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>> clerk: item 2, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes on any matter within the commission's jurisdiction that does not appear on the agenda. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with a speaker, the lack of a response by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. and i will check the public

comment line. >> you're completely breaking up, marie. . >> president feinstein: is there anybody else having trouble hearing maureen? >> clerk: okay. there are two people on the public comment line. caller, would you like to make public comment? pardon me? caller, would you like to make public comment? >> commissioner cleaveland: the connection is terrible. >> clerk: caller two, would you like to make public comment?

nobody on the public comment line is responding. >> commissioner covington: commissioner cleaveland says that he's having problems, so perhaps members of the public are having problems getting in. >> i think that is commissioner cleaveland's line that is the issue because no one else is having the same circles that he's having in the window there. >> commissioner cleaveland: is it my connection and everybody else is fine? >> president feinstein: yes, it's your connection, yes. >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. >> commissioner covington: but we can see and hear you, commissioner cleaveland? commissioner cleaveland, we can see and hear you clearly.

>> commissioner cleaveland: maybe i'll just move my location. okay. i'll be back. >> president feinstein: okay. we're going to go ahead and close public comment. >> clerk: okay. >> president feinstein: we still have a forum, so let's proceed. >> clerk: item 3, approval of the minutes. discussion and possible objection to approve the regular meeting minutes from the april 28, 2021 meeting. >> president feinstein: and do we have any public comment on the minutes? >> clerk: there are two callers. i will check. caller one, do you have any public comment on the minutes? if you could answer yes or no. they're not responding.

caller two, do you have any public comment on the minutes? and they are not commenting, either. >> president feinstein: okay. public comment will be closed. we'll move onto the commissioners. do any of my fellow commissioners have any comment on the approval of the minutes from april 28? i don't see any hands. we can revisit if commissioner cleaveland does, but i think we

should go ahead, and if i can have a motion. anybody wish to move to adopt the minutes? >> i'll make a motion to approve the minutes. >> commissioner cleaveland: second. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner cleaveland. roll call vote, please. [roll call] >> clerk: the motion is unanimous. item 4, chief of department's report. report from chief of department, jeanine nicholson. report on current issues, activities, and events within the department since the fire commission meeting on april 28, 2021, including budget, academies, special events,

communications, and outreach to other government agencies and the public, and report from operations, deputy chief bryan rubenstein, report on overall field operations, including greater alarm fires, emergency medical services, bureau of fire presentation and investigation, homeland security, and airport division. >> good morning, president feinstein, vice president rodriguez, commissioners, and command staff. i will start my report off with some good news. reporting the use of training facility that we have been working on diligently since i took office two years ago. last tuesday at the board of supervisors meeting, legislation was introduced by mayor breed and cosponsored by

president shamann walton, and if it does get passed, which i expect it will, it will allow the city to enter into a purchase option agreement with [inaudible], who is the owner of this property at 1236 terrell avenue. there is also another piece of property there that we're purchasing that is owned by the port of san francisco, and there are all sorts of complicated regulatory processes that we are working through in terms of, you know, the state lands commission and getting them to agree to the sales, as well as ceqa and other before we can move forward with the final purchase, and we have been, you know, speaking with [inaudible] about this for a long time, and right now what we need to do is

get this purchase option agreement. it should be allow us the time that we need to complete all these other sort of tricky processes that are required, and what i can tell you is that the purchase option is $15,000 a month for up to 12 months. the money is not coming out of general fund, and this is going to be month to month, so if we complete all these regulatory processed before the 12 months, we can move from the agreement to final purchase. now, the thing with the final purchase of this, we are locked in here for the purchase price. we are locked in to this purchase price at $38.5 million. that is for the prolodgis

property, and we haven't -- we have had it confirmed by a fair market appraiser. the agreement of that purchase price cannot be changed, however, that $15,000 a month will not be put towards the purchase price. you should have received a cover letter and legislation which talked a little bit more about the purchase option and details, and i'm hoping in june or july, we can speak more about details of the project, and we can put it on the agenda. right now, we're working very closely with planning and public works to get the ceqa approval moving forward. we have to have all these

pieces in place, including the purchase of the port property before we can finally say yes, we're going to buy the prologis property, if that makes sense, so this gives us the time that we need to make all those regulatory things -- get all those things through. so there's that, and then, the budget, we are still in discussion with the mayor's budget office, but this week, it was confirmed, if you saw it in the media, that the mayor is going to fund a new street wellness response team. we have the street crisis response team. this will be the street wellness response team that will basically respond to incidents, "well-being checks

of people," perhaps laying down on the sidewalk but not having a medical crisis or not having a behavioral health crisis. this is what the police had of their 910 calls, wellness checks, so the mayor was, like, a community paramedic and an e.m.t. and possibly a h.o.t. team member to go out and address these calls and get those folks into the services that they need. the community paramedicine program is really making really huge strides in developing innovative programs in the city, and i just want to give a shoutout to chief tong for her partnership on this, as well as chief [inaudible] and chief

tangerlini. chief tangerlini pretty much formed this community model, and all three of them are working hard on it. chief pang has been the face of it on t.v. and the like, but i just want to give a shoutout to everyone who's working on this, including all the boots on the ground. they're doing such a great job. mayor breed will be joining the street crisis response team on friday for a ride along, and so she can see firsthand what the street crisis response teams are doing, and that's going to be different -- again, that is different than what the mayor would like to put in place, the street crisis response team. but both fall under community paramedicine. i also want to give a huge shoutout to mark corso and

libby scanlan who have been working hard on the budget. all sorts of hours and meetings happening and, you know, it's -- it's -- you know, we are going to have a fleet -- a fleet plan funded this year, which is good, because we were initially worried about even staying whole, so we will have a fleet plan in place, and we continue to articulate all of our needs to the mayor's budget office, but this is good news, considering they were asking us for 7.5% and 2.5%. that, and we'll get some additional positions in our community paramedicine as well as administrative positions, which we really need because we've been building this out and building it out and building it out, and we need the infrastructure support to

maintain that going forward. so thank you to everyone who's been working on the budget and everyone who's been working on the training center, as well. i would be remiss in thanking everyone there, as well, so olivia and chief velo have done a ton of great work on that, so thank you. all right. our vaccine number updates, just above 1300, so it's between 75 and 80%, and still slowly creeping up. i think it's doing what we want it to do and allowing us to open, and more people are getting it. i went to a drill on 45 avenue off of geary that chief kyrella

and chief velo were able to secure this piece of property that an individual is having remodels or torn down, pretty much a new home built there, so we were able to secure that building with assistance from the city attorney to conduct training out there. and i went out there to see some of the training, and it's great. it's exactly what we need to be doing. you know, getting holes in the roof, cutting holes in walls, ventilation, search and rescue, all of it. it's really valuable stuff, so i'm hoping if we're given the opportunity with more of these in the future, that we will be able to -- because now, we have sort of a template from the city attorney on how we'll be able to make that work, that

we'll be able to move forward with more of these. if you hear of anybody that's tearing down a home, call us, please, in the city. and i want to make you aware that chief mark johnson has announced his retirement. where are you -- oh, there you are, chief johnson, and he will be retiring at the end of june this year, so we put out a general order for that position, and we are also working on replacing the fire marshal, and that announcement should be coming in the next week or week to ten days. and then last, i want to speak to -- we lost another firefighter last week in steven brantley. he began in the department as a 49er on an ambulance, and after three years there, he transferred into the

suppression side. he was my probie for a couple of months, so i was moved up to captain and sent to another station. and he has been, for the last quite a few years, at station 10. he'd been moved to the airport this past january, but he -- he tragically died after waking up on a saturday morning, the day he was to get married, and collapsed in front of his fiancee, and was worked on and brought to the hospital, where he was declared brain dead, and they kept him on life support for a few more days so he could donate his organs and save some other lives and try to make some other lives better.

so we are having conversations with the family about what they want to do, and with that sad news, i conclude my report. >> president feinstein: all right. any -- first of all, on the chief's report, any public comment, madam secretary? >> clerk: let me go to the public comment line. there are four callers. caller one, would you like to make public comment on the chief's report? no response. caller two, would you like to make public comment on the chief's report? >> no, thank you.

