the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for the commission's

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. and the other avenue on the left side of the flowchart would be a referral from the administrative hearing process. and again, the accelerated code officer which is our captain that oversees this new fire complaint section, will manage that file and work with the city

attorney through its conclusion. >> okay. staffing, we will move on to staffing we have created a new fire complaint section. and which is dedicated for the fire complaints and it will consolidate, all incoming complaints and that is the formal model where the complaints were taken in and managed and addressed on a district by district basis. and now it all consolidated under one section, and this team will also be tasked with improving communications with the field and the field teams and suppression, and so, again, the lieutenant that directly manages this crew will be our liaison with the field and it will be our point of contact, and we will attend the meetings and etc., and be, and to increase our communication with the field.

indicating the complaint section is managed by a captain who will serve as the code enforcement officer and this was the section that will include, one lieutenant and six fire inspectors and the teams will be dedicated and responding to all fire complaints. and in addition the lieutenant will be the training coordinator for the r1, r2, training company program and will serve as the liaison, between the bft and the companies. and this is our chart for our division of fire prevention and investigation. you will see outlined there in the dark blue is our new section, this section did not previously exist. and at the time top is initiated position that is not filled yet. and we have a lieutenant in place right now, below that and we have two inspectors and then we have four vacancies below that and the chief has just announced the acting positions yesterday and we are trying to fill these positions immediately moving forward. >> ( that is our approach here

to address the concerns of the civil grand jury. we have external education, and so the sfsd fire prevention has developed a plan for the pro-active community out reach, it will consist of two members, a fire inspector and a fire investigator who will be 100 percent focused on the fire safety education, and covering all neighborhoods. the team at the end of the direction of the captain of administration will develop, present and fire safety presentations to the neighborhood communities throughout the city and county of san francisco. the fire investigator will gather data and track the fires on the neighborhood by neighborhood basis, the fire investigator will compare for the data from each neighborhood as well as measure said data against the national statistics and the fire inspector, and

closer with the fire investigator will identify the challenges specific to each neighborhood. and the team will then develop and deliver the fire safety presentations tailored for each thard this is a new concept and we have had the community out reach in the positions in the past but it never include a fire investigator.

you would have to look at any complaint in there and see what the date was and figure out what

violation, is linked to what complaint, and also in the past, you open ul multiple without closing out the previous inspection and so it could be mislead and so you could have the numerous complaints on there that are associated with one complaint but it could look like two or three and so we are cleaning that up and we are linking all of them, so now you can it is not completed yet and this is our goal and you can go into the fire complaint and you can hit an id and a tracking number on the complaint and it should be able to pull a thread up and it should be able to show you the whole life cycle of that complaint but nov all the way through the city attorney's office. i think that will go a long way to clean up our again, our transparency, and sharing information to the public. that conclude my report and i am happy to take any questions. >> yeah, thank you very much fire marshall.

are there any members of the public that have a comment? >> on the fire marshall's presentation? seeing none public comment is closed and i will go to vice president cleaveland. >> thank you, and thank you for this good report, i can't tell you i was upset as well, that you needed and you know the chief were interviewing for the grant jury people when they were putting this report together. and but i am delighted to hear that you are taking a lot of the recommendations quite seriously and making some reforms within the department, so that i commend you for that. and i commend the chief, and the department for embracing this, and the grand jury's report, and taking the best out of it. the best recommendations and putting them into place and putting them and making it much more transparent to the public. and tracking you know, incidents of fires and more efficiently

and particularly the inspections and so for the public, information can you define what an r2 is. >> it is three or four units and the occupants are there for 30 days. if you are fewer than 30 days you are reviewed as an r1, which is more like a motel or a hotel. >> there is a priority, and could you define that for the public's understanding? >> if there was an impairment that was required at the time that it was built and it would be, an example of that would be any fire suppression, system and the fire alarm system or the

