>> clerk: the time is 5:04. this meeting is being held by webex pursuant to the governor's orders and the mayoral proclamations. to enter public comment, call

415-655-0001 and use access code 2480-793-2045. comments will be addressed in the order they are received. when the moderator announces that the commission is taking public comment, members of the public will be queued by pressing star, three. when prompted, callers have the standard three minutes to provide comment. please ensure that you are in a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turnoff any t.v.s or radios around you. item 1, roll call. [roll call]

>> president feinstein: thank you, everybody. the san francisco fire commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as of indigenous stewards of this medland, 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 their responsibility for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights at first peoples. >> clerk: very good. 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 statemented made during public comment. i will clerk, and there is no one in public comment. >> president feinstein: all right. public comment shall be closed. >> clerk: item 3, approval of the minutes, discussion and possible action. discussion and possible action to approve meeting minutes from the regular meetings on september 22 and october 13, 2021. >> president feinstein: all right. is there anybody on the public comment line? >> clerk: there is no one on the public comment line. >> president feinstein: all right. public comment is now closed. commissioner covington, you are the minutes monitor. >> commissioner covington: i ask that these minutes be leftover.

>> president feinstein: what about the minutes from the last meeting? >> commissioner covington: no, those are the same ones. >> president feinstein: all right. so you wish to have it held over to the next meeting. >> commissioner covington: yes, please. >> president feinstein: all right. is there any action to any -- objection from any of the commissioners to that? all right. they will be held over to the next agenda, and i think that's fine. >> clerk: all right. and minutes from the regular meeting on october 13, 2021. >> president feinstein: and are there any comments or concerns about those meetings? i'm not seeing any hands go up here -- oh, do i need public comment on this, madam secretary? >> clerk: yes, you do, and there is nobody on the public comment line. >> president feinstein: public comment will be closed on those, and is there a motion with regard to those minutes?

>> commissioner cleaveland: yes, madam president. i move that we adopt the october 13 minutes as provided to us. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner cleaveland. is there a second? then i will second it, and a vote, please. [roll call] >> clerk: the minutes are approved for -- the october 13 minutes are approved unanimously. going onto the next item, 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 october

13, 2021, including budget, academies, special events, communications, and outreach to other government agencies and the public and introduction of rescue captain beth goudreau for whom the fire commission will present a certificate of appreciation for her heroic efforts on august 16, 2021. 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. >> greetings and salutations, everyone, chief feinstein, and command staff. this is my current report on what's happened since the last meeting. as you all are aware, we had a

pretty intense storm event over the weekend, and we saw our crews extremely busy. we had 104 calls for downed trees. 32 water and flooding issues, 135 electrical hazard calls, 35 wire down calls, 17 full boxes and approximately 440 e.m.s. calls. it was busy when that rain was coming down. we also had several issues with our own stations. approximately 15 stations had leaks due to the rain, and as you know, our aging infrastructure is -- is problematic when it comes to events such as we saw this past weekend, but i really want to thank all of our members: e.m.s., suppression, equipment,

everybody, for helping to address not just the calls out there but the station issues. chief dewitt, your folks really stepped up, so thank you for that. the good news around covid-19 is it is continuing to decrease in the city at this time. we currently have ten members in the department who are off covid. nine of those are long-term, so greater than 30 days, so we have not seen, knock on wood, many new ones of late, and regarding vaccinations, as of today, we have approximately 20 people who are not vaccinated. that doesn't include people on disability or long-term leave, and i've been holding administrative hearings with these these members, and once completed, i will forward a report to the fire commission,

so that was that. but we did a really good job of getting down around to just around 20 members, although we did have some members who retired due to the covid vaccination, i believe. let's see...recently, assistant deputy chief articeros brown and i met with neighborhoods to discuss neighborhood resiliency and to discuss how we can be better prepared for incidents and events. so obviously, we talked about nert, we talked about hose tenders. i thought it was a productive meeting and look forward to attending more meetings throughout the city with neighborhood groups. i appreciate it when neighbors

are really involved and proactive in their communities. it really will help us in the long run, especially in the event of a major incident such as an earthquake. this morning, chief o'connor did a great job and held a fire drill for supervisors in districts 2 and 3, although our district supervisor, who is our interim mayor, she was there, captain stefani, and it was up in fort mason to demonstrate how our emergency water supply works and what our fireboat is capable of doing in terms of supplying hose lines and above ground hydrant, above ground system, so thank you, chief

o'connor. strong work, and i would also like to thank our fine commissioners, commissioner morgan and commissioner cleaveland, who attended. i think it's really great that we are educating our elected officials so they can understand what our needs are and how these things work. i would like to welcome, although i don't know if he is here. i wanted to welcome captain soon to be deputy chief ramon [indiscernible]. i wanted to ensure a smooth transition and allow some time for our newly appointed assistant chief, chief serrano, and we will miss you, chief

dewitt. so i don't know if chief serrano is on the line or not. >> clerk: he says he's on audio. >> okay. would you perhaps unmute him, maureen, so he can say hello? >> clerk: can he raise his hand so i know which one he is? there's two people -- captain serrano? >> president feinstein: i feel so much better about not being the only person that can't do this. >> clerk: caller, are you on the line for public comment? >> yes. it is shawn buford, president of the [indiscernible] local 798. >> clerk: okay. so this is public comment. >> yes, and the public comment is on the chief's report. one, i would also like to congratulate captain serrano for his newly employment.

also, beth for honoring [indiscernible]. as the chief mentioned, the process with our interviews and local 798 still supports our members who remain on administrative leave as they pursue their legal and mandate abilities to seek accommodations. that's what i wanted to do, to congratulate ramon, to congratulate beth, and to ensure that our members are able to remain on leave as they pursue reasonable accommodation. thank you. >> president feinstein: all right. we have -- thank you. do we have -- oh, excuse me, chief dewitt. >> [indiscernible]. >> clerk: i have one more caller, please. one more. caller, do you have public

comment? hello? >> hello? >> clerk: do you have public comment? >> this is ramon serrano. i apologize. i'm having some major technical difficulties on my computer, so i had to call in on my cell phone. >> go ahead. go ahead, ramon. just say hello, and just introduce yourself if you would. >> thanks, chief. thank you very much, commissioners. i wish you guys could see my face, but i am having some major issues with my computer, and even my i.t. guy could not fix it, so i just ended up calling in as a caller. thank you so much for the opportunity, chief. i'm looking forward to working with everybody, and i just want to continue all of chief dewitt's hard work, and i won't let anybody down. just a little -- i was born nd

