Changing those. So those have all been threeyear tests with a oneyear extension. Were not changing that, because the people that took those tests, thats what they expected. This is just moving forward. On all except for the exam. So the frequency is determined by h. R. Resources and whether they have staffing to carry out the test. That is part of it, but it was our ask, we wanted it make, myself administration wanted to look at changing that. And we also have local 798 as an agreement with that. Obviously they should be. But it is up to us, yeah. Physical impacts are minor as you put it . Yeah, there is a small fiscal impact, but i think the benefit will outweigh that because well get the cream of the crop. So. Okay. Chase will be opening and weve talked about emergency lane. Can you elaborate a little more on the emergency lane . And just what is that . And who decides . If we get one or where is it . So, yeah weve been in discussions with them for many months asking for an emergency lane. Either on Terry Francois or third street. This is a red lane like muni is putting out for rapid bus transit . No. That is sort of what were going to have to use right now, is that kind of lane or the muni tracks on third street. If traffic is difficult in that area, so, yeah, we asked for a lane on Terry Francois or third street just for emergency response. But we have not we havent been granted that. And this is, you know, part of the reason worry working with them to sort of show them what our needs are, and making sure that Everybody Knows that we came to the table asking and this is important to us. Have you done have you been i mean have you really looked at the street, Terry Francois, the space, the opportunity to have the emergency lane. Are we having to buy private property . There is the space, but there are Traffic Studies and the like. There is entire traffic program, you know, that the mayor has put together around traffic at chase center. So were working diligently with them. And with the lead from that on the Mayors Office. So ultimately who makes the decision . Ultimately, its not up to us. Right. Im not sure if its the Mayors Office for yeah, it may be sfmta. Weve been meeting with them as well. So, yeah. No, i think its important thats why im asking. And its not just to the chase center were concerned about, were concerned about the entire area. So, um hmm. Brush Clearing Program you mentioned. Who reports a property that has too much grass or too much debris or is a fire hazard . Who reports that generally . And who make the determination that property is a fire hazard . I know we had outreach and i believe we had fire inspectors going out to do that and notify people. So our department . Yeah. I believe notifications went out to all sorts of different neighborhoods. And people were asked to comply. Thank you very much. I figured it might be covered under the administration report, but just about the ongoing interviews that youre doing this week. And when those people will be notified that are being interviewed. And how many, it still a total of 54 in the class, is that our anticipation . Yes, still looking at 54 in the class. Some of those spots were already spoken for, from the alternates in the last class. So we wont be picking 54 people. Were still looking at 12 people from station 49. But, yes, the class will be 54. And were doing it all this week. And hopefully the first couple of weeks in july were hoping to have a handle on it. Thank you. Thank you very much. May i just interrupt for one moment, back to you commissioner cleveland. So i just got a message that we work with public works. And it has some prevention staff as well. On the brushclearing. But were really proactive about it. Chief nicholson. Thank you, mr. President. Ill hold my questions. Thank you very much. At this point, deputy chief . In terms of administration report. Good evening, chief. Good evening, commissioners, president , Vice President , chief, maureen. My second monthly report for the Administration Since last meeting. A couple of things i want to talk about. I give you the complete report. I want to touch on some of the highlights. And, of course, answer any questions you may have. Some of the projects weve been working on the committee and work groups. Happy to say we have a lot of interest from the members that we need to move the department forward. 218 applicants for committees and work groups. Its a great number. Were currently reviewing. A few are still coming in, but were working on creating that. The process, the chairs will be selected and the chairs will work with the administration selecting the Committee Members to work with that. We have guidelines we set up. And then we came up with the guidelines on how the committees are expected to work. The kind of products we want them to have. When they propose any changes, it has a fiscal effect on the department, also to provide information where the grants are possible for that and all those things. So we really want to Work Together to get things moving along. Were happy with that number we received. Another working on is the policy. We just put it out last week and we delivered to every single apparatus a deconkit. Its a bucket, a brush, special soaps, wipes and mask. The way were doing this is with other policies to help the firefighters prevent cancer. The way it works, when they have heavy exposure to fire products, they will on the scene, decontaminate themselves on the scene. This procedure is the policy how to do it. There is also instructions on what they do when they come back. Its better to take a cold shower so the pores open up. Some things will be on the policy to prevent even further the contaminants. All these policies we have in place we believe will reduce the cancer. So were happy with that. And its up to well see. We have the picture of them. That will deliver to all the Engine Companies and Truck Companies on the field. Update from training. As you recall, last Commission Meeting, we had our staff, learning in new york the studies. This is the studies. Fiber ventilation, how it effects. Where we can improve the policy and procedures reflecting those studies. Hes pushing that for me and we work on those. As chief mentioned, we had