president ken cleaveland sxhooukz commissioner michael hardeman chief of the department chief joanne hayes-white here good morning and item two general public comment members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, to the commission as a whole and not to individuals. whole and not to individuals. constitute an agreement of support for statements during public comment. thank you, madam secretary any members of the public who would recycle to speak at this time okay. >> item 3 proposed legislation from the board of supervisors public safety and neighborhood services committee file number - ordinance amending the fire code and housing code with at tenant of a smoke alarm and require the building owners to file with the testing and inspection requirements every two years and amending the fire code and other codes to upgrade did fire systems by 2021 and upon completion of 50 thousand of work whichever occurs for the buildings to submit an action plan

president ken cleaveland sxhooukz commissioner michael hardeman chief of the department chief joanne hayes-white here good morning and item two general public comment members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, to the commission as a whole and not to individuals. whole and not to individuals. constitute an agreement of support for statements during public comment. thank you, madam secretary any members of the public who would recycle to speak at this time okay. >> item 3 proposed legislation from the board of supervisors public safety and neighborhood services committee file number - ordinance amending the fire code and housing code with at tenant of a smoke alarm and require the building owners to file with the testing and inspection requirements every two years and amending the fire code and other codes to upgrade did fire systems by 2021 and upon completion of 50 thousand of work whichever occurs for the buildings to submit an action plan

. >> thank you chief joanne hayes-white. >> thank you for the special preservation and the governor's office but most importantly thank you to our volunteers our assignment this year, the that led to this award was years and years of volunteer service prep to respond in a disaster environment and the it was lake county that got but recognized with the support that the volunteers were providing for the residents returning the human element really to be focused on the support of residents returning to a disaster area is very important we're training and training for a disaster here and i want us to be mindful that when the disaster is here we're the residents returning we'll be supporting each other to our volunteers thank you for the effort you've done so far and prepare prepare prepare that is what the going to have us survive the best we possibly, and thank you for the recognition. >> thank you lieutenant will anyone else be speaking no lieutenant please come back to the microphone. >> thank you introduce yourself. >> talk about nert. >> thank you, commissioner i'm lieutenant and i'm

. >> we have a great ri67 a lot of support from chief joanne hayes-white and director chief gonzales and they're ready to purchase the equipment. >> thank you the commission too because they have the resources they're doing very good financially and hopefully not a dip in the economy someday we will but we're getting catch up on that sticker 4 hundred was i spent half a day at the airport before the san bruno fire and they showed me how to use the joystick and the airplane and you see the windows and they describe the different things you use to put the fire out basically and that was a great experience so but very grateful that the airport continues in support of firefighters and makes the job good again, you have to remember i just marveled i don't know if mike harmon would have gone near that plane including the police officers that went into the plane knowing that was nobody knew it wasn't going to blow up and if not for people told me not on concrete where the puddles could have filled up with fuel it was one of the reasons that - anyway is the gentleman still here. >> no, he's

chief the department chief joanne hayes-white >> i'll just saying goodbye to the captain thank you very much this item will be given a general overview by the and fire marshall like him to approach the podium thank you, chief. >> thank you, chief and commissioners good evening and chief dan fire marshalls office for the supervisor campos legislation there are 3 areas and fire code that will be amended with that legislation i'll identify those 3 areas and to the impact on our resources within the implementation of the proposal so the 3 areas that will impact will be smoke alarm requirement and fire alarm maintenance and fire upgrade the smoke alarm proposal will require the building owners with an annual notice to post that notice in common areas the building this notice this informational sheet fire safety sheet will be developed in in conjunction with the building inspection and post on the website and posted in 3 languages english, spanish and chinese and will require that the building owners to issue a hardcopy of that to each of their tenants annually and requires the building owner

has to be reinforced in the budget that's my main - and i do believe i don't know if chief joanne hayes-white know that mark corso is here and part of those discussions about shared responsibilities with dbi would like to comment. >> correct we're continuing to - we agree and i think the legislation is good but it will burden us with additional tasks and so we want to make sure just like our saying we have adequately resources and we're working collaboratively and in conjunction that the department of building inspection i believe commissioner president covington was provided with some numbers of with we thought we needed by the fire marshall de cossio and mr. corso you can review that i'm happy to report we reached an agreement with the department of building inspection so 1 point one million dollars in the next over the course of the next year for a total of 2.2 to outreach for the community and in the investor and inspector as well as additional staff including those that are working to collect and track all the data. >> so thank you very much for that and may continue with that thank you

