related to our division of training, we will welcome 42 members into the 125th academy january 28th. they will be joined two weeks later by 12 members from station 49 who are currently being processed through the repartment physicians office for a full compliment of 54 members. we anticipate a class in the fall of 126 academy also comprised of 54 members. and we are planning to have a h3 level one emt class coming in in the summertime. one of my goals is to select those dates for my successor to be able to work with when he or she gets named and assumes the role. activity since the last meeting, january 10th, i attended, as i do every two weeks, the healthy

streets operations committee. and then there's been a break off policy group with the healthy streets operations committee. those are where we have discussions about challenges for street behavior, homeless issues, with various city departments including the department of homelessness, the department of public-health, the controllers office, the san francisco police department, typically the mayor's chief-of-staff attends. the department of public works. we're all working together coming up with solutions, we have, to your point commissioner, raised the issue of budgeting and working collaboratively that we're part of the solution and part of the response. they have asked for additional resources as part of our budget. back in november, they worked with me to submit through the

hsoc funding for additional resources for 'e e.m.s. and we believe it has a district impact of the street behavior and street conditions. many of us attended, even though we don't work on the streets regularly, we would never ask someone in our department to do something that we weren't willing or capable of doing ourselves. it is part of our minimum requirements for eligibility to retain our positions so many of us went through c.p.r. recertification. it's always interesting. the e.m.s. division and the division of training did a great training data headquarters so i feel very comfortable if there was an emergency here i would be right in there. thank you to the dot and e.m.s. division for that. on january 14th, i was unable to attend a couple of meetings that day due to a family emergency.

but there was a labor management meeting that the deputies and olivia scanlana intended with the new president sean buefort and his executive staff. i'd like to thank the deputy chiefs for another meeting that i was to attend. they attended and handled well with chase center, as you know, will house the warriors next season. discussion with how regarding the traffic plan. we want to make sure station 4, we're able to get in and around that area off third street. you have a lot going on there with -- not all the time but we do anticipate that there may be an occasion where there would be an event at at&t park as well as chase center. so to make sure we're adequately resourced and have the patterns down, to be able to provide

responses to both of those venues as well as ecsf hospital and all the other residentses in that area. that was a good discussion and they are working on finalizing the fire alarm system plan with the warriors. as you can see, third street is coming to fruition. that project, i believe will be delivered in the august timeframe. it's anticipated that the warriors will be playing their next season this year. on january 16th, i know the chief is not here. he gets a lot of credit as well as deputy chief nicholl son, we were able to move the members back into station 16. it was good news. station 16 is back in on the 16th. that went pretty well. it was a rainy day. the move went well. i haven't heard anything yet.

we have chief postel here. i haven't heard anything. nothing major has been brought to my attention. that's a good sign. he looks like he might have -- they're happy so that's good. they should be because they had to wait a long time. we heard it was very well done. again, we were not happy about the delay. the good news is they're back in and we're working with mayor breed's schedule and we just received confirmation i believe yesterday that we will have a ribbon cutting. she wants to attend and it will be on january 31st at 11:15:00 a.m. and i'm hoping you will be able to make it. we'll communicate that if we haven't already. you are all welcome to attend that. on the 16th of this month, deputy chief satu met with the advisory boardment they're unpaid volunteers that are real

champions for the nerd program. they're wonderful people. we talked about the budget process. they too would like to see an increase in the nert line item. it has been discussed at the budget committee and we have looked at different priorities. we were candid and said right now from the budget committee it has not risen as a top priority but i committed to working with several of the supervisors to try and see about getting additional funding to grow the nert program and as well to receive funding for resources to assist with getting bulletins out and filing and that sort of thing. right now, we used some interns and peacemeal here and there. 121, earlier this week on monday, many of us in conjunction with the black firefighters'ization marched in

the martin luther king march. again, acknowledged the black firefighters association, what i've seen in the last year-and-a-half or two years is a resurgence and pride in that employee group. it's always been a very well respected employee group. what i've liked to see is some of the newer members that i've hired over the course of my time here as chief that have stepped up into roles testify leadership. today, prior to coming into the office, it was a very nice event out on westportal. right in your hood and my hood, commissioner hardeman. last year, a year ago exactly this evening, in the early morning hours of the 24th, there was a second alarm fire o on the first block. it's been a place that i know i've frequented and you have probably too over the years. twice they've experienced fires