>> clerk: thank you. caller three, would you like to make public comment on the chief's report? caller three? caller four, would you like to make public comment on the chief's report? caller four? caller four, would you like to make public comment? no response. nobody would like to make public comment. >> president feinstein: all right. then public comment will be closed. commissioners, questions for the chief, comments for the chief? commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington:

thank you, madam president. first of all, i would like to extend my condolences to the family. you know, the day is supposed to be such a happy day and a celebration, and it turns into a wake. i really, really feel for them so much, and i'm glad that so many people are aware of his willingness to be a donor and to help other people in their lives going forward. so i would like to, you know, just shifting topics, i am so relieves at the report of the new training center.

this has been a long time in coming, and to have identified a place and secured a place, i think we can all breathe a sigh of relief because this has taken years to come to fruition. so i want to thank the entire team that has worked on this. i know it has been a full court press, and i appreciate that so much. and i think the new recruits will have a wonderful, wonderful facility in which to be training excellent firefighters. i am sad to hear that chief johnson is leaving not just the airport but the whole department. i think that he and fire

marshal dicosio are in cahoots. they could have waited a little longer until i retired as commissioner. but that said, those two are just such an asset to the department, and i will be sad to see them depart. i want to also express my excitement and appreciation for the street team and for chief tong and everyone else who's been working on this. i happened to be walking on market street yesterday, and i noticed a fire department vehicle, and so i glanced around, and i saw a clutch of unhoused people with all of their worldly goods on the

sidewalk, and two people from the department interacting with them very calmly, very politely, and it warmed my heart to see that, so those are all of my comments at this time. i don't have any questions for the chief. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner covington. any other questions from commissioners for the chief? i have just a couple, chief, if you'll bear with me here. first of all, this isn't directed to you. i'm going to echo what commissioner covington said. chief johnson and chief dicosio, i believe you two conspired, and you're going to leave very big shoes to fill, and while we will wish you

well, when the time comes, you better not disappear on us so we lose that opportunity. chief, one question. i'm unclear about the training center, and i understand bcdc and all the port and someone may file a ceqa complaint and etc. do you need both parcels in order to complete the training center or it can be completed with the acquisition one way or the other with one parcel? >> president feinstein, thank you for the question. we absolutely need both parcels. that is the -- just not even a

question on whether we can do it with one or other. we definitely need both, and so that is part of the issue moving forward, is simply the timing of it. we need to make certain that we have the support property through state lands. it needs to go through the legislation up there, the omnibus bill, but it needs to go through that, and some other things before we can actually purchase it. we need both. yeah, we need both. >> president feinstein: and this is probably an unanswerable question, but do you have any idea or has anybody given you an estimate as to how long it will take to get through the various legal hoops you're going to need to

be able to get through or jump through? >> so we are giving ourselves 12 months, but we are hoping to be done well before that. but chief velo, do you have more detail on that for me? >> [inaudible] deputy chief administration, jose velo. like chief said, the maximum we're giving ourselves is 12 months. we're hoping to give us early next year to be able to close on the property, and then, it becomes our property, too, [inaudible] so our goal is not to exceed 12 months, but we want to make it sooner rather than later, and our goal, the way it's looking, is early next year. >> president feinstein: very good. thank you, and thank you chief nicholson. that concludes my comments, and

i don't see any other hands up from commissioners, so i believe, madam secretary, we can move over to chief rubenstein. >> clerk: yes, we can. >> thank you, madam president, vice president rodriguez, commissioners, chief nicholson, command staff. i am deputy chief of operations bryan rubenstein, and this is my april report if i can take it over correctly this time. april was a busy month.

>> i believe you have the march report up there. >> president feinstein: oh, a nice picture of the chief. >> yes. we all went by the communications center. i was there in the middle of the night, and it's humming like a bee's nest. it's also volunteer appreciation month with nert and a lot of the contact we have there, and most importantly is administrative assistant day the 12 of april, so we celebrated that, as well. we also had the 115 anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. there was a lot of training. you can see our boat operators

working with the coast guard helicopter for pick up. constant training going on. we have new classes coming up, coastal drills. this was a complex drill that included cliff rescue and surf rescue operations. we were pleased to have some of our supervisors come by, and a lot of support from local 3098. continued to execute rescues off of our various cliff places in the city around town, using our vehicles as anchors. these men and women are really getting to be experts at it. we had some grass fires in mclaren park. you can imagine getting the water to where the fire is often takes a lot of resources. and here's a little sample of how things are viewed on social

media. this is a brush fire next to the freeway. made it very dangerous for drivers, and it was really burning quite vigorously. it's under investigation, but we believe this was an encampment fire. up on the freeway, we can have issues with water supply, getting water there, all of the traffic. so it looks like the fire was deliberate and aggressively set. different fires over the course of the month, and to that end, we are carrying on with our

in-service training, we have live callouts going on about four times a month. there is a fire on greenwich. companies are doing a very good job tackling these fires aggressively. you can see back of the building, under wires, using the back assessment. it was brilliant. excellent job. and look at that. small fire, but these are the ones that can really get away -- small pier fire, but they are the one that's can really get away, and the fireboat was able to extinguish that one.

we had a car fire on the bay bridge, a very news worthy incident. you can see how violently it burns and how the response works. because we have our resources on treasure island, we can attack incidents both east and westbound on the bridge, and you can see multiple engines, and the hose bender, how quickly they put the line on the fire. public information officer has been busy, as usual. we began our training with the sfmta. it was well received, and it's going to be on going just as it is with the s.f.c. [inaudible]

with the various youth camps. this was their final exam for extraction. we opened the u.s. open to the bay area, and we -- there was a joint message to get vaccinated, and i think here at the 22-second mark, we can see chief nicholson inoculating our new president. lieutenant baxter was the first public information officer to get his certification from the state as a potential [inaudible] specialist, so we're proud of that. vaccine numbers, we're getting out there with the s.b.a. teams, and we're getting great coverage from the media. again, the mayor herself came out to meet with the crisis

response team. continuing to participate with the vaccine [inaudible] regrettably, that's not the real fauci there in the lower right hand corner. nert is supporting that effort. it's tremendous, and as i said last month, it's amazing to be able to participate in a solution. fire prevention investigation continues to move along. you know, a total of 3,781 inspections and other actions that they took, and one of the real areas that they made progress is in our errcf upgrade. errcf is our communications

system and ensures that we're able to use our radios in stairwells and basements. in san francisco, there are approximately 175 buildings that have these systems. regular ceiling concrete, when we were in the building, we wouldn't be able to hear until we were really up against the window. with those donor systems, we are able to use them to communicate, which is a big issue for us in personal accountability. there were some 140 buildings that we're having trouble with compliance. half of those have either been certified or in contact with vendors [inaudible] there's a huge effort and they're doing a great job. in the airport station, there's

236 calls and chief johnson is going to be retiring. we've got some months left with him, and i'm sure he's going to be instrumental in his selection and the [inaudible] and we'll be working with them closely to get them up to speed. airport security, [inaudible] has been working hard to get our incident training up. we've had a workshop in san francisco with the local management team for us. they do officer training, keeping the covid command center up and running, and also managing our k9 system, and that we have [inaudible] service, our k9 team. and as the chief mentioned, our tragic and unexpected loss of

firefighter steve brantley. here, you can see steven as he's going in to donate, and, you know, the chief has mentioned, you know, how impactful this was for us and, and we just have to stick together in these things. and i want to call out our [inaudible] group [inaudible] with steve. he was a proud veteran, and they stood vigil with him in hospital for the entire time he was there, and our brothers and sisters in fire also did everything they could to support steve's family and absolute him in his final act of heroism.

literally donated himself to save us. i would just like to show some pictures of the procession in closing my report. and that concludes my report. thank you very much. >> president feinstein: questions from any of our commissioners for our chief -- oh, public comment, maureen.

>> clerk: okay. i'll check the public comment line. to make public comment, call 415-655-0001, and enter access code 187-425-9618. we have four callers. caller one, would you like to make public comment on chief rubenstein's report? no response. caller two, would you like to make public comment on chief rubenstein's report? >> no, thank you. >> clerk: caller three, would you like to make public comment on chief rubenstein's report? no response. caller four, would you like to make public comment on chief

rubenstein's report? no response, and caller five, would you like to make public comment on chief rubenstein's report? caller five? nobody would like to make public comment. >> president feinstein: okay. then public comment will be closed. chief nicholson, yes? >> if i may just add one thing that i neglected to speak to. the ambulance deployment facility behind station 9, e.m.s. has begun to move in. i went and visited there yesterday with chief tong, and tomorrow is the zay when all the ambulance personnel will -- day when all the ambulance

personnel will begin at the new station and end at the old station, so a lot of work going in to support that, a lot of work from e.m.s. and support services and everyone else to make that happen. >> president feinstein: wonderful, yea! and we get to visit when, chief nicholson? >> so the facility has not been -- the project hasn't been complete finished. the artwork is still not up. that still needs to go up, and in terms of visiting, we can make that happen for you. i know that we normally do a ribbon cutting, and i don't know where we are on that. chief dewitt, do you have any information on that? >> we do not yet have an

official day for the ribbon cutting. i think we're looking for sometime in late june. >> president feinstein: thank you. all right. we have no public comment on the chief's final report on the new station 49, am i right, madam secretary? >> clerk: if they want to make public comment, they can press star, three. >> president feinstein: i think we need to ask people to do that. i guess the sense people are using the phone line in order to listen, maybe can't access, what have you, but they do need to have the opportunity to

comment on chief nicholson's report on station 9? >> clerk: caller one, would you like to make public comment? caller two, would you like to make public comment? >> no, thank you. >> clerk: caller three, would you like to make public comment? caller four, would you like to make public comment? caller four? and caller fire, would you like to make public -- caller five, would you like to make public comment? nobody would like to make public comment. >> president feinstein: then public comment is officially closed. my fellow commissioners? i see commissioner cleaveland

first. >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you, madam president, and thank you for your report, chief rubenstein. i have a couple of questions, and it's probably going to be chief dewitt's call back. when you talk about administering the bynax now covid-19 test, is that something that you can get an immediate read on or does it take some amount of time where you can get a read back on whether the person's infected or not? page 22 of your report. >> thank you for your question. i believe that would best be answered by chief tong, whose folks are going to be administering it. chief tong? >> yes. good morning, president feinstein, commissioners, chief nicholson, chief sandy tong.

so yes, it takes about 15 minutes to get a result, and then, it's immediate, so that's the purpose of being able to do this particular on-site testing. >> commissioner cleaveland: that's excellent. my second question deals with the s.i.p. bid, the shelter in place bid, and my question is how can we keep the number available to us? apparently, the crisis response team has a certain number, and they're going to run out by the end of this month. what do we do when we don't have any shelter in place beds to take people to? what do we do? just release them back to the street? >> thank you. yes, that is the challenge. we've been having on going conversations, chief pang, with h.s.h. and a number of other agencies to try to increase the numbers of available housing.

