Transcripts For SFGTV Fire 20240704

[pledge of allegiance] this is the Fire Commission regular meeting february 28, 2024 and the time is 5 04. This meeting it held in person members may attend to observe and provide comment at the location or calling 4156550001 and using meeting id26647147628. And the webinar password is 1234. Operator will unmute you item 1 roll call. President morgan. Present. Frazer. Present. Commissioner nakajo. Present. Commissioner feinstein is excused. Commissioner collins is excused and jeanine nicholson. Present. President morgan will now read the land acknowledgment. Good evening. Ladies and gentlemen. Ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement the San Francisco Fire Commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you. Item 2. General Public Comment. Members may address the commission for 3 minutes on a merit in the jurisdiction that does not appear on the upon agenda. Speakers address remark to the commission as a whole and nod individuals. Commissioners are not to enter in the debate or discussion with the speaker. The electric of a response by the commissioners or Department Personnel does not necessarily institute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Can sfgov. Org see if my over head is focused im ready. I will start your time. Hello. Greetings, commissioner and chief. Im michael patrellis a public advocate in San Francisco. Sfgovtv show this on tv this. Image im showingure 2 cleats from [inaudible] he is a political candidate for district 5 supervisor seat. And on february 8 he went on a ride along with station 49. As you see in the images he took photos showing himself next to an sf sd vehicle. And showing standing next to 2 paramedics and a third photo that shoes the departments official lapel button. This e mail on your screen shows that mr. Malmood was informed that he would not be able to document his ride along with your paramedics. Okay are back to me, please, im here today to ask the Fire Commission to agendize what happened on february 8 where a political candidate made it very clear in a series of e mails that he wanted go on a ride along for his Campaign Purposes this violates your policy but cannot document the ride along. And he violated that. Clearly. And i have seen nothing on terms of e mails or public records that were provided to me showing that the department did anything to reassess the policy about ride along and letting a politician come on the ride along document his ride along. Giving implication the Fire Department endorse him because he is showing your paramedics and your vehicle. He showed these image in his written report on twitter, facebook and instagram. This is not okay. Im going to provide this documentation to the commission chief. The commission president. Along with 150 word statement i provided to be included in the minutes this is not okay. That your infrastructure was used by a political candidate. On top of that, we need to agendize here at the commission what you will do in the future if someone wants to go on a ride along. Thank you. Can i give these . Yea. I think im going to make a to do. A quick reminder for your [inaudible]. A fire that does not burn would freeze in nature. First is not the natural fire. Pay attention to that with all the arent fires. So called wild fires happening. In california that not only california as you know. You look at the evidence. Im doing your job here temperature is very difficult for you to deal with the situation you are perfectly aware of. I understand that. The problem is to realize that no matter who you are or where you come from what matter in life is when you do. So it means that you pay for what you do or what you dont do. It is the rules of existence. At some point there is nowhere to hide. Except finishing continuing your life. And unhappily. And you turn to again and you are done. And the problem with that is that your children, [inaudible] so at some point you [inaudible] intelligently. And basically walk against the problem of humanity todays energy. What i said to begin w. Any number one at this pointful so we have to deal with that. Im here to help. I will not let you down. We have other Public Comment . Interesting commission the First Time Since the new commission and the new Administration Im Steven Clauser informer San Francisco firefighter here. And im asking the commission why is it i have not been placed back when i was cleared go back full duty with no restriction this is is regard to my hiv status. Discrimination in the job since it happened out of station sdmaen detailed other companies within the city during that time of unfortunately i have aids i did not know i had it. Find out i was doing the job and got a blood exposure in 2003. I have been to jail and went for a year in regards to the matter because the individual or the doctor in the city manipulated my ability to go back to work im a protected class under state and federal guidelines and im wondering i went to court and won. I wonder, i have given you the paperwork and the chief a paperwork and the registration and the city the paperwork and nothing to place me back to work or pay the money owed since 2014 this is a violation of my rights as an american. I think you need to address this issue. Thanks, chief. I dont see anybody else approaching the podium. Okay. There is no other Public Comment. Nobody on the line and nobody approaching. Okay. Thank you. Madam secretary. Next item approval the minutes. Move that . Approval of the minutes discussion and possible action to aprove Meeting Minutes of the regular meeting on february 14, 2024. Commissioners, is there Public Comment. There is nobody approaching the podium of the yes, there is. Hi. Michael patrellis again. I know you put the minutes on the website. Which is good. I am wondering if it is the habit to the commission to make one copy available in paper at the meetings. Id like to look at it. Thank you. Thank you for your Public Comment. There is nobody on the Public Comment line or approaching the podium. Weep move to item 3 approval of the minutes from february 14th . Motion. Make a motion. Motion to approve the minutes. I second it. Okay. And commissioner nakajo . Yes. Chief of departments report. Report from chief of Department Jeanine Nicholson on issues, activities and events Went Department since february 14th, 20 torincluding building are a cad People Special sxevent out reach to government agencies. And the dmro set facility status and u. S. Finance and home land security. Good evening. Morgan, Vice President frazer, good morning. Public. Im gene nic sonet chief of the Fire Department and this is my report since our prior meeting on february 14th, twenty 24. I will start with meetings we had with other departments. We met with the sfmta to discuss issues surrounding all the changes going on in the city and again requested the map. Their projects that will impact our response. And hopefully i dont know if we got it yet but we have a good working relationship, so, work closely on several projects. As we know our response times gone up overnight past 5 years due to the changes in the streets. And the changes are important so is our response. Met with human rights decision director davis regarding the historically black colleges and universities interns there will be 6 different schools that will send individuals and students out this way. We hope to place at least upon one in an internship with the San Francisco Fire Department. Spoke with the dem department of Emergency Management about the off load time. Has been issued for us and for many departments across the state. And how the hospitals are part of the Health Care Ecosystem and continuum and they are setting up a meeting with the hospitals and the Mayors Office and i have requested that the Fire Department be a part of that meeting. We are impacted by them and other things. I attended the mayoral Department Head meeting. Again, we