s afirefighters aswell. finally, this week i participated, we have a delegation from cork, ireland in town and there was a gathering here at city hall on monday as well as lgbt signing with san francisco and cork city related to lgbt initiatives that i attended because i thought it would be probability and brought ms. scalin with me for that. that concludes any activity since the last meeting. >> president cleaveland: thank you. any questions for the chief? commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington: , chief, i guess it was a tupel of meetings ago we were given a chart of the numerous committees that are operating within the department on various things, is there a committee i know that you and the senior deputies meet with the union, but are there any union meetings at the lower levels? >> i think there is someone from the executive board on every committee, but particularly by the book i think there needs to be a union representation or health and safety committee, but my understanding is there is s