it's still a challenge, and so yes, if we can't find them placement, we do the best we can in terms of finding them something to get them through the day, but essentially, we're at a loss right now in terms of being able to, you know, get the stability that a lot of these folks really need. >> commissioner cleaveland: i think the other question is the hours that a lot of these folks are utilizing, we don't have anyplace to take them after hours and on the weekends, this limits our ability to be effective. so at those hotels, who do we talk to and make that decision? >> i can speak to that. i can speak to that. thank you. commissioner cleaveland, again, these are systemic issues that

we cannot solve on our own, and we are having, you know, discussions with the mayor's office, with department of public health, with every agency that needs to be involved is having these conversations, putting money into affordable housing, and putting money into more mental health care beds and the like. unfortunately, we can't just snap our fingers and make it happen overnight, as much as we would like to. as paramedics and firefighters and e.m.t.s, we like instant gratification, but this is more of a systemic issue, and the capacity is not quite there on the back end, but it is being build. so the good news is the city, the mayor, have seen the value of what we're doing and understand the needs and the

challenges that we have, so there are much bigger conversations going on, and everyone is aware of the challenge. >> commissioner cleaveland: so they realize, i'm sure, that the capacity is what we need more of. the department is responsible of the s.i.p. hotels, correct? >> no, it's h.s.h., homelessness and supportive housing, but they do work closely with public health and human services, h.s.h. we all work together. it's quite a -- there is a similar in place that's much more effective in terms of communication than it usually was, and we're all working towards the same goal. >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you tell me why o.c.c. doesn't have a daily bed

allocation? >> i cannot, other than -- for us, you mean? >> commissioner cleaveland: right. >> yeah, there have been a lot of conversations about that. i can't give you -- i don't think my answer would be -- yeah, i'll have to get that for you. >> commissioner cleaveland: well, i appreciate that, and absolutely appreciate what our e.m.s. are doing on the streets every day. we just need more resources, basically, more places to take people to recover from whatever is impacting their lives, so that's all i have -- >> yes, sir, and i know that chief pang has been involved in these conversations in terms of getting beds allocated for our folks every day. that has been an on going

conversation, and yes, we do need resources at the back end. we also need resources ourselves in terms of the administration of this program, the management of this program. e.m.s. is really, you know, in need of support right now, and they're making miracles work right now. fortunately, the mayor and the board of supervisors have seen the value. >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you, chief. thank you, madam president. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner cleaveland. ah, vice president rodriguez. >> commissioner rodriguez: okay. hello. i guess i'm going to make a couple of statements. they don't need to be answered. number one, i just wanted to

give congratulations to the team who worked to find a new training center. all of us have been in san francisco all of our lives, and we've seen how hard it is to get any property such as this, let alone in the city, and kudos to this. i know it wasn't an easy task. i'd like to thank chief rubenstein for his report. it's always concise and usually don't have too many questions to be answered. i'd like to congratulate and thank chief johnson and fire marshal dicosio for their service to the city. well deserved retirement. i retired last year, and i'd like to say i enjoy it, but for the last year, i've been stuck at home, so hopefully, that's

going to change soon. and lastly, i want to really -- you know, usually, these reports -- you know, everybody, including myself, are trying to find ways to better serve the city or to really get the most out of our assets or how we can get more assets. this is regarding the e.m.s. services, and chief pang, when you put in your report, there's a couple of successes that you've had, and for me, that really helps, because most of the time, that's maybe my nature of maybe just looking at stuff, and saying oh, we need this or we need that or, you know, how do we get this? but at least by putting in the success stories, it shows what we can accomplish. i just want to give kudos to

e.m.s. services and chief pang, so thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you. ah, commissioner nakajo. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, madam president. thank you very much, deputy chief rubenstein, for your report. i just wanted to [inaudible] as well as chief johnson. may i start through the chief with chief tong? >> president feinstein: of course. >> yes, please. >> commissioner nakajo: chief tong? >> yes, commissioner nakajo.

[inaudible] i can barely hear you. go ahead. >> commissioner nakajo: how is my [inaudible] to you? >> yes. >> commissioner nakajo: on page 12, it says department summaries from may 30, 2020, to april 30, 2021. do you see that, chief? >> yes, i do. >> commissioner nakajo: i'm embarrassed to ask this after all of these years, but could you help me, the first line, it says april 1, 2021.

when it says call date 4-1-2021, and i'm going to use that as an example, when it says e.m.s. calls, and then it says suppression calls, there's a number after 4-1-21. it says 298? >> yes. >> commissioner nakajo: what is that 298? is that calls directly coming to e.m.s., and 102, when it says suppression calls, and in terms of suppression calls, 102, is that a different routed call? could you explain that a little bit so i can have better comprehension? >> yes. so the e.m.s. calls are 911, and the suppression are fire is

he -- suppression calls to 911. >> commissioner nakajo: [inaudible]. >> yeah, that's the average calling on that date. . >> commissioner nakajo: okay. in terms of 8160 transport minutes, that's their average transport? >> correct. >> commissioner nakajo: what is the 25.35 on suppression? >> that would be the average time on a suppression call. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. and these are all on one day, not necessarily one call? >> that's correct. and so if you want to know what the total number of calls, which is 400? >> mm-hmm.

>> commissioner nakajo: that's a pretty big number, chief. the highest number i see in that month is 404. [inaudible] >> commissioner nakajo: am i reading that right, chief? >> exactly. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. i'm moving on. my report, on page 13, i'm just going to refer to general activities. it's all related to the scheduling of the street crisis team, and it talks about the activation of a fourth unit on may 10 of this year, which is just accomplished --

>> yes. >> commissioner nakajo: my question is, so is that a fourth unit on may 10, for what i call this next rollout phase of the street crisis response team, not including what was printed in the paper about the mayor's budget for future street crisis response teams. >> so the information you saw a few days ago about the street wellness, that's the support we're hopefully getting funded through the board of supervisors and through the mayor. but the street crisis response, this is the fourth unit of that rollout. we have a total of six that we hope to get done by the end of the fiscal year, but at this time, this is the fourth unit to go in service. >> commissioner nakajo: when you say six units of street crisis response team by the fiscal, is that based on standing or itemized budget for this year, or does that include

some of the mayor's response with future street crisis response teams? >> that is this fiscal year. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. thank you, when you talk about mayor's allocation of budget, does it automatically revert to a [inaudible] of street crisis response team? >> i'm sorry. can you repeat that again? >> commissioner nakajo: there's a term, and i'm trying to get the term right because we throw a lot of them at each other. the funding, does that mean we're funding our street crisis response teams? >> [inaudible]. >> commissioner nakajo: so this futuristic is separate from street crisis teams, which

means there was some information in the paper and on the news of a certain amount of units that the mayor's funding will roll out. do you have any information on that because this is the first time that we're talking about it on an official basis in the department rather than gathering it from news articles and news reports? >> so with the street wellness response team, that one, for the next fiscal year, we hope to have -- staffing that particular unit january 2022 -- is that right? trying to get my particular years right. yeah, january 2022, and then, by december 2022, we hope to have up to ten units staffed for the street wellness response team. i believe that's right. [inaudible] >> commissioner nakajo: okay. thank you for that

clarification. [inaudible] we're talking about two different units. one is street crisis, one is street wellness. >> yes. there are two different response teams. the street crisis response team, and the street wellness response team. >> if i may, they both fall under community paramedicine, so they fall under community paramedicine e.m.s. 6. so they are two separate teams, but they fall under the same umbrella. >> commissioner nakajo: [inaudible] in terms of this wellness as it ramps up, 2022,

with five different units, i'm assuming, chief tong, that that team is going to look different? >> yeah. the street crisis response team has one community paramedic, one behavioral clinician, and one peer support team member. and then, the street wellness response team will have a community outreach and a community paramedic team member. >> commissioner nakajo: chief tong, i appreciate your comment that we're going to need community support on there, and there's funding allocations that we need in terms of what we're trying to do thank you

for that, chief. i'm going to move on. just two more questions, if you can bear with me. i'm on page 17, and i think you can answer it. there's a section on page 17 that says successes, but above successes, you have your chart, what i call it, your utilization changes from previous operations. under that, it says there's a reduction of 42%. what does that mean? >> so it's a reduction of 42% of high frequency utilizers.

