department did to that? >> not in the civil rights department -- not in the civil justice department. >> did the civil justice department do anything? in this case? >> i won't bring that back to my colleagues -- >> i will give you the answer, they did not do anything. they did not do a thing. that gives you the answer from earlier. it shows you help clinical you are. when texas passed that bill in september 20 21, eight days later, the department of justice announced something into that bill. help me pass the state senate and the governor. you guys are in there contesting that 8 days later. you guys have something in new mexico. that is an assault from the government. it did not go to the legislator. the department of justice does nothing. >> the civil rights division is deeply committed to enforcing the laws that this body gave us. committed to standing up for the rights of all americans, chairman. >> based on some of your answers, not knowing what is on missouri v. biden. that is why we are concerned. >> y

large department. busy department, and we have a lot of things to see while working here. best job in the world to this day. >> we prep them as best we can. all the experiences and instructors and myself, we again our job is to see them-we want to see them be successful. we want to hear good reports. it is like being a parent. i are want to make sure when they leave we want to hear good things and if we don't want also want to check and make sure, what happened? i want to hear from now the probationary firefighter what happened and how we can best support them, because they are not recruits anymore. they are professional probationary firefighters and just because they left the tower doesn't mean we are done with them. i'm more invested in them now now that they are my brother and sister then a recruit because i could be working with them in the field. i found a career i absolutely hundred percent love. it is very rare that you you can find a profession that you can love that much. i'm a public servant. i never want to forget the roots of what we do. we serve the citizens o

and asking the department of justice, department of education, who have expansive jurisdiction, tickly the civil rights division, over these matters to ensure that -- following up on that, signed by numerous groups. without objection, entered into the record. i recognize the gentlelady from wyoming. mrs. hageman: assistant attorney general clarke, on october 12, an issue statement was given for noncitizens borrowers under the equal credit opportunity act. i sent you a letter on this joint statement on december 6 but haven't received a response. the civil rights decision enforces the equal credit opportunity act, you are quoted in the press release issued for this guidance which warns banks not to use immigration status, including whether an individual is lawfully present in the country to determine the ability to take out a loan. yet the joint statement admits the equal credit opportunity act does not expressly prohibit consideration of immigration status. this appears to be an attempt to dissuade our financial institutions from considering all legally permitted factors to ascertain a

large department. busy department, and we have a lot of things to see while working here. best job in the world to this day. >> we prep them as best we can. all the experiences and instructors and myself, we again our job is to see them-we want to see them be successful. we want to hear good reports. it is like being a parent. i are want to make sure when they leave we want to hear good things and if we don't want also want to check and make sure, what happened? i want to hear from now the probationary firefighter what happened and how we can best support them, because they are not recruits anymore. they are professional probationary firefighters and just because they left the tower doesn't mean we are done with them. i'm more invested in them now now that they are my brother and sister then a recruit because i could be working with them in the field. i found a career i absolutely hundred percent love. it is very rare that you you can find a profession that you can love that much. i'm a public servant. i never want to forget the roots of what we do. we serve the citizens o

in multiple departments. not just yours. it was in multiple departments across the city.s me pause and i think we need more time to get this right because maybe-the other thing we haven't said, you can come for a specific waver. and we just did that in a previous item on this agenda today where the police department said, we want to use a sole vendor for this specific contract. they might have misunderstood because it was a grant application they could put theveneder into it. they are working with oca to clean that up and get that authority from oca to say this makes sense. you have the ability to come on specific cases and ask for wavers rather then a 5 year blanket waver on all service providers for your department. it doesn't make sense to me. >> before i call on vice chair mandelman, i just want to add, this is exactly what i am saying because i think mrs. whitley you mention well talk about the fact you roughly-no one have-no city department has increased their city budget like the way your department has. from roughly to $200 something million while today over $700

so as all the departments are looking to make cuts, work orders are obviously a place where departments are looking to scale back. what's the significance of identifying 20 businesses in item in the first priority? how did you land on that being something that would land with some great results? i think the main thrust behind that is to make sure we make some progress. and 20 does seem like a relatively modest number. however, the refrigeration management is a new area for climate protection that we anticipate there to be some hurdles along the way. and so we wanted to set an attainable goal. mr. birmingham yes, i have a question regarding bullet point number two. when the increasing participation of hard to reach and underserved businesses, what are some of the tactic that you can use or that you have seen are successful to reach underserved businesses or hard to reach businesses? and how would you define hard to reach businesses so hard to reach businesses? to answer that question first is a public california public utilities commission defined customer order. so basically it falls un

