. >> clerk: the time is 9:01. this meeting is being held by webex pursuant to the

governor's emergency. meetings of the fire commission will convene remotely. you may watch live at www.sfgovtv.org. to participate during public -- to participate during public comment, please dial 1 (415) 655-0001. and use access code 24873514615. members of the public will have opportunities to participate during public comment. the public is asked to wait for a particular agenda item before making a comment on that item. 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 can raise their hand by pressing star three and you will be queued. callers will hear silence when waiting for your turn to speak. operator will unmute you.

when prompted, callers will have the standard three minutes to provide comment. please ensure you are in a quiet location, speak clearly, and turn off any tvs or radios around you. item one, roll call. [roll call] excellent. we have a full house, that's good. before we get started, the san francisco fire commission acknowledges we are on the

unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. 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 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 as first peoples. thank you. >> clerk: very good. item two, resolution 2021-05.

discussion and possible action. this is a resolution making findings to allow teleconferenced meetings under california government code section 54953e. >> president: and do we, madam secretary have any public comment? >> secretary: there's nobody on the public comment line. >> president: all right. public comment will be closed. i see commissioner covington. >> commissioner: i'd like to move this item. >> president: thank you. do i have a second? >> commissioner: i'll second that. >> president: all right. it's been moved and seconded. >> secretary: okay. i will take roll call. [roll call] the motion is unanimous. we will go on to item three,

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 institute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. and there's nobody on our public comment line. >> president: all right. then public comment will be closed. and we can move on to the next item. >> secretary: item four. approval of the minutes. discussion and possible action to approve the meeting minutes of november 10th, 2021.

there's nobody on the public comment line. >> president: is there a motion, please? >> commissioner: i move to approve, madam president. >> president: thank you, commissioner cleaveland. >> commissioner: i second. >> president: thank you, commissioner covington. >> secretary: i will take the roll. [roll call] the motion is unanimous. >> president: may i interrupt for one moment, madam secretary, just so that i confirm this and if i need to be corrected, please someone do so. am i correct that this is the last fire commission meeting in official capacity for chiefs bello and dewit?

>> secretary: that is correct. >> president: wow. all right. fasten your seat belts because i have a whole bunch of questions that i want to get to you before you disappear into retirementland. so thank you. all right. i'm sorry to interrupt. i just wanted to ascertain that. >> secretary: item five, chief of department's report. opt from the chief of the defendant jeanine nicholson. report on the current issues, activities, special events, communications and special events, communications, and outreach to other government agencies and the public. and report from administration. training within the department.

>> greetings, president feinstein, vice president nakajo, commissioners, and command staff. this is my last report since our last commission meeting. i would also like to express my gratitude to chief bello and chief dewit for their valuable service and support. they have been nothing but hardworking and solution oriented and have really supported this department in a wonderful way and i'm just so grateful to both of them. this morning, i may have to excuse myself to present at the budget and finance committee at the board of supervisors for the supplemental request that

i've spoken about here is to fund the additional 50 for our ambulances. we have spoken in advance with board members on the budget and finance committee and i am confident this item will be forwarded to the full board for approval. you know, this significant much needed increase in our ambulance staffing is a big deal. i don't remember ever having a -- i could be wrong, but i don't remember a supplemental ask in many years. so i just want to say i'm grateful to the mayor's office and elected officials for their

support as well as the controller's office and everyone that's worked so hard to get us to this point. i have attended quite a few events since our last commission meeting. we had thanksgiving and i carved turkeys at st. anthonys and glide and the salvation army. i attended on thanksgiving day, a food give away as well as self-help for the elderly in chinatown and that was actually a really good thanksgiving. it was really nice to go around to those events and i've also attended three holiday tree lighting ceremonies with the mayor and police chief, civic center union square and mcclaren lodge at golden gate

park. and if you know the tree that gets lit up, you know, many years ago, it used to be truck 12 that would come down the hill and put the lights up on that tree. it's no longer done by truck twelve. they have their own tree toppers but that's a little piece of fire department history from over 30 years ago. so i just wanted to mention that. i also participated in an interview at manny's on 16th street that was fruitful and interesting and then last week and earlier this week. i held panel interviews.

a decision has not been made, but when agreed upon, i will reach out to each of you. back to ems. chief tom is holding interviews this week for our next ems class that we funded in the recent budget. and chief peng has been participating in many meetings regarding the deployment of our community paramedics and onboarding more of them in early 2022. we also currently have a class of 42 emts right now over at training and they should be out in the field i believe in early january. our street crisis response team celebrated one year on november 30th and chief peng and thomas for all their work

on this and all the successes they've had as well as, you know, we are ahead of the curve compared to all other places within all other cities in california and in much of the nation. so really strong work to everyone who's involved in that. and chief tong and i attended a meeting with the california metro chief down in southern california last week. it was really insightful. it was called to speak about, you know, the ems systems throughout the state and the many issues that the state is facing in terms of staffing in terms of wall times at the hospital etc. but i am proud to say that coming out of that meeting, chief tong and i realize we are ahead of the curve in

comparison to other cities and we're creative and thinking outside the box about how we can make changes that will have a big impact long-term on the system. we have several meetings this week and next week to finalize the legislation needed to be passed at the state level for our fire training facility for the piece of property that's owned by the port. we're moving in the right direction and i'm hopeful that that legislation will be introduced in january. i know we have a meeting with some state officials out at the site. it's a lot of work and it's still going on there and moving forward. if you would like to hear about station 35 either chief bello or chief dewit can speak to

that. and finally, there were several members of ours that were honored at the board of supervisors meeting last tuesday for a significant rescue they did last year that we showed footage of last year. our crews including engine 51, truck 14, rescue boat 1 all went out to rescue these folks in the middle of the night. and ended up being able to pluck one person off the rock. it was very heavy surf, really dangerous condition, got that person on their board and then swam with them for a half mile out to the boat and did all of this in the dark in the middle of the night and it took many hours because there was some confusion about where the

people were and whether it was a cliff rescue or a water rescue or what have you. so the fire department, you know, adapted and adapted. we're going to cliff rescue. no. surf rescue. and just stuck with it and got it done and supervisor peskin honored them at the board of supervisors last week. and that completes my report and i'm happy to take any questions. >> president: thank you. first of all, do we have any public comment? >> secretary: there is nobody on the public comment line. >> president: all right. public comment will be closed. and, commissioners, putting up the floor for questions for the chief. vice president nakajo, please.

