i had a question on fleet week. what are the dates of that? >> do you know the dates of fleet week? >> october 2nd through the tenth. >> and final question, i know that one of our priorities in the department has been to update our fleet, whether it be fire engines for trucks, or our ambulances, and i had a question for you. just how many of our rigs currently are old and need to be replaced, if you had to give a guesstimate? one of our priorities in the department is to replace the old fleet to make sure that we have the best that we can get. i just wondered how many of the old ambulances need to be replaced of the 300,000 miles on them, as well as trucks and fire engines? >> i can get those numbers for you. i don't have them off the top of my head, but i do know that we do have three trucks in the works and six new engines in the works. july 1st, we will be developed -- developing the new spender sr ambulances because they would have been in the field for some time. we will take them down to the central shops and have them identified and take all the evaluations that we've gotten

the intent is to get to zero emission fleet. we're already there with half of our fleet. >> directors, any other questions? comments? >> these have a longer life-span, too, the electric buses in theory? >> anything we know about them is only in theory. they've not been in service long enough for us to know that. >> thank you. >> a that sort of brings up a second question. this is somewhat in theory and we're going to be staking bets on a theory. that's fine. that's how progress happens. it's a significant bet. my question is, do we have enough ielligence that we're comfortable making this bet and then more really importantly from other side, wt is the plan with regard to who we're going to partner with to do this and make sure they have gnifsiant resources and expertise to make sure that somethingad doesn't happen with the technology and if it does, we're not left holding the bag with that technology. >> well, so, our intel is what has gotten us to the resolution as it's writtith the 2025 start date. >> right. >> part of our due

i wanted to ask first about the navy building program and the pleat developing-- fleet developing and how that meets the demands of the meg calf, in the challenges. but the second part is asking about the use of auxiliary and nonamphibious ships, particularly as they are done in the pacific. to me, some of the amphibious demands when there aren't enough amphibious ships go around. >> first thing i would sayoon the-- say on the increase in money that we have got, the funding that we came in 2019, with 7% increase, is certainly the navy as you are well aware, did four structure assessment, determined 35 ships was the right plan. now how quickly we can get to that requirement is really the challenge and how long that funding will be consistent. if you looked at the 30-year ship building plan in there, capacity at our ship yard, where we can increase capacity, where we can build more ships we get more money to accelerate at a faster rate. that is one of the things out there, if congress can help accelerate th, that would certainly, we would be supportive of that. we are on a path that we

the flexibility you get as the fleet gets built out. it implies a lot of change for both forces and thinking about how they can get the most leverage out of the facilities they offer. i would say another major inponent is the increase ,aval capacity around the world right? many of our friends are their fleet substantially in response to the same challenges that we see. i was able to do some work a couple years ago with the australians as they started building amphibs. there are lots of opportunities for other platforms as well that i think and bring real synergies with -- armoringourse of core. i know the core is looking at that as well. corps.marine is looking atps that as well. newcancian: people look at systems. analysts have indicated that is too narrow way of thinking of it, but it is an important component, new weapons, new systems coming into the fleet. i was wondering if analysts might wa to comment on what is geckoto be in the future -- future? i will start with the capabilities we have as we start to build out in 20 -- if you

. >> i want to turn to the navy and the navy's plan for 355 ship battle fleet that would build 238 but even 38 isn't enough to meet all the demands on the invidious forces and it is going to take quite some time to get there so i wanted to ask first about the navy shipbuilding program and the fleet developing it and how that meets the needs of the magtf. the second part is asking about use of auxiliaries and non-amphibious ships particularly as they have done in the pacific to meet some of these amphibious demands when there aren't enough amphibious ships to go around. >> i will go ahead and start with that. the increase in money we have got, the funding we had in 19 with a 7% increase, certainly before structure assessments determining 355 ships was the right plan. how quickly we can get to that requirement is the challenge and how long funding will be consistent. if you look at the 30th shipbuilding plan, capacity of the shipyards, where we can increase capacity, where we can build more ships if we get more money to accelerate at a faster rate. of congress can help accelerate that, t

