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states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation to god visible for all this is the fire commission regular meeting february 12th 2020 5:09 a.m. to 12 p.m. the time is now 9:03 a.m. this meeting will be held in person at city hall room for 16 members of the public attending the meeting in person will have an opportunity to provide public comment members of the public participating remotely may access the meeting and participate remotely by following the instructions below. members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes per item public comment call in 14156550001 meeting id

26624905091 ensure you are in a quiet location speak clearly and turn off background sounds television phones 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 may also watch live at w w w dot s.f. gov tv morgue item number one roll call president marci frazier present vice president paula collins present commissioners steven nakano present commissioner ami morgan president commissioner alan lowe present chief of department dean crispin present go ahead and pin to the formal

agenda. i just want to take a minute of presidential privilege if you will, for a couple of acknowledgments. i want to thank our former commissioner katherine feinstein for her service. she's immediately or recently departed our commission and we're very grateful to her for her years of service to this commission and to our city. >> i also want to welcome our new commissioner alan lowe. >> welcome. we're happy that you're with us. >> thank you. our new vp paula collins to my immediate right our and our outgoing president ami morgan who i want to thank and acknowledge for your hard work during your tenure. a lot a lot of work got done here and for being a wonderful role model and friend and that i hope to do as good a job as you did. commissioner morgan couldn't he did it without you. >> okay. we are a good team. so those are my acknowledgments

. >> i think everybody and are still champion commissioners. steve nicholls, you thank you for your help and support during my tenure as vp. all right. >> president frazier will now read the memo to shaquille o'neal land acknowledgment the san francisco fire commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the roma to a colony who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions there are more to show. loni have never ceded lost or forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples 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 by acknowledging the ancestors,

elders and relatives of the roma to show lonely community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> item number 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 that does not appear on the agenda. >> speakers shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate 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. >> item number three approval of the minutes discussion and possible action. >> discussion and possible action to approve meeting minutes minutes from regular meeting on january 22nd 2025. >> all right. are there any questions or

discussion from my fellow commissioners on the minutes from our last meeting? >> i move approval. we will call for public comment first. sorry. that's okay. i do not see anyone approaching the podium and there is no one on the public comment line. >> all right. is there a motion? i move approval. >> i second that. okay. president frazier, how do you vote? >> i vote i commissioner in a car show. how do you vote? >> what i and commissioner lowe you did not attend the last meeting so you would. >> will you be abstaining from the vote? yes. okay. motion passes. >> item number four. chief of departments report discussion and report from

chief of department dean christman. report on current issues, activities and events within the department since the first commission meeting january 22nd since the fire commission meeting january 22nd 2025 including budget academy's special events, communications and outreach to other government agencies and to the public. >> good morning. morning. >> morning. president frazier. vice president collins. commissioner in chicago. commissioner morgan. commissioner lowe. secretary marquis allen. members of the command staff and other guests. welcome. first of all, we'd like to welcome our new commissioner. commissioner lowe, welcome. we really look forward to collaborating with you and working with you on this commission. sincere welcome and also congratulations to president frazier and the vice president collins.

your appointment as officers of this commission again we look forward to working with you going forward. this is my report for february 12th, 2025. chief of department dean matthew chrisman. i think this would be a good opportunity for me to express our shared vision of our command staff that we've assembled over the last several weeks. so first and foremost the most paramount issue for us is safety of our members. so you will see that every decision that we make in our department has that as our first priority. so whether it is equipment purchasing training, any actions that we take and any decisions we make we'll have our firefighters, paramedics and emts. safety is our first priority. we also intend to make our department very local and community engage with the community.

so i think the way that you will see that kind of play out in our department is in our hiring process. so in our hiring process we are going to place a priority on hiring local if possible. people don't have to be from here or live here but we're looking to hire people that have attachment to san francisco. we found that the best employees that we have in our department are people who have engagement with our community and understand how the city works as a whole as opposed to just the fire department part of it. you also see it play out in some of the communication we will have between our captains and community leaders and some of our interactions with community leaders. we've seen that they desire and particularly supervisors and other folks in government desire to have greater interaction with our company captains who are our point people and end users of all of our tools and equipment and people who we really want to see engage with community leaders so that we can have that interaction and work collaboratively to solve

problems. disaster preparedness is going to be another focus for us as it always has been. we kind of started at the top down with our command staff every monday morning we meet in our fdc and we conduct a large scale exercise. so far we've had an active attacker exercise and we we've had a tsunami exercise. so every morning every monday morning that's what we'll be doing. and that will be passed down to our assistant chiefs, battalion chiefs, captains, lieutenants all the way down the ranks. so we're just starting with that and that will continue every monday going forward. and the other thing is we're really interested in collaborating with other departments. i think the mayor's vision is very clear to resolve some of these issues we have on our streets such as the fentanyl crisis and homelessness issues that we all need to work together to solve this. i think we have made a lot of progress in the last four weeks with attitude in the city and we have a lot of positive

feelings and we need to continue that momentum going forward. and we have met with all of our department heads, particularly our public safety partners and we are all working together to to do our best to solve these problems in unison. so i'd like to highlight some of the events we have attended as a command staff as well as myself individually. >> so on the 23rd of january i met with director carol from d.m. and we discussed the coordination between our departments and specifically disaster preparedness. as you know, we have a big weekend coming up this weekend with the lunar new year parade as well as the all-star game. so we want to make sure that everybody is on the same page as far as our potential response to any incidents or would occur at those events on the 24th of january, myself and our entire command staff attended a funeral for retired firefighter leo martinez who

passed away. he was an incredible member of our department for 30 years. in addition to that, once he retired he was very engaged in the community. he was the chair of our group called the hook and ladder society which honors members retired members yearly and really a big lift and spirits for retired members to be engaged with our department even after their death retired. we attended that. it was a very beautiful ceremony. >> chief robert managed the fire department end of it with all our with all our activities that we normally perform at funerals or rituals. on the 25th of january i attended the lunar new year. many procession that was with a lot of members from the api community. we marched through chinatown and ended up on stage and it was really good an opportunity to show our appreciation for not only our members but the police officer members who are going to be working the parade

and who provide safety in that neighborhood every day. >> so on the 27th i started my meetings and i'm having with all the adcs and i can just say this very clearly. i'm very impressed with the group that we have all the knowledge and years of experience as i've met with them and discussed their particular roles in our department. each one of them has presented a very effective means of operation for their particular role. so i've been very happy with what their presentations have been to me and i really look forward to working with the command staff, particularly the adcs going forward to solve problems and move the department forward. i attended a west of twin peaks meeting on the 27th in the evening. interesting meeting, very engaged group of folks. they really wanted to discuss the installation of fire suppression water on the west side as well as discuss potential conflagrations in

their neighborhood. so i was able to express to them our progress on the installation of our proof system which is our potable water system that's being installed out there. also our purchase of three new hose tenders and the installation of our systems out there. so i was able to allay any fears that those those members of those citizens had. on the 28th i met with adc miller and he's our e7 chief. we discussed internally our progress on the potable water system and also our new division of training which is in the planning phases which is going to be on carroll avenue. it's a couple of years out but it's the planning and again chief miller chief lothrop chief lower did a great job of designing that training center so it's going to suit our needs and be very specific to san francisco but also have other uses for other departments potentially to use that space.

so it's it's really it's going to be a great project. >> really looking forward to that. >> on the 20 ninth i had a fun day. i went to saint phillips career day. that's where my boys went to school grammar school and i was able to speak to the children. that was very enlightening. they had some very pointed questions to me very well educated kids on some of our operations. but also it's nice to see a lot of the teachers that that taught my two boys there. they were very happy to see a firefighter there although i didn't have a fire engine behind me. so that might have been for next time. i think we'll bring an engine so they can be a little more excited. >> attended the speedy officer of the month ceremony a very well planned and emotional event where they honor three officers from the police department from different stations who performed duties or actions outside of their scope that were above and beyond really impressive. it was right here in front of the mayor's office the mayor attended and really a good guideline for us to honor our

firefighters, paramedics and emts. going forward i thought they did a really good job so i took notes on that january 30th the entire command staff attended the asian firefighters association meeting really timely given that we're in the lunar new year time for all of us to show our support to that group. they do amazing work in the community. a lot of recruit recruitment efforts under the leadership of their president clarence hom. they have made some incredible strides and and you know, having close ties with not just the asian community but with all our community. so they were very impressed that our entire command staff attended. that's the first time they said that that had ever happened. >> on the 30th we also said goodbye to shane kayla and darius lothrop, our two chiefs deputy chief of operations and deputy chief of administration. i think our incoming command staff can attest to the hard work that they did as we've

been here three weeks. we realize the amount of lifting that they did and the amazing way that they set us up for success really very showed a lot of class determination and commitment to the department and the way that they exited the department. while shane is still at the time for but as chief lew trop moved on to a retirements so we wanted to say thanks to them so we had the entire civilian air command staff and had the day like pie so we had pie for them. so that was as a fun day. so on the 30 first i had my first meeting with director of finance director corso and we discussed our budget priorities going forward. so obviously our budget is due february 21st. we discussed our priorities and kind of grand scale high level and we're still we're working on kind of the the nuances of it now going forward. essentially our priorities are

our staffing. we really need to maintain our staffing and that really coincides with our goal of firefighter safety with any kind of reduction in staffing. we don't feel we can operate safely in the field. our you know, our building construction topography and the type of medical calls that we respond to require our staffing to be sufficient to keep our members safe and to provide the greatest amount of support and response for the public. >> our fleet condition is a second budget priority as i'm sure you recall i watched the commission meeting where shang-chi's chief kailua presented a demonstration or slideshow on our fleet condition. it's not in the greatest shape. we have a lot of work to do. director corso and i discussed our plans going forward. we have several options whether we use our purchasing power to purchase a lot of apparatus now obviously it's going to be a big budget ask. so i think we need to fine tune

that going forward. there is our option of potentially leasing potentially into a public private partnerships. so we're exploring all options because our goal is to have our front line operators be no older than 15 years old and our relief pieces would be no longer than 20 years old and that was an nfpa standard that existed. it's now a recommendation but we think for safety purposes and to reduce the amount of cost of repairing and maintenance of our apparatus we need to really get down to those numbers. so that's what we're going to be a big ask for our budget and the second or third budget priority is for our facilities. so our facilities are aging. we have some facilities with as very evident during these recent large storms we've had a lot of leaky roofs which as many people know leaky roofs caused to mold and again health and safety issues for our firefighters and the cost is

very expensive for roof repairs and roof replacement and we also have some stations and facilities that have seismic issues. so that's going to be another large ask in our budget. so those are our first top three priorities and we'll be working i'll be working with director corso hand-in-hand to move forward with our budget and present a budget that's reasonable. so we have a new cad project, a computer aided dispatch project that's going forward myself and the remainder of the command staff met with chief cannon who is our chief of dc. he we we discussed the plans for implementing this new system. we discussed the possibility of which contractors are going to go with and the way that it's going to be our our concern again safety for the end user which is our firefighters, paramedics and emt. so conceptually we like the ideas that they have but we

really are concerned with the rollout and the training of our members prior to it being implemented so that everybody's familiar with it prior to the day that it starts being used. >> so we have five new supervisors so we're starting to indoctrinate them into our operations so what we've done is set up meetings and firehouse visits with them. so the first one we had was with supervisor souder on february 3rd we went to stations two and 13 and discussed met with the members. i think the members are really receptive and opening open to meeting face to face with supervisors and other people in the community. so that went really well. i think they were able to share ideas and concerns and the supervisor asked our members their needs and i think it was great to have that dialog. >> on the 5th of february we had the soft opening of the

