thank you, commissioner veronese. one of the things that we've learned is it's about the multiagency coordination. i do not think that at this time that that's an overriding need for us to independently do something. i would emphasize and assure you that it is something that we do undertake. it is something that we undertake with our partners in collaboration because of all the reasons that are sort of specified. we'll definitely take it up if we have issues that need to be addressed. thank you. >> president nakajo: thank you very much. we have other commissioners. commissioner cleaveland? >> commissioner cleaveland: yes. i'd like to pick up on commissioner veronese's comments on the mentally ill. what percentage of your clients are mentally ill people versus addicted people and whatnot? >> i was looking at our internal data, and frankly, we don't have any internal data that measures what percentage of -- of the individuals that are homeless. i'd say it's very high. >> and what i would -- we don't have an exact number

commissioner veronese? >> commissioner veronese: thank you for your report. you did mention that there's an 1 11% increase over the past month, but in the last year, it's almost a 300% increase. i know that i mentioned this before, but now that we have this information, what are we doing with it? did we notify the department of health so that they know what's going on? i just want to make sure we're making the best use of this information. so i just want to make sure that that's happening. and then, if you could -- and i saw this morning, there was a -- a press release by the mayor's office, that they've reached an agreement with the board of supervisors on the comprehensive mental health agreement, and i'm just curious for a future meeting as to what the fire department's participation in that would be? >> i can speak to that, yeah. do you want it right now. >> commissioner veronese: if you don't have it -- skb >> i can't remembe >> yeah. in the mayor's meeting, we had the doctor speak, and i spoke with the doctor afterwards, and i said he was going to get -

commissioner veronese?> commissioner veronese: i remember i went along on a ride along with you, and i don't know if you remember this, but roc rocco utilized us, and i got to interact with him and he answered a couple questions. after my ride along, i professed my love for this program. i have a statement, and it's not directed at you, but at other departments. i strongly believe that this program exists because other departments are failing us. with that, i strongly believe that you're doing god's work. a couple of questions. i know we had some new hires coming out of the last budget, and that just goes to show the good job that you're doing. i'm curious as to why each of the hires are captains. i wouldn't be doing my job if i didn't ask the obviously question that why everybody that's being hired into this program is a captain person? >> i can answer that and then i'll hand it over to chief pang. one of the important design aspects is we need people to ask as supervisors when they arrive on scene with e.

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