we work closely with police department, district attorney office and school department. i can get formal stats. we work closely to outreach with schools. >> it's just outreach to identify? what is the impact of the dollars spent? >> for this we had about -- eight years ago we had additional staffing to assist with this program. those were reduced during budget cuts so this will help formulate a new program. there's additional direction coming from the state fire marshal's office about a more formal program. this encompasses additional training for our members as well as additional one-person dedicated specifically to the program. >> i guess what i'm asking is about the program itself. so if you've had this program pm years now what's is the impact of these dollars? >> we help outreach with the schools and work with students to identify at risk. this is our bureau fire identification and they work closely to identify these issues so that obviously, the point of the program is to avoid when these kids who are at risk may have issues later on in life and set arsons or do th

department general order 3.09, department awards. defines the criteria for formal awards given to sworn officers from gold medals down to captain's complimentary awards. sergeant k ilshaw is working on that. department order 3.10, firearm discharge review board, enforcement of immigration laws. this is to establish policies in sfpd's role in enforcement of ice. it outlines the department's commitment to treat all people with dignity, fairness, and respect. department general order 5.20, lep policy, procedures that establish language access procedures consistent with federal, state, and local law for members to follow when encountering a limited english proficient person. department general order 6.03, underwater recovery unit, department general order 6.09, domestic violence. this is a policy regarding domestic violence incidents and outlines procedures for investigating, processing and enforcing court orders. department general order 6.10, missing persons, department general order 6.15, property processing, department general order

although there are things to improve, it helps our department be a better department. we're recruiting a diverse force. very important. diversity brings perspectives that we need. perspectives from different cultures and different religions, countries, educational background, different levels of experience, diversity brings perspective, perspective brings better policing. so very proud that we are moving forward in our efforts to be a diverse department. instituting and sustaining these changes won't be easy. we know that. and we accept that challenge. the people along the wall on both sides, along with the community we understand it will be a challenge. change is hard. most people don't like change. change is a very difficult thing, but we're committed to doing the changes that we know we need to. and it won't be an easy task, but we're committed, focused and we'll get it done. out of the 16 law enforcement agencies that were once a part of the u.s. department of justice collaborative review process, we're proud to step forward today to continue this work and i think

and as you move forward in this phase two of the state department and clinton state department and some call it still the clinton state department. so many much her long- time associate and cronies in the minds of some remain there and remain in powerful positions and had it appears a role in some of the activity that amounts to political corruption of executive branch departments including the state department. >> what is so fascinating about the state department, actually the first interview i had done in many, many months and the day the memo came out. i was on another fox show bret baier's special report and in that long interview, i talked about we were moving on to the state department. it didn't take less or little over 24 hour and people at the state department who were coming out and spilling their guts on national television and telling the american public that everything that we knew or at least we thought we knew and now the public learned by the people who came out and admitted. they are saying they didn't do anything wrong. sidney bloomingthal and corey shear, a long- time

none of this is because of one person or department. it is a combination of decisions that over time have gotten us here. each institution has a role to play in creating this structure and through our city-wide team, we'll be able to find different strategies to chip away at it. how does racial inequity manifest in government policies? the first example you see is federal housing administration red line specific neighborhoods and designate them for communities of color. the second is more often than not, our trash transfer stations are in communities of color. and the final example is from seattle, where the mayor went out to a low-income community and saw that many of the streetlights were out. on further investigation, he found out that the streetlight replacement was based on a complaint system. primarily from privileged neighborhoods. so what he did was change the policy to have all the streetlights changed often a calendar cycle. so the department of the environment racial equity initiative is following best practices from other ci

then finally the department charges services paid to the department. we perform services for some departments and accept funding from them. in this case we actually familiar services for other departments, i'm sorry we receive services from other departments, and the bulk is workers' compensation. department of technology and telephone services and infrastructure maintenance and vehicle maintenance and fuel charges. going back to the people, as i mentioned 86% of our budget is people costs. our staffing levels or funded position levels in fiscal 2017-2018 total 200093 people. 574 of which are civilians. the vast majority of our staffs is sworn ftes. of 2419 sworn ftes, 178 are dedicated to the airport. the city, meaning our downtown costs, are $2,171 ftes and academy recruits and city funded recruits each being 20 and 50ftes respectively. on the civilian side we have 188 airport civilian and 386 general funded ftes. so as you can see as we move into fiscal year 2018-2019 we increase the sworn number of ftes at the airport by 40. i'm sorry. the sworn ch

