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. >> good morning. >> good morning >> thank you so much for being here. it is my pleasure and deep honor to welcome everyone to our grand opening celebration and birthday party for our new westbound i 80 yerba buena ramps project are happy birthday to our new ramp. >>[applause] i am kelly tang

director here at the county transportation authority. thank you all for taking the time to join our celebration. the four i begin i would like to recognize some of our officials and special guest who are with us today. assembly membered david chiu's office we have judson true g5 staff. over here. per david he's who i understand is celebrating his wedding anniversary. i wanted to be here but is celebrating his wedding anniversary. smart man. >>[laughing] we are grateful. so grateful to judgment and assembly member two 480 7324 over the finish line this past session which provides us and other sponsors with construction management general contractor delivery authority which will help our next stage project the westside ramp and bridges next year. from the betide a board we have president's panel and window bridges and linda spoken our groundbreaking 2.5 years ago on so pleased and grateful for your participation today. and

bob-our executive director from tida his team. this man get so much done with so few words. bob. thank you, bob. from the tac presenting district 6 and herself a resident, did i see becky hope? i saw her last night at the tie-dye event but becky is ours on our citizens advisory committee did thank you, becky and from our board we have chairman scott weiner and commissioner jane kim. thank you chairman weiner and bobby thank you so much [inaudible]. and from the us coast guard we have right rescue. thank you, greg and your team. and the captain as well. you been tremendous allies throughout our project. from the chp we have commander christopher sherry. his team

will be speaking later as well in our program. and from the cpc even mahler is again thank you so much for being here, stephen. and for your support and from ntc we have executive director steve preminger as well. thank you, steve. steven has a striped cap. [inaudible] so you've got the biggest giants fan up here as what could i'd also like to recognize several people who were unable to be here today. who provided critical advocacy legislative and funding support for this project. senators feinstein and boxer, sen. state sen. mark leno. former state sen. carol mcginn and assembly member john amato at the time. this project was $90 million project funded by federal highway bridge program funds. not easy to get. and state prop b b1 funds as well as local match provided by tida and it was through their efforts were able to help secure those funds. gov. schwarzenegger

brown, and sec. bonner reinhardt, kelly and caltrans dir. kempton [inaudible] generations of leadership at the state level have all been great partners in support to our project as well. of course, radical california division administrative [inaudible] who cannot be here again but we do have mr. cole who will be speaking. going back to the beginning of our partnership with oewd that is the office of economic and workforce development the mayor's office and tida that was in 2008. we appreciate the leadership of then mayor newsom and his key staff which is continued with mayor lee and his administration. item object-and there he is. we work so closely together. josé luis and speaking of josé luis we must recognize our great former executive drucker here at 58 who he had another operative produced so he senses congratulations to all of you, all of us. josé luis

demonstrate a great commitment to this project as well. also great wisdom in taking eric cordova are amazing project manager and now deputy for capital projects the quarterback this after. eric. >>[applause] so eric will be up in a moment but eric led the procurement the resultant selection of golden state bridge and the a team who is here about the prospect [inaudible] from golden state rage, president and are the construction management team, pb, with mike scott and mark whitehouse is here. thank you so much. this group with their team has built this amazing project and we are really fortunate to be working with golden state bridge and this writer team not only do they manage every challenge from the migratory birds that wouldn't migrates >>[laughing] to the difficult and really challenging crowded site conditions. we

had our project we had the tida construction of the homes in the golden gate excuse me-the baby rich project all in the same site. also we have frustratingly late shipments of critical supplies we guys made it all work. you pushed through by champs and you deliver this project on time and on budget. take you. >>[applause] not only that they met are disadvantaged business enterprise goal of 12.5%. thank you, dave and for dsps commitment to achieving that goal and help create jobs and opportunities for local small business community. thank you for sharing those b van values. finally, we are proud of our collaboration with our little units and workforce on our project later this morning you'll hear from pat karen and whose without local union 34. pat. thank you for representing

labor and how important this is such an important project speaking about that to the local workforce. because of your collective efforts, as policymakers, community leaders, funders, and project delivery partners and builders we are here to celebrate the opening of the ybi west bound rampart. this is a connection to the future of speech robert yerba buena and treasure island about a round of applause for all of you. >>[applause] now for transportation authority staff many of whom i'm so glad earlier it is a really special initiative. because it was our first large-scale construction project that we read and delivered from a to z. i like it a moment to recognize several key team members from the sfmta a loving critical to the success of this part. of course, first and foremost, eric cordova deputy for capital projects. our project manager and human project delivery juggernaut. >>[laughing]