the graduation for the academy. Theyre working in the firehouses. They receive over 700 hours of training. And they receive the firefighter one certification from the state. So its a good day for us when they graduated. These are pictures of them doing that. We also at the same time doing training. And that modular ends this friday. That module has been great because weve been able to use class a fuels instead of wooden pallets, that creates a different atmosphere than the ones with propane. The smoke is different, the ventilation effects are different. This created an atmosphere for firefighters to learn. Its been really positive. The members have really gained a lot from this experience. It ends friday. You might recall and president , thank you for attending this drill. We had a drill on june 8. We had fire scenarios. There is a great opportunity for us. Its an example of what were doing on the 13th floor, were doing that. And i will let you know this monday, in particular, we have a new module coming up, where the training is going all the way through september . October. October. So were going to enhance our skills and i also happy to report that we have units coming in every day. Theyre going to be reporting as working together, learning together on this training. We also put a deal out to fund by the California Apprenticeship Program that we have been members for years. We will get this class, much needed for the members and also members of the outlying areas that use these skills all the time. And huge interest for members, 90 members applied for the class. Were looking for when to do more classes. They go for the class, to bring outside trainers and train our trainers. And we want to train our members to do this so the cause will not be always pending on grants, but our firefighters doing it. So its great to see all the interest our members have in training. The certification we have with the state has been renewed. Weve been working with program. This program is kind of light version of nert. I was one of the first instructors to release this a few years back. Its not five sessions, its only three sessions. Its basic skills. This is all taught in spanish. They go there and its a fantastic way of doing it because we understand the needs for the community. They come with their children and share meals. And theyre learning basic skills. Shut down the gas, electricity. How it works and things like that so they can help themselves out. Im really proud of the program. They talk about nert and listos. Im happy to see that growing in the city as well. Just came back from the homeless security conference in phoenix. Happy to say that one of our captains actually won best in show, which means his presentation on the camp fire response was one of the best received in the conference. Really happy for him. Chief also attended a training event that they had specifically for sports events. And it was focused on incidents that can happen at a sports event and how to manage that from a command system perspective. Things we also went to last week. Was the Public Safety power tabletop. This is a program that theyve started doing. Even though were in a categorized lowrisk area for wildfires, the way the transmission lines are placed might put us in a situation where we dont have wildfires here, but our lines will be shut down for a few days. This is for all to come together to plan how were going to do this. It was very good to have. With a bunch of agencies working together to come up with solutions, problems and how to solve the problems. It was really good. In talking to the m. L. R. , we have a big focus and chief has put a big focus on the training. And were planning for drills this fall. We have drill working with them. How is dispatch going to affect our operations in major event and how to Work Together . So were going to Work Together and have drills coming up september through november. We also attended staff attended the Tall BuildingSafety Strategy summit. This is a program that the Mayors Office started. Of course, the chief attended the council where all the topics were discussed. The commissioners, i am happy to say we have an update on the drone program. Last meeting, you werent here, but i told the commissioner that were waiting fema for response. We got the response not too long after that meeting. That was good. One of the things i wanted to add was language that said we have a threeyear vision on our policy. No problem with that. They asked us to add civil rights and liberties language to the policy. Which has been done. They wanted to make sure we had a complaint procedure. We do have that so there is no problem with that. Suggestions. Were going to incorporate suggestions. And annual summary of the festivities, too. What were doing next is putting auto the things together. Send them for final approval and we can move forward for this and go to bid for the drone. Were moving forward and getting close. Update on the Community Outreach events and recruitment. Recruitment on the ems week, were doing some recruitment at the high school. And were doing outreach into the agencies, not just private, but public, and handson c. P. R. As you know, you can see, theyre not here, because theyre actually in the ferrara factory in louisiana. Theyre doing three things. The preconstruction. Theyre doing the inspection for the five new trucks were getting soon. And theyre doing hydraulic modelling that will hopefully get into the budget and we get approved for that. Instead of three trips, cost savings, we do one. We get good information from that. Engines. 