Transcripts For SFGTV Fire Commission 102616 20161027

Meeting on september 28, 2016. Is there any members of the public that has a comment on the minutes as sent to us . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. And my fellow commissioners i would like to continue this item. There are a number of things they want to discuss with the secretary. Actually i dont need to continue because theyre not [inaudible] [off mic] no. Not of great import, so i will entertain a motion. Then i move to approve. Okay thank you. I will second. Thank you very much. All in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you. Item 4 chief of departments report. Report from chief of department on Current Issues and activities and events within the department. Since the last Commission Meeting including fiscal year 20162017 budget academies, 150th anniversary updates, Strategic Plan update, special events, communications and outreach to other Government Agencies and the public and report from administration. Report on the administrative divisions fleet and facility status, finance, support services, Homeland Security and training within the department. Thank you madam secretary. Chief hayeswhite. Good afternoon president covington, members of the Fire Commission. This is my report since our last meeting on october 12. With regards to the budget after First Quarter of this current fiscal year 16, 17 were projectedded to be on budget for expenditures and revenues. We began planning for the 1718 budget process and projections to be released by the mayors Budget Office and we work closely with the office for the five year Financial Plan for the city with the Mayors Office. Related to academies our 120th academy are in the final weeks. There will be a graduation of 51 members. We started with 54 on november 4 at usf. They have been grairks to provide their presentation auditorium for us. 10 00 a. M. On november 4, a week from friday. With regards to the class we are anticipating hiring 54 members and into the academy. 42 will be off the National Testing network list and we will be bringing 12 employed members from station 49 over two weeks later to join the class so the original 42 will start on the 28th and they will be joined by members of station 492 weeks later. The two week gap which i think i have discussed before is that the members of station 49 have demonstrated their competency and theyre working on as paramedics and the first two weeks of the academy is evaluation of the emt skills so they dont need that refreshing and we are awaiting there are six final offers so far for that class out of the 42. Weve identifying the members from station 49 and the remaining 42 that weve put a number of people through medicals. We anticipate i anticipate doing conducting more interviews and backgrounds for the classes that we will be hiring in 2017 and those will take place probably the end part of this year. The list that were using i believe is for people that have taken the test through may, so we anticipate probably end of november, early december asking for a refreshed list which will i believe go through at least september or october so i think that is good information for a people in the audience as well as members of the public. Our deputy chief administration Ramona Williams will go through the other component what is is happening at training with academies. We have a age per diem Paramedic Academy that is nearing completion. They completed classroom training and now on Field Training and almost complete and the division of training continues to do a great job for the amount of work of in service and training and follow up with probationary training and thank you to the chief for that. H3 level one emts with paramedic license we will offer the opportunity for them to promote in that classification to go from emt to a paramedic. That is anticipated. Chief williams will go through that as well as an emt academy slated some time in january. With regards to the 150th anniversary this year has flown by. There have been a number of events and theres three more really that remain in celebration of our 150th year. Our committee will be meeting tomorrow. Probably one of the well, second to last meeting. We have been meeting since july of last year, and we will discuss the final events of the year which include a Film Festival which president covington has been intimately involved and heading that up and doing that on november 5th and 6 ts and were doing something in conjunction with another group and of the fire which the 150th committee has underwritten. Aspects of that premier, and then we are also planning for a large e havent for those that are on duty for december 3 which is the actual 150th birthday for the department and well have an event for members that want to come off duty at the zoo on the evening of december 3. I did want to make note of our fire boat commissioning which we had since the last meeting and it was a wonderful day. The weather cooperated. It was a beautiful back drop. We appreciate the port for there partnership as well as well as the San Francisco guyants to have the event where we had. It was wonderful and well attended by a whole host of people. We were grateful to have mayor lee there as well as senator Dianne Feinstein and supportive of our department and particularly the fire boat and when she was mayor and we talked about that day there were many types that the funding for the fire boat was suggested to go away and she was unwavering in the support so it was fitting to have her christian the boat that day. Thank you for being there and your comments that morning. President covington and you know i pay tribute to all the members of the department but specifically for the boat, station 35 and past, present and future members of the fire boat. Its a wonderful asset for the department, the city, the region, and so we thought that went off very well. With regards to Strategic Plan currently the plan theres updates to the plan that reflect the concerns and input from members of the planning committee. Mr. Corso and maureen, the fire secretary and others are helping him with the revised draft for the committee to review and the Fire Commission and i believe there theyre continuing to meet with the subject Matter Experts to update the plan and identified the gaps on to events and activities outreach since the last meeting. Many of ution in this room were very proud to be part of a historic moment and that is commissioner nakajo receiving the conmenidation from the counsel general from japan and thank you for including us and were proud to have the working relationship