>> commissioner president loftus i'd like to call roll is commissioner president loftus commissioner vice president turman commissioner marshall commissioner mazzuco commissioner dejesus commissioner wong commissioner melara ask excused commissioner president loftus we have quorum also with us the intern chief of police toney chaplin and joyce hicks. >> okay. >> good evening and welcome to the wednesday, november 2, 2016, police commission meeting i'm going to make changes to the

agenda given the length of the agenda a long closed session handling discipline matters one and 2 to our meeting next week and go ahead and start with general public comment. >> so public comment will be two minutes given the length of the agenda and the anticipated number of speeches. >> item 3 the public is welcome to address the commission on items not on tonight's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the commission. with respect to agenda items, please direct your questions to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or departments or occi personnel. department, occi or commissioners are to respond to questions but may provide a brief response.

police commission should enter into debates and please limit your comments to 3 minutes, please. >> two minutes. >> okay general public comment? >> go ahead. >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening my name is magic i came from the sunshine task force they found the commission in violation of 67.9 and 67.7 b and i think that is very important you recognize you can't do 24 again where you ignore the issuance that is a the public needs to have the notice of 72 hours what will be discussed by you on the agenda and i think this is clear no integer and it was really kind of sad you but put your staff and sergeant, next line item. >> killing showing shaw her line of reasons and sounds like on

over burned employee that need to not be used like this to get your job done i want to say that up until june 22nd meeting i thought the public was notified and hope this never happens again, we don't have been in fact, the task force said if was no in their purview i'm surprised you're not prepared and building on an item that clearly says in that ordinance that you should not vote on something and have discussions and action without a preparation by yourselves well more commissioners had more knowledge and some only got to when they walked in and part of violation not posted also on the website when the e-mails went out and the person that does that

sergeant, next item. >> kilshaw made clear i don't blame her, she does the best of our service the city attorney was never mentioning she said that so be thrown out and no substantive changes that's not true the item with the holes and amazing higher standard of penal code having a moving vehicle and shall and should different shall is mandatory and shall is discretionary and should is mandatory i hope you'll know we're not going to tolerate this to get what needs to be done so anyone else gets killed that's the point. >> thank you for bringing that up

>> next speaker. >> commissioner i was here yesterday what i want to say today is that missing in our deliberations what is going to happen for the good of this city and county of san francisco is the premeditation of our youth and young adults every time the commission is challenged so to speak you refer to the san francisco charter the charter needs to be changed the charter needs to be change to reflect the times today's

times all over the nation as far as i understand wheezed freedom and what is license and the bills of freedom is license and you may be trained to do whatever but. >> always have to have their heart in the right place and understand what is freedom and what is license. >> and that comes from our training and that comes from your understanding. >> so young people our ought youth and young adults are now wondering if there is hope and we have a generation that became what they became because of hope but if you deprive our young generation of hope then that's

despair we don't need that i'm leaving you with one thought we need to give our young adults hope thank you >> next speaker. >> good evening clyde. >> well a lot going on chief chaplin i'll be honest with i was 12k0i7d in you on our leaks it was a stupid thing to say i'll say it to your face that was stupid okay. that's a wash we'll let that go we'll let that go we all make mistakes but i'll be honest with i talked with 4 cops is chaplain cool enough said welcome chief thank you. next speaker.

>> good evening and welcome. >> good evening. >> my name is julian black man i'm here to address chaplain how you doing toney chaplin i'm a familiar face to you my question to you not just questions but this is a lot going on in the neighborhood we come from the same neighborhood in the ingleside and toney chaplin ; right? i can admit that toney chaplin was a big part let me go the right way; right? even the charges are trumpeted up i held i was accountability what i done and what was done is done i'm a law-abiding citizen you know a father a great person god - one of my good brother's was shot by the police and in our neighborhood

where i come from other one time he lived you you know as kids we did kids thing but he converted into a rightus life so motivation another part of why i changed my life to do right; right? so i'm really confused that chaplain would allow police officers out of their jurisdiction to come and shot our brother chaplain from our neighborhood i know that man is a good man tony dicker son unarmed it was live reports saying the high-speed chase i'll show you not just that but you know

trying to see how the world is being is very secretary complicated no information - >> yeah. thank you, sir okay - i know - i got to follow the rules maybe chief chaplin can follow-up on your questions. >> thank you, sir. >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening hello my name is clyde a long time ingleside resident and also asking a question what happened to notorious dicker son in a high-speed chase not involved in a high-speed chase shot over 6 times we've not been able to see

him self-he's okay if i say housed at we have did charges stemming fr stemming from assault and not armed robbery and robbery homicide as all the charges they have on him we don't know where he is we said want to know where he's located at and how it is possible for the daily city a police to come into the ingleside area and arrest someone and shot someone and we still don't know what happened to him or what is going on if anyone can speak to that we would like to hear that by us being here together appreciate you guys time thank you.

>> okay. i'm going to refer the chief if someone can get the questions thank you, sir fewer comments. >> next speaker. >> good evening and welcome sergeant. >> good evening intern chief and to director joyce hicks this evening i'm standing before you as is a loved one williams i'm concerned about several things how can we expect to get to the three hundred plus recommendations presented by the doj and the blue ribbon panel and can't get though the removal of shooting at the vehicles the doj has made it clear they'll not accept that type of language in the use of force order how can we get to through 1/3rd of recommendations that are presented with the union it continues to resist change

the process lacks transparent and seems to be substantive not to mention allegations of commissioners speaking pubically and posturing and stating who they want to be the next chief this is inappropriate we must stop right now we must show that we representative reform we must show we support transparent what i want to do the right thing in the eastbound selection of the next chief the chief i've stated need to be one that has a proven track record and is a viable candidate that will be of our interest to everyone i stand before you also extremely troublgd by the san francisco chronicle news article that reelevated some of the candidates locations of where we come from that is very concerning i know your concerned

about it and again, i hope that your good evening to provide us with measurements that will help to explain has to how and where we are in the process and again, thank you for 2350d me the opportunity to speak before you. >> thank you, sergeant williams. >> good evening and welcome. >> thank you my name is huey a local hip hop community activist in the community for several years and happen to be a friend of notorious there is a big issue of police training i'd like to ask chief chaplin when will proper police training into effect we have a systemic violence from police throughout the country i understand that daily city is different maybe protocol but hopefully push that through i believe that gregory

by sfpd that is very, very strange he's 130e7d to be here speaking on our cause on our on behalf but suddenly his house is rated and now like i'll call this the super hero police are 0 supposed to be super heroes but cops killing unarmed black men an epidemic and a little been like this people blaming on cell phones that is a piece of that but lastly there's a sense of rage and hatred it permeates through the plod we have an incidents you you know white guys with guns threaten cops they're not killed they beat the case between the

cops dealing with people of color and white people and so-called model minorities that is you know something that needs to be changed and police need to be changed and police culture changed you guys need to work on many at some point that is coming to a head i'd like to see the problem resolved in the most positive is position for both sides to get on with the business policing is a tough job but - >> yeah. thank you, sir. >> good evening and welcome. >> aclu sergeant williams said a lot of what was said in a letter from jeff adachi and jennifer and myself that appears in the agenda that i and we will leave this room not knowing the

status of use of force policy and not knowing even though a impasse is declared and even though cops have basically labored co-authored restraint and the shooting of vehicles a bad practice we at san francisco still are living other than the policies that are labeled bad practices i'm really surprised on the working group your proceeding in the way your preceding it is very mystifying i believe that is sabotaging captain laid out a very infest and complicated program dealing with 2 hundred plus recommendations chief chaplin wrote a letter asking for community support those of us in the community and stakeholders who will have been working with you on this discouraged and i

really am i was sure that was on the action agenda the fact your heading into closed session again is mystifying didn't require i don't know you're doing this. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker. good evening and welcome. >> good evening to heck with that david san franciscans for police accountability i'd like to echo what allen and yolanda williams said the entire of us situation is a could tropic we said at the

original meeting our procedures were chaotic that has been completely played out what hastening sued since the sunshine committee has slapped you on the wrist for not rooelgs the documents head of time 72 hours so the community can have a chance to look at it secondly, at the meeting you were to have a deal with the poa we've not forgotten martin there was an agreement the 20 percent was the only thing left and months later on a use of force you guys tell the poa this is the next policy and intern chief chaplin can issue a codifying of the use of force policy you vote on

unanimously on june 22nd and we can have a working use of force policy a modern one of the new one so much effort went into within 48 hours there is nothing stopping you equip your intense fear of poa your intense fear of going up against them they're a group of bullies that have been bullying in commission for years you guys need to get some ovaries to have. >> i'm quite certain i have them i'll give you 30 seconds more. >> you guys need to get a backbone and begin dealing with that relocation union the way it should be dealt with forcefully. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening and welcome. >> how you doing a resident the