4 of the 6 are in service. Two more will be done by the end of the month. Actually, in a week or so, it will be back in service. And went out to the field, explaining the process of how the engine and the apparatus is rotating to the station. Detailed criteria, Selection Process that the chief of support services uses to determine which goes where and why. There are Different Things that engine size have to go to some neighborhoods. Depends on the weight of the ladders. Those are the things we use. But transparency to the members to know where they go and why were doing the moves were doing. It was well received. And happy to say that all 50 are back in service and ready to go. Any questions you may have im here for you. Im going to ask for Public Comment before the commissioners comment. After the question, any members of the public have Public Comment . Public comment is closed. Thank you, mr. President. Chief, thank you for your report. Very well done. And very brief. So i had a couple of questions. On the nert, what is the listos in spanish, it means ready. Is it a state program . I believe its a state program. We incorporate here. We started training on that three years ago, four years ago. They come in and become trainers. Its all given in spanish, the instructions and some of the basic we do for nert is helpful to the community. I think its a great program. Several years ago we had a lot of complaints about fires in the mission and there was a lot of concern that people were thinking that these fires were set and deliberate. To get people out of the housing and what not. That was not the case. These were all accidents that happened because of overloading for sockets or kitchen fires or whatever. So this is a great program. Im glad were reaching out to that community in spanish so that we can get that message of fire safety out to just that many more people. I congratulate you on that program. Thank you. The Tall BuildingSafety Program you talked about, obviously, as a former employee of the building owners association, im familiar with the Tall Buildings in San Francisco. Im very interested in the program and wondering if that could be the subject of a presentation to a future Commission Meeting . The program is not run by the fire department. Were just invited to the summit. There have been already two of the summits going on, different focus each time with them. The main focus of this summit has been there has been findings with some of the buildings built before certain date, because the way they were built, they might be subject to more damage than they thought before. Earthquake . Yes. So based on that, its mostly city administrator office. Theyre running this and trying were just listening to see what impact it will have on us and operations. So we showed up. But it was interesting to see how the effects work. This is something happened through the Mayors Office and the Building Department. Correct. And the Building Department has a huge component. They might need more inspectors. The focus was on them. Part of the committee, but were not leading it . No. Right. Thank you. I wanted to thank the chief for this deconpolicy. I think its so great to see. It shows you care about the members. Im curious how its going to be enforced. And if its a mandatory policy, it doesnt have a general order assigned to it. There is. Oh, i didnt see it. It will be enforced as a general record such as there are penalties. We have stubborn traditions here in the department, but i think this is a really good policy. Im not going to mondaymorning quarterback it, because i think it a really good start to doing it. We have a lot to learn from implementing it, but how do we enforce it . So there is going to be a learning curve with this of course. I have a deputy chief of operations who is was with me on my Cancer Prevention foundation board, so hes extremely invested in this as well. And we will make it happen. We will make it happen. As far as like in the field, is there somebody on each engine station that is monitoring, making sure this is happening . How does it get enforced . It would be up to the incident commander. Soets going to be a so its going to be chief level to make sure it happens. So if i may, chief, for the last few days, when the policy came out and all the incident commanders and the Division Chiefs have been passing that information down to the companies so the captains will have to enforce this to the members. It will have to be a coordinated effort. So maybe rotating when to take showers and clean up. But its definitely the incident commander, the assistant chief are there to enforce it and then back to the office to make the company officers. Quick credit to the driving force of this policy. She wrote it, she got the feedback. I want to make sure she gets credit because she was a strong force to make this happen. Captain julie mao. Thank you to her and your group for putting this together. After every fire, there is a book in every station. There is a book in every station that records the activities in the station . A journal. Is there a mechanism whereby we can keep a record that the decontamination policy had been adhered to . How do we track if this policy is followed, as opposed to just expecting that it is. With we can look into we can look into that. I will tell you that years ago when i was in traning, we started to doing the culture change of the washing turnouts. If youre an experienced firefighter, it took time to change. It will take time to change, but it will change. [please stand by] i want to prove him wrong. I want to prove chief francisco wrong that we can get this done in less than three days. I have been only on the Commission Two and a half years, so we are cutting it close. We will do our best. Thanks, chief. Thank you. Very for port. Good job. You have a busy group. All throughout this report, we have been working really hard and have been extremely busy to. I was curious on the report returned to you by marianne. It shows retirees in the last month. Is july 1st going to be a time where that is a cutoff point, or is this going to be it for this season . Or are you anticipating july for some reason, i think people are retiring on the thirst of july. That is correct. There will be people retiring. Were still not sure of all of the numbers, but there is certainly quite a few more by july 1st. That is typically because it is the end of the fiscal year. That is typically have a lot of people do it. We will be looking at our numbers in terms of promotions for next month. That is why i asked. Thank you. Great report. Thank you very much. Vice president and Vice President covington . Thank you, mr. President. Thank you to the chief for your report. It is very good. I also am heartened to see the training going on. Are there any particular things that are left out . From what i recall, some of the things of heavy