sitting in the front there, doing a great job with some of the power powerpoint his they are teaching them. coastal beach safety filming going on. the canine handler, lieutenant miller inside that car. he was hiding in the car. the second alarm fire on irving. this is the one i was speaking about earlier. cliff rescue on december 10th, they did a good job. december safety fair. marine operations training, with the local state and federal partners. and other outreach event. the japanese medical students visiting from toyo medical college.

high surf public safety messaging during the 50-foot wave warning. we had a big hand and gave a lot of the signage out there. station 49, on christmas day. and their feral cat pet, edna, who helps stock ambulances. there is the new year's eve preparation. you can see the fireworks on the lower left. we have our gators are ready to go out of station 49, in the middle picture, and on the right to, the prep. all of the members going over the a.p. with the chiefs. lieutenant baxter again. off-duty members involved here with the goodwill donation marathon on new year's eve. the building relationship with the media. and for tips, follow us on twitter, and instagram, and facebook. also on periscope and youtube.

i would just like to congratulate lieutenant baxter for only showing up on three of the pictures of all of those pictures. [laughter] onto e.m.s., you guys can stop me any time, you have a lot of items on the agenda but i can keep going up to you guys. >> you are doing a good job. >> okay. new year's eve went smooth. we have to bolster up our ata program. we need to increase the membership to stabilize our staffing. vision zero ambulances, we are getting ten of them in february, and five more shortly thereafter the e.m.s. identifiable home address, our report is added to this, as well as the e.m.s. six report. we have given you the stats for their permits, annual inspections, for the high-rise

section, headquarters, as well as plan checks to put their numbers forward. as you know, captain mike pat from prevention did a great job with the developments working with city agencies, and captain law has done a great job with our task working with sfmta and street improvements. as a mention to, the bulb outs was one consideration that we need to look at when they do this. again, we went over that with them about our aerial shots with the overhead bus lines. they said they will be passenger zones. i would like you to drive up church street and see what i'm talking about. they said these will be loading zones, or passenger zones, where they could drop people off. people are just parking in these zones all along the street where we told him they would continue to and they are keeping their cars there. when we drive up with our aerial trucks, will not get our aerial up. i want you to address that with m.t.a. shortly this week to see if we can take care of that.

i also have the bureau of fire investigation who are doing a great job. also attached is the airport, the report from the airport. that concludes my report to, and i'm available for questions. >> thank you, chief gonzalez. is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, any questions, mr vice president? >> thank you chief for your report and thank you chief gonzalez for your comprehensive reports. i have a series of questions and comments. on page 2, you talked about the second alarm at 3838 clay street who rolled up this report? >> the temporary assistant assistant chief. >> great report. but it does for us and the commission is it gives us some detail, precise information, and

again, in terms of the skill level of the assistant deputy chiefs, where they can be written where we can see exactly what goes on with your addition in terms of narration. it is a great thing. thank you very much for that. i am glad you acknowledged the photos, i understand now that baxter who provided those photos from page 7-12. >> yes, sir,. >> greatly improved, chief, from just a photo. now there is titles, information , poses, totally comprehensive. >> he knows what we like. >> right. in terms of the general public, those photos cover from page 7- 12, and for the general public, in terms of your operation report, there's about 45 pages in here. in terms of the commission, and the commissioners, we do a lot of reading, but it is all part

of comprehension. again, i wanted to acknowledge the various chiefs who report and contribute to this e.m.s. services. i also want to remark on page 18 , page 19, the description of e.m.s. six is much better. much better to me and a sense of the layout and the format. the chief is very good. if that could be related also to dr jay, i would greatly appreciate it. again, the more detail that we have with comprehension, it just greatly helps the reading. i wanted to remark that when it comes to fire prevention, i'm assuming from page 19-30, and with all the various categories, captain shea's report on page 19 , it goes to b.f.p.

