commission up to three minutes on any matters -- [inaudible] to department personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. the lack of a response by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. >> thank you madam secretary. is there any member of the

public that would like to come forward and speak at this time? seeing none. public comment is now closed. >> item 3 approval of the minutes. approval of the meeting minutes from the regular meeting on september 28, 2016. >> is there any members of the public that has a comment on the minutes as sent to us? seeing none. public comment is now closed. and my fellow commissioners i would like to continue this item. there are a number of things they want to discuss with the secretary. >> actually i don't need to continue because they're not -- >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> no. not of great import, so i will entertain a motion. >> then i move to approve. >> okay thank you. >> i will second. >> thank you very much. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> thank you. item 4 chief of

department's report. report from chief of department on current issues and activities and events within the department. since the last commission meeting including fiscal year 2016-2017 budget academies, 150th anniversary updates, strategic plan update, special events, communications and outreach to other government agencies and the public and report from administration. report on the administrative divisions fleet and facility status, finance, support services, homeland security and training within the department. >> thank you madam secretary. chief hayes-white. >> good afternoon president covington, members of the fire commission. this is my report since our last meeting on october 12. with regards to the budget after first quarter of this current fiscal year '16, 17

we're projectedded to be on budget for expenditures and revenues. we began planning for the 17-18 budget process and projections to be released by the mayor's budget office and we work closely with the office for the five year financial plan for the city with the mayor's office. related to academies our 120th academy are in the final weeks. there will be a graduation of 51 members. we started with 54 on november 4 at usf. they have been grairks to provide their presentation auditorium for us. 10:00 a.m. on november 4, a week from friday. with regards to the class we are anticipating hiring 54 members and into the academy. 42 will be off the national

testing network list and we will be bringing 12 employed members from station 49 over two weeks later to join the class so the original 42 will start on the 28th and they will be joined by members of station 492 weeks later. the two week gap which i think i have discussed before is that the members of station 49 have demonstrated their competency and they're working on as paramedics and the first two weeks of the academy is evaluation of the emt skills so they don't need that refreshing and we are awaiting -- there are six final offers so far for that class out of the 42. we've identifying the members from station 49 and the remaining 42 that we've put a number of people through medicals. we anticipate -- i anticipate doing

-- conducting more interviews and backgrounds for the classes that we will be hiring in 2017 and those will take place probably the end part of this year. the list that we're using i believe is for people that have taken the test through may, so we anticipate probably end of november, early december asking for a refreshed list which will i believe go through at least september or october so i think that is good information for a people in the audience as well as members of the public. our deputy chief administration ramona williams will go through the other component what is is happening at training with academies. we have a age per diem paramedic academy that is nearing completion. they completed classroom training and now on field training and almost complete and the division of training continues to do a great

job for the amount of work of in service and training and follow up with probationary training and thank you to the chief for that. h3 level one emts with paramedic license we will offer the opportunity for them to promote in that classification to go from emt to a paramedic. that is anticipated. chief williams will go through that as well as an emt academy slated some time in january. with regards to the 150th anniversary this year has flown by. there have been a number of events and there's three more really that remain in celebration of our 150th year. our committee will be meeting tomorrow. probably one of the -- well, second to last meeting. we have been meeting since july of last year, and we will discuss the final events of the year which include a film festival which president covington has been intimately

involved and heading that up and doing that on november 5th and 6 ts and we're doing something in conjunction with another group and of the fire which the 150th committee has underwritten. aspects of that premier, and then we are also planning for a large e haven't for those that are on duty for december 3 which is the actual 150th birthday for the department and we'll have an event for members that want to come off duty at the zoo on the evening of december 3. i did want to make note of our fire boat commissioning which we had since the last meeting and it was a wonderful day. the weather cooperated. it was a beautiful back drop. we appreciate the port for there partnership as well as well as the san francisco guyants to have the event where we had.

it was wonderful and well attended by a whole host of people. we were grateful to have mayor lee there as well as senator dianne feinstein and supportive of our department and particularly the fire boat and when she was mayor and we talked about that day there were many types that the funding for the fire boat was suggested to go away and she was unwavering in the support so it was fitting to have her christian the boat that day. thank you for being there and your comments that morning. president covington and you know i pay tribute to all the members of the department but specifically for the boat, station 35 and past, present and future members of the fire boat. it's a wonderful asset for the department, the city, the region, and so we thought that went off very well. with regards to strategic plan

currently the plan -- there's updates to the plan that reflect the concerns and input from members of the planning committee. mr. corso and maureen, the fire secretary and others are helping him with the revised draft for the committee to review and the fire commission and i believe there they're continuing to meet with the subject matter experts to update the plan and identified the gaps on to events and activities outreach since the last meeting. many of ution in this room were very proud to be part of a historic moment and that is commissioner nakajo receiving the conmenidation

from the counsel general from japan and thank you for including us and we're proud to have the working relationship with you, and on your upcoming retirement in a few days on october 31, so that was a wonderful night. i had the privilege of being at the residence there being the counsel general but many in the command staff had not and thank you for including us and congratulations once again. on the 15th of october i know there was retirement event for commissioner nakajo that many attended. i wasn't able to be there. it was the conclusion of fire prevention week and there was a bril and one of the ones i couldn't attend and chief williams attended as well as many members of the department and lieutenant the coordinator and held at marina middle school and i am also told that went very well. i had the privilege

to travel up to sacramento that day, and i attended a very moving ceremony. i will pass around the program. it was a california firefighters memorial in which 29 members of the california fire departments were added to the memorial wall, their names. unfortunately we had five of those members of the 29 that were added to the wall, but it was -- like i said it was a very moving ceremony. all five families were there for our members and i had a chance to visit with each of them where flases were presented by an honor guard. three members of the department participated in the honor guard to present flags to the families and it's a lasting memory in that all five names can be visited along with all of the other names that are on the wall and as a reminder like i said i was very proud and all served the department with

