2024.) >> for all. >> good afternoon this is the regular meeting of the fire commission and this meeting is held in in-person members may provide public comment on at a physical meeting location or call. >> public comment call-in: 1 (415) 655-0001 / meeting id: 2662 320 0276. >> the webinar password is 4, 3, 2 , 1 and members of the public may address the commission for up to

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will read land acknowledgement. >> unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush (rah-my-toosh) ohlone (o-lon-ee) who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. rights as first peoples. >> thank you >> thank you speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel.

personnel. personnel. commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. >> is there any public comment. >> nobody is approaching the podium public comment is closed. >> doesn't have april 24th. >> any public comment on the minutes. >> nobody is approaching the podium nobody on the line. >> commissioners. >> [off mic.] and vice president, aye. >>

(microphone distorted) . okay. >> very good. >> thank you for pointing that out will therefore move that after a member joins us and after a member joins us and

april 24, 2024, including budget, academies, special events, communications and outreach to other government agencies and the public. >> greetings everyone. >> my name is jeanine nicholson, chief of department. this is my report abstinence since our 4r569 meeting on april 24th but greetings president morgan and commissioner feinstein morning and chief welcome to the big seat and thank you for sitting in today. (clearing throat) first of all, i know we discussed a little bit about the turnout gear the gear we use in fires free of certain chemicals call p and yesterday the board of supervisors passed the ordinance that i spoke about that um, by june there is still a lot more work to do, 2026 you

will not use or purchase the turnout gear in them. so that is going to be a big lift financially, etc. and we will keep the fire commission apprised of our progress as well as the board of supervisors. and the mayor's office with the progress on that i believe that is a first ordinance if the country mandating, you know, that in turn out gear for firefighters and in addition, i penalty sent link on the nbc piece on this and they did. on issues and some of our, you know, some of the pro-s and some of my concerns and logistics that i spoke about last time but

really what we need to continue to stress is that our members follow all the policies do air monitoring and dpe contamination in the that piece by nbc we saw lieutenant who also a breast cancer survivor and spoke about her experience. so pretty powerful piece i hope many of you got to see it it speaking of the overhaul policy people things are smoking and aware of air on air and under the health and safety chief i signed off on the um, a letter to do a study

on that are power aired purified respirators and testing those with a couple of truck companies so see if necessary worked at efficiency and got air pack the gold standard and so anyways i'm not certain of the schedule but they are lighter and have less weight on their backs. >> i attended the budget analyst prevention program fundraiser and sat next to scientist named arlene instrumental in with the san francisco fire department and cancer foundation and frankly for the country as far as

studying a lot of those toxic chemicals we talk about not o in flame retardants and instrumental in getting this p sort of attention around that and 10 or 12 years ago and working on flame reretardants in vehicles not providing protection atmospheric toxic and i will say fighting and car fire is one of the most toxic things we can do with all the chemicals go the plastics very toxic fires to fight she's working on that and owe her a debt of gratitude. in addition he attended the

japan ground breaking a wonderful event drumming and our spectator nancy pelosi was there and the mayor as well as other elected officials. so i think that plaza is going to be fantastic once it is finished and nice to be out into the community. >> chief and i attended the union square manual lunch the united nations guess united square is truly in his i have to say. and chief mullan continued our station visits together and visited station 49 where we spoke to um, some of members were coming and going and

visited station 22 and engine 22 and went to the airport and spoke to the members on duty that day. so this is good to get out in visitation and talk to people and see and seen and answer questions. >> yesterday a high-level staff meeting. we discussed quite a few things including the policies and procedures we're working on in development in different communities and the community are made up of many of our members. and sort of the process for those for making those policies and the chain. >> how to the feedback happens back and forth and the leaders intent made clear to the folks in the community. we also

discussed branding we are looking at really formalizing the branding that we do in terms of um, (clearing throat) outward and in ward communications material. and includes the font on programs and policies and so branding is really and broad subject audience i'm sure chiefs both of them involved in the process and can speak to it more if she would like and at staff meeting yesterday included dr. stephen changing and i'm really a impressed with his engagement we came from meeting from the meeting a meeting with the executive board of 798 around the health check and the chief

is engaged and really smart and um, she's been a joy to have took around thus far. also before the board yesterday was fire station 44 i north bethesda to say that earlier given the historic landmarked status the one hundred and three 4 class will be started at the end of june those candidates go through background and medical examines right now was we speak we expect to choose that class within the next month. and, of course, i need to leave today is a policy group exercise with mayor london breed and other department heeds

heads we're simulating a 748 earthquake with major damage and power interruptions and the displacement over one hydrothousand people and bridges down systems and, you know, we have all sort of folks ready to set up in our operation center and we also have support and chief will be attending that meeting with me today. um, and so looking forward to it and that concludes my report. for today. thank you. >> thank you. chief. >> any public comment? >> nobody approaching o - and

we have one member of the public. >> good morning. my name is chris the chief spoke about the health of firefighters. and something is coming up with the city right now we're looking at a system by human sires agrees called sherlock a military grade system that can cause a person to start a fire or get cancer we've been talking to the commission asking for um, support for the people that gave out credentials so human services gave out credentials to politicians i urge you the fire commission to look at that seriously and go to aging and disability commission to speak about the same thing. thank you. >> i see nobody approaching the podium and there is nobody

on the public comment line. >> all right. public comment is closed. (gavel) >> i guess can we move back to approving the minutes now we or what order. >> i believe commissioner collins. >> oh. >> with the historic designation for the station 44 what impact do we know what impact they have if any on planned communication? >> thank you for that. >> oh, go ahead chief. >> no please go ahead you're more qualified than i am. >> that's not true but good morning (laughter) vice president fraser and commissioner feinstein and commissioner collins and commissioner nakajo i'm shawn