talked about the budget year. Muni gave a presentation about ridership and safety increases. It was with all Department Heads last week. Internal meetings. I met with commissioner collins regarding our infrastructure challenges. And she and i will are going to meet with the city administrator and im meet width Mayors Office again tomorrow about the challenges. We are doing candidate selection for the next acad people interviews begin on friday. We will be interviewing 130 people. For the class that begins in late june. These are people that were recommended from the panels of our members. To move on to the next level interview that starts friday. We had an internal budget meeting with director corso with the e lane walters and myself and we are setting up a meeting with the Budget Office the budget was submit on the 21st and conversations with the mayors Budget Office and we will be sure to stress how the Fire Department stepped up again and again whether community paramedicine, apec or covid out break. Muni stupid as the ic at the covid center. All the things we have done and the need we have. Conducted interviews for out reach recruitment and develop the position. We interviewed 3 candidates and hopefully have a decision in the next week. Director corso and myself had another retreat we to it month low to talk about sort of big are issues in the department. We again addressed communications with work load data and institutional iegz our policies and procedures. And it has been helpful for me and i think for the department. These retreats we have been having. As for events i attended on the 14th after the last Commission Meeting the same sex major anniversary there were people there that were volved back then in making that happen. And so is that was a lot of the same couples that were married back then. It was a festive event. On the 24th i went to the Youth Baseball League and throughout first pitch with the mayors and others. We did have the Chinese Lunar new year parade the year of the dragon, thank you for attending it was well attended by our people. And on sunday the 25th, i attended the fire Service Boot Camp on treasure i lands. There were 60 women there some are in the process of interviewing to get hired for the next academy and some issue interested in the process of possibly become a San Francisco firefighter. Mayor came and saw what was happening and she was i mean everybody there was excited that they got to meet the mayor and. She loved it. Because of all the good work that United Fire Service Women and Fire Department doing together in terms of work with young people to get them access in the department if they meet all the qualifications. Tonight at 5 30 down stairs the black history night closing event. Tomorrow will be the [inaudible] at twin peeks rain or shine in the supervisors and others. Our physician will be stepping down and i know you will discuss her replacement later in this meeting thats all i have and thank you very much. Thank you for your report, chief. Are there any Public Comment, madam secretary . About the chiefs report . Michael patrellis. I have not seen you in awhile, good to see you. Chief, i want to talk about that february 14 event of 20th anniversary of the gay marriages. You know it was special seeing the photos and videos from the events. That took place around that time in early february and here at city hall. Im glad you mentioned that in your report. Now i notice that in this report and other reports i looked at and the minutes and maureen keeps great minute list is in the a report that you give on ride alongs. I would like to suggest that you look at giving us figures. How much people applied go on how many people applied go on a ride along . With the paramedics. Say for january. Did two requests or 100. Id like to know how many asks were grantd and how many were denied. I really like some transparency about this part of the department. And how it is handled these days. I dont know, how much folks have any stripe weather they are average taxpayers or people rung for Political Office if they are applying and how many times they go on theef ride alongside. I think numbers would be good and may be clear not looking for anyones name who was asking to go. Just numbers, okay. I think this request im making is in the larger context of i hope this commission will agendize what is going on with the Ride Along Program now and as i pointed out, what happened on february 8 with the political candidate. I dont know what benefit it is to we, the citizens, about the ride alongs. I think that explanation coming from you about whatever the benefit is to us in terms of Public Safety an explanation would be appreciated. Thank you. Nobody on the Public Comment line or approaching the podium. Okay. Commissioners, have any questions for the chiefs report or comments . No. Thank you very much, mr. President , chief in terms of tomorrow, exercise at twin peeks reservoir could you send out information as to how to get there . Im curious. I believe it is 11 oclock . Thank you, chief and mr. President. Thank you, commissioner nakajo. I thank you, chief for your great report and the spirit of you can black History Month i want to acknowledge you on the work do you with diversity and the time you put in on that. I want to make that noted, you know. Appreciate that. And you working with doctor davis the commissioner human rights commissioner and the time you put in on that. So,mented to be acknowledged. Thank you for the work do you on diversity. Great report i have no other questions. Okay. Is there Public Comment. We took Public Comment. Okay. Chief kiloa is up. And chief tong. My side partner. Good evening. This is my report. Im sorry. [inaudible]. Administration for the firefighter and report for the january 2024, we begin with home land security as alwaysy chief brown busy through january attending meetings. These are a few. The multiple National Weather service briefings. Tracking the storms throughout california through the weather service. Many other partners we can plan when the event arrives for the Fire Department and our city efforts. To mitigate the damage that come from those. Incidents and she attended the hazzard and Climate Resilience or planning for the meeting. This focuses on impact of natural hazzards and climate change. Identifying hazzards and risks to San Francisco city and coincident. And to discuss strategies to reduce the impacts. Also coming up planning for the escape from alcatraz race. This is a triathalon where many tr around globe sdendz on San Francisco for this event. Part of that event is a swim 1. 5 miles from alcatraz back to the city. Chief brown coordinating with all of our partnering agencies to ensure visitors are safe on land and water and developing the response plans for the upon event. Also working with dem and will be the heat and air quality table management exercise planning meeting. Thankful is accessive heat in San Francisco that happens throughout the summer. Also the air equality based on some of our large california wildfires. Other reasons reduce air quality. Theyll discuss what the challenges and how to support the city when we have the excessive heat whether that is opening cooling centers and safe place for elderly and our vulnerable populations. The mock. January. Chief brown and sectional chief josh based on the 49ers and the championship game. They brought in a team of folks. Development event action plan weather this the 49ers won or lost to our pain they did in the win that game of we were prepared thank to the chief brown. Moving to the diverse idinclusion office under chief shawn beaufort throughout januariful very busy you may know the office also supports the hiring of our new recruits and special recruits and lieutenantand are son coordinating and scheduling of the interviews. The are departments coordinating with the volunteers who will be in the Interview Panels. Providing the training to the individuals. Prior to the panel interviews. Also in question development. And messaging throughout the department as well as the Greater Public on our efforts of hiring and recruitment. 