citywide. i'm calling for a hearing on how sexual assaults and sexual harassment cases are being handled by city departments when victims come forward to seek justice against their attackers. i wanted to evidence how evidence was processed and how health services are provided. and how the district attorney's office handles the prosecution of the cases. a central question throughout -- how is each department treating women with respect. we owe them a justice system that restores their sense of dignity and wholeness. i look forward to the hearing and will work with the city attorney with legislative solutions to this critical issue. the rest i submit. >> supervisor safai: i rise today on two issues. one near and dear to my heart

and culture. in honor of persian new year, today is the first day, the vernal equinox, celebrated by 17 countries around the world, 22 ethnic groups. it's a cultural celebration that dates back over 3,000 years. i'm very proud to say we will have the 14th annual noruse, meaning "new day" celebration here at city hall on friday. any of you want to come by this friday evening, you will get to see a small taste of our culture. i'm very, very proud to be a part of that and celebrated this new day or new year celebration since i was a small child. in iran, they celebrate and around the world for 13 days. it's similar to the lunar new year in the sense that families get together, share gifts and stories. a big part of the culture is poetry. and a big part of the culture is

in many ways it predates any religious aspect. so it's nonsecular religion or celebration. so very, very excited about that. if we could end in honor of that today. secondly, an ordinance that we've been working on for two years. supervisor ronen and i had a meeting when we were not supervisors to talk about the frustration that many small retailers and small business owners have faced when confronting the bureaucracy here in the city. and this is accessory use catering that will be allowed in limited restaurants. think cafes, bakeries, oftentimes these businesses have kitchens. they use the kitchens for a small portion of the day and traditionally, they've worked with catering businesses to rent out that space.

many of the businesses have confronted our city's bureaucracy and have been thwarted. one business in particular when supervisor rosen and i met about this a couple of years ago when we were not supervisors, as i said, was la evict -- la victoria bakery in the mission. they were simply trying to memorialize a practice that they have done all the way backlit -- literally to the '60s and the last time that the democratic convention was here, they were catering all over san francisco. they were confronted with obstacles such as, you have to provide products in the front of the store. you have to have a limited number of them. there's all these confusing aspects between the department

of public health and the planning department. i want to commend the planning department for working with me and we came up with some very simple clarifications. it would be limited to restaurants. bakeries, cafes. we don't want to discourage or encourage restaurants and limiting their time of operations to encourage them to do this. we've want them to enhance an existing business confronted by so many aspects in this environment being a small retailer. we want them to use their space in a positive way so that they can support their businesses and support the caterers that might not necessarily have the startup capital to have a brick-and-mortar space. i'm excited about this introduction. i know supervisor ronen wants to be a co-sponsor and we'll talk about this over the next few months, but we're very excited

about this, colleagues. rest i submit. >> supervisor sheehy: submit. >> supervisor tang: i have a couple of pieces of legislation. one of them has to do with also trying to address the issue of affordable housing in accessory dwelling units in san francisco. i know it's been a hot topic and has been raised by several colleagues as well. i do feel that adu's resolution for neighborhoods that they can fit into the character of a neighborhood providing affordable housing and allow for multigenerational families to live together and hopefully, again, at a more affordable rate. i know it's been challenging for many of the units to be approved through our cities, the processes, the requirements or the permitting in general, and so today i'm introducing help

for homeowners to build more adus more easily. we want to remove the barriers to adu approvals and expand eligibility requirements. to do so, we'd like to ask that, first of all, at pro-app meetings that all relevant department staff be present during a project sponsor's pre-application meeting including dbi, fire and planning. this will eliminate the confusion that project sponsors go through to understand the requirements they need to meet. we want to allow the addition of adus in new construction to three or less. remove requirements that have been hindrances for building adus like street tree requirements or bike parking. we believe that the city has

other ways of doing this. so those are some of the main elements of the first piece of legislation. we're also going to be drafting very shortly legislation to figure out how it is that we can allow for more, what we're calling and dubbing, adu infills in corner lots, areas that we think are perfect for adus and can solve for a lot of our housing challenges. secondly, i'm introducing a legislati legislati legislation that supports sex worker immunity. it would provide protections for sex workers that want to come forward and report a crime of violence perpetrated against them during the act of prostitution.

