in potentially adding family-sized you units our notation we have legislation before us will request 40 percent of units be two bedrooms and three bedrooms one thousand square feet i'll generally guarantee it in this case i don't know necessary have a strong policy to oppose it not wanting to set precedent for combining unit luxury units but that's okay with the staffs keeping the fourth bedroom it is a need to have a fourth bedroom. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much i i have no problem with the idea of the morgue and again, the reason why a couple of things the reason i suggested the condo of ideas not a condo but the last project with the co-opt building

they wanted to morgue the two unit and in the end we decided okay. but their needs to remain the same number of shares and the co-op etc., etc. so the internal changes would have remained one i clearly remember it but people are not accepting that that's fine i would suggest that we again maintain that fourth bedroom and then the only other thing i'll say with all due respect i think we were not arresting i'm high supportive of adu's and creating more housing but need more flexibility in the housing market is other projects like this not the end of the world.

>> commissioner moore. >> sir as we're not talking about the co-op but the condominium meeting of unit low require a rewriting of subdivision you're aware of that. >> i'm curious about that that option of meeting them but leaving the two on the condo maps as separate units we don't have a fundamental problem if that's the way the commission wants to work. >> the commission actually go ahead and should be clear of what we're approving the meeting of a unit in a condominium not a co-op requires a reapplication to change the former of subdivision the land underneath the condo is sub divided for the units the area that encondem

enenincumbrance you have to have 100 percent approval from the owners that live in the building in support of subdivision that means reducing the non number of united i happen to live in a condo and sits on the board of one of them it is easy to say but the flying structure for the two unit to be one is more, more complicated than sitting here doing so the fact likes meeting lofts in the city the same things a vertical form of ownership requires not only the association speaks for itself as the governing body for the condominium to approve and each of those 200 whatever owners has to say yes before this precedes. >> it is an interesting issue my thought i totally understand

with the hov and my thought we might have trouble on the condo mooring the two units that won't stop us from pulling a building permit that breaks down the wall. >> that's not correct you can't even in our architect application can't interfere with the common area portions of my unit because step one is the application for mergers step two the entire group of owners to buy into that and then the architectural application. >> we're not impacting the common area of the project at all. >> are there structural waltz and your utilities are all common areas the vertical units are a common area. >> we're not adjusting any of the common areas of the building the wall is not a load bearing wall it is 0 sponsored by the

structural columns is where we have the support of association we're not asking to remove either one the condominiums ap ns or unit. >> if you're meeting them as one occupant and recording them as one unit that's why the subdivision act comes in and needs approval you may be able to do moving of wall between units in our associations supports you on it but us to sit here saying you can 3450erg two properties is a common area and common approval in which you have to have total support from all our homeowners. >> enrage the first time two families are combined a condominiums moipdz is this is not the case i don't need approval or every

condominium unit owner in the building. >> mr. kevin this doesn't matter you're in the hands of your lawyer but i'm telling the commission that's the way it works whenever we say that will be tempered by something else they're much more complicated by reducing the units we're encouraged not to support it not quite possible for me to support this morgue. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> you know the section 317 demonsterable is the most ridiculous thing in my life i call it the pacific heights expectation given the fact we're slightly above that i've been beating the drum about the informational and staff says the one $.7 million is forcible to 8 perishes of the populations and

some are affordable to two percent of the population that is one i have a gut reaction to whether a family issue or not absolutely in disrespect inform either the applicant we have people on their face sharing their relatives to two units and had verification from channel 724 percent of time it didn't happen we are assuming your cropping in good faith our parents may not move here and stuck with a massive unit not supposed to be this luxury the low basis argument i can understand half of the unit at the market-rate because of the changing hands i get the

argument the typical path i buy a starter home and a third or fourth kid with a bigger home and not combining lots and houses this is what the pathway should be i think it sets more precedence and completely get the personal situation and don't question it i don't think that is necessary and desirable as our standard. >> thanks commissioner fong. >> maybe we feel different i think that is two units combined not giant unit will be 5 humans living in up to 5 humans living in this large apartment 4 or two bedrooms apartment not a difficult thing as far as the merger and hov i agree with you commissioner moore if it changed the count than hoa rules are in play that's not for us to decide

that is a different problem i don't necessarily think that affects us to make that forgone conclusion so in support of this morgue and again, i also think that is a good case why the mergers are brought to the planning commission and a good example why the planning commission is effected in great details and not the broad net that works in every situation. >> commissioner koppel. >> yeah. i look at the packet before us and saw the points staff made and completely taking those in consideration and commissioner johnson comments i was afraid what if those two units are moergd and a kitchen disappeared and you move out and

the place is not purchaseable by anyone else with commissioner johnsons comments i'll be supportive of this approval as long as something is done to keep the dignity integrity of these places or place being preferred as two units for possible later down the street situations so that's how i'm coming to any decision and as long as something will kind of keep the integrity of those two unit i'm okay with that. >> commissioner johnson. >> okay. thank you looks like we have a motion on the table i'll make a different motion secretary inon do we as a motion. >> it was the motion that preceded your own a motion for a continuance we should take them

in order. >> she can make a motion. >> okay question to the city attorney so my suggestion that the condo map remain as is with those two separate parcels that will change the inside of both is that in compliance with section 317 residential merger so we're is the residential merger talking about the physical states or also addresses the condo map. >> the legal definition of the two unions. >> section 317 eats condo map provisions have separate the condo map provisions or the condo issue is resolved by the subdivision map acquisition state law so as the commissioner moore articulated before you have to look at a different body of law to determine what

happened if you meerpg to condos into one and we sit down here now i can't answer commissioner moores question whether or not for example, taking out a kitchen will change your ability to make two units into one to respond to the project sponsors comment not the first to in the world two condo were merged it is possible i don't know what limitation the subdivision map encompassed but your proposal will work for example, if you could remove the kitchen and remove a front door into two units or sorry two parcels under the map act i'm not sure how to answer that, we have a person to answer that unfortunately not me we can get back to the commission if you want to know. >> okay man. >> i would. >> i've sent an e-mail awhile we're talking but not horde

back. >> the reason i want to know obviously with the two front doors i think i know the answer to the question but the internal renovations as long as you keep the hookups for gas and electrical even if you only have one set of alliances it is state law so i'm wondering can we condition that on the residential merger or a full and separate body of law we're not a state commission. >> yes. my concern depending on how it is phrased the commission he might be stepping into an area it is above state law so you'll have to be careful about the subdivision on a meaning decision. >> i'd like to make a motion to the approval for the

residential as amended by staff the fourth bedroom remain. >> second. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> so the question for the city attorney assuming in good faith the project sponsors intend to move their parent in move the clock forward 10 years way too many kids and go back to dana point can we have a notice of special restriction that that condo is supported by allows for them to have the programming but the housing unit back to the housing stock i can support that. >> commissioner vice president richards i'm aware of the provisions under the planning code that will currently provide that note in section 317 so. >> would it be a condition. >> not that i'm aware of of

that in the planning code not aware of prosecution in the planning code. >> i'd like it to be a friendly amendment to the motion it is is legally illegal. >> i don't have having a policy problem with the four-bedroom unit in this building it continues on for that i mean, i don't think we're creating we're taking i think too expensive two bedrooms and creating one expensive 4 bedroom but if this project comes to us and there were 15, 4 bedroom unit i don't think we'll have a problem with that i get it so

that's my general take if you add no rent-controlled and displacement i have a huge problem with continuing this as is. >> one question on the rent control do we have verification the s r o was before 1979 before rent-controlled was enacted in 1979 sounds like the date but verification that was actually before or after the effective date i want to make sure that is truly the case and we're operating under that assumes. >> when was this constructed. >> the planning commission approved it in 1998. >> i'm sorry, i thought you said 1978 i was off base. >> commissioner you're correct the council misspoke. >> you said 1979. >> (multiple voices). >> (laughter).

commissioner johnson >> thank you amendment not accepted i i get it where commissioner vice president richards is not trying to come from but introduces too many difficulties for not enough policy gain and if it is possible they'll move out if it is sold and mapped as a single condo so the process to have to go back and make it two condo i feel it is challenging and not sure. >> commissioner moore. >> aside from what the outcome of this decision is next around i'll appreciate that the applicant and this case mr. kevin and perhaps we know about subdivision acts and how it seconds the condos, condominium were created as a alternative for people in san francisco not really way back when when it

started to afford homes on their own the kind of the first frontier of owning property and living in the property with the house in the community of other apartments called condominiums and we're starting to basically merger condominium we're starting to make a mansion we're also driving the cost of those units and some condominiums go back into the mid 70s we are increasing the speculative value to be mega mansion and it is very much in line with what the ideas of rincon hill rincon hill was designed a neighborhood similar to the other surrounding downtown core 12 hundred or 11, 14 hundred square feet and meeting them outside of a particular amount of subdivision lieu we're starting to undermine

that market and i'm very concerned about that note today and have not in the past conditioned in any point to support condominium mergers i see the danger where i live and many condominium are being used as second homeowners for renter basically studying what was one hundred owner occupied and now 50 percent renter absentee rent-controlled units and creates a pattern that is disruptive and negative to the original idea of smaller homeowners i'm speaking for myself in their opinion i see the dangers they're there all the time and for that reason in addition to some rudimentary understanding of subdivision law i strongly oppose the mooring of condominium in san francisco.

>> thanks. >> i just i mean 2200 we saw a home that was 22 hundred square feet we'll call that a modest sized home we've talked about $3,550,000 square feet homes so for someone that likes kids and a family you're trying to live in a 12 hundred square feet i get we want to create unit and having a discussion about family-sized unit i don't want to take away we're approving i don't believe i other people a huge condo that was before we didn't have a notion of that merger we have that approved that 22 hundred square feet unit so - >> i don't agree that the meg a is mentioned. >> commissioners two motions shall i call the question? >> on the motion then to disapprove that matter. >> commissioner fong no

commissioner johnson no commissioner moore no commissioner melgar commissioner moore commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president hillis no. >> excuse me - that motion families three to four on to approve with conditions to have a retension of. >> fourth bedroom. >> commissioner fong commissioner koppel commissioner melgar marry no commissioner moore no commissioner vice president richards no and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes passes 4 to 3 commissioner melgar commissioner moore and commissioner vice president richards voting against. >> we'll take a 45 minute lunch good morning and welcome o the planning commission this is the regular meeting for thursday, april 13, 2017, i'd like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind.

please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. commissioners, we left off under our regular calendar on item 15 for item no. 15 - 2015-014718cua, 716 columbus avenue, conditional use authorization. >> >> good morning commissioner president hillis and commissioner add up of planning department staff the item before you is a request for a conditional use authorization from the italian homemade company for a limited restaurant as a sud fine greenwich and fillmore within the north beach you special use district in the accessory use the grocery business will provide a tack out food use provided the accessory function will not xoup more than

5 hundred square feet chief financial officer it left due to the prep areas with the business is not operating within the use provision riser the business a limited restaurant or seat the required conditional use authorization the request before you seeks to abate the violation the business is not proposed to alternative it's application if it is approved it intend to provide dedicated sale for the grocery products physical alterations are not proposed as part of this application with the exemption of roosevelt screening or mechanical equipment as required has control that a restaurant or babe bar may not be permitted within a space that is left occupied by a sale or use

although it is last opt out the subject place is in the reference the sud don't place reductions an limited restaurant it is considered a basically sale or service used from the under so the conditional use authorization for a limited restaurant didn't violate the controls of sud as discussed in the staff report the concentration in the vicinity is approximately 2.3 percent of business with the business that concentration is raised to 33 plus percentage the percentages succeed 25 thrilled, however, the required methodology may contribute to a higher percentage and furthermore it acknowledges that north beach may steady the identified tlurld without detriment to the district since an established pattern the

concern primarily is focused on loss of neighborhoods serving restaurants to - trick beyond the immediate neighborhood all this to say the department if find the limit restaurant will prevent that from having a balance of food 3 communications 2, 3, 4 opposition all of which have come arrest publishing of the staff report from the representative from the st. paul society and the in which business association important in general their comment disagree with the analysis and the overall concentration of the eating and drinking - they note this manner with their replaced

by restaurants has been seen throughout going in the right direction north beach they pursue the leg shawn ortion afterwards those comments raise concerns and building this business and future businesses should be required to maintain the component of the business as a primary use and overtake out food within the accessory use provision excuse me - the department recommends approval finding the application to be in compliance and pecks i'm available to answer any questions. >> thank you, mr. perry project sponsor. >> i'm the owner of the aisle made company distribution in 2013 me and my wife and i came from italy this was in four years i did a line and they saw we could have opened a

specialist grocery store because we're specialized in making of pasta so we're the chefs that makes the pass 80 to for the customers everything is somethimoped to be homemade having italian resident from what something else did 50 years ago is like a nice project 0 it is like the neighborhoods were happy the store is packed and for the first time we had news in the newspapers it is going good we

have an operation mostly to go not like everything is to go on paper plates we don't have any other regular seats but hike some over 5 high tables but this is jew because when all the people come they have the mraurlgd and the washington aware park so families have a reason they/a place when they're waiting for their food we don't want to change 9-1-1 of that so everything will stay and and speciality grocery are limited seating on the office on this block. >> i think that is.

>> great pretty much all. >> we may have questions first open up for public comment i've got one speaker card mark bruno welcome mark. >> welcome mark. >> thank you commissioner president hillis and members of the board i've lived in north beach for thirty odd years and work at the go catholic in north beach involved with the homeless as i said in my initial letter italian homemade is a business i've eaten there the problem is the company is in the wrong space if we isolate those businesses we'll not need a planning code we can choose what we personally like oh, people are from italy because of

italian immigrants we should allow them to go around the planning code that as exactly when is occurring what if any friends from ethiopia in the richmond and have a grocery store what if any want to come to columbia and use that designated retail use for their grocery store and they decide to do a restaurant all of a sudden limited restaurant will they be treated the same way by the planning department i hope so we're in san francisco but we have an argument given to us but the planning department that after all this business didn't matter because the 25 percent threshold that is required by the north beach neighborhood

business commercial district it says in the supplemental after all not one percent but don't you see in terms of not above the threshold 32.5 percent the argument by the city and park well, it doesn't matter but what about my prince from ethiopia that moved next door the percentage will be lens what was a retail use and is third and fourth and fist an argument saying no need for planning no need for preplanning which is a redundancy what is preplanning the presumption that a citizen of a neighborhood businesses and residents came together in the 80's to make a north beach commercial district with certain provisions that doesn't matter no where we don't care about the balance of retail and restaurants no more will we'll let people do what that he feel like there are open spaces in north beach

designated for restaurant this bits can become a restaurant and succeed what is happened unfortunately is that from the very beginning been a restaurant i invite the commissioners, if i haven't had a chance to go and see that this is not partially a rarity store interdedicated to seating as a restaurant out of compliance for two years i ask you not to grant the cu. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on this item. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm stepho i'm not coming as a consultant but coming here as a patron that appreciates him and his wife come to an ear on the seven hundred block of columbus was a dead zone was potrero hill lit

walking down that corridor was not desirable next door were two vacant spaces and on the other side an automotive a big trees you know surrounding space so it, it is not exactly prim real estate most of restaurants are contained on the 4 hundred and 5 hundred block what i'm saying he's come to ask for permission for a limited restaurant first, he had speciality grocery they had the option of people in the area most of them locals this is not a tourist spot but locals runs informed and by word of mouth grown into something is special a pasta what we know as flat breads the italians bring over what i'm saying so for this particular space and this particular location locals have

a lot of festive with those people i talked to him about not expanding not asking for beer and wine just keep it the way it is if you want to do some other things or upgrades might have to choose another neighborhood what the codes not as strict and i remember wasn't that long ago i was on a commerce group we had many awards nationally recognized for the types of businesses and top 10 of united states not just california so today please approve that as a local restaurant thank you. >> thank you is there any additional public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners

>> commissioner vice president richards and i guess a question for the project sponsor you started out as one thing and changed into something else did you have - why weren't you aware of what was illegally allowed and not allowed. >> we opened the first, the grocery store the planning department i respect to the planning department and we respect through all the application process we needed a kitchen a vacant and we went through all the legally from the beginning being a grocery we won third of the accessory use for the kitchen after i was contacted from the planning department when we saw we were ready to grow food what i could have down like send away customers so the neighborhood

needed that space that was necessary so that was why satisfied why. >> i completely understand and understand your success i applaud it you knew only 1/3rd was allowed. >> 1/3rd of spates is still the kitchen and 2/4ths is the grocery store and remain likely the only thing that changes was the high tables not seats like a restaurant no place for people eating paper plates and like highchairs with high stools so the reason like with seats and water oversees and take orders or nothing like that so moms with kids have a space they ate the la san diegan.

