president cleaveland. getting right to the budget item, the budget remains in flux and ongoing, however, our hearings have concluded. we reported to the budget and finance committee on the 13, and then last week on the 21st. we were in agreement with all but one recommendation made by the budget and legislative analyst, and that had to do with the funding in this coming fiscal year and the one after that for equipment, specifically ambulances, and it was funding earmarked 700,000 for the two years for a total of $1.4 million. the committee, as they do often, did some additional trimming and did not fund all 1.4 million. they removed $825,000 over the course of the two years for that specific purchase of those ambulances, so it remains a work in progress. we're looking at ways to supplement that. part of that has to do with they saw a budget that still had funding in it, and the reason that the funding remained was because we are in a situation where we are piloting a new type of ambulance. the sprinter amb

>>commissioner cleaveland: go ahead. >> okay. okay. my name is sagiv wiseshai, engineer with the san francisco fire department for the last 11 years. i have known mark as a fire sprinkler designer for siemens for the last 11 years and as a fire department engineer since 2017, and with the plan check department since march 2018. mark is a very professional fire sprinkler designer and has knowledge in fire protection system code and design. he has been a great addition to our plan check team, always very polite, respectful, and trying to learn new things. from my experience with him as i was training him for the over-the-counter service, he was always professional with our customers, always polite and very straight and serious with his interaction with our customers. mark is a family man. during his interview for the fire protection engineer position for the san francisco port, he was asked by captain ken coughland, what is the thing that you are most proud of in your life, and he answered my two daughters. >>commissioner cleaveland: we'

thank you. >> president cleaveland: thank you commissioner covington.ere any other comments from the commissioners? seeing none. next item. >> item seven. resolution 2018-02 discussion on possible action regarding proposed resolution, recommending the san francisco fire department expand the duty and rename the stress unit to pier support services. >> president cleaveland: any public comment on this resolution? >> greetings commissioners. i began my career at 18 years old seen the worst thing in america working as paramedic in richmond, california. at the age of 23, my hip was crushed using jaws of life which we saw earlier today. at that time, i made a rehab back in the fire service until things caught up. post-traumatic stress was not something firefighters what in 2010. it was just a veteran issue at that time. finding help was finding needle in the haystack. sense then i done lot of advocacy work. i spoke in 2016 at the first conference for california professional firefighters. i urge this commissioner to take this seriously. stress is the number on

[laughter] >> president cleaveland: vice president nakajo. follow up question. >> vice president nakajo: i remember what i was going to ask. the class 124 is going to graduate on august 10th. the class 125 is being projected for january. in terms of that delay, is that have anything to do with the ratio of retirees or is there a combination of that decision? >> chief hayes-white: it's primarily due to our current staffing levels. which we believe are sufficient to get to be able it fulfill our mission everyday. we put on the accelerator for a couple of months. we feel that class it will be graduating just before the summer months. we do anticipate more retirement, more vacation and so the timing weisz, w -- wise we t it was a better fit. >> vice president nakajo: i think the audience and those members trying to apply to this, understand factors that are part of that. thank you very much chief hayes-white. >> president cleaveland: what's the status of our h8 program? are they part inform promotional operation? >> chief hayes-white: for the h8

cleaveland thank you. vice president, nothing? one quick question for you. training facility for the future, treasure island. what have we decided what we need in terms of space and acreage? what size piece of land we need for the new training facility? >> i would say about seven acres. >> president cleaveland: thank you. thank you very much. keefe gonzalez -- chief gonzalez, you're up. >> good evening commissioners, chief. deputy chief gonzalez, operations report for june. during the month of june, there are 18 working fires, two of can were second alarm. our assistant chief was commander of both fires they did great job keeping it. contained it as much as they could. structures involved. least amount got damaged. notable incidents, fire went over to oakland on june 2nd. you might have seen it on the news. showed the capacity and the capability of that fire. it's got really long reach. it put the dump fire out. they didn't have the capability to do it. on june 2nd, truck 15 say the kitten named scrumptious. he was adopted from the aspca. on june 9 -- he saw

. >> president cleaveland: thank you. which commissioner like to begin? commissioner covington. >> commissioner covington: thank you mr. president thank you commissioner veronese. i have just couple of questions regarding moving forward. before i ask those questions, i do want to thank you very much for bringing this to the floor and for doing incredible research and giving us a very detailed of what it is you envision that the chief will consider in terms of looking at a new model for the department. this is not just a daunting task for the department but it is a daunting task for our society. we are still overwhelmingly male department. men in our society are viewed in a certain light in order to be real men. not showing weakness, not sharing problems and feelings and we're all human being. we all have feelings and reactions to challenging situations that we have to face.whether it's on the job or in our individual lives and homes. for people who are considered universally to be heroes, that is another barrier to saying i'm having these thoughts. i'm ha

. >> president cleaveland: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner veronese author of this resolution, would you like to speak first? >> commissioner veronese: thank you so much for the opportunity. thank you drew you do lot of good work. you will be doing lot of good work in the next month traveling throughout the nation talking to departments on the issue. special thanks to a couple people. into thank an individual named zack harvell. he was trailing little bit. he's graduate student at usf. he helped me do lot of research. we have been doing research on this issue for about six months. hundreds of articles we went through. we had talked to several different departments who were spearheading mental health within their own departments and i want to thank zack. i want to thank the chief who this particular issue of stress and mental health in the san francisco fire department. we'd be starting ground zero now if it weren't for the chief of this department. i want to thank her for her years support o

i do like the idea and i know you brought it up, president cleaveland, it's important that not everyone, i will use myself as an example, i have regular contact with members of the stress unit. i have nothing but total respect for the work they do. personally, if i'm, and this is just me, and everyone deals with their stress in different ways. personally, if i'm having struggles, whether work-related, home-related, whatever-related, me, the person i am, i choose not to talk to someone within the department, because i'm a very private person and i totally trust confidentiality and so forth, but for me, having sort of a third party and having that anonymity, maybe going to a mental health network, where no one really knows who i am, maybe they do, but they aren't as closely tied in, to have layers built in, because everyone processes things differently, or is more willing to share. that peer support is amazing helpful for some and the only person will you go to. for others, maybe it's too close. to have realization that people process their stress in different ways, but the bottom line is