>> president cleaveland: do we know what the cause was? >> it's still out, but i can get you for you. >> out of 620 high-rises, 130 that are not residential are not sprinklered. that's where we had our most challenging fires in the '90's up until the early 2000's. i'm very happy -- i couldn't be prouder, and i'm sure we couldn't be prouder of the people on scene that put that fire out that day. just amazing work. onto the strike teams. i want to thank c.d. 1, a.d.c. fellow, c.d. 3, a.d.c. rivera for working with our wild land strike teams to get that out in

an efficient manner. as we've told you before, i've told you before, the strike team that went out, that's strike team leader pablo siguenza. sometimes we're ask for as many engines as we can give. we made sure those company officers were experienced. the strike team leaders that they went from around here, the three yellows that went up north, yellow meaning the yellow rigs that we have. we have eight yellow rigs that we can send. they have a pump and roll feature, and the red rigs do not. they went with the oakland strike leader, and the three engines that went down to the hill fire went down with mountain view. i'd like to read a text from pablo what they've been doing up

north. sffd personnel have been working multiaim operational perioded in the town of paradise to make it safe for residents to repopulate. they'll do anything they're asked to do, and it's a rough assignment. extinguishing hot spots, performing animal pick ups. as you know, you've read about that fire. when it was first spreading, those unfortunate residents did not have a chance. 80 football fields perminute, it was burning, so very tragic, but i'm very proud of the members up there, as well. just to abbreviate my report, i'll give you a couple of the e.m.s. saves we made.

-- our crews did c.p.r. gave high flow oxygen immediately. patient has been reported discharged and in hospital -- from the hospital and is healthy and thriving. on october 22, 47-year-old patient was found not 1307bssive by co-workers. the patient was found to be in defib. our crews performed c.p.r. and administered other treatment. the patient regained pulses following treatment and was breathing on his own and moving upper extremities upon arrival at the emergency department. >> president cleaveland: deputy chief gonzales, i'm just going to interrupt you here and ask if any commissioners have any questions on the report. very extensive and well prepared report, and we've had it in advance. i'd like to ask our commissioners in deference to the time if any of our commissioners have questions for

chief gonzales ha, have the questions now and dispense with any presentation. so any commissioners have any questions? i don't see any names up there. good job. >> nice talking to you. thanks. >> president cleaveland: thank you very much. is there any public comment on chief gonzales's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. commission -- madam second, call the next item. >>clerk: item nine, commission report. report on commission activity since last meeting on october 24, 2018. >> president cleaveland: commissioner hardeman? >> commissioner hardeman: well, this is not on part meetings. my son, nick hardeman, is going to be honored december 13 by the laborer's union as a way to raise dollars and items for the san francisco firefighters tow program so i'm very happy that my son -- that he has the

benefits of that evening will go to the toy program, so december 13. >> president cleaveland: congratulations to your son, nick hardeman. commissioner veronese? >> commissioner veronese: this is a report on -- since the last meeting, reporting to the commission that i had presided over two disciplinary hearings yesterday. and i also appeared at one of the fires started at golden gate park. i believe we had six fires in a 24 hour period. i was at a fire downtown. and also had the privilege of going out to butte county, i don't i didn't see the firefighters, i didn't get close enough to see those guys, they were up in paradise doing rescue

and recovery, but i was able to go up there and bring food and stuff for the residents. it was a pretty extraordinary scene, and what those guys and girls are going through, to the chief's point, the emotional toll that i'm sure that's taking on them, i'm happy that we are in the process of putting together a state of the art peer support unit that will be able to help those guys and girls. thank you. >> president cleaveland: very commendable, commissioner veronese. seeing none, is there any public comment on this issue? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam secretary, would you please call the next item. >>clerk: item 10, commissioner nakajo and commissioner covington to discuss action taken on the special meeting retreat. >> president cleaveland: commissioner covington, i'll defer to you.

>> commissioner covington: thank you, mr. president. just as a follow up to the retreat that we had about a month ago, i think it would be prudent of us to have a subcommittee to go over a number of the items that were put forth to prioritize the items going forward and to also, you know, present to the commission those items to be voted on. i did ask the president -- or suggested to the president that we have a subcommittee of the entire body of the commission, and he has fined commissioner nakajo, so commissioner nakajo served on the public safety transition team, so he has that knowledge base. also, i suggested to the

president that the two deputies who are there the entire day, that they also be included, and i think -- i think that, you know, having them as a brain trust would be great. the two commissioners will be making the decision about presenting anything to the entire commission, but two deputies would be wonderful. then, a suggestion came in recently regarding the people who worked on the public safety team with commissioner nakajo, that they might also be invited if their schedules permit. that would be a former member of the deputy, chief columbini, that would be --