with you, and on your upcoming retirement in a few days on october 31, so that was a wonderful night. I had the privilege of being at the residence there being the counsel general but many in the command staff had not and thank you for including us and congratulations once again. On the 15th of october i know there was retirement event for commissioner nakajo that many attended. I wasnt able to be there. It was the conclusion of Fire Prevention week and there was a bril and one of the ones i couldnt attend and chief williams attended as well as many members of the department and lieutenant the coordinator and held at Marina Middle School and i am also told that went very well. I had the privilege to travel up to sacramento that day, and i attended a very moving ceremony. I will pass around the program. It was a california Firefighters Memorial in which 29 members of the california Fire Departments were added to the memorial wall, their names. Unfortunately we had five of those members of the 29 that were added to the wall, but it was like i said it was a very moving ceremony. All five families were there for our members and i had a chance to visit with each of them where flases were presented by an honor guard. Three members of the department participated in the honor guard to present flags to the families and its a lasting memory in that all five names can be visited along with all of the other names that are on the wall and as a reminder like i said i was very proud and all served the department with dedication and to have this monor to be there honor and be there and have the families honored and appreciated for the loved ones service like i said was special and the five members out of the 29 that were from our department were firefighter [inaudible] firefighter paramedic richard faust, Firefighter David [inaudible], firefighter clyde [inaudible] and lieutenant john murphy so there was a number of people from our department. Ad am wood from local tv was there as well to visit with the families and it was beautiful. Governor brown spoke. Lieutenant Governor Newsom was there and it was a beautiful ceremony. I just talked about the fire boat commissioning that octobered on october 17 and fittingly was the 27th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake and we tied that in fiesly. It was an honor to speak at the Emergency Preparedness seminar. I gave opening remarks. We have a Good Partnership with the Building Owners and Managers Association and the more we can partner with elements of the community certainly Building Owners regarding the importance of preparedness the better off we all are so that went very well. We had the Monthly Labor Management Meeting on the 18th and i had the privilege of attending it was a very Interesting Group and historical. There was the 100 anniversary of the board of supervisors that were celebrated last week on the 18th and they took they tried to match a historic photo from 100 years ago so i was part of the photograph but they invited all former supervisors and well attended and they each had a opportunity if they chose to speak about their time so that was also a pretty special day i thought of being a native san franciscan. I knew all of the former supervisors as well or least read or heard about them so it was very special. On the 19th mayor lee which we appreciate made a presentation to many of the rescue personnel that worked on october 8 during fleet week toes rescue the 30 people in the water when the boat sank and he paid tribute to the members of the Fire Department and had chief and about ten others from the department. Chief Toney Chaplin was there with the department and acknowledged the private samaritan that helped with the rescues and personnel from San Francisco general so those that responded to the scene and all the way to the hospital where a few people were transported. It could be a much worse situation and no loss of life and no real injuries that sustained because of the team work and mayor lee was pleased and presented certificates to all of the members there that day and a pin from the city so i was proud to be part of that. On october 20 our department participated with many of the rest of the state of california and the great shake out. I participated at break Hart Elementary School in Hunters Point with the police sheave and other members from City Government where we worked i had a third grade class we talked about the importance of preparing in the event of an emergency. I spoke to the kids afterwards. Jim oconnell from battalion ten assisted me. At headquarters we had an exit drill. I believe chief francisco and gonzales were in charge of the drill to make sure that we participate. I think people think we rescue people but its important to be prepared as well and every station in the department participated in that exercise. Later that day i was on a panel with few of my Department Head colleagues, director reiskin from mta and anne koenen burg and the city assessor recorder. We were invited to participate as part of the chamber of commerces Leadership Program and gave a 15 minute overview of the departments achievements and challenges and then i have done this before. We spoke to leadership San Francisco which is comprised of 50 members from the community, for profit, nonprofit, governmental folks that are part of this 10, 11 month session. Theres monthly sessions over the course of ten, 11 months. I was a participate in 2003 so im an alum and acknowledge mark corso the director of finance and planning and he was in part two where the cfos put on an xaz of the members to talk about the challenges and the priorities and so forth in city budgeting so thank you for joining me on that. And then i closed out the afternoon with a planning meeting at the zoo for the december 3 event which will be able to provide more detail on next month once we talk to the committee tomorrow at the meeting. And then today i was really happy to start off it started off a wonderful day. I would like to acknowledge firefighter mary reidy and member of the Fire Service Women and a long standing employee group. I was a member of the original Steering Committee and next year will mark the 30th anniversary of women here in the Fire Department in San Francisco so they put out the call to have active, retired and civilian and uniformed women to do a historical photo and very pleased to say that there were at least 200 or so of us there this morning from nine to 10 30 a. M. And it was great running into some of the women that you know kind of paved the way and are no longer with the department, so we had a good turnout of