ingleside district we didn't have questions about what can the police do they know what they can do whaumz now this is your opportunity here to make a difference whaumz at the end of the day it is in your lap tifrd and my question is: now what is the status an gregory is he in custody and what is he in custody he was not part of that situation you know what i mean so why is this man's house you know what i mean is a bigger plan than what was going on you know what i mean what radio you going to do or the ones that

change with the operation you hear me real talk man, you just like me brother so we - i fall victim on everything so, now my thing can you not fall victim and take - that muscles can you be that muscle real talk. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker. >> (clapping.) >> >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening welcome i'm karen freshmen from justice of mario woods collaboration and san franciscans for police accountability 11 months ago today san francisco police department excused mario woods by firing squad in front of scores of witnesses including a bus full of school children on their way home since then under tremendous pressure to have the

use of force policy and impervious it is updated you can't terminate officers without an updated policy you unanimously pass it on june 22nd with the input of the police officers association and then they've impede it up until day i ask you chief chaplin to issue the 4 hundred one hundred by the department generally order torment we have a valid use of force policy to that sfpd officers understand the use of force is and you know what the use of force is so they can be disciplined since mario woods execution louis and there was jessica williams and this guy in october and now this gentleman shot by the daily city police without an effective use of force policy it is unclear we

can't traven people on it or hold them accountable and who rinses san francisco there is the police officers association that runs san francisco or the mayor of san francisco run the city please show us thank you, thank you. >> next speaker. >> and i will say we have overflow room 416. >> the intern chief and director joyce hicks i think so the police department is dealing with the racism but once past that they need to deal deal with the training the police needs to be trained to understand the public is not trained and shop making summaries the city will respond to a police uniform and

start to do it in a holistic manner that will uplift the mindset of police officers maybe we'll come to an understanding thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening mr. lawrence and welcome. >> ladies and gentlemen, of the audience thank you, commissioners once again giving me. >> i want to give a brief talk on deadly force if you a long time in the last 24 hours two police officers were you shot 2, 3, 4 utah an ass nation but if you look at the ultimate cause of san francisco every time a policeman shots someone without a gun they read about that in the newspaper or so it on the

net tea say i'm going to get the next cop you have two police officers on the force that in 10 years opened an banana clips into two unarmed civilians for whatever cause they didn't have weapons i think a new police chief has to look at that i don't know who he is or where he is but i think sir, you should start bringing him before the public secondly, a person in a building i don't know why the public has to be let in by the backdoor and a private party in the front door and 17 sheriff's acting as thugs we're not allowed in the building we have to use is janitorial indigents and public building to be available to the

public for any event anywhere we shouldn't have to use the backdoor and owen i ought to do something about that last but not least a vote on the occ to turn it into the accidental police shooting i want everyone to vote i think ms. rice has done one of the worse jobs as is occ director thank you for your time. >> we weren't invited to the festivities either. >> good evening and welcome. >> my name is shannon on may 13, 1998, of the stewardship shot and kindly my friend during a stack out they were trying to apprehensive someone on a drug wandered cox went into the

backdoor and she was a passenger in the front as the vehicle left the residence recessing listen fired into the car and suddenly shely she was 17 years old after nearly a 9 year battle the residents - the statute of limitations expired not because the facts and every day failed to - as voted on in the past june sheila what about alive today she's been gone longer than alive two painful for her family and given me permission to speak on her behave they've heard about the use of force policy and the family strongly supports mrofltz from shooting at moving vehicles her family as transformed into a sense of law

we need to see sheila grow she was robbed of opportunities to live her life and create a family of her own her 10-year-old niece and nephews on her through photos nothing will bring sheila back but hope this didn't happen we're grateful to the police commission and the bar association for hard working to make sure that bayer officers from shooting 09 vehicles are stopped the q poa stop this from being for the policy the sfpd is not barricade from 1409 at vehicles and this type of -

thank you, thank you for being here. >> next speaker. good evening and welcome. >> >> good evening. i'm dean jones a community organizer and work for a local agency that helps deal with your homeless problem not mine yours you have people sleeping open our lawn in the front and i get bay window paid no good money to take care of your problem you definitely don't pay me enough so i'm here for two reasons one is because you can do something about the regulations of how you hire people greg suhr when you hired him before our chief he worked was an officer that the obesity called balanced i didn't and

beat the black off their skin had you knew that maybe you wouldn't have hired him as chief what else do you know about those new chief or the people maybe you can't hire you guys because their personally 1r689 number one and number 2 the use of force you're creating a problem for the officers they're handling every problem in san francisco including mental health you should have a mental health unit instead of defunding it you've laid off me before i worked with mr. lee and mentally ill people who do you think they call pay is a psychiatrist integer services video you call the police i'm pretty much you don't know that it is sad that we hire you to do a job and you don't know what is going on in

the city take off our uchldz and let me show you what is happening in the city so you know how to take care of our people sitting behind the desk our hurting your people police should have to deal with mentally ill what is what happened to mario woods that was someone that is suffering from mentally ill the go to jail there are people i have clients - thank you, ms. jones. >> (clapping.) >> >> next speaker. good evening and welcome. >> good evening as you may know i'm julia a bar association representative stakeholder in the development of the use of force policy as such we committed considerable research and time and hard working to collaborative over many months together with marion i met with

the poa over a to day period that resulted in 80 to 90 percent of use of force general order how reflectly the meeting and confer was not the full implementation of this order prior to my involvement that the general order then grufr, supervisor cowen and i were on a radio program i'm well aware how deeply committed to the implementation of the problem by greg suhr he know well though dangers this policy had become and spoke passionately about the need for implementations that was prior to the death of jessica williams and the rejuvenation of greg suhr how tragic and ironic we were able to do that the review of hundred iceds since 2000 published by the self-employed reveals

shooting at vehicles are 10 death and one injury to a fellow officer 10 started as troolts that is deesclation how are we helping our officers to calm the situations not just safer for the public but safer for our officers the city can't afford morally or economically another death the poa recommendations to get 24 order implemented and the training underway on the deesclation so all our stakeholders hard work all of our research 24 doj has been approved by you on june 21st has - is completely squared with the department of justice and we're not there yet less us know how we can help you. >> don't compromise please. thank you, ms. chang>> next

speaker. >> good evening and welcome. >> ms. young. >> good afternoon. i'm the deputy public defender i'm here to speak on two issues before the commission san francisco spell need a new use of force policy the commission knows that the policy that it approved was well-thought-out and considered by highly intelligent and trained people what appears to the community that the police commission and the mayor are held hostage by a police union that is relocation and feels it can say and do whatever in the protection of so-called contract issues theories the i iron the most recent shooting in the city by the police officers into an alleging moving vehicle that would have been banned i say pending use of force policy now i say alleging moving vehicle i'm the attorney for the

notorious i've read the police reporting and would like to correct a couple of things he was shot 4 not six or eight or 12 in the intensive care unit in zuckerberg san francisco general hospital the family is not allowed to see him, i was allowed to talk with him here's the tragedy of that car he had been in the car for less than 5 minutes when two police officers discharged their firearms into the car the good news for this police commission and this police department is they were not san francisco police officers but daily city and chp, however, what concern is this morning the san francisco police department swat team arrested the only wooits to this shooting the only civilian eyewitness has been taken into custody and held in a location we do not know

where he is he's posted blogs and sought and put that on facebook and was a taken into custody at 3:00 a.m. - >> thank you, ms. hale. >> thank you. >> thank you, ms. young. >> thank you, ms. young general public comment. >> (clapping.) >> >> good evening and welcome. >> >> good evening and welcome. >> sir. >> good evening. i'm here to talk about the use of force which i understand you

unanimously approved that order has importance in the issues of deesclation time and distance and the prohibition against shooting at vehicles. >> i'm tony i know that a number of i know but i'm here because there is a case that i was involved in as a defensive lawyer that has 12uk with me for years and years the images of that dead young woman in the car completely has taken over my psyching every in and out that is sheila that particular case was including but not limited to so unnecessary and if the use of force not have not shooting as vehicles was in effective it at that time that young woman would

be here he television she was 17 year-old a case to go after an individual on a drug case what they did they saw their suspect get into a car driven by an individual and missed 17 years old a teenager sitting next to him and what happened was shots rang out several shots and she was mortally wounded they drove off and stopped on the boulevard and that's where you see that picture of her slum over and dead it in her car i know that we can't bring her back but think about what it means to shoot at a vehicle she was not a defendant an innocent bystander

