september 1st, 2023. the meeting began at 9:32 a.m. secretary fuller, please call the roll. good morning. please respond with hear or present it. lynn newhouse seagull. commissioner newhouse. seagull is absent. lauren post is here. chair post is present. gerald turner. commissioner turner is absent. paul wolford present. commissioner commissioner wolford is present. fatty zabi present vice chair. zabi is present with three members present. we do have quorum for the public works commission for members of the public wishing to make comment on an item from outside the hearing room, you would. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting id. of

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chair post. thank you. before calling the next item, are there any requests from the commission to amend the order of today's agenda? hearing no requests, we will move on to the next item. announcements by chair. i do have several today since our last meeting there were a couple of news articles regarding illegal dumping in the bayview neighborhood, which of course we've heard about before at the commission. one article was discouraging, one was encouraging. i thought the discouraging piece described the breadth of the dumping breadth of the dumping problem and san francisco public works heroic work to address it. in an effort to give residents and businesses a neighborhood in which they can take pride while there is illegal dumping. in every san francisco neighborhood. the problem is worse by orders of magnitude in the bayview area. the article referenced the cameras the department will be installing to help identify perpetrators in trim. director

short, what is the status of the camera project? when can we expect the cameras to be installed. good morning, chair. post commissioners carla short interim director for the camera project excuse me, has been a little bit challenging. we had a identified vendor who knew we were in the process of entering into a contract with that vendor and then during that period of time they were purchased by another company who then basically, i guess, eliminated that function that they had. and so it took some time for us to find a new vendor. we found a new vendor that can do the same basic work. and i am looking for my cfo. we have run into a snag with a new vendor as well, so

i'm going to ask bruce to describe that because i don't want to get the details wrong. good morning, commissioners. bruce robertson, cfo for public works. the overview from interim director schwartz. absolutely correct. we have run into an issue where with the new vendor that we've identified, they're not currently a city vendor. so we're really just going through that process of making sure that they comply with the various ordinances. um, i don't have a timeline at my fingertips, but we can certainly report back. i do know that this is a priority for our contract administration team. and alex burns, the contract manager, is personally working with the vendor and our partners in oca. the office of contract administration, to make sure we can get this up and running as soon as possible. so let me get the exact date and timeline and then we'll certainly report back. but that's really the holdup at the moment. it's just making sure that they meet all of the city requirements. thank you very much for that clear explanation. we'll look forward to updates on

the program as i mentioned, the second news report was encouraging. it profiled brian johnson on a resourceful bayview resident who was designed and built a drone flight program to identify garbage hotspots in his neighborhood and in the mission. and this more quickly deploy public works department resources to clean the areas up rather than relying on 311 calls. mr. johnson is partnering with public works to run a pilot of his system. interim director short, will you please tell us more about this drone pilot program? all so if the pilot is successful, will our colleague, commissioner turner suggested this might be a very good program for workforce development whereby young people would be taught to fly drones and learn related technology skills. is this something the department will consider. thank you. chair post carlos short, interim director. the pilot program is basically using this

technology. to alert our crews to where we have debris to pick up in the bayview more quickly than relying on neighbors to call 311, although we will still track the work through the 311 system. mr. johnson has actually been doing this independently for some time and has found that his technology can identify the debris and call it in and then we've been responding pretty effectively to that. so he's been we've had a couple of meetings with him to talk about specific areas that we would like to have him fly more frequently rather. so basically , you know, looking at operationalizing this to get the best possible data, which will then also allow us to identify potentially when people are dumping and we may be able to follow up and try to prevent that dumping from happening. and or catch people in the act. so

in terms of workforce development, i think the technology he's developed includes, you know, some built in ways to ensure that we're not identifying people, that this is focused on garbage. so i think we would need to explore the possibility with with the developer about whether there's, you know, it's a fairly lean operation at this point. and the city also has these rules around the use of drones. and we for this project we did present to the city's department that reviews that and explained know they want to ensure how we're protecting public privacy and things like that so that we're not identifying individuals. so i think those would all need to be kind of worked through. but certainly if the if the if the developer of this would would be

interested in teaching folks the technology, then we would that's an interesting idea that we would be very happy to pursue. thank you. i realize it's early days here, but never hurts to start thinking about these things early. good. thank you very much. recently there have been media reports on alleged illegal actions by the director of the city's community challenge grant program and the head of a local nonprofit who was awarded city contracts for public improvement projects. s does it? the public works department have any contracts with rj enterprises or any of its affiliates and how do we work with the city's community challenge grant program? if we do? thank you. chair post carla short, interim director. as this is an evolving investigation, we are working with other city

departments and the city attorney's office to review the complaint that was that was issued against rudolph dwayne jones and lanita enriquez. we will continue to review contracts and grants that may have been implicated by mr. jones and miss enriquez. we did learn through the just released indictment that there are a handful of additional business names that may have been used. so we are going to be reviewing our contracts for those as well . and then we're exploring and pursuing all appropriate remedies and enforcement actions . i think i've been advised to be rather general in comments this morning as the we're still reviewing with the city attorney's office, but but we are looking at all of those grants and contracts that may have involved those individuals . thank you. i felt that's a very satisfactory answer. could you just explain for a moment,

does the department work with the community challenged grant program in the past? we have worked with with the community challenge grant program and that a number that that program serves communities as as the name indicates. but eight city departments would along with public works potentially send funds to the community challenge grant to support those community initiatives, says thank you my final announcement on a cheerier subject is to highlight the august edition of in the works. the department's newsletter. it comes out every month and can be found easily on the department's website. this recent issue highlighted two capital projects that we've had presentations on previously at the commission, the historic mission library renovation and upgrade, and the castro muni muni metro station, elevator and plaza renovation and upgrade both of these

projects show off the talent and skill of the department's architecture and design teams, and we'll be hearing about both of them again when we receive annual updates on significant, significant capital project contracts that the commission approves in the works also highlighted the department's clean corridors program, an initiative that each week provides a deep, clean and sprucing up of a select commercial corridor in the city . the first phase of the better market street improvement program, which is upgrading the streets and sidewalks of the city's signature boulevard and the july love our city neighborhood beautification day, which took place in the sunset district. we do any commissioners have any questions on my announcements? do any commissioners have announcements of their own today? hearing none. secretary fuller, please open this item to public comment . oh if possible. i have a couple of announcements. i beg your pardon. please continue. oh, so my announcements are very brief. the sanitation and