>> thank you. is there any additional public comment questions. >> i mean, i'll obviously we are sensitive in certain neighborhoods all neighborhoods about concentration of eating establishments with the discussion an retail before and maybe involving beyond some of the requirements and limitations we but i agree with the gentleman this is a different you know than northern part of columbus there is different in nature where we have the higher concentrated level of restaurant very much feels different than fisherman's wharf we had trouble

with retail use so this is not dislout but allowed with conditional use with this bodies approval given the location obviously we don't like looking back and approving things in a sense it is interesting what people wanted and you look at our yelp page and see people enjoying the space i agree not the tourist club it is probably focused a lot on folks that live in the neighborhood given those factors i can be supportive commissioner melgar. >> i was going to examine that i had observed this trend in other neighborhoods too you know towards introducing food and i think that is a normal evolution of how people live their lives today and sometimes we have

implemented controls and in the 70s and 80s and people have their a change over time of retail and i don't think this is a radical change this is just a little i support it also. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much i'm supportive as well sometimes, i think that matter more to me as a single commissioner and i've seen through the entire body when we're doing abatement and not the fact we're looking back at something wasn't compliant for awhile matters nicole it is less of a material impact on the decision we have to make i'd like to submit a motion approve with conditions. >> second. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> one quick question for the project sponsor before we embed and vote in the food assistance diagram where are the high tables at. >> located on the front of the

- awe of the windows. >> so they're not labeled not on this diagram that's all. >> okay i understand. >> i'm supportive. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions on that motion. >> commissioner fong commissioner johnson commissioner koppel commissioner melgar commissioner moore excuse me. commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero. >> commissioners, that places you on item 16 item no. 16 - 2016-009071cua, 1019-1033 clement street, conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon commissioner president hillis and members of the commission laura planning department staff the item before you is a

conditional use authorization application to legalize the use that exceeds 25 hundred square feet of gross square feet within the ifrp clement street neighborhood commercial district the business has been in operation since 2012 and 2014 took over the use in entirety the use came to our attention when the applicant applied with the department with the proposal to connect the two commercial spaces at the ground floor the applicant is in medical use that operates out of two buildings which are located on one block to create to internal connections for patients and staff may move between the paramedic at the 2016-009071cua, 1019-1033 clement street, conditional use

authorization. >> and no exterior modifications are proposed the subject property is located on the south side of street continue 11 and 12 after the existing tenant is northeast medical services a nonprofit health center with 10 locations throughout the bay area including 7 in san francisco formally each building houses separate retail a hardware on one side he and a you fortune store the medical services is 16 hundred plus square feet and covers third floor the department has received one letter if support of the project if the clem merchant association a copy of the letter is in our mission packet since the packet

i've received one e-mail from a neighbor that is concerned about a preserved proliferation of medical uses in the district and concerns about cash he had no complaint about the existing business. >> staff is recommending a approval of the conditional use authorization the project will in the displace my commercial tenants the site is well-served by public transit and northeast medical services tested at the he site without issues that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> i believe we have representatives from the project sponsor here. >> great, thank you project spons

sponsor. >> good afternoon. i'm amy with the earth and wong from go our architectural as well just want to reiterate that the proposed project is to provide a interconnection to pharmacy and clinic again nothing on the exterior about change to address the complaint or the concern about the trash disposal i believe that the concerned neighbor is worried about the medical bio hazard in the trash can homeless people will harm themselves the endanger put out on the trash can is not different all bio hazard materials are put into a bin with a lid in a

locked room they pick up the bin on schedule once a week and have representative to answer any questions. >> on the northeast medical service. >> great. thank you very much. >> any public comment on this item? 16. >> i want to speak into the other mike you think that one is better. >> it maybe especially given our height. >> i'm michael with the association we enthusiastically support mims in their effort in this matter they are a great asset to the neighborhood serving underserved population what they're doing is going

through a lot of trouble spending a lot of money to do something that is right they're to be expended i urge you to approve their request thank you. >> thank you, sir additional public comment on this >> seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner vice president richards. >> seems logical and necessary and desirable move to approve second. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve that matter with conditions on that motion commissioner fong commissioner johnson excuse me. commissioner koppel commissioner melgar commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president hillis commissioners, that item passes unanimously 5 to zero and commissioners, that places you on item 17

item no. 17 - 2016-005702cua, 524a clement street,conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon, again laura planning department staff this proposal is also for a conditional use authorization it is to legalize a formula retail krek9 wireless store operating within the clement street neighborhood commercial district the planning code required conditional use authorization for formula retail uses within neighborhood commercial district the the subject property contains a mixed use with with only commercial space at the ground floor and 4 residential unit above formally that housed a book store known as pacific arts and books it includes the respect of the wall design will be replaced with a smaller more pedestrian scale non-illuminated wall sign that meets all the

standards pr cricket is a subsidy of adolph hitler /* two stores war legalize what cua two more are pending review at an upcoming hearing none of the other cricket stores are in the same quadrant of the city next is in the outer sunset this characterizing the inner complementing are prominently establishments and banks there are a number of retail use like walgreens and radio shack that

is surrounding by residential only one similar formula retail verizon wireless is in the area but there are multiple retailers as much as radio shack that acts as authors woirlgs dealers mask of the retail use and providers are included in the commission packet there is strong neighborhood opposition to the project to date 79 letters opposing including two from the clem street neighbors association this is a desire to preserve the atmosphere of the neighborhood and a desire to encourage the independent open a can of worms one the inner clement the department has 61 letters in support of project 0 copies have been provided safe is recommending approval of this

conditional use authorization request as noted in the executive summary it meets all criteria of the planning code non-not an over concentration in the vicinity and few similar wireless stores other wireless retailers in the ncd consist of authorized clearly that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions we have a representative from the company to speak. >> thank you. i see supervisor fewer did you want to comment on this item. >> okay. >> welcome. >> good morning commissioner i'm supervisor fewer the supervisor of district is our formula retail use regulations sustain a health mix of independent small business around the formula retail where it is necessary and

desirable my district contains the most vibrant commercial 0 corridors the rising the inner clement small businesses is a reason the richmond is a magnet for visitors throughout the city and beyond our formula retail use controls defer credit to help the neighborhoods retain their character by giving the small businesses an opportunity to say an opportunity whether a proposed formula retail is necessary and desirable and comparable with the surrounding neighborhood i believe the most delinquent point of this case the cricket is a formula regulations by moving into the space without applying for conditional use authorization we are unfortunate fortunate it have apparent that collect the merchant association that brought that to the attention of the supervisors

office and substantially the planning department this is the case for another cricket outlet on 455 clement i urge you to listen to the small business owners concerns about the formula retail uses into a unique neighborhood that is in addition accelerated change and worried about about the survival of small businesses in an increasing difficult economic environment and also urge you to carefully consider whether you want to regard a business owner that wants to circumvent our rules. >> open up for public comment we have organized i'm sorry project sponsor sorry. >> go ahead you've got 10 minutes and and then organized oppositio n 10 minutes after

that. >> commissioners, good morning phil speaking on behalf of the j.c. american the authorized representative and mr. ionin more letters of support and also here's some radius maps you'll see the concentration of formula retail and also the concentration of providers withcells services on, on clement everything the supervisor said is true the regulation were not o vertically avoided but the authors representative was not told by the parents company at&t that formula retail has regulations and need to follow the company with the sign company put up the sign without benefit of the design e sign permit none to find that was taken place in the

ifrp clement merchant associations that brought this to the attention of the planning department that's why we're before you today once cricket wireless and at&t found out about thi s they want to upright the ship in november we brought a cricket wireless from the excelsior district here 4400 of mission street which you approved unanimously that was done properly they leased the vacant space and came to conditional use approval before opening up the other 5 that laura mentioned started bringing through the process last month as you recall another mission street 24 hundred and 21st and also 11 hundred grant corner off grant and pacific you approved unanimously at a time this will urban design the third of the 5

not gotten the cerebral hemorrhage approval so we're going through the process with this one and irving will be back may 11 with that said i'm president of the merchant association and sensitive to small mentor and i went out even though a preapplication meeting before i was brought into this another meeting met with mr. bus and parking space and lawrence on september 13th i tell them i was very, very aware of the area during the summer of love my wife and i met a half block away from the project i was born 3 blocks what was then the french hospital and now part of kaiser i've knew the area i knew that ace hardware and candy and smart

and final and cypresses providers and want to find out why they were taking a issue with this one we opened out without the benefit of conditional use permit the problem was compound with the manager of the store they tried to get a larger location will a block away so basically looked like their profiling not only come in without the permit but who places without a permit when we were looking for a bigger space in terms of size and character go kevin stretched his arm could cover this unit 12 and a half feet wide very small 8 hundred square feet a could be i didn't hole it is absolutely necessary in today's world as

you can see in the concentration maps every other commentator on the street continue hard. well, and swanson with mr. wu and some of the sales associates to talk about how this happened and how the business is operating thank you for your time and considerati consideration. >> okay. so the reason we choose this location is because we pout this place is high density with chinese people which we been there for 3 years and we are serving about over 60 percent of customers that are

chinese and the reason rethink it should be there because of cricket compared to other cell business the store is there we're doing good for the past 3 years and we didn't know we were supposed to get the conditional use permit when we opened the store but as long as we find out we hired this lawyer and starting the process hi, i'm lawrence sales of the cricket store and i'm the so for manager. >> and basically this i've been working as over 3 years now and it is really provided a nice

experience for myself especially out of high school i developed really good leadership skills working on my bilingual language yeah. >> i'm the store manager in clement. >> please pull down the micro. >> i'm kind of short i'm the store manager for clement a great place to work at so many people come by we do service besides giving them affordable plans and - >> thank you guys. >> thank you so open up for public comment in the organized opposition we have 10 minutes or the jose you. >> with a minimum of 3 speakers yes, please.

>> good afternoon i'm henry a president of the san francisco council of district merchants association i think that supervisor fewer spoke eloquently will formula retail and how it effects small businesses and special corridor like golden gate park the castro and west portal and places around town to go ahead and have those stores not only they takeaway from that feeling of a new place something different you don't get millionaire in the city but the fact that we visit and want to see that note over and over and over and over and small businesses local people community-based in there and

start up a chance but please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, see in the city already that formula retail is not allowed anymore again we'll not be doing this if it was a great idea to allow formula retail wrenching in town i urge you not to approve many formula retail that is going on clement street and i think that is important we look at our gems our shops and so forth so thank you. >> hi commissioners my name is a petting i'm a co-owner of green apple books since 1968 thank you for your service you're amazing and thank you for your careful consideration thirty months ago the formula retail cricket wireless the

project sponsor is trying to - the number of formula retail on the street he argues if they're less than a certain number in doing so the sponsor ignores in sections contrarily i spend my 7, 8, 9 reading codes notebook see this the clement between argyle and the second the general plan policy that existing with the neighborhood serving retail use are proffered and the third criterion states the formula retail businesses can retract if commercial district ate the fourth he choose the uniqueness of san francisco neighborhood is based on a combines of communities foster by small merchant several of the presenter should

demonstrate this cricket wireless should not be granted a conditional use and finally the voters and planner created those restrictions with the clear intent to proffer a difference economy and a strait escape not mistaken in the world san franciscans voted with their ballots and city supported this. >> i mentioned green apple is turning 50 most people know they can buy cheaper on line but vote with their wallets to keep us here and when they shop online for the - like the one speaking before you today their perfumes are another vote for a difference economy the vision that san francisco is voted for at the ballot box i humbling ask

you respect those they were created by the planners and the same voters sunshine have voted with their wallets to keep green apple profitable for years i thank you for your time and consideration consideration. >> my name is michael i'm on the board of merchants association as my father ervin invite was 50

years ago i'm speaking to the statement on page 3 of cricket wireless application the project would not displace any existing tenant my topic with is how did a formula retail like cricket wireless not get caught pushing out a unique 31 wednesday book store at the tufrment first, they raise the rents on the current tenant pacific books and arts or perhaps the space is leased or rented so the tenant has to leave the space than a month or so later cricket wireless move-ins this is the important part of deception the formula retail tenant waits two years before he finally is pushed by neighborhoods complaint to submit a conditional use application

by the time the hearing occurs six months later that's the day which is thirty months after the tenant who was forced out left the agreed former tenant can no longer be located so cricket sponsor argues the space was vacate when they re7b9d it but fortunately in the news article i put there david leigh reporter from bottom an independent journalist documented in july of 2014 that the plight of mr. lee the owner of pacific boxes and arts at the least many lee was forced out by much higher rent possibly he was forced out through a lease signed by cricket wireless

as happened and as referenced casually by under lesser in 2015 when cricket wireless wanted to move to a bigger space across the street and signed a lease of 1019-1033 clement stre 524a clement street with the landlord to rerents for another 3 years. >> i appreciate your attention and thank you for your time my name is alicia anderson a 13

resident of inner mission we sold local gods a board member of the merchant association sfmade and sf local merchant association my shop was closed so i could be here i care about that issue deeply with the sections i'm concerned not only about the negative impact that krek9 currently has on the character of the inner clement neighborhood including the gigantic sign but the proved negative into the future before cricket opened at the location on clement street in formula retail use stores there within 018 most of cricket opening 3 additional formula retail stores have opened including verizon, french and at&t on the street