they had a peak fleet, too revenues they achieve.s they achieve. they had a peak fleet, too many aircraft. revenues they achieve. they had a peakfleet, too many aircraft. the previous management had been too ambitious. they have about 80 planes. they are trying to trim that down progressively each year. if they don't, it would be a bigger challenge. why is the lack of flybe and the others we mentioned really struggling when others seem to be fearing really well? is itjust about their market share, and they can ride any turbulence? it is a combination of factors. cost is a key element. we hear people talking about that and we also have a position of polarisation. the likes of the others are so big and dominant, they have enormous positions in markets right across europe. and they will get bigger potentially. they have put bids in for a alitalia... potentially. they have put bids in for a alitalia. .. we have seen some picked up by an austrian company and the aircraft they have, they can with an enormous amount of capacity into airport

i'll give you one example, out in fifth fleet. out there in fifth fleet with task force 51, we actually have a marine general that is in charge of that task force. they took the esb, the expeditionary staging base, that chopped into theater and gave it over. they used that along with the epf, which is the joint high-speed vessel, or our fast transfort. put tse two together and put that in the equation with the other naval ships that we've got out there in fifth fleet. so that was, i think, the first time that i've really seen an operational commander bring those new auxiliary ships in, whether it's the esb or epf, and use them in different ways for operational missions in the fifth fleet aor, which i think is a dynamic we're watching very closely and how that could operate in the pacific and also the mediterranean. >> so i think i'll carry that aucti auxiliary idea just a little further. we should be very careful how we characterize these ships and how we rely on them or operationalize them. we're going to spend a lot of time in n

fleet oiler, just to name a few. i've also received a letter from the national guard association opposing this amendment. mr. chairman, i'd like to enter both those letters into the record. the chair: without objection. ms. granger: not only does this amendment cut $1 billion from vital programs in f.y. 2019, it will leave future congresses with at least a $6 billion shortfall. that is not the appropriate way to spend our taxpayer dollars. the navy is not committed to funding these two additional submarines in the future. in fact, the statement of administrative policy on the house-passed ndaa specifically obblets to adding two additional -- objects to adding two additional submarines. this amendment takes $346 million that's been set aside for the reactor corps for the last carrier class refueling overhaul. delaying this procurement for yet another year hurts this program and creates serious production gaps. this will directly impact the ability of the manufacturer to provide columbia class core reacters in a timely

fleet and as i mentioned, we will have expanded by about 40 % the light rail fleet. some project highlights in the transit side, you can see here. it is everything from the fleet facilities towhat call a state of good repair which is in the existing infrastructure where it can be safer and more reliable. these are things we really need to do. on the street side, i know an interest to many of you on the board, pretty significant investments in pedestrian safety, bikesafety, traffic coning and traffic signals. all steps towards getting to vision zero. the capital investments being one part of our investments to get to vision zero which is now not so far away. like on the operating side, there is risk to some of the revenue sources. on the capital side, these include the bridge toll increase which will be on the ballot in a few weeks which hundred $40 million will be dedicated and again, there are other competitive categories that we think the city would compete well four, we've also included the anticipation of revenues that were recommended by the transportation 2045

we have an old, tired fleet of ambulances. even though we purchased 19 to play catch up in 2014, the average amount of miles on those 19 that are just four years old exceed 70,000. right around 70,000. right now we know 53 of our front line ambulances that run 125, 130,000 calls peryear, 23 have an average of 160,000 miles. these are the prehospital transport units that take very sick people to the nine receiving hospitals. we fully -- and we appreciate what you're saying. it's something that i'm very proud of as i look forward. you gave the analogy of the d.h.s. versus the d.v.r., moving into the future with technology and embracing that. we've identified models. again, it wasn't my decision, we wanted it to be a collaborative one. we think the sprinter would be a good fit for san francisco. we'd be appreciative of the 15. we think on our spreadsheet, the first half of the sheet there's no disagreement on, the purchase of the 15. it seems like a lot of vehicles, and it is, and we appreciate that. but what we're saying is we h

