>> clerk: and the time is 5:01. this meeting is being held by webex pursuant to the mayor's and governor's declaring of a local emergency. during the covid emergency, the fire commission's regular meeting room is closed, and meetings of the fire commission will be held remotely. to enter public comment, dial

415-655-0001 and enter meeting i.d. 2489-736-7432. comments will be addressed in the order they are received. when the moderator announces that the commission is taking public, members of the public can raise their hand by pressing star, three to enter the queue. members of the public will hear silence until it is their turn to speak. members of the public will have three minutes to comment. please ensure you are in a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn down any electronic items around you. roll call. [roll call]

>> clerk: at this time, president feinstein will read the land acknowledgement. >> president feinstein: the san francisco fire commission acknowledges that we are on the homeland of the ramaytush ohlone. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homelands. we wish to pay our respects by

acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone and by acknowledging their sovereign rights as first people. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. item 2, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission 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 commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with statements made during public comment, and there is nobody on our public comment line. >> president feinstein: all right. public comment shall be closed.

>> clerk: item 3, approval of the minutes, discussion and possible action to approve the meeting minutes from the regular meeting on september 8, 2021. >> president feinstein: all right. and do we have any public comment on that item? >> clerk: we do not. there is nobody on the public comment line. >> president feinstein: all right. i see commissioner covington's hand raised. >> commissioner covington: thank you, madam president. i would like to make just two quick corrections on the minutes. on page 2, paragraph two, it reads that -- excuse me -- who's going to be attending the memorial service for 9-11. mr. ong is the brother of miss

betty ong. >> clerk: i'm sorry. what line are you on, please? >> commissioner covington: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14. line 14 on page 2, where it says mr. ong is the brother of miss betty -- >> clerk: that's paragraph one. >> commissioner covington: okay. yes. paragraph one, 14 lines down. >> clerk: all right. >> commissioner covington: so betty, excuse me, b-e-t-t-y. and then also, i would like the meeting to reflect our discussion related to the drivers of muni stopping when directed. i also suggested -- that's on the last page, page 4.

i also suggested that we send the video to sfgovtv so that as many citizens as possible should be aware of the fact when they're given direction by fire personnel to stop that they stop, and with those minor corrections, i would like to move this item. >> clerk: okay. i just have clarification. so you want me to add in that it should be put on sfgovtv? >> commissioner covington: i'm suggesting that the videotape regarding these issues. >> clerk: okay. and you want me to add sfgovtv? >> commissioner covington: yes,

please. >> clerk: okay. >> commissioner covington: i've already moved this item. >> i second it. [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes. >> commissioner covington: thank you. >> clerk: okay. 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 september 8, 2021, including budget, academies, special events, communications, andout reach to other government agencies and the public. and report from administration, deputy chief jose velo. report on the administrative divisions, fleet and facility status and updates, finance,

support services, and training within the department. >> good evening, president feinstein, vice president nakajo and commissioners, and near practitioner brokaw. chief jeanine nicholson. my report tonight will be brief, but i first want to thank president feinstein for her words at the 9-11 ceremony and the attendance of our other commissioners. thank you very much for being there, and i want to give a shoutout to olivia scanlon and the others for helping us get it together. it was a really touching ceremony, so thank you everyone who attended.

and i met our nominated fire commissioner, arney morgan there. i believe he will be getting sworn in on monday afternoon, the 27, so looking forward to that. that is the latest information i have on that. there have been lots of sort of meet and greets going on with our panels for new firefighters, and tomorrow, i will be taking all the recommendations from those panels and deciding who will be on the meet and greet staff. and then violation of covid, which has really been taking up most of our time these days. we have a lot of other things we'd, you know, really like to focus on, but this is where

it's at right now. right now, we have 122 who are not compliant. out of that 122, 18 are on long-term leave, so we really have 104 noncompliant. some have filed for exemptions, and those are working through the system, so we'll see what the final number is, but we will definitely be losing some people due to the vaccination. and sort of pivoting or not pivoting but rolling right into that, i do want to welcome dr. jan brokaw and nurse practitioner stephanie phillips.

dr. brokaw came on board and was thrown right into the fire with the covid vaccine, and i am so grateful for her leadership, her and stephanie phelps. you all have just really done some wonderful work, and there are a lot of other things you'd like to be working on, and we have many of the same goals, and we're getting there. it's just taking a while, but i look forward to hearing from them later. and with that, i will conclude my report. thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you, chief. is there any public comment? >> may i -- may i just go back one second? >> president feinstein: yes. >> how could i forget the therapy dogs? so yesterday, myself and

catherine alba were just north of san diego with an organization that has agreed to supply us with a therapy dog, and lieutenant catherine alba is to be the handler. she got to meet and choose the dog that she's going to bring back, and there was another dog there that i fell totally in love with, and we're bringing them back, as well. chief velo will have photos of them later, but i am just thrilled to bits. i wish i could be the second dog's handler, but i have other pressing things to do. so yeah, that's just a bit of good news for our members to have some canine love around, so thank you. >> clerk: and there's nobody on the public comment line. >> president feinstein: all right. public comment will be closed,

and just so i don't forget chief, who will be the second handler? >> christina gibbs, lieutenant christina gibbs, so those are the two people that will be handling the dogs. >> president feinstein: very good. thank you. do my fellow commissioners have any questions or comments for the chief? all right -- yeah. commissioner covington, yes. >> commissioner covington: thank you. chief, i'm glad to know that you didn't pull rank on the

puppy. that's to lieutenant gibbs to do that. how many dogs do we have in the department, including the two new ones? >> so these are our very first therapy dogs. >> commissioner covington: yes, i know that. >> we do have search and rescue dogs, and i know that one was retired, and captain gareth miller is going to be getting another one, so that does leave us with three, chief velo? will that be three? we have two right now, and captain miller, when he gets his therapy dog -- sorry, next search and rescue dogs, that will give us three search and rescue dogs. does that make sense? >> commissioner covington: i was waiting for a response from

chief velo. >> no, the number is correct. we have three, plus the two therapy dogs. three for search and rescue. >> commissioner covington: okay. five altogether. is vader one of the dogs that retired? >> president feinstein: i'm seeing a shaking head no. >> commissioner covington: okay. all right. thank you. well, i think it is wonderful because we had a lot of discussion over the cat who was going to be a service cat, so it's good to see that we have this going on and that you were able to go down just north of san diego to select them, so kudos on that. nothing else at this moment. >> thank you very much, commissioner covington, and let

me just add, there's still time for me to pull ranks on lieutenant gibbs. these canines will be coming to live with their handlers on october 26. they need to do some bonding and break them in there before they will be in the fire station, so it's still a couple months away, but it's -- it's in act, and in addition, this foundation source, hope foundation, will be here on october 18. they're bringing a dog for the son of a recently deceased firefighter, christopher yauch, so they're just really doing great stuff. >> commissioner covington: yes, we certainly appreciate them. can you give us some information regarding the