egressystem, if any of those are impaired, the level is considered high, and we consider that a priority complaint. and a standard complaint would be if you are out dated on your maintenance and so your portable fire extinguisherer, and however, we have no, you know, no reason to believe that they still function as installed, etc., and it is just a maintenance and they say, a new issue more or less, and not necessarily an impairment to a system and that will fall under a standard complaint. >> like if the sign is not working. >> correct. >> it is part of the manual that we are developing for the internal training and we are going to list all of the violations that we have and we will have two callings, one will be priet orty and the standard and so we know and we are on the same page where the priorities and the standards and we can share that with the public and internally with our people. >> i think that is excellent, because i think that there is going to be some training down in internally as well as educate s the public as well as the public owners on what is

considered a standard violation and they have ten days to fix it and you know whashgs is a priority, they have to do it, with 72 hours. >> and so, this is really good stuff. >> and we post the violations on site on the property, and how do you decide where you are going to post that sign? >> everybody has to pass by the notice, and that notice will have a detail on what the violation, and what the citation is for and contact the information. >> if that sign is taken down, is that a violation? >> it is a violation, if it is removed, yes. >> i appreciate you setting up a new section.

if they were investigated and we need to he had kalt the public so that they understand that most of the fires and the vast majority of the fires were accident. >> yeah, and and in the past our complaints were distributed to the individual inspectors and we are changing that process and all complaints were coming in to be addressed to the lieutenant and overseeing in the fire

complaint section and he or she will distribute them. and so you will have one officer that tracks all of them and we will have up to date status on them >> i think that it is also going to be an important thing to balance the load from the fire houses who are responsible for inspecting the buildings within their what is it? >> their first response area. >> is it and what does that mean? >> the first response area? >> so there are defined boundaries for each. i think that it differs. >> and the deputy could speak the greater detail of that. >> and the general terms, and vice president, cleaveland, the first response is where you do the first alarm area and for the full box and for the three agent and trucks and, and the chief and two chiefs in the division and the first in the areas is where that individual company is first do. for like a single unit and the dispatch. and that is the first in as opposed to the first do. >> but the response is

generally, what was in ten blocks in around the fire house. and i just am trying to understand that a layperson what that means when you say a fire response area. per fire house. >> it varys on the fire station and, it depends on how condensed the fire is, and where it is, and a lot of the stations are closer, then they would. >> sure in the high-rise areas, in the avenues and that will be much more sparse. >> right. >> right. >> is that, is that information available to the public. >> it will be on the map that i show, or in the presentation coming up. i think that the public will be interesting no know the fire stations and how much of the city is that fire station responsible for. >> and it is on all of the web sites. >> it is on the website. >> excellent, excellent. >> all right, that is all of my comments.

and thank you very much. thank you, madam president, and thank you very much chief. i really applaud you on this presentation and this report. and it is not only good, it is very, very comprehensive and it is a great report and when i got the first draft and i tried to read it and go through it, with all of the discussions of agreed, and not agreed, and recommendations and too. and i am very, very, appreciative of how condensed and professional you put it within this presentation. and shared it with the audience.

everything from page 5 in terms of the graphs. and in page 5 or six, and the fire complaint process. and page eight, and all of these have graphs, and each one of these graphs allow myself a real ability to follow through. and to see exactly what we are talking about. one of the main reasons why i appreciate this report so much is that it answers the questions to the recommendation and to the concerns of the grand jury. you did not skate anything in this report. i would like it but i am also proud of it. but that you didn't but you did address all of the issues. page 11 as well with the new fire complaint section in the support of that chief and i must

again, remark how much appreciation from myself as a commissioner and the u.s. administrator in terms of the support that you give to these kinds of issues as well. and the fire safety and education. page 12. and operational improvements, and page 13, and in your presentation, also, what i liked was picking up the key words, and you used the words new mind set. and that we had a new mind set. and we are trying to make adjustments and here or two what is going on and the other word that i heard quite frequently was the word linkage. and again, this is the kind of thing that as a commissioner, i would like to hear, because i know that our department is very comprehensive and that our members can do the job. and by hearing your presentation and taking on that analysis of how you dealt with these, we can make some suggestions about you indeed if we don't have a new mind set or a new way to do