women to that event, and photos will be made. It was perfect morning out at the field with the Golden Gate Bridge as a back drop so that was wonderful. And i would like to thank you them for that and mary reidy and finally president covington for your consideration. Someone that i worked with, not that i ever worked in the bureau of Fire Prevention but always had a smile on tis face and saw him four days a week when i headed up to my office. He was able to retire but spent 31 years with the department and retired just before passing away and that is fire inspector manuel mikaro and served the department with great pride and entered the department in 1985. He had an illness that he didnt have for very long. He died relatively soon after his diagnosis but i would like for you to consider adjourning in his honor and memory tonight and he has a service on friday which many of us will attend and my personal condolences to his coworkers and the bureau of Fire Prevention. He was a good man. That concludes my report. Thank you chief hayeswhite. Is there any members of the public that would like to comment on the chiefs report . Okay. Public comment is closed and i will go to the fellow commissioners starting with commissioner hardeman. [inaudible] [off mic] surprise. It was up there the whole time so i get to go first. Okay. I dont have anything earth shattering. Thank you for the detailed report chief. The fire boat was really a fun day and your staff did a fantastic job. The weather was great. I had a real personal interest there because in a way i was wondering if they were going to name the fire boat after Diane Feinstein but that didnt happen but she gave me the first payment in 1982 at the mayors Mayors Office of training and later appointed me human rights commissioner and i am grateful and friendly with her. It was wonderful she was the one that got to christian the ship. That was terrific. Staff the writing by senior chronicle staffer carl molte was fantastic and has a deep interest in maritime too and took the general obrian over to normandy for the anniversary i guess it was what the 50th anniversary and wrote articles every day in the chronicle so he knows his maritime and made that whole trip, and personally i would like to thank dennis kennedy. I dont know if we all received his email with all the 50 or more photos that he sent. That was quite nice of dennis. He did a great photo on that day. Chief commissioner nakajo that was a great lunch you had and it was nice the command staff and you know that the command staff is there on their own time, quite often at a lot of these events and they were at commissioner nakajos event and that really shows a lot of class so that so many people take their own times. I know chief williams was on vacation but she still showed up. Its very nice and you show the respect that the top people in the Fire Department give to each other. Its nice that you give that respect to the commissioners too. Oh then just the memorial up in sacramento. I have a meeting in sacramento friday so i will walk over and check that out. I usually like to walk over when i have meetings. I am in sacramento all the time and my grandson lives in sacramento but i always go to the Vietnam Memorial and i have to check out the names on the list. That was nice also for to you attend that and i know you couldnt attend everything. It was good for you to be there. As far as not closing the meeting but to recognize somebody who was really just a character and just a wonderful guy. Warner lieuin and very active in the Hotel Industry and head of the hilton hotel in San Francisco and just a great event. If you were at an event or function and he would get up to speak and tell jokes and the red shoes and a funny man. He would tell Great Stories so just acknowledging him, his passing. Wonderful guy, wonderful family. I know his daughter works in the Convention Visitor industry for the city and it was nice and thank you for your report chief. Thank you commissioner hardeman. Vice president cleaveland. Thank you madam president and thank you chief for your report. A couple of questions and then i will get into the accolades as well. On the budget the significant do you see any significant changes in the 1718 budget from this years budget . I mean do you see any major shifts of monies or anything of that nature . And the second part of that is when will we start the collaborative budgeting process where mr. Corso and yourself bring together a lot of people to talk about the budgeting process and the priorities . Sure. So for the changes you asked do i see the department or the city . This department. This department. I think we want to build upon your budget that we got this year that we received this year, and there was a whole host of priorities, some funded and some not so we want to revisit that priority list, perhaps add to it and move it around a little bit and thats the work of the budget committee. I would say we would reconvene probably at least once we get the budget instructions from the mayors Budget Office whether we have a meeting by the end of year or not i think we would send the budget information, what the financial picture looks like for the city to the budget committee, and then come together in the very early part of the new year. I think its good that you brought a collaboration together on the budgeting process the last couple of years and i would love to see that continue because Everyone Needs to have a little idea of what is in the budget for them and their station or their particular expertise, and assignments and so its good to have that collaboration, so i appreciate you doing that. Thanks. I agree. This will be year three. Yeah. You mentioned that youve got six final offers still outstanding for the upcoming class. How much time is it normally between notification of your end for the next h2 class and actually getting into that class . Whats the normal time because many have jobs. Correct. But that aside they have to quit and do something. Weve done a much better job in the last few years. When i was working as the director of training sometimes we gave less than a week and i dont think thats fair either and we endeavor to give at least two weeks notice. There are occasions in fact we have someone in the class right now and due to a candidate coming to the orientation and then withdrawing on the friday before the monday start we made a chief gonzales made a call to someone on a friday and said we have an open spot and can you join us on monday and he made three calls and two didnt pick up and one picked up and did well on short notice. Wow. But