next we have mr mark gonzales. welcome. >> hello. thank you for listening to my story. my family came to california on the european side in the 17 hundreds. we have been here for thousands of years. my ancestors were the first recorded indians and spaniard married. i just think of what the rivers were like at that time. we think about how complex they were. how they flew and how they were the veins of the whole state. the current conditions are obviously not adequate and i did go to the hearing in sacramento. one of the water agency said we have been managing this water very well for 100 years. my comment was, if you have been doing so well, why are we here? obviously, there has been degradation in the habitat, the fish population. the land. the way to ask babs that and keep it is with encased flows. to think we have the hubris to manage nature and say, if we do this now, this now, it will all work, we have been saying that ever since we have been in this country. give some thought to increase flows. may be a general turn. it will help a lot of things. it will fledge th

mr. vice president. all in favor? [voting] >> clerk: item four, chief of department's report. report from chief of department which will be given by acting chief of department, mark gonzales, onrent activities and events in the department since the fire commission meeting july 25, 2018, including overall field operations, greater alarm fires, emergency medical services, bureau of prior prevention and investigation, and airport division. >>commissioner cleaveland: good morning, chief. >> good morning, president cleaveland, commissioners. working on the budget, working with mark corso. mayor 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