outreach to other agencies including the public, and the report from administration, deputy chief raemona williams, on the department's training within the department, and update on status of draft drone policy. >> thank you, madam secretary. good morning. >> good morning, press cleaveland. commissioners. this is my report since our last meeting that was held on november 8th. i wanted to start off my comments by echoing president cleaveland, your remarks regarding our mayor. very devastating news yesterday when we learned that he passed away so suddenly. it was a real honor for me to work with him and for him. we were colleagues when he was a department head, and then, he became city administrator and then mayor and really got to know him over the last many years, and i had great respect and admiration how he led. he always led with respect and dignity, and he always respected people even those who had different opinions. he was one of the lawyers in his early days when he worked for the asian law caucus, and he was really a champion for equality. and one of the things he said was if it w

congratulations, raemona. it was a great pleasure working with you. thank you. >> thank you. vice president nakajo had a final comment. >> yeah. in this budget discussion, in terms of where we're at now and preparing, again, i can't help but acknowledge the support that mayor lee gave this department. mayor lee gave this department a support to personnel, two classes a cleayear, what we we with the replacement list, when we went with the justification of ems 6, so when we start talking about our department, where we were and where we're at now, we're at now because of the support of mayor ed lee, and that department and worked with everybody to -- to have us in the position that we're in now. and i think we all can acknowledge that we're in a good, serviceable point at this point, with serving san francisco, taking our job serious on all levels of our department, and so i just wanted to bring that up because it's not like we haven't been getting there. we are there, and we want to stay there, and we want to get better, so that's my point. >> absolutely. >> thank you. >> thank