lifting, we dont do that. Some of the ics training we do we do not touch that, but all of the electrical things, weeks to grit your training we do. There are basin components in any household can use right away but some of the most advanced, we do basic first aid, but not higher like we do. It is a light version, but we are focusing some of the basic things that the family can bring back and use right away in case they need us. So if you wanted to release those, you can do that. Absolutely. Are being people are being encouraged to do so . Yes. Most of them are those instructors as well. We do that as well. We encourage them to have it. The problem with this in some of these communities is many of them worked several jobs. They have family commitments. This is a great opportunity for them to have something that they can really use but not commit to the five days. Some do come, and i have seen some of them come through and come in and do the full program. We will give we dont give them credit for that because we want to make sure they comply with everything we ask for. It is definitely something that opens a door for them. Some have done it. Very good. It is such a valuable resource for the citizens as well as for training modules, and i was thinking thats particularly for the command center training, especially, you know, in this community, i think would be very , very helpful. If there is any incentive that you can think of to offer people to go there from the regular program, please share that with us. Okay. Okay. I also wanted to complement you on the fire ground attempt decontamination policy, and you said it was captain julie mao . Yes. It is a very good job. It is really going to be a great advantage to everyone. Lets see. The drones. Chief chief cochrane wants to go shopping. So you will have to speed this up just a little bit. Okay. All right, i am glad to know that it is closer than ever before. And you mentioned that they captain received best in show at a recent confab of firefighters. I think it would be nice to have him come and do his presentation if it is not like half a day, and perhaps he can do an abbreviated version for the commission. Okay. All right, thank you. Thank you very much. We just have a few comments, not so much questions. Again, you ended your report with your confidence in the report and that is exactly what it is, a very good comprehensive report. Duly noted as your second report , very good. I just wanted to go through some of these items that you had talked about. Many of us had an opportunity to attend the graduation. It was a beautiful facility. I think it is the biggest house i have seen in terms of family and friends and they were alive, totally alive. I appreciate the hard work that went into that. You could feel the pleasure of it and the excitement of the members of the family, but also in terms of the graduating class the valedictorian was quite impressive. Chief nicholsons speech was quite impressive. I just wanted to remark how good that job was. In terms of your confidence report, i have marked this the last time that enjoyed the reports. I know that sometimes i have seen it before, but now that i have seen your second report, it is really good to see a report individually written by recruitment by the firefighter chief. I also always appreciate the division cheap chiefs report as well. It is really nice to be able to see this with the San Francisco fire reserves and i also wanted to remark that its important for us to see an updated summary of our department position. For some folks, it might just be information, but when you can see and relate to workrelated injuries, whether it is a shoulder, a face, a hip, a skin infection, in his respiratory issues, it is a hernia, it is really important, as well as cancer, to be able to see that as well. I just wanted to note that there also is a report from the captain in terms of what was verbalized, and as always, Homeland Security by chief cochrane shows us the extent that the departments involvement, for me personally, i also enjoy the reports by the closing people. Some folks might take that position for granted, but again, when you start seeing requests, all types of requests approved, how many members served over 300 , so many have it is impressive. It is not an easy job. We all know that our members want to look good for the badge and want to be respectful of that as well. I just wanted to say that all of this report, including your own heading, and all of this to me is considered a strong, comprehensive support, for Human Resources as well. I always particularly like names attached to it in the spirit that you started with staff being able to present as well as being able to be identified. Before i conclude, i wanted to say a little bit about the highrise that was happening on the eighth. In that highrise drill, we had many trucks and squads, and i appreciate that the attorney staff, this commission on a very , very warm day with your selves, went up the building and were able to witness what occurred. And then on the highrise before , it never seizes to amuse me what you pick up at a drill and how much you observe. For me, particularly, it is important to have interaction with members, to be able to see the briefing, see the role that everyone plays. And what really impressed me, and i said this remark at graduation, is you really feel the team consciousness. Many times one folks went up, even though it is a drill, they look in the atmosphere, and the ambulance and you know it was a serious order of business. What most enjoyable for me was that the minimum who were in charge were always looking to the right and looking to the left to see if a member of their team was with them. I just wanted to also say that the shooters drill and watching the members of the Police Department come up through here with their weapons, and trying to isolate and understand, i think it is important. I just wanted to share this with the commissioners how grateful i am in terms of these drills, the more drills you have in the more information that you can send over to us is pretty important. I really wanted to thank you and commend everyone for participating. Thank you very much. Madam secretary . Item six, commission