we when prompted press star 3 toradded to the queue. callers will hear silence when waiting to speak. operator will unmute. you may watch live at ww. sf go tv >> president morgan. >> present. >> vice president fraser. >> front. >> commissioner nakajo. >> excused from this meeting are feinstein and collins.

chief of department sandra tong. president morgan will read the land acknowledgment. ramaytush ohlone acknowledgment... speak admit microphone. >>

>> now. >> general public comment. item two. members of the public may address the commission up to 3 minutes on a matter within the commission's jurisdiction this does not appear on the agenda. speakers shall address remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. commissioners are not to enter in debate or discussion with a speaker. the lack of a response by commissioners or department personnel does in the in low institute agreement with or sfpt of statements made during public comment. >> madam secretary >> at this point, is there public comment? >> i don't see anyone approaching and don't see anyone on the comment line. >> thank you, madam secretary. >> item 3, commissioner

comments and questions. >> yes. thank you, madam secretary. at the special meeting on the third of september the commission voted unanimously in favor of nominating sandra tong as interim chief of the department. this is a required disclosure. announce it publicly >> item 4 approval of minutes. discussion and possible action. discussion and possible action to approve meeting minutes, minutes from regular meeting august 23 of 24 and meeting minutes from special meeting on september third 2024. okay. at this time, is there discussion or questions about the -- the -- dates august 28 and september third? from the fellow commissioners?

that is there a motion to approve. joy think we will check if there is public comment before we take that vote. i don't see anyone approaching the podium. and i don't see anyone on the public comment line. >> thank you, madam secretary. >> mr. president. are we doopth both minutes of august 28 and september the third separate low or the same. >> separately. >> thank you. >> i like to move august 28 minutes for approval, mr. president. joy second that. >> okay. we will take a vote. vice president fraser? >> aye. >> motion passes unanimously. mr. president. may i move to adopt the special meeting minutes of september

third of 2024? yes, you may, i second that. >> vice president fraser, how do you vote. >> aye >> motion pass unanimously. item 5, chief of department >> reporter: from chief of department sandra tong on current issues activities andents within the department since the meeting on august 28, 2024 including budgeters academies, special event, communication and out reach to other agencies and the public. report from operations deputy chief darius luttropp and field operations greater alarm fires, bureau of fire prevention and investigation. training went department and airport division. and report from ems and community paramedicine assistant

chief pang on the ems and community paramedicine division. >> so. at this point we ask for public comment or -- wait. >> we would have the presentations and then public comment after each >> chief tong going to make a report through simultaneous castment i see chief tong on the web ex chief tong if you are ready to present? do so. >> while the chief is getting ready i will point out that simon pang is deputy chief of ems and community paramedicine and congratulations. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> can you hear me? >> yes, we can, chief.

>> all right. just a moment. thank you very much for your patience. good now? yes. good morning president morgan, vice president fraser, commissioner nakajo. command staff, sandy tong this is my first report as your interim chief. the first week has been busy and exciting after my wear nothing by mayor breed a week ago on september third. so far with my first week i have been doing a few introduce. last week attended the sfpd central station china town night out. it was lovely event. we were able to see a number of the community members. their representatives and departments. and so being able to just seat china town community and able to speak to them in my first role

was quite fun. then, we met the next day myself and chief ma loyal. and others met with our new ems fellows the ems fellows physicians doing a fellow ship with the ems agency. where they are learning how to specialize in emergency medical service. they work with our doctor lacoke who mentors them. they provide a variety of you know, opportunity to be -- what are the [inaudible] in the [inaudible]. i'm sorry chief you are cutting out. can you repeat that.

chief tong are you able to hear us. who i we try it get chief tong on the line. perhaps can pick up? good morning. deputy chief operations darius luttropp. >> i will start my report. thank you all. if we can pull up the power point, kathy? >> do you have it plugged in. should be loaded is it open >> well it is, chooefr >> this is the fire operation's

report for august of 2024. we continue our winning streak with our assistant chiefs maintaining a hundred % batting average in august. otherwise, activity was consistent. as far as reports, fire, number of working fires. slight decrease in the number of cliffs, rescue calls. you know -- fairly standard operations for august. because i never want to leave you without a fire report i will highlight number 5443 castro street. box 5416 on the 10th of august. chief thompson was the second commander. reported a castro theatre, which was quite concerning to everyone it ended up being theus bank. you see their proximity to each other in the lower picture.

this is the initial pictures of the fire. which was primarily an exterior fire and well protected by the [inaudible] necessary for a bank with heavy fencing. they were able to quickly put out this portion of the fire but it found its way in extended in the structure and this is where it got interesting. because of the fortification, you see the heavy bars on the window. the heavy doors to the bank structure. it was difficult to gainent row to where they knew the fire was. the officer reports were -- despite fact they extinguished the fire the conscience were worsening in the attic or the second floor. they were having a tremendous amount of difficulty finding access to the second floor. you see the interior fortifications the bank windows

and once they were able to conduct a search they were able to find installed attic ladtory second story they went above the bank vault and able to extinguish fire above the bank vault which was heavy low loaded with documents all the records of the bank. and they had significant fire on that flower. quickly extinguished witness they gained access. i did want to highlight this fire also i have been speak in past meetings or commission reports about the product this after action report. so, this after action for 443 castro is included in your commission packet and we will do this. chief thompson director the the fire attack chief heavy low experienced fire officer who had a strong understanding what was going on.

