[applause] >> thank you so much. i want to thank all of you for joining us to celebrate the year of the tiger and to thank all the staff and all the volunteers who made this event possible. as we conclude our event tonight, i want to wish you all of the happiness in this upcoming year of the tiger. please join us in chinatown, support our local businesses, enjoy the parade, enjoy the restaurants, enjoy the local stores, and most importantly, enjoy each others' company. happy new year.

>> clerk: this meeting is being held by webex pursuant to the governor's executive order and the mayoral declaration of a public emergency. during the covid-19 emergency, the fire commission's regular meeting room at city hall is closed, and the meetings of the fire commission will continue -- convene remotely. you may watch live at www.sfgov.tv, and to participate by phone, call 415-655-0001 and use access code 2480-574-2796. members of the public will be allowed to participate but they are asked to wait until the item is called before public

comment is received. when the item is called, members of the public can raise their hand by calling star, three. when prompted, callers will have the standard three minutes to provide comment. please ensure you are in a quiet location, speak clearly, and turnoff any t.v.s or raid joes around you. item 1, roll call. [roll call] -- radios around you. item 1, roll call. [roll call]

>> clerk: vice president nakajo will now read the land acknowledgement. >> commissioner nakajo: good morning, commissioners, and members of the fire department. 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 the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, no, sir 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. madam secretary, next item. >> clerk: item 2, resolution 2022-04. resolution making findings to allow teleconferenced meetings under california government cold section 54953-e. >> commissioner nakajo: i need a motion and a second. >> commissioner covington: so moved. >> commissioner cleaveland: second. >> commissioner nakajo: all in favor? >> clerk: mr. vice president, i need a roll call vote because the meeting is remote.

[roll call] >> clerk: item 3, 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 speakers. the lack of a response by the commissioners or dependency personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. and there are no callers on the public comment line. >> commissioner nakajo: public comment is closed. >> clerk: item 4, approval of the minutes. discussion and possible action to approve meeting minutes.

>> commissioner cleaveland: so moved. >> commissioner covington: second. >> clerk: item 5, 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 february 9, 2022, including budget, academies, special events, kmuxs, and outreach to other government agencies and the public, and report from administration, deputy chief tom o'connor. report on the administrative divisions, fleet and facility status and updates, finance, support services, and training within the department. >> commissioner nakajo: madam secretary, is there any public comment after the item? >> clerk: there are no callers on the public comment line.

>> good evening. this is my report for this commission meeting. as some of you know, i attended the lunar new year parade. it was really well attended, and it was really great to see the crowds and energy back in the city. i know many of our families and friends also saw us on t.v. i know chief serrano's family was really proud to see him on t.v., and we just had a really wonderful time, and many thanks to the asian firefighters association for hosting us afterwards at a dinner. it was just really, really nice, and i'm not usually a

night person, so it had to be really, really nice if i'm saying it's nice. covid is on the decline. we have a total of 26 people off, and those numbers continue to drop, which is really, really good. we've been having multiple conversations internally and with the mayor's budget office, and i want to thank olivia scanlon and mark corso for all their work that they do on this. it takes a village, and we are also set to meet with the mayor's budget office next week for some further conversation, and we will keep you in the loop about that. under our community paramedic

division, street wellness team began at the end of january, and i am going on a road along with them in the next couple of weeks. i think it's really important that i get out there and see what's what and how they work, and i know that they are adding value to the city and to the department, and i appreciate their work and chief pang's work overseeing all of that. if you have questions about that, i know that chief pang is happy to answer questions. we started an h-3 level class, a paramedic class yesterday with 20 people, and we have not done this -- i don't know the last time we had a level two class. it's been a while. typically, we've been hiring level ones as e.m.t.s, and then, they can go through a

bump-up academy. the thing is we were actually going through e.m.t.s who had paramedic licenses, so while i want us to still hire level one e.m.t.s because not everybody has the opportunity to go to paramedic school, i think it is much more efficient for us to also hire level two paramedics. so they are in class for the next, i believe, six weeks, and it is nonstop hiring and trains over in e.m.s., and i want to thank chief tong and her team and chief kailoa and the training of e.m.s. i know they're working triple time over there to get things done and moving, so it's good news that we are hiring. many of you know the -- went to

the port commission last night, and the port and fire presented to the commission about the purchase of the port property, and i want to thank vice president nakajo and commissioner morgan for calling in, offering their support. the port, the fire department, local 798, and our commission, so it was a strong -- a strong showing. and this evening at 7:00, i'm going to the port's southern advisory committee meeting, and chief o'connor and i will be there to speak to them on the same. and then, last, i've been doing meet and greets for the new h-2 firefighter class.

we did some today, and we're getting some -- we're seeing some good candidates. chief peoples and i have been taking the members who have gone through the panel process, meeting some of our other firefighters and e.m.t.s and paramedics, and they passed those folks on up to us, and we had some meetings today, and we will continue to do so this week. and that concludes my report, and i'm happy to take any questions. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, chief nicholson. madam secretary, do we need to go to public comment before the commissioners ask their questions or comments? i think you're muted, madam secretary. >> clerk: sorry. there is nobody on the public

comment line. >> commissioner nakajo: all right. commissioners, at this time, comments or questions to the chief of the department. commissioner covington, please? >> commissioner covington: okay. thank you, mr. vice president, and thank you for your report, chief. i wanted to know a little bit more about -- excuse me -- what was discussed at the port commission, and i definitely want to thank the vice president for calling in, and also commissioner morgan, so what was discussed? >> thank you, commissioner covington, and through the vice president, yes. the port staff themselves that we've been working with closely

on the purchase of this land and that we've been working on with the legislation, we -- tom o'connor presented for the fire department, and we talked about a lot of things, and is there anything specifically that you'd like to know? i can have deputy chief o'connor speak to what he spoke about last night? >> commissioner covington: well, you or chief o'connor can just hit the high notes. >> chief o'connor, you can talk about this. we talked about how good our department is, how good our

partnership is with the port, how our relationship is with congress member phil ting on the legislation, and chief o'connor gave a presentation on what the department could expect. chief o'connor, did i miss anything? >> we talked about the necessity to move into a new facility, and we found a perfect piece of land, and we broke it down to the components that we need for suppression,

our emergency operations training core, how it needs to be a clean and green facility, the light impact on the neighborhood that we had, smoke mitigation, cleaning the water, clean and green facility. and then, we really highlighted all the community partnerships that we wanted to expand on when we were in the bayview-hunters point. [indiscernible] we talked about the fire academy training center where we're going to reach out to community members about fire training and middle class jobs. that was really the ending point, how we just want to partner with the community, for the city, and have this be a beacon for san francisco and the area for training. >> commissioner covington: okay. very good. thank you for that. i'm glad to know that

representative ting is really supporting this effort because we do need all hands on deck for this to make it happen. and did you talk about the cost of all of this? >> no, that was not discussed, other than the port commissioners asked about fair market value, and director andrea kopenik was there to speak about that, but we did not talk about the cost of the facility. >> commissioner covington: okay. all right. great. i just have one other question for you, chief, and that is a question regarding something that was in our packet.

