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The first ambulance on the scene. Could you go into detail on the numbers. They look pretty good but am i reading it right . You are. 90 all the time. Starting with the first unit on scene, commissioner veronese brought up, the qrvs would help that one. Thats when we get our first unit there to the code three responses. The 90th percentage 5. 18. What they want us to be 4. 50. That would be the goal. Thats why i say the qrvs would help there. Thats where we get the most calls, theyd get there quick. I think it would bring it closer to 4. 5. The second section, the first als unit on scene, including the engines or ambulances or rescue captain. Were mandated to get them 90th percentage under 7 minutes and were at basically 6. 326. Emergency response, the last one is the first ambulance on scene the goal there, 90th percentage were not meeting it this month, it could have to do with new years eve but usually around nine minutes, the 90th percentage. Were doing good on that stat. Thank you. It was difficult to comprehend without you explaining. Thank you commissioner hardeman. Commissioner covington. Thank you mr. President and thank you for your report chief gonzalez. Im looking at your Operations Report and the greater alarm, there are there were six greater alarms that are included in your report. And i noteded that five out of the six were type five structures. Can you please describe for us what a type five structure is and what its inherent vulnerabilities may be . Its made of wood, whether its multi residential or r1, r2, r3. Our concerns with five is its made of wood. My concern is combined buildings similar to mission bay, they built type one two stories, parking garage but five stories of type five combustible construction. Light weight is another concern because of collapse hazard. Putting the buildings in existing neighborhoods next to other buildings with zero lot lines and hills and fire spread. We were lucky with mission bay, there wasnt a lot around it at that time and what was, there were wide streets and something rare, the buildings across the street where the raidant heat made them very hot, some of the buildings had exterior sprinklers. Thats not the case with most streets. Were lucky we saved the building under construction next to it to the north i think. Theres a dieing ale diagonal street there. If you remember, there was a news story, the mayor actually, it was pretty funny actually, there was a uc tip one made of concrete but they had a deck on top and something up there that was wood. An ember from this fire caught that on fire. We put it out. But it was a couple hours later news was showing this. And the chief and i were on scene and the mayor texted her, whats with this other building on fire. But it was one we had put out. We thought the mayor was telling us something we didnt know and that wouldnt have been good. But the type fives were concerned about. The type one made of concrete, i mean it was a highrise with elderly units in it but generally stay contained through that unit, residential. I ask you to describe that because, and this is consistent, we are a city of wooden houses. Yes, maam. And thats part of the information that we have to get out to people, these houses are the most vulnerable and why and what they might be able to do, you know, to make things safe. I know weve had discussions, you just brought it up, discussions about roof top gardens, roof decks and how that might impact other people. So during the process of applying for permit to build a new home, is that something that people in our permitting department discuss with homeowners who are contemplating building yet another type five . Dbi and Fire Prevention work in conjunction working together with building and fire code as to what they can build in new construction. If you have specific questions about the code, my expert is right here. I could bring him up. But when it comes to roof decks, solar panels, most new construction does have sprinklers. Correct. So thats good. But again, if a big earthquake hits and the water supply is compromised, the sprinklers are not going to work so there will be concern with wood still. Are there specific questions about roof decks . No, i was saying it had come up before. I was trying to link my comment with your comment regarding mayor lee calling the chief of the department, he used to do that and did it with mission bay. Im looking at the television and i see this, whats happening. The chief says what other building is on fire. I go i dont know. If our fire marshal has anything to add at this point. Good morning chief and commissioners. Our codes address all different hazards associated with use. Our codes are based on the occupancy. How are we using the building, what is the intent of the use of the building, every building has associated hazard and there are provisions in the code that addressed all hazards. Were bound by code. For us to be more restrictive, we have to through the ordinance process at the local level come up with more restrictive requirements. For type five, podium type five over type one, these are permitted and allowed in the code. To be more restrictive, we have to come up with our own ordinances. These are addressed in the code and requirements for non combustible decking and proximity to open flame to combustible material. Its in the code, its all there. I guess my question was more related to do we emphasize these things with people building type five houses, wooden houses, whether theyre over a podium or not. But we can talk about it we have a Robust Community outreach and on our web site we have many fire safety tips that address decks, cooking fires, barbecues, all those type of things. If an applicant comes in and do we sit there and say you are building a roof deck and you should be concerned we do not do that. Okay. Thank you. Are you finished . Yes, i am. Okay. Thank you commissioner covington. Vice president nakajo. Thank you mr. President and chief for your report. A couple of comments and only one question, your photos section pages 1115. I like it, it helps. The picture of the dog, the picture of the children, the pictures of the different