okay. >> commissioner nakajo: on page 21, under successes, it says narcan distribution, zero. does that mean that there were no narcan distributions that month? >> no. this is for the street crisis response team, and they did not administer any narcan for the clients that they saw. it's a different population that they're seeing, so it's not necessarily through the 911 call types on the medical side that we're seeing. these are police codes that

would be behaviorally challenged. those folks, in this particular month, none of them had a medical complaint that required narcan administration. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you, chief tong, for indulging this commissioner. i'd like to move onto fire marshal dicosio, if i may, please. >> yes, please. >> commissioner nakajo: page 28 on your report, it talks about building applications, april 2021. it says total permits issued for, and it says 77. number of operational permits, 58, number of temporary permits, it says 19. what i wanted to find out, but with more clarity with the vaccines that are occurring,

and it seems there is more movement in san francisco. would you comment, chief, or fire marshal, on permit applications? i'm trying to get a gauge, are they up, the activity, fire marshal? >> yes. good morning, commissioners. commissioner nakajo, so basically, we have fire driven activity in the fire code, and that ranges in a number of things. it could be tents, use of l.p.g. i think there's 47 different operational permits that we issue through the fire code. then, we have instructional permits where we're teamed up with d.b.i. at 49 south van ness. so the numbers that you referred to just now, commissioner nakajo, have to do with operational permits. they're broken-down to annual permits -- like a place of

assembly, gas station, it could be a cleaners, and then, there are temporary permits, or one-time use permits. operational permits are down significantly, and the main reason for that is the bulk of our permits are associated with public assembly, and given the covid and restrictions we've had over the last year, that has really limited those type of permits. i don't know if that answers your question. i can speak more to the construction permit, but the biggest hit has been to the operational permit. >> commissioner nakajo: you answered my question. [inaudible] >> commissioner nakajo: my general question was to general permits or construction permits or operational permits that

you're having. one more question, is that on page 30, there's a section that has to do with permits annual inspection on the port, and i know we do inspections on the port. would you share with the commission the differentiation in inspections that have to do with the port, please? >> yes. so in the report, we have overall operational permits. then, we break them down by sections. so we don't have one specific team that handles all operationals. we have an operational permit team, but then, we have the port, s.f.o., and districts, and they all conduct operational permits in their area, and this is the process,

the requirement, and everything is consistent throughout the city and to the port and s.f.o. this highlights what activity was conducted on the port. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, fire marshal dicosio. i appreciate your comprehensive answer. i have one last question, but thank you, fire marshal. [inaudible] i think i'll describe it. you have three different pictures on the back of your report, training. i have a picture of three -- looks like --

[inaudible] >> commissioner, you're kind of breaking up. if there's a picture that you're referring to, i guess, an airplane -- it's a white airplane with a red and black tail? >> commissioner nakajo: that's correct. >> i believe that one -- i believe they're doing inspections of a cargo airplane or on the north field. i believe that's what that was on that one. the one with the -- the -- the -- the fire truck 47 on-site, we do c.p.r. classes here for the commission employees, and that particular one was with the c.e.c. they're in -- these are the regular c.p.r. classes that we

do every year for the american heart association. and then, the third picture, i don't -- oh, that was another one with the c.e.c. also, again, just basic c.p.r., and, i guess just basically in the archives, they're doing c.p.r. on an infant. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. so i'm assuming these pictures are with c.p.r. and the personnel with truck 47, they are not necessarily members of our department but perhaps members that work within the airport? >> yeah. we have a memo with the airport where we provide all the c.p.r. training, and we have a captain, lawanda anderson, that does all the trainings. she's very popular among the s.f.o. officers with the trainings that she gives, so

she does those all the times. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much. and while i'm talking to you, in terms of myself, thank you for this -- i wanted to thank you for your service to our department and for all the years that you have been involved and been part of our department history, as well. thank you very much, chief johnson. i have just two more questions for the chief of the department, and i know that fire marshal dicosio and chief johnson, as they retire, there's an interim process, but how [inaudible]. >> thank you, commissioner

nakajo. again, chief jeanine nicholson. again, for the turnover of those positions, there will be some overlap. we have conducted multiple interviews for the fire marshal position, and as i said earlier, we'll be coming to a determination in the next week to ten days, and that will be before fire marshal dicosio has left us, so there will be a transition, and for the airport, similar. we have put out a call for applications for that position, and we will interview people so

with chief johnson in place so we can have a seamless handover of both positions. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much for that, chief nicholson. the only other comment i would like to offer up is my deepest condolences to the brantley family in terms of the loss of our veteran firefighter member. thank you very much, madam president. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner nakajo. i do want to bring to the commission's attention, we did and do have standing by a guest, and that's mr. tumlin from the slow streets program. we invited him to join us at 10:00, and i -- you know, i don't know if there are other questions from commissioners, but i want to be respectful of his time. is there any way, commissioner covington, we can do

commissioner tumlin first and return to your question? can't hear you. >> commissioner covington: sorry. my hand went up first a long, long time ago, but you didn't see me. i think i have one question that i would like to ask now, and it might be helpful for our discovery -- >> president feinstein: great. >> commissioner covington: [inaudible] and my question is to chief rubenstein. you took pains -- and i appreciate that. you took pains to report some of the obstructions to fighting the fire. you pointed out the overhead lines. could you give us some more possible impediments to safe firefighting? >> thank you very much for your

question, commissioner. brian rubenstein, deputy chief of operations. we have [inaudible] the buildings are built really well, but we have a lot of geography with hills and a lot of overhead wires, so we have a lot of challenges. i just like to point them out because our members are so well versed in dealing with those, and they make it look easy. my reporting is not to warn you against them, but just to bring attention to the training and hours that they put in. does that answer your question, commissioner? >> commissioner covington: that's fine. i can always do a follow up at a later time, but i think your statement that it looks easy

but it takes a tremendous amount of training to fight a fire, to get to a fire, so i'll let it rest at that. thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner covington. if there is no further questions, i'd like to move onto the report of the safe streets program. >> clerk: and i can call out the item while he turns on his -- >> president feinstein: please. i'm trying to find him here. i'm sorry. ah, i found him. >> clerk: item 5 is an update on the slow streets program. jeffrey tumlin, director of transportation, and tom

maguire, director of streets division, to provide an overview of the slow streets program. >> president feinstein: welcome. thank you for accepting our invitation to present today. slow streets has come up as an issue at every meeting since slow streets began, and i appreciate hearing from you. i know my fellow commissioners do, too, and your willingness to answer some questions that we have in terms of slow street impact on the san francisco fire department, so if there's anything you would like to give us an introduction, let's proceed now, and then, i know we have a lot of questions for you. >> excellent. thank you so much for having me. i'm jeffrey tumlin. i'm the director of the sfmta. i've been in this role for 16

months now? it has been quite an adventure. my work is previously in cities all over the united states, and everywhere i've worked. there's been a long-standing tension between traffic safety and fire safety. here in san francisco, we typically have about 20 deaths and injuries every year as a result of traffic violence, and most of those deaths and injuries are preventible. in our world, the primary technique for traffic safety is reducing speed. speed is overwhelmingly the primary determinant of the likelihood of a crash and the severity of a crash.

i'm sure the sfmta has been directing staff to make sure we use emergency response time as one of our primary performance indicators. we manage all of the streets of san francisco across all modes of transportation. we want to make sure that we are using the fire department's excellent data for being able

to measure impact on measure response overtime and to also make sure that in all of our work, we're thinking about fire engines, police vehicles, ambulances, and other emergency response vehicles. i'd like to introduce jamie dirk [inaudible] and he'll be presenting a brief summary on all of the work that we've been doing, all of the experimental, all of in partnership as well as some comments on how we might work together in the future. [inaudible] based upon our experiences in other jurisdictions of how that may

work. overall, my goal is to make sure we have an overall citywide network of primary emergency response groups that are always protected from congestion. we know that congestion is going to continue to rise in san francisco. we want to use tools like our transit only lane as a means for emergency vehicles to bypass congestion. so with that, i'd like to introduce jamie park. jamie, are you here. >> president feinstein: yes, and welcome. thank you. >> yes, thank you for having me. good morning, commissioners, chief nicholson, and command staff. jamie park, director of the liveable streets division of the sfmta. our division, in addition to the slow streets, is responsible for san francisco as san francisco traffic calming, bike, and pedestrian safety improvements and generally oversees our

commitment to implement the vision zero program, which is our commitment to ending traffic fatalities in san francisco. [inaudible] we seek to achieve many goals, whether it's fighting climate change, congestion, emergency access times, but more than anything, we're guided by safety. in my six years at sfmta in doing this work, i've worked with the fire department on literally hundreds of projects, and i personally have worked really closely with the fire department on dozens of projects, and ultimately, while some of them have been hard, we've reached an agreement on

every single one of them. [inaudible] dedicated captain position in the department in 2017 [inaudible] and the fire department's capacity to keep up with it. as with everything else, covid placed a lot of stress on the structure that we previously had. circumstances really dictated that sfmta move faster than ever in repurposing our streets to meet the unique needs of pandemic response, whether that's emergency transit lanes, safe sleeping sites, or slow streets, and actually, i'm really proud of how we worked together on this program, including slow streets. last april, we invented a new covid specific review process

for street changes that expedited review but also makes sure that fire gets to review all implemented changes in terms of the slow streets program. we're proud that we've implemented 40 miles of slow streets and worked with the fire department on that, as well. even as we meet the goals of slow streets, we're also preserving emergency access and response times. slow streets has relied crucially on fire department input, and as the pandemic proceeds, and we look forward eagerly to a post covid world, i will be asking for the fire

department support and collaboration [inaudible] so i'm really happy to be here today with that dialogue, and with that, i'm going to introduce my colleague jen pace with the slow streets program to go deeper into the program and show some photos how we have designed slow streets to date and some of next steps that we're thinking about for post pandemic slow streets. >> president feinstein: welcome. thank you it. >> thanks so much, jamie. [inaudible] the slow streets is a covid response program that began in april of last year in

response to the need for socially distant walking and biking while the muni system had been drastically reduced. the program was meant originally to restrict through-traffic on certain residential streets, and the program went through a period of very rapid growth last summer, with three phases of the program being added in just a few months, and the final four streets of the program in phase four were just added last monday and not yet implemented. these are temporary restrictions authorized through 120 days after the state of emergency is lifted. slow streets are implemented with temporary barriers and signage to designate these as slow streets. slow streets are implemented on

local and residential streets only. our agencies have learned what worked and what doesn't. we've phased out the use of a-frames in the roadway, and we began experimenting with other materials last fall when the barricades proved unworkable with the fire department. over the course of the summer, we'll be reinforcing our barricades with these flexible barriers. these materials were field tested with the fire department last summer with their input in the program. we collect and analyze data

continuously through the program to understand its impact. since these are temporary materials, we're able to quickly address issues and change or even remove barricades along our slow streets. we're also trying to do as much outreach as possible on those closed streets even during the pandemic to determine how they're working. just a few months ago, we sent over 100,000 cards out to people that live on slow streets, and we received over 15,000, so we're analyzing that data. this is the slow streets as it exists today, with the slow streets implemented shown in green and slow streets approved but not yet implemented in

blue. as we look ahead to a post pandemic future, we're currently evaluating how slow streets fit into the larger citywide transportation network while we're collecting even more data about how slow streets are working. that completes my presentation, and we're happy to take any questions. >> president feinstein: all right. let me -- i'm going to wait until i get my screen back here. i'm going to exercise -- first of all, i want to thank all three of you being here today

with regard to helping all of us better understand slow streets. i've spent a lot of time on it, and i have the slow streets flow chart, marking the ways you can get around, what the existing streets are, but i do have some concerns, and i do believe that you're trying your best to work with the fire department, but i find, as we were chatting before the meeting, about running into firefighters in grocery stores, and i make it a point to find out what's going on in their lives and a challenge that they're facing.