>> vice president: thank you very much. i'm going to be asking the majority of my questions off of the chief's report. i wanted to thank you for your report this morning. i know you're going to be attending a bunch of meetings. so i just wanted to indicate that information to the chief. thank you. >> president: thank you, vice president nakajo. any further comments from commissioners. i don't see any hands. commissioner covington. i caught you at the last second there. >> commissioner: thank you, madam president. thank you for your report, chief. chief, can you talk a little

more about the proposed fight for the training facility? >> so it's the sight at 1236 cheryl as you may or may not know and there are two pieces of property there that make the one that we need. we are already in contract with prologis on a lease to own and for the privately owned property for the port owned property. we have gone through the state lands commission and have gotten their support, but this does need to go through legislation to approve the sale of it. and so we have been working with the mayor's office and with people up at the state level to ensure that we can

finalize this legislation that is needed and, again, as i said, we are hoping to get it introduced in january. and there's been a lot of work done on this, you know, by multiple departments within the city. >> all right. i want to thank everyone who's diligently been working on this. and if everything goes well, will we have the green light at the end of january? >> yes. assuming that this goes forward, i don't know how long it takes to be -- to go into effect, but this will give us the green light and the green

light to actually purchase the prologis property and i don't know the exact time frame of the legislation and when we can move forward, but i can find that out for you. >> commissioner: and the moneys to secure the site have been approved? >> easter bonds. >> yeah. it's the easter bonds, but that will have to go before the board of supervisors. >> commissioner: okay. and other than the easter bonds, there is no other money that will be required? >> there is money that will be requireded for the port piece of property. >> commissioner: that's what i'm asking about. i didn't know if it was all covered by the easter bond. >> we were allocated that in our budget. >> commissioner: okay. great. and i know this is looking way

ahead, but how long do you think it would take to actually have a brick and mortar building? >> that's an excellent question and i don't know. i would say a minimum of five years. >> commissioner: okay. a minimum of five years. and when are we supposed to exit from treasure island? >> we've been working with tida on that. they are aware and flexible with us as you know construction has been delayed everywhere including there. so we're having conversations with them regularly and i don't think it will be an issue. i think that we will be able to

work with that because everyone understands how imperative it is to have a functioning training center. >> commissioner: yes. very good. as always, please feel free to call if you need backup. >> okay. >> commissioner: i just had one other question and that was regarding the 40 emts. did you say who are now in training, did you say they will complete their training by the end of january? >> there are currently 42 in. chief tong if i am incorrect, please correct me, but i believe it's earlier in january. >> commissioner: that's wonderful. any time in january would be welcome. so that's very good.

all right. well, thank you, chief. >> thank you. >> president: any other questions for the chief of the department from the commissioners? i am not seeing any hands. thank you very much, chief nicholson. i appreciate your report. we're now going to move on to the last and final report from chief bellow. >> good morning president finestein, vice president nakajo, commissioners, chief of the department. which includes the months of october and november since we didn't have an administration meeting report on the month of november. so i will share my presentation with you. just a second here.

see how it is nowadays. anyway. this is my report for the month of november. as training, we talk about the academy. 120th academy is going to graduate on december 23rd. we hope to see all of you day. 35 recruits will go into the field and they'll be working the very next day on december 24th and most likely will be working on december 25th to help with the staffing issues that are much needed. as the chief mentioned in previous meetings, we have projected three academies for 2023. and we are already in the planning phases of the logistical support. how is that going to work. we're projecting three academies of recruits for next year which is going to help us initially. that's a lot of work, but it's much needed and we're looking forward to that department to

bringing on those 150 hopefully new recruits. we know we lost some in the academy. some of the things we're working on from the last few weeks, fire training and fire scenarios. you can recognize the person on the top right, i had to go there and play fire 1 more time to play fire. also the recruits doing demolitions. it was a great system chief had in place. we're rotating different recruits. so i was happy to be in command one more time. they continue to do all kinds of skills, even just the chemistry of fire. that was part of the picture on the bottom. the gases ignite and therefore when they go into this fire building, it's the actual gases that can cause the problems for them. very important to understand they have to fight the fire, but how is the fire caused and what are the dangers when they go inside. they focused on that a lot. we do also survival training and these are some of the skills they do that you might find in buildings or collapsed

buildings or just basically dark buildings that we do all the time. there's other skills that are required now because we are accredited academy by the state. so when and should the situation happen again when they're out there, they will remember this and be able to get out of trouble. we also had in these last two months, investment academy 21 and many of the skills that they do is real life scenarios of multi-casualty incidents drill and some of the skills we do. we also like to mention have the 19 academy for level ones. 44 recruit status to remain and five weeks will be out of the academy looking for when to also have recruits in the field. i know chief is telling us, can't wait for them to be out on the ambulances. so looking forward to that. the an additional 50 recruits next year. really good work by the staff that got the additional funding

for that. we also on the far service side, we're hosting numerous classes. some of the classes we hosted this time around is the grant funded class that we are always trying to host so we can get more folks to the department. the has mat series. the whole series and we hosted them here in the department. and the picture on the top right, you will see members of the various departments that came together and we have to allow other members of the department come in. it was a huge number of members in that class. and we will have those grants for training all the time. and someone thinks we continue to do the ventilation. this is a problem we're able to fund and we're able to get this simulates firefighters. instead of being in an elevated position. and then we go off to the elevator position. so the walk, crawl, and run method of training.