there is no situation both the department of congress and the department of transportation will have joint just a follow-up and if you could feel free to jump in here. we just toss out the hypothetical and explained to me what i am missing. the servicing mission might need a commercial space station or some other purpose. the proposal as i understand it. commercial space station with the department off transportation. iwhat is an operator need multiple licenses from each agency in order to do this particular mission? >> that is a great question and we have been asked that question previously i think. it's a great question because as calvin said it involves humans, the space station would be licensed by the department transportation. so, if it were a space tug or a refueling station to be licensed by the department off commerce. the business off refueling or space tug would be a commerce license. even if there were an your scenario a docks with the station perhaps to refuel the station the two licenses would be separate in that case. the activity of the station would be licensed by do

, the planning department, fire department, department of building inspection, and the health department. >> and so--i see. just trying to understand of the technical part. when you say eliminating the requirement applicants for this that will be for screening for the crim inal history, what you are saying is just that the entertainment commission is not doing it, but the police department is? >> that's right. we are not collecting that information or housing it within our civilian agency. >> i see. but it will still be [indiscernible] police department has access? >> yes, every one of the applications down to our one time event permits are sent to the police department. >> thank you. supervisor safai. >> that was some of my line of questioning. trying to find in the legislation where you speak specifically to eliminating the requirement for criminal history regarding individuals connected with the applicant business. can you point to me where that language is? >> looking for it. >> you probably know why i'm asking that question because we had bad operators in our district and in both ca

the outreach team along with the police department and sheriff's department in front of our store psasafety information addition look forward to seeing in in front of our mason store and do it again and mri religious roger's worked tyler to provide experiences for all of us and proud of our partnering with mayor breed and officers but the my own square alliance was the police department and fire department and partnership as well as our favorite holiday traditions like the great tree literally this thursday and a new location overlooking union square and the favorite holiday san francisco pes any window option will be back this year those partnerships have made successful partnerships in the past and look forward to a scoff holiday season in 2023 and now use of force to mark sullivan the manager (clapping.) you good morning, everyone my name is mark sullivan ventilation the manager think tiffany's additionally as a board member thank you for the alliance and this is a a journey in 19 three 7 in the first store in new york and san francisco opened the first location away from new york

across departments. and so this is -- in part looking at that space and creating enhance for nonprofits to ensure we are receiving high quality results consistently. the first big component that is related to the monitor activities. this directs the controller to establish standards and performance measures and measure in contracts. and then further, how we monitor that. we are looking at like what would happen and how they should happen and reporting engagement between departments and nonprofits that contract. most departments are doing monitoring now this is occurring across contracting departments. there can be variability within a department and across departments this is highway patrol tologist standards ice. there is focus on the monitoring on compliance this relates to funding source. and constraints the feds are interested in compliance. and so we are interested in how we use this to build a focus. there is an element of the legislation that directs the controller's office to update our city corr

and the fire department must be ready to respond. the staffing for adequate fire and emergency response or safer grants were created to provide funding directly to fire departments to help them increase or maintain the number of trained frontline firefighters available to communities. the goal of safer is to enhance the local fire department's ability to comply with staffing response and national operational standards. according to these national standards, the fire department must ensure that the number of firefighters on duty are sufficient to perform the necessary firefighting operations and that there is a sufficient number of firefighters available to respond on each vehicle. in a timely manner. the criteria and this national operational standard are what make this award today so important. at this time i will introduce the commissioner of the philadelphia fire department. >> i want to start by extending our heartfelt condolences to all those affected by last night's fatal fire. our fourth such incident in the past two weeks. th

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the health department spoke, the fire department was represented as well as many other city departments and also community based organizations. our narrative was and our observation, the community's demand and interest in treatment is very low. as you could see from our statistics, most people choose to remain in the community. while our connection rate to care for street crisis and street overdose are quite good, we did note our reengagement rates are very high. we might bring someone to a hospital because they have cooccurring medical needs or might bring someone to alternative destinations such as shelter or community clinic or treatment and then we did a lot of deep diving into the data and recognize within 72 hours the rates of reengagement with somebody either by ambulance or street crisis overdose were very high. we presented that, so we wanted to stress that people are not staying connected to care. they wanted to just highlight the fact that any transfer point because a lot of the system that are in place require transporting someone to one clinic and then intake hours at anoth

