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 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, you had a comment? >> commissioner veronese: not sure if you answered it, but someone from nert, if you could standup. maybe captain. captain, what type of emergencies do these individuals respond to? >> so all our -- all our original plan was to respond to the earthquake. the training came into existence in 1990 directly after 1989. and locally here in san francisco, the oil spill and the heat wave have been the two emergencies that our volunteers have lent support to. but we have a trained cadre that can respond out of the area, so we supported the firefighters in wild land and santa rosa. >> so it's mainly civilian support. is it civilian support of department resources or is it civilian support -- >> so it's really twofold. it's to train people to the level that they can relieve the burden on the fire department for the need to respond to certain things, and so in that partnership, anyone that takes care of themselves is one less person that the fire department needs to get to, particularly because

commissioner veronese? >> commissioner veronese: chief, i was at the baseball game last night, and i wanted to say that you did an amazing job representing the department. it made me proud to see you out there. you actually pitched from the mound which not many people actually do. so not only was it a great pitch, but you really do a great job representing the city, and i know you made all the firefighters proud that were there, and there were firefighters all over the state i saw that were at this game, so it was a really cool event to shine a light on the department. you did a great job. i had a quick question in regards to the wild land fires that are happening up in the north bay right now. it seems that they seem to be picking up, and i'm just wondering if you are getting any notice from cal fire. i know that the department always stands ready to assist, but is there anything that's being done -- these fires seem to be getting bigger and they're more frequent. is the department getting any notice from

>> 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

do you want to add something to a future commission. >> 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] >> i want to welcome you to this rededication ceremony today. my name is gail gillman and i am the ceo of community housing partnership. i want to acknowledge some people here with us today. supervisor kim from district s six. her district is joining us this morning along with senator mark leno who is right here and i don't see him yet, but supervisr safae and mayor ferrell is unfortunately not able to join us today. i really want to thank all of the elected officials and dignitaries joining us today. i b thanking other people in a minute. i think we should pause and think back to 2014 when mayor lee had a vision, a vision that housing authority properties, un

. >> 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