diversity and inclusion office. so continue to work with the core career developing work groups and have several meetings. the work group is working on our processes for future promotional requirements. firefighters to come officers and what is the division that the department has for them to be training with. mentorship. all those things they're working on developing product that's going to bring them to the command staff to share the future. continue the discussions with affinity groups and also many meetings and also every time a recruit, any academy is having a hard time and they have to meet with either the chief or myself, that conversation, sitting down with those recruits, i'm making sure there's no issues. all the performances themselves the recruits are having a hard

time with. he reached out to them. we're trying to do a wrap around method and patients that maybe have in the academy. it's perform his staff, captain anderson and officer hunter. promoting our department. we have a new social media outreach with a bunch of information. so all this is the work of them the last few months trying to get more outreach. this is just another way we are expanding the way we outreach our folks and recruitment. chief parks has been extremely busy. we are going through the turn outs. basically, our new set of turn-outs. the safety features that need

to happen there as you recall, there are several studies for cancer that have been getting to the department and volunteer members to be part of that. so we're really on the forefront of volunteers in conjunction with the firefighter prevention foundation. just continually working with the imperial health units and all those additionally not that's run by chief parks, but we support and we support again this time around, the san francisco cancer screen on d.o.t.. we had a good member of the folks that came to do cancer screenings. so this is something that we will continue to support as much as we can. including when we're doing the turn out specking making sure our turn-outs don't have pfas

on them. so we're working on that to remove as much as we can. but i wanted to make sure that you knew that city wide did some wellness awards and our department with the stephanie phillips and chief parks. we want the work for programs to benefit our members and wellness and health. so this was good. it was a small virtual ceremony, but it was nice to be recognized and this was all the work they do at the office combined health and safety firefighters are extremely busy with medical exams and so they continue to do that. in addition to that, i want to

thank chief parks. this past monday and friday, we had a number to pursue that, to help them out. she has a license to be able to give vaccinations and so we continued that. chief was the lead on this scheduling folks. so our goal is to continue to do that and she's visited several battalions already and she wants to make sure and i'm happy to report every time for the last 16 months, 18 months, this is the first time that we had no members in the quarantine due to covid. we have seven members that are still off duty due to covid. this is the first time in the last few days.

this is not a cause for celebration. we're still keeping our masking, but this is a really good sign what folks are doing booster shots these past but also all those recruits and firefighters have to get the investigation. he is the lead for that. sends documents to be requested. reviews documents. this is probably the busiest time for him.

a true leader and really established and really good processes for the office. tremendous work. it's been a pleasure working with her. i too have done the work i've done without her in her up coming department. really good work that she's done. we had 190 requests for the month of october. 133 were completed and, again, the numbers we request doesn't mean the numbers watch the 33. but mostly roof and electrical. the numbers have a request. and as you recall from the last meeting. we had a significant rainstorm and that shows some issues to station seven multiple leaks

and the process of hopefully being remodeled. will have some issues with rains and we prepare those leaks. 43 and 48. so we do find our aging facilities show their age and we continue to work that. so this is why the easter bond project, the money that we can properly manage will stay for other stations. a lot of work happening during that storm. station 35 update. so the connection work on december 2nd, however, when they did that, we found there was a leak on the gas main that runs on the pier. so as of today, stations 35 because they have no gas. the hot water. they have to move to station 13 temporarily until we fix that and then the gas crews can start doing the work right away. and then we'll go back. so just a few days to do that

and then the person come back to 35 and the work continues. side by the station has to be done and it's going to schedule on december 9th. so it's tomorrow. we'll see how that works. it's going to delay things a little bit that it will be scheduled to get started. on the fleet update. they expect to financial. >> vice president elias: . our staff will be in november and they will be conducting and we will start too. they finally start start here.

it's the unit that dispatched to fill up our air bottles that we have. so it's critical we have that so this is a great addition to the fleet and in the budget drafts are reviewed again the model that we follow, looking forward to that. and they're being installed through the package and the lighting and we expect five new ranges to measured by mid

december. we're getting those pretty soon. but december the work and after that they will be delivered here but we're looking to have 11 angels in our fleet next year. the and this is our new mobile layer. this is what it looks like and this is what you'll see on the streets to replenish those bottles supervisors in the marina and commissioners you were there we continue to make sure you understand the process on how the system works and the

e.f.w.s.2050 planning. so basically as they initiate the science of extending the e.f.s. is due by december and we are very close construction completion so we are going to do some drills with them. pumps water in case of needed. we spoke last time, but chief o'connor's been handling all this with supervisors and commissioners you were there, thank you. and commissioner covington, we're happy to inform you that we did form a grants committee. a grants committee was formed

and we had a meeting last week where the committee's formed, but basically the division of the department says each one has a role on it and city three. i stayed on this role on the advisory from the committees and war rooms that present projects. things they think should be funded. but this is. i know this is a busy slide. but it's basically the process. the project idea goes to finding funding sources. is it a good fit or not. then go back to looking at the finding sources. it's approve to proceed the committee. then the proposal. contact funders. draft the project narrative and then there's another flowchart that we show later that comes from once we get it how do we do it? the audit system. so we're happy to let you know we are moving along with that, you know, it wasn't for a long time. some of the other events we had

in the last few months as you remember, the great shake-out. the chief was at the lab. we're happy to be with the chief at st. anthony's carving turkeys and decorations we did. it was a really good event and light a ceremony with unit square with the mayor and this started 27 and a half years ago. but i wanted to say thank you to chief nicholson for her support and allowing me to serve the department. i want to thank you you, commissioners for your support. those of you i've known you for a but i just wanted to really thank you for your support to

the fire department which is what i know you really care about and thank you for always supporting me and i never mind the questions. i'm saying good-bye, but i'm proud of where i'm from. i am here today to say good-bye to this great career and i'm very proud of this so thank you everybody. >> president: thank you. that was very touching and and i appreciate it. chief bellow, i couldn't pick out which one was you. >> let me go back to that. let me see if i can share again. >> he's in the back row. >> yeah. i am in the back row.

tall guy. right there. let me see if you can see it. that's the person right there. you see the cursor there? >> president: yes i sure do. and you haven't changed a bit. >> a few more pounds. but that's it. >> president: thank you. and thank you for your report. before we proceed, let me ask our commission secretary if there is any public comment. >> secretary: there is somebody on our public comment line. caller, did you want to make public comment on the chief's report? hello, caller? adrienne sims, but she's not answering. caller? did you want to make public

comment? all right. well, she's not answering me. and i can hear background. >> president: i can too. >> secretary: so i'm going to put her back on mute. all right. so she didn't answer. she's not responding to my. would you like to proceed? would you like me to mute her again? >> president: yes. mute her for the time being and let's just see when this comes up. >> secretary: i can go back

after the commission does their questions. >> president: all right. very good. i know i have a number of questions myself and i actually think that i'm just going to exercise my prerogative because i'm going to lose it at the end of the year which is i'll be happy to pass it along, but i think i'm going to go first today unless anybody objects. thank you. i appreciate that. i went through because chief bellow, you weren't getting out of here without my fine tooth comb, the really finest tooth comb i have and so i have some questions for you and i'm just

going to follow up with vice president nakajo and what he taught me and do this in order because it will be easier for others that may or may not be interested to follow along. i really wanted to comment first of all on chief kyloah's report. you've been a busy man and i really appreciate that. i will suggest for the future if you note in the beginning of chief velo's report, we have a glossary. i did have it some trouble because there are a lot of the abbreviations there that i am not sure what they mean and they're helpful. but the number of things that you already accomplished in your short tenure really should

be commended and i want to thank you for all the energy that you're putting into that. i'm not sure if i should address and forgive me for my not knowingness to chief velo or to chief kailoa with the 128th recruit class. is losing seven recruits in the class fairly normal? >> so the average nationwide, commissioner, thank you, it's 10% on an academy. that's what the average nationwide is. now, in this class, we do have some unique. so with one member on the first day quit because he was injured the weekend before the academy started and another recruit left for oakland fire department. so it would have been a much better ratio of numbers. but we lost two just from that.