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online as part of the muni fleet. and the low floor buses do make a tremendous difference for many of the riders. a quick question, there would be certain areas of the city where we would geo fence to ensure that only the batteries were operating in those areas, how would we determine the green zones? >> actually, this is something within the talks of sfmta and we have not made the final determination yet, but obviously it will be an area we would like to benefit the public. so as now, it's to be determined, but we'll be happy to come back and keep you informed once the location or how we strategize to come up with a location of the green zone. >> supervisor kim: i assume some of it might be the congestion or busyness of the areas. >> that's one of the criteria that we are looking into, but however, it's still, we have to also worry about and concern about the range, obviously, and since the city itself, you know, we cover a very wide range of areas, so we have to make the selection carefully. so as of now, it's still

i am on board one of the current vessels in the fleet. the current vessels in the fleet.ge. technology is employed within here to monitorfishing. to monitorfishing. online, hms fourth going through its trials. trials. 0ver there in the fog, at the portsmouth naval base. the portsmouth naval base. that will be brought about by brexit. brexit. that is the very, i think, from the isle of wight! from the isle of wight! sounding its foghorn in the distance. distance. where you are watching breakfast this morning. good morning from bbc london news, i'm charlotte franks. there's been a spate of violent attacks in london overnight. in a critical condition. there's no indication the incidents are linked. terror attack, in which eight people were killed and 48 wounded. of pedestrians on london bridge. bars and restaurants of borough market. and he helped some of the victims. ijust done what i thought was right. right. and ijust done what i thought was right. right. was stunned and shocked, not knowing what to do. someone had to do something. of its workers was crushed to death in a

who can stand on equal footing with the president of the united states, the president of the world fleeting and great it's democracy. i think the president on the other hand, needs to get something much more specific than we've seen before from him on the issue of denuclearization. mike pompeo has talked about needing to see if he is ready to make a strategic decision that he is going to dismantle his nuclear program. that is what this process is going to lead too. i think the president needs an unambiguous commitment from him to start this process of dismantling the north's nuclear program. i think that's the threshold the president has to make to say this is a success, now let's go forward and negotiate. >> well put. the former navy seal and author of the operator, the bestseller, rod, you know i

it isn't hidden at this point, it's very exposed in streams and ponds. with the river fleet as well.blood into the river. foul and stinking, and so sadly they had to cover it up. when i was writing the book i had to get inside the sewers to see. we got donned up in overalls, hard hats, waders, a small oxygen supply. as i thought it was going to be. these sewers, they started building them in the 1860s. beautifully engineered. given their age. in places it is big open caverns with huge metal doors. of scoot through. lines rumbling through. is that it has shaped the way that some of the roads have run. the same route. there are still traces of the river, if you know where to look. not over the stream. the river or the sewer as it now is, below. flowing in front of them here, although subterranean, of course. cross. as it follows the line of the river. that there is still a river flowing underneath. this viaduct was built by the victorians in the 1860s. to the other, down the hill, up the hill. so they built this viaduct to alleviate the problem. into the thames. many hidden rivers ther

to build its own delivery services contractors can lease the vans from amazon and set up their own fleets for around ten thousand us dollars. we've got great uniform pricing we've got fuel contracts that people can sign up for we've done negotiations for benefits packages and insurance rates for both the vehicles and for their employees amazon claims delivers could see as much as three hundred thousand dollars in profits per year it's unclear precisely how amazon will pay the new couriers and they will not be permitted to carry packages from other companies amazon share in the u.s. e-commerce market is expected to rise to forty one percent this year speeding up its deliveries can only help maintain its leadership china is defending its business record to meet its trade war with the u.s. it says it is playing by the rules and has been busy carrying out reforms opening its economy bit by bit publishing a white paper today stating that it's carried out every promise made since joining the world trade organization and that not a single w.t.r. member as economically suffered a lost out because

