commissioner hardeman. >> commissioner hardeman: thank you chief gonzalez. you did remarkable job.ou didn't get into trouble. i followed you a couple of times. it's sad with all the video they have of that, they can't identify that vehicle. it's too bad that the guy died, 65-year-old guy just trying to prevent it and just trying to see during that taking people down to the ball game or something. that was just too bad. the jaws of life couple of years ago, we had lot of complaints we didn't have enough of those. >> they've done good job spraying rescue squads in our trucks with the new genesis. >> good evening commissioners, chief. assistant deputy chief tony. we did purchase new chordless electric tools for the truck panes. there's engine 59 that responds out of the golden gate bridge. our older style units are gasoline powered. not only can they put into service quickly, they don't emit any gases. they're not allowed. they run on battery packs or we can actually hook them to up a generator, plug-in to like our rescue squads. they design for high strength steam cutting. which has

commissioner hardeman? >> commissioner hardeman: just a follow up. thank you. urp talki you were talking about the ambulances and the delays. i agree with chief covington, i'd like to move it along, but i think it's very important for everybody involved, the ambulances to do this little test run and find out monday morning, the commissioners had a meeting down at the headquarters, and the great to see so many people involved. in other words, it wasn't just a top down thing. in other words, it wasn't just a lot of command staff, but looking at that ambulance, it was like a beehive. i was trying to stick my nose in a little as i was getting some coffee. but i like the fact that you bring people in. when you bring people in, you get an opinion on a lot of things, so that was good. i'm glad to see you going in the right direction, and i'm glad to see you didn't settle for something -- because i have heard some complaints about the small one being too small, so you've dealt with it, and good job on that. you satisfied for the on time for ambulances? you doing okay?

commissioner hardeman? >> commissioner hardeman: thank you, mr. president. i already talked about the graduation class, which is, again, everybody, kudos, especially to the training staff. and i was in sacramento last friday, and they had a bacci ball tournament. when i heard about this bacci ball tournament, when the commissioners were invited, it never dawned on me that i would be going. my grandson takes his soccer lessons at this park in east sacramento, so that was sort of fun. so i did go over, and captain darius latrop, who works for chief soto in training, was sort of the spear head of the whole thing. it was quite a good time. i really enjoyed seeing the camaraderie of batallion chief to firefighter, and you never knew anybody's rank unless you asked them, but it was very cool. and it was a 29-year-old baby. one of the firefighters had a child, and that was one. but it was great. i really enjoyed it. i was happy to see a group of people that live in the sacramento area that are involved in this. it was terrific, and i was just happy to see firefight

commissioner hardeman. >> commissioner hardeman: thanks mr. president. thanks again for the nice report. what was that last number we received couple of months ago? 1807 a including civilians and uniforms. >> i don't know if that may have included h8 as well. >> commissioner hardeman: i thought the number was high at the time. >> 1665 uniformed, excluding h8. >> commissioner hardeman: nigh to have 1800. evil get this some day. >> we can dream. >> commissioner veronese: when did you say that station 16 will be done? >> final completion is now slated for november 7th. >> commissioner veronese: have we seen an up tick in the surf bay rescues. there are notable incidents in the report. >> i can get those number for you. i don't have then. >> commissioner veronese: thank you. cleaveland thank you. vice president, nothing? one quick question for you. training facility for the future, treasure island. what have we decided what we need in terms of space and acreage? what size piece of land we need for the new training facility? >> i would say about seven acres.

commissioner hardeman. >> commissioner hardeman: thank you, mr. president. you heard we did all congratulate you when you were gone, but it's nice to hear it was such a big crowd, and you're so good or bad or whatever you want to say about not traveling. you allow your staff and other members in the department to travel, but you are pretty much a stay at home for whatever reason over the years. i do know when i was working, one of the things i enjoyed was traveling and adding a day here and a day there to at least, and you never do that. so as commissioner alioto veronese said last month, i hope she gets a little r&r. but you don't take advantage of that travel, and that's your decision, and that's how you choose to operate. t the -- i wants to comment on the graduating class, 124 graduating class that all this audience aspire to do, maybe, in the 125th. the video was fantastic. i loved the video. good training department. got to show the -- everybody working hard, and a lot of the humor and the fun that went into it, but mostly the hard work and the dedicat

commissioner hardeman. >> commissioner hardeman: thank you, president.ef gonzales, as usual, wonderful report that you tried to skim through. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> commissioner hardeman: we try to get things on record. one thing that i see that we don't ever talk about, and i don't think we -- the 12,500 calls, which is typical for each month, but then, you turned to vehicles, 26,500 vehicle calls, so i think there's a lot going on monthly out of each station. but i wanted to talk about our chiefs being honored, which is a real tribute to terrific. i mean, the chief, in her own right, but this is just -- we have the first u.s. senators, where they come from, woman -- two women from the same state, right out of here, even though barbara lived in the north bay and works in oakland, but she was a congress woman, and then a u.s. senator. dianne, our mayor, and now u.s. senator. nancy pelosi, speaker of the house. we have a woman ran fire department. it's amazing, this city -- we have an african american mayor, and a president of the board of superv

or did you want to go to commissioner hardeman. i see your name was up there first. >> yes, that's before commissioner hardeman chimed in. i think this is a very valuable discussion that we are having. and i think we are moving in the right direction. the chief needs input. she needs input from, you know, a variety of sources and a variety of people. she perhaps will need continued direction from you as well. they all had commissioners involved and still have commissioners involved, as well as people at various ranks within the department. and i think that's a valuable thing. we really have to make sure that people feel included in this process. that all of this doesn't have to come out of the chief's head. that there is a meeting of the minds, as to how best to proceed. so i think we are on the right track. >> it's a collaborative process. >> yes, definitely. >> commissioner hardeman? >> yes, thank you, mr. president. commissioner alioto veronese, i'm just really surprised hearing the names involved helping you draft this, they wa

and with paul hardeman and others with a proposal the committee was stacked and promised he would open a community center he founded a place for a site that paul hardeman and others got the fbi to investigate if there was hanky-panky going on with that proposal. and of course that was a moot point. so that is the sad story. >> that there was no evidence of hanky-panky. because it was not necessary. >> earlier i heard you talk about the friendship with harvey and had they known each other for a long time? before he was elected? >> i think he genuinely admired moscone he because he fought to repeal the sodomy law in 1975 and he knew that moscone he was a good friend of the community. he ran for office and 73 and boston rhiannon 75 and ran again and 76 finally in 77. but 75 when he ran and lost as soon as he knew he had lost he immediately turned into headquarters for moscone he for mayor he was m the president of the california senate to become mayor of san francisco and did a wonderful job to bring out the gay vote and he won by a little over 4000 votes and with diane feinstein and had

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