ah, thank you, commissioner covington. >> commissioner covington: thank you, madam president. i was finally able to get into the live meeting, a real person. i don't have any questions, but i just want to, again, send appreciation to the team that put the deal together for the new training facility. we have been on pins and needles for years, wondering, you know, after our eviction from treasure island, where the training facility would be, so it is a tremendous relief, and i hope that all of the remaining negotiations go along swimmingly, so thank everyone for that. no questions for the chief. you're muted, madam president. >> president feinstein: thank you. thank you kindly. commissioner cleaveland? >> commissioner cleaveland: madam president, thank you. chief, good to see you this afternoon. quick question on the recruitment. are we still doing national testing to create any kind of list? do we -- are we working off an existing list? what's going on with that testing program? >> yeah, that testing program is constantly happening, and what happens is we determine a date that

commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington: thank you, madam president. first of all, i would like to extend my condolences to the family. you know, the day is supposed to be such a happy day and a celebration, and it turns into a wake. i really, really feel for them so much, and i'm glad that so many people are aware of his willingness to be a donor and to help other people in their lives going forward. so i would like to, you know, just shifting topics, i am so relieves at the report of the new training center. this has been a long time in coming, and to have identified a place and secured a place, i think we can all breathe a sigh of relief because this has taken years to come to fruition. so i want to thank the entire team that has worked on this. i know it has been a full court press, and i appreciate that so much. and i think the new recruits will have a wonderful, wonderful facility in which to be training excellent firefighters. i am sad to hear that chief johnson is leaving not just the airport but the whole department. i think that he and fire m

public comment is closed and i see commissioner covington. yes. >> commissioner: regarding the minutes, i would like to have included your statements regarding the possibility of setting up a committee. you were suggesting a committee to review slow streets. and that isn't reflected in the minutes. also, i would suggest that slow streets since it is a term of art be capitalized. capital "s" and capital "s." >> president: any further comments on the minutes? >> commissioner: and i would like to move the minutes with those additions. >> president: let me just see if any other commissioners have any amendments, modifications, comments. i'm not seeing any hands. >> commissioner: i'll second the motion by. >> commissioner: covington. >> president: all right. thank you, commissioner cleveland. >> secretary: and i will take roll call vote. [roll call] it's unanimous. i will amended the minutes as suggested and post them later this week. item 4. chief of department's report. report from chief of department jeanine nicholson including budget academies

. >> president: thank you, commissioner covington. any of the commissioners have any further questions? i'm not seeing any hands. i have one topic i'd like to bring up and i think i should direct it to you, chief velo, and it is with regard to station 35 which is the fire boat station. i guess assigned to peer 22.five. just one of the fire houses that sort of bobbles my mind. i have some concerns because it seems like we have been sort of hit a plaid meyer here or a stopping point here. i was fortunate enough to just so where i'm looking at little squares here. commissioner nakajo doesn't think he's the only one. i was picked up by chief rubenstein on saturday and was taken on a tour. part of it included station 35 and i can't quite remember when that was, chief rubenstein, but it was a few weeks ago and it was, i mean, it's beautiful. it's in great shape. i first would like to ask you really in terms that i can understand, what is the problem with getting it done? i know it's a hook-up. i know it's a hook-up to electricity and am i c

public comment is closed and i see commissioner covington.>> commissioner: regarding the minutes, i would like to have included your statements regarding the possibility of setting up a committee. you were suggesting a committee to review slow streets. and that isn't reflected in the minutes. also, i would suggest that slow streets since it is a term of art be capitalized. capital "s" and capital "s." >> president: any further comments on the minutes? >> commissioner: and i would like to move the minutes with those additions. >> president: let me just see if any other commissioners have any amendments, modifications, comments. i'm not seeing any hands. >> commissioner: i'll second the motion by. >> commissioner: covington. >> president: all right. thank you, commissioner cleveland. >> secretary: and i will take roll call vote. [roll call] it's unanimous. i will amended the minutes as suggested and post them later this week. item 4. chief of department's report. report from chief of department jeanine nicholson including budget academies, spec