streets commission meet the next sanitation and streets commission meeting will be monday, september 18th and their august meeting was canceled. but the next meeting will include performance measure reports from the bureau of urban forest and street environmental services is on a different note. i'll be surveying commissioners with potential meeting dates and times for the 2024 calendar year. it being september 1st, we're already looking at the new year. so commissioners, please look for a message coming from me in the in the next week or so. and then also to point out on the calendar that we do have a special meeting of this commission that has been scheduled for wednesday, september 13th at 8 a.m. to hear a person matter in closed session. and that meeting will take place in city hall room 400, which is not our normal meeting room. and all of this has been posted to our website

and notice has been posted and at the library as well. and that concludes my announcements. thank you. now please open this item to public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item one. the announcements by the chair, commissioners and secretary may line up against the wall furthest from the door if you are in the chamber. if you are calling in, please. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access code. of (266)!a254-6002 8 pound pound. and then press star three to raise your hand to be to be recognized and in the chamber we do not have anyone who has approached to speak on this item and govtv is indicating that we . have one caller in the queue and please go ahead and please

go ahead and mute that, unmute that caller and caller. you'll have three minutes to speak and i will provide you with a 32nd notice when your time is about to expire. the great can you hear me now? we can hear you. excellent. david paypal i hope i haven't expired, although my time may at some point so three brief comments on this item as to the drones issue. just wanted to remind the department and perhaps the commission that the city has a surveillance technology policy that requires a technology like drones to be approved by both the committee on information technology, fauci and the board of supervisors. and they're kind of way behind on approving department requests. so i don't recall that dpw has an approved surveillance technology policy for our drones. and if that's the case,

then they would have to write one up and get it approved prior to the city's use of drones for these purposes. anyway, i will let other folks figure more of that out. i did note in the public materials that the advanced calendar is missing. i always look forward to the advanced calendar and hope in the future that it will be included with all regular commission meeting packets. and finally there was a hiring memo that said that it was off calendar but was included publicly. actually, maybe that's under the director's report. anyway, i found the hiring memo to be very encouraging and wanted to appreciate hr director hill and the work that she's doing and throughout the department on hiring two key vacancies. those are my thoughts on item one. thanks for listening. thank you. caller. and that is our only caller

looking to speak on item one. so that concludes public comment. thank you. if there's no further discussion on this item, secretary fuller, please call the next item. item two is the director's report and communications interim director carla short is here to present this report. and this is an informational item. good morning again, commissioners. carla short, interim director. i just i have a few brief updates today. not too extensive. i wanted to start with the hiring update, so we provided the off calendar memo, but a quick summary, as you probably recall, we set a very aggressive hiring target of 250 hires by the end of fiscal year 2023. we were able to meet that hire by having 200 sorry, meet that goal by having 265 hires complete within the timeline. overall, the hiring has continued with a total of 297 hires, and public

works is processing 85 additional new hires. these important employees have already made a significant improvement in our ability to develop, deliver the critical services that we provide of the new hires. there's a combination of positions to the department and internal new positions to the department and internal promotions. i wanted to just highlight a couple of the key areas where we've made progress by our human resources bureau. so bureau of street environmental services, one of our most public facing bureaus. it's the bureau responsible for our street cleaning staff, our functional vacancy rate is 13.9% as of august 2023. however because we're in the process of onboarding an additional 41 staff, once they are hired, our functional vacancy rate will be down to 5.3. i think that's the lowest that we've had in many years. so that's a huge

achievement that we wanted to highlight. another critical position that you've heard a bit about in our meetings is our 9916 public service aid, and these are our block cleaners. so they're the folks you see out in the orange vests with their brooms and their rolling garbage cans, and they are out on the streets cleaning, assigned blocks all day, every day. that's been a really, really important program for us. and they are part of our workforce development program as they feed into our apprenticeship programs. in an ideal world. so we've hired an additional 45 staff in this classification. we have another 18 hires all additional staff to the department in the hiring process. so 18 new folks coming in. i also wanted to note our 6230 street inspectors. we've approached full staffing for this classification when we have

a just a handful of vacancies remaining, we have 11 additional hires in this program. so i think we are seeing the results of that improvement. they are responsible for not just looking at street cleaning, sorry, sidewalk conditions and street conditions around the city, but also implementing the illegal vending program which has been, as you know, a challenging program. but having the staff available to be able to rotate through the assignments has really, really helped with that program. so the focus there, as you know, is the mission in particularly un plaza, chinatown , some areas working with partners along the port and then we also have a few of the street inspectors who help with our graffiti program. so notifying property owners of their responsibilities to clean up graffiti and also assisting property owners to opt in to our

proactive graffiti abatement program for commercial corridors . so another really critical all our positions are critical, but wanted to highlight some of the essential positions that we filled. other essential positions include our human resources staff, so our newly created public works human resources program is fully staffed with 47 positions filled and a functional vacancy rate of zero. so that you've got to hire the people who can hire the people. so we're really proud to have that completed. and we also have filled several key leadership positions, such as our finance manager, our new housing delivery coordinator, and our performance program manager, and then one last kind of category of positions i wanted to highlight are our analyst positions in march of 2023, the citywide vacancy rate for the administrative analyst series was 32.3% and for senior administrative analysts, the

vacancy rate was 16.5% and we had similar vacancy rates within public works for these series. since january 1st, we've hired 14 new staff into these two critical classifications and there are another seven positions in the hiring process . and as you know, we'll be providing a more detailed overview at an upcoming commission hearing. but i did want to highlight those great achievements by our hr team. um i also wanted to let you know that starting next week actually we and continuing through, through the week through september 8th, public works will be undergoing the final step of re-accreditation by the american public works association. apwa is an independent. national organization of professionals with a mission to support those who operate, improve and maintain public works and infrastructure for through advocacy, education and member engagement. a accreditation

provides public works, formal recognition that the department complies with the current recommended national practices that are established by the epa for the re accreditation process helps our department make continuous improvements to better support our mission of providing the best possible service to san francisco, its residents and visitors. public works was first accredited in 2010 and accredited in 2014 and 2018. the 2022 assessment was postponed due to the pandemic and uncertainty over proposals to split the department to prepare for the current re accreditation. more than 100 people in every division and bureau of the department spent more than a year conducting a complete review of our procedure manuals to ensure that our practices are updated to current standards and for the past two months, we've created document station to submit to apwa, showing how the department follows more than 280 individual apw practices. next week. the apwa evaluators will conduct