prepare the after action for this. and i think it is well worth a read and look forward to after action coming from all significant events from place where lessons are learned and were likely to transition the product to other reporting. near miss reporting. and more to follow. another thing i wanted point out the end of the presentation sorry i did not include it in the slide deck, our current mutual aid season, i address today prior to start of summer. obviously, we maintain a strong relationship with the california oes mutual aid system that transfers to the national system. we currently have 8 members deploy in the over head positions and a strike team out and working at significant fire in california and now. i did want to clean up

misunderstandings about the system and impacts on the fire department. did is a tremendous -- obligation we feel to staff positions while we are asked from outside the agency. and in the past, with reduced staffing this is had an operational impact. thanks to the mayor's office and the work of chief nicholson and now the work of chief tong we have been able to increase staffing enough that we have been able to fill all of our higher ranks. there is, there is ample capacity in the agency to fill the strike teams and over head positions. and the amount of work that chief brown and dares put in stream lineing process and making functional as chief brown develops the imt with chief baker in attendance and builds us to a place we are able to

prays in a disaster or emergency. and interact with the eoc as an example. chief baker has been in a strike team leader role for year this is year go and work as what is called division supervisor. which is a very difficult process to get through. normally we require year in an active fire season like this and the professionalism our members show, in the mutual aid response, they are moving quickly. we are -- making great strides very quickly. and just for a cost recovery point of view. the impact on the city when chief baker is out and working in this capacity. they are paying chief baker's salary. they are providing back fill for chief baker and they are also providing administrative fee to the agency. so there is no fiscal impact.

there is actually an opportunity for recovery and building the program out to a greater extent. i wanted address that. at the end of our slide show today. i look forward to make him give a report the end of fire season. chief baker is excited. >> fire prevention and investigation. i wanted highlight on page 5, it looks like a low number for school inspections september we start over and we'll be 100% completion. if you see the complaints, as i noted in left month's report. the likelihood they would be able to bring the numbers down with increased staffing the fire marshall is able to provide has come to pass and we are seeing the number of complaints go

down. if i direct you to page >> 14. i will highlight the current work this we discussed last meeting and back about our relationship with the mt a and their different processes of street change review. we have come to error motor completion of the controller in developing a manual for street change revision process. and we were able to go over that manual in the fire marshall and i with the mayor's office and with the mt a and i think we are close to that document landing and it will greatly increase our ability to work with the mt a. chief florez and i -- and i were able to attends the vision zero meeting which is the first of

the fire department at vision zero commission. we plan on attending the subcommittee regularly. they were happy for our participation. we look forward to greater collaboration on this front. bureau of fire investigation two arrests for arson this month. >> and final low, the fire marshall engage in the on going development of a test and look to give it before the end of the year for rh4 rank, which is our fire inspector. we had 114 members apply. which is unprecedented number. we look forward to staffing the position completely at the completion of the test. he is in the process. developing a parallel involvian track and received a number of applications for this. have have the news letter in

your fire commission packet with the return of the news letter and quiz i hope you ace the quiz. for the anticipate division chief darcy is not here he is at a working group meeting for airport rescue and firefighting in south carolina. we will not cry for him. myrtle beach is lovely this time of year. the thing i highlighted is involvement at the national level with the greater fire service and driving the needs of the san francisco fire department and the airport division at that level. meetings with the san mateo esa and more to follow on that. way mo is expanding to the airport the airport was involved in some meetings for that. on page 30 it is an election year. did not high light it very much

but the v ip visits the president's visits and vice president and candidate individuals are tremendous impact on operations in the city. and chief brown manages that and at the airport chief darcy has been very busy with high level visits. commissioner feinstein likes to finds out had things mean page 31. p ip, this is the performance improvement plan a way for a member who is having operational prugel to get training and the track this is not a negative it is a positive. and in conversation with chief darcy yesterday, he completed his interviews for the and positions i talked about last month the logistics and finance position and for the training captain position.

and i found good candidates and will fill them this week. for the division of training. they don't do nothing i will skip. page 33, chief has been involved with chief milner development of the new training division in the bayview and look forward to it this week as we move in the next phase, which is design development. had it looks like training facility and classrooms. i look forward to the presentation in the near term. we talks with what we attended a meeting our online training platform for the new ocea requirements that be coming.

there will be a heavy training lift for the adoption of the new federal standards. but i think we the be as an agency and better place than most and look forward to rolling it out with the chief. and -- at the very bottom on page 33 you see 188 firefighter two task of books this report ace component of the requirement and as we move toward development of professionalizing our officer's ranks to the level we need for regulation the chief is going back and making sure all members have just the baseline paperwork and certifications required continue to move forward in the state fire training system we look forward to that. another acronym on page 34. t ems. which is, a tactical emergency

management service, sorry. these are our members who are constant low in training with the units for san francisco police department. and they assess them with high risk. operations barricade suspect or subject. high -- warranty delivery. it is an increasing are mautd of when we are doing in the san francisco fire department and looking forward to making policy with them. >> and in service, you can see -- that the disparity in numbers with the amount we were able to deliver at a personnel level with members and our online training i look forward to the expansion of online training for you suppression forces. page 37 a nice feel good picture. when recruits went out and ran the hills. they then took the time to weep

and clean the stairs that is a great touch and adds to their commitment to the service to the community. page 40, you see chief nicholson's final visit to the 1 thirty-four class. i know chief nicholson treasured everybody that she brought in to the agency. am i going to staff? on the wrong page. the neighborhood emergency response team rndz john hondza, had prop footwork staffing and you see now this he has pages and pages of training that they are able to accomplish with the increase in staffing.

and i know commissioner nakajo is working with us to help expand the group of people that are interested in training and we will continue to grow that out. and that -- what i got one little note what is this. the citywide drill is october. for nert and i look forward to all your attention this year. >> that's end of my report. >> i will get date for you. >> julie what is the date? citywide. october 15th. october 19th. and be there both days, i will. >> end of report. thank you, chief luttropp for your detailed report. at this time.

