capital corridor and have a true rail and ultimately to get high speed rail over to east bay and up north so it is definitely a regional gave her but today, we have before us i think a solid set of maps and analysis and feedback from the public and i'm really just grateful to the department for having done this work and the public participating with that, madam chair, i move to file this hearing. >> thank you very much. >> and without objection it passes. >> thank you mr. clerk madam clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> that completes the agendas for today. >> thank you very much the meeting is adjourned

>> so nice to see everyone in here. we really appreciate you coming and taking part in this with us. it's been such an exciting year for the san francisco fire department. we are in the midst of a year-long celebration for our 150th anniversary and we are so pleased that we are able to include this wonderful ceremony in our agenda and special events that we've had plans for to help us celebrate this year. so we are really really happy about this data we been looking forward to it for a while. i

would like to welcome our federal state and local partners and elected officials. our invited guests and members of the public. and the active and retired members of the san francisco fire department and this includes several members who responded to the marina districts in the fire boat, phoenix, who you will see over there 27 years ago today. for the--earthquake. it's no go incidents that we are holding the ceremony on this date. you know, our fire boats have proven to be unique assets and very necessary assets were san francisco. i'm sure everyone is well aware of the vital role that our fire boat, phoenix, and are members of the department played in saving the marina district from burning up.

27 years ago today so again, we really like to thank those and we are really excited that you're here with us today to open celebrate this. so without further ado, i would like everyone to stand as the san francisco fire department veterans association presents the collars and leads us in the pledge of allegiance followed by the national anthem, followed by award winning artist, amino marks wife of san francisco firefighter david hawkins who is also united states naval veteran of desert storm. >> now i'd like to invite our beloved department chaplain father john--to give the invocation. >> as we celebrate 150 years

of bravery and service to the city of san francisco, we give thanks to all of the brave men and women of both our fire department and our police department. as we gathered to dedicate and commission the boat today i would like to just ask for a moment of silence as we remember the young police officer who shot and as we pray for kevin's recovery today. >> >>[moment of silence] >> lord, our god, we ask you to bless all the men and women who serve on this new fire

boat. watch over them and keep them safe. remember them now as they dedicate their lives to saving others both on land and on see. let's this boat and bless ourselves to your service. amen. thank you. >> thank you, father green. we are very very pleased to be joined by our first speaker today. please help me welcome united states vendor, diane feinstein. >> >>[applause] >> thank you very much. mr. mayor, distinguished fire chief, members of the department and ladies and gentlemen, i just want to begin by saying to the riordan band, you were just great. i love the uniforms. they do so much. i

hope that some of you have a career in music because you're really good and when i was mayor i had something called a command performance in the bands used to come down and perform in city hall. mr. mayor, maybe that's an idea? >>[laughing] so my favorite was at the time the benjamin franklin middle school band but i think today it would be you. so thank you so much for this performance. the clapping >>[applause] when i was mayor was more than 27 years ago my the fire boat was and looked at as a useless appendage of the fire department. it was a lot of pressure on me to zero it out in the firefighter's budget. in the fire department budget and i never did. because i believe it was our safe point should something really happened and then the year after i left office that

something did happen. who would have believed at the time that the giants would have been at candlestick park at 5 pm in the afternoon playing in i think it was the third game of the world series. and who would believe that the area struck at least by the earthquake was, in fact, the marina. all the planning that we had done indicated that was going to be the areas where we had a number of unreinforced brick buildings. namely, chinatown and the tenderloin. instead, it was still the marina is built on fill. well, i was getting ready to go to a queens bench and make a speech and instead i went down to the marina. i saw the fire boats come in. i saw the portable hydrant being rolled out and i

asked why now and i was told all the water mains were out. so that hydrant went up to visit darrell street and actually, to great extent saves the day. the man who invented this portable fire hydrants name was frank blackburn. he was the deputy chief of the department. it was a real step forward. the hydrant was subsequently used in rwanda for the transfer of water during a terrible drought and was credited with saving the lives of 140,000 people. so this is where the protected productivity, the design, of a command staff of the san francisco firearm-fire department produced something that had never been done before. it was very special and i

always became a firm backer of the phoenix. never got zero doubt in my nine years as mayor and so here we are today with a bran new phoenix-well brand-new fire boat that is going to be named. it will be bigger. it will be better. and it will be the failsafe should something happen and these mains go out again. so i want to say, congratulations fire departments. frank blackthorn isn't here but i just want you to know wherever you are, that it was really a good step forward and i want to thank the san francisco fire departments for all you do. i had the privilege in the nine years that i was mayor of going to every major alarm in this city and so i actually saw you were. once i saw that it was

