being stored appropriately which prevented the potential of contamination so correct ifshg actions were taken and there were differ cleaning of the galli and the kitchen the hospital. next slide. as you can imagine, as a result of the mock survey, we use that information to really help inform what are the areas where we still need to be providing education, training and coaching with our staff. so, from that perspective, we have developed a framework for our recertification, staff engagement and education and the next few slides will talk about

that. at the heart of it includes, we've talked about this before, critical element pathways or cep's. through are essentially 39 different areas that cms established for all skilled nursing facility across the country. it basically is a tool that high functioning nursing facility use to ensure that all staff at the skilled nursing facility are aware of what the requirements are, but also are aware of how they was in their discipline or departments are expected to ensure that overall the skilled nursing facility maintains compliance, so these 39 critical pathways are being rollout at laguna. there are 39 and we'll talk a little bit more about how we're implementing those, roughly every week, we go

through ten of the 39 so that on a monthly basis, we've covered all 39 of those cep's every month at laguna. it's an on going process and not a one and done. it's baking into the fabric of laguna honda hospital. this core element of using critical e. pathways and these are the same tools that the surveys will use when they do the surveys at laguna so we feel confident by incorporating this as the pillar in staff in education that we're on the right track. the second thing is the recertification comprehensive plan. again, we'll talk more, wee show more details in a few slides. but essentially, we, through our both consulting groups took the results of the mock survey and identifying those areas of noncompliance and developed a

curriculum specifically informed by those areas of noncompliance. so for example, the training that has and being rolled focused on inspection and control. residents rights, keeping the environment free from abuse. all of those areas where the mock survey found deficits, that's what we're educating staff on and we'll talk more in detail about what that education looks like in a few slides. and finally, our path toward recertification through education. it is 24/7 rounds. we have three separate teams that do rounding at laguna everyday of the week, 365 per year. this uses standardized tools for identification of areas of compliance with cms and state regulations. these tools

are used to quantify data, that data is then reviewed and analyzed and distributed throughout the organization for individuals to see where we in terms of compliance with at least the observations of the rounding that is occurring. next slide. one more. i mentioned those critical element pathways and just -- to touch on this a little bit, cep's, while there are 39 of them and they represent all the areas of regulatory compliance for skilled nursing facilities, they're basically, cep's are administered by four key concepts and first there's record reviews. looking at resident records to ensure the quality of care is documented in those records. then there are observations. so for example,

all the rounding we're doing, that's part of cep operations. the observations go hand-and-hand with actual staff, interviews. and also resident interviews. again, it's a regulatory compliance working its way into the daily operations of both staff and the residents experienced. and then citation vulnerability. as we go through each of those 39 cep's every month, areas ever noncompliance are identified and then plans of the action are created to address those. next slide. one more slide. so, in terms of their comprehension ichb laguna honda recertification staff education plan, again, that laguna honda specific curriculum was developed by both of our

consulting groups and is being rolled during the first week of august. the first month we included infection control. emergency services, freedom from abuse. last week, we too included education on residents rights, quality-of-life, behavior health. this current week, we'll be focusing on quality insurance and performance of the physical environment, food and nutrition and then finally the fourth week, specifically for our nursing and direct care staff, we'll have additional training in terms of pharmacy, medication and administration and comprehensive care planning and patient assessments. next slide. so how is that education being delivered? well, it's being delivered in four different ways. it's a four-hour process each week. and it involves first

didactic presentation during the first hour or two which is followed up by a post test for all participants and then we again to utilize concepts better suited for adult learning which includes skilled demonstration where each person who is enrolled in the class have to demonstrate the skills they were just lectured on, so for example, on infection control and prevention, we actually have to demonstrate that we're able to wash our hands appropriately and effectively dawn and dof ppe. and then there's a verbal skills knowledge check where individuals have to successfully answer the questions related to that. i can tell you, it's a very involved process. i personally am going through the classes. i have my week three training on thursday and so i'm

right there with my fellow coworkers and as one of their participants classmates so it has been great to be a part of that. next slide. and these are just pictures, so the top left is that didactic training we've talked about in the room. that's also where the post test occurs and then there's the skilled training, bottom left corner, that's the handwashing and i will admit i had to have a second try in order to be pass successfully on handwashing and using ultra violet lot and if they see bacteria, you have to be sent back. i was sent back but i did eventually passed and i wanted to share that. the next

slide shows a verbal test at the end. next slide. here, we have results from the surveys from the staff who participated in the training and the results from week one, you see here that overwhelmingly staff shared the training they felt made them knowledgeable about the topics that's present and it's important because the topics presented are the ones we have problems with, with maintaining regulatory compliance and 95% of staff shared that as a result of training, they will change their practice. and again that's again, that's why we have all the rounding observations going on so we can monitor and see where we and are we going to sea a change in behavior. next slide. and so as we begin to

wind down this part of the presentation, i just want to share some of the major initiatives we have done to assist with recertification. i believe we shared before we organized both the nursing leadership at laguna and administrative executive leadership. the early findings from our consultants was laguna needed to restructure itself to be more in line with high functioning skilled nursing facilities. so we've done that. our interim nursing director, (indiscernible) antonie worked with the director and reorganized leadership at the director and nursing manager level, next slide. we also did a similar process in the non-nursing operation where we have brought in a certified nursing home administrator to

work with both of us on the executive staff to show us again in high functioning nursing homes the position of nursing home administrator is one that really helps to ensure that the facility is run appropriately according to state and hards and cms and in terms ever maintaining regulatory -- -- regulatory compliance. next slide. one more. i want to provide an update to the commission in terms of our covid-19 protocols. you remember for the past two years whenever we had a covid outbreak on a nursing unit, if there was one that we would put the entire unit on quote, yellow zone or covid precautions. the feedback from our consultant looking at

nursing facilities across the country, we've made adjustments and rather than putting the entire unit on code yellow, we're doing individual rooms of where the patients, if there's a patient, then just that patient's room is on code yellow which means all the code yellow precautions in terms of enhanced ppe, isolation from other residents will occur but just the room and not the entire unit and that was important because of the findings from the survey show that all residents weren't getting a lot of the activities and therapy that they need and one of the reasons was because the entire unit was on covid precaution so this is, we have been in this new code yellow arrangement for the, a little

over a month now and it seems to be going well. we have not seen an increase in our covid numbers and i just wanted to make you aware of this change. next slide. so, in terms of bed reduction, some of this was covered in the comments early on. and as i've mentioned to do chou at honda, jcc, we have relooked at this issue of 120 beds and had reconfirmed the position of cms that the new regulations require that we have room with no more than two individuals in those rooms when we go for recertification. we have not and let me repeat at this point, have not submitted any applications to reduce our license beds, 520 beds and we --

there are -- we are actually moving patients internally where there were people -- where they were three patients in a room. we are on track to moving patients to places where there are no more than two in a room and again, we're on track to having that completed by august 19th. in terms of whether the legal action that has been raised will negate the need for any reduction in license, we do not know at this point. so we'll have to await further consideration and guidance through the legal process. next slide. also, i wanted to provide an update to the commission on

the laguna honda kitchen floor renovation. earlier on, it was identified that's an area in the church kitchen where there's broken tiles and a water leak. this was identified this could be a major facilitys related issue that could prohibit our ability to pass a certification survey. we worked directly with the california department of public health. they have come out and really worked closely with us in looking at the situation and have given us a determination that as long as we're able to implement? temporary mitigation activities related to infection control and temporary repair that not having the full kitchen floor renovated

prior to any recertification will not prevent us fully in any impactful way from a planning recertification. so, we are doing mitigation activities that cdph signed off on. but we are still moving forward with a full fledge replacement of the kitchen floor renovation. it's just we don't have to have it done before recertification. we have time to start it before recertification and then finish after successful certification. that's my overview for the commission in terms of the current update on closure plan and recertification. and i'm happy to entertain any questions, thank you. >> thank you, mr. pickens for

taking us through this extensive progress report and for your service in us reaching recertification. i believe there's public comment. are there visuals on the public comment line. >> folks on the line, press star three if you would like to make comment on this line. mr. pickens before we go to public comment, there's a statement that we received today around 11:46, is it possible to read that because that would clarify although it's a repeat of the issues you have talked about, some is new information and the public -- it might be helpful for the public to make comment. >> are you referring to the 120 beds? >> yes. it's three paragraphs and yes it starts off with a responsive, yes, okay, thank you. >> i'll re-read this. in response to the litigation filed by the city against cms, cms agreed to expand the availability of medicare, medicaid payments through november 13th and in addition to the transfer pause and transfer

of discharges will be extended until that time. dph and laguna honda hope we'll continue to work with cms and cdbh to resolve all pending issues and the city's litigation alleges that c mr. s forced to the city to implement aunt unworkable transplan plan and closure that denies the city due process and puts laguna honda patients at risk. laguna has filed appeals before administrative law judge that challenges the cms decision to materialnate lieu medicare and medicaid provider agreement and again the class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of patients for the public law group alleges that the closure of laguna and rust transfer process violates the america wez a disability act and deny patients and families sub is it a tifk and procedural due process. the litigation filed by

the city the administrative appeals filed by laguna honda and the new class-action lawsuit by patients against cms and cdph remain pending and cannot be discussed in more detail in open session. in relation to the issue of a new of patients in each room, cms expressed its view that the termination of laguna provider agreement means that if it seems -- if laguna honda seeks recertification to participate in the medicaid, medicare program, laguna will have to comply with medical regulations if it was a new facility. if true, this means laguna honda will not be able to have three patients sharing a suite as currently the case at laguna. it is not clear if the litigation and appeals would have any impact on cms's

position on this issue. thank you. >> thank you so much, mr. pickens. >> thank you for bringing that up, secretary morewitz. that provides clarification in the questions that i know was top of mind for the public and commissioners so we really appreciated those clarifications. all right. public comment. >> sure. okay. folks, i'll give you three minutes and again, press star three if you would like to make comment on this issue? all right. first person, please let us know you're there. >> yes, it's patrick. it's again very concerning hearing that the closure plan update is now 82% towards completion on the 120 bed space occupied by laguna honda. and the hospital still anticipates completing that

reduction by august 19th. as i testified a week ago and again today, applying for a reduced license is premature and may well undercut a city attorney chew's administrative appeals, any decision about applying for a new license should be made by a roll call vote of the full health commission. i think you should introduce a motion today and second it to postpone taking any action on laguna honda's license until the lawsuit is appealed. i don't understand how if the decertification of the hospital is overruled, why cms would force you into accepting

the two patient per person room because they had not decertified you, that issue should not have come up theoretically. you urge city attorney and the mayor and our congressional delegation to keep pushing on this issue in challenging the notion that cms could getaway with imposing a rule if you had not violated cms rules in the first place. it wouldn't be a topic for discussion. thank you. >> thanks for your comment. >> next caller, are you there? >> yes, thank you brenda. sorry, my car is noisy. so, what i would like to say is i hope that

