hayward, have you toured that a new one? >> i have not. >> i saw that on tv. i was shocked how lab brat it looked. i was impressed. it impressed me i didn't know anyone was building the new training facility. they mentioned where the money came from to fund that. it was in one ear and out the other ear. funding for five more engines, can you -- a little more detail what happened there? >> the contract was for $10 million. anything spent over that amount has to be approved by the board of supervisors.

does that summit up? >> it was anticipated this number would be the request originally if the money was there to cover them? it is not adding something that wasn't anticipated? >> we are not asking for more money. we are asking for approval to go forward purchasing the rigs. >> the money is there? that is why i was confused. i asked the right question. >> good evening assistant deputy chief rivera. any city contract up to $10 million. shovels or fire trucks or broomsticks, once that contract reaches a capacity of $10 million we have to get bored of supervisor approval to move forward and to purchase from that specific contract.

in this case we are at that point with our fire engines with five. we are going over the $10 million. >> i understand. >> thank you. >> the one person that was up at thebute fire that is graduating friday is he back to graduate? >> he will be there on friday. >> he is part of 22? >> yes. >> how dedicated are in southern california. we got the thank you letter. they deserve a pat in the back. they went through the terrible

ordeal and were withing to go there. we have to thank them. you can't do anything else. they are doing their job and they are american heroes. good people. >> thank you commissioner. one quick question. on the mou with the gotc, guardians of the city. is there any update on that and how close are we to having the mou finalized and signed off? >> we are meeting next week. >> make sure the commissioners get that information so there is a couple of them there. thank you for your report. please call the next item. >> clerk: item 6, fire commission meeting calendar 2019. discussion and possible action to adopt the 2019 fire

commission regular meeting cander. >> public comment? public comment is closed. commissioners, what is your pleasure? >> so move the calendar, mr. president. >> very similar to this year except there are special meetings this year and next year some special meetings. >> may i have a second. all in favor. it is unanimous. it is adopted. thank you. >> item 7 report on commission activities since last meeting november 14, 2018. >> any public comment on this item? public comment is closed. commissioners who would like to report. i see commissioner hardeman's name there. >> commissioner hardeman: i did attend the meeting last week.

i was not trying to make proposals or vote up or down. just there to support and listen. it was a bigger crowd and much longer meeting that went well. as chief nicholson said we are at 49 groundbreaking. the mayor was all dressed up in red. she sounded like the comment commission. her heart is in it. she loves the fire department. that was real nice. we had the president of the board speaking also. very nicely done. i am sure it is on tv tonight. it would be covered. all of the brass was there. everybody was smalling.

happy to shovel in dirt. it was a fun thing to do. very enjoyable. >> commissioner covington. >> commissioner covington: thank you, mr. president. i echo commissioner hardeman's seniowaments. it was -- sentiments it was a happy day to see dirt being moved. things will be happening very quickly with the build of station 49, also known as the ambulance deployment facility. it is just a very exciting, you know, and the people waiting for so long to have the facility to finally see there is going to be some movement. very nice day today. >> thank you commissioner

covington. deputy chief gonzalez. >> thank you. i am not sure if this is the right time can adjourn -- adjourn in memory of michael kirk. >> happy to do so. no question. >> anything further commissioners. >> i had a couple meetings this past couple weeks. one with the executive director of the bicycle coalition. we have a representative doing a very good job. that individual should come at a future meeting to update how we are interacting with the san francisco bike coalition. we have issues sometimes with them. it is a much better relationship now and i am happy to see that.

also met with the black firefighters association president to see how their organization ask going and get his input on our next chief. finally, i enjoyed the groundbreaking. all of us are happy to see dirt moved and construction by beginning on the new ambulance station 49. it has been a long time in coming. we needed the voters to approve the bond to pay for it. we need voters to approve a bond for the future training facility in excess of $100 million. i hope the voters watching this program will remember us when we come to the ballot in a year and-a-half with a request for funds to build the new training facility. that is it, madam secretary next

item. >> agenda item 8 next meeting. >> what ask on the dockets for future meetings? >> cancer prevention coming in. i believe they have the results from the case stud die. we have the chief's public comment. i am not sure of the resolution on the coastline task force. is that something that is ready to go? no. the chief's appraisal. >> that is going to be tabled. i talked to dhr. >> policy update. >> yes. >> we can do the drum policy. we will have that ready.

