Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171117

Clerk next regular Fire Commission meeting is scheduled for november 8th 2017 at city hall in 416. After that in room 400. There are no meetings scheduled for november 22, 2017 or december 27th 2017. Members of the public may address the commission up to three minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and dwos not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall direct their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to department personnel. The lack of a response by the commissioners or personnel does not constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Thank you, and commissioner veronese has joined us. Do we have any Public Comment . Please come forward. Paul pendergast, i have the pleasure serving on the Small Business network and golden gate business association, im here today as someone who is a homeowner in Sonoma County to the west of kenwood. We were evacuated twice this month. Running for our lives. Im here today because it was because of the team work of the San Francisco fire crews that really, truly helped. We were saved, we were not one of the 8400 who lost their small homes or Small Businesses or large businesses. I wanted to express my sin here sincere thanks for myself, partner and neighborhood and all those who cant be here today but because of you many are safe and hopefully well all be there for the long run for all the people devastated. Thank you so much for your service. Thank you very much. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary. Item four approval of the minutes discussion and action to approve the Meeting Minutes of october 11, 2017. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners. Whats your plesher . I move we adopt the minutes. Commissioner covington moves. Do we have a second . Second. All in favor that is unanimous. Thank you. Item five. Approval to send letter from the commission in support of the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation to supervisor safai. Approval to send the letter in support of the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation and fire Safety Education. Any Public Comment on this letter . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Commissioners. Commissioner covington. Commissioner covington thank you mr. President , i would like to have the Commission Secretary read the letter into the record, please. Dear supervisor safai, i am writing to let you know the San Francisco Fire Commission supports the ruch program. We acknowledge the volunteers and phenomenal job they to. The foundation and program prep provides students enrolled in the School District with the valuable resources in fire safety and burn prevention. The children in turn educate family members about how best to protect themselves in the event of a fire. Therefore the impacts of this foundation and firefighters and Safety Education program are truly potential. Not surprisingly studies show this program has directly contributed in a reduction in fire scene injuries to children. We urge you to provide funding to help the programs thrive. Value of fire Safety Education cannot be overstated particularly in times like these with widespread fire disasters so close to home. Do not hesitate to contact me Ken Cleveland president , San Francisco Fire Commission. Thank you madam secretary. I would lick to move this item and thank you, mr. President for composing and sending out this letter. Do we have a second . All in favor aye. Thank you commissioner covington. The letter is approved. I think we all agree that the fire safety and Education Program is one of the most Important Programs we have going for our school youth teaching them how to maintain a safe environment particularly against fire is critical. The volunteers that participate in that program from the Fire Department are to be applauded and i encourage others within the Fire Department to step up an pamp. To participate. Its a very Important Program that were offering. Thank you very much. Next item madam secretary. Item 6. President cleaveland sorry. Commissioner veronese you had a comment. I noticed the letter is directed toward a particular supervisor. Isyn isnt it the custom to go through president cleaveland i think its the compare of the Public Safety committee. Its protocol. It will be distributed. I was wondering if that was protocol. I think that was the request that came in to president cleveland and Commission Secretary from the head of Alisa Ann Ruch specifically to commissioner safai. We didnt just pick somebody, i promise you. Madam secretary. Item 6, chief of departments report. Joanne hayeswhite on current issues, activities and event within the Department Since the meeting of october 111, 2017. Including outreach to other Government Agencies and the public. Good evening chief. Good evening. This is my report since our last meeting on october 11 regarding the budget, as you know, we ended the First Quarter of this fiscal year and continue to move forward on our equipment and fleet plan purchases. Just this morning, i had the opportunity to take a look at one of our brand new fire engines. There will be eight delivered within the next few