[inaudible] >> commissioner covington: yes, tom o'connor, and who else, commissioner nakajo? oh, i thought there were four, including you. so that's what we will be doing, if that's -- if this is approved by the entire commission, then we will get started, and you'll be hearing more. >> president cleaveland: thank you, commissioner covington. mr. vice president. chief i see your name up there, do you have a comment? >> i do. i'm trying to move things along, and keep on the agenda, but i didn't comment on the agenda. i didn't hit on the items that

my report suggested i talk about. academies, as you know, we have an h-3 level one class. i think november 30, invitations go out. it's going to be at city college, diego rivera theater. we also are beginning the selection process for the 125th class. we do anticipate some interviews and further background to prepare for that class. there have been 14 conditional offers made at this time, and those are the items that i did not mention that i just wanted to bring to your attention. >> president cleaveland: thank you, chief. mr. vice president? >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, mr. president. on this item of the commission retreat action plan, i wanted to have some comments in terms of this request by the president upon his suggestion because i

haven't accepted that assignment yet because i wanted to do some contemplation. part of it was what i mentioned before, and i'll try to make this concise because we know we have to be out of here by 12:15, and we do have a closed session, but i do have some items that i want to talk about. number one, i'm reluctant in terms of this commission to form formalize a committee because in my opinion we're formalizing another committee that was formalized around a retreat that was supposed to have findings from our commissioners. sometimes when i make my remarks, someone thinks or it sounds like i'm criticizing the process, but i'm voicing my opinions and concerns, but that doesn't mean that i'm not

supportive of conceptuals. it wasn't that i was keen on this retreat. quite frankly, i wasn't. i thought a concept of a special meeting or some kind of dialogue, i was convinced by the dialogue of the commissioners, that we haven't -- the commission had an opportunity to digest, the findings of the wish list that we submitted. i don't want to go over rehashed business, but the wish list was put together by a committee of -- made by the public safety for the public safety of the mayor's office. it was made up of some past officers, but also some administration of local 798. i participated by a phone conference call, and i thought by in terms of the charge, which

was very challenging, of trying to come up with, a wish list, what we came up with that day was pretty much a list of what we could live with. i thought that in terms of the charge, what the summit committee was charged to do by coming to the summit meeting and giving a two-minute presentation to present those findings pretty much would suffice in terms of what our charge was. what occurred after that, as well, a summit meeting, tom o'connor was one of the presenters, and he presented materials. the mayor's office asked the chief of the department with

administration to respond to those wish list findings, which he did. i thought particularly that all of that was then accomplished. we submitted a wish list, the chief of the deputy submitted the response. again, when the concept of conference came along for the dialogue of the commissioners to be able to dialogue it, to be able to be on the same page, so to speak, i could support that. i personally thought that we, the commissioners -- i'm speaking for myself -- would have some priorities in terms of budget priorities or in terms of program priorities, but i began to realize with the discussion that it wouldn't hurt us to have a session by which we're discussing all of this. so i basically cooperated, attended, participated. part of one of the concerns that i had was we would do that

tweshlly, use some of our facilities, our resources. what happened was it was discussed that we hire a consultant. i verbalized against that. we'd have to come up with $3,000 for administration for this alterna consultant. again, not saying that the consultant can't do good things, but i thought that a fee of $3,000 for the retreat, and we had that in september would at least produce a written product. unfortunately, there wasn't a written product produced one way or another. we know, i know that we, the commission secretary, has a recording of those minutes, and traditionally, when we adopt findings, we, the commission, adopt minutes. at this particular point, i thought that we had all of this in play until the president informed me that he wants to

formalize a committee that's charged to put together the findings and the summaries in my opinion that the consultant could have done, should have done. i'm not criticizing the consultant. maybe it wasn't a clear directive, but that $3,000, if we're going to do something that was supposed to be paid for, i can find other uses, like i verbalized, for other uses. 1500 for the cancer fund, 1500 for the tori fund. so now that we have permission from the president to ask myself and commissioner covington, to create a subcommittee to refer the submission, the suggestion was that we ask the two chiefs to attend this meeting to be

part of and to invite other members. to me, respectfully, it's a repetition. i believe both chiefs were at the retreat. i believe both commissioner covington and i will at the retreat. we did participation, we did remarks. i believe i was there, and i witnessed the consultant putting it on butcher paper, which i believe was sitting at the commission secretary's office. for me to have another session based with the two deputy chiefs, and one of the concerns i had with the first retreat with the deputy chiefs and everybody else was cost effective concepts. like perhaps the deputy chiefs and the rest of the chiefs, not saying that we're not -- the commission not adhering to information, have other priorities. so for me to call you to another meeting is a repetition on the same finding that we kind of hashed over again. i understand there's supposed to be a budget maybe scenario

attached with the findings. again, if the bottom line is it's good for us, the commissioners to recommend, i don't have a problem with recommendations, but i do have a little problem with once we start to tinker of what i consider in my definitions micromanagement. we went through the definitions, we went through the findings. the chief's office responded. we're adding to the budget, and i don't have a problem with that but mr. president, i'm going to ask you to maybe reconsider your request to formalizing the committee, and simplistically, so i'd like to put this item or this person it bed, perhaps we can have a session by which we can adopt the secretary's minutes that would reflect the findings of the retreat, special