it was a letter to you, the mayor, the commissioners, the san francisco chronicle and ktvu regarding the reduction in staffing. it's a very short letter. you probably did receive it, you may not remember it. if you want me to read what it says, i can. >> i'm looking for it in my packet right now. >> commissioner covington: it's just one paragraph. >> okay. if you could -- yeah, first, if i may just clarify, i meant assembly member ting, not congress member, but if you could read it to me, that would

be helpful. >> commissioner covington: it says, with the reduction in staffing in the fire department from both covid and retirements, there is a significant increase in mandatory overtime, period. because of this, most probationary firefighters are working double shifts, period. since they are accumulating the mandatory training hours at an accelerated rate, it would seem only fair that the protectionary time requirements be reduced to be consistent with hours worked. >> so -- probationary time requirements be reduced to be consistent with hours worked. >> so that has been raised before, and we have kept it

consistent with regular shifts and not overtime shifts, so, you know, i'm not sure who wrote this. maybe chief kailoa, might you have something further on this? any comments you can make for me? >> nothing further than that, chief. >> commissioner covington: i do know because we had a flood of retirements and also people who were not covid compliant, not working, that the newbies have been working very hard, and it seems to me it warrants a

little more discussion. not with the commission but with all the interested parties. >> yes, thank you, commissioner covington, and what i can tell you is we've had a significant decrease in mandatory overtime over the last month or so, really since the first couple of weeks of 2022, and, you know, some days, we only have three or fore people on mandatory -- four people on mandatory overtime over the last month or so. >> commissioner covington: okay. thank you. you're muted. >> commissioner nakajo: commissioner cleaveland? >> commissioner cleaveland: yeah, thanks, mr. vice president. i had a follow up on the

property and port discussion. are we getting anything from assembly member ting, certifying that they're selling the parcel to the fire department for training purposes? are we getting some kind of written agreement, letter, whatever, that we can then submit to assembly member ting that can be part of the presentation at the legislature? >> so they have yet to vote on it, so that would have to happen first, and, you know s i'm not sure how that would work, but i would imagine that would be an action item at their next commission meeting. >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. so we'd still have to vote to approve the sale? >> yes, and the port itself has been extremely supportive of

us, and director forbes has been great in having her staff work with us. >> commissioner cleaveland: great. that was my question. you said you had a class of h-2 firefighters beginning soon. how many do you expect to begin to recruit into this class? >> well, we have an h-3 level two class that started yesterday of paramedics, and we currently have a class of h-2s in right now. they've been in -- chief kailoa, you can tell me how many weeks they've been in. five weeks. they've been in for five weeks, and our next class is likely to start sometime in may, and

right now, we're looking at 50, but it's going to depend on retirements and some other things, but that's what we're looking at right now. >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. in a bunch of discussions with the mayor's budget office, any particular items that are new that we haven't discussed in the past or any particular new requests that we are putting forth that you can think of? >> no. we're still in the preliminary discussions with them, and the mayor made it clear what her priorities are, the vibrancy of the city, clean streets, etc., so we are linking what we can to all of those things, but our usual -- we will be requesting

our equipment and fleets and some other things, as well. nothing earth shattering at this time, no. >> commissioner cleaveland: so we're still dedicating some of our focus of the e.m.s. definition on the tenderloin area in the city, correct? >> so -- >> commissioner cleaveland: including this new street wellness team? >> yes. the street wellness team is staffed by two members of station 49, and, you know, the tenderloin linkage site, we are not staffing, but we are responding for overdoses and the like, and we have a member that is in charge of the healthy streets operations that are in charge for that, city

focus in the t.l. so yeah, our folks are doing a lot of work, a lot of great work and have really stepped up to the plate and have been, in my opinion, a wonderful city partner with some other departments in terms of finding some real solutions with some of the issues out there. >> commissioner cleaveland: well, i think that we are a key player, and probably the most important player in the tenderloin area right now, helping get that area together, so to speak. that's all my questions right now, mr. vice president. thank you. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you, commissioner cleaveland. madam secretary, can you show that commissioner morgan joined the meeting at 5:27?

>> clerk: thank you, mr. vice president. i show he joined the meeting at 5:21. >> commissioner morgan: thank you, mr. vice president. i had a photo shoot with the mayor at city hall for black history month. >> commissioner nakajo: no problem. we were at the point of where we were asking questions of the chief for her report. deputy chief o'connor has to still deliver his report. commissioners covington and cleaveland made their remarks, and i'll go ahead and ask my questions. on the portions of the paramedic class, i'm thrilled that we have a paramedic class and that we're hitting the

ground running with these members. i think it's important with all the staffing teams that we're seeing, as well. a great job you did last night, chief, as well as chief o'connor, with the port commission. i wanted to let you know, commissioners, as well as commissioner morgan, that i was really thrilled that every commissioner did speak spoke in support of us and the training facility. it was remarkable because some of them picked up points that i picked up in our presentations by the chief and chief o'connor, commissioner morgan, myself jumping in. one of the commissioners didn't

release that we were doing all of the direct work with the crisis teams. again, the education is just not suppression or fire prevention, but e.m.s., as well, but it was really, really encouraging if you chief said do you have any design concepts yet, and the director responds with the square footage of the property. the ad strors working cooperatively with the port commission, and then hearing all of the team is working with assembly member ting. even commissioner burton is

saying that they're behind this concept, so for us, to go into the finality, i don't want to put the cart in front of the horse, i just want to say that it was encouraging, but also let folks know that we are looking at the state of the arts facility. commissioner morgan, did you want to make any comments about last night's port commission meeting, as well, from your perception? >> commissioner morgan: yeah. i hope we made a dent in it. i'm a proponent of the training facility. i'm sure it's in an area that needs some -- you know, more infrastructure like that for training and opportunities for some of the young kids in there just to know that it's right around the corner.

and it'll create construction jobs, good union jobs for local hire, supplement our apprenticeship program, and put people to work, so i'm call for that, growing the fire department, and i hope, you know, we made some kind of impact on that. it was a pleasure to do it, and i think that the chief was doing a great job, and that's all i've got to say. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you, commissioner morgan. i think it was the influence of trying to recruit members of the community of color in terms, as well, and the chief made a remark, i believe it was the president of the port commission, they talked about how repressed he was that department came with a team, with the chief, with the command staff, with the commissioners, as well. all of this subject matter, chief nicholson, did you want to put anything else in there

before we move on, tom o'connor? >> no. you spoke well. thank you for your support, commissioner morgan. it was super helpful. thank you. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you, chief, and chief nicholson and chief o'connor are going to the advisory committee, and i want to thank olivia scanlon, as well. madam secretary, do i need to call chief o'connor? >> clerk: we've already called him. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. deputy chief? >> clerk: okay. let me pass him the ball here. >> okay.

good evening, vice president nakajo, commissioners, chief nicholson. i'm deep chief tom o'connor, chief of administration, and this is my report from administration. all right. all right. good evening, commissioners. we'll begin with diversity, equity, and inclusion office. the fire department participated in two separate city job fairs, one on january 22, and another on february 12.