which is a parent company of cricket norms in conditional use authorization is grant to cricket wireless than the gates will be opened wider tocells if you grant to cricket how can you discriminate against our stores withhold to open on we have stores on clement to which are operating without a you clvks and geary boulevard didn't have formula retail i'm urging you to please as a small business owner many cell phones stores wield you to

please close down this cricket store and preserve the eir richmond character of the billion dollars corporation they basically abuse and use our neighborhood for the chashs that is there the inner richmond character is important to the visitors from all over and it is so valuable to the small businesses that are struggling to survive so the small businesses on clement 0 opening oppose cricket thank you. >> i think we have a short time left for the opposition 15 seconds left. >> but. >> (inaudible). >> okay. we'll open up to general public comment. >> this is the first 3

speakers. >> oh, you did so. >> you have 3 minutes. >> my name is jesse fink i've been on clement street a cafe for 34 years i was president of the merchant association for several years i know clement street i know san francisco it is seems like what the issue is here is formula retail cricket should not be on clement street it is a as simple as that they snuck in and stated in and very involved residents find out what we did quickly did that two at a time when starbuck's was kept off the first case that was a formula retail was tested quickly snuck right in and got away with it none called them on that no formula retail allowed on clement street clement street

is one of the most unique repetitious streets in the city of san francisco i see people come into my store and can't believe that the street that is inundated it is a unique street you've been there i hope you know that whether someone said we haven't reached an over saturation of formula retail no, we have not reached an over saturation on clement that's why you don't get close to it not wait until the water is above the dam and say off stop in the just cricket but anyone that gets in you don't want them you want cricket you want sprint and at&t that's in the wrong place at the wrong time innovate what the game is about no formula on

clement street the reason the city and voters create that legacy businesses is because there is a value for businesses that have been around a personality that's why that was voted on you know if we voted the city can keep out chain stores leave people will vote to keep them out legacy business and keeping formula retail off clement street that's it. >> thank you thank you. >> additional public speakers. >> i'm richard a member the merchants and a other than of a small shop on clement street i want to talk about my option a cell phone store not desirable for the merchants they occupy small smaiz spaces that are

essentially to starting own and operate businesses they add to the atmosphere that is in turn depend upon sidewalk traffic cricket wireless is combranltd a cu authorization is dwelling unit to the neighborhood and also because it drives up rents for other retailers cricket is a subsidy at&t with a revenue willing to obtain a location they view as beneficial to their image and second this disapprove the conditional use they can move one block to geary boulevard that is convenient for cricket customers that way cricket can keep their customers and we can keep our shops thank you very much. >> thank you any additional

speakers. >> okay who i kind of lost extract of cards everybody is welcome to speak if you want to folks line up if there are a lot more please line up on the screen side of the room. everyone has 3 minutes and welcome. >> okay hi good afternoon, everyone my name is karen i'm the manager of super stores on clement avenue cricket chef summary the project is necessary and desirable for and comparable with the surrounding neighborhood this statement is inaccurate on all 3 points one cricket wireless is not necessary for the neighborhood it can open its business what the sponsors call the district an geary boulevard a block away from clement in a merchant association not only for a formula retail but encourages them and two cricket

wireless is not desirable for the 28 well known merchants in the clement it oppose this commercial use compare this with the eir clement merchants that wrote a letter to the sponsors contain in the packet sorry i'm so nervous a letter from the retailers the packet that the commissioners were given for the wireless on 524a clement street include zero letters of support from the merchants even the residents letters failed a third of residents millions beyond the inner richmond two from the richmond are duplicates and third cricket is not capriciously with the neighborhood they clement is a

vinyl of unique creative shops in terms of a commercial district with a unique character created by the non-commercial district and for those reasons i ask the commission to disapprove cricket he wireless application thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> hello my name is a.m. may understand be my husband and i opened a store the store he presided you myself on the thoughtful design and layout we were attracted to grant on inner clement because we found other small businesses that shared that aesthetic and now we share the same type of customer not looking at for products that are available and appreciate the personalized gift wrapping with

every purchase enjoys creating a business enjoy asking about our background how we got to this point in our lives and enjoys sharing the block with the families before and after visiting the store it is relatively new but delighted from the first day of what a special community it is don't knows of another neighborhood of this size that hold those qualifies i believe that formula retail use like cricket hurts small businesses like ours the tan trump is essential to our future and the future one of whom started at roosevelt knolls this year down the street please say not to delay cricket wireless application and help us keep the single community that it still is thank you very much. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on this item. >> seeing none, public comment is closed.

commissioner vice president richards. >> interesting enough and been on that side of the railing in my neighborhood arguing against walgreens and starbuck's when they tried to move into the neighborhood we won unanimously the planning commission because we put up a good argument like the community is doing today on this side for the same neighborhood we approved and i voted for hamburger marys and a coffee because they respect through the process right and added to the neighborhood and come pell case and the communities support it; four, what i'm hearing in terms of i think that is different from the prior legalization or legalized abatement of the north beach project the issue i see here on placement of businesses assuming the article is correct i hope they have the standards we have a displacement of a small

business and - i think this is the kind of thing that is wrong with formula retail it can a displaces small businesses and it didn't sometimes play by the rules i think if there are other businesses in clement street corridor that don't have been legalized for the conditional use they need to be all recorded i think one of the things that really kind of turns me when i heard the train of you know the case of the community presented you can erase cricket one on clement and one in west portal they're all the same and like the corporate folks are coming applicant in the lie not telling the franchisees they need to follow the rules and they at&t knows how to follow the rules

they should be 12 the franchisees you don't have to get a contract for a cu permit so i don't want to tell supervisor fewer how to do her job but supervisor peskin and former supervisor did a formula retail ban in their commercial controlled you might want to consider one for this corridor i don't support the conditional use the business what move a block or two blocks away to geary street and have a customer base that is successful i also think whatever we do today, we need to send a letter to at&t and cricket we'll not support those kind of things and they

needed a conditional use and franchisee and follow the rules so i make a motion to disagree. >> i support that the formula retail were put in place to give the neighborhoods the right kind of - have san francisco control what is in their neighborhood and clement is a unique part of establishment and i don't live close to clement the place you go to an interesting san francisco street and while i don't necessarily usually support a bandy think we approved ace hardware a formula retail but want to give you you all that live and work there kind of control over what should be there and what type of formula retail users work in the neighborhood so i'm supportive

of motion to disapprove. >> commissioners ♪ instance you don't have an additional motion motion of intent to disapprove >> wait. >> no, we doesn't have an alternative motion. >> so just to folks know we don't have a motion green before us to disapprove we'll pass the motion presuming an intent to disapprove will come back to the board next week. >> we'll continue to matter two weeks let's go april 27th with the inclusionary. >> it will think presumably on consent calendar and not necessarily take public comment you can are public comment during consent and commissioners a motion of intent to disapprove that and continue to april 28th.

>> commissioner fong commissioner koppel commissioner melgar and commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners,. that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero. >> commissioners that places us as item 18 was continued to may 11th under your discretionary review for item 19 item no. 19 - 2016-006303drm,

3326 mission street, mandatory6 discretionary review. >> good evening commissioners yet i'm before you as an application for mandatory discretionary review of a building permit application for change of use from boar to medical cannabis dispensary on 3326 mission street within the nc-3 and height the project site is bound by mission street to the east and service on all other sides residential use in the surrounding area including directly above the where the use is proposed staff is generally supportive of offer design that plaza reception at the front of building and increases the uses as required by the planning code by shifting product sales to the back of building and the use

will appear more similar to a medical use than other uses per planning code the frontage of building is rearview mirror or required to have translator window for no longer than 60 percent of pedestrian level they've received mixed ferry building a common point of concern has been that multiple medical cannabis dispensaries have opened or been approved in the immediate area in recent months, the area is two concentrated with a mcds the department has received many letters of support including a petition of support with a common point raised the replacement of bar with a mcd will improve the area and excluded in the packet since

publication 13 additional comments 3 individuals expressed additional concerns regarding the number of mcds opened in the immediate area and request disapproval one property owner identified the physical improvements to the storefront will achieve the visibility of lot and the boar use the area and additional 9 letters from businesses and nonprofits seeking to the character of the approval for the application the proposed mcd may operate this is hours of operation staff recognizes multiple mcds no limitations of the mcds in the zoning district staff prepared a map in the local area included in the packet an additional map

was prepared showing the locates of mcd over a large area to show where clusters is concurring and that was provided to you today no additional mcd are currently under review in the immediate vicinity as the project meets the reminded of planning code staff recommends the commission take dr with the recommended conditions of approval the approve with conditions are standard except for a condition to clarify the bar use anybody legal vacated as alcohol sales are not permitted that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions the project sponsor also has a brief presentation. >> great. thank you very much project sponsor a 5 minute presentation. >> good evening, commissioners i am have lived in the mission district over 40 years and

owning and operating the bar and grill in the mission bruno's with my family for almost 26 years and building that makes me a true mission resident and san franciscan if you grant us the use permit we'll be the first latino co-owner i know we'll be able to serve the community in a culture and sensitive manner as stated we'll provide support to stations and encouraging the workforce to provide opportunity for local resident we have a violation to reviolative our block a discrete presence many of them are suffer from the

effects of the for in the mission corridor i appreciate your support and appreciate serving our community. >> everyone i'm bruin mitch his partner and uc berkley i was diagnosed with cancer not a marijuana user but started to use it instead of the medications i went into remission and ever since then is an advocate for marijuana after graduating moved to san francisco and started a company that operates today, i met him through a mutual friend both at mission high school so jose and he spearheaded this and they've done a trimmers job by gaining the support of the community area businesses and residents and nonprofit meta the vocal school with the chamber of commerce and roberta heron's head park lastly our design team are here if you have questions regarding the design.

>> good afternoon, commissioners pardon me i'm a little bit late this project is a special one an mcd but a san francisco mission district legacy businesses small business the project is the same operators for over 25 year wants to be a part of small business community and help to preserve the identity of corridor we the significant outreach and working with the permittee and no negative impact that a multiple dispensaries co-exist we have overwhelmingly support and keeping him as a small business owner the benefits are greater assess for more benefits of medical cannabis and doesn't increasing the competitive pricing and more support for benefit programs we have a

supplemental materials not included in the packet i'd like to hand out to the commissioners right now we're available for any questions that the commission has of this project. >> i want to thank everyone. >> thank you for the opportunity to present this to you. >> thank you very much. >> we'll open up for public comment i have several speaker cards carlos (calling names) if there are additional folks you're welcome to please line up on the screen side of the room.

welcome. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is a carlos i'm the ceo for the hispanic chamber of commerce we represent small businesses in the area as we see the diversity that is coming in into the mission district and thank you for all the small businesses we're here to advocate to support the project the small businesses in the mission see a lot of loss of opportunities to grow this is a real opportunity that we decided to move from one type of business to another one we see this is something that can help the community and help the small businesses in there we're here to ask you to please support this and make that happen please thank you very much. >> thank you very much rudy if you want to line up on this

side keeps the door open. >> good afternoon commissioner i'm rudy executive director of a prevention program serving the bay area for the last 25 years i'm here to voice my support for in business sometimes, people wonder what is the differences between medical marijuana and use we have a lot of buybacks it have hundreds and hundreds of drugs off the street we want to continue to support this process so we can get the good-byes off the streets to save lives for the city and county of san francisco police department and mothers who have lost sons against violation and people have lost lives i'm not against the second amendment i'm a victim of gun violations but make sure we eradicate violation and one of the methods i believe is with building relationships

so thank you thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is william i'm a san francisco native that is born and raised in san francisco mission district today i'm speaking as a a private citizen and small business owner but service with supervisor avalos with the worker's comp as all of us know the mission has gentrification of residential and small business owners with the impact of the what is striking the 14 mission and the fire that happened adjacent it is ties to see small businesses adapt and try to give back to the communities i definitely recommend for you guys to move forward as approve that will continue there the legacy business for latinos in the san francisco mission

district that have a positive impact in the opportunity thank you for your time and consideration. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is tony and i lived in the mission district since 1972 and also the chairman the board of directors of the vocal school the two gentlemen that came to us and talked about their marijuana locating in the mission we passed it unanimously after they presented it to us the gentleman was a great friend of the past executive director so we you know we discussed it thoroughly and looked at it it very carefully and vested it and took to seriously and voted on

it was unanimous we'd like you to approve it as well. >> thank you, mr. full board faa both. >> next speaker, please. >> and i'm natalie currently acting as the executive director for mission vocal school and we provide training and healthcare hospitality, clerical training programs and we look forward to supporting jose and bryan for the wellness center as a community partner that is equally engaged in the mission to provide job opportunity for more underserved folks for workforce development training and the neighborhood their commitment to medically cannabis treatment is strong i believe

that will go a long ways to providing strong opportunity for a long term employment and opportunities for growth for members of the community and getting folks off the street and keeping them in the community i know that people have been mixed feeling about the new mcds coming to their neighborhood it is for the community and has a diverse ownership this is the kind of mcd project we want here thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening. i'm defied package i'm retired i basketball my home in bernal heights with my wife we both worked 34 years for the 49ers i was the at the first congregational church and a retired person that speaks in support of this project i think

that offers great economic development, really a good way to go in the mission in our particular neighborhood and want to voice my sponsor support for the project that is interesting one business into another my wife and i are cancer survives if we have other dispensary will give us another opportunity to get medication thank you. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on this item. >> welcome. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is jennifer garcia with the and a co-chair but a u s orientation with the cannabis workers and speaking as an advocate for workers in the cannabis and on on behalf of the wellness you have local 648 have

signed a peace agreement allowing the workers to choose a union the wellness center knows we benefit when workers have standardized training and education with the understanding that the corona is centered this training programs implement to maintain the knowledge necessary for the safety medicines to their patients long been on a interval part of the community and this provides an opportunity to continue as a minority business we look forward to working with the wellness center and encourage the planning commission to grant a permit to the la corona and allow them took a be a fair employer and good citizen to the communities thank you for your time and consideration in the matter. >> thank you

is there any additional public comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner melgar. >> sure. >> thank you very much i really appreciate all of this all the folks that came out to speak on behalf of the project i unfortunately will not be supporting this project i think that is consistent with the position i've taken on this commission and that i think the mission overwhelmingly has been the site of medical cannabis dispensary and now under prop 64 i think before we institute clear guidelines and controls will be over run by the youth and that will be i think to the detriment of other users this block in particular i have spent a lot of time since i work in the

neighborhood and i think that block needs help there was a fire there was the most anchor institutions business institutions burned down i think as a city should be helping it i recognition this is this business owner has been in the community a long term not sure that is the only way this particular whether or not can remain in the community i do as i said encourage the department to put out a clear design guidelines and above all it is an issue of environmental justice for the mcd in a short geographic area. >> any additional i have

concerns with clustering what happens is an issue for us in the past but typically we get a lot of public comment against an mcd whether there is clustering or issues that compound comes up by additional mcds and it is objective it is refreshing to see a lot of support from the community so i'm supportive of this i mean, i think we've had projects before where you know there are other not so great operators in clustering will compound that but we you know stripping not heard from one neighbor opposed to this mcd and why i have concerns with clustering we passed actually recommendations to the board of supervisors that may take away