[inaudible] hope foundation? >> where the name came from? >> commissioner covington: yes. it sounds like it was named after a particular person. >> i believe it was named after a dog, but i don't know exactly. they raise and train dogs for military veterans, for all sorts of people. guide dogs, they do it all, and -- and for fire departments, and i believe they're also going to be working with the coast guard soon and who knows who else, but yeah, they're just, yeah, wonderful, wonderful stuff for us. >> commissioner covington: very good. i wanted to just say regarding the 9-11 commemoration, i thought it was wonderfully

planned and executed and such an inspiring time from betty ong's brother, and i thought it was inspiring when he said how much time he had, miss scanlon said take all the time you want. we were just riveted to his words, listening to him say what his sister went through when she was on the phone with american airlines, describing what was happening, and being calm in such a situation where the other two stewardesses had been killed.

so it's just a reminder that stewardesses do much more than serve coffee. they were there for our safety, and they do deserve our respect, and i would really, really like to thank mr. ong and his wife for coming and sharing their family's story. thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner covington. vice president nakajo, good evening. >> commissioner nakajo: good evening, madam president, chief, administration members. chief, i just want to get some clarity on next steps. you reported out a number of members i believe are at the point of where -- correct me if i am wrong, but that's the

clarity i'm looking for -- that they have not registered, but i'm wondering what is the next step in the process for those members. could you clarify a little bit, chief, and give a little bit more information, chief, as to what the next steps are now that we've identified the number? >> absolutely, vice president nakajo. so what we have done is some of my staff have met with -- i believe not a disciplinary meeting, but what is available, what can happen to them in terms of exemptions and what happens if they get approved or if they don't get approved. we invited the union to participate, as well, so they

could advise the member, as well, even though it's not an informational meeting, it's a disciplinary meeting. they still have time left. they can get the johnson & johnson vaccine before september 30 and be compliant. so -- and just to be clear, these are people that have registered that they are not vaccinated, so it is what it is. we were down to about four people that had not entered their vaccination status. if they are not fully vaccinated by october 13, which means two weeks after their last shot, we can move separate them, but there is an agreement

with the union and with the department of human resources for the city that there is a sort of two-week grace period, amnesty period whereas long as they get their last vaccine by october 13 they can then return to work on november 1, but they cannot work between october 13 and november 1, so if there are any real holdouts -- but, you know, once we know who is not going to comply, we will begin the separation process and that will include an administrative meeting with me before i send it to the fire commission, and then, that's up to the president and you and the commission how that's going to move forward. >> commissioner nakajo: thank

you very much, chief. just one question of clarity. it sounded like october 13 was the deadline date, and my question is, by october 13, the members have to be vaccinated with both vaccines? >> so yes. they have to be fully vaccinated, which means two weeks after their last shot, so either their second shot of pfizer or moderna or their only shot of johnson & johnson will had to have happened two weeks prior. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. thank you for that clarity, and i'm going to make a recommendation that these options be presented to the members. thank you very much, chief, and madam president, that's my question. >> and if i just, madam president, yes, the city is putting on several vaccination clinics, so there will be

plenty of vaccine -- i mean, there is plenty of vaccine available, but i believe there's going to be toward the end of the month, as well. i believe there's going to be several clinics in the city. thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you, chief. and i believe we already called for public comment. am i right, madam secretary? >> clerk: yes, you did. >> president feinstein: thank you. >> president feinstein: all right. i think we are ready for chief velo. >> good evening, madam president, vice president nakajo, chief, command staff. deputy chief jose velo. this is my report for august 2021. i will share my presentation, and again, this is some of the

highlights since the last report and some highlights in september, as well. we're happy to report that all the strikers that were deployed to the dixie fires and other fires are safely home, so lots of good kudos from the agencies that we responded to assist there to help. we do have three members that are assisting in the fires. two members in the [inaudible] fire and one member in the [inaudible] fire. they are part of the incident management teams. we have started this incident management team. i actually had to report about an hour ago, i got an update

that's been at the [inaudible] fire, and he has given a presentation, one of the briefings at the caldor fire. one of the images there, they also made a significant donation to the caldor fire relief fund. the fires are not over yet. we still have 11 active large fires. to date, 2.3 million acres have burned, and just to give you an update, this is less than last year, but it's two times the average of the last five years, so a really bad year for our forests in the state of california. [inaudible] are currently -- they were invited to a workshop in portland with other members of the fire service in the country, a fire dynamics

workshop they hope to bring back to the training. they're having the 20 academy, they are in session, as you know, week seven of the 20 weeks. we have lost one due to deficiencies, so we have 19 remaining in the academy, and this is week four of testing in the academy. they're teaching the recruits, and we do it in a small little house and just by opening and closing, we identify the ventilation patterns we also have [inaudible] rotations,

sorry, and some of the skills, they continue to practice skills and operations, so that's continuing nonstop at power and folsom street. so here's the on boarding process of the 129 academy. [inaudible] we are connecting with many agencies within the city and collaborating with other departments to bring some population to the city and to the department. part of that is the city e.m.t. he participated in the interviews for the lead instructor for the next cadre of city e.m.t., and we will have a support that way, too. we have members that are going to help us in some projects, and part of their [inaudible]

extremely busy. he can fill you in any question you have about this program, but this is one of the things that he's working on right now. as you recall, we enroll our city e.m.t. internships and we're happy with what they're doing out there and hope that in the future they can be part of the department. our team continues to do training in the best way they can. communications, outdoor skills in a safe manner, but they