>> president: all right. no. i appreciate that. thank you. and then with regard to the auto extrication drill that i'll refer to on page 10, it does indicate in paragraph three that certain companies were scheduled to attend the training, but it was canceled for chief kailoah due to the recruit class number 128. and i just wasn't sure i was following that correctly because it said canceled for october. >> i'm going to let the chief answer that. i think i know the reason, but i'll let the chief speak about that. >> good morning president and commissioners, command staff. director of training.

that's true, president finestein. i did cancel the october in-service auto extrication drills because i had the 128 coming to the division training i canceled the in-service auto extricating drills. >> president: i see. all right. excuse me.

yes. we can all laugh at me. meet george. sorry about that. anything further? i understand what you're saying. you could only do so much is the bottom line on that. okay. and i understood that. also, i wanted to comment on moving on to how great it was to here that dr. brokha is making these issues. i think that's a big difference going forward in termses of our vaccinations and now getting people made safe. i hope they're masking up. you know, i admit that i do see around a lot of rigs that with people unmasked.

and it gives me concern. you see four people in a cab and none of them are masked. and i just don't know what we do about that. i don't know if it's a captain's responsibility. i don't know if -- who's responsibility it is, but it sets a bad example, you know. on the other hand, i encountered an ambulance on saturday and it was ambulance 84 with two paramedics in it both sitting there masked and, you know, there seems to be greater compliance among those in ambulances and this isn't, this is a random sighting, this is nothing scientific. but we have got to get our suppression people masked and

especially in the station houses and also when they're out in public. and the station houses for their own good and out in public because they need to set a good example. and it's real hard to enforce rules when those in uniform aren't following that. i realize that's not a popular position amongst some members of the department, but i think it's one that most san franciscans would agree with. i'm going to skip some of these questions here so i don't take up way too much time. and okay. in terms of -- i could not figure this out. i understand that there are complaints about people being forced to work overtime and i

don't know to what extent that's occurring, but i know -- i see from captain ed chiu in his report on page 33 and thank you for putting w.d.o. into your glossary because i looked up what that was and now i know. the so it says continue new working day off in advance policy for suppression members general order 21a-64. prehiring of 50% of shortage seven days in advance on friday, saturday, and sundays. i could not figure out what that meant. >> president, happy to explain that to you. so the kwi our system for overtime works and volunteer

work has been in the past is the day before you work, you are volunteering for the next day. so the day you're working, you're volunteering for the next day you're not working. in our system, we can sign up, but advanced, like a month in advance in our system, but you're not hired. what we're doing with this is one week in advance for the weekends and now we expanded it too, you can know whether you're hired or not so you can plan your weekend ahead of time. we have a shortage of members on the weekends and that helps a lot members being able to plan that overtime that's hired. we're not going 100% of the projected overtime. we're only doing 50% of projected overtime. so it is -- it's helping out. there's other things that we're doing that are helping out. we don't now have a staffing shortage and that's what the next three classes in the next

year are going to start making a difference. like we mentioned before, significant increase. 50% of the average people retiring last year compared to previous years. so that combined with the fact we couldn't get a class together because of covid and the class had to be much more than normal. it was a 25-member class versus a 50-member class. all that is a shortage of firefighters but now has man tested itself on a need for overtime. our members are working hard. our members are working overtime. so we're going through a curve now that we're hoping, but thanks to the chief's efforts and getting the class next year, we're going to be able to see that curve go up and rely less on over time which overall is not good for their health. >> president: now i understand. thank you and congratulations to the chief for getting that because it seems to be an

ongoing issue and a topic of discussion. i'm going to skip over here and i'm going to again chief velo, i can give these to you or you can toss them to chief dewitt who is also going to be abandoning us after this meeting. we welcome her in her civilian clothing. i think she doesn't want to do that. chief dewitt it feels to me or chief velo, station 14 seems to be getting really whacked with things going awry there.

is there something in particular or is it just coincidence? you know, there's generator problems, an hvac problem, emergency roof top generator, some pump. that's not the whole list as you well know. so can you help me understand what's going on at station 14 and what we can do about it. >> sure. i'm going to punt it to chief dewitt, but before i do that, this is just another sign of our aging infrastructure we have. this is 14 on 26 avenue. those are just signs and symptoms of an aging facility that are coming to show and

sometimes they show in groups of issues in the fire house, sometimes they're singular issues. i also want to give chief dewitt to say a few words before she leaves us for retirement. you can answer for the present. >> thank you. good morning president finestein, vice president nakajo, commissioners, chief, command staff. station 14 is probably just a fluke that everything just kind of crashed all at once. you should know that the generator there is 50 years old and it is slated on the 2014 bond to be replaced. so that will be going out to bid next week. when the generator went down, the alternator went out. the parts are so old they're not available. they had to hand tool the alternator to put into that generator. the roof, they are close to the ocean. so all of the hvac system on the roof, ventilation and

mechanical issues are subject to all of the sea air and so they just rusted through over time and it was during a roof drill that somebody took some pictures up there and identified that. so i chose that project to replace their hvac system. it's gone through d.p.w., we started that progress back in february and it took quite some time for all of the trades to get an estimate and now because of supply chain and interruption issues, it's just taking forever to get the unit itself, the parts itself and now here we are in winter. i don't know if we'll be able to open up that system right in the middle of the rainy system. the apparatus door is broke. that just happens. they do go down. they go up and down a lot. they just use them a lot. i think it's just a comedy of errors and everything happening all at once. it's just bad luck. but, yes, our facilities are aging, all of them, and we're