i want to just go through some questions that i have worked up, and i thank my fellow commissioners for allowing me to go first, but i feel very strongly about it. there's a sense -- well, slow streets was created, in part, at least, to allow people more access to an outdoor area where they were in a position where maybe they couldn't access their outdoor area where they couldn't get to it, they didn't have it, what-have-you, so i appreciate that, but it's starting to feel as though the intent is to make it permanent, and i just would like a comment whether that's the case or not.

>> i'll take that to start, and any of you else can chime in. slow streets was implemented particularly on the west side of san francisco where we had to be able to provide residents with a safe option in biking or walking or using a wheelchair to get to a bus stop that was now much farther away or a neighborhood commercial district. we've been surprised by the result, so what we've been doing for the last several months now is collecting data on how they're being used and what people think of them, and they're getting very different reactions from all over the city. in some cases, slow streets

have turned into an important route for people using skates and skate boards and wheelchairs and bikes. in places like sanchez, it's serving an important community function, where neighbors are initiating slow streets and getting to know their neighbors. the other thing that we're checking in on is what are their intended negative

consequences? so we have only used low volume residential traffic streets that aren't needed. we want to make sure that we're not disrupting car traffic in the city or taking away any network capacity, so we've been quite judicious. so now, we're asking folks questions like what do you want to do with this now? could this be a part of a citywide safe streets network that could allow san franciscans to travel from one neighborhood to another in a way that felt safe. the other thing that we've discovered is that in terms of attracting people to walking and biking and using scooters and skate boards, this has been by far the most successful and certainly cost effective [inaudible] unlike all of our other facilities, the slow streets are attracting

demographics that actually match the demographics of the neighborhood they serve, something that's never happened before. so we are looking at the future, but in our world, there's kind of no such thing as permanent. our streets are constantly changing as we learn more and make adjustments to minimize unintended negative consequences and maximum the public benefit, so it's sort of a long and somewhat ambiguous answer. that's the world in which we're operating in right now, is a period of rapid change. >> president feinstein: all right. let me ask this question. i have been informed that as a derivative or part of the slow streets program, that there is an intent to install speed

bumps on various thoroughfares. i can tell you, in my neighborhood, which is rather hilly, those speed bumps have been installed, and specifically, on major arteries that are arteries the fire department does use to respond to emergency calls, and i'm sure you've discussed this, working with fire marshal dicosio. a fire truck or ambulance that's responding to an emergency call weighs something in the neighborhood of 40,000 to 50,000 pounds. hitting one of those speed bumps is causing horrible destruction to our vehicles, and that has been a concern. and i'm -- you know, i have

that concern -- this is the very equipment that people rely upon that can get there as quickly as possible, and a truck costs over $1 million, and an engine costs about $600,000, and they can't get destroyed because they're bumping over speed bumps that are intended to slow me down, whereas i can just kind of go through the cutout hole if i don't want to slow down. so can you help me understand what your involvement is, either m.t.a.s or slow streets in that? >> yeah. the slow streets program is completely different than the speed bump program. so we do have a neighborhood traffic calming program. we've had one for many years. slow streets are using a tiff set of techniques in order to ensure safety benefits.

muni buses cost about the same as a fire truck and have exactly the same extension issues. we're learning how to deal with this. one of our challenges is that in terms of our ability to use the very high rate of traffic fatalities that we have in san francisco, some of our most effective and cost effective tools are also the tools that are the most disruptive to emergency service acts, so that is the challenge that we're facing. when we're using a vertical traffic calming device in order to improve traffic safety, how we partner with the fire

department in order to minimize impact on emergency response -- jamie, did you want to add something to that? >> sure. i oversee the technical applications, as well, which is an application-based program for san francisco residents to request traffic calming on their blocks. a couple of things to note. one is we have not been installing speed humps in the slow streets streets. there were speed humps that were installed concurrently with slow streets but are separate from the slow streets program. a couple of things to learn about the traffic calming program is it's incredibly

successful. there's overwhelming demand from san francisco residents for slow and safe traffic on their streets. so as we are trying to process that, we had been working very closely with the fire department on the design of the devices themselves. what you'll notice now is in some cases, we have speed humps that go all the way across the street, but in some cases, we have speed cushions that have spots through the middle that allow fire trucks to access those by crossing over the centerline. traffic calming that we installed in the outer sunset, traffic management was largely speed cushions, as well. we are navigating the distance

between traffic calming and the impact to the devices themselves. >> president feinstein: that's helpful to note. i appreciate that. i want to follow up, again, and i don't want to take all the time, but i've been really working on this, so i believe, mr. tumlin, this was your comment. i'm looking at van ness avenue as an example, it's being reduced from three lanes in each direction to two lanes of car traffic or truck traffic in each direction. it does happen to be highway 101. whether we like it or not. i've lived here my whole life, and that was before i was born, and that was a number of years ago. and i know that there -- a position has been taken that,

well, the third lane will turn into a high occupancy lane or a muni lane. that's how i'll refer to it, and a fire engine or fire truck that needs to get down that -- get down van ness avenue, for whatever reason, can use the red lane to do that. what if there is a bus that is in the red lane, and if it's an electric bus, and, you know, can't get off of its, you know charging -- you know, the wires up above, and you've got traffic jammed up like crazy on van ness? that truck is going to sit there with its siren blaring behind a bus that is somewhat paralyzed because it can't move.

>> commissioner, all of our buses are battery electric powered, so all of our muni buses that are using the overhead wires, they can pull those wires down and drive over a mile without connecting to the wire. so the van ness busway is very much designed as an emergency response route. all of those buses can get out of the way of a fire truck, so they can use the occupancy lane when the bus gets out of the way. >> president feinstein: so how do they use these wires? >> so the wires will be in the center of the roadway, but the bus can always leave the wires. >> president feinstein: and what does it take? you know, if a bus driver, if they come off the rail, they have to get out -- >> no, that was ten years ago. our new buses can lower

automatically, and the bus driver can turnoff the route. this is what we do every day. we're doing work right now on castro street, where the wires are depowered. the bus comes off the wire, goes on its route, and then goes back on later. >> president feinstein: you're assuming the route is clear. >> we've designed our busway -- there's a limit of number of buses in the busway, and that's designed so that there's always a clear path there. >> president feinstein: all right. and i'm sorry. thank you for hanging in there with me. actually, i think -- i have -- well, i have another question because this does not make sense to me. i understand, with the -- with the slow streets, you know, the desire to get people out, etc. i've already said that. you mentioned earlier lake

street and clay street and pacific, and i've found lake street to be a really interesting choice for a slow street because, in fact, you can walk from arguello to mountain beach, from mountain park down to the presidio, and less than a block away is a slow street. i'm just curious as to how that selection would be made. it just doesn't make sense to me because it's probably -- well, not our largest piece of open space, but one of the largest, is the presidio, and i've done it many times. you can just walk right on down, and you actually have

more open space than if you would have walked another away, so just help me understand how you're determining these safe street snz. >> -- safe streets? >> so the decisions were made based on community support. lake street is heavily used, and it's used more because it's much flatter, and it is also accessible to people on skate boards and scooters and bikes in addition to people on foot. as a result, it has attracted significantly more users than the parallel path in the presidio itself. it also connects to a citywide network. through seacliff, there are good walking and biking routes that continue onto the ocean,

and to the east, via clay and pacific, it continues, basically, all the way to van ness. so as a route, it is serving more people than we believe it ever has in its history because it's such an an attraction not just as -- such an attraction not just as a destination but it's flatter. >> president feinstein: i'm going to tell you, i live near page and stannion, and every time i go by that intersection or page and masonic, and i look right or i look left, there is not a soul and not a bicycle and not a stroller on the street. and maybe it's different on the weekends, when i try to -- for

a variety of reasons, i just don't view it then, but during the week, it's empty for blocks, and i just want to know if you guys keep track. you know, how they used to have those things that went across the street that would monitor how much cars or vehicles crossed over it? >> yeah -- >> president feinstein: how do you monitor it? >> sure. so we can talk to you about how we're collecting the data about each of the cores? >> yeah. so we do use those tubes in the roadway to count the vehicles on the slow streets and the bicycles, and we have done pedestrian counts at different times of the day, as well. we're measuring it, as well, on the parallel streets and one in either direction to make sure that there's not spillover happening on those streets, as well.