continue to practice [inaudible] and they brought into the department and we created this train the trainer program for our folks to be able to deliver some -- not only physically training and [inaudible] training but also mental training, yoga, to our members. so now, these members will go out to their departments and start training the members. it was no cost to us, and now we're going to expand the knowledge into other stations. [inaudible] and the chief was there, too, and the events of september 11, where we climbed the building tower, 53 stories, to raise money for the international [inaudible], and the mayor was there, too, so happy to see that the chief was

able to climb those stairs, as well, too. and here are our new therapist dogs. we have marley on the left-hand side with lieutenant alba and sadie, who's to be assigned to lieutenant gibbs on the right-hand side, so those are new members of the department that you'll get to meet hopefully very soon. dr. brokaw is really going to talk about this, but i really want to commend her and stephanie phelps for the work that they're doing to [inaudible] but this week, yesterday, today, and tomorrow and then in two weeks, we're going to have members coming in to do a wellness check, cardiovascular and other things. it's really a ton of work, and chief parks and stephanie and dr. brokaw have been doing a ton of work. this is what she's working on, bringing wellness into our department.

so this is yesterday, some of the members that were doing that yesterday, divisional training. as far as covid numbers, we had a really bad month. we had 51 members quarantined for covid. delta variant really took a toll on us. we had a little bit of a spike, but now, we still have 17 members, so we continue to direct or members to mask indoors and limit the contact with the public, which is difficult, the way we work in the fire department, too. on the random alcohol and drug testing program, 69 members were tested, and all were in evidence. it continues to help with [inaudible] and probation physicals and all results were

negative. 121 service requests in august. 112 were closed. [inaudible] and in late 21, stations 37 and 44 will be out to bid, so this is an on going contract that we have, replacement generators that have a limited life span, and we get this through eser bond money. we have completed the [inaudible] we have two units that respond to the cliff rescues, and we have an additional instructor for that so we need a brand-new vehicle. and station 49, you wanted to know about that. the interior completion for the images that are going to be hanging on the walls in station 49's for the fall of 21, and the art fence, the famous fence

is going to be estimated spring 22, and chief can explain the delays. there's several things that changed with that. the size -- the design, it's not changed, but the metal was required to be changed, so we hope to see that fence in the spring of 22. station 30, some of the updates, you remember this culture that was -- observation desk, that's completed. we have a -- interior work that's going on. there you see on the bottom, we have to create a new path for civilians, and we also have a ski lift for our jet skis that's going to be in the corner of the station, as well. going back to 35, we still have an issue with the electrical situation, and i know you're going to have a presentation the next meeting from d.p.w. to address all those issues. fleet engines, we have 11.

we told you there was a delay for the recall of the transmission, and there's some parts of that transmission. there's a nationwide delay. the truck that we're waiting to come has not come yesterday. as of two days ago, it was in new mexico, and hopefully, it'll be there by the end of the week. and our [inaudible] staff visited the [inaudible] factory and they're working on the [inaudible] project. as you know, that's been a major budget in the project. this is part of the things they're working on when they are there, talking to them, and it's continued to work on the next few months of this project. our chief o'connor [inaudible]

liaison, some of the project he's working on, as you know, we have a requirement from the board to the 2050 planning. basically, it's not been -- they extended the [inaudible] the manifolds, the portable efws, completion by december and a presentation to the board of supervisors, and [inaudible] until the full system is completed and projection for that is 2050 for that. we continue to do drills. september 29 is going to be a drill at [inaudible] will be attending, and the goal of this drill is the configuration of the portable water supply system for pressure and flow, so we focus on that, so that's [inaudible] and so forth. so as the chief said already, the 9-11 ceremony, every single station in the city has had, just as we've done for the last

19 years. and last but not least, our memorial fire mass, vice president nakajo was there, and the mayor was there to remember the fallen -- it's been two years since we had that event, and we remembered their service. that's it for my presentation. any questions? >> president feinstein: thank you. thank you, chief velo. madam secretary, is there any public comment thus far? >> clerk: there is nobody on our public comment line. >> president feinstein: all right. then public comment shall be closed. i'm just -- before i turn it over to my fellow commissioners, i'm going to make one announcement, which is that i did, on behalf of the commission, to extend an invitation to the department of public works to come before this commission to talk mainly

about station 35, and i know that we received, in our written materials for the meeting, a colored sheet, we received it for every packet, which showed pictures and updates on station 35, and i just want to comment, i was incredibly disappointed to see that the flu projected date for the station to become operational is fall of 2021. and i think a lot of what we need to discuss at the next meeting, when the department of public works does come, is why this has gone so awry. the completion date has been

kpleeded since -- since the time when i joined -- exceeded since the time when i joined this commission, and that was in january 2019. and i hope they are prepared to explain why a misuse of public dollars, using up bonds that are very much needed for other construction projects in the city for our department, and, you know, to -- to basically continually share the same information over and over with different words, i don't want them to think that we don't notice that. so that is my comment, and other than that, i know you don't put that together, chief

velo, but it did come under your report, and i wanted to make those comments. but other than that, i thank you very much for your report. >> thank you. >> president feinstein: all right. my fellow commissioners. vice president nakajo? >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, madam president. chief velo, thank you very much for your comprehensive report. i have just a couple of comments or questions that will refer to assistant deputy chief velo. part of our decision is

[inaudible] but i was just looking for a question of clarity a little bit because on your calendar sheet, i don't know if you have that in front of you, there is amounts of meetings and identifications, and one of those meetings identifications is august 6 of 2021 that talks about meeting with the director arce from oewd, and so i was just curious to know what that is because we are in -- still rolling out our declaration of diversity, so i'm wondering what each role has to do with where we're at, so if you could share some

information with the relationship of the department with oewd, chief peeples. >> thank you, president feinstein, vice president nakajo, chief nicholson, and command staff, as well. very good question, vice president nakajo. some of the work of this department is to look after the workforce of our department, the future workforce and the current workforce. that's exactly within oewd's wheel house. they are the ones who administer and manage a lot of these resources for people to be developed. we have to do a lot of work with promotions, and also just to help future recruits and candidates to succeed.

