. >> president cleaveland: thank you, commissioner covington. commissioner hardeman. >> commissioner hardeman: very sad news you brought, chief, about firefighter killed in action. we're -- i had that happen once in all my decades -- few decades as the head of a union. i had one person die in an automobile accident leaving work. so it can happen, and i'm very sad to hear that. chief gonzales, so you'll be working with the new president of the 798, john buford, lieutenant buford, and congratulate batallion chief tom o'connor for all his service because he'll be retired by the time we meet again for all his work in local 798. i do have a comment on your report, chief gonzales. inspector -- not inspector, deputy fire marshal tyrone truitt. we had a lunch the other day that was sponsored by the electrical department and their inspectors. it was wonderful to see the fire department there with their inspectors, because it turned out he was the most popular guy in the room. everyone had a comment for chief truitt. he represented the fire department ver

ken cleaveland. >> president cleaveland: thank you, mohamed, and thank you to our next member of the board of equalization, so congratulations, malia, on that. good morning. everyone, it's a pleasure to be representing the fire commissions. i have a couple of commissioners i'd like to recognize. michael hardeman and commissioner francee covington. it's been a long time coming to get this from planning to where we are today. i know some of my fellow commissioners have been on the commission up to 24 years, and it's been a discussion all that time. how can we improve our e.m.s. because that's obviously one of the biggest facility -- one of the biggest services that we provide to the city's residents and visitors, so it's a really proud moment for us today on the commission, for the fire department, and certainly for the department of public works to get this launched, and so i'm very proud to say congratulations on getting it done. congratulations again as mohamed said earlier to the voters. thank you for passing the bond that made this possible, and we're going to need another bond do

thank you. >> president cleaveland: the deadline for applies is december 7th.another meeting on december 12th, and we can add an item, additional comment on the attributes for future fire chief we could add to the meeting. it would be right after thanksgiving. why don't we add that to the agenda to get additional public comment. i appreciate those that came out tonight and the awss information. it is something that has been discussed multiple times over the years with to date very little action. that is something to look at in the future. we will add that to the agenda for the december 12th meeting to have additional inputs and comment on the fire chief's position. thank you very much commissioners and thank you for the public coming forward on this item. >> clerk: item 5 report from administration, deputy chief jeanine nicholson on the administration divisions, fleet and facility status, fire nance, support services, homeland security and training within the department. >> good evening commissioners. i will try to knock your socks off with my report from the t

as president cleaveland said, we're blessed with good weather. i don't know for longer, so my remarks will be brief. we're all very excited to be here today to envision what will be a state-of-the-art ambulance deployment facility. i'm very proud to mayor breed for her vision and leadership. as was alluded before, mayor lee, who was a champion of this facility. certainly president malia cohen, also keeping us on our toes in terms of response times, and making sure the whole city is served, especially her district, and congratulate is the supervisor elect shamann walton. i would say thank you to all the commissioners, the two that aren't here, in addition to president cleaveland and commissioners hardeman and covington are commissioner joe alioto veronese, as well as commissioner steven nakajo. thank you to the commission. certainly my commission is here, mark gonzalez, jean nicholson lieutenant t nicholson, lieutenant tom murphy in the back. section chief tony malloy, thank you very much for all the hard work. this is a facility that's very uniqu