we've addressed needs related to e.m.s. we talk about alternative destinations in the strategic plan, expanding e.m.s.6. we've been very successful so far in those efforts. there's a number of changing federal programs with regards to alternative destinations. you may have heard there's been some changes by medicare. there's been pilot programs with the department is looking at participating in with regards to reimbursement for transporting patients to other care facilities. danother one of the highlights was to improve radio and dispatch systems. that is winding down over the next year or so. just as that's winding down, we're in the initial stages of the city computer aid dispatch cad project. that is headed by d.e.m. we are very active participant in that. we'll be long the way member of the steering committee and technical and operational support. upgrading the current system to something to take advantage of today's technologies to improve overall delivery of service and response. on the fire prevention on the investig

the e.m.s. was also in the military of our two-year cycle for recertifying all members if the e.m.t. we had 1200 members certified for c.p.r. this year. we have just handful left we'll try to finish this month. we 85 members recertify annually for the hazmat certification. we have also completed bias class for all our training staff as well as the command staff. that would be about it. >> president nakajo: thank you very much. commissioners? >> last, i will ask director corso to come up and speak about our strategic plan. >> thank you chief. good evening commissioners. i plan to discuss brief update on the strategic plan. we've been through a transition period and we'll continue to do so over the next couple of months. conversations aring on going about what current chief nicholson on the work of the plan and priority. i will want to give update some of the work that's done currently and completed and in process. as you may recall, the fire department strategic plan is between five sections cove

i think the e.m.s. staffing needs to be looked at as the chief and the rest of the command staff are doing as far as the budget requests. but whatever that final number is, 200 or 180, but it needs to be one-third of that number of h-8s. >> and did you say there is presently a class of h-8s presenting? >presently?>> yes, sir. >> when does that conclude? >> they start their ride-outs on saturday. so... >> okay. and point of information for myself and the commissioners, are these h-8 uniformed members? >> they have uniforms but not a badge. >> okay. moving forward in terms of your report again, it is a comprehensive report. i always like to read the report, again, and i appreciate the photographs. i think it was a great idea to have the photographs on the screen so that the audience, as well as the general public, can be aware of what we have displayed. i think the photographs are very affective. i also, again, as you give your report, it encompasses and has many components of the department. i want to ac

then our e.m.s. academy put through over 1600 members through over 6,000 hours, including ambulance training for our suppression members, i think i mentioned that last time, but the suppression members are allowed to work overtime on the ambulance, and it is a great opportunity for them, and a great opportunity for us to work more closely with members from station 49. the h. eight per diem academy has begun. they're in their first of two weeks and there are 27 of them, and then they will begin their ride out evaluations in march. our fire reserves, as always, 193 hours of drills and volunteer work, including battalion drills, and a barge drill with the transit committee, and a big shout out to them. that is in the middle of the night that they volunteer for that. we really appreciate it. we have had 13 events, classes, and outreach presentations and meetings in january. and we talk a little bit about outreach and recruitment. our firefighter he was the outreach coordinator and our lieutenant to is ou

i have asked them to give us a briefing on information, as well as the chiefs in terms of e.m.s. six. as you recollect, we will stand fast with our budget, and not take cuts, but we also have a priority in terms of e.m.s. six with equipment and such. vice president covington, i believe you should take supervisor brown and supervisor walton, and myself will take supervisor haney. we did visit supervisor mar, but the rest of the supervisors that are presently sitting -- there is a time issue with this as well that we are all very aware of. there are so much priorities, but presently facing us is the budget issue as well. having said that, i will conclude the segment of the commission report. i will move on. madame secretary? >> item seven, agenda for next and future fire commission meetings. >> at this particular point, is there any public comment for terms of future fire commission meetings? public comment is close. on that, commissioners? >> i yield to the chief. i believe the chief had something to say. >> i'm not sure -- there was a memory of a retired member that passed away t

now e.m.s. 6, what we do is we essentially do ad hoc case management. we go meet people at the hospital on the scene of an emergency, we get to know them, we build up a relationship with them, then, we go find them on the street, and we -- we asset them daily if they want to go to alcohol or substance detox. we find them case management. it's very, very difficult work. now, we've had very good success, and every month in 2018, on average, the top 209 # #-the top 20911 utilizers -- we're talking about people that use 911 more than ten times a year, we're going out to them, and those are the people that are actually meeting the people. >> supervisor haney: thank you. and i definitely appreciate the work that your department does and the e.m.t.'s and firefighters. i see you all out, and i know that you are the front line responders in any case. i have -- do you want to, before i -- commander lozar? >> yeah. supervisor haney. in terms of the data, i know we've talked about tend encampments here today, but what are we doing -- what are the numbers on how man

