men and women through the want jeanine nicholson, chief of department.e've run a bunch of scenarios with the cost of ambulances and trucks we looked at leasing as well and, you know, as another um, option and the problem with leasing if we lease 20 murnlz this year have to pay that note moving forward what will we get next year and the year after yeah, it is a tight budget year and um, you know, we'll see that happens to budget meeting on friday and the questions that um, they will ask. and the supervisors on budget and finance committee burglary ask i imagine they will ask us some pointed questions we'll take it from there we advocate for the department advocating for the city and the needs of the city and, you know, our folks have continually put stuff together with duct tape and chewing gum it is amazing how they get the rigs in the our fleet but, you know, just great covid starting to come out of hole of i'm of the deficit with our rigs and you know had one order of 11 engines and 5 trucks and starting to come out of that and then covid hit and um, y

chief of department jeanine nicholson, present. president morgan will now recite the land acknowledgment. >> i sure will. the ramaytush oholone land acknowledge. san francisco fire department we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> thank you. item 2, general pub wlck comment. members of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. speaker shall address remarks to members as a whole. commissioners ar

i'm chief jeanine nicholson and this is my report. since our last commission meeting on may 8. on may 8, chief luttropp and i attended a policy group exercise with dem and pd and all sorts of other departments for a city wide disaster drill for earthquake and chief luttropp shown in the meeting, shined, i don't know the correct term. we have our plan-we have a disaster plan, a strong one, a good one and we are ready to go to work, so there will be some follow-up on that for sure group exercises which i think is really good and should happen on a regular basis with the city. the exercise with a 7.8 earthquake in san francisco, so that was-yeah, good experience. on mother's day, happy belated mother's day tocollins and commissioner feinstein. commissioner fraser and commissioner collins and i attended the sisal williams celebration of life and we went to church that day. it was really quite a wonderful celebration over at glide memorial and the end of a era. this week-monday we had the unveiling of the headuators mural. you may have seen photos of it, but seeing in person is pret

i know what they need to be successful. >> i have known jeanine nicholson since we worked together at station 15. i have always held her in the highest regard. since she is the chief she has infused the department with optimism. she is easy to approach and is concerned with the firefighters and paramedics. i appreciate that she is concerned with the issues relevant to the fire department today. >> there is a retired captain who started the cancer prevention foundation 10 years ago because he had cancer and he noticed fellow firefighters were getting cancer. he started looking into it. in 2012 i was diagnosed with breast canner, and some of my fellow firefighters noticed there are a lot of women in the san francisco fire department, premenopausal in their 40s getting breast cancer. it was a higher rate than the general population. we were working with workers comp to make it flow more easily for our members so they didn't have to worry about the paper work when they go through chemo. the turnout gear was covered with suit. it was a badge to have that all over your coat and face and hel

our fire chief, jeanine nicholson. our police chief, bill scott. our city administrator, carmen chui and a bunch of other department heads including dr. grant colfax, reverend brown and you name it. i appreciate the leadership of this city being here to kickoff juneteenth. it is important that we recognize this as a celebration, but also it is important that we take a step back to understand the significance of juneteenth. and, we know that this dates back to starting in 1863 with the emancipation proclamation and people in the deep south in rural texas not finding out about the freedom that we are enjoying today until two years later, some time in june of 1865. and then in san francisco, we can look back at when we started celebratory events, all the way back to 1945 or so, and really kicking it off with a number of local night clubs originally in 1950, but walter johnson of the texas playhouse really set it up in 1964 with the first juneteenth festival and parade down fillmore street. and here's the thing, what i have always appreciated about opp

chief of department jeanine nicholson, present.nt morgan will now recite the land acknowledgment. >> i sure will. the ramaytush oholone land acknowledge. san francisco fire department we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> thank you. item 2, general pub wlck comment. members of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. speaker shall address remarks to members as a whole. commissioners are not to

grateful for our trail blazing lgbtq department heads, including our groundbreaking fire chief, jeanine nicholson. [applause] and the rest of you guys too. i just wanted to touch on just a few quick things, because i don't know why pride is timed around budget season. you all know, i can't show my face unless i make sure those investments are taken care of and from day one on the board of supervisors, scott wiener has been the person to say, mayor or at the time i was supervisor, we have to make sure that those federal cuts for hiv aids that continue to come down the pipeline and continue to backfill them and that has been the thing i have done consistently every single year, and this year is no different, even during a budget deficit year. [applause] we have a bond that will help support not just harvey milk plaza to make it transformative so it is the gateway to the castro community with the rich history and vibrancy and city clinic is very important to the community so thank you all so much for your work and your advocacy. [applause] and let me tell something suzanne, you have to get more that

our fire chief, jeanine nicholson. our police chief, bill scott. our city administrator, carmen chui and a bunch of other department heads including dr. grant colfax, reverend brown and you name it. i appreciate the leadership of this city being here to kickoff juneteenth. it is important that we recognize this as a celebration, but also it is important that we take a step back to understand the significance of juneteenth. and, we know that this dates back to starting in 1863 with the emancipation proclamation and people in the deep south in rural texas not finding out about the freedom that we are enjoying today until two years later, some time in june of 1865. and then in san francisco, we can look back at when we started celebratory events, all the way back to 1945 or so, and really kicking it off with a number of local night clubs originally in 1950, but walter johnson of the texas playhouse really set it up in 1964 with the first juneteenth festival and parade down fillmore street. and here's the thing, what i have always appreciated about opp