weeks. There is engine 13 on the street. President cleaveland i understand you drove, right . I did its lying riding a bike. Its like riding a bike. R my hat is off to all the work that went into procuring and selecting these engines. The specification work was incredible. A lot of team work. The members of the division of support services under the direction of assistant deputy chief tony rivera all the members it a great apparatus. We were mindful of vision zero initiative. For example, front bumper used to carry hose on the front to quickly knock down a car fire or brushfire or trash fire. We went back to the old style. Not everyone agrees, but i think now that its out there, we have a hose reel so we were able to take off some length from the engine. Its a smaller profile. All of of the door handles are recessed and so theyre not sticking out. Just a lot of attention to detail. Very sturdy rig. Very safe rig. A lot of input was received from our members. But great job assistant deputy chief tony rivera and his group that made it possible. Also to the finance Division Division and working closely with the office of Contract Administration under naomi kelly. Were going to roll them out kind of methodically one by one in the course of the next several weeks. President cleaveland but we dont get to drive them . Not without a proper license. But you can have a photo opportunity. I got a few looks. I said let me take it around the block. Its been a long time, but its easy to maneuver much more so than the rig i remember driving. Back in the day. Thats great news. And what well end up doing is normally when we receive new apparatus we turn in the same number. Eight in, eight out. Well be applying for an and exemption to expand our fleet. I believe there are four that we felt are not really worth maintaining as a relief piece, but instead of turning in eight, well turn in four and add another four to our reserve pieces in the event of a largescale disaster here or for wild land deployment as backupapparatus. Al well let you know if there is any controversy on that. We understand that budget ininstructions will come out early part of december. I would recommend for your conversation, president cleaveland, that our meeting in december on the 13th that we would provide you the information that we received for our budget instructions. We can brief the commission then. I believe there is a meeting scheduled for Department Heads and for finance officers on december 6th well be prepared to present on december 13th. And we do anticipate before that meeting recon vining the budget committee. For those that are interested in continuing on the budget committee, we recently sent out a general order asking for new members to sign up for various committees. Thats in process. Regarding academies the 123rd academy is in the fifth week off to a good start. First week of testing looked very good. Division of training under the direction of assistant chief again very dedicated group of people. Training, what looks to be a good, dedicated recruit class. That, again, was a class that started with 42 off the list and joined by 12 members from our station 49 that are now working together as a group as 54. For the 124th class we anticipate i a march hire date. Well narrow down the date when we look at the calendars for next year. That is anticipated to be the same 42 mrs. 12. We have some members that we had interviewed and put through some process but well refresh the list and make sure we have the most uptodate list before the final selection for the class. Regarding what has been happening since our last meeting deputy chief gonzales and i touched on the north bay fires. We were in the case of santa rosa, the First Strike Team on the ground to assist partners in santa rosa and i just would like to appreciate the Public Comment from the gentleman, but personally, pay tribute to, we sent 12 engines, a total of 54 members up to the north bay fires. They had various deployments from daytoday, they were moving around because it was a dynamic situation. To the a 4 councilmembers 4 54 members deployed, we received comments. Everything was happening so quickly that according to the chief that i spoke to yesterday, there were having a hard time figuring out who was going to get deployed where. Having that relationship with chief franklin, we were able to anticipate we would get the call. But it hadnt come yet. We acted very immediately with the First Strike Team heading out at about 1 00 a. M. Followed by a immediateit need strike team at 4 30 and ambulance deployment as well. Chief bello was good at coordinating and making sure in addition to chief gonzales that the crews were healthy and safe. Chief storey helped out that morning. Assistant chief tony rivera with all the assistance4mj bay which is just as important as making sure our city is safe is that those two things could work. Everyone did gate great work. Ems was able to put together for the first time a strike Team Employment of our rescue team and captain and chief gonzales was in the direct contact with members on the strike team. Great work, most of them did at least a 10day deployment. Some a day or so less and some a day or so more. Theyre all back