Transcripts For SFGTV Fire 20240704

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. [c 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. 5 oclock. music . Cofounder. We started in 2008 and with the intent of making the ice cream with grown up flavors and with like and with tons of accessible freshens and so we this is many people will like it and other people will like you my name is alice my husband were the owners of you wont see ice cream in San Francisco and really makes fishing that we are always going together and we we provide the job opportunity for High School Students and i hired them every year and. Fun community hubble in San Francisco is my district i hope we can keep that going for many years. 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Hello, im captain tom the coordinator for the San Francisco Fire Department. This oversight is the three and 4 anniversary of loma linda earthquake i want to go over a few things to help you preparation building a supply kit and supply kit does is not have to be put together all at once take your time on the website have a list of recommendation and have enough food and water to feed your family through three to 5 days and purchase the fire extinguisher if you have an extinguisher at hand will stop a small fire from being a by fire it is simple to use check the gage make sure it is charged and then repeat the word task task stand for pull to pin aim the novel and screws the trigger and successes to the because of fire the last recommendation to look at the gas meter electrical gas lines cause fires in the loma linda earthquake and we want to show you how to turn off the gay only turn off if you hear gas or hear hissing and coordinator nathan will demonstrate how to turn that off. With a whenever im going to turn it over one quarter turn. So in on holler orientation in turn off our gays meter dont turn it back on get a service call from you are watching San Francisco rising. [music] todays special guest is mano raju. Hi. Im chris and you are watching San Francisco rising the show about restarting and rebuilding and reimagineings our city. Our guest is mano raju San Franciscos public defender great you could be here. Actual at this time us about yourself how you became the public defend and why it is important to provide legal representtation to people that cant afford council. I started in Contra Costa County graduated from berkeley and a liven deputy for you a number of years special jeff recruited me to San Francisco the former elected public defender of San Francisco and i began as a Line Department here and then asked me to be Training Direct and the managers of the felony unit the unit most serious case. After he passed away, i was appointed to be the public defend and electd and recently reelected. But you know what i think about what you know the story of public to the office i like to start with my parents. They come from a farming village in india and dad was the first in family to finish high school. There were a couple people in his village who saw him and encouraged his parentses to pursue studies and move in the country when i think of what public defenders dot most person thing is to see our clients so than i can hopefully realize their full potential that is important to me and to our office and the cult usual of our office. You know the right to a public defender was developed in 1963 in gideon case ensuring the right to a public defender. We take this very seriously in our office. My vision is that anyone in our office should be representing the people represent the same way they want their love 1s to representd and people think if you have a public defender representing you in San Francisco you will bet better than a private attorney. We will leave no stone unturned no motion unfiled and try to perform the highest level for clients thats fantastic often when people think public defenders they jump to the idea of somebody defending somebody in court your office does more than courtroom representation. Im an elected public dem felonieder i campaigned on that it is important we break the mold of what is public for our office on accomplish. Fiercely defending is the core of what we do and that will never go, way. As the only elected public defender there is an elected da and sheriff in every county. In the state but one elected public defender. It is important our office pushed envelope and engage in the national and state wide and local policy that will Impact Community how Public Safety and our clients. We have local policy directors, state policy director. We are active in sacramento in trying to make the law change in order to be more humane system for our clients. We are believer in advocating for community power. We have two 501c3s in bayview and fillmore that are be more magic under the umbrelast public defenders office. These are Youth Empowerment organizations that do programming throughout the summers. Which back pack give, ways to kid school sflois start the school year and believe engaging youth will prevent them from become clients. And put people on the path to thrive. We have a program, end of cycle program. Culturally competent social workers going to the jails and finding out what the individual needs. Well fight for their best legal outcome in the case. And the position of trust the fifth amendment protects the conversations that our clients can have with us. We can use that to really encourage a trusting rep and telling us what they need and be frank and connect that individual with the Substance Abuse or mentor or housing or employment and Educational Opportunities hamp that individual needs to thrive and reach their full potential. That is another piece behalf we do. 17 units across our department and you know we take collaborating across units something we try to do every tail to meet our mission, vision and values. A part is ensuring recidivism does not reoccur of course the left thing we want to see