what i would like to suggest for consideration is that we provide any remaining public comment to the councilmembers following the meeting that we receive. i will give the e-mail address for the mayor's office on disability again. mod@sfgo.org, so that we have all the information from the meeting in one place. this meeting is also archived on san francisco government t.v. with that, you can determine how

you would like to proceed. that is my advice. thank you. >> thank you nicole. thank you to our presenters and for everyone who tuned in over the last almost five hours. as nicole suggested i will take her comments and go with them. we will take all correspondence and provide that to the councilmembers and nicole also provided an e-mail and the phone number if anyone else has any additional comments. 's indexing i can do to close at the meeting? to adjourn the meeting? >> that is correct. >> with that, i would like to adjourn the meeting. i don't know if i have a motion or a second motion to adjourn the meeting as well. >> i motion that, yeah. >> thank you helen. with that, we will adjourn the

meeting. thank you, everyone. >> thank you, everyone. >> 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. coffman >> 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. claefl >> 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 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 moregan, 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 k

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 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

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 seecity 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 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.

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 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 members of -- 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 un 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 tdsdoes 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 proto 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 i mightyou 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 wor 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 torontoserrano 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 foremality 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.

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shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals graffiti store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love. >> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20

years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of

the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops the firemen, you know i feel at home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years.

i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said oh, digital photography, the year 2000. it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot

chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown. a new asia restaurant it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant it's 50 years old. i said yeah. it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't

repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it who cares. but, you know i care.

>> last september of 2020 i had a minor stroke and my daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said hey you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days. i have hundreds of messages

wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal. you know i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community. >> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down.

i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know photographs will be a

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