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 provide public comment at the physical meeting location or by

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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.

>> i'm a firefighter here at station three 1 i grew up in texas and kind of boundaries around to bunch of different cities before i came to san francisco lived in new york and was going to school there i had never been here before the moment i knew san francisco i knew i was in the right police station like the place and was proposed to be. >> i was with change and cyclist transportation throughout the city and actually end up getting in a car accident not a big deal but i was in the

back of ambulance he decided a good idea to tell me about the job and how amazing i thought about that at home and i said you know what see this sounds something might be great aligns with me and my values i started to pursue to see what it was like i did and the moment that was pretty interesting how doors kind of opened i put at effort and get any emt licenses and interviewed to be in the refreshed what is of the in the academy engineering that and so on and so forth had that moment of like this is what i'm spoke up to be doing this is this is the it this is me. and it of the

great and therefore, be it resolved that worked out and after the lgbtqia+ this is my work with one was (unintelligible) (sirens) what i thought way back when that being a firefighter that was not something i thought i could do. and i think that a lot to do would not seeing my in the representation of what a normal firefighter will be so i really like to make an effort when i'm at work to have other girls little girdles and boys seeing me though orientation or race or any other orientation we want to be able to be that person and know they can do the job if they

want to. >> as a mom i feel like a different person actually. that pretty interesting to have a stark difference in from the person i became a mom in the fire serve and the person after the fire services being a mom is a learning exercise and the same going back to the fire service you're heart is a little bit more vulnerable i like being a mom the harder thing i've done and prior to being a mom this job or some of the things we do on the job are some of the harder things that kind of levels each other out so i okay. come to work and feel like i'm

cable and can go home and capable a whole >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david

constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes

people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the

ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the

million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can

count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not

a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear

most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an

occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for >> (indiscernible) i just know it. excuse me boys, but does anybody have sun block to block this skin from the sun?

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like a sun burn, you might want to getd it checked out. >> what do you mean clecked out? >> checked out. i was told if i got my second m pox vaccine i would have less severe symptoms. (indiscernible) >> maybe i schedule the second dose just to be safe from mpox. >> most vackeens offer you a level of protections, just like sun block. sometimes you need to reapply for more protection. the m pox vaccine is based on two shots several weeks apart to provide the strongest level of protection. visit sf.gov/mpox to get yours. >> thank you boys for that reminder! make sure your are fully vaccinated for m pox this summer. text summer vibes to 21201, to get

>> today's special guest michelle ginsberg. >> i'm chris and you are watching san francisco riegz the show that focused on reguilding and reimagining our city our guest is the general manager of the san francisco rec and parks, with us to talk about new parks, music and other developments. mr. ginsberg, welcome. >> thank you a pleasure to be here >> nice to see you again. >> last time was during the pandemic and virtual. so it is good to be back here. >> indeed. before we get in specifics, let's start with a broad question, how can will park's system play a part in the economic recovery? >> well, our parks system playing an important role throughout the pandemic.

parks were here when people in san francisco needed them the most. a place where people could gather and could care for mentality health and fizz cat health and have a sense of community and a sense of place during a really weird time. and now that things are reopening and figure out how to recover, parks are going to continue to play a significant role >> people are out and having a good time. there are special events happening in parks. concerts and the weather is good. the best way parks play a role in our economic recovery is to motivate -- people to come to our city from other places and to motivate our residents to get out and enjoy themselves >> exciting to her we opened a new park and there is another. what is special about the 2 new projects? >> sure.

san francisco is going through, i think, a park renaissance. we opened the francisco park, which is just magnificent property that sits on top of an old reservoir dating back to the gold rush and has tremendous views of the golden gate bridge and bay and a place where you can bring kids. a cool play ground to bring dogs an amazing dog park. a meadow to watch the fireworks. fog willing. fleet week, community gardens, it is just such an incredible unique space. we are proud of it. >> and then right down the road in a few years, we will be pleased to welcome everybody to india basin in the bay view in the southeast part along the southern water front. 1.7 miles of waterfront that

until recently has been under utilized and under fulfill in the a community this needs it the most. india basin is really a feel moment for the bay view and southeastern part of san francisco. it is going to be san francisco's next great and one of the most important parks >> that's fantastic. now, we have a great history of having conference in parks. can you touch on the year's highlights? >> upcoming and on going. this is something i'm particularly excited about. i don't think there is ever have been more music in san francisco parks than there is right now >> so, let's go around the city and talk about music. stern grove, is in the 85th concert season. back after the pandemic. in this just fabulously treasured meadow. free concerts all summer long.