we do have counters on our streets, and we are still collecting it. i will say the traffic has been very weather dependent, smoke dependent. there's a lot of fluctuation in how they're being used. >> president feinstein: all right. thank you. and my -- i'm hoping somebody will, have the department, the command staff will adjust, will address what has happened with first response time since the implementation of the slow streets because i do know those response times, or i've been told that i think they should come from command staff rather than me. before i do that, and i don't mean this question to sound as cynical as it is, but i think it's a practical question. have you done any studies on the impact of building values on slow streets as compared to the value of nearly identical

clones of other streets? in other words, i happen to live on a very fast street, to my dismay, but it's a fast street. if my home happened to be located on a slow street, would it be worth more than an identical home located on an adjacent street that isn't a slow street? has anyone taken a look at that? i'd love to have a slow street on my street because people go zipping by without any enforcement. >> so slow streets is a program that has not been around long enough to measure the impact on real estate values, particularly the real estate values in san francisco right now. but there is a study that

suggests that having high traffic volume and high car speed on streets decreases real estate values, so there is a linkage between our efforts to make the city streets safer from a traffic violence perspective and also our desire to make the city more liveable. we also want to make sure that we're not picking winners and losers, right? >> president feinstein: right. >> so if we can bring all motor vehicle speeds down to a speed that is compatible with urban living, then everyone benefits. >> president feinstein: all right. thank you. i really -- i thank you for your taking the time to answer my many, many questions. i thank you, my fellow commissioners, for the courtesy. can anybody, before i turn it over to my fellow commissioners

for any follow-up questions, do we have a command staff member that can answer the question about response time? [inaudible] >> and i have a hard stop at 11:00. >> president feinstein: okay. my understanding is that response time is going up, and i just -- is there anybody from the department? >> fire marshal dicosio? >> clerk: we also need to call for public comment. >> sure. fire marshal dan dicosio. would you like me to answer now or would you like to wait for public comment? >> president feinstein: sure. i would like fire marshal dicosio to respond and then we can have public comment. >> sure. fire marshal dan dicosio.

we've been taking a look back at the data for the last few months, and we started with eight different neighborhoods in the city. basically, we removed the bottom 10% and the top 10%. we remove the outlier average, and what we've seen since the beginning of covid, we've seen an increase anywhere of five seconds to 30 seconds over these eight neighborhoods. a concern of mine as the fire marshal is this is a time that we have reduced traffic volume given covid restrictions, and what does that look like in the future when traffic ramps back up? so that is our main concern, but we have seen an increase. i don't know if that answers your question. i can give you a little more detail, if you like. >> president feinstein: i understand. yes, you've answered my

question, and i -- we can discuss it offline for further info. thank you. okay. next, we have -- can we have our commissioners before public comment, madam secretary? >> clerk: sure. >> president feinstein: okay. let's do that, because mr. tim -- mr. tumlin, i know, has a hard stop, and we've kept him waiting, and he was very patient. commissioners? commissioner nakajo. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much. i know that you're going to have to leave very soon, but i just wanted to say that -- i won't be taking long in terms of this, because i definitely

want to get this in while you're here. mr. tumlin, mr. parks, miss hill, thank you for participating. with all the comments that are coming out, my statement is m.t.a., in terms of the nature of how it operates in the city and county of san francisco, i as a fire commissioner, now going into my 25 year, affects all aspects of my life both privately as well as nonprofit executive director in the japantown community but also fire commissioner. the influence of m.t.a. on all aspects have been great influence in terms of being a private citizen. being 25 years within the commission, it also talks that i've seen the development of the pedestrian and safety. i've seen the concept of bicycle and bicycle lanes. i've seen the development of what we call the bumps, the small bumps, the big bumps in the middle of the streets. i've seen the emergence of slow

streets. i basically definitely appreciate the cooperation between m.t.a., the department, and our fire department, but as you can tell from us, the jurisdiction of the fire department and myself as a fire commissioner, we take this very seriously. i understand what's going on, i understand the pandemic, and i understand your concern. my bottom line to the chief of the department and to all the staff, if there is a medical emergency as you roll out of that house, and our first priority is to get you the support in terms of emergency, public service on the emergency, my question last time in terms of slow streets, in terms of your research and the popularity of that, i get that, too. but it's a priority of our

department to the citizens of san francisco to get to them immediately on an e.m.s. or emergency issue. my question is what is supposed to happen with this various definition of slow streets? i'm glad you have the knowledge base, but what the heck are we supposed to do as a membership when that driver gets in that truck or engine, and they roll out of that house, are they automatically supposed to understand what street is closed, what street is not closed, try the street as they figure out the response? so again, i appreciate what you're trying to do in terms of the citizens of san francisco. i feel our responsibility is to the citizens of san francisco is to respond to an emergency but fire suppression, as well. [please stand by]

so perhaps the staff will be able to come again at some point. but i have many, many problems with slow streets. and when you talk about -- when you talk about a delay of five

seconds or 30 seconds, you have to really consider if your house is on fire, that's a lifetime to you. that is not just in, you know, a stopwatch period of time. i think that slow streets were made to be -- were made to be temporary. they should be allowed to sunset. and start all over again, because this is going through the backdoor for a program that could harm our members, could harm the citizens of san francisco. something is going on outside. so i'm going to leave it there. it became very noisy all of a sudden. thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner covington. any further comments from our

commissioners? i just lost everybody. >> yes. >> president feinstein: everybody is back now. i don't know. i'm sorry. things are spinning. >> do you see me, madam president? >> president feinstein: i see you with -- everybody that is a box now with a yellow triangle in the top. but i can hear you. so -- >> madam president, this is commissioner cleaveland. my question is really to staff and the question is we're looking at the slow streets program at the current time, are we intending -- or is m.t.a. intending to morph all of these safe streets into permanent slow streets. it's the timeline on the process for doing that?

>> so again i'll refer to shannon hake, we're looking at each corridor one by one. and again looking at all of the factors that we are considering. i do want to emphasize just how seriously we take emergency response time, which is why we have designed slow streets to accommodate emergency response vehicles. and to not flow emergency response vehicles down on those slow streets. slow streets is probably a misnomer. what we're trying to do is to limit the amount of -- limit the speed of general-purpose contact, in order to make those streets safer. and that includes fire safety. shannon, do you want to talk about timeline and process? >> sure thing. we're not planning on making all of our slow streets permanent. we're evaluating them right now in terms of the data we've collected, the surveys that we've heard from residents. we're also looking at how

they're consistent with other citywide plans and how they fit into an overall transportation network for the city. and we're making sure that any of the slow streets, that we are looking at, aren't having negative impacts on the transportation patterns of adjacent streets, of intersecting streets or on parallel streets. so we're looking at all of that data right now and as director tumlin mentioned, we're also looking at emergency response times and making sure that our slow streets aren't contributing to any delay. but we are still trying to figure out what a future network could look like. and we anticipate that we'll be evaluating the data over the coming months and we plan to have more of an idea of what we'd recommend, what elements of the slow street network continue beyond the pandemic in july. >> thank you. >> i'm sorry.

really need to sign off now. thank you so much. i welcome the opportunity to continue the conversation. it seems like there's still -- there's a lot of details that we need to go through. i believe that both of our agencies are in synch on the desired outcomes. and i think that with some additional conversation, we can get there. thank you so much. >> president feinstein: thank you. thank you all very, very much for taking the time. we really appreciate it. >> yep. >> president feinstein: thank you. >> and if you would like shannon and i to stay on, if they have questions, if that's -- >> president feinstein: because i do need to -- i believe madam secretary, which was my error, i believe we need to call for public comment. >> clerk: would you like to do that now? >> president feinstein: i believe -- i saw no more hands from commissioners. >> clerk: okay. >> president feinstein: let's do that. yes.

>> clerk: all right. let me go down here. caller, would you like to make public comment? >> caller: good morning, commissioners. my name is charles woodfield, i live in eureka valley in district 8. i'm calling for ask you to support the slow streets program and collaborate with sfmta to continue to make it successful on a permanent basis. i don't own a car. and i rely on slow streets to safely get around the city and for recreation. in 2019, i was hit by cars twice and hospitalized once while biking. afterward i was really uncomfortable riding my bike outside of protected bike lanes. today slow streets form a huge part of new bike network and pedestrian network, made by more than just protected lanes. you can ride a bike from soma all the way to ocean beach entirely on streets that are

either car-free or slow streets. thanks to this new network, i can bike across sound to visit my sister in the richmond, run errands or go for a jog or a walk, where traffic previously made me feel unsafe. the positive difference this makes to my daily life is hard to overstate. however, the slow streets program does have room for improvement. the robustness of the infrastructure and consequently drives compliance with the public varies. without significant barriers such as these, a slow street designation does little or nothing to deter aggressive driver behavior. for slow streets to be successful in the long-term, i think it shouldn't be dependent on individual residents spending their own time and money to put out planters or other ad hoc barriers. intersections should feature a permanent, significant barriers that deuterion safe driving and be arrest to vandalism.

of course, the barriers should be safe and efficient for fire department traffic. my favorite type of barrier that i've ever -- >> clerk: caller, you have gone mute. you still have 52 seconds left. i don't know where he went. >> president feinstein: do we have other public comment? >> clerk: we do. >> president feinstein: perhaps we circle back.