dedication and to have this monor to be there -- -- honor and be there and have the families honored and appreciated for the loved one's service like i said was special and the five members out of the 29 that were from our department were firefighter -- [inaudible] firefighter paramedic richard faust, firefighter david [inaudible], firefighter clyde [inaudible] and lieutenant john murphy so there was a number of people from our department.ad am wood from local tv was there as well to visit with the families and it was beautiful. governor brown spoke. lieutenant governor newsom was there and it was a beautiful ceremony. i just talked about the fire boat commissioning that octobered on october 17 and fittingly was the 27th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake and we tied that in fiesly. it was an

honor to speak at the emergency preparedness seminar. i gave opening remarks. we have a good partnership with the building owners and managers association and the more we can partner with elements of the community certainly building owners regarding the importance of preparedness the better off we all are so that went very well. we had the monthly labor management meeting on the 18th and i had the privilege of attending -- it was a very interesting group and historical. there was the 100 anniversary of the board of supervisors that were celebrated last week on the 18th and they took -- they tried to match a historic photo from 100 years ago so i was part of the photograph but they invited all former supervisors and well attended and they each had a

opportunity if they chose to speak about their time so that was also a pretty special day i thought of being a native san franciscan. i knew all of the former supervisors as well or least read or heard about them so it was very special. on the 19th mayor lee which we appreciate made a presentation to many of the rescue personnel that worked on october 8 during fleet week toes rescue the 30 people in the water when the boat sank and he paid tribute to the members of the fire department and had chief and about ten others from the department. chief toney chaplin was there with the department and acknowledged the private samaritan that helped with the rescues and personnel from san francisco general so those that responded to the scene and all the way to the hospital where a

few people were transported. it could be a much worse situation and no loss of life and no real injuries that sustained because of the team work and mayor lee was pleased and presented certificates to all of the members there that day and a pin from the city so i was proud to be part of that. on october 20 our department participated with many of the rest of the state of california and the great shake out. i participated at break hart elementary school in hunters point with the police sheave and other members from city government where we worked -- i had a third grade class we talked about the importance of preparing in the event of an emergency. i spoke to the kids afterwards. jim o'connell from battalion ten assisted me. at headquarters we had an exit drill. i believe chief francisco and gonzales were in charge of the drill to make sure that we participate. i think

people think we rescue people but it's important to be prepared as well and every station in the department participated in that exercise. later that day i was on a panel with few of my department head colleagues, director reiskin from mta and anne koenen burg and the city assessor recorder. we were invited to participate as part of the chamber of commerce's leadership program and gave a 15 minute overview of the department's achievements and challenges and then i have done this before. we spoke to leadership san francisco which is comprised of 50 members from the community, for profit, non-profit, governmental folks that are part of this 10, 11 month session. there's monthly sessions over the course of ten, 11 months. i was a participate in 2003 so i'm an alum and

acknowledge mark corso the director of finance and planning and he was in part two where the cfos put on an xaz of the members to talk about the challenges and the priorities and so forth in city budgeting so thank you for joining me on that. and then i closed out the afternoon with a planning meeting at the zoo for the december 3 event which will be able to provide more detail on next month once we talk to the committee tomorrow at the meeting. and then today i was really happy to start off -- it started off a wonderful day. i would like to acknowledge firefighter mary reidy and member of the fire service women and a long standing employee group. i was a member of the original steering committee and next year will mark the 30th anniversary of women here in the fire department in san francisco so they put out the call to

have active, retired and civilian and uniformed women to do a historical photo and very pleased to say that there were at least 200 or so of us there this morning from nine to 10:30 a.m. and it was great running into some of the women that you know kind of paved the way and are no longer with the department, so we had a good turnout of women to that event, and photos will be made. it was perfect morning out at the field with the golden gate bridge as a back drop so that was wonderful. and i would like to thank you them for that and mary reidy and finally president covington for your consideration. someone that i worked with, not that i ever worked in the bureau of fire prevention but always had a smile on tis face and saw him four days a week when i headed

up to my office. he was able to retire but spent 31 years with the department and retired just before passing away and that is fire inspector manuel mikaro and served the department with great pride and entered the department in 1985. he had an illness that he didn't have for very long. he died relatively soon after his diagnosis but i would like for you to consider adjourning in his honor and memory tonight and he has a service on friday which many of us will attend and my personal condolences to his coworkers and the bureau of fire prevention. he was a good man. that concludes my report. >> thank you chief hayes-white. is there any members of the public that would like to comment on the chief's report? okay. public comment

is closed and i will go to the fellow commissioners starting with commissioner hardeman. >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> surprise. >> it was up there the whole time so i get to go first. okay. i don't have anything earth shattering. thank you for the detailed report chief. the fire boat was really a fun day and your staff did a fantastic job. the weather was great. i had a real personal interest there because in a way i was wondering if they were going to name the fire boat after diane feinstein but that didn't happen but she gave me the first payment in 1982 at the mayor's mayor's office of training and later appointed me human rights commissioner and i am grateful and friendly with her. it was wonderful she was the one that got to christian the ship. that

was terrific. staff -- the writing by senior chronicle staffer carl molte was fantastic and has a deep interest in maritime too and took the general o'brian over to normandy for the anniversary i guess it was -- what the 50th anniversary and wrote articles every day in the chronicle so he knows his maritime and made that whole trip, and personally i would like to thank dennis kennedy. i don't know if we all received his email with all the 50 or more photos that he sent. that was quite nice of dennis. he did a great photo on that day.