trying to do as much as we can to repair as much as possible with the budget we have. >> president: all right. thank you. and i understand. it just seemed like 14 was getting the brunt of it all of a sudden there and if i can ask station 7 which i know is supposed to be i believe part of the 2020 easter bond and now is on hold. yeah, on hold as of 10/18/21 and i'm just curious as to why that is. >> yes, president finestein. good question. the reason it's on hold is we want to know what the real budget is going to be. as the amount of money on the easter bond in 2020 is $265 million. the more we can fine tune that budget. we don't want the department to

commit to two projects at the same time. so my priority for many years about the training center. but until we have a more defined and concrete budget that we can say okay, now we do have enough money in the bond money to be able to complete station seven. so that's why we put on the hold and we're on a hold because we're working with d.p.w. to get this project moving in the right direction. that's the only reason we have it on hold. we have to make sure we're on the same page. they understand what we need and we put it in the right direction and as soon as that's in the right direction, we'll get seven going in the right direction too. it's just a matter of making sure the amount of money we have which seems like a lot, but at the end of the day, it's not a lot with all the needs we have. make sure we're on the right track and we don't overcommit to the projects. >> president: in other words, you don't want to have half the training facility and half a station seven. >> that would not be good.

>> president: okay. so i understand that. so i'm going to wrap up here. okay. station 35 is going to turn my brown hair gray. and i just. i almost don't know what to say. i think all the commissioners received a response within i'd say the last 48 hours that d.p.w. was going to well d.p.w.'s response that they intended to present at the commission meeting and thank goodness they didn't because it was 184 pages. i have not had an opportunity to read it. i don't know what else to say other than i'm 184-page

response requires some digesting and a little more time. you will recall, we invited them to participate and they couldn't because they said they needed more time to prepare. that was back i think it was october 13th and somebody can correct me if i'm wrong and now here we are in the beginning of december and there is their response. you know, i mean, tell me if i'm wrong, but it looks to me like station 35 has neither gas, electricity, nor water at this point. is that accurate or inaccurate. >> very accurate, but let me also pass it on to chief dewitt to give you the latest latest updates. >> president: i'll take it. >> and also i want to let her say a few words before her last

commission meeting. >> station 35. so the existing station 35 is the station that's experiencing the gas leak at this point. it has nothing to do with the new build and new barge. when pg&e was testing the new gas line for the float, they discovered several leaks in the existing gas line. those were repaired and when they did a final pressure test, there was a major leak discovered leaking into the existing gas house. so it had to be shut down into the existing fire house. pg&e did send us the notice. so i have good reason to believe that power will begin as planned and hopefully completed by december 17th. so within a week, we should have full power to the station. gas will continue. to the new station. so that station is moving along. i don't know and i haven't been told and i don't believe the issues with the current gas

line will affect the schedule for the build at the new 35. we have water. we just don't have hot water at station 35. the existing 35. so that's why we made the decision to have the members move elsewhere so that they don't have to live in a facility with no hot water. >> president: i can't say i blame them or you. that makes sense. and i'm sorry. i have to just back up one question here. am i right -- i'm going back wards now to station 14? am i reading this correctly, page 39, that it took 19 months in order to get a permit for d.b.i. for the additional focus scope program?

is that correct? >> that's correct. >> 19 months. >> yep. >> yeah. and i believe the permit expired because there was such a long gap. now they have to go out and get a new permit. >> president: what can we do about that? >> that's a good question, president finestein. >> that would be a question for d.p.w. >> yeah. >> president: okay. i understand. chief serano, we'll put it right square in his lap. and i think that my last question goes to a.d.c. o'connor, please. and that is -- i was going through this, where would we ever get 150 million gallons of

water? >> some of the million different sources, most like hetch hetch. we have water all around us and we've even had to pull water out of lake merced right now. >> president: and that adds up to 150 million gallons give or take. >> there's still roughly 50 million gallon shortfall. if we needed every bit of water possible and once we get the new portable water systems, then we'll close that gap. so with the project we're doing right now, we should be able to close that gap. >> president: very impressive. thank you. and i thank my fellow commissioners for their patience with me. and i do want to say as i said to chief velo, chief de witt,

we're going to miss you and we're going to wish you well. i know you want to be able to say a few words too, but it's just been a pleasure working with you and you've always been incredibly responsive and on top of all of these what could be very frustrating projects, you seem to maintain greating great equinimity and i now turn everything over to my fellow commissioners and thank you for your indulgence of me today.

i see commissioner cleveland. >> commissioner: thank you, madam president. having worked with chief velo for some time, we're going to miss you, for sure from the department. we're missing two great leaders here, but i appreciate your service and i want to thank you for that. i just had a couple of observations. i was glad to see that our outreach department has gone on to social media and is doing a better job of really reaching the younger generations. i wondered what that was and could it be presented at a future commission meeting and lastly, my question's on

station seven as president finestein mentioned, what's the estimated cost on that and so being held hostage here to the training center, how much do we expect station seven to rebuild the cost? >> let me answer that question first. thank you, commissioner. the cost for station five was proposed at $40 million. we haven't finalized. we believe the model that we had right now for station 7. i think that could be some

savings in there. and, again if we can not just save money for the sake of saving money, then we can have additional projects that we can fund like station 14. so that's why all the easter bonds, whatever we are able to be more efficient, we can put that money to work. that's what we gave about a year ago. we have to really dig into that and have a conversation about that. the question about chief parks, i'll let her speak about that that was the work that we got and it was about the know your

numbers thank you for that program and since it is such an integral part of the program. >> commissioner: having a wellness program and making sure our firefighters stay well while they're staying employed, it would be nice to see that program presented to the commission so we know exactly what we're doing internally to keep all of our members well and healthy. so a little detail on the program would be appreciated. so chief. >> chief parks. looks like we're having some connection issues with chief parks. >> yeah. can you hear me? >> yes. >> chief, can you hear me?

