>> item 1 roll call cleaveland mdm. president nakajo, here. hardeman, here. covington spirit chief of the department hayes-white, here. item to

general public can't. members of the public may just the commission up to 3 min. on any matter within the commission's jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. speakers shall adjust the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners were department personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with a speaker the lack of response by the commissioners were department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with support of statements made during public comments. >> any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[closed session] >> item 3 approval of the minutes from the regular meeting on january 11 2017. >> any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, commissioners? >>[inaudible] [off mic] any second? >>[inaudible] [off mic] thank you. all those in favor say, aye. thank you. approved. >> item 5 fire department

administrative bulletins discussion and possible action regarding fire department administrative bulletins. please, note the draft bulletins were posted on the department's website for over 30 days in accordance with the san francisco fire code requirements on the departments scheduled a public hearing on december 14, 2016 to allow the public to provide input on the proposed bulletins. the bulletins under consideration at this meeting have been posted on the department's website since november 14, 2016. >> is there any public comment on this item? commissioners? i see it we have our assistant fire, marshall in the audience. any questions on these proposed administrative bulletins? yes, chief >> president cleaveland good afternoon and commissioners as well. the fire marshal is in the building that at another meeting. like to ask marshall

richard brown to come up and answer questions related to this item on the agenda. administrative bulletins. >> welcome. >> good evening commissioners, chief. standing in for the fire marshal. we would like to our department would like discussion and action on our new proposed 2016 administrative bulletins. these initiative bulletins are part of our code and they are allowed by our fire code. they went through the vetting process of the 30 day viewing on our website. we invited public comment. we have got about 20 comments. there's about 40 administrative bulletins. most of the comments focused on about 2-3 administrative bulletins. the last time at the administrative bulletins were updated or 2010,

so the code cycles change every three years. unfortunately, we miss the last code cycle but the 2010 version of the administrative bulletins were still effective and we would like to remove the 2010 that are currently on her website and propose these updated versions that really help our customers out in our fan review and fire prevention staff. so if i can-if you guys have the administrative bulletins in front of you? okay. i just want to point out really a good expiration on this is on the scope, 1.01 and the purpose. i will read your administrative bulletins provide clarification, interpretation, and other information regarding that san francisco fire department enforcement policies and procedures. all material

contained in the ministry of bulletins is published for the benefit of the public to promote expeditious plan review and applicable code compliance. that's really the purpose and they are very helpful especially where i work at dbi plan review for fire departments. like i said there's upwards of 40 of these. at least 20 of these are applicable to plan review section of fire prevention. another 20 or so applicable for the district fire inspections. it really helps customers and inspectors alike for consistency purposes. >> commissioners, colleagues, any questions? >>[inaudible] [off mic] commissioner

nakajo has a question >> thank you very much president cleaveland. before we go into a vote and that's one of the things we want to [inaudible] is a vote on the approval of these bulletins queen >> yes., please >> in terms of being narration of the last time this occurred was in 2010 >> that is correct >> the narration was there was about 40 bulletins in this package >> correct. >> does the number of bulletins from 2010 to this current acceptance very much? >> good question. we added about two or three and removed two worth it was an even wash. very close to being the same. >> did you want to do a narrative in terms of those changes are those identifiable? >> sure. so i guess we can go right down in order. the first

one that was a major change is 2.01. that was active for all these years but it increased in size due to the volume and complex scope of work we do for fire alarm plans some middle spirit >> chief, what page are you on please? >> i've the table of contents of the packet. i think there are in order in your packets of each. i can identify them my number and title if you would like please >> please >> i was the first major change, that 2.1. we added probably 20-no 12 pages to that document. again, to assist in our enforcement of code requirements. as we scroll down, we eliminated 2.10, which was

formerly high-rise elevator lobbies and providing locks on those lobbies. in 2010 that specific scope of work did not exist in the code. since in this six years of this timeframe, the code has caught up so we found the need not to include 2.10. so we removed that. the next item there is 2.11, some middle guidelines for emergency evacuation signs. another major change. emergency evacuation signs are required in a lot of these office buildings i rises residential hotels, etc. we provided more examples of an acceptable sign in the back of this administrative bulletin. scooting down when you go to section 3, fire alarm systems, we had removed 3.02, fire alarm

annunciation, and 3.05, - excuse me - 3.020 3.04, 3.05. now we are updating those three administrative bulletins to meet today's code. in that six-year period there were two obsolete so we removed them. but now we're reinstating them. i think that is about it and then we get to in section 4 is pretty much the same just updated to reference all our current codes and standards. then we get to section 5 miscellaneous information interpretations. i want to draw your attention to 5.08,

fire service access elevators. fire service access elevators or new code requirements for fire service personnel when they design brand-new high-rises could you they provide a special elevator for us is very complicated scope of work. this a very good new document to this set of administrative bulletins love the designer and us for testing could and plan review. i hope that answers your question commissioner. >> thank you very much. chief, i want to ask you in terms of again i understand [inaudible] in the last review and coming up the review by your department as you say is to refine the

requirements to make it easier on our customers as well as for our inspectors. >> that is correct >> do we initiate all the contemporary amendment or are we affected by building inspectors were otherwise from the building department or do we act singly within those investigations? >> that's a very good question. it's funny because these administrative bulletins other agencies like electrical, building, do refer to this and since we are a city family, and we have overlapping jurisdictions on some projects, we interface with each other and integrate and use these as our guide. again, to your point, more consistency with the whole city family. >> i appreciate that because the commissioners are aware that we have partners within our jurisdiction and it involves other departments. so it's reassuring to the commission, to myself as a commissioner, to the commission, that that dialogue is going on constantly to refine because it seems like we have a lot of pressure, so to speak, in terms of trying to do the work and a timely manner

and just by the developments of many projects in san francisco. it seems like-we are always concerned with the amount of workload and our personnel, to be able to handle that and come out with an efficient result. i'm assuming, again, this old adoption is a refinement to make things easier. is that accurate? >> that is correct. if you went page by page, we did reference other codes besides the fire code for that reason. basically, we don't enforce it but please take note electrical or palming or building they go in this direction. >> tank you very much. mr. pres., thank you >> thank you vice president nakajo. any other commissioners wish to comment? and eight questions? >> i just have one question.

assistant fire marshal, could you tell us if there were any changes in the air replenishment system section? >> good question. i do not believe there was. the only thing, if i can tune it up here, we did keep it in our code. >> commissioners, you may recall that sometime after we had quite a bit of discussion about air replenishment systems and so i was just wondering if there'd been any changes in the update as a result of those conversations? >> right. we did not change this only to reference the new code cycle here's that applicable standards. we kept it in here also because we do have existing buildings that have air replenishment systems.

it is still an option to be provided in our code for certain buildings. in this bulletin, in the back, page 7 and eight makeover maintenance and we thought it was appropriate to keep that in there for maintenance reasons. but also discusses how, when, all that stuff. >> so these systems, the ones that are currently installed, they being utilized by the department at this point? >> i can answer that question. they are therefore is a tool for the firefighters. >> okay. perhaps the chief would like to weigh in? >> on the air replenishment system? >> yes. whether or not there currently being used. by our department? >> so they are existing on some buildings. to my knowledge we have not use them. >> okay. i just wanted to get

that clarified because i saw that it was here but then i remembered the discussion regarding the air replenishment systems. thank you, chief >> i can say we do not see many of these come across our plan review desks. they elected to the alternative means which is add the fire service access elevators instead of this. which of course we encourage but it's the desires designers option. >> thank you. >> thank you commissioner covington. any other questions by the commissioners? one final question from commissioner nakajo >> thank you president cleaveland. the a lot of material in here. all kinds. the beating was comprehensive.

you covered every area and i know what some of administrative bulletins but it covers areas of jurisdiction and concerned. previously, we had some discussion from buildings in the mission in terms of sprinkler systems or in terms of all arms. commissioner covington but up about the same pipes breathing apparatus, for myself in here as well as the sprinkler system as well. i know we have a separate high-rise committee, but to this commissioners mind as well, any update as we as a department respond to large office buildings and how we respond to putting a fire out? the interpretation of that was generally the sprinkler system is supposed to douse that quickly and the option of our members going up to use the air system we are talking about is optional, which to this day as i recollect we still have not

use. so it's just on my mind. going outside and drive it around san francisco looking at the high-rises, continually for myself it's a what if question. the safety of our members in terms of taking care of the business of putting out the fire were the circumstances within that. so it's not a general question. it's a comment within this area of bulletins to make sure that the various areas are covered because there's a lot in here. that's just a comment mr. pres. >> it i can make one point there, commissioner. when they build new high-rise buildings at 120 feet the replacement system is not allowed. so 120 feet is approximately 12 floors. after that height, fire service access elevators are a requirements. so we are talking a high-rise starts at 75-120 is

the air replenishment code option. >> again i appreciate the discussion can temporarily because being on the commission of a number of years every one of the segments came in to a discussion. the air replenishment system versus the high-rise elevators that has all kinds of questions about which system is can come in place making sure we got feedback from the high-rise community members with the assistant chiefs and the italian sheets out there. how we are going to approach this, so i appreciate that and hopefully the system that we have will take care of our needs within that. thank you mr. pres. >> thank you mr. vp. do you have a question? >> no. i have a comment. my comment is i would like to move this item for adoption >> do i have a second?

>> second. >> thank you all those in favor say, aye. >>[chorus of ayes] opposed? the motion passes. thank you very much. >> not necessary for the deputy chief but i did read the last couple of days that i thought this was a real high number, 60% of all fatalities in the united states related to fires are caused because of either no smoke alarm or a smoke alarm that wasn't working. that is hard to believe in this day and age. so that's a very discouraging to hear that nationwide statistic and i see our fire marshal is now present he is shaking his head, yes, so i guess it was accurate when i read it it's very disturbing especially like in san francisco

where we are trying to distribute them as much as we can and to find that it's a nationwide trend is very sad. what a sad way to die because your smoke alarm was not working or you do not have one. >> thank you commissioner hardeman. okay. mdm. clerk next item >> item 6 cheapo departments reports report from chief of department on current issues activities and events within the department since the park commission meeting of january 11, 2017 including budget academy special events communications and outreach to other government agencies and the public. report from administration. report on the administrative divisions, fleet and facility status, finance, support services, homeland security and trained within the department.

>> chief, welcome. >> thank you good afternoon again president cleaveland members of the fire commission should join dwight reporting since our last meeting of january 11. first item is the budget. you will be getting a presentation on our-the status of our budget which is due third week in february. so next month from dir. corso as a separate agenda item. i'm happy to report for 16-something we are on track for revenues and expenditures and so we are midway through the fiscal year so that is good news. the budget committee convened and thank you for the resident cleaveland for attending on january 18 and we meeting again on january 31 as get ready to formally prepare our summation which is due third week in february. with regard to academies, are 120 first-class is in their ninth week with 52 members targeted date for

graduation is april 14 the more morning of april 14. i would like to knowledge all the weight work being done at our division of training could our recruit training obviously are in-service training and special operations training. so thank you to chief coping and supper the great work they put in each and every day. there is also as part of training in the ems part of training we have a age 3 level i academy which we welcome on january 17, 30 numbers. i believe we had one resignation. we've had 29. as eight to six week academy those are entry-level emts that will be hitting the streets after the graduation on february 24. i think it's interesting to note that i believe 16 of the 30 have paramedic licenses and a practiced as paramedics so they are very familiar with

being responding to medical emergencies and they we highly trained emts and more than half our paramedics. so we look forward to them joining our department next month upon graduation. the 122nd class, we are scheduled to begin the latter part of april. i believe, april 24. we're targeting 54 members.. just this week we received the ntn national testing a work of doable list, which takes us through those were tested through november of last year. so that just arrived this week which i'm looking at and will begin processing for the class for april could we do have some numbers that been selected. they were selected as alternates and pending sort of a brush up on information, will be added, selected for the class but we will be also opening it up to consider additional members for the april class and the class will be occurring in the fall. michael next month is to begin

that process for selection for the april class, 122nd another thing to note is were talking about economies we are looking for to the all the graduations. what are the things related to ems-and we appreciate pres. cleaveland vice president nakajo joining us say we spoke with supervisor peskin. ida conversation with mayor lee yesterday. guard noticing a trend work call volume is rapidly increasing soldiers between november and december were 400 additional transports ever seen no slowdown in january neither. so as a result it is having an impact on certain time periods that we are zoning on particularly friday evenings. as we know it's the end of the workweek get the people coming into the city for weekend activities of people trying to get out of the city to commute home. so we have noticed some of our response times being challenged at that particular time. so we are looking a lot of different ways to resolve that issue. one