inspector kato talking to the mission high school about services at our fire department, and [indiscernible] from the office of outreach recruitment and development spoke virtually. the students at [indiscernible] high school and lieutenant anderson also attended the santa rosa junior fire academy to talk to them about fire prevention. here's another repeat of pictures. natasha parks had a busy month,

as well. this was snuck in by teresa, assistant, and we had a great, great moment at headquarters today. chief [indiscernible] tendered his badge today, and this is a great, great milestone today. he's been cleared for duty on his [indiscernible] office, department of motor vehicles, and we did a little sneak attack on matt. we passed the commission room with his sister, lieutenant alba, the therapy dog, matt's wife, daughter, his classmates from when he got into the fire department. the team from engine 21, the -- where he was a captain, the

team from engine 36 where he was a firefighter, and it was very emotional for all of us to see him doing so well. it was a great moment for the fire department to see matt to get that badge and to move on in his career and beat cancer. january was also cancer awareness month in the fire service, and in partnership with the cancer awareness foundation, week two, we saw that we delved into the scientific research that indicates the link between occupational exposures and cancer rates in firefighters. week three, we looked at the best practices on the ground, and we talked about scene contamination and talked about keeping our turnout gear clean from all the cancer

contaminants [indiscernible] and last, we talked about supporting our fellow brothers and sisters [indiscernible] and to provide resources to assist them, so a big month for us, and begin, kind of capped off by the watching chief alba today. our positions office, chief [indiscernible] and deputy phelps had the busiest month of all. you can see we had the largest surge of covid from december 19 to january 31. we had 314 members sick with covid, and i think this speaks to the great burden of overtime that fell upon them.

all of the men and women in the fire department had to work hard during this pandemic. it was a team effort, and we really had to thank everybody in the field what they went through with the department. [indiscernible] to april 2 now. she had to give a longer notice to leave d.p.h. we don't have her yet. we're going to have her son. 129 class and the h-3 level two class, and we'll be sponsoring the big climb at [indiscernible] stadium and we're going to challenge ourselves to climb 750 steps in

support of blood cancer and research support. [indiscernible] tests negative. our testing numbers were so low because of the omicron outbraem, but testing has now resumed. we had three postaccident drug tests were administered. two negative and unfortunately one was positive. for support services, assistant deputy chief ramon serrano, again, one of our busiest players, you can see that fire station 35 is coming along

nicely. we put in a new concrete base and finished the concrete work outside the manifold, and we commissioned all of the building's systems. so it's a very complex building, and we commissioned all of the systems and all of our members so they knew how to operate the facility. we also had 142 service requests in the month of january. 140 of those were completed. we had to remove a request at stations 3, 19, and 42. fire station 39 need all new roof units, and fire station 13 needs to replace the entire rooftop unit. our support services, we had our first tractor drawn aerials. a mobile unit and three new

units were shipped to the factory where they're going to the final punch lift in all of the rigs. [indiscernible] we're coordinating with our e.m.s. team to finalize the [indiscernible] with type one ambulances, and we're trying to find ambulances that are available. with the supply chain issues, it's difficult to get vehicles right now, but we're doing our best. again, [indiscernible] and that is my report for the month of january, and let me see if i can minimize this screen. thank you, commissioners. maureen, i think that you are -- >> clerk: and i believe we have one person on the call-in. >> commissioner nakajo: all right.

members of the public, can you call that member of the public, please? >> clerk: yes. would you like to make public comment? >> yes, ma'am. >> clerk: okay. you have three minutes. >> this is captain matt hutchinson. good afternoon, command staff, san francisco fire commissioners, members of the public. can you hear me, ma'am? >> clerk: yes, i can. >> i currently serve in the mission district. i apologize. due to user error, i wasn't able to log in at the appropriate time under general public comment and the approval of the minutes. respectfully request that i be

able to comment on our union meeting. it's a one-day event on sutter street from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. we cordially request the fire commission to attend. before covid, it's been an annual event. our last event was [indiscernible] this year, we have one of our very own ba tallian chief [indiscernible] rescue two in the mission district. he's heavily involved in urban search and rescue training. the second speaker will be from fdny. his name is lieutenant mickey convoy. command sergeant ed thomas, u.s. army.

i served with him in the second ranger batallion, and he went onto serve delta ranger unit. the second speaker [indiscernible] 24 years of service. the topics range from leadership, resiliency, optimizing [indiscernible] the board and leadership, etc. this class is beneficial to all ranks and members. not only do we have members of the san francisco fire department, we have members from sfpd and the fire service throughout northern california. this is an expensive endeavor, and our local supporters are local 798, s.f. fire credit union, and the s.f. fire chiefs association. again, we cordially invite all members of our command staff and the fire commission to support us in our efforts, and

it would give them opportunity to see the good impact that we make in our community. it provides an opportunity to learn from a top performers from the fire service and the military and inspires our members to become better and implement the takeaways. thank you for the opportunity to provide the presentation. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, matt hutchison, president of the san francisco firefighters association, and thank you for the invitation. at this point, is there any questions in terms of the commissioners to chief o'connor, please? commissioner cleaveland, please? >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you, mr. vice president, and thank you, chief o'connor, for your report. a couple of clarifications. in the chief's report, she

mentioned that there were 13 members in quarantine. in your report, you mentioned 300, so i'm trying to reconcile, is it 13 new members, and we have 300 current members in quarantine? i wasn't quite sure what that number meant? >> thank you, commissioner. over the course of mid-december to the end of january, we had 314 in quarantine, and we're down to the number that chief nicholson mentioned. the numbers are dropping dramatically, so that's why our quarantine is going down, as well. >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. the numbers are dropping. you have one positive drug test. what do you do when you come up with a positive drug test? >> we send it in for a confirmatory test. we take the person off duty and put them on leave.

they can get a second test that they can send out to a private facility for test. >> and if i may, commissioner cleaveland, we terminated this individual. >> commissioner cleaveland: oh, wow. thank you for that. last question, on the hose tender thing, we currently have two hose tenders. how many do we have in service right now? >> we have four in service right now. >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. we have four on service right now and two in order, is that correct? >> we have one in development and three ready to purchase. we have one in development, run through all the bugs and make sure that it's to our specs and survive the training in san francisco. we get one to complete the training and then complete the

order. >> commissioner cleaveland: so we've got four, if you will, and one more in the pipeline, which is great. >> three more in the pipeline. i'm not quite sure. we have four currently in service, three that were old, and one that's kind of new, and we're testing it? >> we have four that are old in service right now, we have three new ones coming. one is in development, and then two will be built. >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. one plus two. how long does it take from ordering the hose tender to getting a hose tender? it seems like it's a really long time. it seems unnecessarily long, but nothing we can control. could you give us a little

timeline from ordering had to getting it for our public watching? >> so it's a fairly unique development. you arrested it. it goes to a city department where they go over the specs, and then, it goes out to bids, and there are responses on the bids, and then, it goes to contract. and we're in the process of sorting everything out. and i believe i spoke on this last time. the pumps are being tested down in tested. they're testing them down in texas and then they're going to bring them back up, and i believe that deputy chief serrano would like to add -- do you have anything you would like to add? >> yes. chief o'connor is right. the pumps have -- are in process in production, and they are, i believe, en route to

texas for testing. they will be testing at teal's. they are custom pieces. they are not off the shelf. everything about them in custom cleaveland claefl that was my question. that was going to be a follow up. these hose tenders, we can't kbie them off the shelf. there's no standard hose tender of a certain size or a length of hose, so to speak. we have to custom design each one or do we have a design that we use over and over again within the san francisco fire

department? >> we have a spec that we designed just in the last couple of years, and that will be the proto-type. if that is adopted, we will use those or we will make any adjustments that need to be done. >> commissioner cleaveland: it should speed up the process, i would think. >> yes. once it's accepted, the process will be sped up. typically, right now, the whole industry, the car and truck industry right now is slowed down because of supply chain issues. >> commissioner cleaveland: right, right, but that's good news for the future. obviously, the report we had several years ago called for 20, that we needed really 20 hose tenders within the at the present time to adequately protect the west side of the city, and so i would like to -- i'm encouraged to hear that we're going to have a