(inaudible) - >> yeah. that's right thank you sir, thank you. >> your time is up. >> oh, we get it thank you for being here. >> good evening and welcome. >> and welcome. >> march 29 the sfpd came to my house i live on 12 avenue my 17 year-old was instructed by the police to come down any son complies as on sfpd posted on youtube you see the flashlights yet the police reporting said my stone was at the bottom of the stairs and reviewed to open the gate that's why his face was

bashed up the city attorney - that's why what is going on after the practice police do what they do their attorneys are the ones that get everybody off when we have to remove greg suhr then the city attorney were caught red-handed in you say that my son is at the bottom of the gate fates pirj that's deceit and use the technology cattle's to get off and statute of limitations we have a trial and my son graduated from high school and pro per for my son to have to grow this because of what the police did to him is ludicrous i hope that

november 28th someone goes to jeff's office and sees that he is lying and helping to cover up police scuzzy have to posted sfpd tactical an youtube that corrections everyone in everything in the police reporting that means all the names are across the board crossed out we don't know who to sue so for the city attorney's for paid to cover up police misconduct is inappropriate. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening. >> good evening and welcome. >> thank you very much i'm here to practice saying thank you might surprise you but i'd like to thank you for all the things you tried to do like to thank you for forwarding some names of pro seismic chiefs to the mayor

and deciding whoever you forwarded names to the mayor to select you can live with because you will i'd like to thank you for having whatever courage to recommend descent honorable, strong candidates for that position i don't know whether to be be sympathetic to chief chaplin i think you've been set up by the poa by enclosing you they've taint you and caused us to believe you're in their pocket that is an unfortunate situation you have spoken as if you're not at times i'd like to be in position to thank you for speaking stronger hope you will if you turn out to be chief so i'm practicing saying thank you my main thank you to the

officers for justice who have tried they very best to right the wrongs at great risk to themselves at great risk to their lives at great risk to their safety with the poa turned in their back on them so i'd like to thank the officers for justice i'd like to the folks behind me to leave in a moving vehicle to raise their hands those are the folks at risk. >> i'm sorry i'm front of the of you. >> your in front of the me but behind me if you raise your hand. >> i'm behind you everyone raising their hands is at risk for shooting at moving vehicles he get to get in my mine and drive home wondering if 2 policy effects me the folks that raised their hands are in the same

position let us say thank you for what you've done. >> thank you for thanking us. >> mr. gilberty. >> we want a chief of police that wants to be better okay needs to stop the militarization and the suicides of police officers they are second veterans in the country clearly it is not working for them either we need better policies new policies out of boxes maybe experiments with gun also belts what choices do we have continuing this awfulness of abuse the militarization of our police and the peace officers and the choke holds why not stop this it madness and why not do

it here we we all have a chance and opportunity a little bit of good luck amen one candidate asked douglas mccartney advise on sending american soldiers to vietnam and douglas mccartney said no. you can't send american troops to a fight they can't recognize the enemy and since that time we mill transition our police and given them people to recognize as brown and black suspects we need a better alignment we want the police officers in the community

to stay alive and prosper that should be our goal. >> thank you 34rig9>> next speaker. >> good evening and welcome. >> hi good evening jennifer from the coalition on homelessness as you know i was part of the stakeholder group talking about the use of force policy and i just want to review things a little bit and make some recommendations in terms of moving forward we have an intensive and rushed as you recall process to come up with recommendations around use of force that was a series of previous intervene meetings and work that was done there was recommendations that ended upcoming to this body that were approved and we're not put in place and waiting for the police officers to do a meet and

confer with the police officers association it, it is in police officers association - in terms of having the least accountability possible when those processes go forward that shouldn't be in your interests it is a different perspective how to have an audible police department and public safety in terms of not using extensive use of force as well so we just want to strongly recommend because as we are halting those things they have policies that are the old policies that are currently in play we have for example, on the vehicle shootings shooting at vehicles happening about every 8 months in san francisco so you know we really need to move along and have a very strong use

of force policy the department of justice is recommending a full ban on shooting at vehicles should be moving forward the other two recommendations is that came from the community groups should be moving forward as well us from the ebs coalition of homelessness interface with police officers we're particularly concerned thank you thank you, ma'am. >> next speaker. good evening and welcome. >> hello, i grew up in lake view ingleside area you know something i at ocean view park i was beat up in the early noticing by the police at ocean view park i mean it was just it was an all the time

occurrence being seen you know what will happen to our music i know like ours is a moving the fact of the matter you know and it's been ongoing for so long and now instead of the abuse they shooting you know they really shooting and you know something this really has to stop because you know my niece and nephews is coming up i want them to say a normal life you know i don't feel you know that they have to worry about protecting themselves or being a place afraid to run when they see the police you know and if this was - the car was supposedly moving not supposed to be shooting at or no chase especially a

residential neighborhood so they say if it was a high-speed chase you you know and it wasn't like a whole bunch of crime activist take place in the area you know so i wonder why you know this person you know was targeted and why his family can't see him this is never unheard of and what is really going on with the on wooits is in jail it is totally not right and his house got rated why? because he was a witness to the police nothing new nothing new so i hope we can make a difference if not maybe - >> thank you, ms. moore house.

>> next speaker. >> >> (clapping.) >> >> good evening and welcome. >> hello, i'm barbara about being arrested actually whatever my defy divorcee share my rap sheet was not short my divorce was - i have nothing against the police you can only go with the reports put forth to you false police reports are against the law but some people get away with that but i wanted to say when they have like mario woods the officers look like a bunch of dummies they were all filmed to completely you have to

realize our on candid camera everyone has a camera and could you please role a more professional they all subdivided their guns and what's the glory of bringing in a corps one shot will do and if they ever try to train the police officers to wound and maim and not shot to kill they can have another shot it fair charging mario woods was not a big imperfect boy type he had a knife but broken his arm or something thought is sort shoot to wound only is a request i want to put forward here. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> good evening and welcome. >> good evening welcome again remember last i seen you going to have a more slogan make it happen chaplain i did not see you yesterday but with the new chief thing our assumptions it ed lee want to appoint whatever ed lee want we don't want i don't care you're cool behind closed doors we don't need our shrines we came today, the whole community of los angeles view this is a very important and strong statement you should take serious this is a community you may arrest 80 percent of them with trumped up charges didn't deserve to get beat like you

heard the sister earlier i think we're going to doing everything we can we're organizing we're trying to get this together regardless of what your job you know restrictions or whatever you can do like with the hunger strike and everyone trying to show compassionate and humility like general concerns regardless of your jobs you should make our way over there and do something to make sure that brother is alive you know what i mean you guys tried to kill him not like the san francisco police department or the daily city police department you all have drinks together i'm asking you actually demanding that you somebody needs to do something about that like i said you may live off the brothers

misery try to make some happen. >> thank you. next speaker. >> (clapping.) >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening i try to keep my appearances on a rare coalition it is pretty bad because last time i spoke we were choosing the chief the community had no participation equip for a few of you who listened to the community and take it back the community wanted to say a seat at the table to choose the next chief that didn't happen supposedly against the rules of this body i've not seen the rules to choose the next chief you have a poa that condominium i was in the room i work with the task force that negotiated with in in going to we'll not prohibit those protocols to come

into play in our meet and confer we promised that what did they do they said we'll rescind that agreement and not agree there is not only a lack of trust of the community what happens now you've picked the wrong community because we have you've never seen a room full of black people demanding justice from the police department usually white and latino wanted justice for the community it - they'll willing to organize this case with mr. 34078d is one of the most suspicious cases i guarantee i see the footage they're claiming a high-speed chase and ran over an officer that over has a scrape on his arm something is wrong the only

grace is that an sfpd not 1409 him a daily police officer that shot him that's our daily grace but i'll make sure we find the officers guilty they failed to kill him his story been told he is a stroke in the hospital when he speaks justice will be served and we'll be here to back - >> thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker. >> (clapping.) >> >> good evening and welcome. >> martinez if from the mission activist, and i'm here i'm disappointed you know another

shooting another officer another man of color i'm not from the mission didn't personally know the man but brown and black solidarity my problems will be their problems we stand together i was told that morning they're going to keep bringing my folks we can't don't think law enforcement those rules and laws if someone gets arrested that is probable cause you expect us to respect the police officers it is an corrupt system how do you expect the community to trust the police officers they're the ones getting racist text-messaging and protesting and doing positive things they attack us you know, i personally

experienced things with the sfpd tenderloin bayview and the mission district ungdz and right now all the people got a lot of conscious folks but kids 16 and 17 didn't know the next policies they're a target like i am i feel survive with my folks by the by myself i get stopped and harassed my record is clean as of now those past couple of years let me say that what do you expect our community to do that's why we gather together and do what we do i'm out there giving the youth jobs and graduating high school but when i'm enrolling them as their case manager a lot of the issues police harassment and police brutality you know what i mean all the things in the city that

is one of the key things i have 35 percent of my youth and - >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. martinez>> (clapping.) >> good evening and welcome. >> i don't feel welcome. >> you are welcome. >> i really wasn't going to say anything away was going through the motion i don't think a lot of you care this is just another death you don't care; right? but you guys are making san francisco into johannesburg and now we've past the point of racism your record makes you look like a bunch of thugs your disrespecting our badge your disrespecting the oath that you

