we've united states of america and to the republic for which it stands. one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. somebody is going to start it. good evening. this is the fire commission regular meeting, august 23rd, 2023. the time. is 509. this meeting is being held in person. members of the public may attend the meeting to observe and

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morgan present commissioner catherine feinstein, president commissioner marcy frazier has been excused. commissioner paula collins present and chief of department janine nicholson present vice president morgan will now read the land acknowledgment. okay san francisco. thank you, madam secretary. the san francisco fire commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of san francisco peninsula as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded loss nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place , as well as for all people who reside in their traditional territory as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to

pay our respects and acknowledging the ancestor ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. thank you very much. item two general public comment members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes on any matter within the commission's jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate or discuss or discussion with the speaker. the lack of a response by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment at this. is there anybody in the room that would like to make public comment at.

color would you like to make public comment? yes hello. good afternoon. my name is michael petrelis. my surname is spelled petty r e. l. i. s and i spell out my name so that your minutes will accurately reflect on who spoke today. i am greatly concerned about the fire season here in california. we see a worsening of fires across our beautiful state. um i believe the fires are are fueled pun intended by fossil fuels and. canada, other places around the world. are burning out of

control. um, what i am calling for is on i would like for this commission to consider a response in california, one of our us senators, senator dianne feinstein, is up to the task of delivering all of the resources that we need. um, to first of all, fires that are raging right now and also to prevent future fires. unfortunately. has announced that she will only retire at the end of this term. in my opinion, to resign can appoint a replacement for the rest of her term until the next election. the issue here, as

i've been noted in the press, is that the senator does not have her full faculty has limited power of attorney over the senator's affairs. also the senator has sued the estate of her husband for elder abuse. these two factors, as boost my argument that she is not up to the task to serve as our senator and make sure we are getting all the federal resources we need on to deal with the fires across the state. so i hope that, um, catherine feinstein. and help ease her mother into retirement for the sake of the senator and

allow her to exit her storied career with grace. thank you for listening. so madam secretary, is there any other public comment? public comment. okay. public comment. i guess is closed. item three approval of the minutes discussion and possible action to approve meeting minutes from the regular meeting on august 9th, 2023. so this is vice president morgan. to the other commissioners. are there any questions about the minutes or for public comment? okay there's nobody approaching the podium, no public comment. caller would you like to make public comment on the minutes? yes hello. this is michael petrelis again. and i want to say that it is a great benefit

that the secretary keeps very detailed minutes and i've gone over the minutes from the past few months of your meetings. i've not been able to tune into the meetings, but being able to read the minutes is a great help to city hall watchdogs like myself. so that is my public comment on this matter. thank you. a comment i would move that we adopt the minutes. second, i vote i the motion is unanimous as item four chief of departments report report from chief of department janine nicholson on current issues, activities and events within the department. since the fire commission meeting on august ninth, 2023, including budget

academy special events, communications and outreach to other government agencies and the public, and report from administration deputy chief shane kialoa on the administrative divisions, fleet and facilities status and updates finance support services , homeland security and update from anthony boone of the environmental occupational health and safety office. chief nicholson, the floor is yours. thank you, vice president morgan . commissioner feinstein. commissioner collins. sister marine command staff. fire chief janine nicholson. and these are this is my update. uh, since our last meeting on august 9th, i want to thank those of you who command staff and commissioners that showed up for the piston event a couple saturdays ago. always love celebrating

different cultural events in the city. so thank you all for showing up. it is all apec all the time in our city, especially for chief erika artasyrus brown and some swat for chief sandy tong as well. the asian pacific economic. uh, i never remember if it's conference or whatever it is that's coming here in november. i know they've been in multiple meetings with the secret service and, and we've also been in meetings with the mayor's office and we are having a meeting tomorrow as well in person and looking forward to that. uh, labor management happened on the 15th. all went as expected. there we are in a good space right now with local 798. uh, thank you for coming to the meritorious awards. for those of you that did, it was a

good event and hopefully we we'll do this more regularly. we kind of got backlogged because of covid. but rescue captain beth goodrow has really, really got some some coverage in the in the media after this, which i think is great since that was such a special rescue that she was involved in. i've had two meetings with mayor london breed. i brought simon pang to one of them. it was a street crisis response team briefing the mayor's concerns. and simon, of course, had all the data and answers and i was really grateful to have a chief pang there. and we are following up. chief pang and i are following up with chief and we will also follow up with homeland homelessness and supportive housing and our counterparts there to remove any barriers to