prototype. i'd like to commend chief alba for coming back, getting pinned today and wish him well and continued improvement every single day, so that's all my questions and remarks, mr. vice president. thank you, and thank you, chief o'connor, for your report. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, commissioner cleaveland. questions, commissioner covington or commissioner morgan? >> commissioner morgan: yeah, just keep up the great work, chief o'connor, and great to see you again. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. thank you so much. commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington: i have so many notes here. i'm drowning in notes. i'll just make my comments

brief. i think that assistant chief alba, this is such good news. today is a really good day at a.b.c., matt alba, and it's been a long haul, and he is now at a good place, you know, with his health and probably just running around the fire house, so glad to be back home, and so i'm glad for him. i did have one question, oh, concerning the positive drug test. it has been a very long time

since someone has shown up with a positive drug test, so i think that after the termination of the person that was tested and tested positive for drugs will serve as an example to everyone, do not do it. no drinking and no drugs, because you will be let go. so i'm sure that the word is out on that, as well as it should be. i don't have any other questions or comments at this time. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, commissioner. i have just a few questions and comments, chief o'connor. thank you for your comprehensive presentation. at some point, and i'll leave it up to yourself and the discretion of the chief. last night at the port commission, you narrated a

slide presentation, and at some point, i think that slide presentation kind of answered all of the questions of the commissioners as to what we're thinking about, or i just think it's a great presentation, so i think at some point, you might want to share that with the commissioners. i have a question, assignment office, page 25, and then, i have some comments and questions for chief serrano. chief o'connor, in terms of investigative service [indiscernible] on page 21, captain lars ascalan, is this a new assignment, chief, relative to -- i don't want to say his name wrong.

>> captain jose zalba, we moved him out into the wild, and ascalan is taking his place. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. that's great. okay. thank you very much, chief. on page 25, assistant captain ed chu, on the research and planning assignment office, in parentheses, line two, are you there, chief, with me? line two of the emswdo, and then line eight? so line two talks about advanced creating continuing general office, and it says prehiring 75% of open ambulances seven days in advance. i quite don't understand what that means. >> so traditionally, we've had people sign up for an overtime

shift on the time they're working the following day, but we found out we could incentivize people signing up early, and we could find out where our shortfalls were and we could reward them for signing up early for the weekend. they were trying to incentivize the positions out there as quickly as possible, so they could minimize the impact on everybody. it really helps a lot, and especially, the rough, rough winter we had with omicron, so we could get people signed up to minimize the impact on our other workers.

>> commissioner nakajo: i appreciate that, chief, and then, section eight, in terms of the 50% description? >> right. same policy. we're just trying to minimize the kbokt of omicron on our members. >> commissioner nakajo: i appreciate that, and i think it's important to take into consideration the mandatory overtime. it must be tough, must be a pretty good challenge with, again, the prop f and just trying to keep the department operational, so thank you for that description. moving over to chief serrano, through the chief, if i could ask a couple of comments and questions, chief serrano. i'm on page 20. are you with me? >> yes.

>> commissioner nakajo: when i read this whole report, is this a new format or different format that you've produced since you've taken over this particular position? it seems like it reads easier for me in terms of facility management and planning. >> i believe it's a newer format. we've tried to make it easier to read to understand the projects that we're dealing with, support services. we're open to any kind of criticism or anything that would make it easier for people to read it. >> commissioner nakajo: that was my comment because it sure became easier for me to read in terms of the 15 or 17 pages going through it.

it's a title, a facility maintenance in planning. in terms of the parentheses in june, who is that personnel, please? >> she's one of the administrative analysts here at support services, and she handles all of our day-to-day information as far as taking care of all of the problems or repairs that take place at all of our facilities be it the plumbers, steam fitters, etc. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. she's a viflian employee? >> she's a civilian employee. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. great. moving forward, i'm on page 31. i like it because then, it goes to that section, and here's the

eser bond section. i'm going to move this over to page 32, which, again, goes to another heading. i like the bold focus, header and scope program. it runs down all of the areas, so it makes easier reading. i'm on page 33, i'm at fire station 7, and there's a lot of material in here, but i don't know exactly beyond on hold what that means, and as i read through it, it seemed a little bit more alarming, if you will, and i don't need to be alarmed, but i just need a little bit of narrative in terms of that, chief. >> so that might be some of the repairs and projects that are being coming up for station 7 are being put on hold for

various reasons. some of it is you have to prioritize some of the other repairs but some of it might be due to the fact that station 7 is due to be rebuilt or tore down and so we are holding off on certain things to do with station 7 because there's no sense in putting so much money into it and then just tearing it down. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. okay. thank you. that clarifies some things. again, i'm moving over to page 34. again, we've gone through all of this material, the eser bond, and then, there's another setting, page 16, and then, there's station 49, and i'm proud of station 49. there's a bullet point, and i know that commissioners are

interested in [indiscernible] i think that was an associate matter that's been going on for a while, so again, i'm anxiously awaiting it. just love that station 49. as i move down to emergency file [indiscernible] perhaps just for yourself to chief o'connor, chief o'connor, you occupy a position that has something to do with awss. what is the format of oversight on that area or how do i read that. is awss now under support services? can i get a little nair on that? >> [indiscernible] and we're going to repurpose that job [indiscernible] into something more comprehensive going forward. deputy chief serrano is in charge. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. anything you want to add, chief

serrano [indiscernible] now back to support services? anything you want to add, chief serrano? >> actually, i'm meeting with captain stuttgart, and i have met with water department supervisors and directors, and they will be including me in all these meetings that will be coming up for that awss for the emergency -- the efws now. >> commissioner nakajo: chief nicholson, being incorporated within support services, appreciate it, chief serrano being brought up to date. who is david meyerson [indiscernible]? i see p.u.c. is that staff of p.u.c.? >> that is correct, yes.

>> commissioner nakajo: and i'm almost done, chief serrano. on the bottom of this, is captain [indiscernible] wong, does he manage this when you were running that shop? >> yes, captain vince wong is the captain of the vrbo equipment. >> commissioner nakajo: that's good. continuity. i'm on last page, 35 [indiscernible] i hope i'm saying his name right? >> we're being superstitious. we're not filling the job until we see nick out in the field.