sixth street triage center some of you may have read about in the newspaper. it's an effort to resolve some of the ongoing issues on sixth street. we are clearly involved in that with our community community paramedics and teams and our field supervisors. >> i think chief pang will elaborate on that in his presentation. we also attended the mayor's lunar new year event at city hall on the 5th of february. that was an excellent event, very well attended, very motivational, inspiring, some incredible speakers and incredible performers. >> we enjoy that and in keeping with our meetings too with other department heads i met with director forbes from the port we discussed on the 6th of february. we discussed collaborating between the two departments, particularly with our fire boat manifolds that exist on the port. we have some that are not in

the greatest shape and foreseeing a possible disaster where a fire boat has to be tied up to appear for 3 to 4 days and pump water. we want to make sure that those pairs are maintained and robust enough to be able to be usable in an emergency disaster. the 7th of february we all attended attended the mayor's black history month kickoff again similar. similarly the lunar new year event amazing performers and also some very inspirational speakers including supervisor walton who i was able to meet with after that meeting. again meetings with supervisor meet and greet discussed our common issues and some of the great things that are happening in the d-10 where he the district he represents on the february i participated in a cleanup venice avenue myself and to supervise in the mayor we pushed a broom up and down venice avenue. i was able to get my son up at 9 a.m. to go help me. that was actually kind of it

was that was nice. an exciting project that's happening is the academy of art has a class on murals painting and we have contracted or entered an agreement with them to paint a mural in our entryway of headquarters so given that it is the in march we are celebrating the 130 anniversary. we have a public ambulance service in san francisco. we elicited their response to assist us with painting a mural so they've done other work in that area. they also have worked behind station one. they painted a mural there as well. so really exciting. i think conceptually we have an idea of what we want them to paint. they're very excited. they have a class that's going to in the spring conduct the process of painting that mural. so i think you're going to really be impressed. so they're planning on starting here pretty soon. right now they're just getting ideas, they're traveling and they're trying to find like historical picture of what an

ambulance would look like 130 years ago and then possibly show the progression of the ambulance up to two now we're really excited about that on the 10th i also met with supervisor fielder and cheryl and discussed again our collaboration and issues specific to their districts that we can help them with and how they can assist our department moving forward. we continued our visits to the fire stations for station 41 and station three with supervisors out on the same day february 10th and february 11th myself and lieutenant sims attended a meeting at the power station which is a 23rd and behind third street there. i don't know if anybody's familiar with that area an amazing project with several buildings being constructed and also a ucsf cancer facility really exciting project.

they have one building up that's going to be for workforce living residential and the exciting part for us is they are going to work with us to potentially put a couple of kids on the pier there so we can have a better response to the south part of the city currently you know the closest you water resource we have are much further north so we're looking at reducing our response time from 15 to 20 minutes to more like 3 to 5 to seven minutes to respond out there and we're seeing a lot more activity on the bay on the south part of the city with all the parks and things that they have installed over there. >> so very excited about that. and also i met on february 11th i met with chief scott. he and i discussed some issues regarding unified command which is going to be incredibly important. should we unfortunately encounter an incident this weekend with the events coming up? so we just discussed our roles of responsibility should we

have a large scale event and we also just shared ideas about collaboration between our departments. i would like to introduce our new fire marshal chad law chief law. >> so we're really looking forward to working with fire marshal law. he has incredible leadership skills and a vast amount of experience in the field as well as prevention and we're really excited to watch the bureau grow and prosper under his leadership. i think his leadership qualities are amazing and i think his ability to motivate people from the field to want to go to prevention and try something different that they haven't tried before is really

stands out as a quality that's really going to be beneficial to the department that he holds. i'd also like to introduce you to our new chief of training, mark casper. >> so again, mark brings an incredible amount of experience and training. he's been participating in training throughout the bay area for a number of years, has a lot of ideas it's fair to say again and leadership skills you know our goal is to combine our in-service training what we do in the field and our division of training so that everybody's working in lockstep. so i think chief casper has the acumen and leadership skills to make sure that everybody's working together and we don't have any confusion as to what the training is amongst different areas. so when someone gets out of the division of training they come into the field, they're being taught the exact same thing and then when they go to in-service they're being taught

similar and then it's the same thing and then everybody's working together just really excited about that. >> so welcome chief gaspar this concludes my report for february 12th, 2025. we'll call you to call for public comment. >> is there any public comment ? i do not see any podium and there is no one on the public comment line. >> all right. are there any questions or discussions on the chief's report from the commissioners? >> yes. commissioner nicastro, thank you very much. president frazier thank you very much. chief t.d. one for your comprehensive report. i just would like to make some acknowledgments as well before

i get into some comments and questions. chief, the president acknowledge the participation of now our former commissioners cassidy and feinstein. but i also wanted to chime in as behalf of a member of the commission because we are a collective working cooperative commission and wanted to thank cathy feinstein for all of the hard work and dedication that she gave to this department and she feels a hard decision by commissioner feinstein because she loves this department and she loves the personnel within it and i personally appreciate all of the hardship and hard work that she did as she presided as our legal ease during the very difficult and complex covid cases that we all participated in many myself identified stylin former president ami

morgan. so i want to say that but in the same breath and acknowledge that i also am very pleased and excited to welcome commissioner ellen lowe to this commission. your expertise within the community, your expertise within law, your participation as a member of the status quo. parker recreation commission with all the experiences you have it's going to greatly benefit us within this department as well. i also because now chief, we're into changes and announcements i would like to acknowledge our city attorney jen hubbard who just notified us that she will no longer be assigned to us and she now is going to be working with the police department and the police commission. so i want to thank her for her participation. but also she introduced our new city attorney sara fabian.

fabian and wanted to welcome her as well. i also probably wanted to acknowledge our new fire marshal chair law welcome fire marshal law and also the announcement and participation of chief kasper in terms of training. it's going to be a great, great team that you have assembled. chief, now that i basically took care of those issues i also wanted to and you mentioned the chinatown parade which is this saturday and we all know that the all-star game is occurring this weekend as well with all of the recent movements that happened in new orleans as well as all big events. i'm just a little not concerned. i just wanted to be a little bit more clearer in terms of

that's going to be a big weekend and traffic is one of the things that goes into my mind. but i assume, chief that we've got that coordinated and everything is going to be smooth and running with that whole wall coverage. is that anything else that needs to be brought in? i know that chief brown was here this morning so i'm just going to refer to you citywide if you wanted to give the commission any more information on that. sure i'd be happy to. so chief brown has been in coordination with other departments. the s.f. pd sheriffs, all the departments and public safety to make sure that we have all the appropriate resources for these events. so specifically we have several eoc set up operating centers. we're going to have one at 1011 turk which will be our general operating center which will be staffed by pd sheriff diem

and fire. we also have any posse which will have staffed by the same agencies which is on 17th street and then the other event the event areas which will be oracle pardon me a chase mosconi and the chinese new year parade we're going to have command post essentially set up at all those areas staffed by those same department leaders. so we're not battalion chiefs at each one of those areas. so the nba actually contracts out to a private ambulance company for medical services at chase and mosconi. so i think it's probably going to be ama. they're going to kind of provide the basic medical treatment that will occur and then they'll handle that and then pass off to either our ambulances or private ambulances as needed and our response will be our normal response should we have any kind of major incident. all of our units have been training on major response to any kind of incident that would happen at chase or mosconi.

we've been working with pd. they are going to have their archer barriers up at some of these events. so with regards to traffic, those notifications should be honest to the traffic alterations that will be occurring during those events and we have the ability to move those archer barriers in our apparatus need to enter into any those restricted areas. we have several units mostly in our gator units so we're going to have three medical gator units our most they're all going to be allocated to the chinese new year parade. so we're going to have emts ready to provide medical treatment at the parade site. we're also going to have fire gaiters available for in case there's any kind of fire suppression needs from any anything that could occur on site there. we also have our hazardous materials members who are going to be wearing backpacks to search for rad or any other hazardous materials that may be on site. so we are prepared.

we have our resources allocated again, everything's going to go through the command post at those particular locations and we are ready to respond as needed. all right. thank you very much for that update. chief also reinforces this member of the commission as well as just to let the public in san francisco know how ready we are. i would be remiss because i did get a request from the president of the asian firefighters is clarence home to invite all of the commissioners to join the rfa at the parade this coming sunday but also the banquet that occurs after the parade and if you would like to join the parade or be at the banquet ,can you please let me know so that i can let clarence hom know that as well? i believe our assembly times is going to be at 430 to take a picture at second and market street. >> i have for a point of information chief for the last

i don't know five six years on the chinese new year parade day chief malone and plus chief pang have always indulge me to be able to chief crocker and to meet me and allow me to ride out to station 49 so that i could see the members that are going to be working that night as they roll out to their assignments and i get to witness how prepared we are and so i'm looking forward to that as well. thank you, chief, for your report. thank you very much. president frazier thank you, commissioner. are there any other comments from my fellow commissioners? i guess i'll go down the line. thanks for your report. >> you've crisp room and i just want to say thanks for acknowledging chief chief cuyler and chief lovera for their service and it was great working with them and i just

want to acknowledge that and thank you for doing that and obviously, you know, congratulations for your new appointment for your new command staff, the new fire marshal chad law and chief of training casper chief casper. so you know that's your prerogative to choose your command staff and we back you 100%. you know so and you know going forward i'm sure will be a seamless transition for the positive, you know, so i just want to say that yeah, yeah and well of course chief rabbitte and chief brown and the command staff so looking forward to working with you in the future and i just want to say that and other than that i just want to say something quick commissioner and the you pretty much covered

it. you know we're we don't have commissioner feinstein anymore. it was a pleasure to work with her and i just want to say good bye publicly and we learned a lot from commissioner feinstein and and we appreciate her service. you know, especially in a lot of the personnel matters and you know, legal matters. you know, she was kind of our legal beagle back up and we appreciate her wealth of experience and knowledge and and just wanted to make a note of that and and i do look forward in welcoming the new commissioner commissioner lowe and i'm i'm sure he'll fill those shoes just fine. >> and so other than that, i just had a quick question for you, chief christman. the mayor is new state of emergency ordinance for

fitting. >> do you anticipate that to accelerate the community param medicine department a lot more or how would that's going to affect some of your departments ? so thank you for the question. >> as i understand it the purpose of the emergency fountain ordinance essentially is to get beds and facilities to take people up and running more quickly without a lot of traditional roadblocks potentially. so we are seeing with increased enforcement action and chief pang can speak to this in his presentation an increase in touches from our community paramedics so as well as our front line engine companies and ambulance paramedics. so given the focus on solving

this crisis, we are expecting to see additional call volume and ideally we have valid places to take people and i think the goal is to for the mayor to get these facilities up and running so we have some place to take folks who are suffering from, you know, substance use disorder and mental health issues and make sure that they're being provided the treatment that they need. >> yeah. thanks for your report. that's all i have. >> yes, please. commissioner collins well, i think it speaks to the strength of the department that we can have so many new positions being filled by familiar faces. that means we've got talent within ai and i'm feeling very good about the path going forward as i hope you all are.