of the things that we are working with the mayor's office it was his recommendation, which i think is a great recommendation, to reconvene the workgroup that did great work collectively two years ago and that would be representatives from our departments as well as the controller's office to analyze the data to look at the call volume try and study sort of the spike particularly what we would all recategorize as peak periods. mayor's budget office, local 798 anticipated by some kit that we will welcome to participate just to put all the mines together all the stakeholders together employee groups as well to take a look at how we might better manage if our staffing model needs to be increased. it will need to be a conversation that we need to have even in a year were being asked to reduce our operating budget. because we are seen with a population increase,

it's not surprising to us, but we are seeing huge spike in our call volume. reducing congestion has a part to play as well. it's difficult to get from point a to point b goode were looking at the amount of time our units are spending the hospitals until they can get back in service. so this whole conglomeration of things were going to start it were also going to include private partners [inaudible] as last time is looking forward to reconvene that workgroup if not next week first the week in february. i know we've had interest in commitment from you pres. cleaveland vice president nakajo to also participate could pray much appreciate that. moving to the next item, special events communications and outreach, on january 13 012 knowledge assistant jeopardy chief colleen eight the attended agreed [inaudible] fastball team and they played in a game against the youth guidance center, the residence

that are there. that are in custody. as a great gathering of great game the sfpd one popeye lot and it was a social event after where the kids and the fire department members got to have pizza oh and ask all team members work great while models for these young men and so that was something that was put on and supported by its called city youth now and they've had games against sfpd in the past and chief, beanie help coordinate and put that together. i thought it was very gratifying. something we will continue to do. that was on january 13. i would also like to knowledge in honor and memory of martin luther king holiday on the 16th i was unable to participate we had our deputy chief of administration, ramona williams as well's assistant deputy

chief jeff: beanie and tony rivera participate with a black firefighters association and the march which began at fourth and townsend and appreciate you represented their permit for that event. on the 17th, we had our monthly labor-management meeting with a local 798 to discuss various issues and concerns and it was good productive discussion and resolution [inaudible] we do need monthly local 798 pit on the 18th and 19th, department of human resources administered the battalion chiefs civil service examination get my understanding were 44 captains that set for that examination or two days. the results will be forthcoming for that examination. the battalion chief that is currently in place that is due to expire next month. also on the 18th-and

i'll pass out to commissioner hardeman, thank you, something that i think is wonderful. it's a collaboration that lots of people and are determined to be at knowledge. what we are starting this year and were going to 12 sessions to correspond with the 12 months of your. each battalion will host sort of a public safety fair we are calling it. in conjunction in collaboration with the meta-project. so we are going to endeavor to once a month from nine-1 pm and we have a schedule, you will hit each battalion in the month of may is the ems we could so that location will be determined and it told her of this or its fire prevention week and those are the two months that we will figure out something a little bit different. but, basically, it's a collaboration for members of the public to come in and turn an expired medication in a safe manner. we also have our public information officer spent a big champion of this, jonathan baxter, available. we have fire prevention is taken active role, our education team and handing out literature i've handed out to you. we also have our fire recruitment team. firefighter brought up working under the division of training chief quality good if some ems

medics on hand to do and only cpr. and we have two sfpd officers taking in the expired medications from the community. hosting station obviously promotes in the neighborhood when i got for inspections when eight open house or the public safety fair will be good because great and many probably in the audience tonight a lot of input and support and volunteering from the ccs colleges students along with nurse topock and the district of the station and hand out the sheets are handed to you. so in its immensity just we had our first one was last week on the 18th at battalion one, station two, 13 re: powell street and broadway. according to the records i fear [inaudible] five people attended in that 9-1 rated over 70 smoke detectors were handed out to your point commissioner hardeman. 38

participated in fire extinguisher training and many people learned hands only cpr. this is something brand-new that we are starting this year we will reach every battalion and will do something special during ems week in may and fire prevention week in october. so thank you to our members involved in that. great work. it's a new initiative to reach out even more so to our community in a nonemergency capacity. getting back to what's happened since the last meeting on the 11th, i was invited to attend this a third or fourth time to the british consul's residence to attend a breakfast for public safety individuals including the police chief. the president and ceo of the red cross. the head of their apartment of emergency management mythos by the british consul general. previously he was-was left out of septum and there's a new counsel general. consul gen. andrew whitaker. was a very

productive discussion to oriented him to how things work particularly in a large emergency setting and how he can be responsive to his to the foreign nationals in the reside here were are visiting in terms of communication and how it works. so ongoing communication with our consult is always important. i'm going to speaking to the consular corps giving a presentation on the fire department for their april meeting. we also had a discussion with the san francisco unified school district that afternoon on january 19 two explored further potential school sites or school properties that may be able to be considered for potential division of training this obese when we do with the treasure island facility. we appreciate the efforts of

heideman mendoza with the mayors based on who also is the vice president of the board of education. we have some initial discussions good work going to agree to sit down and needs to be give her sortable and our needs were and we will continue work with them in our efforts to explore sites down the line for division of training facility to replace the treasure island training facility when that island does it-that project does get redeveloped and the island gets redeveloped. on the 23rd, earlier this week the deputies and i met with the raiders for the age 40 test. there were 17 active and retired members from throughout the country that have worked in the fire service at the rate of battalion chief or above. they do a good job at reaching out to have those raiders come in and score the examination. we also have division to hear today, division chief assistant chief bob casale, who i would like to eight dollars because of legal and subject matter experts for

the tester is a new test. i've heard very good things about the format of the test so far. i know you put a lot of expertise into that. i know we have two [inaudible] here as well he's also been in previous test as subject matter experts and that's key to put on a quality job related examination. so thank you for your efforts. the afternoon of monday the 23rd and pres. cleaveland was a result we attended the swearing-in for new police chief william scott to who i look forward to working with and i was happy to see that acting chief or interviewed tony chaplin who was here at our last meeting was appointed to assistant chief of operations. i know will be great member to chief scott who's coming from southern california guy that was craig to see that so many members in uniform lapd to support their former colleague in his new role as if bdg. so we look welcome him and i look forward to working with him. tomorrow i will be attending the mayor of the city address at 11 am good

i'm not sure if any of you are going be attending that that's all i have at this point. that concludes my report >> thank you, chief. do we want to go forward and just have our chief williams give us an administrative report and i will go to public comment. >> >> good evening. pres. cleaveland. commissioners, chief, ramona williams. deputy chief of administration and this is my administrative report for january 2017. i will start with assignments. they just completed their vacation process for the staff at san francisco airport station and i just want to knowledge their hard work of the staff for staffing next to and specialized units for the new year's eve events. that can be kind of chaotic and they were able to manage complementing it

with staff to handle any unforeseen overflow of incidents. they have also implemented the results of the annual vocation and under homeland security chief francisco continues to attend various meetings there for various training exercises as well as submit various grants so that we can acquire equipment vehicles and training other immediate resources. he also worked with the san francisco police department under event action plan for the weekend following the presidential inauguration. i also would like to remind the public to continue to stay vigilant and remind the public that if you see something, to say something. under investigative services bureau, they continue to perform

candidate background checks for upcoming academies as well as random post accident and fire boat drug and alcohol testing for department members. during this reporting period i'm happy to report there were 34 random tests conducted and it was results were negative. under the physician's office, they also continue to administer promotional stationery and preemployment physicals for department members. they also conduct return to work and work-related injury exams and during this reporting period, there were 20 work-related injuries for the month of december and that is down from 32 the previous month. under support services, it totaled 147 request for services were received during the reporting period. 141 were processed and closed [inaudible].

construction of pump station one is near completion. it should be completed by next month. i think there's some minor work needed on the second floor but the majority of the work has been completed. all easter projects continue to move forward and are on track. station 16, there has been some delay to the construction of the project. one, due to the increment whether we can all agree it's been very wet and torrential rains. also, permits were needed to dispose of some of the hazardous materials that were removed from the station. they had to acquire permits that they had not had in the past. so the contractor is stating that the delay should be made up during the tail end

of the construction so it should not affect the scheduled end date. during this construction, there are currently demolishing the second floor of the structural steel and representatives from public works continue to meet regularly the neighborhood groups just to keep them informed and answer any questions they may have. they also provide a weekly newsletter to the neighborhood for updates of the project. station five, the scheduled construction date has been pushed back to march and this was due to a process in the bidding process which the city upheld so the project has been re-bit by public works. it's now due on february 1. support services is working closely with the port on pier 26 relocation for the fire boat during construction. the piledriving was completed in november. we are currently working on the steel and

concrete apron followed by electrical work and followed by installation of a transformer by pg&e. under fleet management, the final three and moses were delivered this month and this completes the water of nine. we received two during the month of october, for in november, and three earlier this month. eight engines have been ordered and four will be delivered within a year and for more shortly thereafter. we have received to rescue squads, goose was good they are currently in service and in the field in the two aerial trucks to be ordered the specs are complete. it's been approved by the oca and now we will go out to bid. all talks are being outfitted with cordless ttools could this is an ongoing task.

they are installing like one set per week so it will take is a little bit of time to install in all these truck companies and post 18 is very close to being placed in service could we are anticipating the arrival of the eight [inaudible] and currently they are testing them prior to putting them in service. so it should happen very soon. the ambulance fleet is having solar panels installed to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases and as the ambulance going for service there installed solar panels so that is an ongoing possibility sometime. boe is continuing to test and evaluate the new or updated thermal imaging cameras for our firefighters and once they are evaluations are complete it will transfer over to division of training which will continue

further evaluation. we continue to have a staff member from dph onboard regarding our health and safety issues but we are expecting to receive a new permanent member in the rank of industrial hygienist by march of this year. i am happy to report given to capt. the bureau of equipment. this person has replaced assistant deputy chief lee darrah and its limon serrano was a former officer stationed eight on fourth and blocked him and he started earlier this month and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the position. under division of training, under ems during this reporting period, dms staff has continued to conduct required paramedic and him training and certification as well as conduct six-month evaluations for the mts and paramedics which consist of written and

peeled exams. they have also assisted the h-two 120 fire academy. the first two weeks they convicted the emt refresher which included american heart association cpr recertification ambulance ride a longs and orientation. they also assisted with the h-three level emt academy which started earlier this month with 30 students and as the chief mention, we are down actually down to 28 students. to have resigned due to personal reasons. under in-service training, they have also assisted them 101st recruited coming with specialized training utilizing our talks that we have on the premises over at treasure island training facility. they've also completed the module five fire ground live burn training which ended last month and over 950 members receive the training during that period. under

recruit training, the chief mention, this is week nine for the 121st recruited academy. we currently have 52 recruits still in the academy and a-this is their first week of the second block of training. they go through four weeks each and the engine block in the truck block and this is their first week. under nert training the nurse coordinator continues to attend various meetings throughout the city conduct various training and outreach presentations and is currently repairing for upcoming training in the annual citywide dirt trails which are conducted later this year. under fire reserves, during this reporting period members of the fire reserves have volunteered throughout the holiday season wherever needed. they also were a vital part of our toy program and they continue to make themselves available at various department related evens. at

this time that concludes my report and am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you chief williams. is there any public comment on item 6? seeing none,, commissioners? do we have any comments or any questions for chief or for chief williams? vice president nakajo >> thank you. i don't have a particular question [inaudible] i also don't have a particular question for chief williams. thank you for your conference of report. i just wanted to note that in your report you talked about nert and that upcoming drill that's coming on. just as a point of information, i had the names for a task for cities and

counties of san francisco with the aging and disability. were going to be meeting once a month. it's a brand-new task force to try to locate those particular needs in the community to one other categorical's in terms of trying to strive for a better system in terms of citizens in san francisco is a component called resilience and the question came up at the task force last meeting as to what kind of program would reflect something like that. i wanted to -the commissioners know and chief hayes-white, you chief yourself chief williams it was a great opportunity for me to talk about the nert program. again in the spirit that we the fire department know about our nert program but many other departments in the city may not be as familiar with that program as well. which leads me

again to like the task force, the kinds of things that are occurring within our city that many departments and communities are doing. it's just that we're not communicating or sharing our information in terms of what we do do. i use of the nert example of resilience because i use that as a reference because somebody started talking about katrina and natural disasters. so he was easily a leave for me to talk about san francisco and the 08 earthquake that my reference was again of my personal experience of trying to watch the world series at candlestick. watching the building was way in the towers go back and forth. grabbing my son and trying to be real discreet about running out of the stadium and going out to the street but the first thing that indicated was i got to go home and if it wasn't for the citizens of san francisco all away from candlestick park to

my residence in japan town i would've never made it home. because every area i went to [inaudible] with no electricity and no power there were citizens of san francisco there were out there directing traffic and taking care of business on their own incentive and the primary example to me of resilience was the citizens support to the fire department in what we refer to as the marina fires. so again i just want to talk about it in the sense that we, we have a gem with the nert program and the more organizing we can do, i'm not sure as to what other mechanisms in the city can do that but i just wanted to refer that to great program that we can share within the city and county and somehow or another use that again as an example as a judge work on that committee