the limits like the three hundred square feet around schools that will do what we are concerned and eliminate some of the clustering we made it entirely to difficult where mcds can locate that's why we're having clustering in the south of market and here which we find unfortunate and hopefully those issues are resolved when the recessional use - but given the fact in neighborhoods opposition with the neighborhood support i'm in support 37 this mcd. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> one last question i share the clustering concerns i look at this map we voted down two mcds in the excelsior would have been in the same circle around

those four to oppose the existing and park was one and on one hundred circle if there is a way to say hey this is the best way to run an mcd that would be it about kumbaya it would be amazing two questions for the project sponsor i don't see a security plan do you have one. >> we have a security plan i can hand it to you it is right here and please. can you talk about. >> we developed our security plan starting to meet with kathy that is where we started what is the we thought way to handle the security from there what we did we respect to other dispensaries and studied what we did to what we liked and didn't like and

development the plan around that and went as far as if you see the people that remarked one person was concerned all of the team met with that person in person and discussed their concern and actually, their concern was actually having the smell of marijuana at park so we beacon hill stated we'll make sure all the packaging states the rules you can't smoke outside so here's what we wanted to accomplish we don't want it to be intimately people standing outside the block that is a line or a big like security guy out front around the corner at the harvest they're promoting people from the streets to come in literally on the streets and it is kind of weird you feel like you're at a club we want the

security to be inside to make sure that is secure and welcoming and not intimately that's our goal. >> we have one in our neighborhood i i get it. >> so. >> patriotism in the green cross have done an excellent job we have an individual that helped to develop things in the organization and helped united states to develop the plan. >> another question when we get those applications project sponsor say they have 20 users within a 3 block area and have statistics do you have new statistics why we need another one here mcd cardholders. >> tonight i can't give you an exact number but a lot of people not happy with some of the smaller institutions nearby their prices are too high we provide a big advantage not trying to start a price war but - yeah, so essentially allows

us to provide medication at a better price point and higher quality when we gave me the community they don't like to go to those places and think about this is a legacy play for ignoring if you go into the other dispensaries they center have a bilingual what happens when they can't provide bilingual language so in the hispanic bars been going through for years instead of buying it from harvest they're not buying there they don't feel comfortable. >> the question and concern the fact in opposition if we had bus loads of people coming in i'll be less supportive but i like it is hispanic and the fact that is humanized and all the

support i'll be supportive of it. >> thank you very much. >> commissioner fong. >> i'll say i'm still waiting for the task force to come back with the recommendation it will be easy to make a decision i'm supportive of woilgd the green zone for some of the conversation with the clustering is a narrow scope the green zone i think as we go further along wall street the operation of those may it be so marked are better and better i think victimized found out the best way to operate i have convenience no neighborhood opposition today, i think that probably says a lot to the outreach you guys understanding and the locations what the problems have been and addressing the security issues with lash issues so i'm supportive of this particular

one. >> is there a motion? >> i'll make a motion to approve. >> not take dr. >> because your attaching conditions. >> to take dr and approve with kemgz recommendations. >> very good, commissioners. to take dr with conditions commissioner fong commissioner koppel commissioner melgar human resources no commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 4 to one with commissioner melgar voting against. >> commissioners that leads up us to general public comment. >> there are no speaker cards. >> >> any general public comment seeing none, the commission meeting is adjourned li

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meeting to order. >> our commission regular meeting wednesday april 12, 2017 kw time is 9 a.m. roll call. >> cleveland, present. nakajo, present. hardeman, i'm here. covington, present. [inaudible] chief of department u joanne hayes-white, here. item 2, commission announcements. please be advised the regular fire commission meeting scheduled for april 26, 2017 is canceled due to lack of quarp. the next regular fire commission meeting will resume may 10, 2017 at 9 a.m. in room 416. >> any public comment on this? we may need to chaisk that now that we have a quorum.

>> it is already posted. >> has it been posted? then we'll move forward with no meeting on april 26. i'm sure that will make a lot of people in the audience happy. public comment is closed. >> item 3, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission up to 3 minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the ajndsa. speakers shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not individual commissioner or department personnel. not to enter into depate or discussion with a speaker. lack of response by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily consstute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. >> any pubhook comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam secretary. >> item 4, approval of the minutes. discussion and possible action to approve the

meeting minutes from the special meeting on march 16, 2017. regular meeting march 22, 2017 and the special meeting on manch 22, 2017. >> is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, public comments closed. commissioners. >> so moved on all 3 items, mrs. president. >> a second? >> second, mr. president. >> any discussion? seeing none, i call the question. all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion passes. madam secretary. >> item 5, certificate of recognition for the outstanding service of long-time fire department employee virginia ginny franklin, chief of department joanne hayes-white will present mrs. ginny franklin with certificate of appreciation for recognition of

outstanding dedicated service as sffd employee over the past 37 years. >> any public comment? sure there will be a lot of public comment afterwards. seeing no public comment, closed. chief. would you like to say kine word? here? >> i would. thank you. good morning. joanne hayes-white. i know it isn't comfortable for her but like to ask ginny to stand and come to the micro phone. this is so well deserved and want to spend a few minutes praising i think one of the most dedicated civil servants not just with the san francisco fire department but probably in the city's history and she is going to be retiring, well deserved after 37 years of service with city and county of san francisco. we are grateful to have had her 36 years and i don't think

there is one person that has come across ginny that has anything other than positive thing tooz say because she is a very positive person and very capable and worked under the direction of 13 deputy chief's of operation including mark gonzalez who last week convened all his pred haves with the exception of one to ginny at a lovely lunch and it is well deserved. note easy to get ginny here today, but we wanted to say thank you and from me to you personally, i can't tell you how much i appreciate all that you have done. we met in 1993, when i had just three years in the dp apartment and expecting my first child and there were not too many women in the department. i was the third to be in that situation, so uniformed women expecting a child and so a lot of test cases, test uniforms. we went through a lot and i was assign today the chief pfs office and

ginny from day one was very kind to me and started a relationship at that point and seen you oreb the year squz quh i joined the chief's office in 2004 you were there once again to help guide and be a calm presence so want to thank you thank you for your service and have certificates and will come down and hand them to but you but let me read them so i have it micro phone. firsh of all on behalf of my slf and commission and sure they want to weigh in, you receive honorable and distinguish served. served 37 years career with city and county of san francisco. she served the san francisco fire department for the last 36 years with commitment, dedication rks and professional: the san francisco fire department and fire department congratulate you on your upcoming april 21, 2017 retirement. that is from

us and then we have-i know some in the crowd angela aloato will attest not often do you get a unanimous consensus at the legislative body so we have all supervisors weighing in on certificate of honor. city and county of san francisco. in honor of your long lastic contribution to the city and county of san francisco and san francisco fire department, for over 37 years. thank you for serving the san francisco fire department with dignity, class and true san franciscan values. from all the supervisors in san francisco. finally, on behalf of the mayor of san francisco, he is presenting on his behalf a certificate of honor and it read, ginny franklin oen behalf of the city and countery of san francisco, pleased to recognize and honor for your serve toos the san francisco fire department.

your tireless efforts and dedication to providing outstanding service to the city and county of san francisco starth as a young clerk stenography for the police department and san francisco fire department as a executive scraeft for 13 deputy chief's are tryly commendable. you earned respect and highest commendation of the top leaders of our great city. thank you for hard work recollect devolegz and class contributing to some of most important public safety missions. best wishes a the well deserved and fruitful retirement signed edwin lee. congratulations ginny. [applause] >> thank you vaer very much. thank you so much. i am

overwellmed. i was just retiring-go out the back door t. is bitter sweet. i have been look forward to this when most people are ready to retire and all of a scuden the day is here, so i really enjoyed all the years here. especially the fire department. once you are in there everyone loveathize fire department and they always have your back, so thank you again i really appreciate it. thank you, guys having me here. >> thank you. commissioners you like to say anything? commissioner covington. >> thank you very much mr. president. thank you ginny franklin for always being so diligent and positive and really

sholdering white a heavy load. there is a lot that goes on on your side of the building, so we will miss you and have a great time in retirement. >> thank you. >> thank you. vise president nakajo. >> thank you very much, president cleveland. i just wanted to say ginny franklin, ginny, thank you so much. part of this is this is my 22 year as a fire commissioner and your 37 years speak for it lf. when i entered the department as a commissioner i was always amazed at the dedication of the men and women of the department and i came in a era when the consent decree was implemented and we had a lot of tradition in san francisco as we always do and it was amazing the men and women dedicated to the department where the retirement yearerize 35, 36 and 37 and you

achieved the level in the department of consistent giving. back in the day when it was jones street and someone was new as a commissioner, the fire department is a place that takes care of business as we call it. but every once in a while you look for the frndly open warm face because all of us are new and need a entryway to do that. for me particularly i know kelly is part of the department as well, but you were the face that for myself as a commissioner gave me the ability to relax and to feel warm and to know fully your dedication. when you talk about 13 deputy chief's, holy molly. in this department because all of the chief's are dedicated but there is unique personalties with every one of them. when chief gonzalez comes up and gives the report and always glowing i like to

ask him did you prepare this chief or how was this prepared? he acknowledges the remarks that ginny franklin is responsible for that and i truly truly appreciate that because as a commissioner, you sit here you read and listen and experience, but when the report comes down and it is comprehensive for us on this side of the table it is a very helpful thing to have that comprehension and that kind of ability. ginny, we will miss you. once you rin the fire department, san francisco fire department you are always a member of our family so thank you so much for all your giving and your heart. thank you. >> thank you, mr. vise president. commissioner hardeman. >> thank you, mr. president. ginny, you have great family tradition. part of your family will continue to go on and you will probably advise your husband on a number of issues. [laughter]. you are always

good at communication. i enjoyed when i was trying to reach deputy chief interacting with you on a subject matter you are always well versed and when i was working full time i retired, which you will love is just the best. you know your top person is the one who has to do the work while you rin the field or whatever you were always coving all your bosses and you have a great reputation so some of you will take your seat but won't take your place because you can't pass on that knowledge and thank you for serving the city. you are a shiny example of what the best is in public services. thank you very much, ginny. >> thank you. >> thank you very much commissioner hardeman. commissioner. >> thank you. we just met and now you are on your way out.

>> how doo you do? >> hopefully i wasn't anything have to do with me. [laughter]. 37 years a long time and serving this city as you know is a really important thing and honor in many ways and i'm sorry i wasn't here for any of that or at least happy i fss here for the last of it, but thank you again from the bottom of our hearts, the commission i know how hard the staff works from work wg the police department. these guys get to come up here and look good and make the department look good and they work hard but we also know there are very hard working people behind them and so i thank you for your services of 37 years, that is fantastic. >> thank you, commissioner. i just like to say thank you. you will be definitely missed. always smiling, always happy, always upbeat, encouraging to everyone aroun you, so you will be miss jd wish you well in

your retirement. >> thank you again and this is a real big lawner for honor for me. i really appreciate this from the bottom of my heart, thank you. >> thank you. [applause] madam secretary will you call the next item? >> item 6, ovview of san francisco fire reserves, fire reserve phil buckley to provide update and overview of the sffd fire reserve program. >> good morning president cleveland, commissioners chief hayes-white. i have inate norris with me, commander of operations, steve dog, commander of administration and

also have captain veronica penia with me and lieutenant andrew marks with me and several recruits in the audience if you want to raise your hand so the commission can see you. they will be graduating in a couple of months. thank you for this opportunity to-for me as you with the fire reserves what we do on a weekly basis, so we'll start a presentation. we are swarn volunteer organization of san francisco dedicated to serviceing- >> can we grow to the computer? you have it? >> we are sworn organization of san francisco's dedicated to serving the people of city qu county of san francisco. primary goal mission is provide training support for san francisco fire department at large scale emergencies including grader alarms and natural and man made disasters.

our secondary mission is to provide training and experience for san francisco's interested in a career in fire fighting. the fire axilry reserve was created under 7-11 of san francisco administrative code in 1950. we are governed by the fire commission. we are under the administrative division of the fire department. my direct superior is assistant deputy chief jeff column beanie. sffd regulations apply to us and we are governed by all state laws applicable to reserve fire fighting. so, there was three bakes incarnations of the fire reserve. the sf auxiliary fire service organized in 1941 shortly before world war roam

roam 2. after pearl harbor there was members who received training as axilry fire service members under the civil defense counsel. in 1950, we were reorganized under the civil disaster counsel and we were organized under sf fire auxiliary reserves. in 1981 we reorganized again under the fire department bureau of training which is now division of training. we celebrated our 75th anniversary along with with the fire department 150th. so, at full strength we have 52 members. we have-we support at greater alarms. we were involved in the loma preeta

earthquake, mission bay fire, but also do a lot of community service and some the programs we support are nert, fire fighters toy program, guardians of the city when they have presentations we help them with that, the cumuchy foundation, habitat frahumanity. we did ems support at the giant parade. we do hands only cpr in the schoolwise the american heart association. we meet every thursday night depending on where the division of training is at 19th and folsom or more than likely lately at treasure islands meet from 1900 to 2100 hours. the recruits in right now, they go through a 52 hour academy. we use the same curriculum as the san francisco fire department does in their

training academy. they have to have a emt license, cpr card and need to be san francisco residents which is vital if there is a disaster, they need to be able to respond quickly. here is our hours of service for last year if you can see on the screen. we had 2216 hours of training. we had 225 hours at greater alarms. 997 hours of community volunteers for total 3438 hours. we have 24 members and 31 in the academy and they will graduate in july after that squee will have a total of 56 members possibly. recently we put 6 members in 118th academy class. three members in the 119th academy

class. 1 member in the 120th class. 6 members that will graduate friday from the 121 academe class. i'm driving down to la graduating from la city tomorrow. we have one graduating from oakland in two weeks. we place reservist all over the bay area. all over the united states really. it is a great program and the people that come and participate do really well in these academies. final thoughts in the event of a major disaster, san francisco fire reserve stands ready to assist san francisco fire department and safeguarding the lives and property of citizens of san francisco. we found a quote by chief william mur ey. proud oof the fire reserves

who's domotion must stand as a model for other volunteer forces immolate. one final thought, i like to recognize fire reservist ioanna stergiades. she moved to los angeles with him but on her way out she made a generous doimation to the fire reserves and was at all the fires and went to all the training and all the volunteer event she could so like to acknowledge her dedication for the san francisco fire runchs. thank you. any questions. >> thank you. would your cohorts like to say anything? >> thank you for giving the opportunity come down here, we

appreciate it. >> i also like to thank you for your continued support. it is a program that is not well known outside of the fire department, but our 75 years of service i think speaks for itself and you can see from the snap shot we are fulfilling the mission of supporting the department when there is a extreme situation and for providing training to help get the next generation of fire fighters in uniform. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. this was put together by deputy commander daung and deputy commander norris is doing a great job running the academy and getting the recruits in shape for the next step. >> any public comment on the item? anyone like to say anything? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner covington. >> thank you, mr. president and thank you for your presentation and good work, commander buckley and the rest the

reserves. i must say that during that huge mission fire that we had a couple years ago, it was wonderful to see how many reservist were deployed to help with that. i watched them work, i was very impressed with their dedication, with their skill and their willingness to jump in and do whatever was needed to fight that fire. a fire alarmer and i really appreciate your work. i had a couple questions. how does the department support the reserves? >> they support us with the training officers. they are there every thurs day night with us and offer support through our drills and offer their expertise on whatever we are drilling on that night. >> and where does your financing come from?