>> clerk: okay. >> caller: thank you so much. hopefully you're all doing well. i'm rob and i live in district 11. i have a car. and i'm a driver and also walk around my own streets, where i don't have slow streets, right. i have lived in san francisco for the past four years. and i came by using my car or sometimes my bike. i support the making for slow streets more permanent, as we go forward, to definitely -- well, not we, but you all and sfmta make a collaborative effort to make it more robust for both organizations, and in particular from my experience, and what

i've seen, to make that happen is to provide an opportunity for the fire department where y'all can work with sfmta to where slow streets is incorporated with the fire department as -- san francisco becomes more congested. if we were to remove slow streets, we provide an opportunity for in-car drivers like myself to find shortcuts. similar to other drivers that have used ways in the past. the shortcuts eventually become congested. so what that means is in the future, i don't know how many years or months that would be, is we would all -- -- we'd be in the same congested lane, the same with the fire department as well. so i'd encourage you to have the slow streets be more permanent, so that way it can deter car

drivers like myself, that selfishly use waze or google maps, on to the correct parallel street to be on. and so that way s.f. fire department has that avenue still, an opportunity to go through -- go through the streets and hopefully a feature where, you know, things are, you know, congestion, things of that nature. anyways. in conclude, i just wanted to support my -- i just want to support slow streets. and also going forward, the collaborative effort the s.f. fire department and sfmta has. and also the last thing, safe and healthy and i yield my time. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you.

caller, you have three minutes. >> caller: hi. hi, everyone. i'm a d1 resident. and i'm really proud of you guys and good to see sfmta and s.f. fire department coming together to have this talk about slow streets. you know, i have two kids and we spend the majority of our time either walking or on our bikes. and we even have fire department stickers on top of everything, one of our helmets, because we support the fire department. we also support slow streets. and i think one thing maybe to take a look at is -- [indiscernible] getting close to 10 years old, the green connections plan. it was made by the s.f. planning department, alternative streets

that connect across all of san francisco to provide people with alternatives, to using a car. and i absolutely understand it could be a lot more kind of connection between the fire department and sfmta. but for me i hope that san francisco and slow streets will become permanent and that you all can come to some accord to find the best way to make it happen, make it safe for everyone. the more people you get on to the bus and walking and piking, the less -- walking and biking, the less car traffic. and better response times. that's it. i really appreciate everything you're doing. thanks. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. >> president feinstein:

further public comment, madam secretary? >> clerk: yes, there is. caller, you have three minutes. >> caller: good morning, commissioners. three minutes seems like a luxury, by the way. the board of supervisors gives us two. i think it's two. my name is mike chen. i live in district 2. and i speak in favor of the slow streets program. and one thing that i would like to kind of talk about is, you know, how similar to how we think of the fire department as life and infrastructure, when there's a fire, when there's a gas leak, when there are people in distress who need medical attention, the fire department is there to help and the fire department saves lives. traffic diversion streets are thought of as infrastructures that save lives. and as you probably know, you know, we have a lot of traffic, injuries and fatalities that happen in san francisco, even though we have a program called vision zero, that strives to bring traffic fatalities down to zero by 2025. we still have a lot of people

who die on the streets. a lot of people who get hit by cars on the streets. i would urge you, commissioners, to consider the slow streets infrastructure as life-saving infrastructure, that gives people more ways to get around town, without having -- facing the danger of traffic. i would also -- you know, used slow streets yesterday to get from where i live to cpmc davies campus, around dubose. a street has a bike lane and sometimes a little scary. then i took haight street, which is a slow street and very calm and much easier and less anxiety-inducing for me, worried about getting injured on the way to occupational therapy. and i also use lake street and just seeing the people out there who are using it for recreation, for exercise, really reminds me that this is life-affirming, life-saving, injury-preventing infrastructure. and so however the fire

department can think about ways to think -- to preserve the most life, preserve the most response times. because i do believe that these traffic diversion streets, slow streets, you know, they deter cut hundred through private automobile traffic. but i believe that it can be designed and made so that they preserve emergency response times. and reduce and keep response times the way they are. and so i really urge -- i really hope, commissioners, that you think about this infrastructure as a way to help prevent injury, save lives, improve the public health. you know, things more enjoyable for kids and families. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you. >> clerk: caller, you have three minutes. caller? >> caller: can you hear me?

>> clerk: no, we can't. kim how is this? can you hear me now? >> clerk: barely. >> caller: okay. i hope it gets better. hello. commissioners, my name is -- [indiscernible] i live in san francisco for nine years. i've lived on a slow street for nine days. my partner and i just recently moved to this new place. hello. i'm back now. >> clerk: you have two minutes and 18 seconds left. >> caller: can you all hear me now? i'm sorry about that.

>> clerk: barely. >> caller: i have no idea what's going on. okay. well, i hope this works. like i said, i live on a slow street, golden gate avenue. my partner and i love it. we see people playing football in front of the house last week, people sitting on the street with a table and chair. school children playing every morning down the street and at golden gate and masonic. we knew about slow streets before. my partner used to live right off of haight street. she would have never started biking during this if she didn't have a safe place to get started with biking. that was the slow streets. and car-free j.f.k. we think slow streets are an addition to our city. there's very little car traffic. for biking it's great for school kids, it's great for -- [indiscernible] and so many other things. and i think it's a minor

imposition on driver, because cars are allowed to drive there, just through-traffic that's not allowed. it ends up being residents driving to and from their home. that doesn't create a lot of traffic. i live on a slow street now. i've never had a problem driving to my house. the moving truck didn't have any trouble getting here. i wouldn't imagine a fire truck would have a problem either. i support slow streets. especially the ones here on golden gate where i live and haight where is a biking lane. i would encourage m.t.a. and the fire department to work together, especially for streets like page, where there is a little bit more traffic and less drivers and less obedient to the restrictions. do come up with ways to have better infrastructure for keeping through-traffic limited. like putting -- like putting

curbs in the median at cross streets or what's done at page and octavia. >> clerk: your time is up, sir. your time is up. caller, you have three minutes for public comment. kim hi. thank you so much. mime a richmond district resident. i live adjacent to a slow street. by the way, first i want to that it sounds someone is moving around and your microphone is creating a lot of noise in the background. i don't hear anything right now. but if other people hear something during my comments, that means that somebody else's mic is not muted. i wanted to say i support slow streets in my neighborhood. and the continuing development of them as a normal part of city infrastructure, that helps keep pedestrians safe.

and also support ensuring that our emergency response teams and fire departments have quick access to all the different calls that they have to respond to, whether it's in homes or in cars or vehicles. i hope that they will continue training and using the slow streets and corridorred streets like m.l.k. drive, which is closed in golden gate park. j.f.k. drive which is in golden gate park, it's one of my favorite things to see fire trucks on those concrete streets. because it tells me that that part of the system is working really well. and i also think at least anecdotally, it's a lot easier for people to move out of the way of a fire truck, than for a lot of parked cars and people making u-turns and things like that that could create another complication and accident. just want to say thank you very much for supporting this and collaborating with sfmta.

i'm done speaking. appreciate it. >> clerk: i think we have two more. caller, you have three minutes to make public comment. >> caller: hi, good morning, everyone. thank for taking my call. i want to thank s.f. fire department and s.f. fire department local 798. i'm dave alexander, on behalf of the richmond district family transportation network. yes, it's a mouthful. just want to thank m.t.a. for partnering on slow streets with s.f. fire department. really want to look at the turning radii for large fire trucks. i know it's listed online. it's something that we tried to problem solve with the onset of slow streets is getting the right specifications for the different planters, the different signs that are on slow

streets, so no emergency personnel or responders would be delayed. so really trying to work with the community here. and i think you have active partners who could be identified in each neighborhood, who would love to work with the fire department. get kids involved, get adults. so it's a win-win for everybody. so again getting better specks from the s.f. fire department. they would say get rid of everything. but many families are using slow streets for essential services, getting to the library, going to the park and to schools. that rings true in the richmond district as well. also less congestion citywide would be amazing. i've seen s.f. fire department respond on slow streets and on j.f.k. drive, where there's been limited -- where there's just pedestrians and people get out of the way so much faster than cars, who are idling in traffic. and i've seen the issues that the s.f. fire department has had

on major arteries with cars not moving. and it just behooves me to see that. because lives are at stake here. and so again better communication with the community and identifying community leaders that s.f. fire department would want to work with to make those changes. i think you can benefit everyone. lastly, we know that 80% of s.f. fire department -- firefighters live outside of the city and may not have a vested interest, because they're here to do a job. let's be frank. they hop in the car and go home. they're with their families. that's the way life goes. let's try to work as a community, because we're living here, too. we want to help the s.f. fire department. thank you so much and have a great day. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. caller, you have three minutes. >> caller: my name is anne

crispy. i'm representing spur. we bring people together to develop solutions to the big problem city space. i'm here to voice that spur strongly supports making slow streets permanent. spur has been impressed at how sfmta has considerated and collaborated even in the urgent and stressful response. in making slow streets permanent, sfmta can then sink into the process of ongoing or permanent active collaboration to make this infrastructure work best for all those who depend on our streets, including the emergency responders on whom we all depend. we encourage the fire commission to support this program and have the fire department collaborate regularly well sfmta to make sure this program is successful. thank you so much. i really appreciate your time and consideration. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. >> president feinstein: are we

ready to close public comment? >> clerk: i'm checking now. we can close public comment. >> president feinstein: very good. public comment is closed. and i don't see any other hands up. all right. madam secretary. >> clerk: item 6, commission report. report on commission activities since last meeting on april 28th, 2021. >> president feinstein: any report? not seeing any hands.