yes, commissioner covington. >> commissioner: thank you, madam president. thank you for your report, chief velo. and i just wanted you to, if you can, refresh our memories on how much the grant for the hose tenders was. and the source of grant. >> so, for the hose tenders, there was one that was given to us by the state and two that were in the budget. we got a grant for mini pumpers. the mini pumper grant was for $700,000. so the grant for the hose tender was actually one of them came from the state and two came from the budget. originally, we had five, if you recall, we had five in the budget and due to covid, all the departments in the city had to make some cuts and unfortunately, two were taken from us. our goal is to put them back in the budget. i think by doing this outreach to some of the local officials, they understand why we need that and we're hoping to see that in the budget up coming. >> commissioner: okay. so it was the mini pumpers. >> yeah. >> commissioner: okay. and, do you recall the amount? >> $700 thousand. >> commissioner: okay. i want

public comment is closed and i see commissioner covington.o have included your statements regarding the possibility of setting up a committee. you were suggesting a committee to review slow streets. and that isn't reflected in the minutes. also, i would suggest that slow streets since it is a term of art be capitalized. capital "s" and capital "s." >> president: any further comments on the minutes? >> commissioner: and i would like to move the minutes with those additions. >> president: let me just see if any other commissioners have any amendments, modifications, comments. i'm not seeing any hands. >> commissioner: i'll second the motion by. >> commissioner: covington. >> president: all right. thank you, commissioner cleveland. >> secretary: and i will take roll call vote. [roll call] it's unanimous. i will amended the minutes as suggested and post them later this week. item 4. chief of department's report. report from chief of department jeanine nicholson including budget academies, special events, communications, and outreach to other gove

public comment is closed and i see commissioner covington.es. >> commissioner: regarding the minutes, i would like to have included your statements regarding the possibility of setting up a committee. you were suggesting a committee to review slow streets. and that isn't reflected in the minutes. also, i would suggest that slow streets since it is a term of art be capitalized. capital "s" and capital "s." >> president: any further comments on the minutes? >> commissioner: and i would like to move the minutes with those additions. >> president: let me just see if any other commissioners have any amendments, modifications, comments. i'm not seeing any hands. >> commissioner: i'll second the motion by. >> commissioner: covington. >> president: all right. thank you, commissioner cleveland. >> secretary: and i will take roll call vote. [roll call] it's unanimous. i will amended the minutes as suggested and post them later this week. item 4. chief of department's report. report from chief of department jeanine nicholson including budget academies,

and in new york, jesse mechanic writer and contributor to publication such covington, post mother jones and truth out a warm welcome to you all doesn't let me start with you today, this citizen journalism that we've seen that's being done by palestinian activists on the ground there. how much do you think that has changed the conversation and the narrative about the plight of palestinians in the us? i mean, do you think that this is really shifting perceptions in america that americans are beginning to rec and much more with the reality on the ground for palestinians? yes, thank you for this question and hello to all the viewers today. i definitely think that having personal narratives off the ground, representing and rendering visible was often very easily concealed by systems of power. is very, very influential. i mean, this is the same thing we've seen happen with black lives matter movement. the united states. it was local communities coming together and saying that enough is enough and no justice, no peace is and we ought to reflect what's happening on the ground. what is the daily

we see that when the media screws up something like covington, jussie smollett.ong but the story is not how they got that wrong. why do you care we got that wrong? howie: both things can be true. sarah, a week later the washington post had this headline. biden administration struggles to limit political damage from gas shortage which is the first time there was talk of political damage and the story in part blamed republicans and fox news. well, it's a big story, lots of people couldn't get gas to go to work so it's not just the opposition, is it? sarah: i agree with you, it's the big story and every type of network should be covering it. i think what that article was trying to say is that it's been a guiding principle for republicans to -- to paint biden as the start of chaos and this is just one more example of it when we know that this problem was the cybersecurity has gone back for over a decade and the republicans have been the ones stopping it. but, again, now that we are all on the same page and see this as a threat, i hope that everyone work together to p

it's not like the catholic school kids from covington come kentucky.hey are allies of cnn and cnn has a obligation to protect them. senate majority leader chuck schumer reminded us yesterday that would have been on generally six of the capital is comparable to the american civil war. >> with the republicans are doing, bounce republicans, is beyond crazy. to be so far under the thumb of donald j. trump. letting the most dishonest president in american history dictate the prerogatives of the republican party will be its demise. we all know it needs to be a thorough and honest accounting of what took place on jamie six. january 6th. the greatest insurrection since the civil war. >> tucker: so how many of the participants have been charged with in selecting, sedition or treason? it is zero. the biden justice department said they have been charged with effectively, trespassing. but you can still see the similarities. during the civil war more than half a million people were shot to death and on january 6th 1 person was shot to death and she turned her to be