virtual visits with the department leadership to examine our processes and audit our procedures to ensure that we meet the highest standards of performance. re accreditation is expected to be achieved by the end of september. and i should note that while we spent more than a year, that was clearly not full time, these procedures are really a good way for us to validate our workflows and make sure that they're up to date and that we're taking into consideration new technologies and so it's a good exercise for us as a department chair. post. as you noted, we celebrated the groundbreaking for the major renovation of the historic mission branch library, the library at the corner of 24th and bartlett streets is one of the city's seven carnegie libraries and steeped in history in san francisco lore. built in 1915 and designed by and funded by the philanthropist and industrial at carnegie, the public works team has been working with the san francisco

public library and community groups to redesign this beauty of a building. it received landmark city landmark status in the early 2000, even though the building was renovated in 1997 to make seismic improvement and accessibility upgrades. the makeover led to the loss of some of the library's most recognizable features, including its historic entrance and monumental stairway. now, more than two decades later, public works architects, landscape architects construct managers, project managers and engineers are looking to restore the showpiece reading room and the rest of the historic building to some of its original glory. while adding much needed upgrades to transform the facility into a less cramped, more accommodating and more climate resilient space for staff and patrons. public works also handled regular affairs, site assessment and remediation between providing a 100 person community room, constructing a dedicated teen room, restoring the main entry to its original location, and replacing the lost historic main staircase.

building additional restrooms and adding a fenced courtyard and sustainability features such as rooftop solar panels and air conditioning. the project packs a punch, an array of robust improvements that have fit together like a jigsaw puzzle for construction, which just started in august, will cost 23 million and is expected to wrap up by fall 2025. until then, a temporary branch for the mission community will continue to be housed nearby at 1234 valencia and the renovation is being executed by sj amoroso construction company, a san francisco based company. the construction project generated roughly 2% for art enrichment funds, which helped the san francisco arts commission hire. celebrated bay area artist juana alicia araiza to create a new public artwork in the form of a large fuzed glass window for the main reading room. the design called nopal de la mision, features a monumental prickly pear cactus nopal with flowers

and fruit that symbolize resistance, sustenance and regeneration. when we actually got to see one panel of this at the groundbreaking and it is just stunning, it's going to be an incredible feature. public works and the san francisco public library have been long time collaborators on capital projects to upgrade the city's network of 27 neighborhood branches and work on the mission library, supported by the library preservation fund, which was overwhelmingly passed by voters last november, as well as a $5.3 million grant from california state library building forward initiative. we are designing this renovation to be leed gold certified to align with our climate action plan goals to achieve net zero greenhouse gases gas emissions by 2040. it is going to be a stunning project. i'm very excited about it. as you can see by my lengthy report out. lastly the sunset district, as you noted, chair post, we had our love our city neighborhood beautification day on a foggy, chilly morning in the sunset

district, but we had quite a great turnout. about 100 volunteers joined us. we worked on on sunset boulevard. we did medians, planted trees, us spread mulch. we also worked on sloat planting new cypress trees and the youngest amongst us were able to dig and prep soil for new plants. so we do want to thank sunset elementary school for hosting our kickoff and providing some of our enthusiast volunteers. the mighty team of neighborhood stewards wrapped up the saturday event. seeing and feeling that they had made the sunset more beautiful while strengthening our community ties . and next month, our love, our city neighborhood beautification day will be in north beach, chinatown, russian hill and other district three neighborhood boards and that will be on september 16th. we hope to see some of you there. that wraps up my report. thank you very much. thank you.

interim director short. we congratulate miss hill and the department for these great hiring news. we look forward to the more detailed presentation when we see her for her regular presentation. this fall. i'm sure your report was music to commissioner zombie's ears. also we wish you the best of luck on the apwa audit next week for the reaccreditation. it does sound like it was probably a useful exercise and that the department is well prepared to pass that. so let us know what happens. we will. we will update you. thank you. thank you. are there any questions for interim director short? it's not really a question, but a comment. so i had the privilege of serving on the arts commission civic design review committee when the mission library was under design . and i did want to share with everyone in the community that it's going to be a beautiful addition. rio addition, if you will, to our community. other cities might have taken that beautiful edifice and sold it

and turned it into private housing, which would have been an easy reach. but san francisco kept one of the most beautiful buildings in the mission neighborhood is renovating it, bringing it up to current standards and current needs for the community. it's going to be an incredible re-edition back into san francisco, cityscape and intellectual scape. so i just wanted to highlight the wonderful things that san francisco does for our our community. and just a remark on that. and i hadn't seen the final art because they were still looking at artists when i termed off the arts commission. so that's exciting news here. here commissioner zarb. i want to start by wishing everyone a happy labor day and thank you for the report today. coming giving us let us know that because to me, i really felt it's a huge priority to get all the vacancies filled out. so thank you. and good luck with the reaccreditation. thank you.

please open this item to public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item to the director's report may line up against the wall furthest from the door. if in the chamber. if you're calling in. dial (415)!a655-0001 where you use te meeting number access code. of 26622546002 8 pound pound. and then press star three to raise your hand to be recognized. we do not have any in-person commenters at this time and sfcv is also indicating we do not have any callers interested in speaking on this item. so that concludes public comment. thank you, secretary fuller. please call the next item on the agenda for item three is general public

comment, which is for the public to comment on topics under the commission's mandate but not related to a specific item on today's agenda, members of the public who wish to make three minutes of general public comment may line up against the wall furthest from the door here in the chamber here, or if you're calling in dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access. code (266)!a254-6002 8 pound pound. and then press star three to be recognized. and we do not have any members in person who have approached to speak on this item. but as govtv is indicating, we have one caller. please go ahead and unmute that. caller and caller. you'll have three minutes to speak and i'll provide you with a 32nd notice when your time is about to expire. great. david pilpel, you

can hear me again. we can. excellent. so i mentioned at the last meeting a brief comment on the refuse rates impact on dpwh's budget and i believe the board, the refuse rate board acted yesterday to adopt the new rates. little ambiguity on some things there. but assuming that it settles either yesterday or soon, i believe that will have some impact on the dpw budget. moving a few things around. so i once again suggest a memo or update to this commission in the future that might actually require an amendment for all i know. so i assume that deputy director robertson is all over it and getting it right. so anyway, just wanted to be sure that that gets caught at some

