chief of departments report discussion report from chief of department dean chrisman report on current issues activities and events within the department since the fire commission meeting on january eight, 2025 including budget. academies specially vents, communications and outreach to other government agencies and the public. good evening chief department then president morgan, commissioner frazi commissioner collins welcome to the meeting. i would first like to announce our new command staff members who were placed in these positions as of yesterday. >> deputy chief of operations patrick rabbit and deputy chief of administration so you me, brandon and the following is my commission report for january 22nd 2025. the following are the activities and events that myself and in some cases chief tong participated in since the announcement of my position january 8th, 2025 i attended the mayor's swearing in at civic center plaza. january 10th, 2020 5q1 announcement i clearly attended that one january 10th, 2025 attended the swearing in of supervisors connie chen and shyanne chen at the far e

meaning departments such as d.tilizes the program more to fill exempt positions known as temporary in order to hire for the essential posi porter positions. however, you in that the now that the we lifted up that covid support, again we also have eliminated the exempt program and become to just doing civil service 115. hiring just through our program route. noticed with the exempt route it was not supporting people and it was a pilot we were trying to test. you know with exempt place ams they don't lead t permanent status. we did not give employees a wrong today they were getting per minute nancey it was a temporary position. now we stick with the regular civil service rule our rule 115 program standing. they apply for the program and after a year of satisfaction they move in a permanent position. that has been successful for employees. especially ones that are on any type of assistance to ensure they don't lose assistance thinking they'll get a permanent position. this is one of the reasons we cut the exempt pilot

department of homeland security u.s. coast guard for an initial term of five years at an initial annual base rent of $0 effective november 1st, 2024 through october 31st, 2029. and authorizing the director to enter into amendments or modifications to the license that did not materially increase the obligations nor liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the license or this resolution. >> madam chair, thank you. and again we have director pinnick here. >> good afternoon members of the committee and rick pinnick, director of real estate. this is a unique opportunity that the police have been able to take advantage of. and before you asking for your positive recommendation for a license agreement and forest road at your bueno gardens with the federal through the coast guard as you'll see in the photographs, the building in question is this beige building as you see on the right on the left you can see an overview. it's a hilltop location and you can see that the building which is if you're lo

that the united states department of justice stands with them. you protected our country's democratic institutions from violence and threats of violence. you charged more than 1500 people for criminal conduct that occurred during the january 6th attack on the capitol, as well as in the days and weeks leading up to that attack. you brought to justice those who kicked, punched, beat, and tased law enforcement officers who were protecting the capitol that day. and you pursued accountability for that attack on our democracy wherever it led, guided only by your commitment to following the facts and the law. i am proud of the work you have done. i am equally proud of the way you have done that work. i am proud that when i visited you in communities across the country, i saw not only the skill with which you have done your work, but the depth of your compassion. in uvalde, i saw how you truly honored the lives of the 19 children and two teachers who were taken from their loved ones. in pittsburgh, even after the tree of life trial was over and it felt l

you know, the department there are a lot of folks that work at the department. many of them are career individuals that aren't in the policy, don't make decisions based on politics. i'm hopeful the department will continue its current practice despite who is the president, despite who is the attorney general. maybe that's too much to hope for, given today's environment. but there are still guardrails in place. you know, we have the media. we have generals. we have. other institutions. and so i'd like to think that that that things will continue. but it's going to require, you know, vigilance by, all of us to watch what's going on at the and and be hopeful. you know, after the election i remember waking just sad and depressed, not understanding how could the american put someone with such lack of character and morals into an office that i once held and i hold that i hold dear and the more i thought about it because the american people, the american voter at this issue of who should be president through a different lens and i do they worry about feeding their fami

he has great experience in the intel department, department of defense. i have known cash and i believe that cash is the right person at this time for this job. you will have the ability to question mr. patel speedy and of questioning right now about whether he will enforce an enemies list that he announced publicly on television. >> senator, i'm sorry. there will never be an enemies list within the department of justice. >> thank you. the fbi's data what is the fbi's role in national security and counterterrorism and how important is that role? >> i believe now more than ever counterterrorism is so important and vital in our country. we are facing such incredible threats here and abroad. if i'm sure many of you saw fbi former fbi director wray interview on 60 minutes. he talked about the threats that frankly get i don't have my security clearance, but the threats from china come from china right now that are so great. >> given that speedy sleeper cell within our country. >> given that importance as dash is a responsible to call for shutting down the fbi'