and lastly, i did want to also -- apologize -- introduce a resolution declaring march national kidney month in san francisco. and we also want to thank city attorney who had helped us write this legislation that personally had some experiences with kidney transplants as well, but also wanted to send our in memoriams to the family of matthew wolfram. >> supervisor breed: can you read public comment? >> clerk: now is the opportunity for the public to address the board of supervisors for up to 2 minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the february 13 meetings and items 22-26 on the without reference. public comment is not allowed when an item has been subject to public comment at a board

committee, pursuant to the board's rules of order, direct your remarks to the entire membership of the board of supervisors and not to individual members or to the audience. speakers using interpretation will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. and to display your document on the overhead projector, clearly state such to sfg-tv and remove the document when you want it to return to live meeting. >> i'm here today to take care of representation of the females as well. i'm here to represent the females who are victims of crimes. san francisco police department and district attorney's office in my view has about 1,000 rape kits who have not been tested and just sitting in the store room the police department has

refused to take $2 million in grants. more cases of rape have statute of limitations of 10 years. i move that you incorporate that the statute of limitations has exceptions to the rule and i like taos to be passed to all females that think they cannot come forward because the statue of limitations has ran out. it's called continual injury and it should be applied to all the females that was raped by bill cosby and other high-profile cases. moreover, 2 million, most of which have gone to the police department for testing, rape kits have fell outside the statue of limitations. still, they should be applied, okay? during this time frame, there was 437 rape kits older than 10

years and this is discrimination based on sex because you process male victims of crime, but female victims of crime, the evidence just sits there. it's not fair. another violation that takes place section 334.13 of the community law says 15% of brand-new buildings is supposed to be for low-income and affordable housing. but yet when you build the building, you don't include those people. >> supervisor breed: thank you, mr. white. thank you, sir. next speaker, please? >> good afternoon. in regards to a recent fire in north beach, unless the fire

chief can come up with an excuse for the delay and the slow response of extinguishing the fire, she needs to be terminated. her position is at the pleasure of the mayor. we need someone like ms. hayes was 15 years ago. many times the leadership has been under criticism. we cannot let this go on. it's not about no one killed, no one hurt, just another building on fire. this fire could have taken just as many lives as the pulse nightclub and warehouse combined. san francisco could have suffered a permanent black eye. there need to be two independent investigations after the arson investigation to decide whether a building need to go. and who was waiting for the wheels to be greased by the insurance company.

district attorney george gascon may need to be notified. we listen to president trump's repetitive talk about sanctuary cities. why didn't the interim mayor show up to shake hands with the victims of the north beach fire, but made it to the fire victims in the suburbs? if the mayor will separate himself from lower-class neighborhoods, versus the suburbs. thank you. >> supervisor breed: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please? >> i'm ollie. i'm a 30-year taxi driver. four or five years i followed the situation. the taxi drivers, i want everybody in here to know how we're suffering. i'm in here to scream.

i cannot handle it. i cannot take it anymore. i am not the only guy. i come in here again and again. i'm 65 years. they force me to buy the medallion. after 30 years, give it to me free, please. i want to get my money back. you guys have to be issued something, not me. we don't want to be a driver. we don't want to get out after 50 years. i cannot do it anymore. please figure it out. do something this year. we're mentally, physically sick. there are working 100 hours a

week. they're divorced. people get heart attacks. two weeks ago, i told you, cab drivers get heart attacks. mta is not doing the job. they cannot do it. you guys have to issue maybe the bond. i want to get out, please. i don't want to die like that. i'm suffering so much. i have been in this country 50 years. i have to be retired. i cannot do it. please. >> supervisor breed: thank you. thank you for your comments, sir. >> thank you. >> supervisor breed: next speaker, please.

>> i just wanted to say congratulations to women honored today and thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. first i'd like to say that i'm a sole proprietor women's-owned district, graduate of san francisco state and california native. concerning the vote on the fur ban, 171317 -- >> supervisor breed: ma'am, i'm pausing your time. that item has had its public comment requirement met. >> this is regarding an amendment. can i read my peace? >> supervisor breed: if you can talk generally, but generally there is no public comment on items that have had their public comment during the committee. you can submit anything you have in writing to the clerk to distribute to the entire board of supervisors. >> okay.

i didn't understand that it pertained to my business or i would have spoken i only found out today that it pertained to my business. >> clerk: we're happy to take your comments and -- >> supervisor breed: you can speak of it generally but not about the specific legislation and you can talk about your business and what your business does and the impact of things in general. >> now? >> supervisor breed: if you want to take a minute to compose your thoughts, we'll come back to you. unfortunately, we've taken public comment for this and can't allow anyone to comment specifically about the item at this time since it's already occurred. you can step to the side and we'll have someone explain to you and then we can figure out how way can make it so that your information is submitted into the record. >> all right. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker, please?