chief commissioner nakajo that was a great lunch you had and it was nice the command staff and you know that the command staff is there on their own time, quite often at a lot of these events and they were at commissioner nakajo's event and that really shows a lot of class so that so many people take their own times. i know chief williams was on vacation but she still showed up. it's very nice and you show the respect that the top people in the fire department give to each other. it's nice that you give that respect to the commissioners too. oh then just the memorial up in sacramento. i have a meeting in sacramento friday so i will walk over and check that out. i usually like to walk

over when i have meetings. i am in sacramento all the time and my grandson lives in sacramento but i always go to the vietnam memorial and i have to check out the names on the list. that was nice also for to you attend that and i know you couldn't attend everything. it was good for you to be there. as far as not closing the meeting but to recognize somebody who was really just a character and just a wonderful guy. warner lieuin and very active in the hotel industry and head of the hilton hotel in san francisco and just a great event. if you were at an event or function and he would get up to speak and tell jokes and the red shoes and a funny man. he would tell great stories so just acknowledging him, his passing. wonderful guy, wonderful family. i know his daughter works in the

convention visitor industry for the city and it was nice and thank you for your report chief. >> thank you commissioner hardeman. vice president cleaveland. >> thank you madam president and thank you chief for your report. a couple of questions and then i will get into the accolades as well. on the budget the significant -- do you see any significant changes in the 17-18 budget from this year's budget? i mean do you see any major shifts of monies or anything of that nature? and the second part of that is when will we start the collaborative budgeting process where mr. corso and yourself bring together a lot of people to talk about the budgeting process and the priorities? >> sure. so for the changes you asked do i see the department or the city? >> this department. >> this department. i think we want to build upon your budget that we got this year that we received this year, and there was a whole host of

priorities, some funded and some not so we want to revisit that priority list, perhaps add to it and move it around a little bit and that's the work of the budget committee. i would say we would reconvene probably at least -- once we get the budget instructions from the mayor's budget office whether we have a meeting by the end of year or not i think we would send the budget information, what the financial picture looks like for the city to the budget committee, and then come together in the very early part of the new year. >> i think it's good that you brought a collaboration together on the budgeting process the last couple of years and i would love to see that continue because everyone needs to have a little idea of what is in the budget for them and their station or their particular expertise, and assignments and so it's good to have that collaboration, so i appreciate you doing that. >> thanks. i agree. this will be year three. >> yeah. you mentioned that

you've got six final offers still outstanding for the upcoming class. how much time is it normally between notification of your end for the next h2 class and actually getting into that class? what's the normal time -- because many have jobs. >> correct. >> but that aside they have to quit and do something. >> . we've done a much better job in the last few years. when i was working as the director of training sometimes we gave less than a week and i don't think that's fair either and we endeavor to give at least two weeks notice. there are occasions -- in fact we have someone in the class right now and due to a candidate coming to the orientation and then withdrawing on the friday before the monday start we made a -- chief gonzales made a call to someone on a friday and said we have an open spot and can you join us on monday and he made three calls and two didn't pick

up and one picked up and did well on short notice. >> wow. >> but generally we like to give two weeks notice. >> i think that is notice to everyone in the room to answer the phone if you get a call from the fire department. >> yes. >> i also wanted to klght you and olivia for for putting together the fire boat commissioning event and all the people involved in that. you did a terrific job. it was really a very nice event so we have the st. francis is our new bier boat. it's state of the art and i think anyone who has seen it would be impressed by it, and if you go aboard it you will be more impressed because it's really a state of the art wonderful addition to the protection of our city, so thank you for all the organization that you did and olivia for organizing the actual ceremony because i know that's no small task. i also wanted to commend

commissioner nakajo. when i first came on the commission he was the president of the commission at that time and he took me under his wing and was a wonderful mender and has been a wonderful mentor to really hundreds and hundreds of people over the career, 40 plus years of building an organization in japantown. comoachy has a service organization -- i mean he is really mr. japantown as a consequence of many years of helping the community and building that community up and i wanted to personally congratulate him because his lifetime achievement is really what we should all aspire to. we want people to recognize us for the things that we have done for others and he's certainly that example. i would also like to thank you chief and to chief francisco for participate with

the building owner association and the emergency preparedness seminar. it's important to make sure that people working in the high rise office buildings every day understand the emergency procedures and how and where to evacicate and what to do in certain circumstances and it's a collaboration and not just fire but police, emergency management services. it's all kinds of things but when you have people, 2,000, 3,000 people in a building you have small cities within the city and it's important that they understand their role in case of an emergency so thank you for participating with us every year and help educating our tenant base and property managers. and that's it. thank you. >> thank you vice president cleaveland. commissioner nakajo nakajo. >> thank you very much madam

president. first of all before i get into the one question i did want to comment on the fire boat ceremony as well. i wanted to echo the kinds of responses. what was really great built fire boat about the fire boat and senator feinstein was there and to chrisin the boat and have her participation and the narrative of the fire boat was really rich. the other part of it in the audience that day were a tremendous amount of former members of the department, and they were all officers at the time as well, so you could feel that kind of historical perspective within them. i wanted to also acknowledge all the hard work that went behind that. i had this time also i

am moved that we had all of the commissioners and the chief and the command force at the counsel general's residents for the foreign minister's neighborhood commercial for myself. we japanese americans are. >> >> very big on respect and when it comes to the presence of the department and commission level and mixed in with the community it's a great honor and also counsel general ja mato representing the city and historically san francisco is where they. where they. -- they see it and for those at my luncheon and to be there on your own time as commissioner hardeman talked about and be in

uniform it's just a beautiful thing and members of the community have an opportunity to have interaction. thank you very much for all of that as well. i also have just one question chief hayes-white. when you were talking about the strategic plan does that strategic plan incorporate some of the remarks or recommendations or the summary of the grand jury report? >> so we -- since i have been chief we probably and since you have been a commissioner longer than i have been chief, we had a number of grand jury reports so i would say indirectly it addresses any of the sort of issues or challenges facing the department. did you have a specific grand jury report in mind? was it the most recent one on fire prevention? >> yeah, my thought process was the most recent one. >> okay.