raised in the city, and i'm so proud to be a san francisco firefighter. >> thank you so much, ramon, captain serrano, and you have been a long time steadfast member of this department, and i'm excited to have you continue with us on the command staff, so welcome, and you can show your face next time. if i may -- if i may, president feinstein, finish my report? >> president feinstein: of course. >> thank you so much. i also want to announce that we picked up two therapy dogs, facility dogs yesterday from southern california, and i know that chief velo will show you photos of them in his report, but they will be handled by two of our lieutenants, and they are currently in the bonding

stage for the next month before they get a little bit of additional training and then will be handed over officially to us, and we'll make them swear the oath like we do with all of the other officers. and then, i would like to introduce my sister friend, rescue captain beth goudreau. greetings and salutations, and i know you've been a member of this department 25 years, even though you don't look like it. i've been amazed by your work over the years, whether in the firehouse or in e.m.s. i know you've -- have done and seen some things, and i know it

takes a toll, and i want to thank you for stepping up on august 16 of this year. captain goudreau was working that day when we were asked to help with a woman who had drank some -- was it antifreeze, i believe, and she was about 350 miles off the coast. and beth raised her hand and signed up and suited up and got on a helicopter, and it was pretty turbulent. i'll tell you tell about it a little bit, and beth, i mean this with all due respect, sister, you're a tough piece of meat. you did a great job that evening. but i just want to thank you, beth, for all the work you do, and i believe, president feinstein, you may have

something you want to read before we let beth speak? >> president feinstein: yes, i do. what i wish to do -- and good evening, captain. nice to meet you, at least virtually. in discussions with the chief of the department and in figuring out how we could best do this virtually, this is kind of the best we could come up with. at our last meeting, chief rubenstein ended his last -- well, as part of chief rubenstein's report came from [indiscernible] beautiful, you know -- i shouldn't say beautiful, but a very accurate description of all that you did was presented to the commission

and the report. and at this time, i'm going to read that into the record because it should be public knowledge. people should know who you are, what your current [indiscernible] is, and how lucky we are to have you. so if everybody can bear with me while i do that, that would be greatly appreciated. the notable event from august 16 of 2021 was not included in our prior report but highlights the extraordinary and strong work of rescue captain both goudreau. at approximately 2051 hours, the department of emergency communications received a call from the u.s. coast guard to rescue a 23-year-old female who accidentally ingested antifreeze on a sailboat

approximately 380 miles offshore of bodega bay. officers contacted e.m.s., captain neil tagliorini, and he selected the most experienced on-duty rescue captain for the assignment, and that was you. you were the selected one. as described in the coast guard news release, quote, this was a highly complex medical evacuation performed at night off a small sailboat hundreds of miles of offshore that tested the limits of our crews and equipment. the sailor's life was saved by the dedicated team work of the

san francisco fire department and coast guard personnel across eight different units. captain goudreau was able to stabilize a complex medical patient in the most challenging of environments. as conditions changed, the coast guard rescue described it as evolving from a medium risk high reward rescue to a high risk high reward rescue. the coast guard crew performed a night mission far from coast requiring two ship board fuel stops for the aircraft and deployed a rescue swimmer in turbulent seas. while en route to san francisco

international airport for deployment, captain goudreau contacted poison control for a consult and provided an update to command staff. upon arrival with her advanced life support equipment, captain goudreau reached the coast guard personnel and determined what equipment would be necessary for possibly to manage a patient in an unknown status. captain goudreau prepared for every potential patient presentation, including cardiac arrest, altered mental state, hypothermia, and more. after a turbulent flight lasting several hours and one

refuelling aboard a coast guard cutter, contact was made. after the heroic work of the coast guard team to rescue the patient, captain goudreau received the patient and immediately initiated care which included removing wet clothing and treating for hypothermia, obtaining a baseline set of vital signs, and completing a full assessment. the patient was found to be severely [indiscernible] i don't know what that word means, but don't laugh at me, chief nicholson, and in critical condition. rescue. captain goudreau started an

airway, obtained positive blood pressure, obtained e.k.g. -- you can last, captain goudreau. the chief can't. performed shock management and [indiscernible] drip and stabilized the patient under sedation. this complex patient would be a challenge under normal circumstances with an entire team, however, with one e.m.t. to assist in a dark helicopter with little space flying in turbulent and with possibly a little motion sickness, this would challenge any experienced paramedic. the coast guard helicopter required one more ship board refuelling stop to return. once the aircraft landed at

s.f.o., captain goudreau assisted in the transport to san francisco general hospital until the transfer of care approximately nine hours after the emergency call was first received and after sometime in the i.c.u., the patient was released and was last reported to be recovering further at home. quite miraculous, captain goudreau. quite miraculous. and don't laugh at me anymore, chief nicholson. >> i will not. i apologize, president feinstein, but i would like captain goudreau to speak. but yes, it was intraosseous and [indiscernible]. >> president feinstein: what does that mean, chief

nicholson? >> i'll let captain goudreau takeoff with it, but it means that the person was unconscious. captain goudreau, sister? >> thank you for that. i appreciate that. i have to thank the coast guard for making the amazing rescue, and they were all consummate professionals and very good at what they did, and it was far outside their normal operation. i'm honored to part of their team, and i'm -- i am he aglad that i had something to bring to the table, and i'm glad that i was able to participate and assist and stabilize our young sailor until we were able to get her to san francisco general, and then, of course, acknowledging san francisco general in helping her to a full recovery and helping her to go home. thank you for the acknowledgement. it was a good experience. >> president feinstein: do you know how proud we all are of

you? that's the most important thing, and i really appreciate you taking the time to be here this evening before the commission, before your command staff, and just knowing you're the finest of the fine, so thank you, and you're much braver than i. >> thank you. >> president feinstein: even though i don't know what some of the words mean. >> she is very modest, as well, and i can tell her signal is not working particularly well. that's what that yellow triangle is. her signal has failed, so beth, if you can hear us, thank you so much, and i'm sure some of the other commissioners may like to [indiscernible]. >> president feinstein: do we believe that she can hear us?

chief, do you know? >> she said, sorry. i can't hear or see anyone right now. >> president feinstein: well, i think -- i know, commissioner covington, you want to say something -- i'm not sure. >> there she is. she's back with us. >> president feinstein: are you back with us? >> yes. >> president feinstein: all right. >> you guys are all back with me. >> president feinstein: commissioner covington, did you wish to speak? >> commissioner covington: yes, i was going to suggest that we applaud her in abstentia, but she has come up again, and i think this really does deserve a round of applause from all of us. [applause] >> yes, yes, and yes. >> commissioner covington: oh, my goodness.