124 chosen in the new list by fire candidate training center. I think i have spoke own this before. We transition said away from the National Training network team of fire candidate testing center. And lieutenant anderson worked with dhr for recruitment and messaging. This was an important aspect in this class as we moved away individuals needed to understand the process and how to remain on our list and how to be eligible for the 134th throughllowllow andersons work to get what messaging out to the Greater Public and the folks already on the list. They were eligible to come over. Also our partnership with fire center. Guess beyond the Testing Process and the support. They wanted us in studios and this is the audio and vushl department. Giving training and mentesorship we can use our multimedia session. Many members on recruitment pod casts including chief mou. Some reason the candidates for the 134th had 747 eligible candidates were invited. 197 ineligible due to missing [inaudible] or ged or drivers license. We have spoken about the reconstitution of the committee, chief beaufort is a liaison along with ken yee and zack compary they have been doing fantastic work developing a message to the field which is important on the reconstitution of that committee. What to expect the objectives of committee to make it clear to the field what the committee is and what it stands for and how it helps the department move forward. The fwror focus to review revise the react. Reap. Racial equity action plan. It is to review that document to see where it has been success and will what not accomplishd and what we can accomplish in the coming years of the new Racial Equity plan and what is feasible to accomplish in naplan. Beaufort participate in black History Month Public Safety announcement video. I believe the mayor was in attendance. Among that the chief had several meetings and involved citywide Racial Equity leader meetings to discuss leadershipful legislation, challenges, that other departments are seeing. And discussed best practices that we can collaborate and bring to the firefighter to ensure our success in that office. Beyond that you heard me speak about recruitment it is enormous uptake for the chief and the lieutenant but do it with ease. They continue their support of the city emt Program Meeting with folks. In need and give support needed to ensure their success throughout that program. They do this the chief Beaufort Works with chief mou at the division of trin to meet with recruits. To help develop strategies and help them through that process and to move toward success. Highlight recruitment lieutenant anderson you heard me talk highly of him he is the hardest workers. He is still out at the mull pull job faris recruiting, out reach. Tracking folks. Not just making that one time touch. Lieutenant andersons approach is make the touches and do out reach and continue to keep in contact to ensure the folks move down the road to be successful to be hired whether in ems or suppression. I believe i spoke about this in Previous Report but i will give you the data the partnered with the conversation corps they trained 14 members on wild land firefighting 12 completed the training and certified. That is basic land Fire Fighting and wild land fire behavior. You see they perform handss on skills. Battalion chief and hughes and chavez and mike fitsgerald lieutenant anderson provided the instruction. It was paid with a grant that was obtained for this training. But the success of this is that these folk consist move on to the corps fire program and condition with San Francisco fire providing f gashing 12. A basic safety and cutting class. And [inaudible] lieutenant anderson met with odyssey a marketing group. They looked at a 360 degree approach of marketing. Trying to trying to increase our out reach. Through this word of mouth not just through the e mail blast but other things he is doing. Performing in person. Out roach as well as over teams and zoom. Am looks at all angles audio, visual. Written content. And media blasts over radio. 97. 3 and 95. Seven, live 105. Giants, warriors and im it is a well rounded approach and in early phases of looking at oddys and he if they can help us with efforts of broader net. Health and safety patalityion chief al batch highlight chief al bal. January the Cancer Prevention month. I wanted highlight he is our greatest cancer champion and our health and wellness officer. But our greatest cancer champ the chief was scomborn raised in the western edition of San Francisco. Entered in the great hunter academy. I was in that academy. To be transparent. His motives began early on as he started to see and many of us have seen when you are young in the Fire Department. And you receive the notifications of our retired members passing away from cancer. He got involved in Cancer Prevention. Now sits on the board of directors the San Francisco Fire Prevention foundation since 2018. Just data of firefighter cancer in the fire service is the leading cause of line of duty death in 2023, 63 of those added to the name are added to the walt Firefighter Memorial wall in 2023. Due to occupational cancer. So, base on that throughout january chief al bas office put out awareness campaigns. Sending e mails. Delivering approaches to fire incidents that produced toxic smoke. And delivered information regarding dividing the fire station to 3 hazards. Hot, worm and cold zone. Delivered best practice. These are but a few and modifiable risk factors. And delivered water in bottled water data to the fields. We believe that no matter the amount that the cumulative whether from our uniforms to our ppe to what we are ingesting water or food; it is awareness to help educate folks and keep them health and he safe through a long retirement. Auchls Behavioral Health unit. Throughout january, 151 hours, 40 contacts. The high suppression. But still high on our ems side. Amount meetings request members on our off duty and retired members takes up a lot of their time. But it is good time and time well spent to assist our members to better health. Beyond this, the captain is involved in many things. From policy development. Developed a draft policy for the Fire Department. She is developing has a draft [inaudible] program. Policy. That will be reviewed after a second revision. She worked with many city partners. Specifically at the chiefs residents. The captain would like to create a safe space and where people can come and able to relax and share their stories and have conversations with the Behavioral Health unit. So, the captain is partnering with one of our High School Programs to develop plans to develop the backyards a safe space. Under office of employee health. The nurse are practical tigzer returned work modified duty throughout the month of january. Final example exams for 133rd complete. 15 exams completed. 307s were 59th. 3807 reporting mechanism for an injury at work. That is self treated. And reported and in the upon event the individual need to be seen by a doctor we would fill out a 5020 report. 5020s in january were 43. Top 3 were covid. Back and shoulder injuries. That dataal be included in our workers comp meetings so that we can track and garth the data on the injuries we are seeing throughout the department we can create mitigations equipment. Training or fitness to ensure folks have the healthy career. Our Investigative Service under captain todd wells. He had 22 members participate in prosecute motional and probation alcohol drug testing. And attended training and resource ordering capability class. Sxf of performed backgrounds investigations for the 25th. H3 level 1. And performed intake for the 134th. Or will be taking input. Beyond that, captain designed a designated collector training intent to train our newer bce and captains who are going out of battalion chief in events we are in a weekends and that would need to be performed by the individuals. Built that from scratch the purpose of providing training for the chiefs. Per of that training is deliverod 2 hours online course. Policy review and training in person from the captain on00 autopolicies and general testing how to Work Equipment properly. Dwland 3 of the breath livesers were calibrated and sent back. Support Services Mike mullen very are busy there is no way i can depict it in briefings. Maintenance tie nothing 148 requests for service in january. And 170 Service Orders were closed. 