whereas joanne hayes-white entered the fire department in 1990, and became the first woman fire chief in january 2004. and. >> commissioner cleaveland: whereas chief joanne hayes-white has served the san francisco fire department with passion, integrity and honesty. and. >> commissioner hardeman: whereas over the nearly 30 years of her service to the san francisco fire department, joanne hayes-white has attained many goals and has worked tirelessly to achieve the goals of the san francisco fire department. and. >> commissioner veronese: whereas the san francisco fire department wish to acknowledge the outstanding efforts of chief joanne hayes-white and for her efforts to make the san francisco fire department one of the most diverse in the nation. >> president nakajo: be it known that the san francisco fire commission acknowledges chief joanne hayes-white, and thank her for her devotion and outstanding service to the members of the san francisco fire department and the city and county of san francisco. at this point, i'll take public comment on this resolution. if there's no public co

she will be the second woman to lead this department after chief joanne hayes white, and the first lgbt fire chief in our city's history. [applause] >> she has survived being burned in a fire in 2009. she has survived breast cancer. she has been on the frontline fighting fires, and she has saved lives as a paramedic. she has done the complicated work as a deputy chief to manage multiple divisions. this woman is tough. this woman is resilient. this woman is a leader. and i am confident that she will lead the department on day one. before bring up deputy chief nicholson to the podium, i want to take this opportunity to recognize our current fire chief, joanne hayes white for her years of service to the city and county of san francisco. [applause] >> thank you, chief, for not only your work as chief over the years, but also your support during this really challenging transition. and i also would like to thank all of the members of our fire commission. we actually have a quorum here today. the number of interviews that they had to do is the number of interviews i never would want to do for

at this time, i would like to give our chief, joanne hayes white, an opportunity to say a few words.ank you, mayor breed. good morning, everyone. this will be even shorter and much sweeter. i'm thrilled to be here. i wanted to acknowledge mayor breed for her emphasis always and prioritization of public safety of first responders and the critical role that they play in our city. so thank you for that. and i'm also here to offer my heartiest congratulations to janine nicholson. she has worked diligently in over 25 years with the san francisco fire department. she gets the importance of teamwork, which is what we're all about. within our department and working with other city agencies. and i was really proud last year to promote her to deputy chief of of administration, where i think on top of her excellent career, she got a taste of what it is like to work and juggle different priorities. and you shined in that role. so i wholeheartedly endorse mayor breed's selection. and i wanted to acknowledge the fire commission and the panel that worked to select our new fire chief. we both guaran

welcome fire chief joanne hayes-white everybody. [applause.] >> good morning, everyone. thank you for being out here and preserving our rich history and tradition. i am grateful this will be my last time up here as chief of department. it is a phenomenal privilege and honor to sheriff as your chief for 15 years. today is about three things. we started this back a long time ago. now we are talking about 113 years commemoration. we commemorate those that suffered great losses and injury, including the fire chief in 1906, 113 years ago. we celebrate the city's resilience and use this to know about the important of disaster and emergency preparedness. all of the departments are working shoulder to shoulder to make sure we are ready when that challenge coming for us. thank you to all of you here this morning. thank you to the men and women of the san francisco fire department. you are here this morning. neighborhood emergency response team program is wonderful. to mayor willie brown and mayor london breed and someone to be celebrated every day all about preserving the city hi

on behalf of the president of the board, a resolution commending an honoring chief joanne hayes white for her outstanding as the san francisco fire chief of the city and county of san francisco. >> madam clerk, i need to confer with you a second. >> thank you, colleagues, for your patience. colleagues, we have an imperative item which requires the board to adopt to separate findings by eight votes, before unanimous adoption on the item itself. let's take the sunshine ordinance finding first. is there a motion that finds the resolution is purely commendatory for the -- >> it's purely commendatory. >> okay. so can i have a motion -- >> mr. president, i would move the brown act and sunshine purely commendatory findings. >> and also the brown act? >> city attorney, john gibner, because this is the first imperative item i think this board has considered, i think it is worth just a moment to talk about imperatives. generally, as you all know, state and local law requires that the board place on its agenda any item that you're going to vote on at any meeting. an imperative item is an item th

preparedness where london breed gave an honorary flat outgoing fire chief joanne hayes white.o presented a special vintage fire hellman to resident down a little point. guns and took a moment to remind people of the importance of earthquake preparedness. >>looking out for one another getting in our neighbors to make sure that we take care of one another and ultimately this is about building a safer more resilient. a san francisco and so this is an opportunity to remind san franciscans about that. >>the george washington high school marching band also provided some of the entertainment for the afternoon and enjoyed a free lunch for their efforts. the oakland city council has voted against collecting a controversial tax that would help fund early childhood education measure would have instituted an annual $198 tax on single family households. >>with a lesser tax on multi unit residences in order to raise $30 million a year for programs like early childcare preschool and college readiness programs. the measure was approved by 62% of the voters last november but still fell short o