the description of what happened speaks for itself, and i just really want to appreciate you for, first of all, being called upon and serving and doing what you did when called upon in dire straits. just walking on a boat can be problematic, so having to tend to an injured person or person in distress is even much, much more stressful, to kudos to you. >> thank you. thank you. >> president feinstein: any further comments from any of the commissioners? yes, vice president nakajo, please. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you, madam president.

captain goudreau, even though it's virtual, i appreciate you being able to come and be in our presence. part of this is just the proud nature of us being the fire commissioners, but also, in terms of being associated with the members of our department, as well, and virtual doesn't do you well. this woman is far more in a better place, and what i really appreciate and love about you is the acknowledgement to your colleagues and the coast guard and everybody else that was involved. when i read it, the report, i remarked to assistant deputy chief tong that it seemed like a movie script or a t.v. script

that i see all the time on, and it's a real life experience that we in the san francisco fire department share equally with all of your talent but also your dedication, and basically being there, more than there. thank you, captain, for all of your service. thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you, mr. vice president. any further comments or -- ah, commissioner cleaveland. yes. >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you, madam president, and i would just like to echo my colleagues' comments. captain, you make everybody in the fire department proud. thank you for your service and thank you for your bravery that night. that's it, madam president.

>> president feinstein: all right. thank you. i'm seeing no further hands go up. thank you, captain goudreau, for everything you do every day, and i think my colleagues have expressed it best for being able to do what you did under the difficult circumstances, under the most difficult circumstances, and know that's reassuring to us who are civilians and, you know, heaven forbid should something happen, please come get me. [indiscernible]. >> one of us will be there. >> president feinstein: okay. all right. >> have a safe night. >> president feinstein: thank you. >> thank you, chief. thank you, everyone. thank you, commissioners. >> commissioner covington: thank you. >> president feinstein: and i believe, chief nicholson, you're not done yet, are you? >> that concludes my report,

and i am happy to answer any questions. >> president feinstein: all right. thank you. commissioners, questions for the chief? ah, vice president nakajo, please. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, madam president. thank you very much, chief nicholson, for the report. i just wanted to comment, and i'll roll over some of my comments to chief velo's report, but in our packet was a package that described the san francisco fire department committee work groups and guidelines, and i just wanted to let you know, chief, and the command staff and the members of the department that, again, i haven't been around a little bit and being aware of the community structure that when this information came particularly with the description in terms of the committees and the title of the committees and the chair and the cultures of the committee,

i was just very, very much impressed [indiscernible] and it's just really wonderful [indiscernible] and the membership. that really is part of engagement and inclusion with the members. thank you very much, chief. thank you, madam president, and that's my question for chief nicholson at this time. >> thank you, vice president nakajo. >> president feinstein: thank you. any other commissioners with questions or comments for the chief? all right. and madam secretary, i cannot see you, but is there any public comment? >> clerk: we did public

comment, and everybody else has left the line. [indiscernible]. >> president feinstein: we're training him to -- we're getting him ready. next time we want his picture, too, as part of his training. that's good, and i believe that chief dewitt, did you have a comment regarding deputy -- soon to be assistant deputy chief serrano? >> i did not. i was just trying to say he was trying to listen on audio, and i think he'll do a fantastic job as a civil servant, and i'm glad he was appointed. >> president feinstein: that's the problem with a grid

meeting, so forgive me, please, chief dewitt. >> clerk: all right. and chief velo is up next. >> president feinstein: chief velo. >> good evening, president feinstein, deputy chief nakajo, commissioners. this is deputy chief jose velo, and i'm going to share my presentation. can you all see that? >> president feinstein: yes, yes. >> thank you very much. again, this is my report for the month of september. this is the highlights and also some additions that we had since the last meeting we had in my division and some of the other events we've done in the department. as you can imagine, that's not too many fires going on in the

north part of the state, but the south part of the state is still in not great shape, and pretty much we can assure that the north part of the state is out of the fires. so our [indiscernible] so that was the last deployment for mutual aid for the state, so like i said, we might have some other hazards to respond to, and i've been to fires almost to christmas day, so our fire season is never over in the state. as for training, chief [indiscernible], as you know, we have the 120 class in session. 32 recruits remain from the 42 that started. three injuries led to resignations from the recruits. one resigned and was called to

become an open member of the fire department, and two were not promoted. last week, there were training on pg&e emergencies, and we have some props that we can do this week, so that's what we're doing this week. we're training gas fire responses. this week, we had hazmat crew training. crews that are hazmat trained do have to have this training, and we have to have it every year, and this week, we had a presidio hazmat, and then, our hazmat team [indiscernible] so we practice and then we do scenarios all the time to practice that, too. also at the airport, we had

emergency fuel tank forms. they're full of jet fuel that, if they ignite, can cause some problems, so practicing the response is important for us to have that. let's talk about the office of the diversity, equity, and inclusion from chief peoples. we participated in the autumn festival, the meet and greet, working on that, too, and [indiscernible] possible different platforms and we're working on that i received from d.h.r. we're also happy to announce the new captain of outreach, recruitment and [indiscernible]

this is again growing the office what it needs to be and also doing what it needs to be [indiscernible] i has already been doing the outreach already so we're happy to have him on board. our nert teams are busy. now that things are open up a little bit, able to do drills. [indiscernible] to keep them sharp. chief parks in health and safety and wellness, and coordinated a program [indiscernible] tony boone

updating [indiscernible] a lot of things they're required by law to have. we have drafts. we're working on those drafts, and they'll be published soon as they're required. updated documents are brand-new documents that the department has to have. there's also coordinating several events with the doctor's office, [indiscernible] they do this every year, and we support them all the time and give them the space they need to be able to test our members and detect early if we can. like the chief mentioned,

meeting our new therapy dogs, marley and sadie, lieutenant gibbs on the right. we're happy to have them in the department of health and safety, and within a month, we should see them at the stations. [indiscernible] doctor's office very busy. we have low numbers of covid members on leave, and only three cases in the entire month of october. so vaccinations are doing well, and our members are staying safe. we're introducing through the doctors office and health and safety a new program, a new campaign, 30 in, 30 out, staying healthy throughout your career and beyond. part of that was know your numbers program. we're going to make sure

members are healthy not only through their career but after their career. know your numbers. we have 233 total participants at station 49. we also went to station 48 and also we went to the airport, so a lot of members got that information, and now, they can take to their own private care physician and share with them. we're going to get that private information, we'll get raw data and group information and decide what programs of education for our members we can share with them to make sure that the issues that are popping up, we can tell them where they are. but they are, with that information, going to the primary care, so we had kaiser and m.m.a. help us with that. i want to say with the doctor's office, this past week, [indiscernible] a long time assistant of the doctor's

office retired with 47 years of service. she started in october 1980 and just retired this week. captain jose soba continued to do the random drug and alcohol testing program and continues to test negative [indiscernible] to the ones that were done by all the chiefs in the field and continues to be negative. ensured that all equipment is up to date, and [indiscernible] he's going to be busy with that for the next few months. chief dewitt, always busy, let's talk about facilities. [indiscernible] the pg&e did install the [indiscernible] so now we're waiting for the p.u.c. to come in.