and so today was the rebirth, if you will and the temporary location at 2 westportal. the reopening of the hardware store. i was asked to attend and say a few words with the president norman yee, district 7. i asked engine 39 to ex down because they did a great job. they were the first engine company on scene there. that fire, it was a pretty amazing the two owners, carl and matt, one of their first things when they arrived that night. in referenced it today was they said it's a devastating loss but the first thing they asked for was making sure no one was injured and all of their stuff could be restored. very happy for them. i know they've been -- i think they're a legacy business. that hardware has been in business for 85 years.

happy to participate in that with them. i saw commissioner veronese down in headquarters. so thank you for that. that concludes my report at this time. >> thank you, very much. at this particular point we will ask for public comment on the chief's report. seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, vice president covington. >> thank you. thank you president nakajo. you said there are going to be 54 members for the new class? >> yes. >> ok, i know that i pressed quite strongly to increase the number of people that were admitted to the academy every academy cycle. that was due to the fact that so

many members of the department were retiring. that has slowed to a trickle now. i know that having a 54 members of one class in training at one time has been quite a challenge for the training staff. so i'm wondering if there is a -- if you can just give me some feedback on the need to continue to have 54 members. >> sure. so we always take a look at our staffing levels. women lacking at mapped tory overtime. we needed to catch up just for that sake. we wanted to match play catch up and also match the new hires

with the retirements. i would say not quite a trickle. the high point, we had 74 retirements. including the two fatalities. and then we saw in the 30 and 40s. last year, we had an up swing. this year it would be about the same. if we're hiring two classes over 108 people. we're bringing in january and graduation in june and bringing in september into the new year. we closely monitor it. there is, we allow fo for a 5% o 10% attrition rate. >> that's why i wanted to have it. i wanted us to increase the

numbers. >> i will say, i do think there's an up swing in retirement in the not too distant futureful there was no hiring done between 1982 and 1986 many of the first class that came in, i believe was the 73rd came in in 1997 and a flood of classes between 1987 and 1997. three classed a year. it means that those people, we have very few people in that class in 1988. in the next five to eight years they will reach their 30th year. i came in 1990 and there will be a lot of retirement eligibility. we're monitoring that.

i think we didn't -- i know you are a huge advocate for the 54. that number is -- we need to catch up so we don't have more mandatory overtime and matching retirement. we're in good shape. i see in the next several years, at least two academies of about that size. just to cover for the retireme retirement. >> i did want to check in with you on that. one class eight people dropped out and that was concerning. i class in september, i know at our last meeting you said that you would be conducting interviews for people who are

going to be selected for that class. is that still your intention? >> we will definitely pull the eligibility list. for people that have taken the test july, we have pull that. it's quite an extensive process. it's also a process that we have almost down to an exact science. i think that for the sake of my successor, with everything that's going to be coming up, that person to assist. we will at least do backgrounds and i, dough pending on what happens in the course of the next eight to 10 weeks with my successor, it's likely that i will do interviews and advance folks through the background process. to assist with -- it's very labor intensive.

to have her -- we also have someone new working in i.f.b. our investigative services. we have a newcap tin. new captain i thoughthe could ge background process. i know the new chief will have a number of items hitting he or she very quickly. yes, probably in the march timeframe. either in conjunction with my success error if that person hasn't transitioned in yet, i anticipate there will be an overlap. that's wh what i think the plan. we will address the 126th academy. >> ok. i think it should be at minimum a joint effort on the part of the outgoing chief and the syccessor chief to select the candidates for the new class.