25 Service Calls for plumbing. Our generators we schedule perform maintenance with service and load tests. Fire station 8, 17, 25 and 31 have been completed. Among the small list the chief continues to work on so many other aspects from procurement and supplies. And our fleet is maintained. The best that he can. We have challenges that they are looking over data on the status of our float. And our ability to keep that float healthy. And well. The cost of the fleet rises. We are just over 2 million for a truck. Chief mullen said the day before yesterday at 1. 1 million for engine with delivery time of 600 days, it is a concern for us and vulnerability we are trying to aggress. The chief is work as she has spoken, hard to address these issues to condition to provide the service we provide the city and we will some of the other challenges is our infrastructure. Our ability to have our fire houses maintained. Take care of that deferred maintenance. Look at seismic vulner abilities and mitigate those. There are conversation had in the department on our minds. And chief nicholson and the staff are looking for ways to address those issues. Happy to announce station 35 received bronze award from fire house magazine, Station Design award. Either quake safety and emergency response. Assistant deputy chief miller so much work from chief miller well highlight a few today. The usfbdot construction conducted and attended design meeting chief received engineering plans. Based on the location site the a jayceancey to the basement different types of mud this they look at that soil and how we kemp improve that soil. And develop strategies to strength then with pilings and Different Things i should not speak about. And and how we strengthen this soil and develop strategies to support the buildings to be on that soil and received the 90 Concept Design and entered cost estimation week affiliation. Cost estimations that chief miller is looking. And you have all seen at the training tower on 19th the fire escapes will be raised. I believe 2 to 3 inches. 4 inches. I was close. To create Better Safety factor. Folks are work off of that fire scape. Station 23 replacement approved. Station 1731 water intrusion approved and station 19 replace ams approved. The year 24 Roofing Program funding 500,000. Chief mill are conditions to work to assure we get best we can out of that money and to utilize it to the best our ability so we can make progress on our project. Highlights this month. Chief nicholson, and ems welcome the paramedic class 11. I believe chief i think you spoke about this you saw this. A 3 week digital story telling academy where our folks went through 3 weeks learning and how to utilize equipment and edand i take photography, build story boards so we use our session to tell our story not just went Fire Department. But to the public. And with that, happy Lunar New Year i will take questions you may have. Thank you for your report, chief kiloa. Appreciate it. Madam secretary is there Public Comment . There is nobody approaching and nobody on the Public Comment line. Commissioners. Any comments or questions for chief kiloa. Thank you, chooefr and yes happy Lunar New Year. Great parade and night. And your report really appreciate everything and the details you provide for us. I have a question biwas impressed with the summary of candidates and the number. But there is a discrepancy in the numbers on your slide it says 491 candidates interviewed and our agenda says 401. Oh. Whatever it is, get them lined up. It is 491. 401. Thank you. Am i was curious, thats a lot of interviews either one of those figures. And then around the health issues, you said that occupational cancer is the leading cause of firefighter death . Is that wow. That is staggering. Thats these are people that have been followed post retirement intho their lives . This is consistent . Yes. Am national data. When people are will still here im sure they are still working, there is screening and testing that goes on in an on going way for our firefighters . The last screening we did with gallery that was last year or the year before. Blood tests. Correct. Thank you. And the last, you talked about the test kits i thank you was around substance. Drugs and alcohol are those test kits you ordered additional 400 and is this for drugs and alcohol . Yes. Is it pee or blood test . Sorry to granular. We have both. Pee test and saliva test. Pee test is done on hiring. New hiring. Saliva for promotional and random drug testing. Okay. Great. Appreciate the report. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. President. Morgan. Thank you very much chief for your thorough report. The thing i wanted to share and if there is a comments that can be brought up in terments of an update. I did notice the station 35 but i wanted to ask a question, in terms how the 35 survived that last storm in terms of the waves and all of that. A comment and chief mullins. Beautiful design but what does it feel like and the waves hit it. Yes. President morgan. Commissioner, chief. Im mike mullins with support service. No issues with this latest storm. There were mitigation efforteds. Between last years march storm and this. And we did have heavy winds but saw none of the repeat that is a good sign. Thats good im appreciative of that chief. Were you going on ask. The chief said there were issues with last years storm. Where there was liking, i believe and some other significant issues but still under warranty. What was fixed. Good the fix held. Thats all i have, mr. President. Thank you. Commissioner nakajo. Great question. Never thought about that. Sgupg down on the ballards. That is a remarkable design. Did you have more questions, commissioner frazer. I want to thank you for your report. Chief kiloa and want to thank you guys forward Lunar New Year parade. It was an honor to march with you guys and year of the dragon and eating after. If he want like i was part of the family appreciated you. Good time. And cant wait until next time. Good to see you there. And appreciate the asian Firefighter Association as well. Who sponsord that dinner for us. Yes. Are we done. Item 5 appointment of the Department Physician discussion and possible action. To appoint doctor upon steven e chang as the Department Physician. Okay. Will there be Public Comment on that or. Nobody approaching the podium. Commissioners. Public comment line. You have questions or comments about the new doctor potential doctor . Chang . Go ahead. Commissioner frazer. I was part of the Interview Panel for the physician position. One thing i want to point out on our agenda it says steven e chang mo he is a do. And he is also and he is qualify today is a different much degree. But we did interview 3 candidates. And doctor chang was our choice to go forward. Wonderful enthusiastic, bright, San Francisco and has commitment and interest in the job and ideas. So i think we did our work. On the interviews. And felt like we had a candidate that we can move forwardeen though in spite of jennifer leaving a wide wake in her departure. So, yes. Anybody have questions . Chief was there. Some others were there. For the interviews. Chief nakajo did you have comments . No. Thank you very much president morgan. Thank you for the promotion as well. [laughter]. Thank you. Vice president frazer thank you very much for your participation. Did you move on this item . Im happy to move or second. Nobody has moved. I will move on this item. Mr. President j. There is a motion to appoint doctor chang is there a second. Second. And i vote, yes. Unanimous. Okay item 6 Public Comment on item 7. Public comment on matters pertaining to item 7 including Public Comment on whether to hold 7b in closed session. There is nobody approaching. The podium and nobody on our Public Comment line. Commissioners, is there any questions or a motion . To go to closed session on this item . Yes. I move to go to closed session. Commissioner nakajo. Second, i vote, yes. Motion is unanimous we will now go in closed session. At 6 05. [closed session] im sorry. Okay we are back. Thank you for coming. We appreciate it. [laughter]. Okay. Thanks, charles. Forgot to thank jennifer. For her service. We are back in open session. The time is 6 11. Okay. Request on action taken in closed session in code section 54957. 