>> but part of that is also to vice president cleaveland's question and projections and futurism and i also look at the strategic plan. correct me chief if i am wrong as a forecast blueprint of the city and the department integrated with the city and where we will be and i know as director corso puts it together there will be budget modifications with that as well as we grow. i call that projections and i am curious again i am glad we're having the conversation because talking about this makes me reflect on what the grand jury report was which is nothing new to us and what we're supposed to be doing and perspective from improvements and suggestions. the only suggestion new in there was interdepartmental relationship between this commission and the building inspector so i think we're moving towards that but i think i answered my own question chief in some ways. i am beginning

to understand that so i i'm going to check that. other than that thank you chief for the comprehensive report. thank you president. >> thank you commissioner nakajo. and thank you for your report chief. i also wanted to say that you know the commissioners thoroughly enjoyed the two events that took place to heap honor and love on your head, and the luncheon was attended by probably around 300 people there. 450. that's right. there was another room, the overflow room. that's what happens when you're popular on campus. >> just one under the occupancy. >> yes, just one under the occupancy. i forgot about the over flow room and there were so many representatives from city

and state government. it was very, very nice. we're very, very proud of him and it was also a very light hearted affair, a lot of joshing back and forth and teasing. we had a wonderful time. congratulations again to you. so i had for the chief just to pick up on what it is that commissioner nakajo was saying regarding the strategic plan. do we have a sub-committee for succession planning? because that was one of the things we were dinged by the civil grand jury. i guess it was two years ago. >> within the strategic plan do we have a sub-committee on that? >> yes. >> i would like to defer to mr. corso. >> okay. if there has been any discussion at all about

succession and planning for whenever the next chief comes. >> good afternoon. mark corso. that has been talked -- especially early on in the overall strategic planning committee. it's one of the items following the strategic plan is to develop a succession plan. specific committee members so to speak have not been identified. that is a topic and identified as a need through the discussions and meetings of the strategic plan. i think once the strategic plan is finalized that is the next -- that's definitely on my radar, next coming up for development but individual members or sub-committee as part of the strategic planning committee those members have not been identified. >> all right. would it be part of the plan that you submit to us? >> so succession plans is part of the strategic plan. the actual succession plan would be a separate document but the need for it has been identified in the strategic plan, and some of

the kind of benefits and roles that plan would have been identified within the strategic plan itself, but i wouldn't say necessarily the strategic plan is a succession plan itself but it does incorporate the need for it, identifies the need for it and the subsession plan is developed separately. >> how long would that take. >> i don't know at this time. i believe we want to begin work on it beginning of the year and kind of develop that plan outside once the strategic plan is complete. >> okay. i think it's very important. i am glad that i posed the question because somehow in the back of my mind i assumed that the strategic plan that was being worked on also had a succession component, but now i understand it does not have. >> it does not. in general there's a number of other plans kind of off shooting from the strategic plan where we're

talking about departmental outreach plan, recruitment plan, those things and the needs for those and the functions are identified within the strategic plan but i believe the plans are separate from the actual plan itself. >> all right. well, as part of the suck session plan you know the chief of the department is the only person in the city and county of san francisco that has an official residence, and as you go forward with the succession plan i would like for you to include how we're going to get the official residence up to snuff, up to code as it were, to make sure that everything goes smoothly. our chief is you know one of the longest serving chiefs in the country, so we have to plan for the future. >> absolutely. that can be incorporated as well for sure. >> okay. thank you mr. corso. did you want to speak now

commissioner nakajo or complete my remarks? >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> well, if you pick up on that i would yield the floor. >> thank you very much for yielding the floor. director corso could i ask a question through the chief on the specifics. does the strategic plan committee have a lifetime or is there a charge? i am just trying to figure out how much -- you were talking about the derivatives. how far does that committee go in terms of charge and completion through the chief? >> sure. that's been discussed at the meeting kind of once there's a plan in place what are the next steps and what do we do? so there have been various groups. i don't know if we discussed specifically the length of the strategic planning committee itself. i think we

inenvisioning and updating the commission on the status updates, not necessarily completing a new plan every year, probably every few years, something like that, but as far as follow through and kind of progress that we have made towards the goals that is a regular reporting to the commission and part is stakeholders, shareholder in each specific discipline that is identified. that is part of the plan itself but those kind of work groups would be tasked with kind of execution of the projects and the proposals put forth in the plan as well as reporting and evaluating the progress of those. >> okay. and i understand that and i want is the -- support the consent of the committees and sub-committees being alive and producing and contributing. >> absolutely. >> so the model of the production is current up and to deet and the only question is you know there's some planning

projections of years out of the strategic planning. is there? >> we're looking at five years for the plan. >> okay. okay. you're not looking beyond the five years, five plus five or five plus three or something. >> we're looking at things. obviously there's a number of longer term projects. one of the popular ones and discussed here is the training facility. i think things like that are incorporated into the plan as far as the planning aspect of those projects, but obviously it doesn't look like -- there's a number of projects like that where the execution and completion of those projects would fall beyond that five year plan. >> okay. thank you. thank you madam president. >> thank you. okay. i will complete my remarks and then i will see if my fellow commissioners want to add anything. regarding the fire boat commissioning it was a

wonderful day, a wonderful event. extremely well planned and well attended, so thank you to everyone involved, particularly ms. gattlynn. she did a fabulous job and i think it was noticed by everyone who attended. i want to say that if you missed the ceremony i ran into jack chan last week and turns out that you can watch it on sfgtv. you go to the mayor's press events page and there it is from beginning to end, so it was very nice to be able to review that. this book, this memorial service book for the california firefighters memorial while my other commissioners