>>[applause] anna laforge director for policy and programming and her staff who helped us get all those funds and keep our partners coordinator limo maria lombardo chief deputy director 70 phone deputy director for finance and administration who seven straight year clean audit. go team. eric young on communications officer and bridget smith are fabulous graphic designer who spent about his job present your project to the public. thank you, all. please join me in giving this team a hand in their excellent teamwork. >>[applause] now speaking of excellence in transportation, it is my pleasure to introduce our chairman scott weiner who's led the mta for the past two years and also represents san francisco on the metropolitan transportation commission. chairman weiner. the clapping >> thank you, kelly. i want to

just thank kelly chang and her incredible staff as well as those eight lisa moskowitz. we are really blessed in san francisco do have amazing amazing transportation leaders at our transportation authority as well as that are mta and planning department. and we are really lucky in terms of the internal capacity that we have to do good work in san francisco and to work with our regional partners to make sure that were all moving forward together. so, thank you telling. this is really exciting. on the one hand when you first look at what this event is about it's about an off ramp and you might be pensive to say it's just an offering. it's not just an offering. this is really one of the i think early steps towards the complete and utter transformation of treasure island and yerba buena island to be an amazing sustainable urban walkable community to help with all of

our really daunting goals here in san francisco and the bay area around housing in particular and transportation as well. of course, when this project is done and it will be done and it's going to be phenomenal, it's going to house 20,000 people with a great commitment to affordable housing and also to formally homeless residents. we will do wonderful transportation improvements relating to the bridge but also robust ferry service. we need to make better use of our ferries here in the bay area. and it's going to-it just want to be amazing. and the fact that this effort both these operands but ultimately for the entire project, will be such a great regional collaboration is a real testament to where we need to go. because we know that today in the bay area we can no longer

go it alone as san francisco or any other community. we are all in this together around housing and transportation in particular in this project will ultimately, i think show that in spades. so i want to just thank all of the agencies that made this possible including our federal government, and the state, the mtc on which i circuit as well as our local county agencies, the coast guard as well. just one of those it takes a family kind of situations and i'm just really honored to be here to be able to take this great step four. so, thank you. >>[applause] >> thank you so much chairman weiner. next let me welcome barbara lopez legislative aide to district 6 supervisor jane kim. chairman kim services are treasure island mobility chairman. barbara. speak >> good afternoon anybody but

it's a pleasure to be here with all of you. i think the last two days has been really great day for the treasure island and yerba buena communities. how many folks out last night celebrating tie-dyed? yes. let's give it a hanford tie-dyed. >>[applause] tie-dye is an amazing organization that serves an acre. treasure island helping homeless families and stabilizing the community and helping build what were going to look for it it makes sense that we talk about tie-dyed when we talk about the opening of the ramp because just the kind of partners we have and need to great a smart sustainable city. i know our office as work with all of you for many many years and even before our office many of you were working on these items for 10+ years. to make sure that we have the kind of design with its bike access, or account cart access or ferry access with a kind of transportation access we need to make this a sustainable community. we

talked about that a lot. what is a sustainable community looks like that i think the historic commitment of folks like caltrans and county authority board, tida the residence of treasure island, all the other partners were here the mayor's office, it shows what awful were able to get affordable housing at the levels we need to great the communities we want and b we can create the infrastructure on some projects to make sure that our residents have the kind of transportation they need to get to work were to enjoy the city. i just want to again thank everyone here and say really this is your work. i think [inaudible] get the levels of respect you show. comment read our offices we nod our heads and weekly or disagree but really you are the ones doing the plans the engineering plans, the plans to make sure that the project go forward on time. so, thank you. >>[applause] >> thank you, bob. thank you so much. next, were honored to

