>> mark corso, can you speak to that? director corso? >> thank you, chief. good evening, commissioners. yes, so that is anticipated to occur in august. part of that group of employees is a piece of the s.a.f.e.r. grant that we were recently awarded. due to social distancing rules, we weren't allowed to expand the size of the academy. that's why we were at approximately 25 people, i believe. so we were funded for 36 employees, so those remaining employees will be part of this coming h.d.o. academy. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, director corso. one more question through you, madam president. chief of department, you mentioned how you were going to do and your members of recruitment, sounds like the individual members in the stations are doing that. did we or don't we have a recruitment coordinator, or how does this work? >> so the work that has worked, that position is not currently filled, and we are looking at the racial equity action plan in terms of how to grow that out, and we've asked for some things in the budget, so we're -- it's a work

>> mark corso, can you speak to that? director corso? >> thank you, chief. good evening, commissioners. yes, so that is anticipated to occur in august. part of that group of employees is a piece of the s.a.f.e.r. grant that we were recently awarded. due to social distancing rules, we weren't allowed to expand the size of the academy. that's why we were at approximately 25 people, i believe. so we were funded for 36 employees, so those remaining employees will be part of this coming h.d.o. academy. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, director corso. one more question through you, madam president. chief of department, you mentioned how you were going to do and your members of recruitment, sounds like the individual members in the stations are doing that. did we or don't we have a recruitment coordinator, or how does this work? >> so the work that has worked, that position is not currently filled, and we are looking at the racial equity action plan in terms of how to grow that out, and we've asked for some things in the budget, so we're -- it's a work

and, again, captain peeples and chief tong and mike corso are here to take your questions. thank you very much. >> chairman: i'm going to take the chair's privilege and say a couple of things and ask a question and then i'll turn to my colleagues. i really want to say i appreciate how you all have stepped up over the last year to all of our firefighters and paramedics and your entire staff and command team, i just want to say thank you. i think i have the most stations in my district. i've been able to visit most of them. and interact with our firefighters all of the time, and i'm impressed with their professional and care with which they do their work. i also want to acknowledge all of the ways you are stepping up and taking on new opportunities. we can definitely see an area where you all -- where somebody might say, we already have enough going on. we can't take on more and more, but you all are doing the opposite of that. you're willingly stepping into helping us meet the many challenges that our residents are facing and helping to keep them well and safe and healthy an

philip corso who writes the really popular the day after roswell is a firm advocate of the two oswald's theory of the kennedy assassination and goes further than that to say that the entire cold war was really just a cover to help develop anti-alien defense mechanisms. and you see this flood of roswell literature through the 80s through the 90s that says yes, the government covered it up and they didn't do it for our own good donald keyhoe was wrong. instead it is a litany of misinformation and misdeeds. no longer is the air force this benign body trying to protect. the public from national hysteria now president truman sets up magic 12 in 1947 as a special government body to cover up the truth about ufos. presumably also in charge of those men in black. and this reaches and of such a crisis point that in 1994 the air force actually releases a report about roswell a thousand pages long and you can still find this as i pulled it off for today on the dod website. this is still very easily publicly available. and the air force says okay, actually we did lie to you about it being. a weather

i would like to thank mark corso, olivia scandal -- scan lin for getting us where we are at.ll be back tomorrow for a final hearing. i feel pretty confident that we will keep much of what the mayor's budget also included in the budget. i know that we're also working on additional medics for our ambulance division. we will continue those conversations. we're hopeful that it will result in additional f.t.e. for station 49. that is a work in progress. so with that, i would like to give a big thanks to assistant deputy chief mark johnson from s.f.o., whose last meeting this is. our fire commissioner, dan who tried to skate out of this meeting and i think he has skated out of this meeting and is not here tonight. i just wanted to express my gratitude for stepping up and being part of the command staff and moving this department forward in such a positive way. as you stated earlier president feinstein, i'm really pleased to announce, to welcome our new fire marshal and dave as our new assistant deputy chief of the airport. if i may be so bold president feinstein to ask each of them

i would like to thank mark corso, olivia scandal -- scan lin for getting us where we are at.we will be back tomorrow for a final hearing. i feel pretty confident that we will keep much of what the mayor's budget also included in the budget. i know that we're also working on additional medics for our ambulance division. we will continue those conversations. we're hopeful that it will result in additional f.t.e. for station 49. that is a work in progress. so with that, i would like to give a big thanks to assistant deputy chief mark johnson from s.f.o., whose last meeting this is. our fire commissioner, dan who tried to skate out of this meeting and i think he has skated out of this meeting and is not here tonight. i just wanted to express my gratitude for stepping up and being part of the command staff and moving this department forward in such a positive way. as you stated earlier president feinstein, i'm really pleased to announce, to welcome our new fire marshal and dave as our new assistant deputy chief of the airport. if i may be so bold president feinstein to ask each of