Transcripts For SFGTV Recreation And Park Commission 20240713

Comment is closed. If you have an item not on the agenda under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission you may speak under general Public Comment in item 4. Please note if the fire alarms activate you must evacuate the building. If you need assistance make the way to the closest area across the hall in the mens rest room. There is a speaker box. Press it and the city hall security will answer. They will assist you. We are on item 2. President s report. I will be brief. I like to read emails that talk about the parks. This is to the general manager. I wanted to say thank you. I love my Neighborhood Parks. The San Francisco park and Rec Department does a fantastic job. I love how there is a park nearby no matter what neighborhood. You have worked hard to make that happen. I know maintenance challenges are daunting you do an amazing job of keeping up. Every employee is helpful and professional if i am getting exercise or enjoying the lovely trees and flowers, your department makes my life richer. Thank you for the hard work and dedication. Love mom. No, it is from jennifer look. Thank you, jennifer. With that. That concludes my report. Mom, i told you not to sign that. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Public comment is closed. Item 3. General managers report. I have a little bit of a meaty report today. We have special recognition at the conclusion. I will remind you 2020 marks a very important milestone in our department history, the 150th anniversary of Golden Gate Park. The celebration will include events and attractions a freecell operation on april celebration on april 4th which is 150 years to the day the California Legislature authorized the park. They will bring together thousands to experience the park and all it has to offer, make or events and attractions are planned include the 150foot observation wheel, 150 Improvement Projects, 150 programmed activities on april 4. Planting 150 trees and involvement over 150 community partners. Our april 4th day includes a family and kids carnival, large picnic with live entertainment. As we will discuss later tremendous renovation of the vehiclecles temple of music and the programming which will take place all summer with Community Arts organizations coming to Golden Gate Park. Our celebration will include Free Shuttle Service for our communities who dont live as close to the park as others with the idea of making sure everyone feels connected to Golden Gate Park, no matter what neighborhood you are from and that you have the opportunity to celebrate. This week we also confirmed that portions of the iconic memorial quilt will be on display that entire weekend from april 3 through 5. The display of the quilt will be largest ever in San Francisco. It will consist of 1920 panels, approximately the same size and shape as the first major quilt display that took place in washington, d. C. In 1987. Golden gate park 150th quilt display will be on Bowling Green drives in the aids memorial grove. There are panels added to the 50,000 panels in recent years. Reflecting the story of h. I. V. And aids, particularly in communities of color. It is an important part of the park as we bring thousands together to celebrate. It is fitting to have this experience to see the quilted and learn about the lives part of each and every panel. We are grateful to the aids quilt foundation and aids memorial for support in bringing the quilt to Golden Gate Park. In celebration of 150th anniversary the Historical Society is holding an essay contest one perfect day in Golden Gate Park. First place receives 2,500. Publication of the essay in the Historical Society journal. Interested writers visit sf history. Org for more information. On did east coast this weekend it was like zero degrees. It is time to start thinking about spring and the opening of our baseball season. Sfybl opening day ceremonies for the 2020 season take place saturday, february 29 at 11 00 a. M. Players will participate in a parade of teams, speed pitch, battings cages, team pictures and kids will learn to steal signals by tapping on an electronic buzzer. No, they are not doing that. March 2 please join us for the Opening Event for the mini park monday march 2nd at 3 30 p. M. This 1. 7 million project includes replacing childrens play area and landscaping and seating and was funded by the 2012 parks bond and office of mayor ed lee. The park has a profound impact on the tenderloin impact where kids rely on city parks as backyards. March 2nd there will be kids activities and participation for the trust for public land, the tenderloin improvement partnership, and rec and parks Randall Museum is hosting the San Francisco middle science fair this year. Each year city students test and document experiences in the biological and environmental and physical sciences. It is an impressive look in the future minds of tomorrows stem professionals. It will be on display tuesday through saturday february 25 through march 6. The main come at the pigs takes competition takes place on march 6th. The application period for the green agers program i open throh april 10th. They are eligible for the program which offers paid experiences while they learn about park stewardship, lead projects in Neighborhood Parks and gain teamwork and personal training skills. Applications online or by calling our volunteer office 415 8316319. I talked about spring baseball. It is not too early to talk about summer day came registration which begins march 21st at 10 00 a. M. You can register online or at 14 sites throughout the city. You can register in any language. This summer we offer 90 camps, lacrosse, archery, performing arts and pine lake and silver tree. Go to sfrec park. Org. From camp to cooks and lifeguards your next job could be with rec and park up in the sethesieras. We are looking to full day camp and cooks and program coordinators. Anyone interested, any youth interested in working for us go to the website sfrec park. Org jobs. The first of two separate acknowledgments today. I want to thank a few special guests who are with us, whose agencies are helping to get city kids out into nature this summer. Welcome theresa, the interim director of first five San Francisco, lisa lee, Senior Program officer at first five. Olive via who is the coordinat coordinator. Ngrid. As you recall commissioners with your support mayor london breed and your department announced new initiatives with expanded access to camp mather including a special week at camp for low income. It typically costs 1,700 each were including cabin, activities and meals. That was already subsidized by half for approximately 33 or 34 families each summer. This year they have expanded by 300 making subsidies 50 to 100 of camp cost available to low income families. They receive priority for camping spaces ensuring more equitable reservations. We are grateful to first five which is splitting the cost of the meals for the special week. First five is providing transportation to camp. 338 individuals and 77 families are going to camp this year because of these measures. Thithis is an out grove to parkd rec. As founds member the Department Worked hard to provide access to nature for low income families. There is improved focus, creativity and sense of wellbeing and lower levels of depression and frustration. Nature means Better Mental Health, more Better Mental Health but not good english. Since 2016, first five San Francisco have partnered and today we want to extend or thanks to each organization and these individuals for helping get families who would not have the opportunity for camp this year. If you could join me for the presentation of the certificate. If you want to say a few words, we would love it. [applause] thank you for that very nice honor. Also, i want to thank you very much for your partnership over these past several years. Just to reiterate the special thanks to our staff, lisa lee who has been working tirelessly on this effort to help make it happen. Together with the parks and Rec Department as director mentioned we have a shared understanding of the power of nature to teach, heal, inspire, excite, but we also know that these experiences unfortunately are only available not everybody has the same level of access to these experiences. This is what we have been trying to change together. We are committed to addressing this and to creating additional programs and very specifically we are dedicated to changing the level of access for families this summer. We have quite literally been working to break down barriers, fiscal, financial red tape in order to make this happen for our families. We are really, as you heard the numbers, we are happy for this summer camp mather will reflect diversity of San Francisco families. We hope this is just the beginning of an effort apinitiative to continue to grow and expand and sustain and we look forward to a great week at camp this summer. Thank you very much. Good morning. I am the director for the San Francisco office of early care and education. I cannot say enough gratitude for your director who has opened up not only his i would say more than just heart and the parks. It has been his wallet, too. We have an amazing partnership with rec and park. And the citys. I think this partnership has to be leveraged with first drive and the office and done by amazing staff that care deeply about children and families in the city. Being from San Francisco and growing up in San Francisco, i can tell you how wonderful it was having to travel from the mission to Golden Gate Park every weekend and what a beautiful escape that was, and having the opportunity to be able to take children up to camp mather is going to be an opportunity that most children would have not received. We are focused on children in the Southeast Community and in the mission and areas that we know are far away from these type of lifechanging type of activities. We look forward to it. I cant also not say thank you not only to you but to maria, who works for rec and park, who is one of the most enthusiastic staff persons that you have. Not only does she care deeply. She physically cares. She has helped a lot of different Child Care Centers across the city in knowledg buip the natural experiences. This is not a onetime thing to camp mather. It really is about ongoing experiences and for that the office of early care and education set aside 1 million for this year to support the further greening of playgrounds and Child Care Centers across the city and connecting children and families to the daily experiences sometimes most of us take for granted. Thank you for your time. This has been amazing, and hopefully we get to see you more often because i hope that this relationship continues to develop and grow. Thank you very much. One comment. I just want to say i have known ingrid for many years. I think this project is in great hands. I am inspired by your comments. I hope you will continue to be part of this effort. Thank you. Thank you. One final and special bit of recognition today that i am going to try to get through without chucking up a little bit. I have known john ram worked for the city 12 years as planning director. I have known him all 12 years. From about day one, john. When i first met john, i was in the Mayors Office and didnt have the sense of appreciation or understanding of the job you were walking into then as i do now 12 years later, particularly in this role. The city is going to miss you terribly. Your sense of grace and elegance and compassion and brilliance as you have tried to navigate the delicate balance between growth and equity in the city has been remarkable. We would not be our Parks Department. Stacy bradley will explain in detail. Our Parks Department, john, would not be where it is today, our parks system would not be where it is today without your leadership and the partnership of your entire team at the Planning Department. There is nothing we touch, nothing we do that we dont need your help with and your guidance. Yes, we are smirking, sometimes those are challenges processes you helped us navigate. To give as i special tour, i am going to ask our planning director, stacy bradley, to come up and say a few words. I want to say i really appreciate all of the openness that john provided to me and mentorship and being a role model. As planner i started at planner 3 before becoming the director of planning. John was always approachable and helped in navigating the intricacy of San Francisco planning which i thought coming from new york city it would be easier here but that is not true. John has been an incredible partner for us and has helped us deliver and develop many new and improved open spaces. My tenure is shorter. My highlights are more rent, starting with 17 and folsom the partnership to turn a parking lot into a park there and at the town square. The town square had many challenges with planning where we needed to change the zoning very quickly, and john and his team were excellent in helping us navigate. There was the e. I. R. Certification and approval after 10 years of work where we were victorious on appeal to the board of the e. I. R. He helped us balance recreation and history at the basin. He is driving for more parks in soma. She is working with to transfer an unused popos in somas to a fee funding lighting and other improvements. His drive for a new vision at civic center has helped us catalyze the renovations from the helen diller foundation. The playgrounds and making sure the by right kiosk was built. That was difficult. He is a big advocate for maintenance to ensure there is equal access. To close countless applications and other applications that the flexibility they have shown to work with us to deliver so many products. Let me adhere that you talk about the three tough ones we had to take on about a decade ago. The soccer fields, the conversion of the eight ash bury into the Community Garden and the lake. None of those three difficult things would have happened without john and his staff. As we go forward to celebrate 150th birthday. We jumped on at 149 and threequarters a lot of work to make the celebration possible. I hope, john, that as i think about your tenure, i want to talk about two things that should be part of your legacy. One is the park system which not only do 100 of us live within a 10 minute walk, it is one of the best park systems in the United States of america. As we talked about yesterday, john leads the directors working group. That is an informal meeting of Department Heads and senior staff where we sit down and discuss complicated inter departmental issues. It has become for those of us who are blessed to participate in this meeting such an important part of our growth as managers and leaders. It allows us to learn from colleagues and really discuss how we solve complicated problems together. I dont know that just anybody could have been successful with creating the directors working group, and i think john has, as i am sure you have all experienced when you interacted with him, has just a great listener and a graceful approach and cares so deeply about our city. His legacy is significant not only for parks but the city generally. I am proud and honored to call you a friend. We will stay in touch. I will miss your day to die psalm andie daytoday calm ag presence. We have a present not one park sign but two. One is we would like you to always think of us. So we have for you a john ram original sign from your fends at from your friends at rec and park. Your compassion has been about the importance of space of civic center. Through your passion and interest and will and your hearding of cats, you have created a plan for what the future of the San Francisco most important public commons should be. We have tried to notch your passion by sparking change in one of those spaces, but may your legacy at some point be the fully renovated civic Center Public realm. We want you to have this to think about that always. applause . Thank you so much. This is unexpected and very lovely. Thank you so much. After hearing that email i must have gone to work for the wrong department. I never get emails like that. We get hundreds of them. I just want to express my appreciation. It has been a great partnership. When i started this job, i was still living in seattle. I accepted the offer, and more than one person who i did not know wrote me emails saying what the hell are you thinking taking this job . I couldnt figure out why until i got here a few months later. It is an extraordinarily challenging position and one that is a great honor. When i think about the work we do with rec and Parks Department and other agencies. I put our work ahead of any city in the country. Other cities look to us. We live in one of the worlds great cities. We often have the homelessness and housing, but always helpful to step back and realize what an extraordinary place this is, to remind ourselves we live in one of the worlds great cities. Thank you for the partnership and friendship. In my 12 years here the parks have never looked better. Icon gratlation you and o congratulations to you. It is an important part what makes the city so great. Thank you all for this great honor. I really appreciate it. [applause] we will take one quick preview of Golden Gate Park 150 and that will conclude the general managers report. I am the godfather of skating in Golden Gate Park. My greatest memory was 40 years ago where i met my wife almost exactly where we are. Happy anniversary. I have lived next to Golden Gate Park for many, many years. My favorite memory is going birding with my oldest daughter and finding for the first time a red breasted sapsucker. Congratulations on your 150th anniversary. Happy anniversary. This is one of our favorite places. May it live well for the next 150 years. We are celebrating 150 years of Golden Gate Park. We have a laundry list of things to think about doing to highlight this significant milestone. We are all coming together for the city to honor Golden Gate Park to show how much we love and care for it and we want to invest in it for the next 150 years. There are over 150 partners. Our last thanks to all volunteers and staff. They are the real story behind Golden Gate Park. [cheers] and that concludes the general managers report. Thank you very much. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We are on item 4. General Public Comment. This will be continued to item 10. At this time members of the public lake ma public may ade commission on items not on the agenda. With respect to the agenda items you can address us when the item is reached on the agenda. Tiffany. Hello. I am tiffany lowenberg. I am the new executive director for the Randall Museum friends. I wanted to come to say hello and introduce myself. This is my First Commission meeting. If you guys have any questions at all for the museum friends, i am available to answer those. I want to say how grateful we are to have such a close relationship with rec and park through the museum and i am looking forward to getting to know you guys. Thank you. Thank you. We look forward to working with you. Is there any other Public Comment for general Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We are on item 15. Consent calendar. Is there any item to remove from the concept calendar. Yes item 5g i would like to remove. The Golden Gate Park anniversary band shell activation. If that is a motion is there a second . Second. All in favor. Aye. So moved. On the rest of item 5 motion to approve concept calendar . So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. So moved. We are on item 5g Golden Gate Park 150th anniversary band shell activation. Good morning, commissioners. Thank you for the opportunity to present this really exciting piece of Golden Gate Park 150 and to report to you on the approval processes. I will walk you very quickly through these slides, but this is the agenda language discussion and possible action as part of the Golden Gate Park 150th celebration to authorize permit to the Parks Alliance on behalf of illuminate the arts to install temporary performance and stage enhancements for two years and accept an in kind grant of new stage risers valued at approximately 95,000 to replace the existing risers. Approval by the commission is the approval action as defined by sf administrative code chapter 31. As you know from previous approvals, the plan is to install these modifications at the vehiclecles temple of muse Spreckles Temple of music which you can see the lower left side. This will be installed at the west end of the music concourse in the site that is known as the Golden Gate Park music band shell. It includes a grant of renovated risers and speaker system and lighting. The improvements are important because they will enhance this site as performance space. They will make it more accessible to small groups. The lightings on the building will highlight it as a Historic Resource the wording is an inspiration to all groups that break the silent place in the park to date. I will go quickly through the details. This is the installation of these risers will replace risers installed in 1994. They have been used by the Golden Gate Park band. We did reach out to the Golden Gate Park band. They are supportive. We had a speaker at Historic Preservation commission yesterday who was a retired San Francisco ballet orchestra member and played in the band and is excited to see these renovations. The lighting element you will see that the lighting will highlight the site. It is a dramatic improvement from the lighting there now. We believe it will activate the space and inspire better usage of the space rather than what is really something of a dark hole. It will be a lit item in the park, and we expect it to be more appreciated than used. Third is the wording hope will never be silenced which will be attached to the top of the band shell. The message of hope will never be silent is a quote from harvey milk. We believe it emphasizes the equity in San Francisco and issues the performance on the stage. We are really excited, and we think it will create this for performers who are performing on the stage. In case you have seen other iterations of the project, the image on the before of the slide shows the previous iteration which was circulated. It is vastly different from what we propose now. Then we have been doing a lot of outreach and engagement with the 150 Community Groups who we expect to participate on april 4th and others. They have seen these images and are excited for these improvements to the band shell. What i want to talk about is the approval process and where we are right now. On december 18 the project was granted an exception by the Planning Department. On february 6 we presented this project to the Operations Committee of this commission, and we were asked. It was placed on consent calendar unless there were changes in the subsequent approval processes. We wanted to inform you what happened and where we are today. Yesterday we took the project to the historical Preservation Commission and just the wording on the band shell to the visual Arts Commission. The Historic Preservation commission enthusiastically improved all the elements of the project except for lettering on the band shell hope will never be silenced quote. Subsequent to that meeting the visual Arts Committee of the Arts Commission approved the lettering. Now we are here at the commission and wanted to bring you uptodate on where we are. We are prepared to move forward with the project as approved by the Historic Preservation commission but wanted to inform you where we are and get direction from this commission. That concludes my presentation. I am available for questions. Stacy bradley who is with the approval process is here and ben davis is here if you have questions. Thank you. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner lowe. Lisa, was the certificate of appropriateness not issued by Historic Preservation yesterday . It was issued for every element of the project except the lettering, the quote hope will never be silent lettering. I see the City Attorney in the audience. Will you advise if we can proceed to approve this matter . Good morning, deputy City Attorney. The planning code says the permit can be issued if the coa is required and hasnt yet been obtained. The commission can approve this action to authorize the department to issue a permit. What would happen in this case the commission could approve including the wording then if they wanted to issue the permit they would need to go back to Historic Commission to get approval. We can include the risers, the lighting and entire project including the wording with recommendations for staff to go back to the commission to get the cfa for the wording . Correct. Is that a motion . It is about to be. Permission to go ashore. I think the wording especially the message of equity and inclusiveness should be the theme that is embraced by all in San Francisco, especially given this was a quote by harvey milk and the National Aids memorial is in Golden Gate Park. The general manager just mentioned there is going to be a fantastic quilt display in this Robin Williams meadow. It is important to include this wording. I would move to approve and issue this permit subject to staff working with Historic Preservation to include the watering proposed on the band shell. Second. All those in favor. Aye. So moved. Thank you very much. Before item 6 i was remiss to not include Public Comment for the consent calendar. I have a blue card. I would like to go back to Public Comment. Please do. Susan, Public Comment for item 5. I am with the california native plant society. Thank you for putting the strategic plant online. Please select 100 native plans to help meet the objective to conserve and strengthen natural resourcers and increase biodiversity. Native plants support hundreds more species of butterflies and birds than nonnative plants. Is there any other Public Comment on item 5 . Please come forward. Okay. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Now we are on item 6. San francisco zoo. Good morning. Tanya peterson, director of the San Francisco s zoo logical society. We had thousands show up for Lunar New Year and many visited the mouse house. They are all named after cheeses. Come and bring your little ones. We returned something called lieu at the zoo. We changed it to something lighter to valentines strolls. We had guides take you through the zoo to point outtic mating habits in a child friendly way. It is popular and we are happy to return. Another thing we are returning as part of your willness programming bring your stuffed bear and our vets will be on hand to examine. This is near the grisly bears that are one of our most delightful exhibits. It is a great way to teach about animal care. I just cant bear it. It is attempting. I will move on to the koala bear. We have been honored to host several australian ambassadors but particularly we received the 2yearold male. We opened the naming to the public and we have come up with a joint name here chosen by the zoo staff and Australian Council general. I will introduce yo you cobar wl my. It is a grove of trees thought to be ex ticket and the public is shielding them from wildfires. We were able toation 15,000 for to raise 15,000 to the collection of the money to the bush fire effort. We continue to house and take in australian animals. I point out other ones. Emu to the right. We have taken in the kuku bears. We are coordinating with the zoos to help in relief efforts. We think a billion animals at risk because of the wildfires. Turning to pending offers with our creddition submissions this year the society is working hard to finish the four projects. We have got the great ape passage. This is home to seven champ pan zees. We took on the old building which housed elephants now contains a day room for the chimpanzees. There is an overhead passageway as well as outside yard and garden. We are refurbishing the old grottos. This is refurbishment of space to provide greater flexibility for animals and zoo pictures. This is maggie, one of the oldest in capacities. She is in the in door shop can get with visitors. She loves children. We have integrated seven chimpanzees,ing of them are rescue county. Two orang are almost extinct. Na should be finished this summer. Another project is our equine therapy. These are old black rhino barns. We thought they werent big enough for the rhinos so we move them and standing to refurbish these barns for pour horses. Clean. These are old barns now housing horses we rescued from the slaughterhouses. Now we have three and we are training them to be therapy horses to carry the disabled, himself to carry emotionally and physically. Our first clients are coming from the back of the zoo to take advantage. We just finished the outside areas. They converted the areas that usedtor soft ground for the horses and wheelchairs. You can see the client can get access to the horse via the ramp. We make this formal during spring break. We are the first to have an equine therapy program. Thank you everybody. Lastly, well, no, two more. I had to show joe montana. There he is with our lion cubs. When he was quarterback, he helped open a new exhibit that is adjacent to the lion house for lion cubs and eventually tiger cubs and now snow leopard cubs. Now we have too many cubs and cats. We are going to expand that habitat. I can show you how that is. Is joe montana was on the very, very far right side. We are going to expand that snow leopard exhibit to left there. It will be adjacent to the hippo antiger ananti and the tiger. We thank you for this effort. We are trying to open this late summer as well. Now it is jimmy g the quarterback for the 49ers we hope he will open this when it is ready lastly, the big idea is refurbishing the prime mate discovery center. There is mayor feinstein in about 1985 with the board chair of the zoo logical society. We were proud of it at the time. The elements are not kind. It is starting to come down. Now that area is a big hole at the zoo. I can show you the picture. Now we are going to turn it into more of a park open space for the limas. This will be madagascar. This is no way to save those animals. We thank the family and other donors for the 7 million effort we hope to finish when accreditation is final. The Society Needs to update the strategic plan. We invite the community to give us input on that effort as we finalize our strategic plan. With that i finish my report. Any Public Comment on item 6 . Good morning. That was great. I took a look at the champ pan zees, considering we worked on it at the commission to change what i recollect as the island from a long time ago. We changed to l imars. We have a center for the family of chimpanzees. That is thank you will. Tanya peterson is doing successful in opening new exhibits. Thank you very much, donna. Is there any other Public Comment . Public comment is closed. Commissioner anderson. Tanya, i want to tell you i am excited about the initiatives you shared. We are uc grads, the college of the law. I am proud of your service. I want to let the Community Know how important horses and hippo therapy. We are on the horses, equine therapy. I thought it was called hipho therapy. My mother has ms really bad. She hasnt gauged in horse therapy and finds it their pugh at this time. It not only helped her feel better in the weeks after, it lifted her spirits. I commend you for that. There are so many ways to support this. I am sorry about your mother. Other animals provide healing. We have seen it in the childrens zoo. The kids can interact with the goats and that provides healing. There is something about the horses in particular. A lot of the horses are as a result of our fires, families couldnt afford the horses. They send them to slaughterhouses out of state. We worked with the rescue to get the horses before they reached other states and they are gentle giants. The american quarter horse. We are humbled to be part of this process. Thank you for saving their lives. Commissioner bonilla. We have unused stables at Golden Gate Park. Maybe we could extend the program. I will leave that for the general manager. Maybe you could find the money. Thank you, tanya. Thank you. We are now on item 7. Hunters view phase 3 project. Good morning. Chris with the capital and planning division, rec and park. I am joined with cindy from the Mayors Office of housing. This is the phase 3 project shadow. It is the future park at 900. A review of the shadow cast supports 1. 2 to strengthen parks and facilities. For shared reference i want to go over planning code section 295 governing shadows it was aimed to protect from shadows cast by New Buildings with height greater than 40 feet. They jointly adopted with the Planning Commission a 19 1989 mo as guidance for determinations of significant shadows in parks. Parks greater than two acres whose current annual shadings is less or equal to 20 , the 1989 established the parameter. We will go over those in more detail. At this time i would like to introduce cindy from the Mayors Office of housing to provide opening remarks on this project. Thank you. Good morning. I am with the Mayors Office of housing. The Mayors Office of housing has been working on the overall hunters view project since 2010 and possibly even earlier. The point is to rebuild our distressed Public Housing while increasing ownership and improve the quality of life for existing residents in surrounding communities. That is the hope sf promise. There are four properties that make up hope sf. That is hunters view, Alice Griffith and sunnydale. The project before you today is for hunters view phase 3. Once built it will have two units, two developments of Affordable Housing on two Properties Block 14 and 17. It will be 100 affordable and have 20 units for public families. The developer will build out phase 3 which includes building some blots for market rate housing, bayview park 0. 7acres and the improvements to that area because the bottom picture kind of shows that it is vacant right now. It is flatland. They have build not flatland. They have to rebuild the infrastructure with streets and curbs for the new area. The reason for the height increase or what is creating the shadow is height increase we are requesting on the affordable property. The reason we are requests is before we began working with the developer to look at financial feasibility of 100 affordable development, we started analysis in 2010. This project has to build 53 Public Housing replacement units, most of which are three bedroom and larger. I will say there is 30 four bedrooms in the property. If we were to build at the 40 feet height, that project was not feasible. In 2010 that was about 700,000 a unit total Development Cost at that time. Costs have gone up today. To make that feasible we added Additional Units so the original project we looked at was 53 units. Today the project is now 118 units. We have added several units to make the project feasible. There is financing and state financing, tax credits and a state program we are applying for, the developer is. That concludes my section. Good morning. I am with the Planning Department staff. I am going to briefly describe the entitlement structure for hope sf. Hope sf was approved under a planned Unit Development like a conditional use authorization but for large scale projects that enable us to provide modifications for the commitment of goody sign. This was a particularly large plan Unit Development at 22acres, longterm complete rebuilding of street system, new open space. We did it differently in this particular instance. We provided development with a longer term performance period. Usually it is three years. This was 10 years. Instead every choiring all designs of the requiring of all designs. This is a blueprint for the build out of hunters view from which subsequent designs come in and staff is reviewing or could be firming it is consistent with the d for d. We are looking to make modifications to that original approval, but the big driver is the 10 year performance period even though longer than typical has lapsed. We are asking our commission to reup the entitlement for another 10 years. We are looking at modifications for design for developmental allowing height on blocks 14 and 17 from 40 feet which does not require a shadow analysis to buildings proposed 55 and 58 feet. That does require a shadow analysis and that does create shadows on the two parkings before you. Plans is looking to recommend to our Commission Approval of the conditional use andy pend dent on what recommendations you make to our commission if you make recommendations of no shadow impact we would recommend the same as well. This concludes my portion of the presentation and i would be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you, matt and cindy. This is located less than a quarter mile west of the shoreline on a down sloping hillside within day view hunters point. Two five story multifamily residential buildings separated by. 7acre Public Open Space between them. This slide shows the phase three in addition to phase one and two to the left grayed out. Its relationship to the geography downhill. The properties shadowed are downhill to the east. These are renderings from different vantage points. As you can see the rooflines step downhill to respect the topography of the hillside. Here the is the maximum shadow at july at 7 15 p. M. This occurs in two columns across the mid section of the park and the upper portion. Covering areas including parking and driveway areas, picnic areas, portions of the central lawn as well as childrens play areas. Please note the Basketball Court is not shadowed. That is at the bottom. Here is the maximum shadow in relation to the approved concept plan on the right. Shadowing could cover landscaping and boathouse at the north. Parking and driveway and central lawn and pathway portions and small portion of the picnic area and just the northwest tip corner of the Basketball Court, rectangular area towards the bottom. Here is the maximum shadow for the 900 in the future park on june 21 at 7 36 p. M. As you can see on the conveyor in the left shade. Shadowing touches the northwest corner of the park which would cover the pathway. This is an animation of the maximum numof maximum. Patat 7 1e park. I will run it again. Here is the same for the 900innis park. The maximum shadow is 7 36 p. M. On june 21st. This slide summarizes the shad go do analysis. It is shadowed 2. 14 . It would increase by. 4 for a total of 2. 54 . The future is shadowed 9. 61 . The project would increase load by. 0002 . As you can see, the project shadow increase is well below the 1989 memo parameters. Here is a qualitative summary of the project on each quart. Shoreline park shading from mid february to late october in Late Afternoon to early evening with a duration of 32 minutes. 900innis early june to midjuly as well as late august to midapril. Generally in the Early Morning prior to 10 00 a. M. With an average duration when present of nine minutes. Just to summarize, the project shadow increase upon each park is below the 1989 them to thresholds. The time of day of shadow is after 7 15 p. M. Lastly, it is important to note this is the final phase of the hope sf project, supported by the Mayors Office of housing seeking to revitalize the neighborhood. If you have any further questions, please let me know. Is there any Public Comment on this item . I am catherine with the jon Stewart Company, i am director of development there. I can say go jackets. I was asked to speak briefly on the Community Outreach and engagement for hunters view but more specifically for the phase 3 project with the shadow impact. This has been going on for many years. Jon Stewart Company is leading an extensive outreach and Community Engagement process since 2005 when we took on the project. We met with residents, tenants association, Neighborhoods Association and bayview pac for years. More specifically with respect to this project and phase 3 and i should mention i have been involved with hunters view for seven years and leading resident meetings during that time. Most specifically with block to 14 and 17, the project before you today with the shadow impact. I led five resident meetings focused on the design for phase three. It is focused on the park design mentioned in the presentation. 7 new acre park between blocks 14 and 17. That is a privately developed and will be maintained by the master association. Not a rev park park. We have been discussing design and what the impact will be in the neighborhood. There is no real comment about the shadow impact. It is negligible to residents. I presented at the Board Meeting on february 1st. Board members did not seem to mind about the shadow impact. They were concerned about the Upcoming Development in phase 3, they are excited on the hillside which is currently vacant with the old foundations from old Public Housing, they are excited that will be developed this year with the market rate project that is coming in phase one and two of hunters view. They had questions related to Community Safety and trash but not shadow. I presented at the cac meeting last week and spoke about the reentitlements and the impact for block 14 and 17. They were not concerned about the shadow. I bring that up. My time is up. You have 30 seconds. That is it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you, commissioners. We had approved this at the Capital Committee finding that the shadows cast by the project were within the quantitative thresholdses of the memo. It is within the 20 of reference in the memo. Qualitative analysis, only activity that is lightly impacted is the proposed Basketball Court. The overriding consideration was this is 100 affordable. I think the good of the shadow caster is in favor of this project and would move for approval. Second. Moved and seconded. Those in favor. Aye. So moved. Thank you. Budget fq20f w2 1 and fy21fy22. Good morning. I am derek chew the director of finance for the Parks Department. I am here to present to you the fiscal year 202122 budget. The staff has worked to enhance the parks programs answe and se. It incorporates efforts to improve the experience and enhance the capital and maintenance projects leverage revenues anal locates vacant positions and funds and strong focus on clean and safe streets and we include parks in that and the mayors priority on maintaining and improving healthy and vibrant neighborhoods. Our Budget Planning and development is guided by four central points. Strategic plan, operational and capital plans and focus on equity lands and metrics. The proposed fiscal year 2021 budget totals 220. 