point. that's all for general public comment. thanks for listening. thank you. caller and that is our last caller under general public comment. thank you. please call the next item. item four is the consent calendar of routine matters. includes the minutes from the august 18th, 2023 meeting of this commission and two contract awards. both contract awards are eligible for the consent calendar in accordance with the contract delegation policy adopted by this commission. please note that corrections for clarity have been made to the draft minutes to items. 154j6s, 7n8 and nine, and all consent calendar items can be heard individually upon request by a commissioner, staff or the public. an adoption of the consent calendar and all resolutions contained in it is an action item, and i wanted to

inform the commission that department staff has requested a postponement of item four c to a later date and so suggest a motion for that separately from the adoption of the consent calendar. thank you very much. i will move to postpone item four c to a later date. second secretary fuller, please open public comment on the motion. on the motion to postpone item four c members of the public who wish to make comment on that motion. if you're in the chamber, you may line up against the wall for this from the door. if you are calling in, please. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use that sae meeting. access code. of

26625460028. and then pound, pound and star three. and we do not have any callers or we do not have any members of the public in person wishing to speak on this. and an sf govtv is also indicating we do not have any callers on this motion either. thank you. please call the roll on the motion on the on the motion to postpone. item four c please respond with i or nay. paul wolford. i fatties rb all right, warren post i we have three votes in favor of the motion to postpone item four c so the motion. the motion

passes. thank you. before entertaining a motion on adopting the consent calendar, i did have a question on item four b interim director short. i don't know if you could answer it. there may have been a typo in the staff memo. is this project expected to be completed by summer of 2024? do you know? or if anyone in the audience knows us, i think it is us, but in the cover memo that i saw, it didn't say completion. i'm sorry. i don't know that off the top of my head, but we can certainly double check and let you know. thanks to clarify, i actually did pose that question to the project manager and they did clarify that the construction completion would be summer of 2024. yes that's what i expected. thank you. that was updated on on the document posted to the website. so

perfect. thank you. are there any questions on the consent calendar from the commission? if not, is there a motion to adopt the consent calendar? so moved wolford i'll second, please open this item to public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item for the adoption of the consent calendar and all resolution is contained within it. aside from item four c may line up against the wall for this from the door. if here in the chamber, if you're calling in. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access code. of (266)!a254-6002 8 pound poun. and then press star three to raise your hand to speak and we do not have any members of the public who have approached to

speak about this item in person. sfcv tv is indicating we do have one caller wishing to make public comment on the consent calendar for please unmute that caller and caller. you'll have three minutes to speak and i'll provide you with a 32nd notice. great thank you. david pilpel. so yes, on item four, b on page three of the public document that i downloaded this morning, it does have construction completion of in summer of 2024, near the top on item four, a the minutes i have a number of non-substantive edits. i'll run through them quickly and i can review them with secretary fuller after the meeting on the top of each page it indicates a recording of this meeting is available at a website address. i would only include that once, either at the beginning or the end of the minutes. i don't think it needs to be on each page on page one, the chair's

report, the sixth bullet says chair asked interim director short i would insert post so it reads chair post asked. interim director short on starting on page three, i gather that there were a few divided votes, but the way the votes read is a little confusing. so i think i would reword that somehow. so it indicates that there was a motion and a second and then the votes in favor and against. i'm not sure that it needs three lines for that one for each. commissioner, i think you can just say, you know, the ayes and the noes and whether the motion passed or failed, there was something else related to voting . no on page five, item seven, deputy director of finance, financial management. i think it should be financial management and administration. bruce

robertson so substitute and for the comma after management and i can't remember if there was something else. but anyway, if i see anything further in the non-substantive department, i'm happy to communicate that to secretary fuller. but i think clarifying the minutes, particularly as relates to the votes, is important for the record that is all i have on the consent calendar. thanks for listening. thank you. caller and that that is the last public commenter on the consent calendar. thank you. if there's no further discussion from the commission all in favor of adopting the consent calendar, please say aye or yes. aye aye. the consent calendar is passed unanimous. secretary fuller will post the corrected minutes and the pertinent resolution to the commission's website. but mr. fuller, please call the next

item. item five is the award of the pit stop workforce development agreement with mission hiring hall. warren hill, assistant manager of central operations, is here to present the grant agreement. and this is an action item. thank you, mr. hill. before you come to the podium, i have a few comments since the motion to approve this item and the other grant award on the agenda today did not pass at our last commission meeting. these items were continued to prepare for the reconsideration on the commission asked public works staff to provide answers to a number of questions. commissioner turner raised regarding department grant rfp and awards. i'd like to thank the department staff for answering commissioner turner's question and providing the additional information he requested. those answers and information will be posted to the public works commission's correspondence log. also, between our last meeting and today, commissioner turner and i

had a lengthy discussion with public works manager of contract administration alex burns and deputy city attorney yadira taylor to discuss public works contracting and competitive selection period policies in general. commissioner turner and i found this session very helpful and even more of our questions were answered in the weeks ahead. all of us on the public works commission look forward to a deeper dive into the department's grant making function and the workforce development program that is being scheduled for a regular commission meeting later this fall. regarding today's agenda, since we heard presentations on these two grants two weeks ago and the presentation options have not materially changed since then, i would like to suggest to my colleagues that we forego the same formal presentations today. the presentation materials are posted on the commission's website and we have all reviewed them. that said, commissioners or commissioner wolford, do you

have any questions on this item? the pit stop workforce development grant award before we entertain a motion on it? no . i also have no questions. i will move that we approve the pit stop workforce development grant award. is there a second? i'll second it. thank you. secretary fuller, please open the motion for public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item five, the pit stop workforce development grant agreement may line up against the wall for this from the door. if here in the chamber. if you are calling in, please. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting access code. (266)!a254-6002 8 pound pound. and then press star three to raise your hand to speak. no

members of the public have approached to speak on this item in person. sfcv is indicating that we do have one caller who would like to speak on this item as if govtv. please go ahead and unmute that caller and caller. you will have three minutes to speak and i'll provide you with a 32nd notice. uh, great. david pilpel again, so i'm not particularly concerned about this or the next item, but nor did i listen to it at length at the last meeting. but i did note in the page one of the item five memo, it says, since the august 18th meeting, in response to questions raised about this grant recommendation, staff have provided supplemental information. and i think i just heard from chair post that that supplemental information will be posted to the website with with the commission correspondence