safely. Well be at a future date well acknowledge them and credit them for the work they did. It was atypical in that there are usually more organized rest times and in the first three times, there was not a first three days, there was not a lot of down time which is a concern because of safety and wellbeing. They were trying to draw more resources in. So everybody stepped up in ray huge way. We can be proud of their efforts. Also during that period of time from the 9th to the 19th, there were policies questions so we were able to convey our level of involvement in the north bay fires. On the 13th of october, actually that will friday we took a ride up to Sonoma County fairgrounds where we were able to meet up with a strike team on a rest period. That was friday after the first three days, it was kind of a whirlwind. They had a rest period. We spent time with them and were able to bring up they had plenty of water, but we brought up some refreshments to check in and say thank you. We did then take the opportunity after we said goodbye to the crews to tour the city of santa rosa. We saw the devastation in the coffee park neighborhood as well as the Mark West Springs neighborhood. Nothing that i have seen in my 27year career. Literally city blocks devastated. There is to the gentlemans point from Public Comment there is a lot of work that will continue to heal the north bay sonoma napa counties and well be there to support them to the extent that we can. I am aware that San Francisco is doing a great benefit next week at at t park not next week, november 9th, but all the proaldz of the proceeds of the concert will go to north bay fire relief fund. Oon. On october 179 we recreated the sonoma earthquake and participated in a Labor Management meeting with local 798. I participated this that afternoon in a bay womens summit working session. In june of next year, it will be two years after the june of 16, but june of 18, there will be a womens summit that ive been asked to participate in the planning for the 2018 summit. All of you im sure know about the tragic circumstances of october 18th where our crews basically had immediate response, i believe they onviewed where the Police Officer ellia was struck while riding on his bicycle patrolling the area near turk and franklin. Id lying to commend the crews that responded to that incident, it was a difficult incident. Hes fighting for his life still at San Francisco general. Krit he sustained critical head injuries. Id like the commission to keep officer luentanko in your thoughts and appraisers. We did respond to our partners to see what we could do including our stress unit. So, were hoping for positive outcome on that. But it is very difficult injuries. Very significant injuries he sustain. On the 19th of october i participated at glen park elementary with the mayors shakeout drill to keep people in mind about what you should do in the event of an earthquake how to prepare. We met with a lot of the students and while that was happening we had a station recall drill throughout our city and department and id like to acknowledge freef chief francisco for head quartering the drill. Thats how it came down on the thursday. But everything went very well and we have recall procedures per our general orders that we exercise and make sure our system is working well. Also that day i presented at leadership San Francisco class. Its run through the chamber of commerce. I talk to the group about how our budget works for the San Francisco Fire Department. I did the first part and weve done this a few years now correcter korso spent time to talk more specifically about the budget process. That seemed to be wellreceived. We had some good questions. Last friday, i participated in an Allday Department of leadership retreat at the academy of science that the Mayors Office coordinated. Its always good to see my colleagues from other departments. I found that to be productive day. On monday, this week, we looked at the adf which is an ambulance deployment facility. The plans look good. That will be a facility that is easter bond funded and will result in the relocation of station 49 over to the gerald street facility adjacent to station 9. Plans look good. Moving forward, well provide a timeline for you in terms of when the work will begin and completion date. Well meet with department of public works on friday to get some updates on easter bond funded projects. Lets see, 24th, yesterday several of us participated in pinning badges on members of our department that have availed themselves of opportunities in terms of emts moving on to paramedics. Basically we hired people in as emts and they have paramedic licenses now. They ascended to become paramedics working for us. Its going to be about a total of 35. Training and emf did a great job in training those folks. I hired over the last few years a number of h2 firefighters with paramedic licenses. Were hiring as firefighters and when they are they have demonstrated themselves well many will go through a threeweek tuneup for San Francisco protocols. There are h2s that are now h3 level threes. Its total about 35 members over the course of this fall have gone through and sought out those opportunities. So some of them invited their family members and we pinned on their badges yesterday and well do a few more tomorrow. Up coming events, all i have at this time is on november 5th well participate every year in the veterans day parade. That concludes my report. President cleaveland thank you. Do we have any Public Comment on the chiefs report . Commissioners . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner hardeman. Commissioner hardeman thank you, mr. Chair. The new apparatus, the engines, trucks, do you have that off the top of your head . Or how many are we expecting over the next couple of years . So in the the short term, well be receiving eight engines. I believe there are how many trucks three trucks are on order. Those take about a year to build. Then we have, and director korso has the information on. Were hearing from the fleet replacement plan we entered in a budget cycle were in better shape than we were a few years ago. A big win was getting a longterm plan. For a long period of time, at least since ive a been in the department there was a number of rigs purchased at one point what we tried to justify when you helped us as a commission is a more regular replacement cycle so there is not one big time where we have to replace all vehicles. We are playing catchup with some of our engines. Generally the thought is to add a few more. Were excited about it. Good. On the north bay so that was 12 engines, 100 firefighters, is that correct . We had 534. 53454. We have 12 engines. Each has has a captain. 12 engines times four people is 4. The other six come from strike team leaders. They didnt rotate off that crew. Correct. Commissioner hardeman thats why it was so difficult to get the relief. On day one, we had an immediate need at 4 30 in the morning where we sent some people from the stations. Generally, everyone that went up, stayed up there the whole time. Commissioner hardeman 10 days. Thats quite an achievement. Very grateful that we were able to do that. And there were no problems in the city to deal with. Im glad that you and your staff decided to do that. Im sure that was a maximum you thought you could do. So that is great. The other thing was quite odd because just like the same day the fires started, i was reading how santa rosa had the lowest available rental housing in the whole United States for comparable cities. Now the fire starts and its crazy how that happened at the exact same time. Thanks to all your staff, chief gonzales chief seraguza. Were very grateful good job and makes San Francisco proud that we were able to help our neighbors to the north. My daughter i was talking about my daughters property. Fortunately that day, next day the firefighters and the bomber and helicopter, the whole town of banger is gone. Shes in banger, but her property was saved. That was good. It never reached to coming on to her property. But it was extremely close. And she put out a big memo to all the people on facebook that she has many followers, how grateful to the firefighters and the bombers. When she saw the bombers drop and the helicopters, so that was really when it hits your family that was a cascade fire when the two merged. We had my family up there besides watching down here. Quite a time. We had the hottest year the most fire year wettest year its crazy. All these what a year weve had in california. Thanks for your report, chief. President cleaveland thank you commissioner hardeman commissioner covington. Commissioner covington thank you for your report chief. It was a comprehensive i made sure i stayed off the phones that i wasnt cowling you every day to ask how our folks were doing in the north bay. Im happy to know that everyone is well. Very, very trying circumstances. Very exhausting. 24hour period is exhausting. But three days, you know without any relief is quite something. And i certainly agree with you that we have every right to be proud of the members of the department and the role that they played in saving as much as they could. Saving human life. And also our ems staff. Helping to evacuate Senior Centers and hospital all that have adds up. Its a coming together of californians doing the best we can do for our fellow citizens. My hat is off to everyone, job well done. And you said you went up for the day or how long were you up there . We were up there for the afternoon. Wewe left friday at noon and returned about 5 00. Commissioner covington were you able to see former chief franklin facetoface . No we were not. I think he was over in the napa side that day. He moved to several different places. We saw about 22 of our members. We saw captain our strike team later and brook baker. The four engines that were assigned. Then there was another engine assigned to our strike team from berkeley. We met with them for about half hour, 45 minutes to check in and see how they were doing. Wewe were assisted by nick payne and Bernie Mcguire who came from the division of training. They followed the chief and i up there with a van of donated goods from safeway and market on market who stepped up and gave us a lot of things to you never want to arrive empty handed, so they helped us out. Good. When you were going through a trying period and youre especially experiencing through