corso. let's take the last caller. hello, caller. you're on the line. looks like we have an unattended line. is that the last caller in the queue? [indiscernible]. >> clerk: go ahead, sir. there's no more callers in the queue. >> chair melgar: okay. supervisor haney -- oh, i'm sorry. public comment is now closed. supervisor haney? >> supervisor haney: thank you. i appreciate all of the presenters, and i want to thank pat mulligan from the office of labor standards and enforcement for his help on all of this and for all the members of the labor who are here and the folks who build our city, our housing, our infrastructure, and do so much to contribute to our city, many of whom have worked throughout this entire pandemic. thank you for your work, and i want to thank you as well as the broader community coalition around this. even though we heard from a lot of the members of the building trades who have union representation, this is about protecting all workers, even though who don't have representation, but i want to thank all the folks for standing up to

corso, please let us know. >> commissioner nakajo: commissioner cleaveland, commissioner covington? >> commissioner cleaveland: yeah, i have nothing. >> commissioner nakajo: commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington: yeah, just to follow up on the k9 members. the chief did give up one source of financial support. are there any other sources of financial support for the k9s? >> the nfrs are supporting the k9s for the next however many years, and former fire commissioner joe elliott veronese is the founder of that 501-c-3, and with much gratitude to him for supporting our k9s moving forward, and much gratitude to [indiscernible] foundation and the tens of thousands of dollars of work they put into those special dogs, as well. >> commissioner covington: good, good. well, former commissioner veronese has a big heart for the department, and i would like to thank him for his continued support. that's all i have. >> thank you for that presenter reminder, commissioner. >> commissioner covington: sure. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much. madam secretary, item 7? >> clerk: th

and water, which is something they all liked while they were sheltering in basements, art sees roman corso visitors, one such sensor and spoke to the people about their fight. over a 1000 refugees were finally able to make their way out of fur maribelle last month they spent in a basement so they weren't allowed to evacuate by a sulfur battalion who encircled the city and prevented the locals. so peaceful civilians are from my leaving the city. they had absolutely no information. and finally, some of them were able to use their own cars, found were actually walked to checkpoints which are now controlled by russian. the nest people's republic military, or who told them where to go and how to evacuate. now once they arrive, i hear on the outskirts of maribelle, they register to go to either genetics or a stove where it's not as dangerous. i was able to speak to some of the people here in this say q and these other stories of their evacuation from variable you got going out of my cinema. of shinnecock with my ceiling was acquitted daily. you know when the money which adventurous level dora, b

corso as the finance director. and to be able to now have you standing in front of us because as you did this report to me, i use the word comprehensive whether it came down to like this. and a good feeling and on what the department is or in terms of the needs and that is the feeling that i got. i liked the idea and you are welcome and i like the idea that with this identification and being with the department in terms of our needs have identified that through the department and categorical needs. and in your presentation in terms of what the department needs sounds like someone that has some understanding of positive and that comes out to the grants and talked about it and in terms of services and emergency medical services, homeless, and dealing with mental health issues and with the presentation and the direct service providers for all of these vary crisis oriented issues in the city. and that is just not the department's issue and is city and county's issue and state and otherwise. it is important for me to be

the americans have achieved by very much corso, to the american agenda and making the german government distance itself from, from russia, which has been a long term trading part. and that is a big success for the americans. and is going to influence how things play out here . because previous to this conflicts, germany, it's an extent france, we're much more skeptical about this new conflict with russia than washington and wondered that now seems to have changed fundamentally. or chris, there's been a lot of talk about nuclear war, potential nuclear war, even survey live, rob spoke a bit about it. what do you think is the likelihood of this situation coming to that? well, i hope it's not because it comes out will be reasons, i think there's an element of bluff in this. i think it's important because obviously the timetable of the war has not been going in as well as was expected by moscow. i think this is also a response to the army for the into, into ukraine. but i think we ought to be aware that a nuclear war would mean the destruction of the planet and the destruction of humanity. a