for the next meeting. the problem is the public has not seen that supplemental information and that might be material to approve all of the this item and the other item today plus commissioner turner is not present and i for one, would be interested in commissioner turner's views publicly on whether the on the supplemental information and how it responds to his concerns that led to his vote against so i think i would respectfully request that these items be continued again to the next meeting when commissioner turner is present and that supplemental information is available to the public. i think it does a bit of a disservice to only share that information with the commission and not have it publicly be available in connection with consideration of the items, however important these workforce development grants are . those are my thoughts and that applies to the other item as

well. thanks for listening. thank you. caller and that is our last public commenter on this item. thank you. as i normally don't respond to public comment, but i will hear i do appreciate the callers concerns and apologize that the information was not posted prior to the meeting. i would like, though, to be very clear that i was very conscious about not having an end run around our colleague, commissioner turner. he and i have discussed at length this vote and i feel confident that i don't know how my colleagues will be voting, but i feel confident that my vote will not betray commissioner turner's views on the matter. all right. there's no other discussion. i know there are people here who have taken the time and trouble to attend the meeting. mr. hill, or

if anyone else in the audience wants to comment on this motion , please feel free to come up. otherwise, we'll get to the vote . all right. secretary fowler, please call the roll on the motion on the on the motion to approve the. pardon me? on the motion to approve the pit stop workforce development grant agreement. please respond with yes or no, paul wolford. yes commissioner wolford votes yes. fatty zabi yes. vice chair zogby votes yes. warren post yes. chair post votes yes. with the with three votes in favor of the motion pass. thank you. the resolution awarding the pit stop workforce development grant award to and hiring hall will be

posted to the commission's website. secretary fuller, please call the next item. item six is the tree watering workforce development grant award with the san francisco conservation corps. acting superintendent nicholas crawford is present to present this item and answer any questions. and this is an action item. thank you. i have no questions. are there any questions from the commission on this item before we open or before we take a motion on it? um, no questions for me. i actually have just a comment. we did go through, um, i had a meeting also with, um, a director, carla short, and we discussed, we talked at that, that this is a marathon. it's not a sprint. and i would like to, you know, i requested that, not requested. i thought it was a good idea just to have more

conversation, more with the commission about the process itself, because i felt that the process is the one that caused the confusion in the. but other than that, i don't have any more questions about about this item. thank you. i will move that we approve the tree watering workforce development grant award to the san francisco conservation corps is there a second? second wolford thank you. secretary fuller, please open the motion to public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item six, the tree watering workforce development grant award may line up against the wall for this from the door. if here in the chamber, if you are calling in, please dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access code. of 26625460028. and then press star three to raise your hand to speak. and we do not have any

members of the public who have approached in person to speak on this item. sfcv is indicating let me just check that. oh, sfcv is indicating that we do not have any callers on this item either. so that concludes public comment. thank you. before voting on this motion, is there anyone in the audience that wishes to address the commission or speak on the on the item? all right. i don't see anybody. secretary fuller, please call the roll on the motion on the on the motion to approve item item six, please respond with yes or no. paul wolford. yes commissioner wolford votes yes. fatty zogby. yes vice chair zogby votes yes. lauren post. yes chair post votes. yes. with

three votes in favor. the item passes. thank you. and secretary fuller will post the resolution regarding the workforce development grant. san francisco conservation corps to the commission's website. secretary fuller, please call the next item on the agenda, item seven seven. is new business initiated by commissioners. and this is an opportunity for commissioners to suggest business for a future vendor for a future agenda. this is an informational item. thank you. do any commissioners have new business to initiate? commissioner zarb i um. thank you. chair post. um everyone. i mean, whoever knows me and knows my background as a lot of it is being involved with the business community of san francisco, especially the very small business community like moms and pops, i serve on the board, served on the board for a long time on north beach business association, which automatically

got me, you know, made me a member of the council of merchants, been working, worked with the chamber of commerce of san francisco. and i just wanted to remind everyone of the sacrifice that small businesses did during our recent pandemic back in 2020 when they had to shut down and, you know, the source of income took a took a long break. we've had businesses that never closed in the past 50 years that first time ever they had to close for the sake of the community and to be part of the whole pandemic emergency rules. and if everyone remembers when we when the city reopened at 25% capacity for businesses and businesses started and a whole process of outdoor seatings where they they were they put

tables and chairs in the parking spaces in front of their storefronts and they had to also, you know, get it to a point where it's comfortable for their clients. they built those structures and now we're going through a process of permitting , permitting some businesses they decided to keep to either keep or rebuild, remodel and get a permit and do everything legally, which was which was great from the city of san francisco to allow those small businesses to keep that at shared spaces or or we call it parklets. but in the past couple of in the past meetings, we've been we've been approving projects in in the consent calendar to repave certain streets. and i wanted to see what is what is the department doing in coordination with the

permit process and the repaving thing from, from talking to a lot of business owners, small business owners tell them we ask them, what do you think about that, you know, shared space outside? are you going to keep it or are you not? they're all thinking they're all scared about getting the permits built wing it, which is right now after the pandemic is costing over close to $100,000. and then . and then, you know, public works will come and say, we need to pave that street. now i will. i wanted to just bring it to the table here to at least have a conversation, have a discussion on about what is the department doing to coordinate these and, you know, prevent businesses from getting permits, spending the money and then having to do at their own expense, having to remove it for the street to be

paved. um that's a very interesting question. do you want to respond to today interim director short or do you want to look into it with deputy director coe and get back to us maybe at the next meeting, the september 15th meeting on it sounds very worthwhile that that we're repaving, but then i guess business owners are going to have to pull these permits pretty soon and don't want to, of course, do it if they're going to be repaved maybe next year or something. so it's an interesting question i'd like to hear the answer to. sure okay. carla shaud, interim director, i can make just brief comments now and then we can get you more information at the next meeting. so we do do our best to work with businesses when the paving projects are upcoming, we notify the businesses that have shared spaces and i'll use one example from your neighborhood where we adjusted the paving schedule to accommodate the use of the

shared spaces during their highest time of year around the holidays. and then the businesses indicated that they it would be more convenient for them to remove the parklets during their slower period, which is just after the holidays. so the original plan was to basically pave november, december, we postponed that to try to accommodate the best time for those businesses. many of the parks hits are not entire rebuilds. they're modifications ones to the existing structures . so i think there there is not a like they're down to zero and then they build a new thing and we come through and pave right after that. having said that, i think our goal is always to provide sufficient notice. that's why we have a five year plan. we while things change, you know, we want to make sure that we give people notice of our intent so they can plan around it. the permit