the deputy chief and commissioner collins thank you for the questions that was well-thought-out myself regarding the landmark some of the impacts with the costlyer possible costing and what we'll be able to write up we looked at the fire hazards the last time and need another renovation. we thought that was good for the community and important for the city we moving forward with that and with those things in mind. >> any other questions for the chief? >> chief i had one questions are you still there? >> yeah. >> okay. >> yes, i'm still here. >> there was a mention in the packet about the mural project at headquarters is it your review can you say more about

that or - >> no again, i think that chief can speak to it. >> okay. >> sure thank you for that vice president fraser a partnership with partnering with the academy we work with them quite often regarding the headquarters is the zone and feel with the walk when you wake into headquarters and important to us that headquarters bring the history of the fire department and so this is first start of that and block 5 back to headquarters and as well as other significant items to delay this is part of this initiative we're to continue with that with other projects and with the

mural will be the ems related. >> i think that is great mural and it is sprained pained or mosaic. >> that is there fridays and we'll be there until it is complete. >> you're all invited. >> any other questions. thank you. >> thank you. chief. um, our president has joined us [off mic.] >> otherwise we have this report. >> all right. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> so i was running late sorry i missed our report chief and i still worked during the day my boss wanted to have a staff meeting at the same time so i have to straighten him out on

that laura i'm here. >> so is the discussion approving the minutes is there any public comment? >> on. >> there is no public comment. >> okay. >> so is there a motion to approve the minutes from april 24th. >> second. >> moved and i'm going to have to recuse myself i was not present and commissioner feinstein recused - and commissioner nakajo the motion is approved. okay. we believe deputy chief deputy chief shayne kaialoa up next. >> good morning commissioner

nakajo and president morgan and commissioner feinstein and vice president fraser and commissioner collins my name is deputy chief shayne kaialoa this is my report for april 24th. began with homeland security assisting deputy brick-and-mortar on the same you see on our screen chief brown corresponds with the local agencies on exercises throughout san francisco or significant events and planning for any events whether that is weather related are natural disaster and coordinated with the task force three and our personnel for their training and our k-9 dog group. also corresponding with dem i'm going to touch on something that is one organization that chief brown

coordinate with the training regarding the operations for the proposed operation center. and if you're unaware the members during covid in the operation center also in the operation section and support services transportation, and any other aspects of the emergency center while the fire department center working and in coordination with dot i want to highlight to make you aware of that not only the fire department operations but our folks are trained to work within the emergency center and many of the folks do whether covid are weather events and and want to highlight that throughout the month of april as you can see here many events that chief brown coordinated one was securing the city a 3-day

radiation exercise was funded and we were work to send our personnel from the fire department to be part of that training over the three days as you can see some of the members from our department were able to attend that experience i highland this in any last report we'll speak on later but the technicians um, in coordination with our partnerships with the california highway particle this was to simulate that roads were impassable and research for more victims and the helicopter brought our technicians along

with the defendant three search and rescue k-9 into the training center at the treasure island facility while they're hovering over head and the dogs were unhooked from the helicopter and did a search found a live victim. but i'm sorry you missed it commissioner feinstein we had a video last time and in the month chief brown and staff attend the 1906 foundation and praepd in the drill where the director followed jeanine nicholson, chief of department. and president peskin and others the commemoration of 1906

earthquake and one hundred volunteers and some awards were handed out for the it's been a long time coming. volunteers and an exercise it takes many hands and um, many folks on the training staff and volunteers for the fire department specifically the hundred volunteers was impressive coming together to go over training during a disaster number one, taking care of themselves first with the first 72 hours and take care of the community and the neighbors and the task force operations supporting our operations when a disaster happens and also (coughing) in the month of april we lost lieutenant stephen as you know. chief involved in the planning

process along with chief rabbit in the audience today and many others a sad day to bring closure to fame and to this fire department. and respectfully request to a degree to close the meetings today in honor of stephen. >> moving on to our d e i get in john buford busy throughout every month coordinating with oewd and other cities agencies and bringing diversity and equity in every aspect not only this department but citywide. this month i'll highlight attend the apa heritage month and

women's policy submit and also attended the loma linda first one to speak on shift happens i'm sorry this is at shift happens with director kimberly ellis with the department of women and chief inspector and tom and matthew bringing some of that awareness to shifts happens discussing or discussing operations and disasters to the community and how they can get involved. in recruitment and outreach lieutenant anderson among the many things he does coordinated the stop at pip

burton high school a one-day two yap where they taught students how to speak on opioid overdose and how to overcome those with that and - but i really want to highlight really one of the gentleman here we had to folks put on this training nick and rich two of our newest h-3 level paramedics and it goes to show folks we're hiring and the recruitment is working um, and the outreach is work together working we video two of the new i am not individuals learning that quick and speaks volumes to the folks we hired and gave back to the community and young kids all in the department. and

instead of coming to work and leaving and forgetting. this is touching. and the very right top picture um, that is the s c expo was in livermore california too facilities one in livermore and one in sacramento and we partnerships with them and that is the fire commitment testing center we use fire commitment testing center the only testing center and has resources to assist in the success of the individuals taking that written test and the other test. they have practice sessions, they have monitorship sections and testing cpac a low cost and if

you, you are enable to meet that cost they have a program without paying the costs and thirty froepts that day over 1,000 participants including san francisco fire department and the very bottom it is the delivered here at and the battalion chief not much movement since i was here two weeks ago highlighting the studies that chief alba is participating in and coordinating with our san francisco fire i'm sorry cancer foundation we talked about the study and some of that is newest