things, it is not going to improve. again, i very much appreciate this report thank you very much. and thank you, madam president. >> and thank you, commissioner. and commissioner, hardeman? >> thank you. madam chair. and you could get tired of being on patted on the bad together, in the fire marshall. >> i am overwhelmed with the work that you have done, and the chief and this is a lot to put together, and we like, your commission and he said that you are just, and it is just the hardest part in trying to cover up everything. and so it is remarkable work. and the grand jury gets the deadline and the very busy time for the department, and thank you, for doing it and the staff

to hope that you are not too warn out and the flow charts and easy to read, and thank you. and hopefully, the grand joo you ary jury will be happy with all of your answers and your response. >> thank you, ditto. i think that your willingness and your ability to incorporate their concerns and address them so well. is very, very good.

so, thank you fire marshall. >> thank you. >> item 7, up date on the discussions regarding the establishment of the h24 classification. commissioners and chief, and deputy chief, and operations. under the 23 presentation, and promptly, and the sfs, and this is a concept in the conceptual stage at this point, and in the h23, ems concept, there is no first level manager in the ems division in the san francisco fire department compared to the other divisions and the suppression and that is the age. >> can we go to the computer please? >> there you go. >> help you? >> yeah. >> and it is the h23, that works out in the field with the fire stations and the h22, prevention that works with bfp, and works

at bfi, and the bureau of the fire investigation and h28. and which works out to be the training. and so currently the first level of the manager is the age, 33 rescue captain. and it is concerned that we must put that as the first level manager. and another wheel driving force behind this is the h1 level and station 49 and has no promotional pathway they only have lateral moves that are available to them and selected to the h2, fire academy and bump to the three, but they have to get a paramedic license, and all of the other ranks are afforded the possibility of the promotion and if this is true, many of the dedicated members of the department will be afforded the first level manager position and if it comes to fruition. the ems lieutenant will serve, and these are possible, and it is still in the building phase.

as an administrative supervisor and in charge of informing them to know their personnel and organizize and super vice the employment of the ems response fleet. >> other possible duties, perform the personnel, management functions including performance monitoring and the ems and provide the administrative report for the field personnel, for the station 49, and also, prepare and conduct, the service and the ems service training and related to the orientation for the employees and the new and updated for the procedures and standards and says said, the status as of today, we are currently discussing the job classification with the city,

and the local 798 for the city's attorney's office. and that concludes that presentation available to questions. >> thank you. chief gonzales. is there any public comment? >> regarding the proposed h23? okay, public comment is closed. commissioner hardeman? >> i didn't even know that i was on there i beat myself to it. >> okay. >> thank you, and madam chair. so, how close with the chief, how close are you with to striking a deal? is it looking more promising, than it was in the last time that you reported with trying to get all parties to agree on it. >> i hate to put a forecast up there, because sometimes you jinx the process. and so, i would say talks are

amicable and i think that is where we are headed. at this point. >> and good to hear. thank you. >> thank you. >> and the chief of the department, would like to say something. >> i just wanted to add, i think that i would have definitely agree with your statement and i also, i believe that the department of the attitude to the president covington and the vice president cleaveland because it is a complex model. and as we move forward, and it is it has been helpful to have both of you at the table to understand and give your input into the discussion and so i am not sure if the commissioner and the commissioner were aware that i know just in this or sense the last meeting that we met, i think on settlement 1st and the 7th and your participation is not only appreciated but it is making a difference. >> thank you, chief. >> the vice president cleaveland? >>

>> thank you, chief, and chief, for working on this. and i think that it is so important that we have a ladder of advancement for everybody who works and serves in the san francisco fire department, including our emts and so this is new. this is going to be a completely new model for advancement of emts who are not paramedics and who are not firefighters. and so i am delighted and very much support the h23, position, how many do we expect to create about five is what i understand? ; is that correct? ? or do we not know at this time? >> that is still a work in progress, p we do anticipate at least two or three. >> if i had it right now, but, the numbers will be determined on the as-needed basis. >> i am delighted to hear that all of the parties are working together with the da and to