all right. and do we have any public comment on that? there was nothing to comment on. you never know. i can't hear you, maureen. is it me? >> clerk: caller, you have three minutes. would you like to make public comment? >> caller: hello? >> clerk: would you like to make public comment? >> caller: i had a comment on the -- i for some reason wasn't called on. >> clerk: we'll allow public comment. >> caller: thank you so much.

my name is luke, i'm a father of a 2-year-old girl. and an organizer of kids safesf. it's a volunteer-run advocacy organization, with more than 10,000 supporters across the city. my 2-year-old daughter loves slow streets, s.f. fire and our local firehouse station 6. and we urge you to support the slow streets program and work with the amazing staff at sfmta to save, improve and expand the program for the benefit of kids, families and all residents of san francisco. san francisco needs more not less kids-safe spaces for more than 135,000 kids in our city. and you have an opportunity to send a clear and uplifting message that those kids' lives are valued and kids' safe spaces belong in our city. for those of you experience kids safe slow streets, you know that the streets are full of life, joy, and human connection and that turning these spaces back into dangerous streets for through traffic would be a grave

mistake. with that said, slow streets can be improved by adding infrastructure to eliminate through-traffic, while improving access to the fire department. please work with me, kids safe s.f. and other advocates to improve safety on slow streets, while simultaneously improving access for the fire department. i also want to extend an invite to you to join us at kids safe s.f. working to save, improve and expand kids safe slow streets in san francisco. you can learn more and connect with others by going to kidssafesf/slowstreets. i urge the commission to support the program and work to save, improve and expand program for the benefit of kids, families, and other residents of san francisco. for the benefit of kids, families and other residents of san francisco. thank you for your time and your continued work for the people of

san francisco. >> clerk: is that the end of your public comment? >> caller: it is. thank you. >> clerk: okay. thank you. >> president feinstein: madam secretary -- >> clerk: it looks like one -- i don't know if this additional caller is on for -- i'm assuming it's not for the commission report. do you have public comment on the commission report? >> caller: yeah. i was also in line but for some reason didn't get called on. i called back in to give public comment on the slow streets. >> clerk: okay. you have three minutes. >> caller: thank you. i appreciate the time, from the feinstein, chief nicholson and commissioners. i am walk san francisco's vision zero organizerrer. and really appreciate you holding this hearing on slow streets, which has been a really

important new way to actually keep people safe while getting around san francisco. because seven years ago, san francisco and its key agencies like the fire department approved a vision zero strategy and goal. and the city said we're going to make a commitment that by 2024, no one would die or be seriously injured in traffic crashes on san francisco streets. and san francisco made this goal when 30 people were dying each year and 600 people were injured each year in the city. and that toll of traffic violence hasn't been shared, you know, across the city evenly. our city's seniors are disproportionately killed in traffic crashes. they're often half of our traffic deaths each year, despite being only about 15% of the population. and half of our city's dangerous work streets run through our historically disadvantaged communities, our communities of color and seven years later there are still 30 people dying each year and hundreds injured in crashes. but thankfully we know what's been working well in other --

and in successful vision zero cities. those that have significantly decreased their traffic fatalities and injuries. one thing shared by all of those cities is creating car-free or car-light spaces in the streets in their cities. a permanent network of slow streets is a critical way that we can create safe, protected routes for people to get around, whether that's on foot, on bike, or getting to and from muni. when traffic is limited and really calmed on these streets, we see serious traffic crashes decrease significantly. so we ask for your support for this program. and your continued strong collaboration with other city partners like sfmta to make this program the success that we know it can be. the effective tool it can be to bring down the numbers of traffic crashes that kill and seriously injure our residents every day. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. that is all of public comment. >> president feinstein: all right. public comment is closed.

next item. >> clerk: item 7. agenda for next and future fire commission meetings. >> president feinstein: i have one comment on that. it's not a huge consequence. but since i can't speak to each of my commissioners individually, it's more of an announcement than anything else, which is that i have been working with the city attorney's office regarding performance evaluations for the chief of the department, the department's physician and the commission secretary, which as everybody knows is our commission's responsibility. as the commissioners also know, there has been a change in leadership in d.h.r. and we will get there.

but right now we're not in a position to proceed with the evaluations. i am in contact with them and expect to hear back from them shortly. so i don't want anybody to think i'm not paying attention to that situation. i am. but i think the transition needs to settle in a little more. any other agenda items for future meetings? all right then. >> clerk: there are two people on the public comment line. >> president feinstein: okay. >> clerk: caller, do you have public comment on agenda for next and future fire commission meetings? >> i do not. i was a leftover hand -- i made

public comment on slow streets. >> clerk: okay. thank you. caller, you would like to make public comment on agenda for next and future fire commission meetings? >> caller: i would not. i think i'm also a leftover hand. >> clerk: okay. >> caller: sorry about that. >> clerk: that's okay. there is no public comment. >> president feinstein: all right. then public comment is closed. hearing nothing further, i would like to make the motion that we adjourn and that we do so in honor and respect and with deep thanks in memory of firefighter/paramedic brantley. you know, as has been said, a real tragedy. but he gave until the end. and, you know, his family i hope takes some comfort in that.

so that would be my motion. >> second that, madam president. >> president feinstein: thank you. >> clerk: all in favor? >> aye. >> clerk: unanimous. this meeting is adjourned at 11:37. >> president feinstein: thank you. thank you.

who told you we were going to be here? it was supposed to a secret. i got a call thursday from mayor breed saying "i want to come down." and it literally brought a tear to my eye. before i introduce his honor, willy brown, who i want to tell you a quick story. there was a rumor he was going to run for mayor and i ran into him in north beach and i just put my hand out and i said would you make your first campaign promise and he said "yeah, whatever it is. what do you want?" i said, "i'd like to see water running through lotus

fountain." he said, "you got it." and it wasn't an easy project. if they put water in it it was going to actually blow up. so i'd like to bring a long-time lotus flower supporter. earthquake celebration. and celebrated those brave souls who rebuilt the city from the ashes. so it's my honor to introduce his honor. and wish him an 87th birthday. >> i am, of course, delighted to again be here with all of you for the occasion of memorializing and remembering how difficult it must have been in 1906 for lots of people in

san francisco who at the time the clock struck, the city began to fall apart and before it was over within a few hours, the city had fallen apart. but, as usual, if you read yesterday, you know in the chronicle that, in fact, the city came rolling back. and it always coming rolling back and when lee housekeeper approached me in the middle '90s asking about this fountain there was a time period where absolutely i said, "i don't understand why that fountain isn't already working." i had no idea that fountain hadn't worked in hundreds of years and no one bothered to do anything about it. fortunately, there was a fellow named ed lee. he stepped up. i gave him directions on what i

needed to have done and ultimately, it did get done. it got done because many of you were participating in one way or another providing the inspiration. and, since the time that this fountain began to emit water again, every mayor thereafter has made it his or her responsibility to see that that fountain continues to spray water, that you continue to come here on april 18th, early morning for the express if you were of making sure that san francisco continues to remember what we are all about. and, believe me, it was a very special breed of people who in 1906 actually started the process of the resurrection of san francisco. so it shouldn't surprise you

that some many, many years later, more than 100 years later, the word "breed" is still the foundation of our city. the new mayor is "breed." i don't know if that's her real name. i have no idea, but i do know that it represents everything this city is all about for so many years and i am just delighted, believe me and i was told by lee housekeeper that again we would be celebrating. i actually thought i might be here alone. i remember one time i came here and they said "you've got to speak." and it was like one minute before the phone would ring and low and behold i said not enough time. on this occasion. ladies and gentlemen, the mayor of san francisco and the lady

who keeps the fountain going, mayor london breed. >> thank you, mayor willy brown. we appreciate you being here early this morning. and let me just start by saying i appreciate the city so much and everything you all have done to keep us safe when we had to shut this city down a year ago. today, we commemorate the 1906 earthquake and we also recognize our first responders. we have our fire chief janine nick olson today as well as our police chief bill scott and the person who has been leading during this pandemic, the emergency operation center thank you all so much. dr. colfax didn't get up this early in the morning. when i think about san francisco in the 1906

earthquake and how far we've come, just think about it. 250,000 people were homeless because of the earthquake and the fire. when i think about san francisco and our resilience, that's what we've been talking about this entire pandemic. we've come so far and we have made magic happen out of tragedy. the 1989 earthquake. many of us were around during that earthquake. maybe not the 1986, the embarcadero was shadowed by a freeway and now it's open and bright and available for all to enjoy and to see. the same with this pandemic with san franciscans. we go through earthquakes. we go through pandemics.

we go through things. when the time comes and we need to rise up like the phoenix we are, we stand strong, proud, and together and that's what the people of san francisco did in 1906 when we rebuilt this city and that's why we come here today to show appreciation to the guardians of the city, to show respect for the people who risk their lives to remember the 250,000 people who were homeless and the thousands of people who lost their lives. at this time, we commemorate the 1906 earthquake and we recognize how amazing and strong we are as a city and so i'm given the signal from martha cohen that we are almost at a minute. are we there, martha? all right. and our sheriff paul miamoto is

here. thank you so much, sheriff, for joining us. and, at this time, in recognition for those first responders, for the people we lost during the 1906 earthquake, for the people we lost during this pandemic. let's take a moment of silence.

thank you all so much for joining us in prayer. we're glad you've seen us survive 150 years. thank you again to the fire department and our chief and the police department and the department of public health, our sheriff's department, our first responders, the people who will continue to be the guardians of san francisco, we are coming out of this pandemic and we are coming out stronger than ever. thank you so much. ♪ san francisco open your gate here is your wondering one

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