1a5 San Francisco code section 67. 12 b 4. The Commission Reports that they adopted the findings of fact unanimously. Item 2 vote to elect to disclose any or all discussions in closed session in San Francisco code section 67. 12a . Is there a motion. Yes. I like to move we dont disclose. I second that. The motion is unanimous. Item 8 adjournment. We are adjourning at 6 12. President morgan and i would like to adjourn this meeting. The city of San Francisco invest nothing resources to care for people experiencing a Mental Health or Substance Use crisis on the streets this includes new programs and the expansion of pilots. Paramedic and street crisis. You all right . When we receive a call on 911 when someone is experiencing a Mental Health crisis, the Street Crisis Response Team would be sent out for that person. More people are looking at 911 for the medical or police or fire response this is actually a response that is needed on 911, Mental Health is a big issue. We are like another tool in the box. Because sometimes people call 911 and will not want to go to the hospital. And other times people are afraid of safety or worried about the person and sometimes they will send pd out which may not be the best resource for that person. Jot Street Crisis Response Team assists and stabilizes many experiencing crisis on the street. Sometimes people have more complex needs. Behavioral Health Clinicians from the team or best, provide follow up care after the initial 911 call response. Best provides street Behavioral Health support over dose follow up and linkage to appropriate Mental Health treatment and medical care. Behavioral Health Starts with us and the coalitions that can relate. And build the friendships and the resource this is go with that. If you are experiencing an emergency, or a worried about someones safety on the street, call 911. For nonemergency, use 311. You can learn more laughter . Hi, im pilipinas chi chai mateo and am the artist here. Im current working on a title meaning together and the reason why i choose that theme because celebrating the legacy of some of the latin tennis especially with the power that put us together as formed when he come together and before us putting for our recognition and housing. But through our art culture and we see that today which were together and it is always a hope for the generations after us. Here in this district where we revising the languages and culture but in yes or no answer why we do this i get to see kids come out of this kind mr. Ryu rattle where they came from and we are here. Such an honor to be part of this legacy of togetherness and those opportunities have painting a mural such as this but teaching different skwashgs and learning more about my culture i thought i already knew but so much more to this is beautiful we have so much to give each other and were also willing to work im chanel joyce im a firefighter for the San Francisco Fire Department. I currently am the station 4. In the mission bay districtism lived in San Francisco in noe valley. Grew up with my mom and i went to high school in san ma teo. After high school i went to mississippi where i played volleyball in university of southern mississippi. What got me going after college was i was applying to place related to fire and police i loved my experience but my family is home. I grew up here and could not be far from my family anymore i came back. I have been a firefighter for 4 years the transition to the Fire Department has been seam tells is the same. Team work and coming together. Transitioning to the job med me comfortable that i made the right decision to come become and work for a Fire Department that is big in diversity and equality and becoming a fell. I got to be a member at a few different fire stations. Each station has their own culture. I worked in places that are xroem and with a young crew and had the most seniority have 3 or 2 years in whatever it may be. Learning stuff when people have been in the job for 20 plus years and learning from people got in it grew me to adopt and work with everybody. A lot of people will come up to mow and say, thank you for your service noise to see a woman in the Fire Department. You are doing it. It is nice to see kids waiving look a woman firefighter. They get excited i love that part of the job seeing the excitement that people see. You are a woman you can do this job. Every person has a good experience with the Fire Department. No one ever spokous they say, they are here. Theyre do this work and Everybody Loves them. Not everybody gets that in their job. I dont do it for the recognition but niez nice to see people that respect had you do and know you did a lot to get here and you still do to work and you set your life on the line for other people. It is cool. Going 90 charlie. Go ahead. We moved to San Francisco in 1982. We came from the philippines. I have three kids. Nathan jessica. Going 90 charlie. Go ahead. We moved to San Francisco in 1982. We came from the philippines. I have three kids nathan, jessica and iva. I was really young. When i had neat, i turned 19. And then two weeks later, he was born. So when he was fine, i used to watch cops all the time. All the time and so he would watch with me. He had his little handcuffs and his little toy walkie talkie. And then whenever the theme song came on, he would walk around and he just thought he was the baddest little thing. I think he was in kindergarten at sheridan because he and i attended the same Elementary School there was an officer bill. He would just be like mom officer bill was there then one day, he said, mom, i touched his gun. And he was just so happy about it. Everything happened at five minutes. I would say everything. Happened at 4 to 5 years old. Its like one of those goals to where you just you cant you cant just let go. High school. I think you know everybody kind of strays. He was just riding the wave. And i mean, he graduated. Thank god. One day i think he was about 20 or 21. He told me, he said mom. I want to be a cop or a firefighter, i said. No youre going to be a firefighter. But thats really not what he wanted to do. His words were i want to make a difference. And that was a really proud moment for me when he said that my dad was a cop in the philippines for 20 years. I think a lot of that played a role into his becoming a cop. My dad was really happy about it. My mom. She was kind of worried, but i just figured i cant stop him. He can make his own decisions. Stu. I just want to say whats up . How you doing . Good. Good. No im trying to look good for us to looking good for us to so when he was in the police academy, mind you this kid was not a very studious kid. But ive never seen him want something so bad when he was home. Hed be in his room studying the codes. He really fought for it. Hi. Whats your name . Im nate. Nate is great with kids, and he would give them hugs or give them