create this sort of job description if you will. and i think that everybody who works for the fire department absolutely should have a ladder or have the opportunities to advance and not necessarily having to be a firefighter. and so this administrative supervisory position is a wonderful addition if you will to the department and particularly for the emts and their future. and so, i applaud you on working on this, and i applaud the chief and i applaud the local, 7, 98 and all of the other parties that are working on this to make it happen. and so. >> and thank you, vice president. >> and we would like to echo what the chief said, thank you, president and vice president for all of your help. >> thank you. commissioner nakajo >> thank you. just a point of clarity, we are talking about a conceptual concept officer, ems so just for my clarity, administrative level

of ems is chief meyers and the achift ant chief is that what it is? and after that, is it the rescue captains? and going to the next jump and we are talking about the lieutenant and the ems and being between or before the rescue captains and structure. >> and so the ems division, rests under the administrations, and ems, assistant deputy chief and you have the section chiefs. and as you mentioned, it is, an acting section chief operational. and he is overseeing station 49. and there are rescue captains that report to that that rank and the entry level, one and two, and they all report to the age, 33 captains at this time and we are trying to put in the lieutenant. and like all of the other divisions in the sffd. >> all right so that the members who are participating in the station 49, would if we have this, h23, they would report to

the h23 as the supervisor rather than the rescue captain? >> it work similar to the fire station and others work differently where the inspectors per se in . and it will be working the same as the suppression and in the suppression, and. >> and depending on the situation given? >> the lieutenant will open to the captain when it comes to making decisions. >> okay, just the administrative ems h23, some of these job duties are the administrative management type of duties. is that to help the section chief with some of that administration at 49? >> absolutely. and it was purely administrative at this point the way that it is

being built. >> okay. again i support all of the comments by the commission to administration to get this done and if we can get this in some movement, that would address the question of stronger oversight and supervision to the ems core which is where the intechniqueses of what we started out to be. ; is that correct? chief? >> absolutely. >> thank you very much, madam president and chief. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. and at this time, well, certainly thank you very much deputy chief and the chief of the department and members of station 49. and of course, 798 for coming together and hammering out this collaborative effort.

and so, thank you chief, i am going to excuse you at this time because we have guests for the next item and thank you. and our commissioner commission meeting has to end at noontime definite and so we want to make sure that we go over item 9. so i will continue item eight, and madam secretary, could you please call item 9? >> item nine, up date on station 49/ems new building. development and progress. >> thank you. >> welcome chief lumbardi. >> thank you, president covington. >> at this time i would like to call up we have a project team from department of public works that is working with us very closely now. and so they could come up here i

will have them introduce themself and start with the presentation. >> thank you. >> gentleman? and lady? aplea aplease come forward. >> hello, i am the project manager for the department of public works and we are happy to start this at a rapid pace and start the design process. i am tim, and i am a senior architect with public works. >> my name is reggie and i am the architect from the public works and building and design construction. >> good morning, commissioners i'm kathleen and i am one of the project managers working on this project. >> thank you all. >> i would like to thank them all for coming. the reason that i invited them here today is to show the commission how serious the

department of public works is, in getting this project finished quickly and properly and working together with us, it is great and as anyone knows the bond passed in june and however what a lot of people don't know, is the funding does not take place until november or possibly january, and so with the smart thinking of our director, director, plan and finance, we put in for this year's budget to have enough money to continue so it would not slow down and so it pass and we have money to get to january when we start to collect the funds and move forward. >> and so we have a great team assembled and our internal people and it is moving forward rapidly. so, i have a slide show for you and, then there is obviously, with this team here, they can answer any questions that you would like. >> those are the computer? >> okay. thank you. >> so for lack of better words, this is what it was worded on

the ballot of the ambulance deployment facility and i would anticipate that it is station, 49 when it is done and built to keep it clear what the project is. it is the ambulance deployment facility. >> it shows that we are current existing facilities at 14, 15, evans the new proposed facility over all, and the street and station nine, and we chose this facility and because we think that it is a better location in between, highway 101, and highway 101, and 280, right off of the street and you can really go, and get to noo he where in the city rapidly from this location. existing project and you have seen this slide before. and it is behind the station nine and the city also owns a strip of land which is in yellow, between mccennin avenue and the gar ald avenue and that is the entrance from the property site there is currently