applications were actually already due and, you know, they're actually supposed to be completed by september 27th. we have received quite a few permit applications. we're in the review process. some of them still need modifications. so they're not 100% necessarily code compliant yet. but we're working with them on that. so those are my general comments. but we can certainly look at if there are ways to improve our our notifications or coordinations. i think certainly anyone who has paving coming up should have already gotten notices about that because of our our efforts. to let people know the notices of intent of intent that go out fairly early in the process. yes. so i don't know how easy it will be to overlay, but it seems like that's something we can do. we have a map of where these applicable zones are. we know where we're going to be paving. so we could try to do a little

bit of extra outreach in those areas. thank you. um, i would, i would. you said that there was incidents where you had to postpone. were there will there be any consideration to expedite a street that has permits that are ready to go just to get it out of the way? i mean, we would happily look at that. i think the challenge is, you know, if it's an as needed contract, that might be possible. part of the challenge is that we have of course, are getting our contracts approved, getting things done. you know, through through the commission process. so it all depends on where we are with the contracting capacity and then mobilizing for the contractor. obviously, there can be additional costs if we're pulling them from one side of the city to another. but we absolutely want to work with our small businesses so we can certainly look at that. if there's a case like that and if

it's possible to expedite, we certainly would do that. you know, i would like to follow up on that and just say if it's a permitted parklet, you're not parking there anyway. so it does call into question the reason for paving underneath it and destroying the parklet. so perhaps there could be just one more layer of scrutiny and investigation into that, because if it's a permitted parklet, no one's going to park in the space. it might it could be a green space for all that matters, you know? so it would be really important because those businesses that are doing that are hanging on, as we all know. so the last thing we want to do is, is kill another local business because of well-intended policy. certainly i think we can and do look at that option as well. there are there are a lot of complications, as i'm sure you know, with your experience in terms of, you know, being able to have the pavement hold you know, drainage issues there are a lot of complicating factors. but i know that there have been

examples where we've looked at just basically trying to pave around the existing structure. um, how much time i mean, i know it's going to, you know what, september 27th is the, the, the cut off for, for approving all permits. do you think we can get back to us with a presentation beforehand or after or how, how much time would we need. um in terms of approving all permits. i think the city is working through it's an iterative process and so there's a lot of back and forth with applicants. so i think there it's likely that all those permits will not be 100% finalized by the deadline. um, we're working as quickly as we can with the applicants, but a lot of times

we need we need more information or things are correct on paper. and then when we go out and inspect, they're not actually built to the exact same specification. so it's, it's ongoing in terms of when we can come back to this commission on, um, i, i am looking at our deputy director. you think two weeks is sufficient. he seems to think we can come back for the next commission meeting with a brief presentation on on what our findings are. thank you. that would be great. thank you. all right. if there's no other new business, please open this item to public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item seven new business initiated by commissioners may line up against the wall for this from the door if present in the chamber. if you're calling in.

dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access. code (266)!a254-6002 8 pound pound. and then press star three to be recognized. and there are not members of the public in the chamber who have approached to speak on this item and govtv has also indicated we do not have any callers on this item. so that concludes public comment on item seven. thank you. and we can forego item eight, isn't that correct? that is correct. we did not exceed the 15 minutes of general public comment. and item three. thank you very much. our next regular meeting will be on friday, september 15th at 930 am. five minutes over where i promised we'd be out. it is 1035, but we are looking forward to giving everyone an early

start on the labor day holiday weekend and wish you all a very nice one. as commissioner zogby expressed earlier, we are adjourned and.

[♪♪♪] >> i just don't know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street. it is an experience that you can't have anywhere else in san francisco. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> district nine is a in the southeast portion of the city. we have four neighborhoods that i represent. st. mary's park has a completely unique architecture. very distinct feel, and it is a very close to holly park which is another beautiful park in san francisco. the bernal heights district is

unique in that we have the hell which has one of the best views in all of san francisco. there is a swinging hanging from a tree at the top. it is as if you are swinging over the entire city. there are two unique aspects. it is considered the fourth chinatown in san francisco. sixty% of the residents are of chinese ancestry. the second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. there is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. not only for san francisco but for the region. and of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the city's second biggest park after golden gate. many people don't know the neighborhood in the first place if they haven't been there. we call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. where we are right now is the mission district. the mission district is a very

special part of our city. you smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. and then you walk further down and you have sunrise café. it is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. >> twenty-fourth street is the birthplace of the movement. we have over 620 murals. it is the largest outdoor public gallery in the country and possibly the world. >> you can find so much political engagement park next to so much incredible art. it's another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [♪♪♪] >> it was formed in 2014.

we had been an organization that had been around for over 20 years. we worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues. most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the neighborhood. so the idea of forming the cultural district was to help preserve the history and the culture that is in this neighborhood for the future of families and generations. >> in the past decade, 8,000 latino residents in the mission district have been displaced from their community. we all know that the rising cost of living in san francisco has led to many people being displaced. lower and middle income all over the city. because it there is richness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. >> it's a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an

area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. there is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. there are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesn't completely erase the communities. we try to have developments that is more in tune with the community and more equitable development in the area. >> you need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. the people on the businesses that came before you. you need to dialogue and show respect. and then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [♪♪♪] >> i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. so we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and

working-class. >> back in the day, we looked at mission street, and now it does not look and feel anything like mission street. this is the last stand of the latino concentrated arts, culture and cuisine and people. we created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that feeling. that is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. we have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve. [♪♪♪]