kinds of drills that occur. It certainly helps within the report. The other comment i wanted to make, on page 23, 29 when it comes to the total numbers, i do notice theyre in red which helps the emphasis. After a while reading the report your eyeballs start to get a little blurry and any kind of difference make helps with that. Some you need coffee to drink while reading. I appreciate that. Out reach education from november 1st through december 31st thats under division of permit bureau, is that part of pio or the pio will work with them but the out reach is Fire Prevention. All this good work is done by the Fire Prevention. In conjunction with the pio. Thats excellent. I recall with all the fires in the mission a couple years ago it was important at the department to do constant outreach with the residents in the community. This kind of outreach helps with the discussion and the comments that the commissioners made in terms of educating the public. Thank you very much chief. Thank you mr. President. Commissioner hardeman you had a follow up question. Real quick mr. President. I just wanted to comment, i was there at the fire at Fourth Street and the heat generated, the aerial trucks that were putting out spots, they put them out i stayed there watching it a couple of hours, it would pop up again, the spot they put out like 15 minutes before, its like the craziest thing to someone like me, a novice with fires, i just saw that out, the ladder truck moved 20 feet to get the other spot and it would spring up again. But the interesting part and it may have been you chief gonzalez, pointed out that ember that went over to the Building Three blocks away, six or seven Story Building and pointed out to me there were embers on the roof and the fire had started over there. So that was quite an amazing experience to see that structure burn and how far that ember, big enough to start a fire on the roof, that ma that distance away. That was with the wind. Thank you commissioner hardeman. Commissioner veronese. A follow up. Quick question. On page second tab, i think its the first page top it says San Francisco Fire Department activity summary report. Yes, sir. Maybe the third tab looks like this. Got it. Theres a section that says response by unit time. Unit type. Following up on our conversation before about more information, it would be really interesting to know of the engine calls, the 18,044 engine calls, how they breakdown, are they medically related typically or fire related . Its generally 7080 medical. Our overall calls are medical. But i could find out how many engine calls, some of the medical calls the engines dont go on. I can find it out. Okay. So if you look at the numbers then, 7080 of those, lets call it 15,000 of those calls are actually medically related, youre looking at a majority, 30,000 of the calls being medically related. I say it might be lower than the 70 or 80, it could be in the 60s. Its pretty significant nonetheless. Which speaks more to the potentially the need for the qrvs you were talking about earlier. Commissioner covington you had a follow up . No, sir. Okay. Chief gonzalez, i would like to thank you for your support. I want to echo my fellow commissioners on the outreach effort, snowing how fires start and how they can be prevented, i think our division of Public Safety is doing a good job and our pio is doing a good job. I would like to continue the outreach in all the communities in the city so theyre aware of how fires get started. You see all these second alarm instances and we dont really know how they got started but i think knowing how the fires get started and without putting out the addresses, using the examples in outreach effort could be very important to the citizens of the city so they have live examples of how fires got started in our city and how they can be avoided in the future. I applaud our fire marshals outreach efforts and their associates in getting the word out and maybe working together with nert to enhance that broadcast of Fire Prevention. They work hand in hand with nert. Thank you. Thank you president. Madam secretary, would you call the next item . Fire Commission Annual statement of purpose 2018 discussion and possible action to adopt the 2018 annual statement of purpose. Thank you. Any Public Comment on this . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners have you had a chance to review the annual statement of purpose. Commissioner covington. I would like to move this item and i would like to have the Commission Secretary read into the record the annual statement of purpose for 2018. Thank you commissioner covington. Well have that done. Commissioner veronese, did you have a comment . I have a question, this is new to me, i have never seen this before because i havent been on the commission a year. Could someone give me historical background of what this is and how often we do this and does it actually change over the years or is it the same annually . Just a little bit of education. We look at it, sometimes we modify small portions and add things to it. In the past i would defer to Vice President nakajo who has been on the panel 20 years. Mr. President , commissioners, commissioner veronese, its a process of adoption every year. I believe for my participation, commissioner covington and commissioner hardeman with our experience, we take it seriously and examine it through various years and have discussed it. If we have to modify or do additions, we have those discussions as well. At this particular point, i think its pretty much where i can accept it within this current writings and ill support commissioner covingtons suggestion of reading it into the record so the general public out there as well as commissioners by the narration of our purpose of statement can reinforce and rededicate ourselves to this statement. Is the purpose to provide guidance throughout the year or just merely not merely, i know its important to you, but is it to come out at the beginning of the year to state our purpose to the world and let them know were here to support the department . I notice that every one of the comments on here is to encourage and support with the exception of the first one. Commissioner, again, its