>> commissioner nakajo: all right, chief o'connor. i like that. i like covering the bases and the opportunities there. all i know is, chief nicholson, with all the members coming in, that's a big demand for all the uniforms. nothing is far more better than level one or two. any member that wears the uniform or a shirt or recognition within the department, i just think it makes so much sense, and also, commissioners, at that port commission, what was going on in terms of chief nicholson, did i say that right, the technical program that trains young members of the bayview community? >> the city e.m.t. program, is that what you're referring to, vice president? >> commissioner nakajo: i just encourage the formality of all of that, chief nicholson.

that's all i have. and thank you for your comprehensive report. madam secretary. >> may i interject for one moment? >> commissioner nakajo: yes. >> one thing that i neglected to tell you about today is you may have seen in the news last night, yesterday, we had a press conference for our two new k9s that were brought into the department. yesterday was official hand off to the san francisco fire department, k9 marley and k9 sadie, our new dogs are now officially part of the san francisco fire department, so it was a feel good happy story, ktvu channel 2 news did. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you for that announcement. it was a great, great announcement, as well.

i saw that presentation, and at some point, i look forward to meeting the new members of the our fire department. madam secretary? >> clerk: item 6, agenda for next and future fire commission meetings. >> commissioner nakajo: commissioners, agenda for this and future fire commission meetings? commissioner morgan? i think you're muted if you're saying something, commissioner. >> commissioner morgan: yeah, i'd like to ask the chief how much -- how much salary is marley and sadie getting here? >> they're [indiscernible] and really nice vests. >> commissioner morgan: yeah, they're -- i seen them on t.v. they're adorable.

i can't wait to meet them. >> commissioner covington: what, no dog biscuits? >> commissioner morgan: well, i'll bring something for them. >> commissioner nakajo: we'll see if that can be a line item in the budget. >> commissioner covington: mr. corso, please let us know. >> commissioner nakajo: commissioner cleaveland, commissioner covington? >> commissioner cleaveland: yeah, i have nothing. >> commissioner nakajo: commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington: yeah, just to follow up on the k9 members. the chief did give up one source of financial support. are there any other sources of financial support for the k9s? >> the nfrs are supporting the

k9s for the next however many years, and former fire commissioner joe elliott veronese is the founder of that 501-c-3, and with much gratitude to him for supporting our k9s moving forward, and much gratitude to [indiscernible] foundation and the tens of thousands of dollars of work they put into those special dogs, as well. >> commissioner covington: good, good. well, former commissioner veronese has a big heart for the department, and i would like to thank him for his continued support. that's all i have. >> thank you for that presenter reminder, commissioner. >> commissioner covington: sure. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much.

madam secretary, item 7? >> clerk: there's no one on the public comment line on item 7. item 7, public comment on item 8. public comment on all matters pertaining to items 8 below, including public comment on whether to hold items 8-b in closed session. there are no callers on the public caller line. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. madam secretary? >> clerk: all right. possible closed session regarding personnel matters. vote on whether to conduct items 8-b in closed session. the commission may hear items 8-b in closed session pursuant to government said section 54957-b and administration code section 67.10-b.

>> so moved. >> second. >> commissioner nakajo: >> clerk: item 10, vote to elect whether to disclose items items discussed in closed session? >> commissioner cleaveland: i move not to disclose. >> commissioner covington: i second. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much for the motion and the second. [roll call]

>> clerk: the vote is unanimous, and item 9 is adjournment. >> commissioner covington: so moved. >> commissioner cleaveland: second. [roll call] >> clerk: very good. we will adjourn at 6:20. >> commissioner covington: thank you very much, everybody. have a good night. >> clerk: see you tomorrow.

>> it did take a village. i was really lucky when i was 14 years old to get an internship. the difference that it made for me is i had a job, but there were other people who didn't have a job, who, unfortunately, needed money. and they were shown to commit illegal acts to get money. that is what i want to prevent. [♪♪♪] today we are here to officially kick off the first class of opportunities for all.

[applause]. >> opportunities for all is a program that mayor breed launched in october of 2018. it really was a vision of mayor breed to get to all of the young people in san francisco, but with an intention to focus on young people that have typically not being able to access opportunities such as internships or work-based learning opportunities. >> money should never be a barrier to your ability to succeed in life and that is what this program is about. >> there's always these conversations about young people not being prepared and not having experience for work and if they don't get an opportunity to work, then they cannot gain the experience that they need. this is really about investing in the future talent pool and getting them the experience that they need. >> it is good for everyone because down the road we will need future mechanics, future pilots, future bankers, future whatever they may be in any industry. this is the pipe on we need to

work with. we need to start developing talent, getting people excited about careers, opening up those pathways and frankly giving opportunities out there that would normally not be presented. [♪♪♪] >> the way that it is organized is there are different points of entry and different ways of engagement for the young person and potential employers. young people can work in cohorts or in groups and that's really for people that have maybe never had job experience or who are still trying to figure out what they want to do and they can explore. and in the same way, it is open for employers to say, you know what, i don't think we are ready to host an intern year-round are all summer, but that they can open up their doors and do site visits or tours or panels or conversations. and then it runs all the way up to the opportunity for young people to have long-term employment, and work on a project and be part of the employee base. >> something new, to get new

experience and meet people and then you are getting paid for it you are getting paid for doing that. it is really cool. >> i starting next week, i will be a freshman. [cheers and applause] two of the things i appreciate about this program was the amazing mentorship in the job experience that i had. i am grateful for this opportunity. thank you. >> something i learned at airbnb is how to network and how important it is to network because it is not only what you know, but also who you know to get far in life. >> during this program, i learned basic coding languages, had a had to identify the main components and how to network on a corporate level. it is also helping me accumulate my skills all be going towards my college tuition where i will pursue a major in computer science. >> for myself, being that i am an actual residential realtor, it was great.

if anybody wants to buy a house, let me know. whenever. [applause] it is good. i got you. it was really cool to see the commercial side and think about the process of developing property and different things that i can explore. opportunities for all was a great opportunity for all. >> we were aiming to have 1,000 young people register and we had over 2,000 people register and we were able to place about between 50 and did. we are still getting the final numbers of that. >> over several weeks, we were able to have students participate in investment banking they were able to work with our team, or technology team, our engineering 20 we also gave them lessons around the industry, around financial literacy. >> there are 32,000 young people ages 16 and 24 living in san francisco. and imagine if we can create an

opera skin it just opportunity for all program for every young person that lives in public housing, affordable housing, low income communities. it is all up to you to make that happen. >> we have had really great response from employers and they have been talking about it with other employers, so we have had a lot of interest for next year to have people sign on. we are starting to figure out how to stay connected to those young people and to get prepared to make sure we can get all 2400 or so that registered. we want to give them placement and what it looks like if they get more. >> let's be honest, there is always a shortage of good talent in any industry, and so this is a real great career path. >> for potential sponsors who might be interested in supporting opportunities for all , there is an opportunity to make a difference in our city. this is a really thriving, booming economy, but not for everyone. this is a way to make sure that everyone gets to benefit from the great place that san

francisco is and that we are building pathways for folks to be able to stay here and that they feel like they will belong. >> just do it. sign up for it. [♪♪♪] >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain

unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling

here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals.

>> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ] >> hi. i'm chris mathers with channel 19, and you're watching coping with covid-19. today, i'm going to be talking about exercising during the pandemic. first, i'm going to tell you what i've been doing, and then i'm going to be checking in with some friends and family. i've been riding my bike.

all i take is a pair of gloves and a mask if i come into contact with anyone. i try to ride my bike during the time i'm sheltering in place. i try to ride for at least 30 minutes. surfing is my other regular outdoor activity. california state guidelines recommend you don't drive more than ten minutes for a spot to exercise, and although i'm close to ocean beach, i'm a bit wary to go there, so i'm using the time to do some maintenance. filling in gouges and dings, and sanding it down.

i'm also repairing holes in my suit. fellow sfgovtv producer chris took his first yoga lesson a couple of years ago and used to go to a class regularly before the lockdown. he and his wife set up a space in their garage for exercising. this routine is from an on-line class by power yoga. deann and andy have been using the ping pong table that they bought off craigslist and set it up in their back yard. ellie has been using this home gym to stay fit. it has everything she needed. and lastly, if the weather is bad outside, you can exercise your mind by doing a puzzle,

sudoku, or just by reading a good book. here's a quick recap. since i started this episode, the guidelines have changed. for instance, jack may be able to go golfing with some restrictions. go to sf.gov to get the most up-to-date >> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age

groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features. >> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis

fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay.