in the order of the study were one of them we know that the health risks of not sleeping in the fire service in many other jobs, you know, i think that is had 90 runs in three days and that happens across the fire service and you're up late at night how it effects 0ur health and that's it and the over respiratory studies with the pers for not during firefighting active but the process and maybe that are in the air and the use of a paper during overhaul that

study has not happened yet but you're aware of the burning study he spoke of. >> and behavorial health unit captain on top of the slide this we know that is suppression what they're looking all of did i put it on here? i'm sorry, i pit things in under many thanks or things that the captain is involved in to assist our members. one is training. and training our members that is critical for the response team we have a response we are able to support our members any way we can physically and mentally and getting resources and touching bases with them to make

sure they receive that so 25 people attend that training and 11 members and that training will continue and heard me speak about pause for purple hearts bringing in the days ago with veterans that are visiting i believe three 2 and to socialize the dogs and have them work with some of our members with those dogs and that program is it's been a long time coming. we'll have them in headquarters for 50 minutes and also i believe they're going to train once a month and captain present and community group they continue to do that to proceed the word about the behavorial health group and communicate with the members to lessen the stigma

where people receive in the fires service as you can imagine i don't know if they are i want to say hard headed but some may - we're trying to less other than that, stigma and did a fantastic job in many other places. >> um, captain coordinator with the folks fascinated that effort for the foundation i spoke of in the last um, meeting regarding transit meditation and it helps with mental health in the fire services and many others. >> under the office of dr. changing i call dr. c and many

things you're going to see in the slide following this but what this is is dr. c and i first stations at i know that is very important for that we get dr. c outs in the firehouses to have discussions to build trust, to build a currently committee dr. trusted in the field that is very important for me and the fire department. so this was that first visited we visited treasure island and talked about the initiatives and we watched the evolution my intent to get dr. c into the live fire and unfortunately me timing was off

but we'll get dr. c involved it is very important for me that we build a competent dr. that he is part of fabric and trusted we're going to continue and went to station 48 equal and you see all the trainings that dr. c has jumped into the projects and initiatives and he'll speak on health and wellness committee. the health and safety planning committee and so many others you see there where dr. c is learning about this department and seeks information from other fire departments and using the connection to collaborate ucsf

and so dr. c is doing a fantastic job jumping in headfirst. >> investigative services the captain taught into the clearinghouse we had. >> (calling names.) >> both have classes commercial driver's license. we need to get them into the dots house for drug testing protocol and able to do that into of those individuals are now a part of california task force three out of the park and they were able to drive heavy equipment to any collection with that license and big win for a testifying

three and 8 members were participated in the probation alcohol drug testing all the breathalyzer were tested in april and continue to look at the california dmp notification for novels points fire department receives and the units we have a member who is - background investigations began one, 24 i apologize this is the one - starting that started on april 8th. and support services chief mike mullin as always no further do is just but one hundred and 8 requests for services were initialed and one hundred and 9 were completed the staff has reported the fire station 25 has been completed and beginning on 4/15 next week.

no - began - yeah. thank you. >> chief mullan in an effort to create one of the favorite words i talked about many times create efficiency and look at the money we're spending how we're doing it so chief mullins look at the operative and training over the next if i months to allow us to track the equipment and resources we have both suppression and ems to reduce the costs and e 0 o e took delivery and attended the fdic training department and international conference in

indianapolis to have our booth there and vomited relationships in turn out and equipment and have conversations regarding you are apparatus with him relationships. we'll continue our efforts. koufgsz you (coughing) under the earthquake state of deputy chief miller busy with many of the projects he served capital planning position advocating for. the fire department working on projects all over the fire department with the broilers and apparatus the main project um, or largest project is the facility i can

request to bring up chief miller we have a my name is i'll be happy to brief on it but i think that chief miller is better. >> good morning president morgan and commissioner feinstein and vice president fraser and commissioner collins. >> you commissioner nakajo and chief and staff i'm miller the deputy director my principle to provide information about the training. we are at a significant milestone and received the documents which the department has expected with feedback that was provided we

started design on monday of this week the documents didn't reflect that but a significant milestone and the site plan with the central location of structures along the present are determined and plan has gone through a full construction and estimate one budget a significant challenge earlier was $15 million over budget and there the business and fire department and the injust the of engineering team we made adjustment to the project to get it back in budget with minor program and skill those are things we're working on with a full scope across the project we're working through. i'm going to take a peak at my - >> so on the document here an

overview of the site and the area, of course, located at 1236 carol avenue i'm sorry of this is the heart and of the department and central to our success so, so o to all our sworn personnel begin their career with and members of team and potentially more importantly brought both this it extend first responders family and the families in their career. a little bit of an offer view $12 million at 12 acre site and approximately 58 though square feet classroom buildings and 5 three square feet of our

training structure unoccupied. a general overview of the project schedule like i said starting this will continue for 15 weeks and construction is proposed began at the end of 2025 and ending in 2028. >> so an aerial view of development and how it effects the community the light industrial and so to the south and southeast. >> focus on the site itself you're well aware of the parcels and put together the acres were valuable for the development and it is also detailed elective a lot components need to pass through to develop the site. so

the exciting part is the iteration of our design for the master planning for the site i see opted out site on carol avenue recommendation an attractive front and the main entrance is to the right of the dimension and up in the left the dark blue to represent a simulated san francisco city landscape they're built around the hill with different approaches for apparatus and ladders and the different structures have individual characteristics. there is a small and junior style building an garden junior 5 and there is

a building when simulates the fires in every way and other structure designed to represent a 4 story flat. and, of course, the 7 story tower and the four story residential and commercial structure it is more planning for semi structures basically two full walls and open would be partially floors and walls for the and trench rescue and exterior training the document that is 4r5b8d minimally developed it is from the need to capture and by the way, one of the tactics was in place to minimize the development as the team was not optimistic going to