there is no situation in which both department of commerce and the department of transportation willhave joint oversight responsibilities for a single activity. >> and just to follow up there, mr. dalbello in if you can feel free to jump in. let me toss out this hypothetical and excellent to me what i'm missing, or if i'm right, we can sort of go from there. so let's say i haven't in orbit servicing mission to might need to talk for refueling or for some of the purpose. under the proposal i understand it, the in orbit servicing mission would be licensed by commerce, but in the commercial space mission or the commercial space station is licensed by the department of transportation. so i guess, what i as an operator need multiple licenses from each agency in order to do this particular mission? >> one of the things -- that's a great question and we been asked that question previously i think. it's a great question because if, as calvin said, if it involves humans the space station would be licensed by the department of transportation. so if it were a space tug or refueling station, it

department. this required under civil service rules required union concurrence to be able to do that. we coordinated all the interview panels across the city. we had hundreds of subject matter experts. we did this in a very structured manner and then the offers were made. we cut hiring time in half. first batch of hires in a hyundais hundred days. it isn't 60 the grands jury is seeking, but a lot involved front end work and believe it will be possible as we use the method more and more across the city, that we can get closer to the aspirational goal as we cut the time. finally, i want to tell what we are working on now. we have upcoming projects on buildings our pools of interested candidates in city employment. essentially a pre-application approach where people can express interest and we can be in touch as opportunities arise. we are expanding our use of online testing method tailored by class. i talked about that already. we are working as the grand jury pointded out, improving the interview

is the justice department and system rigged? that case and the problems outlined and the ones we could spend hours in that case in every case, it is, in my opinion, more likely gets convicted, taking forth with in the courtroom by this judge, he is immediately put in prison, and is running for reelection and appealing his conviction while incarcerated. i think that is highly likely in the d.c. case. >> that is a distinct possibility. we have hans and then may be time for one more after that. >> a lot of the discussions people seem to concentrate on the political appointees thinking they are behind the political abuse of the prosecution and fbi system but i spent four years a justice and partisanship reaches deep down in career ranks. you can see it in other agencies. a new president coming in who wants to do something about this and firefox, is there anyway to do that without ending the merit service protection system that keeps you from getting rid of these bad folks? >> a bit off topic but go ahead if anybody wants to outline.

police department records.rovides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. complaint public inot e future. complaint (indiscernible) that concludes today's overview. thank you for your time. >> what happens after a complaint is submitted? when dpa receives a complaint, the first step is it to assign it to a investigator. if the complainant provides contact information, they receive a letter telling them knoo they assigned investigator will be. if the complaint is submitted anonymously they will not receive further contact from dp. >> what happens when dpa finds a police miscu

the health department spoke, the fire department was represented as well as many other city departments and also community based organizations. our narrative was and our observation, the community's demand and interest in treatment is very low. as you could see from our statistics, most people choose to remain in the community. while our connection rate to care for street crisis and street overdose are quite good, we did note our reengagement rates are very high. we might bring someone to a hospital because they have cooccurring medical needs or might bring someone to alternative destinations such as shelter or community clinic or treatment and then we did a lot of deep diving into the data and recognize within 72 hours the rates of reengagement with somebody either by ambulance or street crisis overdose were very high. we presented that, so we wanted to stress that people are not staying connected to care. they wanted to just highlight the fact that any transfer point because a lot of the system that are in place require transporting someone to one clinic and then intake hours at anoth

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and the principal investigative arm of the department of homeland security.re special agents in washington, d.c. and those with hsi's human rights violators and war crimes and tart closely with the fbi and the justice department's criminal division to unravel the information that brought us here today. i am extremely proud of the work done by hsi along with fbi to secure these indictments. hsi cannot and will not stand by as war criminals, heinous acts like those alleged in this case. our agency will continue to do what it takes and that means everything within our extensive legal authorities and investigative capabilities, to find and prosecute people who terrorize innocent victims under the pretext of war. we will continue to hold war criminals accountable by putting them behind bars. we are committed to making an example of criminals who violate international and u.s. laws, just as we are doing in this case, to prevent others from going down the same path. with that said, at like to extend my most sincere thanks to the fbi and the department of justice for