>> you know, i remember when i was a teenager, they did i think it was on the grammys, boss scags narrated the san francisco scene and they did a spot on it and how it's evolved and convergence of multi culture and the emergence of gay community, lgbtq, it was not even called that then. >> so like any good listening back then, i played softball and a friend on the team said, the fire department is recruiting women. i took the test in 88 and 89 i got hired. and i always say this, it was

like a perfect career, it was like social work, i love that connecting and helping people aspect and physical. so i was like a social worker with an ax basically. and i just thought, this is like, this is it, i hit the jackpot. part of my story is, i grew up across the street from a fire station and as a young girl, i use today love going in there and would go in there whenever my parents voted, they the old fashion voting machines. sxifs in awe of the place but i never saw anybody that looked anything like me. it was all men, it was all white men and so, i never knew that i could do that. this was in the 70s. and i worked in several different things and i was at the pride parade in 1991. >> and the chief of the department, she i did give her

courtesy card to come in, i remember it to this day, june 30th. the hand and hand together and i was with a friend of mine and fire fighter named anita prattly came up to me and we had a mutual friend and we didn't meet. and she came by the table and as soon as i looked at her, i said hi o to my friend, i could see she was super athletic. >> and she knew my friend and she said hey, do you want to be a fire fighter, here's an interest card, join us. >> there was something about her that could roll with the punches and also give a few punches. she would be great and i just knew it. i did give her the courtesy card. it was my greatest achievement. >> and it was something i saw

myself, yeah, i love a good crisis. and i'm good in crisis and i'm good on thinking on my feet. and i'm you know, super fit and physical, maybe i can do this awesome. >> but just in terms of pride in general, being able to go to pride and be who we are and be who i am, it's like the sense of digity and equality and inclusion. i was always incredibly proud to represent the community and to be doing service for the community, because that's what i love doing. >> coming to san francisco for me, was really key because i love the city. the city is so vibrant and diversity is really, it's one of its treasures. so being part of a department

that represents diversity is huge and so important to me that we welcome everyone. and not just face value, truly to integrate to have diversity, have representation not just on the fire fighter level but all levels in this department, all ranks up and down the chain of command. it's huge and it's, stepping in as a woman of color as part of the lgbtq community, means more than just myself, right. i represent more than just myself. but as a leader, other people in this department, other people in the community that are looking at me and seeing that there is space for them. and so that is really creating space for everyone. >> when i first joined the military, it was still under

don't ask don't tell. i had to be super cautious about what i was doing. i was still figuring out what i was doing. i joined when i was 19, i knew i was part of the community i was not accepting yet. my first duty station was officer guam and that's where i got to explore who i was. and being under the umbrella of don't ask don't tell, and having a friend being separated because he was gay. it was very rule. had you to make sure that you were following the rules you needed to do everything you need today do. i was fortunate to be there when don't ask don't tell was repealed. you find people who are making a big deal about it, the next day everybody went to work like nothing happened. we were accepted and nobody made a big deal about it.

work performance was even better because you didn't have to hide something and worry about hiding. the transition from that world into this one is basically the exact same. i was able to just jump in and just you know, not even test the waters. >> i grew up with firefighters, my uncle and cuss infor a volunteer department in canada. here it's quite different, bigger department, a lot of different people. you know, just working with san francisco i really enjoy having all the different personalities, background, experiences, i'm a pro lead rhyme now. i'm a year into my probation and i'm already finished. and i felt like everybody has brought me in and show me what they know. and regardless of my sexuality,

my gender, my race, i was 28 when i decided to change my career and go any different direction. i'm 35 now just starting out in a whole different field. >> san francisco has a large population of lgbtq community in general and our department is reflective on that. the one thing i love about the san francisco fire department, is we do look like the community we serve and we're making every strife to reflect that. so even in our out reach, recruitment efforts, we're trying to make sure that every single person including the lgbtq community has an opportunity to become a member of our department. soz a subpoena officer, it's important to make sure that i welcome my crew. that includes every single member that is on my apparatus, i feel we can do a

better job. >> my dad was a football coach and he taught me to persevere and be committed and i'm showing that i'm doing that. i'm very proud to say that i get to start my career off as a fire fighter for the san francisco fire department. and i'm proud to be who i am, proud to be all the colors that i represent, proud to be, you know, i love being a woman in the department and to feel comfortable with who i am and very secure and excited to come to work. >> you know, one thing my mom also en grained anything we set our heart to and anything we wanted to do, the only thing stopping us was us. it's my dream to be a fire department member and i'm here, being changed because of who i was and now being able to out and proud of who i am, it's, i

feel it should mean something. >> it's important as a san francisco fire fighter, that we understand the community that we serve. it's important that our department is made up of different genders, different ethnicities, different sexual orientations, because the community that we serve need to reflect the apparatus. >> i've seen, i've seen the evolution of this department, i've seen it change through the years. we're in a better place than we were many years ago. i think we continue to evolve. i'm really hopeful for this next generation of leaders who do smart, determined, lead with heart and i'm hopeful for our future for this department going forward. >> we're your department. we're here for you. we're you and that, and i really believe that san

francisco really embodies that. i tell you, it was the greatest decision i ever made. i kept thinking, my gosh if i didn't play softball i wonder if i would have heard about it. it's funny you plan in life and gu to college and you plan your next steps, but the most profound decision nz life, is how you meet people are random. i was meant to be i think and it was such a great fit being that social worker with the ax, that's it. >> so i see san francisco and san francisco leadership and government as a beacon for the entire country. because we are so up front about what we believe in, we're really up front about inclusivity and i know that, others look at us, many look to us.

we've had other departments, contact us in terms of how do you, how do you do this? how do you create a diverse equitable and inclusive workforce? and so, but i would be lying if i said that we don't have any problems in california or in san francisco or in the department. we are out liars, sure? are we doing our best again to address those things with implicit bias training? with changing the culture, our department has made huge huge leaps as has the city and i really feel like san francisco is part of the solution to moving forward in a better way. people are individuals, there are a lot of different types of people in this world and celebrating our differences is

>> he is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. brought this department together like never before. i am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the san francisco fire department, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome, jeanine nicholson. (applause).