took you know because this is ridiculous shooting pregnant woman and racist texting message for the district of what you do and serve the only reason you people get away with that the people in the city don't know about the structure how to compete i know we're not reading up on laws 80 how to - that's the reason he getting away with that we want the answers sea questions once we start learning about this system again, we're going to change things we'll not have to come to this place with answers to the mayor with that i've said enough please. >> (clapping.) >> any further general public comment oh, ms. brown come on uptake our time. >> good evening and welcome. >> i am here as usual to talk

about my son aubrey abrakasa who was murdered august 14, 2006, i'd like to use the overhead. >> i just wanted to still come here and bring the awareness that my son is not to be forgotten and his case is not solved yet even though they're having new investigators investigate any sons case i'll still here and in pain i still want justice for my son the overhead is not working. >> and my time is leaving. >> we'll give you your time back ms. brown one second. >> as always they always know who murdered my son and the police know the da know

know who murdered my son and former gavin newsom put it in the paper himself saying he know who murdered my son with one exception no witnesses there are witnesses because they gave those names of the perpetrators that murder my son those are witnesses that gave those names of the perpetrators that were there when my son was shot thirty times with a semiautomatic gun i'm still watering for justice for my child you got thomas hannibal and paris moving get and anthony carter i didn't pull those names out of a hat those

names are on any sons file on 850 bryant on the fifth floor those names were not pulled out of a hat those are the names that everyone has so i don't understand why my as opposed to case is not solved when you know when did this i bring this because i want the people to see and feel what i feel i want you to see what i feel every morning i might look okay. on the outside but i'm hurting on the inside i want justice any child and like i said i'm not just fighting for my child there is other homicide victims, too, we making this big folklore about the police killings and

our children getting circled on the streets everyday we need to make that same uproar thank you. >> thank you ms. brown if you or anyone you know has information into the 2006 murder of aubrey abrakasa an i'd like to take the opportunity (415) 575-4444 thank you ms. brown. >> any further general public comment hearing public comment is closed. >> sergeant, next item. >> item 4 public comment on all matters to 6 including the public comment to hold item 6 in closed session. >> any public comment on this matter. >> welcome back. >> thank you again, the same thing i said yesterday you guys need to look at the cops report that assess you should be holding these hearings

with as much transparency as possible i don't believe you're doing that you know there is no reason why all the use of force has to be behind closed doors it is corrupt in the in the first place and the poa has from business with a second bite of the apple i hope owl talk with the city attorney and open up this prosper the doj. >> any public comment on this matter. >> welcome back. >> commissioners you heard in the public we need to change our ways we can't change our ways unless our heart is in the right place if you're heart is not in the right place you've waste nine hundred sanctuaries trying to do

something you know we have jesus witness institutions we have people representing the blue or the police force and if they were alive today, if saving nations were alive today, there would be ashamed take thousand of pages and just to make a point which means nothing at all we don't need to go through the history of what the police stand for or ordinary from the days of slavery we don't need to tell

the whole world there is real documentation about the association with the kkk right here in the rotunda interest an inauguration the k k were having big banners today, i refuse to let people bring banners a joke in the year 2016 we need a change of heart they're going to close doors is a mickey mouse and someone will come out and say oh, i know move not to - >> thank you sir, thank you, sir. >> any further comment mr.

gilberty. >> at some point in the future those meetings will be open to the public will be on tv they should be we're watching the neighborhood is watching nci all the cops shows with commercials the real stuff is happening here it will be heath for the community and the police officers will be more involved will recent each other more i think in the near future those sessions will be open. >> thank you mr. gilberty. >> next speaker. >> welcome back. >> thank you i believe that one of our agenda item is dealing with officer-involved shootings and whether the officers involved in the shooting should return to the force pending the investigation and the outcome of investigation and i would urge they innovate return to the force in fact, i'll urge you discipline and

terminate officers involved in officer-involved shootings officer who shot and killed derrick in the city serves in the mission police department he attacked and wounded one of our fellow ever protesters members for the police accountability we know the police officer that shot alex 14 times found not to be competitive use of force posted open facebook why not burn his family's house down and taser his friend we don't need officers like that on sfpd if they're involved in a shooting they shouldn't return to the force to active duty while the investigation is pending and after the investigation occurs i get it connor it is extremely

difficult to the officers we need to remove them so that san franciscans can be safe from the very people that are supposed to uphold the law. >> thank you. any pursuant to p.m. hearing. >> sergeant, next line item. >> to vote to go into closed session action. >> colleagues do you have a motion to hold item 6 in >> so moved. >> >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed?

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think outside the box that have approximately. >> this a reminder that under the administrative code 67 a-1 the ringing of set all pagers or turn the device completely off now our regular meeting of tuesday, november 8, 2016, and the time is 901 item one roll call commissioner president francee covington commissioner vice president ken cleaveland commissioner nakajo commissioner michael hardeman chief of department chief joanne

item 2 general public comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction with respect to agenda items, speakers shall address their whole and not to individuals. commissioners are not to enter into a debate or discussion with the speakers, the lack of a response does not constitute an agreement of support for statements during public comment. thank you, madam secretary is there any member of the public of that wants to address the commission okay. at this time seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item 3 approval of the minutes from the meeting on october 12, 2016. >> is any public comment on the minutes as submitted?

all right. public comment is closed. oar my fellow commissioners >> move to approve the minutes. >> thank you is there a second. >> i'll second on conditions there is some minor changes i'd like to - i'll get with - most of those are tip graph. >> we have a there is a motion that has been seconded there's a motion on the floor all in favor, signify by saying i. >> i >> passes unanimously item 4 chief of departments from the chief on current issues and activities since the fire commission meeting including the academies strategic planning one and 50 anniversary update special event and communications by the government agencies and the public a report from operations on the field

operations with the greater alarm and bureau of fir preservation and the airport division. >> thank you madam president conditionally. >> good morning commissioner president covington that is my reports since october 2, '68 regarding the academies all of you were joined us in a celebration last friday with the one and 20 graduations we graduated commissioner president covington you were not with us but friday 51 members that entered into they're first field assignments as early as saturday i'd like to acknowledge the division of training for going a great job in moving the candidates forward a couple of weeks to readjust and get

downtime, if you will, he then on november 28th we'll be welcoming the one and 20th first class 42 members of the current natural assessing list joined twenty 12 members from fire commission for an overall academy length of 20 weeks those members have been selected by my office and notices have gone out an orientation one week on the 21st for the members selected for the academy and the next academy will be held in april 2017 in which question have alternative candidates and also in january conduct backwards and interviews so for the selection and as well as the second academy class one 22 in 2015 we're proud to report that we

now welcome 36 more members both the per diem that brings our per diem paramedics we're glad gnaws our search time we call on the part time paramedics to help with the staffing that are worked well in last month loan we experienced the highest call volume i have the numbers 44 hundred code that calls and we're meeting our goal which is a 10 minute response time in the new york times percentage actually we've met that goal and building that all the good work by the augmentation has helped

us that's good news and technique we're going to begin training to bump up from emt for those members that did paramedic licenses to became paramedics working in the system that's approximately three weeks training and planning for hiring thirty to 32 new emts in january all of that is in progress at this time and there's a lot of pieces and parts in order to get united states to where we are at including our department of human resources our investigative services bureaucracy to do the checks because all of the members need examinations with the director of planning and finance corso is finalizing the draft and will

proponent to the committee members and the commission i believe that you know with your recommendations we will be prepared to present it at the final meeting commission meeting on december 14th the goal to provide you with the draft well before that meeting if it works for you you'll be prepared to do that. >> regarding our one and 50 anniversary we're at the end of the one and 50 year we had a committee meeting on october 27th and we have one more event you'll talk about in a minute i wanted to highlight what i thought was a wonderful event the film festival on the last weekend that we had on november 5th and 6 and commissioner president covington i'm sure you'll hear from a number of people anyone that attended the film festival how

informative a labor of love a lot of work put in by you and appreciate that on behalf of myself and the public that attended they learned a lot i learned a lot that weekend you put our heart and soul into that the content was excellent a panel on ems and a panel on sunday with the march 2014 a seethe for young children to thank you very much i know you put many, many hours into planning that and pulling that off very much appreciated and did nice thing that all of the work you put into it we'll have for our archives so show it in coming class and the public it is a great resource thank you very much for that and we have next month is the actual one and 50 anniversary or birthday for

our fire department so plans are underway to have a great day for those who are working on december 3rd we plan to deliver a meal and thank you to all the people working in the firehouses including the airport on saturday to say thank you and the day before we'll provide lunch that is part of the fundraising as part of committee put the time into raising the funds for that that evening we have working with the firefighter larry and lieutenant mike day to put on a great event at the zoo a celebration of one plus 50 years of service san francisco san francisco and expecting 8 hundred people at the zoo more details about follow and to say thank you to the members for the