while we're talking about laguna honda at this particular moment, it is clear because i know people that are on -- that have family members on that waiting list. there still needs to be some other option and i hope the department of public health is looking into another option, some sort of overflow, smaller hospital or something where you have enough beds so that everybody who need help can get it. that's it. >> okay, thank you. all right. next person, please let us know you're there. >> hi. it's dr. teresa palmer again. i really think it's important to hold off from delicensing the 120 beds until the outcome of the lawsuit. it doesn't make sense at all. there

is a waiting list at laguna honda. there's not enough medical nursing home beds in san francisco. this is the size -- 120 wes is the size of two regular nursing homes. it's crazy to cut them. and i would urge you to resist the final delicensing by any means possible. the other thing is i haven't hear any assurance that laguna honda staff will be able to freely refuse unsafe admissions have san francisco general hospital and inappropriate admissions and the complaints i hear about laguna honda are from the subset of folks who smoke, who run around and cause trouble who don't want to be in a nursing home and would be much better placed in a treatment facility that cater to them. and this needs to be funded. laguna honda patients

shouldn't have to be put together with folks that don't need to be there and don't want to be there. and i heard no reassurance you're going to stop the flow project. no reassurance you're going to give the laguna honda staff and nursing staff back the power to independently and freely refuse unsafe events and services at general hospital. i would urge you to look at alternative placements for hard to place san francisco general patients who are not appropriate for nursing home residency. the benefit of this will be for free the bed for san franciscans from other hospitals and from home who truly need a nursing home bed. there is a waiting list. it has always been hard to get in but now it's impossible. please do your best to do this. i would also encourage no patient should be discharged who is -- who is nursing home eligible, should be

discharged at all even if san francisco has to bring the funding. the deaths that will occur are not worth the money saved. cms may pull the funding for the two months, two month bridge until recertification but they're not insisting that the nursing home close but just pulling the funding. please, do not kill anymore people. thank you. >> okay. thank you. next caller, please let you know you're there. >> commissioners, you're very fortunate that in san francisco we have an attorney like rayne who is going to clear this mess. but commissioners, anyway you look at the situation, as the

previous person alluded, it was a crime to send drug addicts and mix them with our seniors. i repeat, you do not mix drug addicts with our seniors who are suffering from dementia. you know that but y'all did that to save money. and that's a crime. now, our attorney reyna will reveal a lot about cms. they keep (indiscernible) us and you commissioners cannot stand tall and represent because y'all know that you're not innocent. so,

laguna honda is well-known all over the world, let alone the nation. and this problem started with the drug addicts who should be about out in the old building or maybe put on al camacho traz and we shouldn't tolerate nonsense. if anybody has trading with the mill military or disciplinary, they will not put seniors in harms way. that's what you commissioners are done. you have to have a standard operating procedure rather than this long procedure. a standing procedure and orientation given

by the consultants who you all are paying $5 million plus so y'all know how to maintain standard. each and every one of you commissioners should get an orientation. and it would be nice for our attorney rene and i think she'll be willing to come and give her presentation as to how she's going to be dealing with cms who has been bullying us and you commissioners do not have that ability. >> thank you, your time is up. this is the last caller, commissioners. hi caller, please let us know you're there. >> yes. my name is art and i'm an sf grade panther and interested member of the public. watching with dismay the laguna honda hospital closure and patient transfer debacle can consequences for its residents

and this is the result of ridge squalid and mindless regulatory compliance with rules that let commonsense and compassion and the net result in the unnecessary deaths of residents is a process that is bent on the destruction of san francisco's rare and valuable public long-term care facility. what's been going on at laguna hospital is a failure of government and local state and federal. when an institution like this has problems w he we owe it to ourself to solve the problems ask allow it to morph on and function and continue to meet the needs of san francisco's vulnerable elderly and disabled residents rear than put them at risk but unnecessarily transferring them to inappropriate substandard setting that don't meet their healthcare needs result nothing trauma and even death. we need to keep laguna honda hospital going rather than shut it down according to inflexible counter protective and blind rule that's do harm. we call for a stop on

public institution. many questions ask concerns remain much we must stop 120 beds from being cut and force discharges to nursing home stops until recertification in january or february of 2023. two questions, will laguna honda staff will be able to refuse unsafe admits from san francisco general hospital? and finally, will alternative placements for hard to place san francisco general patients be funded? we got to resist the delicensing, solve the problem and keep it going. keep lhh going to allow it to take care of elderly and disabled who need a nursing home bed. thank you. >> thank you for your comment. that was the last hand, commissioners. >> great, thank you everyone from the public for your very passionate and thoughtful remarks. are there any comments and questions from the commissioners? i see commissioner giraudo's hand.

>> thank you, vice-president green. i had a couple of questions. the first one being around the reduction in beds that was discussed and information shared about that. it would seem that the timing differences between and i guess the processes between the litigation and the deadline that we may have around recertification is something that we should keep a very, very close communication both with the public as well as, you know, with the commission and i'm just sort of -- i don't know what the mechanism for that might be but if we could sort of clarify them. i'm glad to hear we have not yet applied to rely sense a number of beds -- re-license beds because i think that needs

to be an opportunity to think about other options or at least to continue to dialogue in the arguments with cms around the impact of that in the particular situation we have at laguna honda, so i wanted to just make sure that as things develop that there is a good information flow and an opportunity for the public to hear what the developments may be as long as they are available to be made public. the other question i had to do with the -- thank you, roland for your presentation on the very involved and detailed process that laguna honda is going to get to recertification. and i had a question about the

critical element pathways. and you know, i just -- i know this is something that a lot of attention is being focused on it and it appears as if there's widespread sort of -- owe moat cajun and the certification we have to do. i'm wondering how the cep's might or might not have played a role in the past around previous surveys? the other and we know the delay on cms and deph on the facility

related incidents was delayed, i think in some cases up to a year and a half, almost two years. we weren't able to get a lot of the information about the kinds of things that needs to be improved. is there a relationship between that and the critical element pathways that we are now charging to put together and to, as you say, bake in into the process of recertification and the future of improvements around laguna honda? >> so thank you for those questions, commissioner -- commissioner guillermo and i'll start with the facility reports. the hundreds of incidents where laguna itself reported unusual occurrences or situations to the state and where the state had not for up to, as you have mentioned, a year or a year and

a half haven't come out to do those investigations. that is not directly tied to the cep through sales but it's a significant issue in terms of our ability to, you know, make corrections. you know, in spite as we try to identify and catch everything ourselves, if someone has information about a deficit and we don't know about it, then you know, we don't know what to fix. so, you know, the good thing is over the last couple of weeks, the state has now come back out onsite to clear up many of those long outstanding reporting and so, you know, hopefully there well on their way of clearing up their backlog so we have seen them in few weeks looking at many of those cases and in terms of the cep in terms of how they may have

affected or what's the relationship between the cep and our previous surveys and behaviors, the best way i can sum it up is that prior to our consultants, particularly the hvac group coming onboard in may, cep's were not on the radar at laguna honda which is, they were not something that had been to the best of my knowledge really incorporated into how the facility worked. and an analogy would be that, you know, we've talked before that one of the findings that laguna was structured more like an acute care hospital, so laguna really focused on, for example, the state of california title 22 un(indiscernible) for acute hospital so the per for znswer was driven by the title 22 regs

and that's okay if you're a gen -- laguna is a skilled nursing facility. like san francisco general, they utilize title 22 general acute care hospital guidelines and the joint commission guidelines as their pathways towards regulatory compliance. so, while laguna wasn't a joint commission survey, but it's a state of california license so it had been using title 22 and not using cep's which are the standards for skilled nursing facility and laguna wasn't using them but now we are and so, one would hope, one would think that perhaps had we been utilizing cep's in the past, perhaps, the facility could have been more in line with regulatory compliance and we're moving forward to put that in place because now we've learned and been educated that

cep's are what high performing nursing homes use to maintain their compliance developed by cms. >> thank you, mr. pickens and then the question about the communication around the bed reduction and the timing issues between the, its requirement for recertification as well as the litigation. you may not be able to answer that directly but it is something -- in terms of communication information, i think it's really important. >> absolutely. obviously, any actions of communication will be done through consultation with the laguna honda jcc, first of all. secondly, i think it's important for me to clarify that 120 beds issued, there two things, there's how many beds are in a license verses how many

patient was in a room. we're definitely, as i've mentioned, moving towards making sure there's no more than two patients in a room. we haven't taken steps to change our license to reduce 120 beds. again, working through city attorney's office, you know, the litigation will have an impact on that, we don't know. >> thank you, mr. pickens. >> and thank you for bringing up the really important topics, commissioner guillermo. i see commissioner chow's hand. >> thank you and thank you mr. pickens for a very clear explanation as to the medial work going on. first, i think that it's important for us to appreciate that the administration and the mayor and city attorney and particularly the public have, i think, finally made an impact on cms as

to the consequences of this action.? of which would seem to be actually related to in part to the technical problems that occurred in terms of the run up to our decertification which now is part of the lawsuit from city attorney chew. and we hope that has a very favorable outcome and therefore it wasn't appropriate to decertify us and therefore we'd like to make the corrections that are needed. i think mr. pickens explained quite well in all the years that many of us worked at laguna and followed and monitored, we were following to a great extent the state surveys each year and seeing that we were in compliance with state surveys,

which gave us our license and obviously we were also giving, i think, very good medical care as a skilled nursing facility but we seem to have had bypassed or i guess it went by us that in the many years that laguna has been there, that in fact, the federal government were developing different guidelines for skilled nursing facilities and therefore the existence of cep's weren't even mentioned within our context of making sure that we were in regulatory compliance and we were always in regulatory compliance with the state on their annual reviews. and and so i think the hma and atec consultations have been very valuable to us because also

then expanded our vision that not only should we just be meeting compliance with the state but we should be extending and expanding our services to our residents and activities, so that while these are federal guidelines, they were related to the fact that long-term resident needs service and respect and we're learning to provide better than before. so i think coming out of this, laguna will be a far better place. so, i did want to commend the administration for having brought in two wonderful consultants and i think the work they have done shows in the presentations, the details they have gone into have been amazing. the course of action that they have put

together, i think helped us feel more confident that we should come out, whether it be a recertification or correction of deficiencies that we can do it because they have identified even greater than surveyors may in fact identify and i'm hopeful that you know, this will be the next beginning, as you might say, the next iteration of laguna which will be better for our residents so i just wanted to take that to say that, in reflection over the last several months to have had so quick a response on the part of our consultants, a response then by our administration for putting this all this into operation and moving quite quickly that i think this is a pathway that we can take as confidence as we can

that we are trying to respond to the issues that have been raised. so, thank you, mr. pickens and thank you to the department for, actually, bringing these resources together and for everybody trying to work to make sure that laguna continues for another one hundred years, thank you. >> thank you so much, commissioner chow for those really eloquent comments and you know, i would like to not only associate myself with those comments but also say that you know, over the years we've seen a lot of differences of opinion under aspects of public health but there's no question that everyone in this room, everyone in this san francisco community wants to see laguna honda stay opened and to continue to serve our most vulnerable residents, not only today but well into the future. ruma guy told me and quizzed me ask said do you know who was president when laguna honda opened and the answer is