we installed the fenders for the boats, and the art installation has been completed. we're working on station 2 generator, there's some delay of supply, and we anticipate january 2022 for that, and we're happy that we're going to have some funding leftover from station 49 so we can move it over to other projects, special generators and all of that, so when bond money is leftover, we can schiff it to another project, so it seems like it's going to be shifted over to station 49. that's good news. [indiscernible] not only the glass panels but also historical of the fireboat and learn about that, too.

so [indiscernible] there's some spla chain issues that prevent some of those parts in coming in. the mobile air, final unit mobile air, the inspection would be 17 november. we will also do an inspection on the trucks that are there, too, and we're hoping to have those trucks in the city. we had a meeting the other day to be able to review the preliminary design of the new hose extenders, so we're moving forward with that, and we're happy that that's moving forward. and we have completed the new ambulance spec, the new ambulance for the station 49 members, so members of their committee came out to us with different designs, and we incorporated those designs

[indiscernible] to come up with a design that meets their needs. chief o'connor, he has a preliminary interim design criteria for the [indiscernible] firefighter emergency water system. it's in final review, and in [indiscernible] to schedule a hearing to review the e.f.w. [indiscernible] water supply report. i know he has scheduled in near and in a future commission meeting to give more detail about these reports, too. [indiscernible] i think it's very important to note that the earthquake, when the marina was saved, this is exactly how the [indiscernible] came from the fireboat. in this case, we used some yachts that were tied in the marina to bridge the gap

between the boat and land-- in combination with one of our companies that trains in our confined space, heavy rescue, rescue systems, shoring on the right-hand side, we combine and train our members of the military to come to us, so we

were there and happy -- it's always volunteer and members of the metro station come and get a good meal. actually, we had members of the military coming to us and later, they used the skills when they were able to deploy. as you know, october is breast cancer awareness month, and this is a great event we had. see, 25 years ago, a couple weeks ago, tour the whole [indiscernible] looking and search and -- sorry, raising funds for cancer, and what she did was 25 years ago, she raised funds and donated those funds to the [indiscernible] and the consul general of canada came in and gave an

award, too. [indiscernible] to have her finish her race here at headquarters and make the donation. that's my report, and i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> president feinstein: thank you, chief velo. much appreciated. do we have any public comment, madam clerk? >> clerk: we do have somebody on the public comment line. let's -- caller, would you like to make public comment? >> yes. thank you, commissioner feinstein and other commissioners. this is tom buford, president, san francisco firefighters local 798. first, i'd like to thank chief velo for a comprehensive and thorough report and i'd like to congratulate barbara moreno for

her service to our department. i'd like to join in and acknowledge her, and last but not least, i'd like to thank chief o'connor for his words and going around and showing the supervisors and the community the importance of the a.w.s. system and how it works. so again, nice report, chief velo. thank you to barbara and congratulations to chief serrano. >> president feinstein: thank you. madam secretary, do we have any other public comment? >> clerk: there is no other callers on the line.

>> president feinstein: then public comment is now closed. any commissioners? commissioner cleaveland, i think you've got your hand up first. there you go. >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you, chief velo, for a really great report. i'd like to echo tom buford's comments regarding chief o'connor, i'd like to commend him for putting these programs together in the future because it will help when we have to go to them for funding for projects that will enable us to better -- to incorporate our firefighting efforts in the city in the future, so i commend him, and i think he's doing a good job in educating our elected leaders in [indiscernible] what we do [indiscernible] and how we do

it [indiscernible] and also commend the chief for bringing a new recruitment manager on board with the appointment of captain hasim anderson, and i'd like to invite him to come to our commission meeting in the future and talk to us a little bit about how he sees his responsibilities as the recruitment manager, really, for the department. and finally, had a question for chief velo, and that was regarding fire station 7, the replacement. i know it's in the preplanning stages right now, but i hope there's a lot of outreach to the existing firefighters that are working at that station to get their input whether the new fire station comes in, but it's important to go get the temperature taken from the current firefighters and paramedics assign today that

station so we -- assigned to that station so we don't run into the problem that we're having with station 16, that we've run into with the pods, where the men and women wanted dormitories. so just getting their real life input about the fire station and what they would like to see in the fire station, and that's all of my remarks, and thank you very much 6789. >> can i make a remark, commissioner feinstein? >> president feinstein: of course. >> no, that's fine [indiscernible] but very good point about engaging the firefighters and officers at the station, and that's exactly what we're a -- doing at

station 13. as you know, it's a public-private project, and captains were heavily involved at the time. we met with them, met with the whole station at the time. they made some good suggestions and modified that for them, too, so we're going to do the same model for station 7. thank you for your comments on that. >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you. that's all my comments. >> president feinstein: thank you. comments or questions from any other commissioners? commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington: thank you, madam president. i've just got a couple of quick questions, but first, i want to really thank barbara moreno. she is just a shining light.

she always has such a huge smile for everyone that she encounters, so hopefully, we can entice her to return for the christmas party this year so that, you know, the commissioners can shake her hand and bid her adieu. i wanted to know, chief velo, how many engines are involved in the recall? >> so -- thank you, commissioner covington. we have 11 engines on queue right now coming back. we're almost ready to go when the recall was announced to us, so we're ready to go on that. they're ready for the recall part, the transmission part that needs to be replaced, so we're just waiting for that. we're confident in the next month or so we'll get those parts and get them in the

engines out there. once we get them in, they have to be outfitted with our radios and some other parts. they're in california right now. >> commissioner covington: so it'll be about two months before they can be deployed? >> hopefully, yes. >> commissioner covington: that's the shortest time frame? >> i think so. normally takes us about a month or so to get all the equipment wiring and stuff done. sometimes it can be expedited, but i would say to be conservative, two months would be the earliest we can get them. >> commissioner covington: okay. thank you. and i can ask you this question or maybe it's more suited for mr. corso, and that is how much money is leftover from the buildout of station 49? >> president feinstein: i think chief dewitt can speak to that.