interesting for me because all the union battles became nothing. it was all worth it. thank you so much for your service. >> >>[applause] >> thank you so much sen. feinstein. it is such a pleasure to have you here with us today. please, help me welcome the mayor of san francisco, the hon. edwin lee to say a few words. the bank. >> >>[applause] >> thank you very much. good morning, everyone. sen., it's a joy a pleasure to an honor to be with you this morning to christen this next fire boat. it's monday morning everybody. we are at atc park. we got the riordan high school band. i've got my feels copy. i'm with the san francisco fire departments. mondays don't get any better.

>>[laughing] so i want to say, thank you as we add to the incredible need of apparatuses that we must have in this evolving city. i know that the fire boat is going to be invaluable. the chief and i and the commission know that the equipment, not only has to be replaced, it has to be modernized. as our city is growing. with mission bay that we are in now, with the growing population that we have, and the bayshore, the south bay, all of the areas of the city, we need the modern apparatus. this morning i'm joining all of you to say, thank you, to the men and women of our fire department because this apparatus not only complements the things that we did, the

guardian and the phoenix, but it also complements the men and women who on on everyday basis, whenever the call is made, you rush in to that danger in order to relieve us from danger. so i personally want to say thank you to each and every one of you because that apparatus replacement is helping. we have just made investments in your ambulance and i know-and convert and achieve our working together with me to make sure that response teams and her influences are there. they are there today because of your work with us. now, the fire boat with his new apparatuses and its new ability to pump bay water into wherever we need is going to be an incredible answer to the needs. now i will also say that this new fire boat is more than just a piece of equipment. it is about our cities resilience because we have more and more with the use

of all of the equipment that we have and the training that we are doing with fleet week, and i know lewis and the three-week association are here. just last month we celebrated fleet week we celebrated more than that could the sen. and i were there to see the actual training that is going on between our fire department, all of our first responders in the city, our police department, of course, in our health department working together with our federal and state agencies to make sure we train to the level in which the next big event will call upon us. our neighborhood emergency response teams, they are training over 26,500 500 residents of our city to be better prepared to be able to save themselves, their neighbors, their friends in the community. that is about resiliency. that is about being

really prepared. the good story about this new fire boat is that the bulk of it was funded, thanks to the senator's advocacy on our behalf and others. the majority of it was funded through fema and federal grants. well, you know fema usually comes in after the event happens to have fema come in before an event happens is what we have been always trying to do in our city, to be better prepared. have all of the responding agencies, whether it is pg&e were whether small or utilities, whether it is all our departments working together ahead of time so that we never introduce each other at the time of an emergency. this is what we do and this is what this apparatus will do. so i want to say thank you. i want to say thank you to the men and women of local 798 for your dedication to working with the commission, the chief, the city, to make sure we are at

our best. to make sure were all prepared and of course thank you to our police department our sheriff department all the first responders as well. this is an incredible time for our city to be adequately prepared to make sure that we are investing properly and we are prepared for the immediate future. thank you very much. >> >>[applause] now the president of our fire commission francine covington. >>good morning everyone. isn't this a fabulous day? wow. mother nature loves the fire department. you can see that. >>[laughing] thank you all so much for being here. this is such a fantastic day for us

because we get our third fire boat. as a city we are not growing out oh we are growing up. becoming more densely populated and we need to have as many resources available to us as we possibly can have. i want to thank the mayor for his support. i definitely want to -excuse me-thank sen. feinstein for her support when she was mayor and now in her position as sen. it's very very crucial that we have this support because we were able to get to more than $8 million in fema funding. the process of going through naming the boat was delightful. we received more than 300 names from schoolchildren and the guardian and the phoenix were also named by schoolchildren. so, this continues a a tradition in the department and you'll find out with a winning name is an

injustice gets. i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge by fellow commissioners starting with commissioner sancho was on the zombies are longest-serving commissioner. 21 years as commissioner on the fire commission. and we also have commissioner cleveland and commissioner hardeman so again thank you all very much for being here and i just can't tell you how delightful this is. >>[laughing] see you soon. >> >>[applause] >> thank you president covington. now it gives me great pleasure and it is truly an honor to introduce the next speaker. please, welcomed the chief of the san francisco fire department, joanne hayes-white >> thank you. good morning and