abraham lincoln so there's that tremendous history and it's our privilege to continue to improve and keep this institution strong and continue to give the kind of humane and compassionate care that families and residents receive. i think we should also acknowledge how tragic this has been for the laguna honda residents and their families. you know, it's great we have gotten two months more of time for our corrective action plans but all of us on the commission agree this is what we wanted to have had happened months ago and it really has taken not only the unanimous but the vocal support of local officials and members of the public and legal advocates and union members to get to the point that where we are today and on one hand, it's really encouraging to see you the unity but it's unfortunate the consequences that come as a

result of this urgency that was put upon us by our regulators and those on the commission and the joint conference commission have been chosen involved in this process. i cannot tell you how impressive it has been as commissioner chow mentioned, the speed as with the department of health department leadership deployed our best and brightest in an effort to address this threat to laguna honda but also how quickly the staff who themselves are really traumatized, have not only embraced every one of these recommendations but come forward with such enthusiasm and eagerness. they loved the residents and they like us want to see this institution thrive. so i just wanted to reassure the public that we as a commission are very involved, we're involved day-to-day. we're involved in between meetings and we have the greatest confidence

and respect for the staff and members of the department of public health working diligently on this problem and i think we feel confident that we'll be able to not only achieve recertification but also continue a better standard and cultural of excellence on to the months and years to come, so we really appreciate everyone's input and everyone's support for our beloved laguna honda. i don't see any other questions or comments, so i think in the interest of time, if it's okay with the other commissioners, we might table items 8, 9 and 10 because there'sish quite a few issues in closed session and if there's no objection, it may be best to table those to the next meeting. is that your recommendation, secretary morewitz? >> yes. i just feel like otherwise, this meeting is going to until midnight and i know that's not what you all were prepared for today. those items won't be cancelled but deferred

so the report can come in at the next meeting. >> great. all right. with that in mind, we will go into, we'll entertain a motion to go into closed session and members of the public, i'm not sure when we'll be back. is there a motion to go into closed session? >> so moved. >> mark, are you -- can you hear me, this is glen levy with city attorney's office. there's two separate things that has to happen to go into closed session. it's a change in procedure but because we're going into closed session and one is quality related and litigation related. we have to vote on both different basis to go into closed session. >> you didn't give me a chance to say it, but thank you very much. >> sorry. >> and we also need to take public comment before we do the votes and i see a hand up, commissioners. folks in line, if you want to make public comment, we're jumping into closed session, item 11. let us know if

you would like to speak by pressing star three. the person on the line, let us know you're there. >> it's patrick, since you're going to take two votes, does that mean i get six minutes to make two separate public comments about each section? >> you have three minutes but please use the three minutes wisely, go ahead. >> you're asking me to be wise. that's good. so one of the things that the health commission and the full board of supervisors need to start considering is in the event that you're forced into this two bedroom per person maximum, is whether the city -- >> i'm cutting you off. that topic is not about the closed session. anyone speaking on this item, it's about the closed session. so that's the comment for this. commission, i'm going to go to a vote. this, if you look at your agenda, we're

talking about 11b and c, so this vote is whether to hold a closed session. we'll take public comment. i'm sure i'll hear about what i just did. you'll vote on a closed session, asserting attorney/client privilege and this vote is closed session. >> commissioner chung? >> yes. >> commissioner gr. >> yes. >> commissioner green? >> yes. >> commissioner guillermo. >> yes. >> commissioner chow? >> yes. >> now, please consider a motion to assert attorney/client privilege in relation to the closed session discussion. >> i'll move to assert the attorney/client privilege. >> i second. >> all right. we'll see if there's public comment. one hand. all right. please let us know you're there. >> i am. it's patrick. i'm

trying to suggest that part of the attorney/client privilege conversation in closed session should include a discussion among the commissioners about alternatives for remodeling laguna honda hospital to keep the number of beds constant even if you have to float a bond measure or certificate of participation to remodel the facility to keep serving an equal number of san franciscans in county. you guys have got to discuss that as a policy issue whether in closed session or on a future agenda item or perhaps a joint session with the board of supervisors that that conversation must be had. thank you. >> all right. that's the only public comment on that item.

commissioners, we'll do a vote and again, you're voting on asserting attorney/client privilege in the closed session. >> commissioner giraudo? >> yes. >> commissioner chung? >> yes. >> commissioner chow? >> yes. >> commissioner guillermo? >> yes. >> and commissioner green? >> yes. >> all right. so i'm going to take us into closed session. folks on the line, we'll disappear from your view and your hearing but if you want to wait, we'll be back and i believe closed session will be an hour, hour and a half, i'm not sure and folks in the room, actually i'll get us in the room and we'll go over there. thank you again to the members of the public.

>> commissioner guillermo, can you said that loud, commissioner guillermo, we didn't hear you. >> sorry. yes. >> okay, great. commissioner chow? >> yes. >> thank you. commissioner green? oh, commissioner green? i'll unmute you, how about that? >> yes. >> great, we're under consideration for adjournment. >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> second. >> commissioner guillermo. >> yes! >> thank you, commissioners. >> commissioner guillermo? >> yes. >> commissioner chow? >> yes. >> commissioner green? >> yes. >> did i get you commissioner giraudo? >> yes. but i'll give another yes. >> thank you and sfgov tv and

for everyone that stuck around and thank you very much and eat and drink and take care of yourselves. >> you too, mark. >> bye. >> bye.

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2022 and the time is 5:04 p.m.. this meeting is being held in person as authorized by california government code california government code section 54953(e) and mire's 45th supplement to her 25th -- february 25, 2020 emergency proclamation. it's possible that some members of the san francisco fire commission may participate remotely andpate and vote by video. members of the

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callers of hearing silence before the opportunity to speak of the operator will unmute you and when prompted callers have the standard three minutes to provide comment unless the president of the commission decides to reduce the time depending on the number of callers. please ensure you're in a quiet location, speak clearly and turn off tvs and radios around you. item one roll call. president katherine feinstein. >> present. >> vice president stephen nakajo. >> present. >> commissioner armie morgan. >> present. >> commissioner marcy fraser. >> present >> and chief of department jean jean. -- jeanine nicholson. >> item 2 the land acknowledgment will be read by president feinstein. >> thank you. [off mic] 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 tradition the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded lot of nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all people to 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 relativeses of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first people. thank you. >> item three, resolution 2022-12, adoption of resolution setting forth findings to allow teleconference meetings around the california california government

code section 54953(e) >> and do we have any public comments on this? >> there is no public comment. >> all right. any questions? anything from any of the commissioners? i'm not seeing any hands or lights go up or out so is there a motion? . >> [off mic]. >> thank you mr. vice president. may i have a second please. >> i second that. >> all right. it's been moved and seconded. >> president feinstein how do you vote? >> aye >> and commissioner fraiser how do you vote? the motion is unanimous. item four 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 commissions or department of personnel. commissioners are not

to enter into debate or discussion with a speaker. the lack of a response by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements during public comment. is there any public comment and there's nobody on the public comment line. >> all right. thank you. and public comment will be closed. >> item 5. approval of the minutes. discussion and possible action to approve the special -- the regular meeting minutes of july 27, 2022 >> and any comments on the minutes? seeing that there are none is there a motion to adopt them? >> i would like to make a motion to adopt. >> thank you commissioner morgan and is there a second? >> i will second. >> thank you very much commissioner fraser. it's moved and seconded. >> president breed who do you vote?

>> to adopt. >> . >> how do you adopt. >> adopt. >> there is no one on the line. >> very good. public comment is closed. >> presentation and update from the association. new leadership of the black firefighters association to provide an update on their association. >> yes of course. the chief of the department wishes i want to say a few words. >> thank you. greetings president shall this ordinance be finally passed? and vice president nakajo and commissioner morgan and fraiser and i am chief jean. i -- jeanine nicholson, i just want to welcome the association and the new leadership and i appreciate the relationship we have forged and really looking forward to

doing more good work with you guys in the future so thank you all for being here and let's keep on keep on, so go right ahead lieutenant davis. >> i would just like to say one thing to the leadership of the organization. i really thank your leadership for the courtesy that you all extended in getting this scheduled so that all four of us could be here to see your presentation live, and i know sometimes it seems easy to get things on this agenda, and sometimes it's not so easy, so anyway you guys were exceptionally understanding and courtesy and i extend my thanks so please now go ahead. >> thank you. thank you everyone for having us. good afternoon madam president shall this

ordinance be finally passed, fellow commissioners and command staff. we're the. >> . >> black firefighters association and once again we appreciate the opportunity to highlight our organization and show everyone the work we have been up to in attendance. i would also like to introduce our executive board here in attendance today. we have vice president john smith, sergeant of arms zach and sergeant of arms nicholas and our secretary. not in attendance is our treasurer jacob and executive at large and other staff who is not here today. so the black firefighters association was founded in 1972 by the charter membership which includes many pioneers.

we are a chapter of the international association of professional black firefighters and 121 chapters and 8,000 members. our organization has a natural alignment with the efforts of the large group on a national basis to address issues facing black firefighters everywhere. this year makes it the 50th year as an organization. we're very, very proud of that. we were founded in 1972 and we're located on third street in the bayview community. in this building that we see on the slide which we own and we're also proud of that as well. here in this building we do a lot of great things for the community. first and foremost we have the growth community that vice president smith will talk about learn we have the first two cohort was city emt, the bayview

disaster preparedness classes is held here and mission a local non-profit that teaches the youth how to code and others and do the courses and a bunch of other things i'm not aware of knowing that the technological way we want to make sure we have access to resources and opportunities in our community outside of the fire department but of all fields especially with technology being a growing one. we currently have 110 active members. historically we had 230 more than the bobble today. we are working with the administration and get back to those numbers that we had in san francisco. this is a special photo for us. we have the first black female mayor present in this picture and this picture is special because it depicts everything that our

organization stands for. we have retired members in the photo as well as current active members across the ranks and first respondirs in the city and county of san francisco and collectively we can create a better future and for those members not in the photo i would like to take 15, 10 years now and increase the size and fill in everywhere to make sure that everybody has that opportunity. this is just us having a good time. [laughter] >> this is definitely significant to see. we want to ensure that the women in the community also know they have the opportunity to do the job and in this picture you have every rank from entry level firefighter to the deputy chief of administration. next i would like to introduce vice president john smith. >> thank you. >> good afternoon

madam president, fellow commissioners, chief nicholson. so i am excited to be here. i am lieutenant john smith and engine seven and black firefighters association. i will be giving you a brief overview of our youth academy. president davis and myself are the executive directors and lead instructors. our youth academy was established in 2004, founded by retired captain bamford. form oner directors include chief pruett and firefighter watts. we are a community program serving students age 14 new 19. we take eighth graders but mostly high school children and young adults. we service children in the san francisco and the

