commissioner veronese. >> commissioner veronese: chief, looking at these retirement numbers, in the last three years, how many classes have we had? you said we're keeping up and that's great to hear. how many classes have we had in the last three years? >> i would say six. approximately two per year. >> commissioner veronese: so in the last three years we have been in the plus 20 there and perhaps even another 20 here. okay. >> yeah. i think we've managed it pretty well. >> commissioner veronese: looks like you have. that's not an easy thing to do. especially when you have to look so far ahead and dealing with budgets. how does it work with budgets just to educate me on this? when we lose somebody to retirement, that's a full-time position that's freed up here at the department. right? and that position is anticipated in the budget, obviously, that we present to the mayor's office, right? >> yes. it's not an exact science because as you know, it has changed since even when i came in, in 1990. typically we saw most people working a full 30 years and being at least age 55. that has changed

>> commissioner veronese: page . the numbers that are in red on that page. >> president cleaveland: what i had seen, what i saw in that report, and i talked to them is there is a 50 % -- 52 % call reduction from repeat callers who were calling a lot less. that is my understanding of it. that is basically telling us it is a successful program. we are trying to target those kind of colours, repeat callers and bring that down. a 52 % reduction. that number doesn't sound right from 144 to 49. not sure if i'm looking at the same numbers. >> commissioner veronese: maybe chief's annals can. >> vice-president nakajo: this. page 11, achieve. the numbers in red on that page. am i reading that wrong? >> the way we reflect these numbers is from the high end callers, like the people that are at the top of the list, "called the most and we look at the reductions and how often the highest people call. so what we are showing here is not that we've dropped the number of people that are calling, it is a number of calls. the numbers th

commissioner veronese had a question. >> commissioner veronese: i appreciate the high school congratulationsuation of your youngest -- graduation of your youngest child. chief, could you give me -- if you don't know right now or at a future meeting, several months ago i had the privilege of visiting station eight and next door to station eight there is an empty lot that the station was using as their parking/they had a park and fountain. and that space had been torn up by agreement of the city and next door. i think it was linked in maybe building a monstrosity next door. when i was there the whole thing was torn up and i had seen pictures when it wasn't torn up. it was pretty nice. i was wondering what the status is of that side yard for that station. if you could give us an idea. i believe linked in offered to pay for -- if it is linked in. had offered to pay for a new side yard and some amenities out there. i just wanted to know what the status of it was, if you know. it doesn't have to be today. >> he is reluctant but he usually has some good information. >> president cleaveland: welcome chief

commissioner veronese? >> commissioner veronese: quick question. i noticed popping up around the city are these signs on buildings that are in violation of the soft story compliance. are you familiar with what i'm talking about? is the department tracking that? >> so all seismic issues are handled at building department. structural issues. so that's outside our scope. any compliance issues with that would fall into the building department. >> commissioner veronese: i guess my point, once there's an earthquake it quickly becomes within your scope when the buildings are stacked on top of each other. i'm wondering if the department doesn't track how many buildings we have, or how effective this program, the soft story compliance. i noticed there's a lot of buildings getting into compliance and that's probably a matter of shortage of finding people who do it these days. i would be interested in knowing and perhaps chief gonzales we could make it part of the report for the next month as to how many buildings are actually in compliance so we could keep o

thank you very much. >> commissioner veronese: thank you mr. president. on the drone issue, to commissioner nakajo and commissioner covering to be i don't want to take credit for the document. it was drafted by then chief francisco. this is being done all over the country already. we are the center of technology but way far behind on this one, so a lot of programs and procedures and how this is set up in departments this is all already done by some of the departments even in the bay area. when you see it, i think you will confident yourself that a lot of those questions are already answered for you and once it's presented to you if it's not answered we can add further content to answer those questions for you, so i guess that is the part of this process of drafting this policy and having it before you. if your questions aren't answered they will be in the final draft of whatever it is that we approve. one question for you chief. back to the boat. talking about happy things this is a pretty cool tool. i noticed it has two fire extinguishing apparatus on it

. >> commissioner veronese: we had a three-alarm fire last week and as i recall there was one department injury, if you could give us the status on that? >> sure, the fire was around 10:00 p.m. on saturday night the 21st 8th avenue, one civilian fatality and we had a member transported, treated and released and he is doing fine. >> chief, your had mentioned actually, what i will do is i will reserve my -- no, i will do it here. the department does a lot obviously every day, and chief gonzales gives us the quarterly or monthly report, is it month monthly? probably at the next meeting, but there is a lot that the department obviously does and you and i were speaking earlier and i mentioned to you one of my best friends had a severe heart attack on friday afternoon, and engine 2 saved his life pretty much. they had arrived and done cpr and i believe it was medic unit 85. >> engine 2, medic 85. >> at some point i would love to acknowledge them once i learn more about exactly who was there. he had a severe heart attack and he is doing extremely well and actually stood up today for the first t

>> commissioner veronese: thank you at commissioner. so far, last meeting, i have been working, in our last meeting, i mentioned i was working with -- met with the chief about the peer support unit resolution. since that time, i took it off to local 798 and had some conversations with them about it. they seem to be ok with the current language. i'll discuss further in the next agenda item. and then i did have the pleasure of visiting the arson station down at the old toy program building. a great little building over there. they can build to the law enforcement building around it, essentially. on my way there i got lost and i stopped in station four and they were more than happy to take some of the deserts i brought for the arson guys. i got to hang out with them, and take a look at it and get a tour of the station. it really is beautiful, a state-of-the-art station. it is worthy of this department, and it's cool to see. so i was there for a little barrett and i went over to station two, the arson task force over there and had lunch wit

. >> commissioner veronese: -- joanne boston. i have a vast network from around the country, and whenever they come to san francisco, one of their first stops is senor sisig. not only do they bring pride to san francisco, they bring people to frequent other businesses within their area. having to fight for this and having to do this during a time when we are celebrating asian americans and small businesses, it saddens me that we have to do that, especially since filipinos have a history of displacement here in the united states and san francisco. my family came here after world war ii. they were kicked out of their neighborhood in north beach. i live in daly beach, but i was born here in san francisco. having a place in this city is very important to our community, so i hope you support the small businesses and senor sisig. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> i speak today in full support for the condition of no food at 701 valencia so that senor sisig can return to their business. i am a mission resident just living ri

. >> commissioner veronese: we have the peer support thing and i will distribute it to us this week to the rest of the commissioners. >> to the rest of the commissioners, right. anybody else? all right. >> item seven. adjournment. >> president cleaveland: seeing -- any public comment on this? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, what's your pleasure? [laughter] >> good morning, everyone and thank you for coming my name is rosy form treasurer of the united states and the form of empowerment 2020. >> yeah. >> empowerment 2020 is an initiative to durnl encourage a million women we 2020 to go in leaders positions it is request quality day and the one hundred year of the 19 amendment that give woman the right to vote joining me on stage a margo the ceo of ma tell. >> (clapping.) >> 74 percent have been girls in middle school express interest in office only girls are expressing an interest in computer science 50 percent less graduating are for girls than thirty years ago i've spent 8 years of the treasurer of the united states to have a portrait on the photo in our public