care and services that still remain. friday, the 18th i went to an event for women's equality day that was put on by by well, the department on the status of women. kimberly ellis was there, as was our speaker emerita. nancy pelosi. chief mao was able to attend as well. and it was a really it was a really good event. um i have been meeting with sean buford and some others, hashem anderson and others in terms of they've gotten together a list of people who have who went through the panel interview process to become an h two firefighter and they're going to whittle down that list for people to be interviewed by myself and other

command staff for our next class in january. uh cd two, three and four and adc miller had a meeting with brian strong of the department of capital planning and resiliency to talk about the status of our projects and our need and sort of the bond cycle . we will likely not see another bond for fire department until 2028. and when we do, it will likely be shared with police, with and with our emergency firefighting water supply system , which is what the puc works on. so we are going to really have to get a head start on that and advocate for ourselves because of how much money is getting used up in this 2020

bond for our fire training facility. we still need station seven and we still need we still have a whole host of other needs . and we're looking for creative ways to get some of that money, whether it's state feds. et cetera. but that is the next bond for the fire department. so it's quite a ways off on this past sunday, i went to two events. i went to the fire velo bike ride. folks came across the golden gate bridge from marin to station 51 in the presidio. and it is part of a group of folks that ride their bikes from here to los angeles to raise money for cancer prevention in the fire service. and we honored two of our fallen members, jerry murphy and brock wells and their families were there to take part in that. it was a nice event.

and then i went to treasure island. there was a women's boot camp on treasure island on sunday. a lot of young women out there being sort of led and trained and mentored by a lot of our women in the department. and so it's really nice to see all our young women out there getting involved with this, with this event. and then as you all may know, i have been there have been a whole lot of interviews with the press regarding autonomous vehicles. and i don't think that we could have predicted it any better than we did when we spoke with the california puc and just that friday night, we saw the failure of quite a few cruise vehicles in north beach. and it was also out by outside lands and they just stopped traffic dead in in

its place. and since then, there have been a number of incidents, including a crash with truck three in the tenderloin, as well as multiple other incidents. i get text messages of links almost on a daily basis about issues that are happening. so i've spoken to a lot of different agencies cnn, newsnation, bloomberg, forbes. i can't even remember, but and we just continue with the same message. the consistent message that it is about public safety, period. and you know, it is that's all it's about. and that's that's the drum that we will continue to beat. and you know, whether it impacts our response times or our actual access or ingress or egress or what have you, we will keep up

with that message and i know that chief lautrup has been working hard from his perspective as well. to try to figure out some solutions with the different companies. but i'm just very grateful that the dmv actually saw the need to step in and slow things down. for now. you know, as i've said, the city and the fire department, we are not anti-technology. we are pro public safety and we hope to be able to, you know, come up with solutions, as with cruise and with waymo. i think there's a lot of smart people on both sides and we just need to come together and put our heads together and we can figure it out. so that concludes my report for today. thank you, chief nicholson, for your excellent report. are there any questions

from the other commissioners? want to start, mr. vice. any questions? thank you. okay mr. collins. we well, i'm pleased to hear some incremental progress is being made. i'm interested in hearing the response from the companies that manufacture for the these cars, because i think that's, as you have said, is where the solution will lie. and while i have the mic, i want to also thank chief darcy for a wonderful tour of the fire departments. he was in here. he's gone. did he leave? well, somebody tell him thank you. just here. it was just here, huh? yeah, i. i saw him. it was a great tour of the facilities at sfo. and for our new

commissioners like me, for seasoned commissioners like you , i sense that. see i didn't embarrass you that much just by saying thank you and i was just saying, chief darcy, that the time you took the time your colleagues took was incredibly valuable because there's some things you can only understand by seeing them and looking at those facilities and appreciate seeing the difference. firehouse two, firehouse. so thank you so much. thank you for the wonderful lunch. and we'll be back and if i may respond to your av comment in terms of, um, uh, uh, the companies, um, i've been saying that, uh, uh, what we've seen thus far is no acknowledgment that there is a problem. um, and just a touting of their safety record thus far.