>> study on the training facility. >> at our last meeting it was announced we would be discussing the new training facility this evening, then it was taken off the calendar so i think it should be on the calendar for the next meeting. we have not had a thorough discussion about the training facility and how we are going to get one. >> thank you. >> okay. commissioners, vice president. >> vice president nakajo: are we talking about the items for the december 12th fire commission

meeting? point of clarification we still have the december 19th closed session at the headquarters? >> correct. >> okay. in terms of the january calendar, mr. president. what is the commission elections? >> the first meeting on january 9th. we will have election of officers for next year on january 9th. >> thank you very much, mr. president. >> interviews are separate. they will be held at dhr but not here. >> it will be held probably dhr offices at 1 south vanness. >> it is hard to keep that. >> i have to post it. >> we have to have open session

and closed session. >> anything else? >> were you finished? >> point of clarification we are talking about interview dates january 4, friday, january 8, tuesday, and the time is 9:00 to 4:00? >> clerk: that is what is put out at the moment. >> i would book at 9:00. if it starts at 10:00 we will let you know. >> thank you. >> that was january 4 and 8. if we could get a calendar invite. >> bring your list of questions. >> january 4th at 9a. >> and the eighth at 9am. >> how long long do you

anticipate going? all day. 9:00 to 4:00. the 19th will be all day probably meeting as well as most of the day. >> december 19th at 11:00. >> that will be at commission head quarters? >> that is all day event? >> potentially, yes. >> is it possible to get -- i know we get our materials for the meetings. it is posted on thursday, right? is it posted publicly on thursday the agenda? >> the friday before the meeting, 32 hours. >> are materials posted friday before the meeting? >> friday or monday. >> is it possible to get the materials a little earlier than we are currently getting them?

>> it depends on the report sometimes from the various divisions. it is not easy. >> you can get the agendas if that is what you want. >> clerk: the agenda is not final until the friday before the meeting. the materials that go with the agenda come to me as the agenda is set. >> they can come to you after the friday? >> usually not. i usually get everything on the friday. >> is it possible to post the materials on our website with the agenda? >> i do. supporting documents. those agenda minutes and supporting documents. >> i will take a look at that to refer back to the chief's report. i enjoyed it.

you i couldn't find it. it is not part of the packet i receive digitally. >> it goes to the other four commissioner os friday hand delivered. you opted and the ops report is separate. >> is there a reason that can't be a public document? >> it is public. it is separate from the packet. >> i would like to receive that digitally to refer back to it. >> i can scan that? >> i enjoy that so much. >> any further input? i don't believe i called for public comment. any public items for future items? seeing none it is closed.

last item. check. >> clerk: adjournment. >> i would like to adjourn in honor of michael kirk who passed on tuesday morning. he was hired in 2002. thank you for attending tonight. this meeting is adjourned.

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union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. the people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. it is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. this is the move we are happy to provide to the people. i always love union street because it's not like another commercial street where you have big chains. here you have the neighbors. there is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. people have -- they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. i love this street itself. >> we created a move of an area where we will be visiting. we want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you

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[applause] >> thank you so much for being here in support of our small business community, in particular of the mayor breed judge up by local campaign of shop and dine in the 49. a thank you to the italian homemade company for hosting us here today. your staff has been so accommodating and so amazing. [applause] >> we are excited to have mayor breed here herself, along with supervisor catherine stefani, -- [cheering] >> good afternoon, good afternoon. end as well as chief scott he will give us some tips on staying safe for enjoying the holidays. and a quick little bit about shop and dine in the 49. small businesses are critical to the vitality of our city.