other people such loss there is nothing like someone from home. You know, even though home is close. Nothing like someone from home. And especially, you know your commanding officer, its like oh, my goodness it breaks things up and gives you an additional lift. So im very glad that you and the deputy took some time out. It was a winwin. It was as good if not better than the two of us if not them. It was a good afternoon to appreciating them and letting them know we were concerned about their health and wellbeing. Commissioner covington you got to eyeball them firsthand and say theyre find. Deputy chief gonzales only wanted to make one stop but we made three, so it was a bonus. Commissioner covington very good. Was he doing the driving . Yes, he was. I was doing the navigating but he was doing the driving. Commissioner covington i agree with commissioner hardeman with concerning the lack of housing in that area. I was greatly dismayed to hear a report i guess it was monday that some rental housing is now on the market in that area for 25,000 a month. I think that is just unconscionable for people to do such things. Anyway i had heard the same thing. I heard that the local counties aloud for some have a yans where variance where people that have lost their homes can put up a temporary trailer or Something Like that so they can live adjacent to their property as the property is being rebuilt which will help to solve the problem. The lack of housing is a huge problem. Commissioner covington it is. I am happy t3 hear that we still have 54 members of the recruit class and that is a testament to your picking people who are not just ready to do the job mentally but physically. That is very good. Chief and his staff do a wonderful job of preparing them even more. So i look forward to that graduation coming up soon. We have eight new engines. Not all of them have arrived. Youre saying that instead of letting go of the eight there will be four retained . There will be four turned in an additional four above the reserve count. Commissioner covington where do they usually go . Ill ask assistant deputy chief rivera to take that one. When theyre retired . So the vehicles are turned in to central shops and then the city has a contract with an auction house so theyre awgzed off. Auctioned off. Were allowed to remove emergency equipment like light bars or radios we deem we need for spare parts for our current fleet. Police cars, every car that the city owns goes through a turnin process and is auctioned off. Sf commissioner covington and the proceeds from the auction . Ithey go to the general fund. Commissioner covington thais thats where we got the money. So i guess its okay that it goes back there. I know that we have a number of programs for High Schoolers and i think we have one for Junior College as well. And some, i guess its two or three ambulances have been given to them since ive been on the commission. Yes. Commissioner covington since there is a ramping up of those programs, have you gotten any inquiries as to whether or not another ambulance could be given . Yes maam. Weve currently given two ambulances one to galileo high school, one to John Oconnell high school and were in the process of donating a third ambulance to San Francisco unified School District. Im not sure which high school its going to, but its in the process of being donated. Weve earmarked one of our better older ambulances to go to the students p. And to add to that we have in the past its been a while, donated engines to city colleges here in San Francisco. That is something wed remain open to. Another idea which ive discussed with chief rivera and gonzales is the Public Utilities commission. They have taken some of our engines and theyve painted them green. But they have refurbished them to the extent we wouldnt use them for frontline pump operations. In partnership with different ideas about water supply out in the sunset Richmond District whether or not they would be open to refurbishing some of the four that wed turn in. Open to discussing that. Commissioner covington i ask these questions because i was wondering particularly in the north bay if any of those departments might need something of that nature. Because when you auction something off of course unlesss they a monet or renoir, you dont get as much as its worth. Ive defer to chief rivera. I think our central shops and equipment do a great job in maintaining the apparatus. Theyre 92 and 93 vintage. We would be mindful there will is a reason why we would agree to turn them in. Theyve gone, i believe, the distance in terms of useful s for being even a relief piece. That is correct, chief. For example the four fire engines that weve donated to the puc the puc rebuilt the engines and rebuild the pump completely. Theyre not used for emergency bus theyre used for testing man manifolds and sisters and removing water. I think we would be open to entertaining the thought of donating them. I wonder if we can offer if theyre in good condition, because when the department, when the San Francisco Fire Department is ordering ambulances it takes a year or more for it to actually get to us. So our fellow citizens in the north bay theyre going to be facing the same problem. They