and and, you know, so i'm hopeful that they will come to the table and admit there are some challenges his that remains to be seen. and then i think we can really come to some solutions. but you know, things don't change unless there's some sort of awareness or insight into, uh, the issue. so we will see. all right, madam secretary, i forgot to ask, was there any public comment for after chief nicholson's report? there's nobody on the public comment line and nobody approached the podium. okay, great. all right. well yeah, well, thank you for your report, chief nicholson, and thanks for all the great work you're doing with the interviews and with the

autonomous autonomous vehicles. thank god dmv stepped up and did something because, you know, i think the state cpuc committee should have taken more heed to you guys warnings and now they learned the hard way that, you know, you guys weren't crying wolf, you know, with all the incidents that happened right after to their vote, you know, so thank god dmv, you know, stood up and did something and maybe you know, we can reel them in a little better and, you know, go on with we need to go on with if they're going to carry on with less vehicles, that'll probably be safer for everybody. for now, i know we can't avoid the future, but we do want it safe. so so we appreciate your help with that. and you totally have our support

. and i also want to thank chief darcy for a great tour at sfo and a good time there. and chief lathrop for their tour at sfo. we had a learned a lot and it was very informative and i didn't know how big that place was. so a lot of security too. you know, so that's a good thing. so so just want to say thanks again. it was an excellent tour. thank you. thank you guys for showing us around. and that's all i got. may i ask ? i'm sorry. yeah. i realized that that you did call on me. i just was curious. chief, are our members still doing unusual occurrence reports? yes, in situations that involve these autonomous vehicles. because i'm just seeing them all over the place and i think, as we have

discussed, just, you know, nearly we saw a couple of weeks ago, them one just go right through a marked crosswalk and nearly hit a young couple that was carrying a baby. um, just right, right. just right through . and earlier this week go right through a red light, which they say they never do. but i saw it with my own eyes. and i'm just making sure we really documenting everything we need to document. so we can present the strongest case for some kind of modification or elimination or something to that effect. this is not the city to test these cars in. yes thank you, commissioner. yes our members are still filling out. there's a particular form now in our arms

to fill out for these incidents. and i have seen a yes, i still see them coming up and i still see incidents happening. so and that message has been pushed out by cd to our division chiefs and to everyone in the field and to chief tong has has pushed it out through ems and community paramedicine as well that that's what we expect. that's what we need and that's what the city needs. so, yes, i'm still getting those reports. yes. thank you. thank you. can i have one more question? so, chief, how does this what argument is made for how the city and or the state benefits from autonomous vehicles. how did they get how do they get the votes that they get at the puc, for example?

what argument is put forward? well. you know, the governor puts the puc in place. i know the governor is very supportive of autonomous vehicles and technology in general. so but i think that the argument that certainly cruise makes is that this will be much safer than human beings driving and, you know, people won't be driving drunk, people won't be speeding. it's cetera. et cetera. that is much of the argument that i have heard. and you know, there are so many billions of dollars behind this now. it's really a freight train that, you know, is going to keep on rolling our cities, our cities, rewarded financially for allowing their streets to be used in this way. not that i know of. there is no regulation. there's nothing

wrong. so i don't know how the taxing of these vehicles works or any of that. i don't i couldn't answer that. but you know, there there are no regulated options. and so there needs to be either some type of legislation or something so that there can be some regulation of these vehicles. i mean, we regulate everything else. we regulate lyft and uber and taxis and so, you know, there needs to be some regulation and some transparent in terms of the quote unquote, data. you know, they show us only the data they want to show us after they have , you know, smoothed it out or what have you. so but the. the arguments i hear are that it will be safer ultimately and that it you know, it's just a you know, great technology and that san francisco is an innovative and creative place.

and you know so and i know the mayor is supportive of technology. she's not happy with the way this was rolled out. but i know that she is supportive of new technologies. okay. well, the database that commissioner feinstein was referring to of these incidents would certainly conflict with the notion that these vehicles are safe. so, yes, i would agree. we've got that data. yes and i'm sure we have some natural allies in promoting safety on the streets. yes we do. okay. and we're working with them. so, yes. okay. thank you, chief nicholson , for your report. and responses . so i want to move on with the agenda so chief kyle, are you ready for your presentation,