>> kathleen feinstein was the first person i heard from on the commission when i was appointed and she was always there with great advice and counsel. >> going forward i will miss her and i really appreciate the hard work that she did. >> though i wasn't part of the commission during the covid crisis, i understand it was a frequent and thorough so thank you kathleen for that. and i also want to welcome alan low the minute i saw his name is the person of our new our new commissioner. >> i said oh great, we got a good one. so whatever we can do and to make your service beneficial and get you up to speed quickly i highly recommend a tour if

you haven't taken it already of our fire if especially the ones in need of repair your your real estate background will let you see that we've got work to do there and i'm so happy to welcome you on board for many reasons but especially that so thanks a lot chief crispin and thank you all thank in advance for the new format for the ems report so readable, so thorough, so easy to calibrate. so whoever is responsible for that. >> thanks so much. >> is that you? who is that? kathy chief pank. bravo. thank you so much. i too want to echo and say thank you and acknowledge commissioner feinstein. i know her as judge feinstein. our parents were great friends. judge feinstein sometimes ruled

against me but i always appreciated her wisdom and guidance and while i understand her great legacy it's probably impossible to replicate that legacy of commissioner feinstein and i just thank her for her service on this commission and to the city of san francisco and thank you to my asian law professor stephen chicago for guiding me through this process. you've been always of great advice and to teach me how things used to be. but i guess just one quick question, chief and i'm known for asking questions that i shouldn't be asking but you mentioned that top priority was staffing. where where are we currently on staffing? how much more staffing do we need and what are the impediments to staffing?

>> thank you for the question commissioner. so the fire department historically has hired and spurts so the challenge has been to anticipate when we're going to have a large amount of retirements. so in our current projections we have projected 40 to 50 retirements in the next year fiscal year and then potentially 117 retirements in the following year. so in order to maintain staffing and ensure that we are up and running properly, we need in anticipation for that we need to continue our hiring process essentially is what our goal is and we've found particularly amongst our current command staff that while overtime can fill some needs we prefer not to fill a lot of needs with overtime we prefer to have people be laterally and upwardly mobile and to desire to use their

talents in different areas and to move throughout the department in different areas so being fully staffed allows disincentivizes overtime disallows it and also allows people to be more mobile in our department said would cost of living be one of the primary factors that is an impediment to staffing? not specifically. i wouldn't say specifically that is an impediment to people actually living in san francisco. cost of living clearly is a factor in everything but we don't see that as a factor in our staffing. and i forgot to thank commissioner collins. i know her from beating me down the hill at squab palisades asking together but also excited about the future of i think it's station one on sampson on the future redevelopment of that site that was closely tied to the funding

of new age senior housing which a project we worked on and so we're excited about the future redevelopment of that site. >> thank you. thank you commissioner. i took a lot of notes, chief, during your report and i'm going to zero in on just a couple of things. everybody had wonderful comments this morning so thanks to all commissioners i just want to appreciate your comment about hiring local people. i know that when i'm out and about and i meet young competent young people, particularly the lifeguards at the pool where i swim, i give them my card and people are always surprised the fire department it's as if people don't think of it or consider it as a career. so i think they're out there. we just have to reach them. so i love that and congratulations to chief law and chief kasper. welcome to this. your new positions if there's anything we can do as far as

the budget ask as commissioners please let us know. also i'd like to visit the six street triage center at some point i guess i'll talk to chief pang about that and arrange a visit. the last thing is the art mural. it headquarters. i'm thrilled to hear about that. i think that's a great opportunity to not only engage with the community but to spruce up the place a little bit which would be nice. so and the water system upgrade. i look forward to hearing more about that particular the west side that's that's more needed than other parts of the city. >> is that correct? my understanding correct. so historically our madam president, our initial rwc system was specifically installed in the northeast part of san francisco due to the density in that area and that's where all the development was. but as we've found that the transfer of properties being

built and more development in other areas there's been a yearning for additional fire protection in those areas. so specifically the southeast part of the city, the sunset and the richmond district. so we're in the process of installing what is it we call it the pool. it's a potable water system but it also provides high pressure water for firefighting. so that's in the process using our easter bonds. so we're in the process of installing that. it is expensive but it is something we are moving forward with. thank you and overall thank you for your great report and for your wonderful start as our new chief. it just feels really good from where i sit and a final word on katherine as i have this gavel now nobody wielded that thing like that. katherine feinstein so thank you for showing me how to do it. >> katherine okay. any other comments on the

chief's report? thank you, chief report from ems and community para medicine deputy chief simon pang report on the ems and community parent medicine divisions. it took me by surprise. i thought the chief rabbit would be going next to something. >> oh, pardon me, but the report from operations deputy chief patrick rabbit report on overall field operations including greater alarm fires bureau of fire prevention and investigation training within the department and airport division i thank president frazier, vice president collins, commissioner morgan, commissioner nicosia. >> commissioner lowe chief chrisman command staff good

morning. i'm patrick rabbit, deputy chief of operations and this is my report for the month of january 2025. it looks good in suppression. >> the department responded to over 1400 building alarm activations 154 full box alarms and extinguished ten working fires all fires in january were contained with the first alarm response and as you all know in a city such as ours this is quite the accomplishment due to our zero lot lines predominantly wood frame construction, prevailing winds and the topography with our hills another significant cause of note ten water rescues in the month of january all successful with zero fatalities after action reports came in from the field relating to

incidents on nine fires on ninth and washburn crisp avenue which were a second alarms and have been previously reported on by deputy chief darius latrobe and after action report was done based on an mva and a red alert on sixth and harrison and i'd like to touch on that call right now you can go to next slide i forgot on january 19th the units were dispatched to a motor vehicle accident involving multiple vehicles at the intersection of sixth and harrison street upon arrival, engine one encountered multiple vehicles involved in the accident and declared a yellow alert. yellow alert is a potential four six patients within two minutes of their initial response, this yellow alert was upgraded to a red alert meaning they had confirmed six patients and a possibility for ten or more. >> unfortunately the incident resulted with one fatality, one red patient being transported to the hospital code three

that's the highest priority of a patient and seven other green patients meaning less severe injuries, important operational considerations for the field were taken as one patient was found at the gas station on sixth and harris in that chevron station a couple 100 yards away from the incident. that patient was actually on a bicycle and clipped and went to important things for our field to consider is that members of this magnitude patients could be found anywhere underneath the vehicle and in unexpected parts of the vehicle or on the roadway or even more remote also in the field of suppression triennial inspections were conducted by assistant chief michael thompson in division two and assistant chief brooke baker and division three triennial inspections are held every four months and during these inspections the assistant chiefs carefully inspect the personnel, the journals, the records, all the apparatus

and equipment and the general conditions of the fire stations in their division typically an inspection of the station takes about an hour and typically a division chief will inspect one battalion a day over five days covering all five battalions in their division upon the completion of their week of inspections, assistant chiefs will submit a comprehensive report to myself and that will detail any deficiencies that they have found in their inspections. also in the month from suppression to cd two memos were released these related to memo 20 5a1 is related to station bulletin boards this was issued to replace a general order from 1988 and that general order just was outdated. it referenced antiquated systems and not our current software that is utilized in the in the fire stations. >> it also helps to strengthen

the administrative policy we reissued just this week related to the general station administrative policy that we're going to empower company captains and the battalion chiefs to update key memo 2502 was related to the wrapper rapid intervention and crew was issued to reinforce our fireground decontamination policy stressing the importance of health and safety of all our members. this memo basically directs the assigned risk engine to become the designated decon company when the incidents gone from an initial attack to a property conservation mode after the fire has been declared under control once again stressing the safety of our members and the long term health of everyone who works for our department sorry this slide sorry our slides are jammed up but our apologies. moving on to the bureau of fire prevention and investigation

the fire marshal selection process has been completed and thanking everyone who did apply for that and i would like to recognize our new fire marshal chad law. as you have heard earlier, fire martial law has been transitioning to his new role and actively recruiting members to his bureau. seems that motivation is high and we are getting a lot of interest to fill the six vacant spots as well as forms coming through the last few days for the month of january the arson task force made three arrests related to one structure fire, one trash fire an outside trash fire and one vehicle fire. and as discussed earlier, we have a busy week the nba all-star game lunar new year parade. this is a tremendous lift on our bureau of fire prevention. i look forward to reporting on their successes and my next report in february related to both these events this week our airport division assistant

deputy chief darcy and i are working to preserve our presence on fire scope committees and boards. pat and i have served as agency reps on the subcommittees and the task force in the past and fire scope directors have reached out to us for san francisco's continued involvement with this overall at the airport there were 542 incidents this month they had six members attended advanced hour an airport rescue firefighter driving course. four officers attended the advanced airport rescue firefighting training as well and the 40 hour basic airport rescue firefighting class and sfo badging which is a different process than anywhere in the city and county for 13 members. chief garcia also hosted the chief operating officer jeff

littlefield and the new sfo director mike nick cornett for firehouse tours of stations one, two and three at sfo. >> one more thing is happening at the airport. there's also a contingency plan for private aircraft to sfo this contingency plan is the same that they had for a but it was never utilized for air but it's there division of training also i would like to congratulate the new assistant deputy chief mark kasper in his role as the director of training. chief kasper joins our staff after serving in the roles of firefighter paramedic lieutenant captain battalion chief mark's also been instrumental in the department's training workgroup and recently changed our daily drill schedule to a weekly drill schedule to better serve the needs of our members. now this drill schedule was put

on great thought by the training and workgroup subcommittee. engine and truck company drills are engine and truck company drills are revised to provide a framework for the officers and chiefs to plan their field training. they're reinforced weekly at all levels and then the engine and truck drills do repeat four times over the course of a calendar year. >> they added a roll call drill which is typically administrative or a tabletop review of department issued training bulletins. examples of administrative drills could be an injury and illness prevention discussion our discussion of our behavioral health unit and how to access behavioral health services tabletop drills related to fire two training bulletins could be a review of the fire service access elevators and all new construction of high rises as well as the review of fires, how to combat fires and void

spaces. >> one more drill that was added was the ems drill and the ems drills occur monthly and they're scheduled to ensure compliance with our emt and paramedic licensing requirements. >> and then the caveat to this drill schedule is that battalion chiefs are now free to schedule when they would observe these drills rather as scheduled prior to a specific time they are required to observe one company drill a day to ensure the companies are proficient in their operations and on the weekends if any of you happen to visit the division of training at 19th and folsom you could observe a battalion drill put on by the battalion chief and they assistant chief as an observer where they reinforce all the weekly drill topics into the evolutions there at 19 that folsom furthermore there was a big battalion chief academy held over three days in january assistant chief bill storti was

the lead and coordinated instructors from the field as well as instructors from headquarters. this is an opportunity to train our captains who are going to be going out like work, like pay and on the current battalion chief eligible list for their increased roles and responsibilities in there as a battalion chief. approximately 30 members were trained over those three days. >> also in january the 135th fire academy started on january 21st. the class consists of 54 recruits currently in their fourth week of training and the first week of training the first week of manipulative testing and written test was conducted this past friday. >> on the 22nd the current command staff went out to address the class providing words of encouragement and some pearls of wisdom from our days in the fire academy as well. other news related to our

operations is our program so nerd k came about as a fire department partnership with residents in the marina district after the excuse me after the loma prieta earthquake in 1989. it survived on the involvement of dedicated firefighters through this partnership with our communities. >> on january 24th, mayor larry visited the division of training at 19th and folsom in an effort to better understand the department's newer program and promote the importance of nurture as an act of civic engagement in our city's goal of being prepared for any disaster no matter the size. currently near coordinator or lieutenant brandon tom is running our program and he put mayor lori through a nurse skills exercise. he coached our new mayor on how to operate a fire extinguisher outside and suppress the fire in an incipient stage as well

as how to shut off a natural gas valve which could provide a lot of value in a major earthquake. the department is very excited to have mayor larry support of this important piece of the puzzle in our public safety and currently the department's their program consists of a 20 hour basic nerd volunteer training which is also which is also offered in cantonese a quick one hour down and dirty s.f. ready course which is just a preparedness or a jumpstart to the actual 20 hour nerd program. lieutenant tom also has a map your neighborhood which is a ready training for groups of neighbors in your community and we have recently implemented a list of at least those program which is preparedness program for new training to support our vulnerable and underserved populations for spanish speaking and our lease. >> those program is currently led by one of our retired lieutenants, angie romero from

the mission district. in conclusion of my report i too would like to recognize chief sandy tang, deputy chief darius lettre and deputy chief shane lower. over my career i have been instructed by them run calls with them, promoted with them, trained with them and the last few weeks i was transitioning roles with them i could say without their dedication this organization and their commitment to the city and county of san francisco i would not be here presenting to you this morning emergency medical services and the fire services better for the for those three members i just mentioned and i would like to thank them. they are consummate professionals and this concludes my operations report for january. thank you. thank you, chief rabbit, is there any public comment on chief roberts report?