in golden gate park, at the man shell not guilty music concourse free concerts 4 days a week. wednesday, friday, saturday and sundays. we have sing are song writer wednesday. jazz and seoul on friday. communities performances on saturdays of different kindses and sundays reggae it is extraordinary. and of course, later this summer we are pleased to welcome back outside lands for an exciting 3 days and 3 nights of incredible concerts and food and community. as we go across the city, we got wonderful performances in the jerry theatre in mc clarnin park a special jerry day coming back to the theatre. on june 21st we had make music day appearing all over the city

in park in civic center. on the marina green. again in golden gate park. it has been a great time for music and ties into the recovery and the tremendous energy where we are feeling and -- you know anybody who says san francisco is struggling needs to hang out in the park system. where well is joy and beaut and he inspiration every day. >> so, the san francisco board of supervisors passed legislation to make jfk drive in will golden gate park car free. how have residents responds. >> the san francisco residents responds positive. families. bicyclists, joggers, people with dogs and people from every corner of san francisco have discovered that jfk promenade is a treasure. it enhances the parks so much.

imagine a beautiful day in the park and weather on foot or on bike you are strolling down jfk, you pass sixth avenue and head to the music concourse for a concert or the museum; it is joyous and made golden gate park sproord. i have been hering about disk golf and pickle ball. can you tell us about and where people can practice and play. >> i knew you were going. pickle ball the fastest growing sports. you know across between 10 and is ping pong and may be with a whiffle ball. ping pong on a life sized course it is easy to learn about skill based people who are good are irrelevant good and it is easy to play. it is fun and accessible. we are trying to accommodate sport. we have over 55 courts around

san francisco. 11 dedicated just for pickle balt others per pickle ball and tennis. we have 5 or 10 space you can play pickle ball indoors and keeping up with the tremendous popularity of the sport. disk golf has a loyal following it is also going to continue to growch we opened our first disk golf course in golden gate park in 2005. and you know, whether you are an expert at disk golf or beginner, the idea of chucking a frisbee through the beautiful park and. it does not matter what you score t. is just a good excuse to be outside and enjoy a beautiful day in nature. >> exactly. well, thank you. i really appreciate you coming on the show, thank you for the

time you have given us tuesday. >> thank you, i hope everybody enjoys summer. get out and play in san francisco's parks. >> thanks again. that's it for this episode we will back with another shortly you have been watching san francisco rising i'm chris manners, thanks for >> i love teaching. it is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. >> this really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. this is very enriching as an artist. a lot of folks take these

classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. >> there are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. that is a really big draw. >> this is a signature piece. this is the bill largest darkroom in the u.s.. >> there are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. >> i think it is the heart of this place. you feel it when you come in. >> the people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also

everyone who works here is working in photography. >> we get to build the community here. this is different. first of all, this is a great location. it is in a less-populated area. >> of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. it is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. the people have a lot, they can

really come together and share a love and a passion. >> we offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. we offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. we offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. there is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. >> hello, my name is jennifer. >> my name is simone. we are going on a field trip to

take pictures up the hill. >> c'mon, c'mon, c'mon. >> actually, i have been here a lot. i have never looked closely enough to see everything. now, i get to take pictures. >> we want to try to get them to be more creative with it. we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool. >> if you see that? >> behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful.

they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little bit. they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. some of the things they come up with are fantastic. that is what we're trying to encourage. these kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. >> a lot of people come into my classes and they don't feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them

some tips and ideas. >> this is kind of the best kept secret. you should come on and take a class. we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills? the harvey milk photo center focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes.

>> the stewardship program is a (indiscernible) based program. we work with student kind r garten through 12 grade and work with scrks fusd and (indiscernible) focus on 5 themes. sense of place, plant adapation and animal adaptation, water soil or (indiscernible) depending on the grade level and accommodations the class may need the educators work to adapt the programming to be whatever works best for the class, so they can gain activities (indiscernible) some don't, we try to meet students where they are at and get comfortable connecting in the space and feeling a sense of ownership and safety within their (indiscernible) >> the first component of a youth stewardship program trip will be a in clasds visit where we go to the school, we give a presentation on the natural history of san francisco, we talk about the concept

of a habitat, so what does a habitat contain, understood, water, shelter, space. >> children at this age, they learn best through using their senses, having the real life experience and (indiscernible) students also learn about responsibility and it is a great message for student to learn, if you take care of environment, the environment will take care of you. >> so, when we finally get the kids outside, we have two main components to the field trips. one is going to be the restoration component where we are working on the habitat and parks by pulling out (indiscernible) or maybe watering, and then the other side of our trip is going to be the educational component, which can

range from a nature walk with a sensory theme where we are talking about what we smell and hear, to a focus on plant adaptation and animal adaptations. >> (indiscernible) >> just a great opportunity for students to learn more, connect with nature, and hopefully what they learn from the youth stewardship program they can take with them for the rest of their lives, and they will appreciate their environment more. hopefully, when they appreciate it, they take care of it more every day. >> (indiscernible) >> so every year we open the application up in the fall. interested teachers can apply for a classroom visit and up to two field trips to the city park of their choice. field trips are 2 and a half hours long and like i said, they can happen in any city

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