>> this park is open. >> it was an outdoor stadium for track and field, motorcycle and auto and rugby and cricket located in golden gate park, home to professional football, lacross and soccer. adjacent to the indoor arena. built in the 1920s. the san francisco park commission accepted a $100,000

gift from the estate to build a memorial in honor of pioneers in the area. the city and county of san francisco contributed an additional $200,000 and the stadium was built in a year. in the 1930s it was home to several colleges such as usf, santa clara and st. mary's for competition and sporting. in 1946 it became home to the san francisco 49ers where they played nearly 25 years. the stayed de yam sat 60,000 fans. many caught game the rooftops and houses. the niners played the last game against the dallas cowboys january 3, 1971 before moving to candlestick park. the stadium hosted other events before demolition in 1989. it suffered damages from the earthquake. it was reconstructed to seat 10,000 fans with an all weather

track, soccer field and scoreboards. it hosts many northern california football championship games. local high schools sacred heart and mission high school used the field for home games. the rivalry football games are sometimes played here. today it is a huge free standing element, similar to the original featuring tall pink columns at the entrance. the field is surrounded by the track and used by high school and college football and soccer. it is open for public use as well.

>> what we're trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. it's not just the old european style food. we are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. all we ask is make it flavorful. [♪♪♪]

>> we are the first two-year culinary hospitality school in the united states. the first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. i'm a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. so students can expect to learn under the three degrees. culinary arts management degree, food service management degree, and hotel management degree. we're not a cooking school. even though we're not teaching you how to cook, we're teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus you're getting an associate of science degree. >> my name is vince, and i'm a

faculty member of the hospitality arts and culinary school here in san francisco. this is my 11th year. the program is very, very rich in what this industry demands. cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. it's quite a complete program to prepare them for what's happening out in the real world. >> the first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. he was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. this program, it's awesome. >> it's another world when you're here.

it's another world. you get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. you get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. >> i've been in the program for about a year. two-year program, and i'm about halfway through. before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. i had few injuries, and i couldn't pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. when i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. >> the good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to --

>> we have kids from every area. >> facebook and google. >> kids from everywhere. >> they are all over the bay area, and they're thriving. >> my name is jeff, and i'm a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in san francisco. i attended city college of san francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90's. nopalito on broderick street, it's based on no specific region in mexico. all our masa is hand made. we cook our own corn in house. everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, we're making hand made tortillas, carnitas,

salsas. a lot of love put into this. [♪♪♪] >> used to be very easy to define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. now, it's shades of gray, and we're trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. fine dining calls into white table cloths. the cafeteria is large production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those types of kitchens. and the ideas that change every year, again, it's the notion and the venue. >> one of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup

restaurant. it's been a pizzeria, a taco bar. it's been a mediterranean bar, it's been a noodle bar. people choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. we, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. we're open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. >> the menu's always interesting. they change it every semester, maybe more. there's always a good variety of foods. the preparation is always beautiful. the students are really sincere, and they work so hard

here, and they're so proud of their work. >> i've had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so it's more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat. >> when i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90% of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. >> we do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of san francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. we hired many interns into

employees from our restaurants. my partner is also a graduate of city college. >> so my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. i actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. >> i'm thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. >> yeah, i want to go back to china. i want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. >> so we want them to have a full toolkit. we're trying to make them ready for the world out there.

>> when i first started painting it was difficult to get my foot in the door and contractors and mostly men would have a bad attitude towards me or not want to answer my questions or not include me and after you prove yourself, which i have done, i don't face that obstacle as much anymore. ♪♪♪ my name is nita riccardi, i'm a painter for the city of san francisco and i have my own business as a painting contractor since 1994 called winning colors. my mother was kind of resistant. none of my brothers were painter. i went to college to be a

chiropractor and i couldn't imagine being in an office all day. i dropped out of college to become a painter. >> we have been friends for about 15-20 years. we both decided that maybe i could work for her and so she hired me as a painter. she was always very kind. i wasn't actually a painter when she hired me and that was pretty cool but gave me an opportunity to learn the trade with her company. i went on to different job opportunities but we stayed friends. the division that i work for with san francisco was looking for a painter and so i suggested to my supervisor maybe we can give nita a shot. >> the painting i do for the city is primarily maintenance painting and i take care of anything from pipes on the roof to maintaining the walls and beautifying the bathrooms and graffiti removal. the work i do for myself is

different because i'm not actually a painter. i'm a painting contractor which is a little different. during the construction boom in the late 80s i started doing new construction and then when i moved to san francisco, i went to san francisco state and became fascinated with the architecture and got my contractor's licence and started painting victorians and kind of gravitated towards them. my first project that i did was a 92 room here in the mission. it was the first sro. i'm proud of that and it was challenging because it was occupied and i got interior and exterior and i thought it would take about six weeks to do it and it took me a whole year. >> nita makes the city more beautiful and one of the things that makes her such a great contractor, she has a magical touch around looking at a

project and bringing it to its fullest fruition. sometimes her ideas to me might seem a little whacky. i might be like that is a little crazy. but if you just let her do her thing, she is going to do something incredible, something amazing and that will have a lot of pop in it. and she's really talented at that. >> ultimately it depends on what the customer wants. sometimes they just want to be understated or blend in and other times they let me decide and then all the doors are open and they want me to create. they hire me to do something beautiful and i do. and that's when work is really fun. i get to be creative and express what i want. paint a really happy house or something elegant or dignified. >> it's really cool to watch what she does.

not only that, coming up as a woman, you know what i mean, and we're going back to the 80s with it. where the world wasn't so liberal. it was tough, especially being lgbtq, right, she had a lot of friction amongst trades and a lot of people weren't nice to her, a lot of people didn't give her her due respect. and one of the things amazing about nita, she would never quit. >> after you prove yourself, which i have done, i don't face that obstacle as much anymore. i'd like to be a mentor to other women also. i have always wanted to do that. they may not want to go to school but there's other options. there's trades. i encourage women to apply for my company, i'd be willing to train and happy to do that. there's a shortage of other women painters. for any women who want to get

into a trade or painting career, just start with an apprenticeship or if you want to do your own business, you have to get involved and find a mentor and surround yourself with other people that are going to encourage you to move forward and inspire you and support you and you can't give up. >> we've had a lot of history, nita and i. we've been friends and we have been enemies and we've had conflicts and we always gravitate towards each other with a sense of loyalty that maybe family would have. we just care about each other. >> many of the street corners in all the districts in san francisco, there will be a painting job i have completed and it will be a beautiful paint job. it will be smooth and gold leaf and just wow. and you can't put it down. when i first started, it was hard to get employees to listen to me and go along -- but now,

i have a lot of respect. dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail

account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date. the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute

that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them

to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and

programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and

about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini

robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello.