have say 10-of the tida and perhaps the so fortunate of the trust and support of tida do an amazing job of the implantation of the implementation and vision . >> thank you. welcome everybody to treasure island. and yerba buena island. what a beautiful day for this opening. my name is faith then i service the president of the board of directors of the treasure island development authority. before i begin i would like to recognize my fellow board members especially the past german window richardson. racer hand which linda. >>[applause] mark don mark is here as well. mark is on the authority. we also john [inaudible] larry rizzo who are not here but they are members of the board and we worked very diligently for treasure island. i would also like to recognize actually, one

of the most important people at treasure island and it is bob beck, who is the executive director of the treasure island development authority. all of you know bob and you know his staff and it is because of bob and his staff that we are here today. so, thank you so much, bob. you know, we have a vision for treasure island. it is a vision which has taken three decades to make. it has gone through years of community consensus and environmental review and it is incredible that we are finally at this point where we are starting the infrastructure and we are doing the work, starting the construction, for making treasure island the reality that we've all dreamed about. we very much appreciate the work of all of you in doing this

, these ramps the old rams were so antiquated and in order to build the vision we had of 1000 homes of 300 acres of parkland and open space with pedestrian pathways and bicycle pathways that we have envisioned, we need to have the access. these ramps are the way to give us the access [inaudible] ve said and working on the west side as well [inaudible]. but, so we want to applaud the transportation authority dedication to this project. we haven't they have been great partners from the planning stages to the funding plan to the financing role to that place to the timely project of events that it's been a great job and thanks to you all. at the federal state and regional levels have supported us in

this effort. and a shout out to golden state bridge contractors would have been an excellent team working with us to the successful conclusion. this is not the end of the transportation authorities work on ybi and treasure island. we look forward to working with them on many additional important projects. we have the west side rams ahead. working together to realize our overall development plan and we are working for a comprehensive transportation policy which will also provide accessibility, not just to cars, but to varies, to transit public transit because that's very important part of the overall plan of accessibility for treasure island. so, thank you again to the transportation authority. and to tida that and to all the partners that work so hard to make today happen. thank you for your continued

support. >>[applause] >> thank you so much fate. this is really the first of many connections to the future that we are partnering on. next, we welcome our great friend and leader at caltrans district board chief deputy district director dan metrolink against the work closely with us every step of the way. to ensure successful connections to the east span of the bay bridge. thank you, dan. >> wow. it's a great day in san francisco at treasure island. thank you for having us caltrans is part of the team. of course, for our great bridge here in the bay bridge area to have these ramps not only providing the safety on main lines for traffic moving through the ybi tunnel westbound but also for access to the island. that left him ramp to the island will be closed by saturday night.

>>[cheerring] on dan macklin chief deputy director for caltrans and the bay area and when the city and the region and the state and the federal can come together for the bay area enjoy competitive we can be statewide for those highway bridge funds which are very it's very competitive process-it's really about building trust and confidence in what we delivered today. the are competing for summer highway bridge funds for the next ramp going eastbound. so i want to thank hillary and honestly eric and the board members for the pa. excellent excellent leadership for tida excellent leadership from the board. ctc is a. mr. mallard. mtc steve hemminger great leader for us on the bay bridge shared the bay bridge oversight committee for many years during its construction and completion.

as we compete for those limited bridge sites retrofitted account funds and come together all caltrans that, there are not many in support of this job. they're very small group but they do a lot of great work in support of kelly and bob back and i get to make it happen in our local systems local projects group and bridge design, construction, advisers, project coordination, very proud to serve side-by-side with the ta and tida staff caltrans maintenance get many of them here now maybe they just raise their hand. i want to thank him for all doing the great job caltrans staff. >>[applause] in helping make everyone successful. of course, over my 30 years i've worked with a lot of contractors in golden state bridge to turn out to be one of the best and we are very impressed so thank you for your quality, your schedule and cost effectiveness. solving problems because eric and i are tackling a number projects behind the

scenes and it's about problem-solving. coming together as a team. so thank you for your delivery golden state bridge. the benefit of these rents is now about location. we've overcome the gm metrics drivers without visibility that they never had on the previous rams for the safety has changed a lot since the 1930s. emergency vehicles, driver safety, a long service. these bridges are going to be in service for a long long time so the investment will last many many years for the communities on ybi and treasure island. lastly i want to thank the us coast guard again and the california highway patrol and maybe i'll wrap up with if we could give a round of applause for all women and men that serve in uniform statewide as well as nationwide. thank you very much. >>[applause] >> thank you, dan. now we are honored to commander of the california highway patrol am a san francisco office, capt.

