i am a representative of ifpte local 21. we represent employees throughout the city and d.p.h. i'm here to talk about an issue that involves understaffing of a particular team within d.p.h. this team is the procurement team for information technology. i moy wynona is aware of what i'm talking about here, and the commissioners should have received a letter detailing what is actually going on, but i wanted to emphasize the importance and urgency of this. since the implementation of the f.s.p. program, this team of employees has identified their workload has increased significantly, a 440% increase in the minimum time required for data entry perrequest. at the same time, the size of their team has been reduced. while just for comparison, the materials management team at san francisco general, which does a similar type of work, their staff was increased by 19% at the same time. some of the consequences of this has been increased amounts of staff sick leave. there's been an increase of reports of stress. there's been an increase of human error. most seriously, there was an employee

yeah, honorable commissioners, my name is paul kim, and i am a union representative for ifpte local 21. we represent civilian fire inspectors and fire engineers. the reason i'm speaking to you today is on behalf of a member, mark mau, a fire protection engineer who was recently let go by the department. he started with the city in march of last year, but because of civil service exempt rules in our system, he was asked to repeat probation even after a year of service. because of that he was not afforded due process rights when he was investigator over an incident of alleged harassment. mark has been an exemplary worker, a supportive co-workers to his colleagues. we have collected 57 signatures from his co-workers, and we ask the commission to re-review this case and reinstate mr. mau. i also invite his fellow co-workers to speak on his behalf. >>commissioner cleaveland: thank you. do we have additional public comment? please come forward. state your name, please. >> good evening. my name is janice chung. good evening, president, commissioners, chief. thank you for the opportunity to sp