immediate neighboring counties. we want to make it open and equitable opportunity for everyone. our sessions are held on saturdays from nine to 1:00 p.m. and volunteer base. we're are funded by the dream keepers initiative through this fiscal year as well as may be dues and office of economic and office of office of economic and workforce development is helping us facilitate funding for that. next slide please. thank you. basically our program is an introduction to the fire and ems services. however, we focus on mentorship. a lot of these kids it's unfair to ask them what they want to do when they're 14 to 19 years old so we want to fousty they're and get them thinking in career path ways. we have a couple of students interested in the fire service so we

will foster that but we want to provide resources career wise for the children whether it's school or service in armed forces. next slide. next slide. this is pictures of what we got going on. so our curriculum is dynamic based on the need but we do offer a set based curriculum which includes cpr certification, first raid, physical fitness, wellness and nutrition and introduction to financial literacy and team building and the basic what we teach every year so we do a twist on that but depending the need of the students is how we supplement other subjects. next slide please. station visits are a big part of what we. do it gives the children an opportunity to get some hands on equipment as well as

interact with firefighters and see what the fire house looks like and day to day tee. i want to thank chief serrano for allowing with apparatus, chief tong on the ems side for ambulance,. they're such a hit. we run them through scenarios. i don't know if we have a video here but it's great and gets them thinking and interested in what we have going on. one thing we focus on this year was the outdoors and san francisco cuisine so we wanted to expose our children to different avenues that they wouldn't normally have growing up in san francisco. our big thing this year we work with lieutenant bendo at flame and coordinating fishing trips for even us even the instructors and the first time a lot of us including -- been out on a boat fishing and able

to see the beautiful city from another aspect. our community is very important. team building. we stress that. being part and not only living in the community be but part of the community so we create opportunities for community service and this is just a bayview clean up we did a couple months ago. these are just a couple more pictures from the fishing trip. station visits. we did actual -- after cpr gave them a little scenario, ran them out. it was good and the last slide for the youth academy. it's very challenging running the youth academy with our -- you know running the organization as well as our busy schedules. saturday is a hard day but i can speak for antwone and myself and president davis. it's very rewarding. you know there's a reason we do this to possibly change their trajectory of

their lives. they're in school and i know when i was in school saturday i don't want another day of school but it's working. it's good. we appreciate the staff from the command staff and the administration for facilitating everything we have and look forward to keep it going. thank you. >> thank you. >> madam president shall this ordinance madam -- feinstein commissioners i'm the corresponding secretary with the black firefighters association and a firefighter at station 48 on treasure island. today i would like to review some of the community involvement that we have with our organization. our goal is to be here for our community. as an organization we stand firm on the idea that we don't want our first interaction

with the public to be when they call 911. our careers as public servants entail so much more than putting out fires and emergency medical services and we take pride in the working relationships we have with numerous of our san francisco non-profit and community organizations. some of the activees we participate in and backpack drive, turkey drive during thanksgiving, health drives and toy give aways and all we do to serve the community we would like to thank assistant deputy chief serrano and bureau of equipment for giving us access to the rigs we use to attend these events. they're a hit with the kids and the community just being able to see the equipment that we work with. i would also like to thank the

chief's office for providing us materials to hand out to the children, helmets, coloring books and stickers. these are a few of the events at the toy program barbecues and a community block party in the mission. this was a turkey give away with city emt students getting them involved. and this is one of the dance groups that we sponsor from the fillmore. this is one of the big things we take pride in as an organization. it was the reading initiative. we started this in 2020 when we took a look at the literacy rate and noticed that it was in the bottom 5% in the state for our city. we took action by reaching out

to our local principals to schedule dates to read to the children from classes of kindergarten through fifth grade. during the presentation we read to the students and then we give them a short fire presentation about safety showing them what we look like in our gear going into a fire and to not be afraid of us when we respond to an incident. this is us reading to some of them. all right. after we're done reading with them we then give them an opportunity to go out to the rig and tour around the rig and throw line from our

hose lines. with that i would likes to pass it on to nick thruston. >> all right. good afternoon president feinstein and commissioners. it's an honor to be here, command staff and everyone watching at home. my name is nick thruston. i'm a h2 firefighter in the excelsior district out of station 43. i am new to the black firefighters association serving as the second executive at large. my duties include recruitment and development. we talk about recruitment. we're living in different times now, right, where it's a tough thing to recruit out here. we're dealing with

preparedness and qualifications that people do may or may not have. you know clear direction on where they're going in life as well as enticing tech jobs and maybe taken away. so we work directly in conjunction with the clue -- diversity inclusion office and working in conjunction with -- >> [off mic]. >> (paused) and i am sure we can meet

there. go to the next slide. it's been active all the way around just trying to deal with recruitment and basically you're almost like holding hands to guide them through the process you know, so we provide the candidates with help them out with emt certifications, cpa t, test and interview prep so a lot of times they need help -- "hey where i go for emt? how long does it last? will i be able to miss any classes?" they're taking kids to work and this and that and we fry to help them out as much as we can. the phones are alizarining and phone -- always ringing and we do what we can to help and a lot of times like physical preparedness we try to help them out with

this and a lot of people "hey how can i go and go to a burning building with you and lift this happy equipment or ladders?" and it may not be for them but we provide help with ems; right? we have the city emt program that we're extremely proud of and push you through there. it doesn't matter who you are and we historically help people that not only look like myself but everyone. i will bring up the battalion chief. >> thank you. >> good afternoon madam president feinstein and fellow commissioners and staff. i am the currently the san francisco black firefighters sergeant of arms and battalion chief out of battalion 10. next

slide please. so i'm going to talk about membership development first and then we're going to move on to the fun part about the 50th 50 anniversary coming up. you may have heard of the institute founded by karl holmes and train firefighters for officers and classes are in new orleans and with rescue systems, hazmat and classes in the bay area or california. we push for our members strongly encourage them to sign up and we reimburse them for the training and out of the dues for the black firefighters association. as far as in house training go we're looking for ways to provide that. in the past we had members who were state fire

marshal trained. that means they can teach us state fire marshal classes and get certificates. we looking to bring that back to organization. we have the international association of black firefighters in the region and have semi-annual and annual conversations and people from the united states and california together to talk about problems and triumphs within fire services in the nation. they offer classes in management styles with promotions, help with continuing education as well. moving forward from that all the training and everything that we get that we've done is always encouraged by everybody within the organization. we strongly encourage our new members to participate as much as possible with the community service. our community service gives members a chance to share experiences and give advice to one another. new members interact with the public and see what positive impact the organization has on

all communities in san francisco. the end result gives us a stronger foundation, give new members a chance to participate in what the executive board does and help us move forward with the succession planning within it is organization. our members finally have a member in every civil service rank in the fire department i am proud to say. that gives us the ability to mentor from the top down and as i was thinking about this today i realized that my 30 year career i realized that some of the young guys have actually mentored with me so working inspired me and hopefully you guys with the work that we're doing. we also looking to put together topics for discussion to help firefighters move forward with promotion and understanding fire house culture which is huge and preparing for administrative duties in the future and have a succession plan within the department. all of the topics fall into that leadership development and that

brings and bonds the san francisco black firefighters together. we continue to grow stronger and our organization will always fight for equality. next slide. now the good part. as the president said we have the 50th anniversary this year and save the date and two day event it's so big we wanted to honor all the retired firefighters from san francisco so friday the nine is the legends of honor and the first five black firefighters hired before 1972 and then when the fire safety technicians came in and the concept for the black firefighters and lead up to this day. the first firefighters are going to be honored. the first black female would be honored and the chief and bringing in the legal team that helped us with the victory over the decree and have them and awards for all members of the

retired fire department and at hotel niko and a five star and proud of that as well and that saturday night is the main function and have dinner and gala and honor the remaining members of the department and focused on the youth academy like we said. it's been transit isal for the department and we're elutioning them in the high school year now we have a partnership with keep the kids from 14 to 19 and 18 to 24 and gives opportunity and opens their ires to what they can accomplish in the city and county of san francisco and also other places. the department has been great with the ambulance service the 9910 program. we are blessed to have such support from the command staff so we appreciate that. that saturday we have special guest speaker maly on cohen will be there and dj and great food and

auction and donations from people that added up to a lot and we're proud of that so we're always looking for more so go online and purchase the tickets and celebrate with us for the 50th anniversary and thank you for having us today. >> thank you. >> nice job you guys. thank you. [applause] >> strong work. >> do you have a question? >> yes. >> vice president nakajo please. >> thank you very much madam president. thank you very much for your presentation president davis. i wanted to give a comment but i also had some questions as well. my comments is how much i and i know our colleagues on the

commission enjoyed this presentation. for myself it's been something i have been looking forward to. i also wanted to comment that i really appreciate the format of your presentation by allowing -- excuse me, that's not the proper word but the inclusion of the other executive board members and how you shared that presentation as well. my observation comment was again and you gave it to us in the presentation of my notes how many members you have and that was written and i had a question of the ratio of men and women but you showed that as well and acknowledgment of the women as well. i think that is really, really important. my question is how much classes and graduates do you have the youth academy at this point? >> can you repeat the question a little louder sir? >> you were talking about a youth academy that the firefighters work with. is there a number of students that you have already graduated or part of that

academy? >> in the department? >> in the program. >> no. overall like how many young people have graduated from the youth academy since 2004? is that what you're asking? >> right thank you for the help >> and you don't know the answer if you guys can get that to us. >> i can get you the answer. i'm not sure of that as we speak. >> okay. i'm curious and we have been following it and the reason i asked that question i know it's an active group but i also know there's some members that are working in the field at this point and i just wanted to get a ballpark figure. at some point if you can provide that for us that would be great. the other thing i wanted to remark on is in the presentation what really stood out is for me the concept of the succession plan because to me it's obvious that the members who came today are part of that succession plan, and again the leadership development part of the leadership

development is that's great within the concept but if we in the fire department stone have the access in the ranks to be able to display and practice that leadership it's something that needs to be really worked on consistently. i really appreciate that so i just wanted to give that comment and thank all of the executive board members and everybody for your presentation today president davis. >> yes thank you >> and madam president. >> thank you. yes commissioner morgan. >> yes. i want to thank you guys for your presentation. it's lieutenant davis ; right? >> acting lieutenant. >> huh? >> acting lieutenant davis. >> yeah, thank you for the presentation. i'm commissioner morgan and i just want to commend you guys' service you know for helping the youth academy and all of that, you know help mentoring the youth especially in the

bayview. you guys are well respected in the bayview and i just want to say thank you you know for suiting up and showing up for the youth, and i had a question. i know on the gala event it's a friday night; right? is lily brown still speaking at that event? >> had a prior engagement so we have another guest speaker to come help honor the retirees that night. >> yeah. i don't know if i can make it saturday but i was going to dip in friday. hopefully that is okay. >> come enjoy the festivities. >> i am looking forward to meeting you one-on-one. thanks again for coming. >> thank you. >> yes. commissioner fraser. >> thank you so much. i'm commissioner fraser. i just want to congratulate you on 50 years. that's really impressive. i