making sure they are supported in employing hundreds of thousands of san francisco people is an extraordinary opportunity for us during this time to share our love with them and pay our respects to the hard work that they have put in. more importantly, are independent places are essential to the fabric of san francisco culture. with that, i want to say thank you for being here and invite our mayor to celebrate and open us up. >> thank you. [applause] thank you. first of all, thank you to the italian homemade company for allowing us to host this event here today. i know that this is supervisor stefani's favorite space to come and eat and i am used to seeing the past that in the window, but you must have cleaned it up for us. thank you so much for having us here today. i am also excited that we are here with jim lazarus with the san francisco chamber of commerce and henry with the

council of district merchants -- merchants. two incredible supporters of small business in the city. thank you for being here with us today. as well as northern police station captain who is keeping the neighborhood safe as well. thank you all so much. this is exciting. joaquin, you didn't do it justice. we are supposed to get people excited. shop and dine in the 49. shop and dine. and, you know, san francisco has some of the most incredible small businesses. people come here from everywhere to eat some amazing food. to find unique items and a lot of the boutique stores that exist in neighborhoods throughout san francisco. including the fillmore and west portal, and the richmond, and right here on union street. it is like one of my favorite places to hang out.

there is chestnut street with a lot of shops and places. small businesses usually owned by one individual who is probably working the business themselves. and today, we are here to talk specifically about the holiday season and how important it is to make sure that we are supporting the businesses writing san francisco. right in our neighborhood character and part of that, is on saturday, when a lot of us are hanging out with our family and friends and we decides that we want to go shopping, while you don't have to go to the crazy mall and deal with all the parking drama. you can probably walk outside your door to one of the small businesses right in your neighborhood. i want san franciscans and people who come here from all over to make a commitment to support our small businesses throughout san francisco. so small business saturday is an opportunity for us to really support our small businesses and

invest in our communities so we can make sure that san francisco is thriving all over the city. as we enjoy a 2.3% unemployment right mac, let's remember a few statistics that i have here because i can't remember them all. but more than 95,000 businesses in total existing san francisco. 53,000 of those businesses are small business that employ 325,000 people. 7900 restaurants, cafés and food stories and beverage establishments actually employ over 100,000 people. we are not only talking about the business itself and the owners. we are talking about the people who are actually employed in our small business community as well today we have an amazing opportunity to not only support small business saturday, but we have some folks here from bayview hunter's point community

and this saturday, this saturday we are going to be hosting the bayview makers mark up -- bayview baker's mash up market. that is a tongue twister. but it is where makers and folks from all over the bayview community who actually make and manufacture their own products in the bayview hunter's point community, will come together for a pop up on saturday to sell their items. what a great opportunity to support the makers and folks at the bayview hunter's point community. we want to thank you for coming to the other side of town to support this particular event. san francisco is an amazing place. we know that if we continue to support our small businesses, we will be an even more amazing city. we also know that there are some times that there will be challenges. that is why we have our police

chief here to deal with some of the challenges that exist as people are enjoying the holidays we want the entire experience to be incredible. we want you to come and park and take munimobile, we want you to walk, but we also want you to be safe and make sure we are protecting your property. without further ado, i want to introduce our police chief, bill scott, to talk about the plans for the police department during the holiday season. [applause] >> thank you. first of all, i will start with where the mayor left off. shop and dine in the 49. it is christmas on the holiday season. it is my favorite time of year. people get out. it is all about togetherness. it is all about community and we want everyone to be safe in doing so. i have a few simple tips, basic tips but if you listen and pay attention to what i will say, it will keep you safe during the

holiday season. first of all, we have these placards. you see these around the city on bus benches and you see them on the back of our munimobile buses park smart. what this means is that for everybody to take a little bit of time to think about your own personal safety. parks marked. do not leave valuables in your car visible for anyone to see and take from you. if you have to leave them in your car, lock them up in your trunk but preferably if you can take them with you, take them with you. one of the things the city has done really well with the business community and the community members on the police department and the mayor's office as we have come together and we had a very serious spike of car break-ins. we came together and we reduce that. part of the reason we reduced it is because we got the message out that we don't want to become easy prey for people to take advantage of us. parks might. a couple of other tips. we all have cell phones. i have taught all of them and we all are in our cell phones.