generally we like to give two weeks notice. I think that is notice to everyone in the room to answer the phone if you get a call from the Fire Department. Yes. I also wanted to klght you and olivia for for putting together the fire boat commissioning event and all the people involved in that. You did a terrific job. It was really a very nice event so we have the st. Francis is our new bier boat. Its state of the art and i think anyone who has seen it would be impressed by it, and if you go aboard it you will be more impressed because its really a state of the art wonderful addition to the protection of our city, so thank you for all the organization that you did and olivia for organizing the actual ceremony because i know thats no small task. I also wanted to commend commissioner nakajo. When i first came on the commission he was the president of the commission at that time and he took me under his wing and was a wonderful mender and has been a wonderful mentor to really hundreds and hundreds of people over the career, 40 plus years of building an organization in japantown. Comoachy has a Service Organization i mean he is really mr. Japantown as a consequence of many years of helping the community and building that community up and i wanted to personally congratulate him because his Lifetime Achievement is really what we should all aspire to. We want people to recognize us for the things that we have done for others and hes certainly that example. I would also like to thank you chief and to chief francisco for participate with the Building Owner association and the Emergency Preparedness seminar. Its important to make sure that people working in the High Rise Office buildings every day understand the emergency procedures and how and where to evacicate and what to do in certain circumstances and its a collaboration and not just fire but police, Emergency Management services. Its all kinds of things but when you have people, 2,000, 3,000 people in a building you have small cities within the city and its important that they understand their role in case of an emergency so thank you for participating with us every year and help educating our tenant base and property managers. And thats it. Thank you. Thank you Vice President cleaveland. Commissioner nakajo nakajo. Thank you very much madam president. First of all before i get into the one question i did want to comment on the fire boat ceremony as well. I wanted to echo the kinds of responses. What was really great built fire boat about the fire boat and senator feinstein was there and to chrisin the boat and have her participation and the narrative of the fire boat was really rich. The other part of it in the audience that day were a tremendous amount of former members of the department, and they were all officers at the time as well, so you could feel that kind of Historical Perspective within them. I wanted to also acknowledge all the hard work that went behind that. I had this time also i am moved that we had all of the commissioners and the chief and the command force at the counsel generals residents for the Foreign Ministers neighborhood commercial for myself. We japanese americans are. Very big on respect and when it comes to the presence of the department and Commission Level and mixed in with the community its a great honor and also counsel general ja mato representing the city and historically San Francisco is where they. Where they. They see it and for those at my luncheon and to be there on your own time as commissioner hardeman talked about and be in uniform its just a beautiful thing and members of the community have an opportunity to have interaction. Thank you very much for all of that as well. I also have just one question chief hayeswhite. When you were talking about the Strategic Plan does that Strategic Plan incorporate some of the remarks or recommendations or the summary of the grand jury report . So we since i have been chief we probably and since you have been a commissioner longer than i have been chief, we had a number of grand jury reports so i would say indirectly it addresses any of the sort of issues or challenges facing the department. Did you have a specific grand jury report in mind . Was it the most recent one on Fire Prevention . Yeah, my thought process was the most recent one. Okay. But part of that is also to Vice President cleavelands question and projections and futurism and i also look at the Strategic Plan. Correct me chief if i am wrong as a forecast blueprint of the city and the department integrated with the city and where we will be and i know as director corso puts it together there will be budget modifications with that as well as we grow. I call that projections and i am curious again i am glad were having the conversation because talking about this makes me reflect on what the grand jury report was which is nothing new to us and what were supposed to be doing and perspective from improvements and suggestions. The only suggestion new in there was interdepartmental relationship between this commission and the building inspector so i think were moving towards that but i think i answered my own question chief in some ways. I am beginning to understand that so i im going to check that. Other than that thank you chief for the comprehensive report. Thank you president. Thank you commissioner nakajo. And thank you for your report chief. I also wanted to say that you know the commissioners thoroughly enjoyed the two events that took place to heap honor and love on your head, and the luncheon was attended by probably around 300 people there. 450. Thats right. There was another room, the overflow room. Thats what happens when youre popular on campus. Just one under the occupancy. Yes, just one under the occupancy. I forgot about the over flow room and there were so many representatives from city and state government. It was very, very nice. Were very, very proud of him and it was also a very light hearted affair, a lot of joshing back and forth and teasing. We had a wonderful time. Congratulations again to you. So i had for the chief just to pick up on what it is that commissioner nakajo was saying regarding the Strategic Plan. Do we have a subcommittee for Succession Planning . Because that was one of the things we were dinged by the civil grand jury. I guess it was two years ago. Within the Strategic Plan do we have a subcommittee on that . Yes. I would like to defer to mr. Corso. Okay. If there has been any discussion at all about succession and planning for whenever the next chief comes. Good afternoon. Mark corso. That has been talked especially early on in the overall Strategic