stickers. I think that thats a positive influence on the kids, and then the people around you see it. Once he makes that connection with people and they trust him that foundation that respect people look at you and see your actions more than your words and so that i think will reach people more than anything. You could say you later, brother. Thank you. All right, see you. Its a really hard job. I know you. You see a lot of the negative for me. I would not put myself through that if i didnt care. You know, you have to be the right kind of person. You have to have the right heart to want to do that. When people ask me if you know what my son does , um, i just tell him hes a cop , and i just feel like im beaming with pride. I always told him when he was young that he would do something great. And so to see it. Its i have a moment. Im very proud of him. F bell tolling . Wow. clapping welcome, everyone. Here we are high on a hill. Little morning fog, no rain are we lurking or not were san franciscans. Were here to celebrate a beautiful man in our beautiful cable car cars what better day to do it in valentines day can you bring our hearts all right. My name is rick im the president of the Market Street railway an independent advocate for the history cable car and streetcars we support muni and getting the value is from those priceless civic assets we do that with no government government funding at all we depend on on documentation if people like who love light cable cars i want to recognize a whole lot of the folks with the chinatown merchant betty and carmen chiu the city administrator i hope im not im sure im missing other folks with one phrase and one song hasnt made our cable cars world families how special our city is special especially for diversity and, you know, nothing shows that better than the longstanding presence of very early days of San Francisco of our chineseamerican community the california street cable car line served chinatown since 1878 and last year, we celebrity the one hundred and fifty medical marijuana two blocks it north on clay street and the camp street line built 5 years after that and by a private company led by stanford mark hopkins and Charles Crocker and to serve the mansions and later on those mansions of fellow james claire floods Still Standing there as is Pacific Union across the street and graze by the great granddaughters karen and christen put your hands upcoming come on thats old San Francisco and private companies built 16 cable car lines and electronic streetcars took over those and shaped San Francisco we know today built our neighborhood it and energized businesses to prosper and receipt to grow and more than 70 years now the city cable car lines have been owned by the poach of San Francisco themselves through our city and county government so only fitting we start by hearing from the chief administrator officer of the city and county of San Francisco and i can attest number one, cable car fan the honorable mayor london breed, mayor london breed clapping . So much rick. Thank you to the Market Street rally railway for all yourself done to maintain the integrity and history of the cable cars in the city and county of San Francisco. As rick state weve been celebrating the cars one hundred and fifty get anniversary reminding us that San Francisco was the first place to have cable cars but more importantly that we are the only city no where that is operating manual cable cars so thank you, state of florida and our City Employees that are working hard to maintain and run those cable cars for visits from all over. Today, is an extraordinary day we are celebrating a try legend and hes right here. Tony bennett was an extraordinary icon in 1961 we fir performed i left my heart in San Francisco in the van everyone room people fell in love in 1969 San Francisco paid it our official so we know with hi come to San Francisco you, you always leave our heart here and been an extraordinary ambassador but he isnt just an extraordinary artist but a flicht it supports San Francisco in our time of need with the former mayor Dianne Feinstein trying to save our embarrasseds from 1980 tony bennett helped us to it appeal to the people to make sure that we protect and save and preserve the cable cars for People Like Us to enjoy today and in 1984 stood with mayor feinstein to commemorate to raise the resources and doing the work to get our cable cars back on track so great were all here today but his generosity didnt stop he was a great patient and when the hearts of San Francisco came to be in San Francisco in 2004 painted a heart so San Francisco General Hospital has used the hearts as a way to raise money for the foundation to help people who are in need of healthcare and support and pained one of those heart and in effect if you want to see that same heart it is right in the lobby of the fairmd hotel for all to enjoy. clapping. we all fell in love are him and his music so many so three mayor ed lee when he was alive declared tony bennett we recognize to commemorate his extraordinary work in the city and county of San Francisco he was a try desirable leader of fulfill pistil and so of us love and admired we can only think about San Francisco without thinking about tony bennett and vaedz and celebrate this dedication my honor to be here to recognize the contribution and officially declare our cable cars the one we came in on dedicated to him and his legacy halfway through the st. Marys of 1873 commemorating tony bennett as is year of the cable cars went into effect in San Francisco one hundred and 50 years ago. clapping. and with that, i want to say thank you to all the people joining us today, people who love the city and people who are seeing the city transform and all the people who are family members and friends of tony bennett we appreciate the fact youre here to celebrate this milestone on valentines day and here to talk about mr. Bennett and his amazing contributions and what he meant to San Francisco and the rest of word is his wife susan. clapping. and. Thank you, everyone. Tony was oh, my goodness he meant so much too, so many that people everyone producing laid and claim to tony to the people of queens neighborhood where we grew up in new york the local boys made it big and rocked to star donate and italy hes the great singer who never forgot his italian families and in washington, d. C. The artist of central park with the museum and the simile is beloved by people all over the world his brilliant smile and charm may have captured hearts on a San Francisco one city that sold him and San Francisco you have tonys heart. clapping. and for todays historic dedication of a cable car in the prior celebrations recognition he bestowed on my husband please know this i also have any heart and profound gratitude clapping. i know tony would be thrilled by the cable car so, please allow me to thank mayor london breed and the fall back city of San Francisco and all the good friends have been a part rather of prooifrg tonys legacy and in particular everyone at Fairmont Hotel wherewith he first sank the song im overjoyed to be here with you on valentines day in the very city tony and i first met and where hits signature song got the start when i left my heart in San Francisco became a citizen and every growing audience was San Francisco anthem but tonys he never tired of singing the song and audience neither tired and thanks to the fascinating statute in the lobby and now this special cable car and fans into all over the world will forever have a blast to visit and feel close to tony nothing would have thrilled my husband more. Thank you very much. clapping. please a round of applause for susan we are blessed show came out here and um, and, you know, some people know of cable cars is just for tourists people in the audience know that is not true we rise as often as we can and the people in the neighborhoods along the cable car routes from the financial district