very important. For myself its a rededication and reaffirmation. In terms of the Mission Statement, when chief robert demmens became the chief of the department under the orders of consent degree for us to have a culture and diversity free of harassment and discrimination, that was not part of the Mission Statement. We worked ernestly to create that kind of language of viae you wills of health, wellness, free of harassment and discrimination in the line of the sense of reference of providing a Work Environment. So to me it is an annual affirmation. Its something very important. I think what we adopt and how we practice the Mission Statement is how we walk and talk and it provides a level of in terms of if we move away or distract from the Mission Statement. I dont know if thats it provides context. Its new to me. Im just trying to understand what the document is. I appreciate being able to express that. Commissioner covington would you like to chime in, please. Thank you, through the president , this is the equivalent of our renewed new years resolution. Its a tradition we do it at the first meeting of the year. Its a reminder of why were here, what we do and why we do it. Well said, thank you. Thank you commissioners. Do i have a motion to adopt . I moved. Second from commissioner hardeman. All in favor . Aye. Our statement of purpose is adopted and our secretary will read it into the record. Annual statement of purpose 2018. Responsibility of the Fire Commission to ensure that the San Francisco Fire Department effectively implements its mission. The mission of the Fire Department is to protect the lives and property of the people of San Francisco from fires, natural disasters and Hazardous Materials incidents to save lives by providing Emergency Medical Services to prevent fires from prevention and Education Programs and provide a Work Environment that values health, wellness and Cultural Diversity and free of harassment and discrimination. To this end, set policy support of the administration to accomplish the department and support the administrations efforts to enhance and support the cooperative work in Fire Prevention and medical services with focus upon the common public good, encourage and support the administration to develop and implement systems to improve fiscal responsibility to enhance the budgeting process while maintaining and protecting essential Public Services including fire protection, Fire Prevention and Emergency Medical Services. Encourage and support the administration to develop an effective physical fitness and Wellness Program to promote health, safety and welfare for the memberses and department and public. Encourage to develop overall strategic planning, effective Career Development for membership. Actively encourage and support recruitmentship to bring highly qualified applicants to the department who truly reflect the citys rich diversity. Work with the administration and citys office to review and where necessary revise policy and procedures and contribute to the common good by conducting open meeting regularly and covering such additional meetings as deemed necessary to inform and educate the general public of the work of the Fire Commission and the San Francisco Fire Department. Thank you madam secretary. Would you call the next item, please . Item seven did we vote . Commissioner report. No, we didnt. We did vote. We didnt we had a first and second. Okay. All in favor of adopting the report into the record. Say aye. Aye. Thank you. Reaffirmed the annual statement of purpose. Now madam secretary. Item seven commission report. Report on Commission Activities since last meeting on december 13th, 2017. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner hardeman. You had something i wanted to say congratulations to all those at 798 and others who worked on fundraisers and other things for the toy program. I was able to attend one and it was well done. Very nice, very wonderful that firefighters have taken this upon themselves to so the children receive at least some toys and they deserve a pat on the back. Thank you. Commissioner veronese. I wanted to thank the fire stations for welcoming me to their stations on christmas day. I had the pleasure of bringing my son agustus who loves the Fire Department. What 8yearold doesnt, but i was welcomed into the fire stations and i want to thank the chief and each of the members of the fire stations and deputy chief burke who was at one of the stations who i see here. We got to spend a couple hours with the stations on christmas day, brought them some treats. And got to know some of their stories. I appreciate i hope to make that an annual tradition because i know my grandfather when he was mayor, he used to bring us to fire stations on christmas day. Those guys are out there working while everyone else is enjoying their lives. Thank you chief and members of the department that welcomed me in that day. I will reserve the rest of my stuff for the next item. Thank you commissioner veronese. Vice president nakajo. Thank you president cleaveland. Just continuing discussion on the discussion level, i know theres discussion on the antique rigs and i made reference to gardens in the city and there was reference of possible Friend Office Fire Department. I would like to take it into a more formal process, a Discussion Committee to put concrete concepts together to deal with the issues of the antique rigs and other areas. Just as a suggestion mr. President and colleagues. Thank you. Commissioner covington. Thank you mr. President. I visited along with my son, who is not eight. I visited our local firehouse, it was a quiet day for the crew there. Theyre always very well coming. I just stop in from time to time since theyre in my neighborhood and the folks closest to me. I also wanted to i mentioned to the chief of the department, i attended the Memorial Service for the late great mayor lee. As i was entering the building, i noticed a pretalk with a number of members of the department and he shared with me the action plan and we walked around city hall and i did call the chief of the department to let her know i thought the action plan was great and everybody was prepared and made sure egress and all the other issues were truly well thought out, how to go about things in orientation to the building. Kudos to them. Thank you commissioner covington. I just want to publicly thank the academy of art for continuing to house our historic Fire Department apparatuses until we can get a relocation to a more permanent or semi permanent location. I want to publicly thank the academy of art for continuing to be such a good steward and shepherd of our antique fire apparatuses and fire engines. Far beyond the time they ask us to take them away. Okay. Madam secretary. Item eight. Agenda for next Fire Commission meeting on january 24th, 2018. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, i think the first thing is to ask our madam secretary to see what we have on the list for future meetings already. We have an Early Warning system update. Draft drone policy. Strategic plan. Budget presentation. I believe the ambulance deployment facility is scheduled for february 14th. And an nert update. Thank you very much. Vice president nakajo. Mr. President are we not scheduled for the election of the commissioner officers on the 24th. Oh, yes. Thank you. Commissioner veronese. Commissioner to the president , i would request that perhaps this item in the future is otherwise entitled future agenda item so it doesnt limit to the next agenda since the next will be set by you and no other place to discuss future agenda items. To the extent thats possible and not making this item so limiting, that being said i guess i could keep it within the limitations of whats written here by requesting that the following be on the next agenda, anticipating it wont be. This is our first meeting of the year and i would like to set resolutions for myself to occur at the next agenda, subject to of course the discretion of the president. The drone policy is obviously a policy that is bleeding into this year that we would like to get obviously a priority as we saw from the fire, the cliff rescues, a lot of different incidents where the drones would be useful. I would like to see us finish the drone policy fairly soon. I know the issue of having a grant writer is something that we need to address and it needs to be a priority in our budget and it needs to be a priority in the items that we discuss in the future. I would like to request of the chief to set some minimum standards on staffing of the stress unit and i will have further comment on that Going Forward as we will be losing as i understand it some key members of our stress unit to retirement. Also i would like to look at and have the discussion of expanding the authority of the ems 6 unit. As well as the qrts as was discussed prior. I would also like to create a Commission Level award as i had discussed with the president of the commission, that is akin to what is the purple heart award, a Commission Level award that would go towards with the details further to be worked out, but would go towards some member of the department that is either killed in the line of duty or injured in the line of duty. Further details to be worked out there. I would also like to work on annualizing the awards that are given to firefighters, instead of doing them every two years, i think by the time we get to them two years later, the time has passed to recognize the award of people members of the department who have gone over and beyond. I would like to annualize those events. And i would like to recognize by some measure members of the department that have broken barriers. Such as firefighter gauge who was the first african american. Whether how we do that is up to the commission but it is a discussion i would like to have at the next meeting. And he is obviously not the only there are other members of the department, whether female or from other races or national alties or other qualifications where they have broken barriers and there should be some sort of permanent memorial to those people here in the department. Working on a more permanent solution for the Fire Training center, thats something we need to work on at the next meeting. As mentioned prior, the department has started tracking homeless related calls to further understand the resources the department is allocating to that particular population. I think its important as i mentioned in the past, if were not tracking it, were not managing it. If were not managing it, we if were not tracking it, were not measuring it, if were not measuring it, we cant manage it. This relates to qrvs and ems 6 unit. And finally, well, i will leave it at that for now. So theres a lot to do at the next commission meeting. Thank you commissioner veronese. Thats an impressive list and very important list of items we need to discuss. I would ask to amend the title make it agenda for the next and future Fire Commission meetings to add in any of the items that commissioners may have that they would like to bring up but not necessarily could be fit into the next three Hour Commission meeting. So, thank you very much commissioner veronese for that list of items. I think its something we have all thought about, some of us and theyre excellent, really. So well incorporate them in future agendas. Commissioner covington, i thought you had a comment. Then you disappeared. Yes. Im mindful of the time. Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. Do we have any Public Comment on item 10 . Which is to go into closed session. Public comment is closed. We have some litigation matters to go into. Well go into we need to vote on it. Im going to bring that up. Do i have a motion to go into closed session . So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Weion. Back in open session. Item 11 report on any actions taken in closed session, discussion in possible action specified in government code and San Francisco administrative code section 67. 