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 public may observe and provide public comment at the physical meeting location or online link on the agenda that you may access logging on to the san francisco fire commission website. you may watch life at sf govtv.org. to

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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.

>> my name is holly doudiet. h2 firefighter with the san franciscowired. what inspired me to be a firefighter was in 2008 i graduated college . the recession had happened so there weren't any jobs. i was having troublefinding a job. and i was kind of looking around . my dad was a firefighter and i thought what a great career he had. so i asked my dad, never thinking about it at first before. i said dad, what you think about me being afirefighter and he goes yeah, thatwould be a good idea . i took some classes, i ended up loving it . i grew up and actually and i think it was a good fit for me because it's a physical job and

it's enjoyable. you never know whatyou're going to get and it's a team effort . i first realized i was part of the lgbt+ community in sixth grade. i looked on the other side of the classroom and i sawthis girl i thought was really attractive and i thought i want to be her boyfriend . though my experiences in the city growing up in the city and countyof san francisco were always verypositive . i came out in high school . i actually ended up being prom king my senior year in high school and a lot of peoplewere very supportive . myparents were very supportive . they just let me do my thing and my dad knew of a lot of lesbian women in the fire departmentthe time because he was a san francisco firefighter . for me it's very important to be part of a community and organization and an agency that supports my lgbtq status

because if you're not yourself, how can you perform to the best of your abilities? you're always holding back in some way whether it's your personality or your abilities or your overall skills and with agency that supports me being a lesbian i can truly be myself. i can be happy. i can be social with other people. it makes me want to work as a team and we all work better together when we are happier and we can be ourselves. >>. [music] >>

>> what we're trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. it's not just the old european style food. we are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. all we ask is make it flavorful. [♪♪♪] >> we are the first two-year culinary hospitality school in the united states. the first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. i'm a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. so students can expect to learn under the three degrees. culinary arts management degree, food service management

degree, and hotel management degree. we're not a cooking school. even though we're not teaching you how to cook, we're teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus you're getting an associate of science degree. >> my name is vince, and i'm a faculty member of the hospitality arts and culinary school here in san francisco. this is my 11th year. the program is very, very rich in what this industry demands. cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. it's quite a complete program to prepare them for what's happening out in the real world. >> the first time i heard about

this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. he was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. this program, it's awesome. >> it's another world when you're here. it's another world. you get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. you get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. >> i've been in the program for about a year. two-year program, and i'm about halfway through. before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. i had few injuries, and i couldn't pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. when i stopped dance, i was

deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. >> the good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to -- >> we have kids from every area. >> facebook and google. >> kids from everywhere. >> they are all over the bay area, and they're thriving. >> my name is jeff, and i'm a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in san francisco. i attended city college of san francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90's. nopalito on broderick street,

it's based on no specific region in mexico. all our masa is hand made. we cook our own corn in house. everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, we're making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. a lot of love put into this. [♪♪♪] >> used to be very easy to define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. now, it's shades of gray, and we're trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. fine dining calls into white table cloths. the cafeteria is large production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the

facebooks of the world that have those types of kitchens. and the ideas that change every year, again, it's the notion and the venue. >> one of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. it's been a pizzeria, a taco bar. it's been a mediterranean bar, it's been a noodle bar. people choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. we, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a

week for breakfast service. we're open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. >> the menu's always interesting. they change it every semester, maybe more. there's always a good variety of foods. the preparation is always beautiful. the students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and they're so proud of their work. >> i've had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so it's more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat. >> when i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90% of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. >> we do have internals continually coming into our

restaurants from city college of san francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. we hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. my partner is also a graduate of city college. >> so my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. i actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. >> i'm thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. >> yeah, i want to go back to

china. i want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. >> so we want them to have a full toolkit. we're trying to make them ready for the world out there.

>> good afternoon. we are here today for virtual town hall regarding a officer involved shooting that occurred saturday august 6, 2022 at 18 and shotwell street. before proceeding, i like to announce to our viewing and listening audience that this town hall is being translated into spanish, and american sign language. today's presentation include details from officer involved shooting that occurred between uniformed san francisco police officers and 51