sacrifices and celebrate our wonderful tradition and history regarding events and outreach since the last meeting on october 31st director of planning and finance corso and i attended a 5 year financial plan and review of the staffing plan on december 6th we the department held a meeting to go over budget instructions so that will be concurring early next month. >> many of us pretty much the whole table attended that is important a scenic society event and joined by commissioner hardeman to pay attention to the forward members of the department and thank you to the command staff we were able to fill out this and say thank you to those who came before us we

supported the phoenix society on the second on the third both deputies and myself and our director of human resources attended a two hour session a preview by the training that will be taking part in all the members rolled out sometime next year we met with the members of department of human resources to talk about how we'll roll out the training and incorporate deputy chief colin i talked about the graduation on the fourth the film festival on the 5 and 6 i had the opportunity the evening of november 5th to attend a 90 celebration for someone that was iconic in the department earl and invited to celebrate with

him he's an amazing man looked great and many people and actively and former employees in the fire department mr. gage was in the department in 1955 the first african-american firefighter and retired as is coordinator of the human resources it is on behalf of the fire department and the fire commission attended that i'm going to skip one other thing save it for last but i wanted to remind everyone that we were participating gladly in the upping preyed on fisherman's wharf 51 and details we can provide on start 7, 8, 9 and specific locations i believe we're the number 6 entered the

parade on sunday and this year we have a formalized veterans association he can't say enough about the great work providing color guards hit the ground running and this year participated and jumped into a lot of the events we'd like be participating with us on sunday as well and also wanted to let you you know the deputy director of planning and finance conducted interviews last week for the vacate support services i worked in that position from 1998 inform 2000 it is an sgal part of making sure the department runs and the infrastructure wise there is a lot of these responsibilities and we - there was a vacancy 29 people applied and looked at it

resumes and interviewed 6 i'm i'd like to announce through the e-mail and welcomed to the command staff former captain the deputy chief anthony rivera. >> (clapping.) >> good morning, commissioners koijz and possible future firefighters i want to say what a great honor for me and my family my beautiful wife lisa and my father-in-law and not only are here to celebrate i'm truly honored and although i'm changing roles from the bureaucracy of equipment my goal will remain the same is a uphold the goals the fire department so

proud of position and grateful for the choices you've made if i want to know anything about me. >> everything - no. >> i'm a native son born and raised in the mission district i live in north beach with my family and just i'm a proud san franciscan and thank you for the opportunity. >> (clapping.) >> just 0 finalize i echo the native san franciscan it is value adam i know that chief rivera loves of city and department has a beautiful family you don't recall last month when we accepted the position he said maybe i can one up my son his son won an award

and it is an honor to work with i since march 1991 including working a period of time on rescue two and organizing the bureaucracy of equipment and efficiency we have adopted a vision zero goal in terms of our specifications now includes strike team to the extent we know the length and width of of our apparatus making sure our drivers are safely navigating through the city streets are more and more of a challenge and advocating for more than education tools being green where we can be green and bio diesel it is a smooth transition was we're on interval part of support services and now joined the staff to also do on

phenomenal job of those our facility and working closely with the director of finance yes. it was an easy choice to select chief rivera. >> thank you for your dedication and commitment to the department that's all. >> thank you chief joanne hayes-white. >> member of the public that would like to comment on the chiefs report? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. and we will go on to our operations report. >> good morning commissioner covington my operations report for the month of october in this period we have 3 greater alarms the first and second alarm on

october 1st at harrison and 25th initial fire on the single story contained 3 garage unit separated by an entrance and the address visible fire it geoguy to the battalion notices the fire to the mixed use building it spread into the attic of the residential unit and within the second story found fire had spread and extinguished that and went to the attic - were assigned and all unit did a commendable job another second alarm the address 18 plus noriega there were 3 civilian injuries with the investigation

the fire was dpafrpd on noriega it was actually on 21st avenue this unit went to 21st after the fire was well advances on the ground floor with 3 stories a man was at the window we rescued by a ladder a woman resident was outside in our unit observed her running through a wall of flames to retrieve her valuables we absolutely don't recommend this she was taken to the hospital for check up. >> they all did a good job a r started on the first floor and dropped to the ground floor the firefighters did an excellent job truck 18 the third greater alarm on october 2013 minutes o after midnight on corbett there were 4 firefighter

injuries one firefighter had a broken wrist the fire is under investigation the - >> communications report many phone calls 24 recorded a fire on the 3 story building we arrived and the first chief in command upon arrival a - fire from all the 3 floors in the rear the building he noticed a significant fire between the buildings and coming from the garage area 24 was vance into the garage that was the area for the origin of fire a gas meter broken off and was a blow torch this was directly in line with the upper floors of the building i remembered hearing the unit up

blow saying a significant fire up above us not a comfortable feeling but carried on with their - there was a blue framed building engine 20 shut off the gas and there was relieve from that and early on in the incident does did a great job with a couple of lines preventing a significant fire to that building and the captain recommended they went to the aerial to ventilate and because of growth of the fire they were forced to get off the roof but they did what we could all companies on scene were aggressive we would like to acknowledge the great job been the driver of engine 24 lester did exceptional.

>> community outreach updates i'd like to remember the public to sign up by texting alerts sf to this 888777 number. >> on october 2nd, 2016, one of the fleet week events was multiple sf members at the jooth club and supplied the drop off aid members of the arms forces and bonded this facility fascists better working relationships on october 5, 2016, the canine rescue unit trained together and members of the armed forces worked a long training event

also sffd will be training students other incidents of note on october 14th the sffd worked well with the sfpd during the officer-involved shooting the sfpd was asked to fill in at the general hospital our fire chief joanne responded to the hospitalized our prayers to the officer did a great job and hopefully, will recovery on october 29th a male was saved because of great operations under the bay bridge and engine 48 were the first sffd unit to arrive on scene they were immediately directed by the coast guard located at the dock the wildlife fish

people the crew stated they were on the bay to monitor the old piers scheduled in the morning awhile on the bay they stated at the corner of one of the officers eye a large flash on the golden gate bridge he directed the other officers looking at the flash caused by a large marine body they revealed that was a male person they brought him to the dock and did basic life support on the dock the 3 coast guards members they remained calm and the victim was combat active because of his link was collapsing their assistance in initiating the- we brought our journey to

the dock and the patient was lowest and immediately immediately o-2 level was to 86 percent the patient had blue lips he was steel combat active and maybe other traumatic injuries due to the state and the confused responses to our requests as we lowest the patient the patient sat upright and figure out 9 oxygen mask and rhetoric lung grafted and the patient was in respiratory agrees we began to see the patient had problems to the left our chief sobered the back of engine and the paramedic john

immediately had decompression for the patient the patient was braetd down and unstable with the blood pressure of - making the plural decompression difficult the compression the patient combative stated subsided and placed a mock shift on the decarve that was placed between the 2 and third phase the patient was now calm and gave a thumbs u.s. up as he had immediate relief they were reading 96 percent on oxygen and the transported to the code was completed and the arrive time within 8 minutes time for dispatcher was 27 minutes

because the courtyard and fish and game this i did not know man will live plural decomposition i can have it described they put a hole in our lungs i won't be doing that part of example but let my colleague explain. >> good morning jeff myers chief of ems that is one of the true life threatening injuries that a patient can have in the prehospital environment usually comes if my impact to the cage in which a lung is lacerated or punctured and one of the links collapses because of the pressure within the chest cavity if i feel the chest cavity with a subsequent breathe is more and more pressure the lung collapses

down that pressure causes a shift of the central part of chest our heart and lungs are attached and basically kind of rotates the structures this reduces the blood flowback to the heart that disproves our blood pressure if not corrected in a short period of time the vital recreate is very, very low decomposition there are landmarks but takes a large chief administrative officer take care though the chest wall to equalize the pressure inside the chest with the outside atmosphere air and this is a life-threatening condition but that will make a difference in the patients survival to get them to the hospital. >> our update on emergency

medical services our ambulance were on scene 95 percent under 10 minutes we captured 5 thousand introverts in our call volume a way up meeting the time as well as challenges to the call volume up i believe we did a good job as far as staffing and backing up our ambulances out of service we received two new ambulances of the 55 academy 39 are in the pipeline the control substance policy is in the just peace we used to have it at headache and moved to the 39 and work with the medical director to make it as tight and secure as possible continued meeting with finally with station 49 a short you want

on the permits as well as the planning section approximately nine hundred plus were approved and generated fees of 4 hundred plus dollars update on the bureau of fire investigation through the month of july 2016 one and the opening active fire investigation that is 6 on fire investigation reports from the previous month an update on san francisco international airport i want to mention on october 12th adc casalones led a large drill and the sfo units from san mateo county a brief description of that he can come up as well that concludes my report. >> thank you

you can come up we'd like more information what is going on at the airplane. >> good morning commissioner president covington and others october 12th we have our annual disaster drill the faa requires this is done every 3 years we do that every year plus a significant drill in terms of the size this year one and 85 volunteers some with respect injured and burned victims and apparatus including the coast guard we simulated two aircraft on commercial aircraft in a regional jetted collide on runway both planes settling on the runways two incidents going on at once the small plane