>> grants, donations. we scrape together what we can. i can get a lot of things donated to the reserve program. i have done a lot through reaching out to different departments and getting stuff donated to us and our own department too is really great in donating equipment that we need. >> very good. do you say you are currently meeting on thursdays at the training facility oti? >> correct. >> that must be a tremendous help too. >> it is a great facility. >> it is a great facilsty. >> absolutely unbelievable. there are so many different thing youz can do out there. >> extractions, the whole thing. >> anything you imagine that has to do with fire fighting we

can do out there. >> glad that facility is open to you. how many reserves are there within the state? are there a lot of them? >> reserve departments? >> yes. >> um, well there is a lot of volunteer departments in the state of california, but as far as organized through fire departments, there are not that many. there is a lot of cadet programs that is part of like academics like the fire colleges have like cadet programs where they place people in these departments to do like ride alongs and stuff like that, but don't think there are too many organized reserve programs like the way we do. that actually respond to greater alarms and our involved in the operations that we are involved with. >> so, you are fairly unique,

then? >> i would think so, yes. >> the only other that we are aware of is sacramento. they generally respawn to greater alarms and have a rehabilitation unit so that fire reserve group will respond to some of the incidence. >> very good. thank you for that information. i see here commander buckley on one of the powerpoint slides you have the fire reserve is governed by and you list first the san francisco fire commission. >> correct. >> can you give us just a little history of interaction with the commission? >> it was created in like 1950 as part the admin code and actually if you have the history manual we listed out that section. generally i think the chief will appoint

the commander and it's with the commission's approval. other than that it is generally supervision. you have control over uniforms, rules and regulations and the usual things, but we are pretty easy going so don't have to interact too much. >> [laughter]. i appreciate your easy goingness. and commander buckley, how long have you been serving? >> going on 18 years. >> 18 years. that's wonderful. thank you again very much. >> you're welcome. >> thank you, commissioner covington. mr. vise president. >> thank you very much, president cleveland and thank you very much commander buckley for your comprehensive presentation in the cuman force, all you who are here. members the fire reserves. i particularly enjoyed your booklet. when you had the 75th anniversary and to your reference all the historical

content is in here as well. a lot of folks dont know there is the statue at washington square that honors the formialulation after the san francisco earthquake. i'm kind of vint age personalty so any time you tell me something like 1941 or 1947 even though i still was a babe so to speak, history speaks to san francisco and to have a organized component at the san francisco fire reserve since 1941 and 1947 all the way through to todays 75th an versery is a great great accomplishment. it is unique to the history after the 150th year to understand and get from the 150th committee the historical conitant the san francisco fire department in the sense that we at one point we were all volunteers and moved towards the department we have today. i especially

appreciate commander buckley your presentation today and with all of the information. i believe i was the commissioner but know the other commissioners whole heartedly support the reserves, i wanted to have the reserves come up on a periodic basis. the fact you have been with the department for 18 years as fire reserve commander speaks for itself but as commissioner covington spoke about, at the greater alarms very often the fire reserves are at the scene as well assisting and supporting the department and members and i know that we the department, chief hayes-white operations do appreciate the work because again for myself you are identified by a little bit of different color but the work that you do is really really remarkable and very very important. i have to admit i have a bias of favoritism in some ways of great efection and respect to the san francisco fire reserves and for the fact

as a stepping stone, so to speak or training formula as a member to the san francisco fire department, i don't think for the men and women who are interested know a greater training ground in my opinion than the san francisco fire reserves so again i want to acknowledge that. i as a member of the community appreciate all of the volunteerism you do, plug for the japanese american community and chery blossom festival. you listed the senior center. quh you are out there with the fire reserves and city college it is amazing the interaction that we have created there as the various members get to know each other and have that same kind of common bond, which is community services. i thank you commandser buckley, thank you very much for all of you in the command force and thank you very much to the members

serviceing the san francisco fire reserve. thank you. >> you're welcome vice president nakajo. >> thank you vise president. commissioner hardeman. >> thank you, mr. president. commander buckley, all these years of dedicated service, thank you very much. it was suggested that we ask the fire reserve to make a presentation, i was uncertain because we just had the 75th an versery and this great presentation made to--the bottom line is you are the interns for the san francisco fire department in many respects with 16 coming to the board recently. when president cleveland asked the last meeting or meeting before about the numbers she wasn't exactly sure. she knew it was significant but that is quite a number, 16. with new commissioner [inaudible] will

discover is this is just another marker or credential you will see from the outstanding candidates that we have, which all most everybody in the room wants to be a fire fighter and their credentials are incredible and you will be surprised. i dont think you will expect to see what you see with these pages and pages and pages. show you their bioes, before or after the meetings as you come in or leave the meeting, it is very impressive. when you see the fire reserves, that getting up there with something you ought to give a lot of significance to and obviously the chief has by her selection of the candidates, so congratulations to the chief for her good work and taking good candidates and thank you to all the staff that is here, giving up your time and hope you have a successful

career. if not in fire fighting if it is something associated, thank you very murch. >> thank you, commissioner hardeman. commissioner [inaudible]. >> thank you, commissioner. commander, you said that in the-i think in the 40's there were 6 thousand of these- >> i think as many as 10,000 at 1 time. >> i have to say it was quite impressive at the time. the city had the foreciting beginning in january 1941 that war was inevable and organized through the fire commission and mayor at the time set up very prestijs committee to evaluate what was going on at the time and in the blitz in london and new york city was training and sent advisors all over and came to the the conclusion being a

unique environment with its hills, the winds coming off shore and dense wooden structures if there was airline bum bardment whatever the other cities suffer would pail in comparison to what would hap toon san francisco so they created a fire reserve and you said you were a police reservist. we are created under the same act, the police and fire reserve is under the same section of the admin code. that was created to address that issue. it wasn't very popular for us but after pearl harbor it is something a lot of people want today be a part of so through the course of the war i think 10,000 people receivered training with 2 to 3 thousand people active at any one time. >> currently today these are volunteers. these are unpaid-- >> sworn volunteers but with no

compensation. >> having bichb a reserve myself i take special interest and as one of the other commissioners said bias towards these types of service so i love to learn more about the reserves off-line and maybe come to one of your trainings to see how you are doing it. >> you are more than welcome. >> thank you. thank you for what you do. >> thank you, commissioner. chief hayes-white. >> thank you, president cleveland. i appreciate the commission ajendsizing this item and as a former director of training i worked closely with the fire reserves from 2000 until 2004 and can tell you they are dedicated and professional. this is unpaid and you acknowledged that and i appreciate it, because 18 years of service not all 18 years as commander but 18 years of service with the fire reserves for commandser buckley all unpaid. many of the reserves

work full time jobs and do this out of passion and love to serve and so it is wonderful training grounds for new recruits. every thursday night the division of training work hand and hanz with the ininstruct as to go through the paces and evolutions so want to take the time to say thank you to you commandser buckley and all the volunteers to make our department a better one. >> thank you, chief hayes-white. i like to add my compliment tooz the program as well. it is an amazing program. i had a couple questions, one being that what percentage of the graduates would you say from your program that go into fire services in our department or another department around the state or country for that matter? do you have any idea what launching pad this program is for the people who go through it? >> it's i would say upwards 90

percent. they end up here, there somewhere or through ems. they go into ems service, but most-especially now that all these different departments are hiring, a lot are getting picked up and getting jobs. i would say if they go through the program 90 percent get picked up somewhere. >> if you want to be a fire fighter go through the fire reserve program is a slnt way to make that happen. i think everyone in the room is interested being a fire fighter should consider it. the second question is what kind of qualifications do they have to have in order to be accepted as a fire reservist? >> it was the old san francisco qualifications. have a emt license, a cpr card and live in the city, 19 years old and that's it.

>> any physical requirements? >> well we do a lot of physical. >> there is physical agility training in the program. >> >> yes. >> it isn't just book learning? >> we work with the equipment and raise laiders and pull holes, every they dine the fire academy. all the fitting and hose and bladders and equipment. >> there is no cost to the trainee, do they have to pay a fee? >> no. actually there is a slight cost. i'm trying to get the cost down. i'm trying to accumulate uniforms so they don't-when i came in we had to buy everything. we had to buy shirts, pants, boots, so right now when they come in they are required to buy a t-shirt and a sweat shirt, pants, but i got a

deal going with banner so we can get like a hybrid pair so they are not $120, they are like $35, but i provide shirts, dress shirts, ties. >> so there snow funding from the department itself? >> no, at one time we were in the budget, but that went away a long time ago. long long time ago. >> what would you say your total budget cosh would be if you put together a budget figure? >> it is hard to say. like i said, i get a lot of stuff donated through the department. stan helps a lot with turn out gear and boots and stuff like that, so- >> nice to know what your an nual operating budget might be just a ball park? >> i can work on that. >> if we look at adjusting our budget in the future. thank you so much for your service and volunteerism and spirit. i ink this program is really the

best there is in the country and i would encourage anyone interested in being a fire fighter to check it out. thank you for being here. >> thank you, president cleveland. >> madam screert secretary. >> iletm 7, chief of department's report. report from chief of department joanne hayes-white on current issues axativities and events within the department since the fire commission meeting of march 22, 2017, including budget, aadomies, especially events, communications and outreach to other government agencies and the public. report from operations deputy chief mark gonzalez on overall field operations, including greater aarm fires, emergency medical serveish, bureau of fire prevection and investigation, and airport division. >> thank you. good morning again president cleavelands and commissioners. i like to welcome our new commissioner [inaudible] very nice to have

all 5 commission seats filled. it has been a while. it is a little over a year so welcome and i would be remisif i didn't acknowledge that as everyone knows the city is rich in history and tradition. i know your family played a huge role in that history and tradition and i know all of us on behalf the san francisco fire department and sure your colleagues welcome you and want to acknowledge not just you but your families rich contribution particularly from a public service standpoint so welcome aboard. i did want to let you bow before i talk about our budge t and this is my report since the last meeting of march 22, we had sad news. mark corso is not with us today due to unexpected passing of his father last week so like for your consideration respecktdfully request adjournment of the meeting in honor of our deputy director faulther clod corso who passed

away last thursday and if you keep him in your thoughts and prayers during this time. being the professional that he is, we have been in touch and he assures we are on track for revenue and expenditures and will be presenting on april 27 at 1 p.m. to the budget and finance committee providing a ovview of our budget and will be prepared for that. wanted to note that for you. with regards to our academies, the 121 academy is comprised of 49 membersism we started with 54 and will graduate probably 49 this friday, 10 a.m., archbishop reerden high school adatorium. i like to acknowledge assistantchieve column beanie for the great work they do with our academies. there a lot of probationary members in the

field. 119th will come off probation. there is 120th in the second round if you will, of probation and 121 will hit the field. it is great as we know we will have a number of retirements we anticipate in the next couple years so to be able to supplement with the new hires is something that we all worked very hard for, so again appreciate your support as well as the support of both the executive and legislative branch at city hall for the hiring plan. with the graduation friday we griv the division training wuc 1 week rest because april 24 we start the 122 academy comprised of 54 members, 42 of the network exam and 12 members of our department coming from station 49. we are looking at promoting or offering the opportunity to 8 h 3 level two

paramedics and 4 h 3 level 4 emt. happy to report i made 22 acting promotions in the rank of battalion chief, rescue captain, captain and lieutenant. announced 7 permanent h 20 lieutenant positions. and then again since the last meeting just want to give a overview of the activity of the office. i mentioned at the last meeting on march 23 i was parseticipant in a fire boat design review panel. it was very interesting. we will be keeping the facade and keeping the building that currently housing our station 35 at the foot of harrison on the embarcadero but there will be a building constructed behind that to accommodate our future

needs and be able to make it a safer place for our workforce. with the review panel we looked at three different designs that architects put forward and i was on the panel mostly as the operational or functional expert and my colleagues on the panel were architects and so, we provided information to the department of public works who is managing that projject more to follow on that. on the 29th our 4 commissioners at the time joined us and like to acknowledge the airport division under the direction of rudey cast llano. the grands opening of airport station number 3. they had the tours and welcome ceremony and that was well attended and looks like a beautiful facility. that was enjoyable experience. i know on the 29th in the evening commissioner covington and i attended the mayor's

women history avent at city hall. on the 30th i was given the opportunity for a third year in a row to be invite today the sf chronicle vision awards, which is a very inspirational evening with very interesting eclectic group of people i felt honored to be invited again this year. all of the nominees were amazing people. the final resiptiant of that award is prusilla chan who does great work arounds helt care and a pediatrician in the city and an amazing visionary person. i represented the department there. also, attended cesar chavez breakfast march 31 to represent the department. april 4, deputy chief gonzalez attended the h 3 commission. i

know president cleveland you and i have spoken about is with regard to the h 20 lieu inant exam. that is still work in progress for the minimum qualification to sit for that exam. historically it was a one year period in order to sit for that promotional exam. in 2008 it was 3 years, in 2012 it fsh was 5 years. the specifications said since 2008 three years. being the collaborative person that i want to be, we did reach out after we heard from the local 798 that their preference is go with 5 year minimum qualification and employee groups we canvased so we are in current discussion with department of human resources on what that qualification will be. whether there can be a compromise which will include

consideration for members with more than 3 years but less than 5. there is 130 members effected whether they can sit for the exam but not promoted until the 5th year since the date of hire. that is all in play now and will keep you updated on that as with the membership because there is a lot of interest surrounding that. on april 5, last week i was a presenter at the department of emergency management. they had a three day epicenter conference to talk about in the events of a earthquake what our contingency plans are in terms of working collectively i collaboratively with departmentagys and third party efolks like the interfaith council, red cross and salvation army so participated in one on one with department of maejs manage. i believe nert gave a

presentation as well as assistant chief [inaudible] and franklin also took up part of a afternoon discussing fire department planning and operations. on april 6, i participated in walk to work day and had the opportunity to meet with supervisor se fewer to sit down with all the new supervisors. typically at the beginning of their term i send a letter congrating them and asking for time. we had a very good discussion, over a hour regarding the role of the fire department. she had a lot of very interesting questions, concerns. she talked about some of the nuances of her district in the richmond, aging infratruckture, overhead wires. that was late thursday evening 4 thirty clck to 6 o'clock. the next morning there was a 4 alarm fire in her district which she responded to. with her i think we will have a very

open minded and very involved supervirez and look forward working with her and appreciate her time. on monday this week, in the absence of deputy director i presented at the capital budget meeting to further our initiatives relate to our aging infrastructure, the need to continue funding for hbac system, exhaust extractors, boiler and generators and that was received well. no word on that yet. as you know in the past we are very realistic about our needs and the easter bon of 2010 and 14 are helpful. roughly $160 million over those two bonds, which was about $160 million out of 820 in the bond funding but we want to make sure the capital budget just because of easter not acknowledge the fact that we have a lot of needs for our