on resilience. i just want to share that with you chief hayes-white chief williamson and the members of the commission about that particular program. >> thank you commissioner. the thank you vice president nakajo. commissioner covington >> thank you mr. pres. thank you for your report chief hayes-white and 41 chief williams. to chief hayes-white, i just had a couple of questions and a comment. i'll start with a comment and question first regarding the fire safety tips for san francisco california. i see that there are a number of copies of the handouts that are available which are very good.. i've seen them before and i think that they have a very good format. i was just wondering, how many languages do we have these handouts in

available to the public? >> i would have to check commissioner covington but i believe they are available not only in english but spanish and cantonese. they may be in other languages as well but i will find out >> okay. that would be great because - excuse me - i do recall having conversations with some of the folks in prevention and i thought that we had limited availability in other languages. so if you could get those details and then inform us about would be great >> no problem >> also i know we have a very good presence on the web, but i think we would be well served to have some relationships the various broadcast stations, both television and radio because i lot of members of our city population, we are the oldest city in terms of people

and their age. we are the oldest city in the country. we have the lowest percentage of people under the age of 18 and we skew very high. i think a lot of the members of that population, which is my population, as well among still get a lot of their information from broadcast outlets. so public-service announcements and the kind of thing, i think would serve the city well to include along with our very very good web presence. so that was one thing. i think the use of guidance center basketball game, it sounds fabulous. so thanks to chief: beanie for putting that together. i also want to thank the people who participated in the martin luther king day parade did so count me in for next year. i will be there with you instead

of down the way a bit. also, congratulations to the members of the department postell and sarah who seven under good work. there was one other thing i had for you, chief, and that was the budget committee. you say that the budget committee is we convened? >> yes. >> by the members of the committee the same as the committee was constituted last year or are there new members? >> there was an interest ugly for everyone who is on the committee which is representing all ranks and also a member from local 798 executive board that have remained on the

committee. we did meet in december with the mayor's budget office the budget director and then we had an interim meeting last week. we will be beating again. >> okay. has there been any conversation regarding terms of service on the budget committee so that once you are on are you on for ever? or, whether the one group that will be on first say, three years and then another group like a rotation on a board of directors? i just want to ensure we have opportunities available for new people who might want to be on the budget committee >> right. we may have had one or two added on. right now there's no formality in terms of length of term. something that we can consider. generally, on our committee structure usually every few years we will provide our reach for those people that you have missed an opportunity that no may have an interested so that would be fall into place with

our general committee, gen. order we put out periodically for new members. then sometimes members retire or sometimes members of no longer available the to participate. >> well, having served on numerous boards, if a new board is being constituted a new board of directors, generally, you put your hand in the hat and you get a term of two years or three years and then the next person gets a term that is a little longer and a little longer. so that you can either read up once you're term expires or stay on. but you know that there will be some with punishment of the directors as you go forward and an orderly fashion so that at any given time, there are people who been on the committee were on the board for quite some time and then you have newcomers as well. so that is a model you might want to consider. thank you, chief

hayes-white. chief williams, station five could you said it has been put out-the rebuild has been put out again? >> yes. >> okay. people have already left station five, having not were are they still there? >> they are still there >> because i know they were scheduled to go elsewhere. so they are still in her home >> yes. they're still moved to the place we previously designated but they have not relocated yet. >> okay. so how long will it be ? you said the rebidding process will begin in february? >> it will close before the first. >> okay. then they have to have a panel to make the decision as to who will be building the new- >> yes. >> so, your estimate as to when

the whole project might be done? >> my estimate was june of 2018. >> okay. >> of station five >> all right. it may be another nine months on added onto that were six months? >> that i can say. i can save up once they get started. they can readjust that timeframe. width june 2018. all right. that leads me to ask a question regarding the new stations that are going up. how many will have solar panels? >> i would refer that to our chief of support services. chief rivera. >> welcome chief weave era >> thank you. good evening commissioner or - excuse me - then-president cleaveland,

commissioners. assistant jeopardy chief tony rivera. in regard to the solar panels, on buildings i believe that all of our new facilities being constructed our leed compliant which is the highest one of the highest standards for environmental responsibility. i think that there is a push to have more green roofs as opposed to solar panels. so i do not have the exact amount of facilities that are outfitted with solar as opposed to the green style roof. i know that there is been talk back and forth. there's also a cost issue . so i actually do not know the exact answer but it is something that does come up and

we've been working very closely with department of public works to kind of reach that happy medium on the facilities. then i did also want to address one of the questions that you had about station five. so although there was a protest we are actually looking about a six-week delay in the overall progress of the construction and completion. so it could set us back but not as bad as what we had kind of forecasted. >> well, that's good to know. six weeks is not too bad. that's very promising. so we are going to have ambulances with the solar panels on the roof but not the firehouses necessarily? >> that is correct >> all right. good it would be very nice chief hayes-white at some point of a presentation

given us a comparison and contrast between the green roofs and the solar roofs. so thank you all very much. >> thank you commissioner. commissioner hardeman >> thank you mr. pres. great reports from the chief of the department and to administrative chief, thank you very much. something that was not brought up public to save begin as you guys always see chief gonzales would be reporting on this next month but to attend was chief work over there at 3 am and that to alarm getting that out real quick. very good job. that was something else. [inaudible] next month but that was nice to hear was out so quickly. the rain delays on construction, no penalties that could it's good news badwere getting our rain.

it's great the apparatuses are all on schedule and the chief francisco is pursuing his grants , training. chief, everybody is moving along. that is terrific, chief. good to hear everything is on schedule. and chief, capt. serrano taking chief with errors placed it congratulations. sounds like you're stepping into a job you have a lot of background in. very good. that was it. so thank you very much and hopefully we can keep these reports going all year long with dealing with the budget that might change a little along the way once we get all our new h-two and everybody else. i know the commission will be sitting with the chief

later to make sure that we still have the finances available to do all these things that we have on our agenda. thank you for the reports. >> thank you commissioner hardeman. i just have a few comments. first off, i think this fire safety tips of san francisco is a great document. i do hope chief, you have this on the internet on the website. so every citizen can download it. it's a wonderful document. it's got all kinds of helpful tips on how to stay safe. and how not to overload your electrical outlets. helpful tips that people need to know. so i think it's a great documents. i applaud you, chief and the department putting it together and i would like make sure it's on the web and updated and all the links work and all that good stuff. that is really good. having public

safety fairs once a month, terrific idea. terrific could i applaud you and the department and everyone involved including those on because i think it's important to educate all of our citizens on how to stay safe whether it be fires or any other emergency. i have a question on the h-23's. is there any movement on that on the creation of those positions? >> that remains a work in progress and you'll get a report on that on our meeting on the february eighth from the deputy chief of operations gonzales >> thank you very much. just one thing on the school sites you said you were looking at different school sites for a possible relocation of our training facilities. any possible ones? any big enough to really be an effective adequate training facility for us? >> so we have not identified a

specific site. were sort of in the exploration phase. [inaudible] with other entities one meeting we had we did not out of that meeting we could not identify a particular site. >> i certainly appreciate you working with mr. mendoza on the school board and trying to get that location finalized should we have to find a place to move our training facilities at some point. the sooner we find that location the better. so thank you very much. mr. hardeman >> sorry mr. pres. i knew there was something else. chief, or chief williams, i have seen on the bios of some of these wonderful candidates that firefighters that comes warming is there in the fire reserves somewhere else. is there any standard fire reserves required for all

counties in the bay area? how does that work? ours has been so helpful. i'm just wondering how the rest of the counties operate? >> is no standard state requirement. each county can opt in or not and then there is no set curriculum if you do have a fire reserve. it's kind of in and of its own but you are right. there is been very valuable. great experience for the fire reserve but also the fire reserve seems to come and be very helpful partners with us in times of great emergencies and long fires. >> thank you. >> thank you chief williams. thank you chief hayes-white. next item mdm. clerk >> item 7 draft operating budget fiscal years 2017-20 team and 2018-2019. >> mr. caruso >> good evening mr. pres., commissioners. i want to give

-hold on one second. thank you. i want to give a brief update status on the department's budget summit okay there's a brief presentation. i think you should have a copy and i will after that open up for discussion and questions. so these are the items i wanted to touch on briefly. just a review we talked a lot about the instructions. the city budget summary but i'll highlight that briefly. go over the budget, and again at the progress to date we've made as well as what's currently in progress. talk about about the budget committee. the chief had mentioned that early. some of the challenges we are facing an open it up for discussion and questions. as a result of some of the analysis done the city released a five year financial

plan back in december in a can of outlined a projected deficit of about $400 million over the next two years. that's increasing all the way through the next five years out in the fifth year to approximately $849. so there's definitely some structural issues the cities grappling with from a financial perspective and that is outside of any kind of looming uncertainty surrounding the federal government and federal funding as well. there's a lot of unknowns but that currently is not included in the city's projections. as a result of these projected deficits department seven instructed to oppose ongoing reductions to their general fund supports equivalent to 3% in the first year and 3%, or 6% cumulative in the second year and for the fire department but

equates to proximate $1.7 million the first year and the cube would've amount of 3.4 in the site. the others part of the mayor's office instruction was a request for new note no new depositions to be added to department positioned submittals. brief review of timeframe. just a budget discussion here at the fire commission today. february 8 would be the next meeting weatherby potential for discussion on potential approval of a department budget at the commission level. for some middle, that first meeting in february is usually a we could then almost as little time between then and the department's due date for budget summit which is february 21. at that time all city departments submit their budgets to the mayor's office and over the next few months the mayor consolidates all those budgets into one bounce budget for charter requirements. in these rebounds and presented to the board by june 1. then in june we have our departmental hearings at the board of supervisors the budget is considered at the board in july. kind of

outlining some of our departmental priorities that these are things that we just in general but also is highlighted this year in the process. we want to ensure sufficient staffing and resource levels. the chief had mentioned the call volume that that's a large challenge to us increasing call volume. so making sure we are properly resourced from a personal and nonpersonal standpoint. that is crucial given the importance public safety function that we provide. in addition, we want to be able to ensure we support the academies in the probationary members we have for the division of training both in the academy instruction but also in the follow-up to ensure probationary firefighters are adapting to the new roles in the department and we are providing efficient sufficient and education for

those number support as well. that's an ongoing efforts even after graduation. in addition, were doing quite a bit of work with the easter bonds and other capital projects are continuing to work on our facilities could affect our facilities are in the shape they been in a long time however we still have quite a bit of work to do. continuing oh suffers both from a construction is important but also from a planning is crucial for the department and coordinated an enhanced outreach efforts could we make quite a leap credit this year with some of the outreach efforts we made through public education through nert through the rh that monthly italian outreach and education. we want to continue those in the hands those that offer as much public education as we can. the vehicle equipment planning and procurement. this was the first year we were funded for argue crimmins attended the number of items on order and working with office of contract administration on number of other contracts procured continuing that momentum once we obviously quite a while and we get those vehicles from time of order so as we begin putting

those into the field and into use that will be of great benefit to the department. then in addition efficiency through technology, through both operational efficiencies but also working on a number of projects to improve collaboration and sharing of information amongst committees months workgroups. improving that infrastructure of technology through the apartment to both on the administrative side but also to all the way up to the field numbers themselves.today, january 13 with the state submittal for the both the capital budget for the department in the it budget. those were approved at the fire commission meeting on january 11. those are both submitted on time. the kind of a parallel path for the budget prosecute to the capital planning committee for capital and the committee on information technology for the it project. we will be working closer with those committees over the next couple of months. as a that

projects citywide at the committee level and be providing justification and presenting as needed. in addition to the chief mentioned reconvened the budget committee. i'll talk a little bit about that but we have begun process both from the meeting first meeting we had in december where the mayor's office reviewed some of the challenges from the city perspective fiscally that i highlighted earlier kind of review the five-year financial plan and elaborated a bit on some of the structural issues facing the city. so a lot of current work being done on the budget. obviously were about a month out but is quite a bit of work being done currently. updating staffing model and projections taking into account the staffing levels from both retirements and the new hires and academies we are projecting. we are also reviewing our revenue projections mainly from the eu mess and fire prevention side and doing as we do in only a

review of the fee structures and the levels that we have for those two functions. meeting with division heads in respect of divisions and budget request, good i'm not completed all of that yet but we are to see what the priorities and demand are for each of the divisions as relates to the budget. then continuing the budget committee work and i'll highlight that aa little bit here. so as i mentioned we met our first meeting was in december. we met with the mayor'sbudget office. they were nice enough to spend some time with us to go over some of the higher-level information from the city's financial plan. we have met and we've also taken a look at some of the recent proposals in the past couple of years that we have submitted from a budget perspective both from some of the needs that we have requested additional funding for as well as a review of the process and some of the items that were funded for as a result of some of the