concentrated number of overwhelmingly middle income affluent life like austin texas as opposed to covington kentucky they are looking for something with the metrics of privilege of material well-being for their children. they may be right. you don't pull punches suggesting those who made a different choice had lower test scores. but the balance and trade-off that some of us have to exercise those choices it yields different metrics. that's what i to spend time with so let's talk about the mouse - - t3 with parents they describe from autoworkers in tennessee for example is dmos so tell us about that. >> i have the privilege spending 20 years to build and become president of a non- partisan not one - - nonprofit think tank called dmos the greek word for the people in the root word of democracy. the mission was to advance policy solutions to inequality in our enemy and democracy. because of that upbringing and what we now know to be the beginning of the inequality era where we really began to see the quality-of-life working middle class folks to stall out even while so much more money was made

he really didn't care when people he disliked were targeted, be that the covington kids or brett kavanaugh's when he started seeing his rich and powerful and powerful amigos get picked off like paris within 50 yards of crisco. it started to get a little too close to comfort. which is fine by me. i will come anybody who is finally seeing the lights, even if it is for selfish reasons. i wonder what our angry white male feels about this and why has he not been canceled yet? ♪ ♪ >> good coffee. cancel culture? believe it or not, we had a growing up too. we just did not make a big deal out of it. did like a tv show? change the channel. didn't like a song? turn off the radio. pretty simple stuff. and we didn't have controversial entertainment. i remember one show, sister and a brother, he was a little bit country, she was a little bit rock 'n' roll. ♪ ♪ >> greg: all right. still isn't right. fact is, whenever anybody comes around to the evils of cancel culture like a relative in rehab, we should support them. even if they won't support us. that is the definition of sharing the risk. and when he

it's not like the capitol hill police are catholic schoolkids from covington, kentucky. they are allies of cnn and cnn has an obligation to protect them and in this case the stakes are too high not to. as senate majority leader chuck schumer reminded us yesterday, what happened on january 6th at the capital is comparable to the american civil war. >> what the republicans are doing, the house republicans, is beyond crazy. to be so far under the thumb of donald j. trump. letting the most dishonest president in american history dictate the prerogatives of the republican party will be its demise. we all know there needs to be a thorough and honest accounting of what took place on january 6th. the greatest attempt at insurrection since the civil war. >> tucker: oh, it was in insurrection. how many of the participants in that insurrection have been charged with insurrection, with sedition, with treason? zero. by the biden justice department. they've been charged with effectively trespassing. but you can still see the similar to sperry during the civil war more than half a mill

will she come to the aid of the next covington kid, or the next sarah palin, or the next type of personead, defendant? i would like to give her a choice. >> dagen: amen. she has been bitten on the backside of the world she helped create. >> dana: she has quit twitter more times than somebody i won't mention who would always quit twitter and two weeks later be back on twitter. >> greg: who could that be? >> dana: they don't work at fox news, but they are a commentary person. [laughter] anyway, the best thing you could do, i think it's get on twitter. she would always tweet about how busy she is. then "fine, don't need to be here." this issue of encouraging someone to kill themselves is serious. there is a young woman in jail right now convicted by a jury of her peers when she encouraged her boyfriend to commit suicide, and he did. that family now doesn't have their loved one. that's a terrible and extreme example of how far, wrong, this can go. for her, apologize, but i don't act on mike whatever, but why do you need twitter? don't tweet! >> dagen: juan, the issue is, even if chrissy tei

now julia daly, a 13-year-old from covington, louisiana, is working to encourage kids her age to get the vaccine. and for her it's personal. last year when she was 12 she spent days on a ventilator and her heart stopped twice after contracting the virus. julia daley, her parents jennifer and sean daley are joining me now. hi to all of you and thanks for being with us on a saturday night. julia, i want to talk to you first. i heard you got your first vaccine this week. can you tell me more about that? >> well, i think the vaccine i actually got it right here, and it was -- i got like a whole pamphlet about it and it was the best thing to do. >> that's great. you have any side effects or anything? is your arm sore? >> it was sore for about a day, but it didn't cause any really bad pain. it was a bit of annoyance for a day, wasn't really any bad side effects of it. >> that's right. juliet, i was just telling everyone you experienced complications from covid, you had really severe covid. can you tell us what that was like? do you remember being in the hospital? >> so, yeah. i felt extrem