24/7 facilities of which we have about 50. yesterday i presented to the counsel generals that work here in the city and i answered questions about the fire department and relationship we have in the event of a large scale emergency. after the meeting today the deputies will go to it department of emergency management. it is dispatchers week. i said with our personnel that work at the 911 certaintyer and civilian personnel they are unsung hearoes. if they don't get it right we don't get it right so want to acknowledge the good work of the partners at the dem and will be attending-they have a whole week long celebration but we will be there today. there is a janet achen is the dist patcher the year and have an acknowledgment for her.

this friday at 10 a.m. 121 class will graduate and for meno of us, not all because there is a conflict with easter but i will participating and some of the commands staff along with commissioner nakajo at 1 o'clock sunday at the cherry blossom parade. that concludes my presentation at this time. >> thank you, chief. any public comment on the chief's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? vice president nakajo. >> thank you very much president cleveland. thank you very much chief hayes-white for your report. i just wanted to comment on a few items here. number one is point of reference since we are talking about the chief's report. in the subject matter of the

potential issue of working details out on the upcoming exam for the h 20's in terms of those members who have served more than 3 years and less than 5, in terms of the recommendation on employees group i can understand that and read the justification behind that. but i also feel that in some ways some of the members who are between that categorical 3 to 5 years it may be a benefit to us as a department since wree growing and changing that we have some opportunity for those members to take the exam. so, i just wanted to verbalize the consideration concept of that. i also would like to have a consideration as a concept of them to be able to at least take the exam and if they

appointment so chooses to be firmed after 5 years, there are greater authorities and with the administration and hr who you will be talking to that will make that determination. i just think it might be a opportunity for us to build consistency within the officers rank for the future. i know that 3 years may sound not as much of experience, but i find many members that are in that categorical are experienced, knowledgeable, so i just wanted to verbalize that. i also wanted to verbalize and acknowledge from the department and yourself the april 3 letter to san francisco board of appeals that myself and president clevelandsent in with our fire marshal referring to

section 17975 article 2.5, the relocation appeal process that i'm pleased that we are working with the building and permit appeals to look into the issues of residents that might be residing in "warehouse" type looking facilities that we in san francisco and department are proactive in our enforcement but also work wg the cooperation of the building board of appeals to implement the process of appeal. i wanted to acknowledge that because i think it is so important for us to keep doing that. also, as a opponent of acknowledgment, the commission regular receives e-mail jz updates from the commission secretary and on march 3, coming from fire fighter

jonathan baxter was a new package of information called the new safety package. commissioners i dont know if you had a chance to look at that, but that series of information under the categorical is quite comprehensive and a lot of information, which again is encouraging because it shows us and the department there are all these educational aspects that we are trying to educate our members in the city about cluttering or fire alarms or common sense type of issues that the public can be prepared and aware of. i want to acknowledge those three particulars as well. i don't have anything specifically to ask you at this time, chief hayes-white but in your report i wanted to comment on that. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, mr. vise president. commissioner hardeman. >> thank you mr. president.

congratulations chief on your promotions. love to see that rewarding people who are so deserving and i generally don't disagree with fellow commission and vice president but i was following very close the 5 year, 3 year argument without input to a human being but just watching it close, and i'm on the side experience really matters if you will be responsible for more lives. i like the fact that i agree 5 years-when i was a apprentice and 5 years i became a [inaudible] i thought i was the greatest. looking back i know 10 years i was really good. even though i fs very good but one of the best after 10 years and that is just the way experience is in any job and

when i was a business rep i thought i was fantastic affyear 1 and looking back i was much better after year 5. that is just a personal opinion so do think that without any input or any involvement by me that the decision was good, but having people prepare at 3 years or take some sort of a test isn't a bad idea but don't think an apontment should happen until later. glad you were involved in that fire boat station and sitting with a birch of architects must have been a little difficult. they have great ideas and they are artist basically that design things and sometimes their creativity gets in the way. the airport event chief cast lawn osfantastic, what a great job. you really did a-amazing how

many people you had there, how many leaders. it was veer nice. so happy i was able to make it and really enjoyed it and stuck arounds and took the tour. i was fortunate to have more than one tour because everyoneential took a tour and i was talking and got around it and it was terrific. so happy the airport has the financial capabilities as commissioner- our new commissioner will see the airport handles the financial matters and they are just spectacular with the three stations down there and you'll enjoy that. janet atkins i happened to catch her being on television being haun frrd the officer down who's acttually downs was down and she was in my neighborhood and had been a dispatcher for i think over 25 years i she never had a matter like this and it was really

moving to her and she stuck around after her shift was over and through the night concerned about making sure that all the event that happened to save this person and catch the person that had shot this officer. so, she was terrific. just a tip of the hat to her so glad you decided to make some notice of her too in your report. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner hardeman. i also like to add my congratulations for job well done to chief cast llanos of station 3 at the airport. very nice ceremony, nice crowd and super beautiful facility. i think the city and residents and anyone traveling in and out of the airport will be better protected by a first class facility so thank you for organizing a amazing event so

thank you for that. chief had a couple things. one, i did receive a copy the e-mail from cynthia goldsteen who said it is the relocation of appeals board within the mayor's office of housing and community development that will be the group or the people that we would go to for any sort of decisions on relocation allowances or appeals of those are relocations the fire marshal designates so we vaperson to reach out to, gene flanry. have you talked to that person? >> i haven't but nigh staff has so we'll x up with a solution. he initially was somewhat resistant because it is a one man or one person operation and so he want today do checking, very helpful but not exactly sure where it will land but it will land somewhere and know

with you and i working on it i'm confident that it will land in the appropriate lap. >> work in progress? >> correct. >> alright. i also like to support both commissioner hardeman and vice president nakajo on the h 20 lieutenant situation. i do believe that if you have at least 3 years of experience you should take the exam but need five years of experience to be promoted to lieutenant. i think it is a win win arounds and hope the department of human resources will grant us to do that. we'll here more about the h 23 program. was there any final design select odthen fire boat-station 35 for the- >> no final decision made. it was more about evaluating the

three submittals and having a discussion about what will work best. there are pieces and parts from each proposal we felt would work well so gave very good feedback to department of public works. >> there was none that you liked the best? >> thrfs one that i did. >>thone that is the one we should have. [laughter]. >> that would be nice. there were elements of all that i thought were appealing, but there are many different component we were looking at and i think that it was a long day but it was well served in providing the feedback to dpw so confident in the process that we were able to-the information we were able to give to the project management of dpw and learned a lot that day as well and think the architects learned a lot about the life of a fire fighter and what works best.

>> what is practical and not practical 6789 thank you for your report. vice president nakajo did you have a question for the chief? let's welcome chief gonzalez to the podium. >> good morning. welcome new commissioner. chief. deputy chief gonzalez operation rortd for march. 13 working fires. one was a second alarm. location was 39 waverly place. the box came in at 336 in the morning. 4 story type 3, mixed occupancy. one civilian transport. the cause of the fire under investigation. assistant commandser is chief burke. engine 2 first on scene. heavy black smoke. the

building occupants reported person on the florth floor unaccounted for. this was reported to companies inside the building via radio transmission. about the same time the driver of the supply engine, engine 41 reported a problem with the low pressure hydrant. what happened was the inside of the outlet broke apart and won't into the section hose. luckily the screen at the inlet for the engine prevented that material going to the pump but the flow was restricted. the asisant chief burke called for the rapid intervention crew. that engine is on scene at the command post ready to rescue our units inside if there is any rescues of our own people. he directedthality engine to take over from the hiderant on

the other side and with that challenge he struck a second alarm. they also founds the occupant on the 4th floor and carried to the ambulance. all units did a good job at the incident and thankfully nobody got serious hurt. other instance, bay rescue march 2, one male in the water with two bystanders. the sffd and sfpd saved all of them. the original victim was transported for evaluation. march 4, thrfs a big rig roll over off 101 highway. luckily there were no cars below. this resulted in minor injury. march 9, there was a first alarm fire, 390 valencia res cude frown female. march 9, 457 30th avenue. rescue off second floor. march 25, first alarm fire with

rescue, 1 male adult requires intubation. the victim is doing well at the burn unit and expected to be sent home early april. march 28, first alarm fire with rescues taraval truck rescued a 91 year old wheelchair bound female from the third floor. adult female fts rescued. victims taken to the hospital where they are daing well. on the community out reach, the pubhook can sign up for emergency promotion by texting to 888-77 and also follow the twitter at sffdpio. senting out information on the

ocean beach area. ems, we had 3 multicasualty incidence, 1 march 11 with 6 vehicle collision, march 23 and 27 we had two pepper spray weleases, one at howard and third and the other at twenth and buckingham way. ems updates, i like to commends ems chief andrew [inaudible] doing a great job. hit the ground runjug doing a lot of positive things out there and need that at station 41. some of what he has done, met with director for sutter health hospital and meeting with other facilities. it is regarding what we talked about in previous commission meetings about the time at the hospital trying to getd the ambulance out of the hospital quicker so be agpoint person on that. he is also going out on ride alaurks with once a week with

ambulance unit which is good for the troupes. next week he plan tooz ride with ems 6. like to thank commissioner nakajo who came for the ride along. toured staegz 49 and rowd with medic 79. special mention on march 21, dan ynez reta par ticipated algalileo high. mentioned president cleveland about the h 23, we are very close. what we hope to do is trying to decide whether it is a side lettero a amendment to the mou. also want to make other language but waiting to hear back from the dhr director mickey cal hann. ems response timeerize code 3 transport units on scine, 94 percentile under 10man. als units under the saechb minute

mark. 93 percent of the time we are on there is 6 minutes so very impressive. could be the new chief or the units on the field as well. division of fire prevepgz investigation. have the stats included and permits and inspection numbers. fire prevention community outreach, there was 8 instances throughout the month of marchl. we are trying to reach all the different neighborhoods. accelerated code enforcement admin strailtive hearings. held 9 hearings for violations at 68 properties. the next hearing is april 6, 2017. plan check section update, the warriors arena, the site plans are approved. that is a good thing. park merced maus oscone unlder review. [inaudible]

that is 1.7 miles of pipe. atask update transportation advisory staff #c34i9y. task is working on 7 vision zero projects. one i like to mention the turk street safety project. sfmta presented revised buffered bisical lane proposal at the march 9 task hearing. the bike lane adjacent to curb side parking and isolate the bike lane from traffic by posts or paint. we have no objections to this plan asprinted. hopefully that is the plan that goes forward. we are continuing to work collaboratively with the mta and want to reiterate all the decision we make are recommendation we make to them and any of these projects is based on public safety and our member safety. a lot has to do with our aerial operations or sterning radius responding to

fires. updated bureau of fire investigation numbers there are 117 open active fire investigation reports. also attached to the report is the activities for the mupth of march for san francisco international airport. to close my report i like to say a few words about the retirement of my assistant ginny franklin. i want to thank the commissioners for recognizing ginny. fabulous person, a fab ulous job from 1980 to 2017. she worked for sffd. i can't say enough positive things working with ginny. and can't thank enough for the job she has done for me. all the former deputies feel the same way including i'm sure jim olsen. it is working the chief's office is a high stress environment. ginny keeps it light, upbeat with a smile on

her face. does a fabulous job putting this report together. keeps meticulous track the discipline file and ongoing cases, never complains but what i appreciate the most about ginny is-and the chief assistant kelly, they keep a fire house atmosphere. they take good nature shots and give good natured shots and that to me lightens the stress level. i like to share one with you from ginny. one day i was probably a little stressed and may have needed affirmation. i said to ginny, so am i at least part the top 10 of the past deputies? without missing a beat she said well you are in the top 13. [laughter] anyway, i like it go on record thanks to ginny again and enjoy your requirement and that concludes

my report. >> thank you, chief gonzalez. any public comment on this report? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner covington. >> thank you, mr. president and thank you chief gonzalez number 13 out of 13. >> thank you. >> i just have a couple of questions. the big rig roll over off the 101 highway, there were no injuries. >> no and i believe from recollection i believe there was a driver and passenger. it was a heavy duty dump truck and it went off by third street over there on battalion 10. it was pretty impressive and fell 25 or 30 feet off the freeway. >> i assumed they were wearing their seat belts? >> i assume, yes.

>> that has to be very very squarey that type of fall. i wanted to know march 25, the first alarm was rescue at lanken, has the cause the fire been determined as of yet? >> i can look into that for you and get that answer to you. >> okay, thank you. wundsering about that mpt and then the fire safety tip. i think that is essential for people, so if we can continue to get those out so people nsds understand that say consider pets part the family the pets should be included. >> absolutely. >> that would be helpful. and i also want to congratulate everybody on the 6 minute response times, that is extraordinary from where we were to 6 minutes. that's just

amazing. >> it is. i were doing well on the first unit which i say those units are static usually and it could be or data collection as well is more accurate, but they are getting there. they know get on the rig quick, get their safely, but getting their expendiantly. >> you alluded to chief zan off and happy he can take credit for those one. >> he can't take credit for those but can for the ambulance ones. >> okay, as long as we share the credit. i wonder do we need to put the h 23 on the ajendsa of a upcoming meeting because this seems to drag on, the negotiations? >> i think it is languishing. if what 798 what they are saying is where we are going and if i can get this agreement

from the director of human resources to memorialize it, i think thalths that's the direction we have to gerather than just a verbal agreement because as you know verbal agreements are verbal agreements. it has to be memorialized i think in the mou or as a side letter so we can put it to bed and move to other issues. >> i agree with you but as my ongoing concern is as you know, that these are line items in the budget and i dont want them to disappear. i really want to fill those positions. >> this might be a question for mark or the chief. we are spending the funds by filling that position with the 33. we are spending more, so we are justifying the money, it is just creating the position is what is the challenge. >> okay, chief hayes-white.

>> deputy chief gonzalez is correct, the money is spent as a substitute for where we want to go to, so i share your concern and i am frustrated with the lepth length of tifem it is taking. we have committed to be good working partners with local 798. it is a clearly a administrative decision but want to engage and work well with them. we are very close and chief gonzalez has done well. i like to give us respectfully requesting hopefully by the next meet ing because i know that we don't have a meeting on april 26. i would say certainly by the next meeting we should have closier and if not i agree it should be agendized to bring it to fruition. what do you think about that, chief? >> you got it, chief. >> thank you both very much.

