usually, we can handle them, but i had mark corso come in and join us. there's usually three or four of us, and it's the executive board of locate of 798. so yesterday, president o'conor, shawn buford, adam -- >>commissioner cleaveland: executive board members, how many? >> commissioner hayes-white: seven or eight, so there's usually -- >>commissioner cleaveland: it's closed session. >> commissioner hayes-white: so one month at local 798 headquarters and one month at our headquarters. they're generally, generally pretty productive. >>commissioner cleaveland: not something commissioners would attend. >> commissioner hayes-white: you're more than welcome. i have no issue with it. i think that would be something i'm more than open to, and i think local 798 would just have the courtesy of requesting, but i think it's a great idea. >>commissioner cleaveland: single point of contact you mentioned for the sfmta, public works, so we have a single point of contact for that agency? >> commissioner hayes-white: it's not public works. it would be more mayor's office

in the 400 million range, but i'm going to look to mark corso, is that about right?illion, give or take, but that's pretty much a solid estimate. >> commissioner covington: and this is new territory for us, is it not? have we ever reached 400 million before? >> commissioner hayes-white: no. so in comparison to about 383 last year. >> commissioner covington: well, it's wonderful that all of these cranes are out and about in the city so that we can get the money that we need for fleet and new hires and all of that. i believe that chief gonzales, two weeks ago, said that the person who was being interviewed for the grant writer position, that that person had been tendered an offer. is that correct or no? >> commissioner hayes-white: chief nicholson will respond. >> deputy chief nicholson. so i misspoke last time. we have two 18-23 positions that are open. one had been open from someone who retired, and one is the new one that was funded. so the retired person is the -- that's the person that we have interviewed for and tendered an offered to. >> commissioner covington:

mark corso, finance planning. yes. so our budget submittal was based off an initial assessment by the department of public works: they are currently in the process as part of the easter bond doing an overall assessment where they look at each individual department facility and make estimates on all the subsystems within that facility. there's some modelling based off of that. but back in 2014 -- with the 2014 bond, a couple years ago before that, they embarked on a preliminary assessment of all the facilities. one of the e. is as they looked into, as it wasn't under the neighborhood fire station's umbrella, since there was no emergency response coming from that was the chief's residence. so our numbers were based off an estimate provided by the department of public works, and i'm happy -- i will provide it to you in e-mail, as well, but they looked at roofing, exterior envelope, windows, mechanical hvac, electrical, sidewalk, kitchens, interior work, specialty systems and a.d.a. upgrades, and that's where they got a to

working on the budget, working with mark corso.or breed signed the budget. 124 academy's final week. the graduation will be on august 10, 9:30. 125 academy projection is early 2019. we're also planning a bump up class in the early fall, a projected class of 30 people, 20 of which will be entry level ones, entry level twos, ten of which will be firitiers to entry level three. we're also going to have an academy in late fall, projected class of 24. mayor's office update, request from mayor breed's office to the safety policy summit recommendations. we're working on the responses due august 28. on july 26, we had a wildfire deployment, mutual aid request. we had o.e.s. personnel on the state rig led by lieutenant asplan. they went to the cran fire down south. we also sent a strike team. team leader was brian reubenstein. they were called back up north and are at the mendocino complex right now. the strike team leader stayed -- he elected to stay. the actual strike team members were replaced on sunday. they might be coming back today.