thank you. >> thank you vice president covington. commissioners, at this point, we will call up chief nickolson for a report on the administration at this particular time. welcome chief nickolson. >> good evening, president nakajo, commissioners. deputy chief administration jeannine nickolson. my report from the administrative side, with the physicians office. the physician's office has been busy conducting physicals for the members of the new class. they conducted 23 in december and many more in january. they also conducted eight promotional and permanent physicals in multiple ranks and 29 returned to work evals. our investigative services bureau does have a newcap tin. captain neil cavalini. he is a 14-year veteran. his father retired from the fire

department a few years back. i'm not sure quite when. he is a great addition. he has a lot of wonderful fields experience and so he is getting the opportunity to see a different side of the department. having said that, 72 drug and alcohol tests were all negative and he assisted with completing several background investigations in order to add alternates to this academy list. the assignment office. the 123rd class is just about to complete their probation in february. and so we will be assigning them to vacation relief spots effective next month. speaking of our retirements, we had since december 1st, we've had four retirements. two firefighters, one h4 firen

respect or, one h20 and one 6281 from fire prevention. a civilian. we do expect quite an uptick in retirements. the chief already spoke about the grant writer. i won't belabor that. support services. you may notice there is an absence in our midst tonight with adc rivera is not here. he is playing hooky because he was in southern california to conduct the final inspections of our first ambulances of the 15 that we're ordering. this ambulance has a smaller footprint and some of the new features do comply with our vision zero recommendations.

he let me know that there were some minor issues, electrical wiring and loading ramp that came up in the inspection today. he said if all goes well, we should see the first few ambulances start to trickle in in february. so that's good news. two brand new fire engines are due in south san francisco tomorrow or friday. they're driving them from louisiana to south san francisco. that's part of our contract. we want to make sure that any bugs get worked out and get found on that road trip and can be corrected by the manufacturer. upon arrival, they get an oil change, a look over by ferrera and they'll head to central shops. hopefully next week for further outfitting. that is two of the six that are

very close to being finished. back to facility requests. so we have been working closely with d.p.w. public works to streamline our facility repairs. there were 140 facility requests in december. and we closed out 102 of those. there's a little backsliding. it does add to our narrative to the need of our own repair personnel to handle our own repairs. we will continue to work with d.p.w. on that. one more thing thing i forget . fleet. central shops. i know you've heard lots about our bills at central shops. our december bill at center shops was $477,000.

so four are buggies, ambulances, engines and trucks. it's pretty standard. to update you on our facilities. regarding our training center, we are working collaboratively with the city administrator's office as well as public works to identify a piece of land. the pg&e site is not off the table. it may be a heavier than previously thought lift due to pg&e's bankruptcy. it is not the only site that is being considered. the training center funding is slated to be in the 2019 easter bond. a meeting took place yesterday with public works and capital plan and other take holders to kickoff the work that needs to be done for that bond. right now, the suggested funding for the training center is $150 million, that's not in

stone yet but it's what has been suggested. and that is based on our needs assessment that was completed a little while back. the ambulance deployment facility still scheduled for late 2020 opening and in interpret of the art work at that site, i met with the arts commission, our public works representatives and the artists last week and they are aware. they are all aware of the need of changes within the art work and as revisions are submitted, i will pass them along to the chief and to the commission for review. none of those revisions have been submitted as of yet. station 16, the chief already spoke to. just to add -- final completion is slated for february due to the replacement of stones and

tiles on the north side. they're also couple of minor punch-list items that need completion. guard rails on the roof and a few other minor items. station 5. station 5 on december 13th, public works approved the general contractors time extension request of 36 calender days. 32 days are compensable and they're due to the relocation of the control boxes as well as the poor air quality caused by the wildfires of northern california. final completion is the end of march 2019. chief rivera and captain mcfarland and others meet several times a week on site with d.p.w.

awss update many of that is on going as well. that is also included in the 2019 easter bond. that's slated for $125 million. we are currently in discussions, internal discussions in terms of identifying what our priorities are. when i have more about that, i will give you more. in terms of the over all plan, the west side pipeline design schematics are complete. that is going to the p.u.c. commission on february 12th to discuss a 40 million-dollar allocation for that project. that's at the p.u.c. commission. again, the awss is a continuing