>> commissioner covington: okay. chief dewitt. >> thank you, president feinstein, commissioner covington, and commissioners. the reserves were $1.7 million, and we had several hundreds of thousands of dollars left from portions of the budget that had not been expended, so probably close to $2 million. we do have some work to complete. there was a change in the fencing. we do have an increase in the cost of the fence because the cost of steel has gone up quite a lot, and there was a change due to the fencing increasing in height, so we'll have close to $2 million by the time all is said and done. >> commissioner covington: well, that's good to know. thank you, chief dewitt, and i hope that during an upcoming

report that we will get a chance to see the new fence, the changes that were done. there was a lot of conversation about the fence, about, i don't know, three or four years ago now, so it would be good to update the commission now on what is going to be in place because it wasn't in place at the fantabulous open house. >> we are setting up an appointment to look at it in the next month or so. >> commissioner covington: very good, and congratulations on keeping costs down. and chief dewitt, i heard a

rumor about you us leaving us. >> president feinstein: it was just a rumor. it was just a rumor, commissioner covington. >> commissioner covington: yeah, i don't know. it sounded more like an announcement, so any way, we will heap praise upon your head at a different time. >> thank you. >> commissioner covington: okay, thank you. and i think i had just one more -- oh, and that is regarding lieutenant anderson, who's going to be the new person in charge of recruitment. is that still going to be a one-man job or does he have some kind of staff that's going to be increased? >> commissioner covington, very good question. i'll speak about it, but chief peoples will also speak about that, too. we have hasim anderson and a

cadre of folks that are working together that's going to be a cadre that's going to be working on advanced polling recruitment advancing the right targets that we need to do. so it'll be part-time, so it's not a full time position. chief peoples, if you want to expand on that? >> you handled it very well, chief velo. hello, president feinstein, commissioners, as well, and command staff. yeah, he's hit the ground running here. right now, we're in a lot of the design phase. we're still going to need to train the cadre up to be able to train up the model. we're excited about it. he's not doing it alone. he definitely has the backing of my office and the administration, so we'll take

his temperature in a little bit to see how he's doing, and we look forward to giving you a better report. >> commissioner covington: well, thank you, chief peoples. i'm grateful to know there's going to be a more robust presence because i know in the past, there's been some concern about the responsibility. it's good to know that there's going to be someone present for presentations and there's going to be greater outreach, and thank you to everyone who worked on that. those are all of my comments and questions, madam president. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner covington. do any of the other commissioners have questions or -- ah, vice president nakajo. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, madam president.

i generally do take advantage of this period and ask my robust questions, and i basically held back last session because we had this long and lengthy robust presentation by d.p.w., so i'm going to return to my questions and not take too long. i'll talk faster on pace. just to get everybody on target, i'd like to ask about command staff, support services. i also wanted to acknowledge the p.u.c. with deputy chief connors. before i got there, i also wanted to say, though i know

it's premature in the sense that chief dewitt, you will retire as announced, and i just wanted to thank you for that service, that dedication. i know there will be a time and period still. i'm aware that we only have two months left in this calendar year, and i also wanted to congratulate chief stephano. my first question is with the

assistant deputy chief of training. i'm not sure if this is appropriate for you, deputy chief, but the question was in terms of the training, and i know that we have a training class, and now, i don't need to go into details because chief velo gave some description of that, but i'm interested in perhaps, through the chief, chief nicholson, i wanted to ask about the ratio of retirement versus classes coming in and some comment by you on what do we look like as a department as we move forward? i also would like to have some comment or some information in terms of when the next class is projected and whether this might be an appropriate forum, so thank you, chief nicholson, if you have some response for me, or chief nicholson, is that line of questioning appropriate? >> yes, vice president nakajo, thank you very much s. over the

past two years, we've had well over 100 retirements. i think closer to 140 or 150, and then, covid hit, and we were only able to hire a class of 25 last year. we now have a class that started around 40 and it's down to 35 now in the division of training. we are starting another class of 50 in january, and we have a class of 50 in august, and we are currently in conversations with the mayor's budget office to add an additional class of h-2s for next year, as well. we are definitely short personnel. we are also -- and chief tong can speak to this -- hire a

number of ambulance personnel, a class of 40, and they should be starting next month, and i'm happy about that, and they should be out by the end of december, i believe, and -- is that right, chief tong? end of december, yes or no? no, january. they should be out in january. the h-2 academy that's in now should graduate on december 23, so put that in your calendars. it's a wednesday, i believe, for graduation, so we are looking to definitely beef up our staffing. it takes time, however, to get folks through the classes, but our division of training, both suppression and e.m.s., are very, very busy. also on the e.m.s. side, we

have community paramedicine training and street medicine training. so there's a lot going on, a lot of balls in the air, and i just want to thank everyone for doing the hard work, chief tong and chief kailoa, and i hope that answered your question. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, chief nicholson. just for clarification and at some point, i'll conclude in this area, i'd like to hear something from chief kailoa and his perspective as to where we are in terms of training. again, you answered my question in terms of the ratio of retirees to those coming in. i was waiting fast, did you say three classes in 2022, a class of 50 in january, a class of 50 in august, and possibly another class of h-2s after august?

is that what you heard? >> so thank you, vice president. it will definitely be a class in january, and then, again, we are working with the mayor's budget office to see if we can add another class, and if so, we would like to overlap it in between the january and august class, so -- and, you know, we may push the august class to september. it just depends, but it's -- it's still -- we're still having conversations about it. we haven't gotten funding for it yet. >> commissioner nakajo: and are we talking about paramedic e.m.t.s or are we just talking about one particular class, paramedics or e.m.t.s, when you throw that number 40 out?

>> chief tong, i believe these are 40 e.m.t.s. can you confirm that? >> yes. the november 29 class that starts up will have up to 40, maybe a little more level is only, and then, the thing that we're preparing for for a february class will be paramedics only, and then, if we get additional funding, we might be looking at a class that might start at the end of april that might be a hybrid class. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, chief tong. through the chief, again, i'd like to ask chief k -- kailoa about that. i'd just like to get some

confirmation from the chief. >> yes, so 50 -- we've done it before in the academy. we've done up to 56. we have a division of training in the fire department, and we are working collaboratively to support that logistically and staff wise, but i'm confident that we can do that and support any plan that we come forward with to bridge that gap in the staffing. >> commissioner nakajo: appreciate that comment and that input very much. part of my comment was as veterans or experienced staff

retire, we hire what i call the term the next generation, but i also concern myself with the years of experience that we lose, the institutional knowledge base, if you will. i'll just say that because it gets reinforced to me every day. last week, i was shopping with my wife, and she commented how big and tall they were, and that made me realize how young they were. thank you very much for that, chief velo. i'd like to move on, if possible. i'd like to move to airport division, chief brown. i just wanted to get an update, chief brown, as to the holidays coming, thanksgiving first, christmas coming up.

