there's two amendments also coming from the department of the environment, and i've introduced them. this is the page 4, line 5, zero waste facilitator means persons -- persons serving exclusively in the business. deputy city attorney, i have one question for you. what is the meaning -- it's going to sound silly, but in public comment, we heard a question about the word exclusively. what does that mean before us, zero waste facilitator means someone serving exclusively in the business of. >> mr. givner: that means in the context of this ordinance that that's that person's only job for the large refuse

generator. >> president cohen: okay. so that means, as of right now, one person can't have two functions when it comes to this. >> mr. givner: right. right. if the city attorney's office were a large refuse generator, i could not be the zero waste facilitator and do this job. the city attorney's office would need to hire a zero waste facilitator. that person would be exclusively devoted to that job. >> president cohen: supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: yeah, i just want to put a fine point on that. that person can be employed only in that, but they can be employed part-time, and they can do multiple locations. i know in the example of a small business, i know that

some of them have multiple spots, and in some cases, in some of the conversations with the city, they have a facilitat facilitator servicing three different buildings, so it's multifaceted in that regard. >> president cohen: that's actually really helpful, because i was trying to understand that a little bit. you can have one facilitator, they'll come to my business, work three hours, and then go to your business and work three hours, right? >> supervisor safai: absolutely. >> president cohen: and another question about facilitators, i believe there's some kind of certification. is there a certifying entity? >> supervisor safai: well, i know that the department of the environment and many entities that work with them, i gave the example in affordable housing, the group green streets, they work with residents to train them to do this work in the building service industry, they have staff that work with the

janitors' union that work with them and train them and get them ready. the department of the environment has trainers that go out exclusively in the industry. so some of this has to do with safety and all different aspects that pertain to the job, and understanding the rules and regulations of what goes where and how things are sorted and so on and so forth. >> president cohen: all right. so i'm going to go back to the amendment before you, page 4, lines 5, and also page 6, lines 23,024. zero waste facilitator means a person serving in the -- and that's the change. and then, the second, the director shall review and revise these guidelines as needed and small -- these are

small grammatical things, but i'm just pointing that out on the record. i believe colleagues, we can take this without objection? all right. thank you. these amendments are accepted and -- unanimously. okay. and then, i will work to cleanup the language for the nonprofit agencies and we'll probably try to hammer out some language when it comes to compliance. i think it needs to be spelled out in the legislation so we'll be working feverishly between now and tuesday. supervisor? >> supervisor fewer: you know, having said that, i think that there is a desire to get this out of committee and to have it brought to the full board, but i'm a little uncomfortable having it as a committee report because i feel like there's

been a lot of discussion and i feel there needs to be more clarification written into the legislation, so just opening that for a conversation. >> president cohen: okay. we may have to do a roll call vote on that one. supervisor safai, i just wanted to -- supervisor fewer's just indicated that she's a little uncomfortable with this legislation coming out as a committee report. >> supervisor safai: would you like me to respond to that? >> president cohen: yeah, why don't you just respond to that. >> supervisor safai: i would just say i think we're 99.9% of the way there. i think what you talked about is going to be tweaked in terms of how it applies to the nonprofits. i think there's still conversation with sfusd. i think you're going to withdraw it, and we have the ability to talk. i think we have the ability to make many of these nonsubstantive amendmented at

the meeting on us it. i would appreciate it having it come out as a committee report so we can get two votes in before the end of the year. >> president cohen: okay. i'm going to cut you off because we are in agreement that it's coming out as a committee report. >> supervisor safai: okay. thank you. >> president cohen: not to be rude, but heard enough of. >> supervisor safai: got it. >> president cohen: we've solved our problem. >> supervisor safai: you're never rude to me. >> president cohen: all right. so my final motion is to send this out out as a committee report to the full board to be heard on the next board agenda. >> clerk: as amended. >> president cohen: as amended. all right. here it goes. unanimous. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: okay. madam clerk, is there any further business before this body? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> president cohen: all right. we're adjourned. thank you.