madam secretary is there public comment >> this would be public comment for the reports from cd1 and two. >> i did not see anyone approaching the podium or on the public comment line. >> thank you, madam secretary. i guess at this time i will refer to my fellow commissioners to see if there is any questions or -- discussion with chief luttropp? commissioner fraser? >> thank you, chief luttropp. great report. lots of good and interesting things. want to call out two, one, is to congratulate you on getting in this mt a committee on street changes and working

collaboratively with that group and congratulations on zero fiscal impact on the mutual aid system that is important on many levels but not having a fiscal impact is a big bonus. congratulations on that, too. thank you for your report. >> sorry about the page flipping. commissioner nakajo. >> thank you very much, president morgan. thank you very much chief luttropp. i wanted make a comment in terms of your after action report. in terms of 443 castro. again according to our packet, i like this format. but i also read the format what was nice the narrative accompanied pictures. and the pictures core responded with the incident.

and when i picked upon it is again, comment, was how challenging this fire was. the upon iron gates. the metal cutting. the fence. the back rear the fire that was a bit above in the i don't know what seating area. again it was detaild and shows me how challenging it was and how much time it took. it does seems like our members took care of business as soon as they could and fast as they could. when we heart their tifs i know we are trained all the time -- but you want to comment a bit about the training and in terms of the obstacle this is occurred i imagining smoke, visibility and difficulties as the members

hit the building. i think that i know it is part of training. that's my comment. chief. we are considering this a training document t. is good information sharing in the agency. somebody working in a complete other side of town the next day. it may take month fist they hear about a fire like this. so there is the pating information sharing from training perspective, their basic education has shown tremendous advances under the chief over the past many years. but there are still things that get missed in the small things and nuance of fighting fire in san francisco the challenges here are common. we see heavy low fortified

buildings, he or sheeder conscience this is unusual it is a bank. which presents other unique challenges but some of the things that the chief pointed out in this thing fist they have not encounter today before they might not have thought of like removing the panic hardware on the front door so you don't restrict your ability to leave the building quickly. small things and pointing the big and small thing in a document like this, they are share instead fire house. officers use them in the morning meetings to transmit information. and it -- it takes the work that the xhooef baker and assistants doing over you know years and years and -- trying to get it to the battalion chief and to the companies it adds another avenue. of information sharing and training >> okay.

again first thing that came up on my phone show how old i am that was it was our castro when i identified it next to the castro theatre. once they identified it as the bank the bank vaults [inaudible]. teller windows and bullet proof we are talking about plastic we are talking about and my thank you for the narration. communication from the assistant chiefs to the battalion to the members as they go in and encounter and here is this fence. there is this look. and how much communication has to do to get there. there were no citizens that we had to be involved with i think the concentration was on the fire but sure seemed like a lot of challenge. i will move on. i appreciate the circles right

up and i appreciate the narration you never know what will happen. moving on to the burrow fire inspections. the school inspections that is the first i think i thought about as my grandson starts washington high school. the important segment. i want to appreciate you mentioning that. i appreciate my interests in terms of the [inaudible] from divisions, division of fire prevention news letter acknowledge that. i wanted to acknowledge that on the training report -- what helps again and i appreciate it the have captions before the [inaudible] the and you sit there like i'm trying to figure it out. it make its more easy reading

when it captions are on every picture that describes everything this goos with that so there is no guessing involved at all, chief. i appreciate that and acknowledge that as well. i appreciate the probation training calendar that occurs, i wanted to report that and finally the nert report which now is comp menstrualive to exactly what they do and what they and what components of the city they are dealing with.to e and what they and what components of the city they are dealing with. >> thank you commissioner nakajo. thank you, chief luttropp. i thought that was very interesting -- the fire at the bank on castro. did seem challenging break in a bank. it is ironic. to put out a fire.

i than had to be difficult. the i gots fire was external, should not have an issue with the external fires around the city. that is becoming a problem. was this homelessness encampment or situation. we don't know who started it or when? >> i don't have the report i don't believe there was a cause and it is under investigation. >> all right. >> seems like there is a lot of -- you know exterior fire around the city i seen that one graph draft of the graphic in here somewhere. in the fire prevention chart.

dropped sealoth ground floor with plywood under. they were trying to get it, get an opening to circumvent the heat or whatever. what is a dropped ceiling. >> dropped ceiling would be a finished sealing that is not on the roof and floor above it creates a void when you have a void space like that it is heavily secured with plywood or something else that would require a saw to cut does not allow for companies operating on the roof to penetrate to the

next level temperature is difficult from the roof using ceiling hooks or hand tools to break through that is an circumstance we will have to attack from under. >> oh. that presented a lot of problems. i found out interesting the descriptions. the next page companies aggressively employed the sop what are sop's. >> >> standard guidelines it is our basic method of operation. described in our manual and training and memos, et cetera. you did a great job and saved the bank and get it out. my -- >> no money burned. >> no money burned. right. [laughter]. good deal. congratulations to you guyos

that. so. that's all i had. thank you chief luttropp. >> we will have the ems and community paramedicine report? >> congratulations chief pang on your knew position. >> thank you very much. president morgan. vice president fraser,

commissioner nakajo chief lug room. secretary and fellow command staff. i'm simon pang and i'm the deputy chief of ems and community paramedicine. this is my third day. i know i have big shoes to fill and still trying to find my equilibrium. our intention that chief ma loyal would present. his report on ems and me on paramedicine the chief is in a leadership course today and i will be presenting both. wanted say words about the chief i have known him for 20 years as a colleague and mentor. he is also a trained community paramedic and several years ago when community paramedicine was

in the early stages, he helped pilot our programs and the former street wellness response. did good work to test concept so i appreciate him and i'm looking forward to collaborating r with him again. chief indicated that he wanted to do a review of our key performance carries to make sure we are describing the good work that our we do every day and look at tables and improve our visualizations so it is easier to understand and consume. we'll work on that. i wanted point out -- one of our