is a client to return to be a client again. We work intentionally from the moment we start representing a client with our Skilled Staff and other members of our team to try to figure out what is that future going to be for the client when they leave our care . Now, some critics argue public defenders have a heavy case load. How is your office mechanicing this and what issues are most important to you. Why we have a heavy case load. Unfortunately, this is a problem across the country, public defenders are not funds equal low to da offices our fund suggest 61 of the da office. And the Police Department has 14 time the our budget. And there is the Sheriffs Department and any time the entities are detaining our cloinlt in i way it is up to us to defend this is manage we are working on locally. And alsoination wide to change that. We need more staff and every wing of our office. The logo is greater than one. So we know that we need to be greater twhoon individual in the office and use our teams effectively and strategically and skillfully and put in more hours to make sure we reveal truth and make justice happen in courtrooms. Greater than one also symbolizes the fact we are collaborating with other communities organizations to try to support and help our client and move policies that will help our clients. An example of this is the pretextual stop campaign we collaborated with 110 organizations throughout the city to convince the Police Commission to pass the general order that stops some of the stops traffic stops for things that dont impact Public Safety and lead to often con41ational interactions with the police and civil yens and. We wanted to minimize that mostly the shootings we read about and the the violence of inneraction gets in car and tragic occurrence that can happen. By collaborating we can be powerful than the sheer numbers in our organization. Sure. So you know like cities cross the country San Francisco struggling with fentanyl and homelessness, how can our office contribute to help mitigate or solve those problems . One thing we can do, again often times with Community Based organizations; is to really try and figure out how we address the demand. You know. Treatment on demand. Again. Finding people opportunity with housing or employment opportunity. You know mitigation or just any form of counciling that helps people. Move in more positive direction in a way more inviting oppose to co hearsive. Now we dont have enough beds for everyone who needs that intensive treatment. Contributing to staffers to get more funding for people to get treatment they need. Because the reality is there will always be someone to fill the need. We work on the demand, which evidence based there was fee of dealing with addiction will move in a more positive direction. Then, finally, what else would you like residents of San Francisco to know about you and your office . I think what i like the San Francisco residents to know is how muchow important it is that the public defender be aggressive. Right now we had a huge backlog of cases in San Francisco. There were over a housand passed the last day. A right to a speedy try and have case passed the last day. We had to plaintiff and against the court t. Is important this we have an independent public defend 30 is willing to do that. And we got a good decision from the court of appeal and now the courts move quick and are honoring this and the effort from policy team to 850 bryant the courthouse is to draw attention to this issue it is important we have an aggressive public defender. Had someone gets convicted for something they did not do it impacts their family. Clients are greater than one, it is important we fierce low defend. The same time because when someone gets convicted of something they did not do they are less likely to access the j. W. They need for stability or housing and then will impability a lot of people and lead to more issues on the streets and affect Public Safety. Also to realize we are a Public Safety organization. We have social workers and take this social worker mentality or support facilitative prop and get cloinlts to a better place. When our clients get to a better place we are all safer thank you mr. Raju. We appreciate the work. Thank you for your interest in the development. You know i wanted to say if anyone wants to know more about a lot of the initiatives and unit in our department they can go to you tube we have a dairy defender series. And people should look at that to learn more about the different units. Also we talked about the dibilltating impact of convictions we have a Clean Slate Program exsponging hundreds of records every year. And people can go to our website sfpublicdefender. Org and move their live in a positive direction thank you very much. Thank you thats it for this episode we will be back shortly for government government im chris manners, t let us not seek to satisfy first for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatered. Will be neither rest nor tranquillity in america until the negro is granted his Citizenship Rights winds will continue to shake foundations of our nation until the days of justice e merges. Now is the time. [applause] to lift our in addition from quick sandses of injustice to brother there the whoed. Now is the time. We must conduct our struggle on the high plain of dignity and he discipline. No we are not satisfied and we will in the be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness [applause] so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, i still have a dream. [applause] hello, im shanna with the league of womens voters of San Francisco. Along with the league and sfgov tv, im here to discuss proposition j, a ballot measure which will be before the voters on tuesday, november 8th. Currently, the city has closed certain public streets to private motor vehicles, reserving the streets as open space for recreational purposes. These closures were enacted in response