training and community outreach section. it goes until page 26. monthly section updates. to page 27, to community development, large community development. i wanted to remark to page 29, captain bowen, how much we appreciate that. >> thank you very much for that inclusion. fire marshal, thank you for all of the members who contributed to this large section. i appreciate every report. and i wanted to remark that in

this report of close to 40 some pages, it just shows the hard work of the men and women of this departments within the division of operations. thank you. >> just real briefly, following up with the vice president, what you do and what your staff does, you identify people by name, so you give credit and responsibility pick you identify them. you don't leave it out. it is not like this is done and you don't take all the credit for it to, you assign credit where credit was due, and you think people. there's a lot of people who might be watching this, or fire department employees, plenty of

you are mentioned here for your good work. this is a good job. i like to see that. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. >> i would like to reiterate my thanks to you and the chief and the department for all of the hard work that goes into this. this is no easy task. a ghost to show how much work we are doing for the city and county of san francisco. i would like to propose the idea of making this -- i don't know if this is public, is is a public document? i would like to make this publicly available if possible, if there are no objections to that. if the men and the women of the city can see how hard we are working for them, and we can showcase your great work on the great pictures in the great work that is going on this report. i know that the building inspections, just in the interest of budgeting, the belgian just building inspections is worried about 40% , and there's about 600 and

something they there, so i am assuming 100% is 1200 high-rises in the city, just by the numbers is there a way we can charge for those, or is that something we need to do gratis? >> we charge for most inspections. we can answer more comprehensively in regards to where we are at. >> good morning, commissioners. we do charge by the square foot. i don't have that right readily available, but we do have that -- we have 620 high-rises in san francisco. we are mandated by state law to inspect them annually. forty-eight% means we are halfway through. we are roughly around 300 or so. >> do you know what the average charge is? $400, $500, $1,000? >> is quite expensive. >> could you define the parameters for a high-rise, one constitutes a high-rise?

>> the highest floor, occupied level at 75 feet or greater is considered a high-rise. we have 620 of those. we have a hundred 50 that are 240 feet and taller. we have quite a few. >> just by doing those numbers, we are leaving about 3,000 to $4,000 on the table. it could possibly be more. i think that is one of our -- our rigs cost about $300,000. we are leaving one of those on the table every year. >> this is a progress report. by the end of the year, we had 100%. absolutely. 100% of the schools, and then those are three mandates. r1, are two, schools and high-rise. >> goods. is that money going to the general fund? >> it goes to fire prevention. it pays for our salaries. >> it does come back to the department? >> the bureau recoups about 90%

of our cost to provide our service. >> thank you. i appreciate that. >> are you finished? >> commissioner covington? >> thank you mr president. i agree with everyone of you who pointed out the new captions, at all of the other things that really help us understand the depth of work that has been going on. i have a question for -- i guess it would be chief lee regarding the bike medic totals for the airport. i just wanted to know some of the breakdowns. i see there were 384, and i am

wondering what that means, and aided case. >> good morning, commissioners, and chief. commissioner covington, you said you had a question regarding an aided case. >> yes, the definition. >> that would be anything from an agent at the airport of one of the airlines calling to say we have a passenger that is not feeling well, to someone else witnessing someone fall on the escalator, or any of the moving sidewalks. whenever there is a request for aid. >> icy. okay. thank you. -- i see. okay, thank you, and a service call, what is that? >> a could be anything from water leaking, and a service call could be a lot of things. usually it is something on the airfield, like if someone says

there is a spill over there, or there is something leaking, we don't know what it is. the fire department comes out and inspects, and determines what it is, and who should take care of it at the airport. >> is that the hazmat crew that goes out? >> normally who is dispatched as an engine, a truck, and a battalion chief. >> okay. everything else was self-explanatory. vehicle accidents, noninjury, vehicle accident, injury, but it was those two categories that i was wondering about. thank you for that clarification >> you are welcome. a lot of the times, if dispatchers are not sure, they will put it as a service -- service call or an aided case. >> next time i see this chart, i will know what those two mean. thank you. >> you are welcome the mac i also had a question for the fire marshal. regarding the vehicle fires. i see that there were 25

incendiary fires. are those being investigated, and is that a high number, a low number for a month, where does it fall? >> that is in a ballpark. that one stuck out to me as being very high. >> it would not. >> it was a regular event that we respond to. we investigate every fire, and there is a fire investigation report. it is a same process followed with a vehicle file. >> is there a common cause? >> vehicle fires do not just spontaneously combust. most of the time it is incendiary. the key there is there are any witnesses or cameras that we can capture or anything like that? short of that, it is very difficult to investigate process >> are there any clusters?