department's efforts. we are continuing the needs assessment for the department tying many of the needs that are requested through some of the categories highlighted in the strategic plan specifically staffing, training, infrastructure equipment at sector. then we have a discussion in ongoing discussion of strategies and needs for the department and priorities going forward. we will be meeting next week again and will continue not only until the budget is omitted from the department level also as we continue working with the mayor's office over the next few months. commissioner covington had mentioned the term. this is the third year of leave of the budget committee. as the chief mentioned we have not set a formal kind of evolving structure but that something we can absolutely look at going forward. some of our budgetary challenges. we have i think one of the goals for the department given some of the economic projections for the city both known and unknown with regards to some of the

federal uncertainties is thinking currently a major budget initiatives and those are two major ones right now are hiring plan for fire and ms as well as our equipment and fleet plan. we work very close with the mayor's office and the board and the commission over the past few years to get those in place and we want to ensure they continue because we are going to be-we have a need and we've had a need for quite a while and the continuation of those plants is very important for departmental operations could think the item that keeps coming back especially as we discussed at the budget committee, is kind of this contradiction of workers competing ideas of budget reductions on one side as was increased eight for services on the other party reconcile that that is something we discussed quite a bit at the budget committee level and in general in department and administration. that's kind of the major challenge we are facing and on top of that we have minimum staffing

requirements. we have response time requirements there's a lot of budget offenders lack of a budgetary flexibility could sue the amount of funding that we have in our annual budget that spends on kind of the nonpersonal, non-minimum staffing portion of her budget from jewelers and supplies contractual services, there's not a lot of flexibility in those items and also for request of the mayor's office the past two years we haven't really requested increases. it's essentially been the instruction of the departments to absorb those cpi cost or cost increase for non-personnel within departmental budgets. so that's adding to our challenges, for sure. then just want to highlight kind of a high level what we are looking at from a call volume perspective. the past couple of years the past human specifically in the current fiscal year have-we've seen quite a bit of an increase in call volume. annually we this year for sure, you'd

anticipated when we're doing our budget and increase in call volume do we surpass that. as you can see, from approximately 10 years ago there's been an increase of close to 45,000 calls on an annual basis that's quite significant especially in the past you years we've seen that continue to increase on an annual basis and that is obviously quite a challenge for the department and in light of budget reduction requests how do we ensure that we are able to serve all those individuals and incidence that we are called upon. so that is as i mentioned earlier one of the large challenges we are discussing of the budget level. with that i like to open to any questions you may have. >> thank you mr. corso. appreciate it. i don't see any-any public comment on this item? seeing none, public

comment is closed. commissioners? commissioner covington >> thank you mr. pres. thank you for your report mr. corso get comprehensive as always. >> thank you. >> i wish the news was better. this is really quite depressing . we have so many challenges facing the department and now as a city, as a sanctuary city, we have even more challenges that will be coming our way in terms of our fiscal needs and requirements. i think that your report mr. corso, really highlights the need for all of us to put our heads together and figure out how we are going to do this. how were going to get this done. how we are going to do more with less coming from the city. we have to war

we are being pressed-we have to find alternate means of funding the things that we need as a department. we can't sit and wait until we are bulldozed to we have to get out in front of this and do the necessary fundraising, grant writing, proposal writing, gladhanding, whatever it's going to take. every claim we see in the city represents more people were either going to be living here or working here. our homeless population is not decreasing. it is increasing. so there is a reason the call volume is increasing. so we have to do more brainstorming about it. i think as a budget committee

level i cannot join the committee because there are already two commissioners there . so a reduction of $1.7 million is what you have penciled out will be our reduction for this department, yes? >> that art instruction from the mayor's apartment, correct >> do you have any idea as to where those funds will be coming from? >> at this time i was at a complete proposal for you. i think we have some of that would be offset with some additional revenue gains. we are seeing from increased call volume as well on the ems side. also continued kind of strong behavior on the fire prevention side. i don't think to the extent that would suffice for the entire amount we are looking at that that would be a portion of i would say with a reduction request is. >> how much do you think that

the monies coming into [inaudible] fees and that sort of thing would offset that 1.79? >> so we're currently doing some of those calculations on both sides and evaluating our [inaudible] as mentioned but probably about 40% of that if i had to guess off the top of my head. >> okay. that's as things stand today? >> correct. >> but things are moving quickly and new direction and a direction that is not going to be in our favor as a sanctuary city on the federal side. >> yes. as i mentioned some of the projections in sections on the mayor's office all that was independent of the uncertainty of the federal level. >> okay. so our beginning target for additional funds very necessary funds, is 1.7. >> correct.

>> call it 2 million. so the budget committee, i would really like to hear some ideas coming out of the next budget committee meeting regarding how we are going to find that money. just to stay where we are. new, we only had about 18 months of clutch times. >>[laughing] and we were thinking, okay were on a roll. now we will be getting the things we need as we need them and then now we've hit another wall. it's too bad.we're just going to have to be created. so that was one thing. alternative sources of funding and then under your enhanced vehicle equipment planning and

procurement, you said that we have that funded, the first full year we've had that plan funded? >> correct. last year in his june budget the mayor had proposed and was approved by the board, a multiyear equipment and fleet plan and that consisted of approximately $7 million in the current year and next fiscal year and then what was deemed a minimum of 39 dollars in the three subsequent years from that. so the first year the current year is the first year our allocation is about $7.1 million. we are moving forward with the procurements of those items that are hope is to obviously would like to add that the main minimum maintain those funding levels. >> so 7 million this year and three million the next three years? >> so 7 million this current year 7 million next is, was in the budget but we are discussed. museums all that is

being reevaluated as being the overall summit opened the 7 million, 7 min. and a minimum of three for the three subsequent years. >> until you said under current reevaluation i was feeling pretty happy. because i was hoping that those monies are secure. are you saying that they are not secure? they are not laden in stone? >> so they were as part of the two-year budget process last year they were approved by the board and so technically they are currently in her budget for next year but as we do every year since it is a rolling two-year budget, every second year is reevaluated again next year. so until it's passed by the board i can guarantee you that would be in the grip currently, it is which is great, but with a lot of uncertainty and with everything being evaluated, not just in that apartment but obviously citywide, i cannot guarantee

you anything. >> okay. 7 million this year and that will take us through july 1 >> correct. >> i hope you have not heard anything about reductions between now and then >> so that was one of the kind of things floating around when we had her budget -so far so good that was one of things floating around where our initial budget meeting with the mayor's office and department heads to come up with the instructions were at that time, and trends and still in fact no [inaudible] requested of department width have we earmarked these funds for particular place. i'm talking but this current fiscal year, have we ordered $7 million worth of equipment? >> not complete we've ordered approximately half of that. part of that were going through the procurement process. actually chief leaves in a

report mention the engines and trucks we get order our engine. they are on order and we are working on the per term and process to bid for the contract for the ladder trucks but that is part of the $7 million. >> very good. i would really like the procurement process to go well and with those monies be spend down to the very last penny. >> absolutely. >> thank you very much >> thank you commissioner covington. commissioner nakajo >> thank you very much present in cleveland. thank you then much director or so on your conference of report. it's very complete, very clear. in terms of commissioner covington asked the question i wanted to ask. one of them was in terms of identifiable but the 3% decrease for this year and 1.7 and i'm satisfied in terms of your information of providing on ways the department are

trying to work at that. and having no reconvened the budget committee i am hoping that that work will be at hands. i also wanted to point out that when he reported on the mayor's budget office meeting treatise i was fortunate enough with the president to attend that meeting. i want to thank you director or so and the chief for the invitation because commissioners, i felt that meeting was truly enlightening. it gave a real clear picture beyond, i will use the word, emotions, in terms of what can be projected and the projection of what is going to happen is something important for us to realize, but it hasn't happened yet and we need to stay fast to

be able to deal with the issues and the directions at hand. i call it one thing at a time. 3% this year. 3% next year, 1.7, 3.4. it doesn't change the atmosphere but what gave me was a stone cold wake up of the reality were the potential reality and every day we'll be following that through. i thought again was buried helpful for this commission because that presentation was steeped with the reality-based. on your page, also, budgetary challenges, you talk about the contradiction of budget reductions versus needs. as long as i've been on this commission have dealt with that

contradiction. that the economy of how do we work that out and as the commissioner covington had pointed out, as we all have realized, the city and the department have grown tremendously but again i must remind myself that we face years and years of cuts. [inaudible] cuts. painful cuts could painful decisions. thinking out-of-the-box and i know that we have the capability of again addressing those issues. so for me this contradiction is a fact of life for us in terms of how we deal and this budget process is not for the weak minded. it's a process by which some cooperative decisions are going to have to be made. i know use it don't sit there by yourself isolated to make these decisions. therefore the budget

committee and again going to reconvene with the chief members for my is very important as again for me, in terms of recommendations and needs, it's got to come from the command staff out there with the acs nbc's out there in the department is what realistically is going to work and for us as we go into this [inaudible] i just want to say that director or so, i know that you provided this last graphic the column on the left is the number again please reinforce me the number of calls please >> that's the total number of department incidents, yes >> so again i'm focusing on 1615-16 and icy 16-17 the projection of those calls. it is it simply one of the questions is was the cause of that increase? i know can be simple in terms of [inaudible]

and such but of the city and county of x number of citizen of citizens and the number is growing that volume can also increase by the existing members of our city as well. not necessarily with the increase of population you are you going to have some more information director corso, as to whether there are factors in the increase in call volume? >> absolutely. were looking into what the makeup of those calls are an kind of vocation just kind of the breakdown the characteristics of the call to see if we can determine if there are trends if there certain factors that are conjured bidding to that more than others >> okay. i know that's really important for us to justify our needs in terms of again addressing services to the population. i will be looking forward to participating in the budget committee with the president and look forward to

trying to adjust our needs within this very challenging situation upcoming. so i look forward to it mr. corso, director corso to work with our fellow commissioners and the command force and the chief. thank you very much. >> thank you vp nakajo for your comments. commissioner hardeman be thank you mr. president. as always, mr. corso you do a great job giving us especially me, i like to see things big bold and in charts and graphs. so i do appreciate that. i know it may seem like a waste of a subwoofer commissioners, we don't get to see this stuff everyday. we get it a couple times a month and hopes the personal could i thank you. then looking at the total department incidents with the chief had given us in her packets broke down by a variety

of different incidents and responses, congratulations to ems chief myers who with this increased volume is fighting an uphill bottle in being on time with this ambulance. he certainly deserves a great hat on the back. then go to the working fires in greater alarms in the city last year. we are at least from my perspective and i know some of the other commissioners of stated that be very aggressive with increased alarms to we like to get them to be as strict as they can but it's amazing that the assistant chief and assistant chief three and the battalion chiefs deputy chiefs, the captains have been able to put out all the fires of san francisco and only have five, three five alarms total in the last calendar year when you're being encouraged to

bring out as many as you need. that shows, to me what it shows, it shows the talent we have in our leadership in this department. that they should put out such as the other morning at 15th and cabrillo i was thinking twice to go to [inaudible] but they got that out and just always amazed especially later when you talk to people who were active incidents or at the fire and how the command staff-we have very grateful to be a commissioner with people that really know what they are doing. so congratulations. you did 5% more work and really it goes back to the voters of san francisco who kept all our stations opened. this is just a reflection of keeping all the stations open that they were able to save all the structures, save lives, save money and san francisco

deserves a pat on the back that we the citizens of san francisco love this fire department and the proof is in the pudding. see these numbers and really makes you feel encouraged. now i don't feel encouraged by the having another five, six, 7% were volume next year but we will be able to do with this so far is remarkable. good job and great report. thank you >> thank you commissioner hardeman for your comments. mr. corso i just have one question. in your opinion does the department have any direct exposure to federal funding cuts? >> i would say yes, both federally and both directly and

indirectly. from the direct side, there's a number of grants programs adobe apply for annually and unfortunate especially the past two years to receive funding for good i don't know how those will be impacted but some of the proposed discussion but that is kind of a direct exposure and then indirectly, i know the city obviously as a recipient of millions of dollars of federal funding and of the city itself reduces that inflow obviously that's the trickle-down two departments all over the city with a major? receive funding from the federal government were not. i was able to indirectly and directly, yes >> is there anyway you can quantify that direct federal funding line to the department? >> i would say, it's probably, especially in the past two years we been fortunate to receive see for grant funding and that is for over i think it's about $4 million a year. then on top of that we been able to receive some homeland security and equipment functioned so at least based on off the current year and master probably in the range of $6 million. 6-7 doing dollars per year be so really are exposure

may be as much is $10 million in direct federal funds if they are cut? >> correct.. i don't think anything that's been already obligated that's not as much of the issue is much is going forward with additional programs. >> thank you premise. appreciate. sorry. commissioner nakajo >> thank you mr. pres. one more question just for clarification. under budget instruction summary your last dot is instruction of no new net positions. does that affect the incoming h-two classes or any other classes that we have coming up this calendar year? >> it does not. those positions are already incorporated into our budget assumed for, the staffing increases we have. would be anything above and beyond what's currently approved in our budget >> thank you vp did you have one final comment?