and chinatown to, you know, to the russian hill all count on is cable car not only to provide them transcription by provide them a touch of the soul this is. San francisco is. And their ride was shoulder to shoulder if guests and keeping the cable cars looking great is the responsibility of San Francisco mpu Commission Transportation agency sorry i should know by few and it is um, overseen not only muni the Transit Agency by the bikes and parking and taxis all sorts of other stuff by the next speaker cities director of transportation jeff tumble listen. Thank you, rick and thank you for all you do to support us at muni and thank you to the Fairmont Hotel for hosting this wonderful event and to it member of the board for your strong leadership in those challenging times you cable cars 5 three has been 2r0678d with the contribute of tony bennett for all the garage barns it took this moment and transformed this art into a. Contributed id like to personally thank our a entire cable car crew but the staff who hard work has made that a royalty and meriting and and click on watch sfgov 2. Members of the public please take this opportunity along with everyone who supports you can we give a roifrmd for the incredible country clapping. and id like to thank the leadership of our as we have julie hospital the general manager of muni runnings things and my job to say yes and the director of board of directors thank you for coming today clapping. Tony Bennetts i left my heart on a San Francisco immoshthd the cities charm but captured the hearts of people worldwide the lyrics with the essence of San Francisco with cable cars climb halfway to the stars making that a city contribute and dictate a cable car to tony bennett and finally, i 7, 8, 9 to thank all of you all not only for showing up here today but opening your heart to make that possible for us to continue operating embarrasses garages bus ever your heartfelt leave of this rolling working work of art we continue it operate cable cars in San Francisco and i also want to thank you. Your open heart and love of this extraordinary city that allows all of us to rise to the occasion of the transition between a bus e economic because out of you are collective love of San Francisco that that every single san franciscan has made this transition that we have reinvented when San Francisco southsouthwest love in our heart as well as a deep appreciation and love for our cities glorious history thank you all of you and welcome back clapping. thank you, jeff. Um, i may be given a person moment my groundwater gaepz came to it town in german from a small dell tissue on Market Street my dad said youre not going into this business i went to college and got out my first job was a one hundred dollar job in a station and their studios were here in the Fairmont Hotel when i stepped foot in the fairmont i saw the venetian room and a marquee and all of a sudden i wasnt a college kid but going to the fairmont will will that without further ado, let me introduce the general manager for the Fairmont Hotel mark. clapping thank you, rick. Well, good morning and welcome to mason street better known as tony bennett way were thrilled to be host and i would said to thank everyone for participating and more importantly mr. Bennett will look down from above. Um, as San Francisco mr. Bennett has the place a permanent place in our heart and mentioned up to now, first performed the legendary son in the venetian room started a long journey endured in the convenientlytion room and proud and honored this moment in history links us to the mr. Bennett in the amazing city we call home couldnt be prouder to go in the cable cars waving as it passes by the hotel and proud honored to continue the legacy so join necessary many welcoming rose for a tribute to mr. Bennett. clapping and. music . music for i left my heart in San Francisco . Instrumental. Your golden sun. Will shine for me. Thank you rose lets give another round of applause what an amazing rendition clapping. so lastly, you should have a full glass if you dont raise your empty glass i hope you can join me on that day of has the right to raise a glass to the legendary memory and man in celebration of cable cars cheers to all of you clapping. here we go. Everybody ready. Okay. 1, 2, 3, 4 cheering clapping. oh, this is what were trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. Its not just the old european style food. We are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. All we ask is make it flavorful. [ ] we are the first twoyear Culinary Hospitality School in the united states. The first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. Im a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. So students can expect to learn under the three degrees. Culinary Arts Management degree, Food Service Management degree, and Hotel Management degree. Were not a cooking school. Even though were not teaching you how to cook, were teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus youre getting an associate of science degree. My name is vince, and im a faculty member of the hospitality arts and Culinary School here in San Francisco. This is my 11th year. The program is very, very rich in what this industry demands. Cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. Its quite a complete program to prepare them for whats happening out in the real world. The first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. He was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. This program, its awesome. Its another world when youre here. Its another world. You get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. You get to explore Different Things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. Ive been in the program for about a year. Twoyear program, and im about halfway through. Before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. I had few injuries, and i couldnt pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. When i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. The good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to we have kids from every area. Facebook and google. Kids from everywhere. They are all over the bay area, and theyre thriving. My name is jeff, and im a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in San Francisco. I attended city college of San Francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90s. Nopalito on broderick street, its based on no specific region in mexico. All our masa is hand made. We cook our own corn in house. Everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, were making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. A lot of love put into this. [ ] used to be very easy to define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. Now, its shades of gray, and were trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. Fine dining calls into white table cloths. The cafeteria is Large Production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those types of kitchens. And the ideas that change every year, again, its the notion and the venue. One of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. Its been a pizzeria, a taco bar. Its been a mediterranean bar, its been a noodle bar. People choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. We, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. Were open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. The menus always interesting. They change it every semester, maybe more. Theres always a good variety of foods. The preparation is always beautiful. The students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and theyre so proud of their work. Ive had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so its more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat. When i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90 of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. We do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of San Francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. We hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. My partner is also a graduate of city college. So my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. I actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. Im thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. Yeah, i want to go back to china. I want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. So we want them to have a full toolkit. Were trying to make them ready as a woman of color who grew up in San Francisco i understand how institutions can have an impact on communities of color. I think having my voice was important. That is where my passion lies when the opportunity to lead an office in such a new space came up. I couldnt turn it down. I was with the District Attorneys Office for a little over nine years, if you include the time as an intern as well as volunteer da, all most 13 years. During the time with the das office i had an opportunity to serve the community not only as the assistant District Attorney but as director of community relations. That afforded the opportunity to have impact on the community in an immediate way. It is one thing to work to serve the rights of those without rights, victims. It is really rewarding to work to to further the goals of our office and the commitment we have as City Employees and advocates for people who dont have a voice. I dont know of anyone surprised to see me in this role. Maybe people have an impression what the director of the office of cannabis should be like, what their beliefs should be. I smash all of that. You grew up in the inner city of San Francisco. My career path is not traditional. I dont think a person should limit themselves to reach full potential. I say that to young women and girls. That is important. You want to see leadership that looks diverse because your path is not predetermined. I didnt wake up thinking i was going to be a prosecutor in my life. The city administrator reached out and wanted to have a conversation and gave me interest in the new role. I thought you must not know what i do for a living. It was the opposite. She had foresight in realizing it would be helpful for somebody not only a former prosecutor but interested in shaping criminal Justice Reform for the city would be the right person for the space. I appreciate the foresight of the mayor to be open how we can be leaders in San Francisco. I was able to transition to the policy space. Here i was able to work on legislation, community relations, communication and start to shape the ways our office was going to reform the criminal Justice System. It is fulfilling for me. I could create programs and see those impact peoples lives. I am the change. It took truants youth to meet with Civil Rights Movement leaders who fought to have access to education. Being a young person to understand that helped the young people realize this was an important thing to give up. What we find is that young people who are truanted have a really high homicide rate in our city, which is a sad statistic. We want to change that. Coming from a community we are black and brown. I dont reach out to other people. I dont think they feel the same way. I had the great opportunity to work on Prison Reform issues and criminal Justice Reform issues. We created a program at san quentin where we brought district opportunities to lifers and talk about how we are all impacted by the criminal Justice System. We brought over 40 elected das to san quentin for the situation. Now we are inviting the police department. Our formerly incarcerated group born out of this programming asked for the opportunity to work on a project where we could bring the men in blue on the outside to come speak to the men on blue inside to start the healing dialogue around how the criminal Justice System specifically in San Francisco impacts the community. I was attracted to the role. There was a component of equity that was part of this process. The Equity Community here in San Francisco is a community that i had already worked with. Before i took steps to visit cannabis businesses i thought it was important my team have a chance to go inside and speak to men who had been impacted. That conversation needed to happen so we know how we are making an impact with the work that we are doing. The das office as we were leading up to the legalization of marijuana in the state we started having conversations on the policy team what that could look like. The District Attorney was really focused on the right side of history for this. We realized it would be quite a heavy lift for individuals who have been negatively impacted by the war on drugs to expunge the record. It was important to figure out the framework to make it seamless and easy. They put their minds to it after some time and many conversations the data analysts and other policy walk throughs on the team came up with the idea to engage the Tech Community in this process. Code for america helped us developed the rhythm to be used for any jurisdiction across the state that was important to create a solution to be used to assist all jurisdictions dealing with this matter. The office of cannabis is the first office to have a completely digital application process. We worked with the digital team to develop the online application. There are going to be hiccups. We are first to do it. It is one of the most rewarding parts to offer a seamless to offer a seamless approach. That is how they can find solutions to solve many of the community challenges. The best way to respond to prop 64 was to retroactively expunge 9,000 cannabis related records for San Francisco. It feels like justice full circle for my personal experience. In the past i was furthering the war on drugs just as my directive. Really coming from a place of Public Safety. That was the mandate and understanding. It is nice to see that pass a society we are able to look at some of our laws and say, you know what . We got it wrong. Lets get this right. I had the privilege of being in the existing framework. My predecessor Nicole Elliott did an incredible job bringing together the individuals superpassionate about cannabis. The office was created in july of 2017. I came in early 2018. I have been able to see the Offices Development over time which is nice. It is exciting to be in the space, stickily in thinking about her leadership. Looking for the office it is always we might be before my time when i was working for the forboard of supervisors. I learn new things every day it is challenging and rewarding for me. We get the privilege to work in an office that is innovating. We get to spearhead the robust exprogram. I am excited she came on board to leverage experience as a prosecutor 10 years as we contemplate enforcements but approaching it without replicating the war on drugs. I was hired by cam laharris. I havent seen a District Attorney that looked kind of like me. That could be a path in my life. I might not have considered it. It is important that women and certainly women of color and spaces of leadership really do their part to bring on and mentor as many young people as they can. It is superimportant to take advantage of as many opportunities as they can when they can intern because the doors are wide open. Plans change and that is okay. The way this was shaped because i took a risk to try something new and explore something and show that i was capable. You are capable, right . It was about leaning in and being at the table to say my voice matters. You find your passion, the sky hello, im shanna with the league of women voters of San Francisco. Along with the league and sfgov tv, im here to discuss proposition d, a billion on the measure which will be for the voters on tuesday, november 8th. Currently, under city law, various city boards, commissions and officials generally must review and make decisions to approve or dy