christopher shy. thank you commander for giving a cruise safe and supporting our lunch this weekend and beyond. >>[applause] >> congratulations to the sf va tida caltrans and all their partners on the spot. the interchange looks fabulous good unsafe roadways and insufficient traffic flows can lead to collisions and injuries . the yerba buena iad interchange improvement project will provide safe and efficient access to yerba buena island and treasure island from the san francisco open they bridge. this will improve traffic safety and traffic efficiency on the on ramps for all of us. the mission of the california highway patrol is to provide the highest level of safety, service and security and you can count the california highway patrol will be there to enforce our laws on this

interchange and be there to assist any disabled motorist. we are proud to participate in this momentous achievement which will support san francisco's newest emerging neighborhood. we are very proud to be here to work on one of the most beautiful bridges in the world which leads to the most beautiful city in the world. thank you. >>[applause] >> here here. thank you so much commander sherry. now, before i turn the show over to the man of the hour and the biggest lover of san francisco, eric cordova, let me say a few words about eric. eric is someone who i learned from every day. he is leading a dynamic and transformative team here at the ta. leading us into a whole new role of our project delivery agency with expertise. his expertise experience and integrity of having worked with six case we were lucky to get him. sure, josé lisa charmed him and together they laid a great foundation with early stages of the project going

pretty smoothly but eric could have delivered the project as our consultant and not join the ta. what i think made the difference in his joining our agency was that eric cared so much about this project and so much about san francisco. having been born and raised here in the city and in the excelsior. he wanted to continue on another level. in public service. to work with the community and to mentor the next generation of staff. so eric, congratulations to you and your family were all here today. thank you for your hard work, your dedication, and your sacrifice to get this job done. you know, the giant may of come up short this year but you, sir, get it out of the park. >>[laughing] i know you're just getting started. >>[applause]

>> hi everybody. they convey much, kelly. on behalf of the trust addition authority capital projects division were think everyone for coming today. this is definitely been a labor of love for me. yes, i am a native san franciscans. san francisco is the best city in the world. actually an exciting day for the transportation authority to celebrate the completion of the ybi on and off ramps was spent on and off rain is on time and on budget and were proud of that but i could not have done it i think we could not have done it without everybody here is part of it. i'm going to thank a lot of people get over to give a little history lesson very quickly because i have been working on the project since 2008 and as we start the environmental documentation process. we went ahead and got the approved environmental eis eir within three years by the summer of 2011 timeframe. we completed the design and the right weight certification efforts to years later. and basically awarded the contract to golden state bridge daybreak hotel, thank you so much, for your continued and hard-working pursuit of this project. and

problem-solving as dan indicated. it's a credit to your company and the way you do business. thank you very much in that regard. we started work and actually will start working separate 2014 so it's about 2.5 years a little bit over 2.5 years and we are now ready to open the ramps. but it would done a good job in that regard of meeting the schedule in the overall schedule we have in front of us. i want to make sure that everybody understands that when you manage projects like this, it really in my opinion is really the players involved it's a sense of ownership. it's a sense of, we got to get the job done and there's nobody in this room was done that more among more than mike scott. from wsb arson sprinkler. mike has been living and breathing this job since day one actively managing the contract, actively looking ahead to see where there are things that need to be done and frankly, managing change. all these projects have changed.

and the issue, the success factor is really how you manage that change. congratulations to mike, too, because he's been out the bay area toll authority in one of their contracts on the richmond braves did you got a winner there, steve. i appreciate your tireless efforts, mike. you know, about a year or go or so scott and you came to visit the job and we show you how it looked in one of the things you have said and actually commissioner kim also said was we have not heard any complaints. we really have not heard anything. our whole mode of operation has been letters get it done. so when we hear things like that that's music to our it could meet were doing our job the weight supposed to be done. i'm going to get into some geeky and tonight i expected there important to note because this is a massive project in that regard. julie five bridge structures interconnected that form the on and off ramp system. we built many retaining wall

