? >> thanks. >> well, thank you, captain, and you are kwoo it a guy and looking back and is it seems further in the last page of 1989. and yes. >> a little bit here and a lot more gray. >> and yeah, you have dedicated yours, and thank you very much. >> and 89 hours of candle stick park i think that i mentioned this once before when we had talked about this. and i never missed it for another game that i went to and quite a few giant's game and the candle stick park was the night of the earthquake and every major intersection there was a volunteer directing traffic. and i live in west portal and it i just zipped home. and he so it is amazing and then you look back in 1906, and so you take the numbers that are

thrown around, and it is 100 to 200,000 people were homeless. and no airplanes, and no bottled water, and the resil ans of a san franciscan, even in 107 years ago. to survive that, and in the city and it just says something about us. and our ansestors and our people and our founding fathers, a remarkable we really are, and of course, the americans are remarkable. and but the san francisco in particular you are going to prevent that event, and so, with the preparedness, we have now, and all of the modern facilities available, i think that we will do okay next time because we are doing okay in to the assistant and the captain, and congratulations thank you and i missed your reserve award

ceremony and i would have been there and i apologize for not being there. >> thank you. >> most of these were from my private collection. >> it must be quite extensive. >> come on by. >> okay. >> and imented i wanted to als compliment you on the quality of the photographs that you selected and that was very good and you could not see behind you but all of the people in the gallery were inthralled with your presentation and, so thank you again. thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. >> bye. >> item number six, discussion

on civil grand jury report. pertaining to the civil grand jury report fire safety inspections in san francisco a tale of two departments, department of building inspection and san francisco fire department. >> are commissioners we have an obligation and the duty under the law to respond as well. and our response will be sent out tomorrow. okay? thank you. >> welcome chief. >> good morning, chief, and good morning, again.

>> the fire marshall and here is the report on the civil grand jury, and the report on the report. it wtitled the tale of two departments they looked into the practice of both department and which they came out with the findings and recommendations. by the building department. and the recommendations that the fire department and came out with 23 findings and 23 recommendations. i i am assume thag we have read that rment and those findings as such. and my intent is not to read out all three and sow i would like to provide a summary. and recommendations and then focus on our process and programs we are putting in place that address all of the concerns of this report. >> we are looking at the

consideration and we are going to look at the summary of the grand yur joo rur and i we will improve the enforcements and the code enforcement and the process and our staffing model, and our fire safety education, and our operational improvements. >> i >>ing filipino is ss /* /- contic it is worth noting for t report, that neither the chief of the department nor the fire marshall was at any time invited

to participate or provide insight into the grand jury on either historical practices with regard to fire safety inspections nor plans or ways to improve and optimize. number three. there are many new and involved fire inspection process and program improvements that have been defined and developmented and implemented in fact these same programs align with many of the recommendations set forth in the june, 16th report, and i would like to back up a step, i became fire marshall and i am fire marshall in may of 2015, for have been in for approximately, a couple of months at that time, i served on the fire safety task force.

a lot of what you see is under way, and my message in here is that we are pro-active on this and we are working on this all along. here we have the conclusions and the recommendations, and again, this is just at a very high leve level... we have two different business models, dbi have the housing inspection services and they have 17 inspectors and 14 inspectors assigned directly to inspect, and they have three floating.

and all inspections i am not an expert in this and the it systems throughout the city and because the systems do not speak to each other at this time. next bullet point. and sfd and dbi do not inspect all multi residential buildings in a designated time frame and for 2015, the san francisco fire department inspected over 94 percent of the assigned inspections and so we are just under 6 percent of that we do not get to. and we are changing in the process and i will identify a couple of areas that we are looking for improve upon. ethe inspection program will be

extended to weekends. and right now, we do not issue directions in the field, and therefore they will not be doing follow up to the r2, that will free them up to move on to the next one. we will inspect it for the following month and it will include a check sheet of the, of the different systems, that we will be looking at. for the safety and items that we are looking at in the building and we will also include the fire safety information with regard to smoke alarms, and alarms.

next bullet point. and they are not conducted in a timely manner. and i think with that, while we are changing our approach. i think that in the past, speaking for the bureau, i think that we took on too much. i think that we tried to own it too much. and we didn't rely on the process, and the programs, or that we had in place. and so they took ownership of it

and the inspector was right and we continued to follow up on that until it was abaited. instead of moving it through ut system, and referred it into a hearing and referring it to ace and to the city attorney, and so i think that that is kind of a mind set, that we have now changed. and we now have a framework and a defined framework in place with the defined time lines. and that we will move these through the process. recommendations, and they recommended that the deputy chief of operations require all company captains receive the code enforcement training. we agree with this and this is under way. and part of the fire complaint section is managed by one of our lieutenants. and he is the liason with the field and he has been working with the system fire marshall, on developing training video which is probably about 75 percent completed at this time. and we will be launching that