were -- my fellow commissioners were speaking i was going through and just perusing the short biographies of the five men who were previously in our department, and this is a very, very serious memorial service. four out of the five at the end of the paragraph about their lives and their service -- four out of the five died of a job related cancer. one out of the five passed away from a job related heart attack and i bring that up because it was shocking and moving to read this. this is the first time i have seen this book and i really want members of the public to

understand what a serious profession firefighting is. even if you retire there can be lingering health concerns, and i am glad to know that this california firefighters memorial exists. unlike commissioner hardeman i don't have a son in sacramento but i'm going to make a special trip just to see this memorial so thank you for sharing this chief hayes-white. now, on another serious note next year is going to be the 30th year that women came into our department. one of the things that all of the commissioners, and i am sure command staff, are really proud of is the fact that we do have so many women in our department. the new york fire department

has less than 1% of women in the department out of a force of over 10,000 firefighters. there are fewer than 50 women firefighters and i just happen to run across this quote some time ago. it's by brenda burkeman who is the woman who sued the department, the new york fire department so that women could join and she says "prior to 1977 new york city had a quota for women firefighters. the quota was zero" and for us here in san francisco we have an entirely different attitude about people's abilities and we do not feel they're necessarily gender connected or related, so i just want to thank the

members of the department for being san franciscans, and i will leave it at that. okay. so i see that commissioner hardeman. >> thank you madam chair. real quick. i will be like 150-yards away from the memorial on friday. that's why it's so easy and i don't have to drive. that's why we will stop and see it. i didn't want to look like i didn't care about the japanese consulate party. i have been in that house so many -- the counsel general's residence many times and as a port commissioner we always celebrated the emperor's birthday party and always invited. japan has a wonderful relationship with the port of san francisco and i am familiar and i didn't want to

play it down and i am familiar so i didn't want to bring it up and wonderful to be there again and i am happy that everybody showed you so much respect commissioner. >> thank you commissioner hardeman. any other commissioners? okay. thank you. chief williams can you come forward please and give us your administration report? >> thank you president covington. good evening president covington fellow members of the commission, chief, i am deputy chief of administration. this is my administrative report for october 2016. i will start with assignment office. the annual vacancy bid for suppression members should be released this week, and the results will be implemented mid-january. the 2017 vacation selections for the station 49 members will occur

soon after the vacancy bids, and expected is mid-november. the h30 eligible list was adopted this month and the promotion and assignment changes reflecting the h30 captain's eligible list has come out this week, and we're currently preparing for the live vacancy bid for the airport division. under homeland security chief francisco continues to attend meetings and training exercises as well as disseminate situational awareness information regarding some of the various tactics and heightened threat reports against civilians and first responders, and he continues to apprize the command staff of all real or potential terrorist activity. during this reporting period the chief planned, coordinated or participated in

various events such as the fleet week operations which included various training events, demonstrations, and air shows to name a few. he also assisted in the coordination of the red bowl standing paddle board water race. it was from ocean beach to the st. francis yacht club and he continues to meet with several vendors regarding the upgrade of the f doc. i always like to mention that i want to make this known every reporting that the department continues to stay ever vigilant and remind the public if you see something to say something. it's important to continue that reminder. under the investigative services bureau the bureau continues to conduct candidate background checks. this will be an ongoing project in a good way. for the upcoming

academies. in addition they continue to conduct random postings and fire boat drug and alcohol testing. at this reporting period all results have been negative. under the department's decision they continued to administer candidate promotional and probationary physicals for the department as well as return to work, and work related injury exams. the office has reported 33 work related injuries for this reporting period, the month of september, up from 28 the previous month. under support services as mofts of you know the construction of pump station one, fire headquarters is moving along and almost complete. they have removed the temporary walls and it's estimated to be completed by the end of this month which is next week. all

other projects continue to move forward and on track. as mentioned previously station 16 members have moved out of their quarters. engine 16 moved to station 51 and truck 61 moved to station ten. as mentioned pleefsly station five renovation has been pushed back to spring of 2017 due to renegotiating the contracts between the general manager, general contractor and the subcontractor. we're continuing to work closely with the port on pier 26 for relocating the fire boats during the construction of station 35 and the project should be complete by the end of november. during this reporting period 123 requests for services were received and processed. and as

mentioned the new fire boat st. francis has been delivered. all equipment is on order. they have equip today for the most part. there's a few pieces of equipment that are coming shortly. and under fleet management nine ambulances have been ordered two have been delivered and outfitted at the radio shop and we should receive four more by the end of november. eight engines have been ordered. the specks have been completed, and the contract was awarded to ferrara so four will be delivered within a year and four a couple of months later. we have received two rescue squads and they're currently being outfitd and should be in the field in the next couple of weeks. two aerial trucks have been ordered. they're still working on the specks and once

finalized approved they will go out to bid. and lastly we still awaiting the a -- arrive of -- [inaudible] so we can go into service. under division of training. under ems during this reporting period we suspended active shooter training and will resume at a later date and during this time the ems staff is conducting required paramedic and emt training as well as preparing for the upcoming academies. the h3 level two bump up academy which is from emt to paramedic is scheduled to start november 7 and the 121st academy is scheduled to start three weeks later on november 28 with the

two weeks of ems training for the 42 firefighter h 2.s. the h3 level one emt academy is scheduled to start mid-january. and under fire reserves members continue to assist at various events during this reporting period as well as continue their weekly training at the division of training. under in service i am happy to report that the construction for the transit training prop is complete. it includes props for muni and bart which has been graciously donated and it is anticipated that this specialized training will be given in the spring of 2017. the staff continues to assist with the truck operations training to all members in the