. >> commissioner covington: respo >> commissioner covington: -- . she has outstanding resume and i think in addition there is an incredible mentor to many of us in the department supporting the work around health equity. i am sad to see her leave the department. she will be bringing her skills and her commitments and inspiration to the state and will continue to support us in that way. congratulations and best wishes to christine as she moves on to the state. that is my director's report. thank you. >> do we have any public comment? >> on the public comment line please press star 3 to raise your hands for the director's report comment. i don't see any hands. >> commissioners, any comments or questions on this portion of the director's report before we move to the minutes? commissioner chow. >> i want to personally thank director colfax for the letter that he sent out to the department employees because i think that struck the appropriate phone for the health department. grateful for the mayor's statement and for our department it was nice the direct

that revelation, drawing a sharp response from fire commissioner francie covington, who expressed concerntreets project could put the community at risk when you tal s or 30 seconds, you have to really consider if your house is on fire. that's a lifetime to you that. isn't hot, just in, you know, a stopwatch period of time. in response, jeffrey tumblin, director of s f empty the division that oversees the safe streets, told the commission. the program is designed to slow cars and still enable emergency vehicles to respond to incidents in a timely matter. sf mta says they will look at the data collected, uh, discuss the topics that were talked about in the commission meeting, and then they will return before the commission in july with a list of recommendations. in our sunset in san francisco. i'm andre senior ktvu, fox. two news and staying in the city. mew knee, and san francisco is one step closer to being free. all summer plan to test free rise between july and september was approved yesterday by the city's budget and appropriations committee. several supervisors supported but mew knee

when things went back up that revelation, drawing a sharp response from fire commissioner francie covingtonssed concern that the safe streets project could put the community at risk when you talk about a delay of five seconds or 30 seconds, you have to really consider if your house is on fire. that's a lifetime to you. that isn't hot. just in, you know, a stopwatch period of time. in response, jeffrey tumblin, director of s. f. mta the division that oversees the safe streets, told the commission. the program was designed to slow cars and still enable emergency vehicles to respond to incidents in a timely matter. sf mta says they will look at the data collected, discuss the topics that were talked about in the commission meeting, and then they will return before the commission in july with a list of recommendations in outer sunset into san francisco. i'm andre senior ktvu. got a bit of a cool down coming our way it has to do with this marine layer stretching out as you know. it started yesterday, the day before and little cooler each day. today was a little cooler. still although we still sa

that revelation, drawing a sharp response from fire commissioner francie covington, who expressed concern that the safe streets project could put the community at risk when you talk about a delay of five seconds or 30 seconds, you have to really consider if your house is on fire. that's a lifetime to you that. isn't hot, just in, you know, a stopwatch period of time. in response, jeffrey tumblin, director of s f empty the division that oversees the safe streets, told the commission. the program was designed to slow cars and still enable emergency vehicles to respond to incidents in a timely matter. one resident told us that thoroughfares like great highway should remain open for pedestrians without affecting emergency response while offering his own idea so they can open one side and close one. side will be for both compromising so compromise will be the name of the game. for sure. sf mta says they will closely look at the data examine it, and then they will return before the commission with an update and list of ideas coming up in july. back to you, heather, right, andre senior reporting

. >> president feinstein: yes, commission covington? >> i wonder, madame secretary, do you have a list of topics that have been presented previously? >> well, i have suggestions. i have nothing set in stone for the next meeting or the future. but we have cost recovery for surf, cliff and bay rescues. slow street. and an update from chief on division of training and status on current academy class. >> okay. i think we have slow streets and also what are the spaces? you know -- >> shared spaces. >> shared spaces, yes. it was also on that. on this, i believe. unless they're two different things. i don't have anything to suggest. i was just wondering what was out there that we have expressed interest in and getting more information about. >> any further suggestions from the commissioners? or command staff? all right. >> there is nobody on the public comment line. >> president feinstein: very good. public comment is closed. thank you. >> item 7, adjournment. >> i move that we adjourn. >> i second. >> president feinstein: vote to adjourn. >>