project with the p.u.c. and we do need to look to interim measures. it would be wonderful if this capital money could be spent on host tenders but we're not permitted to do that. that would be a good interim measure we could take while this stuff is being built to acquire some post tender that's can pump with 5,000 feet of hose, four wheel drive and they can be operated by one person. it would be a great benefit to the city in the event of a disaster. the training division conducted interviews for h-16s and h-28s. they are our training technician specialists and we promoted one, joe naldo. he is there now and h-28s are our training lieu tenants for the academy that we have

upcoming. we hired six new training lieutenants and they started at the division of training. they like to get a two-week head start with the new training lieutenants so they're up and running. tonight they're at an orientation for our new members at the division of training at 19th. from 6:00 to 8:00. all members of the new academy are invited and strongly encouraged to attend. it's not mandatory. so that's going on right now. for our probationary drilling and training, we had 91 probationaries through testing and practicing and testing. for 393 hours. this was from the 123rd and 124th class. and just in terms of the division of training, in between

academies, they tried to ramp up and do some more things that they can't do during the academies. and so, this session they were able toll develop, test and submit to the department's physician office a recruit physical training program with circuit cardiovascular workouts and team-building workouts. they recorded video footage for 10 testing manipulativesdso it's great that we have that on video now. people can actually go to that and look and see what is expected. they also built fire behavior miniature prop and recorded, edited and approved a fire behavior model to be used in other training modules. they've also been doing on going live burn training and all our

new recruits staff are lieutenants had to undergo fire control 3b. it's a course that allows them to safely run live fire training exercises for our members. so those are just some of the things that they do in between academy classes. they keep very busy and on top of things. our inservice training put members through 690 hours. it was below grade fire training module. it's a critical component of training for us. we had over 2500 hours of e.m.s. training in december. and we are expecting a 30 to 40 paramedics to be in our new h-8 per diem paramedic training academy. it should begin in february with an orientation -- some online

work and class work and then ride outs in march. we're hoping to 30 to 40h8s. nert. the chief spoke about our meeting with the nert advisory board. nert conducted 14 entertainment, classes, outreach classes. our nert disaster core deployed to beaut county in september to support animal shelter operations. both the disaster core and nert medical reserve core were recognized by the board of supervisors by president norman yee and supervisor stefani on different days for their work up there. homeland security has been continuing with multiple meetings and exercises. in december, chief cochran continued to facilitate police

academy, fire operations instructions so we worked together on the scene of a fire. he is continued his work with d.e.m., the office of resiliency, coast guard, and others to bolster our planning and response coordination in a disaster. he is also expanded that of late to include boma and to include large companies that have thousands of employees whether it's the sales force building, twitter, those kinds of companies and all this pre planning is going to empower their employees so they're not part of the problem. and they can actually be part of the solution during a disaster. and enable us to do the most good for the most number of people. last but not least, chief cochran has been studying hard and getting ready for pilot school for his drone class. that concludes my report. happy to take any questions. >> thank you, very much for your competence reportment we'll ask

for public comment. seeing none. the commissioners will chime in at this particular point. vice president covington. >> thank you mr. president. thank you for your report, chief. i just have one quick question. what is the office of resiliency? >> i'm not sure who they're under? are they under the city administrator? they work on building a more resilient san francisco in terms of disaster, homelessness, neighborhood outreach, that kind of thing. we've been working with them. they have a neighborhood empowerment network that we've been working closely with them on with nert to ensure that everyone is cared for in a

disaster. >> thank you. >> commissioner hardeman. >> than{t

a conversation i wasn't too good at. i lis end more. i probably would like to talk to someone about -- like what you were saying. you will do a further explanation on the $125 million. who would i talk to? it would be best to talk about with that. >> you can talk to myself, chief rivera, olivia scanlynn. they're well-versed in it. >> james ready. >> he has been off for a little bit. >> that way in case i -- she is close to tom and upset with the fire department for the way the western half of the city is not prepared for a fire. anyway -- i got to update myself

on that. the other thing was you talked about the drones with chief cochran. another airport yesterday, newark i think, was hammered with that. these drones are becoming sort of -- with london getting shut down, we have these idiots out there having fun shutting down airports. their purpose is not known. that's sad to see because i'm a drone proponent but you hate to see that kind of activity going on. >> that will not happen with a drone in chief cochran's hands. you can guarantee that. >> thank you. >> that's very reassuring. [laughter] >> thank you, very much, commissioner hardeman. commissioner veronese. >> chief, what's the update on 35? >> on 35? >> yeah. >> so, it is, of course i didn't put it in here.