we're going need that same type of collaboration across our departments and e.m.s. with that attitude and if we can get the city continue to work together collaboratively the city will benefit and our department will be able to continue to do the work it needs to do. thank you. thank you very much. we appreciate all the work you're doing and we'll remember you as we look at all the flashing yellow, red and once in a while a grown light. -- green light. >> item 10 is other business. >> commissioner: other business? >> clerk: you have the calendar before you. there's no surprises or anything to mention other than what's before you. >> commissioner: well, we have the calendar before us. does anybody wish to add anything to the calendar or any items before we go on to our next report? seeing none, we'll move on. >> clerk: item 11 is the report back from the march laguna honda meeting. >> our g.c.c. met march 12 at laguna honda. the first was the executive administrator's report in which we discussed a number of issues range from diversion to safety to c.m.s. responses.

it may involve some of our street specialists or street medicine or e.m.s. 6 from the fire or it may involve the police department, depending on the nature of the call. our role is to provide medical and behavioral health services. h.s.h., our housing partners, and h.s.a., those benefits linking services. and then, the police. we're fortunate to have a police force that's out on the streets and actually have relationships with some clients, and so we rely upon them and to be their partners to support them in their out reach activities. we already talked about hsoc, but another way that we all come together is through what's called whole person care. whole person care is a program through the state of california's 1113 medicaid waiver that provided funding to counties in california to focus on high utilizing populations. in san francisco, d.p.h., h.s.h., h.s.a., we've all come together the past two years in our whole person care program to again figure out how we can collaborate better to provide services. one of the things we -- i mentioned the retreat we did this past summer. one of

can clarify this but we have 15 navigation beds set aside for officers and for e.m.s. 6.o be used by us in cases where we need to connect people. >> so for public works, no, that's not our role. our role is to clean the streets. however, if there is someone there and there's a request for shelter, we will contact hsoc and ask them to have h.o.t. or someone come out but it's not our role when we engage. >> would your officers, for sfpd, would you have access to these extra beds in the sense of a -- in the case of an expansion during wet weather? cold and wet weather? >> do you offer these beds adds part of the shelter you have available? >> the way this generally works is that an officer will call back into hsoc and h.s.h. has a staff member at hsoc and is able to make reservations or identify where there's available beds. we do try to provide resources to any of our colleagues who are out on the streets and it's all coordinated through hsoc but again, you know, we have a limit to the number of beds that are available as you pointed out previously. generally we do our best

and we are representatives from the police department, e.m.s. 6. i do not agree with the coalition on everything, but i agree with them on a lot, and i'm profoundly grateful for the role they've played in this city for advocating for services and support for the folks on the street and for the work they did around proposition "c," and i believe their voice is essential to any conversation about addressing homelessness in san francisco, especially, as i hope we do in this hearing, as we think about potential alternatives to current approaches. so, i see i have two colleagues who want to speak. it might behoove if supervisor brown or peskin want to come in now. there is a seat available for them, if somebody is -- maybe aaron can text them and let them know. okay, with that, supervisor ronen. >> thank you so much. you know, i want to start out by saying that we have had countless hearings about homelessness. i mean, i can't even -- i'm looking at jennifer freedom and kelly kutler -- hundreds? i don't know. talking about homelessness, talking about th

dollar suggest that we might not e.m.s. rther run in assets? >> yes, you do. all of that is that what we first started talking about is if you looked at what happened last week, talking about the fed and the really bad numbers, yes, the u.s. number fell away. the caveat being that if you look at the pairs that look at it, look at you yo and look at the yen they got structural issues itself. and although the u.s. dollar is down, it will be the safe haven capital and that will cause a run-on anyway. you can make that argument in the short-term. but the euro, the yen and to some extent maybe what's going on in the pound, it will probably pick up. they're the big players that move dixie around and will probably mean that dixie will appreciate over the years because it's a safer option particularly in the euro at this point of the cycle. >> thank you very much. evan lucas, investsmart chief market strategist. and another big guest coming up, chicago fed federal charles evans will be on bloomberg tv later monday. we'll find out what he think of an inverted yield cur