mean that's some continuity in the community so i am sure your reputation is outstanding and on owning your own building in san francisco. that's a big deal and i know that. i am also impressed with the curriculum at the youth academy and it's great and so many areas that you cover and education that you offer to the youth. there's something in there for everybody and finally on the size of the fish that you're catching out in the bay i want to congratulate you on those. that was amazing as well and i will definitely see you at the saturday night dinner so thanks to all of you. >> thank you. >> any further -- chief nicholson please. >> thank you madam president. i want to follow up and thank you guys for walking the walk and thanks for working with us, for working with me, and for also stepping up on

everything but really stepping up to city emt as well which is really important to me and i know that some of you i believe you went through a similar program in the east bay so you bring that experience to those young people. i will be at the gala for sure and looking forward to it and again just looking forward to working with you guys more, and seeing how we can support each other. >> thank you. >> strong work. >> thank you. >> thank you again. >> thank you all very much for being here tonight. [applause] >> anybody on the comment line? all right. . >> item 7 chief of departments report. report from chief of department jeanine nicholson on

current issues and activees in the department since the last meeting on july 27, 2022 including budget, academy, special events, communications and outreach to other government agencies and the public. report from operations deputy chief robert postel on overall field operations emergency medical services and bureau of fire prevention and investigation, training within the department and the airport division and report from administration deputy chief tom o'connor on the administrative division fleet and facilities status and updates finance support services and homeland security. >> may i begin? thank you from the feinstein again. chief jeanine nicholson and this is my report since our -- since last month's meeting. i building i missed the last meeting so yesterday was a busy day for our

members. you may have seen in the news and i want to thank all members that respond to both incidents and really just -- they really just worked hard and did a great job and the chief can answer questions about the mccallister fire if you have any and right here by and showed up quickly so it was a really challenging situation with the knowledge -- building and the way it was partitioned off and getting to the fire. it was really challenging so great job to our our members. let's see on august 1 we had a bump up class of in the ems side of things from level one to paramedic. 10 people from the class and there is 10 people completed that and there are five more

expected to be complete on september 9 for the bump up. also within ems and community paramedicine our community paramedic chief and staff will be participating in an audit of the street teams within the city because there's quite a few and this audit will be carried out by the budget and legislative analyst and should be complete by 2023. chief simon pang can certainly answer any questions you have on that but it is very clear to me from all the meetings that i attend with the policy makers that our community paramedicine program is doing -- is having the most success out there on the streets and just doing great, great work. last friday chief tong and

chief pat rabbit who is here tonight participated with the mayor's office and other city departments in an active shooter table top conversation and it was engaging and informative and out of that will come some further drills with -- because it touches so many different departments within the city, not just police and fire, so there will be -- there will be further drills that are table top and actual operational drills that will be developed out of that. covid-19 is still unfortunately around and we currently have 16 members in quarantine. three members that are positive out less than 30 days and five members that are out longer than 30 days due to covid illness.

some of them have been off for quite a while. so we keep doing our best and keep monitoring that. there was an event that took place in sacramento to honor firefighter -- deceased firefighter jason cortez and christopher yak and their names have been added to the memorial wall and always in sacramento there's quite a memorial wall of firefighters that have died in the line of duty, and so several of us from the command staff went to that and as always both families are always in our thoughts. the department was part of the school backpack give away recently that the pio secure total of 1,000 backpacks with school supplies and our members along with pd and

sheriff gave the backpacks away to the children throughout the city. i went through one of the give a ways at the charles drew school and always happy to see the young people returning to school. my command staff and i participated in the filipino parade and nice event celebrating the community and honored to attend with the asian firefighters association. also chief tong and i went to an aapi community honors dinner in chinatown for pd leadership. i told them they needed to do one for the fire department leadership. i don't know if they will take us up on that or not. august is transgender history month. i was honored to attend the flag raising at city hall. we met

with united fire service women and other employee group doing good work as others. they have a boot camp coming up for girls and young women on october 1. they're also working on establishing a mentorship program both at station 49 and out in the fire stations, and they have put together several wellness events to really bring attention to our members' health both physical and behavioral. and then myself and battalion chief albawere interviewed by pbs and there will be a piece coming up in regards to cancer in the fire service specifically around the pfos chemicals in our gear so we will let you know when that is due to

air. and then this past weekend i went to station 51 where our fire fellow bicycle riders came through and they're bringing awareness to cancer from riding from san francisco to l.a. this week, so was happy to see them, and some of the families of firefighters that have died of cancer were there on hand, and so yeah it was a good event although somber it maybe people are really taking action and that's great, and that completes my report and i am happy to take any questions and i know we have several more reports coming tonight. >> thank you very much chief. first of all is there any

public comment? >> there's nobody on the public comment line. >> all right. then public comment will be closed. i have one question but i will go last. questions for the chief? >> yeah, i will be quick. i am surprised to see you here. i thought you were going to be gone in that email i thought you were gone to the end of the month. >> well, i am gone but i'm always around. >> all right. well glad to see you here though. i appreciate that update you sent me about a week ago. i just want to say the street response teams are doing a great job out there i'm a big fan, and i just want to say keep up the good work all the rest of the command staff that is involved and i am one of your biggest fans. keep it up so that's all i got. good to see you chief. >> thank you commissioner morgan. >> mr. vice president. >> thank you madam

president. thank you very much chief nicholson. since we're talking about this subject matter and i realize there are more reports being presented this evening, and we're talking about the comments on the teams that are out there, the ems teams and the teams that are out there, and i know that there's an adjustment that we're going to make with the new ems -- excuse me, with dc four with their individual presentation and the ems is part of chief postel's report but i know there's a separate report on that but i wanted to comment as a commissioner. we read periodically from the public through the department and the commission and various information up and dates andin had a note chief that we confident an update about ems friday august 19. again i won't go into detail. it was

written by [inaudible] captain jennifer shirakawa and matt fluke and i wanted to let you know when i get the emails and updates i take the time to read it because there's so much material information so that when you report the fire department are having strong impact out there without a shadow of a doubt i know we're effective. part of these reports especially the one on friday august 12 identifications ems6s ert -- [inaudible] h sol -- [inaudible]. to the lehman they may understand understand what it mean but it's programs and service from the fire department. i have to be honor with you as well as the others when it comes to the paramedic ems and

i read these reports it takes time to read it and ingest it because there's so much occurrence and these members write strong description of the effects we have and then i have to drawback and digest it but i have been feeling recently an emotional reaction that there's so much work out there and the reports give a real clear description, and i just think that our department without a shadow of a doubt i know we do the good work but we're doing such complicated work and i know the mayor's office and other board members may understand that, but it's terms like dual diagnosis. it's clinical. it's mental health. it's homeless. it's drug addiction. the gamut is so wide and i know it's a reflection of san francisco to the point who is doing something about this and i know we're doing our best but i know that san francisco fire department and gamma

six, paramedic and the community paramedic program are doing the best we can with this crisis and struggle within san francisco and i just want to acknowledge that from the pers that i have as a member of the community, the public, social worker if you will and i know our colleagues on the commission and the commissioners have those kind of experiences as well. it's how difficult this is and yet our command force and the men and women that are out there are doing the jock. i just wanted to say that. today madam president. >> [off mic]. >> i have a comment and a question which is one i read in our local paper regarding an effort by the united women

-- united fire service women and their effort at fundraising to contribute to two vans that are solely needed in ukraine and i didn't know anything about it that there was this fundraising effort, but i did want to mention it and really commend them because the picture that went with the story you know had san francisco, had people -- you know, clenching hands you know and you could see -- i mean that country has been so devstraight by unparalleled cruelty and i was so proud to read about the women firefighters who participated in this, and just wanted to

acknowledge them and their efforts. i believe it's going to be ongoing, and hopefully we can all support them in trying to help this country survive and get back on its feet, but it was a great first start. it really brought a tear to my eye when you think about it and i think it goes along with what we're hearing which is that you know over time over years we're talking about the 50th anniversary of the black firefighters association. we're talking about community paramedicine. this was all -- you know the things that the fire department didn't do when i was a fire year old girl here in san francisco and i'm just really proud to watch the department grow and expand and serve the community in so many different

and new ways, and i just think it shows that not only a generous spirit but real commitment to our community as well as those who are not doing very well, for example, u -- ukraine and you're all special people and i wanted that acknowledged and all the programs make the department better stronger and something to be more proud of. >> thank you madam president. yes, and chief o'conner may speak to it in his report tonight that he went to a event with multiple fire department it is throughout the bay

area donated excess worn out excess equipment that we no longer use and shipped to ukraine and there's that as well but you will speak to it later, yeah and yes the united fire service women. i think they raised $60,000 for two vans because they needed the smaller vehicles to get through the cities -- >> the rubble. >> yeah, because the fire engines couldn't get through in certain places. >> thank you. >> if i may? >> of course. >> very briefly as the newest commissioner i happened to be a couple blocks from the mccallister street fire the other day when the third alarm came over my phone, and i went to the event a

few blocks away like a regular person should do, and i have to say i was amaze impressed like everyone on the street who was watching and the thing that i also just wanted to mention -- i know they're not here tonight but a couple of months ago we had a presentation from the auxiliary and they were there too. they were running back and forth with oxygen tanks and it was a very impressive thing to witness, and on the heels of that i will say the amount of smoke and toxic stuff in the air was evident and everything you're doing and everyone is doing to increase and build awareness about the health of our firefighters and emts around cancer i think is important if not urgent item to always embrace and talk about so anyway and for everything else thank you. >> thank you commissioner fraser.