sir? ready. all right, let's have it. the floor is yours. thank you. good evening, vice president morgan and commissioners feinstein, collins and chief nicholson, marine command staff. i am shane kialoa , deputy chief of administration and this is my report for the month of july 2023. we'll start with homeland security under the assistant deputy chief, erika artasyrus brown. we're highlighting fleet week this week, but i just want to highlight all of the things that chief artasyrus brown does and one is what the chief mentioned apek all the time. and that takes up a ton of chief brown's time. but she does a fantastic job in coordinating and planning at those meetings, among all the other events that happen throughout the city. and exercises some that just passed, such as lions end. it was lions

end. yes. no yeah. that one outside lions outside lands. and i just want to thank her for her work there and her planning and coordination along with operations in the fields. chiefs and all the other folks that attended and assisted with that event. it was fantastic. what you see in this slide is fleet week and the disk planning, which is the defense security cooperation agency, we this is a coordination between the civilian and military. and this year's event is communication coordination, which is why you see chief cannon in the right lower slide. and next we move on to north. they attended the sfpd national night out along with mayor brown and district attorney brooke jenkins. what i did say, mayor didn't know mayor breed. next is the department of equity and inclusion under

assistant deputy chief sean buford. what we're highlighting here under the dio among all the other things that they do is the summer summer internship with the mission high school. this is a internship over the summer that happens five days a week where we had seven students enrolled. one did drop. we had six go through. they are enrolled in ccsf and they attend emt schooling. this is the culmination of that effort. after that training, we have five of the six of those students that have passed national registry and we're confident that the sixth will they'll be applying with amr and other amr ambulance services to gain the hours that they need and hopefully move to san francisco, fire department. but what you see here is the culmination of those efforts and a celebration with with lieutenant bendo, who runs our flame program and a great

fishing trip with with fish caught. next up, we have health and safety battalion chief matt albin. matt is involved with many initiatives with the 30 and 30 out part of our health and safety committee, as well as the cancer champions and many others to ensure that our folks are happy and healthy. here is the interaction for the month of july ran by captain heather buren. we had 81 contacts for a total of 313 67 hours and by group the highest was suppression, followed by emt, paramedic at station 49. the next slide just shows that time broken down or where their time is spent at and the slide after that are the contacts by stress factor. these slides do not tell the story of the blue and the good that they do on the streets, specifically in the

past month, with the loss of firefighter megan franzen and as well as our incident on fourth and king, the great work these folks do to ensure that our folks are healthy and have the resources that they need to keep mentally and physically healthy . and i can't thank captain buren enough and her team for all the work that they do, literally reaching out one by one, holding debriefings at the stations, multiple briefings at different locations to help our folks be happy and healthy. this is the new lighthouse app. we have a cortical health app that was sfd. we're moving to lighthouse. this app has more. capabilities that fit our needs. and so what you see here is just a snapshot shot of what we're able to see in the lighthouse app, which is important to us as

some of the analytics piece. it's important to note that our members can opt out of the analytics, but it's important for us to see because it helps us improve, it helps us to understand what is working for our members and where we need to grow. next is the office of employee health under doctor brokaw and our and stephanie phelps and the month of july, we had to return to work modified duty of 39 individuals, promotion and probationary testing of seven total numbers of workers compensation claims filed was 62. the office of employee health. we have brought together the health and safety committee just recently, we have integrated ems and suppression together into that committee. they were separate before, but chief tong and the leadership at ems and ourselves feel that it's very important that we're together operating as one and being able to give each other insight on some of the issues that we're seeing both in ems and in suppression and how we

can better work to create initiatives to help our individuals under the investigative services or isp. captain todd wedel continues to assist with the onboarding of our h two and our h three level one, two and three. onboarding they've created a new process to create efficiencies. we have just not tested that process over the last week. they had approximate only 25 individuals and our time to processing is 10 to 15 minutes per individual or the processes that they have started has created efficiencies where we were having issues with some of the documentation that was being completed correctly and we're still in work or i shouldn't say we. captain wedel is still in work with his team on that, but is making great strides. they also started the department of transportation fireboat testing is now random

testing and is added to the list that is pulled every day from dattco services. and so they are now on that mandatory testing background investigations. i just spoke of that with that background packet. actually, this is part of what i just spoke about. there's a new background packet that was developed to also help us be efficient that was floated through the city attorney's and we're ensuring that we're working with our stakeholders, such as chief buford, office of employee development director davis and other stakeholders to ensure that we're headed down the right path and that we're all on board before we move forward. captain wedel continues to training because, as he loves the field, like us all, and so he wants to be ready to meet the mission at any time. captain wedel went through the waymo vehicle training and also our wildland training as captain wedel used to and still may deploy with our resources to