pay attention to your surroundings. calls are important and techs are important to, especially when i get one from the mayor, but we want you to pay attention to your surroundings. know what is in front of you and behind you as you go out and shop and enjoy the city. because a little bit of influence can go a long way in your personal safety. the next thing, if you see something reported. if you see something, say something. we see suspicious activity and we see things that just don't look right. we will come and check it out for you. we want people to be safe. please, if you see something that looks out of place, call us we don't mind coming at all. the next thing, is make sure that when you go out and you shop, that you have really thought about and planned your trip. i know when i go out, particularly for holiday

shopping. you have bags and bags of bags and you have a lot of merchandise. people sometimes, if they want to take advantage of you they will watch you put things in your car. pay attention to your surroundings and if you plan your trip, you don't want to put things in your car then go back in shopping when someone might be watching you. if you do that, you might want to move your car to another location or weight and plan and make sure you have a plan in terms of how you will do your shopping. so you think about it so you will be victimized. and last thing that i have for you all today is make sure if you are shopping with small kids , particularly with small kids, have a reunification plan. we have quite a few situations where kids get lost and they don't know what to do when they get lost. have a reunification plan. at least make sure that they know who to call and they know

to look for someone in authority and in a uniform. and what to do if they do get separated from you. have a reunification plan if you are shopping with your family. i will end this as i started. whatever you do, do it in san francisco and shop and dine in the 49. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. we want you to have fun but we also want you to be safe. i also would like to acknowledge the president of the small business commission who is here. thank you so much for joining us today. [applause] with that, i'm excited to welcome to the podium your supervisor for district two, catherine stefani. [applause] >> thank you. i want to welcome everyone to district two and union street. one of my favorite streets in district two and of course, here in one of my favorite restaurants.

the other day someone was asking me, how do you do it all, you have two kids and cooking. >> i don't cook. i used to but i'm really good at ordering take-out from the italian homemade. we do it two or three times a week. i recommend this restaurant and i want to say a huge thank you for that hosting us today and for being a staple of our union street community. san francisco is lucky and the number of diverse units --dash neighborhoods within the 49 square miles and i have the privilege and honor of being the district two supervisor and working with our amazing corridor is like union street. the strength of our commercial district is built on our local businesses. in san francisco, i think the mayor already said this so i don't need to repeat it, we have over 95,000 businesses and of that, 53 are small businesses. supporting them is important. in its fifth year, shop and dine in the 49 promotes amazing small businesses and challenges us all to spend locally. the statistic i thought was very

interesting. if we increase local spending by one% it could generate $100 million of economic activity in our city. it is so important. when you are shopping, it is so important to know you need to park smart. i am so proud to have been able to launch this campaign in district two with commander lazar and the caption. we did so much work on the park smart campaign. as a result, car break-ins are down by 21% in northern station which is most of district two. i just really want to thank everyone for their attention in the police department. it has been working and we have a lot of work to do. again, i want to thank the mayor , director torres, chief scott, and others. i really want to thank our small business owners, most importantly. thank you very much to mateja and alice for hosting us this afternoon. thank you to the union street merchants association.

i've been working with you for 12 years and you keep this street driving and we are so grateful to you. remember, strop local, park smart and have a very happy thanksgiving. [applause] >> thank you so much. we have a lot of cards. our success in these programs are focused on our small business community and making sure that you are thriving. you take such good care of us and make our neighborhood special. really do take it and. i wanted to invite you up to say a few words on behalf of the importance of shopping small and small business saturday. >> thank you, mayor and thank you captain. thank you. thank you for picking our restaurant for this initiative. i think it's really important for san francisco and for local businesses to keep the bids

doors business industry. it will avoid the city to lose this character a neighborhood character, that is more important. thank you everybody. [applause] >> i also want to thank nate from public glass in the bayview for coordinating the makers smash up market on saturday. that is where it will be located , right? thank you so much again for being here today. thank you to everyone. we have some amazing places to enjoy in san francisco. let's get to it. shop and dine in the 49. have a wonderful day. [applause] at 62942 working wit

together we can support your children. it's been my dream to start is a valley school since i was a little girl. i'm having a lot of fun with it

(clapping) the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. a lot of times parents say that valley schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here. we hold the classes to no longer 12 and there's 23 teachers. i go around and i watch each class and there's certain children i watched from babies and it's exciting to see them

after today. the children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular schooling. they get self-confidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the rest of their