welcome an open e ctr. five signs, did thank you for bringing us in to archbishop riordan high school band. we really appreciate you being here. if you don't pursue a career in music consider the fire service. thanks for being you. my brother was class of 1971. it's a great privilege to be here with so many of you get a lot of people to knowledge and think. certainly, our federal partners are regional partners, my colleagues from throughout the bay area, fire department, thank you for being here as well as our military partners. to our elected officials, i see some remember to supervisor peskin here today as well as our sheriff vicki hennessy. she's not elected but i think if she was elected she got 100% support and that is the city and state chief of protocol charlotte schultz. thank you for being here. >>[applause] so many people we have our partners in the pvt. ambulance amr is to get my colleagues are city administrator naomi kelly could you blame force from the port

the port has been huge part of good always with us every step of the dig i see jack therefrom the giants here. thank you for helping us have a beautiful backdrop. and let's get them in 2017. >>[laughing] i've three of my former deputies which he-gary and pat-i appreciate you being you were part of the team as we thought about this boat. guardians of the city is here. well represented with jim finley retired captain 150th committee the three-week committee like mayor lee said thank you for all you do and someone also said to shout out to bearden high school mentoring free week were picked as number one in the battle of the bands. so congratulations again to you. >>[applause] we also local 798 president tom o'connor. thank you for being here today and celebrating with us. also, in the back mark heller please offered scissors as you is a great partner. in our hearts and souls are out to officer kevin downes who we work together on friday night and we wish him a full recovery. so this is about

celebrating and i can definitely say the native san franciscans am proud to continue serve as your fire chief you have a great team i can than staff is all here. i appreciate all the hard work you do. my hat is off to all the members active and retired civilian and uniformed in our department it is about teamwork. sometimes we don't always see eye to eye when it comes down to what we really need to do the filling our mission we get it done and i really really appreciate that. part of the team though as i was growing up was a great admiration for the mayor during the 1980s as she took over a difficult time in the late 70s. now she's our sen. a great respect and she's been an inspiration to all of us. i do know personally from so the gentleman i work with when i started at the fire boat worked there for about 18 months would allow about maritime operations. the importance of a fire boat. sen. feinstein is absolutely correct and i don't be she gives herself enough credit whatever aides at a time later became the fire

commissioner have the rough, she sent him down multiple times and she herself can down to station 35 during her time as mayor because she was getting a lot of pressure to retire the fire boat. it's an expensive vessel to maintain. we all know that. but all of that those arguments, those discussions of those all went out the window 27 years ago today when the fire boat phoenix pumped throughout the night and saves most of the marina a great part of the marina get so sen. feinstein is very special with us that you're here today. we really appreciate it. of course, mayor ryu appreciate your leadership and support are always a champion for preparedness. and that does not go without us noticing here in the san francisco fire department get we really appreciate all your support of our department throughout the year. or commissioners also appreciate your support that we also have a beautiful craft behind us which were democrats and berries. we would like to say thank you for the craftsmanship

from jensen maritime and bigger corporation. then as well we've had a great partner throughout the year and very proud of the partnership since i've achieved since 2004 has even gotten better with pacific gas & electric were happy to have vice president of electric operations gary anderson with us today been a great partner and specifically the router 150th year they have been with us to upper celebrate and enables to celebrate. other department heads, i know mayor lee engine and cronenberg thank you also from the department of emergency management. my sister is your patricia get second row and i see my big brother dan class of 1971 just showed up. city college. instructor for 39 years thanks for being here, jim. i want to say to code thank you to all the men and women the station 35 and are fire boat. like i said i have the privilege of working on the fire boat in the 90s. i learned a lot. some of the people i learned from our now retired

good i'm grateful they are here at the party was the engineer on october 17, 1989. he is it. neat, where are you? thanks for being you could happily retired. we also have bob costa who taught me a lot. when i was at the fire boat where is bob? thank you, bob for being here. we have dennis kennedy also here. a number of other retired these wave your hand if you work on the fire boat and are now retired. thank you for all for being here. >>[applause] i would also like to pay tribute to two men that are worth with their no longer with us. they were wonderful pilots. one was died in 2006 and one died and audio seven. pilate arvid habaneros and pilot kevin devine. they were huge numbers of our department and both died unexpectedly while they were still serving in the san francisco fire department. i know the members always have