three existing buildings on the site. two of the buildings in the lower half of the page will be demolished as part of property ject and the third building at the top right of the page will stay in the new parking structure will go up and into that building separating fire station nine from the new ems facility. >> when we had to get this ready for the bond, we had to do an environmental impact report and part of that process was to put together a program of how big do we need this building to be. and how many employees do we have and so it was quite a few people working on it from the fire department. and we came up with this program, and that is how the next few slides, and it is probably a ten-page document and i just put in a few in there and one has to do with the personnel and one has to do with how many vehicles and obviously, when you are designing a building and okay, you know the chief needs

an office and how big does that office need to be, and how much square footage and the department of public works worked with us, well before the bond to get this done and get an environmental impact report done before the bond was even on the ballot. >> the slide number, or, seven, is what we came up with, after doing that whole study, and program, is that the subtotal of the building is about 37,000 square feet, and the subtotal is about 60,000 and the whole area is about 96,000 square feet and so that is how we came up with this and so now we are in the process of design and we are taking this document that we were find a few years ago before the bond obviously and now we are refining it more and just the other day we are sitting there with the chief, and chief meyers and you know, on this initial one that we had and they had a 120, employees, and well

that is jumped back by 50 or 70 people already, and so we are trying to make a building that will last for the next 30 years and so it is projected out to 20, 30, and we are anticipating building something that will handle the vehicles and handle the staff and the employees for that many, for that many years to come. >> so in our rough design, before the bond, these next few pages show the layout, and it was a good design, and we are staying with that, about you now that we are really getting down into the nuts and bolts, we are saying, you know, just this office needs to be next to that office? does it flow? are all of the classrooms together? are the teaches by the classrooms, are the locker rooms where the people are going to come from the parking although the into the building? why are the locker rooms not close when they come in the building when they need to get washed off and so stuch like that and we are snot reallevan changing the size but changing the layout and making sure that

is functions well sxl in doing that we will be reaching out to the other employees from the station 49, from the logistics and i have asked this week, the commissioner cleaveland to also help us in just so that we vet this through the different ranks before we go into the construction design of the property. i think that our last slide is what the people are eager to see. and this is what we have on the duration right now. and i know when i first showed this slide, a few months ago, it was well into 2021, and thanks to commissioner cleaveland he had a meeting with the director of public works and the schedule has been adjusted and as you can see with the team here, it is a top priority for public works. and so with that, open for any questions, or any questions of the public works team that you guys might have.

>> thank you chief lombardi. >> is there any public comment on this item? >> the new station 49? also known as the ambulance deployment facility. >> and seeing none, public comment is now closed. >> commissioner cleaveland. >> thank you. >> thank you fshgs madam president and thank you, chief for the report. and this is a very significant project obviously we want to thank the voters of san francisco for approving the bond. and so that we can build a new ems response headquarters. and so that is very, very important. i also like to design and i would appreciate the fact that you are working with the people that are going to be working in the facility, and to make sure that you accommodate their concerns, and i know that in the past we have had the issues on the design and whether their compatible with the people that are working in the facility, and they very much appreciate the fact that you are reaching out

and make shurg that that happens, and i appreciate the dpw personnel and ramping this up and as a priority project and it is the priority project for the citizens of the city and so thank you for making or put tg at the top of the to-do list. at the public works. >> so, we will keep an eye on this and i can't tell you how delighted i am, chief, that we have the funds that the citizens and the voters of our city voted this bond and we will get a new station, 4 #, and that will be state of the art and it will allow us to grow as a city, and meet those needs for the next decade, to a couple of decades actually, thank you. >> thank you, mr. vice president. and commissioner. >> thank you very much, madam president, chief, if you could perhaps the team could be near you, and so that i could ask a few questions. first of all, i just wanted to thank you so much, yes, please?