that's 23 in a fleet of 58 that hit the streets every day. so we'll probably -- the best resources we've been since we've inherited the department since 1997, but we're looking to maintain that. our response times, as you know, are much improved. we've been the beneficiary over the last few years of a lot of great funding, but we don't want to rest on our laurels. we want to be able to continue to respond to our increasing call volume and again be able to navigate through our really busy city streets in a safe manner. so more to follow on that. we also have mr. corso here if you want a greater level of detail. with regards to our level of training, our class is in the 49th week. there are 49 members that remain in the academy, and we're looking to have a graduation hopefully with all 49. there is a person that has sustained an injury that we're monitoring to make sure if he'll be able to catch up on some of what he's missed. but they've completed all their testing, and right now they're doing some wild land training, some hazardous material t

even get lost along the way now as it is trying to get entrepreneurs to set up their own it's a free fleets. these gray vans could help ease amazon so called last mile problem the number of online orders is on the rise and customers expect quick delivery to their doorstep that's why the e-commerce giant wants to build its own delivery service says entrepreneurs can lease the vans from amazon and set up their own fleet far on ten thousand dollars. we've got great uniform pricing we've got fuel contracts that people can sign up for we've done negotiations for benefits packages and insurance rates for both vehicles and for their employees amazon claims the liver's could see as much as three hundred thousand dollars in profits per year it is unclear precisely how amazon will pay the new careers and there will not be permitted to carry packages from other companies amazon share in the u.s. market is expected to rise to forty one percent this year speeding up its to liberate can only help maintain its leadership. in the united states donald trump's hard line immigration and trade policies of prom

we are hoping to explore that further during fleet week as well. in terms of the emergency response activities and i think most everybody in the room has somebody that was the two-day exercise summit and was focused on the partnerships we have with the voad and meeting the needs of the most vulnerable residents. we also touched a lot on supply chain resilience during the conversations and critical transportation. coinciding with the anniversary of the great earthquake, we always do a department of -- a department operation center communications drill. so that's where we test the capability or our capability for the department operations centers to communicate with the e.o.c. and we also tested out or satellite communications systems and the alternative communication systems during that drill. upcoming, as dr. baba and ben mentioned is yellow command. that exercise is october set up a shelter at st. mary's and focus on just in time training for shelter worker, and prior to that, we're really going to be asking the department of building inspection a

we've hired a fleet manager. that was one of our civilian positions. our vehicles are in really bad shape, and i strongly disagree with mr. rose that a delay would not hurt this department. >> supervisor cohen: so my original question was, when will you be making the purchase? it sounds like the purchase will be made in august. and how many vehicles -- catherine, if you can come up, how many vehicles will you be purchasi purchasing? >> 82. >> supervisor cohen: so you're looking to spend the full amount. >> that's correct. >> supervisor cohen: so maybe you can speak to the 500,000 reserve body cameras? that hasn't been spent, either. >> that would be a cut we with absorb. >> supervisor cohen: that could be a cut you can absorb. supervisor fewer has a question. >> supervisor fewer: i just have a question. how many take-home vehicles do you have that your staff actually takes home and not a patrol vehicle. >> i don't have that number, supervisor fewer, but i want to emphasize, your husband was a police officer. those vehicles are in terrible shape, and al

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just -- just a few statistics, we have 58 ambulances in our fleet. all used for front line operations. of those 58 ambulances, 23 or 40% are over ten years old. they average 165,000 miles. those are hard miles driven often times through our city streets which are difficult to navigate through. fire department has -- we do anticipate seeing this come down. we spent over a million dollars on ambulance repair alone in fiscal year 2017. that shows you the wear and tear on these ambulances and the need to continue to be able to be more nimble and to be responsive to the increase calls. recent history just four years ago, we received nothing but criticism for not being able to have proper equipment. we're team players. we have dealt with men and women of the fire department, they do great work on maintaining the apparatus. for a department our size with the call volume over 150,000 calls a year of which north of 75% are medical calls involving ambulances, we need this. we're not asking for additional positions. it's a core function equipment that we need.