>> if you know. if you don't know. >> we are currently working with the port on an agreement, an m.o.u. agreement, for the new station 35. they also wanted to include the old station 35 in that m.o.u. agreement and we wanted to separate the two out. we are in discussions with them to get that all hammered out. the chief has been in contact with elaine forbes as has olive yan scanlan. we've had meetings with them to hammer that out so it doesn't delay any of our timeframe for getting station 35 done. >> is it under construction? >> no. it's not. >> we haven't started on that yet? >> no, we haven't. that has to be, i believe the platform has to be shipped over from china and then it will be

constructed over at treasure island. >> do we have a time frame? >> not yet. >> how does that m.o.u. work? is there a payment between the two entities? >> yes. again, that may be separated out. the operational part. yes, the port does want -- the port currently pays us some funding for our personnel staffing the fire boat. for those operations. they want, as part of this m.o.u. for us to pay rent moving forward on the new fire station. >> is that a new thing? >> yes, we've been paying very bill, i believe, in terms of rent. if any at all. >> so they want rent for a floating fire station that floats in the bay? >> yes, correct.

renting the water space, as i understand it. >> i would be curious to see that m.o.u. when it gets done. if you can send it over that would be great. those are the two departments that involved negotiating with each other. is there any other city agency that is involved? the mayor's office or the board? >> right now we're working it out between ourselves and i think we have a good handle on t we're making good progress. >> the two new fire trucks, have they been assigned to a station? >> we have a list of the six stations they'll go to, yes. >> has that been announced? >> no. >> i guess all the ambulances are going 49. and those. >> you said we have 15 that will be en route. >> hopefully 10 will be in route in february and then five following that, i'm not sure if march or april or when.

yeah. >> ok. >> thank you, chief. >> thank you, very much, commissioner veronese. i have a couple of comments. i very much appreciate your comprehensive report. i know that you know that this commission is very interested in the training facility that we're talking about. when there's more to report, in terms of progress, of what is going on, it would be very much appreciated and i know that in terms of the information for the commission. i also wanted to let you know that beyond commissioner veronese's question on station 35, there was a question on the art work that has been projected. at some point, when is appropriate, if we can have some information in terms of that as

well. the other important information is 2019 easter bond. this easter bond, as i hear it, correct me if i'm wrong, has a lot to do with the training facility in terms of the dollar figure. i think you threw $150 million out on that. my question to you, chief, is $150 million adequate for us in terms of the training facility? >> right, we are still looking at that. it's not set in stone just yet. we're having those conversations within other departments within the city about that. >> again, with the commissioners' favor, if there's an opportunity to enhance that figure to our needs, that is utmost in terms of importance. i also know that the awss as we know it is part of that easter bond. >> correct. >> in terms of commissioner hardeman's comments in terms of the easter bond, i think there

needs to be a continuing dialogue with the neighborhoods on the south side as well as richmond that this department is paying attention and that there's a lot of detail and information in terms of it being a big price in terms of the that. i think chief, the concept of close tenders is an important concept for the public to know about that we are trying to do something about it within the range. not just sitting around waiting for the complete awss system out there. i think the citizens out there need to know this commission is serious, the department is serious and we're trying to do something about it. finally, chief, i know that there's a volunteer appreciation luncheon january 30th. could you give us a little more information. is that volunteer appreciation for any particular component of the department? what is that?