federal and state fires around california under support services. assistant deputy chief mike mullen is busy with many, many initiatives. this is just highlighting what has happened over the month. but really, chief mullen is working towards creating those efficiencies and great gaining value data to help us improve on or in support services for the month of july, a total of 150 requests for service were initiated during the month. 122 service orders were complete and one qv or quick response vehicle was issued. and we have four new mini pumpers that were delivered to the station and in service. the clothing depot ordered 150 turnouts, sets for the next two to classes under the earthquake. safety and emergency response. our chief assistant deputy chief miller knew jumping in head

first and is absolutely running, doing a fantastic job of working on all of our easter projects and one of them being fire station 35 and the hardening of fire station 35 to improve the security there as that house is a homeland asset and important to us, we've hired a new captain jose album and the contracts professional contracts for the fire training facility have been approved and are moving to the board of supervisors for final in our highlights is i believe the chief mentioned many of the command staff and many of our firefighters attended the firefighter appreciation night on july 31st. this was a great evening to watch a game the weather was absolutely incredible, but really the highlights were being able to see our firefighters. bowers and lieutenant stewart, receive

awards for an incredible water rescue that chief lautrup spoke about last meeting. our firefighter, kate boston. as you see in that left corner, saying the national anthem and our sfd color guard presented the colors in that top left picture there. also, the fireboat gave an incredible water display and local 788 brought out a rescue squad or one of our older rescue squads so folks could be able to look at it and play. and also deliver information regarding our department. we also attended and many of you did the meritorious ceremony august 15th at archbishop reardon high school. top left is lieutenant mariano elias. he was the emcee for the event. another great evening with mayor london brown in attendance. i'm somebody said that one time and now i'm saying it. mayor of london breed was in attendance. it was a great night

being able to honor the great work of both of our ems and suppression personnel. all it was fantastic. um we also attended the sfpd national night out, as i spoke of earlier, and our sfpd community outreach and education team was out at the nihonbashi street fair in japantown august fifth and sixth, along with many of our folks from our department, including the rfa and of course, the great team of community outreach. this this is very important to us. we are a fabric of every one of our communities and this is incredible work that the core group does, uh, and is not highlighted all the time. and so i want to thank them for their work. we do have a strike team out right now at the six rivers fire with five of our type sixes, including our partnership. as you can see, the green, a type six engine that is

a partnership between cal oes and the san francisco fire department to staff those engines and to deploy around california for wildfires. this team is being led by chiefs or assistant chief baker at and battalion chief gehring. we also have two single resources out. well one at the deep incident in the finance section. and another at the happy camp in the plan section. that concludes my report, and i'd be happy to take any of your questions. chief kialoa, is there a public speaking about the report? there's nobody approaching the podium and nobody on the public comment line. mrnas any questions? anyone like to go first? excellent one. thank you . one follow up for you, commissioner feinstein. in the last month's report, you had a question about the head injury.

there was what, one head injury for the month and we have one head injury this month. yeah. thank you. all right. thank you . and then, uh. is there. mr. anthony boone, are you ready to do your presentation? i'm ready . can i. can i. can i exit your captain. perfect. okay okay. oh, okay. i don't know if this is. the sfd entry. daca tb introduction. some of ms. collins doesn't know me.

scroll down. to the slideshow very, very, very. do you need help? yeah. with you. okay. all right. good evening, vice president morgan and commissioners feinstein and collins. chief nicholas maureen, command staff. my name is anthony boone. most people here know me as tony and i'm going to just talk a little bit about what it is i do here at the fire department, but i figured i'd start with a little background and i don't know if you can see that on the screen. okay, good

press. good. yeah as you can see, i am an environmental health and safety professional, and i've been in this business for the better part of the last 35 years. i have an extensive background and a lot of different areas, including industrial hygiene, a lot of people ask what an industrial hygienist does and they give this joke that we clean teeth. we don't clean teeth. we are we are professionals in the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of workplace hazards. that's what an industrial hygienist is. so i have expertise in that, including things like ventilation and radiation, indoor air quality. i also have a background in emergency response and hazardous waste management. and i did. i've done extensive health and safety training throughout my career. next for education, i actually have an associate's of science and fire science technology from city college in san francisco. and i also own hold a bachelor's degree in public health from san francisco state university.