we find that a lot of individuals are lacking just base skills that are common maybe 25 years ago, base skills, communication skills, quite a few things that fall within our minimum qualifications. so we're looking for solutions. these are developmental solutions for raw candidates right now and how those are going to be partnered in the future because we're looking for resources for a lot of the programs we're going to need to ramp up here shortly. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. that makes a lot of sense to me. i'm a big fan of the internship program and what's involved in the development cal support. i know that oewd is about development and job training. part of when chief velo was going through your report, it sounds like a -- and i don't

have any issue at all. it sounds lake a lot of recruitment or identification of target population to get them interested in some area or some items in the fire department or city e.m.t. again, i can appreciate that, but i'm just trying to take this in as we as a fire department creates a workable unit that's going to be used within diversity. i'm also watching other departments because this diversity is, as i understand it, a mandate for us to adopt [inaudible] by other department, so i'm just curious as to everyone's going to roll it out, and i think we are fortunate to have an officer, chief nicholson, be focused on that, as well. so thank you very much for that, and i can see where recruitment would be part of it. if it's recruitment, i know we

had some specific [inaudible] but that's good. it's good that we are active. if i can continue, madam president, i have a couple of questions for chief dewitt. chief dewitt, same thing. i'm looking at our commissioners docket, page 83. there's -- end of the paragraph, eser bond 2010 n.f.s. update through august 2021. seismic, talks about fire station 16. you with me, chief? and what's happening with this is as i read this, it's interesting because somebody like commissioner cleaveland would usually be scoping this

out. it says completion date, july 16. the contractor achieves substantial completion january, and it talks about fiscal closeout for that project. my question is, is who created the liquid damages and who's paying for this and where does it come from? can you share this? >> i will do my best. good evening, commissioners, command staff, dr. brokaw, deputy, anyone else i've missed, i am deputy chief [inaudible] with court services. i was not the assistant deputy chief during that build, but what i do know about liquidated damages, but what i do know is

they are put into play when the contractor does not conform to the schedule as you saw. so we have an initial substantial and final completion date that was not met by the contractor, and so those liquidating damages are set out in the contract that will be charged per day for every day of delay. those liquidated damages are used to pay for p.w., department of public works project management, extended project management time, any architects that are on-site to continue work along the way, so basically goes to all of the other departments to continue to remain on the project during the delay. the contractor does not receive any of that money, it all goes back into mostly public works. they receive the entire amount.

>> commissioner nakajo: so we have a number of things that we are covering, overruns and delays. i don't want to assume anything, but it's our funds that we are paying out. >> that's correct. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. that's part of what i want to try to get confirmation on because it sounds like we're not at fault in terms of paying this liquidated damages. is that a good way to put that, chief, or do you want to put me on the right track? >> that's correct. if we had caused the delay, we would end up paying the contractor more money for all of the delays that they are experiencing. so in this case, it was the contractor who caused the delay. they were fined the liquidated damages, and the amount is determined by contract, like if it's per day, they're charged a

certain amount of money, and then that money goes back for all of the public works project management, construction management, all of their time on the job. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. it does not come back to the bond, it does not come back to the department, it just basically reimbursed p.w., so -- for their time, their extended time on the project. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. i just wanted to be clear as to what that tracking was, so i'm going to move onto my second comment. it's under eser bond 2014, seismic improvement program. i believe we're talking about station 35, so i don't know if this paragraph -- sounds like it has something to do in terms of the electrical kinds of

connections. i assume that there's somebody hired to manage the project, and pg&e is another form of management. do you want to explain that to me a little bit more, please? >> p.u.c., pg&e, other sister agencies, are not really part of that management team. they are independent. i'm not sure -- is that your question? so the question, the point of energization, all of those areas, they are based on pg&e errors, not the project management team's errors.

so that's the story, kbu i don't think we've really had a final conclusion. >> yeah -- >> commissioner nakajo: i think you -- go ahead, cleve. >> yeah, may i interject? thank you. yeah, there's a lot of sort of finger pointing, and i think we can definitely get into this more in two weeks when we do have public works here -- >> you're muted. >> thank you. so there's a lot of -- i think we can get into this more when public works is here, and perhaps they'll be able to answer, but in my experience, it has been -- there's a lot of finger pointing and nobody is taking responsibility, and the money comes out of the bond, and so that is the frustrating part.

for me, we have so many needs and a limited amount of funding, so yeah, it just is frustrating. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. chief, the president has started to talk about how long she's been involved with the commission, and we're talking about station 35. for me, particularly not in terms of identification or anything but the term is 25 years. so for me, it goes all the way from the old days that we used to talk about station 1, where they were at, station 5, station 16, station 49, now station 35. so i'm just concerned because

it's bond money. i'm not going to say it's our money, but our members got the public to vote for those bonds, but for us, it's an order of business. if we don't have our house in order for a matter of business, i'm going to start to get concerned, but somewhere along the line, we have to start taking accountability. any way, those are my questions. thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you, vice president nakajo. i don't see any further comments -- oh, yes, commissioner covington. >> commissioner covington: thank you. i'm looking forward to our meeting with the d.p.w. i have a number of pointed questions for them. i thought that they were going

to be on today's agenda. i learned, you know, that they would not be here today, but in anticipation of their representatives being present, i did visit station 80 -- excuse me -- 35 on monday, and it is a gorgeous facility. while our firefighters are in this very cramped, old, dilapidated building, so commissioner nakajo says it is not our money, but it is our money. that's my feeling. it is our money, because we are citizens of the city and county of san francisco, we are commissioners of the fire

department, and we are taxpayers, and we are boosters to our city, and to have hundreds of thousands of dollars go to no benefit to us as citizens or as a department is reprehensible, so i know i want to get to the bottom of it and come up with a resolution. this is just not the way a huge project should go, and the calendar speaks for itself. this has gone on far too long, and we need, as you've already

said, some accountability from somebody because someone's responsible. if you're project managers, you're supposed to manage the project, not look inspiration from the gods of war, so that's my comment on that. so two weeks. should be interesting. >> president feinstein: and if i might just indicate we did extend an invitation to d.p.w. to appear at this meeting, and they indicated that they could not be prepared in sufficient time and there are are appear -- and therefore are

appearing at the next meeting. because like you, commissioner covington, i visited station 35 twice, and it is gorgeous, and it is where -- our people are deserving of it, and they're not being able to use it through no error of ours, and that is what is particularly distressing, along with the fact as chief dewitt mentioned, you know, liquidated damages don't go back to the bond. they go back to the department of public works. every dollar out of bond is one less dollar we can spend, and we have several that are in need of work, so i agree, it should be an interesting conversation in two weeks.

