thank you. >> president nakajo: thank you very much. this particular point, i will ask for public comment on this presentation. seeing none. public comment is closed. commissioners, questions for the presenters? >> vice president covington: th. mr. higueras and mr. jasmine, thank you for your presentation. i particularly appreciate the forward-thinking regarding the training props wells the new location, the preferred characteristics. i think you hit the nail on the head here regarding that. one site i think we should say eight acres since it's 7.7. let's round it up to 8. that way we don't fall short. adjacency to bay shoreline for ease of water rescue training, i think if we're going to move, we really do need to amp that up a bit sonja that i'm glad that you included it. also within reasonablly reasonat to san francisco. thank you for the presentation. i wanted to see this in detail for quite some time. it's very important we have the place for the next generation firefighters to be trained in the facility that accommodates what's ha

. >> president nakajo: thank you very much. chief nicholson. >> we are open to questions now. >> president nakajo: thank you very much, chief. at this particular point, commissioner cleaveland. >> commissioner cleaveland: des to have very good and vibrant strategic plan. you giving us a good update on the fair departments. is there something you can give us in written form and provide your report to the commissioner so we can have time to further study and digest it and compare it to the strategic plan that was put together about 30 years ago? i had a question on the a. -- alternative destination. is that something we can move forward on? do we have to have medicare and -- do we have to have state and federal sanction to take somebody to an alternative place in the hospital? >> i are defer to the chief on this question. >> it's a pilot project now. ipatients will be able to be transported to facility that's more appropriate through medical needs. most critical will go to one type of facility maybe to a secondary facility for ot

>> president nakajo: i see your name on the docket. >> real quick president nakajo. thank you. excellent report. i'm glad to see you and all the folks and the leadership. 130 firefighters watching that on tv. that was a dangerous thing to be close to i thought. my only comment is the new hospital, only bad thing i know when we were having meetings, this big end for variety of reasons to be shrunk down and which is too bad. you have hospital building disaster, building that's one of the strongest buildings probably anywhere. should be there for an earthquake. i think that we have knock it down by 50% because of variety of shadows and height and traffic. that's the only negative i see about that. it's nice to see that it opened. >> president nakajo: thank you very much commissioner. at this point, thank you very much chief gonzalez, part of your report and operation with that commission myself, we acknowledge certain officers and certain command force personnel. i wanted to acknowledge lieutenant baxter who is here. great job that you do for our p.i.o. officer as well as chief ri