yes, again as i said on mccallister street fire our people really, really stepped up and worked really, really hard, and yeah they made a rescue off the roof, and quite a few other things, so thank you for that. >> all right. i think chief postel are you ready in. >> i guess so. good afternoon president feinstein, vice president nakajo, commissioner morgan, commissioner fraser. robert postel deputy chief robert postel of operations. i want to thank the bfa but they already left because what i heard is a group of young firefighters e and he want for the one old

guy zach and are engaged in the fire department and the community and being -- have always been and part of what san francisco is and they're participating within the city and doing things to make the city better and i think it's great and i think it's a lesson that all of the young firefighters can pick up on and be part of what goes on here whether it's a softball league or youth academy, whatever it is to play a role and part of this city because this is our home and who we serve and i think it's great. with that said i will move on to my report. since you grout it up i will start with the third alarm fire. commissioner fraser i wish i knew you were there and happy to give you updated and give a tour. anytime you're there find me and i am happy to spend time with you so the fire yesterday at mccallister street and a third story old

wood frame multiunit apartment building and start on the second floor in a unit on the west end of the building. this unit was incredibly difficult to find and to access for the crews. one of the doors had access the unit was nailed over with plywood so they made into the building and normally where the fire and couldn't locate it so due to the experience and ingenuity of the chief mcguire who of course to these situation before decided to breach the wall and bring water in and through the wall and get water but the fire had such intensity and spread vertically and gotten into the floor and attic space and a dumb waiter. very heavy smoke conditions in the building itself so crews were challenged with zero visibility. there was a lot of excess storage in the building and challenges with moving around

within the building. the building had 14-foot ceilings so in order to get to the fire above they have to hughes a hook with an extension which is much more difficult requires more strength and hook bends so it's a lot of hard work in difficult conditions and when you see a fire like that and you see our veterans that have 20, 25, 30 years in and walk in as chief o'conner said and the best people hunched over with hands on the knees just spent you get an idea just how difficult things were for them. wong things i would like to highlight the crew at truck five whether we got there when they arrived they got a report there were people trapped on the roof in the rear. immediately they sent someone to the roof and a crew inside to locate the people. they found a woman adjacent on the rear and suffering

from smoke inhalation. they grabbed the 22-foot ladder and lowered it down next door and rescued her and brought her out and down the aerial and subsequently transported for smoke inhalation and proceeded to go to the roof and cut ventilation holes and everything happening on the roof. everybody did a phenomenal job and the fact that the fire was able to stay in that corner of the building and we didn't lose the top floor is a testament to the hard work of everybody there and i was proud. we had the assistant chief and the incident commander and did a great job and hats off to everybody and we had the fire shortly after on the pier and a bag of challenges with no water supply and use the fire boat and earthquake damaged building we couldn't enter and a lot going

on yesterday. everybody did great work. during the month of july we had three greater alarms and first on july 15 and second alarm on sea cliff avenue and routine fire for us. when the fire became second alarm and significant when one of the officers of the crew that was leading a hose line conducting a search as progressing through the smoke filled environment and opened a door to be a room and it lead to a open elevator shaft and fell about 12 feet down the shaft so the fire immediately transit ised to a rig operation which is a rapid intervention crew and standing by to rescue trapped firefighters. they were able to get this officer out of the elevator shaft, transported quickly and certificate a serious back and leg

injury. he should make a full recovery but the challenges with a routine fire and everything is going okay and all of a sudden something like that happens you not only have to focus on the rescue of the trapped or missing or injured firefighter you still to maintain control of the incident and they continue the fire attack because if you don't that more problems and the commander is managing two things at once. the assistant chief kenye was there and they did a fantastic job and they don't happen often and a lot of learning lessons out of that. the subject alarm was on fitzgerald and late in the afternoon one day and the engine arrived and fires into the attic space and threatening the exposures on either side and because of

those concerns they had a second alarm requested and companies on the top floor of each building and keep the fire out of interior of the buildings. a complication with this one of the buildings turned out to be a marijuana grow house so in those grow houses you have lots of electrical hazards and cords and sometimes they're booby trapped and more challenges at us and everybody did a great job with that. he was the ac at that one also. then the next day on the 22nd and another alarm on 16th street. this was a vacant building and boarded up and significant fire damage from a previous commercial structure fire in the adjacent building several years ago. this building hasn't been reoccupied. there were heavy fire on the first floor extending through the light well and starting to come through the roof. brook baker was the ic on

this. knowing they had an exposure building that was occupied on the left side, the bravo side they made a decision to make a quick aggressive attack on the building they knew the time was limited in because it was already compromised. compromised they got in and good knock on the fire damage of the fire and the second alarm and crews into the exposure building and limit damage to the light well and minimize the loss of housing units so again quick action taken a lot of risks for a lot of good results paid off with that fire. in addition there were 13 working fires in july. 12 water rescues and three cliff rescues. as we move into the summer and fall time period we start to see more and more of the water and cliff rescue incidents and i just want to highlight the work done with the surf rescue, the water rescue and the cliff rescue companies. they raised the bar to a

high level out there and doing an excellent job and i want to make sure they get the recognition they deserve because they put their life on the line every time they rescue somebody in the water and the surf as well. that's it for the operations side of things. as you're well aware and as the chief alluded to ems is now a stand alone in the fire department under the leadership of sandy tong so they no longer fall under my supervision and oversight and i will work with chief tong with everything that overlaps between us and it's been a pretty good arrangement so far for everybody i think. i just like to comment that when i first took this position as the deputy chief of operations i didn't know much about ems. i don't come from that background. i'm a suppression guy and i took time to get up to speed and oriented how they operate and the

different aspect was ems and community paramedicine and everything else and what i found was an incredibly competent dedicated hard working group of people and some of them extremely over worked on the ambulances and i really have a great amount of respect on that side of the house and much better understanding than i did eight, nine months ago. cleavage you really opened my eyes to a whole new word of care that we can provide with the community paramedicine program. >> . >> i am super impressed with some of the programs. i think some are having a positive impact and as we grow and refine them i think it's a model you will see nationwide like fire prevention with codes to recuse fires and a similar analogy so that being said i'm not getting into the details of the ens

report in here and it's my final report and sandy's wheelhouse now and she can answer the questions and eye opening with ems. bureau of fire prevention and investigation had a significant number of retirees in june coming up to the end of the fiscal year and new people in new positions getting up to speed in the new roles and new inspector list coming out and a number of new inspectors and a lot of fluidity in fire prevention now and we're continuing to work with the data research firm fair and peers on a joint study with mta and the impact of streetscape changes on our response times a the first phase is concluded of the study and we're working out the details of the second phase. the first was a macro analysis of the data and refine that down to some more specific analysis of a

couple specific types of streetscape changes and compounding effects and as well as comparing corridors where you take one corridor with no changes and another one that has changes and analyze the results to see what's really slowing us down in our response times with these changes so hopefully we get good information out of that. there's no time for a completion right now but hopefully it won't take too long. on the same vein lieutenant florez who works with battalion matt shorts works with mta and the task and other groups to manage the street changes shared space, all these things which challenge us but i understand how they benefit the stay so we're trying to find that balance as well so we have a seat at the table and working hard on that. plan check had 929 plans in review of the 785 were reviewed and awaiting

responses. 1359 inspections conducted. the community outreach program participated in six events a couple of them with over a thousand participants and the bureau of fire prevention and investigation investigated structure fires and vehicle fires and 11 other fires. at sfo assistant chief darcy stepped into the role enthusiastically and very effective. he's managing left over budgetary issues and he's developing new ideas to improve some recruitment for assignment to the airport so hopefully we see some people wanting to volunteer to go down there it's a neat assignment. it has unique challenges and pat can bring people down there during july they prepared for the live burn training and conducted last week. there were no significant incidents during the month of july. lastly the division of training under the chief the

class of recruitments is in training and the class is performing l currently there's a hybrid level three paramedic class taking place with others in the academy and 30 participants started and down to 27 and slated to graduate september 30. there's a bump up also taking place and five members. they will be completed september 9. 129 academy class is in the field on the first assignment of the 128 is past the six month test and in the second assignment n the packet i'm not good with the technology here but in the packet there are some photos showing the recruits during morning pt and learning fundamentals they will build upon in the academy of 20 weeks and in service training lastly they worked with the discovery channel to film a

video on earthquake response for one of the tv shows. our teams participated as well as part of the monthly training day and that concludes my report for july. >> thank you very much chief postel. i know i have -- well let me see if there's any public comment? >> there's no public comment. >> thank you. public comment is closed. i'm just going to go first instead of last this time. i have two questions for you here. what's an insip iant fire? >> it's a fire in the initial stages so if you have paper in a garbage can and someone drops a cigarette in there and that's what it is. >> thank you very much. i knew what it meant but i couldn't put the words together so i needed help.

second of all poor assistant chief yee. how did -- i mean how does that happen? >> it's just the luck of the draw sometimes. it hits when you're working and a roll and get them. >> ho got a roll there. >> yeah, ho got work there for a bit. >> i don't know if this falls within the fire marshal's purview or where, but when i was reading about the 16th street fire, and it says -- and it references that the building -- basically was boarded up locked up, gated up and had been you know occupied by folks that didn't have anywhere else to go. what concerned me though was that building has been

sitting there in that condition since the rolling stock fire and i actually being technologically challenged myself was impressed that i was able to look up the rolling stock fire, and it was in november of 2015. how long do we leave buildings that are just fire traps and nuisance attractances and what can the department do to? the building needs to come down. it's not going to get you know it's not going to get refurbished and turned into condominiums and it's a true hazard and somebody could very well have been lost their life in this fire. >> so when we have a fire in a building we have control of the building until the fire is extinguished and the investigation into the

cause is completed. if there's structural deficiencys in the building that the ic is concerned about we call out dbi and send out an engineer and analyze the building which they did at mccallister street yesterday and red tag or yellow tag the building or whatever it maybe. at this point it's an issue between dbi and the owner. we have no control over the building once we relinquish it and we target itsa a hazard and units be aware of this building if you get something here and over time you know the buildings you're going to get a fire in eventually and do pre-fire planning. you know what the hazards are so when it happens at two in the morning like it did you know what you're up against and you know how much risk you're able to take and the challenge with that fire was that chief baker knew it was a

dangerous situation but he also knew he had a occupied multi-building next door and if he takes a defensive attack on the previous fire building the occupied building is going to suffer extensive damage and displace those people so with the battalion chief make a attack and determination if they could get it quickly or transition to a defensive and the actions paid dividends and a great job. >> can the office of building inspection not order the destruction of a building? >> i believe they can but has to be damaged beyond what it was. >> beyond the five alarm building. >> yeah, because the building account come in --