>> i did not want to leave that she felt. you're the top of the heap so you're not out there when everyone in these fires but naturally you deserve credit as a leader of the department so i wasn't omitting you when i named all the top brass. thank you, chief >> thank you commissioner hardeman. okay. mdm. clerk we do next-thank you mr. corso. read the next item be item 8 review and highlight from study titles are missing practices for increasing diversity among first responders. >> good evening president cleaveland vp nakajo commissioners. chief hayes-white [inaudible] resource. today i'll be providing you with some background information. in some highlights of the department of labor study on promising

practices for increasing diversity of first responders. so as a background coffee consulting which was the agency retained by the department of labor reached out to us in early march informing us that the department was selected as a respondent for the study and also providing us with the framework of the study including what questions they were intending to ask what topics they were planning to discuss and who the other respondents were. so recognizing that this election of the department for the study was definitely an honor and recognizing also that whatever input we provide we would be able to help other first responders jurisdictions

throughout the country we agreed to participate and schedule our meetings with the american institute of research staff, on april 5 and sixth of 2016. so over those two days we get pretty chief williams coordinated the participants in that included command staff, senior staff, representative of employee groups and also nert. so with command staff and senior staff input we provided an overview of the department including organizational statistics like the size of the department, number of stations, apparatus, call volume. things of that nature. we also provided information on the department history since last year was the

150th anniversary. we also discussed consent decree information including your command history during that time and how it compares to the common efforts currently and we also provided them with the department's diversity make up over the years. in terms of the employee group representatives, the groups participated were sf rescue, us fw, bfa, [inaudible] afa, veterans association and the ems association. the employee groups basically provided information regarding how the groups were founded, how they've assisted department over the years in recruitment efforts and internally for the existing employees how they have maintained the support and advocacy for their members.

nerves also participated in the interviews because of their slightly different perspective on community out reach. not so much as a direct recruiter if you will but through its training sessions and drills and presence in the community, how they were able to attract community members to the position of firefighter. at the end of those two days, the consultants were also given a tour of the training facility. essentially to show off how we conduct our training and what we currently have. with regard to the report, i believe it wasn't directly stated but i believe that the impetus for this study was that the department of labor recognize that nationally there was a renewed interest and focus on public safety and how they

relate to the community could probably largely the police department but they took the study as a whole and the leap from the community out reach was at, if the public safety departments represent the communities that they serve then they would probably lend to a more harmonious and relationship with trust if those public agencies actually represent the community they serve. so that was the reason, i believe, behind the study. the goal of this study was to identify promising practices regarding increasing and retaining diverse city proper spawning agencies. so that is why we were selected because of

our diverse departments and our ability to retain that diversity even while after the consent decree. so there were five respondents. three of whom were employer departments and we were the only fire department. so please departments, dallas and atlanta and the other two were actually nonemployer third-party training providers. so the four areas of the study that the report provided high-level summary of findings were organization and leadership support, recruiting diversity, retaining diversity, and challenges presented by each of those responding agencies. per our part the sfpd were among the respondents found out that verse leadership and emphasis

on diversity within the organization, open discussion about diversity and workforce impact and employee groups representative of the workforce and provide support and advocacy for the members. we were also highlighted as having global diversity statistics and it's one of the top five departments in the nation in the area of diversity. so even though for the two pdas, they showed slightly higher percentage of women over all get our department had better distribution of all ethnic groups in terms of representation and at the same time we were not that far behind in the female percentage. at 16.3 at that time that the study. so to

demonstrate our new were the statistics we provided the consultants with demographics from the beginning of the decrees from 1988, five years into the degree, 1993, and then at the time of the meeting the most current statistic was april 1, 2016 so that was the comparison. at the beginning of the decree in 1988 we had 17% minorities were all males and no females. five years later into the decree in 1993 we had 20% minorities and 4% female and again at the time of the study which was april 2016 we had 51% minorities and 15% female workforce. so in the reports they also identified the unique practices in sfusd that contribute to diversity. one of which was the school outreach at all levels. so from

elementary school age children where the conduct fire safety education so-using and a diverse group of officers in uniform members. not only teaches the young children how to handle dangers in emergency situations but it also exposes them at impressionable age regarding a firefighting career. then at the high school and post secondary levels besides speaking at career days and career fairs, that age group they also have the opportunity to enroll in the city college fire science program and potentially gain on-the-job experience as an intern. additionally, we are the three-year apprenticeships to us california firefighter joint partnership committee which emphasizes recruitment from

underrepresented up and targeted groups to become well trained and qualified firefighters. the other aspect besides the all level out reach to education they found it unique and quite beneficial to have the various employee groups that actually represent employees not only across race and gender lines but also involving sexual orientation and military experience. other community engagement efforts that were highlighted in the department of labor reports were the information night which is in collaboration with dhr and opportunity for interested candidates to find out more about the job but also serves as a community out reach . 18 specific club in the hispanic community through--a fire youth academy sponsored by

the black firefighters association sf rescue's collaborative work with -democratic club, to increase their representation in the lgbtq community and that veterans association effort to recruit for military personnel who are reentering the workforce. then, the report also pointed out efforts to help with test taking, techniques, test preparation such as the us fw's study session for perspective candidates. then, moving on from those community engagement type efforts, we also were essentially praised, if you will, for financial incentives that we provide by

way of bilingual page which encourages bilingual candidates to a plate which would lend itself to increased adversity in the applicant pool. then, as for the challenges there's something interesting to note between pd and fd because for pd, there is difficulty is coming to-300 annual vacancies whereas for our department, it is the challenge of identifying the best most suitable candidates from a large pool of qualified candidates for a limited number of openings. the one common challenge was the lack of funds for recruitment efforts so across the board, both pdn at the identified that as a challenge. then, finally,

in the area of the tension the study pointed out their belief that the employee groups, the variety of employee groups in our department definitely boost the departments retention ability because from recruitment and bringing in a diverse group of firefighters, while throughout the course of their career they can find supports within their own community. that includes my reports and am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much. i like to: chief hayes-white >> thank you president cleaveland. thank you for your conference of report. this was a pretty huge honor for us that

we are the only fire department that's featured in this study as a model department.-knows very well because oftentimes she gets involved both nationally and internationally a participated in interviews with different departments regarding not just recruitment and retention because with very good retention and we have a workforce we are very proud of. i know you feel the same way. to me its value added to have it workforce that reflects the community that we circuit have seen time after time having a blended team helps. often times were called into situations where having played a lot of times sports you don't always want to talk the biggest person you want a blended team if you're confined space rescue is the smaller more agile person that you are going to utilize to either go over a cliff or down you can find space. similarly, on a medical call her information exchange is critical to calming a situation that someone that either looks

like the person or more importantly, speaks the language of the person in the city is usually helpful. i've seen it time after time. so we are very proud of our rich blend of people we have in the apartment and appreciate the endorsement from the department of labor. i share the report with the mayor yesterday he was very pleased and basically mentioned how became first of all because he was initially involved in the late 80s in the ensuing the department be more reflective department. so we was pleased in a short period of time in roughly a 30 year period of time, the significant change to our department and we are proud of being able to go out to the schools and educate them regarding fire safety and medical emergencies

as well or what to do in the event of an emergency but really planting the seed. i think our best advertisement is our workforce and if a little girl or little boy he sees someone that might look like them driving and apparatus responding to a medical call fighting a fire, might intercede they could do that. in my lifetime, that was not a career choice that i even considered until i was midway into my 20s. so we are very proud of the knowledge meant and thank you for the overview. >> thank you, chief. commissioner covington >> thank you president cleaveland. i want to thank you for your report and i also want to just point out to my fellow commissioners reason i ask for this to be on the agenda is so that more of our fellow citizens will be aware of what's going on in the department and as chief hayes-white just raised it, our

which blend the people. it is very nice to know that the department is being recognized on a national level after having iraqi period of some 30 years ago to where we are now. it really is a department that all san franciscans can be proud of. so thank you for giving us all of the details. >> thank you commissioner covington vp nakajo >> thank you president cleaveland. thank you very much ms.-for this comprehensive report. i also echo commissioner covington and the rest of us in terms of the honor for us to participate in this study increasing diversity among first responders. the tivoli, as compared to the department of labor. your presentation was excellent

because it covered every particular area that was highlighted. thank you very much commissioner covington for bringing this to our agenda because i was able to read it as well but we haven't any time to comment on it as well. part of this longevity of being in this commission was i was present when we came out of the consent decree and was assigned in those days to work with our commissioners with the department with judge [inaudible] direction of coming into compliance with the consent decree. in the department at the time compared to now has changed greatly. i was also there to be able to meet with a lot of the leadership [inaudible] employee groups and saw the merits of that within the department and its collegiate amazing and really gratified that the department does reflect the members of san

francisco and ethnicity as well as culture as well as language are such an important entity within this department as well. i know that things have changed and they are still changing now. there's a new generation coming in to our department and sometimes i wonder if ethnic members of our department, younger new members gravitate towards employment group that reflects their own kind of ethnic heritage group those employee groups were formalized for a reason. part of those reasons i think are still applicable to today. it doesn't necessary that you've got to be terribly upset with everything that goes along but what i want to reflect is that the department members today should be involved with these employee groups but also these employee

groups should try to adjust themselves and reach out to the new members within our department and try to have those employee groups grow as well so that we can work together to achieve common goals. i just want to say that i am very very pleased and honored to be part of this commission that has this kind of findings within our department. thank you bring much mr. pres. >> thank you vice president. commissioner hardeman >> thank you mr. pres. i certainly have been around here six years. don't take much credit for this but am part of it and delighted for the information that receive this honor and i think-i don't speak [inaudible] but i think the chief was the first chief of the department to interview candidates individually prior to selecting them >> yes. >> so that is something i just heard recently so that is true. so a lot of credit goes to you,

chief. i concede that a smile on your face you have not stopped smiling since you stood up there. you take great glee in this report good with your job and your title is a person responsible in some ways for this departments diversity. so congratulations to you. >> thank you >> thank you commissioner hardeman could be of much be proud of in our department that this is a great report. i do hope will post it on her website so that everyone out there can read it. and we are never finish with a job of making sure our department is diverse and representative as possible of our city. i applaud you for the report and applaud you, chief for your part in making the diversity happened so thank you. >> thank you if i actually may wait i one more highlight. january 1 2017 our demographic composition is still at

approximately 50% minorities but the female is 16.3%. so from april at 15 until now that is [inaudible] >> keep up the good work it thank you very much. mdm. clerk call for next item. >>[inaudible] [off mic] >> item 9 communications. e-mail from james corrigan dated january 12 and the 14th of 2017. >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed.. commissioners hear anything? commissioner hardeman >> i do a something not related to the general but related to a wonderful terrific fantastic san franciscans that

died recently his name is kevin starr. his funeral is this friday. is the speed can native that was orphaned and was also come from a broken home and 14 was on his own and rose up to take himself up by his bootstraps and become one of the greatest roles in the history of san francisco. so just like to recognize kevin starr as a person that deserves recognition for what he went through and what he was able to achieve in his life. in most recently was a professor at university of southern california though he loved la he loved san francisco war. he was up here when he passed. just ring that to note >> thank you commissioner hardeman. anything else? okay. >> item 10 agenda for next fire commission meeting on february 8, 2017.

>> any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? okay. we will go over that later. mdm. clerk if there's no other business this meeting is adjourned. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> >> .

>> (clapping.) >> in 2013 san francisco legislators newsom agreed to allow the reciprocate of our soft story buildings those building house one and 20 thousand resident a program of that collect requires extensive outreach and this continuation of that process who is here and bill graham the perfect venue so in 2014 we have

the first earthquake retrofit a huge success we're repeating this model what we've done it put together venues that are time professionals and contractor are financing institutions a other services that help people comply with the retrofit and as you can see the thousands of members of the public their assessing over one hundred vendors to comply with the ordinance or make improvements on their property i came to get specification information and puck h picking up information if you don't know what twaur doing i take it overwhelming. >> we're pleased a critical mass of people are keying into knowing their relents and understanding what had are the next steps to take and they're figuring out who to talk to not only the contractor by the mustards and the architect and the structural engineers and

getting the full picture of what options are necessary and being pro-acti pro-active. >> so i'm very pleased to see the soft story buildings 99.9 percent complies the highest of the program of this scale of the history a citywide effort high blood pressure in every stretch of san francisco to understand real risks associated with earthquake and those are universally agreed on. >> at some point you need to gather information i'll be talking to another engineer to come out and take a look at it and basically get a second opinion i'm for second and third opinions it is inspiring to see all the property owners that want to do the right thing and for proactively figuring out what the solutions to get them that.