metrics which is [inaudible] ambulance, patient off load times. as you see on the fourth column the 90th percentile is 35 minutes we will work to reduce that to 30 minutes. bill 40 was approved by the goner in october of last year. bill 40 says hospitals must work collaboratively with local ema agencies to find ways to reduce off load times. this is a big problem in san francisco but in the state of california and nationwide. approximately 40% of all transports to hospitals are delayed. some 5 minute in august i believe we had -- over 20

incidents when our ambulance delayed over two hours. this is, this is impactful to our ability to do operations. we want to make sure we have ambulances available to independent to emergency calls. so chief and i will be working on our strategy on make sure that we can improve this situation. >> another metric i wanted to point out is the cardiac arrest survival rates. you see in august, that one out of 3 times, those individual this is we attempt resuscitation, we managed get a return of circulation upon arrival at the hospital. now i know that vice president fraser is well aquainted with this as a nurse. return of spontaneous circulation means that someone in cardiac arrest their heart has stopped. we managed to get it started

again and beating again. and their lungs have stopped. we managed to get them to work again. one out of 3 times we are able to get their heart and lungs to work again. now in most case people had a return. spontaneous circulation end up dying within hours or days from end organ failure. it is still an important thing near our members to accomplish. it gives families a chance to see their loved ones before they die. and have closure and say goodbye temperature is very important. now, one of 3 times our members are able to get a return of spontaneous circulation. now organizationly we are able to successfully resuscitate someone so they leave the hospital in tact.

they are walking and talk. and in the months of august i'm happy to say that our members accomplished this twice. and this is because of the expertise of our members. i feel is so important to highlight this good work i wanted mention their names. paramedic gerrero and emt thomas knots, they worked on one patient that walked out of the hospital. on another ocean a parent was able to be taken to another facility for further rehab. and on this call kyle passion emt max bits and firefighter marcus turner rescue captain chris blaire were on that scene and accomplished this.

now. one of 3 -- rate of one of three cardiac arrest survivals to return. spontaneous circulation is a figure that is on parwith the national average. we want to improve that. and luck low for us we have a very good ems training program lead by chief tresz. now the ems training is conduct department wide training on two fronts one is we have new protocols and policies we are training our members of those new start october first. the other program is innovative. we have a team of paramedics and emt's and captains that are in a

van anything station to station and they are visiting 4 stations a day. at each station there may be multiple companies so they see a lot of people. they are training advance air way tech neeks the salad technique. we have a very dedicated rescue captain. who has been preaching about the salad technique for so long. stands for suction assisted and air way decontamination technician. it is a team effort. it is not paramedic and emt it is the firefighters. so we have multiple hands. we have a firefighter or emt who is on hand with the conduction catheter in someone's mouth to make surety air way stays clear the paramedic inserting the tube in their air way temperature is

difficult and comppated and now we are training our department in this technique. we have a number of people who have clinical expertise and well respected out there doing this work. . they are well respected and our member 39 them. we had good feedback about this mobile training. now i like to pivot to community paramedicine something that is comfortable with. doctor mackue goalmachine a psychiatrist the former director of the health department's comprehensive crisis team, he co-authored a report a report upon where they spoke to 20 people that were seen by our

street crisis team. and the overwhelming response was, it made me feel like i mattered. so, we are happy that this report came out t. is one of many reports and analysis that have described our program in a positive light. among them. new york university's police project. i came out with a report that put us in good light. doctor freedman the principal investigator for that research. he also spoke to our members in october and the paramedic speaker series. another is a book conservatorship. he rhode with our response teams on several occasions and printed and published them where he stated that the street crisis team prop is the templet this needed to be followd and there

are many others. >> also in the month of august was over dose awareness month. and chief mason spoke at glide hospital with members of the department of public healing you see a photo of him with director doctor grant colfixture the head of department of public health and other individuals. motorcycle basin spoke with k qed and gave a presentation on the street crisis response team. on august 13th doctor joe grafter and i observed a number of volunteer from the fire department going to a senior center. and signing people up in the life line program. and i was just astonished at the

happiness of the residents. there were people in the lobby waiting for us. outside of doors in the hall.

enable to get people who need to

be comfortabled off the streets. we have our ready to have for immediate release and revisions of two policies starting for october one. this will improve our ability to get people to appropriate care. that concludes my report happy to answer questions. >> at this time is there public comment? i don't see anybody approach and well is no one on the public comment line. thank you. >> thank you. any questions from the fellow commissioners? >> commissioner? fraser. >> thank you, chief pang that was interesting. as a nurse, was my dream that our system of care would be like a bart train. get them on the train and let them off at the hospital and he

were at conservatorship. you know -- i saw a lot of the problems i know how difficult it is and how little progress has been made overnight years. however you are making a lot of progress now. and i congratulate you and the whole team. on coming up with really interesting things. and i am familiar with the ap ot time i wanted check back on something. i think you said 40% of our ambulances are delayed more than two hours? did i write this correctly? >> 40% of all ambulance tronz port to hospitals are delayed over 30 minutes. some are only 5 but some are delayed up to two hours. >> in my meeting with the medical directors we had a regular meeting, too. there are some this are 8 hour

long. 6 hours long. much longer. do you have thoughts on -- or opinions on why those are so long? >> error good question. i have not had enough chance to formulate knows about it. but -- this is a hospital problem >> hospitals don't have the staff or the beds available to transfer our patients off our gurneys to their hospital beds. which means we are waiting, just waiting. until they -- can free up space. >> we are a passport staffing extendsor. >> that's right. >> in the waiting area >> correct. >> thank you. >> also congratulations to i think you said ger oro and thomas knot for their good work.

the salad? acronym? congratulations on that. and also, getting the -- model of the service out more in the world. i can imagine that -- it will be an up tick in other cities now that others know about it and being written about promoted by various academics who studied this stuff. so i do have another question. wait a second. >> on your on your statistics. i'm sorry. the this one. what is that again >> ventricular aterrible lagz. >> okay. >> and then, vice president? >> sorry.