systems, every rose to ensure access to and from the coast guard operate their homeland security interest. we actually located a legal base corner 10 building 267 as they are called. we relocated them right across the cove there. that building right there is now going to be in future use by the treasure island developer. it's actually really a cool feature of the project. 12,500 yd.3 of structural concrete and we would go later this month from julie berry, is the company that basically provided and pumped all the concrete. 1400 truckloads of paul soil transports and we, i think one thing that's important to note here, too, we met our disadvantaged business enterprise goals. that is a task that doesn't always happen on projects and we are very proud of that fact and want to thank in particular, golden state bridge for their commitment to meeting that

disadvantaged business enterprise goals and also to penn pendergast and pendergast consulting for working with the dbe contracting community to get the word out and make sure that you went ahead and helped us meet that goal make sure the dbe community knew about all the different trades and work to be done here i appreciate your efforts, paul paul in that regard. 5,000,000 pounds of reinforcing steel, 37,000 feet of steel pilings and steel pilings driven into the ground. that's 7 miles of private brother foundation systems. 185 tons of structural steel. happy to report we are compliant with the federal buy america provisions. this is a federally funded project and we received clean audits on all fronts good. out of that fact. i can't say enough about the team and i'm going to very quickly mention other players involved here. dave and particular paul

luke whitsitt was dave's project manager he is not here today is up and ready building another great. please say thank you to paul for me and ryan hagan was hopefully hearing none, is to be comanaging the project is outer doing his work. we mention mike scott j jones, matt olander and mike berger. thank you all for your efforts. they're part of the construction management inspection team. moffitt nick oh are the engineer and design of record. i see cory lincoln i'm glad you made it. i see sam julie-sam julie is a gentleman was worked on this project since the very beginning. his commitment i appreciate your commitment, sam. thank you restaurant josé-out eli, their structural engineer some of the top-notch social engineers in the country working on us with part of the team. also from caltrans, every wednesday morning we have meetings to talk about construction what are we doing? was going on? how do we coordinate the

schedule? baran from caltrans buildout tiempo seconds the whistle thank you all for your efforts in that regard. in particular, around, thank you so much and is on there, too. thank you. fhwa greg coley and peter anglin thank you for your support and working with us and all the funding and oversight from a structural standpoint. can't say enough about greg vasile glycol the mayor of ybi. just because greg is been quite great to work with. he's basically making sure we all don't forget that the coast guard is here. this is our home also. so thank you very much and then bob back from tida which were that he liz hirschhorn and wade zhang. thanks to all the staff. i'm not sure that a lot of people know but i was a consultant for about 30 years and have my own company for 15. i was registered as a disadvantaged business enterprise. i know go

important it is to go ahead and reach out to the community and meet those goals. i'm actually honored to work at the transportation authority because they understand the value and merit as relates to getting small but vocal and disadvantaged business enterprise firms on the project. the federal dbe programs is meant to put men and women minorities and disadvantaged firms to work to create jobs, build community, and build our companies. i'm happy to say we done that as part of this project that means a lot to me personally. when the transportation authority can team with caltrans and fhwa on other projects in particular doyle drive, we came across our marketable woman when the name of julie berry was the owner of calc and pumping. nice piece of equipment, julie. right there to our right. julie and urging pumped leads about the concrete on a project and low and behold, or whole days is treasure island is where she operates out of. so when the ybi project came along we were thrilled to see that golden

state bridge had chosen calc on pumping to go ahead and provide the concrete year for the project and help us meet our goals. so i just want to right now actually ladies and gentlemen, join me in welcoming julie berry to the podium. >>[applause] >> thank you, eric for that gracious introduction. he does make me especially proud to not only work on the ybi ramps project but the located right here on treasure island. our contrasting locator avenue m in our ministration building is in the building where we had the refreshments. whereupon the fourth floor 91 steps to the top, by the way. no gym membership required we just go up and down the steps for-five times a day. as many of you

know is quite expensive for small businesses to be located on san francisco and even more so when you have a fleet of concrete pumping trucks. this truck you see over here on the right was one of the pumps used for the project. although 39 m schwing pump. it is a vertical reach of about 135 feet. it can pump 180 yd.3 per hour. if you think about one dump truck and carried nine qb got your puppet of the concrete pretty fast. for us, as our business has developed and have incredible honor to work on such projects as the doyle drive replacement project mother transbay transit ctr., bainbridge, the high st., bridge in oakland and several bart projects and many more. one of the challenges we have faced is finding a space not only large enough for our fleet of pumps, but affordable. i want to take this opportunity to thank bob back and bridge with betty and i think which were that is in the in the

