commissioner cleaveland? >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you, madam president. couple of questions, chief. we got this memo from the -- i guess it's the san francisco e.m.s. medical agency director, and it's a lengthy memo, but if you could give us the cliff notes on this basic life safety memo, i think i would appreciate that. perhaps my fellow commissioners would, as well. >> chief tong, can you speak to that? >> yes. assistant deputy chief sandy tong. actually, i'm not sure which one you're referring to, commissioner cleaveland? >> commissioner cleaveland: it's the memo that was dated august 9, and it's to the -- to all the san francisco e.m.s. providers, from john brown -- >> so b.l.s. authorization -- >> commissioner cleaveland: the subject matter is temporary b.l.a. authorization from august 15 to august 31, so basic life safety authorization for a two-week period. i just kind of wanted you to give me a more layman's term explanation of what this memo was all about. >> sure. sorry about that. so this is a b.l.s. authorization memo that allows the b.l.s. pr

so we have -- thank you, very much. >> president feinstein: thank you commissioner cleaveland. i think we've heard from everybody. i don't know whether to rack this question to chief nickolson or chief velo. the 75% vaccination rate is lower than what i have read and i rely on the "san francisco chronicle," that is lower than the population of san francisco. that's a lower vaccination rate. and my question becomes, i don't know who is vaccinated and who is not vaccinated, what their assignments are or are not their assignment. my question is if i'm a person who perhaps i'm fully vaccinated, and i need the fire department's assistance, i need their e.m.t. and their paramedic and i need what have you, how do i know, given the delta variant and whether the other variant is here or not, i don't know, you would know. the last thing i would want to have happen and have an emergency in my home and have someone who was not vaccinated respond. and i mean, it really is distressing to me and concerning to me unless people have a particular -- i'm not interested in their politics but unles

ah, commissioner cleaveland? >> commissioner cleaveland: can you, madam president. i'd just also like, again, to offer my congratulations to mr. corso and to chief and to local 798 for getting the budget pushed through and these additions to the budget in these trying times, it's heartening to see the increases that we're getting, particularly in the e.m.s. field, which is so critical and so important in our city right now. and having these street crisis response teams of various types, they're only going to be more important to us in the future as we assume more responsibilities for protecting our citizens in the city, so i congratulate the chief, and i congratulate local 798, but most importantly, i congratulate our c.f.o. for a magnificent job on the budget. thank you. >> president feinstein: commissioner covington, yep, i see that hand waving. >> commissioner covington: that's my flag. >> president feinstein: there you go. >> commissioner covington: thank you, madam president, for calling on me. i want to echo the compliments of my fellow commissioners and every

ah, commissioner cleaveland? >> commissioner cleaveland: can you, madam president. i'd just also like, again, to offer my congratulations to mr. corso and to chief and to local 798 for getting the budget pushed through and these additions to the budget in these trying times, it's heartening to see the increases that we're getting, particularly in the e.m.s. field, which is so critical and so important in our city right now. and having these street crisis response teams of various types, they're only going to be more important to us in the future as we assume more responsibilities for protecting our citizens in the city, so i congratulate the chief, and i congratulate local 798, but most importantly, i congratulate our c.f.o. for a magnificent job on the budget. thank you. >> president feinstein: commissioner covington, yep, i see that hand waving. >> commissioner covington: that's my flag. >> president feinstein: there you go. >> commissioner covington: thank you, madam president, for calling on me. i want to echo the compliments of my fellow commissioners and every