>> hi today we have a special edition of building san francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about san francisco's earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. ♪

>> the next episode of stay safe, we have alicia johnson from san francisco's department of emergency management. hi, alicia thanks to coming >> it is a pleasure to be here with you. >> i wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in san francisco. >> well, one of the most things that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate with people who live both in and out of state. having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really important and being able to know how you are going to communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if your home is uninhab hitable. >> how long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in san

francisco. >> it depends on the severity of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many after shocks we have. >> what kind of neighborhood and community involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. >> it is important to have a good relationship with your neighbors and your community. go to those community events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you. it is important to have a battery-operated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the community around and how you can communicate with other people. >> one of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. >> yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored

them remotely. so a title to a home, a passport, a driver's license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the cloud, the same is true with any vital information on your computer. back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. >> in your home you should be prepared as well. >> absolutely. >> let's take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. >> we have no water, what are we going to do about water? >> it is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water able to use on a regular basis, both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. >> we have this big container and also in people's homes they have a hot water heater. >> absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out

regularly you can use that for showering, drinking and bathing as well >> what other things do people need to have aren't their home. >> it is important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation. >> here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. and this, a manual can opener, your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find it in your kitchen. >> yes. >> so in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. >> having an ice chest on hand is really important because your refrigerator will not be working right away. it is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. >> and here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. >> i hope that you have an

alternative one at home. >> oh, i forgot. >> and in this is really important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. >> i have them right here. >> good. excellent. that is great. additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. markers if you want to label things if you need to, to people that you are safe in your home or that you have left your home. >> i am okay and i will meet you at... >> exactly. exactly. water proof matches are a great thing to have as well. >> we have matches here. and my spare glasses. >> and your spare glasses. >> if you have medication, you should keep it with you or have access to it. if it needs to be refrigerated make sure that it is in your ice box. >> inside, just to point out for you, we have spare batteries. >> very important. >> we have a little first aid

kit. >> and lots of different kinds of batteries. and another spare flashlight. >> so, alicia what else can we do to prepare our homes for an earthquake so we don't have damage? >> one of the most important things that you can do is to secure your valuable and breakable items. make sure that your tv is strapped down to your entertainment cabinet or wall so it does not move. also important is to make sure that your book case is secure to the wall so that it does not fall over and your valuable and breakables do not break on the ground. becoming prepared is not that difficult. taking care of your home, making sure that you have a few extra every-day items on hand helps to make the difference. >> that contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. >> absolutely. >> if you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being

prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building >> one more. [♪]

[♪] [cheers and applause] >> wow. ladies and gentlemen, you give it up for the high school band. [cheers and applause] >> do we know how to have a good time in san francisco or what?

[cheering] >> i also want to say thank you to the san francisco group for working with us to have what you saw when we first walked in. a giant dugout right here. [cheers and applause] let me tell you, i have never seen anything like this thing. this looks better than the last location. this looks better than the old location. you really outdid yourself with the artwork, with the seating, with the buffet style food. we try to feed as many people as we can. this will be a great place to watch the giants game. to watch the warriors game, and to watch the 40 niners. [laughter] >> but nick and everyone here, thank you all so much for being here. this is absolutely incredible.

you have an amazing group of young men who are representing san francisco well. that was an incredible performance. you have to do it for us again. take a bow and have a good time. make sure you get some food and enjoy yourself today. make sure that you come back to not only eat, but to donate toys so we can get toys out to kids on a regular basis. thank you, everyone. happy thanksgiving. [cheers and applause] >> on the mural over here, we will take a picture in her baseball uniform. >> oh, my god. >> do you guys want to go over there? [laughter] >> assembly member to, do you want to say a few words? >> very briefly, first of all,

where is it? thank you for giving us all an excuse to start drinking at 115 in the afternoon. [cheers and applause] >> madame mayor, i'm looking forward to working with you and catherine stefani and others. we will get a lot of business done here in left field. is that right? i have brought the certificate of honor from the california state of assembly because we do not want this day to go unrecognized by our state. this has been an incredible institution for six years. remembering the legacy of someone who was an amazing, not just baseball player, but a community service member. i will say for a cultural note, he was an ambassador of baseball to asia. when i was trying out, my dad said, will you grow up to play baseball? and i said no. but because of him, he has brought so many people together and i very much appreciate what you are doing here.