>> so there is no one approaching the podium and there is no one on the public comment line public comment is closed. is there a comment or question from my fellow commissioners commissioner thank you very much. president frazier thank you very much chief private for your report. i just wanted to mention a couple of things in terms of your report. >> thank you very much for mentioning as part of your report the recent incident at six street in harrison that caught everyone's attention in terms of how terrible that accident was and the loss of life. but to have that many patients and our department respond to that was something i just wanted to make sure that we were knowledgeable about how

complex that was but also how responsive we were with the department. so i want to thank you for that but also all of the members who responded that day. i also want to thank you for your and your report on the incident in that 1/59 street because as i read this scenario and summary it seemed very, very complex in terms of an incident the coordination of the site, the coordination of the alley, the difficulties that were part of it. there was a very descriptive. and again i'm one of these commissioners that reads all of this thoroughly but i also when i think it's really descriptive and very clear i like to acknowledge that and i could see that a citizen chief brock baker was the incident chief and again i'm assuming that he

was responsible for this write up chief commissioner nicastro you're correct. assistant chief baker did write the after action report for that incident and you're also right that the recognition of the responding units and their attention to detail on the radio did make that incident a success for the department. i also appreciate the operation note at the end of the report i thought that was very significant in terms of talking about the importance of expecting fire companies prepare to fight fires and perform the necessary assignments were decisive at this greater alarm again training and company offers. i'm reading from the text leaderships and the anecdotes to complexity. i think again that's really telling report thank you for that. >> i'm going to move on.

i again wanted to acknowledge and look forward to working with the fire marshal chad law within his report area which is vast. i also read the division of training and i wanted to ask a question through the chief you yourself or whoever can answer that but i noticed that on page 53 a new heading i don't know if it's a new heading but i never particularly special operation training it says with captain tyson lee i'm not remembering that kind of information coming out before but it's a special operation training ongoing chief rabbit or is that something that comes up periodically depending upon the need the demand? >> that's a great question, commissioner. in chicago our training division does have camp is composed of three distinct areas it's the recruit ins

and in-service training and our special operations training currently the way our our model works, each of those positions is staffed by a captain a member from the rank of captain tyson yee was recently appointed to our special operations training captain position tyson comes with 28 years of experience i believe and a long time member of station seven in the mission on the heavy rescue squad meaning that he has confined space trench rescue hazardous materials technician surf rescue water bay training. tyson is going to be great in that role and tyson will be working hand in hand with chief casper to develop special operations training. >> thank you very much for that clarification chief rather i really appreciate that. thank you very much madam president.

>> thank you for your comprehensive report. chief thank you. >> other commissioners yes. thank you for your report. i noticed in the after incident write up of the fire at 159 a recommendation by chief baker that because of the hazards posed by these downed lines to our firefighters that there be some continued contact with jeanie to see how this can be ameliorated. i just wanted to to ask if that ongoing contacts in place and can you let us know from time to time how it's going because this is a big issue. yeah, that's a great question. commissioner collins our vice sorry vice president collins we do currently have training with jeanie through our module

training assistant chief mike thompson has been our jeanie liaison in the past and our relationships with jeanie have been solidified through mike's work and developing natural gas emergencies and electrical emergency responses training with jeanie, her at our site and treasure island so typically a structure fire the incident commander chief baker ,chief thompson chief drought evac chief story someone would show up as an assistant chief assume command from the battalion chief and one of the immediate hazards that we think of as our firefighters are going into the building putting water on the fire ladder and it go into the roof and performing ventilation and search and rescue is the utilities in the walls are natural gas from the main into the building as we open doors and open up walls as well as the actual electricity. so one of the first moves for these assistant chiefs

and their incident support specialists is to call on any pd does respond very quickly and help us mitigate the hazards as well as assigning a team to do that and shut off gas and electric to it to the building. >> so from listening to you it sounds like the procedures in place we do have procedures in place but like this weekend when we're expecting to have a large storm just as we'll be taxed thin on resources per unit will be task very thin on resources. so sometimes these waits during storm events even if they up staff may be a little bit longer than usual but i believe the relationship is going well and that is thing and that is in part to assistant chief mike thompson having that rapport with our jeanie local. okay, thank you. okay. yeah. yeah. please yeah thanks for your

detailed report chief rabbit. i didn't really have any questions. i just want to make a comment. welcome. and you know, welcoming you again on the command staff i remember and i see i when i was relative a new commissioner visited your your fire station . >> you were the battalion chief, right? that's right. yeah. well you visited station seven station seven and and and i just want to thank you again. you know, i had a good trip there, a good lunch with your crew and i just wanted to say it was just a good vibe in that firehouse and you know, positive energy and as want to say, you know, that that's the sign of a good leader. that's just my opinion, you know? thank you, commissioner morrone, appreciate the working with you in the future as am i as your commissioner and thank you chief for it for your report. wonderful questions from everybody and lots of great detail in your report. so thank you for that.

i have one maybe two small questions. one is you mentioned that when the the bureau of prevention inspection made six arrests last month or whenever it was when when i when i hear the word arrest i'm thinking they're handcuffed and taken somewhere. is that what we do to for people who've violated or created a lot of problems with our yes that's also a great question. >> president frazier yeah so our our arson investigators, our peace officers they are put through police officer standards training. they are also have the ability to make lawful arrest. they carry a sidearm and they are badged with a star currently arson task force worse works conjointly with s.f. pd and when they days like in current times like ours with increased video surveillance as

well as people on the street we have a lot more witnesses for some of these outside fires our vehicle vehicular fires are we get a report of someone doing something suspicious at a structure fire. our arson task force will show up conducting an investigation and if they have enough evidence to make arrests, they will. thank you. i find that very reassuring. that's great. i had a sort of a movie in my head about it so that was that's very helpful. and the last thing i will ask you is that let's see the triennial oh the pga need this is some kind of a cross training that we're doing with them or well, i'm relieved to hear that we're working work collaboratively. thank you, chief mike thompson for working on that so diligently. >> but how does the it's a some kind of a cross training. i just am concerned for our members getting involved in equipment that is sort of out

of the realm of their world and some of the things that puccini has set up that they're specialists at only only with the mind in mind of the safety of our members is it a cross training kind of a thing or they just you call and they come and bring their expertise to the site. >> we cross-train with them as part of our in-service module training that's conducted throughout the year at an incident. if we are calling for any to shut something down we need we need their expertise and knowledge of the systems whether they're shutting off a specific gas valve or shutting down power to a certain part of the grid, something we're not able to do but we are able to identify hazards and mitigate them even if that just means isolating and denying entry to that area. that's what we do until we could get there and fix it for us. >> thank you. that's very reassuring.

i appreciate it and thank you for mentioning chief tong, chief le trap and chief kanaloa and their service to this department and our city and i think that's all i have. anybody else? all right, madam secretary, thank you, chief rabbit. >> thank you. okay. now we will have report from ems and community para medicine deputy chief simon pang report on the ems and community para medicine divisions. so i'm going to do that so i know i think i better because there's an cath clicker i don't have a clicker. >> i'm sorry.

president fraser. vice president collins commissioner nakano commissioner morgan commissioner lowe chief of department crispin secretary i was a my fellow command staff good morning. i'm simon pang. i'm the deputy chief of ems and community paramedics and commissioner lowe, welcome to the group. i look forward to getting to know you and president frazier and vice president collins congratulations on your new positions. i also want to thank chief tang and deputy chiefs that trip in kailua chief's lodge up in kailua. i'm grateful for their collaboration and support i during my time working with them i have to just mention

chief sandie tong. she has been my she had been my boss for a very long time say maybe 4 or 5 years and i wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her. and now that she's gone i i it is a very unusual situation for me to realize that there's no one else but me to to to make a decision and to recommend decisions to chief crispin and chief christman, thank you so much for showing faith in me and i look forward to supporting you and the command staff in your priorities. i really see this as forgive the sports analogy a soccer team that had a winning record in the top of the table because the fire department has been doing a very good job but now we have a new coach and with a new coach there's always a bump and there's more energy and excitement that goes along with that and i look forward to

that. okay. the first part of this report was prepared by assistant deputy chief tony malloy. he is our ems chief and vice president collins although i would love to take all the credit for the new visualizations, i have to give the credit to chief malloy and also section chief craig gordon who is the section chief of administration for ems. they did most of this work and prepared the slides and the tables so in this first slide the top row are the total ambulance dispatchers in the city and in january you can see that we almost had 12,000. the second row are the ambulance dispatchers that san francisco fire department ambulance has responded to and we're just over 9000 there. we are averaging about 78%

market share. we want it to be higher and we are working towards that. >> here's another visual visualization of of these numbers that you're seeing here. you can see that over time there is a slight upward trend a call volume is increasing now this third row is the number of calls that our rescue captains are running now our rescue captains are the clinical supervisors in the field. we have four of them and they're stationed in firehouses. they respond to acute and complex medical calls such as cardiac arrests, other calls in which it is anticipated that there is a high likelihood of of loss of life for them and they also respond to multiple casualty incidents they ran in the month of

january about 1100 calls that averages about 37 per day and if they were divided up equally by the four units it's not equal actually but that's about 9 to 10 calls per day. that's just where we want them . >> they are busy now this slide demonstrates outcomes. >> what happens when our ambulances actually go on these calls? >> about 6% of the time. let me back up a little bit. we very frequently respond to a call code three. code three means lights and sirens. code two means we want to get there expeditiously but we will follow the rules of the road. now a code three return is when we use our lights and sirens that go to a hospital and that's because our paramedics have recognized that

a patient may be unstable or at imminent risk of life or limb. so 6% of the time we have these code three turns to a hospital. the majority of our responses are code to returns. you can see also that we go in the month of january 1st hundred and five times there were field pronouncements for people who have died and i think i think our report comes with a glossary of acronyms. >> commissioner lowe i'm not sure if you're aware ptt and ama ptt means that the patient has declined transport to a hospital and our paramedics feel okay with that right? that's an acceptable course of action because we feel that they're stable or they don't have acute medical needs. ama means the patient has chosen not to go to the hospital against our medical advice so that's something totally different.