this is good practice for me. coming back now. the off load time return of spontaneous circulation i enjoyed the report. and sb43 was the final thing you spoke about. that we are able to get more people off the streetings able to conserve this is a victory. >> yes. >> difficulties we had is that -- at that point of contact, when we recognize someone meets criteria they sho not be left in the community how do we get them on the gurney when than i may not be willing. do we have the authority? do we have the safety of strong policies so our members is safely and gently retrain them to get them to care? this is a piece we are working on now. >> yes. a difficult and complicated i

appreciate that piece. thank you. >> congratulations on your responsibility. and i also. to acknowledge tony ma loy's -- my comment is the hospital wait time. i have been on the [inaudible] for eric while. and this subject matter is constant. and identification of it being a hospital issue and at times it seems like the sentiment turns to the hospitals in terms of a critique and some ways i want to refrain from that but i understand it is reality. it is an issue. the only experience in terms of it is -- the experience of going in er section and watching our

members lineup in the hallway with the patient with the gurney and everyone is waiting. >> if there is some improvement within that. it seems to be a constant issue. and something's gotta give. i appreciate the department identifying those members the public out are that dominate our ambulance service to free us up. the name of the game is to be on the streets and serve. wanted to say that. i then and there wait time is not an easy issue. and i'm going to be interested in terms of how we will try to cut this time.

knowing full well that there is an acute issue just in terms of -- staffing. that i served. i will say that. >> thank you very much, chief. thank you very much president morgan. appreciate it. >> thank you. xhern next joe. >> i don't have many questions. congratulations and i'm sure you will take off where -- chief tong left off and do a great job. and i want to wish you good luck on this new proposed legislation. sb43 about to conservatorship. hopeful low that guess well and get more help with that. thank you for your great report. >> very welcome. do we do public comment again. is there any?

>> no , i don't see anyone. okay. thank you madam secretary. >> move on to item 6. presentation and update from the public information officer. lieutenant mariano e lies to provide an update on the public information office. >> good morning, president morgan, vice president fraser, commissioner nakajo, kathy and command staff. i'm public information officer lieutenant mariano elias and this is a report about the public information office for august. to start off the first page here public information officer. has expand in the late 2023 to a

24 our everhour position. for you to be there 24 hours we had more accessibility to the media and them able to contact us for information almost immediately. so, something that looks like is -- we get phone calls. we get e mails and texts directly to the public information officer cell phone. 24 hours a day we have been call friday the east coast that is 3 a.m. in the morning and we

answer. so we are always available. we did do a mead why release and gave out the public information officer's cell phone. to all the media outlets so they have our contact number at all times. the members myself, included are all trained to the fema agency. public information officer advance level a series of 3-40 hour classes that will get you to the basic and advanced level of public information officer training. the members consisted of a fire captain. training lieutenant to cover all areas of knowledge with the 3 of us, we cover quite a bit of fire grounds operations. ems operations and anything above that. those members you see in the

photos, are captain baxter, shore and myself. the basis for our public information is to alert, inform and engage. people. and those people being the citizens of the city and county of san francisco. other firefighters. in our agency. and other firefighters across the nation using different forms of out reach. we alert the citizen of dangerous conscience similar to a fire. a gas explosion, motor vehicle accident and blocking the roadway. things of this nature. we infurthermore people about accysts in the communities. so we do coordinate with the community out reach. and their happenings that are going on throughout the city on

various locations. we do coordinate with the chief's office and we help with the assistance of acquiring different apparatus to be at those events. we engaged a greater online and california audience about the sf sd. the thing i have taken on myself is i focus on the fire hydrants. we have a different hydrant system that is unique across the world. so i focused on when they look like. what their colors mean on social media, which gages interest along with our wooden ladders to inform other people who are interested in the general fire service. the next page talks about social media we than social media is every where and not going to go away. so, we are useing to our

advantage. so we do have all the platforms facebook. instagram x, twitter and threads. for example. we use x to communicate for something immediate. if we attends -- an event or at a scene of a fire we post something on x and we put the video up. the media -- we have work with the media in collaboration with them to figure out when than i request and want us to show this way they use that video on their news broadcast. we give the basic information and we follow up with interviews or phone calls after the event. instagram you seat two photos there those are two most viewod the instagram page. one on the left is a dog rescue. that fortfunston which is

common. and the other one is a fire. that was a large fire. the dog rescues because that came up a bit, a news reporter from the examiner the chronicle asked to do a store beit. y this is something the public information office coordinated with the reporter. coordinated a meeting with station 19. which is by stones town and we coordinated the dog being there available, one of our dogs the harass that is put on the dog that is being rescued this the honorace was designed by tired chief within the fire department and got him photos of previous rescues to help for his article. inform others of the technical rescues we do in san francisco. the photos that we use for

social media. after we go to an incident are used for when chief luttropp mentioned after action reports. by us being on scene we are able to capture photos and assist with future training like the after action report or training notes. or other reports. also we sends them to our assistant chiefs in the field ask they use those at the fire stations to help all the members training with the photos from the scene. us being firefighters allows us to know the exact view that we like to see so we can learn from those events difficulties that happens or anything that was out of the ordinary or challenges. that way we talk about it and further solve the problem. >> we track our followers so

basically with being on social media we see how many are following us and liking the photos and so we see that well is a growth has been a growth the past 6-7 months we have been monitoring the followers of our pages and we are respond to comments and questions that are posed on those social media cites. >> so if we talk about traditional media. we do coordinate with television and radio stations alert busy smoke and road closures. delays or hazards. today was a big event. some of you were there this morning. prior to that, there was phone calls and e mails regarding interviewing the fire chief after the event. we coordinated with the police department and the mayor's office to have everything set up