>> for your hard work. but also in terms of your concentration in your intentions to get this done. just as a point of information, i have been a commissioner for 21 years, and part of this is i was a commissioner when the merger occurred. and it was a growing experience that we at the fire department enher it the medical emergency services we have gone through a lot of growing pains and we have grown, and we have changed our culture, within it to a medical model as well. and we are finally a department that is whole. i don't know if you have done the ride alongs with the individuals for denying it, but if you sit in that buggy, for ten to 12 hours, and you want to eat something, or you want to go through the rest room, you are going to find that kind of a circumstance that effect these individuals, as well as what corners they sit on. and so every model that we have,

that started from having the ems and in the station houses out to the rapid deployment on the street e it is a hard workplace to sit in your rig out there, trying to respond and those member, the men and women do the best job that they can, i want to acknowledge the vice president of this commission, cleaveland, commissioner cleaveland has not been on the commission too long but he has been effective and has moved this agenda, with the lightning speed. and the seriousness of his efforts is what we have today, and you know, we are so proud to be part of this with the chief and the rest of our commissioners and because this really, really finally, depicts a home for our ems medical staff i just really appreciate it, and i question that i have, is two buildings are going to go down in the building on the right near the parking lot, and standing up what is the reason for that? >> for the two existing buildings, are the light

construction. >> please identify yourself for the public? >> tim, the department of public works. >> two existing structures are light construction and they were there since i think when the fire station 9 was built, and it is basically housing some utilities for the alternative water source and the water trailers and things like that. and there is also fleets and units and within the building are work functions. and all of which will be removed. and not necessary for the new program. >> so commissioner, those buildings were for originally when we had droel control of the awsh, we had the plumbers under the fire department that is where they were based out of it, and now that puc runs it and

they are no longer based out of this, the building is not a fightal function for anything that we do right now. i appreciate that as well as being able to identify this piece of land as well. and these graphics and the mockup $really help us as well. and it is interesting that after all of these years when we talk about the designs v the houses and the functionality, that the issue of functionality comes in play, and again, during the experience, we have had a situation where the station one was torn down, and moved by the museum on the hill built by our abilities in terms of what our needs were and also a couple of other stations are on the project as well. so to hear the term functionality, and how well does it work, for us to walk through all of the areas and see what works is really is gratifying in our standard to be able to have everything that we can in termdz of making it the best building that we can.

for a long period of time. and i just personally again wanted to thank you for all of your concentration and your intention and i am just looking forward to this working of this project, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> commissioner hardeman? >> thank you madam chair, and chief, as usual you are very talented man and you do a very great job. this is a great report. and i am glad that you are keeping an open mind on design and no one is objecting with the person alibi as that might not be warranted that you are willing to move along, just like commissioner cleaveland says that i think that is very important. >> especially after, seeing the condition of the present facility. i don't know what the vote would have been if the members of the public could have took a tour or a ride along, or whatever, with the workers, of the 49, but i

think that they probably would have been flabergasted about how we ended up like that, and what we ended up how we ended up like that, and it is all economic and so they took them and the voters took them into their own hands and believe that the city leaders, and the fire department, and that this is really necessary, so it was, it was long overdue and thank you. >> commissioner, cleaveland, thank you for getting involved and talking with the public works and to everybody stepping forward and taking this and put thanksgiving top priority from dpw and thank you for taking the time to personally appear, and all of the most important people on this project and i think that this is going to be gra it for san francisco. and i think that it will be great for the moral of the people reporting these state. and 49, and they will get the respect and they have such a terrible, difficult job and if you go out and run with them and you see them and you have to bring them back to life who is

dead or something who does not want to even be alive. and they are trying to they don't care about their own life. and all of the emt and the paramedics and the firefighters go out there and do the typical san francisco attitude is, everybody is taken care of. and we really appreciate it looks like a great facility and, thank you to the mayor, and all of the politicians and everybody who supported this project, and thank you for the explanation in the finances again, and how good you have done with that chief, and chief, during this, and thank you for moving it along. >> great. >> thank you, commissioner hardeman. and thank you to the entire team. and to the head of the department of public works. and everyone else who has worked so hard on this and been so diligent. i know that chief you have got this from the beginning.

and this is going to be an immense improvement over the current situation. and it is going to be like night and day. and for those people who may look at this and say, oh, it looks like a palace, well our folks are deserving of this pal ace, after it comes through and what it has to put up with. and so, i appreciate really the details in the space design. and making sure that there is you know a good flow to the building. itself. and i have been to this site, when i was visiting, station nine, and it is going to be large. lts going to be large and in charge and i am so looking forward to the ribbon cutting. >> yes.