field. under nert as was mentioned they held their city-wide drill on saturday october 15. myself as well as chief francisco attended the drill and successful and well attended. nert continues to attend the -- [inaudible] coordinator to attend various meetings, conduct outreach presentations and provide valuable neighborhood and advanced training throughout the city. and lastly under recruit training this week monday october 24 we began a company based training of fire ground operations with a live burn training. this entails the operation or the participation of three engines, two truck company one battalion chief per day. as the chief mentioned the eight per diem academy completed the two weeks of classroom training and currently

receiving the 6-8 week field preceptor evaluations. this is week 19 of the 20 week recruit academy for the 120th recruit academy and we have 51 recruits scheduled to graduate next friday november 4 at usf. and that concludes my report. i am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you chief williams. is there any member of the public that would like to comment on the report from administration? okay. seeing none. public comment is now closed. and i see that chief hayes-white has something to add. >> thank you president covington. it wasn't part of my report so i wanted to be mindful of that but i think it is directly related to the administrative report. i wanted to inform you i was proud to able to appoint conditionally

promote eight captains and nine -- so eight captains -- h30 rank and nine rescue captains, the h30 rank within the last few days and addition eight acting captains and that is utilizing the recently related -- the recently adopted captain's list and while i am indicating that there's a lot of behind the scenes work that needs to happen including physicals that need to take place, medical examinations and the diligent work day to day with all they have to deal with and a department this size and it's really an under sized area and human resources. [inaudible] showing a lot of the paperwork. i have to sign a lot of documents but they have to process them all so it's appreciated and that goes for all of the new recruits as well, so i wanted to pay tribute to our human resources but a lot of happy people, a lot of happy

families with the promotions and pleased to do so. >> thank you chief hayes-white. commissioner cleaveland. >> thank you madam president and thank you chief williams for your very comprehensive report as always. it's much appreciated. a couple of questions. i was concerned when you said we had 33 work related injuries last month and i am wondering if you could elaborate on that? were they a consequence of responding to an incident or during training and just what types of injuries are they? and what type of -- what length of -- what's the average time off from work in terms of recovering from these injuries? so just wondered a little bit if you could elaborate about the work related injuries and the causes behind that perhaps and just when they happen? are they happening on you know incidents, fires, or responding to a

medical emergency? just when do they happen? >> well, i don't have the specifics of when. i do have the actual description of some of the injuries and fortunately most are minor if you use know elbow or arm or maybe a little rash kind of exposure type of thing. maybe only a few are a little bit serious in nature. >> if i could just add to that? just from some of the things that cross my desk so they run the gamut. they're reports from the department's physician. it would be as simple as a cut finger that might happen in the kitchen to -- for instance we had four injuries i believe four injuries at a fire this week and three were treated and released on scene and one was transported to the hospital so they run the gamut from not loss of work time to loss work time. the

department's physician has a whole host of statistics in terms of average time off the job but we categorize even the smallest of injury as an injury but some are serious and various body parts, back, knee, shoulder given the physical nature of the job. >> okay. do we regularly train our -- retrain our firefighters on how to prevent work related injuries? >> yes. on a monthly basis we have a mandatory drill. it's our ii pp which we look at different hazards throughout the station and different safety procedures to follow as far as preventing injuries and we always say lift with your legs, not your back and different things like that. >> good. good. it's human nature. most of the accidents happen just because they happen like that and you don't know why. they do. unless you're

responding to a fire and have inhilliation problems or something of that nature. talking about the h8. what's the training period for them? how long is the training period? >> it's two weeks of classroom training and depending on the schedule could be six to eight weeks for evaluation. >> so two weeks in classroom and six to eight weeks in the field? >> yes. >> got it. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> thank you mr. vice president. commissioner nakajo. >> thank you madam president. thank you chief williams for your report. i wanted to give a little clarification. you were talking about the rescue squad and was that in reference that you're building or taking applications for the rescue squad? what was that reference about? >> i believe i was talking about the two rescue squad apparatus that we received recently that

we're outfitting. >> and that's going to be assigned to our current rescue squad thases we have operating? >> yes. >> okay. maybe at some point we could get a description of what the rescue squad does. i know they're active. every time there's a nice day in san francisco there's a rescue at ocean beach for some reason and i have witnessed them as well and i will put that reference out in terms of that. and always the new fire boat. is it active right now or birthed at the pier? >> it's currently at station 35 and ready to respond. >> okay. i also wanted to ask chief hayes-white since you're announcing the captain promotions you. you periodically have promotion ceremonies. are you planning it in the future for the captain

levels because there are quite a bit of members that got promotions? it is. i believe we endeavor to have a ceremony every other year and certainly these 17 hopefully permanent after they go through the conditional process that will be incorporated into that ceremony. >> okay. i just wanted to mark that as well and 17 promotions to a captain rank that's great. that's a significant accomplishment and for years and years in our department we talked about that kind of opportunity of becoming an officer. that's all i have. thank you very much chief williams and madam president. >> thank you commissioner nakajo. commissioner hardeman. >> thank you again madam chair. on the h8s -- i don't know if this would be you, chief williams, or the chief. the compensation -- is there any type of compensation that the

h8 receive while they're in this time in training? >> yes. they're paid during the training. >> oh good. because for some reason i don't know if that was ever brought up during the meeting. i don't think i ever thought of it until now when i saw how long it was. there's discussion of possibly a larger fire boat at the airport and rubber raft and the boat down there now doesn't hold that many. is that something that would come through the commission or just part of the airport? >> i think it would be in conjunction -- it would be paid by by the airport if it's an airport asset and recommendation of the assistant chief making a

recommendation to the deputy chief and myself. i think we would bring it to you for your support so we are then able to let the airport administration and commission know that collectively we see a need. >> because i think it's a great idea. few firefighters have mentioned to me that it has been talked about and i know it's up to staff to bring it forward at some point. i don't know if they would bring it to the airport first and then here but i think that would be great, a larger boat. if there was something needed to rescue more passengers and not much there and shallow water and you need a special flat bottom boat. let's see i have another -- oh i know what i wanted to bring up. you talked about the injuries that happened and hope most are insignificant and i am hawking