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numerous additional san francisco police department officers and san francisco fire department firefighters began to arrive at the scene, including tenderloin station officer gonzalez, finnegan, [indiscernible] they arrived at the scene and entered without delay. sergeant saw aufsher doubled in pain as they appeared to suffer from smoke inhuilation. firefighters inside the building began breaking windows showering the sidewalk with glass and debris. sergeant hit in the head and cut by a large piece of falling glass. officers yet again entered the building to the aid of the resident inside. after insuring the safety of the bistandard sergeant entered the building as well. once inside it building sergeant realized the fire was in danger of quickly over hch taking the building and remaining residents had little time to evacuate. water fell from upper floors above. sergeant directed sfpd personnel to engage in a room to room rescue efforts to evacuate as many as possible in the limited time remaining forcing entry where necessary. second floor saj nlt located a locked apartment. knocked and ann

what does the department of justice do, what does the f.b.i.o now that you're really up against the clock here of december 31? mr. garland: i'll start and then turn it over to the director. every morning i get an all threats briefing along with the f.b.i. and intelligence community. much of that information comes from information derived from section 702. if we don't have 702 we can't protect the american people, particularly in light of what happened october 7th and the ensuing increase in the threat tempo. i'll let the director say more. director wray: i'm not going to comment here on the peculiarities at this point but the whole point of section 702 is to protect americans from foreign threats. 702 is indispensable in our ability to protect americans from foreign terrorism, foreign cyberattacks, foreign hostile intelligence operations, and the idea that we would let an indispensable tool like that lapse or frankly amend it in a way that gutted its effectiveness in my view would be a grave mistake. and i fear we would all live to regret it. >

department of public health will partner with the fire department to train over 400 paramedics [indiscernibleis is a retroactive accept and expend. we were awarded or given the notice of the award for the grant august 7 for project start date of september 30, 2023, so three weeks later. this start date predetermined by the granter and then once we received the notice we had gone through the city process for the accept and expend. the second grant is from the center for disease control and prevention. this is san francisco overdose prevention collaboration grant. to give high level over view, expand treatment navigation through countywide navinator program. prevent fatal overdose and supportive housing sites through tenant peer education program, improve timeliness and quality of substance use and overdose data and strengthen community partnerships with the focus on racial equity. this is also retroactive accept and expend. we were notified of the award just 9 days prior to the start date and then we went through the city process for accept and expend. any questions and thank you so much for h

going forward. >> we're your department. we're here for you. we're you and that, and i really believe that san francisco really embodies that. i tell you, it was the greatest decision i ever made. i kept thinking, my gosh if i didn't play softball i wonder if i would have heard about it. it's funny you plan in life and gu to college and you plan your next steps, but the most profound decision nz life, is how you meet people are random. i was meant to be i think and it was such a great fit being that social worker with the ax, that's it. >> so i see san francisco and san francisco leadership and government as a beacon for the entire country. because we are so up front about what we believe in, we're really up front about inclusivity and i know that, others look at us, many look to us. we've had other departments, contact us in terms of how do you, how do you do this? how do you create a diverse equitable and inclusive workforce? and so, but i would be lying if i said that we don't have any problems in california or in san fra

department head department representatives. i mean, in my experience, they always show up in person anyway. i don't mean with a few notable exceptions. when we had the sunset toxics case, when we had all sorts of, you know, unusual or not, our usual set of governmental agencies appearing here. but for that second hearing, they actually did all come anyway. and the only reason they didn't for that first hearing was because it was kind of a last minute request that we had had kind of sprung upon them, that they appear an id they did appear the second time. so department heads seem mean. the practice seems to be that they show up in person anyway. i've never seen mr. green or ms. tam or mr. buck appear on zoom. they're always here in person. and if they were unwell but had a case on the agenda, i'd want them to. i would much prefer that they be able to appear remotely than we have to reschedule the hearing and inconvenience all the rest of the people involved in that case too. and that's a very real practical consideration too. yo

item 4 chief of department report. report from chief of department jeanine nicholson. report on current issues, activities, and events within the department since the fire commission meeting on november 8, 2023, including budget, academies, special events, communications and outreach to other government agencies and the public.report from operations, deputy chief darius luttropp report on overall field operations, including greater alarm fires, bureau of fire prevention & investigation, training within the department., and airport division. report from ems and community paramedicine, deputy chief sandra tong report on the ems and community paramedicine divisions. >> thank you very much. good morning chief nicholson. i know you have a meeting with the mayor soon and know you are a little under the weather. hopefully you are able to get well in the course of the next few days. good morning. >> thank you president nakajo, vice president morgan, commissioner feinstein, commissioner fraser. chief nicholson, this is my report. since our last meeting on wednesday november 8,