Planning committee. Its one of the items following the Strategic Plan is to develop a Succession Plan. Specific Committee Members so to speak have not been identified. That is a topic and identified as a need through the discussions and meetings of the Strategic Plan. I think once the Strategic Plan is finalized that is the next thats definitely on my radar, next coming up for development but individual members or subcommittee as part of the Strategic Planning committee those members have not been identified. All right. Would it be part of the plan that you submit to us . So Succession Plans is part of the Strategic Plan. The actual Succession Plan would be a separate document but the need for it has been identified in the Strategic Plan, and some of the kind of benefits and roles that plan would have been identified within the Strategic Plan itself, but i wouldnt say necessarily the Strategic Plan is a Succession Plan itself but it does incorporate the need for it, identifies the need for it and the subsession plan is developed separately. How long would that take. I dont know at this time. I believe we want to begin work on it beginning of the year and kind of develop that plan outside once the Strategic Plan is complete. Okay. I think its very important. I am glad that i posed the question because somehow in the back of my mind i assumed that the Strategic Plan that was being worked on also had a succession component, but now i understand it does not have. It does not. In general theres a number of other plans kind of off shooting from the Strategic Plan where were talking about departmental outreach plan, recruitment plan, those things and the needs for those and the functions are identified within the Strategic Plan but i believe the plans are separate from the actual plan itself. All right. Well, as part of the suck session plan you know the chief of the department is the only person in the city and county of San Francisco that has an official residence, and as you go forward with the Succession Plan i would like for you to include how were going to get the official residence up to snuff, up to code as it were, to make sure that everything goes smoothly. Our chief is you know one of the longest serving chiefs in the country, so we have to plan for the future. Absolutely. That can be incorporated as well for sure. Okay. Thank you mr. Corso. Did you want to speak now commissioner nakajo or complete my remarks . [inaudible] [off mic] well, if you pick up on that i would yield the floor. Thank you very much for yielding the floor. Director corso could i ask a question through the chief on the specifics. Does the Strategic Plan committee have a lifetime or is there a charge . I am just trying to figure out how much you were talking about the derivatives. How far does that committee go in terms of charge and completion through the chief . Sure. Thats been discussed at the meeting kind of once theres a plan in place what are the next steps and what do we do . So there have been various groups. I dont know if we discussed specifically the length of the Strategic Planning committee itself. I think we inenvisioning and updating the commission on the status updates, not necessarily completing a new plan every year, probably every few years, Something Like that, but as far as follow through and kind of progress that we have made towards the goals that is a regular reporting to the commission and part is stakeholders, shareholder in each specific discipline that is identified. That is part of the plan itself but those kind of work groups would be tasked with kind of execution of the projects and the proposals put forth in the plan as well as reporting and evaluating the progress of those. Okay. And i understand that and i want is the support the consent of the committees and subcommittees being alive and producing and contributing. Absolutely. So the model of the production is current up and to deet and the only question is you know theres some planning projections of years out of the Strategic Planning. Is there . Were looking at five years for the plan. Okay. Okay. Youre not looking beyond the five years, five plus five or five plus three or something. Were looking at things. Obviously theres a number of longer term projects. One of the popular ones and discussed here is the training facility. I think things like that are incorporated into the plan as far as the planning aspect of those projects, but obviously it doesnt look like theres a number of projects like that where the execution and completion of those projects would fall beyond that five year plan. Okay. Thank you. Thank you madam president. Thank you. Okay. I will complete my remarks and then i will see if my fellow commissioners want to add anything. Regarding the fire boat commissioning it was a wonderful day, a wonderful event. Extremely well planned and well attended, so thank you to everyone involved, particularly ms. Gattlynn. She did a fabulous job and i think it was noticed by everyone who attended. I want to say that if you missed the ceremony i ran into jack chan last week and turns out that you can watch it on sfgtv. You go to the mayors press events page and there it is from beginning to end, so it was very nice to be able to review that. This book, this Memorial Service book for the california Firefighters Memorial while my other commissioners were my fellow commissioners were speaking i was going through and just perusing the short biographies of the five men who were previously in our department, and this is a very, very serious Memorial Service. Four out of the five at the end of the paragraph about their lives and their service four out of the five died of a job related cancer. One out of the five passed away from a job related heart attack and i bring that up because it was shocking and moving to read this. This is the first time i have seen this book and i really want members of the public to understand what a serious profession firefighting is. Even if you retire there can be lingering health concerns, and i am glad to know that this california Firefighters Memorial exists. Unlike commissioner hardeman i dont have a son in sacramento but im going to make a special trip just to see this memorial so thank you for sharing this chief hayeswhite. Now, on another serious note next year is going to be the 30th year that women came into our department. One of the things that all of the commissioners, and i am sure command staff, are really proud of is the fact that we do have so many women in our department. The new york Fire Department has less than 1 of women in the department out of a force of over 10,000 