audience here today but from tida a scene assistance making treasure island our home. many times our crews arrive before sunrise and after sunset but when our wheels hit yerba buena island we know we are home and safe off the road. for those of you who've never expense standing in front of one avenue of the pump which is where we just were with the refreshments at 6:30 am in the morning with the harvest moon setting older over the golden gate bridge the city skyline shimmering to the left and the sun is just about to come up behind you, we simply have to put that in your bucket list. dan maclaine he i want to thank you, caltrans and fhwa for providing such opportunities for cal con pumping underparts. it is greatly appreciated. as eric mentioned, we are forging tab selected by golden state bridge to be on their winning team for this project. when the very start, this has been a dream

job. the golden state bridge team working with mike scott and his team at pb and of course working for the sf cta has been literally fantastic. from construction management perspective their schedules were solid. their on-site management was impeccable and their attention to safety and compliance was absolutely remarkable. the days with gsp that starts at the top, man. we really appreciate your support. to the sf cta i want to share with you one of the challenges that many small and disadvantaged firms that face. it's a lonely time between performing the work, invoicing for the work, then waiting to be paid. we've had the honor to work with the large number of projects with public works agencies. i can say without a doubt we were paid the fastest on this project in any other projects we've worked on. that

is a tribute to dave and his team for turning around the funds to small business. working at the sf seagate db team was exceptional. we had when we had an issue is addressed we always think of your contributions really mattered. that we were really a rt of something important. to the design team, who in addition to these gorgeous elegant new ramps, as someone who runs a fleet of very long legs we love you. i'm sure the citizens love it, too. no waiver option when on an off ramp we you getting on and off the island and inventor of you haven't caught on the bainbridge because the rate has gotten caught up in the off ramp you know exactly what i mean. these new ramps are going to really make an impact on the daily lives of people living and doing business on treasure island. so to the sf cta and golden state bridge, thank you for the opportunity. two tida

my thank you for allowing us to call treasure island our home. one of the most exciting times in the history of the island. to all of you, thank you for supporting small local firms that are hiring from our communities and building the types of projects we can all be extremely proud of. then also a shout out to paul pendergast. seriously, you are one of the best people that is just an advocate for small business and helps us and we really appreciate it. thank you. >>[applause] >> sorry for the confusion. i

was thinking julie for being an amazing business leader. not just at the db community but his business venture. we need more sellers like you, julie. thanks. mr. pat condon for local union 34 representing the folks that got the job done. represent all units fit with local 261, labor union, with the operating engineers the carpenters, have to talk about that. thank you so much, pat. >>[applause] >> good afternoon joe when i think david golden state bridge and the authority for allowing me to speak. i heard a lot of talk. eight years in planning and 2.5 years to get the work done. so you know, all the trades are involved in this project and dave told me to and 1000 work hours out here and one twisted ankle which is a testament to his company for safety and keeping folks out of trouble. as somebody who's had to help folks with their lives back together when somebody has been hurt or killed on a job i really appreciate it. overall project and be doing with the bay bridges since it first started glad to see it's

finishing up now. i'm really happy and happy for trades and old job you think about it. desmond one real serious accident out there and no fatalities could we really appreciate that. us guys in the trades. thank you, all. >>[applause] >> okay. so with that, thank all our speakers and all of you again for your attendance today, your support. for the celebration that you will help us continue at we move forward into the lunch burger but first let me thank again the folks who organize the chief communications about officer eric young is that including brigitte smith. paul pendergast put on this amazing event. there you go. he's a business leader. advocate. all that. paul, thank you so much for delivering a tremendous event we also have beautiful food from cater jr dean who provided the morning refreshments as well as our lunchtime food as well. may i also please enjoy

the food and have shuttles to take you all up to see the project and enjoy the view up there and just see the tremendous results of everybody's hard work. for now, if i could invite those speakers and the folks in the front to join the underside we will head up there quickly to do a quick within cutting. thank you. thank you, everyone. >>[applause] >> >> >> >> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here

at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store.

in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that

work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare.

>> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. you have a more established artists alongside and emerging

artists. is that something important to you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but

they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time. >> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of? >> this is william wiley, only

one earth. this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move on to the print

shop. >> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell, and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the artists that you represent. over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. >> he writes these beautiful

things. anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our "culturewire" team. >> hello, my name is jamie harper. in this episode, we are featuring the park locations in

your very own backyard. this is your chance to find your heart in san francisco with someone special. golden gate park's largest body of water is this lake, a popular spot for strolling and paddling around in boats, which can be rented. created in 1893, it was designed foreboding and -- for boating. it is named for the wild strawberries that once flores. a pleasant trail follows the perimeter past huntington falls, 110 foot waterfall. two bridges connect the trail to the island. the climb to the hills summit, the highest point in golden gate

park at more than four hundred feet. you can get quinces of the western side of the city through -- glimpes of the western side of city through a thick trees. the lake is ada accessible. it has a peaceful atmosphere where you can enjoy a warm day. walk along the lake and watched many ducks, and swans, and seagulls. it is a tranquil spot to stroll, enjoy each other's company, and sail away. many couples come here to take a ride around the lake, floating under the bridges, past the pavilion and waterfall. for a quiet getaway, it makes for a memorable and magical experience. located on 19th avenue, this

grove is the place to wear your hiking boots, bring your family, and bring the dog because it has so much to offer you and your loved ones. it is a truly hidden gem in the city. the part is rich with eucalyptus trees. long paths allow you to meander, perfect for dog walking in a wooded environment. >> i enjoy this base and the history behind it. the diversity that exists in such an urban city, the concrete, the streets, cars, we have this oasis of a natural environment. it reminds us of what san francisco initially was. >> this is a section for dogs and plenty of parking. transit is available to get you there easily. and the part is ada -- park is

ada accessible. there is also a natural lake. this is your chance to stroll and let the kids run free. it also has many birds to watch. it is the place to find some solitude from the city and appreciate what you share with a wonderful breath of fresh air. , an experienced this park and enjoy the peoples, picnics, and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take a stroll with your loved one hand in hand. located in the middle of pacific heights on top of a hill, lafayette park offers a great square a of a peaceful beauty. large trees border greenery. it features tables and benches,

a playground, restaurants, and tennis courts. there are plenty of areas for football, frisbee, and picnics. it is very much a couple's part and there are a multitude of experiences you can have together. bring your dog and watch the mean go with the community or just picnic at one of the many tables and enjoy all of the park has to offer. many couples find this is the perfect place to put down a blanket and soak up the sun. it is a majestic place you can share with someone you cherish. it is located along the 1 and 10 buses and is accessed from the 47 and 90 buses. it is ada accessible. for more information about reserving one of these locations, call 831-5500. this number is best for special

events, weddings, picnics, and the county fair building. for any athletic fields and neighborhood parks, 831-5510. you can also write us. or walking in and say hello at old lock cabin, golden gate park. and of course you can find more information and reach us at sfrecpark.org.

>> >> be good i'm todd rufo economic and workforce development for the city of san francisco we are here today to announce a new report detailing the impact of the healthy retail [inaudible] design to strengthen small businesses and improve access to healthy foods in our community that need it the most. we are here at blue market and i want to thank our host, lisa even for hosting us and this even today. in addition to mayor lee we are also joined by thomas

[inaudible] from the department of public health. a key partner on this program as well as mayor rogers. a community member and key local partner on this program. we will also be joined shortly by supervisor mar whose cosponsor of the key jail we tell registration a couple years back you join cosponsoring the legislation with supervisor melia cohen supervisor for this district by district had reportedly was not able to be here today. now i want to take a quick minute to talk a little bit about some of the findings of the report before i headed off to the mayor. healthy retail sf report was a joint venture between the office of economic and workforce development and the department of public health one highlight a couple key findings. the report found that through this pilot program were then 20 stores saw an increase in sales by more than 25%. this

totals more than $5000 for each store and that's real in terms of total sales. that's real value that's real impact for these businesses there taken this effort to increase the amount of healthy food they sold in their locations. that is also increasing access to healthy food. within 6000 units are produced are being sold now at individual stores and in total, communities have access within 11,000 units are produced. one of the things that is most important thing the mayor would agree, is that instead of signs promoting alcohol and tobacco no signs promoting healthy produce and access to fresh food. so i want to take this moment to introduce and handed over to mayor lee is a champion for small businesses and based on my recollection and knowledge is done more invested more in our neighborhoods and small businesses than any mayor i know. with that, mayor lee. he was good morning everybody. welcome to the bayview. >>[applause] you know the bayview has been a good area