reach 15 million as we made that budget we're working to find causeways to bring to master plan mind the areas with consideration of budget restraints and the restraints of chafgz of the area you'll see that dashed blue line represents the 64 shoreline before the hill was added and the major tactic to bring this as closed to the shoreline as possible to minimize the civil engineering and soil remediation. this is a 3-d renderings of the site in the neighborhood and a sense of what the structure looks like beyond the flat page. there is a 40 foot height looking for a variance to a accommodate the

tower. >> and as i said this is significant milestone for the design and engineering team and for the san francisco fire department we still are a long ways to go on the project. um, but it is my privilege to be part of this in any actuary years of fire department san francisco 28 in the fire service and truly has the potential to add more positive impact on more people more than anything else. >> with that, please - >> do have a a one percent for requirement. >> commissioner collins i met with the hard commission and 2

percent of construction budget a significant um, art enrichment program and one of the things we're excited about and have opportunities to employ that and ways we can help to build that in our organization and in connecting with the community. >> yeah. i like to ask a question and chief miller said they could run over budget and still going through the design phases would they think about making changes with the foundational gears or going through a different design in that regards. >> yes. to commissioner collins question last commission meeting put forward that desire that all building will peer down to bedrock this is the concept design phase with the engineers

and structural engineers have put fourth but a great deal technical investigation to be completed and planning additional warnings now we know exactly where we are with the structures. >> additional soil things or things need to occur and too structural you engineering plans to be developed so to do this particular information we have but there is a very good chance that plan will evolve and finding the intention, you know, to takeal the buildings to bedrock there is a chance that some of those fire training structures because of our small size and location to reach bet on the other hand, bedrock may be appropriate to use the gear by involves more if information about the soil and develop for detailed plans we have much

further to go on the real development sort of stechlgs at the point and expect numbers to change. >> no problems i pane you mentioned row medication and toxicology; right? >> at that point the information not major remediation issues to deal with. there depending on how deep the piers go with accommodated soil and with the higher costs and one of the factors we're concerning the go technical evaluation to minimize to take the soil out of the ground because of those natural areas.

>> commissioner collins. >> please understand i'm not a structural engineer but my point i'll restate it more. just that when in doubt let's not skimp ongoing all the way down those are not high-rise structures the risk is less this is an island so with the natural island so would he just want to be safe i'm very glad you got the structures down and that is a great, great move and as well as the go. >> yes, we minded to be firmly ground (laughter). >> and the concept design stages is an technician with the unopted structures definitely the 7 story tower to bedrock and

other market value buildings make a further decision. >> thanks and vice president fraser and - >> what is great project and wonderful presentation. thank you very much. >> and exciting really exciting tobacco see this come to fruition within my lifetime hoping and the only question i have for you brought up and will come up my part of our effort in the local community there because will cause some a little bit of disruption during the construction and potentially but what kind of to anticipate as far as local outreach and support [off mic.] >> at the. thank you. >> the communities outreach is an important part of the

process and held off until the design team and project manager we 19 had materials were appropriate for public releases and concerns about putting things out, too soon may not represent the final project but participated on myself and little project manager and architect we went to the hunters point and provided a public presentation of the first of a couple of presentations with that group. and we got feedback from them and working also with public works to outreach to the alice griffith association and neighborhood association and there church three groups looking to make contact with and the start that have public outreach process for definitely an important one i mentioned i

meet with some of the arts commission they're interested in participating with outreach and that's an opportunity to start connecting request the neighborhood and seeing what opportunities the neighborhood feels are important. >> i am hearted to here that and some hard work and continuing. the um, efforts, you, know, work with the neighborhood cracking helping to boost the neighborhood is i know you know that. happy to help you 19 in any way i can. >> congratulates. >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you, vice president fraser and commissioner nakajo.

>> thank you very much. mr. president i wanted to get to public comment before the rest of your public comments can i proceed. >> yeah. and think chief is not done with his report. >> have you concluded chief on your report. >> yeah. one more slide. >> thank you very much for that clarification. um, thank you for your questions too colleagues. your question vice president fraser community participation um, was what i was thinking about as well. >> i wanted to ask a couple of questions. first of all, is significance of this communication chief miller christ jesus to finally look at

renditions from a goal we've been talking about training for long time and things crept listed this discussion is in my opinion. >> the question nevertheless the longevity with the privilege of being reappointed myself we might be able to make that open that training center will be exciting exciting goal. to see renditions and cents narrating how difficult to get this site it is through legislation was a tremendous challenge and sometimes i think some of the

challenges and goals are not obtainable but changed my mind being a part of fire department. they can fail i've seen that and experienced it is really, really exciting and renditions and buildings are not the difference between is burglary and red that buildings and you had in our presentation what that looks like in heights and twufrz towers but to the right a republicantion for the future state park that will come up and something like that. but the things that sticks in my mind this property and trying to do whatever we want i think that the attitude to know i think we've learned a long time ago we

had an opportunity to build a site or training facility i need to doing everything we can and what comes in my mind the potential or housing and republicantion in terms of future housing and not only for the community but talking about for the membership of our department folks - when i looked to the right with the future state park i don't know what that means but i know i think coordination and support to acquire acreage to make that possible so want to say that congratulate everyone in terms of that endeavor and looking forward to the future thank you,

chief. >> mr. president and yeah chief were i don't think with your slides want to continue on? >> he was a sidebar chief miller. >> (laughter.) >> we're at a significant milestone in the project and i thank you, fire marshall questions. you've heard me say before no matter where we are in the department and what position this fire department is a part of the fabric of every single one of our neighborhood that is important to us question are out there had reaching out to the community and like chief miller discussed this is the firefighters of that effort. so glad you brought up the um, the arts commissioner collins we heard that loud and clear was

important to the community and important to us as with w we show what the fire department is and who that is and where that began and is history and depicting the paramedics and paramedicine and asking this fire department everything is important to us we're thinking down the line of what value does that site bring to the community not just the department what did it mean and how is the community involved looking at the space? how to get the community involved into this project so thank you for your comments and thank you, this is a significant site to give context since the