he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in

the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this

>> good morning everyone. i am mayor london breed. i want to welcome you today to talk about the election last night and the results as well as talk about today being the first day that we have lifted some restrictions as it relates to indoor masking. last night, during the race the voters sent a clear message, a clear message as it relates to the school board and the need to begin the process to refocus on our children and on what is most important in their lives and what is most important for the future of our schools in san francisco. i want to take this opportunity to thank the parents and the

grassroots organizers who pulled this together and called attention to some of the challenges that exist with the school district. i want to thank the educators who continued to show up and to try to work with our students despite a very challenging two years. i really want to take this opportunity to talk a little bit about our next steps and what we plan to do because although we may think that as a result of this election that this is behind us, there is even more important work that needs to be done moving forward. over the past couple of weeks, i have had a number of conversations with a number of parents throughout san francisco. parents that aren't necessarily politically engaged. parents who struggled, whose

kids struggled. the asian community and latino community, geographically throughout san francisco, parents who really felt that they were left out of the process when schools were struggling to reopen during this pandemic. many of them talked about a lot of the challenges that exist in their lives. that is really where our focus should have always been. kids usually vibrant and talkative more subdued and quiet and seeing the changes in their kids and struggles they are going through. talking to parents with children with significant learning challenges, those with disabilities and other issues and seeing the rapid decline in

their children as a result of what sadly had been happening not just with the school district but with the pandemic has really been tough for them. it was hard to hear the stories and hard to hear some of the challenges the parents were facing. more importantly, what was made clear to me is their feedback what they want to see in a new member or members of the school board. they want to focus on the fundamental responsibility of the school district. that is to make sure that we educate our children. education and the system around education has to be at the for front of everything we do. when we think about the learning loss, mental health challenges, that has to be our focus. talking with a number of

educators about what they were experiencing in the classroom and frustration about inconsistent information. i am concerned about all parties involved. in selecting new school board members we are asking a lot of very hard questions. what are we going to do for those kids who have learning disabilities? what are we going to do for the kids with special needs? what are we going to do for the kids who don't have parent advocates? how are we going to focus on the challenges around learning loss? how are we going to deal with the challenges around gaps relating to equity? so many questions, so many concerns. how are we going to deal with the budget deficit for the school system? one that is increasingly growing. a new superintendent is expected to be hired.

those decisions are critically important to the long term success of the school district. there are immediate things to address right now today, long-term we have seen a significant decline in enrollment in the public school system. school assignment has to be revamped in a way that again is done fairly and equitably. a number of these challenges we are looking for well-rounded school board members who are focused on the schools. who are focused on our children and their success. who are focused on collaboration and working together. who are focused on wanting to hear from different perspectives whether they are in agreement with those perspectives or not.

bridge builders. that is what we are going to look for. this is all coming from many of the parents i had an opportunity to talk to. questions that these parents provided me with and want be me to ask of the people that i am going to be interviewing and to be clear. i am going to be meeting with aa number of people to have the conversation around why they think that they would be the best person for the job. you know, i made appointments before for this city on a number of bodies, including school board. this is probably one of the hardest decisions that i have ever had to make as it relates to appointments because of the significants of what this means and what the people of san francisco expect from the people that i will appoint.

because of the future and the concerns about our kids. none of us knew we would be in the midst of a global pandemic. there wasn't a playbook for this. when we think about what happened in san francisco and what we did, our early action to save lives. we were a model for the country, and the number of people whose lives were safed and the number of people fully vaccinated and boosted and we should be proud. the stark contrast to what happened in the school district. the frustration, uncertainty, inconsistent information, lack of clarity, bickering, politics and who suffered the most? our children. they suffered the most. they are still suffering.

we have to put aside all personality conflicts and we have to focus our attention on addressing what is most important, and be that is their future. i met with a lot of parents. there are a lot of parents out there that can't be advocates for their kids. they may not know how. i can't help but think if this pandemic had happened when i was a kid when my grandmother was raising me, a woman who never had the opportunity to come to the school if i got in trouble i had to get sent home. i think about those kids who don't have the parents who have the time because they are

working two or three jobs or those parents who may feel uncomfortable with speaking out because of their immigrant status or a number of issues. those kids in abusive homes. i think about all of those kids who don't have advocates, who don't have that level of support that they need and school was in some cases their only outlet. there are going to be a number of heavy conversations in the coming weeks because the decision that i may being is going to be important. it is going to be important because of the short term and long-term challenges the school board faces. what is next? what is next is there are votes to be counted. department of elections anticipates that they will be

finished counting votes by next week. end of next week. once they certify the results they will forward that information to the board of supervisors, and the board of supervisors will meet to approve the election results, certify the results. that process is expected to take somewhere close to a month. in that time i will be interviewing candidates. there is a lot of work to continue to be done. we will do everything to work with the school district. once a vacancy occurs that is when i will have an opportunity to appoint and my hope is that i could make a decision that sanfranciscans can be proud of d

feel the school district is in good hands. it will require patience and development clearly of new found trust because of what is experienced. so we have still a process involved, still time that we need to take. time where my focus will be on reaching out meeting with folks and doing everything i can to make the best decision for the kids of our city. with that i wanted to just talk a little bit about the mask mandate. today officially the masks are no longer required in places like restaurants, bars, offices, movie theaters, museums and indoor settings for vaccinated people. people can still wear their

masks. in fact i know people will still wear their masks and there may be some businesses that still may require you to wear your mask. please don't get into arguments about whether or not you are required to wear your mask or not. it is a hard time for all of us. if a business asks you to wear a mask, wear a mask or choose another business. let's understand this is challenging. i know some of our regulations have been confusing. one minute you are wearing a mask then you are and then you are not. we are in this together. we have a lot to be proud of. as i said, a leader in the country related to saving lives in a global pandemic we could not predict. we should be proud. this is the homestretch.

numbers have declined in hospitalizations and the number of people impacted. my hope as we begin to change that and people are boosted and vaccinated. masks may not be required in some other settings like schools and hospitals and jails where they still respect required. continue to be patient with us. continue to be patient with the businesses all over the city. we will get through this. thank you. >> can you speak to the concerns some may have around that? >> what i will speak to is there is always conversations around money and politics.

at the end of the day what we see in the election results it is clear that many of these san franciscans are more concerned about our children and what has been happening with the school district and distransactions and lack of focus and what is more important than they are about our children. what is my focus is the children first and four most. whoever is selected will focus on trying to turn the school district around. focus specifically on public school and enrollment apsome of the challenges that exist there. the point that you made is something that is news to me because the fact is there are a lot of different kinds of people involved in the push for this recall from all walks of life.

to attribute to one group of people is not fair to the work that so many grassroots people who have children in the public school systems have done. >> i am not disqualifying anyone at this time. i am going to meet and talk to as many people i can that with serve the san francisco unified school district well and focus on the public schools and our children. [indiscernable] >> i think, you know, i do not regret my decision to appoint foga to the school board.

foga had a lot of skills in working with communities that are on the southeast sector of the city. many people advocated for him as a voice for them. i made that decision. he was running already. he had a lot of support and especially a lot of support from many of the communities struggling in the school district. i don't regret the decision i may being. in this particular process i will think about the same thing. thinking about those same communities in the decision i make and thinking about, you know, more in depth people who have more in depth knowledge of, for example, what i heard from parents. they want someone who understands finance. the financials. they are concerned about the budget deficit and what that might mean for their children. having people who understand budget and who have knowledge of

not just community but who have the qualifications to understand how an organization is run. hiring and budgeting and there is a lot of different components to this. those are things that are added to the conversation in addition to some of the things i look for in previous candidates. >> do you think given the results 70 something plus of the recall that san francisco and san franciscans are moving less in the direction of having progressive ideas and more towards moderate and liberal ideas? >> i don't think so. our children suffered. it is not about politics. it is not about having progressive or moderate or liberal idea.