simulated off a larger plane and several injured passengers as well that gives us an opportunity number one to coordinate with our unit from the city as well as from san mateo county over the course the 10 months we've taken a look at the erroneous and making jurists in the procedure this is think opportunity to see how those are working out and afterwards over the course of the last couple of weeks reading the agencies that recorded and taking a look at at the operations to see where we need to make improvements and changes an excellent opportunity to come together to see a large-scale incident and everything we've looked at was a successful drill and, of course, any operations we have areas to work only that's the point of this drill this size from my stand point it is successful and

give us an opportunity to look at next year's drill and right now we are planning on a marine type of operations to include many agencies for plane crashes this year's drill was successful. >> wonderful thank you very much. >> okay you're welcome. >> okay. those are the reports have you concluded? >> okay. >> not at this time but have to call for public comment first any members of the public that want to comment on the chiefs report or the operation report at this time okay public comment is closed. i'll go to my fellow commissioners gwen with commissioner vice president cleaveland. >> thank you madam president and thank you for your

comprehensive reports which kind of a couple of questions on the orientation that you give for people that are going into the east classes would do you tell them. >> what are they sweet spot to expect. >> so an overall of what to expect for the 20 week academy we used to include spouses or significant others but at this point we have just the members to let them know ahead of time they need to be focused and it is a rigorous curriculum for greater daily i'd like to ask the deputy chief. >> how badly do you scare them. >> good morning, everybody. and chief try not to scare them that is a real good time the group comes in and it is they're first introduction of the san

francisco fire department is he we take it serious all the inspectors class a uniforms and give them all the information and some administrative and one chance we get to meet them i personally am not there it is run by my chief and the staff the people that run the class people get to talk about themselves really starting that bond continue the training staff and the class works out very well. >> thank you very much. >> all right. >> in the h-8 category 36 new people are those the top candidates, if you will, for the next h-2 classes people that are paramedics in and tm t.

>> sort of a mix this is prurment some are employed and firefighters and are happen and automatic their current situation some on the emt list and also on the h-2 not always. >> a good stepping stone but not the only one>> correct. >> that's good. >> when you look at to hire emts what you are looking for. >> an actively list unlike the h-2 so we look at experience obviously the anytime qualifications they have an emt certificate if they work in other systems i believe there is a minimum amount of hours i asked our assistant deputy

chief chief meyers to make recommendations and so that specifically is how their selected in the past and 6 week curriculum. >> i wonder if their stand point things important to be hired as an emt. >> i think value added to the second criteria will be the same for h-2 firefighters job experience and community service, the ability to speak another language is also valuable especially in the city when our trying to ascertain medical criteria and be background so similar to other nc level positions. >> thank you, chief i'd like to commend the president for the film festival i was under the weather he attended the saturday session that was very, very well done and informative thank you

to president. >> i also like to commend our new assistant deputy chief anthony rivera very wise selection chief and delighted to have i join our staff. >> chief gonzales a serious report in the number of fires that you recorded and the serious medical issues i guessed lieutenant johan son are commend for saving that guy's life. >> absolutely. >> they're our local heroes for the day and certainly that i did not know man did he jump fall. >> all we know he flashed we again get that information. >> is he in the hospital. >> i would say no i'll have to get back with you but, but those folks come to the commission

should be commended for saving a life. >> that can be arranged. >> yeah. i'd like them to be acknowledged and we're going into the season of more fires i think we face that in the winter it is during the holiday and a lot of people will be doing special event at the homes and christmas trees and other things to sort of get you know charged up speaks for itself in the wrong way all of us will have to be vigilant and you have a very professional fire department. >> thank you. >> that's about it. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. president. >> commissioner nakajo. >> thank you. i'll go through the chiefs report of operation

thank you very much for you're good comprehensive report i wanted to say that your description of greater alarms your description staff the responsible individuals within the department it is a scrip active - it is important to read the incidents and follow the trucks and multiplication and other individuals again i'll read summaries as well i pickup words like under the leadership of such and such under the direction of battalion chief that is really important as a commission for us to be able to be able to get a description

again, we have the ability to show up at a greater alarm fires but not on our time and ability we often don't make that but this is helpful i also wanted to refer to our ems services report i know that you know that the commission panes to the ambulance response time to see 95 percent under 10 minutes is good work and the ambulance of the fire department captured 76 percent of the market shares with 5 thousand 4 hundred and 9 transports that that a monthly summary chief. >> oh, yes, sir. >> going down to the division and the investigation out of the 3 a categorical there is a permit annual number total

annual permit inspections 3 thousand plus is that number a. >> an annual permit number. >> just for a description and clarity what do you mean annual is that a. >> that's the total number. >> of inspectors within the year. >> okay. that's a large number and next page, page 9 the bureaucracy investigation corrupt you talked about the investigation reports for the month of july 2016 one and 4 with 6 additional on fire investigations. >> yes, sir. >> the question in the fire investigation unit how many staff do we have lieutenant working in this thing division. >> we average two, 6 inspectors on twenty-four hour days from 12:00 noon and some

days there is 3 depends on how the tours work out we hire overtime and a captain that works days. >> we also have one more day position that is a - a community outreach that works there. >> all right. chief commissioners and fellow colleagues we have gender a lot of fires within the city of san francisco that is number one 04 with an additional increase of 6 is that is manageable number. >> as you may know i'd like say almost close to a year ago a new captain took over in conjunction with the fire marshall we worked to get that

number down it was 4 hundred and did a phenomenal job of closing the reports and once they come up the fire marshall de cossio duty does timetables. >> this didn't have a page number the san francisco international airport but the first unit on scene with the educate of f unit respond and the first ambulance on scene do you see that sdheef. >> our medical calls the staff board. >> page one and 5. >> in terms of educate and the valid dated average column 9 point - is that reflected thought minutes response.

>> the first unit on scene where that has valeted responses that is the time so if you look at the bottom of first section 2016 slashing 102016 the 90 percentage actually, we made it basically in 5 nature minutes. >> okay. >> and then categorically. >> that's any ems unit so the first unit on scene that has a paramedic on it as you may know 32 of our 43 on average are als engines and the others are b l s some calls we send two engines to but maybe not one with a paramedic we'll send another

engine with a paramedic to make sure the emt is on team as we said the 10 minute milestone we have to make but we need architectural als resource within 7 minutes and we do that but backing up sometimes our b l s engines. >> so those numbers in parentheses that's the fire ambulance desire the time to did chief. >> so als is 7 minutes we have an als units on scene and a 90th percentile in the third minute our ambulance first ambulance needs to be under 10 minutes code 3 and right now 9.

9.87 minutes percentile. >> where our stations are we can't move the station and the time they give us is 4 nature minutes on average we get there 3.8 zero minutes the 90th percentile we need to be realistic you can't make that 2348s we put fire stations and i want to know about the time between the dispatcher and the responding unit my question who will make that call from the als goes out or the b l s goes out there. >> that's the branch of emergency communication out of the department of emergency management they're responsible for the calls they receive any emergency calls whether that is

police or fire or ems and they determine the code and call site and they're working on improving that seethe of the response as well. >> thank you chief thank you for that explanation. >> thank you to commissioner covington making me put page numbers on this to find the items. >> i'm complete with the report and have a few comments to chief joanne hayes-white. >> thank you chief gonzales and chief joanne hayes-white i wanted to remark to the graduation held at the other presentation high school for those of us from that era and

appreciate the chief and captain and the training lieutenant had that really, really wonderful gaming graduation and again, i want to recognize those training lieutenants as you recorded a class starting in another part of most and from this period moving forward the other thing i want to graduate is you choifr for our promotion in joining us and had the pleasure to have interaction with you previously i visited you when you were at the department the equipment not a glamourous job but never met the member i met a lot of members of the department you took so much pride with the bureaucracy equipment that

showed me you're an internal guy and you take the perspective of firefighters are out there and their needs are so for myself not rowles the importance of the data and including the engines and the doors and ambulance i was impressed with that and truly impressed you helped with the ceremony at public safety office in the early morning i appreciate that and congratulate you and your family members here as well i have to say that your father-in-law i knew from high school i have to say that and gay congratulations with our son the winner of the contest good selection and the last

thing i want to say excuse me - i wanted to recognize president of the fire commission from the film festival amazing work amazing work and dedication the selection of the film be able to stick with it i'm a person that is trying to learn how to get my website i think that was something we entered that i think you put us into a new era the two panel presentations one with the emergency medical with chief meyers and others were there was informative and gauchs a perspective but the mission bay fire you hear a lot of things i'm a commissioner you get reports when i sit in the audience and get the perspective of the members that fought that fire what was going on at the time get a feeling of what was