report. Report on Commission Activities since last meeting on june 12th , 2019. I will take Public Comment on this point. Seeing none, Public Comment. Public comment is closed. Commissioners . Thank you, mr. President. I am glad to hear more details about the graduation. Unfortunately i didnt attend because i was attending the mayors summit which was excellent, and the department had quite a wonderful crew there who were, excuse me, chatting us up with all of the attendees. It was a minimum of 1500 women there. It was very successful. So it was good to see women members of the department talking to the citizens about the kinds of work that they do, as well as recruiting. Anyone who would be interested in getting more information, so that was very good. And then i attended the june 18 th parade mean and celebration. We had a nice walk around the block. [laughter] it is a short and vibrant parade we had a very good turnout from the department, as well as all the people who are in the Western Addition and a lot of people come back to the western a dish and just for the june 18 th celebration. And lets see. Commissioner cleveland and i, during the Convention Just a couple of weeks ago, we attended an event with the mayor, and lots of political luminaries, which was very, very good. It gave us an opportunity to mingle with a lot of the decisionmakers in the city and to share with them some of our needs, so i just wanted to let you know that that is what i have been doing. Thank you very much. Thank you. At this particular point, commissioner cleveland . Thank you very much. One of the most enjoyable things that we commissioners get to do is go to graduation ceremonies from the academy and i am very sorry i missed that last 125th , but my father died, i had to go to kansas city and deal with that. So that is the reason i missed it. Im sorry i did. I just wanted to put that on the record. Thank you very much. You have the condolences of your fellow commissioners in terms of the loss of your father. Since the last meeting, i was not at the last meeting and also missed the graduation, which was a bummer because i really enjoyed it as well. But since that time, i went to a couple of the calls that the department was at. One of them was a fire on the street. And also i went to the drowning of the young 14yearold boy, the members of the department, total class act. Chief, you must be very proud. I am very proud to be part of this department, under very difficult, difficult circumstances. In that particular situation. I just wanted to say hats off to anybody that responded to that scene and i am hopeful that if you need help, that you reach out to the stress unit because i know the department is doing a lot of work to make that unit a better unit. I was not at the graduation because i was out of the country i was honored to be asked by the governor to represent the state on the climate in italy. I took him up on the opportunity im sorry to have missed it. There are members of that class that i know pretty well. I will be reaching out to them and their station and visiting them to make sure that they have feet to the fire and they are doing well. I did also meet with supervisor stephanie with mr. Corso and other members of the department to rally support for our budget item and i believe that is it. Thank you very much. Chief nicholson . I would just like to, if we can close the meeting in honor of kathleen captain murray and kept her [indiscernible] they both passed away in the past week. Thank you very much. At this particular point, madam secretary . Item seven, agenda for next and future fire Commission Meetings. I will ask for Public Comment on this item. If there is no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Any questions, discussions from the commissioner commissioners before we open it up . The chief will be presenting at the next Commission Meeting. I think we made a request that chief tom be part of that presentation as well. Chief tom, in your incorporation of the report, if there is a possibility that they might be able so that the commission can address that as well. We are also, commissioners, going to be having a Commission Discussion with the city attorney. He will be talking about the Charter Amendment in terms of discipline, and so that is scheduled for the july weekend. I just saw mr. Ruskin in the hallway and wanted to confirm that it will be available for that july 10th Commission Meeting. Commissioners, any particular points . Just real quick, i know we are still in a transition from the prior chief to this chief and the reports must have changed, it would be great to see, i didnt see it in this report, but it be great to see the e. M. S. Six numbers and the homeless related calls. That is in the operations report. I apologize. Then maybe also for future commission hearings, if we could , at some point, get a report on how much narcan the department is administering narcan. I think that will give us and the other interesting parties in the city an idea of how many lives we are literally saving on a daily basis and how big this problem is in San Francisco. I have heard numbers that i think are pretty stunning that i would like the department to report on those numbers because it will give the city an opportunity for the type of stuff that we are dealing with on the streets in San Francisco. I will like to see that on some future report and some presentation through the commission. Thank you very much. Again, the chiefs can incorporate some of that information and that would be wonderful. At this particular point, madam secretary . Item eight, adjournment. I will take Public Comment in terms of adjournment, we dont need to do that, but i need a motion and a second, and i will need your help, achieve, to make sure that i correctly say the names of the members who have passed away. Is there a motion that we have . Yes. Second. We will adjourn the meeting in memory of two individuals that we have lost. Ladies and gentlemen, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Piece and welcome. We are glad you are here. This is the regular meeting of the board of education of the San Francisco unified school district. Tonight is june 25th, 2019. Roll call, please. Thank you. [roll call]