>> here's a visualization of those of that data that we just saw and what i want to point out here is the orange bar or cota returns to the hospital. you can see again there's a slight upward trend. so our transports to hospitals are increasing. this leads to e.r. overcrowding pie chart another visualization of the same data a pot that stands for an ambulance patient offload time. this shows that in january on average every time an ambulance took someone to a hospital we had about a 50% delay at that emergency room for the point that we arrived at the hospital. so the point that we are able

to transfer care of that patient to hospital staff now in addition to this delay, there are other time consuming chores and tasks that our paramedics have to do. they have to write their documentation which with a 50 minute delay you can imagine they're going to start working on their documentation but they also have to clean up their ambulance and get prepared for the next run. now in july of 2024 there is an assembly bill assembly bill 40 that was signed into law by governor newsom and it stipulate that the mandated limit for ambulance patient offload times is 30 minutes. the bar recognize demonstrates where the 30 minute mark and we are routinely over that now in january we had 1360 1366 events in which our ambulances were delayed at hospitals between 45

minutes and an hour 863 times in which they were delayed between an hour and 90 minutes ,one hundred and 46 times they're delayed up to up to two hours and then 87 times they were delayed over two hours at these hospitals. so that's is an average that was 2462 incidents in which our ambulances were delayed over 45 minutes. i just did some rudimentary back of the envelope math that's the equivalent of eight ambulances per day. this is a really big problem for us. >> so what are we doing about it? >> by the way, the 42% just demonstrates the amount of times that our ambulance are delayed at our hospitals. >> so first of all, we have

monthly airport working groups that are with the ambulance providers of which we are one of them our regulated regulatory body the these san francisco msa and also the hospitals themselves. chief malloy informs me that there has been a change in tone of the hospital administrators the they they recognize there is a problem and they're willing to work with us to try to fix this. >> in addition, we have to categories it's kind of confusing. we have something called an air pods a pod extended delay and an air port alert currently a part extended delay means that if there are three ambulances or more that are delayed more than one hour or there are two ambulances or more delayed more than 90 minutes or one ambulance or more delayed over two hours. that gives our rescue captains the ability to go to that

hospital, verify there's a problem with that hospital and make a report. that's all we send that report to our lessor and they send that report to the state msa. i understand that they get form letters back. >> now in addition to that we can actually declare an airport alert. that would be an extended delay and we have five or less ambulances available in the system. and why do we have five or less ambulances available in the system? it is because so many of them are tied up at these hospitals and when we have that alert that gives our captains the ability to go to the hospital and start redirecting ambulances to other hospitals that are less crowded. but we have to do that in a very safe manner. there's also that's that's actually quite a big thing. there's something called m tala which states that once you're on the grounds of a hospital that hospital must see that patient to make sure they're stabilized. >> they have to provide care.

so what we're actually doing with the airport alert is is giving our members an opportunity to break in tala and go somewhere else. now we have we recently met with the mco and we have proposed changes to this fairly arcane policy but we wanted something more streamlined if there is one ambulance that is delayed at a hospital a greater than 60 minutes or one ambulance delayed greater than 30 minutes but we are in a situation where it's meant to follow. we wanted to go straight to an airport alert. our lab says supports this and we'll be bringing that to the airport working group and working with the hospitals to see if they also will go along with this plan. okay. >> switching gears altogether this is narcan use over time by battalion total the top line is total and the second and third lines are the two busiest battalions in which we are administering narcan. >> again, i don't have my

glasses. >> it's very difficult for me to see that. but we are administering narcan approximately 200 times every month and battalions two and three. battalion two is stationed and stationed is at a station 36 battalion three is at station eight in the soma. there are the two battalions in which our members our fire department members are administering narcan the most. so we recently added in october of last year we added ketamine to our two hour arsenal of analgesics. >> the reason why is we currently give fentanyl for pain control but there are a lot of people who are allergic to opioids and there are a lot of people in our city who have opioid use disorder and if you have opioid use disorder and you've just broken your leg giving someone fentanyl may not be the best thing, right because it could trigger a relapse. so we have ketamine now ketamine is a slightly different type of a drug. it's a dissociative analgesic

and it works in different pathways. you can see that our paramedics are already beginning to offer ketamine to those individuals that that it's indicated for oc. this is something that we call our advanced skills. >> we in january there were 135 occasions in which our paramedics use an advanced skill. now what that could be it could be airway control where we do direct or video laryngoscope. we can visualize someone's trachea and insert a tube directly into their trachea to help them breathe. >> one of them is an intra osseous needle insertion. president frazier i know you're interested in that. i think maybe on my next report i will actually bring our drill. it is a battery powered drill that we insert a needle directly into somebody's bone. it is a very quick and direct route of i.v. access and then

cardiac arrest data. we had a good month in january where 1 in 4 individuals that were in cardiac arrest we were able to we were able to bring them to the hospital with a return of a spontaneous circulation which means from a period of having no pulse and not breathing that they were breathing spontaneously with a pulse. now we all know that in most cases these individuals will go on to die. but it is an opportunity for closure for families and in on occasion we do have people who walk out of the hospital neurologically intact. >> okay. switching gears altogether, i want to talk about lifeline. lifeline is a nonprofit organization that was started by two of our members emily tam and nick koo. they are both paramedics. they are both community paramedic trained and they

recognize that there was a big gap amongst elders in our community, especially elders that either spoke english as a second language or did not speak english at all. so they go to approximately one apartment complex per month and they go door to door and they visit the seniors there and they make sure that the individual's medical history is up to date and easily accessible by first responders. it is a program which is enthusiastically received. they have contracts with the salvation army, the chinese community health plan t and dc which is the tenderloin neighborhood development corporation. todd co which i believe is a tenant and owners development corporation. they're getting requests every week for them to go out and visit seniors in their homes. it's a fantastic community

outreach group at the san francisco fire department supports them by paying for their volunteer time through our core committee that is our community outreach recruitment and education committee and they need supplies in order to do this. they're currently funded through through private funders and i believe our own rfa will be donating some money to them as well. this multiple vehicle accident was highlighted by patrick rabbit. here here's some photos just to give you a glimpse of what it's like in one of these scenes. this was what i declared red alert there were nine patients there. there was one fatality. i brought it here to highlight the cooperation between our many units. not only was there engine one, several rescue captains, a battalion chief but our ems six

captain who is a community paramedic and our st overdose response team who happened to be in the neighbor hood responded immediately and rolled up their sleeves and got to work. >> okay switching gears entirely this is community paramedics and this report was prepared by our assistant deputy chief april sloan. she's our chief of community parent medicine. so this is a retrospective of 2024. >> we had a town hall meeting in january, a four hour community paramedic just we try to have two town hall meetings per year in 2024 street crisis response team was dispatched for over 17,000 calls and they actually arrived on scene and spoke with someone about 14 thousand times. now this represents 18% of our entire ems and cp call volume. what this means is that street crisis response is punching above their weight. we only have about four units

on at any one time. we have maybe 9 to 10 units per 24 hour period but at any given time we only have four units and they go on 80% of the calls and 10% of those calls they go alone without support from an ambulance or an engine and they they they resolve that situation without any outside help. >> here is some brief performance indicators for our teams m6 who had 260 encounters in january they decreased the 911 utilization of the top 20 911 users by nearly 48%. this is commonplace for them. it's an outstanding outstanding number but but really this is what i've come to expect from

that team. >> now i want to speak specifically about the street crisis response team. now whenever our street crisis response team has a face to face with an individual and commissioner low street crisis response the response to people in behavioral crisis over one over 25% of the time we are able to get that person to appropriate care. that is not a hospital right now. you saw how our trend line was going up for transports to hospitals. hospital overcrowding is a thing. airport delays is a huge problem for us being able to get over 1 in 4 people to a shelter to a clinic to a sobering center is fantastic work. >> now you see also that we do take people to emergency rooms because sometimes someone

having a behavioral crisis is also having a medical need. in that case we have to call an ambulance and then analysts will take that person to the hospital. >> and you notice that 55% of the time in january that person remained in the community. i just want to stress again if someone has capacity to make their own decisions and they decline our services, we have to leave them where they are. that's not something we want to do or that feels good to us but we are looking forward. i'm looking forward with the help of chief chrisman to make sure that we help with the city and the policymakers as they come up with come up with better tools to get people into care. >> now this very busy and complicated slide has to do with street overdose response. >> this is not in your packet. i decided to add this at the last minute. so the street overdose response maybe about 2 or 3 months ago we we iterated we wanted them to focus on people who've had multiple overdoses and we know

that people who've survived an overdose are at the highest risk of eventually dying of an overdose. >> so street overdoses tasked with finding and establishing rapport with individuals who've had more than one overdose. now this is just the top 25 people. i blacked out the names of the birthdates to protect their health information. they were 227 people who had a opioid overdose in san francisco in january. that's a lot of people. and if you if you if you look at this very, very closely, you'll see the top number. >> that person had nine overdoses in the last 12 months. that person is at very high risk of dying. and we really want to be able to find that person be there at the moment they're ready to accept change. to administer buprenorphine. get them connected to a prescription of buprenorphine and get them shelter

and housing. i have a couple more things to bring up i just wanted to end with well six street you might have heard about sixth street in the news. i want to say what it first is not. it is not a safe consumption site. it is not a place where treatment and services will be conducted. it is led by police. it is a safe place for people to be to gather. there are bathrooms, handwashing, handwashing, supplies, coffee and and a tent. >> it is also a place for people who are on sixth street to safely be. it's also a place for police if they're going to site or arrest someone can bring them there to hand off the sheriffs so that

the police can get back to work. >> it started soft launch on february 7th. >> we are ready and willing to help out. we we want we're prepared to dedicate one street crisis van and one captain there 24 hours a day. >> it's because we are iterating. currently it's been downsized. it's now operating only monday through friday 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. so we are staffing those hours. but if and when it does go to 24 hours, seven days a week we will be there ready to help. >> and what i wanted to add was on january 29th i was on sixth street observing and there was a 26 year old individual on the sidewalk screaming in handcuffs pretty much naked. and our our street crisis team was there. our community paramedic captain was there. we're waiting for an ambulance engine one showed up and the lieutenant of engine one that

day was john sikora. john sikora is a firefighter who's been in the department at least as long as i have and i've been in for 28 years. so he's a veteran. i believe he's he's actually the tiller of truck one. >> but that day he was the boss of engine one. and i just wanted to say as i observed a circle of public safety members around this person on the ground that was screaming there as many naked i was in handcuffs. i didn't really notice there was john at first. i haven't seen john in a while but he got out. he surveyed the scene. he got down he cracked down on the sidewalk on sixth street and said hi. he introduced himself. he asked what's your name? are you okay? we've got something we can give you a shot. it'll help you calm down. do you want that? >> the person said no. so okay, we're going to put

your hands. we're going to put our hands on you. we're going to roll you over and check your back. >> and he did everything that we would want any community paramedic to do. trauma informed care. >> and this is a veteran firefighter on on truck one and he's he was a perfect role model and i was so happy and impressed and afterwards i said hello to him and he said i don't want to wrestle with anybody this early in the morning. it's far easier just to talk to them and i just want to you know, if i don't think john sikora is a sort of guy that's listening the fire commission meetings but if the word gets out hat's off to him and i think that's all i have for you today, i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you for chief pang, that was a great report. madam secretary, is there any public comment? >> i do not see anyone approaching the podium and there is no one on the

public comment line. >> public comment is closed. from my fellow commissioners comments questions. chief panel's report. okay. chief commissioner nicastro, thank you very much. >> our president frazier. thank you very much. she's paying. i'm again very pleased that you're in the position that you're in and thank you very much for that. chief christman, your comprehensive report but also your education for us in terms of the commission in terms of. and i want to acknowledge also tony molloy in terms of the report. the graphics are made when you take an eyeball view. this is complex. >> when the narrative comes out with the explanation it makes more sense. i appreciate it because it's detailed this morning very detailed.