>> i can get some more information on that. i don't want to misspeak. i can get back to you. >> thank you very much. those are all the questions i had. thank you. >> thanks, commissioners. >> thank you commissioner covington. chief gonzalez, it was a very detailed report. you live it every day, we read it, and we appreciate it. i had a quick question on how you even out the workflow from various stations. if you look at the report on incidents, station one on folsom street, station three on post street, they do over 1,000 calls a month. you look at station 36 on oak street, almost 800, and the rest of them are 200, 150, whatever. how do you even out the workload

for those stations to have such high call volumes? >> the high call volume stations are determined by the 911 calls that come in. the stations were placed -- station one was placed a few different times. our predecessors put these stations closer together in the high density areas where they would have fires, and at that time, they had a lot of s.r.o. fires based on getting more rigs there at that time. and since a majority, 80% of our calls were medical calls. there is a high volume of calls that happen in those areas. they just happened to be first seen at those locations. first seen engine, so to speak. that is why it was so important to me to create the quick response vehicles. they have taken a huge amount of calls away from them because the call volume is very high. it was very high for them. it is still very high for most

fire engines throughout the united states, but it is less wear and tear on the employees that are at the stations as well as the apparatus. it is determined on call volume within that area. >> there are response vehicles that are part of these numbers here that are coming directly from station 49. >> i was going to give you, as i can give it to next month, the year end stats. i had them done since 2014. seems -- as you know, from 16-17 , they went up 5% and in 17 engine 15-16, they went up 5%. we have levelled off in 2018. that was just total call volume. in regards to the q. r.v., it is also on that you -- year end report tommy runcie took away and how many of the engine one -- report, they took away and how many of the engine one and three. >> do people bid to serve at

stations one and stations three and stations 36, -- >> i would not say that, i would say that everybody -- every position on all the rigs is biddable. people make it until they put in for something else. when you come in, you are assigned to certain stations. when you are unassigned, oftentimes you take details from other members, and you learn what other fire stations you can hit on your detail. you learn and you experience these stations and you think maybe, i will take these stations. they go there by choice. the people who go to one, three, and 36, they want to be busy. >> okay. i am just worried about evening out the workflow for all of our firefighters. some are sitting in houses that have very little activity, and others are running out every ten minutes to a call. >> i would say that other stations don't have as many

calls, that doesn't mean they are -- they are lowering call activity, but they do the same amount of drilling, same amount of inspections can probably even more drilling because they have more opportunities to do so. >> inspections of homes or buildings, things of that nature good deal. thank you very much for your report. >> thank you. >> it was a very good one. madam secretary, called the next item? >> item eight is drone policy update. an update on the drone policy. >> good morning. it is still morning. >> yes, sir. good morning. assistant deputy chief mike cochrane, homeland security. i want to apologize, i did not get this policy to you last meeting. we have mason -- made some strides. prior to our next meeting, i want to thank think that she for assisting me. we got out a thorough and robust policy for both members and citizens. i would like to pull it up here. can you help me out?

>> my a.v. skills. >> keep talking. >> yes, sir,. for our updates we want to go over the drone benefit to the san francisco. some of the challenges that are san francisco's specific. >> i will start it. i will do it for you to. i got it. go ahead. >> is it ready to go to the laptop. >> yes. >> we are ready. >> we will show them the nice first one. this was a nice first slide. the drone program. >> yes, sir. the next steps we are taking so we can get our program off the ground, no pun intended.