firefighters. There are fewer than 50 women firefighters and i just happen to run across this quote some time ago. Its by brenda burkeman who is the woman who sued the department, the new york Fire Department so that women could join and she says prior to 1977 new york city had a quota for women firefighters. The quota was zero and for us here in San Francisco we have an entirely different attitude about peoples abilities and we do not feel theyre necessarily gender connected or related, so i just want to thank the members of the department for being san franciscans, and i will leave it at that. Okay. So i see that commissioner hardeman. Thank you madam chair. Real quick. I will be like 150yards away from the memorial on friday. Thats why its so easy and i dont have to drive. Thats why we will stop and see it. I didnt want to look like i didnt care about the japanese consulate party. I have been in that house so many the counsel generals residence many times and as a port commissioner we always celebrated the emperors Birthday Party and always invited. Japan has a wonderful relationship with the port of San Francisco and i am familiar and i didnt want to play it down and i am familiar so i didnt want to bring it up and wonderful to be there again and i am happy that everybody showed you so much respect commissioner. Thank you commissioner hardeman. Any other commissioners . Okay. Thank you. Chief williams can you come forward please and give us your Administration Report . Thank you president covington. Good evening president covington fellow members of the commission, chief, i am deputy chief of administration. This is my administrative report for october 2016. I will start with assignment office. The annual vacancy bid for suppression members should be released this week, and the results will be implemented midjanuary. The 2017 vacation selections for the station 49 members will occur soon after the vacancy bids, and expected is midnovember. The h30 eligible list was adopted this month and the promotion and assignment changes reflecting the h30 captains eligible list has come out this week, and were currently preparing for the live vacancy bid for the airport division. Under Homeland Security chief francisco continues to attend meetings and training exercises as well as disseminate Situational Awareness information regarding some of the various tactics and heightened threat reports against civilians and First Responders, and he continues to apprize the command staff of all real or potential terrorist activity. During this reporting period the chief planned, coordinated or participated in various events such as the fleet week operations which included various training events, demonstrations, and air shows to name a few. He also assisted in the coordination of the red bowl standing paddle board water race. It was from ocean beach to the st. Francis yacht club and he continues to meet with several vendors regarding the upgrade of the f doc. I always like to mention that i want to make this known every reporting that the department continues to stay ever vigilant and remind the public if you see something to say something. Its important to continue that reminder. Under the Investigative Services bureau the bureau continues to conduct candidate background checks. This will be an ongoing project in a good way. For the upcoming academies. In addition they continue to conduct random postings and fire boat drug and alcohol testing. At this reporting period all results have been negative. Under the departments decision they continued to administer candidate promotional and probationary physicals for the department as well as return to work, and work related injury exams. The office has reported 33 work related injuries for this reporting period, the month of september, up from 28 the previous month. Under support services as mofts of you know the construction of pump station one, fire headquarters is moving along and almost complete. They have removed the temporary walls and its estimated to be completed by the end of this month which is next week. All other projects continue to move forward and on track. As mentioned previously station 16 members have moved out of their quarters. Engine 16 moved to station 51 and truck 61 moved to station ten. As mentioned pleefsly station five renovation has been pushed back to spring of 2017 due to renegotiating the contracts between the general manager, general contractor and the subcontractor. Were continuing to work closely with the port on pier 26 for relocating the fire boats during the construction of station 35 and the project should be complete by the end of november. During this reporting period 123 requests for services were received and processed. And as mentioned the new fire boat st. Francis has been delivered. All equipment is on order. They have equip today for the most part. Theres a few pieces of equipment that are coming shortly. And under Fleet Management nine ambulances have been ordered two have been delivered and outfitted at the radio shop and we should receive four more by the end of november. Eight engines have been ordered. The specks have been completed, and the contract was awarded to ferrara so four will be delivered within a year and four a couple of months later. We have received two rescue squads and theyre currently being outfitd and should be in the field in the next couple of weeks. Two aerial trucks have been ordered. Theyre still working on the specks and once finalized approved they will go out to bid. And lastly we still awaiting the a arrive of [inaudible] so we can go into service. Under division of training. Under ems during this reporting period we suspended active Shooter Training and will resume at a later date and during this time the ems staff is conducting required paramedic and emt training as well as preparing for the upcoming academies. The h3 level two bump up academy which is from emt to paramedic is scheduled to start november 7 and the 121st academy is scheduled to start three weeks later on november 28 with the two weeks of ems training for the 42 firefighter h 2. S. The h3 level one emt academy is scheduled to start midjanuary. And under fire reserves members continue to assist at various events during this reporting period as well as continue their weekly training at the division of training. Under in service i am happy to report that the construction for the transit training prop is complete. It includes props for muni and bart which has been graciously donated and it is anticipated that this specialized training will be given in the spring of 2017. The staff continues to assist with the