great respect for them but i want to acknowledge them. we did also invite their families today. so without further ado, we all wanted them am excited to introduce fairly soon-i think mindy has something else to say but were going to introduce the schoolchild, third grader from st. peter in a few minutes he's going to come join me and work get on with us our market so thank you very much for coming out and appreciating our beautiful boat. >> >>[applause] >> thank you so much chief hayes-white. i don't think this boat will be officially ours until we receive the title. so i'd like to invite the chief executive officer, bigger, mr. frank so deep, up to present the vessel title to the chief of the department. >> speed thank you. good morning. did anyone hear the

hammering going on behind you spewing raise your hand if you did. okay so what were you thinking? were you think i can believe someone's making noise in the middle of the ceremony? were you thinking is he building a piece of staging or is he building an awning to keep someone out of the weather? were you thinking is it safe? were you thinking does it fit if you need a hammer? >>[laughing] we are bigger we build think. that's how we think. it's a great honor to be here on behalf of of the 500 different craftspeople who touch this boat who are skilled artisans at baker who really built this remarkable fire boat. to chief hayes-white to mayor lee to sen. feinstein, thank you for honoring bigger by allowing us to partner with the san francisco fire department to build its. with me today is

ali-us cut planning and zoning one of the people selected by his peers to be here to represent those who with their hands with their brilliance, built this great boat. at baker we are pretty partial to san francisco bay area. we built for of your ferries that some you travel in south big that are run by-. when you go by the transbay new transbay transit center and you see those really cool that their x-rays think of it v for bigger because we both goes structural parts for you. we built your boat. so were also building two more boats four-which will come out in the spring and winter group and designing some electric hybrids that will overly transit people. most environmentally sponsored boat manner possible. whether we are building ferries or structural sections for transbay were by designing the hydro electric ferries are people at baker lake allee, take great care to deliver

quality we deliver it with love. why? because fire boat has a critical purpose often a purpose that has the potential to save lives and to protect our countries citizens. so ali is one join me in this presentation and chief, if we may, on behalf of bigger, jensen maritime the designer, and are 2500 skilled artisans at baker please accept this title to this great fire boat from us. >> >>[applause] >> you are welcome. >> also please join your boat has been selected by people as being one of the 10 significant votes of the year and might just get out onward later this should enjoy it with the love. thank you. >> thank you. >>[applause] >> before i bring up our next

presenter, i did want to also acknowledge the beautiful singing a firefighter david huckins wife geico, thank you very much for making this so special. beautiful rendition. >>[applause] >> my staff kelly and olivia without them this one i've happen today either. so i know you don't want a lot of acknowledgments but it's definitely do. thank you so much. this is the exciting part. were going to have a: red. come on up. on board to induce you know mr. nico the there appeared geico is a third-grader at st. peter and paul. >>[applause] i happen

to know him although i did not know that he was the person that committed the name. as president coming says were over 300 entries to name the fire boat. nico is the winner. were going to unveil the name soon but i did want to say that he had about eight member panel on the selection committee. was not an easy task but you are entry was picked. i'm going to have you unveiled again shortly but first of all we are going to have nico read a fire code that was written in 1935 by one of our members. >> here is a scuttle that protects our big a floating tower with a chilling spray. to douse the anger of starting flame and put the minutes of dread fire to shame. whose staffs this towering ship spewing when she must team into some blazing slip? must be firefighters of courage possessed by very few. members of our fire boat's crew. >> >>[applause]

>> great job. nico is the son of one of our valuable members capt. tony rivera. tony, please stand up. and his lovely wife, lisa. and his daughter in fifth-grade, nina is with us. and his in-laws. so thank you for being here. great job on the poem. pretty good for third grade i think you're not an easy poem to read the very fitting one. >> thank you so much, nico. that was great. okay. now on with the ceremony. two members of station 35, will assemble for the chief to give the order to command the ship. >> thank you members of engine 35 fire boat and now we will do the official unveiling of the name. which was recommended by

nico rivera and selected by our fire boat naming committee. the name of fire boat three is the >> st. francis. >> >>speech during>>[applause] >> >> >> >> thank you, kyra. good morning, everyone. thank you. thank you for being out here being part of the great city response to this big big challenge. i know what carol was talking about it i was one of those frustrated people as well as watching on television. but i do enjoy these days when