>> and so we are going into 2021, you said? >> originally it was 2021, now it is looking like we will be moving in, in february of 2020, excellent, excellent. >> and so it has been, oh, it really has been stream lined and fast tracked. >> okay? >> and very, very good. and i see that both commissioner cleaveland and commissioner nakajo have additional compliments and comments. >> so, i will go with commissioner cleaveland? >> thank you. >> thank you, madam president and thank you chief and thank you to the theme for the dpw for being here i would like to thank them for the project and it is the project for the city and the county of san francisco and the great ones that live in the city. and so my question is looking at the schedule, what can we reduce. and what can we work and i hope that the team will constantly

look at whether the phase of the design or the design of the document and how long it takes to put out the bid and certainly the construction process, and you know, if we can speed it up at any point, and not jeopardize, you know, of course, any of the input that is necessary or in equality in the construction and i will urge you to do that, and so we can have a ground breaking earlier and we can have a dedication in 2019. and all of the better, because the faster with he have this, the better the citizens of our city will be served and so thank you being a part of this very, very, important design team, of to the design the new ems headquarters building and we thank you, chief for being so diligent in this process. and so i am very interested in watching it, as it goes to the whole process. and our commissioner was like to have the regular updates on the

progress of the project. and so thank you again. >> thank you, vice president cleaveland for your advocacy on this. and commissioners, nakajo? >> yes, just two more comments, and one is again, this new station, discussion. and it made a lot of sense because previous to this we had the discussion on the h23, and the supervision model, and so, i also wanted to acknowledge clearly, my appreciation to the administration but also to the local 7, 98 to make that model piece happen, but also i wanted to thank the voters of san francisco for giving us the support to make this happen. and thank you so much, madam president. >> you are more than welcome, commissioner nakajo. >> so, i just have this one little question and that is it for the team in general. i heard from mr. kent, and i would like to know if mr. book error stump would have something

to add and also, if oday, would like to address us at this time. >> commissioners. yeah, just want to thank you. >> your name snchlt >> my name is jim, with the public works. >> and i very much appreciate the support of the commission for moving forward with this project as it has been outlined and we will move it through the design phase as quickly as possible. >> thank you. >> mr. stump? >> hi commissioners, regular by stump public works, architect. we are down to dramatic design right now, working with the chief and we are very excited to be working on the functionality and the plan and the kind of the initial design of that, and in the next couple of months and so we will be back for an up date. >> wonderful. and miss oday? >> hi, and so i'm kathleen, and

i appreciate all of your enthusiasm and support and we will do everything that we can to help expedite it. so i see that it is much needed. so thank you very much for your support. >> thank you all again. all right. wonderful. >> and madam secretary? >> could you call the next sit em. >> item ten, the agenda for the next fire commission meeting on september 28th, 2016. >> okay. >> thank you for that. we have continued the item today. of related to the batallion five and so let's put that at the top of the next agenda. and also i think of the control substance policy, perhaps the

first meeting in october. and if not we can read it to the last meeting in october. commissioner nakajo? >> madam president, i was wanting to inquire the status of the request to have the presentation on pier 35, on whether or not that will be at the next fire agenda meeting or the one in october? >> okay, dually noted. and commissioner cleaveland? >> yes, i think there was one thing in the grand jury report that related to the commission and that was the request by the grand jury that the fire commission get together with the building inspection commission. and have some sort of task force. and we have and put together a response, which i think that we need to probably formally adopt at thp point.