1970, 7.5 acre site and done well, for us and for fighting but organic for a major metro mr. ionin fire department it is to put out the fires? a great site doing everything we can but this site is the most important project for the fire department and chief miller has done a fantastic job with the stwrrldz and holdings folks accountable in the e-mails i advocating for the tear down and rebuild one of assistant chiefs not residents but station 7 was also for four

firehouses and we're left with justice this same thing but heard chief miller say $15 million under we stride there and thank you, chief miller without san francisco we're unwilling - we have right now at treasure island 7 classrooms great building an administrative building and training structures. so chief miller is on top that and continue that effort and see for this it fire department other than i have one more slide we don't have to show it for tomorrow malt. >> go ahead. >> it happens to be the first prestige i should on when i was

appointed to the commission um, on my second term however long my very first project and there was really a lot of concern because i gathered you can only use procedures from urban forester bones or certain projects and designate those projects i was under the impression that that bonds was used for training and i can't remember which fire station but one that needed that. and that there's been a lot of controversial with froepts about their costs, about their procedures, um, and yeah, i'm

well aware of the number abates there was a triangle and all sort of things but i have a little bit of concern with the all the things that people want to be put into the training center i think are all of fabulous ideas will we make 2 within the perimeters of bonds given we're already giving up things are important to the future of our town. are we going to make it? >> thank you for that commissioner. >> very early in the process very early. >> (multiple voices). >> can't be early- >> (multiple voices). >> can't be early. >> i know. we have a way it go

are we concerned yes are we confident yeah, we are confident we can get it done and advocate for everything we need moving forward. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioner feinstein i want to say thank you for your great report and chief deputy chief shayne kaialoa about the training center for kids to be allowed to come through that and by god's grace we can train some of the peep in the community through the training center and that that training center will be a blessing to bayview. and not only as far as training but the actual, you know, the construction and too, you know, maybe they can implement to

local hire and put it under ucla and build that training center. some of the people in the neighborhood can be involved with that. so they can feel more a part of the that project. >> you know, in this entirety. so, yeah good all the way around and positive stuff. thank you for your report. >> yeah. and once again i'd like to apologize for being late i missed jeanine nicholson, chief of department. report i would like to hear more about the p moss and seems interesting i think that report an nbc i saw it, you know, i don't want to say too much i don't know a lot about the subject by seems that

we didn't have a superstition of a substitute for the turnout and seen the report we didn't want to create too hazards, you know, one thing he know about the peat moss they did work, you know, i know their doing one more final test in july so anxious to hear that report about the tests on the peat moss turn out and i thought was interesting with the turnout the ones worn down more at the end 0 to be more dangerous i guess that was interesting too so - but, yeah i'm looking forward to hearing more about the turns out and hoping come to some kind of solution because of, you know, until actually, you alien come down from a planets on the

skill, you know, right now we might be stuck request the pete mace hopefully not but, you know, you know, it is, you know, it is it is what it is. >> curious to see how it it turn out plays out thank you for your report. >> yeah. >> um, madam secretary is there any public comment at this point? >> president one more slide if you don't mind for. >> oh. okay. >> apologizes. >> if you don't know want to congratulate mow green announced the retirement july 1st of 2024. >> i'm sorry. >> almost. >> so i won't give remarks new but congratulations to moreno and what the time comes i'll

speak more on it moreno is retiring we appreciate everything i do but give further remarks once we get to that date. thank you. >> chief and it will be hard to replace maureen but do our best, you know, i'm at subject idle gait a lot of the roundabout or assignment to commissioner a commissioner caminong grace /* graciously accepted a member of service commissioner nakajo will give us an update to find a replacement. >> we need to call for public

comment. >> yeah. public comment. >> and nobody approaching the podium and nobody on the public comment line. >> commissioner nakajo a that have the information upon the destiny for myself to work with the commission in terms of process on the steps of the posting of the point of was posted on april 26th provide by the director and close this friday may 10th traditionally two week postings the point of information a 50 applications are arrived on the did he give nation and director if president morgan to h.r. it is to have a

goal of 10 kwfltdz campus resumes sent to the fire commission the next sense of information i think i need to proudly put on the claurnz it is rather to require meetings and some dates of information and upon is derivative of president he recommended that h.r. recommendations sending to the file commission at least 10 required commitments that meet the qualifications. point of information h.r. director does the paper screening upon vice president fraser said more climate action plan clock the president says we do 10

qualified board member suarez they will be deliveries after this friday that means in the week of may 13th week this should be approximately 10 qualified columns coming down to the commission that the director the director from the president is that we on a tight challenging timeline perhaps by may 13th select a um, out of 10 kwfltsdz candidates a listing preferring minimum of one to point of three to 5 all 5 candidates can do that and the timeline. that information will be sent to the president to the vice presidents we'll look at the call in of a special meeting on the week of may 20th point of information polled by the

secretary for a special meeting on the week of may 20th we'll do a due diligence to select out of 10 columns and give presentations for each and the interview chair anderson projected in the week of may 28th. we're looking at a second interview if required in the week of june the third. as a point of information the goal is to try to offer a hire by at least june 15th the reason why it is maureen's last day is june 28th. so this is position because of deficit budget within our department we can't hire anyone the opening day of july 1st to do any training on transition and maureen has