9 million, which is 1. 3 million or 6 higher than the current year budget. Our budgeted ft positions 995 which is an increase from the current year level of 963. I will point out that although the year to year growth in the budget is 1. 3 million, when you take out the capital and other funds, those are the line item that change from year to year. In some years we may get 30 million and other years 10 million, depending on the scheduling of the allocation. If you take out that line item, the departments budget goes from 191 million to 201 million, which is closer to 5 increase. There was significant growth. The majority of that growth was in salary and Fringe Benefits for staff. Some as sorted nonsalary items. In this years proposal we are including an initiative to the mayor to increase the Park Ranger Division as well as to continue funding for the parks dot program. This chart shows you our proposed spending in our main proposed accounts, salaries and fringe making up a good 59 of spending. Work orders to city departments 12 . Capital funding 27. 9 million, 13 . You can see m and s city Grant Programs anna and the nonpersonl services. Revenues relatively stable from year to year. Open space fund grew from 65. 6 million to 70 million. General fund support from 82 million to 86 million. Earned income grew slightly up to 54 million from 52. 4 million. You can see on the second to last line on this table the one item i was talking about. Other revenues including bond funds and gifts and grants dropped about so Million Dollars from 19. 3 million to 19. 9 million. If you take that one line item out you will see the budget did grow by about 10 million. As brought up in previous meetings, we were very focused on meeting the mayors goals as well as our departments and commissions goals. We did look to ensure investment in clean and safe parks, park rangers. We propose adding 17 park rang ranger, three head rangers, two fixed posts added to part one crime areas to help bring down those offenses. We are also looking at adding one ranger per shift to each of the 11 supervisor districts. We will add a bicycle unit as well. In the area of park stops. In addition to the 10 park stops we currently are operating. We propose to the mayor to add additional five park stops. Proposed to be at market haywards, youngblood, extend deloris to two fulltime slots and the panhandle and washington square. Environmental services we propose adding a gardiner, Environmental Services laborer and supervisor. We will add additional funding forgetting the park and Service Areas as Natural Resources to add additional supplies to their budgets. We are really excited about the work in our Equity Program and services as noted in todays earlier presentation to our partners, oece, we will continue to explore creatively the opportunities we can create to ensure that we get our programs and services to the lowest income, most disadvantaged populations in the city. In that mind i note that we are increasing partnerships from 33 to 133 in the coming summer session. We are offering 100 camper ship subsidies. Before it was 50 . We ensure the lottery is a priority for low income families. The other main priority for the department is in our Capital Projects deferred maintenance projects. We will maintain a 15 million commitment of general Fund Allocation to maintain repair renovate park and recassets. 1. 5 million for the middle lake project. 300,000 for the new park Botanical Garden nursery. 400,000 for irrigation systems. Additional 50,000 for Community Garden maintenance projects. 1. 5 million for emerging department mental initiatives in the second budget year. 2. 9 million to the lincoln gateway project. All of this could not have been done without teamwork and collaboration. I want to thank tiffany wong, our budget manager. Her staff are still working on the budget. I thank mash rethe finance manager and tone neour Capital Finance manager. The rec and park team is doing pretty awesome right now. That concludes my presentation. I am sorry. We are recommend your approval of the budget and to submit to the Mayors Office. I have one blue card. Susan. One other project i missed. We are renovating the dock as one of our priorities. California native plant society. Thanthank you for including nate plants in your strategic plan. Planting 100 native plants aligns with your objectives to conserve and strengthen resour resources on city parkland. Propagating, purchasing, planting and maintaining native plants is the same as it costs for an equivalent drop tolerant not native plant. It is budget neutral, this request. While providing hundreds of times more biodiversity than nonnative plants. Landscape diversity is not biodiversity. Planting anything that lives is what is contributing to the plummeting bird population. The only thing that supports the bird web are 100 native plants. Please plant 100 native plants in rec and parks. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner lowe. All the revenue numbers are up except for one category, garages. Port smith square. Any comment on ideas of improving the garage revenues or if we have to rethink parking and driving in light of uber and lyft and how people get to our parks . Our garage revenues are down, have been down over the past year. It is something we noted. We are working with all operators. They are working on various marketing plans to bring in both transient parkers and over night parkers. We are working with the m. T. A. Who oversee the garages citywide to come up with newer ideas on how we can use the space, for cars or for private parking of cars or fleet parkings or other uses of that space, given the shortage of rental space in the city as a whole. There could be other options where we could use to rent that space and increase or maintain a certain level of revenue income. That is a concern going forward. We will continue to work with the board at port smith as well as m. T. A. Going forward to see how we can stabilize the growing losses in that area. Seeing no other questions. Chair would entertain a motion. Moved and seconded. Those in favor. Aye. So moved. Item 9. Sea level rise assessment and hazard Climate Resilience plan. Good morning, commissioners. I am bryan, planner with rec and Parks Department. The item before you is informational item regarding Sea Level Rise assessment and the hazard and Climate Resilience plans. This addresses strategy number four, inspires stewardship, strengthen the city climate resiliency. I am joined by Melissa Higbee from the office of resilience and Capital Planning as well as lisa from the plans department along with other staff from those departments. They will present in a moment on the two plans. The two efforts are comprehensive efforts by the city to address Sea Level Rise as well as other climate hazards. Rec and park staff had been involved throughout the multiyear efforts to address both Sea Level Rise and other hazards. As you are familiar, rec and park has several coastal parks, including marina green and the harbour and india basin, among others. As well as we have several assets that are affected or could aid in the warming climate we have, including respite at our Recreation Centers or shade in the parks. As well as mitigation efforts which the reports will go over. Now, i will hand it over to Melissa Higbee to present the hazard Climate Resilience plan. Thank you, bryan. Good morning, commissioners and general manager. I am martha hig be the office of resilience and Capital Planning. I am the project manager for this effort. What this is is assessment of San Franciscos vulnerability to hazards including Climate Change and how it influences our hazards. We have had unprecedented heat events and air quality events. They are getting worse in the future due to Climate Change as well as flooding and drought. This plan includes Actionable Strategies to mitigate risks and build resilience. We have three main reasons we are doing this plan. One is from fema. To qualify for predisaster and post Disaster Mitigation funding we need a Hazard Mitigation plan and update it every five years. That plan does that to make sure we can maintain funding which could be significant after a disaster. We have state requirements. Sb379 requires the city inkorpar rate it to the general plan and include Climate Change and look at the strategies. We have the 2020 Climate Strategy update with a assessment of adaptation strategies to serve that role as well. Three main reasons why we are doing this plan. As bryan mentioned. Be it is a multiyear effort. We started two years ago working on the assessment phase. Our assessment looks at hazards, assets in the city and how those over lap to create vulnerabilities and the consequences of those. We looked at existing actions in the cities and capabilities of building on those. We had a strategy Development Phase where we looked at the goals and developed strategies with departments and with stakeholders. We worked on improving those through evaluation criteria. We had a drafting phase where the draft was posted for Public Comment. Now we have submitted the draft. It will then go tofina. To fema. Then it will be approved by the board of supervisors and mayor. During thawe had five workshopsr 70 organizations attending, also a Public Survey with over 500 responses. I will talk about findings in that as well. These are the goals of the plan. To reduce risk of damage and disruption from hazards. This is a standard goal from the has guard mitigation plan. We looked at expanding our goals. We have worked in collaboration with the public and private. Addressing inequalities that often happen from hazard events. Increasing Public Awareness with increasing empowerment and engagement. This is a multi hazard plan. 13 different Natural Hazards grouped into different categories. The plan including assessment of the hazards. This is an example of the stormwater flood risk. We included mapping, the location where it can happen, severity we can expect in the future. As i mentioned. We looked at the assets that contribute to the quality of life here. We mapped these including vulnerable population and parks and open space. We look at how these overlap with hazards. We developed profiles for these assets. Highlighting the vulnerabilities, fiscal or functional and the consequences. We did Stakeholder Engagement to better understands peoples priorities, get feedback on strategies. Some of the fights were people are looking some of the themes are they want them coordinated. One size fits all strategies are not going to work in San Francisco. They need to be targeted to different populations. We heard a lot of concern about earthquakes and unhealthy air quality based on the last two falls and events then. Also looking at we heard support for investing in increasing resilience of city assets. We heard about neighbors helping each other. It is important to no each other in a city where there continues to be displacement. It is a key concern. People are looking for specific Emergency Preparedness based on their location and the people that they serve. The plan including over 90 strategies. We have sliced and diced in different ways. They fall into three buckets. Infrastructure, resilient buildings and communities. We looked at the different roles the city plays to implement the strategies as owner of public asset or doing research and planning and guidance. The city plays different roles. We are creating a dashboard on the website where the strategies will be there. I want to give you a little flavor of what these strategies look like. A sample from the buildings domain of strategies. This one is about assessing and retrofitting our municipal buildings. Detailing the process we go through to identify the most vulnerable buildings and how we prioritize those improvements. This is weather and climate addressing flooding. This is led by the Planning Department in coordination with the port and m. T. A. I am looking at that district and future floodrists and projects implemented to reduce those risks. Community strategy. This one is a study to look at the overlap between vulnerable populations and buildings. We know some of the most vulnerable buildings such as sros or Affordable Housing also has the most vulnerable alterations to provide targeted as assistance in believe retrofitting or other services. With that i want to turn it over to bryan to highlight the strategy that we are the im menter on and partner on. Thank you, melissa. As listed in the slide before this i am going to go through those the park and recis coleading. Mitigates harbor docks to be coled with the port. Address king tides and tsunami risks. Adopt to saltwater intrusions. Using marches and plant diverse see. Assess storm water catchment areas within rec and park. We are working on that with pay number of sites. Explore structures and shading in the parks with the climates change. Looking at the plant palette. Many of the plants were planted 150 years ago. We are entering different Climate Change. To look at what works for today but also tomorrow. Also using our rec centers and facilities and pools as places of respite for heat days and air police days when the for rest fires happen. On ocean beach a large project, multipronged with the p. U. C. And rec and park and partnership with the National Park service as well as looking at, as melissa mentioned earlier, seismic hazards. Looking into other things like solelar where we could develop solar power in our sites. With that, that finishes the hazard and climate review. Now, i hand it over to alisha to cover the Planning Department Sea Level Rise vulnerability assessment. Thanks, bryan. Good morning. I am Planning Department staff. I am here to talk about the citys Sea Level Rise vulnerability and consequences assessment. I am joined by adam, assistant director of the citywide planning division. By way of background it is the policy function. In that role our work cross cuts multiple topics. We are thinking how the topics interact in immediate and long term. It is all under pinned by our general plan. Our work keeps current the citys general plan which guides our policy decisions. I am going to talk today about the contents of the Sea Level Rise consequences assessment. This was a multi Agency Effort to see the impacts on the people, economy and environment. I will discuss the project background. The report method and information on rec and park facilities as well as next steps athe Sea Level Rise rise work is Climate Resiliences. That involves how we mitigate and adapt the city to not just sigh the low rise but climate hazards in general. Where are these two synergies . Trying to coordinate to address together. On the adaptation side we are thinking about a wide range of klein at hazards. In 2015 mayor ed lee convened departments created the Sea Level Rise coordinating committee. This brought together planners who own intake structure orings. That can be monthly basis. This group worked to create the Sea Level Rise action plan. It called on the departments to Work Together to understand the impacts and development strategies. Its vision was to make San Francisco. We will enhance public and private asset and and quality of life. The plan also set out a road map to address the vulnerability to see the low rise. First was to understand and review the science of Sea Level Rise and what to expect for the city. Next couple step was have to do with Sea Level Rise. It is near the final state. I will talk about the coming steps which we bundled into a climate framework melis take mentioned. First step to understand the Science Behind so level rise. This is from a report 2012 from the National Resource council. It has Sea Level Rise outcome showing the near, mid, longterm to the end of the century. In looking at the Sea Level Rise and we add another three feet on top of that. That represents a storm surge and king tide. Those now create a wider range of potential outcomes. These numbers havent been incorporated into they have been incorporated into the city guidance for Capital Projects. We did not change the numbers in the assessment. We are pretty far along in the report. It doesnt change the area of the city. The facilities we were looking at were already captured. In terms of the method, we started with what areas would be exposed to Sea Level Rise. Based on those i just showed you and i showed you a map covering that in the following slide. Next would be looking at the publicly owned assets within the scope. Shing how vulnerable they are. In this case how sensitive they are. The assets such as electrical may be chilely sensitive to flooding. Parking garages are less so because floodwaters can recede and be back into use for regular programming. There is a knowledge t build. You can move buses. Other types of fixed infrastructure have less add catch adaptable. We asked what does it mean for the economy, environment for people and what types of governance would be necessary to deal with those consequences . This maps show the 108inch number through the end of the century. Looking what would happen if there was no adaptation action for the city. That is if we do knows. We know that is not the case. We are already approving plans and building projects to do strategies for Sea Level Rise. This is a bit of extreme map that shows with no city action what the area of the city would be inundated by Sea Level Rise. It is a significant amount of the city, about 6 of the city land area or four square miles. We applied this to different infrastructure types and systems. We are talking about building assets, water, sewer, pg e, public safety, fire stations all kind of transportation facilities. Parking, open space and recreation. The port has the open spaces. We also looked at not just infrastructure but how they interact at the neighborhood level. The cases where multiple pieces of intake structure would be understooded or Sea Level Rise by tropical storm. What is that on the neighborhood level. What would our neighborhood be affected over type and the different be scenarios. Now, i will talk about the key findings. This table just shows a summary of the numbers by 37,000 affected, 170,000 jobs and 75acres of parks could be affected. It is significant where there is a lot of populations within the Southeast Side of the city. These are details asset mapping. You can see the map of the bayview creek area with no action. The different dots and colors represent the infrastructure categories. For each dot it is the information of what the asset is, how it could be affected and how vulnerable it is. This map shows the creek with the concentration of citywide serving utilities, open spacing, punishment facilities and transportation assets. This map shows marino in where the shoreline is over the top. The low lines are vulnerable on the bay side. There is breakwater areas near golden gate and st. Francis yacht clubs and the green area that could also be flooded. Now, i will talk about the key findings related to recreation and park open spaces. This chapter detailed information on focusing on parks, playgrounds, marinas, recreation fields and trails. Here are a few maps showing the information we collected for those facilities. These maps show city parks, playgrounds and recreation areas managed through the rec and Parks Department, office of Community Investment and infrastructures. We also have a map of trails affected on the right. For earring asset there is detailed information on the vulnerability and the asset person manently inundated. A few highlights from the open space chapter with Sea Level Rise and coastal storm surge, many parks including india, embarcadero and open spaces provide recreation activities in already underserved communities would become unavailable to residents and visitors. The marinas has green and the yacht hash borcould be backed or become inaccessible due to floodings. Some would not have room to be relocated so it could be lost altogether. The shoreline open spaces such as ocean beach, fort main son, prom monad to current flooding and future Sea Level Rise impacts. These spaces provide unique shush as swinging and wild be life viewing. The shrinking open spaces will limit the recreation opportunities for the city. What is next . As we continue to increase understanding of how Sea Level Rise would affect the city, we are moving forward with adaptation planning andy signing projects for the most pressing need areas. Waterfront projects today build in adaptation strategies by ramping up the shoreline and elevating streets and infrastructure. We are also planning the district orthopedic neighborhood scale. The ocean beach longterm Improvement Project is underway. We were an regarded a grant to study near and longterm adaptation strategies and we are working with the port partners on both Embarcadero Seawall Program to strengthen the sea wall and near term flood risk. Working with the corps of engineers to develop pay flood tuesday de for the port shoreline. Finally we are working with all agencies involved in Sea Level Rise planning at a citywide level. We are working with looking at crime at resilience building codes and Capital Planning for infrastructure and addressing threats to coastal flooding as well as strategies for areas not covered by the port. That concludes my presentation. I and members of the team are available for questions. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any Public Comment on this item . Good morning. Now that the people are here. I will speak about what wasnt covered. What is going to be happening allaround our shoreline, the ocean, and all of the new construction going on. It is the salt content that is going to change sea life of our biological animals, crabs, shiners, but the sa the salinity content is shifting. This content throughout the area varies. It is nonthe same. All of the increase in population coming, water goes into the estuary, only 1 4 goes out. That is what happens to water in the estuary. We have flooding of people coming in. When they come in there is more water use and treatment and it goes out. Every time that increase happens or the water change happens or has what would have been in the presentation the salinity would change. I recommend studying the content proximal to the new projects moving in the estuary area. Thank you. Thank you for considering the plant palette as part of the hazard climate resilient strategy. Our local native plants when established have already adapted to extreme variations in climate. Years of drought, atmospheric rivers and sea level incursion. Please include planting native plants in their plant communities as part of your plant palate for the San Francisco Climate Resilience plan. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. That was information only. I think we appreciate the presentation. Do you have anything to add . No. I would say it has been a pleasure and honor to be part of this effort, which is both a citywide effort and global phenomena. I know we have much work ahead of us as a city and people. Thank you for your presentation. We are on item 10. General Public Comment. Anyone else would like to make Public Comment today . Come on up, richard. Hello again. I am going to try to talk about Golden Gate Park o on the west. I try to bring this up. It is not going along too good. To give the position to people new to the commission. That park project with treatment of ground water was changed all the way over by the zoo. That has happened. They use creek water in the purple pipes. Now they are going to change that purple pipes to using sewer water, treated sewer water. I dont think the public cares for that. What i am looking at is what is happening at the chain of the lakes. The middle lake is not clay. It is part of the spring, part of the aquifer drain off going to the ocean. With that type of stuff, i think there should be a little more interest in the middle lake project that is going to be clayed over. What then happens to the training of the aquifer with its own natural drainage to go to the beach. Sea level rise is going to be problematic. What is proposed by the sfrpd plans is to clay bed the entire middle lake. In doing that it might change or cause problems with the biological life, biological life would be pond turtles and the red lake frogs, which are endangered species. Of my thinking can we ever get a more thorough look at what already is in the master plan . We treat the ground water. The other water flooding out possibly that could be drained back, pumped back up. I dont know what that is going to do. We have ground water and no explanation as to what is going to happen to the existing ground water. There is one final point. I think that we can possibly look at saving the nation. It that a big answer and a lot of people are looking at. When i went to p. U. C. , they use estuary water, not oceanside water which has a lot more brine. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, it is closed. Item 11. Public comment . Seeing none, new business is closed. Item 12 new business setting. Any Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment closed. Item 13 communications. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment closed. Item 14. Adjournment. So moved. Second. Those in favor. Aye. So moved. Thank you very much. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. This is a reminder to silence all electronic devices. Fire Commission Regular meeting february 6, 2020 and the time is 50 3 00 p. M. February 26. Item one, roll call. roll call . Item 2. General Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission for up on to three minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commissioners as a whole. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. The lack of a response does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Thank you, madam secretary. Is there any member of the public that would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item 3. Approval of minutes. Discussion and possible action to approve the Meeting Minutes from february 12, 2020. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment regarding the minutes of our last meeting . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Fellow commissioners, what say you . I move to approve. Thank you. Is there a second . Yes, second. Thank you. We have a motion by commissioner cleveland and second buy Vice President feinstein. All in favor please signify by saying aye. Thank you. Item 4 presentation from the San Francisco fire in Safety Education. Presentation by firefighter dwayne eckerdt in connection with the sffisp. A Program Providing Important Safety Information to School Children in San Francisco. Thank you. Please come forward. Good evening. We all know you are very busy. This will be very brief this evening. Our team is in front of you we represent the Fire Department and the foundation to create an Amazing Program called the firefighters in Safety Education program. We are here to introduce the new commissioners and to give the annual update. We will tell you four things. We will tell you what the program is, who we are, how it works, and why we are doing it. First of all, what is sffise . It is a program that delivers a 30 minute presentation from local firefighters to our locallen melocalchildren in edu. Like i said, it is between the foundation and the San Francisco Fire Department. It takes a lot of work to pull it off. We do it every year. Who are we . I am the lieutenant at truck four. I have been in the Fire Department since 2004 and Foundation Volunteer since 2005. I run the San Francisco firefighters and Safety Education Program Since 20102011 school year. I train other Fire Departments throughout the state of california in this curriculum. This is scott. He works for the foundation. He is the sf partner and liaison between the Fire Department and the foundation. He trains Fire Departments across the state. Patrick is here next to me, also, a fire fighter truck 7. He has been in the Department Since 2011. He has been volunteering since 2012. He is the lead presenter. He has done more presentations than any other presenter and most school years does more than all presenters combined. Next year with any luck, he will take over the program from me. He is the face of sffise moving forward. He trains different Fire Departments up and down the state. On my far left is elliott reynolds, head intern. He manages, recruits and trains and is liaison for the three volunteer interns. He does scheduling, volunteers time as an aspiring firefighter working fulltime and going to the San Francisco college fire academy. He just bragged that he hosted a fundraiser for us and delivered enough funds for a box for every single station in our city. All 44 stations have the brandnew box thanks to him. We are excited to have him managing the team of interns. We have currently three interns. They are tasked with scheduling, communicating with schools, pick up and delivery of the boxes and preand post tests which you will learn about in a second. The other part of the team are volunteer presenters. Of course, we couldnt deliver any of this unless we had people to deliver the information in the schools. Our volunteer presenters we have 49 volunteers that present in the schools across the city in every neighborhood in San Francisco. The chief office in the administration. We have a lot of support from the chiefs office. If we didnt we couldnt operate in the schools. Sylvia does the firefighter details and a lot of general orders and administrative duties and liaison for the Fire Department and the Burn Foundation. Without the chiefs support we couldnt do this. It is a big team. We do a lot of good. I told you i would tell you how it works. It is simply a program where we detail schools that have previously been contacted by the intern team and scheduled. We detail a fire fighter in uniform to go to the school to deliver a 30 minute presentation. For k through 3 and 30 minutes for 4, 5, 6. Same key points, a little different style. Firefighters are asked to take a box with them. It has 12 items in it. It is a script and outline. Just in case the firefighters are nervous they can essentially just read right off the script. The presentation that when we do the trainings we let them know if you are nervous for the first two times read it off the script. No problem with that. I will take you there 30 minutes. The veteran presenters like patrick are accompanying the newer presenters until they get the feel of the good presentation. Then the firefighter simply delivers the message to the Elementary School kids. They have turnouts, clean uniforms, a prop box and go deliver the message. They are either at the station already or intern Team Delivers them. They also deliver a preand post test to get the metrics how the kids are learning and if they are learning the information. Without a lot of slides and data, it works well and the kids learn a lot. Examples of the key points. Stop, drop, roll. Stay low some smoke. Cool the burn, dial 911, dont hide. 4, 5, 6 graders get consequences of playing with matches and home escape plans. The kids get a visit from the fire engine as well. As soon as the presentation is over the fire engine comes to concrete the concepts we are trying to teach them. It is also really exciting for them to see the crew of firefighters and fire engine. The idea for us is the kids are taking the information home and sharing with brothers, sisters, grandparents, mothers, sisters, brothers, uncles. Not only are we reaching kids and families and communities. This is all free. We dont charge for any of this stuff. We want to make sure children have the information to pass on to families and communities because our mission as firefighters and the Burn Foundation missions is to reduce burns and fatalities. We are doing an excellent job in our community. Why sffise . In 2001 there was no public educator provision for burp prevention and burn prevention and fire prevention. A firefighter krieger contacted the Burn Foundation to say we can make this program great. That continued and in 2010 and 2011, i took the program over. Since then we are educating between 7,000 to 15,000 kids every Single School year in this program. The program under goes professional educator reviews, grade level appropriate net, nfpa tracts. We have master educators pourover to make sure it is appropriate. We go through to make sure it is accurate, uptodate and appropriate. The information is 100 reliable. So much so in 2015, San Francisco Unified School District mandated this would be taught in allen men tree schools in San Francisco. We are in all of the Elementary Schools in San Francisco. We are able to deliver the program. It helps the community. As firefighters we stick to our mission to serve. As i said, we have 49 enrolled volunteers. I would like patrick to talk about the firefighters side of it and shed light on what the firefighter experience is for those volunteers. Good evening. The fireman doing the presentation is one of the few things where we get nothing but positive feedback. Often times dealing with the public we get less than positive response to the attempt to resist. This is a fun opportunity to really take in a lot of love. During my time helping with this program across the state, i have seen attempts to use fire cadets or nonfirefighters to present the information and it doesnt seem to have the same effect. When we walk in in our uniform with our gear, especially being in San Francisco where the kids see us on the street. I have had firefighter patrick call to me and kids on the sidewalk and in grocery stores. There is something powerful when the child knows we are a fire fighter presenting the information. They take it seriously and retain it. That is the best part. We have volunteers at every firehouse, prop kits in every firehouse. It is a smooth and easy transition for the firefighter, one or two presentations a year and two hours out of the day and you get a big reward back. We appreciate your report. Elliott, our lead intern. Hello, commissioners. They filled you in my role pretty well. I will be short and sweet. I have been with the program for three years. We have had amazing growth in those three years. I want to thank you all forgiving us the cubicle at headquarters which is a huge help. We have three volunteers besides me who do if work. Scheduler and two logistics guys that Work Together to get it done. Last semester we reached 2755 students. Usually the fall semester is slower so for the spring semester, we have reached out to 51 schools and have scheduled 11 schools. Our numbers should be on track with the higher end of the usual goal. We are still doing our best to continue to add schools to the list, both public, private and alternative schools as well. Thank you. I am sure you would like to hear from scott as well as far as the Burn Foundation side of this. Good evening, commissioners. The Burn Foundation works with burn survivors throughout the state of california. Our goal is to put ourselves out of business. These guys are platinum standard of getting into schools and teaching prevention. The testing they talked about is testing not only what they learn year after year but how much they retain. We are incredibly successful in this an appreciate the effort fr being the front line forgetting the prevention method to the students of San Francisco. Thank you. That is the four teams we promised to tell you what the program is, who we are, why it works and how it works. We want to say thank you again to the administration and Fire Commission for continued support. We look forward to continue to educate San Francisco children, and we look forward to another great year and more education. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your presentation. Is there any Public Comment . Public comment is closed. I will go to my fellow commissioners. Beginning with the chief of the department. She is not a commissioner but her name is up there. I can defer to my other commissioners if they would like to go first. First of all, hello, my friends, hello. Thank you so much. It is great to see you guys here. Thank you so much for the work you guys do. I know you dont get paid for this and you do this because you feel like it is really important work. Thank you. You are not just the Gold Standard for our department. Thanks and we will be happy to continue supporting you. I know sylvia is a great Contact Person for you. Thank you for everything, all you do. Thank you, chief. Commissioner cleveland. Thank you, madam president. I would like to echo the chiefs comments. You guys are doing terrific work that serves the citizens of the city by educating children on fire safety. I would like to offer my thanks. Keep up the good work. A couple questions. You talk about the 12 item in the prop box. What are they . It is essentially the 12 items relate to each key point we have as far as stop, drop and roll, cool a burn, dial 911, highfive a fire fighter to give the kids a visual representation and keep the presenters on track. If we lay out a smoke detector, smoke alarm. Who has seen one of these. They can see it. Do you see one in this room right now. It is to solid fithe knowledge. There is a teddy bear and telephone for dialing 911, a blanket and stop, drop and roll sign. Whawhat is the prop box. A box full of props. I was hoping you would bring it in. We will bring you one. We will do the whole presentation for you. I wanted to ask you. Do you video . I think it would be something important to put on television on our government channel. Yes, absolutely. I am only stuttering i am in the video. I cant imagine what that would be like on the government channel. We have training videos and the full presentation. That is one of the resources we offer the firefighter volunteers in Safety Education. Com we have outlines and scripts and videos broken down by chapter. Any firefighter with a presentation can go and watch the entire presentation from somebody that has done it many, many times, myself and firefighter patrick. We are on there doing each and every chapter. They can look to see that is the stop, drop and roll. It is half a hour. The entirety. Have you given that to sfgovtv . No. Then you should. We can, absolutely. They need to run that education for everyone out there that watches television. If they cant. They dont have children in school they can still learn about keeping themselves safe from getting burned. It would be very important to get a broader audience to what you are doing for the children. Thank you you. Testing. Do the kids get tested after the half hour . They do. The idea we need to know how much they are learning. If this is effective or not we give them a pretest which the intern Team Delivers to the school. It is five questions. What do you use to cool a burn, ice cream . There are examples. Then we match that up with the posttest which they receive within 24 hours after we have dubour presentation have done our presentation. We try to get the same schools captured and can tell if they are learning more on the pretest year after year. What things are more difficult . Often times we find this one question lots of kids are getting wrong on the pre. They are not getting it wrong on the post. We know that is important. Our cool the burn question. What do you use to cool the burn . Ice cube, cool water and icecream cone. A lot of kids put ice. We mention that we dont want you to use ice. This is why. We want you to use cool water. Posttest. 90 get it right. We are teaching them and the repeated exposure shows over time they learn more and more. Why dont you use ice . We dont use ice because ice is so cold that frozen water sticks to burn skin. When you pull it off, it might pulloff your skin. Are these presentations done in spanish or chinese . Yes, these presentations are done every year in spanish and chinese. We just finished two spanish presentations last week in the mission. We have printed materials in i think 11 languages, scott. Updated seven languages. We are looking to expand to as many as possible, probably the goal is 20. This is a fantastic program. Keep up the good work. Thank you for all the hours and time that you have put into this. The fact that you are educating our youth throughout the city in fire safety is a huge contribution. Thank you for that. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner. Thank you very much, madam president. First of all, lieutenant, you started this program in 2010, 10 years . I just want to recognize that commitment and thank you for that. Firefighter pat. I have seen you as well. Thank you very much for your service and participation. Elliott reynolds, intern, three years. Thank you very much for that. Scott, i didnt catch your last name. Wertz. In terms of association. What is your role at the foundation . So am the Northern California regional manager. My initial interaction with the foundation was as a survivor. I was burned in 2013, and i was greeted by the foundation while still in the hospital where i got to see the positive effects and meet other burn survivors. I came on as a volunteer and as Fulltime Position representing Northern California in prevention and survivor services. I am glad you share that with us. I want to thank all of you for your service. Commissioner cleveland asked the questions i was going to ask in terms of language which makes so much sense in terms of the children you are trying to approach. Half an hour curriculum. How does that work . The instructor allows you to come in at a certain time or how does that work . When we call the schools or when we schedule the schools, it is 30 minute curriculum to cover the points and 30 minutes for 4 through 6. It is different. The curriculum and script is written based on at tension span for Elementary School kids to keep at 30 minutes. That answers one of the questions that it is targeted for elementary children. Absolutely. I want to ask as well. Is there q a, questions and answers by the students after the presentation . Yes, and we train the new presenters to leave time for questions. We pick an equal number. It looks like we have time for four questions. Two boys and two girls. Two questions. It depends on the timing. Generally the presenter sticks to the script and there is time for at least four questions. They are generally good questions. laughter . I assumed in the sense of the target population of elementary so part of the thinks is that with the presentation i am assuming the children are enthusiastic about the presentation and ask questions as well which tells me there is more engagement in the presentation. It is extremely interactive. It is based on the call and response model. Every question i ask or any volunteer presenters ask we are giving the answers. Which way does smoke go, boys and girls. We expect them to answer. The seven key points have interaction. We invite kids to do stop, drop and roll with us. [please stand by] when you go to these schools, is it both private and public . Do the Catholic Schools and other schools get an opportunity . Absolutely. No restrictions in terms of the schools . No, its just the elementary age. So preschools, we tend to steer away from and junior high, high school, those are separate programs we dont have curriculum for, so Elementary Students and any school in San Francisco, absolutely. I am very, very impressed. Im very proud, because you are an extension of us out there in the community. And in terms of the effect of the numbers and positive interaction, i just think its a wonderful program. And i wish you the best and the continuance of this. Lieutenant, what are you going to be doing after you leave this position . You were talking about turning it over . Yes. Ill still be really involved. Okay. [laughter] ill still be doing quite a bit. So as far as im concerned, firefighter has done so much work for the Burn Foundation. Its only natural to pass it on. I think he can give new energy and life with it also and im looking forward to seeing what he can do with it. I believe in succession plans, it just enlarges the group as well. Thank you very much. Thank you, chief. Madame president , thank you. Thank you. Commissioner rodriguez. I want to commend you on your time, your dedication. Im sure its a lot of time in trying to make sure that what you are doing is effective. My union actually does a Golf Tournament, a charitable Golf Tournament with the alisa foundation. I never knew there was any preventing. Usually the money we raise goes for a camp for the kids that are going through burns. Champion. Yeah. But like you were saying, prevention really is at the heart of everything if you can do that. So once again, i think its really important. Im trying to remember back when i was in school, but i dont know if i went through anything like that. But once again, thank you very much. You are welcome. To be fair, for the new commissioners i know the veteran commissioners and Administration Knows this but the Burn Foundation was actually started because a little girl, alisa ann was caught in a Backyard Barbecue fire. Her and her brother were caught on fire. She did not survive because she ran around, this was in 1972. She didnt know about stop drop and roll. Her brother was tackled and rolled out and thats how stop drop and roll was developed. And i think i can speak easily for these guys as well. And thats why we are doing this, because we dont want kids to get burned and killed because they dont know what to do. So its important for us to continue this message on a volunteer basis. Its free, its all of our time. Im sure you knew as a kid but somebody had to have taught you, so we are trying to pay that forward. Anything else, commissioner rodriguez . Okay. Thank you. Vice president feinstein. I just want to reiterate what my fellow commissioners have said, what a great program, and really commend you all for developing it, taking it out there, reaching so many people, i was just i was absolutely stunned by hearing the numbers. And i wish when i had been a young child that i had been the beneficiary of this. And im not so young anymore, but i would always put ice on a burn, and that will never happen again. So you can reach others as well. With regard to sfgov, skip sfgov and go right for youtube. Your presentation should go on youtube. There are all these fire presentations there. This is more important than all of them. Really want to commend you on it. Its such a public service. And i know it takes of your time and your spirit and everything else. But its a very great gift you are giving. So thank you all. Thank you. Thank you, madame Vice President. And thank you for your presentation. It was wonderful. I dont know, lieutenant eckerdt, if you remembered our former president andrea evans . Yes. Yes, because when you first did a presentation for us, i think i was Vice President at that time, and we asked are you doing it in all the schools and it was like no, we havent been able to do that. And so it was then president evans, and a number of people on the school board who got together and said, oh, this definitely should be in every classroom. So commissioners do have an impact. A very positive impact on things as we become aware of them. And now to hear the numbers, they are fantastic. Just fantastic. So very happy about that. You had just a couple of questions. If you are the president of a p. T. A. , and you have watched this presentation, what should you do to get this program in your school . Thats a great question. Call the Burn Foundation immediately. Okay. Yeah, absolutely. So any time we do this presentation, we never have to ask twice. We always get to do it again, all the administrators and students respond really positively to it. So absolutely, the Burn Foundation is always available. And of course me as well. You can always call myself or firefighter reyes. Well make sure it happens for sure. Very good. Well, i think you are doing such a fantastic job. And the props box, all of that, thank you very much for making sure that every station has its own prop box instead of, you know, where has that thing, i cant find it, do you have one at your station, can i swing by. So its wonderful that every station has the problem box. Then i wanted to also ask about the annual relay. I didnt hear anything about that, and i think it would be wonderful for people to know. Yes. So the Burn Foundation does an incredible amount of stuff, even within San Francisco, this just is the tip of the iceberg. This is what we are really, really proud of. One of the events that we do is the burn relay, thats the peninsula burn relay, specifically that one goes from moffet field and we start at moffet field with one fire engine, and then relay to each fire station or city up elcamino all the way to here driving in with up to 20 fire engines. Laos year was a dwindling year last year was a smaller year because of teams being away on strike teams, but its something we are proud of. Its quite a feat seeing all the fire engines coming down mission street. The people of San Francisco come out expecting this and are just so excited to see fire engines from as far as moffet field, we have classic fire engines, private fire engines, we have people that come from around the state to see this. And thats all collecting money that goes into prevention, that goes into survivor services, that goes into all our programs that really happen throughout the state of california and Northern California. Very good. Thank you. I think its very important to know that the foundation and the Department Work so well together and have been working so well together over the years and that the foundation is a nonprofit and they do have events that you can attend and support the cause. I know that Vice President feinstein says she always uses the ice cube on her burns. But also a lot of people use butter. Which is just as bad. Like let me cook my skin. I mean no, thats not a good idea. So i just wanted to mention that. Do not use butter if you have a burn. And getting to citizens when they are very young is so important. And the message, high five a firefighter, dont hide, that is incredibly important, because the first time a child sees a firefighter in full gear, their instinct is to hide. But if they see you in their classroom in a place they feel comfortable and you are imparting information to them, it changes everything, changes everything when you go in and they hear your voice and see you, they wont be afraid, they will go towards you instead of hiding under their bed or in the closet. So thank you very much for all of your hard work. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments, commissioners . Okay. Madame secretary, can you call up the next item . Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Keep it up. Item 5, chief of departments report, report from chief of defendant, jeanine nicholson, on current issues, activities, events within the Department Since the Fire Commission meeting on february 12, 2020, including budget, academies, special events, communications and outreach to other Government Agencies and the public. And report from administration, deputy chief jose velo, on the administrative divisions, fleet and facility status and updates, finance, support services and training within the department. Greetings, commissioners. Staff, everybody else. This is my report since our last Commission Meeting. First of all, i want to say we have a firebug in the room. Our new commissioner rodriguez went to station 5 for a ride along. And caught a working fire and a few other things. And thank you, chief, for taking good care of him. So somebody else is going to ask you to come to their station, because they think you are their lucky charm. Anyways, so we interviewed, before the last Commission Meeting, we started interviewing for the office of department physician. We did conduct our final interview since the last meeting. And i believe that may be on the schedule for later tonight as well. I met with the newlyformed office of Racial Equity members, and they have, something came out of the board of supervisors about that and sort of the mandates. So we are working with them on our plan. Labor management meeting, we had one of those as well recently, and we talked a significant amount about the budget and how we can Work Together to advocate for the department. Weve also been having inhouse budget prep meetings with director and other members of the command staff, including chief tong and others to really get our numbers and our story in order. I am going to speak with the mayor on friday about it. I also went to mayors Monthly Department head meeting. And she talked a little bit about the budget but mostly about the coronavirus. As you may know, the city declared a state of emergency on the coronavirus, not because there are additional cases in the city or anything, but because the mayor needs to do that in order for other departments to have flexibility, whether its recalling Disaster Service workers or having people do things they would otherwise not normally do in their position and work hours they wouldnt normally work, as well as expedite contracts. So thats sort of the power of a state of emergency. I attended a citywide Leadership Development forum panel with mcfadden and colfax from dph and the department of aging and disability. I attended a Capital Budget discussion meeting at city hall talking about Major Projects such as our fire stations, our fire station rebuilds, remodels. We met with santa clara civil grand jury came up to meet with us to discuss recruitment and retaining female firefighters. With the assistance of a lot of our folks led by chief velo, we have set up recruit panel interviews. So what we are doing instead of me just picking folks off the list to be in the department, we are involving members of our department. So there are 30 members involved in ten panels, three people on a panel. We have a wide range of people, race, gender, and time in the department and what they do in the department. And they will be having those interviews starting next week for the next two weeks. We are hoping to have a class sometime after the beginning of the fiscal year. I met with dph and some other departments about we had an executive briefing on w. P. C. , whole person care, which is something that has come out of the department of health for dealing with a lot of our really challenged folks on the street. Some of them are housed but a lot of them are on the street, who may have dual diagnoses and early severe Mental Illness or physical illness. And we are collaborating with them on that. And our e. M. S. 6 is the best model for them that they want to use. So we are advocating for more resources in our budget for that, because we are pulled in other directions other than what our e. M. S. 6 medicine does, and we are happy to do it, we just need the resources. I met briefly with the Chaplain Committee to launch the process of putting together a chaplainsy program. As you may know, we have had father greene for the last i dont know how many decades. Has it been 30 something years . He has been our own chaplain, and we have worn him down. And so we are looking at what the police do. The police have chaplains from every denomination and to sort of spread the wealth and the weight. So we formed a Chaplain Committee, and they have begun their work, because as you may know, father greene will be retiring in june. I attended the united fire Service Breakfast the other day, and they are working on recruitment and mentoring program as well as several other things. And as you may know, the 126 graduation is this friday, 9 00 a. M. At the Scottish Rite Center on 19th street, and i will see you all there i hope. And that concludes my report. Thank you, chief nicholson. Is there any Public Comment on the chiefs report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And i will go to commissioner cleveland. Thank you, madame president and thank you chief for your report. It was comprehensive and brief, as always. And i appreciate it. Quick question. You mentioned something about the e. M. S. 6 model be pulled in a different direction and to can you elaborate about what that means and why additional funding is necessary . Yeah. So as you may or may not know, e. M. S. 6 is a program we have been running for im not sure how many years now, but it has been an impactful and Effective Program in terms of getting support and services for folks that call 911 the most and who have the most challenging mental and physical illnesses. And it has been very successful in terms of hooking people up with services and getting folks off the street and into the care and even back to their family in ohio. We had one person. So its very effective, and i believe the rest of the city, a lot of city departments have seen how effective it is. And so if you dont have to reinvent the wheel, why reinvent the wheel . And so we are being we have our own list of folks under e. M. S. 6 in terms of patients that we connect with and contact. And whole person care, which came out of the department of Public Health and h. S. H. , homelessness and Supportive Housing department, has a whole other list of folks that they are targeting. So we are being asked to help with that as well. And so while we absolutely are we think the whole Person Care Program is really effective as well, and we would like to support it. So we just need more resources to do that. How does the Fire Department interact with this . Im not quite sure what we are doing here with the whole person housing or whatever it is called. Whole person care. What does that mean . I could have our e. M. S. 6 talk to you about it, but it is a way to its very similar to e. M. S. 6 what we do already. Its just being done with several other departments that, because they have seen how effective this can be, and its also sort of the Gold Standard across the country in terms of whole person care in terms of what they are doing. So it is they work intensively one on one with people. It sounds resource intensive. They work one on one with folks to gain their trust, to get them the care they need, to get them going to their appointments, to get them on the list for housing, to get them shelter, all that kind of stuff. So its medical, its social. Very labor intensive, i imagine. Yeah, absolutely. And takes a lot of manpower, person power to do that, and what you are saying is we need to staff up in our e. M. S. 6 program in order to do this, correct . Yes, in order to do our own work in e. M. S. 6 we need resources as well as when we are being pulled in other directs, because we have such a it has such a great impact. So i sat in for that meeting the other day. And with other Department Heads. Yeah. Its a real crisis we are facing on our streets. Theres no question about that. Its a very real crisis every single day. I drive through the tenderloin to come here to these meetings, and i see people on the streets and sidewalks Walking Around in a daze every single time. And its heart breaking. Its absolutely heart breaking. That we have this kind of destitution on our streets. In order to deal with it we are going to need a lot more money into our e. M. S. 6 program. So im wondering what did you ask for in the budget for next year . I am going to speak with the mayor on friday about it. And i will have more details for you next week. But yeah, we are asking for more resources for that program. All right. For sure. Thank you, chief. Youre welcome. Thats all my questions. Thank you, commissioner cleveland. Does any other commissioner have any questions . Okay. I hope this question doesnt put you on the spot, chief, but bring it. [laughter] well, all right. [laughter] is there any redundancy regarding what we have with e. M. S. 6 and this new program, which is what did you call it . Whole person care . So the only redundancy i would say is that we have a list of our clients on e. M. S. 6, and they have a specific list of 237 people for whole person care. The only redundancy is on their list, they have 17 of the same people that we have on our list. So thats the only redundancy. So, yeah. All right. Thank you. And can you talk a little more about the office of racial equality . The office of Racial Equity, i should have come prepared. But i can get you the what came out of the board of supervisors this past year. Sandra fewer was one of the originators of the document that passed. Ill get it to you. Its very short document. You can see their timelines for us to come up with plans and meet certain priorities. So this office is up and running . Yes, it has two people in it right now. Okay. All right. So well be hearing more about it in general. Yes. Literally just started in the last month or so. Very good. Thank you. And thank you for the explanation on the state of emergency that the mayor has declared so that people dont think its something other than what it is. Giving the department flexibility to respond to the coronavirus. All right. Thank you. And now we have another report coming up. Welcome, chief velo. Good evening president , Vice President , commissioners, chief, maureen. Deputy chief jose velo, administration. This is my report for the month of january. A lot going on down in city hall. So this is my report for january for the new commissioners i want to explain something how it works. Im the second report, therefore my information is given from the previous month. So some information is outdated in time. But ive been doing the presentation that has newer components since we last met, so keep you up to date on things that are going on. But the actual report has all the information that my bureaus and divisions did in the month of january. So ill get started. I will start with my training division. As the chief mentioned our academy is going to graduate this friday. With 48 recruits. The largest class in the history of the Fire Department. During the month of january, they received training, fire control, which is going through a burn box and experiencing fires. You experience that. When we had the event. They completed specific curriculum. And they also and you will see in the video that we will present to them, active shooter training. Thats one that we added to the academy. And actually p. D. Comes with us and we Work Together and do those together. The recruits went through those with p. D. Like they would in a real incident. Those are pictures from the academy. Inservice training is our folks that we have a separate Division Within training that train our current firefighters out there. They do a lot of different topics through the year. We do a lot of those as well. We have a new module starting on monday that includes tactical Decision Making and live burns. So we talk about tactics and again they go through the evolutions. To train the size of our department it takes a long time to go through it. So the more reps we can do with them, the better they get the skills. You go to a fire on your first watch but thats an issue. We need to put them through the repetitions and make sure they get the heat and smoke they do on a regular basis. This month we had a drill. So we had companies in the middle of the night to respond to an emergency. And we do that about three or four times a year. We have a committee that organizes this. We sometimes work with transbay too. We work with them to prepare for drills when there are no trains running. So that happens in january too. Nert continues to train. As you recall from the last meeting, we lost a Senior Member of nert. This is the picture when his widow received the award for that. And thank you for that support. The nert is also doing c. P. R. Training. And this month we did