time wise so this way we are the liaison for the other agencies. local tv and radio information. evolving incidents. fire and life safety. pictured there is rescue captain shore. that's on k pix fire safety fridays. a month low spot for fire topics and engage am. we coordinate with k pix the first friday of the month on a topic dorm safety, coming up because school is become in session now. and we are going to speak to the student busy what the things they need ton and how to exit their dorm fire safety information first aid safety. prior to that we talked about -- wild land -- and the fire season. so there are different topics we

talk about throughout the year and coordinate on when they believe will be something they like to highlight on their newscast for the mornings. national tv and radio. fire service information when other agencies don't respond because of the able of us being there 24 hours a day, we pick up phone and answer the e mail in a timely manner. the basis for the public information officer to get the right information to the right people at the right time that is the 3 ground rules of public information. and because the way media happens now everybody wants the snap of fingers. we are there to respond quickly. we worked with a longer segment with nbc women in the fire service. san francisco fire as the most women in the fire department across the nation, they spoke to chief nicholson, we coordinate third degree at headquarters.

and followed up with video they took over at the division of training as well and a camera on my helmet to capture fire footage with other firefighters in the fire training center. so not on the news. i mention liaison to department of public health, emergency management and mayor's office and the police department. we answer public questions e mail and phone. because our phone number is listed on the san francisco fire department web page. we answer. we get various calls from fire extinguisher recharging to building alarms malfunctioning and we director the person to the appropriate resource. coordinate equipment for public out reach eventses with our

community out reach. we basically coordinate who needs to be there where what time. and if apparatus need to be there along with the fire chief's office. >> monitor the new and seatbelt for issues impacting the san francisco fire department. that way we keep aware of the situations theory going on. at all times. special event coverage. we have float week coming up. we are there and do work in cordination with the military if needed. and chief brown home land security we work with her if we need to be at a special events along with our command staff. we worked with on apec as well. and we were in the joint information center. we worked with the higher patrol and various other law enforcement agencies. to be aware of situation going on during the apec.

we have the superbowl 50 a few years back we are always available to provide information regarding any event. we triage public requests made to the chief's office. woo very well requests from people from other countries and firefighters. requesting a patch orment a ride along. we coordinate those as well. the photo you see here is a member of from the u.s. navy. during fleet week. coordinate them riding along with our ems personnel and hospital carrot street and communicate about the difference in what the military cease compared to firefighters on the street. we coordinate with that. media and external agencies for special events.

we have the public information officer dispatch. we get reports of a fire. working fires. active rescues. large ins debt and anything the commander requests public information officer. so, we do work with the commander. per our rules. coordinate with the incident commander and get permission to speak to the media and the basic information out and available to them so they can have the appropriate information. pio monitors road closures or bridge and freeway incident the gas and utility issues and sends out announce ams if anyone needs to shelter in place. public health and transit incidents if the roadway will be closed for a period of time we announce on this. and any airport incidents at

sfo. pio alerts tablet command is the application we use on our phone. and our i pad. notifies the public information officer of incident in responding units going to situations such as the rescue boat. jet skis. fire investigators. light rescue, hazzard ouz material unit and mobile air and the fire boat. with that tablet command we get requests from the media. we answer the phone like i mentioned quickly. they call the police a shooting we respond for patient care for the victim. we answer the phone and let them know what we did. they called the police and don't get a response. so they have told us the media said that it is nice to have you

very closely and able to answer the phone quickly. that way they get the information out. so that is a nice kudos to us for being there at all times. moving forward. preparing for the world cup to the u.s. nba all star is coming and so is the superbowl. so couple of us went to a class last week. it was public information officer for sporting events. we spoke on topics regarding sporting eventses and concerts. how to prepare and speak on that. we will continue train to expand capables of public information office to internal communications. we do are the coloneled wit with the chief's office and the fields. we do travel to different fire houses and let them know information that is going on as well. and continue to expand

availability to media, we do have our e mail and phone number available. and we are there. as they need us. that concludes my presentation. thank you for your property lieutenant elias. and your presentation. at this time is there public comment. madam secretary? >> i don't see anyone approaching the podium and no one on the public comment line. >> okay. fellow commissioners is there comments or questions? commissioner fraser. >> thank you. i thank you is of thank youllow lute elias that was interesting and helpful i hope we hear from your office a couple times a year it is useful. i appreciate it and i know my fellow commissioners do, too. i have a couple of questions for

you how -- the way that you inform people the various methods x, citizen app i take it or citizen, >> yes. >> instagram, of course, text message, facebook, is there any priority orders or you do a blast? >> or some go to some and some to other sns >> if we take a fire i would check in the commander and let him know i'm thereupon and i will start filming and taking photos. requests from the traditional news media is to phil in land scape mode it is laying down the phone horizontal and film this way. and i do a vertical phil and i put the land scape on x. and i immediately do that that's what the news media monitor our

tactical channels. they heart dispatches they have called us while units are still responding and i let them know when is going on andow units arrive and give us an update. because they are listening so close low they want the information as our units are responding. it is difficult at times to give them a straight answer i'm honest with them. i let them know our units will give us more as they arrive and i will let you know and i follow up and that is critical we follow up instead of telling them i will let you know later. x is the primary one to get it to the news media immediately. and that's what most are monitoring these days as far as a fire or road closure or shelter in place. >> okay. >> i think most think about the fire department not a lot. but and fond low and until they really need help. and they want to know what is

going of i know i get and, i'm sure everybody gets the texts. >> yes. >> but it does not seem to me to be consistentful i'm not sure how. if that is not us? how is our information goin them and filtered by them and then come out to. >> those come in at 7 o'clock in the morning >> any time all day and night. >> yes, those are dispatch sends those out, chief? >> yea. >> we will be working in the near term to change the priority for the dispatches and >> i like i'm not complaining. we can get you more in the night. >> [laughter]. >> it is just helpful. you know to know. large eventses and fires. i'm i did not know how it worked because some people get some of

them some get others we don't get them autopsy. i don't think we have to this is a different department? correct? >> it is our department. so, chief cannon and -- as our liaison with department of emergency communications. we set up a priority list and those texts go out from our staff at communications. llow lute or the rc prepare them and send them to command staff and the commissioners to they an assigned group and there are priorities ash signed to different levels and who gets them. >> okay. its interesting. i guess the also, thank you for being there 24/7 all of you. >> of course. >> i agree it is important. and people adopt to know and they adopt to seat video and they do want to be notified. that's true in my neighborhoods.

