president cleaveland commissioners, chief joanne hayes-white, assistant deputy chief, i want to say what an honor it is to be here. i look forward to serving, continuing to make sure that we're prepared, ready to respond and recover from any incident we might have. >> chief hayes-white: thank you. >> president cleaveland: anything you'd like to say personally about your background and looking forward to doing. >> i'm third generation san francisco firefighter, my family has 90 years of proud service for the fire department. prior to that, responded to 9/11, that got me to ground zero and homeland security. and a lot of major incidents and i'm ready to go. >> president cleaveland: welcome aboard. congratulations. >> thank you sir. >> chief hayes-white: we bid farewell and congratulations to the chief retiring at the end of next week after a very well revered career. did a great job in the field and in service training captain for two years and served as director of training. jeff, congratulations to you. do you want to step up briefly? (laughter) >> good afternoon commissioners, chief. i

fire chief joanne hayes white confirmed the results of the probe. >> there were findings of harassment. something obviously we don't tolerate. >> a letter from the human resources department to the chief said station 2 was hostile and challenging for women. was that true? the eight firefighters, most of them officers of the firehouse, say no. >> we didn't do anything wrong here. we did our jobs and yet, we were punished for it. >> their lawyer, raven sarnoff, says the city investigation was anything but fair. >> the fire department conducted an investigation that seemed designed to find otherwise. >> there's a truth to this story, and we're here hoping that the truth is heard. >> the truth, according plaintiffs who spoke exclusively to abc 7 news is that there's an i ipt mat between the firefighter and the chief -- a relationship where romero gave preferential treatment to her and he interfered with other officers who had to train and work with her. >> yes. he protected her to a certain extent. i felt uncomfortable to the enth dreeg trying to train this individual because of possible w

commissioner joe alioto veronese and commissioner joanne hayes-white. >>> public comment, the comment shall address remar a

commissioner joe alioto veronese and commissioner joanne hayes-white. >>> public comment, the comment shall address remarks as a commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. not to enter into debate with a speaker. the lack of response does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support with statements made during public comment. >> is there any public comment? >> please come forward. and identify yourself. welcome. >> good morning. i'm the author of 1906 the novel about san francisco earthquake and fire. and the documentary film maker of the finest ruins. after the 1906 earthquake, the citizens of san francisco passed the largest bond issue ever, $5.9 million to build a supplemental water supply system. that system has not been expanded into probably 15 of the most vulnerable neighborhoods. it was the work of absolute genius. there are two major components to it, a gravity fed system of the giant tanks. and high pressure december diesel pumps and there are 42,000 wood buildings not protected by that system. there are 300 out there with a li

chief joanne hayes white, san francisco fire department. thank you to the government audits and oversight committee. i know supervisor peskin could not be here today. piggy backing, i wanted to applaud you, supervisor tang and supervisor, and president breed, and making sure the residents are served adequately and properly and in our business in the fire department we always look for additional options, redundancy and we feel a measured methodical and comprehensive study took place and we are very pleased to bring this report and our findings before you today. a lot of work went into it. i echo what general manager kelly said about partnerships in 2010 when the awss was transferred to the p.u.c. we have working with the p.u.c. to upgrade the system and saw some vulnerabilities, in the sunset and the richmond district, and we want to focus how we could have additional options built in to protect all areas of the city. and in march of last year, the committee asked both departments to come back with a comprehensive report. i would like to ack

. >> clerk: item five, chief of department's report, report from chief of department joanne hayes-white since the current fire department meeting on january 18, 2018 including academies, special communications and outreach to other government agencies and the public, and report from administration, deputy chief jeanine nicholson on the fleet and if a facility, -- facility, status within the department, training and department. >> good evening, chief. >> good even, president and commissioners. this report captures activities since our last meeting on january 10th. as it relates to the budget. you just received quite a report from mr. corso. i did want to being acknowledge that we just completed the second year of this fiscal budget, and we are on track with our revenues and expenditures. regarding the academies, the 123rd class is in their 18th week. we will have a graduation on thursday evening, which is a change from our regular friday morning. it'll be thursday evening from reardon high school, and letters will be going out with further detail to everyone this week. we do anticipate 1