>> what is amazing to me here we are over two years of first retrofit fair and at the time we are rh2 out to contractors to help us and reaching it out to design professionals that soft story buildings is in any and people understanding how to comply now it is different an industry that springs up as a result of the - their professed and gotten the costs down with lower financing options and these are defined and now the gene progression and have the buildings are buildings and the compliance we understand the 2020 one and 20 thousand san francisco's 15 messenger of our population will live in a retrofit building those people buildings or lives in buildings with 5 or more residential building is soft story and wood

frame and built before 1978 that house that one and 20 thousand san franciscans. >> san francisco is being the leader in getting in done and as you may know los angeles passed their retrofit law two months ago at the sort of taken san francisco's lead on the one and tenth anniversary as the residents san francisco this is a road map to the city and going to give us us plan are these to keep folks here on a disaster and steps to build a resident waterfront by 2020. >> this involves more than one and 80 individuals and over 60 nonprofits and other companies this is a huge plan and what are

the challenges we realize that people are concerned about climatic change, sea level rise and not only the affiliated hazards but things hike you're our amp infrastructure and consumed by social and other things we see this in society everyday and how we try to mitigate those are ultimately a direct result how resident we are after earthquake other issue out of the strategy of the concept after a major earthquake of keeping 95 percent of population here in san francisco that's the single best thing to help a equitable recovery to keep people here keep people back to work and kids in school and a residents of normal after a disaster. >> alliance energy in our partner undertook comprehensive bid process we interviewed a

half-dozen of folks who wanted to have a part of our soft story buildings are ordinance so alliance energy project programming is a clean assess energy a special financing that is done using the taxed authority of local multiples and one of the interesting features the loan is tied to the property not the vital if an individual didn't have good credit but it is another option for people not able to comply to find another avenue the assessment is actually places on the property and the builds for in that come literally a line item on the tax bill that's how you pay off the segment and tax. >> 20 or thirty years is all paid up front there are advantages your property tax well it is important to give

people on option and many private banks that provide loans over a are shorter term we wanted to create a longer pay back term. >> i think the next step for property owners after at the create themselves to take the plunge and quit the working downey done and have works of work done right of the right rest of the property owners can understand this process across the city. >> we need to do it. >> it is safety you know that's the bottom line safety. >> earthquake safety a everybody's responsibility that is providing the resources that people need to get done if you want to know more of the resources as a san franciscan please visit the

>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the glide admiralty church choir the guide ensemble. >> 1, 2, 3. >> yeah, yeah, yeah oh, come on sing it. >> (singing)

stand up oh, yeah. what i do waited for stand up yeah. yeah you need more than a lover just to keep our love undercover it is building in don't you lose your tune it is - don't you lose our hope of living because love will set you free >> yeah. (singing) stand up what i have waited for stand up come on

yeah. he's no pretender all you got to do is surrendered what is awaiting is the power of the one we're naming it should turn aside in giving don't you lose your hope of living because love will set you free. >> yeah, yeah, yeah oh, stand up what i do what i do waiting for stand up oh, yeah. come on come on oh, yeah. oh, come on come on yeah. yeah you got to stand for the love in

your heaters the peace in your hearts you got to stand for the love, did peace, the power in your heart yeah. yeah oh, yeah, yeah, yeah he's no pretender all you got to do is surrendered like the awaiting in the power of the one naming in it should turn aside the giving don't you lose your hope of living love will set you free >> yeah. yeah. yeah stand up stand up yeah, yeah, yeah come on stand up you got to stand stand stand when you don't

know what you're going to do you got to stand you got to stand when you know you got to stand when your high come on yeah. yeah what i do what i do waiting for uh-huh. yeah yeah. oh, yeah. stand stand stand stand stand yeah, yeah, yeah stand up stand up one time yeah. yeah stand up stand up >> (clapping.) >> oh, yes and it is a very happy day 1, 2, 3 ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> oh, yes oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day when jesus washed i said when he washed when my jesus washed he washed my sins away oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day when jesus washed

i said when he washed when my jesus washed he washed any sins away oh, happy day oh, happy day he taught me how he taught me how oh, to wash i praise my lord. >> oh, and we rejoicing everyday i said everyday off happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day when jesus washed when he washed. >> i said when he washed

when my jesus washed he washed my sins away oh, happy day oh, happy day he taught me how oh, to wash i praise my lord. >> wow. and we rejoicing now we're rejoicing everyday everyday oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day >> when i get to heaven

ooing to walk with god. >> when i get to heaven i'm going change shout, shout, shout i'm going to shout shout, to - i said happy happy happy i said happy oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day oh, happy day when jesus washed i said when he washed when my jesus washed he washed my cinco de mayo e

sins away oh, happy day >> (clapping.) >> the glide memorial church choir the on and on acceptable ensemb ensemble. >> you're my safer who shall i fear i don't have to worry i won't be afraid jesus my jesus. >> lord for any life lord

you're my joy any salvations who shall i fear i don't have to worry i won't be afraid guiding guiding your guiding he shall guide me he shall guide me in the path he shall - lord you are my life lord you are my joy whom shall i fear i don't have to worry i won't be

afraid he shall guide me he shall guide me guide me. >> he shall guide he shall set on the rock he shall guide in the paths. >> welcome to the landmark day in the history of gooirdz organization and sports and entertainment in the bay area the groundbreaking for chase center welcome a host in all sports and be entertainment and the anchor on cnn his work hosting the nba shorter and fast

break with his testimony testify program the insider brought him inside to tv and film ladies and gentlemen, please welcome kevin frazier. >> (clapping.) >> house everybody doing today yeah were one more time for the choir please. >> (clapping.) >> i think oh, happy day was the perfect day what about last night oh, happy night yeah. yeah want to welcome everyone or everybody watching on the tv and also on the warriors flagship station hopefully life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on fm this incredible day is here and here it begins the same here

that begins we broub on the next big thing in sports and entertainment dog gone the next big thing that's why we have clap please. >> (clapping.) >> the chase center will be the epic center on the wechsler and one of the mirror venues on the planet that's why you get estn this is my spot you know this chase center will play home 30 to the best concerts with the greatest sports the 21st century version of show time the golden state warriors. >> (clapping.) >> there are folks out there

that is a at chase center will soon become the mavrdz of the west but maufrz is chase center of the east; right? all right. we're going to get started this day couldn't have happened without the folks to the left and introduce the people that made this decay a reality the warriors president and co o rick wells >> (clapping.) >> the 43rd mayor the san francisco mr. edwin m lee. >> (clapping.) >> the owners the warriors owner and ceo joe lake yes, ma'am. >> (clapping.) >> warriors co-owner peter

cubaer. >> (clapping.) >> the cso of consumer banking for chase u shawn district attorney duncan. >> the warriors head coach the one and only steve occurring. >> (clapping.) >> this guy on the end they invited for fun the guy who is going to help bring the nba championship to the bay area kevin duran. >> (clapping.) >> we're also honored to having dig a tars from the vip i want to acknowledge them and

honored to have leader nancy pelosi here today. >> (clapping.) >> you know leader pelosi this is me throwing this out there i think we need in washington driveway anyone green. >> every once in a while you'll need a person that will take care of you and lieutenant governor gavin newsom. >> (clapping.) >> former mayor willie brown. >> (clapping.) >> assembly phil ting. >> assemblyman david chiu.

>> (clapping.) >> starter senator scott wiener assemblyman rob bank on to. >> (clapping.) >> assemblyman adam glare and judge and former senator quinton cox. >> (clapping.) >> commissioner kim. >> (clapping.) >> nice hat supervisor cowen. >> (clapping.) >> supervisor mark farrell. >> (clapping.) >> supervisor safai.

>> (clapping.) >> supervisor katie tang. >> (clapping.) >> supervisor peskin. >> (clapping.) >> supervisor norman yee. >> (clapping.) >> supervisor ronen that end the supervisor portion of our show oh, city attorney dennis herrera. >> (clapping.) >> treasurer jose cisneros. >> (clapping.) >> and assessor-recorder carmen chu >> (clapping.) >> now selfishlyly i want to do one more shout in 1975 i sat

in maryland and watched the golden state warriors swept the washington bullets this man was around inspiration to me the one and only al adams. >> (clapping.) >> i did come to game i thought the bullets would have won our first speaker the member of the mba community one of the most respected persons in the business i have a card of the accolades i have a speaker that was a man of goals and maximum missed and moved up to the pr director in seattle and good friends with bill russel at the

end of the day a ball boy that knew where we were 4e9d in fact, i'll end up in the hall of fame south of the springfield you'll get there ladies and gentlemen, the president and co o the golden state warriors a a heck of a ball boy rick wells. >> (clapping.) >> oh. >> thank you kevin what a day i want to know who the hell is running the city right now holy cal the cameras show up they're all here mayor ed lee it seems like always one thousand seven hundred and two days ago that we were together

on pow announcing this project the amazing part we had everything right existing where we are going and when; right? but we all live here; right? we know if anything is important as what we're celebrating it takes time to get it done a lot of time and patience if you know about the two guys from the middle the patience is not the first one you think of; right? but you also know from the time we committed getting this project done it would be done right and the same approach with the warriors over the last 6 and a half years their passionate their occasionally grumpy but really care and what he see today is really the culmination of those efforts we'll build one

of the world's biggest gathering a place world-class multi purpose sport and venue this place will think transformed into the court and that is where budget committee united airlines will be family shows and conferences and graduations will take place creating memories for the lifetime up the road those 11 acres we stand with the weeds unlimited potential is very high price tag once we did that we commit to a 3 year open and collaborative process that's been as public as any process with the help of so much of that in the room we left hand and revised and collaborated is not

not our day but really it is our day as long as we can thank every person in the you don't room i say first especially grateful to you mayor ed lee you extend your hand and supported us every step of the way >> (clapping.) >> we are absolutely in. >> of the hard working people in the mayor's office the office of economic workforce development, especially adam and ken thanks. >> (clapping.) >> so many other city agencies are critically important but none than the investment and infrastructure ocii and it's tireless you leaders tiffany bohe tiffany thank you. >> (clapping.) >> ocii is the guardian of

this redevelopment area as mission bay a simultaneous room for revitalizing this meeting neighborhood and closer to home the warriors and the mission bay advisory committee led by a no nonsense chair corinne woods thank you that they've spent months with the details of the plan to make that better and safer and make that right corin i learned a lot of from you and i can tell you i was only occasionally afraid of you (laughter) just kidding kind of citizens radical to make that 0 warriors novices like the united playaz and the mission bay merchant associations, the fans that make up sf and the residents that live in dog patch and potrero

hill and mission bay. >> (clapping.) >> >> we thank you you all and assure you the warriors are going to be great neighbors speaking of neighbors i need to thank the san francisco giants and the usf. >> (clapping.) >> early on we had our issues but we all committed to a great outcome that is what we really appreciate about usual work the giants are one of the biggest champions in support thank you for being here today larry and setting the bar incredibly high for us it shaped us usf with charter school is education and innovation leader sam couldn't be here he was going to be in switzerland another is an

economic femur your invitation got lost in the mailed we're truly proud to be your neighbors when it comes to fighting disease and save lives and treating e treating the sick you're the warriors thank you. >> (clapping.) >> the economic is doing a project financed completely privately i mentioned did i mention few minutes ago completely privately is daunting our partners another j.p. morgan chase share our vision of a transformtional project from our first meeting with chase their commitment to the bay area is a possible list of reasons to be involved you'll hear more about that shortly but thank you to shawn duh for being here today.