i appreciate it because commissioner lowe is joining us as well. and even if you've been on the commission as long as some of us it's still new information sometimes or more clarity involved. >> i'm just going to say one thing and you answered it when we get our notifications in terms of incidents that are out in the city on all incidents rescue class fires, you name it, what's been coming up that i started to notice and save is concord hospital delays. i know they've said before but you know, it's just part of the information that comes through. i haven't deleted any of the fire alerts for maybe about the last two weeks. so that the lists are long i mean the messages are long. but what i wanted to do was count how many hospital delays came up recently. i'm talking about maybe two, three weeks. >> and your report directly talks about it half an hour

minimum hour, 15 minutes. the information out of that one point or another there might be three ambulances available. the whole protocol that you talk about the description and terms of it because my notes are informative. again, alarming. so what are we doing about it? that's what my notes say. and you have your response to that by a pod and the body. my notes circle the hospital council because this issue of delays at the hospital ems is not new. it's gotten worse or worse to a point of where now where an operative and it concerns me i also appreciate your presence in the report and the efforts of the mayor with the audience of trying to get more beds. we've got to get those beds because the obvious result is

maybe the citizen thinks that perhaps we can take these members of the public and then take to the hospital. that's the idea. concept but it's not based on reality in terms of how that really occurs meaning the delay of time that is both for the hospital but also in terms of our membership. so responding to medical and again present phrase or a retired nurse knows medical but if there is some beds, if there is a facility, if there are some options that are positive that can get these members of the public into these beds, into these facilities to free up our ambulance, free up our members. your question as well, commissioner lowe, in terms of what's our needs, it's the bodies within the department with all of the various attributes to that and formalization. again, i'm doing my education ems six crisis teams all based upon the crisis of san francisco and we're one team. >> i'm biased because i think

we're a very important mainstream team in terms of that and i know the department of public health and our river reach workers are all part of that. but i'm glad that you talked about this and i'm glad you are going to do something about it or try to do something about it. >> and in terms of cooperation and in terms of treatment, i can't imagine the rescue captain going to the hospital. that's in delay. i'm glad we have that system as being there physically directing ambulances to other hospitals. there are other options that must be a part of my friendship. but stress was all. you know, and in terms of again through our members who are trying to serve but to the patient as well i do hope we get more beds. i hope there is some funding and i know we're in a budget crisis but this is the kind of facts that we're dealing with. so thank you for that. also thank you for bringing it

out. the incident with chalk one truck or engine one in terms of that particular response in terms of our team that that's all part of the effort. but thank you for that and i would i'm going to pay attention to see how this all goes because again, it's a vicious circle that's starting to occur as time goes on. so thank you very much for your report you guys. >> thank you. president frazier, you commissioner coach, please. >> thanks for your report, chief perry and thanks for reminding me of chief tang was a great interim chief and great city to thank for all the position served and to was great to work with. i'm glad you reminded me. i'm sorry i forgot to mention the room earlier statement but you know i just wanted to say yeah and thanks to chief malloy for the great graphics and you

know on the delays with the ambulances i might have missed it but what's the biggest issue with this red tape billing issues? >> what are we talking here? i believe a number one reason other than hospital overcrowding, lack of beds, lack of staffing at times but we found that the airport delays are correlated with the change of watch of the nurses they center around 7 p.m. so that's something we'll be bringing up if we could possibly have certain hospitals have increased staffing at those hours or staggered staffing. okay. and then on this one graph on page two and i don't know if you can see it in the orange area the returns call who returns? >> yes. can you explain that? >> yes. that's these are times when either because the patient has

a medical need and is stable or the patient requests transport to our hospital in our system it's very difficult to refuse someone transport to the hospital if they request that even if we think that they don't need to see an emergency room physician. >> so those that's the that's the lion's share of the dispositions and it's it's traveling to the hospital with the patient rendering aid you know some of these folks do have medical needs. >> we may be starting ivs and monitoring the heart and giving medications but they're stable and other times maybe they have a twisted ankle and we're taking them to the emergency room for that and our ambulances are following all the rules of the road stopping at every light, every every stop sign and you know how it is in san francisco there's a lot of traffic. it takes a long time to get to a hospital, you know, 30, 40 minutes sometimes as far as the

returns are, you know, or they're just return customers or as we call it we call it a return. that's just the term that we use versus like we go to a call either cota or code three, right? depending on the seriousness but then to go code to to a hospital we call it a code to return and to go code three to a hospital again code three return yeah. yeah. thank you. other than that great reporter thank you for your report. >> you're welcome. mr. collins. commissioner lowe any questions? comment okay, i'll go then. thank you, chief thing you know i'm fascinated by some of this stuff. this is a great report, wonderful visuals. i really appreciate it. i think the airport time i hope we can have a discussion about that a deeper dive at some

point and talk a little bit more about what might be the actual root cause because we do get a lot of alerts on our phones about the airport and i'm sure we all have our theories so it'd be wonderful to go through that in a little more detail. but averaging 50 minutes that's that's incredible. that's an acceptable i'm heartened to hear that you think the airport working group has a change in tone. i hope that means a positive change in tone. >> yes. okay. that's great to hear and i'm also interested in the follow up as you get more practice expertise using ketamine for pain control. how about what what you and all your folks who are using it think of the results if it's an efficient, effective way to treat pain in the field besides fentanyl and whatever we can do to not use fentanyl i'm all for it and thank you for bringing up the advanced skills because

i really look forward to seeing that drill at our next meeting for the intra osseous infusions . also thank you about the lifeline skills that's a wonderful service and i know that was popular when i was first a nurse there were some groups in public health doing it but apparently that went by the boards and the fact that our young firefighters are involved in paramedics involved in providing that to the community is such an excellent service. so i'm appreciating that a lot . i guess the last thing i'll say is this is very hard work that people are doing and a huge volume of work 78% of all the ambulance calls is a lot of calls on a daily basis. so and yet you say you want that share to go up.

>> is that did i understand that? that is correct, yes. we have an exclusive operating agreement where we should be at at least 80% ideally we should be above that because we need more ambulances for other reasons. one of them is training when we are always in a crisis with the potential for medic to follow events that means we're out of ambulances and engines and trucks are waiting for us to show up if we're always at that crisis point how do we train someone? how do we do that? and then what about surgery capabilities if there's an earthquake or tsunami or fire, we have to rely on private ambulance companies for that. we can't do it ourselves and we feel that it should be us as public safety that are doing that. >> okay. thank you. and and then finally i'll just

say thank you for the audio visual of the wrench in the skull. >> so grateful that he got out of the hospital and that he took the wrench home. >> i'm sure everyone in this room would have done the same. >> i hid that slide. i chose not to. so that's it's in our packet so i really appreciate your report, chief payne thank you. and the audio visuals secretary thank you. i'm 40ft hurt and i've go ahead. i'm sick. item number five overview of the city's budget instructions and process for fiscal years 2025 to 2026 and 2026 to 2027 discussion and possible action presentation from mark corso, deputy director of finance and planning on the fire department's operating budget for commission review

and discussion discussion and possible action to adopt the fire department's operating budget for fiscal year 2025 to 2026 and 2026 to 2027. i got that. >> good morning. let's see here. good morning, president frazier. vice president collins supervisors and kodjo morgan and a warm welcome to new commissioner low chief chrisman command staff madam secretary mark corso finance and planning to go over our next budget

presentation and this is for review discussion and possible approval. we'll get into the details in a moment but this is for the department's budget submittal for fiscal year 2526 and 2627 as chief chrisman had mentioned earlier, do next friday, february 21st to the mayor's office. this is still very much a work in progress not from a high level. we'll get into it a little bit more but the documentation that was prepared and included in your packet was from last week so there were still three weeks to go before our submittal. we're still finalizing some numbers with regards to some minor adjustments here and there and it will be a few other things that will be incorporated. but i do want to stress that there will be no major changes or no major policy changes in our submittal between what we go over today and what we submit next week. it's mainly just technical adjustments that we're still working through both internally and with other departments.

>> so briefly i know this is old news for everybody we've talked about this but i just wanted to highlight timelines and overall process and also for commissioner lowe and general happy to talk offline if there's any questions about budget or anything else that either your fellow commissioners can't answer or you just would like some more information on. so happy to follow up separately on that. >> but briefly process wise, as i mentioned february 21st next friday our budget is due to the mayor and comptroller's office comptroller reviews for any technical issues and then turns it over to the mayor's office. it will be with the mayor's office for the next 2 or 3 months so to speak where they are doing their adjustments. they're kind of reconciling all city departmental submissions and then working to identify their priorities, find funding ,move things around before they have to submit their balanced budget to the board by june 1st.

at that point our budget is out of our hands and it's out of the mayor's hands. >> so we will be before the board of supervisors budget and finance committee over probably the second half of june for a couple of meetings pleading our case, working with their budget and legislative analyst on any potential reductions or changes to our budget before and that's not just true for us all city departments before a agreement is reached and hopefully passed by the board usually in july specifically the commission timeline we've gone through instructions, general overview of the department budget and then this is the meeting with regards to submission of our final budget there is opportunity if there are issues that are outstanding for a special meeting any time before the 21st and i'm happy to address any questions that come up that we haven't had to do that much in the past before and hopefully that's not the case here and we're able to answer and satisfy all your questions. but if there's anything else

that is coming up or kind of raising you'd like to raise, we'd be happy to discuss here. >> and then we submit as i mentioned next february 21st at that time the department's kind of locked out so to speak of the budget as far as making any changes internally we're obviously working very closely with the mayor's office. we have been and we will continue to do so on any changes to our budget and any material updates that come along. we will obviously be updating the commission on generally a lot of those final decisions are made till may may timeframe before the final budget is submitted to the board just as they see where final expenditures and revenues lie and any other pending issues that need to get resolved. so any updates that come along the way we will keep the commission updated but other than that we anticipate working with the mayor's office on finalizing their budget as it rolls up to the june 1st deadline. >> and briefly here's an overview of the instructions we

received. all city departments received the projected 200 $876 million deficit over the next two years 253 in the first year and 623 in the second year and that expands to over $1 billion in the outgoing years. that's a very structural issue the city needs to address both from departmental savings but also from structural issues that the city is looking for overall. >> so as a result of that departments have been requested to reduce their general fund support by 15%. for us that's about $23.1 million and just as a kind of equivalency for that $23 million represents over seven about seven engines if they were to be closed the entirety of the fiscal year seven engine companies or six truck companies same thing over the entirety of the fiscal year or about 2312 our ambulances the day. so that is obviously a very material change and an impact

and we'll get into that how it impacts our budget and our budget submittal in the next few slides just highlighting some of the challenges we've talked about not only in recent presentations but these come up all the time in discussions with the commission and budget. so we have a number of challenges we are trying to address day to day impacts making sure as chief correspondent mentioned safety ,making sure our members are taken care of at the same time responding to increased scope in work that we're performing increased call volume, those kinds of things and in addition to just the day to day issues that we have, we also have an aging infrastructure both facilities and fleet and those unfortunately are the easiest when it comes to budget decisions. those are one of the first things that get reduced mainly because there's no impact to personnel or anything like that. but over time those add up and we see those and we'll talk a little bit on a couple of slides about some of those

things related to that. we have mandatory minimum staffing both on the fire side and through prop f and also through the ems side related to both and on both sides related to response times as well. so in order to meet our response time mandates and our minimum staffing mandates we need to ensure we have proper staffing and also as part of that we need to ensure all that support that facilitates those responses is also appropriately funded and that's staff facilities, fleet you know supplies, fuel, utilities keeping all the stations open. so there's a lot that goes into supporting those the those efforts to meet response times and staffing requirements other than the personnel the majority of our budget is for personnel costs and the vast majority of those personnel cost goes to those direct efforts of emergency response for fire suppression, for ems, for

community paramedics and so any changes there will have a material impact to our departmental operations. and as i mentioned lastly just the size and the scope that $23 million is a very material very, very large ask for us and anything that to that scale if that was to be implemented would definitely have front line operational impacts. >> so here's a very high level overview of where we stand as a budget. you'll see there's an increase of about $22 million a year over year from the current year to the next year and i do that's not necessarily that we are being supplemented our resources being supplemented or anything like that to that tune that's about a 4% increase that corresponds realistically to wage and benefit increases over time. so while our budget does appear to be going up, it's not that the impact of our budget and our resources themselves are increasing either. so that's something that is addressed in a lot of the