committed to that position has remarked how much they loves the position will train the person on a schedule agreeable if we pull out there cd 1 through 4 i think a 9910 expect a retired retiree can be i'm paraphrasing i'm out of time to come back and maureen has committed to doing a very well and orderly transition with this new person that will start an until first. so mr. president i think we took considerational you have your directives and desires that's the game plan right now and any direct questions refer to the president and point of information maureen has done 10 years in the position under the

fire commission secretary as a point of additional information has served 24 and a half years for the sfoufr and served 10 years 20 years before that in a progression serving with a private attorney. it is birth sweets in terms of this particular announcement we understand we support her totally and a retirement date on and more therapeutic to work with her during the transition so we can do this what we call a smooth and orderly responsibility and love and duo investigation of this department mr. president that's my report. >> thank you commissioner nakajo and thank you. all the help you've done with that commissioner nakajo and

maria and thank you, commissioner nakajo lined hard to replace you madam secretary. but we'll try our best >> congratulations on your retirement. >> thank you. >> so should we move to public comment or are we ready for chief it's been a long time coming. >> we're ready for the chief. >> good morning commissioner christensen's commissioner nakajo and commissioner collins and vice president fraser and commissioner feinstein and president morgan congratulations in advance deputy chief sandra tong my report for april. under the direction of assistant deputy chief we see some of the

data we saw over the last three months our metrics for call volume as well as market share are consist from march a doctors in average call volume of three hundred and 66 and decreased to 9 three minutes for time and slightly by one minute. >> here i see um, think april the 8 is ems division joined to welcome our new h-3 academy request recruits and on the left do were outrageously the training how to assist and firefighter down and the other too pictures are recruits managing a patient found on the beach 2 training was done we can

help the class better to be better in communication and extricate anyone in a difficult environment and definitely had fun and recruitment as well as the communications and the bottom picture you'll see the newest cohort number 6 two weeks of orientation in the department and a group of 11 are doing the 5 hundred hours of ride along and job experience practicing the skills consensus thing we're working on heaping to get them to actually drive a vehicle as well as the delivery a patient and also in the picture on the left as you can see one of our recent hires zachary an h-2 also a city emt but our training

division tries to bring in the other congratulates of 99 of - >> so on april 25th we had a large multi-agency f c i drill coordinator by the department of public health public safety and resistance division but we participated in this operation exhaled operation - we had a number of patients 65 patients were tjd and found down in a view and four engines and four ambulances and with an battalion chief with the multi casual

units richmond a nice opportunity to a real experience with patients that we're able to assess and transport and also gave a realistic view to responder to an actual events it typically we have those types of drills tabletop drills toy trucks driving around only a table we're going to that patient on the corner of the table and require this amount of resources we have that number of people come and manage those we move them around. so this actually gave us a picture was it might mean to responds to a location and drive up to it and take out our equipment and go to the venue and look at the patient and identify the triage locations and determine, you know, who will be priority and

how we move them over to where they'll get additional treatment and transport them out. so this gave the units a real opportunity to look at that stresses them the amount of work and time and the amount of training that is required to this, you know, well and do that in a timely manner. >> but it was a real good opportunities for us to get community members involved and our city emt class team participated eased patient a fun way for people to see this is what is required to address one of the large-scale incidents and everybody did a great job we learned how to better train and handle the emergencies and this was all culminated by the assistant chief kevin who worked with a team of 49 so get people

ready our large-scale real life drills don't come often we want to take advantage of it and get all the folks get trained and be able to participate. it was a great opportunity to test a new act that was developed to manage those large-scale large numbers of patients and a can we response a startup company got a grant and worked to develop this app about hope us track and manage and triage and disperse patients and communicate with hospitals and the center to be able to say we have x number of patients and type of a severity and a number of beds we can

transport to and the technological opportunities for us to utilize an app in realtime to test that was an efficient way a coordinated way to manage the patients what we found a benefit typically what is having to where information on a piece of paper and use a triage we do this side by side to compare the traditional way of managing a patient loads i think that into methods will be important for us to be proficient because if they're, you know, way technology we're relying on cell services and that kind of environment to operate and when those services are down we will have to have something that will

start something significant we've been looking at a way it utilize the progress to track patients in an mc i offer two years ago being parts of a review device that stand a triage tag it was not readies for prime time we're close and so that was a great opportunity to test that and have members of the fire department coming associated with at&t to quit that tonight and test it out. >> so a great fun. and in the direction of during that most chief mentioned we received 6

new vans we oriented these in covid 19 and desperately needed we had nothing we started the street crises team we had to ask for some used vehicles we can used in the meantime, and put to go use we're very, very happy to get the new vans and on on board the rest of equipment. one of the benefits of finally getting those those vaps vans will serve as a relief fleet and also provides us with a little bit extra in case something should happen with one of the other vehicles in the department all of that is good but it takes time and the 8 we had oriented reduces to 6 because of price

increases anyways. there you'll see her recognized by the san francisco coordinating club and other department members were chosen for the police firefighters and sheriff's night and was chosen thorough or for organizing this for the paramedics we use all the time to help all of the folks we're dealing with and the thinking inset by chief scott on april this to proprietors the department report of senate bill 1180 that is a bill would direct lee healthcare plans to priority reimbursements for services prior by the paramedicine to triage designation or bragged

health program it bill allows us to get insurance reimbursement for our work as paramedics and trorpts to others designations. here you see the section chief of operations invited to present at the conference and that was an innovation submit and this is an in violation of section event only ambassador senior leaders within omc to learn among their peers and shared paramedicine with the national audience congratulations what we do at a national stage. here we go chief not with along with chief completed and leadership and