may have the money in hand, they may have the monies earmarked but its going it take them some time to if theyve lost equipment, its going it take them some time before it actually arrives. That was just my thinking. Yes, maam. Commissioner covington could if you can ill reach out to other departments and see what the needs are. And commissioner covington after this meeting if the two chiefs and i can get together to chat for a couple of minutes, that would be helpful. Absolutely. Commissioner covington so the adfc ambulance deployment facility, how long do you think it will be before that is actually dirt in the ground . Shovelredready . To move into or break ground . To break ground do we have a timeframe for that . For the adf . Good evening again. So right now dpw is scheduled to start demolition of the two existing buildings at the site in june of 2018. And thats if our schedule stays on time. There is always a few delays here and there. It looks like were looking at the summer of next year to start the demolition, go through the complete process and bring in all the utilities. I think they need to do soil testing. Environment Impact Report if. I think there was a preliminary one done. There was like a lot of oil rez residue found at a certain level that department of Public Health is concerned about. Were going to follow up. But we have our fingers crossed and pushing for june of 2018. Commissioner covington okay. Do we have a name other than the ambulance deployment facility . I know there was talk of some point of naming it Something Else but i dont recall hearing a process for doing that. There has been no process identified or any final determination made whether we continue to call it station 49, that would be something that wed probably discuss down the road. Happy to have you give your input. Commissioner covington i think station 49 49 has a legacy. I agree. Commissioner covington station 49. I just think the ambulance deployment facility sounds a little i dont know. It lacks a certain something. Ill leave it at that. We dont call it the ambulance deployment facility, that is off the table for sure. Withbut the logical segway is to me, its a relocation of station 49 from 1415 evans to the gerald street facility. Commissioner covington as long as im assured by you that it wont be the ambulance deployment facility i feel better. Thank you very much. Thank you. President cleaveland i think that was a name given to it by public works. Commissioner veronese. Commissioner veronese chief, first much all, on fires, congratulationses to a job well done. I think calfire is a good resource for those extra engines perhaps. But its a big source of pride when youre up there. Im up there a lot because i have a place and a bunch family members that were evacuated that weekend. Its a great source of pride when you see a fire engine and a firefighter in a different county. I think thats that future aid thing is a cool thing. To put it in the vernacular. Congratulationses to the guys and girls fighting those fires. My question was how do you decide i noticed most of the pyre trucks just from the news the engines engines were yellow . I noticed most of the engines were bright yellow. Is there how do you decide who goes and are they particular engines set aside for that type of thing . The yellow, some people call them yellow or green. We paid for them but they were a state resource. And when the time was right, we purchased them. We have outfitted those rigs to be the first ones to go on a wild land deployment. We have five. When you say you sent 12, there are a number of red that went out. Yes, we also have a state rig that is quartered at station 43. I believe thats yellow. So doing the math, i think we have six and six. Six yellow and six red. How do you decide on which firefighters go . You have to be wild land certified. Its an annual recertification. The strategy of fighting a wild lan fire wild land fires there were more struckers had in this particular firefight. There is a different strategy related to how to fighted a wild land fire versus3me a structural fire. There is special training needed. We have 150ish that are trained in wild land there is a method i said 200 but i heard its gone down now. So in the neighborhood of 150 to 200. Commissioner veronese its in between and might be closer to two but he might have mentioned it last meeting. There is a core group that goes. We want to recruit more of our newer recruits that come in when they become firefighters to join that so we have a higher number of people to draw from. Commissioner veronese so those guys and girls will get a text message . This happened at like 1 00 in the morning . Theyll get a text message to come in or youll pick from the ones in already . Its a combination. That morning we deployed some on duty that were wild land trained and agreeable toe because its a 10 to go because its a 10day agreement. Then we had some come in off duty. Theyll respond to text messages. Commissioner veronese does that come out of you are out of our budget . Does that come out of calfires budget . We get full reimbursement for the deployment. They call it portal to portal from the time they go out to the time they come back