challenges that we have there small increase in revenues on our side. we'll talk to that briefly but pretty much for the most part as part of our overall submittal we are trying to maintain what we have currently and at the same time address some larger issues that we'll touch on in a moment. so included in the budget proposal right now you have a supplemental documentation packet there. >> this is a scaled down version of our budget book. we will we're still working on a number of things to improve the detail of our budget book and we'll be submitting one with our budget request on the 21st and we will absolutely provide that to the commission as well. but just very briefly it gives an overview of revenues expenditures by type of expenditures, salary materials and supplies, equipment etc. and then a summary of expenditures by each individual what we call project or

division. so training support services administration operations a very comparison from the current year to the next two outgoing years which we are discussing at the board or at the mayor's office and then gives detail on each one of those individual expenditure projects through the rest of the document. so happy to answer any questions on that. again we will be updating it with our final budget numbers and additional detail and provide that to the commission upon submittal. but included in our base budget not our base budget but our budget proposal to the mayor's office already included in there are anything known any rate changes for salaries, benefits, work orders, anything known by the mayor's office or comptroller's office regarding benefits, regarding wages, some of the citywide infrastructure work orders that we receive all that is included currently in our base budget there will be some negotiation that goes on during the mayor's phase on those topics especially work orders. >> there's a kind of mayor's office kind of serves as the

arbitrator to on with departments are disagreeing on amounts and those kinds of things and scope so that that discussion kind of trails into the mayor's page of the budget but as far as what is included in our budget that will be proposed, anything known, any changes through contracts, through rates, health rates, those kinds of things those are already baked into our budget there. the chief had mentioned staffing and hiring and we are proposing to maintain those levels of hiring over the next two budget years. >> so for us we are allocated to fire academies in each fiscal year currently underway with one but generally that's been started in the june july period and also in january and we anticipate continuing those over the two next two fiscal year. so there's a total of four fiscal years for fire academies over the next two fiscal years and logistically that's probably the most we can do but

that's been approved over the past few years as we've come out of covid. we had a long break of about two, two and a half years during covid where we didn't hire anybody. we weren't able to hire anybody. and so as we rebuild staffing off of that and continue and look forward as the chief mentioned, we're always looking out towards what is our workforce going to look like in one, two, three, four years analyzing retirements and what our personnel demographics are. we want to make sure that we are kind of ahead of the game have sufficient staffing and if there is happens to be a large number of retirements that come in at one time where we were already prepared for that so those that's the kind of analysis that's ongoing but definitely picks up during the budget process and on top of that instead in addition to the firefighter hiring, we've also been approved for hiring to maintain our ems and community paramedics and staffing levels and so that if there are members that during the course of the year either retire or separate from the department or

even move over to the h two firefighter academy as part of the career path, we're able to backfill them in order to maintain those minimum staffing levels and response time mandates both on the ambulance tier and in community paramedics and so we're also as part of our budget proposal in addition to the hiring plan, we're also proposing to maintain staffing level plans. and so as i mentioned we have some staffing requirements for from our outstanding prop f which has been which establishes minimum staffing levels for our fire stations and some different areas of the department in addition to that we want to make sure we are maintaining our staffing levels on the ambulance and community medicine and those are chief pang in his report mentioned call volume and those requirements as well. so we're closely monitoring that and how it relates to our levels of staffing and always doing analysis related to that.

>> but we are proposing no changes to our emergency line staffing levels in our budget proposal we do have some fleet proposals that we've gone through a pretty significant free fleet request. we have a backlog of issues coming out of covid. we've seen market wise not just our department but industry wise the cost of fire apparatus has essentially doubled and the time to construct one a new apparatus has essentially doubled as well and there's been various articles written about it. it's definitely impacting the industry at this time it doesn't look like it's getting significantly better anytime soon but we're hoping as we move further and further out from the pandemic that that those trends kind of start to reverse. but in the meantime that's kind of where we're stuck with regards to fleet things are more expensive and our purchasing power is decreased and it's takes quite a bit longer to actually receive apparatus even if you order it it takes a significant amount

of time to receive apparatus so for our budget proposals as we've done in the past back in 2009 the fire commission passed a fleet and equipment replacement plan and that outlined a certain number of apparatus we needed to get to minimum staff minimum the minimum requirements for our fleet as well as what an ongoing procurement process would look like as far as mber of apparatus we've held to that over the budget processes and if we weren't funded for something we kind of kept that on the list. so we have a significant backlog and so our request reflects that reflects not only what we're requested to ask for every year but also that backlog. >> so we have a very significant fleet request to meet that commission standard. it's about $82 million and that addresses a number of fleet with current pricing i think it's about 20 trucks, 31 engines, 26 ambulances, 29

command vehicles and a number of other like fire prevention and other administrative vehicles as well. that just represents the backlog of kind of getting up to the terms that were provided in the commission resolution that doesn't address the ongoing issues that we have and so working with the chiefs has mentioned kind of the priority for fleet. we are working very closely with the comptroller's office. they are doing a fleet analysis for us as we speak not only taking a look at what our existing fleet is but looking at options for other types of financial structures in order to procure additional apparatus. they're also looking at kind of a best there are interviewing other jurisdictions throughout the nation on what they do for their fleet and so they're we're working very closely with them and looking forward to some of their findings in that report. we're also working closely with the mayor's office obviously throughout the budget as far as equipment reallocations from the city wide funds also

working very closely with the board of supervisors office and as many other funding sources we can. >> so that is very clearly a high priority for us. the longer we kind of delay replacement the bigger haul we're going to get into and so we're trying to address it both to catch us up but also establish a framework moving forward that we are actually replacing things on a more reasonable timeframe. so more to come on that as we discuss that going forward. >> on the revenue side included in our proposal we've included cpi increases for our fee levels for both fire prevention fees and emergency medical services fees. we there is a one time increase of about almost $4 million in ems revenues to the good. >> this is from working with the state of california. they have implemented some supplemental revenue programs for certain a certain kind of population of medicaid calls

that leverages federal funding in order to provide additional funds to jurisdictions. i think the recognition is that the current medicaid or medi-cal reimbursement amount does not nearly come close to what the cost of providing services is. so this is a way to help supplement that and more realistically reflect department and jurisdictions costs for providing those services so that is anticipated to be ongoing. there's been a few legislative changes that have modified that program and improved the revenue outlook for us so we continue to work with our partners both with our billing company and at the state side to facilitate the implementation of those programs. >> there's a couple of other minor changes to to our budget wise. i think just highlighting one real quick on page seven of the revenue there's a fire prevention revenue for licenses that you'll see if you look at the document is a reduction in approximately $1 million. that's not anything we are proposing that was done through

there was a ballot measure last year prop m on the ballot that was passed. there was a changes to business tax which structured the way the city collects based business tax and small businesses so that it waived fees and license fees for a number of small businesses while at the same time changing the revenue structure for some of the larger businesses as well. >> so to the comptroller's office and all the analysis that's done, it's going to be for the most part revenue neutral for the city overall. some departments have may see reduced reductions on the individual department level but overall citywide there's kind of a wash in that regard. it's just where the funding is coming from. so while it looks like $1 million reduction in ours it is but it's not anything we're held accountable for or anything along those lines that's included in our base budget. it's just the change in some new city policies and legislation so currently we

are still working as i mentioned through january or february 21st and our submittal we're updating our staffing model looking at hiring retirements, overtime premium levels, assumptions on leave, doing all of our continuing all of our analysis on the data that we have showing that time off behavior, those kinds of things and incorporating those changes and we will be up until february 20th first time they're still at the time of some of the numbers before you there were still roughly three weeks to go before we submitted. so we're still fine tuning all those analysis. >> we're also working with other city departments on our work orders and how much both as performing department as as the fire department, as a performing department and also as a requesting department and we'll continue those negotiations through the mayor's phase as well.

but i did as i mentioned, i want to highlight that there will be no surprises for the commission, no operational changes. we're not going to be requesting 60 new fees or anything like that that doesn't go through this. so while this the budget before you will change from a technical perspective slightly there's going to be no material operational impacts or administrative impacts that are not going to be coming through this commission. so i do want to highlight that as we move forward. so as part of our proposal given that the scope and size of the budget reductions being requested, they're going to if we were to enact those kind of reductions we would see direct impacts to front line emergency staffing. and so as a result of that we're not going to be able to meet that budget reduction request and we've communicated this to the mayor's office this is not just a single year issue. this is an issue we have every year and we will continue to work with them over the next few months on other ways to

find savings for the department. but our goal is to maintain those staffing levels moving forward and so that's our commitment to the commission and as we work on our budget with the mayor's office that's point number one in our discussions with them. we'll continue working with the mayor's office. obviously a new administration at the mayor's office, a new administration at the fire department. so we want to make sure that the chief has some time to communicate his priorities. he's already begun obviously talking with the mayor about it and we want to see what other impacts the mayoral priorities may have on our budget. >> so over the next few months the mayoral administration kind of came in in the middle of the budget process at least the initial part of it. so any real changes or decisions will be made over the next few months in that regard and we'll be closely involved with that anything impacting us and we'll we have a very much an open line of communication with the mayor's office moving forward. >> so we will continue that discussion we want to highlight

as we have and we will in all our discussions with the mayor and comptroller's office is our staffing fleet and facilities issues. the infrastructure is a is a large issue for the department . i think some of the externally some of the opinion is well the department gets x millions of dollars on the user fund that should cover their maintenance and their facility issues. it by far does not we're not looking for another bond until or not looking at another bond until currently at 2028. >> so we have ongoing day to day issues that chief mullen and support services and his staff are kind of triaging and doing as they can but overall funding is still a major issue for facilities too. >> so those discussions will continue. >> absolutely. and then reviewing any possible alternative funding solutions to support reducing the general fund on our side whether that's grants, whether that's external funding opportunities we have committed to the mayor's office and to ourselves to explore that to the extent possible and try to lessen that impact

that we have on the general fund. we are very much general fd supported dependent and so we are competing directly and indirectly with all other city departments for that that rely on that same pot of general fund money. >> so we do owe it to the city to explore any options we do to lessen that impact for the department and we'll keep you updated on that. generally we've been successful in like fema grants for equipment things along that line where we're unable to fund something through our regular annual budget ask and we've been able to find an alternatives avenue to be able to purchase those goods and we'll continue to do that. but any type of funding potentially coming outside we are very much trying to pursue. so i just wanted to highlight at that as well with that i do want to thank the commission for their continued support and if you have any questions i'm happy to answer thank you so much for your wonderful

and comprehensive report. >> director corso thank you. >> i guess we're just in a situation that we're getting used to and it's being repeated but i think everyone's doing the very, very best they can especially you and your people. so thank you. thank you. madam secretary, is there any public comment? >> i do not see anyone approaching the podium and there is no one on the public comment line. public comment is closed now i think what we need to do is take a vote to adopt this this proposal. that would be correct. but first yes. are there any questions or comments from the other commissioners? >> thank you very much. president frazier clarity director corso is this an action item or is this a discussion? yes, this would be an action item to approve our submittal next week to the mayor's office

and the submittal is basically to for verbiage sake is what to stand pat for the for the most part we are requesting maintaining our staffing levels operationally maintaining our hiring and then continuing to work with the mayor's office over the next few months in advance of their budget. >> all right. so thank you for that clarity. >> thank you, madam president. i'll wait for the vote. >> any other comments or guess just oh, go ahead. >> so director corso, as we look at as you work with the comptroller's office to look at alternatives let's say for the fleet leasing options, i mean do other jurisdictions have successes that we could could look to see in the fleet? >> absolutely. so that's part of our conversation with them. in our research there's been

and we've done it in the past we've done as you mentioned that lease purchasing model where we were able to get an influx of equipment up front and push that funding over time. there are other jurisdiction ins to who have done who have looked to bond funding to fund not only facilities but also equipment something we have not been able to do in the city and i'm not sure if that's a policy call or a legal requirement. so we're working closely with them on analyzing that. that would be an additional option for funding as well. but anything that we can do there that's part of their job as well is as they reach out to similar jurisdictions that then to us what do those jurisdictions do? >> what challenges do they run into? what did they do for funding as well? so they're gathering a lot of information and we will be continuing our discussions with them to kind of get an update on what else what other options they may have found that either work for other jurisdictions or are a possibility.