-in fact, this is the 65th, 65 times, we have brought hundreds if not thousands of people together to make sure that we are helping folks touched the services we want to have. we have today over 150 different services that if we do not come together people might not be able to get the support. we are and we will always be the city of love in san francisco. were demonstrating this. yes. thank you. you are demonstrating this >> >>[applause] >> some people frustrations because they just want the issue to go away. it's not going away. economic inequality is not going away. discrimination is not going away. it takes people like you to work with us to resolve them

every single day. so today we are demonstrating. i want to just say thank you to all the different companies the individual volunteers coming together. there are so many of you. i know somebody is going to name all of the names of all the difference wonderful companies that you represent. i just want to personally say thank you for coming together again 65 times. now we're doing our part as well. you know some people say what you doing spending $267 million a year on homelessness and we still see so much challenges? well it's expensive expensive to live in this great city and we don't want people to live on the streets. we don't want to see needles on the streets. again, we do it the way we are compassionate about it. we are humanly compassion about how we solve this problem. so in the next pew months we have three more supportive housing buildings opening up in san francisco. three more added that will be dozens, hundreds of units so that people will have the housing with

supportive services in february, will open up-yes >> >>[applause] >> in february, we'd open up new is navigation center. everybody know what a navigation center is? all right. let me explain. everybody understands what shelters have been, right? they getting get out. get in and get out. that's what shelters have been. when i came to be mayor i said that's not good enough. to have people come into shelter, briefly, then kick them out at 8 am. ring them in at 4 pm kick them out at 8 am and without much service or support. what we introduced was a center called a navigation center. helping people navigate to permanent housing. the open up the very first one at 16th and mission street. for 75 people. it's a

24-7 operation. people of the meals they need to have get all the services they have. they can kind of get back into the spirit of how to sleep at night. a lot of homeless people sleep in the daytime because of all the dangers that occur on the streets. so we are getting back into the habit of living in their own units. over probably usually about 2-3 weeks people then have individual case management that helps them navigate to permanent housing. this is what we do now as a new model. it is now become the national model. seattle, portland, los angeles, have all come in and they said we need to have these navigation center. rather than temporary shelters that offer really no pathway to permanent housing. so when we build and when we we have the permanent housing use these navigation centers to get people prepared so that they can stay in their

units have all the support they need. so we need more navigation centers. the next one that will-thank you. >> >>[applause] >> this is, again, this is our best practice understanding of what really works to change people's lives. because if you do encounter you will encounter them today people are been on the streets sometimes for many years. a lot of phobias that a lot of mistrust. a lot of habits and behaviors that are going to be very challenging for them even if we have eight units ready for them they might not be able or ready to accept it. so the navigation centers we are doing the next one that we have. we are able to work this out with the before of san francisco and they have provided us with an area near the dogpatch that we work it out with immediate neighborhoods were now embracing it so they welcome injured 70 person navigation ctr. on 25th st. in the dogpatch that will be ready for operation in february that

again 24 seven you another site we were working on the salvation army as well. so we're taking care of business. i want to say this is a new approach. we have to be patient but we also to the right. we are not to move people from one corner to another corner. that's not what san francisco is about. when we have a new department. of department on homelessness and supportive housing. jack crews is to work at hamilton family shelter is now the director of operations of its whole new department. we consolidated the services of or five different departments to place it is one dedicated department. now just like every day i get to work with 120 people this one to permanent come to work and save to me unto themselves everybody they touch i get to end homelessness for one person every single day. that makes me feel great.

does not make you feel great? >> >>[applause] >> we have the navigation centers we have the new housing coming aboard. we also will have a good we are having a cayman resolution team. this is just idea. kim and resolution to what is due? practice we don't want people to live but our streets. had we do it? are clearing out the demons of the past month we've been very focused mission area from 16th on what tonight street. we seem to have a very strong presence of an cam and there. we are helping people be indian camp. were doing the camp kuwait which we will clear those intimate but at the same time bring the man. in fact the first two weeks as we got

people ready were able to bring in 35 people into permanent housing to navigation centers and d encamped those areas. when we get camp that means no more needles on the street. the more people shooting up, laying across the street and the midday. we are trying to do this in way in which we can also take the men on a permanent basis give them the help and support they need. so i want to say again thank you to all of you. i would give you a sense of what we're doing here just working with public health with our human services, with our social services as well as our new department on housing and homelessness. and we work together with our police department so we don't criminalize homelessness. just make sure we do it all the right way. so when you do your work to that new mail there's

thousands of other people that are helping you in helping us figure this out permanently and ending homelessness as many people as we can touch. thank you for coming together for 65th project homeless connect will be there working hard to make sure we do it the right way. the human way. the san francisco way. thank you very much. >> >>[applause] >> >> >> >> commissioner chow commissioner chung commissioner sanchez and commissioner pating the second item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of october 6, 2015, and i'd like to note that commissi