shortly. and also we have been working and we have revised our inspection checklist and we have revised our r1, and r2 inspection manual and i have that traft dra on my desk at this time and after i review it i will send it up the chain for approval and we will post that on the target solutions for all of the members in the field for training. number two. well this is a difficult item to address. because the engine companies inspect those buildings and you cannot want to track off the off sight area and it will delay the response in the case of emergency. >> and so, what i think that we, and i just laid out, and with our plans for weekend extension and letters, and post its, and train, and i think that we will be more efficient on the

inspections and that will bring in the number down for those that we did not get to. and also we have a back up plan for some reason we cannot get to the inspections i would recommend that we assign a fire prevention and inspector to pick up a certain percentage of them on a rotating basis and that will have to be funded and have to follow that through to you know, so we can add that resource. number three, deputy chief operations should require the companies to priority r2 deadlines. >> we agree with this, that is the practice and that has been reinforced. fire marshall, to require code complaint code enforcement time frames be monitored and the resolution time shortened. >> agreed and you will see in the following slides that the framework that we put in place. >> fire marshalls will require to receive training on the inspection and the code enforcement documentation. >> agreed and you will see that

in the slides, and coming after this. and this is related as well. the fire marshall should finalize the details of the code enforcement process. >> a framework has been developed that outlines an end to end process to include the hard deadlines for each of the associated step and phase of a complaint from the intake and the notice of violation to the administrative hearing and if necessary, referral to the city attorney. corresponding with the framework is a internal program designed to insure the department members develop a strong working foundation of the new process. >> that internal program will consist of the following. crews, r 2 and 1 forms that have

been mentioned will be revised and reflect the changes of the new fire code process. and all r1, 2, inspection field manual has been revised and also to reflect the new fprocess, an the training video and this video will include and an on sight inspection of three different buildings, and one will be r1 inspection which is a hotel and a motel and one will be an r2 inspection of an existing non-confirming apartment building and you have the buildings that existed and conformed to the codes that were built and do not conform to today. and so the systems there that you would expect to city that you don't see. so, we will have a non-conforming building as part of the video and we will have a current up to date, fully loaded r2 with all of the bells and whistles as part of the inspection process. >> training for the fire prevention inspectors.

we have developed the framework for the fire complaint process. and that will be included in a training manual. so we are developing the training manuals that will be distributed to all of our fire inspectors. we are internal department mental referral process. and we are formalizing a process where we have up to date, we refer to the different departments by the either hard, hard copy letter, where we would have to sit down and manually input it and a phone call and an e-mail and that is changing and we are going to have it part of the or cal system and part of the back end and we can hit the referral box and it will populate a referral later and the letter will be sent out to the department that we are referring to and it will be tracked and documented as such. and then also through the tracking system which i will go into in more detail in a later slide.

we have au flowchart, and this is the intake to the assignment of the fire of the complaint, review, or the nov or a citation and, if it is not abayeded at the level of the nov it is referred to the administrative hearing. where it takes its course there, abait and it is not abaited, and it is referred to our accelerated code enforcement captain who will refer that file to the city attorney for further action. what we have here is the flow charts and specifically for the notice of violation. and i will go in to more detail on this. and the valley and the park complaint. and the conduct an on sight

inspection and the fire and it is a fire code violation, yes or no, if not we refer to the sathly, if it is we look at it and say that it is associated with a structure or a video? >> yes, we issue an nov if not, it is a one time violation, where something in the street, we issue a citation on the spot, when the violation is issued and either it is a priority or a violation or a standard violation, and the priority will be considered one of the high level of urgency and the standard will be a moderate level, and the time to correct our different depending on the number of urgency, and so for a priority violation, the maximum time to abait is 72 hours. now upon the 72 hours, and the inspection, we can extend one time, weks extend it 96 hours to make it up to the maximum of at

least one week and however, any of the priority violations that are to be extended have to be approved by an officer, and so we are not just subjectively, the individuals going off on their own and so it will be monitored. and the standard violations. and you have 14 days, to abait. and extend it up to maximum of 30 days. after the follow up, if it is not abaited it is referred to in the hearing. >> we have a hearing this month and we have nine hearings schedule.

and so the priority violation will be assigned within 60 days of the expired date of the notice to abait said violation. >> if it is a standard, it must go to the administrative hearing within 180 days. notice of administrative hearing should be served to the responsible party via the regular mail and certificated mail and also the hearing notice will be posted at the site of the building that is in question. and that includes we also post the novs at the sites of the building in question. and the reason that we are doing that is for enhanced transparency, if you live in the building and you know that you may have an issue in your building, and that those violations and hearing notices will have contact numbers and so the people that live in those buildings can contact us directly if they have any more questions. from the hearing process, we are mandated to render a decision

within 30 days, review, and further order to abait, upon the further order to abait, it is referred to as accelerated code enforcement and it is, it is and we file it, with our i forget which department it is right now, one of the departments at city hall, we file it, and we file the notice to abait. i apologize for not being in my notes. >> okay. >> we rapid code enforcement earlier, and just by, reflects that flowchart. and ak celebrated code enforcement. and it receives files and from two different directions, one is through the task force and through the other departments and the city attorney's office. and again, we work as a group to abait, and mainly these are issues with hording and that is the most common with that. a