it is about my kid used to be a kid that was social and fun and is now quiet and sad and doesn't smile. you as the parent feel like there is nothing you can do about that because of what is happening with your child's education. at the end of the day this is about what was happening. we are not saying some of the things at the school district weren't important conversations to have. i think renaming schools and looking at the history of the names is important. the problem was the clear communication around when schools would open and how during the process of distance learning we would deal with those challenges of kindergarten not signing in and issues happening at hand.

the fact those weren't put front and center and solutions weren't focused on there is what drove this decision. that is what i heard from the people i talked to. it wasn't about progressive or liberal. i think it minimizes is hard work so many people did to get this on the ballot to get it past by trying to attribute it to that. >> the chinese american community reasserting its political power. >> sorry. >> was yesterday's recall was the chinese american community reasserting it goes political power in the city? >> these are people fighting for their children. i can't say that enough. the storyis heard over the past

couple weeks would have brought you to tears. imagine if it were your child and you didn't have money to put them in private school or anything which most of the private schools were open and your kid is struggling. this came from a different place. this came from parents who were upset and frustrated and stressed out and in many cases trying to work two or three jobs to take care of their kids. single moms and grandmothers afternoon grandfathers. this was from my perspective not about politics. >> how are you going to ensure the picks you make are independent and not be holden to you. there is concern you might have too much influence over the

school board instead of the voters. >> that is unfair in terms of assessment. i feel confident my history of appointments demonstrates that i willing to work with people who have a different ideology than i do in order to make what i believe is the best decision based on input. one of my first picks worked for someone who actually ran for mayor. we ran against one another. i think that at the end of the day, i am a san franciscan. i love the city. i will make a decision in the best interest of the entity and best interest of the city. that will involve feedback from people who really -- parents especially, teachers, educators

as well -- having well rounded feedback and number to choose from that are going to be important. that is my focus. my hope is they are people who will work with me and work with the city. we want to partner with the cool district. you have come to us and we have gone to them. we want someone to work with us so we can help support our children. >> do you have a position? are you open to changes? >> i think that it is the wrong message right now. these people worked really hard. this was a very grassroots effort. i think that people should have the ability if they have a concern with any elected leader. they should have the right to take a recall effort to the

ballot. it is unfortunate. to put this on the ballot is very unfortunate. >> you are a part of children and families staying in the budget. so much per household. how will you keep housing affordable so the state comes in to fund the school board. >> changes to the am location so it is not based on individual student enrollment. they are looking at different formulas. san francisco is an i very expensive place to live. one solution is to build more housing remove the barriers that obstruct our ability to do so

and recently the housing measure to speed up housing production was rejected by the board of supervisors. we can't keep saying we want more affordable and more housing and the decisions we make are counter to that. thank you everybody. a city like no other, san francisco has been a beacon of hope, and an ally towards lgbtq

equal rights. [♪♪] >> known as the gay capital of america, san francisco has been at the forefront fighting gay civil rights for decades becoming a bedrock for the historical firsts. the first city with the first openly gay bar. the first pride parade. the first city to legalize gay marriage. the first place of the iconic gay pride flag. established to help cancel policy, programses, and initiatives to support trans

and lgbtq communities in san francisco. >> we've created an opportunity to have a seat at the table. where trans can be part of city government and create more civic engagement through our trans advisory committee which advises our office and the mayor's office. we've also worked to really address where there's gaps across services to see where we can address things like housing and homelessness, low income, access to small businesses and employment and education. so we really worked across the board as well as meeting overall policies. >> among the priorities, the office of transgender initiatives also works locally to track lgbtq across the

country. >> especially our young trans kids and students. so we do a lot of work to make sure we're addressing and naming those anti-trans policies and doing what we can to combat them. >> trans communities often have not been included at the policy levels at really any level whether that's local government, state government. we've always had to fend for ourselves and figure out how to care for our own communities. so an office like this can really show and become a model for the country on how to really help make sure that our entire community is served by the city and that we all get opportunities to participate because, in the end, our entire community is stronger. >> the pandemic underscored many of the inequities they experienced on a daily basis. nonetheless, this health crisis also highlighted the strength in the lgbtq and trans

community. >> several of our team members were deployed as part of the work at the covid command center and they did incredit able work there both in terms of navigation and shelter-in-place hotels to other team members who led equity and lgbtq inclusion work to make sure we had pop-up testing and information sites across the city as well as making sure that data collection was happening. we had statewide legislation that required that we collected information on sexual orientation and our team worked so closely with d.p.h. to make sure those questions were included at testing site but also throughout the whole network of care. part of the work i've had a privilege to be apart of was to work with o.t.i. and a community organization to work together to create a coalition that met monthly to make sure we worked together and coordinated as much as we could

to lgbtq communities in the city. >> partnering with community organizations is key to the success of this office ensuring lgbtq and gender nonconforming people have access to a wide range of services and places to go where they will be respected. o.t.i.'s trans advisory committee is committed to being that voice. >> the transgender advisory counsel is a group of amazing community leaders here in san francisco. i think we all come from all walks of life, very diverse, different backgrounds, different expertises, and i think it's just an amazing group of people that have a vision to make san francisco a true liberated city for transgender folks. >> being apart of the grou

allows us to provide more information on the ground. we're allowed to get. and prior to the pandemic, there's always been an issue around language barriers and education access and workforce development. now, of course, the city has been more invested in to make sure our community is thriving and making sure we are mobilizing. >> all of the supervisors along with mayor london breed know that there's still a lot to be done and like i said before, i'm just so happy to live in a city where they see trans folks and recognize us of human beings and know that we deserve to live with dignity and respect just like everybody else. >> being part of the trans initiative has been just a great privilege for me and i feel so lucky to have been able

to serve for it for so far over three years. it's the only office of its kind and i think it's a big opportunity for us to show the country or the world about things we can do when we really put a focus on transgender issues and transgender communities. and when you put transgender people in leadership positions. >> thank you, claire. and i just want to say to claire farly who is the leader of the office of transgender initiatives, she has really taken that role to a whole other level and is currently a grand marshal for this year's s.f. prize. so congratulations, claire. >> my dream is to really look at where we want san francisco to be in the future. how can we have a place where we have transliberation, quality, and inclusion, and equity across san francisco? and so when i look five years from now, ten years from now, i

want us to make sure that we're continuing to lead the country in being the best that we can be. not only are we working to make sure we have jobs and equal opportunity and pathways to education, employment, and advancement, but we're making sure we're taking care of our most impacted communities, our trans communities of color, trans women of color, and black trans women. and we're making sure we're addressing the barriers of the access to health care and mental health services and we're supporting our seniors who've done the work and really be able to age in place and have access to the services and resources they deserve. so there's so much more work to do, but we're really proud of the work that we've done so far. [♪♪]

>> on behalf of the san francisco office and historical society, our partners and sponsors, welcome to the 2022 black history month kickoff program. i am aloe williams, president of the society's board of directors. the society was founded in 1955. in 1958, it merged with a local chapter of the association for the study of african-american life and history, which is better known as the national group which started the celebration of what is now black history month. that is the society became the official sponsor of black history month in san francisco. from the beginning, the society