on behalf of the city and behalf of the state, thank you for everything you are doing or the community. we want to thank you and declared today to be, from the california state of assembly, lefty oh, dual's ballpark baseball buffet and café. congratulations for the grand opening. [cheering] >> thank you i would like to accept this on behalf of my dad who passed away and our mayor who passed away too. i would like to accept this on their honor and on the honor of our great city of san francisco. because this is the reason that it is all about. we live in one of the greatest cities in the world and i want to thank the mayor and thank our assembly men and thank all of you who came. i like to keep it on the tradition that we learn here in san francisco.

i am just one part of a small edge. one small part of a larger san francisco city. i want to thank -- there so many people to think here today. i want to thank two more people. actually, michael, who helped me build this place. [cheering] and all of our staff. because without them, i couldn't have done this. without our great city, i wouldn't even have done this. thank you to san francisco. thank you ed lee. thank you to my dad. [cheers and applause] >> we have one more if his representative is here. could you come forward? >> hello. i wanted to recognize the grand reopening. thank you again on behalf of the california -- thank you.

>> i would like everyone to stay in place while the cameras proceed to a center for the picture with london in her baseball outfit, and then you can all come out.

i pledge allegiance to the flagu nited states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> you thank you. >> this is a reminder to silence all electronic devices. fire commission special meeting, wednesday, november 28th. the time 5:00. item one is roll call. (roll call). >> clerk: item two. general public comment. members of the public may address the commission for flee

minutes for any matter that does not appear on the agenda. address remarks to the board as awhile. do not enter into discussion with the speaker. it does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. >> do we have any public comment? yes or no? if you are going to do a presentation you have to be in public comment. you have three minutes. >> retired assistant deputy chief. i would suggest nonnobodiable requirements for the chief

department. the preservation of life and property is to prevent the city from being destroyed by firestorms after an earthquake. thousands of lives will be lost and nothing else that may have been accomplished up to that time will matter. the chief must understand following the great earthquake it can only be brought under control by a continuous supply of water which is available on three sides of the city in the pacific ocean and bay. the option 12 hydrant system proposed for the outer richmond and sunset using the limited water shore with 14,000 gal per minute would supply three hydrants. the fire chief should be capable. the chief should know the sf p.u.c. leading expert on earthquakes predicts 20 to 30

simultaneous fires. the chief must not endorse such an inadequate proposal as option 12. simultaneously telling the board of supervisors the fire commission and public this will provide sufficient water to save neighborhoods from destruction fibuyer. this would be -- this would be impossible. to assist in you the requirements the chief must meet in the city above the time bomb created by the 2002 plates i have assembled the information for review. i suggest the information in the binders i have given you will clarify the issues most critical to selecting the next chief. it may assist you in well

informed decisions in the future regarding lives and property of the residents of the city which is your primary responsibility as fire commissioners. thank you for your time and attention. >> thank you. >> clerk: i want to remind everybody this general public comment is for items that do not appear on the agenda. item four will cover. >> thank you. any further public comment not on the agenda. public comment is closed. item 3. >> apapproval of the minutes, discussion and possible action to arm prove the meeting minutes of november 14, 2018. >> any public comment on the minutes? seeing none public comment is closed. what is your pleasure? commissioner covington. >> commissioner covington: thank you, mr. president. there are omissions. i understand that the commission