and i think in part that is because you know for a lot of us had live in san francisco, you know like in my neighborhood, we live in wooden houses that at least a hundred years old touching each other. fire is a concern for our community. not that that's caused a problem because the company fires we have had have been knocked out expertly. but san francisco fire department. but still that is correct information people smell motor vehicle they run out and trying to figure out what is going on. including me. also, so 24/7 service. i did not know about the k pix fire safety friday this is is really great for public education. i think different crowd of people is watching tv these days and watching this. so i think that is a good service.

i just appreciated your report and it is interesting. i will check x more often. >> and just -- clarify that a bilt. is the command pages that come outure different than our messages. ours are abbreviated because they are going out to the citizens. and they are basically the who, what, where and not always the why. that's the question is this arson? can't always know the why immediately but can tell them the who, what, when, where that is the information we provide when we arrive on scene. so gives you a different clarification. the command page give you more details about the victim or the incident going on. and because of hipa we can't release patient information over traditional social media.

that's where we are. >> great. >> thank you. >> and this -- tablet sxhand this public low available? that was begin public information officer and command staff and others. >> tablet is not public. and even inside of the agency not every member of the department it is shared with. command staff with our operation's chief. used for dispatch and our battalion chief and it provides on going information with time line. integrates information that would be in our dispatch computers and it is use are friends low format and information for command staff. i had not heard. thank you very much >> welcome.

>> >> thank you. thank you, commissioner fraser and commissioner nakajo. >> lieutenant, can i ask you questions. >> try to get my questions started drifting. asleep. >> well you get up early and try to make a ceremony and start to drift about this time. i mentioned pager when i first came on they gave me a pager. and i did not get instructions i figured i'm a commissioner. and the pager would go off. and it would give basic information. and then hi to learn like how i do know where this is.

a couple of times i call and identify myself right away who knows who i am. and i would have to say this is the fire commissioner nakajo where is the fire? often times, they would not respond in the sense. because we did not have a pio as such. for me a pio is crucial and essential in san francisco. in terms of firefighter with the years i spent when an incident occurs and you are watching television giving his information and for many years

on the helmet. just gives authority to me. correct information. and it helps that -- looks like a firefighter. so, when this information came out later on when the pio was there and understanding the limitation of time. i was very happy it became i shift of more than one individual. my curiosity is this i know the rescue captain is part of this. i met you years ago as a member. lieutenant elias. previously and my curiosity is with that suppression backgrounds you have what motivated to you be a pio.

>> actually the reason why is and probably the reason why we met in the president of [inaudible]. hispanic firefighters in the fire department. i was doing it as a favor to the pio to get the information out to the spanish speaking community and i did that for 10 years. sporadically. and when the job announcement was put out. i did not apply. and -- i don't want to do this every day. job announced again and someone said you should think about doing that. you do have an extensive --the -- went out. yes. cast a line far and you -- have been around the fire service and have knowledge in the rescue world. and fire service world.

i do keep track of that is going on across the nation i'm into the job and i said, okay the let me apply.

an emotional department suppression. butt spanish speaking [inaudible] moved neil to the same with the chinese american or spanish speak of san francisco. we are multiethnic community. the more you see some of us up there articulating the better it is and with the value of language. that's what imented see. i also wanted to say i wanted be

curious about this because i always heard that some members are suppression and that's all they want to be. and stereotypes it is difficult to do a transition. from being out there every day to doing had i are doing now. my question -- is there a cordination between gov tv and when we do to our pio office in terms of information this goes out? >> sfgov.org worked with us to do segmentos different individuals. they interviewed me once before for hispanic heritage month. they have interviewed captain uen. so there are different story lines they are looking for. we coordinated the process of them filming and different

events. for example, nicholson's retirement announcement at headquarters. a month ago. sfgov.org was there and live broadcast. public information officers worked with them for this venue. gi mention that because i watched that. our commission meetings. my grandson wants to know why do you watch yourself. i want to make sure i'm not messing up and picking up the information. what i enjoy sfgov.org segments after the meetings. i learned more about our membership and members more through that in the important and experiences and artic lagzs greatly help. i wanted say that because that is valuable. my last question is when do you the video production and stendz out to the media, do we in our department i know some of answer. we have our shooters and

photographers f. do we edit our materials when we sends it out or sends out rustuff and they edit or more refined? >> so for something like a nows media instant x, for example, if on scene of a fire and take video. we look for is the safety our members. the fire itself because the media wants the shot as they call temperature and we highlight all the work that the men and women are doing in the fire department. usually a 10-15 second clip. they edthey if than i need to and that is it and instant we do have a multimedia section that is able to provide indepth vo a production that can be edited. so under the direction of the chief and he is my officer and

chief officer he directs us to either do a long segment or something quick a minute time frame that the public information receive can do quickly. an extended video then the multimedia section can pick that up >> i appreciate that. i continue takes a sdoil do editting. >> it takes skill to shoot even i can shoot with my phone. but it helps. tw incidents came up the accident over near the cliff pous house when the two cars went over that [inaudible] every dog rescue shows up. so again for me, i didn't mentioned sfgov.org their edit and productions are sophisticated. >> yes. and they are good. for me it is like a shelving of resources we can utilize for ourselves. but also i know that in our advance photographer working as

well. i enjoy the cordination. i enjoy the team is now throw of you. and that the level of information this goes out and again it is professional but it makes me proud to be able to see you folks out there doing the reporting and accuracy of information. i wanted say that and thank you for your service. >> thank you. >> president. >> >> yea thank you for your service. lieutenant elias and i want to commends you guys for doing a great job with the public information going to the public. and commissioner fraser raised a point about the when you transition the 24 hour service that is why they needed more staff. i think before it was just captain baxter.