we heard there's more activity at the airport. do you want to give us an update, please? >> sure, commissioners. madam president, vice president nakajo, second, commissioners, chief and command staff, vice president, the numbers haven't increased overall. we're still about half of what we were before covid. we're still at about 50,000 passengers. i haven't heard anything about a huge influx of passengers over the holidays, but obviously there'll be a slight increase over the numbers of the last two years. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. i wanted to get a hearing because the media keeps portraying that folks are going to keep taking air flights as

things keep opening up and things keep getting better. through the chief, i'd like to move onto division equity. chief peoples, i'm on page 15 of your report, and i think you answered it. i see from september 13 all the way down to september 17, it's titled 129 virtual interview panel. what i'm believing is that you are part of the interview process for the recruits and in class 129, is that a correct assumption? >> thank you, vice president nakajo. yes, my office coordinates the interview for the initial on boarding of our candidates, so yes, we coordinated that. we brought in about close to 500 individuals to interview. some of that were up in the different fires that were

deployed all over the state couldn't make the physical interviews, so we made arrangements for them to be virtually interviewed. >> commissioner nakajo: all right. thank you very much, chief peoples, for that. i'm going to move on, chief velo, to the physician's report, and since the doctor is not here, i just want you to know that i read the newsletter, and i read it all the way through. not only do i read it all the way through, i was impressed that dr. janet ryan participated in the over 50 category of the triathlon. i'm having a tough time walking down the street. it's really an inspiration to be able to have that position. the other thing is barbara moreno. i was very pleased to see that. i did 45 years in japantown,

but to see someone 41 years in civil servant, that's quite remarkable. i've known barbara since she was a child, so i really, really appreciate her service. i just wanted to acknowledge her activity, chief velo. i'm moving onto support services, could chief dewitt. what always happens, chief dewitt, is your section is large and inclusive, so it takes time. the only thing that sticks out again is this station 35 delay. i think when d.p.w. was here, and i hope they're listening tonight, that issue of discussion became more of an issue of oversight, so as these

newsletters come from d.p.w., chief velo, i used to glaze as it, but now, i read it all the way down to the calendar. i think your location, chief dewitt, is pretty self-explanatory of another delay with 35, but basically the justification is there. i was somewhat concerned as the presentation by d.p.w., there was a budget aligned with that presentation that had some effect upon us, and i'm not going to say anything until i'm more versed, and i, through the chief and president, would like to get some more information through mr. corso, but at this point, i appreciate your work

and your oversight, chief dewitt. thank you. the last part is chief connor. chief o'connor, on page 47, again, thank you for your drill. i understand both this morning that commissioner cleaveland and commissioner morgan was there. thank you for that. i wanted to note that, in your report, chief o'connor, that i noticed that there's a little bit of red here, and i just wanted to let you know that the red standing out document, sections of that, is helpful, at least to me, because it makes me pay attention more to the way that you formatted your report, so thank you for your good work, and i'm looking to more announcement of drills. that's all i have, madam president. thank you very much. >> president feinstein: thank you, vice president. further comments from any of the commissioners?

i'm not seeing any hands. i had one question i wanted to ask, and i'm not sure, chief velo, if i should direct this to you or to chief kailoa or you would like to have him answer. and i'm just curious, what tends to be the reason that folks fail outside of the academy? i notice that we had two. is this a normal rate of failure? is this what we expect? i don't know how it works, and i'd like some additional information. >> madam president, i'm pleased to answer the question. i was also a training chief years ago, so i know how it works. so normal failure rates in the

academy nationwide are about 10%, so this is well below that. our folks are doing everything they can to support this recruitment. they're coming in early, staying until late at night, so their staff is putting their heart and soul into these recruits. only having two failures i think is a success of staff. when a failure happens, we have a number of deficiencies. when we fail in evolution and skill, you fail at a certain point. many times, it's a safety skill that an individual failed to do something that's safe that can cost lives in the field. the recruits get 18 deficiencies in the academy in ten weeks of testing. if they go below that, they get

through the academy, and if they go above that, they fail out of the academy because they're not performed to the standard that we demand of that. >> president feinstein: and i do know of the support that is afforded by the instructors at the academy, and it's extensive, and i know there' every desire and attempt made to retain these candidates. just as a follow up, i guess, is there a point in time -- i guess, at what point in the academy do they determine it's

a failure? is it by point or failure or time? >> so just to be clear, when they're at the academy, they're obtaining points. each skill may have individual time constraints that they also have to pass to put [indiscernible] to have x amount of time to do that. if they don't do that, that's failure of the evolution of the skill. so we do have time constraints of that. we have ten weeks of testing, so we don't start that right away. we start that at week four and then go ten weeks after that. we're a certified academy from the state. after our own testing, our own skills, we do have tests that we form that are done by the [indiscernible] we also have hazmat materials. we have e.m.t. skills that they have to pass, so it's very

comprehensive, very demanding for these recruits. when i came in, it was only 14 weeks for the academy. now, it's 20 weeks, so definitely the skills they have to learn have increased, but it's time on the points, negative points, number 18 is deemed a failure. >> president feinstein: i see. so at that point, it's actually the fewer than the average or what you might expect to have. >> yes. >> president feinstein: i understand. okay. and i've always wondered this, so i'm going to bring it up now. two accidents, you said, in your report. there were two accidents that occurred, that came up under, i think, substance abuse testing or what have you, and i'm just curious about them because we don't learn about them.

>> so the two actions that were tested by captain sullivan, we have a rigorous after -- post action testing program that's done, and when captain sullivan is available, he'll be summoned to test the individual for alcohol and drugs, but if it's after hours, we have someone else. many times, there's other drivers that come to us, and we have policy and procedures that when our drivers are tested for -- for an accident, we have criteria for that. >> president feinstein: you've had more than two accidents this past month? >> yes. >> president feinstein: and do they have anything in common? >> so we do have an action review committee, and the action review committee is also gathering data to share that information with us on what is the common spaces. many times, it's navigating

through this tough city that vehicles try to go around us and hit us. this morning, we had a vehicle hit us. many times, with these large vehicles, it becomes difficult, but there's not a common thread. >> president feinstein: and just so that somebody doesn't think i'm trying to say something that i'm not, i'm amazed when i'm driving, that people don't pull over or try to cut in front of a fire truck or an ambulance. as i say, there's never a traffic cop around when you want them. i can understand that these are hard to maneuver and difficult.

that's why you have all of these people, and i just was curious as to [indiscernible] i just did not pay as much attention or as much as i should have to these accidents, and i was just curious to acquire a little bit of information because i bet it costs a lot of money to repair a rig that's damaged, and let's hope their insurance pays for it or they have insurance. >> well, i would say that most of them from here on are minor damage to vehicles. but yes, if the driver of the other vehicle is at fault, we will bill the insurance company. >> president feinstein: thank you. i appreciate it. simple questions from me tonight, so that's all that i have. okay. so we are moving on -- oh,

there's madam secretary. >> clerk: item 5, commission reports. report on commission activities since last meeting of october 13, 2021. >> president feinstein: and does anybody have anything they wish to report? i think we know -- ah, commissioner cleaveland. yes, sir. >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you, madam president. yes, i had a long conversation with james lee, the [indiscernible] strategic plan for 2022 [indiscernible].