12d. Council did you want to mention anything. The Commission Voted unanimously for the findings of fact in item 10c. And the commission continued decided to continue item 10d to a subsequent meeting to be decided. How about 10b . No report on 10b. Thank you council. Commissioners do we wish to disclose or not disclose. Do we have a vote . I move not to disclose. Do i have a second. All in favor of not disclosing. Aye. Okay. Madam secretary. The next item. Item 13. Adjournment. I move that we adjourn after the president has read yes, do i have a second for adjournment . Second. I would like to adjourn this meeting in honor of firefighter al heretty that passed away and battalion chief bill perell that passed away recently. And this meeting is now adjourned. Let me begin by saying good afternoon to everyone. I am Mohammed Nuru, the director of public works. I want to thank everyone for joining us today to celebrate this construction milestone of station number five. It brings me great joy to honor the progress made on this tremendous project located here in the west end neighborhood. This will deliver a crucial piece of City Infrastructure to thousands of nearby businesses, residents and visitors. Our agency, public works, is proud to have designed a modern fire station that is expected to exceed National Accreditation standards and serve the essential needs of our first responders. It may not look like it yet, in less than a years time, a seismically sound fire station will be standing in this very place. It is true public works fashion, the project team has been working hard to ensure this facility will be delivered in timely and fiscally responsible manner. On time and on budget. With that said, its important that i think the entire public works staff, our project team led by our city architect, project managers and i want to thank all the staff from public works who worked on this project. But most importantly i want to thank our construction partner in this, alton construction, leading the project and getting it this far. Youll hear from a lot of speakers about the station itself. It will be the most resillent station of all the fire stations here in San Francisco because it is a very well designed facility and will meet all the standards as i said earlier. We have quite a number of speakers. Ill start by introducing the president of the board of supervisors and supervisor of the district london breed. Please welcome her. applause good afternoon everybody. Thank you all so much for being here today. You know, i have a special love for this fire station because i grew up just a couple of blocks from here. Every year, every time i look at this fire station, all i can think about when i was a kid is toys. This is where i actually came on the door that was located on turk street, thats where we went to pick up our toys during the Christmas Holiday because of the firefighters toy program. And so i know tom oconnor who is the president of local 798 is here, thank you for continuing that program and your leadership in this city. You know, theres another reason i love this place is because many of the men and women behind me, this is where they work every single day and my aunt, who was mentally disabled, she would come here all the time. Sometimes she would be in a good mood and compliment the guys especially and talk about how handsome they were, but sometimes she had difficult times and the people at station five treated her like family, they took care of her, and i know who is our deputy chief was a captain here during that time, they love michel so very much and i want to thank you for taking care of my aunt and being there for her. This is really a family, and the folks here, they save lives every single day and take care of this community and love this community. So this station is really not just a gift to our city, its to demonstrate to the men and women of this department, we want to make sure they have a great station, a station that works for them. A station that is state of the art so they can do the job theyre doing for our citizens and city and county of San Francisco. I want to say thank you to all the folks working on this, to alton for their work on the construction project, moving on time and on budget thus far. And thank you Mohammed Nuru for leading Construction Projects all over the city, i know theyre not always on time and budget but thats okay, well get to that another day. And our chief will be saying a few words later and our commissioners. This station is going to be a jewel in the city, its the station we deserve for our residents. I look forward to being here and cutting the ribbon when we open in one year. Take care. applause thank you supervisor breed. And also i have to say from the bottom of my heart, the last few weeks have been very difficult for all of us. London woke up in the middle of the night and took over the city and really did an excellent job. Lets give her a hand for that. applause now i want to introduce our partner who has worked with us from the beginning all over our city, whether its trying to work on systems, whether its remodelling fire stations or building new fire stations, leading the effort of going through the whole effort to make sure we have resillant structures and the correct tools that the Fire Department needs to do its job, welcome chief hayeswhite. Good afternoon everyone. The job is looking great. First and foremost, i want to acknowledge four of our five Fire Commissioners that are here. The Fire Commission is under the direction of president cleveland. Thank you for your support every step of the way. applause as director nuru eluded to, theres been a lot of change and difficulty in the past several weeks and i would like to also acknowledge the great vision and support always of Public Safety that mayor ed lee had, if not for mayor lee we would most likely not be standing here. I want to acknowledge mayor lee and certainly president breed, this is near and dear to her heart. This is a vital part of this neighborhood and community. We are all very excited about it. So thank you president breed for being here. And certainly it is a partnership. I have a lot of respect and admiration to my colleague, director of public works, theres a phenomenal team, all those standing here. Thank you for what you do. And i want to acknowledge tom oconnor, vigilant making sure we have healthy safe work places and the men and women standing behind me, members of this very station looking forward many drive by each day to look at the progress of the station. Hats off to alton construction. These are the