>> (clapping.) >> also with us representatives from two other companies that have been announced the united airlines i thank you to our brothers and sisters in organized labor that stood by us and chase will bring thousands of job and agreements we've entered into once once again, we'll do this right. >> (clapping.) >> this has been an unbelievable undertaking for the warriors our staff is with us names like david kelly and marty and steve and peter and chip and others they don't show up but i can tell you the kevin duran's for this project thank you. >> (clapping.) >> to jesse and clark and those

folks that helped us navigate this crazy city by the bay and t.j. johnson and not everybody started is going to be able to is a finish by from the city in two sections. >> (clapping.) >> we lost jim in 2014 but the spirit remains with us we'll feel her steady hand on the shovels people are standing there because of their incredible work we passed the board and regulatory and political body the planning committee the board of supervisors almost all of them unanimous yes i said that in the same sentence

san francisco unanimously all right. >> (clapping.) >> the plan was challenged in the superior court we won there now we won at the california court of appeals unanimously and in case i haven't checked our phone i have news this morning the california superior court annunciates declined to accept the case it is over. >> (clapping.) >> so here we are on this 70 year for the warriors to call the bay area their home today we literally break the ground now the term groundbreaking is a noun refers to turning the earth to begin construction but websters has another definition meaning initiative or unprecedented that's going to be chase center and this is

warriors ground groundbreaking in every sense thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, mayor brown for making a big entrance thank you. >> now my pleasure to introduce a man the man that reached out to us we're here to welcome the warriors stuck with us through thick and thin has things got rocky edwin m lee is the 43rd mayor he started at a housing rights attorney with an activist heart in 2010 he was chosen by the boarding to take over when lieutenant governor's gavin

newsom left from the beginning championed this was one of the main reasons we're able to broub ladies and gentlemen, our point number 43 mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, rick what a wonderful day i know every one of you see existed to be here today and finally welcoming the golden state warriors home to san francisco. >> (clapping.) >> you know, i tend to find moments of having fun with owners and rick and want to share with you some ways in which any corn i didn't jokes will have an impact the first time i met him, i introduced myself as the journey man of

mayors and honored to help mark to end a four and a half year journey to celebrate the years of construction what become san francisco's 4r5sh9 state of the art chase center. >> (clapping.) >> i'm happy to say that no longer will san francisco stand alone as the only america city without an inside venue of 10 thousand seats when that opened in 2019 the chase center will make history not only as a home for the gooirdz but as the only 100 percent privately financed arena in the entire country of the united states. >> (clapping.) >> this no, this is no small

feat as every at mba in public land includes the taxpayer money in its construction not here in san francisco the warriors are paying for this venue they reprimand remind me of that constantly on the land they perturbed is an accomplishment and speaks volumes to the commitments of ownership and sets the bar in our city what we're all about and speaking of what we're all about how about what is this team all about isn't that great yeah. >> (clapping.) >> what a game last night as was pointed out most all the greatest things we saw last night in that game coach let me help you and all of us define a infrastructure grant foul i

think a infrastructure grant foul is any delay in opening the chase center in san francisco that's a infrastructure grant foul of those warriors have the best record in the mba leading in the league in almost every category have the best starting rotation in the mba and, of course, they captured the imagination of the most casual of basketball fa (calling names) waits not to love. >> (clapping.) >> so the real question is coach how far will you go? and, of course, (laughter) all the way; right? ? >> and, of course, the chases center will not only play host

to basketball games but a prime designation for world-class companies family shows and convention activities generate over thousand of good paying construction and permanent jobs that jobs that contribute more than enough money to pay for the extended transit service and new light rail vehicles and launch the covering the transportation and sculpture costs that serve the entire neighborhood on days without the feptsdz the project will add vitality amenity to mission bay neighborhoods along with a much needed office space and, of course, the warriors are going to be great partners to all our kids in the education system this venue will be a model sustainable design that will

include over 3 acres of open space and trigger the development of a 5 and a half acres of public parks right on the waterfront none of this would have been possible without the dedicated commitment of my dear colleague jennifer the former head of the city's office of economic workforce development who tragically passed away from cancer over 2 years ago and spent much of her diminished career in the city running it's trail and in many ways the park across the street from the eastern jennifer helped to plan a symbol of her commitment to san francisco so today i'm honored to commemorate her legacy with a trail in the park so future neighbors runners and visitor

will know her impact in the city thank you jennifer. >> (clapping.) >> i'm also excited to announce that speaking of really deep broach j.p. morgan chase are generously sponsoring a brand new warriors citibuild program in cooperation with the office of office of economic workforce development what's the citibuild program this is a new 9 week construction training private program will be called the chase center works and that will equip local trainees in the low income and underserved community chase center will help us to address the shortage of labor in the city but equip people with the

education and skill necessarily to be successful in the construction industry and, of course, in life itself thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you working with labor. >> (clapping.) >> this dense active trade training will start in march and provided masonry and iron work and carpentry thank you chase morgan son and all the unions and trades who helped to make that a reality and finally i want to thank joe and peter for your vision commitment to getting us here today, the university of san francisco state their neighbors in the biotech destroy the entire community all of our elected officials working to expedite even four and a half years is incredibly expeditious;

right? yes (laughter) for a better integrating this event center in mission bay and the entire san francisco community everyone resident, kids, all the neighborhoods we thank you for your thoughtful input your patience and help in refinancing our platoons i can't wait to be back here in four and a half years to cut the ribbon on the greatest attraction center and the new home for golden state warriors in san francisco bay area let's go warriors. >> (clapping.) >> congratulations mr. mayor on our work and you know what i was watching the parade after the warriors won you may

remember the mayor said he's favorite player was steve occurring whyy you think that was bad in the 90s i'm governing and up you know, i come to a hole there is dell and his kids what play wow, you guys are the governor and i look at dell your crazy if you let that kid play basketball over golf. (laughter) that kid is stephanie curry plays a little bit of basketball i told you we started with the choir and heard about a ball boy that is no changing the game and this next speaker he started out selling peanuts at anaheim stadium he really did i i mean the guy is one of the top have

you ever gone capitalist and good in building things in the ground up you want to talk about gold he went to playing in the stadium to ownership an mba team if i can quote the poet and mba awry combraim start from the bottom and the owner and cso of the golden state warriors joe lockout >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much kevin and thank you, everybody in a way i think we're still selling peanuts peter i don't know. i can't escape it you you know this has been a very exciting day, in fact, an exciting that weekend for those

of you who don't know three or four days we had the warriors foundation hooker which i shouldn't event and raised one $.3 million. >> (clapping.) >> thank you nicole in in addition a basketball game to play last night and that was pretty good too. >> (clapping.) >> and here we go with a groundbreaking for this incredible endeavor and ordeal it's been a lot of work 3 days rick mentioned the fantastic news this morning about the right correct decision by the supreme court we're totally good here today. >> (clapping.) >> one way or another that hard to sit here it is surreal peter and i and rick has been a

part of this we had a vision that's where we started i think over 6 years ago really this arena project began that was an incredible amount of work but the people in this room you helped us a lot and say we really appreciate you as rick pointed out it is not to surreal in fact, that the real and one of the reporters kim i don't know his last name made a bet a number of years ago we wouldn't get it done by 2015 but jim that's the year and day today is the 17 does that qualify? a few years late it been think an incredibly difficult but this is the greatest city on this

planet honestly the best >> (clapping.) >> in every dimension a greater city i've been a venue capitalist we point to silicon valley but silicon valley is also san francisco silicon valley north it is a great transformation of the city and a good one here we go on the outer arena the only one in the country and i will say that is over when we broub this is so fantastic we'll build this great venue and you'll see a shovel into the ground proolg and see some amazing tractors and other things out here today it is a just a fantastic thing i'm a businessman and not the most patient guy in the world this is

5 and a half 6 years ago a long time this great venue will be done in 2 and a half years half the time is took to get it approved i don't know if i can make that stuff up (laughter). >> so chase center and thank you chase for your greatest effort rick noted is a a special thanks or thanks to a number of people who helped us, you know who you are the phenomenal people certainly the mayor the san francisco first and foremost edwin we love to have you here in san francisco we will slide the path and make that happen i appreciate all our efforts and didn't tell me that would cost that much but nonetheless we're happy to be here mayor ed lee.

>> (clapping.) >> all the agencies that rick mentioned the city and those who had an impact thank you very much i know you're doing our job i want to also thank all the laura bay area all the fans with us start with a few boos we we got over this we have mba champion and another 5 year plan now which is to win another championship one more that's what i tell them here and steve. >> (clapping.) >> but also in addition to winning a championship we are going to do something great in the next 5 years we'll build a

great, great venue you can all be so proud of you look at every arena in the country we've toured them all i assure you like we assured you 5 years ago we eight hundred deliver a championship that district will be absolutely incompatible would you like be proud of san francisco's district bay area folks to be part of it thank you. >> (clapping.) >> chase center will be built by the best in the business with a great local flavor and the architecture the architect for the building a national leader in venues of this type interiors of chase center a legacyy firm in san francisco >> (clapping.) >> the criminal streetscaping

you'll see beauty is a part of it let's face it we will build a fantastic building by another fantastic firm. >> (clapping.) >> also the office buildings on the site not san francisco architecture firm. >> and the construction of the 11 acres by a joint venture the marriage of two construction companies in california they have a lot work to do that construction starts for real not surreal today. >> (clapping.) >> we're not going to give away to many surprise but a few of them coming we worked on the

innovation and peter said he'll sing when it is done it will sick and takes my breath away with the rendering and the models and all the work i think you'll be proud of we've made that smaller the oracle we love our home court we'll replicate it with the side and the loudness the venues we'll replicate that it is a 50-year-old building we'll have a better venue so for basketball and in addition concerts and other events having this arena is not only great for the city of san francisco but us as a business operator but great for the basketball team kevin during rant came w to us without an arena thank you kevin.

>> (clapping.) >> and for also for resigning this summer. >> (clapping.) >> (yelling) players diverse great facilities on site in addition to the great venue the fans will be able to attend and we had a great acquisition we'll strive to be the very best this organization don't we will takes more agents we'll do whatever it takes to be champions again kevin. >> (clapping.) >> well the final thing i want

to comment we're also this is important to all of our owns not just me important to be a you know a great part of community important to be dedicated not just bring back basketballs and bring venues and pay for it all we really it is important - that we contribute to the society in 09 ways we a diet and mr. chairman we are one of the best in the world ambassador we want to be able to give book to the community so i'm proud of our teem and playgrounds and coaches our entire team hung out with holiday cheer down the street from the recreation center in the bayview. >> (clapping.) >> stephanie curry in piss fourth annual feed the children

we provided food for 12 hundred bay area families that's great. >> (clapping.) >> and by the way, our newest member kevin fits into this in the same kind of vibe with the homelessness settler provided food for everyone there thank you kevin. >> (clapping.) >> >> so going forward we intend to be good partners and members of this not only san francisco but the entire bay area east bay and north bay and peninsula all of that okay. and in addition to winning basketball games give us prides to set up the warriors foundation we raised $1.2 million it will be given away for education and the golds we set out to accomplish but also in the last 4 years given watt 7 point plus million

dollars from the organization. >> (clapping.) >> we're focused on education and improving the lives of kids in san francisco and in old we'll continue to do that so this afternoon i'd like to bring up a few of the organizations that benefit from those grants and as part of one-hundred $2 million we've given away to 51 organizations i'd like to bring up the boys and girls club like the boys and girls club in oakland am and united playaz i hope you'll join me in bringing them up to the

stage. >> (clapping.) >> hold on guys i want to give you this check always ask for the check okay always ask for the check there you are. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, john i want to mention the warriors foundation has given away more money that's $7 million. >> (clapping.) >> all right. our next speaker rose to family being a movie producer a is bananas you have to deal with arcs by the way, everybody was talking about the acting in oracle anyway and

also bringing financing together to make things happen and that's what this man side he is one of the reasons this is project is 100 percent privately functions we can't say that enough i was reading his bio on.org he's a prominent member of hollywood like saying kevin duran is a small acquisition you changed my life in 1983 with a flash cam (laughter) to this day i can't look jennifer beal's in the eye today here to celebrate the beginning or the end of the beginning or a new beginning? i don't know is

that the beginning i'm not sure but here's the owner of the warriors peter god bless berry. >> (clapping.) >> you got to be kidding me i had a check everything i was going to see check, check, check check they said it all terrific really nothing else to say only thing they especially\cover you're here with the shovels i was wondering if this was what was thrown at us over the last four and a half years (laughter) the best goals always started as a dream and the people give it a time limit all our group to help made this happen so for the opening is the world-class venue

required 9 years 9 years who but dreamers would undertake that kind of a journey you have to be a dreamer and allow yourselves to be pulled through it has to pull you and compel and make you go over all the obstacles and believe in that dreamers they face all the way down kinds of things and difficulties but push forward their dyslexia they push, push, push to get they are goals done. >> we all draw if past references certainly for our dreams i had mine in the entertainment business the entertainment business you have a lot of surveys they use the f word and boy it hurts but have to give up we had a lot of bumps

those bumps made us stronger and better and the changes made us better i've had films that takes 5 years to get made and shown in the theatre willie brown we built together the audience was so upset and stormed out of the theatre and shock the limousine how you handle the corrections and how you do that determines our ultimate outcome always determines the outcome you make necessary changes the men and women in our organization we speak to and for today none westbound passengers all worked the three has made the different their tongue and wallet traveled in the same direction you believed them and they could lead you to o so the

infrastructure grant fouls all because of the groundbreaking probably not next time builds a range of people and thing that will be protesting we'll see it through we haven't started shooting this movie you hear something say let's see a film on budget no, we have to do the work our teem with all the bumps in the road rather we doubled down on the commitment to see it through and shape our dream much more to realize much more we can't suffer the faded of prematurity jubilation but our perseverance and determination will see us through but this

dream is more than a venue of concrete you'll attract the artists they'll be drawn to this vessel in san francisco so perform and be the beacon and live and work rod other teams the glorious political events every city needs e needs one it is con superstitious but why is it so important because this we are not vigil people we're analogies we chore the diversity of our species men and women and different gender and everything sharing laughing and crying together that's the purpose of those campfires and those venues every city needs it it had been great for san francisco.