>> i grew up total tomboy, athlete. i loved a good crisis, a good challenge. i grew up across the street from the fire station. my dad used to take me there to vote. i never saw any female firefighters because there weren't any in the 1970s. i didn't know i could be a fire fighter. when i moved to san francisco in 1990, some things opened up. i saw women doing things they hadn't been doing when i was growing up. one thing was firefighting. a woman recruited me at the gay-pride parade in 1991. it was a perfect fit. i liked using my brain, body,

working as a team, figuring things out, troubleshooting and coming up with different ways to solve a problem. in terms of coming in after another female chief, i don't think anybody says that about men. you are coming in after another man, chief, what is that like. i understand why it is asked. it is unusual to have a woman in this position. i think san francisco is a trailblazer in that way in terms of showing the world what can happen and what other people who may not look like what you think the fire chief should look like how they can be successful. be asked me about being the first lbgq i have an understands because there are little queer kids that see me. i worked my way up. i came in january of 1994.

i built relationships over the years, and i spent 24 years in the field, as we call it. working out of firehouses. the fire department is a family. we live together, eat together, sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. when i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. i didn't want to talk to any of my civilian friends. they couldn't understand what i was going through. the firefighters knew, they understood. they had been there. it is a different relationship. we have to rely on one another. in terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the

priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. that hasn't been there for a while. part of the reason that i am getting along well with the field now is because i was there. i worked there. people know me and because i know what we need. i know what they need to be successful. >> i have known jeanine nicholson since we worked together at station 15. i have always held her in the highest regard. since she is the chief she has infused the department with optimism. she is easy to approach and is concerned with the firefighters and paramedics. i appreciate that she is concerned with the issues

relevant to the fire department today. >> there is a retired captain who started the cancer prevention foundation 10 years ago because he had cancer and he noticed fellow firefighters were getting cancer. he started looking into it. in 2012 i was diagnosed with breast canner, and some of my fellow firefighters noticed there are a lot of women in the san francisco fire department, premenopausal in their 40s getting breast cancer. it was a higher rate than the general population. we were working with workers comp to make it flow more easily for our members so they didn't have to worry about the paper work when they go through chemo. the turnout gear was covered with suit. it was a badge to have that all

over your coat and face and helmet. the dirtier you were the harder you worked. that is a cancer causeser. it -- casser. it is not -- cancer causer. there islassic everywhere. we had to reduce our exposure. we washed our gear more often, we didn't take gear where we were eating or sleeping. we started decontaminating ourselves at the fire scene after the fire was out. going back to the fire station and then taking a shower. i have taught, worked on the decontamination policy to be sure that gets through. it is not if or when. it is who is the next person. it is like a cancer sniper out there. who is going to get it next.

one of the things i love about the fire department. it is always a team effort. you are my family. i love the city and department and i love being of service. i vow to work hard -- to work hard to carry out the vision of the san francisco fire department and to move us forward in a positive way. if i were to give a little advice to women and queer kids, find people to support you. keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep trying. you never know what door is going to open next. you really don't. [cheers and

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 . calling 140156550001 and entering the meeting id. number 2664941732520. the webinar password is 1234. please ensure you are in a quiet location. speak clearly and turn off background sounds, televisions, phones and radios. wait for the item you would like to address to be called when prompted. press star three to be added to the queue. the system will notify you when you are in line. callers will hear silence when waiting for your turn to speak. operator will unmute you when prompted callers will have the standard three minutes to provide public comment. you may also watch live at nsf.gov tv.org. item one roll call president steven nakajo has been excused. vice president ami

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. >> 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

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>> this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your san francisco history used to be. >> we hear that all the time, people bring their kids here

and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. >> even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. and they tell us that. >> you're going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something that's very, very good. ♪♪ >> the legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by san francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. it really provides for san francisco's unique character. ♪♪ >> and that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration.

>> i'm michael cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. ♪♪ the bakery started in 191. my grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. it is a small operation. it's not big. so everything is kind of quality that way. so i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. >> i'm leslie cirocco-mitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. ♪♪ so we get up pretty early in the morning. i usually start baking around 5:00. and then you just start doing rounds of dough. loaves. >> my mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. after that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the

product, retail it. ♪♪ you know, i don't really think about it. but then when i -- sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and we've been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. you know, that geez, we've been here a long time. [applause] ♪♪ >> a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. we all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san

francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut.

tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy's joint. tommy's joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. tommy's is a place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important. ♪♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they

really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco. >> it started in june of 1953. ♪♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and

mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. the business really boomed after that. >> i think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of san francisco. we were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. businesses come and go in the city. pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and there's so much competition. so for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. >> we got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy

that we were still involved, still the owners. she was our customer in 1953. and she still comes in. but she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that we're carrying on our father's legacy. and that we mean so much to so many people. ♪♪ >> it provides a perspective. and i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, you're missing the context. for me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. >> i just think it's part of san francisco. people like to see familiar stuff. at least i know i do. >> in the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommy's joint and looks exactly the same. we haven't change add thing.

>> i remember one lady saying, you know, i've been eating this ice cream since before i was born. and i thought, wow! we have, too. ♪♪

when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot

what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals, graffiti, store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love. >> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical society.

it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook, it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me.

even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business, i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said, okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one

daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days, i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000. it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot

chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown. a new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know, and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, it's 50 years old. i said, yeah. it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone.

>> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography, that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it, who cares. but, you know, i care.

>> last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay

and back to normal. you know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community. >> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing

anything. i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a

remembrance. i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer. this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my p

>> long it was in fashion, o'shaughnessy water system has been sustainable. in addition to providing water for the bay area, it also generates clean hydroelectric power to run city buildings and services. and more recently, some san francisco homes and businesses. >> satellite electricity is greenhouse gas free, so we see a tremendous benefit from that. we really are proud of the fact that, we've put our water to work. >> even with the system as well coon received as hetch hetchy, climate change has made the supply of water from the sierra vulnerable. and requires new thinking about where and how we use water. >> we have five hundred million gallons a day of wastewater being dumped out into san francisco bay and the ocean from the bay area alone. and that water could be recycled and should be recycled for reuse through out the bay area.

>> we're looking at taking wastewater and reading it to drink watering standards. we're also looking at our generation and looking at onsite water reuse looking at the technology and strategies we have available to us today. >> the very first recycling plant in the state of california for landscape irrigation was built in san francisco. we've just developed a new recycled water plant in the ocean side wastewater facility for irrigation purposes in golden gate park, lincoln park and the panhandle. >> a century ago, san francisco built a dam to create bunched znswer of fresh water to ensure the future and ensure the taps will flow for future generations, it will take as much vision when it reflects a fundamental change about how we think about water. >> i think we recognize there's going to be change in the future. so we're going to have to have the flexibility and the creativity to deal with that

future as it's presented to us, it's a matter of how to see it and say, okay, let's make wise use of everything we have. >> this o'shaughnessy centennial moment is made possibbbbbbbbbbb

>> president ajami. >> here. >> vice president maxwell. >> here. >> commissioner paulson and rivera are excused. commissioner stacy. >> here. >> thank you. members mimake up to 2 minutes of remote comment dialing 415-655-0001, access code: 2592 058 3232 ##.