secretary was under a time challenge to get this out due to the holiday, but there are a number of things that should be included in the minutes in order for them to be complete and of additional service to the members of the public that we will read them. i request that this item be tabled and that those omissions be discussed. >> are these omissions extensive? >> significant however not extensive. >> do i have a motion to table to the next motion. >> clerk: you do not need a motion to table. it is the call of the chair. >> do it. >> clerk: thank you, sir. >> clerk: item 4 discussion of

desirable qualities for the next san francisco fire chief. this is an opportunity for members of the public and sffd to provide input to the commission regarding the next fire chief. >> is there any public comment on this item? the purpose of this meeting tonight is to get in put from the public. it is appropriate. we haven't had an opportunity to have a new fire chief in san francisco for almost 15 years so this is really an tinter for the public to come forth to tell us what you think are the qualities, the talents, credentials, experience, background that a new fire chief should have for the city and county of san francisco so we are listening to you. we commissioners will refer three candidates to the mayor for her selection. your input is very important to us.

please come forward and identify yourself. >> good evening, commission. i am steve martin pinto assigned to enagain 36. today i am coming to you today as a residents of san francisco, fifth generation from san francisco. president of the sunny side neighborhood association representing 2000 household to district 7 and city hall. as far as desirable trades for the next chief. i would like a chief to be interested in forming a team for sf if we join task force 3 or 4 or form our own. it is great to boost preparedness to deal with natural disaster or terrorist attack as well as fema funding to boost our training, resources

and other great things which are good for the department. i would like to see the next fire chief continue down the path of close integration with the police and sheriff. as the person who responded to the june 2017 active shooter event, i can tell you from personal experience it is essential. we need to continue training together. as these things become more and more common we need to be able to react in the best possible manner to deal with such a situation. also, as a native i am interested in having a chief dedicated to hire more people from san francisco and the bay area. people like myself born and raised here are passionate about the city. we care a lot and want to get involved in the community and want somebody with those traits. as a 16-year-old veteran of the

reserve i think veterans bring a lot to the table the they have the discipline, integrity, mental and physical integrity. veterans would benefit the department and the quality and caliber of employees that we have. thank you. >> next, please come forward. >> good afternoon. i am nancy. i thank the commission for the public comment on the important issue of selecting the next fire chief. first, i have a request of this commission today you add an item to the next agenda. please include an item to add a project to the new 10 year capital plan to extent is awss system with three new saltwater pump systems to serve all new

residential neighborhoods not protected with unlimited water. this is not currently in your 10 year plan. they will be updating this in january. the new chief should make the awss expansion a top priority. second the new chief must be able to effectively demonstrate independence and stand up to the sfpac who fail to provide projects that guarantee firefighters with enough water to fight earthquake fires. the p.u.c. has its own agenda to replace the water mains with bonds and call it co-benefit to use our drinking water to suppress waters instead of water from the ocean to do their jobs.

when i put in the sunshine request to see the fire department standards for a new pipeline from sunset reservoir your department did not have any stampedes to sends me and referred me back to the p.u.c. this is not okay that you demand the standards to give your firefighters the maximum backup they need through high pressure, high volume pipes. right now you are relying on water in the sun set reservoir to fill three needs. one by law to share the water with 27 peninsula cities who are joint owners of the water. two to fight post earthquake fires and three provide drinking water. this is a lousy deal for those in the western and southern parts of the city. they may own the assets. you are the only beneficiary in the system. please demand your rights.

i have provided you with a copy of my article front page with the fire marina district that i hope you will read and see more comments. thank you for inviting us. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening. thank you for doing this. it is remarkable. it is very, very important. i am james the author of a 1906 novel. i spend 30 year studying what happened to us in 1906 and 1989. at the end of the report on september 11th there was one sentence. failure you hav of imagination. this may be the most important

hire the further from 1906 the closer to a repeat. historyid should be the greatest teacher. we never learn a lesson. in 1906, the day after the earthquake and fire the united states navy show up at the foot of van ness avenue here with 1,000 firefighters and five miles of hose. they used those massive desem engines to pump the saltwater that stopped the fire or we would have lost the entire western edition only 14% of the city was saved. in 1989 a system created in 1906 the auxiliary water supply and portable water supply system that went online six days before the earthquake saved a repeat. for the fire department pumped