the latest country being lectured by the west though efforts of pay to be back firing ortiz, donald corso reports. neutrality is just not good enough for washington any more. as the ukraine conflict raises on an india considers buying discounted russian oil . the white house is telling the world to decide, are you with us, or are you against us or message to and to any country continues to be that obviously abide by the sanctions of but that we are, we have put in place and recommended. i don't believe this would be violating that, but also think about where you want to stand when, when history books are written in this moment in time, i end up support for rush. the russian leadership is support for on an invasion that i obviously having a devastating impact. new delhi isn't the only one being pressured by the western camp. china to has been accused of picking the wrong side despite beijing saying it would rather stay out of the whole thing. oh, shine is already on the wrong side of history when it comes to our to ukraine and the aggression being committed by russia. as for the us, it see

corso, please let us know. >> commissioner nakajo: commissioner cleaveland, commissioner covington? >> commissioner cleaveland: yeah, i have nothing. >> commissioner nakajo: commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington: yeah, just to follow up on the k9 members. the chief did give up one source of financial support. are there any other sources of financial support for the k9s? >> the nfrs are supporting the k9s for the next however many years, and former fire commissioner joe elliott veronese is the founder of that 501-c-3, and with much gratitude to him for supporting our k9s moving forward, and much gratitude to [indiscernible] foundation and the tens of thousands of dollars of work they put into those special dogs, as well. >> commissioner covington: good, good. well, former commissioner veronese has a big heart for the department, and i would like to thank him for his continued support. that's all i have. >> thank you for that presenter reminder, commissioner. >> commissioner covington: sure. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much. madam secretary, item 7? >> clerk: th

conversations internally and with the mayor's budget office, and i want to thank olivia scanlon and mark corso for all their work that they do on this. it takes a village, and we are also set to meet with the mayor's budget office next week for some further conversation, and we will keep you in the loop about that. under our community paramedic division, street wellness team began at the end of january, and i am going on a road along with them in the next couple of weeks. i think it's really important that i get out there and see what's what and how they work, and i know that they are adding value to the city and to the department, and i appreciate their work and chief pang's work overseeing all of that. if you have questions about that, i know that chief pang is happy to answer questions. we started an h-3 level class, a paramedic class yesterday with 20 people, and we have not done this -- i don't know the last time we had a level two class. it's been a while. typically, we've been hiring level ones as e.m.t.s, and then, they can go through a bump-up academy. the thing is we were actually go

here on the map now do briseis, the corso city of mario paul, which has seen intense shelling for days. russian troops have entered the black seaport of makalya for the 1st time, but they're facing a lot of resistance. ukraine's 2nd city of cock eve was one of russia's 1st targets . but despite heavy shelling, it's still under ukrainian control. for the north, the russian forces are expanding the defensive on the outskirts of keith. the capital itself is still in ukrainian hands. to see it as much as her son has been to our childrens hospital in keith, which has been handling an influx of casualties from the war. i was coming home with special of the medical crews are working at the maximum capacity. many of them have not been home for days. all wards are prepared to accommodate for more casualties. whether from the fighting front or victims of shelling, ambulances were reported coming our way. now, this is the city's pediatric hospital where we see mainly child patients of cancer . children from all other ukrainian cities are coming here. it's now treating both child and adult casualt

my name is john corso.y a business representative for the local 38, the plumbers and steamfitters union in the city. 44 low-income affordable units, child care, that's the kind of thing we need along with our housing in the city, so on behalf of the leadership and the membership of local 38, we ask you to approve this as is. thank you. >> yeah, hi. my name is peter white. i live across the street at 1080 sutter street, and i'm in big support of this project. as everyone else has said, i think we definitely need more housing in the city. this one seems like a no-brainer. it's a great site to build housing on. it's not used for anything functional today. as a resident in the area, my wife and i walk from our building to downtown, and we do have a parking garage in our building, but the average kind of, you know, number of cars in there is about 50 to 60% of the total capacity, so even less parking than units in the building right across the street, we still have extra parking in our building, so if there's an