>> well, somebody did come in -- >> remodel it. >> that's part of my concern. more than one person too but there's nothing that can be done? there's no mechanism? >> they can red tag and not occupied about rarely they don't tear it down. you can take the other property on st. patrick's day and the interior was gutted and the walls are standing and it's not rebuilt yet. there's a lot of these buildings around the city. >> well, we have to figure out what we can do about them. >> that's outside of my scope. >> i understand. but i think you will support effort. all right. i'm going to be quiet now and vice president nakajo. >> thank you madam president. thank you chief postel

and comprehensive update and a report on the mccallister fire. i will note this because it's an operational subject matter. it came under your report some time ago. i just want to recognize that within the record because i want the commissioners and the chiefs in the department to know that i have been working somewhat on this. there was a fire on may 13 near rogua park grammar school in the western edition. i believe there was a rescue that occurred clearly and there were five teachers from rosa parks school that ran into the building that was on fire and helped pull out seniors that were there and i did some research and the newspaper article and has the name of the five instructors, ruben guzman event enures, name arame beyond [inaudible] and zachary morin. i want to work with the fire department and the chief in the

sense we could recognize these instructors that helped volunteer that day and rescue these seniors, but also the principal of rosa parks apartments which is located in jap jap western edition and a great example. we had the. >> . >> . >> ceremony with [inaudible] so that's the school we're talk about but i wanted you to know chief postel and chief nicholson the principal is something i would like to engage with so having the president of the board of education jenny lamb is a colleague as well, but also i know that the mayor's office, mayor breed went to rosa park grammar school as well. i want know i will try to have a accommodation of the variety entity and i look to your guidance chief to properly refer to this in terms of recognizing these instructors. >> thank you vice president

nakajo. yes, i think we can certainly do that. i also know that our members were involved in rescues. i don't know that was necessarily in the media. you can probably speak to that chief postel what our folks do too and maybe have them come in as well. >> so it's been a couple of months but i recall we didn't get to present this incident so ken yee was the ic at this fire. yeah, this was another fire that the crews did an outstanding job so when they showed up they had -- i have video on my phone of just a tremendous volume of fire from the ground floor to the top floor, and there was a center stair case that accessed the three units that were fully involved in fire and to the right of that were other units that were smoke involvement as you work your way to the north they were less

involved so one of the challenges that day we had a lot of training with new lieutenants and stuff so the majority the crewings that showed up were running one body short and the officers and the lieutenant's act and firefighters were asking as officers. they had seven rescues that our people performed and they were -- these were legitimate coordinated rescues. this is the firefighters side of it in the fire involved part of the structure. they actually put hose lines in place in the stairwell and did not make entry apartments while members of the rescue one went to the floors above and pulled people out one by one and i think they took three from the interior. they picked one person from the front of the building from a ladder raised by truck five. the

driver of truck five raise it to the roof saw the person who was trappeds, grab the ladder, raised ladder, rescue the person and went back to the lader and because they're short staff went to the roof and cut a vent hole waiting for the second alarm companies to come on scene. there were two, three rescues made by radder from the rear of the building from people who were trapped in the directly involved departments. it was seven legitimate coordinated risk taking rescues and these people made it because of the good coordination and the experience of our crews that were in there and i am aware of the story about the school teachers. i don't know exactly what part -- which building they went interest. i know they didn't go into the buildings involved fire because our people barely made it in

there i know the adjacent buildings had smoke and if they evacuated the people that played a big role getting them out as well because we were so consumed with rescues that we couldn't do anything with the fire for first six, seven minutes until we got the people out of the building and we're lucky we had the teacher there is to take care of the other part while our crews were able to get some guidelines place and get the remaining people out. it was a great effort that day as well. >> thank you for the update and thank you for information to the commission as well and i remember there was discussion that maybe recognizing those firefighters with awards as well and i just say combination of the teachers and the various entities involved but i wanted to bring this up and a good time. will send you a photo from the japanese

newspaper that has the photos and to chief nicholson. thank you. >> thank you vice president nakajo. it really sounds like we ought to include assistant chief yee in this too. he's been drawing particular straws hasn't he? >> he been busy lately. >> go ahead. >> oh i'm sorry commissioner morgan. no. i will arm wrestle you for it. >> thank you so much. that was really, really informative and helping me to continue to learn more about all the various things that happen. in addition to what everyone has said i would like to i am curious i am interested and curious about the streetscape study. this is -- just so that i understand. as a person who gets around san francisco on foot and by car it's nothing compared to what you all are trying to

do, and did you say that there's a separate company or you're hired a consultant to study our streetscape problem? >> the mta is actually funding the study because we have been disputing with the mta whether or not what they're doing is affecting our response types. the data shows our response times have gone up and coincides with the streetscape changes so they hired a firm that has done these studies for related things with transportation before so they're actually -- we're providing the data and they're analyzing it and coming back with the results. >> okay. that's great. just moving on i have a question about the report on inspection activity and that's you know there's a lot of information in here. what i am curious about because the largest number of inspections according to this chart i am looking at

page 24 is dbi and that makes total sense. what i am curious about there's a inspection activity called "complaints" and they're complaints from who? >> a complaint -- correct me if i am wrong ken or maybe can you explain it. >> anyone? >> complaints versus violations? . >> president feinstein, vice president nakajo, commissioners, chiefs and command staff so when you mention complaints we get them two ways. one the general public can call in and online and r-1, r-2 complaints and when the companies in the field inspect apartment houses with nine or more units. when they enter the information in the system anything that is not compliant, maybe the fire alarm is out of service or date,

whatever. automatically when they check a box no it comes in as a complaint to us so the inspectors have to go out and verify that the owner has abated the situation so we get complaints internally and from the general public. >> i see. the last thing under inspections there's a lot of categories and different kinds of structures that are inspected. do you ever get called to inspect sro hotels? >> we do education for it. sros -- chief -- >> [off mic]. >> okay. that falls under r-1, r-2 program and focus on it so yes we do inspect sros so anything with more than nine or more units. >> nine or more? >> nine or more. eight or less is done by the housing division and dbi so sro has nine or more our companies go out there and not fire prevention and we go out if the

company is doing an inspection and go out and excessive garbage or something like that we go out. >> when i saw the category of leaderring and that hoarding in the city. >> it's difficult and have to work with the building owner and dph, elderly division, everything to try to get that abated. >> my hats off for all that coordination, really. thank you. >> thank you. >> i agree with you president feinstein because i walk by the building on 16th street for years and every time i walk by and i thought any minute it will go up and there you have it. thank you so much chief postel. >> yeah. i will try -- >> commissioner morgan. >> thank you for your courtesy. >> yeah. i was curious and reading about some of the fires that you guys dealt

with and the one that was sticking out was the -- i guess that's the one president feinstein was talking about -- >> 16th street? >> yeah. i was trying to figure out what the term meant and protect the bravo exposure building? >> as we look from a building from the front somebody along the way in the fire service decided instead of calling for left, right, front back. they use the alphabet so the front side is the a side and work clockwise b is bravo. c is charlie. d is delta. >> i thought i heard it before. >> so the next one to delta is bravo two and unfortunately we have reports with several buildings involved and a few times a year. >> yeah, you guys are braves souls and into harm's

way and with a previously burned building you don't know what you're walking into, whether it's structural sound. >> [off mic] >> and getting up -- like the poor guy that fell through the elevator shaft. hopefully he will be okay, that firefighter. >> yeah, he should make a full recovery. he got very lucky. >> yeah, that was interesting. that was a three level home ; right? >> yeah. >> okay. wow, yeah. and just want to commend you guys on your bravery because you never know what you're walking into -- >> routine changes. >> yeah. and the other incident with the marijuana grow house was that a lill operation? >> no, it wasn't a legal operation. >> i doubt it. >> i think they're permanent now aren't they. >> [off mic]. >> yeah. i was

reading somewhere about that and you guys report -- you know you're afraid to go into some of the walls and electrical wires. >> yeah, they run a lot -- >> you don't know what you're getting into. >> and electricity and not up to code and not where you expect to find it. >> yeah, i found that fascinateing. >> yeah. >> i am just going to follow up if that's okay commissioner morgan. >> yeah, go ahead. >> but from my days in the district attorney's office yeah before we had an office of cannabis and if cannabis was not legal one of the biggest items of probable cause for a search warrant was the use of power by pg&e so officers would get the pg&e records that would just show an extraordinary amount of

electricity being sucked into a building that didn't at all -- couldn't justify it. it wouldn't be a laundry or big user of electricity and i am sort of wondering if that has fallen off or not? whether or not marijuana is legal or not legal illegal wire suggest wireless facilitying is illicense and dangerous for fire and all sorts of reasons. >> what i experienced with that and they had pd had their own special unit dedicated to the pg&e theft and so there were two problems with the excessive use so you were sucking too much voltage and causing the fire but it was coming through a meter and a breaker and everything so they started bypassing the breaker so now it's a crime and now stealing electricity but

there's no protection device and all the current is generating all this heat and causing the fires several years ago in the grow houses. >> thank you. thank you. thank you commissioner morgan. >> yeah. >> further -- >> i don't have anymore questions. thank you. >> okay. all right. thank you chief postel. and chief deputy chief o'connor. good afternoon. >> good afternoon madam commissioner, president, vice president nakajo, commissioners, secretary chief in this case. i am the deputy chief tom o'connor and the chief of administration and this is nie july 2022 report. under the homeland security with the deputy chief we had a active shooter drill with the san francisco police department. hopefully you get that screen up secretary. there we go. next slide please. on july 20 we had a active shooter drill with the san francisco police department and attended by various divisions and the police as well. it

was a great lessons learned program. on july 16 we had a joint disaster drill at treasure island. you can see from the photos there they're learning to shore up a knowledge after a earthquake and remove people from rub and he will partners in the event of a disaster city-wide so it's important to engage with the community and assist us when the big one hits. sadly enough on july 30 we went to the california fallen firefighter memorial wall and honored the two firefighters whose names were added to the wall as well. under the emergency conspiracy team you saw the hard work they do and you can see we finally had recognition and the golden gate band had a concert and honored the teams and our community response teams. under health safety and wellness chief the acting battalion

parks and continue meetings with me and the health and safety roundtable with the health and safety committee as well. we're working on a 30 in and 30 out program and trying to encourage health and wellness of our firefighters over the course of the career throughout the retirement and had meetings with the behavioral health services unit also and conducted health and safety awareness meetings and hearing conservation and stress meetings for the recruit class and the peer support dog policy with the two star there is under the physicians office of the doctor and the registered nurse and on the chart on the next slide -- the other slide -- thank you. we had a slight uptick in covid in the month of july which matches the general population but our newsletter that month focused on how the updated booster shots will have protection from omicron varupon iants and discussions with the cancer prevention foundation versus screening and diagnostic tests and the foundation is

looking into a test by gallery company and identify blood proteins to indicate there's 50 cancers possible in the bloodstream so the doctor did amazing work with the foundation is guiding us through the process because sometimes you can get too much information where your body might have this indicator of cancer but you're fighting it so it wouldn't take root or a temperaturor developed and working with the doctors office and how to navigate this process and the doctor has been fantastic in that effort and shows how important the partnership within the public and the non-profit cancer prevention foundations for the health and wellness of our members and on the tail end of the covid virus we discuss the next virus monkey pox. under the investigator bureau we have 30 members who are randomly selected and tested and all results negative for drugs and alcohol and one post test and negative and part of

the success and training the chapter has been providing training to the i sb two lieutenant tibets for coverage for the investigative bureau and lars is a member and team member and dispatched to the fires over the course of the month and wild land fires and important to have a backup plan and the equipment is engaging in that and we have a final review for the emt and other academies and moving to support services with the chief serrano . (paused). certain parts to arrive. we always had two type six pumpers successfully required from high-tech fire apparatus and all delivered and outfit to our needs. we had two police pursuit discoverers

delivered and upgraded with lights and radio equipment and all of this sounds like we're getting granular but in the era of supply chain issues they're all important and deputy chief tong and ems chief [inaudible] have been instrumental identifying ambulances as well because it's a real wild west out there. we had to get them as soon as we found them and identified 14 at brokers and under contract and moving forward mitigating our ambulance fleet issues and lastly along the same lines with supply chain issues we ordered turn outs for the commencement of the 131st academy and getting ahead of the issues and ready for the next class. we have equipmentrded for them. and as the chief mentioned earlier in her report you can see there's the handsome guy deputy chief deputy chief o'connor for the ukraine event and collection of

fire agencies in northern california to help the firefighters there. we had hose. we had meals ready to eat, turn out equipment, personal protective equipment and gloves and suspenders from america and flown to poland and trucks to ukraine so we can't get it there itself now and terrific work and the counselel general and he's been appreciative of our efforts and retired chief bella whose in my position and instrumental in the effort as well as the battalion chief and retired equipment tom muiro and host of others and worked with the chief of menlo park and the (paused)

we're back to school celebration and backpack give away in the bayview and partnered with several foundations and sfpd provided 4,000 backpacks prior to the school year. next we had the community outreach team and educational team at the street fair in japantown and you can see going from left to right we had inspector tony there and everywhere from the monthly slides, inspector clarence and stan lee and [inaudible] and in between is sprinkled some of the cadets who did exceptional work maintaining outreach and helping with the events. next as mentioned we participated in the [inaudible] parade festival and the tony distributing education material and helmets in people in the community and had the nor

cal fire girls camp for 9-12 grade and hands on orientation and training with firefighterring tools and equipment. all the topics are meant to inspire those into fire service and women in the bay area and see the inspector there as well handing out materials and that's my report for the month of july 2022. thank you. >> [off mic]. >> there's nobody on our public comment line. >> [off mic]. >> thank you commissioner. >> [off mic]. >> thank you very much madam president. thank you very much chief, very much and your comprehensive aren't. i have no questions at this point. thank you. >> . >> thank you. >> [off mic].