>> president feinstein: commissioner cleaveland, i'm going to interrupt you for a moment. am i the only person that's having an audio problem? are others -- yes, for some reason, your audio is breaking up. >> commissioner cleaveland: oh, well, i thought you were breaking up. so i'm sorry, but i just wanted to report that the guardians of the city have put together a three-year strategic plan, and hopefully, in the near future, we can agendize that, and they will present it to us for approval. >> president feinstein: all right. thank you. >> commissioner cleaveland: that's all i have to say. thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you. anybody else have anything they wish to report? seeing no hands, so madam secretary? >> clerk: and there's nobody on the public comment line. >> president feinstein: well,

thank you. >> clerk: item 6, agenda for next and future fire commission meetings. >> president feinstein: all right. any commissioners that wish to have anything agendized for future meetings? yes, commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington: i would just like to know what is already on the suggested list? madam secretary? >> clerk: suggestions -- i believe vice president nakajo wanted a report out on station 18, and there was a suggestion on the update for the training facility, which i understand may be premature at this time, and i believe that's all i had.

>> commissioner covington: oh, okay. thank you. i have nothing -- >> president feinstein: i'm sorry. are you done, commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington: yes, i am. >> president feinstein: vice president nakajo. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you, madam president. i wonder if it's possible if we can get the fire marshal to do an updated presentation on fire prevention only because there's so much going on in terms of parklets and shared space. realizing we only have three more meetings left, i believe -- i think it's two in november and one in december, i can understand that if it can't be agendized, it might go into next year, but when the

administration report comes out or the operation report comes out if that's appropriate. >> president feinstein: thank you, thank you, and we will try to get that as soon as we can. thank you. any further items? i'm not seeing any hands. all right then. >> clerk: and there is only actually one meeting in november and one in december. >> president feinstein: yes, that's correct. >> clerk: but regular, and there's nobody on the public comment line. >> president feinstein: all right. and public comment is closed. >> clerk: item 7, adjournment. >> president feinstein: all right. >> commissioner covington: so moved. >> commissioner cleaveland: second. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner covington, and thank you, commissioner cleaveland, for the second. are we ready to vote on adjournment? >> clerk: we are ready to vote. [roll call]

. >> clerk: this meeting is adjourned at 6:37. . >> president feinstein: very good. thank you all. san francisco is surrounded on three sides

by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in

china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed

guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power,

water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several

times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regional asset that can be used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help and we're willing to help

>> he is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. brought this department together like never before. i am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the san francisco fire department, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome, jeanine nicholson. (applause). >> i grew up total tomboy,

athlete. i loved a good crisis, a good challenge. i grew up across the street from the fire station. my dad used to take me there to vote. i never saw any female firefighters because there weren't any in the 1970s. i didn't know i could be a fire fighter. when i moved to san francisco in 1990, some things opened up. i saw women doing things they hadn't been doing when i was growing up. one thing was firefighting. a woman recruited me at the gay-pride parade in 1991. it was a perfect fit. i liked using my brain, body, working as a team, figuring things out, troubleshooting and coming up with different ways to solve a problem. in terms of coming in after another female chief, i don't think anybody says that about men. you are coming in after another

man, chief, what is that like. i understand why it is asked. it is unusual to have a woman in this position. i think san francisco is a trailblazer in that way in terms of showing the world what can happen and what other people who may not look like what you think the fire chief should look like how they can be successful. be asked me about being the first lbgq i have an understands because there are little queer kids that see me. i worked my way up. i came in january of 1994. i built relationships over the years, and i spent 24 years in the field, as we call it. working out of firehouses. the fire department is a family. we live together, eat together,

sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. when i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. i didn't want to talk to any of my civilian friends. they couldn't understand what i was going through. the firefighters knew, they understood. they had been there. it is a different relationship. we have to rely on one another. in terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. that hasn't been there for a while. part of the reason that i am

getting along well with the field now is because i was there. i worked there. people know me and because i know what we need. i know what they need to be successful. >> i have known jeanine nicholson since we worked together at station 15. i have always held her in the highest regard. since she is the chief she has infused the department with optimism. she is easy to approach and is concerned with the firefighters and paramedics. i appreciate that she is concerned with the issues relevant to the fire department today. >> there is a retired captain who started the cancer prevention foundation 10 years ago because he had cancer and he noticed fellow firefighters were

getting cancer. he started looking into it. in 2012 i was diagnosed with breast canner, and some of my fellow firefighters noticed there are a lot of women in the san francisco fire department, premenopausal in their 40s getting breast cancer. it was a higher rate than the general population. we were working with workers comp to make it flow more easily for our members so they didn't have to worry about the paper work when they go through chemo. the turnout gear was covered with suit. it was a badge to have that all over your coat and face and helmet. the dirtier you were the harder you worked. that is a cancer causeser.

it -- casser. it is not -- cancer causer. there islassic everywhere. we had to reduce our exposure. we washed our gear more often, we didn't take gear where we were eating or sleeping. we started decontaminating ourselves at the fire scene after the fire was out. going back to the fire station and then taking a shower. i have taught, worked on the decontamination policy to be sure that gets through. it is not if or when. it is who is the next person. it is like a cancer sniper out there. who is going to get it next. one of the things i love about the fire department. it is always a team effort. you are my family. i love the city and department and i love being of service.

i vow to work hard -- to work hard to carry out the vision of the san francisco fire department and to move us forward in a positive way. if i were to give a little advice to women and queer kids, find people to support you. keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep trying. you never know what door is going to open next. you really don't. [cheers and

as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family

tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flowers, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life.