large department. busy department, and we have a lot of things to see while working here.t job in the world to this day. >> we prep them as best we can. all the experiences and instructors and myself, we again our job is to see them-we want to see them be successful. we want to hear good reports. it is like being a parent. i are want to make sure when they leave we want to hear good things and if we don't want also want to check and make sure, what happened? i want to hear from now the probationary firefighter what happened and how we can best support them, because they are not recruits anymore. they are professional probationary firefighters and just because they left the tower doesn't mean we are done with them. i'm more invested in them now now that they are my brother and sister then a recruit because i could be working with them in the field. i found a career i absolutely hundred percent love. it is very rare that you you can find a profession that you can love that much. i'm a public to vant. i never forget the roots of what we do. we serve the citizens of san franci

other departments do.audits showed it and we knew that from our discussions with our doj. >> right. and i guess i just i'll leave it at that but i guess i think that the chart on page 14 sorry page 13 does show that this is not just a staffing issue because other departments are doing more with with way less than than what we we have. >> i mean i want to i want to respond to what you just said though, which is you know, you agree in theory that supervisory review is a good thing. this is this report is not the first time this has been raised right at page 14 of the report it quotes cal doj which says that sfpd was quote resisting the institution of supervisory reviews. if you go back to march of 2007, there is a report a lengthy report by ph.d. addressed to the mayor's office that did a comprehensive look at how we do stop collection that report recommended supervisory reviews page 52 of the report you know related recommendation ins you know cpe in 2020 recommended adopting policies, kind of strict polici

those other departments will be updating their costs and telling us okay.hose services now cost this much those changes will be in coming. and lastly, policy changes by the mayor and the board. are not sure what those are got high-level goals from it in coming administration but looking forward to seeing what the details will be and again, it is they need to stress this is a difficult time financially for the city the general funds is going to need to make difficult decisions so it in coming mayor's office has a steep learning curve not that much time to learn some difficult times. >> next item, please so our strategy tactics and outcomes are again janitors sufficient revenue from a staffing level this is the third up and coming 2026-2027 or are a third there and we increased the fees across the board and we are implemented targeted recommendations based on i pled fee study and to studio prevent rate shock to our customers in the final two years of our fee. strategy number two, our the investments to the modernizing our agency system again, that is reestabl

the department. we need to complete our budget submission process to the comptroller and mayor's office by february 21st, and then the mayor has until june 1st this year to submit the full proposed budget. last year, there were some enterprises that we were actually grouped with that had our budgets on may 1st, but this year everyone's on the june 1st date because those other enterprises that have fixed budgets, their their fixe. and for us, they're hearing us in june like everybody else. finally, the board of supervisors needs to adopt the budget by july 31st. so that's kind of the high level cycle. so we received from the mayor's office budget instructions in early december. they asked for an ongoing reduction to general fund spending of 15%, which for us is a $200,000 cut that they're asking for. and they are asking for that reduction to be ongoing. additionally, there's general guidance about eliminating vacancies and to not add new positions to the budget. they want us to consider slowing hiring

he has great experience in the intel department, department of defense. have known kash and i believe that kash is the right person at this time for this job. you'll have the ability to question mr. patel when you do. sen. whitehouse: and i am questioning you right now about whether you will enforce an enemies list that he announced publicly on television. ms. bondi: there will never be an enemies list within the department of justice. sen. whitehouse: what is the fbi's role in national security and counter-terrorism and how important is that role? ms. bondi: senator, i believe now more than ever counter-terrorism is so , important and vital in our country. we are facing such incredible threats here and abroad. if i'm sure many of you saw former fbi director wray's interview on 60 minutes. he talked about the threats. frankly, again, i don't have my security clearance. but the threats facing us, senator, from china, from china right now, that are so great, with the sleeper cells within our country. sen. whitehouse: given that importance is it responsible

