commissioner veronese. >> commissioner veronese: chief, that picture of you is priceless. i'm not going to ask who you were on the phone with. >> with the chief. >> commissioner veronese: okay. that's a great picture to be used at another moment. getting to this narcan, july to september 2019, thank you, thank you. this is great information, and it shows that from july of 2018 to september, we've more than doubled in narcan administration, and it appears to be some sort of a spike in april -- straike that. it goes in april from may to 181, a huge spike. i don't know what's going on on the streets, but clearly, something happened at the end of may that could cause that to -- would cause that to spike, and i'm not sure if the department of health has this information but if they don't, we should probably give it to them because it paints a picture of what's going on in the streets, and it would be great to know what the strategy is because these numbers have gone up. it's gone up to 214 from then. is this something that we see once this strain -- is it fentanyl or opioid str

>> commissioner veronese: no. i understand this chart is probably as a result of something i asked for, and a lot of times when you start collecting information, it's not entirely accurate because you're pulling in from different places, and you have to work on those statistics, so sure, chief, let's get together and talk about that because i know that staffing is an important issue, and i'd like to learn more about it and really make sure that we get these numbers down accurately so we can use these numbers to report to people that need to know so that we can then begin a strategy to get these numbers down to -- so that there's no red on this piece of paper, assuming that they're fully accurate. okay. great. thanks, chief. we'll revisit this. chief, in regards to the drones, i wasn't going to let you get away with that. when -- and it is acknowledged that you took all the glory away from being able to announce that this is actually done, you know -- chief, i acknowledge that week after week, he gets up here and t

commissioner veronese, do you have any questions? >> commissioner veronese: yes, i have a couple questions from mr. corso. mr. corso, how did you get this grant? how did this come about? >> so this is a grant through fema that comes up every year, and we submitted our application. this is how we funded our new fireboat in the past, our new rescue fire and dive boat. this is an annual grant that the department regularly applies for. >> commissioner veronese: okay. so this is something that we know comes up every year and the department applies for it. >> correct. >> commissioner veronese: i'm wondering if we have a grant writer, if ten of these come up. do you think we'll have a grant writer by the end of the year at least. >> by the end of the year, that's our goal. >> commissioner veronese: and so i know that there are marine drones that exist, as well. are we looking at those capablities? >> at this point, no. i think to chief wyrsch's point, we want to nail down our program with this pilot and see all the impacts on training and d

veronese: just on commission activities. we had the fire department hosted a pier support training. there were about 30 members. the training was put on by the international association of firefighters. my foundation, the national first responders paid for it. it was a great program. i stopped in the very beginning of the program to say hello. sat through an hour of it. it's a great program being offered. i look forward to doing as many of these as we can. there were three or four different departments from all over the bay area that jumped in on it. which is great. there's more money there to keep doing these things. i hope that the department we'll do some in southern california as well. i look forward to the department and other departments contributing to it and with their people. i was really pleased to see it was a good show. we'll keep doing them as long as people show up to them. the credit goes to the thousands of contributors that contributed to the fund and everything that- everybody that was part of that. thank y

. >> thank you very much, commissioner veronese. commissioner cleveland? >> my comments will be tame in relation to our previous commissioner's comments. the wellness checkup program that you are going to institute, is that going to be mandatory so each member of the fire department is going toff a wellness checkup annually in the future? >> that is the goal, commissioner. we feel strongly that we've had conversations with the members involve and our philosophy is if we start going to the program the more we get out and the more folks we get there. >> you'll gain is what you are saying so it will start out as voluntarily and then it will mandatory. as it was previously but wasn't complied with with. those workgroups you put together, how many different workgroups do you have? would you say 20. >> between 15 and 20, yeah. >> the key ones would you say are the top three key ones? >> the disaster committee is one of them. we have several ems workers too leadership and ems groups. we have mutual aid, apparatus equipment action review committee rules and regula

i appreciate that. >> sure. >> thank you very much, commissioner veronese. commissioner cleveland, please. >> thank you, mr. president. i would like to echo commissioner veronese's comments regarding the training of our people in terms of what are the injuries out there and how are they being injured. the more information we gather and the more data we have, the better prepared we are to instruct them on whatnot what not to do. and you need to add ptsd as a type of injury our members get. i would like to commend you for setting up with i assume lieutenant baxter's health fairs. i think that's incredibly important for our members. i appreciate the station visits that you and the chief are doing and the other brass reaching out to the rank-and-file on a regular basis just means a lot to them, more than you probably realize yourself. i appreciate it personally as commissioner. and one question, you talked about the mission high school ems program. what would it take to add a high school, another high school in town to ems training program? >> so what's happenin

commissioner veronese has d us. are there any other commentr questions other than that? did l chief velo already? >> no, we did not. >> report from administration, y chief jose velo on the administe divisions, fleet and facility ss and updates, finance, support services, and training within te department. >> thank you very much, madame secretary. and good evening pre, vice president, commissioners. [speaking spanish] >> there we go. >> this is my report for the mof october. like i've done in the t few meetings, i have a comprehee report for you. i'm going to bry go over some of the highlights e report. and i'm happy to answery questions at the end. so some oe personal projects i'm working om continuing to attend meetings tt the feedback to give the administration's view and visior the work that's going on. aattea workgroup that came up with goo, positive ideas that we are goino dial down a little more. the war supply committee. every time i n opportunity i attend the meetini attended this monday's very pose meeting with 798 on health chece have a really good ideas of wha

. >> commissioner veronese: i am trying to understand.hen a member comes into your office is he coming to get a checkup or concerned about his job? >> well, the most common context in which we are going to see a member is in the context of return to duty. you know, 90 to 95% of the time it is going to be an uncomplicated process. the member wants to come back to duty. there is no reason why they can't come back to duty and so we facilitate that. >> so the percentage of your time is spent on return to duty and what percentage would you call that? is it 90% of your job is return to duty calls? >> i would say more like 75 80% just because of the fact that the end probationary candidate exams occur throughout the year. >> how much of your job is preventative care? >> since we are not involved in the actual care of individual members technically speaking, it is minimal. however every time we see a member for an examination for a return to duty, we talk about prevention. >> why is preventative care minimal using your own words as part of the jo