how wonderful the -- talking how wonderful the firefighters do and describing the wonderful things they do and bringing up the officers in command at a two or three alarm fire and from a day-to-day basis i think we forget to thank the people we don't hear about because they're in the streets responding to hundreds of -- some days hundreds of life saving medical emergencies that slip on by and doo the job every day, deal with suffering quite a bit and a lot of seniors and elders in san francisco and they're not thanked. occasionary some speck tactical thing will happen and we don't want to not acknowledge the others that are responding

to others beyond fires and we always mention firefighter but most of the time they're out there responding to other emergencies so just a of the hat to all the firefighters out there and emts and paramedics doing their job. thank you. >> thank you commissioner. >> thank you commissioner hardeman. any last comments chief williams? >> yes, i just wanted to address commissioner nakajo's ininquiry as far as the rescue squad. we have two in the city and one on station seven and one at station one at folsom street between fifth and sixth and these are both highly specialized apparatus. they respond to every full box report of working fire and the members that are assigned to these squads they receive extra training in addition to what is required as a firefighter.

they're hazard douse materials specialists and other specialists and angle rescues. they do a lot of training for their specialized skill. they go in the situations where most firefighters are not trained for and they each cover half of the city so you may see them traveling all throughout and why are so far away from their station but they're actually covering that district so it's actually appropriate. >> commissioner nakajo. >> madam at thank you. chief williams thank you. how many members are part of this rescue squad that we have? and are we currently filled to capacity within that need? and do you periodically recruit for positions in that? >> well currently assigned to each one is one officer and three firefighters. i believe if not all the spots have been

filled at each location. members who want to apply for that position would have to meet all the specialized training required before they could apply for that on a vacancy bid. >> okay. thank you very much chief williams, madam president. >> thank you. madam secretary. >> item 5 review of the harassment prevention policy. discussion and review of the harassment prevention policy. >> thank you madam secretary. is there any public on this item? all right. at the request of ms. [inaudible] who is the head of hr for the department this item is going to be continued and moved to the november 9 meeting.

commissioner nakajo did you have a question? okay. no public comment. public comment is hereby closed. commissioner nakajo. >> yes. noted and accepted. you said commission meeting of november 9? >> yes. >> i just wanted to share with my fellow commissioners we were required again to take the most recent completion of preventing work place harassment and just want you to know that i did it, two and a half hours. [laughter] >> same as me. >> yeah, and there's a test afterwards. it's a no joke harassment training and so commissioner vice president cleaveland i know we talked about this in the agenda item and i will look forward to the department presentation that will be given but serious business commissioners and colleagues and i am glad that i

completed it and more than that i am glad that i passed. thank you. >> [laughter] >> commissioner nakajo your passing was never in doubt and you can't do it faster than two and a half hours and they will say "notice, no, you're going too fast. you need to slow down." all right. commissioner hardeman. >> yes madam chair just wanted to bring up something that was distributed to a press release on the san francisco fire department public information office so you're familiar with this and great describes the event of the christianing of the new fire boat and there is spectacular detailed report about fire boat three and about the crew, the maximum speed, and the pumping capacity, rekt, et cetera and in the last prar it says where -- paragraph they talked about "however the

phoenix and guardian are 62 and 65 years old and great because of the work of the engineers and pilots and firefighters that maintain them. and the addition of fire boat three is needed and serve the citizens in the city in the upcoming decades" but the point is there's 62 and 65 years old. so the person wasn't complaining but identifying that the -- so when we get the new agendas and we have some time in the future might be something to bring up. i had two people over the weekend mention to me "wow it was great. you got firefighter boat. that's two in six years." people think we got 16 years ago when the first one was ordered and then following up that -- no, that didn't happen. i want you to know. this is the boat. it took that

long to get through, so it's interesting how the public thought it was a good idea. two people i know thought we got the second new fire boat and anyway that's just for comment. thank you. >> okay. thank you commissioner hardeman. madam secretary please call the next item. >> item 6 update on the 150th anniversary film festival. update from president covington on the 150th anniversary film festival scheduled for november 5th and 6th 2016 at the san francisco main library. >> okay. thank you very much. my fellow commissioners i had this put on the agenda because we won't have another meeting within now and the time of the festival. the festival planning is going extremely well. we have live presence on the web now and i ask mr. hastings

[inaudible] to come today and go over how people can find out entirely what the offerings are, what movies are and documentaries are going to be screened as well as getting a ticket for the event, so mr. mora. >> president covington. >> okay. before you speak -- >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> chief hayes-white has a comment. >> thank you very much president covington. while mr.a is setting up i wanted to acknowledge for your efforts and support all throughout the 150th year and before that for being actively involved in the committee, and for planning this festival, and i would also like to acknowledge -- because he doesn't come often to fire commission meetings. i appreciate mr. mora for being

here. i would like to take small credit for the employment with the san francisco fire department. i had the opportunity to meet him and we consolidated the 911 centers and on contract for the city and from day one i thought he was an amazing person and i helped to encourage the chief to interview him and over saw the slot for technology in our department and i know commissioner nakajo it was about that time you joined the commission from our department's perspective we were very under resourced, still are in terms of technology, but also we're using manual typewriters at the time so jesus we convinced him to come on board and work for us and he's a wonderful person to work with, but very under stated, very bright person, and throughout the city he has made a huge

difference in how our technology is perceived and sits in on meetings and i would like to say thank you because he works very long hours and really he doesn't wear a uniform but one of the unsung heroes in the department so thank you to jesus. [applause] >> you are much appreciated. >> can we go to the computer please? there you go. >> okay. so it's very simple. >> can you hold the mic up a little bit? >> so going back to sffd website and go to events and from events you will see the sffd film festival and this will bring you to the page where you