term kind of lead me to the chaos that might have occurred if not for yourselves and chief joanne hayes-whiteppreciate your partnership with the city. >> thank you so much for your services well >> thank you commissioner nakajo commissioner hardeman. >> thank you, madam chair naturally i appreciate san francisco appreciates the action for the duty you're not assigned to we were there in a pinch using your education and abilities to assist sounds like if without your actions the person would not to have survived so thank you very much congratulations and i agree with you entirely with our statement about you don't know much about the fire department until you get involved and as a commissioner we learn the same thing the duties and how people go about their business each day is remarkable and lucky to have this great fire department in san francisco and back up from services like mta thank you very much. >> thank you commissioner hardeman commissioner vice president cleaveland. >> i'd like to say thank you for your heroic actions. >> i, of course, would like to echo that and want to thank the

today we now have a woman leading the largest fire department in the nation, our fire chief, joanne hayes white who is here with us today. [applause] in our cities government workforce, 58 percent of our over 30,000 employees are women chblt we have womeens holding some the highest offices in the city including city administrator, fire chief, department of emergency manenment director, public health director, port director, dreblter of environment and director of human resources and so many more. we are the first city in the nation to created a department on the status of women. thank you mayor, willie brown for your forsite and leadership creating this very important department and thank you to our director emily mur aussy for your commitment to women everywhere. [applause]. we have a vibrant healthy mothers workplace coalition which is partnership across several city departments, businesses and community organizations. the coalition promotes family friendsly workplace policies and supports all san francisco employeeers who want to help parents achieving work life balance. in my personal life

i see our chief joanne hayes white. so i'll turn it over to you, chief. thank you for being here. >> thank you good morning chairman kim supervisor avalos campos but we will provide you with an overview on some of your concerns could they are shared concerns, i believe you know that. on the morning, the afternoon of june 18 of supervisor campos, i called you as well as your colleagues, all three view from the fire department's perspective has always been available to me at off hours during the night if there's an incident in your district i feel warrants your attention. on that very afternoon i know you were out of town. i was it's always been a struggle. i'm the fire chief, mom first. i know you know my son was just recovering from open heart surgery. we actually were on our way home discharge from hospital that afternoon. at about 3 pm. once i got him home because i have your concern because of the fires in the mission, i made sure he was home safely i responded to the alarm. it was the right thing to do. again it's always a balance between my son at ho

today we now have a woman leading the largest fire department in the nation, our fire chief, joanne hayes white who is here with us today. [applause] in our cities government workforce, 58 percent of our over 30,000 employees are women chblt we have womeens holding some the highest offices in the city including city administrator, fire chief, department of emergency manenment director, public health director, port director, dreblter of environment and director of human resources and so many more. we are the first city in the nation to created a department on the status of women. thank you mayor, willie brown for your forsite and leadership creating this very important department and thank you to our director emily mur aussy for your commitment to women everywhere. [applause]. we have a vibrant healthy mothers workplace coalition which is partnership across several city departments, businesses and community organizations. the coalition promotes family friendsly workplace policies and supports all san francisco employeeers who want to help parents achieving work life balance. in my personal life

today we now have a woman leading the largest fire department in the nation, our fire chief, joanne hayes white who is here with us today. [applause] in our cities government workforce, 58 percent of our over 30,000 employees are women chblt we have womeens holding some the highest offices in the city including city administrator, fire chief, department of emergency manenment director, public health director, port director, dreblter of environment and director of human resources and so many more. we are the first city in the nation to created a department on the status of women. thank you mayor, willie brown for your forsite and leadership creating this very important department and thank you to our director emily mur aussy for your commitment to women everywhere. [applause]. we have a vibrant healthy mothers workplace coalition which is partnership across several city departments, businesses and community organizations. the coalition promotes family friendsly workplace policies and supports all san francisco employeeers who want to help parents achieving work life balance. in my personal life

today we now have a woman leading the largest fire department in the nation, our fire chief, joanne hayes whiteour cities government workforce, 58 percent of our over 30,000 employees are women chblt we have womeens holding some the highest offices in the city including city administrator, fire chief, department of emergency manenment director, public health director, port director, dreblter of environment and director of human resources and so many more. we are the first city in the nation to created a department on the status of women. thank you mayor, willie brown for your forsite and leadership creating this very important department and thank you to our director emily mur aussy for your commitment to women everywhere. [applause]. we have a vibrant healthy mothers workplace coalition which is partnership across several city departments, businesses and community organizations. the coalition promotes family friendsly workplace policies and supports all san francisco employeeers who want to help parents achieving work life balance. in my personal life and home i'm surrounded by strong women. m