>> our benefit for the san francisco fire department, rapid damage assessments. we see that in the wildland fires recently throughout california. also in alaska. we can utilize the situational awareness. if one of our acs and myself are the safety officer. they request a drone to overlook the building and see if there is a fire extension. we can utilize at there peerk we have a large amount of search and rescue that we do, both cliff and cerf. the imaging will help us at night to find those victims and also our training division can utilize an in-service also. the challenges we face in san francisco, the committee on information technology has a blanket policy for multiple agencies in the city. i don't believe it will work for us. the fire department and the

chief doesn't either. we should be able to fly whenever we want, wherever we want. if there is a life safety issue, the property preservation, we need to be able to fly. there are restrictions that we can't fly at night. we can't fly above people. out of line of sight, this will not work on our cliff rescues, as i see it. near an airport they do have five heliport is registered by the f.a.a. on the drone websites they are not all act -- active. you see med is in mission bay. within 500 feet of historic buildings, without notice to property owners, that is not going to work for us. there is 193 at last count of those. there is some data security concerns that we are addressing in our policy. so the path to get around that is there's a lot of people that have helped me, but we do need waivers. we get waivers from the f.a.a.

that will be part one '07 restriction. that is where each pilot will get their own waivers, but us as a private agency, every fire department i spoke to, we need to get something to make us very thorough. we are all taking the appropriate steps, and once again, like i said, to create a well organized drone operation. that is what we are shooting for , and we are heading that way once again, i want to thank the chief on the next slide. we are taking methodical approach. we are trying to learn from people who already have it in place, and here's one for commissioner covington. i know you went to the park. i was hired in 1989.

there are people that are still there. they have helped me quite a bit. the drone program coordinator has assisted us with which drone to get for the fire service, specifically san francisco and the best one we could fly at night with lights and infrared cameras in the rain. which school we should send our pilots to,, which i will be attending soon. we reviewed their policies. i spoke to them. they have about nine pilots that are launched out of their emergency operations centre. they are funded by port security grants. and one with the f.a.a. on the san francisco's specific challenges. they once again reinforced f.a.a. one '07. i met with them several times. there's a multitude of city agencies. really only four out right now

that have a pilot program. the fire department and the p.u.c., on the ports. other agencies are attempting to get on board, including the controllers, public works and the sheriff. lee, as a fire department, are instituting our own program that will move you forward. we need our own. the school, i'm sorry, we submitted the exemption language to the city attorney from our drone policy for review. that basically gives us emergency exemptions. we are waiting for that to return, but has been submitted. we did identify the flight school that will be attending. moving forward, the next step that we have taken prior and after our last meeting, the first one is an application for flight approval in the ape -- and an aviation request. that is because our grant -- i'm sorry, our drone is for a grant,

and the urban area security initiative must have that paperwork. that will be done this week. we started it, we talk to them yesterday about how to finish. there was language in there i wasn't sure of. the chief has assisted with that , and we will be ahead on that letter. we have received received funding and got several bids and we are forwarding that. and once again, that is a process that takes some time for that drone to go out to bid, and we are getting there also. the numbers to attend the flight school, the chief of department says there will be safety officers, the assistant deputy chief as safety one, and i am safety two. we are on 24/7, 365, we respond to his many fires as we can during the day, and any high hazard incident and injuries after hours.

both have vehicles that can cover a lot of ground. we are constantly on-call picked us together program moving, we will get that. we will be going to school and getting our f.a.a. 107 licenses. we could begin the program and see how we would submit it further for further training down the road. how many hours should we fly, county county responses do we actually have, and we can set up a training program also. the other one we are ahead of, from the city attorney, we initiated a process for the chief of department. they got us a city attorney for that letter of declaration. it is only way to get into the f.a.a. website. there too outside agencies that will apply for these. the f.a.a. does not want that. the chief got us a city attorney they supplied us a declaration letter and we were accepted. we got into the f.a.a. website. the other person i want to bring

up is chris sadler. i contacted the f.a.a. drone coordinator and asked who is the master there. he took us though she took me through their organization, and at the end of that, we are 99-point 9% done. do not hit the submit button until you are 100% positive that is the drone you are getting. once we know that is on the way, he feels that we will get accepted. everyone he has submitted has been approved. part of that is to identify the drone. once we know 100% that is the drone that is coming, we are ahead of its. by the time that happens, will be through flight school, and we are moving forward. we are looking for questions. >> excellent report.

is there any public comment on the report on the drone? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you so much for all your work on this. i know there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes to get a report like this done and different agencies that are working on. thank you for your hard work on this. is this drone policy, as it has been submitted to the commission , subject to approval? >> we submitted that to go to the city attorney. i don't know the answer on that, to be honest with you. >> are we waiting on the city attorney to say yes, it is okay? this is a same policy that before you came on, i was working with the city attorney and they had all of their notes in this agreement, in this policy, and this is essentially drafted by them. i was part of that drafting with them.