for us to invest in all over the city. we know for many years the residence that lived in and around this bayview area had felt isolated from the city and as we started the investment with the first light rail, we realized we really had a gem to help awaken this neighborhood, other neighborhoods in the city, with transportation, with housing them up with investing in small businesses and today we are in one of those small businesses and while the report is titled, healthy corner stores, technically, while this is not a corner store, this is still a corner store. in bayview because bayview along with the tenderloin along with outer mission are dotted with many stores that because there's a lack of larger grocery stores become the only place where people can buy their groceries. over a period of time i lee,

who's the owner of the store and many other store owners, they felt well the market seems to indicate you've got to sell chips, liquor, candy and that has become really the staple of a lot of the smaller stores. a couple of years ago the supervisors and our office teamed up to say that these so-called food deserts could really get some help and introduce them to more healthier foods for the entire neighborhood. that conversation took place with our health department thomas is here today representing barbara garcia and the entire health about. i want to say thank you for working together where office of economic development in our small business commissioners and all of our folks helping invest in neighborhoods to really make this ordinance that

supervisor cohen and supervisor mar put together about how to bring more healthier foods to our neighborhoods. you can't just say it should happen. were you can just criticize people for not having it. you've got to actually make it happen and the way we made it happen is through investment. you take a store like this and you start talking with the owner and say what can we do to help you? is that things like refrigeration? is a maybe new shelving? is it your point of sale systems? is it marketing and education? is that the visibility of these things? with all these help he used to the had and he just told me that when you come into the store it used to be the first thing you see were chips and candy. that doesn't represent the healthy part of what we want to sell people and so we removing that you can still sell it you can put it in other parts of the store, but how about fruits, vegetables

and the things you really want people to buy right at the front as soon as you walk in. that's good marketing. that is smart. that represents what all he wants to do because with this report says if you do these kinds of things and if we work together with our small businesses, the increase in the actual sales for the stores will increase. on average, by 25%. that's incredible. 25 for small stores like this that means an additional $5000 a month. so it's smart. it's economically sustainable. it's healthier and it builds as the report says, healthier communities. the people in bayview deserve better services good they should get it. they should get it at the grocery store. they should get it with government services. they should get it in transportation because it should never be any different than any part of san

francisco. this is what we are trying to do by investing in the neighborhoods not investing in entire corridor. so the report substantiates that may be on average a $20,000 investment in the stores-and we done about average of that in about nine stores across the city-will have a return of an additional 25% increase in a unit of sale for all things but in particular, vegetables, fresh fruits, the things that really allow people to be healthier. i'm excited about this because my wife has been on my case with the chips bags that she sees once in a while. once in a while. the soda cans. once in a while. that she wants me to be healthier and obviously, we have some longevity challenges that all of us face because you know, that is why i'm joining melia

cohen on things like the sugar tax because we have to have people-we want people to be more health. we have to devise ways to do it. i am glad that this report is out. i'm glad there's a partnership. ali is one of one of nine now but i think we have many more partnerships to really create and establish what we want to do and i know the businesses will feel the i think the support that they have from the community. there will be kids watching and smiling with her parents saying, hey, let's get something that are grocery store and let's not send the kids down just for chips and soda and ice cream. we got more healthier foods to represent your. i'm proud of the program. i'm glad were bringing it in to so-called food deserts but we are on a roll. [inaudible] opened up not too long ago and we were there. it's a great grocery store with a lot of vegetables and fruit and at really good affordable price. for this entire neighborhood i think within a bring a whole

revolution of foods in the way people eat the way they treat their own health. again, i see supervisor eric mar. thank you for introducing this and making sure working with our offices, do we make sure we actually implement it in a way in which it will be sustainable and really, set the standards for future stores all over our city to really have a good healthy array of products for the residents to benefit from. so congratulations, ali,. thank you to you to the store owners to all the stores along third street for paying attention to this. in addition to the actual things you sell, we are helping with the size. were hoping with the sidewalk looks much cleaner this month icd dpw trucks-have you seen him this many times speak yes. >>[laughing] very much into this. anyway, thank you everybfo