theyre exen compensated through the state. The director validates thats the proper reimbursement and there is overhead for fuel. Thats part of the California Master mutual aid plan. Vrn thank you. Commissioner veronese thank you. President cleaveland i had a couple of questions, chief. Of the 54 members that were deploy to the north bay, were most volunteers or assigned . They volunteer to go up . They did volunteer. We did send an immediate need engine for them actually at 4 30 in the morning. If they had an appointment or couldnt go we would not force anyone to go. Its all voluntary. Thats even more commendable because they volunteered. Yes. President cleaveland dealing with replacement of vehicles in the future and staffing needs and turnover and what not, i know we have a twoyear commitment with the mayor and board of supervisors on equipment replacement and easingevening up our recruitment. I was curious to know when that commitment ends and when we need to go back to the board to renew that long term commitment. I believe it was a fiveyear fleet plan. Were in two or three . Year two. President cleaveland so a fiveyear commitment . Through 2020. President cleaveland excellent. Thank you very much. And id like to commend you as well. And to deputy chief gonzales for going up and sort of rallying our firefighters up there and thanking them for volunteering to go up. So thank you both for doing that. Can. Madam secretary, call the next item. Report from Administration Deputy chief Raemona Williams on the fleet and facility status including updates on station 35 and Training Facility on Treasure Island, finance support Services Homeland security and training within the department. President cleaveland welcome. Good evening. Welcome. How are you fellow commissioners and chief. Raemona Williams Deputy chief 6 of administration. I apologize for my lateness. She was representing the department in an allday mediation and settlement conference which had positive results. Thank you. Okay, id like to start by saying my report is for the month of october from september 28th to october 26th. Ill start with the assignment office. During this reporting period, the staff worked on the annual vacancy bid for compression members. Station 49 members. Vacancy bid also come out shortly in the next week or so. The staff also id lying o commend them id like to commend them for staffing those deployed to the north bay. It affected our staffing and they were able to keep our city properly staffed at our normal operating levels. Under Homeland Security, chief James Francisco continues to up daylight the command staff on any suspicious ak. During the reporting period he attended various planning committees for the exercise this weekend. Hes a worked diligently with koit and our city facility. He continues to do additional research. Hes participated and assisted with the fleet week activities and training exercises. And has served as a panelist on our Emergency Preparedness seminar. As always id like to in my Homeland Security report to remind the public to stay vigilant. Under the Investigative Services bureau during this reporting period, there were 73 members test and all the results were negative. Under the physicians office, we had 33 reported workrelated injuries. Up from 23 our last my last reporting period. Under support services, there were 134 facility requests for services received. And processed and 87 were closed. The contract for hose equipment have been executed and awarded to all star fire and ln curtis. The contracts for ppe and the repair and maintenance for our emergency generators will go out to bid next month. Wire in the process of getting repair and maintenance for our apparatus day doors. They cover the installation. But after the warranty they dont cover maintenance and repairs. Were in the process of evaluating Clothing Accessories in working with oca to put out the bid. Under facilities, station five is on going. Theyre digging and replacing the fabric form work in preparation for the concrete footing at the building perimeter and elevator pit is complete. Station 16, they approved a 58day calendar due to the consideration for the project duration and now were waiting for the contractor to review the revised date. Ill have more information as i receive it. I dont have the new revised completion date. At station 19, weve completed the placement of the first floor upper and lower concrete slabs and theyre placed underground plumbing on the first floor level. Dpw continues to keep all the neighbors informed of the progress of station 16. And all other projects continue to move forward. Id like to bring forth deputy chief rivera to give us an update on station 35 and Deputy Director give us an update on the Training Facility. Were meeting meeting with dpw this friday in regard to facility but they can give you an update on these two items. Good evening, assistant deputy chief tony rivera wrarding fire station 35 project. The project was recently awarded to swinnerton powers. Were now currently in the concept and review process because of the unique location of the project, over water, there are multiple players of reviews and approvals that must be met. The floating barge Design Concept