>> thank you, commissioner covington. commissioner hardeman. >> thank you, mr. president. another wonderful well written lengthy but needed, so really appreciate all the effort that goes into this document you presented that you don't read to everyone in the audience but it has the numbers and all the details including the airport chief cast llano's report is in here and it really makes it easy for commissioner to see what is going on in the department without having to make phone calls and ask around too much so thank you for that. i was watching last night san jose and congratulations on the response times. that brings up to san jose. they are looking at all the main corridors they have particular routes which i

guess our stations do too, to navigate and those routes are more and more crowded. there are signals on the routes automated so they are putting in $600 thousand to automate a bunch of those routes for the whole length and that is a interesting concept to think if they only cost $600 thousand to do that so you can go for quite a ways having the lights change in sequence so you take off and the first changes the rest will change automatically as the computer chip or something and chief probably knows and you might know chief gonzalez so thought that was interesting how that would play out. they are claiming it will get worse because of the population so

san jose is having difficult times with needed stations i guess, so that is something i'm glad we don't have that problem. the voters of san francisco have taken care of this department demanding stations stay open and are a little confined space all we can do up. the distance to travel won't go up. >> when the population goes up that increases the number of calls which means the unit won't be available, so it-san jose i am a advocate for anything that makes response times more efficient. if we had that program implemented here and did the green lights, the traffic conditions downtown especially during rush hour just because of the green light if there is no where to go there is no where to go. they have to get out of the way. >> they is a lot of grid lock on the freeways but think the

streets are not as bad as ours. >> we have the capability we looked at that certain stations, station 3 and station 1. mta has that capability so there is technology where the lights can be changed if a emergency apparatus is coming. the challenge for us is safe station 1 on folsom you can try to make the lights green all you want but when the is grid lock with cars trying to get to the bridge it dozen help. >> i just that it was interesting. i saw it last night and fresh in my mind talking about response time but congratulations on response time. especially after-the torture and agony, all the department and the commissioners received and the mayor and to see that now have bragging rights to say thinks are looking good. you know, chief gonzalez the

last few meetings you talk about ovhead power lines and made be aware of what a tangled mess. i am looking up now and say you get to intersection jz it is like holy mackerel, this is a web. also i see your concern with getting in the corner and there is no way you can be in the middle of the intersection and shoot in a corner of the 4 buildings that may be there because the power lines are everywhere so have to go on the side. i see where you are saying when the truck is driving around or a engine they are looking at the lines to see if there are new lines and how that will effect fighting the fire or rescuing someone in the building. >> it is a challenge. they work to get-if there one aerial shot there is one shot and the truck needs it be cognisant.

they make consuggestions because you are move hose but there is one spot to put the truck to get the aerial shot and that is where they need to be. >> glad to see you are still here after 5 years. you are real good at your job and that comes from all different sources including 798 says you a reasonable guy to deal with and you are good at what you do and hope because ginny is leaving that doesn't effect anything you do. >> we'll see how that goes. [laughter]. >> and you handle adversity very well. you have a good demeanor about you. lastly, congratulations to chief column beanie for your class going oen and hope to get at least a couple days around easter to relax. your group works very hard, thank you.

>> thank you, commissioner hardeman. vise president nakajo. >> thank you very much, president cleveland. chief gonzalez, thank you for your comprehensive rort. i want to comment on your report, not only is it comprehensive but very very detailed. i won't go through the whole report but basically on page 3 when it comes to the community outreach section i very much appreciate the detail of the community outreach section. fire fighter baxter's responsibility to provide this information, chief? >> it is lieutenant baxter does provide this information. >> lieutenant baxter, i appreciate the detailed information. i'm on page 4 and your categorical is emergency medical service, i assume page 4 and that cot goreical chief zanoff is responsible for the report?

>> yes, sir. >> i want to tell you chief zanoff and will get into details about my ride along but i very much appreciate your report t. is very much comp hence v. i'm a commissioner that doesn't mind ic looking at all your details. there is nor more information we received in the sense of more enhanced clear information. again, we are joined this morning by commissioner alota and commissioner on page 6 you see the indicators of response time at 94 percent, 10 minutes oreb or less. chief gonzalez talked about als engines respondsing 93 percent sth >> yes, sir. >> for many those are magical

numbers for compliance and for us a long standing issue within that. as you can see through the report, page 7, page 8, all of that is very much comp rehensive. chief gun zaulance fire prevention and community outreach presentation, who houses this particular unit, is that fire marshal unit? >> yes, sir. under prevention. >> thank you very much for this. i again when it talks tit about the community outreach and give the dates and location it shois this commission again our relationship with the community at large. how important that is as well. i was impressed with this report again with ginny franklins retirement chief gonzalez i assume the quality and comprehension of this will not suffer at all because again, all of the material is clearly here. >> we are holding interviews

next week, we'll see. >> page 10, is thatd a area housed by the fire marshal or what categorical is that under? >> captain balming in fire prevention is our point person and handles most of that as katie fengon. lieutenant fengon. >> correct me if i'm wrong but i don't recall a report separately for transportation advisory committee previous. this is great again because if it is anything we haven't had, any additional it is just a complete comprehensional package. is this something we are going to get in the package on a regular basis? >> i'll keep them in there, vise president. >> thank you very much. page 11 we have a categorical again, when chief williams was here it was lengthy because there was so much area of responsibility equal to euros.

san francisco international airport assume that is chief cast llano in terms of that responsibility am i correct? >> yes, sir, vice president. i >> i with the commissioners very much enjoy chief your airport station 3 grands opening. impressive to say the least. we are very very fortunate to have that support from the san francisco airport director as well. just as a opponent of information for myself, quh i wents to the station there are issues that came across our screen in terms of that station and perhaps with other stations that were issues of perhaps concern or modification, so for myself as i did detur specifically paying attention to the exhaust issues of the members in the station who sleep and work and close pruximity of the plains taking off once the doors are

up i can hardly hear myself think. you can smell the odor. i understand again that architects made a strong design of really strong air filter pumps so these issues are again not an issue. again, it is brands new so we will see. just as another point of information chief, hayes-white as well, i was interested in the layout of the dormitory. a concept of private rooms to dormitory style because we in the department had that dormitory style for a long time but also know with the infusion of women members of our department or even men members if there is a ability to a little more individual privacy so to speak, when one is resting or sleeping i only say that because again my visitationwise the president at station 38 you forget the old style so to speak unless you

are up there looking at it. station 5 will go soon through a demolition is similar to that as well, but as a opponent of information, those are the things that i look for as well. i know our stations all have certain uniformities in termsf our members and what we need, but again through our bond issues the stationerize old and modifications going on to do that. if we have a opportunity to have a new station like the airport and in my mind the fire boat station coming online is another similar, not that the airport is special or the port station is special, but they are unique within the naicher the stations because of the airport facility as well as pier 35 coming up. i'm just reiterating again the kinds of observation i make for what is

best for our members in terms of long term. i just was really really pleased with that. i know station 5 is coming online. i know station 16 is right arounds the corner and the commission still has a opportunity at some point to visit the stations and again i'm not going through all the pages but the activities, summary reports, there is no page number on that but again commissioner, it is so much information you can see by the categorical of what is a abdahmsinal pain or assault or where the addresses are for the various kinds of incidents and again i just want to acknowledge it as i go through my notes how really comprehensive and important this is and how much the commission myself included appreciate this because if we are short on arrival time or if

there are cost factors we want to ask for we can refer to this. appreciate it very much your report chief gonzalez, thank you chief hayes right. >> thank you, mr. vise president. i think we share your comments and your accolades for the report from chief gonzalez. chief hayes-white would like to say something >> certainly, thank you prezden cleveland. i want to respond to vise president nakajo regarding the layout of the upper floor, the dormitory and it is a dormitory style that we continue to go with. you are correct sort of the state of the art new fire stations have for privacy reason frz more efficiency reasons a dorm etstyle where there is more privacy. we went through meeting after meeting and heard loud and clear from the members the preference is have a dormitory open style even though the industry standard now a days is not that and so

station 16 on grinch was modified late in the game because of the concern that was raised from the members and local 798. moving forward we have-that is why the airport was modified to be consistent to come up with a play book of what works best for the san francisco fire department. so, we heard loud and clear and those are the reason why we moved forward. one thing because i think it is a very valid point that you bring up is the genders living together up in a common dormitory. certainly that changed with prop crrfx and believe in 1992 there was bond money put forward and all stations were completed where there would be separate bathroom and changing facilities for men and women. as it stands now including station 5 which is in vision to have more privacy and dormets

opposed to a open dormitory style was chaichcked because of the membership. >> i appreciate that very much chief hayes-white because of the observation is some the stations just my personal opinion and observation, station 5, station 38, they are big huge rooms and again as a commissioner you get used to what we have. if this was a system and the way it is, very auch this is the way it is going to be but very often the beds because i know our policy is provide a bed for every member, those beds are all over the floors and the closest privacy that i can see is a partition to separate one bed or another. i asked the question where did the women members sleep. i didn't get a real defined answer to that but depending on-this is based on the slide and information they choose to go where they go.

showering is showering and sleeping sp sleeping. just as a point of curiosity i did research in terms of preference. preference in cost. i thought dormfore itory would be a style that is lestz cost. floor beds and find a corner but intrigue would the private room concept because of cost factor and there are only two departments, creth me if i'm wrong that have dormitory type effects. generally i think san francisco fire department and new york fire depampt. the stanered now is moving toward individual rooms or cubbies or some type of denotion of privacy. again, i know members sleep there and ask can i grab my sleeping bag and put it on a mattress and take a nap and looked for personal art ifacts like isn't

there a picture of your child or favorite lantern. this is a home in the sense of your are sleeping there but it is a business environment. i'm just commenting again chief hayes-white and chief gonzalez and curious with that because we have other stations coming online. thank you for answering me about station 5 and 16. i assume it is dormitory style and, >> correct and that want our original plan. >> i understand there was cost savings with individual rooms. this is a amateur speaking. i wasn't at the architectural workshop. >> there is more functioniment and efficient from a cost standpoint and privacy. >> again, the commissioner being the commissioner we are very consciousf oour dollars and our budget. not saying the airport budget is nothing we have control over but if the airport could change

comparative to what we have just curious about it. thaupg for the information, just wanted to report back to the command staff and fellow commissionerwise the observation from my side only because we were all there and so i just thought that--thank you very much, chief hayes-white and chief gonzalez. >> thank you, mr. vise president. mr. hardeman- >> i have a comment after vice president nakajo. thank you. i also asked the same question on the tour about the dorms because like your comments the airport is very interested in doing everything first class and i was sort of surprised that i didn't see any separate rooms for gender and i asked that question to a woman that was on the tour and they said it was discussed and this is what we ended up with. no one

made anybody do anything and it want a financial concern, so i'm-that is all i can share with you. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner hardeman. commissioner covington. >> thank you, mr. president. just regarding this subject of dormitorys or dormets or private rooms, the fire fighters have been very forxing and frank in what they want and they want the dormitory. they feel that's more culiegeial, more community and some spend 30 years in the dorm tores so think they are very used to them. it is just part of the san francisco fire fighter

culture. we don't have metal helmets. we have leather and that's also part of the san francisco fire tradition. you know how it is looking from the outside because i never slept in a fire house, looking from the outside it seems as if it is more comfortable another way, but sometimes in large families if the family moves to a larger house all the children have their own separate bedrooms and wake up in the morning and everyone is in one bedroom. we have this nice big house now and are like ngo no, we want to stay together. i think it is wonderful that the members were canvased and late accommodations were made even though the department was going

one way, people voiced their preferences and those preferences were given to them. >> thank you, commissioner covington. any further comments from any of the commissioners? okay. thank you for your very comprehensive report. i had a couple questions. i know that we had 8544 responses for medical call squz that is just one month, correct sth >> yes, sir. >> over 8500 medi-cal calls 5800 transports in one month. that is an amazing number of calls in one month, an amazing number. i notice you had to do intubation which i assume is inserting a breathing tube. how often do our paramedics have to deploy that? >> the air way was closing but

can ask assistant deputy chief zanoff come up with numbers. >> ems division chief. paramedics intubate patients on average twice a day, some days more often. they have different methods. they have a air way called a tracheal tube where they visualize the patients vocal cords and pass between the cords and can breathe for the patient that way. we can have device that doesn't require dwebt visualization of the vocal cords, it is a emergency air way and we have the bls air ways we can use with patienterize not breathing. >> that is an amazing medical procedure. >> one of the most important procedures the paramedics can do and have 30 seconds when you stop breather for the patient to get the tube in and get it secure squd get breatheic again. it needs to be done fast and done right and we train our paramedics fairly

well on that. >> rigorously. >> thank you, that the word. >> two or three times a day it has to be deployed? >> yes. >> that is really amazing. thank you chief. i want to congratulate lieutenant baxter on the foyer safety tips. i did review those and thought they were terrific. i hope they are on the dp apartment website so anyone in the city can read them. if they are not on the website i urge they be placed on the website. great job, great document and full of good information for all our citizens, so i hope that we'll put that on the web if it isn't already on the web. >> i'll double check. >> i like to thank and congrtulate the fire marshal pulting together neighborhood outreach meetings talking about fire safety. it is a certain concern in the itisy and particularly certain communities and the outreach is

important and i appreciate i & commission appreciates the fire marshal putting those together so like to put that out there. finally, i see on the back page of your report that you did 16 elevator rescues this past month, so i guess was that practice run for visit by ben carson? >> i doubt it, but it could be. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, president cleveland. >> madam secretary would you call the next item. ? >> item 8, commission report. report on commission actirfbties since last meeting of march 22, 2017, including vice president nakajo's recent ride along with station 49 ambulance crew. >> mr. vise president. >> mr. president, commissioners, chief hayes-white, command staff, i had a ride along the

opportunity in the privilege doing a ride along of march 24, friday. i want to acknowledge chief gonzalez, but also wanted to acknowledge chief [inaudible] met me at the station, station 49. part of that was the desire by this commission to ride on a friday night which is usually a hot night. the intention is go from 4 a.m. to about 1 a.m. and pooped out about eleven p.m. discouraged and disaopponented in myself i didn't stay long frr the hot time. i had the privilege riding with medic 79 with paramedic chris couch and emt leslie fong. we left the station at about 5 o'clock. commissioners i encourage all you to take a site visit to

station 49 and have the chief show what the layout is. again, being a commissioner of some years, station 49 changed quite a bit. there are and a squads used to be there and closing depot is there but there is modifications of the members and room and dispatch room and a ride along like that is invaluable. valuable in terms of getting a first pond point of view what goes on. i had a opportunity with the chief to go through the load up where there is a store keeper and the chief can explain it better at some other point of when the ambulances come in and get loaded up with the various medication and equipment. last time i visited there wasn't such a thing as a personnel person called a store keeper, that is designated job to make sure all this equipment is

ready for the ambulance. : colleagues and chief, the point of this commissioner is not only to observe what is going on with a ride along but also all the other component in terms of again what your report reflected chief gonzalez on all the factors it takes for us to get our men and women out in the field to provide the servicess for the public and the amount of time it takes to do every segment. that load up by the store keeper is a very efficient system. i had the privilege riding with two women professionals and i was greatly impressed with that. the paramedic was about i believe a 5 to 6 year member. the emt member was new, relatively after not even a year. but the dedication and the comments that may made really really made me very very happy. they

both talked about their jobs being their dream jobs. the position they want to be in. that swing shift is the shift that they want to be in. their expertise and passion, their commitment. i'm looking for sensitivity and professionalism and all of that is there. what good about a ride along at station 49 is you interact with a lot of the members who are there. i think it is so important for the members of 49, all the members in the department to see the commissioner come out to the stations to the workplace. we went on our ride, again rapid deplayment so asked the coverage area and it is the mission, sirfbic and downtown. that is a hot corridor. i have been on ride alongs previously and been exposed to what occurs there. part of this as well is

justification of other components like ems 6 and creation of ems 6 to do the frequent fliers take up so much time of our membership and still give the quality. part of this is the president and myself visited the emergency management communication on march 1, so for us the research for the commission is not only at the communication center, but it is at station 49. it also obvious we are observing the condition of the ambulances, our trucks being able to expose with the various membership. we wnt out rapid deployment. didn't take long to get our first call. it is really great to see the cooperation between our departments and this particular instance of the first call i'm not going into detail, we were requested to have truck engine