, department of defense. i have known kash, and i believe that kash is the right person at this time. for this job, you'll have the ability to question mr. patel, and i'm questioning you right now about whether you will enforce an enemies list that he announced publicly on television. oh, senator, i'm sorry. there will never be an enemies list within the department of justice. thank you. >> the fbi's. what is the fbi's role in national security and counterterrorism? and how important is that role? >> you know, senator, i believe now more than ever, counterterrorism is so important and vital in our country. we are facing such incredible threats here and abroad. if i'm sure many of you saw fbi, former fbi director wray's interview on 60 minutes, he talked about the threats that, frankly, again, i don't have my security clearance, but the threats facing us senator from china, from china right now that are so great given sleeper cells within our country, given that importance, is it responsible to call for shutti

these are egregious examples of rot in the department of justice. the impact of this political infection and are once stored of all enforcement institutions -- our once storied law enforcement institutions is catastrophic. the conduct has failed to live up to our country's ideals. so, ms. bondi, should you be confirmed, the actions you take to change the department's course must be for accountability so that the conduct i just described never happens again. the ole way to accomplish this is through transparency for the congress and the american people. now to my friend, ranking member durbin. sen. durbin: thank you, senator grassley. i appreciate your commitment to the bipartisan practices preventing presidential nominees. that was in doubt several weeks ago. i spoke to senator grassley and he assured me he is committed as i am to maintaining these practices which we have established over the years. our process is rigorous and shows how seriously members of both sides of the aisle take our constitutional responsibility of advise and consent. ms. bon

not only my department but i'm coordinating management leads from other departments to go down to helpll, you have to understand is that there is a process by which they county and the city must request the assistance. the worst thing is to arrive uninvited before they're ready. so that is in process and i fully expect that we will get those mutual aid requests within the coming days. the fire chiefs can speak more to this. this is an active response. the fires are still burning. they're not in recovery yet. some of the things that they are just getting up they've had some shelters up or they're getting assistance centers. centers up. there will be weeks, months and years of recovery and assistance that l.a. will need. we are there to be partners. we happen to have a really very close relationship with l.a. and inrgy speak on a regular basis every week, every friday. so we're getting ready to go and we'll mayor's office will be able to share that information once more resources go down. i also just want to thank the fire department. the most important thing right now is firefighting ca

of a department in need of strong leadership. her commitment to the rule of law emerged as a central theme of our discussion yesterday and as i made clear in my opening statement yesterday that is what i believe the department desperately need spree today the purpose is to hear from outside panel of witnesses and we are grateful that all of you were here this morning to express your views on this nominee. i will go ahead and introduce the majority witnesses. first is dave ehrenberg. until a few days ago mr. ehrenberg was the elected democrat state attorney for florida's 15th judicial district. he served in that role for three terms since he was elected in 2012. mr. ehrenberg also previously served in the florida state senate and as a white house fellow under the clinton and bush administration's. he has known ms. bondi since 2010 when he ran to be the attorney general of florida and it was a position ms. bondi obviously one. notwithstanding their political differences ms. bondi appointed mr. ehrenberg to be her drug czar to comba

chief of departments. report. discussion. report from chief of department sandra tong. report on current issues, activities and events within the department since the fire commission meeting on december 11th, 2024, including budget academies, special events, communications and outreach to other government agencies and the public. good morning, president morgan, vice president frazier, commissioner. collins, commissioner nakajo command staff. kathy. happy new year, everyone. sandi. thom. this is my report since our last meeting on november the 11th. we have been following closely what's been going on down in southern california and the fires that are rapidly expanding over there, and have been asked to support some of the firefighting efforts down there. so we are in the process of sending a strike team down to the los angeles area. more to follow as we get more in the coming days. so i wanted to speak a little bit about the events that happened over the last month. pretty much as you all know, it's been a little bit of a light month in terms of activities and events giv