truck Operations Training to all members in the field. Under nert as was mentioned they held their citywide drill on saturday october 15. Myself as well as chief francisco attended the drill and successful and well attended. Nert continues to attend the [inaudible] coordinator to attend various meetings, conduct outreach presentations and provide valuable neighborhood and advanced training throughout the city. And lastly under recruit training this week monday october 24 we began a Company Based training of fire ground operations with a live burn training. This entails the operation or the participation of three engines, two Truck Company one battalion chief per day. As the chief mentioned the eight per diem academy completed the two weeks of classroom training and currently receiving the 68 week field preceptor evaluations. This is week 19 of the 20 week recruit academy for the 120th recruit academy and we have 51 recruits scheduled to graduate next friday november 4 at usf. And that concludes my report. I am happy to answer any questions. Thank you chief williams. Is there any member of the public that would like to comment on the report from administration . Okay. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. And i see that chief hayeswhite has something to add. Thank you president covington. It wasnt part of my report so i wanted to be mindful of that but i think it is directly related to the administrative report. I wanted to inform you i was proud to able to appoint conditionally promote eight captains and nine so eight captains h30 rank and nine rescue captains, the h30 rank within the last few days and addition eight acting captains and that is utilizing the recently related the recently adopted captains list and while i am indicating that theres a lot of behind the scenes work that needs to happen including physicals that need to take place, medical examinations and the diligent work day to day with all they have to deal with and a department this size and its really an under sized area and Human Resources. [inaudible] showing a lot of the paperwork. I have to sign a lot of documents but they have to process them all so its appreciated and that goes for all of the new recruits as well, so i wanted to pay tribute to our Human Resources but a lot of happy people, a lot of happy families with the promotions and pleased to do so. Thank you chief hayeswhite. Commissioner cleaveland. Thank you madam president and thank you chief williams for your very comprehensive report as always. Its much appreciated. A couple of questions. I was concerned when you said we had 33 work related injuries last month and i am wondering if you could elaborate on that . Were they a consequence of responding to an incident or during training and just what types of injuries are they . And what type of what length of whats the average time off from work in terms of recovering from these injuries . So just wondered a little bit if you could elaborate about the work related injuries and the causes behind that perhaps and just when they happen . Are they happening on you know incidents, fires, or responding to a medical emergency . Just when do they happen . Well, i dont have the specifics of when. I do have the actual description of some of the injuries and fortunately most are minor if you use know elbow or arm or maybe a little rash kind of exposure type of thing. Maybe only a few are a little bit serious in nature. If i could just add to that . Just from some of the things that cross my desk so they run the gamut. Theyre reports from the departments physician. It would be as simple as a cut finger that might happen in the kitchen to for instance we had four injuries i believe four injuries at a fire this week and three were treated and released on scene and one was transported to the hospital so they run the gamut from not loss of work time to loss work time. The departments physician has a whole host of statistics in terms of average time off the job but we categorize even the smallest of injury as an injury but some are serious and various body parts, back, knee, shoulder given the physical nature of the job. Okay. Do we regularly train our retrain our firefighters on how to prevent work related injuries . Yes. On a monthly basis we have a mandatory drill. Its our ii pp which we look at different hazards throughout the station and different safety procedures to follow as far as preventing injuries and we always say lift with your legs, not your back and Different Things like that. Good. Good. Its human nature. Most of the accidents happen just because they happen like that and you dont know why. They do. Unless youre responding to a fire and have inhilliation problems or something of that nature. Talking about the h8. Whats the training period for them . How long is the training period . Its two weeks of classroom training and depending on the schedule could be six to eight weeks for evaluation. So two weeks in classroom and six to eight weeks in the field . Yes. Got it. Thanks very much. Thank you. Thank you mr. Vice president. Commissioner nakajo. Thank you madam president. Thank you chief williams for your report. I wanted to give a little clarification. You were talking about the rescue squad and was that in reference that youre building or taking applications for the rescue squad . What was that reference about . I believe i was talking about the two rescue squad apparatus that we received recently that were outfitting. And thats going to be assigned to our current rescue squad thases we have operating . Yes. Okay. Maybe at some point we could get a description of what the rescue squad does. I know theyre active. Every time theres a nice day in San Francisco theres a rescue at ocean beach for some reason and i have witnessed them as well and i will put that reference out in terms of that. And always the new fire boat. Is it active right now or birthed at the pier . Its currently at station 35 and ready to respond. Okay. I also wanted to ask chief hayeswhite since youre announcing the captain promotions you. You periodically have promotion ceremonies. Are you planning it in the future for the captain levels because there are quite a bit of members that got promotions . It is. I believe we endeavor to have a ceremony every other year and certainly these 17 hopefully permanent after they go through the conditional process that will be incorporated into that ceremony. Okay. I just wanted to mark that as well and 17 promotions to a captain rank thats great. Thats a significant accomplishment and for years and years in our department we talked about that kind of opportunity of