>> good afternoon. i drove taxi 24 years. i'm 55 years old. i don't have much energy to do this. so i brought two topics. my first is that taxi driver funds by medallions. and even six months before or one year before. i know it's not much money, but it belongs to medallion buyers, because they paid 5% or 20%. so we have the license. we need help. so second is, as you know, each medallion costs like $250,000.

8 years ago, it was based on the right -- sorry. all the taxi drivers have been punished. they didn't protect our businesses. since 2012, uber and lyft is hurting drivers. 10% to 15% business is left for taxis.

we cannot survive this we drive 16 to 20 hours a day. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. >> supervisor breed: your time is up, but thank you for your comments. sir, your time is up. sir, i'm sorry. thank you. next speaker, please. to members of the public, i apologize, but we have to give everyone the same amount of time. thank you. >> good afternoon. the topic is the same about the taxi. and the taxi drivers are hurting and i don't think some of the board of supervisors have any intention whatsoever but i admire the board of supervisors that i met last week and i got little hope that you guys will take some kind of action.

and at least as much as you can. i'm sick, as can you hear from my voice, but i still go to work. i work 365 days in a year for the last two years. i never took one day off. i'm a father of four. don't you guys realize that i need a weekend off. if you think that i do need a weekend off, then please do something. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please? >> hi. i'm patty quadra. i'm here because i have two issues. one is just having a rent-controlled apartment and

being displaced from there. nothing to do with me, but i'm displaced and i'm born and raised in san francisco. when i used to come here and speak, i recognized a lot of people in this panel here. but i don't recognize anybody here anymore. so i am talking to strangers. however, that's something that i'm trying to solve now. the reason why i'm here, i'm trying to save 115 telegraph hill. we have such a beautiful city, but i don't recognize it anymore, like i don't recognize a lot of people here we have the golden gate bridge, the bay bridge, crooked street and transamerica building. we have more than that. now it's coit tower that's in jeopardy. you guys know about a building that's going up there. more housing that's going up there, which will probably be about $10,000 to rent a studio, which none of you guys can probably afford.

well, why think that should be built. me with joseph cohen, he's the reason why i'm here. he walked into the san francisco foundation and told me about this. i'm pissed off because it's another thing under our noses. you guys know about it, but it's not out there. well, we want to build a park. we want a boys and girls club. and maybe a vegetable garden, but i want a park. i don't want more buildings up there. 5 -- i can't believe it's going to happen by coit tower. if i have anything to do with it, i will get it done. i will not let more luxury suites go up. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. mr. washington? >> you can call me ace. i'm in your place and i know how to act now. like that song saying, i've changed. i will sing it later. i'm here celebrating women's

day. i was upstairs in four or five commissioners meeting and down here for my last meeting. what i have to say is politically if that's okay. i was at a mayor's forum last night. i was very disappointed. first of all, i couldn't get in. it was on castro. and i did a little monologue before i did my show how i used to come over when i was a little boy and match movies, videos, back then. but i couldn't get in. they said you had to have tickets to get ivenlt whatley -- to get in. what i will do, we're going to have a mayors candidates and we'll talk about black issues, youth and seniors. get ready, candidates. i'm ace and i'm on the case. i'm going to invite you to where i stay at. with london breed, the queen.

politics full of tricks. they've been treating my queen pretty wrong. even though i don't agree with her politics, i don't like the way they're treating you, queen. i don't like it. and they're going to hear about it. my name is ace and i'm on the case. but let me just say this. to the mayor, oh, mark. he fit the part. he going have me come out the dark. you know what, y'all, this day is only that short. we're going to go into a new cycle, with a two-year mayor and then a four-year. it's a new era. right now, ladies and gentlemen, i don't got no time for errors. i will be dealing with our youth, our seniors, which i'm a senior, and a small popularity, which is african-american, negro blacks. i'm ace, i'm on the case and you better leave queen alone. >> clerk: thank you for your