>> yes. we can hear you. >> okay. good morning, president and vice president, commissioners. my name is acting bc parks. yes. so the w.o.w. network is a program with the health service systems and i'd be more than happy to share more information with you, with the presentation as well as the award that we're giving. we have another pregsz coming up next week and i'll be more than happy to share that information with you guys in the future if you'd like. >> commissioner: thank you. that would be very helpful and it would be nice for the

general public to know as well what we're doing with our members of the public. and it will pay off and if we as commissioners are allowed to ever come to one of these grant committee meetings, we'd be interested in attending. again, i want to congratulate both you and chief dewitt on tremendous careers. didn't we bring you back from retirement a couple of years ago? no. okay. thank you for your service. thank you both for your service and may you have wonderful, healthy retirements. >> thank you. >> president: thank you, commissioner cleveland. any further comments?

commissioner mr. covington. >> commissioner: thank you, madam president. well, i very one will definitely miss both of you. you guys are really something and chief velo and i laugh a lot about my attention for lueve and other things and i don't know what i'm going to do. you know, when i'm in a situation where it's 180°, who's going to save me? i've talked about special ops. he knows what i'm talking about. it was so hot that the chief of the department was concerned that they might lose a commissioner. so chief velo, it's always good

to see you and to chat with you and i know you have family all over the country and so now you can travel and spend more time with them. so that's wonderful. thank you for all of your good work. i wish you could have stayed longer, but hey, you know, life calls. >> thank you, commissioner. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you. and, chief dewitt, i am amazed at your resiliency and, you know, your ability to maintain your professionalism under very trying circumstances, trying to get oh, the fire boat station built and up and running and thank you for your, you know, oversight of the smallest detail within the various stations to keep people safe

and comfortable. it means a lot and i know that there's one person who is clapping that you are leaving the fire department and that's your granddaughter. i know she's like 'yay! grandma's going to have more time with me. let me see. first we're going to have a tea party.' i know she's going to have a whole long list for you and i know for both of you your families are well and they continue to be well and know that you are very well-point in timed here in the department and the commission. so thank you for that. >> thank you. >> commissioner: now, you're leaving me on a high note, chief velo, for that grants committee. how long have i been beating

that drum? yikes. i am glad that we have a grants committee and i hope that we will be getting lots and lots of grants from because we are in competition with every other department in the country. so we need to have the hanging fruit. so all the best and thank you for that report. >> thank you, commissioner. i'm not going to take credit for the grants committee. and we just had several conversations. but our grant writer. we knew we needed it.

and so all credit to mark for this. i'm just the person saying to you that we have it. so that's all. >> commissioner: well, wonderful. and mr. corso comes before us in january. thank you also, mr. corso. i have nothing further. >> president: thank you, commissioner covington. any -- vice president nakajo, please. >> vice president: thank you very much, madam president. i'm going to refer to commissioner morgan if he wishes to ask questions or comments and i would like to conclude after that. but commissioner morgan, would you like to take this opportunity at this point? >> commissioner: thank you, vice president. yeah. i just want to -- i have a few quick comments. i just want to say congratulations to chief velo

and all those at headquarters and the nice lady that was roller blading for cancer prevention and funding. it was a nice event and i met some of the other chiefs. can you guys hear me? okay. and i just want to say congratulations on your retirement. obviously, you know, you've worked yourself up the ranks. you're very confident and a professional person and i like to say thank you for your detailed reports and sorry we couldn't work with each other a little longer. it's going to be a big loss for the department and, you know, thanks for your service, chief dewitt. have a happy holidays to you and your families. >> president: thank you. >> commissioner: that's all i've got.

>> president: that was well said. thank you. i'm sorry. there. everybody keeps bouncing around. so i'm sorry i lost track of you for a minute, vice president nakajo, but i found you again. please, if you would. >> vice president: thank you for that. and i also would like to thank all of our fellow commissioners in terms of peer oversight responsibilities, questions, comments, suggestions not only during this year but all of them. the organization and the department with chief velo and finance director corso made that a reality piece. and i just think that goes to

the merritt of, again, the departures of chief velo, chief dewitt, but i also at this point would like to welcome as they didn't have the opportunity of assistant deputy chief o'connell and i just wanted to acknowledge because you've been sitting there in this meeting and i wanted to acknowledge you as well. thank you for your participation. and, at this point, chief nicholson, i didn't ask a question, but i'm going to see if i can take advantage of it. one of the questions i wanted to ask as i go through chief velo's report and make a question to chief david brown, the good thing about having five commissioners that everyone knows about is by the time it gets to the last commissioner, the majority of the questions have been spoken to or addressed. so it makes my part easier in a

sense that i did want to remark on chief parks and the position, chief dewitt and chief serano, it was mentioned in terms of mandatory overtime. these are the areas. first of all, chief nicholson, is there anything you would like to say to us in terms of the process that's occurring, in terms of the process of where it's at and how it's going. what is the time line? is that appropriate to ask, chief? >> yes. thank you, vice president nakajo. chief jeanine nicholson again. the last week, we had panel views for ten applicants and this week we brought back five of those applicants for a

second interview and we should have a decision made by the end of this week. >> thank you for that. i did want to thank chief velo that the packet this round some of the questions i had in november were part of october's reports so that made some sense to me as well. i also just wanted to ask some basic questions out of november's report. i'd like to ask chief david brown first. not so much in detail. the curiosity is the commissioner and with the holiday season and with everything talking about

upticks and passenger numbers about what's new, the new variants being introduced with this new policy that's changing day-to-day with covid testing now 24 hours ahead and i'm not quite sure. i think it's international only. that's why i'm asking for clarity and how that reflects to the department. i know that's out there. but our division as well. so chief brown, officer chief nicholson can you share that with us some of those answers to my questions? >> president: can i interrupt for a moment? the airport division is usually covered under the operations. it's not outlined in the administrative report and i don't know if that goes then

off of the brown act since it's not on the agenda. >> vice president: i appreciate that, madam secretary, because that's what i like about your oversight. i only ask that, chief velo, chief nicholson, because it's part of chief velo's packet. or can i get some advice, please, chief nicholson. >> chief velo go ahead. >> yes. vice president, so the portion of my report that relates to the airport that chief brown reports to me is the training section. so traditionally, even though he reports on the operations side of the house and operations report in the second wednesday of the month, out of you what you see there is only related to training. so that's why you get the report for training only relates to what training

activities, the airport division has done in the last month. so that's the clarification that i wanted to make. >> vice president: i appreciate that clarification, chief velo. next round, chief brown, when it comes up, i think that question would be appropriate even at that particular point. again, the benefit of having all the other commissioners and referring off my notes all of the courses that were asked or each referenced to, chief parks, part of the positions report was again identified that yourself and the doctor on the station visit report on the physician's page, there's named other individuals behind yourself. looks like a paramedic so it's a team that goes out there and i just wanted to remark as well, not necessarily anything

but a comment on how impressive it is, chief velo, chief nicholson that the officer goes out there. just to a point of information, when they say they visited all of battalion one of this report, how many stations is that? >> battalion one has station 2, station 13, station 21, and station 48. if i may make an announcement, the chief, as you recall said she was meeting for the board of supervisors meeting. i just want to make sure it's on the record. as did also mark corso for the record. >> vice president: duly noted. thank you. thank you for that information. chief parsons, do you want to say anything for that in terms of visitation? i realize, i want to know how dr. broko gets to these

stations. i've been with the department for 25 years and i don't know where all the stations are. did you want to remark a little bit on that? [please stand by]