change management program by the c h.r. the program is 6 week program learning experience and successful leaders in city government and culminated with them presenting their own project and chief paging was regarded a substance abuse i don't know what chief k will but i can tell us later. some additional data for the paramedics they continues to do a great job on the streets in our report see a number of stories it highlight the coordinations with other agencies addressed an individual specific nominees one of the success stories really our response to request from other cities agrees to assist for

someone on they are initially on whether to support of the public conservatories but to assist police in trying to secure overnight housing for someone our teams the chief talks about us the safety net our teams respond and hopefully with solutions and 506789s with a solution that um, other agency and other response teams may not be able to do and finally on april 21st thank you to commissioner nakajo and vice president fraser joined other apa members marching in the cherry bloom parade we hitched a ride on the ambulance to get where we started and noted in the picture in the middle that

all of us got our start in ems on an ambulance whether or not you're a firefighter, now chief miller darcy and others and they all we all started on the ambulance which is fun to see us tonight in the back of an ambulance riding back under the parade that was nice that is my report. >> comments. >> nobody approaching the podiums and none on the public line. >> any questions from the commission. >> vice president fraser thank you, a couple of things jumped out at me love the pictures and the top - something to needed

and congratulations not done easily i know that. plus the new vehicles that is really great um, i had a question in the report a detail about the top candidates for 9-1-1 use. i was i'm i'm trying to understand a skilled nursing facility that presumingly hesitate licensed people working there including a medical direction is the top utilityer of any any services can you. >> i think most of those that are in response to the needing transport to a has to bring a patient to the hospital. >> yeah. >> okay. >> this is a routine

transport. >> moms emergencies and i mean, we will primarily responds to calls through the 9-1-1 system an be able and someone dies. >> okay. anybody dies given our discussion about budget i - i saw an item on the news about that this is common around the country ambulances are free troopts they call 9-1-1 because of that and instead of arranging for transport and pay for that we're doing it presuming for free; is that correct? and presuming they're 9-1-1 emergencies um, there are times when a private ambulance is not available but not to take anyone to a doctors appoint all the patients are taken to emergency

rooms. >> my mistake i thought people that just didn't know what - that helps me understand so thank you, a great report over all. thank you. >> chief. >> commissioner nakajo. >> thank you vice president fraser and president morgan that helps give a sdrapgs under the terms of that african americans rarity i also appreciate is it gives me an idea how many members are involved with the emt or fire services you use is word fun, i think that is important as well a perspective in terms of what the membership

see that day i want to let you know i very much appreciate that and wanted to ask a we think is s c r t that is for april 1st to april 30th because unusual i eyeball the numbers to paraphrasing about nine hundred april 1st to 30th the c r t is 1,000 plus i know a little bit of an increase but some narrative so we have finding of that, please. >> actually that number is just a little bit down from the month of march. >> okay. >> we had 12 i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of 0 psta did i we're think track request the number insist. >> thank you for explaining that i see i don't know if i had

bump up that number to an average of our service numbers out there but thank you for that and lastly, all the information like the training facilities what you 140ed that last photo people part of history of ems riding the buggy back from the cherry festival i think that is significant last we come a long ways, you know. >> from the days of when i folks were there from the department of public health and kind of like what are you guys doing during is emerging the girls. >> that great, great things to have if experience and that photo i particularly liked the dog in the photo so- >> we have two dogs.

>> thank you but also chief miller great our report how well show just right there with you. thank you very much. chief. >> thank you. >> colleagues. >> yeah. thank you for your report chief and gas stations on the 6 new vehicles you guys got finally and sad to see seems like of naishg administration consistently but the only thing i was down on but it is what it is. >> i want to commend you guys the community paramedicine division because the program is starting to spread out to others

cities and states you guys the pioneers you guys deserve a lot of credits you and chief pa n g arresting and others you guys are doing a great job thank you, fire marshall leadership and chief sloan want to commend her on her presentation to spread the word again conditioning par continuing paramedicine. >> i have within other question about the instructions reimbursed by the insurance

company the healthcare service plans reimbursement i guess to reduce 9-1-1 responses for ambulances availability and as a result of patients off-loads how did that effect that can you explain that one of the bullet points, you know, now, you know, as far as the healthcare service plan good samaritan the reimbursements. >> so the question is how we could. >> potentially reducing ambulance 9-1-1 responses to increase the ambulance responsibility with off-load times. >> oh. >> i'll let the chief speak

about that. >> okay. >> good morning president morgan and commissioner nakajo and commissioner feinstein and vice president fraser, and koalas the reason this bill not only for the paramedicine but transport to alternative destination in our city we have too veterans hospital and the sobering center is our ambulances of the fire department transport regularly to the sobering center but the private mr. hornsby in the system is not as going to the center they're not reimbursed but quicker turn around times for people served more appropriately there with the

diverted from emergency rooms the end result fewer improved decreased er overcrowding more ambulances in the system and decreased ambulance output time. >> thank you, chief >> yeah. he was occurring yeah, it is good news, you know, (laughter) the reimbursement. >> yeah. any other questions? >> any others thank you for your very detailed and great report. chief. and i guess i'll go to madam secretary any public comment? >> we already called no public comment. >> okay. >> all right. >> so um. >> okay. >> on a other questions.