comments. next speaker, please? >> thank you, supervisor breed, president of the board, rest of the supervisors. i'm mark bruno, from north beach. i want to address an issue that affects residential, commercial tenants, and contractors and property owners in our city, surprisingly, and i had the opportunity to speak privately with with supervisor safai last week, there's no requirement in the building code to -- when work is being done to priest -- post what that work is at the site. i met privately with joe duffy, head of building department inspectors, as you know, and the assistant director of building, patrick o'reardon. and we all went through the code to find a section that would require this. there is no requirement. in new york today, and it was

passed over seven years ago, what's required is very simple. "the building permit or a copy thereof should be posted in a conspicuous place at the worksite, visible to the public for the duration of the work or until the expiration of the permit, whichever is later. no such permit will be posted at any location other than the premises." and it goes on to explain what cannot be used to block the notice to the public, what cannot be used as advertising instead of the forum. it explains because of weather conditions, perhaps this permit should be laminated. it's not expensive to laminate something. it's $2.65. the entire burden on the contractors and property owners to do what i'm suggesting is minimal. it's the cost of scotch tape and

a xerox. thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> thank you, madam clerk. i would like to note the many feminists that have said that women have been silenced throughout history. their complaints have not been heard. and i doubt there's a single member of this board that does not count themselves as a feminist, males included. whose job is it to silence a significant segment of the population of this city? people thought to have mental illness. people thought to need coercion in order to attend treatment. it's been well established that people thought to have mental illness have -- are able to make

their own treatment decisions. and yet you are funding this organization at an astounding rate. in the time allotted to me to give you this speech, you will have handed over to them through the city another $1,000. by the time i get a chance to speak to you again in two weeks, you will have handed over approximately $3 million. this is something like 70 times all of your salaries combined. so i'm astounded that you would do this to an organization that has no transparency, no accountability. and minimal oversight. it's a black box. and i don't think there's a personal in this room that doesn't know that the real -- that the police that patrol on the streets with their nightsticks and pistols, they're not the real police in this town. citywide case mchlt is. they're our police, our judges.

our jailers. and we want freedom, madam clerk. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. are there any other members of the public that would like to address the board during general public comment? >> supervisor breed: seeing no other members of the public that would like to provide public comment, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, please ride the options for adoption without reference to committee. >> clerk: items 22-26 are being considered. it may be severed and considered separately. >> supervisor breed: seeing no names on the roster, can we take the items same house, same call? without objection, items pass unanimously. madam clerk, please reyes the in memoria memoriams. >> clerk: the late ms. dana harrison.

the late mr. matthew wilfred and shalini van hook. in honor of the iranian new year. >> supervisor breed: colleagues, this brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, is there any other business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> supervisor breed: thank you, everyone. we're adjourned.

>> this is a reminder to silence all electronic devices. fire commission regular meeting march 28, and the time is 5:03. item one, roll call. >> president ken cleveland has been excused. vice president nakajo. >> here. >> commissioner hardeman. >> here. >> commissioner covington. >> here. >> commissioner joe alioto veronese. >> here. >> and chief of department, joanne hayes-white. number two, general public comment. members may address the commission for up to three minutes on any matter within the jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. speakers shall address the

remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. the lack of response by commissioners does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. >> is there any member of the public that wishes to give public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam secretary. >> item three, approval of the minutes. approval of the minutes from the regular meeting on march 14, 2018. >> is there any public comment on the approval of the minutes of march 14? are there any questions or amendments from the commissioners in terms of the minutes?

commissioner covington please. >> thank you, mr. vice president. i had a short conversation this afternoon with our commission secretary regarding just one item that may change. they suggested that it is the preface to the interaction with the chief regarding an email that all of the commissioners had received. and so it seemed to kind of come out of nowhere, that particular conversation. so i asked the commission secretary to just put together a little preface, and she can read it. it's on page five, the third paragraph, the beginning of the third paragraph. >> the request of commissioner

covington and in response to an email from a concerned citizen, the chief gave a brief update on the e.k.g. monitors that the department uses. >> and i submit that change with respect. >> thank you very much, commissioner covington. commissioners, is there any other questions or amendments at this particular time? >> i move the amendment. >> thank you, commissioner veronese. that was moved. i need a second please. >> a second. >> second, commissioner hardeman. move and second. call for the question. all in favor say aye. the minutes are adopted. madam secretary? >> item four, chief of department's report. report from chief of department, joanne hayes-white on current issue, activities, and events within the department since the fire commission meeting on march 14, 2018, including budget, academies, special events, communications and outreach to other government agencies and