>> thank you. and do you foresee any change with this administration option in the dpw override on work done in our facilities override meaning we added cost i think charge versus what the private market would charge to do that will that infrastructure work? >> i haven't heard of anything that would be changing the i don't i don't know if it's admin advocate of the charter as far as flexibility to go to use another more private vendors versus using dpw or the bring that that charge in line with what the private market would yeah i think that's a that's a larger discussion that through we talked to capital planning about it and other and it's not just dpw just in general other city departments for which we get some work as well. we are closely working with the comptroller's office and the

mayor's office on that. i think what we're trying to communicate is if these increases are approved on the on the performing department side like we if if it's going to maintain that and those are approved, we need to show a corresponding increase in our budget to accommodate those because if those are increasing while our budget doesn't it just eats into the purchasing power that we have on a on an annual basis. thank you. any other questions? yes. well just to be somewhat optimistic with the upcoming like you know, big events like the all-star game and the super bowl coming next year will let you dissipate that taking the edge off some of these huge deficits for the future fiscal years to some degree or you raise some good points. >> we go ahead and answer that. i mean they are unfortunately one time in nature but i think a lot of the i think the city is pushing to have a lot of those events come back to the

city which will obviously bring in revenue. but i think there's some bigger structural issues with regards to office space vacancy and things like that that aren't going to be solved by a large weekend or something along those lines. but they are positive signs obviously bringing people into san francisco and as a result increasing revenues along those lines. >> yeah. yeah i was just trying to be up to oh yeah whenever we can get away with it we'll take it. we public safety as you know is very important and you know i hear of other you know counties you know unfortunate to them selling some of their apparatus ,you know, because they can't afford it anymore. is there a way we can you know ,get into the market and get some of this apparatus cheaply or dealing with other counties, other states? >> so we are absolutely exploring that. the issue is that most apparatus in other most departments are not suited for the topography that we have in san francisco. so we do have some special requirements when we're talking about breaking and safety

and hills that aren't in a standard fire engine so to speak. and so we we are exploring that for sure. >> but that's one of the big challenges that we have is that our a standard fire engine per se doesn't necessarily work in our emergency environments. interesting. you know you you raise some good points, you know about the impending, you know, tariff that we might be facing with materials getting more costly. correct. not going to really help us so yeah, i'm just trying to be optimistic. it's a more all star game here . >> all right. thanks for your report. thank you so thank you mr. corso. also appreciate your efforts at trying to go after worthwhile grants like fema or large more large scale grants. so thank you for that. that's a lot of work to i guess now we will entertain a motion to adopt this this what we're

voting on is sending this to the mayor's office. yes. okay. >> anybody have a motion to move? i believe commissioner loeb would like to. >> oh, sorry. yeah, i just had a question. $82 million for is the estimate for equipment and apparatus what would be the number for deferred capital improvements? our last full scale analysis we work very closely with dpw. they administer all the geo bonds that we have that we take part in mainly the earthquake safety emergency response easer bond and the last time i did they did a full scale analysis i believe was back right before covid i want to say and it was in the $800 million range at that time we've made some improvements but at the same time we've had continued issues that have only gotten worse over time. >> so when we talk facilities we talk seismic you know, just replacements but also the day

to day maintenance and repair for engine for you know, windows and things like that that cause further issues if they're not addressed. so we struggle both in the long term role of replacing stations that have been there for 50, 60 years but also just in the day to day upkeep of our stations and has the capital planning committee addressed this need for capital funding? >> yeah, to some degree, yes. we've been incorporated into the easter bond program. we are one of the main participants there but the funding allocated there and also just given the entire the debt limit for the city too there's a lot of competing interests in those funds from either homeless housing or parks. >> there's a variety of departments that are competing for that limited budget of what can go on the general fund but the general obligation bond. >> so that's a challenge for us for sure.

we'll be talking about this for a while. thank you. any other questions or comments ? can we have a motion? i move approval to send this budget to the mayor's office a second president frazier how do you vote? i vote i. >> commissioner nicastro how do you vote? i vote i. >> commissioner lowe how do you vote? i motion passes. >> thank you. and i think that is it. >> we are adjourned. thank you, everybody. you president. >> meeting adjourned at 1134

>> i don't think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california. they are continuing at an ever-increasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. i don't think you have to be an expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this

with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of climate change worse. the good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. and there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. >> in the early 90s, san francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste characterization study, and that

showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. it was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. together re-ecology in san francisco started this curbside composting program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. it kept 2.5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. that gives people hope that we're doing something to slow down climate change. >> i have been into organic farming my whole life. when we started planting trees,

it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. >> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into thsoil. you are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. it is an international model. delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. and it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate

bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025. and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. -- forest, and so fors. we know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the corporate community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for

the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city.

but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water.

and so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. >> here is the thing. soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. if we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate.

we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up. wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying, you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are

communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious climate action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. >> we have a long history starting with the gold rush and the anti-war activism and that is also part of the environmental movement in the 60s and 70s. and of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions.

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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 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

>> everyone loves a good sunset, but in san francisco we take to a new level. i'm city supervisor engardio and i represent an entire part of the city called the sunset. it stretches 30 glorious avenues. welcome to district 4! the sunset is a collide scope of people culture and experiences for residents of all ages. we are a beach town, we are a chinatown, and not a town at

all. the sunset is home to 80 thousand people and we love our dogs. we live in neat row houses, homes with yards, story book homes and every quirk in between. the sunset used to be sand dunes all the way to the ocean. when the city needed to grow, san francisco's future ran through the sunset. we built rows and rows of housing for a great irish population and welcomed a great chinese population. today home to a gowing number of families from all backgrounds and the future starts sunset knauz we love san francisco but during the pandemic we needed more space and more family focused, so that is where we found the sunset. how walkable it is. we live along iving street along where diana's school is our son's day care is.

>> our kids and all the kids we knee in the neighborhood are really the future here and we are really excited to live in the neighborhood. we love it so much. >> nina and alex are expecting their first baby and it first leaders of the newly formed sunset community band which bring together musicians of all ages at special events. >> we are about to have our first kid and met so many younger people and so many moving into the neighborhood. exciting to raising our family here because this community is awesome. >> bringing the community together and making it stronger i think a band can help with that. it is a matter of civic pride and coming together and doing something as a community that really makes like us from a collection of people into a neighborhood. >> sundays in the sunset are

for worship, farmer's market and live music at the ocean. if the sunset had a town square, it would be this magical area that appears every sunday on 37 avenue. the sunset farmer market isn't just a place to get good food and produce, it is where community gathers live music from local musicians and cultural celebrations and [indiscernible] share ideas to shape our city. it really is the place the community comes together to celebrate the best of the sunset. >> something about it had sunset chinese cultural district is there a lot of opportunities to uplift the chinese voice and chinese people. when you look at the sunset, a lot of think of trees and single family homets and the schools, but there isn't a lot of very iconic locations that

people can look at and know they are in the sunset. one thing we are working on is to unveil a new mural in the park by community and as we do more work in the sunset and uplift the unique qualities of the community, we want to do more mural s and spaces that are iconic so the sunset gets a piece of being unique and identifiable. >> a supermarket for everything you need for chinese home cooking and [indiscernible] the rice noodles are so good they are featured in catherine moss latest novel, [indiscernible] takes place in the sunset. there is a old school menu at the ond mandarin islamic restaurant and a item so spicy they have to warn customers. maybe bobo can neutralize the spice. the sunset has plenty options. try the bars at the beach.

we also have the sunset reservoir brewing company and o'briens irish pub. cuisine in the sunset spans the world. [indiscernible] >> travel and work in [indiscernible] we have our own restaurant. and then, it was my turn to follow her to her country, so that's why we opened in her neighborhood. >> we are looking for more a local gentleman gem. we traveled around the world and what we highly value, a place for the community to gather. a local hang-out spot. that is why this isn't a restaurant, it is cafe, you can order a coffee, you can have a fuel full meal but it is place to connect. whether parents kids friends is why we decide to go qulose close to

the beach, a neighborhood i am familiar with. i run into people all the time. i live in a big city but why i chose district 4 outer sunset. it has a small town feel. i love our neighbors. >> the sunset has everything from footwear to hardware. here is great wall hardware, 3500 square feet of retail space. we carry about 22 thousand its and counting. it never stops because i have a thing. when a customer says don't you have this and i don't have it, it bothers me. i want to have it,s so it is just of those things about owner a hardware store, people expect you to have everything and you to fulfill that need. i like to serve my neighborhood. most businesses you want to buy this or that or eat this or buy the widget. a hardware store is different. people come in and have a problem and

need a solution and they are looking for you to navigate them through that problem and offer them products that help them get to where they need to go. people are great. i love this neighborhood. there is different ethnicities here, different cultures here. we all intermingle and mix together and we get along fine and i always like that about this neighborhood. it is just a nice place to be. it is near the beach, it is beautiful and near the zoo and near golden gate park, stern grove. great schools, great parks. whats there notto like? we also love pizza from hole in the wall to [indiscernible] hottest restaurants in the sunset tunching vietnamese food [indiscernible] ice cream [indiscernible] this is great highway park. a great place to burn calories on the

weekend. i'm here every sunday doing a long run and start with 5 miles and with this ocean view, if it motivates me i try for 10. the new york times named great highway park one of 52 places to change the world. it is that amazing and the gem of the sunset and people are finding new ways to activate the space. in halloween it turns intothe great haunt way. >> we imagine a future from th part time road close toor to a park to welcome people all ages and to our since we had [indiscerni always looking for ways to sort of improve what is already good around us. the neighborhood is great. it will be even better with a park here. >> sunset turn to put a new sign up on our coast. open for all. >> this is the treasure of san francisco and this hasn't been

discovered yet. homes are still relatively affordable, there is decent schools and a place for kids to play and take part in things. what i'm happy the great highway has become a park for the weekend. i'm glad we share what we have with the rest of the city and people come from outside the city. i'm sure people come from the east bay, and i just feel like, seeing the people out here enjoying this represents the hope for the future. >> imagine the potential of an emerald necklace in the sunset for safe biking and recreation along the green belt of sunset boulevard which connects lake merced with golden gate park and great highway park. quality of life matters and we know how to take care of each other. sunset youth service helps teenagers find purpose and self-help for

the elderly let's seniors shine. local artists capture the sunset experience and work is on display in cafes like java beach and black bird books. the art of conversation happens at this new barber shop called the avenue. the owner calls it a barber lounge because he wants to create a space for the community to gather beyond hair cuts. this corner is a hent of the future. you see new housing built for new generations and it is over a community space that everyone loves. the sunset is a place full of potential. >> the possibility is here, more then anything. you can start something here and people will get behind and the community finds there is a need for it and people support it. >> i always look around the corner, the next thing we can do to crank it up more and make it safer, make it more enjoyable. bring in new business, support them. >> i really hope we bring just joy,

because ultimately music helps bring joy to the community. >> this is where people are at. this is where people want to be, so it gives me a lot of positive energy. >> my office created the first sunset night market on iring street where i'm standing. more then 10 thousand people showed up. nobody has seen that many on--[indiscernible] here it celebrate all the fun things in life, food music and art. our beautiful sunset always amazed. the sunset experience is pure joy. the sunset is where we will create our best san francisco. join us.

welcome to the civic design committee the time is 11. 04. new year. different time of and i'm calling this meeting to order. and