>> we're going to public comment on all matters pertaining to items 6(b) and (c) below, including public comment on whether to hold items 6(b) and (c) in closed session. nobody on the public comment line and nobody approaching the podiums podiums and to the rest of the commission a motion to hear this existing litigation in closed session? >> so moved. >> second. >> i vote, aye. >> commissioner nakajo. >> and commissioner feinstein. >> i just like to um, read to vote on whether or not to conduct item 6c and

item 6(b) and (c) in closed session pursuant to government code section 54957(b) and 54956.9 and administrative code section 67.10(b) and (d)(1) we are >> okay, we are back in open session at 1102. item 7, report on action taken in closed session. as specified in california government code section 54957.1a and san francisco administrative code section 67.12b. with regards to conference with legal counsel on existing litigation, settlement has been approved

and is recommended to the board of supervisors. item b, the public employee discipline case number 202304 finding of fact have been approved. item 8, vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussions held in closed session. >> commissioners, is there a motion not to disclose? >> i second. >> i vote aye. >> commissioner nakajo, how do you vote? the motion issuenanimous. item 9, adjournment. >> i adjourn this meeting. >> very good. [meeting adjourned]

[music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your first encounter with the san francisco fire department? >> yep. it was super cool! i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. it is actually called, dry sand

piper just stand pipe. tomato. you know. yea. >> so, what is coming up next for what is that for? >> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. i close my eye its is like i'm there right now! wow! whoa. watch out, man. what is that for? >> what is this? these are fire engines they might look alike they are both

red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. if you can't tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on emergency scenes. >> what's back there? >> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine. >> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and

all that. this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. >> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music] >> mr. will. mr. will.

will! >> oh. daydreaming. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music]you. >> what do you think about working at an airport and i love it is busy all the time. >> we want it to be an those away was this is a venture if i

didn't love it i'll be an accountant. >> we want the experience that is a non-airport experience the negative stigma we're trying to erase that. >> everything is in a bad food to excite them about the food and they have time to learn about us. >> people are imitated by traveling and the last thing to do is come to a place fill of chaos. >> telling me how the extent of napa a farms came about. >> it was a vision of the airport director he had a suspicion of a really cool gourmet speciality market locally friendly products this market local flavors this is the

best. >> can we get a little tour. >> absolutely (laughter) ♪♪ ♪♪ >> so first on our tour. >> we have the clock we like to call it. >> this is coordinating it is made in san francisco. >> what about the customer presence. >> we like to get the permanent farther i love the cappuccino and you have to go to multiple places for the cupcakes the cup a cakes from kari's people want to live here they're longing phone call for one thing in one spot in you know anything about san francisco the cheese the most popular cheesy think a lot of the people from the west coast say so this the real san

francisco sour dough and they're curious. >> you find people respond to the idea of organic and absolutely. >> this is autumn. >> thank you, thank you and there's a lot of personal touch. >> i see san francisco. >> it's very hands on. >> what's the most popular items. >> this is quite surprising our fresh jotting this is the chronicle special a bowl of warm oats and coconut that's mites farther. >> and speaking of drinks tell me again the cocktail scenes is that one, the things your known for . >> the cocktails are fantastic. >> really. >> fresh ingredients we don't have a mixture it to order this

is our marcus bloody mayor. >> farmer's market bloody mary the bloody marys in the airport are great shikz it up. and then we're going to garnish it with olives. and some lime and a fresh stalk of selly. right on. >> we like .

>> (music). >> my name is package scott i'm a general manager and vice president of the yerba buena ice skating and bowling center. >> we opened in 98, we are celebrating our 25 anniversary. the last ice relation at 48

avenue with the redevelopment agency started to reconstruct a yerba buena the city had suggested how about around ice skating we have a podium we run from the tiny to the we have a whiff adult community of beginners and entering meats and so many people that only to san francisco and california for the east coast who grew up circulating and when they finding a pair they fall in love with that. >> my favorite ring it is a beautiful skyline and yeah. it is really nice (background noise.) our bowling center is adorable perfect for conference party and birthday party or have a good time and children's activity and

wonderful playground and a great area to relax and enjoy the view it is 35 part of the city and a lot of great places to go around and have lunch. skating is fun for the whole family we have an amazing program a huge adult population sea sorry about that in his skating and is or have a ton of programs it is walkable in their yerba buena community. we have everything you need. if i forgot our socks we have those and we charge a.d. mythics, inc., if you have no skates the general public typically e traditionally have public skating and open on the weekends and multiple sessions for everyone to

>> driver, bye. >> hi. i'm will b. mixture weltake a walk with me. >> i just love taking strolls in san francisco. they are so many cool and exciting things to see. like -- what is that there? what is that for? hi. buddy. how are you. >> what is that for. >> i'm firefighter with the san francisco fire department havings a great day, thank you for asking. this is a dry sand pipe. dry sand pipes are multilevel building in san francisco and the world.

they are a piping system to facilitate the fire engineaire ability to pump water in a buildings that is on fire. >> a fire truck shows up and does what? >> the fire engine will pull up to the upon front of the building do, spotting the building. you get an engine in the area that is safe. firefighters then take the hose lyoning line it a hydrant and that give us an endsless supply of water. >> wow, cool. i don't see water, where does it come from and where does it go? >> the firefighters take a hose from the fire engine to the dry sand pipe and plug it in this inlet. they are able to adjust the pressure of water going in the inlet. to facilitate the pressure needed for any one of the floors on this building.

firefighters take the hose bunked and he will take that homes upon bundle to the floor the fire is on. plug it into similar to this an outlet and they have water to put the fire out. it is a cool system that we see in a lot of buildings. i personal low use federal on multiple fires in san francisco to safely put a fire out. >> i thought that was a great question that is cool of you to ask. have a great day and nice meeting you. >> thank you for letting us know what that is for. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music]

i brought almonds. oh. you know, my budget is. i hear you got a big old budget going. good evening. the chair has called the meeting to order. if you could please rise for the pledge of allegiance. the united states of america into the republic for which it stands. one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. president lyons, i'd like to take roll. please do. commissioner benedicto, present commissioner yanez. present. commissioner yee, nice present. vice president carter overstone. present. president lyons, you have a quorum. also with us tonight is chief scott from the san fran