the public. and report from administration deputy chief jeannie nicholson on the administrative division, fleet and facility status, finance, support services, homeland security, and training with the department. >> good evening, chief hayes-white. >> good evening, commissioners. this is my report since the last meeting held on march 14 regarding the budget, what i sent around is copies was our presentation before the budget and finance committee on march 15. and that went very well. i would like to thank deputy director corso for assisting with the presentation materials. moving forward, we're hoping to have the budget committee convened one more time hopefully the week of april 9. and supervisor maria cohen as the chair of the budget and finance committee is doing things a little bit differently this year. they have spelled out four different budget priorities, including public safety, clean

streets, homelessness and affordable housing, and then other policy priorities. so obviously we would be in the public safety category. so public safety issues will be discussed further at budget and finance on april 19 and will be part of the hear iing and they promise to provide us nor information with what the expectation is for further exploration. and as you know, the mayor will need to submit a balanced budget to the board by june 1, so we're continuing to have good dialogue, open dialogue with the mayor's budget office at this time. and we're also closing out and we'll have a nine-month status report. we're in the third quarter of the budget. so at the end of april we'll be working with the mayor's budget office and controller in terms of where we're at. but we're right on track and what we had anticipated. there is no major surprises or anything at this point.

regarding our division of training, we welcomed 42 members into the 124th class earlier this week. and they will be joined by 12 members from station 49 in two weeks after the e.m.t. portion of the academy is completed, so that will be a total of 54 members. the tepties were able to go -- the deputies and i were able to welcome them into the training academy and wish the assistant deputy chief well with the first class he is overseeing as the director of training. we wish all of those candidates well as they go through their training. and giving ourselves a little bit of a respite, but probably be getting in may-june time frame, we will begin looking at candidates for the 125th class, which will occur roughly in the september time frame, another 54 people. on march 17, many of us participated in the st. patrick's day parade. that is always a fun event. a lot of people participating

with us. on the 19th of march and deputy chief nicholson and i attended a very well attended meeting and the annual fire servicewomen's meet i meeting from the newer members of the female department and that was the nice event. we even had a cameo appearance by former deputy chief ramona williams enjoying her retirement. on the 20th of this month we had the monthly labor management and from vice president cleveland and who is the i.t. director for the department and he received a spur good government award and the municipal fiscal advisory council and we had nominated him and there were many nominations and he was selected and i believe there was four or five other awardees that night.

congratulations to zamora. and on the 22nd with interesting technology and something with a close watch on and with autonomous vehicles and i believe pedestrian is the first city -- san francisco is the first city to convene a type of roundtable to discuss next steps for autonomous vehicles. there is a lot of uncertainty still. but the state has provided for that and is under the department of motor vehicles. so with a number of questions as it relates to with that extrication and more to follow on that.

it is coming very quickly. and i believe in arizona they have autonomous vehicles with a tragic accident that occurred. just i believe last week. so it's new technology and it's emerging and it's something that we really want to keep our eye on. but it's here in that the state is allowing for autonomous vehicles to apply for vehicle permits. none have in the city, but it is anticipated that could be the case very soon, so we will definitely keep you posted on that. we greeted the 42 new members off the list of the 124th academy. and yesterday i attended the healthy streets which is comprised of the department

heads and the departments that are working to keep our streets clean, safe, and healthy. so is the director of public health, chief bill scott, deputy chief of staff and chief of staff of the mayor's office and the d.p.w. director was there to talk about how on a regular basis we're coordinating our efforts to endeavor and to meet newly formed group and meeting at least once a month. and that concludes my report. i wanted to request your adjourning tonight's meeting from vice president nakajo for the passing of retired battalion chief mark rishan who was a very dedicated member of this department.

had a firefightering family. his brother mike was in the department. his brother-in-law al jones is in the department and his son john is a firefighter-paramedic. mark retired after 30 year of service and about 12 years ago, but had a very sudden diagnosis of cancer just a few months ago, and passed away last week. and happened to be a very good, close personal friend of mine. so i was with him and his family when he passed away. so i would ask that you keep him in your prayers and the funeral will be next wednesday. thank you. >> thank you, chief. thank you very mucher. commissioners, at this time would you like to ask the chief some questions or should we move on to chief nicholson? >> commissioner veronese.