i'm wondering if it is just an update today. >> i took your notes and injected all that they are with the emergency operation. we still need to override the city and county policy. i am not sure what step goes on after that. >> i believe you could take action on its. if there is any additional requirements that need to be met , we would be in fall edition formed by the city attorney. >> let's do it. there is one thing, and i discussed this with you prior to the meeting, there is one sentence in here that i would like to clarify and i read you the language of the clarification, if the commissioners could go to page nine, you will see sections d.,

e., f., g., h., and i, and section i has two sentences to it. i will wait for you, commissioner. >> thank you. i have several copies of this. okay. >> page 9. >> thank you. >> so the first sentence starts with emergency upper operations. and the second sentence is the one that i would like to clarify it says all other exemptions granted to the above conditions will be in accordance with f.a.a. waivers, and c.o.a. waivers, essentially for flight over people might operations, altitude, visual line of sight, and airport restrictions. >> yes. >> it wasn't clear to me when i read it what exactly that meant,

but after discussing it with you , i now have a clear understanding of what you mean by that. it is that they exemptions that are granted in the f.a.a. waivers, and the c.o.a. waivers should be included in this agreement. >> absolutely. >> okay. i would like to change that sentence just to be more clear, because i think clearer policies are more instructive, and i would like to replace that last sentence with the following. emergency operation exemptions granted by the f.a.a. waivers, and c.o.a. including, but not limited to those flight over people, might operations, altitude, visual line of sight, and airport restrictions shall be incorporated by reference herein. chief, are you okay with that language? >> assess the same thing, it is just more clear. >> yes. i think it will be subject to the city attorney looking at it.

i have been told it is -- we submitted our final forms for their final review. i have no problem with that. >> great kick. >> i would like to move this drone policy for adoption with the amendment as stated, and i look forward to the other comments. i thank you chief for your hard work on this. >> thank you commissioner. thank you for your hard work on this. commissioner covington? >> thank you, mr president. i would like to echo the thanks to chief cochrane, and to the commissioners. it is good to have this document before us. i was just looking over my notes because i also attended the drones and the fire service symposium in 2017, held in the park, and the commissioner was

asking about airspace and aircraft. there were guidelines that were codified by congress regarding this specifically. there is not very much that we have to think about or do anything about, because congress has already decided what we may or may not be able to do in the future, sort of like the chartered thing. so this is a very good policy, and i know a lot of people have been working on it for quite some time, and it is good to see it to this point, also reviewing my notes, i see that you answered a lot of the questions that people attended the symposium were told, to make sure you have this in order before you go to the feds, because otherwise they will tell you, know, this is another box

that you need to check. i think we are ready. i would like to second this. >> thank you commissioner covington. we have a motion on the floor, and a second. all in favor of adopting this drone policy say aye. >> aye. >> it is unanimous. congratulations and congratulations to do -- to you. it is a good policy. i would like to call our fire marshal back up just for a quick second on the clarification a clarification on a previous comment. >> thank you. commissioner covington, i always try to be as accurate as possible. i may have misunderstood you in our last interaction here. as far as the fire investigation reports, the numbers on that log , that is an ongoing and running list. that can be reflected a few months back. when we look at 20 or 25 vehicle fires, or open investigation reports for those vehicle fires. >> i see. >> if we look at just this, that is not surprising.

if we look at this month, it is five. >> very good. >> i want to make it crystal clear that it is five. >> that takes me feel better, because i was beginning to wonder whether or not there was an active arsonist afoot, and because chief gonzalez's report is a monthly report, i was thinking that it was monthly. thank you for this clarification i feel much better. >> thank you, fire marshal. madam secretary, would you call the next item? >> item nine, fire commission item of statement. discussion and possible action to adopt the 2019 annual statement of purpose. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? do you wish to have -- commissioner covington, you probably want to have it read