or at least discuss briefly, perhaps we should do that at the next meeting. >> yes, we can do that at the next meeting. >> i would request the response to the grand jury, on it and it was a direct request of this commission, and but put that on the agenda for the next meeting. >> okay. >> and thank you. and the chief of the department, has something to add? >> thank you. i just want a clarification from commissioner nakajo, you are requested for the station 35; is that correct? ? >> at pier 26? >> yeah. i think that i made some remarks in the previous commission meetings on whether it be updated on the station pier. >> no problem. >> and i didn't know whether it would work under the discretion with the chooef. >> and i am open that being the calendared and dated later then, when it is appropriate. >> thank you. >> okay. and any, anything else? >> all right, and i think that

we will be in standing in the good stea d, public comment. and as we move forward. and is there any public comment, regarding up coming agenda items? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> and okay. so is there anything else that you have. madam secretary? >> i do not. >> all right. thank you, we have come to the end of our meeting. and i would like to adjourn our meeting today in memory of retired firefighter peyton hunter junior, who passed away august 21st, 2016. he retired in september of 1996. with 24 years of service. and our thoughts and prayers are with his family, thank you. >> we are adjourned.

>> we are joined by very special guests in the room. we have aicate orivist who is comcaest president of media relations. we have [inaudible] who leads internet essentials. aaron low with sf connected. danny chung director of self help for the elderly. [inaudible] community technology network and marie joblong for community living program. a shout out to those folks for all their hard work. today we are informing about the impact of internet essentials in california, a state that benefited the most in termoffs people adopting this program as we try to tackle the so called, digital

divide. internential essentials is essentially no the pent intended low cost adaumgz program in the country of its kind and there is no question there is a incraedbly deep need for internet access p. staggeringly so when you hear more about the numbers mpt . i had a front row view reporting in other communities, it is the same thing. we see the evolution and role of technology and specifically the internet playing a larger piece how we operate in the day to day. this come tooz the contra dictionoffs sill convally. all the entrepreneur growth and outside the box thinking and creativity stemming and coming with silicon valley on one hand and on the other hand we have huge populations of people who

don't have access to people to p with internet. populations that comprise entire states. it is quite actually a disconnect when we have someone we stand so strongly for on one hand, which is progress and equality and on the other hand, we have so many people who lack the basic resources. a journalist i cannot imagine how my job would function without the internet t is essential for everything i do and at 2 a.m. when i whipe the sleep out of my eyes and trying to figure what is going on around me and what i missed the first thing is get on a computer and go to nbc news or cnn and look at my phone and see what happened. it is like oxygen for journalist. it is important as many know for communicating with the people cloest ist in your lives, friends, families

and making doctors appointments and paying bills, typically it involves access to the internet. there are so many reasons people are not connected that we'll talk about today. from the cost of service, to the cost of the device and lack of access to dejtle lijerary training. perhaps no one understands this more than cathy davis exectelevision director for george daceive senior residence, please welcome, cathy davis. [applause]. >> hello i'm cathy davis and executive director of bayview senior service and you are in the brand new dr. george davis senior center! hey! at first i want to acknowledge the board of directors of bayview senior service, they are there at that table. i see linda richer son,

mrs. nixon who is our vise president. dr. churchhill may be somewhere and reverend hall they are the winds beneath my wings and keep the agency organized mpt i appreciate the staff here. i see fuleasha. i see frank and a lot of staff working hard and we cooked a luvly lunch for you in our brand new state of the art kitchen thanks to john harris over there at the mayors aufs of community development, he got the money for the kitchen! so, we want to acknowledge and thank all our community partners but today our best and most exciting community partner is comcast. comcast is our neighbor. they are there on bay shore. you can throw a walk rock and see them and they have been nothing but spectac yrm helping with the move in with the building and

what they bring to there seniors today. i want to thank scott and david and the whole team from comcast. i want to thank the community departments on aging who helped us connect people to the internet. i fs thinking today how important education was to dr. davis. learning something new. you are never too old to learn something and when you get a computer and you get to see the whole world at your feet, you can learn something new every day. we are really excited about this opportunity and i know he would be thrilled. he would also be thrilled because his herey jackie jorner kersee is here and he was a track fanatic. he is beyond thrilled to see her here today. i want to thank everybody who came today. we will curve lunch quitely so we can get on with the program