>> chief, an the autonomous vehicles -- >> i knew you would have questions. >> since temperature representative of the department attending the meetings and asking the same questions and how they respond to lights and sirens, whole bunch of questions we would have especially in this city with the bike lanes and all this other stuff, and pulling into bike lanes and issues that come up. but as a representative of the department, i ask that if you do see some major issues, that you don't think are being addressed, that you would bring them up with the commission so that we can be your voice or be a second voice with those concerns. >> absolutely. thank you. >> commissioners? at this point we aer -- we are going to ask deputy chief -- excuse me. public comment on the chief's report. please, chief. seeing that there is no public comment, we will ask the deputy chief nicholson. welcome, chief. >> greetings, commissioners,

chief. deputy chief jeannie nicholson. deputy chief of administration, jeannie nicholson. this is my report for february 2018. by the way, happy spring. spring has sprung out there. pretty nice day. let's start with the illustrious division of training. as the chief stated, the 124th class is currently in, but going back a couple of classes the 121st class is undergoing the one year of testing so that they can pass the threshold into permanent h2s. that is happening this week. the 122nd class is understood going the six-month testing and moving to the second houses as well. and the assistant deputy chief of training joe sotto is up and

running and we had to replace him as well because he was the recruit captain. captain teresa kwan was on rescue two and engine 11 and we welcome her into the fold and really look forward to her contributions with the recruit academy. and as an aside, just so you know, she is no joke. she and her husband live in santa rosa and their house caught on fire during the whole firestorms, and they put it out. so they were out there with a chain saw and everything. and i digress. okay. back to division of training, the conex boxes that i spoke to you about last time and the shipping containers for live fire training are over there and currently being fabricated. and we sent five of the training staff to attend the live fire training instructor class in menlo park. fire control 3b so that trains

them to teach class a. live fire, which includes fire behavior, and you get all the heat, smoke, and flames and is much more realistic than just a regular burn room with propane. inservice suppression training for the month of february, close to 800 hours with 273 members in attendance. and we also had hazardous materials recertification. we trained 98 students, so that is a good pool for us to have within the department. incident support specialists, often known as operators, and people who assist our chief, they fill a critical role from balancing department in the morning to being the eyes and years of i.c. at incidents. we are conducting training this week. we had 21 people in the first class. and we're hoping that finished today with a two-day class

starting tomorrow. our safety officers, assistant deputy chief satto and assistant deputy chief cochran both went to three working fires including union street and early morning bart fire. our e.m.s. in service training, they are having their annual h3l1 one-year post academy testing, and that will make them eligible to be in our next, quote, bump up class or paramedic class. and in total for the month of february with online and in service training for e.m.s., 1,451 members partook in a total of 10,328 hours of training. that is including our online and inservice. next on to our fabulous fire reserves. they gave us 202 volunteer hours in the month of february and

they also responded to the fourth alarm. we always appreciate their assistance, and i believe there are several in our current academy from the fire reserves who have transitioned into our 124th class. neighborhood emergency response team, nert, continues to prepare citizens with 22 classes and events getting the public ready to take part in their own well being as well as that of their neighborhoods and the city as a whole. and in fact, our very own maureen conefry completed nert training last month and actually made it out alive. maybe not unscathed, but alive. onto the physician's office. they conducted firefighter candidate physicals to get people into the 124th class so that was going on a lot during the month of february as well as probationary and permanent physical for other ranks and

bump-up ranks from h30 up to h3 up to h40. i.s.b. investigative services bureau, all random and post accident tests were negative. 87 in total. and moving on to the assignment office and we have had 11 permanent promotions in field. battalion chief captains and lieutenants. and 28 acting promotions from incident sport specialist h10, h20, h30, and two h32s which i will also transition into our support services. h32s are actually positions within fire prevention. they are captains of fire prevention, and they report to fire marshal decoseo. we made two acting h32s that

will work closely with assistant deputy chief rivera in terms of projects with m.t.a. and with developers in the city. it's going to make the process of working with the developers and m.t.a. transparent and with regards to approval of traffic devices, street and sidewalk modifications, basically fire department access. and water supply kind of stuff. so that's really great that we have those two guys in place right now. captain michael patton and captain chad law are the two new captains. moving on to the ambulance deployment facility, the artist selection process is underway again. and it is going really well. i met with some members of the community as well as d.p.w. as well as the arts commission, we