but the department of homeland security, as a reminder, is a sprawling department. it includes a lot more than immigration. but what we have seen with trump in office is that oftentimes it is those immigration enforcement agencies that get the most attention simply because it is such a signature issue to donald trump. sarah. >> all right. look, we're looking at these stories. sorry about that. we're looking at these live pictures in the hearing room. the governor, kristi noem, right there standing at the table. she's about about things are clearly about to get underway. first pictures, then gavel and then confirmation hearing begins. and the line of questioning will begin. mark preston, as we're waiting for that, one of the things i'm thinking about is the outgoing secretary of homeland security. alejandro mayorkas was one of the top targets of republicans throughout the biden administration. did i just hear a gavel? i think i heard a gavel. hold on, mark, let's see what's happening right here. >> the hearing to consider the nomination of kristi noem to be secretary

at the present structure and the department of defense will provide additional firefighting personnel and capability. the federal government is working closely with national guard to deploy a state of emergency declaration. the california national national guard is adding to modular air firefighting units and tomorrow ready by the nevada national guard to the department defense has four additional maps that could be used if needed. additionally the apartment sending 10 navy helicopters with water delivery buckets with aerial suppression. with that i'm happy to take your questions. >> thanks sabrina. on ukraine the latest amount is not the entirety of what is left. how can you assure you are leaving substantial amount of money not delivered to ukraine in terms of weapons and several billion dollars in dol you think those weapons will eventually get to ukraine and is there a danger of a lag. on ukraine as you mentioned there will be a few billion dollars less for the incoming administration to decide what they decide to do with that remaining and what i would say on the question of are

and not a great moment for the department. and so i will take the chairman at his word that he wants the department to be responsive to requests from all of us. and i would ask you, will you be responsive to all of us, irrespective of our party affiliation if we are asking legitimate questions that you have the power to answer? >> senator, i think i've said that from the beginning. yes, especially on freedom of information act that will follow the laws that apply to the freedom of information act. i believe in that. i actually dealt with the public records when i was a state prosecutor. it's been so long ago i'd forgotten about that. >> anybody can get information under the freedom of information act. as senators, we should be able to do better than that. >> can we take an extra minute of senator schiff. you wanted to say something? >> i asked if we could take a minute off senator schiff. i was teasing. >> ms. bondi, i wanted to come back, and i am but i did because i got another mark on my bingo card. qanon came up. it's a li

i feel no different about public works as i do the police department or the fire department. we have a baseline of operations that we must maintain but for city to be great we need to be investing in our future. and so i just like to end with that point in that i struggle with what's in front of us. i do think the staff you guys are incredible every single year you guys probably get tired of hearing from me. i'm excited to hear we got our emergency manager on site. that is great. all of these things though are about the future and this budget does not seem to do anything for the city's future. thank you mr. harvey thank you, chair again. >> i mean if i'm so sorry if your staff gets tired of us recognizing them and out yeah. get ready for more. great job. i thank you and thank you for all the time that you spent on ongoing through the budget. i came up with some questions. i have one of the question was actually you know actually i got answers i got answers multiple times so i was going to be a comment on my first question on the slide page five up out of the four major uses t

the city is making significant cuts to services the police department and fire department are by far oakland's largest expenses and in an effort to save money, fire stations. 25 28 are temporarily closed. the fire department worries that these closures, but the people who live near the stations at risk. >> you will not have a fire engine doorstep in 4 minutes like you would have just yesterday. you will not quickly have firefighter paramedics to help you or your family and what could have been a small blaze. for a small fire near your house will become a conflagration leaving tragedy its wake. >> firefighters are also calling on the city and alameda county to quickly complete the sale of the coliseum site and restore services. the controversy surrounding san mateo county sheriff christina corpus is going nowhere. a report against the sheriff was released last year followed by calls for her resignation. but the sheriff is now countering with a complaint against the county claiming discrimination and kron four's. rob nesbitt spoke with her attorney today. sheriff christina corpus was s

i don't want a republican department of justice. i don't want a democrat department of justice. i want a department of justice that follows the damn law. and i think the american people do, too. that shouldn't be too much to expect. now, i'm grateful to president trump for nominating you. i think on any objective level you are clearly qualified for this position. you have been a prosecutor for decades, you have been the elected attorney general of the state of florida, the third largest state in america, for eight years. let me ask you, in terms of your practice, how many criminal cases over the course of your career have you personally handled? >> handled thousands. >> how many of those were before a jury? >> hundreds. i don't want to overstate but hundreds. i was in a courtroom for many years. i tried four when i was an intern jury trial. i think you had to try at least 20 in misdemeanor before you went to felony. then you were in court every day and i was also lead trial attorney for many years trying many cases. >> how many of those cases would have been before a judge? >> h