into the record. >> i most certainly do. i would like people to know what it is we are promising in our role as commissioners for the san francisco fire department, and i would like to move this item. >> madam secretary, would you do that, please? >> annual statement of purpose, 2019. it is a responsibility of the fire commission to ensure that the san francisco fire department effectively implements its mission. the mission of the fire department is to protect the lives and property of the people of san francisco from fires, natural disasters, and hazardous materials, incidents, to save lives by providing emergency medical services to prevent fires through prevention and education programs, and to prevent a work environment that values health,, wellness, and cultural diversity and is free of harassment and discrimination to this end, the commission will set follow-up -- policy and support the administration to accomplish the mission of the department, support the

administration's efforts to enhance and support the collaborative work of department membership and public stakeholders and the delivery of fire to social fire suppression, prevention and emergency medical services with a focus upon the common public good, encourage and support the administration to develop and implement systems to improve physical responsibility to enhance the budgeting process, while maintaining and protecting essential public services, services including fire protection, fire prevention, and emergency medical services, encourage and support the administration to develop an effective physical fitness and wellness program, to promote the health, safety, and welfare of the members of the department, and the public, encourage and support the administration to develop, as part of its overall strategic planning, effective clear -- career development, and prevention opportunity for the membership, actively encourage and support recruitment and education in the communities to

bring highly qualified applicants to the department who truly reflect rich diversity where necessary review official policy and features, and contribute to the common good by collecting meetings such additional things as being necessary to inform and educate the general public of the work of the fire commission, and san francisco fire department. adopted at the regular meeting of the san francisco fire commission on january 9th, 2019. >> thank you. commissioner covington, did you have additional comments on this >> know, i would like to see the item. >> we have a motion on the floor to move its. >> i will second the motion, and i really appreciate this

statement, because it not only tells the public what we are doing, but he gives us a little bit of guidance. more specifically, when i joined the commission, i gave out a statement of the things that i was going to work on, that is all within the policy statement here, and specifically i remember it was the drone program, which today we accomplished, thank you, chief, and chiefs, the peer support program cap next which we got the resolution passed, which was great, and the private funding, which i have been working on through my foundation. statistics and tracking with the homeless statistics, i think we will pay off for us in dividends eventually. the two things that i haven't been able to accomplish our the shoreline safety stuff that i would still like to work on, as well as the historical rigs that are sitting out at treasure island in the rain. that is something i would like to continue to work on. in the future, i think that my plans for the things that i

would really like to work on, and it has always been -- part of it has always been to help the membership, because in my theory, if i can help the membership do their jobs better, they can better serve the public , and also they are part of our family and this amazing institution, but i think we need to expand on for the future things. i want to develop a coach expand the wellness program. that includes not only the peer support which will track and continue to work on, with cancer awareness. i think we should have a work on a deacon -- decontamination policy, and not only have a new state-of-the-art decontamination policy, but update the one that we have. i know that we have one, but also enforce it. i know it has been a difficult task because the men and women in this department rushed into buildings to save lives, but they do not always think about

themselves. they do a great job thinking about other people, but they do not do such a good job about saving their own lives. i would like to change that this year where we become more proud of our own internal wellness programs and including establishing incentives for doing that. setting up a nationwide standard -- in one of these things is i think we, as a fire department, there are a lot of departments that look to us for setting the standard, and one thing we learned from the cancer prevention presentation that we had is that all of these turnouts at that all all departments use have cancer-causing chemicals in them , and i think that way we are going with technology in the world is that we should set the standard, and incentivize the manufacturers to perhaps come up with a better option, because it is not acceptable. i would like to speak with the purchasing people in the state, and in the city, and set a

policy here at the commission that we, as a city and county of san francisco, will purchase turnouts when they become commercially available that do not have these cancer-causing chemicals, and i think if we set a policy like that and send the message out to these manufacturers that there is money in a pot somewhere, that the cities will purchase these things and they will start to develop those technologies. i know they are out there. the technologies currently exist i will like to -- i would like to look into that as well. and members who are exposed. i think that we have seen the high incidence of cancer and women and i think we need to make that testing more available to members who want to take advantage of it, and we should encourage it, and one other thing is a fire reserves. i think the commission should look to more institutional fire reserves as a method of coming

