i'm sorry. >> president nakajo: okay. we'll call item 4. >> may i interject for a moment? have to go to a mayor's meeting, so i was wondering if i could give my report prior to item 4. >> president nakajo: we'll make that adjustment. >> clerk: director's report. report from jeanine nicholson. report on the activities of the fire department since october 23, 2019 including special activities, outreach and changes to other government policies and the public. >> good morning, commissioners, command staff and everyone else. thank you for being here. chief jeanine nicholson. this is my report since the last fire commission meeting -- and thank you for making an adjustment in today's calendar. i do have a department head meeting with the mayor at 9:30 downstairs. we've been continuing our visits. i visited station 52. i visited station 51 a week and a half ago, and we're getting good feedback, i'm getting good feedback from the folks in the field on those visits, and then last night, we had a town haul at station 49, and our very own mayor, london breed, was in attendance, and t

thank you. >> president nakajo: thank you very much. commissioner hardeman. >> commissioner hardeman: on monday november 18th we have our retirement scheduled at headquarters at 4:00. just as a reminder. i wanted to comment as well on the ceremony. i believe chief anita bradley, she gave remarks. i tell you, that was some really inspiring and enjoyable comments. she's got talent. it was just enjoyable how real she was and how honest she was and how she brought everything in perspective. i really enjoyed that. to cap it off with the vice president, we had an opera singer that was really fantastic to be able to add to that and the atmosphere. she said something about us san franciscans everything and we celebrate earthquakes as well. it's the resilience of everybody within the department and city and county of san francisco. i know everyone is prepping for the next one or trying to prep for the next one. i wanted to remark on that as well. thank you for all of that. i appreciate it so much. madam second? >> item 7. agenda agenda for next

nakajo. i would say the commission has been great. the department has always been supportive of this. i would point out that although the e.m.s. 6 team spend all of our time working on this, responding, we really depend on all the members of the department working on calls, responding, identifying when patients are at risk, even just identification and supporting. really -- this is a department wide effort. although the e.m.s. 6 team may be the mechanism, it depends on the team that are responding to the people. i'm grateful to the commission for this discussion today. >> president nakajo: you folks are the boots on the streets. you are the ones that are dealing with it in terms of the streets of san francisco and it's not easy. thank you very much. madam secretary, can we recall chief wyrsch in terms of completing item 6 on the agenda, and could you read that item, please. >> clerk: yes. report from operations, deputy chief, victor wyrsch. report on operations, including greater alarm fires, medical services, bureau of homeland secur

if you don't at this time, please feel free to e-mail me or president nakajo. all right. okay. great. i would like to propose more information on the drone program, the preparations. i understand from chief wyrsch's comments earlier that people have been selected for the training, so i think it would be nice to get some more details about that. all right. well, seeing no other comments, next item, please. >> clerk: item number 10, public comment on item 11. public comment on all matters pertaining to items 11-b below, including public comment on whether to hold item 11-b in closed session. >> commissioner covington: would anyone from the public like to comment on this item? okay. public comment is closed. commissioners? >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. i move we go into closed session. >> commissioner veronese: second. >> commissioner covington: okay. moving to go into closed session by commissioner cleaveland, seconded by commissioner veronese, so we will now go into >> clerk: 11:49 a.m. >> commissioner covington: thank you, madam secretary. we have had our closed session, an

thank you president nakajo, vice president covington, commissioners good to have you here. i'll start off with our academy. i know chief velo is giving his report, he'll give you more detail. but we did start the members of station 49 in our suppression academy this week. so we are going full bore now. and you will get further information from chief velo. on the 11th, myself and several of my staff, including chief tom met with the san francisco general hospital foundation. and we went through pes psych emergency services and talked to them about how we work together and sort of what their capacity is and how we can work better together. and we talked also