1 accompany to a site on mission street near the jewish museum and this particular call was a patient that got out of the hospital but needed to make sure we had enough personnel if there was a case of taking the patient out to the ambulance there may be assistance, but it is important for us to see how the mechanics work as well. it is great to see the members of the engine come and see the commissioner work wg the paramedics. interesting enough, nobody was surprised. everybody was delighted to have the commissioner there as well and it became quite obvious as i road the ambulance through the night i would see the crew from station one quite freck wntly. that is where the action is. the other calls were again familiar calls. individuals

on the streets of san francisco, in the mission complaints coming in from citizens, complaints from businesses and individual out there on the street with various conditioning and as we roll up i am informed the san francisco police department will be there as well to make sure the area is secure because i concern myself with the safety of our members as well. not making any kind of comment, but riding with two women personnel going to a incident that might have some action or occasion to be able to have the san francisco police department there as well and our engine response is quite comforting. all professional being able to do with it. the justification of ems becomes really clear because that evening with all our calls we wind up at st. francis hospital. part of our research was known in the communication in station 49 and

the crews but at some point the hospital council. very pleased chief in your report there is a inication that you will meet with the hospital council personnel in terms of that discharge that we identified. again, i walk in there with a point of view but have to quickly erase that point of view. i foupd the staff and nurses at st. frances to be very professionalism very very sensitive. it is difficult especially with 2 or 3 gurn asian and patients. one person may screen and another yelling another may be escorted out of the hospital. there is object so much protocol the hospital and do and so much we can do but do our job and bring the patient to the hospital. the hospitals take care of them and look over them for medical situation but at some point or another that same patient as i observed before is someone we see again through it continuing

evening. i just wanted to say again that i want to acknowledge those personnel at station 49. again commissioners, colleagues, mr. president, with your advocacy of a new station of the paramedic station 49, the bond issue it is so clear to me that we need to have that established for us to move forward in terms of continuing services. it was just interesting because things like when we to eat something we all wound up at whole foods picking food off the shelf. when it came to my necessity to viz sit the restroom we had to go to st. francis hospitalism i know there is a policy we can go to any station, but i found that st. francis hospital with the ability to take advantage

of what they have there was an advantage but it reinforced to me the importance of station 49 and importance the men and women out there in rapid deployment that work the long hours and have basis for nurseishment and hygiene. that is pretty much what i want today report to you. i know that the chief zanic would be more than happy to have us come down and do a aboveation or ride along and thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, mr. vise president. any public comment on this item? seeing none, commissioner hardeman. >> they are doing commission comments so i thought i would jump in, mr. president. i was fortunate to be invited to a presentation of nert and

actually our dog, vander, our rescue dog vander with eli thomas the former cao bill lee and wife carolyn were responsible putting together a community outreach for community leaders to then intern get people vaurfbed in nert. bill and i personal friend so he mentioned it as vandser was coming the dog and eli thomas and captain-her last name-- >> art sairo. >> captain art sairo was there. my wife and i both went but it fts a wonderful presentation. the start of the show was the dog and eli thomas who had just made a presentation to us at our last meeting so interesting

to see him again and much more relaxed frame of line and stood up there for half hour 45 minutes talking-everybody could care less about the nert program, they were interested in the erision relationship with the dog and family. it was wonnerful. it was at gander hall which is a indsian hall as in next to pakistan, that indian not american indian and it was a wonderful experience. delighted i was able to go and so happy had a nice handout and erica explained how responses nert and emergency so it was terrific. while i have the floor, i have to bring up joe [inaudible] and his wonderful mother angela [inaudible] who just left. anyway, she was here up until recently.

anyway, your family the alioato family i met three people in my life that i think defined charisma. i cant think of a forth. john kennedy, bill clinton and joe alioato. and there is something spelths. i was at a dinner when he was raising money for catholic charities and he was the cyo person of the year and i had took jack hening who was under bill clinton, he was-under john kennedy, the secretary of labor and became a bachelor in new zeal end. before that the head for jerry brown in california and in the 70's head of labor. the california-the greatest knowledge of irish history of any person i ever met and could quote thijs at dinners and

everything, so i drove him to it dinner because he didn't live far from me and on the way back i says, do you believe that speech that joe gave? everybody in the room was just up and clapping and screaming and no notes. jack heny who went to st. marry's college he said here is jack kennedy knew all the president from going back in his life. one the smartest guys, recognizes just a master in anything he did, was the editor of the newspaper in st. mary's. he says he is the smartest man i met in my life so you have real ground to cover to keep up with your grandpa. it will be hard to call you commissioner without saying alioato first. i will

be like commissioner cleveland and say commissioner alioato. welcome aboard and you did a presentation to the room because we were ready earlier to the people in the room about yourself, but president cleveland is it appropriate to give background like he did? people watching on tv. >> if you like to reintroduce yourself to the audience. >> thank you, i promise to disappoint you given that the pedestal-i had great respect for my grantfather and when i appeared in cort time to time introduced as joe [inaudible] but the judges called me mr. alioato so used to it. listen, i really appreciate mayor lee aopponenting me to this commission. as i mentioned prior to the people that are here, i come from a long history of public service in

the city. very proud of the service that my family has had to the city starting from my grandfather in the 60 pchs as two term mayor. my mothers a a member of the board of supervisors for many years as i was in my younger years and president of the board. and also my cousin mu kalea who was on the e board of supervisors. when i was in my 20th atu cla decided i wanted-needed to serve so i joined a police acad #5e78 in los angeles county, decided to go that route. i was hired on as a reserve police officer here in san francisco, so the reserve-the service of the reserves to the city are near and dear to my heart. putting your life on the line for no pay is a big deal, a realee big deal. my mother often questioned my

sanity as she heard me leave the house at 3 o'clock in the morning to go to a call. but also after being on the reserves for the city, i joined the san francisco district attorneys office as a law enforcement officer as a district attorney investigator into the hal nan administration and as a da i worked on the streets in san francisco in the mission and tndser line in charge of the paper food stamps that were traded for narcotics and gun. interact would the fire department and as a child my grandfather took us to the fire station, a huge fan of the fire foickters. he said the fire fightererize the only ones that can come to your house, douse with water and thank them on the way out. the fire fighter cz do no harm, what

they defor the city and people is absolutely amazing. so, the fire department is near and dear to my heart as well as the police department and so just to continue on following my service in the district attorneys office, i became a attorney while i was at the da's office and followed that path, the family path. my suchbs to the city and state didn't end there. i became police commissioner under mayor nusem and served the state as a senate appointee to to the criminal justice commission for 7 year jz recently as of last week appoint ed to the state international relations committee so really looking forward to representing the state both here and abroad to foreign dignitaries. and then sworn in this morning with commissioner cleveland to this great commission. i really

look forward serving the people and working with the fire department and getting to know them. there are things i'm interested in like technology and the reserves are interesting to me and making sure that we serve as a commission the people that are out there making those calls and making sure that as i know seconds matter being in law enforcement that we do our best to serve you and support you. that being said, looking forward to the years on the commission and work wg these commissioners and the staff and the chief as well. thank you so much for the warm introduction commissioners. i promise to disappoint you, i'm not my grandfather. he was an amazing man however i do appreciate the service to the city he had and the love people had for him. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner alioato. good to sooyou on

board. thank you vise president nakajo for taking the ride along. i think most people know that 70 percent or more of our 911 calls are medical emergency so it is ambulances that respond and it is super important that the service that they do is on a regular basis honored and i'm delighted to hear our new chief of the ems is doing weekly ride alongs. just understand what the rank and file are doing every day, i thij that great and appreciate you doing that. and i urge all the commissioners to do ride alongs. i have done one bhieself and probably due for another soon. our newest commissioner it is a lot of work on the commission so want you to understand that there is a lot on our plate, so we absolutely welcome you to this

commission. with that said, any further comments or final comments, commissioners? thank you for your report vise president and we'll go to the next item. >> iletm 9, communications. e-mail from james corriganidated marn 29, 2017. letter from janelle caywood dated april 5, 2017. letter from united fire service women dated march 22, 2017. >> any public comment on these communications? seeing none, public comments closed. commissioners, any comments? none? seeing none, move on. >> item 10, ajena for next fire commission meeting on may 10, 20s 17. >> any pubhook public comment on this item? seeing

none-commissioners? yes, commissioner hardeman first. commissioner covington. >> thank you, mr. president. this is not in any particular order, but just for consideration of my fellow commissioners for future agenda items. a report on vision zero and tasc. discussions regarding dedicated marine unit. i did receive sure all received in the packets a few pages on tsunami preparedness. tsunami preparedness week was march 27 through 31. i assume that this is given to us for our perusal and it is needed

comment. well, i see that the department is preparing a tsunami preparedness plan and so i would like to know more about that. >> very good. >> and i had requested earlier that we have a presentation on the feasibility of solar panels on our propertys i say properties because we have more than fire houses and the department. and in regards to one of the letters we received concerning aerial ladder inspection, i would like more nrfckz information on that as well. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner covington. >> is there a clarification, i know there is a notice about the april 26 meeting, is that

changed or we have addition of a commissioner not sure, just looking for clarification. >> it was advertised as being canceled, so- >> and posted. >> i guess we can repost it and hold it. what the feeling of the commission? >> i would say to chief we have any reason why it is important to-the april 26. >> so, i'll differ back to the commission. we are available if you want to put the meeting back on calendar now that we have a 5th commissioner. >> you want to entertain a motion, mr. vise president? y i have question and think commissioner covington had a question before me. >> thank you. i would like to consult with the commission secretary as to the process to

go through getting it announced as a meeting day? >> i have to check with our city attorney that overvees the brown act and find if it can be unposted and what we have to do after making the announcement today. >> okay, thank you. >> vise president nakajo. >> mr. president, we issued a post ponement on the 26 for lack of quorum, i didn't want to assume that the commissioner would be available on the 26 for us to have a commission meeting. as a point of view, commissioners, since we are calendared and if we have a quorum between myself and two other commissioners, my preference is to have a meeting only to take care the responsibility of that regular

calendar. if the commissioners feel otherwise, i can beope toon that, it is just we didn't have a quorum number before with the consideration that some members will be committed elsewhere on that date. >> thank you, mr. vise president. commissioner hardeman. >> yes, mr. president. i never been involve in canceling a meeting because of lack of quorum because we don't do that. was surprised to hear we did it this time but having 4 commissioners we had no choice, two could want be here. i say commissioner alioato availability may be in question because he was told-you are available. then i would think that we don't cancel meetings because of lack of quorum on this commission since i have been on this 6 and a half years. >> that is my vote. >> thank you, we will check

with council. can we readvertise the meeting as being held? >> yes, president cleveland. city attorneys office wow can renotice the meeting. >> alright, then i think i don't know if we need a motion but the sentiment of the commission is hold the meeting on the 26 so well not have a canceled meeting and vice president nakajo will be the presiding officer for that meeting. >> okay. >> thank you. yes, commissioner covington. >> one final word, yes. i will be traveling at that time, but i am scheduled to be back the morning of the meeting since we have the afternoon meeting, but air travel being what it is these days i'm glad that we will have three commissioners here. >> we could have 4 commissioner

snz >> yes. >> you won't have me, i will be in washington dc. okay. madam secretary do you want to call the next item? >> item 11, case number 2017-03, commission deliberation on proposed findings of fact and possible approval of findings of fact regarding commission pfs decision on employee discipline concerning verified complaint filed by chief of department against member, dated september 20, 2016, for violations as follows. section 2004, restricted passengers. 3905, famil larty with rules. 3907, safety rules. 3909, false report. 3919, proper behavior. 3921, inattention oo duty. 3923, acts detrimental to welfare of department. 3941, use of vehicles. the commission is now considering

proposed findings of facktd in relation to that decision. this case may be heard in closed session pursuant to code section 54957 b and san francisco administrative code, section 67.10 b. item a, public comment on agenda item 11. possibly closed session. members of the public may comment on ajendsa number 11 including whether to consider the matter in closed session. government code section 549, 54.3 a, administrative code section 67.15 b. >> thank you, madam secretary. is there any public comment on going into closed session on thisite item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, do i have a motion on the closed-going into closed session on thisite 78? >> so moved, mr. president.

>> do i vasecond? >> second. xhickzer covington. all in favor, >> aye. >> any oppose? mo [meeting rec are back in open session, the time is 1154. this is case number 2016-03. >> first you should disclose that the commission in closed session approved the findings of facts in this matter. >> thank you council. back in open session and just wanted to say that the commission went into deliberations on the findings of fact on item number 11 and we made a motion to-we

will have a motion to not disclose these deliberations. i would like to entertain that motion at this point, so do and a motion from commissioners to not disclose the deliberations on the findsings of fact? >> so moved. >> second? all in favor? >> aye. >> motion is approved uninanimously. would like to add a second motion here and that is a motion to disclose to the closeed session transcripts and evidence presented but not the commissions dlberations to human resources department, representatives for the purpose of civil service appeal. >> would you also be disclosed the findings of fact sfwl >> we can disclose the findings of fact, absolutely, yes. do i have a second to that motion?

>> yes. second. >> so moved. >> and moved it. do i is a second? yes. all in favor. >> aye. >> thank you, commissioners. the motion is approved and do i have a motion to adjourn this meeting? >> so moved. >> do i have a second? >> all in favor- >> in the memory of-- >> i'm getting to it. all in favor? >> aye. >> i like to close thigz session of fire commission meeting in honor of clod corso the father of mark corso who passed away recently. thank you. yes, sir? >> [inaudible] >> is it on? >> yep. >> there it goes. >> mentioned jack hening, his

son, brian who is 73 years old died from alzheimer's. the only reason i bring it up because i mentioned jack's name is and funeral is at st. monicas next tuesday the 18th at 10 a.m. >> thank you. >> thank you for allowing me to put that on record. >> absolutely. this meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]