>> commissioner covington: the money that we're talking about are not chump change. i think it is senator dirksen that said, $1 million here, $1 million there, and before you know, it we're talking about real money. i have other questions, also, but i am mindful of the time, and we have our medical team that's going to be speaking, so i will hold off on my other comments. thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner covington. any comment, maureen? >> clerk: no, there's nobody on our public comment line. >> president feinstein: okay. so public comment is closed. our next item, please. >> clerk: item 5, update from department physician. dr. jennifer brokaw to provide an updated overview on the

duties and responsibilities in the physician's office, and accomplishments over the last year. >> president feinstein: dr. brokaw? >> hi. very pleased to join you. very happy to be here tonight. chief velo, i think you're going to share my presentation for me. it's brief. it's 12 slides, so it shouldn't take more than eight minutes. sorry couldn't do this myself, but -- so i'm here to talk to you tonight since i joined the department as supervising physician in march of 2020,

just as the pandemic hit san francisco. i have a very strong memory of looking at the cruise ship full of passengers with covid outside the golden gate, and i have not received an offer from the department yet, so i told her, look, i don't know if you're going to hire me or if you are planning to hire someone else, but your department needs a physician, so it's been a very historic 1.5 years. we're not out of it yet, and i really appreciate the opportunity to serve the city and the department in this way, so thank you. so i wanted to give an overview of the physician's department.

some of you may be familiar with it, others may not, so yeah. so the best way to think of the physician's department is part of the hub of the wheel of the workforce machine in the department, and the hub of our wheel includes our office, the department office, and human resources and payroll. and basically, we are working together to keep our firefighters and paramedics at work, healthy, paid when they need to be paid, legally compliant, and we do so with the assistance of, of course, the command staff and leadership and also d.w.c., which is the division of workers' compensation. next slide. so how do we do this? we -- in our office, the

physician's office, we do four big things. we do a -- the new hire medical screen, so for every academy, for every big new hire group, we are part of -- we are one hurdle in the process to become gamefully employed at the department. we also do medical screens for members in our department who are undertaking civil service promotions, so we do a medical screen of them. a big part of our job here in the physician's office is injury illness liaison and claims management, working very, very closely with the department division of worker's compensation to help both members have their medical claims created within the division of worker's

compensation, to connect with occupational health and specialists, and to get back to work when their injury is healed or their illness is over. and a lot of that has to do with a return to duty evaluation, which is an important part of that. and then, we are also instrumental in the modified duty program, where an injured worker who's not ready to go back to full duty can be assigned office work within the department while they're still undergoing therapy for their injury. next slide. another big and important part of our job is wellness and compliance, and by compliance, i mean compliance with osha regulations. traditionally -- and this was precovid, we did -- we did and

do infectious disease notifications. now right now, it feels like it's all covid, but in the past, it's also included t.b., tuberculosis exposures, blood borne pathogens such as hepatitis b and c and the needle stick hotline. we are under osha mandate to screen for hearing loss and t.b. regularly, and we are working to get back into compliant with that? we have an immunization program and have for a long time in the physicians office wherein we provide booster shots to firefighters who have not had, say, a tetanus shot or need a booster for hepatitis a or b or

if their immunities get low. and when we do new hire screening, we check people's immune levels to various infectious agents, and once they are hired, we will offer booster shots if they need it. as chief velo mentioned, starting this week, we have restarted health screening, which has not happened in this department for a few years, and very, very successful first week of our know your numbers campaign, which has really been made possible by my colleague, stephanie phelps, and she has had the assistance of the health services system of san francisco? it's been a really nice collaboration wherein they have lent their contracts to us, and we have provided the funding, and so far, we have screened over 100 firefighters for

cardiovascular -- firefighters and paramedics for cardiovascular events and ten-year risk factors for cardiovascular events. next slide. chief velo showed this, but this was a flier that went out. it's a private confidential screen, but we will get aggregate numbers about the health of our department with respect to cardio lackar disease, and from that, i hope to plan for pilot programs, training, education, and perhaps some policies around health related things at stations. next slide. something that has been important to me since i came into the department is health education. we have a lot of expertise in our department. stephanie is not just a nurse

practitioner but a ph.d. in occupational health. we have tony boone who is our industrial hygienist who knows a lot about what he calls engineering controls to make stations healthier. he's been instrumental in getting exhaust systems installed to remove exhaust and remove harmful agents out of the stations. during covid, he's been very important for us to educate us. and then, i have been working very hard both to counsel members one-on-one but also have done several videos and webinars along with stephanie phelps, natasha parks,

firefighter arlene nunez to educate about various topics, mostly about covid, but most recently, we did a sleep webinar for firefighters. as soon as i got here, i began writing a newsletter. i think, commissioners, you received this newsletter. it was borne out of necessity because the covid pandemic was a fast moving topic, so i began writing about covid immediately and giving numbers to the field, and i continue to do so,

but this is an example about a newsletter that was not about covid but was about cancer in the fire service. next slide. and you can see it's very flushed out and i hope clearly written. i do spend a lot of time preparing these, and it's been very gratifying to hear that people read them. next slide. so i want to talk specifically about the sars-cov-2 response. it's really taken a lot of my time and stephanie's time. just to recap, we have had about 229 cases of covid in our department. i think the number is six hospitalizations. currently, we have 32 people

off work for either isolation from that ten-day quarantine isolation or continuing to be off work, and we have nine people, additional people, who have been off work for more than a month, and i think many of those people may not ever return to work because of their experience with covid. so it's 229 people. most people have had mild cases, but as i say, six hospitalizations and nine people total whose total career has been impacted forever. so what have we done during this time? we've talked about the education we've provided. we've also done notifications of exposure to covid, so that includes both ambulance runs and medic runs for the fire suppression people. contact with known covid

