ray coughered representing the ems office association. president holoys isn't on duty so unable to speak for the commission. i want >> student reiterate what director [inaudible] field unit rc 4 and station 49 are two separate identities. jus like the police and fire commission, they are two separate. they are both appointed by the mayor but are separate. rc 4 is a unit in the field to provide emergency service and oversight for the southern half of san francisco. station 49 is the amblulance center. what would help is take the 4th position and give it foome monday through friday 8 to 5. being a officer association don't understand why the administration decides to tie these two things together. it is a leverage technique and don't understand why. it also brings into question is this a type of management structure the western fire chief association want to have hap snn i'm concerned now as well as ems office association. thank you again for your interest and concern in the issue, hopefully we can move forward before the may 11 fire commis

. >> commissioners, chief, mike [inaudible] president of the san francisco ems officers association. i think it is praept we are meeting in the southern part of the city where can bring to the public eattention we valimit amoujt of paramedics, we have one supervisor for hamp the city. we vasecond supervisor who is budgeted since october not yet assigned because of unwillingness by the administration to decouple staffing and station 49, the ambulance depot with the supervisor [inaudible] who should be stationed at 43. at this time i would like to continue to bring to your attention this is occurring and still holding it hostage and as i said we have one supervisor for approximately half the city to supervise the paramedics in a area where there is a significant number of elderly population, a significant number of medical and trauma calls, which are supervisor because of the vast differences he is covering can't offer assistance to paramedics and fire responding. i like to thank commissioner nucaujio who road with me and think whee a good time. i like to offer to any of the other comm