of the justice department.tice department cannot investigate ets in this. there has to be a special counsel. and the only way to get to the truth is through a federal grand jury where people are put under oath and they cannot lie. for example, the inspector general has no authority currently over john brennan or james clapper or even james comey because those people have all left the department. he can't interview any of the people from the department of state. there has to be a grand jury with a prosecutor who has authority to subpoena all of those people. and the key to this, the key to the lie eang the misrepresentations to the fisa court is going to be john brennan, james clapper, james comey and the senior officials at the justice department. lou: this is not i hope extraneous but it just strikes me that james comey fired for a host of reasons, but certainly fired, has a book coming out. and i can't even understand why -- part of his responsibility, of course, the national security interest of the fbi, cou

and strengthening the department. there's been a lot of discuss n discussions about and about staffing and the b.l.a. and the entities and other controllers offices and are looking at staffing and with the sfoof staffing and de-- with the staffing and deployment to be stronger in that. and there is a lot of things that i can't answer right now depending on what the budget turns out to be, but growing where we need to to grow and grow the department officially. and although we can't speak in detail about the negotiations, but we want to be a department that is reflective of the city we serve both in diversity, both in as much as we can draw candidates from the city. we'd like to do that. and that is a big part of the strategic initiative to put thought and effort into. the department of justice and reform spoke to that recruitment and how to get better. these five strategic initiatives touch a lot of other areas, but that will be the context and the framework that we are setting the priorities on and making the budgeta

working with the fire department i get to interact with other departments and that's something i in -- enjoy. with 9-1-1 and we can look at saving lives and protecting property from fire and natural disasters. i'm not there. but it gives me satisfaction to know that i can help them by providing information in a timely manner. >> it's a huge asset for our department and for the city as a whole. he oversees our i.t. infrastructure and it's our scheduling system and reports and he's the unsung hero. without a uniform he's my hero in that he does so much for everyone in the san francisco fire department going from a carbon paper department to all the technology that we embrace now is in large part due to jesus' innovation and talent and ability. >> there's always going to be chris -- crices and we have professionals to solve the problem and doing our best to deliver services that will always be there. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. thank you very much to spur. i'm chief joanne hayes white with the san francisco fire department. thank you. congratulation to the honorees and it gives

hearing on the police department, fire department, and the sheriff's department? actually, let me back up for a second. we need to go hear from the police department before we take public comment. so, chief, thank you for your presentation. i'm going to call up chief scott from the san francisco police department. i think you've got katherine mcgwire here as well? thank you, chief. welcome. the floor is yours. >> thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. today we'll be presenting the department's preliminary budget for next year which focuses on the support of the mayor and controller's office. we'll be coming back to the committee in april and june, in a few months. in april, we'll be discussing priority areas in the area of public safety that can impact the final proposed budget in june. there are three different staffing analysis being conducted right now, one by the budget and legislative analyst. i will provide a status update on those as part of the analysis april presentation. in june, we'll be presenting the final budget including any adjustments. we'll be w

he does a great job for our department and troubleshooting across the other departments that we work with regularly including the department of emergency management and the controllers office as well. congratulations. we will attend to support him on march 21st. that concludes my report. >> thank you, chief. is there any public comment on the chief's report? seeing none public comment is closed. commissioners. i don't see any name up here. commissioner covington. >> thank you, mr. president and thank you, chief, for your report. i would also like to add my thanks to the asian firefighters for hosting a wonderful banquet every year and thank you to the reserves and the cadets and other volunteers, many of whom are here with us this evening. it was a wonderful time. thank you. >> any other commissioners? okay. i just one question for the chief. we have the emt graduation on friday, a week from friday, and the question is how many new emt recruits are we bringing in in the next class? when does that start? >> we selected 36. how many are graduating? >> how many recruiting for the next c

we have government departments that focus on internal security. that's the department of justice. it has a very personalized culture. laws likely obeys the probable cause. in some counterterrorism functions, we don't to the government adhering to that fully. host: usa today reports that asylum-seekers have filed suit against the dhs. they have been held in detention centers. in the latest legal attack against the attempt to limit immigration, homeland security has violated u.s. law by refusing entire groups of asylum-seekers to be released from prisons and detention centers while the applications are decided. there is a supreme court case looking at the tensions. the trump administration has the power to hold people indefinitely. talk about that. guest: the concern is congress passes laws that are so broad they can be interpreted in a variety of ways. in the obama administration they used immigration law to pursue more lenient policy, with daca. that cuts both ways. with the trump administration, they views that discretion to ramp up enforcement and immigration. for -- one thing t