>> do you have more information, chief. >> i believe so. lieutenant baxter has organized it. it is to highlight some of the volunteers that show up to a whole variety of different events to support -- whether it's the toy programs, to accompany us on a parade. that kind of thing. i don't have the invite list. i don't know if it's -- i think it may be an open invitation. i can get you more information. i'm looking on my calender and you are right, it's january 30t. first flor of headquarters. >> i just wanted to remark on that as well because, the department knows chief hayes-white. we talk about nert but those volunteers out there, i think it's a great thing for us as a department to recognize the volunteers and so commissioners,

if you are available on january 30th at 11:00, i have every intention to come by and thank those volunteers. there's usually good food as well. i think that that goes a long way. i just wanted to be able to say that as well. at this particular point, chief nickolson, i don't have any other comments. thank you for your report. >> vice president covington. >> thank you, mr. president. i just have a follow-up question regarding the training facility and the 150 million-dollar potential pricetag. since a location has not been identified and locked down and we don't know how much it will cost to purchase the facility, how much it will cost to do any grating, all of that prep work and whether or not there's toxic that need to be removed, how

long do we have to determine wht the real number is? >> it's on the 201 bond. 2019 bond. that's coming up quickly. those are concerns of ours as well in terms of what the land is going to cost, is there any clean up necessary. we're having those discussions. we know that it may play a part in cutting into that $150 million. so we don't want it to. so, we are still -- again that number, $150 million is not set in stone. we are going to advocate, continue to advocate for ourselves. >> what is the timeframe? since the bond has been moved from 2020 to 2019, there has to

be a figure attached to that so that the voters can say oh, yayo nay. i expect they will say yay. san francisco -- >> i can get you the timeframe that was from the meeting that i went to yesterday. i'll make sure to forward that to maureen. >> i would assume that's coming up fairly quickly. >> yes. >> ok. >> there's a meeting, i'll be sitting down with the mayor's chief-of-staff next monday afternoon. >> ok. >> on this topic. and on the awss topic. on the elements of the easter bond. >> thank you. >> thank you mr. president. covington.ou vice president madam secretary. thank you very much, chief nickolson. >> item 6, commissioner report. report o commission activities

since last meeting, january 9th, 2019. >> is there any report that you would like to offer at this particular time? an update as such? commissioner veronese. >> just briefly. thank you mr. president. i did want to report that, without naming names, i did visit two members of the department at saint francis hospital who were recovering. to wish them well on behalf of the commission. i did, in typical fashion, bring them stella pastries from north beach. that made the visitors happy. and then also today, i did attend the stress unit meeting. which i thought was very informative. they had some guest speakers there that experts that came and spoke to them about stress management and techniques and

that type of thing. i'm pleased to report that the support of this chief, that unit has trained in this department has trained, i believe it's 60 members of the department for stress unit -- or stress-related identification and management. i think that it's a great start to where i'm hoping this department will go in developing a peer support unit pursuant to the resolution that we passed back in october. i'm looking forward to the chief's report. i did speak with the chief afterwards. it's probably going to require a little bit more time than the february 21 date. whatever we can get going for that february 21 date, to get back to the commission on progress would be very helpful. i was surprised to hear -- i know that we are going to be

losing a member of the stress unit. as the commission has been notified and that we are looking for a replacement for that manager in the stress unit. that is a physician that is going to be very hard to -- position very hard to fill and hard to keep because of the level of work and the intensity of the type of work that these two individuals conduct on a daily basis. i learned some interesting facts. i pressed them for interesting information. i know that the recent fire at clay street, where we lost two people, two citizens of the city and one firefighters was injured. i know that from that incident alone, there were a number of people that contacted the stress unit. upon further digging in, i was told today that on average in

the last year, about 140 members contacted, regularly for some sort of outreach to the stress unit last year. now, if you think about that number, that's about 10% of the department. it's a big number. the staffing of th the -- the dy staffing 106 fire stations in san francisco. that's a big number. i say that publicly because i want the commission to know that this is something that is important to the members of the department. it's not something that's talked about regularly and that's the second reason i wanted to mention this publicly. there's a stigma within all fire departments and police departments and first responders that you don't reach out to people for health. we are seeing our members do that, which is great.