positive patients. also, exposure to colleagues in the fire station that have tested positive, which has been a lot of our recent experience with the delta variant. we've filed a lot of worker's compensation claims for covid because it's presumptive illness that's covered by workers comp. there have been instances where people were, you know, away on vacation and clearly did not get it at work, but the majority of our cased are presumed to be due to work. because of the delta variant and our rapid spread in august in which we had 52 cases of covid, including vaccinated members who had to leave work because of covid, we've implemented rapid antigen testing in the state in

collaboration with the california department of public health. chief velo and stephanie have gone out to stations and done these 15-minute rapid antigen tests at stations where there's been more than two cases at a station. finally, we have been real proponents of vaccination. anyone who knows me knows that i am a huge fan of the vaccines. i have spent i don't know how many hours doing one-on-one counseling with reluctant members, i have spent hours at the moscone center doing

vaccinations, and i have set up in my office to offer the field the comfort and event of getting vaccinated here with us. it's been a very interesting experience in the last couple of weeks, but i have vaccinated about 24 members of the department, and it feels good to have been part of that effort. next slide. so to recap, you saw this slide with chief velo, but you know, we had been doing so well with keeping the virus at bay, and then last winter, we got hit pretty hard. you can look at the peak of that spike and know that we began getting vaccinations right there and then at the peak, and the vaccinations worked extremely well in addition to having p.p.e. readily available to us

throughout the pandemic until the delta variant came to town and did what it meant to do, which is get transmitted very easily and breakthrough the vaccine, although it does not make vaccinated people very sick. so as chief velo said, right away, 75% of our department got vaccinated, but 25% were holdouts up until a couple of weeks ago. we got 82 to 85%, but i believe we're closer to 90% vaccinated now. next slide. so i've been here 1.5 years now. and when i think about the

future of what i would like, the pandemic has taught this department and me that our office can do a lot more with regard to health screenings and education. we can partner with the chief of health and safety to do programming, and we have. we can expand our surveillance of the department to make sure we understand the issues that are on going. in the past, mental health has been carved out from the physician's office, and that is something that i would like to create a bridge to the

behavioral [inaudible] and that network of therapists will be available to our members free of cost through the employee assistance program starting in january, so that is really exciting. as you can imagine, like, everyone, but especially people on the frontlines, mental health is an issue that you can deal with. [inaudible] >> so that's the conclusion of my presentation. it's my honor to work in the department and help out during this time, and i welcome any questions or comments. >> president feinstein: thank you, dr. brokaw, very much.

>> thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you. let me turn to my fellow commissioners, if they have questions -- ah, every time that the grid comes up, everybody has moved around, so i have to relocate you, but any questions for the doctor? >> clerk: there's nobody on the public comment line. >> president feinstein: thank you, madam secretary. public comment will be closed. chief nicholson, i guess, is now on the commission and she would like to make a comment, so chief nicholson, please. >> pardon me, and thank you very much, president feinstein, i just wanted to be sure that the commission has met our nurse practitioner, stephanie phelps, who is here, as well, and if she would just like to say hello, she is fabulous, and we just so appreciate her as

well as dr. brokaw. so stephanie phelps. >> yes. thank you so much for having me. i just want to say it's been a pleasure to work with dr. brokaw the last 1.5 years, and i'm proud of the work that we're doing and the work in mental health and engaging in a mobile t.b. program that should be coming soon. >> president feinstein: excellent. thank you. thank you. vice president nakajo or commissioner covington, any questions or comments? >> commissioner nakajo: i defer to commissioner covington first, and then, i'll have a comment after the commissioner. >> president feinstein: all right. commissioner covington, please? >> commissioner covington: okay. thank you, madam president, and thank you, mr. vice president. and so dr. brokaw, can we begin

at the beginning? can you tell us how you were invited to interview for this position? >> yes. my background is in emergency medicine, and in 2010, i decided that patients were getting lost in the system and needed that heath advocacy and navigation was a much needed service, so i peeled out of the emergency room and created a company called good medicine, and we were a group of multidisciplinary health professionals that provided advocacy and engaged in approximate advanced care planning with seniors and supported them through serious illness. and actually, through a friend of mine, directed the film

toxic [inaudible] about firefighters and cancer, i was introduced to tony stefani at the cancer prevention foundation. and tony, soon after meeting me, had me come to present to the board about the company, good medicine, and the services we offered. shortly after that, i became a contracted patient advocate with the cancer prevention foundation, and my work was with firefighters who were at end of life after battling cancer. and after working on several very sad and difficult cases with the foundation, they commended me by giving me the white helmet award, which was a great honor. and at the gala, where i gave my remarks about my work with

the foundation and my vision or my thoughts about firefighter health and wellness, chief nicholson approached me and said, you know, we might have a physician's spot available, and i'd like you to interview for you, so i did. like, i said, when the pandemic was at our door, at the golden gate, i really did feel compelled to serve in some way for the city. >> commissioner covington: thank you for that background. and who do you report to? >> my direct report is to chief velo. >> commissioner covington: mm-hmm. and who hired you? >> the commission. >> commissioner covington: could you please, please, please let her answer the

question. >> it was the commission. >> commissioner covington: yes. we interviewed you, and it was a good interview. i'm so happy that we didn't have any lag time between you interviewing with the commission and coming on board. so just to make sure that we cover some of the basic information, you are totally vaccinated? >> absolutely. >> commissioner covington: and members of your staff are, as well? >> 100%. >> commissioner covington: well, i want to commend you on the newsletter.

it's very good. the first time we received it in our packets, i was elated to see the information in such a handy dandy format to keep up with, so i appreciate that.