-- who the members are -- >> chief parks, can you hear me? your audio is not clear for us to hear, so i'm just interrupting you, because we can't hear you on this side. so -- i don't know if we want to kind of try to improve that or i can forego the question to another period. >> if i may, i can answer what i think i know what chief parks is saying. >> please. >> chief parks, dr. brokaw, members of the behavioral health unit, and support team, and combined that is where we all go into the stations and driving to the stations to talk about the issues, and the mental health issues so we have members for

the actual behavior health unit. members of the peer support team, as a member of workers that have been trained a higher level to understand and be able to connect the measures, and so that's what chief park is trying to say, and the goal is hit every battalion in the station in the next year, so really good work from her. >> thank you for that, chief velo, and again, chief parks, we heard that and it's unfortunate that we could not hear your vocal, but i got the report and the feedback in terms of it. again, when you do present, it's appropriate that commissioner cleaveland acknowledge yourself and stephanie in terms of the doctor's office, which is grateful, speaking of myself and also part of the commission in terms of the work that you are doing with the doctor and the members. chief velo, it's impressive when one goes out there with the team and covers a whole battalion. i'm going to move on. my question, or my concern over

mandatory overtime has been answered and explained and i comprehend that in terms of lack of personnel and classes coming in and adjustment to do that. again over the years of being a hem of the commission, we have run through the scenarios many times, it's a great opportunity for us to have the new membership come in, but again, as we remarked last time, sounds good, 150 coming in, the other part is how are we going to deal with the 150, and laid out in the training level with a facility. so, again, all of those questions were answered. my vast remarks are going to be towards chief dewitt, and chief serano, and in october and november, and the questions have been asked. i'm making a comment that my questions in terms of 35 with the questions such as issues from gas leaks to potholes to

drilling to, the memo that went out this morning about 35 going to 13, just things i wanted clarity on, i have clarity on with the commission. other issue, i think chief velo, the president asked you about the new facility and why is it on hold and basically the confirmation is that it is on the pause, ok. other than that, i don't have anything else particularly. one more thing about support services is that on page 44 second to the bottom paragraph, it talks about essf, emergency firefighting water system, and talks about ffws, auxiliary water supply, and then information in terms of it, and my only question to you, chief

dewitt and chief serano, also referred to chief o'connor, is that an integrated responsibility in this area between support services and chief o'connell and what you do with p.u.c.? i just need a little clarity in terms of that, and chief velo or whoever wants that, and chief dewitt, go ahead, please. >> thank you, vice president. traditionally support services until, create the office of the p.u.c. liaison was handling the project, so a remnant on some of the current projects still ongoing. i'll let chief o'connor talk about that. the bonds were actually in construction, continue the construction or planning for that. the future of the expansion of the system, but chief o'connor, 19th avenue fire and we talk about pump station number 2 and

the pipeline, too. chief o'connor. >> good morning, commissioners. that's all part of the 2014 and 2020 bond and i believe i spoke to the 19th avenue and the pipeline a few meetings ago as one of the few examples in civil service where we actually saved money and while the streets are open for other repair projects we put the new firefighting water system, so one of the rare events we were actually very efficient and hope to do well with the city governance. i believe we addressed that a few months ago. >> ok. thank very much for that chief o'connor, chief velo, chief dewitt, you want to comment on that question or chief serano? >> sure. when support services collects the report from d.p.w., they include that with the report so that's why the firefighting water section system is coming

under the support section, they transmit to us and that was part of the old reporting they used to do, so they submit it to support services and that's how it ends up in my section. >> thank you for the clarity, sometimes it gets a little confusing for me, i'm going to use that word, in terms of separation and integrated, thank you chief o'connor. at this point i'm going to conclude that i referenced chief serano and welcome him as well. i'm assuming, because chief serano is almost out the door, a transition going on, you want to comment before i give my last appreciation remarks to chief velo and chief dewitt? >> yes, good morning, president feinstein, vice president nakajo, commissioners, chief nicholson and command staff. i'm honored to be here.

chief dewitt has been taking me under her wing and, you know, taking me through the ropes and showing me the ropes here and what to expect. there's a lot on her plate, her computer is packed with emails, she keeps forwarding and i keep deleting. so -- no, just joking aside, i appreciate the opportunity to do the best for this department and for this city, and i appreciate the confidence of the chiefs and everything chief dewitt has done for me. i'm really going to -- chief dewitt was a great boss and i appreciate the opportunity to do a good job. thank you. >> thank you very much, chief serano. my assumption is by the time we meet in january that you will be wearing some gold so i thought

that recognition of having you at least make remarks at this meeting was appropriate being a native son and a product of the department, much appreciated as you, chief, in terms of stepping up, supporting the department and endeavors, greatly, greatly appreciated, and appreciate the remarks with the rest of our commissioners. to you, chief dewitt, for the dedication, hard work big, big job. pages, pages, and so i appreciate, we appreciate the responsibility. you'll enjoy retirement, some of our commissioners are versed at that, and plentiful ahead of you as well, so i wish you well. god speed. chief velo, you are one of the biggest guys i met in the department from the get-go. and what's nice some longevity in 25 years, you get to see your

members in the uniform ascend rank, if you will, and so when you showed your picture in black and white to when i met you in the ranks and moving up and experiencing dedication and for myself as with the commissioners, the comprehensive nature of covering as much as you can, always in a professional manner. appreciate it. the jobs with all of your colleagues as command staff, it's not easy at all and this commission appreciates it as we move into the holidays. god speed. >> thank you madam president. >> thank you vice president nakajo. any further comments from the commission? no? i would like to inquire perhaps chief dewitt if you might want to say a few words yourself. >> certainly, thank you for the

opportunity. there are so many people to thank, i'm going to get all weepy. but chief nicholson, thank you so much for this opportunity for entrusting me with this position. i need a minute. i did not think i would get all teary-eyed, but chief nicholson, thank you so much, it's a huge responsibility and incredibly fast-paced and for giving me the latitude to make the decisions i was able to make without somebody micromanaging me at every turn. chief velo, you have been an amazing boss. your measured approach to everything. thank you for like when i was in the basement, you know, during the pandemic you've use been there for me, so thank you. i can't believe i'm crying.