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that is largely for parts and fuel for fleet along with custodial services. our next slide lists our major initiatives for the department in the coming fiscal years. with the mayor's office priority is, they are listed as having a diverse and equitable and inclusive city, clean it, safe and livable communities an excellent city services. underneath these categories, they will be leading the citywide census is coming in 2020. they need to do outreach to hard to count communities to ensure we do a complete count. they are providing additional funding to programs with immigrant communities and these are programs such as pathways to citizenship, legal aid and other programs that are facing increased deportation pressure. the next program we are highlighting is the office of transgender initiatives. we provide additional funding to them to develop grants, internship programs and policies to support our transgender community. the mayor's office of disability will be dedicating some additional resources to do planned checks related to the affordable housing rental a

system for our fleet and we actually went ahead and did most of the fleets in san francisco about 5,000 vehicles have been armed and the data presented every day that we've gotten from the city administrator has been positive in terms of safety and efficiencies and so far. as you know, we didn't go and pursue at the time and the police department criminal justice departments and we had a pilot on some of the vehicles for the police department and that is done. pretty much i'm going to pursue the addition of the law enforcement agencies. not only is it going to hopefully increase safety and efficiency, but want to make sure that you are doing what the city administrator did, was prepare for that possible legislation in the budget with the cost of arming the vehicles with those telematics. i believe they're about -- why remember the exact number but i thought it was about 700 per vehicle. did you have that on the budget at all? >> it's not in this budget. but it is a discussion that we're willing to have. there are other departments that have viewed telematics effectively for their employ

and red and white fleet. now, we believe that the situation with the park service branded bay cruises and the custom tailored requirement for two 500 passenger votes and two 700 passenger boats, and the laying on to the future contractor, whoever that may be, the expense already supposed to have been borne as robert mentioned by the last contractor from the proposal, we think they are all inequitable and we don't think that the upcoming contractor should be taking business away from legacy employers to pay for something that the existing employer should have done with their contract with no penalty. so, we ask for continuance, please, the battle that we started as it was pertaining to the prevailing wage is part of the battle the rest of it we are still engaged in and we need more time. thank you. >> thank you. marina. >> marina secatano, president inland man's union. thank you for allowing me to speak and your hard work. the prevailing wage issue is near and dear one for us, and it's not exactly right yet, b

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seventy five times they do it several times a day with a big fleet oh you get an idea. we have to understand we can all stay still and just. be with me this will be business deal for you or. i'm doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have out and enjoy the ocean we have. so. much. oh. it's. welcome back to worlds apart pretty green director of the italian institute for international political studies mr madre about a year ago you were speaking at one conference on the middle east and north africa and you suggested that europe. has gotten a bit carried away with its fascination. with transformation it got used to seeing itself as this positive actor for changing the world. i wonder if you would go as far as to say that this fascination. transformation has come to bite here because some of the problems to be senior related to migration i think could be traced directly to this idea of being a positive actor and striving for democracy in the middle is. promoted by europe. it was. certainly in chile in libya play a role i mean there were differen

the bill alsoasros to begin to address therong challenge of operating and supporting the f-35 fleet for all services. i believe this challen willwi ue have to take additional actions in the future where we have begun this process. j-stars is the commanding control aircraft of ground forces. presently, the air force plans to retire j-stars with the hope, not the plan, but the hope of replacing in the future with a new concept. but i believe the bill takes a very responsible position by prevent be the airorce -- ting the air force from retiring the current of j-stars aircraft and.additional resources to help the air force accelerate, developing, and fielding new capabilities to replace the current ground-moving target capability provided by j-stars. in effect, we shouldn't take j-stars away until we have something very credible and capable to replace it. as the department of defense prioritizes long-term strategic competition with china and russia, the army will be required to balance the highen -- highen end near pier fight. this will be a significant shift for the armyiven that for the