men and women who will be working out of the station, led by the assistant chief here at this division house. We only have two division houses in the city, one at 19th and the other right here. Its a vital part of our operation. Assistant chief is with us and the members assigned to engine five, truck five and battalion five, who by the way are still at work, reassigned to local stations. I just wanted to say thank you, great job and we look forward to cutting the ribbon as president breed said. Appreciate it. applause we all know no project happens without the partnership of the actual contractor. So were going to ask the contractor from alton construction to come up and say a few words. I will tell you, i have made quite a number of visits to the site during constructions and some of the beams and bolts are the largest and strongest i have seen in construction. Being built, i know this is not going anywhere. Welcome. Come say a few words. applause they dont usually let us talk at these things. Rolling the dice with that one. Im the Vice President of operations for alton construction. We are the general contractor on this project obviously. For the last 20 plus years we have operated almost exclusively in the public sector, schools, police stations and obviously fire stations. When our group when i said i was going to say a few things, i thought about the common stuff, site constraints like working in a big city and it occurred to me that the aspects of this project are not particularly unique at least for me. This is what we do every day. We work in this environment. And the truth is, the materials that go into a building like this are not often the reason a project like this is successful. Its much more often due to the personalities and work ethic of the people on the ground working on this every day. So you know sorry im happy to have the opportunity to say that the group of architects, engineers and project managers i work with every day out here, sort of lower level are of the highest caliber. You know, the architects who are here, the engineers are here. Shawn obrien, the engineers, im not sure if theyre here. And captain mcfarland, the Fire Department representation at our weekly meetings. So to say that i have been impressed with this groups professionalism would be a dramatic understatement. We operate in the nine bay area counties and have hit every corner of every county and i can say without uncertainty this group is exceptional without question. Theyre workers, theyre not delegators. They get into the problem and get us what we need every day to keep going. We havent always agreed on everything. This isnt a fairy tail but the group has been fair and direct with us every single time and its not as common as you might think. I for one am excited to be part of this team and on behalf of our small team, the superintendent, project engineer without whom i would be under water on this job. Bob and shannon alton, disappointed they cant be here today and on behalf of our entire alton construction family, congratulations to all stakeholders on the milestone and a special thanks to the people i work with every day. Its been a real pleasure so far and im looking forward to a strong finish. applause thank you andrew. And all those guys you name are from public works. This project was from a scratch to getting out to contract was done inhouse and speaks to the capability of what the Public Works Department can do, it wasnt like that many years ago. Now we have healthy projects and were proud of that. The next part of the event, were going to sign a beam. We do have markers that all of the guests can sign. But before i do that, on behalf of public works i want to say thank you to all the men and women of the Fire Department who protect us and make sure our city runs smooth every day. applause thank you, thank you all of you. Supervisor breed, commissioners, we have pens over there, if you can start the signing process on the beam. We will sign the beam and allow everybody to go back to work. Yes, sign. Today. clapping. ive been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol Small Business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit ive been in a position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. My name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you dont want to wait 365 day if you make that brickandmortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything weve done to celebrate that. So nonprofit monday is a program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. People are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give back to the program as well answer. Inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. I love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community thats so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. It is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, well be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, well be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. We we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know youve made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. It is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. It is really nice to have a restaurant that is very Community Focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. We have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. When those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in San Francisco were doing an average of 6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand thats a lot to welcome to the january 17th, 2018 meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals. The presiding officer this evening is board president darryl honda. Hes joined tonight by our Vice President frank fung, commissioner ann lazarus and bobbie wilson. Rick swig will be absent. Brad rusty is a deputy city attorney. Hell provide the board with any legal advice tonight. Gary cantera is the board legal assistant. Im cynthia goldsteen. Were also joined by represent from the city department. At the table in front is corey tee the assistant zoning administrator. Hes also representing the Planning Department and plans commission. Sitting next toim