5.5 million-gallons of saltwater to stop the fire. you have one you have the biggest housing units in the city. there are six engine companies and 24 firefighters and 10 people. no saltwater, no diesel pumps. we expect 34 firefighters to stop the fire in the sun set richmond district that is impossible. the bodies lost in paradise and the camp fire were horrified 83 people were killed. we lost 500 people on sixth street between howard and harrison who burned alive when there was no water to stop the fire. the only thing to stop the fire is massive diesel pumps and saltwater. these young firefighters standing to get in to back up to

firefighters behind me, this has to stop. there will be a repeat of 1906 and it's may happen on your watch. the next fire chief has to understand history and has to put an end to this. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. i am lieutenant heather buren. i am in the department in 1987. this is my 21st year in the force. i currently am a lieutenant in the fillmore district, paramedic, past president of the united fire service women and board member. i live in the city that loves this department.

characteristics that i think we can agree on and i have heard with the water supply folks imagination. i have heard imagination, firefighter experience and knowledge of our job, vision, strength, leadership integrity, humor. these are things everyone in the next agree we want our next chief to have. allow me to be more specific. i am going to ask you to consider three additional areas of focus that i would like our new chief to direct their attentions and funds to. we all know the mission of the san francisco fire department is to protect lives and property of the citizens of this great city. it also states to provide a work environment prioritizing health

and wellness for us. we could say protect the lives of the folks who spend their lives saving lives. try that three times. it is important. as cancer rates continue to rise in our profession, in the city, in my colleagues and friends, and as ptsi, post tram attic stress injury i is acknowledged. i want our new chief to prevent sickness among our ranks. the intention if there. if there is no money. second, training. we get the best training out there in the field, but we need

continued growth of our training division. that in my mind including a focus on all ranks and divisions. with a commitment to find the funding and to start t to envision maybe to ask the rank and file to envision the design for state of art facility we know is coming up in the near future. i don't really need that. third. >> your time is up. this is your point. >> lastly, i want a leader able to work together to collabor arraignment with other organizations in the city. that is so important with other organizations of the government in the city and with every rang and division. that person needs to have sat there to understand what it means. if you can't work with other

people and trust in your decisions and communicate, we are not going to take it to the place we can bring the fire department. you will have the support, the chief will have the support of rank and file, i promise you. uniting every rank and division as a whole staff to prevention investigation, ems, airport division, support services, homeland security, k-9. this is huge. we need somebody to communicate with all of them. someone who is not scared to ask for help with that. >> thank you very much. any additional public comment? seeing none. public comment is closed. commissioners, commissioner covington.

>> commissioner covington: thank you, mr. president. i am happy that we have this on the agenda. i know the time of the day was not the most opportune time and so many people expressed to me they couldn't be here today, but of the few people who did speak to us spoke eloquently and very specifically. i very much appreciate your comments, and i took notes. thank you. >> commissioner hecommission. >> commissioner veronese: this is an opportunity to choose somebody to take this department to the next level.

i am a little disappointed. maybe this is not the right way to do this we didn't hear from more members. i know the fire department like members of the police department are never short of an opinion, and those opinions are really important to this commission. we as a economics before we decide need to figure out a way to really gauge the temperature and the needs of the members of the department because this clearly didn't work. there weren't enough opinions here. i thank the people that did take the time to show up. i don't think it is a very good cross section of the members of the department. i can tell you myself over the next two to three weeks i will pop into the various stations and ask the members to give them an opportunity to directly communicate with me. i will encourage since there are

only one of me and five of us that is rest of the commissioners do that. gauging the temperature what the members of the department want is important. i hope to hear from the various local 798 there, black firefighters in the crowd tonight. i hope there is some sort of of memo or something that is cents to the commission to give us a sense what you guys are looking for. you represent a lot of people in your groups and the asian firefighters and groups as well. i want to go into this decision with a lot of information, and i think it is an important decision. i want a lot of information and i want a lot of candidates as you saw from the last discussion on who is eligible. i don't want five, four people.

