commissioner cleaveland? >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you very much, and thank you very much, chief rivera, for your report. certainly, everyone appreciates the hard work of your department, and everyone relies on what you do every day, so thank you. i had a couple of questions. one dealing with engine one 3, the vehicle mounted filltration system? are we going to try to put those on all of our vehicles, and if so, what's the cost? >> yes, sir. so we just completed an approximately one-year evaluation of it. we actually had actually hygienist tony boone even take readings of other potential emissions inside the fire station while we had this device going. so what we found, it is a self-contained very efficient unit, and partnering with the renewable diesel gives us the results that we're getting. it's $600,000 with installation. it's a sole source, the vendor can only install these items. -- it's $60,000 with installation. it's a sole source, the vendor can only install these items. to outfit all of our

commissioner cleaveland? >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you, mr. president. one quick question regarding the grant writer, and maybe mr. corso can answer this question more directly. i know in the report from chief rivera, several of the items that we're doing currently to reduce pollution in the city, reduce carcinogenics in the public, a grant writer can help us with some of this. just want to know when we can anticipate having a grant writer on board. i'm sorry to put you on the spot. >> good morning. mark corso again. we have previously posted the position of grant writer. we are doing a little more outreach and providing more information for potential candidates, so working with a couple commissioners on that right now. we're very close to posting that again, so we should hopefully see a bigger pool of applicants right now. >> commissioner cleaveland: so if there's somebody watching this program right now that wants to apply to be the grant writer for the fire department, how would they do that? >> so i would say keep an eye on our website and our twitte

commissioners, commissioner cleaveland? >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you, mr.resident, and thank you, chief nicholson, for your report. a number of questions, starting with all your visits and the meeting that you conducted at station 59. with the questions from the rank-and-file, what kinds of questions did they provide you that will help you as our new chief? >> chief nicholson: so thank you for that question, and we -- initially, i was getting more sort of a dumbfounded look, like wow? you guys are coming to talk to us. and so i've gotten -- and i know deputy chief wyrsch and velo have gotten really good feedback. they are really happy that we're opening the lines of communication and having conversations and that we're willing to listen and that -- you know, and that they want to hear what it is about what we're doing. and then, there are, you know, some things that come up that -- that we can address easily. and you know, a lot of -- as -- as you may well know, problems get started or happen because of either no communication or miscommunication, and so --