: department of human services, department of ageing and adult services, and oace, which is early adult and children education. it supplies public ben mys to meet needs of people through cash assistance, food and nutritiousal support, and other thipgs, and specialized care for seniors, dependant adults and children who are victims of abuse or neglect. it's interesting to note we serve about 250,000 san franciscans every year throughout one of the three departments or a combination of them, which is about 60 is of san francisco san francisco's population. the white section of the pie is the administration that provides all of the infrastructure support for the three departments, which is really why the department was created. this slide breaks down sort of a where our funding goes in our budget, as well as the fte across the three departments. about a third of the agency's budget is aid payment, so this would be foster care payments, payments to families on public assistance, single adults on public assistance, ihss wages, which is the largest single share. about 20% are contracted servi

people from all different departments. i think we are 65 people from san francisco fire tested in this group. they took samples from all of those people. they have tested them for heavy metals thus far. i do not have the results of those. i think they are close to if they have not already started notifying people about those findings. then what the people running the study are doing is triage the people. they had to answer questionnaires and fill out forms and find out, triage by who spent the most time exposed at these fires? they are going to take those people. i am not sure how many of 1779 to do -- 179 to do further testing for the nonmetal toxins. all sorts of other stuff they could have in their system. that is what is due to be out in may. i don't currently have any results of anything. >> okay. thank you very much. >> you are welcome. >> no other questions. >> thank you, commissioner covington. commissioner. >> chief, following up on the commissioner's last question. in regards to when the results do come out, does

they also engaged outside departments, open departments, san jose, a number of outside departments to look at how their strategic planning process was formed. so with the input of information from those focus groups, they came up with this statement, and i'll read it: san francisco -- sfpd stands for safety with respect for all. we will engage in just, transparent, unbiased and responsive policing, do so in the spirit of dignity and in collaboration with the community, and may i approach tain and build trust and respect as guardian of constitutional and human rights. this statement is key because every word was word smithed, and every word was taken from the actual artistic bids in the focus groups, so i can't over emphasize how this becomes a central part of our strategic planning, how everything we do in the future is going to point back to this strategic statement. as you can see in your handouts, it points to different parts of that statement, and there will be a much more comprehensive report coming out in the coming months, along with an implementation plan and a timeline associ

does the ucsf, police department, bart and many other law enforcement departments use device. the city attorney advises it is to use the term device with consistency with other law enforcement agencies operating within the city. officers already have a sense of gravity and consequences for using anything provide them as a tool. so, that is the first issue. electronic control device, electronic control weapon. >> i think we should stick with the term device because it's consistent with what the sheriff's department is doing for litigation purposes. again, there's no need for to us recreate the wheel. i prefer we stay with the term device. all the other agencies participating are playing a game of semantics. let's just stick with device. >> okay. commission melara -- >> actually, me. >> we're on a different monitor. >> sorry about that. does yours say melara. >> they both say melara. >> commissioner hirsch. >> in this case i feel consistency runs into credibility and to have credibility with the public we need to be honest about what it is and it's a weapon. we'd never call a gu

we have departments doing in various stages what the department of environment has done. we have departments starting department wide training to figure out how to on board the contempt for the employees in a way relevant to the work they do. whether they are doing energy and water as the public utilities commission or managing over 6,000 employees thinking how each of those employees are going to implement this. they are thinking about training for all employees and what this looks like for their department specifically. we have departments forming a committee. similar to the department of environment pushing forward this effort with the foundation of the racial justice environmental justice work you have been doing for work. they now are forming a committee to it is not just one person. it is from the top to the bottom and left to the right. this is where your department has been doing this for years which made this a good fit for you. we also the departments who are the advanced stages in really looking at the tool. how do we get it to work now and collect demeanor tak

i want to make sure that that sense of cooperation between the department and our department, arts department, sometimes can be touchy, if you will. so that, again, if we can work in the collaborative manner and ask communication back, that would be wonderful for the commission. thank you, chief nicholson for your report. >> thank you. >> thank you, chief joanne hayes-white for your report. i am going to move the agenda, madam secretary. >> item five, discussion on how firefighters assess the plan of attack on a working fire. deputy chief of operations mark gonzales to explain how firefighters assess the plan of attack on a working fire. >> good evening, vice president nakajo, commissioners, chief. i was trying to figure out how to work on my opinion in the art work on the subject, but i don't think i can. so i'll go ahead. so it is a very comprehensive subject how firefighters and commanders assess the plan of attack on a working fire. structure fires are very dynamic incidents that require in most cases a complex decision matrix within one's head. fire ground decisions are made based on exp

into the department. i think i just have some concerns about what our plans are to make sure that we are hiring enough officers, that we have enough time to implement many of the train iing, a lot o the training that is necessary to address a lot of the reforms and how all that is coming together because i know that of the 272 recommendations from the obama administration for reform for the department, half will be implemented, but we have a long ways to go. that takes time not only to work with the existing officers who are a part of the department, but also new officers that are coming in, and i think there are some concerns i have about just what's happening with the department because within a few years, most of the officers are going to be -- going to be a lot of new officers. many of them, unfortunately r not from the city, and in some instances come from place where is they have never even experienced diversity. i'm just trying to understand, you know, what the plan is with the department and how a