next, an and to top it off, i am also a us navy veteran. i am a former former naval nuclear propulsion plant mechanical operator say that five times fast. i served on served on board what i consider the world's greatest ship ever built. uss enterprise from 1981 to 1985. and that's what put me in california. i'm a native new yorker, and the enterprise put me in california next, i hold four certifications means i am a certified industrial hygienist by the board of global credentialing, which used to be the american board of industrial hygiene. i'm a certified safety professional, which is given by the board of certified safety professionals. i'm a certified hazardous materials manager given by the institute of hazardous materials management. and finally, i am a certified environmental inspector, which was handed to me by the environmental assessment association. next my career

background. these are probably these are the places that i've worked prior to coming into the city. i started my career post navy at lawrence livermore national laboratory. i spent a few minutes at the university of california, san francisco. i spent a bulk of my career at two places, united airlines and a company called materion matay. aryan is an engineering company and if you've ever seen the james webb telescope, you see those nice, pretty shiny gold panels behind those panels. those are hexagonal plates made of beryllium materion is the world's leading beryllium manufacture. where i worked at our company in fremont, where you might have heard of the hadron super collider. we made electron beam pipes for the super collider, and i was a manager over those projects. so next. so what is it that i do here next? go ahead. i have a lot of different hats, roles and

responsibilities here in the department, but my primary responsibility is to provide assistance to the health and safety and wellness chief battalion chief alba. i also review and update had most of our our plans to comply with cal osha and the epa as well. so you'll see a bunch of letters there that says iip, rpp, the iip stands for the injury and illness prevention plan. p stands for the respiratory protection program. um, and then you'll see another one, environmental l, that says spcc . that stands for spill prevention control and countermeasures plan, and that's designed to prevent spillage into what's known as the navigable waters of the united states. there are two places that have spcc programs within the department station 35 and station one at 1415. evans another our task of mine is to

analyze and review some of the injury data that comes out of the office of employee health and see if there's any trends and anything that we can do to provide countermeasures to try to mitigate those those injuries . um, i've done a lot of training since i've been here. most of that training is under the guise of firefighter health and safety, health, wellness and safety to most of the recruit class. the last 5 or 6 recruit classes i've done presentations for and i also talk about hearing conservation as well as heat illness and forklift training for our personnel or boe personnel and our personnel. station 49. i'd have to move materials. so next i also have a big responsibility in many of these firehouses have hazardous materials in them as well to take the burden off of the adc of support services. i took the responsibility to update and

keep those inventory and those hazardous materials inventories in a database called the california environmental reporting system. that's a it's a statewide database and all stations have this database where something called a certified uniform program agency , see basically, which is ssdf environmental inspector for facilities to make sure that we're managing our materials correctly last but not least, i just do a lot of wherever i'm needed. i get called by the office of employee health. i get called by ems. i just provide died. i speak cal osha speak and i speak epa speak. a lot of the times that when chief albers doing study doing reviews of studies for cancer prevention they talk a different language.

i speak that language. so i'm an interpreter. i'm a i'm an ass whisperer, you know, so i do a lot of that in the background, too. so next and so just to show you some things of what i've done, we had the health and safety well, health and wellness fair. this was during when they did the cancer screening. so i got on the bike and made some smoothies to help out. i was just just a little. yeah, it's a bike and. and you make a smoothie. it's got a blender on top of it. and so you use leg power to make the smoothies. so i got a little exercise in it. will one of the big projects i've got going right now is trying to get every member of this department up to speed on fit tested properly for their scbas so that we are not only in compliance, but that we know that the protective equipment assigned to these personnel is actually functioning at its

capacity next. and i've done a few ergonomic evaluations. evans these are just a couple of people i evaluated to make sure that at the workplace fits them, that they don't fit the workplace. that's kind of what ergonomics is all about next. and here i did some forklift training as well for several personnel, again at boe and actually at station 49 ems personnel. so i took some asbestos samples at at this is a part of the industrial hygiene stuff. i took some asbestos samples that station seven was worried about. fortunately none of this stuff came up positive for asbestos, so we were good there. and again, just this is just a slide. it's not that it's raw data. it just i just pull some stuff, just kind of look where where the tent poles are to try to analyze. is there a place where we can do better in terms of reducing