i would like to get a good depth of people to choose from. i would like to have more information and i will get it somehow, i guess. >> thank you. >> vice president nakajo: thank you very much, president cleveland. i also want to express my appreciation as a commissioner of the important commission of those individuals who took time to come here on short notice in terms of us putting this out as information in terms of an ability to be able to verbalize. i want to thank each one of you who came to do that. in terms of participation in terms of what you wanted to talk about, qualifications in terms

of needs. part of that this session in terms of the goal is one opportunity, but i also think the commission has many opportunities to go to the rank and file and have dialogue. i think inform so many ways this might be a deterrent for folks in terms of scheduling and time. i agree that it would be good if we could go out and have certain interaction with the meshes. i for one think the dialogue with employment organizations such as the black firefighters, asia firefighters is a real good mechanism by which we could try to get interaction. what that requires for us is that we have a working rapport or communication coordination with those various groups.

i didn't mean to leave out the women and veterans. there are functioning employee groups to be made up of the membership. we all know people can pay into membership, but participation is another level. i think for us to be proactive and there is a time period here to start the process. concerning to the calendar we have steps to go before we get into the mechanism of recommendation. i want to thank many of you as well. thank you, mr. president. >> president cleaveland: thank you. >> commissioner hardeman: thanks for the speakers who came forward. this is about the crowd i thought we would have. i really don't know if any of us will hear anything different. everybody wants the same thing in the chief.

training might not be their five are or it -- favorite thing for each candidate. the candidates that have been announced by other command staff people to let know that we could expect a certain candidate to come forward, we have a lot of talented people in the department. i would be surprised if someone from outside the department could have the talent we possess right in this room and this department. i am looking forward to this. this is a terrific honor the four of us have to pick three people, and i think we will have three wonderful candidates going forward. thank you for coming out and

giving your opinion, taking your time. that shows your love for the present firefighters of your occupation and of the department. i didn't think chief tom and his work on the auxiliary over the years is wonderful. thank you. we are looking forward to exciting times. if you have what it takes to be a fire chief, apply and we look forward to interviewing people. thank you. >> president cleaveland: the deadline for applies is december 7th. we will have another meeting on december 12th, and we can add an

item, additional comment on the attributes for future fire chief we could add to the meeting. it would be right after thanksgiving. why don't we add that to the agenda to get additional public comment. i appreciate those that came out tonight and the awss information. it is something that has been discussed multiple times over the years with to date very little action. that is something to look at in the future. we will add that to the agenda for the december 12th meeting to have additional inputs and comment on the fire chief's position. thank you very much commissioners and thank you for the public coming forward on this item. >> clerk: item 5 report from

administration, deputy chief jeanine nicholson on the administration divisions, fleet and facility status, fire nance, support services, homeland security and training within the department. >> good evening commissioners. i will try to knock your socks off with my report from the the administrative side. the commissioner's office are going to be busy conducting physicals for the people that are going to be getting can offers of employment. the investigative services bureau is in the process of conducting background investigations and meet and greets with people for the next academy. the process is underway and it

is exciting. the assignment office. many of the vacation relief moves came out today. there be some more out tomorrow and vacation bidding begins tomorrow for temperature city, the -- for the city. the ffo vacancy and it is already completed. vacation bidding tomorrow for everyone from 11/29 to 12/5. support services. our poe handled 70 plus field and equipment repairs and hundreds of calls for equipment. our fleet we have on order six triple combination pumpers