going on with the grateful nature with the folks saving lives and wording. >> thank you, very much. madam president. >> thank you commissioner nakajo. >> commissioner hardeman. >> thank you, madam chair. >> no, no. >> thank you, madam chair yeah chief gonzales i really appreciated the report you gave on the rescue because general public comment is watching this this is one thing to let us read it but for you to read it out loud and explain is terrific and let's us know what the firefighters and paramedics have to deal with and congratulating those heroes that saved the lives that goes on everyday and people coming before us every meeting saving the lives of a person that was not going to be

around if you didn't get there on time he really appreciate that. >> thank you, commissioner. >> as far as the ems you know we had the 40 extension ladder had to go 40 feet was of the palin by 798 and others pursuing the goal to get the resources needed it is it would be nice given the resources we are doing the job and still have more resources to come that was nice of you to explain the problems again, it is like the stations are too far away you can't get to where you have to go faster that could be impediment so

that's good in all aspects. >> and then so that was the best - >> the other thing this is in our report 24 thousand plus calls last month but again, this is basically for people watching 24 transition you take the responses by union type it is not mentioned in the broadcast 26 thousand plus that includes the engines and rescues etc. so that's another thing almost one thousand a day things happening around town and trying to get around 45 thousand speeding uber and lyft out there that their you know competing for space in the streets plus all the construction makes that

difficult so it makes the response time even greater a greater thing to risk as far as the graduating class that chief collin as commissioner nakajo mentioned of insofar as and i'm hearing now that in the past having difficulty getting the inspectors somehow it is said there are insofar as that are - i was really happy to hear that's a reflective on what is happening and the delegation by the chief and the leader is only as good is his or her can

dedicate if you can't do that you'll not be a good leader people are sticking around and not to do this so - >> chief meyers that was great i was sitting behind him during the graduation ceremony he had all the paramedics that were graduating and the sure happiness between the chief a little paramedics graduating i can tell by some of the hugs that went on and the handshakes and you give them a handshake they grab him a great relationship that exists between the boss and the workers that is really nice to see and stand there and watch that sincere you know they didn't have to say be nice to him he's not their boss anywhere that was a great thing to see i really enjoyed that.

>> it is now official. >> yeah. that was terrific. >> and then you're still standing here chief rivera - that's quite amazing where is he at oh, there he is he's there. >> so congratulations a great choice you're a spoiled guy and besides that three or four years ago north beach was the greatest neighborhood in america you were living in the greatest neighborhood and working for the greatest fire department and one of the greatest leaders congratulations to you. >> let's see - and to chief your detailed log a great

detailed log of what you do everyday we appreciated that. >> and then the phoenix society the chief mentioned that was quite an event again, i mentioned about the command staff last month but the fooeshgs society should have other things to do but filled the table and fortunately according to the person that ran the event the most brass he's seen in the past and it was great not knowing any of the awardee to listen to they're short and funny and humor is allowed the humor at the table with the command staff that none of them drinking none it was- everybody came over and got the wine off the tackle they were in

fuel uniform but the joking and the foreperson between the folks one of the commanding officers their retired and can work they'll bring up something in the past or joke how they looked at when they retired that was nice i liked to have a sense of humor that is so important in life to see people let in their hair down and enjoy themselves with their fellow workers. >> so that's it i again, thank you for all the pressure and diligencecy complaining about not having the resources blaming us the commissioners and blaming the chief and blaming the command staff and once the

resources we don't see enthusiasm complaining at least give them a pat on the back they made sure to build the response so thank you. >> thank you commissioner hardeman. >> chief joanne hayes-white. >> i wanted to add earlier this week on monday we were able to thank private citizens that a couple years ago when we were having problems are response time before we made a $14 million investment in ems i have gotten to know over the years a couple by the name of bernard and his wife barbara he approached me sometime ago i said this process it takes time we submitted the delivery of two ambulances those are generous donations at the bought for us

this is a great ongoing relationship with people that are generous and out of the goodness of their hearted they read the article and gotten together a few times and heed ask what can m line do we'll be receiving 9 balconies 5 from the general fund and two wonderful san franciscans they wrote us a check for three hundred and 50 thousand that covered the purchasing of two ambulances we're grateful to them then captain rivera before i promoted him that afternoon came out from the bureaucracy of equipment and brought the ambulance to headache and had the ability to look at what their funds purchased we're appreciative of they're generally it.

>> thank you they've been good and the bernard oh, my gosher foundation don't a lot of good work not only in san francisco but across the country with their osher and so graduation was a lot of festival and chief was the proud poppa beaming he thought the buttons were going to popoff identification so proud a delight you know so much happiness of the people that graduated into the academy there were 51 wonderful we need every single one and choiief rivera.

>> you have a wonderful can do spirit i appreciate very much so regarding the operations report i agree with the comments of my fellow commissioners this is a very good narrative you know we're getting and that people who perhaps do not get a chance to see you, you us on sfgovtv when they read the minutes they get a full sense of play so i wanted to ask you for a little bit more detail on page 3 the number page 3 i wanted to ask you about the driver of the engine 24 firefighter david lester he's performed exceptionally can you

tell us more. >> so being the first engine operator at a greater alarm fire if you keep our cool and taking lines off and making sure you, you supply the first line with our tank and you're going to take more lines off a lot of the man folds they go into the direct building you have to insure other supplies maybe two or three so remain calm and do that with a heavy fire all units saying we need water we need water he has to find out where to get more water sometimes from a second engine why he was expended he stayed calm and made no mistakes and the fire went out. >> great thank you your report chief gonzales.

>> thank you chief joanne hayes-white for your report thank you very much. >> i think that along with the two gentlemen that commissioner vice president cleaveland suggested come to the meeting firefighter les 80 take care will be a good addition to that short list. >> let's see he had a question for chief castaloncastalono. >> which question. >> regarding did chart. >> so okay. >> thank you chief gonzales. >> okay. >> okay. i see listed here the elevator rescue and the fire alarm do those go up and can you talk a little bit about the

nature of those calls. >> we haven't seen a significant increase in fire alarm or elevators their steady we don't respond to a tremendous amount of those but we have as you may know the increase of passengers through the airport yearly this year and last year over 50 million there is quite a bit of use of elevators we have obviously at the elevator team there are instantly working on the elevators making sure their running properly so we get a number of stuck elevators. >> that's what it is. >> stuck elevators. >> not medical. >> no, no stuck elevators and the fire alarms are those a certain percent - >> because of security at the airport we don't get a lot of

that type of thing many are them activated for reasons nothing like a something about or things like that not allowed in the terminals but an alarm nothing that ever has turned into anything substantial. >> at the beginning of year i think 09 report on the airport division. >> okay. very good. >> thank you now let's let's see. >> okay. thank you i think that was commissioner vice president cleaveland that made sure we are we were getting to look at the calendar getting to a point of active things happening in the city regarding the holiday so i was wondering i guess to

the chief of the department chief joanne hayes-white if we are mentioning putting together television psas regarding the hazards particularly you know the turkey frying and the christmas tree hazards to not just people and fire potential but to animals as well so are we are doing any partnerships with one of the local stations to get out the word. >> so at this time we don't have anything planned with the local station typically, we'll put out a press bulletin around the holiday regarding as commissioner vice president cleaveland said an uptick in accidental fires created by candles and electrical outlets and cords and so forth a general

order prepared to go out to the members and others that don't inspections related to the exception for public assembly where there is highlighted decorations typically for the last 8 to 10 years participated at st. francis memorial hospital a live demonstration how quickly a fire could a start with a tree not been treated in the home we believe that is scheduled next month although i have to confirm that. >> and does that visual information on the website. >> it cabby have not seen it that the past. >> covering as many platforms as we possible, is the way to go. >> thank you for that great. >> and i also want to say thank you to everyone for you're

good words regarding the film festival everything went extremely well and thank you to the members of my subcommittee of one and 50th anniversary so thank you all so much. >> commissioner michael hardeman yes. you see my notes i'm trying to be brief i had to go back no way i wanted to graduate i wish i had the time i had commitments but i what i saw was a spectacular and the chief sat a couple of rows in front of me one thing she made a comment it was very educational we learned a lot and not all of that was good all of that was good about

san francisco but not - there was a very sad thing that you know pretty much you had really to hold back when you see what firefighters done in the areas and some of the - especially coming back this one particular film we watched about the fire department cut back and the engine was closed to the fire where 3 people ended up dying it was very sad the first this is a number of years later the one person did a 4 person job couldn't do it and people died because of that so that's the issue about cutting back you might not close to a house nearby and cut back on our staff and go by 6 months a year and

all of a sudden you have that fire you, you don't have it, it is wonderful that san francisco didn't cut back on the staffing but chiefs report chief great job on the 457s coming in and one and 20 class face fantastic that's my favorite day every it is e it would be nice we have more coming around seeing the happiness in the room with the family and friends and graduates this is a life-changing thing and great to be part of the h-8798 kudos to them without their coordination with the recommendation with the chief to move into that formula we wouldn't be on the time as we

wouldn't be doing as well on time with the services anyway, thank you and just wanted to throw that up. >> thank you commissioner hardeman. >> all right. thank you everyone madam secretary. >> item 5. >> review of harassment presumed to be innocent policy. >> today we will have the discussion and review of the hazard time preservation policy but unfortunately, our h.r. director has been called away she has a family emergency so i'll continue this item to the meeting on the first wednesday of december but i will ask for public comment. if anyone has a public comment on this item.

