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.

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education program. it brings such joy to people. it teaches them life skills that they can apply anywhere, and it encourages them to take care of themselves. my name is leaf hillman, and i'm a librarian, and biblio bistro is my creation. i'm a former chef, and i have been incubating this idea for many years. we are challenged to come up with an idea that will move the library into the future. this inspired me to think, what can we do around cooking? what can i do around cooking? we were able to get a cart. the charlie cart is designed to bring cooking to students in elementary students that has enough gear on it to teach 30

students cooking. so when i saw that, i thought bingo, that's what we're missing. you can do cooking classes in the library, but without a kitchen, it's difficult. to have everything contained on wheels, that's it. i do cooking demonstrations out at the market every third wednesday. i feature a seafood, vegetable, and i show people how to cook the vegetable. >> a lot of our residents live in s.r.o.s, single resident occupancies, and they don't have access to full kitchens. you know, a lot of them just have a hot plate, a microwave, and the thing that biblio bistro does really well is cook food accessible in season and make it available that day. >> we handout brochures with the featured recipe on the back.

this recipe features mushrooms, and this brochure will bring our public back to the library. >> libraries are about a good time. >> i hired a former chef. she's the tickle queen at the ramen shop in rockwood. we get all ages. we get adults and grandparents and babies, and, you know, school-age kids, and it's just been super terrific. >> i was a bit reluctant because i train teachers and adults. i don't train children. i don't work with children, and i find it very interesting and a bit scary, but working here really taught me a lot, you know, how easily you can

influence by just showing them what we have, and it's not threatening, and it's tasty and fun. i make it really fun with kids because i don't look like a teacher. >> in the mix, which is our team center, we have programs for our kids who are age 13 to 18, and those are very hands on. the kids often design the menu. all of our programs are very interactive. >> today, we made pasta and garlic bread and some sauce. usually, i don't like bell pepper in my sauce, but i used bell pepper in my sauce, and it complemented the sauce really well. i also grated the garlic on my bread. i never thought about that technique before, but i did it,

and it was so delicious. >> we try to teach them techniques where they can go home and tell their families, i made this thing today, and it was so delicious. >> they're kind of addicted to these foods, these processed foods, like many people are. i feel like we have to do what we can to educate people about that. the reality is we have to live in a world that has a lot of choices that aren't necessarily good for you all the time. >> this is interesting, but it's a reaction to how children are brought up. it is fast-food, and the apple is a fast-food, and so that sort of changes the way they think about convenience, how eating apple is convenient. >> one of the things that i love about my program out at the market is the surprise and delight on people's faces when

they finally taste the vegetable. it's been transformative for some people. they had never eaten those vegetables before, but now, they eat them on a regular basis. >> all they require is a hot plate and a saute pan, and they realize that they're able to cook really healthy, and it's also tasty. >> they also understand the importance of the connection that we're making. these are our small business owners that are growing our food and bringing it fresh to the market for them to consume, and then, i'm helping them consume it by teaching them how to cook. >> it connects people to the food that they're buying. >> the magic of the classes in the children's center and the team center is that the participants are cooking the food themselves, and once they do that, they understand their connection to the food, to the tools, and it empowers them.

>> we're brokering new experiences for them, so that is very much what's happening in the biblio bistro program. >> we are introducing kids many times to new vocabulary. names of seasonings, names of vegetables, names of what you call procedures. >> i had my little cooking experience. all i cooked back then was grilled cheese and scrambled eggs. now, i can actually cook curry and a few different thing zblz . >> and the parents are amazed that what we're showing them to cook is simple and inexpensive. i didn't know this was so easy to make. i've only bought it in the market. those comments have been amazing, and yeah, it's been

really wonderful. >> we try to approach everything here with a well, just try it. just try it once, and then, before you know it, it's gone. >> a lot of people aren't sure how to cook cauliflower or kale or fennel or whatever it is, and leah is really helpful at doing that. >> i think having someone actually teaching you here is a great experience. and it's the art of making a meal for your family members and hope that they like it. >> i think they should come and have some good food, good produce that is healthy and actually very delicious. >> cooking is one of my biggest passions, to be able to share,

like, my passion with others, and skills, to h h h h h h h h >> good evening welcome to the august 24 meeting of the board of appeals. president rick swig will be the officer tonight and joined by jose lopez. commissioner tina chang. commissioner lemberg and john trasvina. >> >> the board's legal system and i'm jewelet board's executive director. we will be joined by representatives from the

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