musculoskeletal disorders or some other type of some type of injury? next and this is what you see here, i assist with the underground storage tank inspections where all our fuel is. and also, i actually do the review of the spc, spc plan for our 1415. evans i took that burden off of boe as well. and so that's me in a nutshell. i'll be happy to entertain any questions that you might have. and there is nobody on the public comment line or approaching the podium for public comment. thank you, madam secretary. thank you for your report. mr. boone. i've i've asked the commissioners they have any questions. go ahead, commissioner collins. thank you, mr. boone. what would you say is our biggest challenge in the coming year? i'm sorry? say again? what would you say is our

biggest challenge in your purview in our in the coming year, our biggest challenge in the coming years is i see it's kind of a dual thing. you've got incoming young firefighters and you've got outgoing aging firefighters, which means you have a lot of loss of experience . so how do you blend that out? loss of experience with getting firefighters that are new to the job, job to understand how important it is for their own health and safety? i think that's probably the biggest challenge. feinstein on the first sentence, very good. yeah thank you very much. so, yeah, one last thing i'd like your

opinion on the new potential training facility in the bayview . any concerns about that site? actually lieutenant or captain? captain roger. captain. captain i ing asked me to take a look. he said he wanted me in on the ground floor. one of the first things that i did do when he started talking to me about it was i actually recommended one thing i did. i recommended that any storage tanks be above ground because there's a lot of underground piping issues, there's a lot of issues with underground storage tanks. i said, if you're going to have storage tanks for fuel, for rigs , for vehicles, have them above ground, it's a lot easier to manage an ipcc than it is to manage an underground storage tank. that's the first part. i haven't looked at anything in terms of from an ergonomic standpoint or from another other facility standpoint. but i'll i'll be involved in that as as we move along. if they ask me, okay, great. all right. thank

you. mr. boone. you're very welcome. thank you for your. yes, sure, chief, i just want to say thanks, tony, for all the work that you do on behalf of the department and on behalf of the members as you are truly a valued member of our department. and we appreciate that you look out for all of us. so thank you so much, brother. my new york brother, my honor, chief. my honor. thanks again. no public comment. madam secretary. item five, public comment on item six public comment on all matters pertaining to item six below, including public comment on whether to hold item six b in closed session. there is nobody approaching the podium for public comment and there is nobody on our public comment line. i i will move that. okay,

i'll call that item now. possible closed session regarding personnel matters. vote on whether to conduct item six b in closed session. the commission may hear item six b in closed session pursuant to government code section 54 957 b an administrative code section 67.10 b and i believe you made the motion to go into vote. i we need a second and commissioner, vice president morgan said i the motion is unanimous. okay. at this time, we're going to is. 710 there's nothing to report on. there was no action taken item to vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussions held in closed session as specified in san francisco administrative code

section 67.12. a the. is there a motion? i move that we not disclose. i second. i vote yay. the motion is unanimous. item seven adjournment. i move that we adjourn. i second adjourn. this this meeting is adjourned. well done. thank you. commissioner feinstein.

>> my name is tiffany cobb and i work for the san francisco fire department. i was raised by a single parent. i grew up with a very strong work ethic mental ity. i would like to compare it to a bar back and anticipated the needs and the call. you will provide the needs and complete

the call. >> the favorite part of the job is when i can actually connect with a patient and utilize your people skills as a human being. sometimes it's not a medical need. they just want someone to talk to, someone to listen to and want to be seen as a person and want to be recognized and see them as they are. those are my important calls. i remember being a seven or nine year old girl and never seen anyone like me in a fire engine and that gave me hope that i can do that. there are people like me that can do that job. sometimes people need to feel nurtured and feel safe. i feel like i can bring that to my patients. >> you maybe feel afraid. just

try it out. that's what i did. just never give up. i was told no. i failed the fire academy. i'm still here and i never quit. just learn from your mistakes and never give up on yourself. i'm in station 49. eventually i would like to utilize my skills as a fire paramedic and hopefully become an officer some day. >> for san francisco, i said this in my interview, it's like the new york of the west coast. it has everything i wanted to be a part of. it has ems and has a rich history and blue collar history which i absolutely love. i want to be a part of that.