into the departments so people know if they go to the fire reserves, not only will they get the exposure, but there is a better chance of coming into the department back so i would like to come up with ideas of how to institutionalize the fire reserves into our department and a greater capacity. private funding for smaller needs, i have adopted -- i have already started this program but adopting a fire station program, i will be rolling that out in the next few months. we could get private funding for private people who not only want to thank the fire department for what they do, but do thank you, instead of just saying thank you i'm setting that up to my private foundation, and a look forward to helping you out without with that. and a bigger picture, the department needs to take a look at our assessment of how well prepared we are very significant event, to determine if there are small things that we can do, or large things we could do and including the budget to make sure we are better prepared for a significant event in san

francisco such as a 6.1 or 7.9 earthquake, because we all know some days that that is coming. thank you for allowing me to indulge in the things that i plan on working on, and i look forward to working with you all on the things that are your priorities, and ways we can make this department better. >> thank you, commissioner. we have a motion on the floor and a second. all in favor of adopting the annual statement of purpose for 2019 c'est aye. >> aye. >> it is unanimous. thank you. >> we go on to item 11. commission election of officers, nomination and election of commission president. >> is there any public comment on this item? saying none, public comment is closed. as a current president for the second year in a row, i would

like to make a nomination of my vice president as the next president of the commission. i came on this commission in 2013 and he became an instant mentor to me, and has been one that i have always looked to for guidance. and his experience for 24 plus years on the commission, no one knows our department better than him, and certainly he is entitled to be a president again i would like to make a motion that he be elected as our president for 2019. do i have a second? >> second. >> thank you. do we have any discussion? all right. >> i would just -- i would like to second as well. i believe that we will all jump

on board on this one, but i would also like to say that if you are approved as president, i look forward to working with you i've already laid out my ambitious schedule. [laughter] >> and i know there is no person on this commission that has dedicated more time to this department, and two carries, and his heart, the pride for the membership of this department, especially for the members in his community. but i also know department wide, i am proud to stick with you and the other commissioners. i look forward to sticking with you. i second and third year nomination your nomination as president. >> is there any public comment on this? saying none, commissioners, how do you vote? all in favor say aye. >> aye.

>> you are elected. [laughter] [applause] >> we now have the election of the vice president. chief, please jump in. >> thank you. first and foremost, i would like to thank you, president, for your leadership during the last two years, serving as president. i know it is a challenging position and i have really enjoyed working with you at a closer level and appreciate your support, your advocacy, your tough questions at times, and i really wanted to say thank you. i know you had a transition while you are serving as president. he retired, so i know that you had some competing interest your guy know you like to travel, and you were very diligent in your duty.

thank you very much. congratulations to the newly elected president. i have had the good fortune and pleasure to work with you. i met you in 1996, and i have huge admiration and respect for you, and i also see you as a senior advisor. a great institutional knowledge of our department his pig we have been through a lot together , not only are you highly respected as a commissioner, but i am grateful to call you my friend as well. it means a lot to me in my last few months that you are once again elected, and stepping up to the challenge as president. regulations. >> thank you. >> i would like to nominate commissioner covington as vice president of the commission. >> we have a nomination. do we have a second? >> i second that.

all in favor? >> aye. >> congratulations. [laughter] >> did you have something to say >> the difference between a president and a commission and being a commissioner his is night and day. the commitment that the commissioner gave over the last couple of years, i can't even -- i can't even determine how many hundreds of hours you have to put in as president versus a commissioner. and how you conduct if the meetings, you let everybody else get everything done, he probably

would have loved to jump in their. we loved his say all the good stuff. there's nothing good to say. that is hard to do because you want to get your thoughts in there to and how you dealt on the outside with the public, people commented to me when they met you. i just met president cleveland and he was very informative. so you've done a great job and i think san franciscans owe you a lot. you are terrific and as far as the commissioner, we know we will be supporting him over the next year. he has done it before, so he knows what to expect. those are all my comments. congratulations, commissioner covington. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> he is not going anywhere. we are still going to work on him. >> there is a lot of work to be done. >> we need to leave soon. >> commissioner covington?