can look at a brief description of the festival and then from there you can see you can open a calendar that has all the different events for the two days, and at the same time you can click on any other programs. there are five programs, and that will bring you to the event page where you can simply click register and get your tickets. >> very good. thank you. i wanted to also encourage people to get their tickets. that way we have a more accurate count of how many people are likely to come. i want to say just to give some more background information on saturday november 5 there will be a number of shorts that are shown

including documentaries from 1896 to the present. there is -- excuse me. really thorough look and conversation -- look at and conversation about emergency medical services in the san francisco fire department. there will be a screening of a documentary and then there will be a panel discussion and q and a, and the panel list will be dr. clement ye, ems captain simon and the panel is moderate the by assistant deputy chief jeff myers and the program number two we have womens' fire fire service documentary, very short from 1942, and a salute to our

nert teams and then there is a documentary entitled "taking the heat" which is about the addition of women in the new york fire department. we also have a tribute to african-american firefighters and a wonderful documentary that i think many people in the department have seen called "into the fire." it's from 2006 and it is really quite an overview and wonderful representation of the life of firefighters, both in cities, small towns, woodland fires. it's a very, very good documentary and multiple award

winning film, and the saturday offerings are topped off by the towering inferno which will be screened at 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon at the main. the festival continues on sunday, november 6. the main opens at noon but people with tickets will be allowed in at 1130, and we have case study regarding the fifth alarm. that is the mission bay fire of march 2015, and that is going to be followed by a panel discussion and question and answer session and the panel list are deputy chief mark gonzales, assistant deputy chief and fire marshal daniel

cosoaso, battalion chief rich mcgee and lieutenant steven mcguire. the panel will be moderated by chief hayes-white and then we have in the afternoon, later in the afternoon, a screening of "ladder 49" which is the john travolta and and ja kin phoenix movie and we have a film for the little ones and in the latino historic room and the other offerings are shown in the coret auditorium so the children program is program number 5. and at noon we are screening the chuckin ton that prol rescue and at 130 playing

fire and rescue from 2014, so it's an blend of movies and shorts and i encourage everyone to come out and take part in the festivities. so anything you would like to add mr. mora? >> no. it should be really simple to get the tickets and then we can register everybody when they get to the library. >> okay. thank you and so this is the website. www. sffd150.org. okay. thank you again mr. mora for all of your creativity and hard work. >> you're welcome. thank you very much for your comments. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this event for the 150th? seeing none. public comment is now closed. commissioner nakajo. >> madam president i always

want to join chief hayes-white in acknowledging mr. mora for all of your work and expertise. it's really, really appreciated. i just thought there's nothing better than to have the president of the fire commission narrate the whole program and she knows it well because she is the main person with the energy and the creativity that put this all together. i just thought it was really cool that you were starring the materials so the rest of the audience could see that as well. president covington is really, really delightful that you give so much. this 150th year is so special. we've done so many activities throughout the year, the parade and such and other activities and then to go into the holidays and to have this film festival at the library with all of your work that you've done. i'm a committee member that almost did nothing but show up and the president

had reames and reams of films that she reviewed as well to put this program together. that is perfect in nature. both the saturday program in terms of the panel and the sunday program and particularly for children. it's free. get the tickets as you say but i think it's a real good opportunity for all of us to invite the family members and kids to come out and be part of the san francisco fire department. thank you very much president covington. >> thank you. >> mr. mora thank you. >> thank you. i forgot to mention that for the children's program there is the wonderful helmets and -- [laughter] and snacks and let's see. what else do we have? we have stickers. >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> and coloring books. thank you. all right. next item please. >> item 7 agenda for next fire commission meeting on

november 9, 2016. >> is there any members of the public that would like to suggest some items for the agenda for november 9? public comment is closed. madam secretary we already have the review of the harassment prevention policy for the ninth? >> yes. >> thank you. and commissioner hardeman did you want to suggest an item regarding the aging fleet? >> madam chair, yes. seeing when i first came on the commission the fire boat was just right around the corner and it took six years that we might want to with the guidance of the chief and her staff look at scheduling an agenda item in the

future in a meeting that might not be too crowded and put it on the agenda. i don't think it's something that has to happen next month but i think it's something that we all realize that at some point maybe the other two fire boats are in their 70's and their 80's and eventually how long can they last? they do remarkable job. staff of the fire department keeping them together but only go so long i think. >> okay. duly noted. madam secretary are there any other outstanding topics or items? >> yes, the controlled substance policy update. >> yes. thank you. i think it would be a good time to review that policy, so i would add it to the november 9 agenda. and vice president cleaveland. >> just a couple of things

madam president. thank you. i wonder if we need to have a little discussion on the h23 progress if there is any kind of update available that we can talk about at this point? and i also wondered if we are going to have a conversation about the joint building inspection commission, fire commission meeting and when we're going to do that? i'm not sure if that is something we need to do outside of a commission meeting, but we need to talk about how we want to do it and when we want to do it so i would like to put that on the agenda at least for conversation. >> are your comments in regards to the joint task force? >> yes. >> okay. >> great. >> all right. okay. >> thank you. >> thank you. any other suggestions? okay. well, i

think we have a good number of items to discuss. all right. anything from you chief? okay. well, i would like to adjourn tonight's meeting in honor of two of the members of our department who have passed away. fire safety inspector manuel pigaros passed away on october 19 at his home surrounded by loved once after a hard fought battle of lung cancer. he served with dedication and distinction in the bureau of fire prevention for over 31 years. and also we want to remember the passing of retired assistant chief ray landy. he passed away on october 11, 2016. he retired

from the department on september 16, 1989 with over 35 years of service, so i adjourn this meeting in honor of these two members. [gavel] thank you. derek evans is