meeting, and those priorities, recommendations can then be applied to the finance director and administration, and we can contemplate that all as we prepare it. i say this because i feel a lot of pressure as you, commissioners, on the timeline that's coming up with the recent announcement of the chief's retirement, with the charge that we have as a commission to go through the process of instructions, to interview. again, i think it is a timely concept of all of us to reflect what our concepts are appropriately to the new administration once we get there. but i, mr. president, need a little time to think about this a little bit more about spending time in terms of this task. i again would recommend that you rethink your recommendation and simply adopt the minutes of the retreat so we can have that on paper and refer the matter of

priorities to the finance director. perhaps if the commission wants numbers associated with that, you can do that, but i don't want to be repetitious in terms of -- i think it's good timing with the concept of a new chief coming on board, whoever he or she is, within the dialogue that we had, but i think we had more time. last finding, the president wanted these findings adopted in the last meeting we had in december -- there's only one meeting in december, mr. president, december the 12, and that's right around the corner. sometimes i'm not good on deadlines, particularly if there's pressure that's there, and i'm not seeing the pressure that's due on the first meeting of december to be adopted. i think the timing is flexible enough to take this into the new year. not only do we have a new chief that's going to be on board, but

colleagues, i want to remind you that we have elections of the commission on the first meeting in january . thank you very much for your time. >> president cleaveland: thank you very much, mr. vice president, and you're relieved of your duties on the subcommittee. i'm going to ask commissioner veronese to serve with commissioner covington and come back with a report when they are ready to come back to the commission with a report on their retreat's recommendations. do you accept that, commissioner veronese? >> commissioner veronese: mr. president, i do accept that, and as long as there's no deadline in early december because i will be out of town for the first week at least. so i do accept that. i think it is important, especially in this transition to a new chief, that there is some information that is being handed off that is the -- speaking to the priorities of this new administration, this mayor, which is really where this information is coming for the transition.

so i think this is an important time, and an important task. and one final item, i do have to be in court in five minutes, across the street. >> president cleaveland: you are here by excused so you can run across the street to your court. >> commissioner covington: thank you, commissioners. >> president cleaveland: commissioner nakajo, you had other comments? >> commissioner nakajo: yes. all of these comments are made in the spirit of working together with the department. so in terms of it, i just feel it's my responsibility to lay comment as well, but in terms of the spirit of working together, i've always been part of that, so i just wanted to make clear that i'm not trying to be a rabble rouser on the sidelines. >> president cleaveland: thank you, mr. vice president, for

your comments. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam second, next item. [agenda item read] >> president cleaveland: i believe you have a list of things, madam secretary, but i don't think unite to reiterate -- you need to reiterate those items unless there's commissioners that have any comments -- yes, commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington: okay. thank you. we have quite a volume here on the predesign planning study for the training facility. i'd definitely like that to be on the agenda for our very next meeting. thank you. >> president cleaveland: okay. we can add that to the december -- november 28 meeting, right? so add it to the november 28

meeting. >>clerk: november 28? >> president cleaveland: yeah, that's our next meeting now. >>clerk: closed session? >> president cleaveland: no, that's not going to be a closed session. okay. item -- >>clerk: item 12, public comment on item 13. public comment on all matters pertaining to item 13-b below, including public comment on whether to hold items 13-b in closed session. >> president cleaveland: is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, what is your pleasure? >> commissioner covington: closed session, please. >> president cleaveland: commissioner covington made a motion to go into closed session. do i have a second? >> president cleaveland: we will now go back into open

session. we're back in open session on the fire commission meeting, and we did decide on the personnel matter and have upheld counsel's recommendations. do i have a motion to keep the conversations that we had confidential? >> commissioner covington: so moved. >> president cleaveland: do i have a second? all in favor. [voting] >> president cleaveland: thank you, and do i have a motion for adjournment? and i'm going to adjourn -- once i have the motion, motion from commissioner hardeman, second by commissioner covington, that we will adjourn, and i'd like to adjourn this meeting in honor of three deceased firefighters: lynette breyer, sid diamond, and

matt plescia. this meeting is adjourned in their honor. thank you.

as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that.

i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flower es, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. >> keeps u.s us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it

visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. ♪ >> when i first started doing it back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone

of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it. >> a lot of tim times they don't represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes

and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions

were just kind of electric. families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and son sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help

us rescue rescue it also. that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump a administration and i think how each of the artists

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>> this is the regular aboboard meeting of the san francisco board of education. the date is november 13, and this meeting is now called to order. miss casco, roll call, please. >>clerk: thank you. >> please proceed, miss casco. >>clerk: thank you. [ro [roll call] >> apologies to the public. we're still working out issues with the mic. we were told not to speak too close to it, s