a ham operator class for our operators, our incident report specialists. Critical that we have that. Every battalion house does have an a. C. S. Radio in the station. In case all communications fail, thats another backup system for us. So having more of our support specialists trained in this, they can receive information, will help the disaster plan function better. So this month the members from the department trained on that. Nert received an award for the Group Application they used to recall their members in case of an emergency. They received an award for that. Some of the commissioners have heard this before, we have a program called listos. We did another series this month of four pleases, and we did a train the trainer. It is an abbreviation part of nert, basic skills for the spanish community. We go to the community and teach them basic skills to help themselves. It is not the full nert curriculum. I actually participated and was an instructor for a few years. And the community comes, they bring the children to the training, they bring food and do a potluck and share that and they learn basic skills to help themselves in case of a major event. Its really successful. We have more members of the department trained on that. Our chief of health, safety and wellness has been busy this month. We hosted a cancer cohort study. We have some folks from Berkeley University that came in and tried to capture some firefighters, and looking for specific members, arson investigators and female firefighters. They are going to follow them through the years and see what the effects of carcinogens and other issues of health in the department. So we can recruit folks from the department and enroll into the program. We are looking forward to the reports. We are hosting a Critical Incident Response Teams class which is going to be supported by commissioners Burn Foundation. Members that took last years peer support training are going to be trained for this and in case of a major event where we need more than four members, they can help the stress unit in case of a serious event with numerous people that would be affected so they can come and be on call to come to that, so we are doing that this month too. We are hosting a Suicide Prevention class, coming up in the next month in two days. We are working with our arson unit to come up with some equipment that it can use. As you know, when the fire is out, theres still a lot of smoke in the air, and they are one of the parts of the fire service that are affected a lot by cancer. So we are researching what equipment can we give them to protect them but yet able to do their job on the scene. So we are working with that. Chief parks attended the deescalation training. Thats the training i spoke on last Commission Meeting where now we are going to bring into the department some folks from 49 and then folks from the field too. Ive been having members from not only chief parks training and e. M. S. Training go to these classes, and p. D. Has been gracious to let us participate. We are going to bring the curriculum together and make it customized for our department. We have been working with a new grant writer to get health and finance grants. So she is engaged with our grant writer. As you can see from the picture, thats toby. We are going to have regular business now from therapy dogs coming to the stations. One of the things hes done with our Training Staff is, and i spoke to you a few meetings ago that we are analyzing the injury data of our department. We recognize 24 of our injuries in the department have relationship with apparatus, ambulances or trucks. And many are strains of ankles and so forth. So they put together a video we shared with the department called three points of contact. Its basically you have to have three points of contact when you enter or dismount an apparatus to save you from injuries. Sometimes we are not careful and the streets are not always the best, so we can have issues. So we really focus on identifying the injuries coming up with programs and educational things that we can tell our members how to prepare and analyze that. So its been a good start for her to come up. Support services, extremely busy as always. On the report you have all the information. 35 are new floating stations. On the left you have the what ce from china. Construction has started on that. So its moving along quite nicely. Last month they closed 484 facility requests, which is when an officer of the station reports through our system that something is wrong with the station that needs to be repaired. They put it into the system. And we close that number last month. We have been trying to make sure that d. P. W. And all the folks that come to the stations are on top of things and closing it in. So station 10 had an issue with the sewer and we had to complete a system overhaul for that. If youve been there before, lots of big trees there. When they have rain they flooded so we had to do an overhaul for that. Continuing to work on generators. The working projects have been completed. Not that we have had much rain lately, but its great. And we completed the window projects for three stations. One of the projects we had is our security grant Access Program that we have our cars that we can access the stations instead of using keys. So every member has a card and they can access the stations. So thats been completed as well. Proud to show you this picture of station 43 where they have brand new apparatus doors as an example of the work that support services is doing, going in with the vendors. On the left is the old doors. On the right is the new doors. They are proud of them. I visited them today. They wanted to make sure i thank the chief and support services for the new doors. They love them. Support services went to the factory in louisiana to perform the inspection on the first of the five trucks. As we have talked before, the process we do is make sure the first truck that is built is built exactly how we want it. They had issues and have been corrected. The next phase will be to drive the truck from louisiana to here. And thats just a road trip, make sure everything goes well and make sure we run around the city, we go through all the station, make sure theres no angles and so forth. And after we are satisfied with the way it is, we order five more now that everything is done, its a much faster process. But it takes a while to get the first one done. So thats what we are doing. The six engines on order under the preconstruction phase, they are going through the process of the same process. And then the bids are close. They are in the review process and we have members from the department and shops that are going to go and review the two bids that came in. And b. O. E. Received the new generation of batteryoperated rescue tools. And they are in the process of inventorying them and deploying them to all the stations. Thats great. I always close with some Community Outreach our office does. Lieutenant baxter, we had recruitment with career info sessions, we had members of the community that are candidates that get information. Our Mission High School program has been very successful. We want to keep up with it. We also have, every month, different district safety fairs, and the president of the board of supervisors came to that one this time around. We continue to do Coastal Safety tips that we send information around the coastline to make sure the folks are safe over there. And just to finish our report, i want to thank commissioners nakajo and president covington for coming to us to celebrate the chinese new year. It was a great event as you recall. Im happy to answer any questions. My report is comprehensive. I wanted to give you the highlights for yourselves. Thank you very much. Great. Is there any Public Comment on chief velos report . Okay. Public comment is closed. And i will go to commissioner cleveland. Thank you, madame president. And thank you, chief velo, for your report. A couple of questions. Listos which is a spanish Training Program in fire safety, correct . Yes. Who is it addressed to . Where is it performed . What do you teach . So we took its a statewide program from the office of the governor. It started in l. A. We adopted it a few years back. It focuses on the spanish community. We have done it in churches, we have done it in the d. O. T. Its a light version of nert, so its not so many hours. Its four sessions, two hours each. And some of the same skills we teach at nert we teach to them. Its taught in spanish. So we have members of the department that are bilingual and go and help them out. Ive done it in the past before and it was very satisfying to do it. Its usually at night, so after the workday they can do it. We allow them to bring their children because many dont have an opportunity to have childcare. And they bring meals too because its time for them to have dinner. The last 20, 30 minutes they share a meal and we share a meal, and they can have it there. How many of these classes do you put on . Last year there was four. It depends on if we get engagement for the community but last month there were four. And we also did a train the trainer class, so we added more members of the department that can train the classes. If theres a church or Community Group that wants to have it put on, would they contact you . They contact nert. We have members of the department, yeah. That number is online . Available to the public . Yes. I think its a great program. I want to make sure we are advertising it enough. You talk about the Suicide Prevention class. That i assume is for firefighters, correct . Thats for the members of the department . Thats correct. And its a tragic statistic that last year more firefighters died from suicide than in fears. It is a trend thats been going on. The fire service and also in the Police Departments around the country. The situation is Mental Health crisis affecting all professions. So we give them tools, obviously ptsd and ptsi is something our members experience on a regular basis, and it affects them too. So we want to give them toolses, coworkers that can tools and coworkers that can recognize symptoms. The key parts of that, is that something you could present . Its presented by a third party. Chief parks has been reaching out to different entities that can give training for our members. So i can have chief parks come in and give a preview. I think it would be educational, not only for us as a commission but certainly for the public at large. So is it a video presentation . Is it something they can it starts next month, so i can give you a report. I think the statistics say this is an important program. Not only for our firefighters but quite frankly for the general public as well. Correct. So i would like to give it a little airtime if we could. You talk about a fitness grant. What is a fitness grant . I think i need one. Me too. We are looking for grants. Years ago we got a grant that we were able to purchase equipment, weights. We are looking at anything we can get. There are a lot of grants out there, and thats a fantastic way, to have a grant writer and reaching out to her to be able to get any equipment or programs, even trainers that can come to the firehouses too. So thats where we are engaging chief parks with a grant writer in order to get something. Very good. Is station 49 on schedule to be opened in, what, november . December. December . So thats still on schedule. It is still on schedule. It looks beautiful. They even have the sign already at station 49 in the building already. Any new progress on the new Training Facility in terms of location . Has anything happened there . Not yet. I hope we have a clear path for how we want to, where we want to have it and all the details. The commissioners are a little frustrated by the progress on this. We are working diligently on it. So, yes, we are. Nothing to share with the commission yet . Not right now, no. We are on it. One thing i can share is that we have a weekly meetings with the Controllers Office in regards to what we need in the Training Facility, whatever it happens to be. So they are engaging us on what props we need, what kind of buildings. A study was done, we are updating the study, making sure the information meets all the standards for the state fire marshal. So those conversations are going on on a regular basis to make sure. It just seems like its taking a long time. And its frustrating for you guys as well as for us. But thank you. Keep us posted. Thank you, madame president. Thank you. Commissioner nakajo. Thank you very much, madame president. Chief velo, as you remarked, a very comprehensive report. I dont have any major questions except for one, again, as i traditionally go through the reports, and i did notice a cover page in terms of the divisions. Nicholas payne, the airport division, chief avi, the ability for us to look at fire auxiliary reserves, the nert report, and again how effective foils are. Ive been paying attention to the recruitment roars that come out, fire and reports that come out with chief parks. The Environmental Occupational Health and safety with boone and appreciate the physicians report. And i know that this evening we are going to do some work on that. The investigation report, but more importantly, the results of the report from captain. Research and planning. Captain nuker. Its important we pronounce names properly. I always need help in that. Chief support services, chief dewitt, and theres been a lot going on. So i appreciate your hard work within that, being on top of it. And as i just paged through in terms of being able to look at Human Resources and such, very, very comprehensive. I thank you very much for highlighting the details. The only question that i have, and perhaps we might be able to get some comments from chief, is that with this virus, we understand theres less activity in terms of the airport, and i dont know what that means. I know that what we see on the tv screens and newspapers is less travelers or airports in terms of dynamics, and i just wanted to hear if theres any kind of increase in terms of obviously the health issue with the virus thats going on and how that affects us within the department. Good evening, commissioners. Assistant deputy chief. As far as the airport and receiving visitors, its continued all flights to china at this time. Also the c. D. C. Are the ones that are handling the passengers as they arrive. And if they are being checked with a thermal scan as far as whether or not they have a temperature. They also check their passports in customs to see whether or not they have traveled through mainland china, and if they are, they are checkedd to make sure they are not ill, and they also continue to check passengers whose passports have traveling through mainland china. Okay, chief. And from your observation, is there a decrease in terms of travel and travelers . Oh, significantly. Yes. Okay. Because they have stopped the flights to mainland china. Okay. And then again the Ripple Effect upon the concessioners and retail folks. Theres been a reduction in passengers, so therefore a reduction in the revenue of the airport con sessions. And we are still doing the bicycle medics . Yes, sir. Okay. I just wanted to get reinforced within that beyond whats on the tv and newspapers. Thank you, chief. Youre welcome. The c. D. C. Has hired extra personnel to hire the passengers that are coming on flights that derive in mainland china, but they have discontinued flights. Thank you for that reinforcement. And again, we all are, but you are particularly, and the members of the department, on the frontline. And so, again, it just reinforces all the information for us, the commissioners, in terms of whats going on in the world and how it affects us here in San Francisco. Thank you, chief. Youre welcome. Thank you, chief velo. Thank you very much, madame president. Thank you, commissioner nakajo. Commissioner rodriguez. Thank you, madame president. Kind of want to thank you for your report. So ive only heard a couple times of cancer causing, and yesterday i was onsite of a fire, so could you elaborate what it is that you are looking at . And im sure if you are having the same problem here, its nationwide or worldwide, right . So what does that entail . And what you are looking at . How much time do you have . Cancer is a major issue in the fire service. Carcinogens are everywhere, and when we go to fires, even though we wear sebas, the smoke particles are in the air. Even when the fire is out. When you clean up the scene of the fire, just moving the dirt, the smoke, i mean the ashes lift up to the air and that would bring in the particulates. So the Fire Department is aware of cancer. It has been on the front lines of studies for cancer prevention. We started last year a policy where after fire, we make sure we wash so we dont bring the ash to the firehouses. We are aggressive on what we are doing with this. Arson investigators come in after the firefighters are almost finished with the fire, and then they are Walking Around the same situation. They dont wear the protective gear because they have to dig into the fire. So they are also exposed, and its been proven that their site of the house in the fire service has a higher rate of cancer because of that. So we are looking at masks or something that is not so cumbersome so they can still operate. And we are looking at things they can give to them. And they are providing information for us too. But cancer in general in the fire service is a huge problem for us. So we are looking at all angles to attack this. And whether its policies, make sure we wear we wear the protective gear all the time, air the scene out before we start working on removing the burnt elements. So different approaches to this issue. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner rodriguez. Okay, chief velo. Thank you for your report. I just have a couple of quick questions for you. Lets see. Oh, on page 3, you mention a video, three points of contact. Can you please forward that video to the Commission Secretary so that all of the commissioners will have a chance to look at it . Thank you. And i also have on page 4 it seems that we have a good supply of vehicles for the extraction exercises. What do you mean . On page 4, it says auto extraction. Education. Yes, we do have we were able to get vehicles from different entities. So we can practice our skills. On saturdays we have a regularlyscheduled drill on saturdays that we can bring the troops are there to do that. Thats very important. And i tell you, its, the whole auto extraction is when i had to do it, i was like oh my goodness, thank goodness somebody was pointing, now you do this, now you do this. And then the car is basically disassembled, and you can exget out the person. I thought it would be easier. Theres science to it. So do we thank these entities that give us these old cars to use in the exercises . Do we thank them, of course . Yes. But is it more than a handshake . Do they get a letter . Good evening, president. Chief. Deputy chief, division of training. Its part of a contract we have with auto return who does the to youing for the city that they towing for the city that they have cars for us. It seems they have quite a few available, and thats very helpful to us. I also had one other question. Lets see. A very quick one. Oh, on page 6, you mention the job corp. , 25 students took a tour of the Training Facility. Are you aware of how many students from job corps maybe gone into the academy . I can find out for you. That would be a very good thing to know. I dont have any other questions at this time. So thanks again for your report. Thank you. Madame secretary. Item 6, commission report. Report on Commission Activities since last meeting on february 12, 2020. Thank you. Commissioners, what have you been up to that you would like to share . [laughter] commissioner rodriguez. I guess, you know, youre tired of hearing me say this, but im the new kid on the block. And im still learning. Ive already shared with a number of you that growing up, you watch a Fire Department, you watch what goes on, and you really never really know. You just kind of take it for granted that it works. But coming to this position, im starting to learn that theres a lot of parts that make it work. The thing about a fire is the same for me. You watch stuff on tv, and you really never know. It happens, and firemen put it out. So yesterday when i went to station 5, and we went out, first we went to well, it wasnt a false alar, i guess somebody set alarm, i guess somebody set off a fire detecter. And the chief asked me to go to fourth and fulton. And i have to say, chief, because i stood next to him the whole time, and there was so many moving parts. And he explained what everybody was doing. And everybody, for as many firemen and women that were there, they all knew what they were doing. There was just no, not wasted motion, but i mean and i used to work in the construction, and you would have 100 people working, and sometimes they didnt know what they were doing. They were just kind of but there yesterday, i was really amazed. And then when it got to a certain point, he said do you want to go inside the building and look . And he already showed me how you were talking about cleaning the air. They had her drawing the stuff out. And then we went inside, and the extent of the fire was just, i couldnt believe it. But it just shows how well the Fire Department works when its run right, at least for me. I mean, it was the first time ive seen it, and i was very impressed. And there was a sad part about it too, they had someone there when the lady who lived there showed up and seeing what had happened to her home, she broke down, but there were people that came around her right away. And i guess the other part you never see was one of your firemen had a heart attack. , but the people there knew what to do, and they took them to the hospital. And from what i understand he had a couple extent stents p. Its a learning process. I want to commend you for what i saw yesterday. Because without the people in charge running it the right way, i guess it could be chaos. So thank you again. Thank you, commissioner rodriguez. Commissioner nakajo. Thank you very much, madame president , colleagues. I just wanted to, chief nicholson, i just wanted to report that i have been working with the black firefighters, particularly with the program that they are trying to create in terms of a Mentorship Program for young youth. And i just wanted to report that i think im going to be approached in terms of needing support and assistance in terms of concepts of working to create empowerment with these thing members who are going to be a part of this program. It escapes me what the name of the program was. Opportunities for all. Thank you very much, chief nicholson. I wanted to report to president covington and to the colleagues and to the department that that work is now being processed to where hopefully theres some activity behind it. Thank you very much, madame president. Very good. Thank you. And commissioner cleveland. Thank you, madame president. Just wanted to report to my fellow commissioners that we did have interviews with the candidates for the position for the department. And we will continue those discussions later this evening. But it was dr. Ye, chief velo, chief nicholson and myself that were involved in the interviews with the physician candidates. The other thing is the guardians of the city, we had a discussion, and i participated on phone with the group, and i think well have a letter of agreement that olivia is putting together that will bind the two organizations together in a more proper format so we know who is responsible for what. And i think thats going to be a really big step in the direction. So thats my report. Very good. Thank you. I think that everyone is doing wonderful work. Commissioners are very involved. And the life of the department, its not a nine to five department or an eight to five department. And i appreciate you all getting out there and mixing and learning and contributing. So thank you all very much. Madame secretary. Oh, sorry, is there any Public Comment on the comments of the commissioners . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 7, agenda for next and future Fire Commission meetings. What do we have so far as possibilities, madame secretary . Lieutenant baxter is scheduled to do a presentation on outreach efforts. And we received an email from the City Attorney regarding a closed session settlement to discuss. All right. Great. Well, those are things that will go on the agenda for next time. Are there any other suggestions . Concerns, comments . Okay. None at this time. Thank you. Public comment on future agenda items . Okay, Public Comment is closed. Item 8, Public Comment on item 9. Public comment on all matters pertaining to item 9 below including Public Comment on whether to hold item 9b in closed session. Thank you. Commissioners. I make a motion that we go into closed session regarding this Public Employee appointment. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment . Is there any Public Comment . Public comment is closed. Second . Second. Second from Vice President feinstein. And all in favor of going into closed session at this time please signify by saying we are live. We are back in open session. The time is 8 24. Item 11, vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussions held in closed session. Thank you. I need a motion. I make a motion we do not disclose our discussions made in private in closed session today. Is there a second . Second. Thank you. Thats a nondisclosure. Madame secretary, is there anything else . Item 12, adjournment. Okay. Thank you. Before we adjourn, before i entertain a motion to adjourn, i would like to adjourn this evenings meeting in honor of the two firefighters that were killed in the line of duty. They were captain ramon and firefighter patrik jones. So moved, madame chair. Thank you. Second. And all in favor of adjournment . Aye. We are adjourned. Thank you all very much. [please stand by] hello everybody. Thanks for your patience. I am joined here today by a lot of people. Some of them will be making some comments on london breed, mayor of San Francisco and i just wanted to provide an update of what just took place. I along with a number of Department Heads and members of the board of supervisors took a tour of our expanded operation, our Emergency Operation center. Many of you know that this center has been in operation since january and because we have needed to expand and we brought in a number of City Employees, which are Disaster Service workers from various city departments to help expand our operation, we moved here to mass co any south in an effort to meet what we know will be a significant challenge for our city as it relates to the coronavirus. We are on day three of the shelter in place order. We have this Operation Center here, fully operational with a number of city departments who are working together to make sure that we are prepared and coordinating in our hospitals, that we are working to prepare with our homeless and vulnerable populations, that we are working to provide information and safeguards and other things in a very timely manner to residents of the city that we are communicating with businesses that are basically ordered to shut under the direction that we provided but have not done so. We want to make sure that we dont take for granted that everyone has the information, so we want to get out there, be proactive and communicate to a number of businesses and people that we see out in the community what the order entails to provide clarity on that order, and just to you know, just to communicate to the public that we understand that this is of course quite challenging for so many people. This is not a vacation. This is not time for social gatherings. We want to discourage the gathering of large groups as much as possible. Shelter in place, of course means that you and your family members and the people who are part of your household are the only members in that household. So we are discouraging play dates and dinner parties and other things that typically you would maybe want to do in your homes, but this is really about slowing down the spread of coronavirus and its about making sure that we at least have available to you some of the essential needs that so many people may have. So thats why the grocery sto stores, the pharmacies, the cannabis clubs, the gas stations, the banks, and places that are working on this particular issue like our hospitals, our fire stations, our police stations, the essential City Services and resources are available. We want people to shelter in place, to stay at home if at all possible, in every single instance. That is how this is going to work. So we do understand that this will be quite difficult. We are on day three and there is still uncertainty. This is an evolving situation. As information is provided to us, we make a decision as to what is in the best interest of the people of this city. We are up to 70 confirmed cases of coronavirus now. As you can see, it continues to rise and we want to make sure that we are prepared. We want to make sure that we definitely flatten the curve and you hear this talk about flattening the curve. That is real. The goal is to prevent anyone from getting infected with the coronavirus. Thats what this is all about. We dont want to inundate our hospital system, we dont want to create challenges with people who may not be able to self quarantine. We are here to ensure that the city is ready and prepared to deal with any challenge that comes our way. We cant do it without your help, without your cooperation, without your support and your understanding, and definitely your patience. So, at this time i want to introduce the director of the department of emergency management, mary ellen who will give you an overview of this Emergency Operation center that has many dedicated City Employees who have really stepped up to provide a level of support to respond to the Coronavirus Crisis thats here in San Francisco. Mary ellen. Thank you mayor breed and thank you for being here today. I want to thank the mayor for her steadfast leadership during this pandemic. Her foresight in taking early action and unwavering support of our Emergency Managers, our Healthcare Professionals and our Disaster Service workers, many of whom are here in this building today. Protecting the health and safety of San Francisco is and has been our most important responsibility. The Novel Coronavirus situation is changing rapidly and San Francisco needs to continue to be aggressive so we can flatten the curve and disrupt the spread of the disease and protect community health. To reiterate, all san franciscans can do their part to help protect the most vulnerable residents by staying at home, practicing good hygiene and checking in on people by phone who may be isolated. We are grateful to everyone out there who is following the orders and taking these measures, but there are many of us here within the city that have to go to work so that essential City Services can continue. This includes First Responders, healthcare workers, and Emergency Managers. These people are on the front lines of the covid19 response and they are dedicated to the health, safety, and wellbeing of our residents. We are many here in this building today. We have been preparing since january when we elevated our Emergency Operation center to focus on preparing San Francisco for the Novel Coronavirus. Much of our early work was on establishing Situational Awareness and educating the community on the virus. On february 25th, in coordination with the mayors declaration of emergency, we surged our Emergency Operations center with Emergency Managers and Disaster Service workers from across the city and city departments to accelerate our advanced planning and operations. We are now at our highest level possible. We have dedicated so many San Francisco Government Employees to this effort that we have had to relocate here to mus co any Convention Center south. This is where we have the space to work but also in this unique situation, we need to have social distancing, even when we are here together working. Here were working with all of our partners to fight this pandemic and we continue to support essential City Services that need to remain open. So what are we doing here . This includes supporting essential city personnel, ensuring City Services have the resources that they need to maintain regular cleaning, and helping agencies outside of the city and in the city that provide essential services to continue. This e. O. C. , Emergency Operation center will continue to support the efforts to shelter and care for people impacted by covid19 and vulnerable populations. We will keep the work being done here going everyday until we get to the end of this pandemic. Many in the e. O. C. Have been working many Straight Days and nights and have sacrificed daytoday comforts like spending time with their loved ones. We are all in this together and i can personally say i have not heard one City Employee complain once over the last six weeks about their deployment or the work theyre doing. I am so proud of them. So, while we are here, we just want to remind everyone while were here managing covid19 on the inside, from the center. We want everyone to remember you have a role to play. We need you to stay home and only leave for essentials. We need you to heed the order and listen to the mayors message and the things she said just here today this morning. To our older adults, it is everyone more important that you stay home so you are not exposed. For those of us who are not in the vulnerable populations, we need to be looking out for our partners, our family, and our Community Members who are more vulnerable. By staying home, we truly can save lives. So finally, we want everyone to stay up to date on this rapidly evolving topic and we encourage folks to text covid19sf to 888777, and you will receive important updates about the covid19 situation. In addition, you can go to sf sfgov. Org for more information. If you have questions, you need information, you want to share resources that we have, there is so much information there and i encourage those who can to go to that website. Finally for those who are unable to access the website, 311 operators are waiting. Theyre ready to answer your call and answer questions and point you in the direction for resources that you may need. So thank you very much for being here today. Good morning, im the director of health. I would like to thank mayor breed for her leadership in aggressively preparing for this epidemic. San francisco is in the vanguard of taking action early and continuously to respond to this rapidly resolving situation. I also want to thank director mary ellen for her partnership in leading the Emergency Response and all the city departments who are coming together to Work Together, to do everything we can to support san franciscans. Most of all, i want to thank the members of the San Francisco community who are my Public Health heroes in doing everything they can. Thank you all for coming here today and supporting San Franciscos efforts to slow down the spread of the coronavirus and save lives. In concert with other counties, we are continuing to be aggressive in slowing down the spread. It is true that every hour counts. We need everything to take action to protect our community and particularly our most vulnerable populations. The regional order to shelter in place is brand new for our community. The bay area is the first place in the country to take such an aggressive approach. I know that san franciscans want to do the right thing. We are already seeing big differences in peoples behaviors as they adjust to these new rules and new times. We are so thankful in everyones participation and care for one another. To review, all san franciscans must stay home as much as possible and only leave for essential activities like getting food and medicine. Even then, they and you should stay at least 6 feet away from others. It is okay to go outside to walk your dog, go for a walk, run or hike, alone or with someone else from your household. You can also go outside with someone else, as long as you stay 6 feet apart. We know that people need exercise and fresh air and theres a way to do that within the confines of this order. For people who are over the age of 60 and those with Chronic Health conditions, especially those who are currently sick, please stay home all together. We know that staying at home is disruptive. It has to be. The virus thrives under normal conditions. We encourage people to learn more about the order by referring to the frequently asked questions as director carol mentioned at sf. Gov. Were preparing our Health System for a potential surge in coronavirus patients. We hope that it will be diminished by our aggressive efforts to slow the spread of the virus. Put it simply, we need as much time as possible to be as prepared as possible. I would especially like to thank the front line workers who continue to care for our Community Members, even during this health emergency, including and especially in Healthcare Settings and our First Responders who are engaging with people at risk for this virus on the streets and other places everyday. To ensure that hospitals and Healthcare Facilities will have as much capacity as possible in the case when the surge of coronavirus occurs. The Health Officer has issued an order effective yesterday prohibiting routine procedures and elective surgeries. These things can wait and they must wait. Now we are decompressing the Healthcare System as much as possible. I remind everyone, please do not go to the emergency room or an Urgent Care Center unless you have a true life threatening emergency. Contact your Healthcare Provider by phone. Use telemedicine. Get the information anywhere else that you can. Please do not go to the healthcare emergency room or urgent care. Those places desperately need to be saved for the people who are truly ill and need it most. Also, the local Emergency Declaration maid made on february 25th, for hiring nurses in our public care system. Were bringing in scores of nurses in just ten days and i was talking with our h. R. People and they told me this morning we already have 70 new nurses hired and we expect scores more this weekend and soon, and in the near future. Were having a job fair this weekend to hire nurses on the spot. Today we have 70 confirmed cases of covid19, coronavirus in tha i just wanted to take this opportunity to introduce the director of the department of Human Resources trent, who is working on the plan to support many of our vulnerable populations who live in congregate settings, so that we are prepared, if necessary, to not only provide shelter in place access for those particular populations, but an overall plan. Many people have asked about the challenges with our Homeless Population. We have not forgotten that and we are continuing to work on that issue until then. I want trent to provide us with an update. Thank you mayor breed. Were the agency tasked with providing care and shelter in this pandemic for our vulnerable populations. Based on the mayors leadership and the leadership and guidance from dr. Coal colfax, we activated our center 11 days ago to prepare for this using the best data we had at the time. We were charged with identifying 3,500 hotel rooms to be able to use for isolation for individuals whose current housing situation does not allow them to quarantine on their own. So who is this . This is the 19,000 or so individuals who live in a Single Room Occupancy Hotel room, where they are Community Bathrooms and kitchens and its impossible for those persons to isolate alone. Its our Homeless Population, who are residing in the homeless shelters or those on the streets. We quickly responded to that and have been working to secure those rooms. We did secure our first lease yesterday and moved the first people in this morning. Those first people were Homeless Individuals who were tested in the hospital, but are not showing signs that need them to be hospitalized, so we moved them from the hospitals to that particular hotel. This will be a common occurrence. We dont want people who do not need to be hospitalized to be there, simply because they cant isolate. This is why were bringing the hotels online. We have identified probably about 500 now, a little over 500 that we hope to have secured through lease and online, staff with the appropriate personnel by the end of the week or this weekend. We think that is enough to manage the current projected surge. Also thank you to the mayor for speaking with the Hotel Council membership yesterday morning and because of her leadership, as well as dr. Colfax, and the chancellor of ucsf as well, and myself, the Hotel Council has been very responsive. We have among those hotels, well over 2,000 rooms of hotels who have expressed interest. The next phase will be our health and Human Services team assessing the suitability of those hotels for the population that needs to be quarantined. The second group of individuals that we want to provide housing for or hotel rooms is our First Responders. We dont want our healthcare workers who are on the front lines to go home, potentially infect others, be infected in their communities and not be able to work so were standing up hotels for them as well and those hotels from the Hotel Council will be suitable for them as well. Those rooms would be in addition to the 3,500 we have for those who need to be quarantined. In the last housing shelter effort is of course the vulnerable population who are on our streets, as well as populations in our existing shelter system. Per the c. D. C. And state department of health guidance, as well as our local department of Public Health, we need to create social distancing within our homeless shelters. We have about 2,000 single adults in our shelter system right now. We are going to be reducing capacity on our existing system and moving them to shelters that we will popup in locations throughout San Francisco. In addition, we will be dispatching, deploying our outreach teams on the street to identify vulnerable populations, whether its age or Underlying Health conditions or both, to move in to those congregate environments as well. Those shelters that we popup will be staffed by the appropriate personnel who will be able to quickly identify people showing symptoms and remove