joanne hayes white, san francisco fire chief for 30 more days. that's the reason for my comment. i want to acknowledge this is my last disaster council meeting. it has been an honour and privilege to serve. this disaster council is essential, as the chief-of-staff said. and what i've seen over my career is a much greater collaboration between agencies under the embrul oumbrella of the department of emergency management. i know that will continue. i've been privileged to serve under all of the mayors, mayor newsom, now our governor, mayor lee, and now w with mayor breed. and all have been very supportive and infatic that public safety and disaster preparedness be part of our daily discussions. i wish everyone the best. thank you. [applause] >> chairwoman: thanks, chief. we're going to miss you. so do we have any public comments? we can offer public comment on any items not on the agenda at this time? >> nancy worefold, again, speaking on items not on the agenda. after over 100 years of successfully serving to protect san francisco from catastrophic fires, our city's unique traditi

people of san francisco, the san francisco board of supervisors are forever grateful to chief joanne hayes whiteand for your service to the city and county of san francisco. after careful planning and effort, chief, it is time to put down the charged holes and backflow preventers and lead the buffers own line to another officer tell the engine company, you will not be on the inspection line anymore for you have completed all of your duties as of friday. your work has concluded and we have -- we are so happy you are able to hang up your uniform and just be one of us. san francisco, board of supervisors, wishes you all the best and well deserved retirement. many relaxing days. i'm pretty sure you're not the type to relax much but try to relax when you retire. going to your next chapter of your life, i'm looking to seeing the seeing the chapter. i'm looking forward see you and having some time to sip some coffee and enjoying what's available in san francisco. i appreciate all your work. i want to remind my colleagues that this is small business week. we have to honor. if i know it's going to be rea

. >> chairwoman: item six, the chief of departments report, from jo joanne hayes-white, from march 27, 2019, including budget, acadamies, special events, and outreaches to other government agencies and the public, and report from operations, deputy chief mark gonzales, including greater alarm fires, emergency services, bureau of fire prevention and investigation, and airport division. >> in our tradition, we'll have chief hayes-white report first, and then we'll proceed to deputy chief mark gonzales. >> thank you. good morning, once again. before i start my report, i was remiss, and he was standing the whole time, but when i scanned the room, i did want to acknowledge firefighter thomas wong, could you stand? and he was a former s.f. f.d.reserve. good morning. there is ongoing discussions with the mayor's office related to the balanced budget that mayor breed needs to submit on june 1st, and our staff is working with christina de silva, and that would be deputy chief nicholson, mark corso, olivia scanlin to determine next steps as related to the budget. we have not presented before bu

four, san francisco fire reserve to present plaque in appreciation of chief of department, joanne hayes whitel buckley to present plaque and honor of the chief's service to the s.f.f.d.. >> thank you very much. at this pime, we hav timing, wee the privilege and the honor of have commander phil buckley and the members in our presence. i know, commander buckley, you have served the department really well and strongly. i believe it has been a 20-year relationship that you have had with this department in your fire reserve. >> thank you, president coshio and vice president covington. i would like to thank you for letting me come here before you today. we would like to take this time to honor chief hayes white for her commitment to the fire reserves over her years. starting as chief in training, and up through her years as chief of the departmentment her department. her commitment to the reserve program has been in valuable to our program. it has let us grow to where we are today. as you can see behind us, the numbers that we have. she has helped us out with getting all our training, equipment, al

a london breed gave an honorary plaque to outgoing fire chief joanne hayes white. read also presented a special vintage fire helmet 2 resident down a little coy again was and took a moment to remind people of the important is a the >>another getting in our neighbors to make sure that we take care oone another and ultimately this is about building a safer more resilient. a san francisco and so this is an opportunity to remind san franciscans about that. >>the george washington high school marching band provide us some of the entertainment and enjoyed a free lunch for their efforts. now our 4 zone forecast, let's step outside and show you how things look along the embarcadero in san francisco. >>deep blue sky and we can see the moon but it's almost a full moon today with chief meteorologist laura's cano is here with a lovely forecast for yeah, he's these couple days here they are specially had a nice one today tomorrow is going to be nicer view i believe that we're going to see plenty of sunshine around the bay area look at this evening working on still see these in