>> correct. >> yea >> so with the social media and instant information. it is out there. you guys are doing a good job. before that you had radios i did not use it much. the texts are enough. i think those radios got out dated i appreciate the offer, anyway that you gave us. i think that was chief postel or -- you guys represent us well. and straight from the top if chief nicholson she was so -- she -- had the talent, you know in front of the camera, you know, and you guys carry terror on and you guys make the department look very good. so, just thank you all for your

service. commends all you, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> at this time. public comment. no we have already called for it. >> item 7. >> before we do adjournment a moment of silence for the first respond irs this died in the 911 attack in 2001 show our respects. from that awful time and have a mobile home of silence and we will adjourn. [moment of silence for 911 victims] >> and now adjourn the meeting. >> at 10:39 a.m.

>> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it.

when i'm away from it, i miss it like a person. i grew up in san francisco kind of all over the city. we had pretty much the run of the city 'cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would -- in the summer, we'd all all the way down to aquatic park, and we'd walk down to the library, to the kids' center. in those days, the city was safe and nobody worried about us running around. i went to high school in spring valley. it was over the hill from chinatown. it was kind of fun to experience being in a minority, which most white people don't get to experience that often. everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. when i was a teenager, we didn't have a lot of money. we could go to sam wong's and get super -- soup for $1.

my parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. they wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had some serious mental illness issues, and i don't think my father were really aware of that, and those didn't really become evident until i was about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world. most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end up hospitalized. when i was about six i guess, my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. i remember the open sewers and gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers and things like that. mostly i remember the smells very intensely, but i loved

japan. it was wonderful. toward the end. my mother had a breakdown, and that was the cycle. we would go somewhere, stay for a certain amount of months, a year, period of time, and she would inevitably have a breakdown. we always came back to san francisco which i guess came me some sense of continuity and that was what kept me sort of stable. my mother hated to fly, so she would always make us take ships places, so on this particular occasion when i was, i think, 12, we were on this ship getting ready to go through the panama canal, and she had a breakdown on the ship. so she was put in the brig, and i was left to wander the ship until we got to fluorfluora few days later, where we had a distant -- florida a few days later, where we had a distant cousin who came and got us.

i think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. i used to write short stories, and i thought someday i'm going to write a book about all these ad ventures that my mother took me on. when i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. i found i had to learn to conform, which was not anything i'd really been taught but felt very safe to me. i think i was drawn to police work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a very organized, but stable environment. and even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. my girlfriend and i were sitting in ve 150d uvio's bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car.

for a moment, i thought i was me. and i turned to my friend and i said, i think i'm supposed to do this. i saw myself driving in this car. as a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there weren't any until the mid70's, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. when i saw here, it seemed like this is what i was meant to do. one of my bosses as ben johnson's had been a cop, and he -- i said, i have this weird idea that i should do this. he said, i think you'd be good. the department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there.

so the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. finally took an inspector's test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. i just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didn't know if we'd ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. he transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found out i had breast cancer. my intuition that the job was killing me. i ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. the writing thing really became intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didn't know. they didn't know my story, they didn't know why i had a

relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak of. it just poured out of me. i gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. i am so lucky to live here. i am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. i am so grateful they did. that it never dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa.

i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date.

the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is

like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of

things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this.

>> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of

dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful

citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art.

and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative.

helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this forward/hospitality. >> heart of san francisco an aide so important diverse culture in the name for remarkable individuals like carlton b goodlett a man wheeg legacy is at the iconic lashed not just a man of intelligent his journey was far from san

francisco good had studies earning a mountain lake cut off road in child psychiatric a city that is is campus for staff's contributions a city with a very different place when dr. good let was around and you would see him on streets like the fillmore and what he did he mrs. minority healthcare to people who that did not have insurance or an ability to pay for that. >> dr. good working hard around city hall meaning he would load boxes with people and they would go to san francisco state mainly and other places as

well and protest these unjust treatments and unfairness of their system. >> dr. good was a america civil service activity with naacp and protested for the discriminations against blacks and public transportation and public housing and the reporter as most people come into the building today don't know who he was was district attorney know that not only was a physician, a activity but also an incredible cardplayer. in his spare time. >> and the won a number i published and the also ended edited another newspaper wells fargo willie brown and dr. good

had a close relationship in the early 90s several groups got together to his own dr. good and put together petitions and worked very, very hard to have the official address changed. >> dr. king's day of the celebration is in january, i got to call from mayor brown which i've known for in many, many years to ask me to change the street sign this is remarkable. okay. >> in january of 1999 right after the building reopened, mayor brown and i went outside at that moment it was still cold street we shut down the word on

the sign that read polk. >> put up the sign that said number one, dr. carlson carlton b goodlett white. >> i think that he earned a certain place in respect of all poem he was just a remarkable individual. unfortunately, we didn't live long enough here to see the street sign arts.

>> it my honor to introduce a true patron of the arts our mayor london breed. >> (clapping). >> wow. it is packed house here tonight, i'm so very much excited to be here because this has been a long time coming the process that the committee members have had to go through to make a selection who are an important a poet laureate is one time consuming because of number of applications received and the robust body of work so many of those