was introduced in 2016 by dpw as a response to the rising sea level. I also wanted to let the commission know that during all phases of construction engine 35 will be responding from pier 22. Its original location. It will not be affected by the construction or any of the demolition exor building. Wooland or building. Well the boats next door to pier 26. Were working on the infrastructure electrical, fenders for the boats. All that has been moving forward. Well be prepared at that point. Are there any questions . President cleaveland none yet. Thank you. Good evening mirgs mark corso planning and finance. I was asked to give a brief update for the Training Facility. There are two simultaneous planning going on kushtly. First is for a currently. Were working with the commission and department of public works and Mayors Office for a location for the facility. Nothing as advanced to the points where we would be discussing it here. There are i number of things that were researching and working on. The second part is the Needs Assessment for the department and their Training Facility. The chief and his staff have been working closely with the department of public works on exactly those questions. What would we need. What features would it need to have, space and those kinds of topics. Eventually in working working with dpw theyll bring on ail consultant who specializes in training to a consist in those Planning Efforts, but those are both the location and Needs Assessment are the two simultaneous efforts going on now. Im happy to answer any questions on those. President cleaveland commissioner veronese. Commissioner veronese the facility out in tr asure island. I dont have a firm date for you. I believe its part of the development but its the last phase of the development. I believe its somewhere between five and 10 years from now. Theyre firming their calendar and dates for that. Were at the last stage of the development over at Treasure Island. 2024 25. And we have a station out there other than the Training Facility . We do. Station 48. As part of the development are they replacing station 48 . Yes. Currently station 48 is housed in a temporary facility. Thats anticipated to last approximately 10 to 15 years. We have some yeushts old facility at Treasure Island and we moved our crews a couple of years toog a new temporary facility. It houses and has a garage as well as a temporary station location that is anticipated to last for 10 to 15 years. Part of the development, there are certain trigger points as far as when they need to build the station but that is part of the Treasure Island for the department. So there would be a station there at all times. In service yes. And is there is the loss when i say loss the closing of the Training Facility on tresh island, is that tied at all to the finding of another . Or is there a possibility that there will be a down time . In other words, a time when we do not have a Training Facility. I do not believe so. I believe given we have some time before were forced to vacate there and given the Planning Efforts there, i believe well be able to find another facility and have plans for another training location. We still have our Training Facility at 19th and folsom which we do training at both facilities. I dont believe at this time that there would be a time when wed have a down period where wed only have the one Training Facility available. Is there any thought to making that, should the new Training Facility a regional facility . Theyre limited logistically now given all the hiring but they host a lot of training and work closely with regional partners currently. I think thats the goal to the extent that would be a shared Training Facility, im not sure, were discussing that but a lot of other jurisdictions have their own Training Facility. Currently we have the burn room and for9i u searchandrescue certain kairk characteristics that others dont. There are certain classes we host at our facility. Wed want to work with our regional partners for training we could provide. One, it could be a source of revenue. The other thing, is there any thought to including a housing facility for the historical trucks . That same low chasing . As long as were building out a Training Facility which would be acres in size, is there any thought to including a building structure for the historical trucks . So that the new fire tighters can see where the department came from as opposed to and in addition to where its going at the same time . Specifically for the historical apparatus, i dont think that has specifically come up. The question of space is definitely part of the conversation. Were look for space for currently the department is looking for space. Those are projects were working on as far as identifying locations for storing those historical and both for relief. I would suggest, chief that be part of a single task as well as looking for several locations. As long as were looking for a location that needs to be acres in size, it may be a good idea to have those historical rigs there instead of duplicating your efforts you get it knocked down in one it also would make sense financially to build one facility instead of two separate facilities and two separate