we look forward to the collaboration with the sheriff department, police department, board and mayor farrell in making this a reality. we thank you for attending today to support the city's efforts in this initiative. we certainly at the close of this press conference will be open to questions. so again, thank you so much for being here and supporting the effort. and we look forward to the collaboration in the future. thank you. [applause] - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. after all, we're at the meeting of land and sea. - our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and world- class style. it's the birthplace of blue jeans, and where "the rock" holds court over the largest natural harbor on the west coast. - the city's information technology professionals work on revolutionary projects, like providing free wifi to residents and visitors, developing new programs to keep

this will mean that both the homeless department and the department can share data with each other, share data amongst our most vulnerable populations to ensure that we are working together in ensuring that we work with the most vulnerable populations who are homeless on our streets. over the last several years, we've developed a shelter health program in which we will engage with bringing nurses similar to the wellness centers in hope sf. we actually modelled it after this program, shelter health, which provides nursing services within the shelter system, and we found this to be incredibly important. prior to this program, the top emf caller in our service system for ems and ambulance service was next door shelter. and today, that is no longer the case because the nurses are able to triage people at the door. we are able to send them to medical respite and able to engage with the hospital if necessary, so i think we've done a really good job of reducing ems calls and ensure that people are getting the right level of care. and we expanded medical respite just for that, to ensure that peop

a much bigger department. in terms of the management of this implementation, we may not need what oakland needs, so. >> president turman: you plan on creating. >> we plan on, but i don't know if it's going to be in this form. >> president turman: it doesn't have to be in this form. you plan on creating something along the lines. >> definitely along the lines. >> president turman: can you work on that and share that with the dpa? >> absolutely. >> president turman: okay. commissioner dejesus. >> commissioner dejesus: so i've had some experience on this commission. when we did one of our other policies, we left it up to all of the sergeants to decide, and i think it was the early intervention system, and that thing has fallen apart. that thing needs to be restructured, there's nobody that's really in charge, and every sergeant has had a different interpretation. i think we need a buck stops here kind of person. we need to flag that there's a person -- we don't say what they have to do -- well, maybe some things,

on the issue of the firetrucks, the historical firetrucks, i know that the department is -- is the department moving forward on shrink wrapping those and how many? >> that was our plan. i'm going to ask assistant department chief tony riviera who is overseeing that project to address that. >> goodage month, commissioners. good morning, chief. so we are moving forward with wrapping the vehicles. i just want to make a couple clarifications. the presentation by gardens of the city was accurate in what they were stating, but what the fire department is going to do is a little bit different. i just want to let you know, we have a lot of experience in storing equipment. we have hose and appliances that we have in deep storage for a catastrophic event. we're very aware of mildew, rot, mold that can deteriorate our equipment. with that being said, the wrap that we have selected has a mildew resistant treatment that is designed to not allow the greenhouse effect and one of the other issues is when you have the greenhouse effect which promotes the sweating or the mildew is when you completely encapsula

or you bottom working with the state department and in diplomacy nor did he find himself in sync with the president as indeed the president has just said so you or your you viewed rex tillerson as being very much outside the towns and. unfortunately yes i mean there is a man who went to the pentacle of his career but spent you know decades in the oil industry and it turned out that that was not transferable knowledge to rapid public service in state craft and in the plum a c. maybe given more time it would have worked out differently but we didn't really have time in this hectic international relations age that we live in. specialist as a pacific region how does mr tell us and removal and my presumed assumption of the role of change u.s. foreign policy that. well i think my pump indeed has been the same wavelength on north korea policy for instance from day one when he was appointed at the cia my pump a zero having been in congress having been a distinguished harvard law graduate who could get to the bottom of things when into the agency and said what do we know about north korea what

there's all these confusing aspects between the department of public health and the planning department. i want to commend the planning department for working with me and we came up with some very simple clarifications. it would be limited to restaurants. bakeries, cafes. we don't want to discourage or encourage restaurants and limiting their time of operations to encourage them to do this. we've want them to enhance an existing business confronted by so many aspects in this environment being a small retailer. we want them to use their space in a positive way so that they can support their businesses and support the caterers that might not necessarily have the startup capital to have a brick-and-mortar space. i'm excited about this introduction. i know supervisor ronen wants to be a co-sponsor and we'll talk about this over the next few months, but we're very excited about this, colleagues. rest i submit. >> supervisor sheehy: submit. >> supervisor tang: i have a couple of pieces of legislation. one of them has to do with also trying to address the issue of affordable housing in accesso