>> there's a lot of paranoia of the vaccine and the likelihood of experiencing side effects. one of my approaches is i listen to everything that they say that's happening, and i say, you're absolutely right. if you slap out the virus for what you've told me about the vaccine, what you've told me is correct. it causes blood clots. it can cause, you know, neurologic problems. it can affect the heart. the vaccine side effects and serious side effects are quite rare. i always acknowledge that yes, of course, there are some people in the world that have

been harmed by the vaccine. we can't deny that. but when you imagine now that, you know, billions, now billions of people have been vaccinated -- the number of people who have been harmed is so vanishingly small, this is just such a huge win for the vaccine scientists, we really have to embrace these as a medicine that can both protect you and protect our society. the other thing i like to point out to our vaccine reluctant members is they are first responders. they are people who run into burning buildings and perform c.p.r. on people whose hearts have stopped. they are a brick in the wall that we have to build in our community against the virus,

and being vaccinated is a brick in the wall. it was difficult news when we learned that vaccinated people could transmit the virus; that they had similar amounts of virus build up in their nasopharynx as unvaccinated people. that was difficult to overcome with some of the reluctant people, but i like to point out that you're still five to seven times less likely to become infected in the first place, even when exposed, and that you are certainly much less likely to land yourself in the hospital. and i also [inaudible]. >> commissioner covington: thank you very much. you've given me a comprehensive answer to the question. you said that there were 299

cases of covid within the department. >> 229. >> commissioner covington: 229. okay. that is better, 229. all right. is there a common route to transmission? >> you know, it did change. in the beginning, in the winter time, i would actually say that most people were infected by friends or family, but we did have several members become infected at the congregate care settings when they went into transport patients or provide services. there was transmission to our members there. now with the delta variant, it

has really changed. i would say the majority of our members are infected at the fair -- fire stations, so there's been much more peer to peer transmission of the virus. >> commissioner covington: i think it's important for people to realize that so they understand why there is such a push to be vaccinated. it's very important. you mentioned during your introductory comments that nine people may be off work permanently. can you give us some more information about that? >> well, i can say that there's some people whose physical condition will not permit them to come back to work. >> commissioner covington: and

that's as a result of covid? >> yes, yes. >> commissioner covington: okay. >> there are some people that became really ill and have developed ptsd as a result of it, so i can't say that they'll ever come back, but they may take a long time. >> commissioner covington: yes, and ptsd takes a long time to even begin to grapple with before you get to the other side. >> yeah. >> commissioner covington: you said in august there were 52 cases, and now how many cases did we have? >> in august, there was 51 cases. right now, we have 15 people in isolation in their ten-day, you know, quarantine period, and 17

people remain off work. >> commissioner covington: and those people that are in isolation, are they in medical settings or do they just remain at home? >> no, they are not permitted to come to work. very few of them are very ill. >> commissioner covington: so just self-isolation. >> yeah, per the c.d.c. protocol. >> commissioner covington: okay. thank you. i wanted to ask about 2010, you

said you wanted to be more in health advocacy. >> yeah. >> commissioner covington: do you feel that you have been a strong advocate while you've been in the department? >> yes, i have. it's a funny position to be the department doctor because i am the employer. i do represent the department, so i am not the member's physician. i represent the employer, and when they are injured, i do not see a lot of their medical records unless they choose to share them with me, so that is a unique position to be in. i think, in the past, there's been some loss of trust between the physician's office and the members, and i've spent a lot of the last 1.5 years trying to

regain trust. you know, i have to call out my colleague, stephanie, who i think has really held this department together in terms of how the field, the firefighters, paramedics, and e.m.t.s, have felt about this office. i think she's been a bridge, but the [inaudible] was involved making difficult decisions or involved in making difficult decisions about somebody's capacity to continue working, so a lot of my time in the last 1.5 years has been really trying to establish a rapport and to communicate to the union and the field that i'm really here to improve -- try and improve the health of the department and to advocate for individuals to be healthier

and to get better faster. >> commissioner covington: well, thank you for that response. and the last page of your presentation, you have future roles for physician's office at sffd. could you elaborate on some of the things that you're thinking of? i see expanded health screening and that sort of thing. >> yes. we would like to, as i mentioned, continue to do events like we are undertaking in the coming weeks, where we

do a [inaudible] and both do hearing tests and test people for t.b. we'll collect those results and, you know, advise members what they need to do if they have a positive t.b. test or need hearing aids. that's something i covered in one of my newsletters. i don't think people realize that hearing aids are allowed -- you are allowed to have hearing aids if you're a firefighter. you just can't wear them into a fire, doing things like that to reassure people that having a medical condition isn't necessarily the end of your career, and we are here to help

you through whatever disability you have. chief velo's been terrific in conceptualizing a campaign that we would like to roll out in the next year called 30 in and 30 out? 30 years of service and then 30 good years of retirement. to be healthy in your retirement, you have to start during your career. >> commissioner covington: yes. well, your attention to hearing lot is much appreciated, because that is one of the occupational hazards of being a firefighter because many of them lose their hearing. so to the extent that we can save firefighters, i think that is great that we can have that

screening. i will yield the floor so that my fellow colleagues will have the opportunity to ask you questions, and thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner covington. vice president nakajo. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you, madam president. thank you again, doctor, for your presentation and for answering all these variety sets of questions, as well. i wanted to remark just in terms of being part of this presentation and exchange of information, i definitely wanted to acknowledge you as our department physician, but also, i think your remarks towards stephanie phelps was appropriate because there in the interim before you came in, and even before, when we had our [inaudible] physician, very often, stephanie phelps was the person that was the open arm, if you will, to the membership.

and to me, it's all about customer service and decor. again, i'm referring to commissioner cleaveland. i must be missing him if i talk about him twice, but he has talked about bedside manners, and so i -- doctor, i just wanted to say how appreciative it is. i also wanted to acknowledge anthony boone, your team, but also barbara marino in terms of all the support staff at the doctor's office. i -- since you've come in, i do appreciate the newsletter. sometimes it becomes show me more of an overt change that is sophisticated, well planned out, and that became that piece for me. i started looking forward to that piece, but also, i started reading that piece.