>> (clapping.) >> think of the essence of products with the house of dreams our dreams and children's dreams and shared expense the key won't would be the aptitude but the attitude of the builders did attitudes puts an to do on stare resides and attitude makes the difference show me someone with great attitude i'll show you a hit a success. >> so the key to us now is to build it to get it done more action and less talk the whole damn process will be fought with parietal we have to cast it away and keep that vision strong and pull it pull up to it. >> nelson mandela said to me

this misguided adversary can't take away your dreams colleagues this will continue to challenge you they'll scare you but keep you motivated you'll take greater focus to get us they're up there let's hope we didn't come this far to come this far yesterday is not the dedication only a station to realize this dream go for the great and enjoy the journey it is show time god speed. >> (clapping.) >> that was show time. >> (clapping.) >> you know you mentioned

greatness anytime you can be part of the group that is a greatest we think about the greatest players in mba history and rick berry and the late person we lost in july. >> (clapping.) >> our next speaker is one of the 50 most powerful women in business. >> (clapping.) >> hello. >> ladies and gentlemen, please please help me welcome to ceo chase to shanda duck even though. >> all right. oh, my gosh thank you all i'm absolutely trifled to be here on behalf of the j.p. morgan chase and our 3 thousand bay area employees

yes. >> (clapping.) >> it was just about a year ago we announced our existing partnership with the golden state warriors to bring a world-class venue to the bay area the bay area it a beacon for technology, innovation and education and we expect the new chase center will become a beacon for sports and entertainment and cultural as we prepare to break ground it on the chase center we're well aware the baby boomer is at the center of social changes as technologies and cities are revitalized remust make sure that the individuals at the margin are brought in and 3w506r9d up while those in the middle are not pushed out

over the next 3 years j.p. morgan chase will be investing $25 million to support initiated that help the bay area to continue on a pathway to more inclusive economic growth yes. >> (clapping.) >> as part of this commitment we announced last week chase center assist is community initiative that will tackle head on the bay area economic and social challenges by creating pathways to opportunity in a series of powerful local partnerships chase center will focus on 3 pillars last year small business growth and housing development and education and workforce readiness we believe those are a powerful compliment to the important work the warriors are

doing an incredible team and one of the most vibrant regions in the country i want to thank the team orientals joe and peter uber and wanting rick wells and mayor ed lee and the board of supervisors coach steve occurring and all the warriors players for all the pirnl and thank you for all you do i love basketball as sports growing up any entire life and love the quote teamwork makes the dream work, yes. >> (clapping.) >> that's what's going on in the city we'll bring incredible things to life on this site thank you thank you, thank you giving chase the opportunity and the principle to be a part of that thank you.

>> (clapping.) >> to shanda you were fired up, too you delivered doorway you delivered. >> next speaker great speaker and coach to things that impress me on one dbi in the room with the game sat next to michael just for the record said you ready and actually delivered he did the series winning shot the thing that best me most about the golden state warriors during the 1989, 1999 during the lockout you bring those guys to vegas it get crazy in the casino goose in the private rooms gambling for a lot of money he look over at the $5 tackle

between a grandmother and two guys in cowboy hats is steve occurring nursing $20 chips a man that will not get caught up in the behind the coach the golden state warriors steve occurring. >> (clapping.) >> thank you thank you i'm going to change gears everything has been said about the buildings i've been in the bay for 2 and a half years grew up in los angeles god and boo i spent the last 12 years of my life in san diego you can go ahead and yawn if you want my point i'm a southern californian you mating may be able to tell by my attire i got dressed up i

did there are fans and dress fancy really want to say if you're lucky enough in lifelike i've been you reach a point you get to choose when you work with and includes where you live and choose where you work by those metrics i want to stay here forever. >> (clapping.) >> i'm also an nba coach this building will take 3 years to build the chances of me standing on the sidelines for the warriors are slim to hope as far so good hopefully, i'll still be here.

>> (clapping.) >> i want to say something very important that say that i was lucky enough to get this job and to be become part of the partnership with joe and peter and rick wells and bob myers when i interviewed for this job that's the selling point that's what i bought into this is an incredible franchisee that is only begun to scrape the surface the fan base i placed for 15 years to play against bad teams the fans went crazy we have amazing fans the ownership and the support i get from this group is fantastic behind the scenes e-mails and providing constant support is amazing rick and i worked together in phoenix

for several years knowing rick was the president of the golden state warriors made me want to come an amazing group of people i want to point out bob myers that may have nothing to do with - >> (clapping.) >> he may have nothing to do with the construction of that but everything to do with the construction of kevin and our roster the most important asset we have bob has been an amazing partner an amazing general manager but an even better friend in his mind when you put together a group of people that are committed to each other and the franchisee and to the warriors special things can happen that's exactly what happened here i want to make one final point about the ownership

the fact that arena is privately functions is so important because i've before a sports man fanning any whole life living in san diego the late 12 years the charges were ripped away from that community i know there are a lot of economic factors and political issues you have an ownership group that recognizes they don't really own the team they write the checks but the community owns the team that's true. >> (clapping.) >> but the bay area owns the team and they have a tremendous task as guardian of franchise and their taking on tremendous risk with the financial commitments at no cost to the city that is almost unheard of these days in professional sports i want to

acknowledge that with an o vacation. >> (clapping.) >> the best way to mitigate it risk to put a great team have our business did not have a great product to sell we're fortunate we've been able to do that we only enhanced that with the arrival of the k d and. >> (clapping.) >> and i can be very honest when i say that is a thrill a enjoy to coach and team as talented as this group and more gratifying to come to work everyday and enjoy the playgrounds for who they are as human beings kevin is representing our team today, our roster other guys are practicing potrero and i are

taking the day off we earned it after last night. >> (clapping.) >> but ultimately what will make that building successful it the fans and the fan base that has supported this franchisee and the players who are playing high-level basketball in providing entertainment so at that point i'd like to bring up cal works d we'll move on. >> (clapping.) >> one of the things that has been talked about today is what an amazing practices the bay area is the physical bout and cultural aspects i know one of the reasons you wanted to come here have you come into the city quite a bit. >> oh, yeah, he come a lot 0 one thing i see i talked with

people in san francisco over in oakland and the east bay they selected this team for their team with the support and love is key makes coming in work better and we are existed for the future happy i'm here. >> you come here every night after games. >> yeah. >> a couple of restaurant he drives across country every game why not. >> why not. >> i know that mike was here and amazing i mentioned night every night the feel from the crowd when you talk about what it feels like to be a warriors is good when you own the team. >> i'll tell you that (laughter). >> you know when you step out

and put on the engineeringcy no matter in cleveland or the worst team in the league to play in front of them it amazing and makes us want to play harder we love the support and every time we 12e9 out there we try harder. >> how is the coaching. >> we'll try to step that up a little bit and try to get you to battling. >> coach before you guides sit down i'm not going to let you go kevin i want to ask you something what i've i'll ask one question what does it mean to get that one the way you won. >> well, it's not the finally but you know it is an important game when you play 82 games some

of the games take on more importance we wanted to win that game i think that was apparent. >> kevin you seemed like from the jump you were coming posz your will. >> yeah. the last game too against detroit (laughter). >> i'm assuming you are getting points every night. >> you did it against miami. >> what is the win last night. >> it was great to get a win take care of the home court and the infanticide were great tried to give them a good show. >> do you want to tell the owners anything. >> it will be very exciting. >> they're going kevin duran and steve occurring thank you,

gentlemen. >> (clapping.) >> right now kevin agent is screaming what are you doing you know talking about the chase center we mentioned, of course, the home of the golden state warriors but an entertainment venue now to entertain you we'll bring out the world renowned the san francisco symphony and some of the members. >> (clapping.) >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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leakage that is the moment we've all been waiting for i'll ask the folks to come on up here 60 froifrts in the front we'll take a photo please stay down and wait we're on television and want to get that moment we'll ask everybody once they get that shot that hat looks so good if everybody csa what stick their shovel in the dirt and hold that there you'll good one shot of everybody with a shovel full of dirt they're going yeah. >> kevin you can get more dirt than that come on man

all right. let's put the shovels back down in the ground and stand behind them if you can stick them in the ground and stand behind them. >> (clapping.) >> you know this is a what they say good things come to those who wait you've been waiting since 12 that is your moment we can announce that is the state of the art arena is ready to be built this started 66 months ago one hundred plus days and losses ago all right. >> thank you, everyone and we'll get those shots you're good okay >> (clapping.) >> thank you, gentlemen and ladies for making that official you can god and go back to our

seats we'll go right down here. >> so it begins that world-class facility here in mission bay it will be built we couldn't have done that without everybody this is an aspect last year day and roumd for the people that made this happen. >> (clapping.) >> so in the next 31 most this site will turn into that but here's the cool part the party is not over we have a special surprise get ready everybody and by the way, if you would like interviews you can meet people in behind the stage but right now here we go ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ >> (clapping.) >> how about that? now that is a groundbreaking what to thank everybody for coming here today can't wait to see you in the opening of chase center media interviews back in the media and see you

>> we think over 50 thousand permanent residents in san francisco eligible for citizenship by lack information and resources so really the project is not about citizenship but really academy our immigrant community. >> making sure they're a part of what we do in san francisco the san francisco pathway to

citizenship initiative a unique part of just between the city and then our 5 local foundations and community safe organizations and it really is an effort to get as many of the legal permanent residents in the san francisco since 2013 we started reaching the san francisco bay area residents and 10 thousand people into through 22 working groups and actually completed 5 thousand applications for citizenship our cause the real low income to moderate income resident in san francisco and the bayview sometimes the workshops are said attend by poem if san mateo and from sacking. >> we think over restraining order thousand legal permanent residents in san francisco that

are eligible for citizenship but totally lack information and they don't have trained professionals culturally appropriate with an audience you're working with one time of providing services with pro bono lawyers and trained professionals to find out whether your eligible the first station and go through a purview list of questions to see if they have met the 56 year residents arrangement or they're a u.s. citizenship they once they get through the screening they go to legal communication to see lawyers to check am i eligible to be a citizen we send them to station 3 that's when they sit

down with experienced advertising to fill out the 4 hundred naturalization form and then to final review and at the end he helps them with the check out station and send them a packet to fill and wait a month to 6 weeks to be invited in for an oral examine and if they pass two or three a months maximum get sworn in and become a citizen every single working groups we have a learning how to vote i mean there are tons of community resources we go for citizenship prep classes and have agencies it stays on site and this is filing out forms for people that are eligible so not just about your 22 page form but other

community services and benefits there's an economic and safety public benefit if we nationalize all people to be a citizen with the network no objection over $3 million in income for those but more importantly the city saves money $86 million by reducing the benefit costs. >> thank you. >> i've been here a loventh i already feel like an american citizen not felt it motorbike

that needs to happen for good. >> one day - i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, for liberty and justice for all. >> you're welcome. >> (singing). >> (clapping.) >> introduce the san francisco field officer director ribbon that will mirror the oath raise your hand and repeat the oath i hereby declare on oath

repeating. >> citizens cry when they become citizenship to study this difficult examine and after two trials they come back i'm an american now we're proud of that purpose of evasion so help me god please help me welcome seven hundred and 50 americans. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> she wants to be part of the country and vote so much puppy. >> you know excited and as i said it is a long process i think that needs to be finally recognized to be integrated that

is basically, the type of that i see myself being part of. >> out of everybody on tv and the news he felt that is necessary to be part of community in that way i can do so many things but my voice wouldn't count as it counts now. >> it's everybody i hoped for a bunch of opportunities demographics and as you can see yourself there's a good life for everyone. >> that's why. >> you have people from all

the walks that life and they're standing in water 8 hours to be an american citizen and contribute to the city and that's really what makes this worthwhile. >> ♪ ♪ >> 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. cut.

>> we are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. a place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and it's beautiful and it's been completely redone and been a gathering place for this community. >> i have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. that is not a joke. i live in an apartment building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. >> let me tell you handout you -- how to build a community garden. you start with a really good idea and add community support from echo media and levis and take

management and water and sun and this is what we have. this is great. it's about environment and stewardship. it's also for the -- we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. that is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. i don't know how they do it. >> there is acres and acres of parkland throughout golden gate park, but not necessarily through golden community garden. we have it right in the middle of

>> all right good morning, ladies and gentlemen, it is good to see you this morning, my name is malia cohen you have joined us on the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee, and i am the chair of which knit i committee and to my right is supervisor norman yee and katy tang and the clerk is linda wong and i would like to thank and acknowledge sfgovtv for broadcast thanksgiving methis meeting for us. >> please silence your