them and move towards isolation. We are currently i guess fortunately were in the shelter in place, stay at home mode. There are a lot of large facilities that will be available to us so we are assessing those sites now, figuring out how to lay them out per health standards, securing staffing and of course food provision and other services. We envision standing up probably about 2,500 rooms. Excuse me, 2,500 spaces in shelter, 1,500 of them would be to people who are currently in shelter and will be moved and 1,000 for the vulnerable populations we identify on the street. Our system that we developed is nimble enough to be able to expand should that need arise. My direction to them has been find as many large spaces as possible, do not limit yourself to the capacity of 2,500 because we may need more. Ill be happy to address questions at the end of this. Thanks. Thank you trent. The board of supervisors has been really an incredible partner this in this effort, and in particular, there are members of the board of supervisors that are here with us today, including supervisor pesk peskin, as well as supervisor i want to ask supervisor peskin to say a few words. Thank you mayor breed. As the mayor just said, were here on a full time presence. The board of supervisors, were all united, and were disciplined and extremely focused and were working very well together. Im very proud of the leadership and the employees of the city and county of San Francisco, and together were going to flatten this curve. Thank you supervisor peskin. I also wanted to ask police chief bill scott to provide an update on what happened in the city yesterday. I know that we have had put this order in place and the folks that have really been in the front lines, in terms of implementing the shelter in place order have been the San Francisco Police Department and i wanted chief scott to provide an update. Thank you mayor breed. The San Francisco Police Department continued our efforts to help prevent the spread of the covid19 virus. As we stated before, our primary mission is to have compassion, common sense, and voluntary compliance. If all else fails, we do have a legal order where we can enforce. Im happy to say at this point we have not had to enforce and i know there have been sporadic sightings of People Holding hands and that type of thing in the city but i want to make it clear that we are doing everything we can to educate people that we come in contact with to practice social distancing as laid out in the health order. This is a tremendous disruption to everybodys lives and we get that and we understand that. So the education is key. We started doing bar checks the minute the order went into place. Our officers were assigned to patrol under the leadership of assistant chief and deputy chief. We were tasked with going to the bars and restaurants in their respective districts to ensure that we had compliance with this order and we were very pleased that even prior to midnight, most of the restaurants and bars had already began to shut down. We did not have to enforce. We seen an overall tremendous response from the people of San Francisco and we appreciate that. As far as our workforce, as was stated, our First Responders and Police Officers, we started early on and tried to get in front of this starting in january. We started aggressive messaging on the basics, washing hands, making sure that they did our officers did Everything Possible not to spread this virus, and we believe that, that was key, key and not impacting our workforce. At this point, we have not had any major impacts on our workforce. Were tell commu tell commuti when possible. Right now most of the officers, or many of the officers are working the streets to supplement patrol. Our Academy Staff right now is working the civic center, the downtown area. We want the public to not have to worry about public safety. There is nothing to worry about. We dont want the public to worry about crime. Were not saying that crime will not exist, but were going to do everything we can to make that not be the worry. Our officers will be out there in numbers. Many of you have seen them. The police cars with lights on, and that will continue. We dont know how long this will last but we want to do our part to make sure we do everything we can as Police Officers to prevent the spread of this virus. I cant emphasize enough how important the leadership standing behind me, starting with the mayor, was on allowing us to get in front of this and thats been key and getting the compliance we gotten so far. Thank you mayor, thank you dr. Colfax, supervisor peskin, and the city leadership and all the Department Heads. Thank you. Thank you chief, and just before i open it up to questions, i just want to take this opportunity because i really thought that we were already past the xenophobia that exi existed and learning of the coronavirus and its origin. Its unfortunate that this continues to be an issue and its offensive not only to our Chinese Community here in San Francisco, but our city as a whole where we pride ourselves on our diversity. We know that this disease is not discriminating on someone based on race. We know that people being diagnosed are of all races and backgrounds. The longer we per pet true wait this racism, the words that continue to allow for the focus to be on the particular, on that particular issue, the less we are able to deal with this together. This is a time not for divisiveness, but a time for us to come together and to support the residents of our city and not make people feel excluded. So, sadly, this continues to be a problem where the president continues to stand by his messaging around his labeling of the coronavirus and we want to make it clear that, that is not something thats acceptable or tolerated here in San Francisco. So i want to thank you all again for being here today and we know that as the situation continues to evolve, we will do everything we can to update you and provide you with the most Accurate Information and again, making a decision to shelter in place is not one that was taken lightly. It was taken at the direction of some of the most incredible Public Health experts anywhere in the world. We will get through this if we comply, if we, in some cases, you know, sacrifice clearly to get to a better place. None of us wants to be in this situation right now, but we will get over it if we continue to Work Together and comply with the order and do our part. So thank you to all the folks in our city that have done a tremendous job in helping us to keep the streets clear and do what you can to support your households and your neighbors. Thank you to the leadership of the city and the dedicated City Employees who show up not only here at the Emergency Operation center, but the people who are showing up to our police stations, our fire stations, the hospitals, the dedicated folks that will help get us through this crisis. With that, im happy to open it up to any questions. Christian. [inaudible] i heard about those tested positive i was wondering people who have been infected and were seeing how that looks like [inaudible] people are congregating in workout areas, and people have called up concerns about those people congregating, so i wonder when will it switch over to telling groups like that its time to separate out. So going to your first question, more testing is available now. We will be getting more diagnoses, so thats one of the key Lessons Learned in this next phase of the epidemic. The other thing that we need to be looking at is the seriousness of the cases, right . So the acuity and the illness, as i said were preparing for the surge that we think is coming relatively soon. Its also about betting the curve. While the number of cases will increase, we want to keep the rate as low as possible to give us as much time as possible to better prepare for the most sick, who are the most in need of medical treatment. I will go back to reinforcing that 80 from the data we have now, 80 of people who get coronavirus have mild to moderate symptoms, do not need hospitalization, do not need intensive care. All this work is really focused on necessarily on preparing, especially for those vulnerable populations, and with our Healthcare Workforce, we need our Healthcare Workforce to stay as healthy as possible, so we can optimize our response if and when the surge does happen. Thank you. So christian, to your question, that has already started. We put in a request through the Emergency Operation center, the logistic section, we the San Francisco Police Department to have our Disaster Service workers assist with that messaging and that education piece, so as of today, my understanding is that has happened to assist the San Francisco Police Officers with that. So a couple of things, if you see that. Our officers have observed that type of behavior. One of the struggles initially was in the u. N. Plaza area. There were Service Providers that were doing good things, giving out food, but it caused lines and social distancing problems and our officers were called in immediately to thin people out. Again, we have to balance common sense, Civil Liberties with the necessity to stop the spread of this virus. Yes, there will be a lot of education if in the event that we keep having to go back to the same group of people or same people, we worked with the City Attorney on a tight protocol on when to enforce. That enforcement can be a citation, it can be an arrest, and its a continuing offense if the same person is arrested over and over again, which i dont anticipate. By in large, people have been very, very supportive and compliant. But if that happens, and it continues in a sense, that person can be taken to jail. This has impacted the entire criminal justice system. Its important that everyone understands that. The courts have slowed down. Our county sheriff has had to make adjustments. So we all had to adjust. I want to ensure everybody, we still are enforcing the law. This is not a freeforall where people just get to come into our city and do whatever they please. The law will be enforced and we will have some discretion on who we actually put handcuffs on and take to jail because we dont want to spread the virus in that manner. So were going to be smart about it. We instructed or supervisors on what to do, what to look for, and were going to be smart about it. Thank you. [inaudible] were hearing that there are all sorts of issues with nonessentials maintaining their business hours. Are you walking into businesses telling them to close their doors . If we find out about it. There are thousands of businesses in the city, so we only have so many officers working the streets. Were asking the community to comply if Community Members see it, they can call 311, they can report it, and we can respond. You know, we cant address what we dont know about. Our officers are out and doing the checks, but there are thousands of businesses on the streets. This is unprecedented and i think we all have to take a step back and understand the magnitude of this and people, when they see this, call us. We have a whole infrastructure in the city set up. I know they like to call the media and thats a good thing because it raises awareness, but they also need to call us. We will address it and we will address it appropriately. And i just wanted to add to that because its not just about enforcement. We had gotten information and this is a part of this Emergency Operation center. We received information that there were other businesses open in other part of the community and we have people who may not have been able to speak english or understood the order, so we have people who speak multiple languages, who are doing the outreach to those businesses and to make sure they understand that they will need to close as a result of this order, so thats a part of what this Emergency Operation center has been doing. So its not just about police enforcement, its also about outreach. As i said before, not everyone is watching the news, not everyone has access to the internet, and not everywhere everyone is familiar with 311. So we need to be considerate when we try to get people in San Francisco to comply. We want to make sure they know that the orderist examines, order exists, and provide them that opportunity and thats what were doing in this first phase. [inaudible] yeah greg, thank you, but i have no control whether or not we use the National Guard so im hoping that it does not come to that, but thats not my decision to make. Yes . [inaudible] so, the first question. Were hoping so the big piece of that is that were making offers on the spot, which those of you who followed the city hiring process and the challenges, you know, we are offering on the spot. So i think thats a big incentive for people to join the team and we need as many nurses as we can get. So im hoping over the weekend, shortly there after, if not that day, we will have 50 more nurses on board and we will get scores more in the meantime. With regards to your question around the p. P. E. , we have enough p. P. E. For now. We are working across the city to coordinate that personal protective equipment and we have enough for now and were ensuring that the people who qualify for it per c. D. C. Guidelines are the ones that are getting it to protect them and the patient. Thank you. [inaudible] i think that the city is doing a tremendous job. Of course we could use more resources, but in comparison to other cities around the country, we are ahead of, i think many other places. In fact, im getting phone calls from mayors and governors about you know, what were doing here in San Francisco. Were sharing our resources. Were sharing our information and we know that and we said this from the very beginning about vulnerable populations, along with the people that are elderly, the people that have certain respiratory conditions or other health conditions. We put homeless into the category of vulnerable populations and have them working in a way to reach out to this particular community and also provided additional resources, so we are definitely headed down the right path and were hoping that the work that we do will help to reduce the spread and as you know, immediately, almost once i declared a state of emergency here in San Francisco, we put forward 5000000, specifically to help with our shelters, to help with outreach and other things we need to do to specifically help our Homeless Population in San Francisco, including those who are living in our shelter systems, but there is definitely still more to be done and as trent mentioned in his update, you know, we are definitely on our way to a better place with that. Dr. Colfax, back to the personal protective equipment, i probably heard from 50 different healthcare workers via facebook, emails, all sorts of personal messages overnight in San Francisco and the bay area saying they do not have the p. P. E. S they need. Some are saying they dont have the n95 and the virus may become airborne, if it isnt already. They feel that they dont have the p. P. E. They need in the hospitals, from clinics, from emergency departments, from other departments from state hospitals. They dont have masks, they dont have the gowns, theyre asking for donations of clorox wipes on the internet. So antidotally im hearing that there isnt enough p. P. E. Out there for healthcare workers. How do you intend to deal with that demand as the virus is just going to create more patients in more need. So i emphasized we need to stick with science, data, and facts, and prepare as much as we can for the future. Given c. D. C. Guidelines and our Scientific Understanding about how the virus is transmitted, the information that i have is that healthcare workers who need the protection are getting the protection they need as of this time. We are concerned about p. P. E. Going forward. That is a clear priority for us. Its a clear priority for the state, all the surrounding counties and the nation. So we are looking at our p. P. E. Burn rate, and working on all aspects of priority so that we can fulfill that need if and when it comes to pass. Thank you. [inaudible] theyre not working because theyre under quarantine. If you dont know what that number is, how can you solve it . Im sorry, is that related to the p. P. E. Question . No. I see, so we are actually working with some of the best epidemiologists in the world and the hospital operations to look at the various scenarios. Were adjusting with regards to our surge scenario for a certain number of healthcare workers and figuring out how to prepare for that. I dont have the numbers to share today but your point is very important that as we prepare for this, we have to understand that certain members of healthcare workers will not be available and were preparing for those scenarios. Why not reach out to find out how many healthcare workers when i say surge, let me be very clear. Our surge work is across the Healthcare System for all of San Francisco. It is not limited to zuker berg or a binary communication between ucsf and the dph. Were working with all hospitals and Healthcare Systems in our city for this surge planning. Thank you. You talked about the surge, what are the latest projections in terms of the timeline for when it will peak . That in fact again, we will share that information as it becomes available. This situation is fluid. Things are changing everyday. Were looking at those models and we will share as much information as we can when its available. [inaudible] healthcare personnel are being tested for coronavirus based on c. D. C. Guidelines. [inaudible] [inaudible] what are you doing to prepare emergency shelters . Were all concerned and i spoke about this in my initial remarks. Specifically for the Homeless Population, were doing a couple things. We are expanding our shelter capacity in new sites in order to create social distancing within our shelters, so the c. D. C. And state department of health guidelines, even prior to doing that however, we were in Constant Contact with our caseworkers and our shelters talking about creating social distancing within their facility and safe hygiene and alike. The other piece were doing in addition to reducing the census in our existing shelters is activating our outreach teams to identify vulnerable populations that are on the streets, so these are age 60 and above, as well as those with Underlying Health conditions, for purposes of putting them in shelters as well. Were anticipating needing 2,500 additional shelter spaces in popup facilities around the city and were assessing many sites right now. [inaudible] im not on the health side, im on the housing side. It was four individuals that we moved into the housing. Can you talk about how the Embarcadero Center made the decision to open up more beds this morning. They did and we started that process a couple weeks ago because we knew we needed approval. The initial thought there was move the individuals from our Central Waterfront Navigation Center to the embarcadero in order to free up the Central Waterfront to be a center for covid positive individuals. The c. D. C. Guidelines came out saying congregate settings are not appropriate, so we are not going to be making that move because we want to create social distancing in the embarcadero site, as well as Central Waterfront. Now our plan for covid positive homeless is to isolate them in hotel rooms or r. V. S or trailers that the governor is sending our way. [inaudible] well, let me answer the last question first. The officers do have personal protective equipment like everybody, were challenged on supplies and were working through our Emergency Operation center and the city to coordinate that equipment, but they do have it. We still have equipment for the officers. The officers are instructed to keep again, a safe distance and we have when we respond to these calls in these incidents, our First Priority is to get voluntary compliance. This is nothing new in a democracy. We want people to voluntarily comply with the law. By in large, people have. So the question that you all have about when people see this as the mayor stated, the first thing we do is we go and try to educate if we get called. By in large, thats been successful. So we hope that continues. We understand that there are people out there whose lives have been disresulted disrupted so we will have some compassion on how we approach this. We havent had to go to the same place over and over again. In the event that happens, the law allows us to enforce. This is not an issue where were looking for a test case. What were looking for is for people to comply. Were telling everybody, the law is the law. Please comply. By in large, people have. You all see it. The city, they will ask for that compliance and those that dont, we will address that appropriately. [inaudible] the message of social distancing, if you live with somebody and these are the things that i think that are not helpful to the situation. There are no contacts of that picture that Went National of two People Holding hands, whether they were husband and wife, or they live together, we have no context of what that situation was. Its not helpful to put that out there saying people are not complying. We dont know. 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