we will have reaction from a lot of people including the fire chief joanne hayes white she's been with the fire department for 29 years. she got a little bit choked up guys knowing this is her last time showing up as fire chief as she promised next year she'll come back as a civilian back to you. all anr a lot. well. now to >>big story this morning. another possible exposure for measles in santa clara county. yeah and it has. >>happened at the google headquarters an adult went there and they had been diagnosed with the disease. crown for sarah stinson is live in mountain view. so far so good though as anybody else got the measles. >>so far so good yeah they're saying that no one else has a been cut has confirmed, no confirmed cases of anyone coming down with measles only that one person and they've said that this person is a san mateo county resident. and in adults they came here to visit googleplex and you know what a couple weeks later diagnosed with measles there crossing their t's dotting their i's making sure though because obviously google's a huge campus lots of people working h

service that joanne hayes white has served this great city. we are looking forward to working together to accomplish what we need to do. we are the fire department, we save lives, we respond to emergencies. we ensure that the buildings in san francisco are safe, and we make sure that our duties and staff are well-kept. thank you very much, mayor breed, for this. congratulations, and as we say, let's get working. thank you. [applause] >> all right. that concludes our press conference. there will be a swearing in at a later date. you all will be invited. i'm really excited about this, along with so many other incredible things happening in san francisco. thank you all for taking your morning to be here. and, again, congratulations to our new fire chief. and we will be happy to take questions on the side from the press. that concludes the press conference today. thank you. >> ladies and gentleman, the chair has called the meeting to order. turn off your electronic devices. can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance t

alo has former mayor willie brown he also showed up joanne hayes white the fire chief this will be her last time as fire chief presiding over it has she's going to retire in about 17 days from now so very special. we don't have any remaining survivors because the last one died 2 years ago so this homeless they remembered to build a month say he was the last one who survived who was just a baby at the time and then from that location they went to this location right next to dolores park. so they hopped on a vintage cable car to about the 3 mile ride across the city and they also honored this location, the survivors talked about how it was just chaotic, right after the earthquake and how the city rebuilt and there are still many buildings that we know of right now including the palace hotel in downtown san francisco market that survived the 19 oh 6 earthquake. and if you're wondering if this will continue indefinitely. the answer is yes because it looks like everybody still excited about it james and area that people continue to turn out every year and they said as long as people love it

is this evidence is a police chief bill scott he is speaking right now he just followed him, joanne hayes-white the fire chief who is 15 days will retire from the fire department and before that was the former mayor willie brown and cameron mayor breathe. they were all here are there still here look at the hundreds who are gathering at this location in a couple of minutes from now they will have a moment of silence to commemorate the earthquake and all those who died. >>they make keep quiet just debris seconds only she can hear us or any police chief is not good and >>the night this is also her last year at so greece and so i just want to recognize the take it off great ok we'll tripod and we'll talk as long as we possibly can before that moment of silence just to give you think you i taste of what's going on so this is live tv joey a savage just took it off the tripod on the get into this and a lot of them are addressed in that era. this is what they were in 19 oh and probably years as a date yes, this is a big deal for san franciscans bird because it showed that we survive write this down. >>

preparedness, san francisco mayor london breed gave an honorary plaque outgoing fire chief joanne hayes white and she also presented a special vintage fire helmets to don a little coy to also took a moment to remind people of the importance of earthquake >>another getting in our neighbors to make sure that we take care of one another and ultimately this is about building a safer more resilient. a san francisco and so this is an opportunity to remind san franciscans about that. >>also on hand the george washington high school marching band providing some of the entertainment and everyone enjoyed a free lunch for their efforts. >>san francisco's back seat could increase to 25 stance supervisor valley brown introduced a plan includes increasing the cause for single use bags as well as banning plastic bags used for produce. the hope is who bring reusable bags to stores in the bay area, sam, a tale of how close and pacifica already charge a quarter for those single use bags. the san francisco board of supervisors has approved a proposal that would add a fee to the cricket section of the famous lom

city officials including fire chief joanne hayes-white took part in this annual tradition and say thesary of the great earthquake and fire should also be a day to make sure you are prepared for an emergency.>> it is just a major catastrophe for something like that to happen. they were so unprepared for something like that. >> i think it is a good opportunity today to think about, you don't have a telephone, you don't have power. you may not be able to travel from one part of the city to the other due to debris in the way and really start thinking through those things and having those conversations with your children, with your parents and your loved ones. >> hears the sound of the sirens. >> reporter: those sirens we just heard mark the exact moment of the earthquake. the crowd gathered at lotta's fountain this morning. they held a moment of silence and also laid a wreath. this was the meeting point for so many families back in the aftermath of the earthquake and fire. it became a meeting spot, as a place where those families found each other and is one of the only structures in the d