worked collaboratively one afternoon and selected five artists to bid on the work at the new ambulance deployment facility. they are all local artists. we are really happy about that. and we're really happy with the art commission for really hearing us and what we had to say. and we're going to take those artists on a walk through of the space sometime in april where the art work is to be and explain more about what we are looking for. and at some point, i think june or july they will present what they have come up with for us and then we'll select from that. station 16 still on track for september 2018. station 5 still on track for december 2018 completion. in regards to pump station one. if we needed it tonight, it works. there are a few finishing touches on the list and if we

were to need it right now, it would be a go. both of our springer ambulances, the vision zero, are on the street undergoing evaluations by a different crew and the same timeline for the truck in november. and the engines are in process with o.c.a. and finally, i think, is it finally. yeah. homeland security, last but not least, michael cochran is now our t.l.o. that is terrorism liaison officer. and he got that through northern california regional intelligence center. and so part of that involves getting intel from them and giving them any intel. and so for instance, today, there was an incident you may all have heard about the van that struck five pedestrians on

24th and illinois. of course we think what is that about? so he was able to that it was not an entries incident. this is a valuable tool learning whether something right off the bat is terrorism related or not. and also chief cochran, with the chief zanoff facilitated the st. patrick's day parade event action plan, so strong work on that to both of you. and chief cochran has been involved with multiple agencies on table tops by a watch drill, high-rise fire operations drill with the office of resiliency. f.b.i. multi-agency isotope tabletop and hazmat drills and all sorts of things. he is continuing the collaboration with multiple

agencies for a multitude of scenarios that could play out. and then also under chief crock -- under chief cochran, our canine unit deployed for a simulation of mass destruction attack of the of menlo park. we had three dogs with three handlers, and they did really well. they had 17 live finds there. miller, martinez, and thomas the three guys with the dogs. and chief cochran is also working on the continuity of operations project that needs to be submitted to the mayor's office this july. basically it is how we are going to operate after a disaster not just out in the field but administratively. how do we take care of those administrative function supports. and he is working on that. our stress unit and we have

begun receiving signups for the peer support training class. and that concludes my report. >> thank you very much, chief nicholson. we will ask for public comment first before questions or comments from commissioners. is there any public comment on the report by deputy chief nicholson from the administration? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner covington. >> thank you, mr. vice president. welcome, chief nicholson. >> thank you. >> yes. i wanted to know a little bit more about the artist and the art work that's being proposed. is this going to be public or art work and art within the facility itself? and it is going to be art work on both of the fences that lead into the a.d.f. so on gerald street on one side

and mckinnon on the other side. i can forward you the information on the artists if you are interested. and knowing who they are. we are doing a walk through next month. >> yes, i did hear you say that. and this is not for the interior of the building. just for public art. >> correct. it will be facing the street. >> great. and what is the involvement of the arts commission? did they or did the department have a grant for this work? >> an i believe is it 2% of every new construction, city building, in the city is awarded -- is given to art or earmarked for art. and so they -- the arts commission basically asks for submissions from artists who are

interested and then we go through the selection process with them. they facilitate that for us and give their input and expertise. >> so it was the committee of the art commission that decided who the finalists were. >> so some was the art commission. the fire department was also given two votes on this panel. >> two out of? >> two out of -- two for the arts commission, two for the fire department, and one for a citizen. >> two out of five. >> yeah. >> and we went through however many there were and came to a consensus. we're pretty happy with it. everyone was happy with it. >> an it sounds very exciting. that is going to be such a large facility, so to have these massive blank walls painted and

given some sort of beam, i think it will really be fantastic to look at and really help with the residents of the community to welcome us. to that facility. >> this is going to be art work on both of the gates. >> very nice. let's see. i had another question. the two in arson, are those entirely new positions or have other captains moved on? >> so these are two new position s and in terms of -- do you want to take this in terms of -- >> absolutely. so they're not arson captain. they are captains assigned to the bureau of fire prevention, but the sustained fire marshal and the artists and deputy chief and support services.

they are newly created positions. so no one vacated the position. we are delighted to say we have worked with m.t.a. and the office of -- >> and the developers. >> -- to obtain funding. this is not coming out of our budget. there is a new opportunity and the selection process and that was conducted a week or so ago with the fire marshal and a few others on the interview panel and two other selections were made. and working as fire prevention lieutenants and the bureau of fire prevention overseeing inspections. >> are these temporary positions or do you see developers continuing to support the two new staff positions. >> the funding will be indefinite and something we