and then, i started realizing that it was not just related to health related issue, but somebody's menu was out there, as well. i just wanted to say that was a good form of communication. again, i appreciate all of the times that you spent with all of the details. i think that your relationship and your caring nature within the department and your professional decorum is obvious within that, as well. i also, commissioners, i have to yield, through transparency, that a few weeks ago, i was a patient of dr. brokaw when i went to get my flu shot, so i was able to see her within her setting, if you will, and have a little chitchat, and it was able to have that little

decor as i looked away as i was able to get my shot. thank you for that, and thank you, madam president. >> president feinstein: thank you, vice president nakajo. i wanted to make a few comments. i appreciate and i like the newsletter, too. i've learned a lot about it, and i think it's really a fabulous idea, and i hope all of our members are reading it. it conveys a lot of really, really good information that can benefit us all, and i just

have to say, since the time that i've been on this commission, the piece of work that i've seen, it would certainly impact my mental health. i wanted to ask you one technical question here, and that is with regard to, it's the chart.

it says covid and sffd 2021, and there's the two big spikes, and then, it -- it -- it appears -- i'm not quite sure i'm reading the date right -- september 2, 2021, that we're going up against. >> you know, you're correct. at the beginning of this month, we were on track to repeat august. >> president feinstein: wow. >> and -- yeah, yes. i i was very concerned. i sent an e-mail, you know, to our command staff but also to the department of public health saying okay, i think we need to rapid test everybody in the department every day because we were just passing around the virus very, very easily. the velt -- delta variant is

really a bad, bad player. and as long as we've been trying to enforce mask mandates, i think what happens in the fire house is, eventually, somebody takes off their mask, and the delta variant can spread. i am happy to say, though, i think that as of, like, three days ago, the virus was starting to fall off. just this week, we have not had more positive cases, whereas couple weeks ago, we were getting three or four new cases a day. so knock on wood somewhere, but the beginning of september looked like august, and i think the end of september is going to look like a steep drop off.

>> president feinstein: oh, that's really good to know. because i saw that, and i thought how can that be? >> i know. >> president feinstein: so thank you very, very much. you know, the physician's office appears to be in very good hands thanks to you two and also to mr. boone, and yeah, thank you for keeping those who take care of us healthy. >> yeah, we want to acknowledge nancy parks, too. she's part of our team, too, and it's a pleasure to work with her. >> president feinstein: well, that -- i was remiss in not acknowledging that, and i've got to say, i think it's a great idea to go around to the stations. that really makes, i think, a

big difference to go to them rather than wait for them to come to you because they may or may not, so that's an excellent program, so thank you. thank you. all right. >> clerk: are we moving on? >> president feinstein: i think we're moving on. thank you. >> clerk: okay. item 6 -- item 6. commission report. report on commission activities since last meeting of september 8, 2021. >> president feinstein: yes. vice president? >> commissioner nakajo: thank you, madam president. i just wanted to take this opportunity to just acknowledge that to commissioner covington, when i was making references to

eser bond funding, if i made reference to that wasn't our concern, i was mistaken. my point is it is part of our responsibility and it is our funds, so i just wanted to make sure that my point was clear in terms of safeguarding and doing the oversight of the funds that is very important, so that's one thing that i wanted to make sure that we were able to clarify. the other thing was that i attended mass on sunday, september the 19. the fire, police, sheriff mass, and i just wanted to acknowledge the command force, chief nicholson, that the representative from the fire department, captain joe [inaudible] did an excellent job in presenting the remarks of that particular occasion of mass, so i just wanted to acknowledge that publicly, as well. thank you, madam president.

>> president feinstein: thank you. thank you. i think the chief has indicated that we did all attend the september 11 event, which really was put together in the most moving way. i really commend everybody in the department who worked on it, and i think like everybody else, you know, mr. ong's comments about his sister were, you know, really tremendous, and this historical context, and he -- he was -- he was -- he was really truly just fantastic, and i do want to echo, too, the things that the chief expressed to miss scanlon, who i know was there at 4:00 in the morning, setting up and getting everything

organized, and also to all the members of the command staff that were present, and the members. it was very moving, very, very moving. and i'm sorry. commissioner covington, i wasn't sure if you have -- usually, you have your white pen, and i can tell. ah, there you are. thank you. sorry about that. >> commissioner covington: oh, that's quite all right. i just wanted to say to commissioner nakajo that i wanted to know how the moneys were spent in the city, and i -- monies were spent in the city, and i hope he didn't take umbrage with what i said because i know how near and dear this city is to him, so i

wanted to make clear that i got you, bro. thank you. >> commissioner nakajo: commissioner covington, thank you very much. >> president feinstein: all right. and public comment? anything, madam secretary? >> clerk: there is nobody on our public comment line. >> president feinstein: it will therefore -- public comment will be closed. >> clerk: okay. item 7, agenda for next and future fire commission meetings. >> president feinstein: all right. we will have a full agenda for the next meeting, i can assure everybody. please don't try being out on vacation or calling in sick because we're going to need you. department of public works will be -- well, you're going to need a doctor's note. the department of public works

is going to be presenting and hopefully explaining to us, you know, why we keep waiting for station 35, and, you know, i think it's going to be a very robust conversation between the commissioners and those representatives. they may call in sick. i don't know. we'll see, but that will be part of it. and then there'll be another item on the agenda, so it'll be a robust meeting. i'm sorry. vice president nakajo? >> commissioner nakajo: thank you, madam president. i just wanted to interject when d.p.w. does appear, all of our collective concerns is that training center, and what's

going to happen with that training center in the sense of the kind of responsibilities that we need that are being demanded in terms of our personnel and producing folks with some real training, but also, as earlier presented, if there's diversity and recruitment, that we have a facility that's state of the art for the city and county, so i'm concerned about that, and i just wanted to put it out there in terms of that, madam president. thank you. >> president feinstein: much appreciated. thank you. >> clerk: and there's nobody on the public comment line. >> president feinstein: thank you, madam secretary. public comment is closed. >> clerk: all right. and item 8 is adjournment. >> commissioner covington: so moved. >> commissioner nakajo: second. [roll call] >> clerk: this meeting is adjourned at 6:51. >> president feinstein: all right, everyone. have a good night.

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>> president walton: good afternoon. welcome to the september 28, 2021 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madame clerk, please call the roll. >> thank you. >> supervisor chan: present. >> supervisor haney: present. >> supervisor mandelman: present. >> supervisor mar: present. >> supervisor melgar: present. >> supervisor peskin: present. >> supervisor preston: present. >> supervisor ronen: present.