>> keeps us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. ♪♪ >> when i first started doing it back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they

are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it. >> a lot of times they don't

represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three

different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions were just kind of electric. families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to

join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue it also. that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and

brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump administration and i think how each of the artists has responded so that call is interesting. the common >> san francisco parks, golden gate park transforms into one of the greatest music festivals of all time, let's journey, inside, outside land. ♪♪ >> to this, our 6th year doing the outside lands and our relationship with san

francisco, rec and park. and we work very closely with them in the planning and working very closely with the neighborhood organizations and with the city supervisors and with the city organizations and with the local police department, and i think that the outside lands is one of the unique festivals in the world and we have san francisco and we have golden gate park and we have the greatest oasis, in the world. and it has the people hiking up hills and down hills and a lot of people between stages. >> i love that it is all outside, the fresh air is great. >> they have the providers out here that are 72 local restaurants out here. >> celebrating, and that is

really hot. >> 36 local winerries in northern california and 16 brewers out here. >> and you have seen a lot of people out here having a good time and we have no idea, how much work and planning has gone into this to make it the most sustainable festival in the united states. >> and literally, in the force, and yeah, unlike any other concept. and come and follow, and the field make-up the blueprint of the outside land here in golden gate park and in the future events and please visit sffresh parks.org. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> so i grew up in cambridge, massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future

wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m.i.t., studying urban planning. so this is her hometown. so, we fell in love and moved to her city. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. i was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. so it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. this is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. i mean we are the part of san francisco. it's the two neighborhoods with

the most children under the age of 18. everybody likes to talk about how san francisco is not family-friendly, there are not a lot of children and families. we have predominately single family homes. as i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots. [♪♪♪] >> it's different because again, we have little small storefronts. we don't have light industrial space or space where you can build high-rises or large office buildings. so the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs. >> turkey, cheddar, avocado,

lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. that's my usual. >> mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. he worked in the drugstore forever. he saved his money and opened up his own spot. we're always going to support home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this part of town, focusing on the family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. it's like a little community gathering spot. >> this is the part of the city with a small town feel. a lot of mom and pop businesses, a lot of family run businesses. there is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. i think there are some people that would embrace that. i think there are others that would prefer that not to be.

i think we moved beyond that conversation. i think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the businesses and small businesses that we have here. in fact, it's more of a mom and pop style business. i think at the end of the day, what we're really trying to do is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that diversity of businesses we already have. we're the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. a lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we could pay for. i'm very fortunate to have that. >> hi, good to see you. just wanted to say hi, hi to the owner, see how he's doing. everything okay? >> yeah. >> good.

>> we spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to small businesses. we put money in the budget so you guys could be out here. this is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a significant impact as you can see. what an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. >> for sure. >> we have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. so i think that's the richness of the mission and it always has been. it's what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i love it so much. i've got time

with 25 jobs so for young people one of my favorite days in san francisco thank you, thank you to the companies that are hiring. >> (clapping.) >> the city of san francisco and united way are calling an employers to have jobs for youth

in 2012 president obama issued a challenge and the challenge was get disconnected young people connected to jobs and so mayor ed lee said we should lead this challenge that the city will have 25 hundred jobs that first summer 6200 jobs and been building. >> i'll high are ups we like to pledge 50 jobs so for youth this summer. >> excellent. thank you. >> a large part of the jobs it did manual resource center started off a a youth program and our first year 35 percent of the young people working full-time we know there the pressors looking for committed young people the resource fair attracts over 6 hundred people if all over the

city and the greater bay area. >> we have public and private partnership the employers came from hertz rent a car and many private sector jobs sea have the city staff so the airport is here, starbuck's is here we've been retail we have restaurants, we have offices and so the young people will get an opportunity to partner search warrant with so many of the great champions for jobs. >> for the past 5 years we've hired over 3 willed youth to work as business traces they have been promoted to supervisors. >> if you're doing a job at starbuck's the opportunity for them allows them to understand math if tire working at anothers architectural firm understanding debris or a media to understand

reading and writing differently those are opportunities that the mayor is clear he wanted to provide we're going to be do mock interviews helping young people that the resumes a it pulls them to the career opportunities and building inspection commission make sure they're prepared for those opportunity educational and in terms of their preparation skills by the time many of them leave they'll leave with jobs and new relationships building their network of the opportunity to thrive and i think i could focus and i check around the booths to see had is available i'm hoping to get a job but have employers you know employers give practice. >> i feel this will be a great way to look for jobs we can do this like you get paid. >> when our young people walk

we capture their information so we can do follows up and we have a room that has a our computer lab an opportunity for them to do cover letters and talk about updating their profile and i think how you do things on the internet we help quam and they can update tare resume and can look in interviews and on the spot job officers we hire about one hundred young people today lee alone it is exciting out of that it is if they come through with one hundred walk out with a job. >> we'll rock and roll i guess in the job interviews it went great. >> as a youth we get to go through experiences 3 builds a great foundation gymnasium a positive outlook and more

importantly confidence. >> we really want to do at the end of the day exist a young person with the possibility of what we can be and do we have them go home i want to get there let me connection with those folks and ultimately got on the path. >> good morning good morning caitlin i'm caitlin lopez 23 years old i moved out to california and san francisco, california had i was about 8 years old and actually put in foster care at the age of 9 or 10 had a baby at the 16 years old so i've kind of had this crazy like youth experience. >> despite the challenges she faced caitlin finished high school and take advantage of

program. >> i heard will mayor ed lee's program through my social worker and i interviewed with entrepreneurs after i was matched walking sweet spots office i thought imitated not been in that type of office ones i got into the office with my supervisor we boptd and i got a call from h.r. i got the position and i'm in. >> i have. >> we hired merry for 8 weeks and saw how she did she was only going to work 8 weeks but at the end question offered her a position part time. >> i have those traits it has been great working here my term of 5 weeks was pretty much like family supporting each other i

feel like the mayors job program helped me to get in job without the jobs plus program i - i probably would have not even had a job. >> in her case she's a mother of two now going to school full-time and making it happen so if she can do it differently anyone that has a willingness to try at least try to make it can do it. >> those programs are amazing they're so important for young adults to really go out there and make a better future for themselves and despite not having a traditional - you can go out there based on the programs that's what they're for they want to help you succeed. >> we'll be committing to 25

jobs in the tech. >> the san francisco rec and park is hiring 3 and 50 youth that summer . >> (clapping.) >> and only child born in the office development allocation to r so for me is a network of the community that made the difference no way i'll be with united way this network was here for me this was personal and professional so important we create the opportunities who know the next ceo or champion of the community is coming today to find their path. >> that's the roll in san francisco we really by helping each other out >> (clapping.) >> the goal for 2017 to create 5 thousand jobs for youth if you want more information invite them at sf youth.org

>> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the

national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the

world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it

and it's just been great. i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really

help each other out. that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's. ♪♪♪ ♪ by the power ♪ ♪ of your name ♪ >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united

states. i really believe that food is important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this

way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission.

>> to me the most important part is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element into the situation.

i want to introduce one of the great champions of hope sf. we have benefited san francisco of having one of the great advocate mayors in america and she advocates. so with that, i'd like to introduce mayor london breed. well i advocate for all citizens of san francisco as a person with no option spending 20 years of my life living in public housing, living in what i think