there are a lot of people to thank in the support services division. ramon, thank you for backing me from day one, i appreciate the support, i could not have done this without you. just everybody here at headquarters has really propped me up and been amazing, and i would just like to give a shout out to our senior engineer who has just, he runs around like a mad man. i don't know if this commission understands how lean the support services division runs and how much work everyone does and we have one engineer for all the 50 facilities and without his guidance, without his expertise like all of our building systems, i have collaborated with him at every turn, when something goes wrong, what does he think should be done about it, so our engineer has been just like the biggest help to me and i appreciate him so much,

and ramon, he is your greatest ally, so use him well and treat him well, and i just want to say to the commission, i hope you appreciate how lean this department does run, the command staff. all the people you see on the screen are working exceedingly hard and the work ethic of every member here of this command staff is incredibly strong. the integrity and the value system of every member that i've worked with her is phenomenal, and the positions cannot just be doled out to any person because of seniority or because of some special privilege that they have. we really need strong, intelligent people up here who are willing to sit down behind a desk and be here from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and on weekends and answering the phone in middle of the night and leaders in their

positions, and so chief nicholson, i wish you the best. i hope you are able to continue what i perceived as a successful administration, you've faced incredible hardships, the pandemic, like wow, and the way the team assembled together and really kept its head on, i think you have tackled it beautifully. we have had tragedy in the department and you have never buckled, you've never waivered, at every turn when i said to you like how you do this, i know you are getting it from every angle, you have continually said this is what i signed up for, and wow, i just think you are amazing. so -- thank you, everybody. commissioners, a pleasure working here and i can't believe i'm crying again. so, thank you everyone. >> thank you, thank you, chief dewitt, that's right. >> yes, very nicely done, and

chief velo also, thank you both so very much, and please don't ever think that you are underappreciated, because i know every member of this commission as the longer you are on it the more you see everything gets done and do know that sometimes we made things harsh, sometimes we made things critical. i hope that isn't the case as we direct it towards any member of the department but yet we really appreciate the effort you have put in and it shows and it's why -- it's the top, it's the head of why we have the best fire department in the world, and you are both going to be very, very, very deeply and

sorely missed but we can't thank you enough for giving so much, for giving so much. >> we'll come back to haunt you on the line there, won't be like caller waiting, i promise. >> i hope you do. we may, we may need you. >> all right. ok. now putting ourselves back together here. i believe we are, am i right, madam secretary, item 6? >> yes, going on to item 6, fire commission meeting calendar for 2022. discussion and possible action to adopt the 2022 fire commission regular meeting calendar. >> all right. any public comment on that? >> let me check.

would you like to make public comment? there is no public comment. >> all right. public comment will be closed. any questions or concerns about the schedule from the commissioners? seeing no hands, is there a motion to adopt the schedule? >> move to adopt, madam president. >> thank you, commissioner cleaveland. is there a second? >> second. >> thank you, commissioner covington. moved and seconded. >> roll call vote. [roll call vote taken] the motion is unanimous. item 7. commission report. report on commission activities since the last meeting of

november 10, 2021. >> any public comments on that item? >> there is no public comment. >> all right. public comment will be closed. and any commissioners wish to report activity? i know at least a couple of you have been active and that has been expressed, but i leave it to you if you wish to state it again, it is in the record and we appreciate your representing us at different events. those who can, some of us can go to some things and others go to other things. so i appreciate the teamwork that goes on. anybody wish to specifically report something not previously reported? and i'm seeing no hands.

>> ok. we move on to item 8. agenda for next and future fire commission meetings. >> and public comment on that. >> there is no public comment. >> all right. commissioners, and yes, commission cleaveland, gotc, i know. any -- any suggestions? >> we do have fire marshal coughlin to provide an update i believe at the morning january meeting, and i believe mr. corso, director corso will do a budget update and i think we will be having deliberations on

a discipline matter at that meeting, and officers -- >> that's a little open right now. but i think we should plan on it. >> and election of officers. >> yep 679. >> so we'll be busy. >> anybody -- >> yes, commissioner covington. >> thank you. since mr. corso will be coming before the commission in january i would like him to expound on the grants committee at that time. so separate item. that's all. thank you. >> ok. mr. corso, you got that? ok. very good. all right. it's going to be a busy meeting, everybody. bring supplies.

and i can see chief velo with a smile on his face. oh. and chief dewitt, actually laughing out loud. ok. just think of us as we'll be thinking of you. ok. next item. >> item 9, adjournment. >> i would like to propose at this time we adjourn in honor of the careers of two tremendous firefighters that have served us from the bottom all the way to the top, and that is, of course, chief dewitt and chief velo, both of you. it's been said i don't want to repeat myself or anybody else, but just know how much you're

appreciated and how much you are going to be missed and go out there and live the rest of your life and enjoy it. enjoy it. and thank you from all of us and i know i speak for everybody on the commission and i think i speak for the whole command staff and for our commission secretary and everybody else. thank you, thank you, thank you. so, i would move that we adjourn in honor of these two fine chiefs. >> do we have a second? >> so moved. >> ok, i'll do a roll call vote. [roll call vote taken] >> affirm that as well as the appreciation and happy holidays and peace and safety to all of you in the fire department and

the command staff. and you, maureen, thank you. >> thank you. commissioner nakajo, i'm sorry, commissioner cleaveland. >> you bet. certainly would support that motion and happy holidays to everyone. >> commissioner morgan. >> yes, i vote aye, and happy holidays, everyone. >> motion is unanimous. happy holidays. >> all right. we are adjourned. >> happy holidays, everyone. i'm