>> oh wait. >> i'm not there yet. hold on. >> [off mic]. >> they always forget about me. hi everyone. i am still here. thank you chief for your report. i just have one question about the health, safety and wellness programs. i was just wondering if there's any information on the attendance or how many people come or what the feedback is from folks? and maybe a little more about what the programs are? >> sure. so we have a variety of programs. i have discussed before the coffee with the commission programs and the behavioral health services specialist go out and meet everybody in off campus settings suppose those were very well attended. the behavioral health services unit itself that operates not -- it's a confidential setting so we don't release the numbers and the participants. we can get the raw data for you how much are assisted by the behavioral

health unit but it's confidential and want them comfortable going to the programs. the peer support program policy is a good program with the firefighter and the dogs and the dogs are going to different fire houses and meeting the firefighters. the health safety committee meetings and focusing on the long-term health of firefighters as with the 30 day in 30 out program and encourage long-term view for personal health while working and retired and lastly this morning we had a pretty well attended event. stephanie hill from the physician's office and team and smoothie bicycle in the lobby and promoting

-- [off mic]. >> i am just curious to people request -- this is something -- does it come from the rank and file or how are the programs chosen? >> we have the behavioral health unit can make a request or send to somebody we think are in need of. and the peer dogs are brought in as needed basis or do a tour of the fire house and let them know what we have and encourage to reach out if they want to engage as well. the 30 in 30 out is going to be a city-wide program in all the fire houses and try to partner with labor and the cancer foundation and the credit union and get a whole range of suite of service for members so there's a variety of participation levels for the programs. >> i don't think i asked that

question very well. i guess what i was curious about -- do you solicit ideas from the rank and file of what they're feeling? >> oh yes a lot is part of the health and safety committee and ideas from the fire house and members and all different ranks and battalions and divisions and bring the ideas to us and we try to implement them through the branches of the department. >> okay. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> [off mic]. >> item 8. public comment on items nine. public comment on all matters pertaining to item 9 below including public comment on whether to hold item 9b, c, d, e and closed session and there's nobody on the public comment line. >> [off mic].

>> item 9. possible closed session regarding personnel matters. vote on whether to conduct items 9b, c, d, e in closed session. the commission may hear these items in closed session suzy loftus to the government code as cited. >> [off mic]. >> . >> . and vice president morgan -- vice president nakajo how do you vote? >> i vote for closed session. >> and commissioner fraser. >> closed session. >> the motion is unanimous. we . >> we are back in open

session. it's 7:03 p.m. and item f1 report on any action taken in closed session that is specified in california government code 54957. and san francisco administrative code 67.12 and item 2 vote to disclose any discussions in closed session as in san francisco administrative code 67.12. >> [off mic]. >> yeah. i would like to make a motion to keep the matters in closed session if i may. >> to not disclose. >> yes. >> to not disclose, yes. i'm sorry.

>> [off mic]. >> commissioner fraser seconded. president feinstein how do you vote? >> not to tis close. >> vice president nakajo how do you vote. >> not to disclose. >> motion is unanimous. item 10 adjournment. >> i object -- [laughter] >> >> and i move to adjourn. >> i second that. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> motion is unanimous. we are adjourning at 7:05 p.m.

[crowd noise] [music] as a city we do a lot of parades and celebrations. public work system in the middle of things, doing inspections and

cleanings and organizing our crews so we are used to creating something it is something we know how to do. >> this is managed by city workers. they are out here doing the jobs to make sure our city looks good in our city time. >> we are also routing for the warriors whether we work. it was thrilling when they won and we had to get to work to plan for the parade and to make sure that everybody in the city everybody that come to the city is safe and taken care of. >> a lot went everwent in 100 hours of planning with the warrior and mayors office and city partners it took a team to make today possible. >> important this the department has the presence, seeing the

priority and vehicles makes everyone feel safe we value our commute and serve it, it is important. >> the giant crowds we are to bring out our specialized equipment. we have small response united staffed by a paramedic and mt the small golf cart devices have a gender and he get in and out of crowds. >> i'm here to help people get to where they need to go and figure out the bus routes and navigate things temperature is important we take care of safety and make sure everyone gets to where they need to so everyone can celebrate the warrior and be out on parade day. >> how is or ems book >> when we have been able to do is set up mobile command posts. and we partnered with the private sector with verizon to provide priority communication so we can run our entire emergency response on that

network for our first responders. we know they will work even though we are getting thousands of people all competing for the same network to send photos and e maild and texts and video our first responders are able to do the same amongst the large crowd. >> get out here at 5:30 a.m. and saw employees cleaning the street its takes a team to build a champion. >> i love it and bum when he left i'm glad he is back no matter how much he plays or does not play that man's heart and spirit he carries everyone along and really mentor people and mentoring is so important whether in basketball or the fire service or ems. mentoring is huge and having a presence like that around is huge. >> my favorite player is jordan i like he is a role player and

come out as a starter i feel similar to the city i like a structure and plan when there is an opportunity to lead i like that, also. >> the player i like lisa. he is similar to me all there and game is in the pretty but gets the job done. every time he scores all right. my man is back. >> happy with seth curry's wife strong. she is a leader and she just really puts on a great face for females and being strong and in the face of challenge and negativity. [music] [crowd noise] >> they were tons and tons and tons of blue and yellow confetti. every wrchl the end we picked up 38 tons of trash.

mostly confetti. >> in terms of for our crews we were ready. after we had been data break and done carnival in may. our team was prepped to do the work and they felt tremendous pride in part of the huge celebration and tremendous pride in the coordination we did with the mayor's office, the police department issue public health and the city agencies that got together and put on a party for the bay area. put on the party for the nation. [crowd noise] [music]

>> there is a lot of unique characteristics about visitation valley. it is a unique part of the city. >> we are off in a corner of the city against the san francisco county line 101 on one side. vis station valley is still one of the last blue color neighborhoods in san francisco. a lot of working class families out here. it is unusual. not a lot of apartment buildings. a lot of single family homes. >> great business corridor. so much traffic coming through here and stopping off to grab coffee or sandwich or pick up

food before going home. >> a lot of customers are from the neighborhood. they are painters or mechanics. they are like blue color workers, a lot of them. >> the community is lovely. multi-racial and hopefully we can look out for each other. >> there is a variety of businesses on the block. you think of buffalo kitchen, chinese food, pork buns, sandwich. library, bank of america with a parking lot. the market where you can grab anything. amazing food choices, nail salons. basically everything you need is here. >> a lot of these businesses up and down leland are family owned. people running them are family. when you come here and you have an uncle and nephew and go across the street and have the guy and his dad. lisa and her daughter in the dog

parlor and pam. it is very cool. >> is small businesses make the neighborhood unique. >> new businesses coming. in mission blue, gourmet chocolate manufacturing. the corridor has changed and is continuing to change. we hope to see more businesses coming in the near future. >> this is what is needed. first, stay home. unless it is absoluteliness scary. social distancing is the most important step right now to limit spread of virus. cancel all nonessential gather everythings. >> when the pandemic litly land avenue suffered like other corridors.

a few nail salons couldn't operate. they shut down. restaurants that had to adapt to more of a take out model. they haven't totally brought back indoor seating. >> it is heartbreaking to see the businesses that have closed down and shut because of the pandemic. >> when the pandemic first hit it got really slow. we had to change our hours. we never had to close, which is a blessing. thank god. we stayed open the whole time. >> we were kind of nervous and anxious to see what was going to come next hoping we will not have to close down. >> during covid we would go outside and look on both sides of the street. it looked like old western town. nobody on the street. no cars. >> it was a hard eight or nine months. when they opened up half the people couldn't afford a

haircut. >> during that time we kept saying the coffee shop was the living room of the valley. people would come to make sure they were okay. >> we checked on each other and patronized each other. i would get a cup of coffee, shirt, they would get a haircut. >> this is a generous and kind community. people would be like i am getting the toffee for the guy behind me and some days it went on and on. it was amazing to watch. we saw a perfect picture of community. we are all in this together. >> since we began to reopen one year later, we will emerge stronger. we will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> when we opened up august 1st.

i will not say it was all good. we are still struggling due to covid. it affected a lot of people. >> we are still in the pandemic right now. things are opening up a little bit. it is great to have space to come together. i did a three painting series of visitation valley and the businesses on leland. it felt good to drop off the paintings and hung them. >> my business is picking up. the city is opening up. we have mask requirements. i check temperatures. i ask for vaccination card and/or recent test. the older folks they want to feel safe here. >> i feel like there is a sense of unity happening. >> what got us through the pandemic was our customers. their dogs needed groomed, we have to cut their nails so they don't over grow. >> this is only going to push us

forward. i sense a spirit of community and just belief in one another. >> we are trying to see if we can help all small businesses around here. there is a cannabis club lounge next to the dog parlor to bring foot traffic. my business is not going to work if the business across the street is not getting help. >> in hit us hard. i see a bright future to get the storefronts full. >> once people come here i think they really like it. >> if you are from san francisco visit visitation valley to see how this side of the city is the same but different.

>> >> evening, the regular board -- good evening, the regular board of education for august 23, 2022, is now called to toward. roll call. >> thank you, pre-lam. >> delegate anson. >> commissioner alexander? >> here. >> vice-president boggess? >> here. >> commissioner hsu? >> here. >> commissioner motamedi? >> here. >> commissioner sanchez? >> here. >> commissioner weissman-ward? >> here. >> president lam? >> here. >> thank you. >> at this time before the board goes into closed session, i call for speakers for closed session item listed in the agenda. they'll be a total of five minutes for speakers. are there any speakers for public comment? >> seeing none in person. >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to the closed session items. we'll have a total of five