as far as building department it meets all codes.et it is all code requirements >> commissioner swig. >> yep. thank you very much. thank you for this explanation of privacy screen if we -- were toup hold the appeal with the mandate that the planning put up a privacy screen no more than 6 foot high. what would you anticipate the get conversation going in rebuttal. what would you anticipate the materials would that materials acceptable in this. >> there are guide lines i have to go become to the code certain amount of open space for light in between like a lattice. will turn train pleasantos. it didn't be a solid wall. have you to have light allowed through t. it is -- may be -- 40 or 50% open before 42 inches high opened. i have to look at the code there are some requirements but alost times it is something like lattice situation you can train plantos it. >> and -- upon the concern of the permit holder i would have the same concern what would the impact an impact or what would be the impact on them moving forward? >> i think it would

it's a department that is misused. instead of using border protection to do that, protect our border and security, they've utilized those resources to incentivize a instead of using the cybersecurity infrastructure set to do that, they engaged in mission creep and utilized it to censor americans with the misinformation. i'm concerned about disaster relief creating greater and greater increasing levels of moral hazard resulting in higher costs of these disasters. let's cover each one of those. how do you gain control over a massive agency whose resources and personnel have been misused? how do you root out those individuals who instead of securing our border open it up and facilitated this? gov. noem: this has been a big topic of conversation in most of the meetings i have had was how do we fix this agency, the reputation is it is broken and dysfunctional. that is the question i get the most, why would you want to head up a dysfunctional department? because the mission of the department is to secure the homeland, it is

she talked about what the defense department knew about these individuals and the pentagon monitoring their mental health. >>. >> good afternoon, happynew year everyone . just a few things at the top and i'm happy to jump into your questions . first on both horrific attacks in las vegas, on behalf of the department we are thinking of the families of those killed, those injured and people in new orleans after the horrific attack on new year's day . additionally we are tracking the explosion of a cyber truck outside the trump hotel in las vegas. seconds austen has been monitoring both iterations and engaged in providing updates to homeland security greeters as needed . today no dod support has been requested in response to either incident in either new orleans or las vegas. january 1 the national guard was activated to provide support in the office of homeland security and emergency preparedness. for additional information please reach out to the louisiana national guard. we will monitor the situations and stand ready to assist our partners if needed . looking ahead throughout the month

department of labor. in houston, texas, h1b accountants, i did not know to be honest with you that we had a scarcity in accountants, but be that as it may, h1b accountants are paid nearly $40,000 less than american accountants doing the exact same work. in santa barbara, california, h1b workers who are hired as computer system engineers make just $45,000 a year. does that sound like the kind of salary that would bring forth some extremely highly skilled people for jobs that american workers cannot fill? madam president, you tell me, why would a corporation hire an american computer systems engineer at a salary of $110,000 a year when it is $65,000 cheaper to hire an h1b worker for that same exact position? that's basically what this whole debate is about, and that is that large corporations are paying foreign workers substantially lower salaries than they are paying american workers. madam president, if you want to know why multibillionaire owners of high-tech companies love the h1b program so much, that

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county fire departments. we did upstaff the department.did preposition we resources, as a matter of fact on tuesday morning the 7th prior to 7 a.m., i gave permission to hold over the offgoing shift of the county los angeles fire department. every day we staff 900 firefighters throughout our communities out of 176 fire stations. and at 7 a.m., or thereabouts we have 8,000 firefighters we staffed reserve apparatus prior to the start of the palisades fire. i did everything in my power to make sure that we have enough personnel and resources before the first fire started. i alerted my board via memo regarding the situation prior and on wednesday i recalled all l.a. county firefighters back to work. not only two shifts, all the three shifts. i was the one that made the call to the state office of emergency services. i requested 250 additional engine companies consisting of 1,000 personnel. the state oes went to outside state, the western united states for additional resources. to be brought in to california to be brought in to l.a. county. we