>> i want to say, congratulations to you. i look forward to looking just working with you in the final few months back we worked very closely together when you are president in 2016 for our 150 th, and you had additional duties. thank you and congratulations. >> vice president-elect? >> thank you every -- very much everyone. i had my name up originally. but i wanted to also chime in and thank the outgoing president , and our president-elect for their service. it has been a hectic time. they have had a lot of balls to keep in the air, and i really appreciate their commitment to this department, and to the safety. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. mr vice president? >> thank you very much, mr president. i also wanted to chime in on the

appreciation and the dedication that you have shown us in the leadership as being the president of the fire commission for the last 21 years. working side-by-side with you, it is amazing in terms of how much hard work dedication and consciousness you have for both the commission and the offices and the administration and the membership. thank you so much for that. i also look so much forward to a long time colleague on this fire commission that is a veteran commissioner as our commissioner , but the vice president-elect, covington, thank you so much for your dedication and your contribution , i look forward to working with you as we always have in terms of the welfare of the department, and all of the challenges that are facing us. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr vice president. any public comment on this? saying none, public comment is

closed. madam secretary? >> item 12, correspondence received, dated 12, 20, 18, from valerie street. president-elect? >> is there any public comment on these two items? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item 13, commission report. report on commission activity since last meeting on december 12, 2018. >> excuse me, we did have some comment, our vice vice president and president-elect on item 12. >> thank you very much. basically, what it is, i know we have a closed session, i wanted to talk to the correspondence letter dated 12, 21 from the president-elect in terms of local 798. i wanted to make reference in terms of articles that came out in the newspapers january the 3

rd out of the san francisco examiner. january the 6th, it came out of the san francisco chronicle. basically to talk to the commissioners in terms of the process of interview and selection process. there was some reference in terms of this commission and the commissioner was moving quickly. i wanted to say that in terms of that from the past reviews and comments by the president-elect and some of the members of the 798, there was a point in that presentation some months ago, as well as as the directors and some of you in terms of directors are dependent upon the site. in terms of the commission, there was testimony my comments in terms of us and moving on a rapid pace and in terms of interview process, as well as submitting names to the mayor.

i wanted to ensure that membership in the members of the 798, and most importantly to the members of the department and to the public that this commission is taking this assignment very seriously, that we are in the process -- interview process. there has been some additional candidates that have been added. we have completed two days of it and we are scheduling ourselves for more days in terms of additional interview candidates, but bottom line, and i'm speaking as a commissioner, not for the whole commission, we take the scrutiny and the charge very serious. nobody is rushing nothing in this process. when we are ready, we will do our due diligence, we will submit names to the mayor, and in her ability is, she will be advised, and it is her discretion to be able to use

whatever advisory membership that she has in terms of final selection. but i also want to say, in this new day with this administration that is presently in the mayor's office with mayor breed, as well as the change in terms of the leadership with this department, that we are looking for a joint collective leadership, but also we are looking for cooperation. as a member of this commission, we all know that we are wanting to work with the members of local 798, but also the leadership. and again, our due diligence will occur. there are many qualifications in terms of this awesome position and responsible challenging position of chief of the department. but i want to assure the membership and the public that this commission and these commissioners are doing the best job that we can, and we will do our oversight, and we will accomplish our task. thank you.

>> thank you. madam secretary, we can move on to item 13. >> item 13 is reported on commission activities since last meeting on december 12th, 2018 >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you outgoing president. i'm trying to be real quick. i wish chief rivera was still here. i attended the most fascinating meeting that was ever on this commission. there was an apparatus meeting called of the committee and one of the commissioners that was supposed to make it had something come up, and couldn't make it. i decided to volunteer when it was posted by the commission secretary. i could attend as it was.

chief rivera is quite an amazing person when it comes to knowing an apparatus of this city. the engines, the trucks, the buggies, the generators, i was so overwhelmed with information, and it is something i regret i didn't do before. i was sitting there a couple of hours to learn so much. i was -- i was trying to cut this short, but he was talking about cutting 8,000 pounds off of a ladder on a ladder truck. i'm thinking, 8,000 pounds. i went home and googled and a found out a ladder weighs 55,00. so the reason we are cutting the weight -- the weight down is to extend the weights. a variety of things like that. it was so good. i want to thank chief rivera and the captain, who works also