>> seeing none, public comment is closed. item 6 >> agenda for next fire commission on december 14th 2016. >> any public comment? all right. public comment is closed. >> and we will continue the harassment presumed to be innocent - i noticed the last couple of sessions i've been trying to surf the identification section for the fire commission we're not listed anymore the reason he is this because i've been trying to tape our sessions to try to review the information and see what is

going on with the department and i haven't be able to find it so i'd like to presented that back to sfgov and i don't know whether we got bumped for some other exciting committee in san francisco, california we have a clarification i haven't been able to find that thank you madam president. >> certainly you would like the information offline or an agenda item. >> to be offline. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioner vice president cleaveland. >> i'd like to put the h-2 update on the agenda 72 hours important that we have that position created and i'd like to see if we have any new news to be added to the conversation and obviously we have the strategic plan reviews next week. >> those are two important items. >> thank you very much.

>> and chief joanne hayes-white the strategic plan will be available for review the week before? >> yes. >> great. >> all right. so commissioners with the strategic plan since this is a very important document and an important process people have gone through to develop the plan please review it carefully and keep in mind the feedback we've received from not 1, 2, 3 but 3 civil grand juries thank you all very much and at this point - oh. >> madam secretary. >> adjournment. >> yes. at this time i'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

>> so moved. >> i need a second we're hereby adjourned thank you all >> so nice to see everyone in here. we really appreciate you coming and taking part in this with us. it's been such an exciting year for the san francisco fire department. we are in the midst of a year-long celebration for our 150th anniversary and we are so pleased that we are able to include this wonderful ceremony in our agenda and special events that we've had plans for to help us celebrate this year. so we are really really happy about this data we been looking forward to it for a while. i would like to welcome our federal state and local partners and elected officials. our invited guests and members

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

that we must have in this evolving city. i know that the fire boat is going to be invaluable. the chief and i and the commission know that the equipment, not only has to be replaced, it has to be modernized. as our city is growing. with mission bay that we are in now, with the growing population that we have, and the bayshore, the south bay, all of the areas of the city, we need the modern apparatus. this morning i'm joining all of you to say, thank you, to the men and women of our fire department because this apparatus not only complements the things that we did, the guardian and the phoenix, but it also complements the men and women who on on everyday basis, whenever the call is made, you rush in to that danger in order

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

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

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

you to our police department our sheriff department all the first responders as well. this is an incredible time for our city to be adequately prepared to make sure that we are investing properly and we are prepared for the immediate future. thank you very much. >> >>[applause] now the president of our fire commission francine covington. >>good morning everyone. isn't this a fabulous day? wow. mother nature loves the fire department. you can see that. >>[laughing] thank you all so much for being here. this is such a fantastic day for us because we get our third fire boat. as a city we are not growing out oh we are growing up. becoming more densely populated and we need to have as many resources available to us as we possibly can have. i want to thank the mayor for his support. i definitely want to

-excuse me-thank sen. feinstein for her support when she was mayor and now in her position as sen. it's very very crucial that we have this support because we were able to get to more than $8 million in fema funding. the process of going through naming the boat was delightful. we received more than 300 names from schoolchildren and the guardian and the phoenix were also named by schoolchildren. so, this continues a a tradition in the department and you'll find out with a winning name is an injustice gets. i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge by fellow commissioners starting with commissioner

sancho was on the zombies are longest-serving commissioner. 21 years as commissioner on the fire commission. and we also have commissioner cleveland and commissioner hardeman so again thank you all very much for being here and i just can't tell you how delightful this is. >>[laughing] see you soon. >> >>[applause] >> thank you president covington. now it gives me great pleasure and it is truly an honor to introduce the next speaker. please, welcomed the chief of the san francisco fire department, joanne hayes-white >> thank you. good morning and welcome an open e ctr. five signs, did thank you for bringing us in to archbishop riordan high school band. we really appreciate you being here. if you don't pursue a

career in music consider the fire service. thanks for being you. my brother was class of 1971. it's a great privilege to be here with so many of you get a lot of people to knowledge and think. certainly, our federal partners are regional partners, my colleagues from throughout the bay area, fire department, thank you for being here as well as our military partners. to our elected officials, i see some remember to supervisor peskin here today as well as our sheriff vicki hennessy. she's not elected but i think if she was elected she got 100% support and that is the city and state chief of protocol charlotte schultz. thank you for being here. >>[applause] so many people we have our partners in the pvt. ambulance amr is to get my colleagues are city administrator naomi kelly could you blame force from the port the port has been huge part of good always with us every step of the dig i see jack therefrom the giants here. thank you for helping us have a beautiful backdrop. and let's get them in 2017. >>[laughing] i've three

of my former deputies which he-gary and pat-i appreciate you being you were part of the team as we thought about this boat. guardians of the city is here. well represented with jim finley retired captain 150th committee the three-week committee like mayor lee said thank you for all you do and someone also said to shout out to bearden high school mentoring free week were picked as number one in the battle of the bands. so congratulations again to you. >>[applause] we also local 798 president tom o'connor. thank you for being here today and celebrating with us. also, in the back mark heller please offered scissors as you is a great partner. in our hearts and souls are out to officer kevin downes who we work together on friday night and we wish him a full recovery. so this is about celebrating and i can definitely say the native san franciscans am proud to

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

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

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

good i'm grateful they are here at the party was the engineer on october 17, 1989. he is it. neat, where are you? thanks for being you could happily retired. we also have bob costa who taught me a lot. when i was at the fire boat where is bob? thank you, bob for being here. we have dennis kennedy also here. a number of other retired these wave your hand if you work on the fire boat and are now retired. thank you for all for being here. >>[applause] i would also like to pay tribute to two men that are worth with their no longer with us. they were wonderful pilots. one was died in 2006 and one died and audio seven. pilate arvid habaneros and pilot kevin devine. they were huge numbers of our department and both died unexpectedly while they were still serving in the san francisco fire department. i know the members always have great respect for them but i want to acknowledge them. we did also invite their families today. so without further ado, we all wanted them am excited to introduce fairly soon-i

think mindy has something else to say but were going to introduce the schoolchild, third grader from st. peter in a few minutes he's going to come join me and work get on with us our market so thank you very much for coming out and appreciating our beautiful boat. >> >>[applause] >> thank you so much chief hayes-white. i don't think this boat will be officially ours until we receive the title. so i'd like to invite the chief executive officer, bigger, mr. frank so deep, up to present the vessel title to the chief of the department. >> speed thank you. good morning. did anyone hear the hammering going on behind you spewing raise your hand if you did. okay so what were you thinking? were you think i can believe someone's making noise

in the middle of the ceremony? were you thinking is he building a piece of staging or is he building an awning to keep someone out of the weather? were you thinking is it safe? were you thinking does it fit if you need a hammer? >>[laughing] we are bigger we build think. that's how we think. it's a great honor to be here on behalf of of the 500 different craftspeople who touch this boat who are skilled artisans at baker who really built this remarkable fire boat. to chief hayes-white to mayor lee to sen. feinstein, thank you for honoring bigger by allowing us to partner with the san francisco fire department to build its. with me today is ali-us cut planning and zoning one of the people selected by his peers to be here to represent those who with their hands with their brilliance, built this great boat. at baker

we are pretty partial to san francisco bay area. we built for of your ferries that some you travel in south big that are run by-. when you go by the transbay new transbay transit center and you see those really cool that their x-rays think of it v for bigger because we both goes structural parts for you. we built your boat. so were also building two more boats four-which will come out in the spring and winter group and designing some electric hybrids that will overly transit people. most environmentally sponsored boat manner possible. whether we are building ferries or structural sections for transbay were by designing the hydro electric ferries are people at baker lake allee, take great care to deliver quality we deliver it with love. why? because fire boat has a critical purpose often a purpose that has the potential to save lives and to protect

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

presenter, i did want to also acknowledge the beautiful singing a firefighter david huckins wife geico, thank you very much for making this so special. beautiful rendition. >>[applause] >> my staff kelly and olivia without them this one i've happen today either. so i know you don't want a lot of acknowledgments but it's definitely do. thank you so much. this is the exciting part. were going to have a: red. come on up. on board to induce you know mr. nico the there appeared geico is a third-grader at st. peter and paul. >>[applause] i happen to know him although i did not know that he was the person that committed the name. as president coming says were over 300 entries to name the fire boat. nico is the winner. were going to unveil the name soon

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

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