i don't think that the members know that so many members are reaching out. i think that's a really good thing. we can catch these stress levels at an early stage as opposed to having to deal with them at a late stage which is what this stress unit, the two members of the stress unit are having to deal with and they're overwhelmed. i'm looking forward to the chiefs continued support on this particular report and her report how we create a state of the art stress unit. and there are state level resources force that. looking forward and hoping for the best. >> thank you, very much. in terms of this particular report, i wanted to report out,

that i have reached out to the president and vice president of the health commission this is in light of the discussion of shared information but shared costs. or some revenue source on the discussion we've had. i wanted to report the president, dr. ed chow, dr. james lawson were very open to that and i have checked out with the commission wally in terms of the proper procedures in order for us to conduct that one of the goals with a joint meeting with the health commissioners is information. all of the dialogue and information we have on the fire commission i'm not so sure they're a very of that in

detail. as point of information as chief hayes-white indicate, 1997 is when we inherited ambulance services and there was a joint meeting between the fire ctmmission and heath commission to launch that particular program. there has been precedent set, i've been trying to find out the proper procedure a again dieing sunshine as to if myself and the vice president from this commission might be able to start conversations with the president and vice president to the joint meeting and start the dialogue in terms of what we're doing and what the cost is with that kind of endeavor. i also want to let you know that i have also reached out to two of the commissioners of the social services commission because there are lips that we have there. a longstanding commission and

commissioner james mawe're also talking to them because the at venturality is if we me meet wih the health commissioners, reach out with the social services commission. that fact with-the dialogue we had tonight, it seems obvious that we should have some relationship with the homeless department as well. the mandate is clear in terms of the homeless population but the shared cost and the concerns are universal if you will. and so i also think that it's important for us to talk to the hospital council as well so this fire commission can be proactive and start dialogue between the health commission, social service commission, the homeless department, but also the hospital council so we can get some idea in terms of costs but also shared responsibilities as well. so i wanted to report that out as developmental. we'll see how it goes as time progresses. i wanted to report that.

on another note, i've been thinking very hard on trying to create a mentorship program from the commissioners to the members of the department. the whole goal of the mentorship program is that we could reach out to the members of the department. in my opinion, it doesn't have to be anybody that's an officer or a ranked member, the concept is to be open to the membership in order to have some relationships from the membership to the commission. when i was a instructor at san francisco state university, i had a program called the faculty state program where they were attached to undergraduate students and a relationship was occurring with faculty members so that there could be communication and coordination and also concept of leadership development or just in terms of good relations. so i'm going to try to find some information as to how we can

formalize that. the unofficial basis and i'm offering out myself to the membership to those members who are interested in gathering into a concept of mentorship. i have reached out to the black firefighters, i have reached out to the asian firefighters, i will reach out to the rest of the groups to see what kind of interest that is there for us to develop. i just wanted to report that out at this time. madam secretary. >> public comment on that. >> public comment on this commissioners' report? having seen none. public comment is closed. >> item 7, agenda for next and future fire commissioner meetings. >> commissioners, at this particular point, would you like to hear what we have on our docket from the commission secretary? madam secretary, could you please refresh the commission in terms of subject matters that we've had on our list. >> i've confirmed with the united fire service women and

they will present at the first february meeting. and then i believe there's an action item regarding the budget. that's all that is on the agenda at the moment. >> is that for the february 13t? >> correct. >> at this point, i would like to call for a report on the concept that came out today and the press release on the concept of building housing on top of a station. there was a reference in terms of station 13 in terms of housing being built on that particular station. it talked about relocation of station 13 if this concept develops. it also talks about the concept that if there's housing on top, that we would have a brand new station in terms of 13. in terms of this particular commission, i would like to call, through you chief

hayes-white, at the next commission meeting, a detailed report in terms of this concept of housing above station 13 so that the commission can be informed s, so the commission cn be informed, so the commission can ask questions, so the commission can give comments. and part of the report for supervisor peskin as part of the concepts of development. i would like to reach out and invite supervisor peskin, if he wishes to attend that meeting on the 13th, if he wants to dialogue as to how the development of the concept develop and gives this commission an opportunity for us to get information to comment, ask questions. so at this particular point, i would like to have that agenda for february the 13th for this commission. thank you, very much, madam secretary. >> public comment on that idea. >> may i have public comment on the item 7 agenda for next and

future fire commission meetings. public comment. seeing none, public comment is s closed. >> i take a motion in terms of adjournment, commissioners. >> so moved. >> may i have a second, please. >> second by commissioner hartmann. thank you, very much. good evening.