our fire chief, jeanine nicholson. our police chief, bill scott. our city administrator, carmen chui and a bunch of other department heads including dr. grant colfax, reverend brown and you name it. i appreciate the leadership of this city being here to kickoff juneteenth. it is important that we recognize this as a celebration, but also it is important that we take a step back to understand the significance of juneteenth. and, we know that this dates back to starting in 1863 with the emancipation proclamation and people in the deep south in rural texas not finding out about the freedom that we are enjoying today until two years later, some time in june of 1865. and then in san francisco, we can look back at when we started celebratory events, all the way back to 1945 or so, and really kicking it off with a number of local night clubs originally in 1950, but walter johnson of the texas playhouse really set it up in 1964 with the first juneteenth festival and parade down fillmore street. and here's the thing, what i have always appreciated about opp

our fire chief, jeanine nicholson. our police chief, bill scott. our city administrator, carmen chui and a bunch of other department heads including dr. grant colfax, reverend brown and you name it. i appreciate the leadership of this city being here to kickoff juneteenth. it is important that we recognize this as a celebration, but also it is important that we take a step back to understand the significance of juneteenth. and, we know that this dates back to starting in 1863 with the emancipation proclamation and people in the deep south in rural texas not finding out about the freedom that we are enjoying today until two years later, some time in june of 1865. and then in san francisco, we can look back at when we started celebratory events, all the way back to 1945 or so, and really kicking it off with a number of local night clubs originally in 1950, but walter johnson of the texas playhouse really set it up in 1964 with the first juneteenth festival and parade down fillmore street. and here's the thing, what i have always appreciated about opp

our fire chief, jeanine nicholson. our police chief, bill scott. our city administrator, carmen chui and a bunch of other department heads including dr. grant colfax, reverend brown and you name it. i appreciate the leadership of this city being here to kickoff juneteenth. it is important that we recognize this as a celebration, but also it is important that we take a step back to understand the significance of juneteenth. and, we know that this dates back to starting in 1863 with the emancipation proclamation and people in the deep south in rural texas not finding out about the freedom that we are enjoying today until two years later, some time in june of 1865. and then in san francisco, we can look back at when we started celebratory events, all the way back to 1945 or so, and really kicking it off with a number of local night clubs originally in 1950, but walter johnson of the texas playhouse really set it up in 1964 with the first juneteenth festival and parade down fillmore street. and here's the thing, what i have always appreciated about opp

men and women through the want jeanine nicholson, chief of department. we've run a bunch of scenarios with the cost of ambulances and trucks we looked at leasing as well and, you know, as another um, option and the problem with leasing if we lease 20 murnlz this year have to pay that note moving forward what will we get next year and the year after yeah, it is a tight budget year and um, you know, we'll see that happens to budget meeting on friday and the questions that um, they will ask. and the supervisors on budget and finance committee burglary ask i imagine they will ask us some pointed questions we'll take it from there we advocate for the department advocating for the city and the needs of the city and, you know, our folks have continually put stuff together with duct tape and chewing gum it is amazing how they get the rigs in the our fleet but, you know, just great covid starting to come out of hole of i'm of the deficit with our rigs and you know had one order of 11 engines and 5 trucks and starting to come out of that and then covid hit and um,

also want to thank all of the south-enders who have come down today, including our fire chief, jeanine nicholson. thank you for coming. we are honored to recognize you, and thank you for spreading the gospel of bay swimming on top of everything else you do and amy, the floor is yours. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. i am honored to be asked her and i really appreciate that you are taking the time to acknowledge this great swim. for those who know me and those who don't, i find it much easier jumping into the dark waters of the bay at three a.m. then public speaking, but i will take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank the people that are really important that made this all happen. the first i like to thank is my family and my husband for the undying support and acknowledgment of this crazy idea that became a passion and then obsession, and so when it came to fruition we are grateful it is done, and so grateful for that. and then for all my friends and family at the south end rowing club. they are amazing group of individuals and they are all a part of my ability to completed t

also want to thank all of the south-enders who have come down today, including our fire chief, jeanine nicholson. thank you for coming. we are honored to recognize you, and thank you for spreading the gospel of bay swimming on top of everything else you do and amy, the floor is yours. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. i am honored to be asked her and i really appreciate that you are taking the time to acknowledge this great swim. for those who know me and those who don't, i find it much easier jumping into the dark waters of the bay at three a.m. then public speaking, but i will take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank the people that are really important that made this all happen. the first i like to thank is my family and my husband for the undying support and acknowledgment of this crazy idea that became a passion and then obsession, and so when it came to fruition we are grateful it is done, and so grateful for that. and then for all my friends and family at the south end rowing club. they are amazing group of individuals and they are all a part of my ability to completed t

grateful for our trail blazing lgbtq department heads, including our groundbreaking fire chief, jeanine nicholson. [applause] and the rest of you guys too. i just wanted to touch on just a few quick things, because i don't know why pride is timed around budget season. you all know, i can't show my face unless i make sure those investments are taken care of and from day one on the board of supervisors, scott wiener has been the person to say, mayor or at the time i was supervisor, we have to make sure that those federal cuts for hiv aids that continue to come down the pipeline and continue to backfill them and that has been the thing i have done consistently every single year, and this year is no different, even during a budget deficit year. [applause] we have a bond that will help support not just harvey milk plaza to make it transformative so it is the gateway to the castro community with the rich history and vibrancy and city clinic is very important to the community so thank you all so much for your work and your advocacy. [applause] and let me tell something suzanne, you have to get more that