becoming an officer. Thats all i have. Thank you very much chief williams and madam president. Thank you commissioner nakajo. Commissioner hardeman. Thank you again madam chair. On the h8s i dont know if this would be you, chief williams, or the chief. The compensation is there any type of compensation that the h8 receive while theyre in this time in training . Yes. Theyre paid during the training. Oh good. Because for some reason i dont know if that was ever brought up during the meeting. I dont think i ever thought of it until now when i saw how long it was. Theres discussion of possibly a larger fire boat at the airport and rubber raft and the boat down there now doesnt hold that many. Is that something that would come through the commission or just part of the airport . I think it would be in conjunction it would be paid by by the airport if its an airport asset and recommendation of the assistant chief making a recommendation to the deputy chief and myself. I think we would bring it to you for your support so we are then able to let the Airport Administration and commission know that collectively we see a need. Because i think its a great idea. Few firefighters have mentioned to me that it has been talked about and i know its up to staff to bring it forward at some point. I dont know if they would bring it to the airport first and then here but i think that would be great, a larger boat. If there was something needed to rescue more passengers and not much there and Shallow Water and you need a special flat bottom boat. Lets see i have another oh i know what i wanted to bring up. You talked about the injuries that happened and hope most are insignificant and i am hawking how wonderful the talking how wonderful the firefighters do and describing the wonderful things they do and bringing up the officers in command at a two or three alarm fire and from a daytoday basis i think we forget to thank the people we dont hear about because theyre in the streets responding to hundreds of some days hundreds of life saving medical emergencies that slip on by and doo the job every day, deal with suffering quite a bit and a lot of seniors and elders in San Francisco and theyre not thanked. Occasionary some speck tactical thing will happen and we dont want to not acknowledge the others that are responding to others beyond fires and we always mention firefighter but most of the time theyre out there responding to other emergencies so just a of the hat to all the firefighters out there and emts and paramedics doing their job. Thank you. Thank you commissioner. Thank you commissioner hardeman. Any last comments chief williams . Yes, i just wanted to address commissioner nakajos ininquiry as far as the rescue squad. We have two in the city and one on station seven and one at station one at folsom street between fifth and sixth and these are both highly specialized apparatus. They respond to every full box report of working fire and the members that are assigned to these squads they receive extra training in addition to what is required as a firefighter. Theyre hazard douse materials specialists and other specialists and angle rescues. They do a lot of training for their specialized skill. They go in the situations where most firefighters are not trained for and they each cover half of the city so you may see them traveling all throughout and why are so far away from their station but theyre actually covering that district so its actually appropriate. Commissioner nakajo. Madam at thank you. Chief williams thank you. How many members are part of this rescue squad that we have . And are we currently filled to capacity within that need . And do you periodically recruit for positions in that . Well currently assigned to each one is one officer and three firefighters. I believe if not all the spots have been filled at each location. Members who want to apply for that position would have to meet all the specialized training required before they could apply for that on a vacancy bid. Okay. Thank you very much chief williams, madam president. Thank you. Madam secretary. Item 5 review of the harassment prevention policy. Discussion and review of the harassment prevention policy. Thank you madam secretary. Is there any public on this item . All right. At the request of ms. [inaudible] who is the head of hr for the department this item is going to be continued and moved to the november 9 meeting. Commissioner nakajo did you have a question . Okay. No Public Comment. Public comment is hereby closed. Commissioner nakajo. Yes. Noted and accepted. You said Commission Meeting of november 9 . Yes. I just wanted to share with my fellow commissioners we were required again to take the most recent completion of preventing work place harassment and just want you to know that i did it, two and a half hours. [laughter] same as me. Yeah, and theres a test afterwards. Its a no joke harassment training and so commissioner Vice President cleaveland i know we talked about this in the agenda item and i will look forward to the Department Presentation that will be given but Serious Business commissioners and colleagues and i am glad that i completed it and more than that i am glad that i passed. Thank you. [laughter] commissioner nakajo your passing was never in doubt and you cant do it faster than two and a half hours and they will say notice, no, youre going too fast. You need to slow down. All right. Commissioner hardeman. Yes madam chair just wanted to bring up something that was distributed to a press release on the San Francisco Fire Department Public Information office so youre familiar with this and great describes the event of the christianing of the new fire boat and there is spectacular detailed report about fire boat three and about the crew, the maximum speed, and the pumping capacity, rekt, et cetera and in the last prar it says where paragraph they talked about however the phoenix and guardian are 62 and 65 years old and great because of the work of the engineers and pilots and firefighters that maintain them. And the addition of fire boat three is needed and serve the citizens in the city in the upcoming decades but the point is theres 62 and 65 years old. So the person wasnt complaining but identifying that the so when we get the new agendas and we have some time in the future might be something to bring up. I had two people over the weekend mention to me wow it was great. You got firefighter boat. Thats two in six years. People think we got 16 years ago when the first one was ordered and then following up that no, that didnt happen. I want you to know. This is the boat. It took that long to get through, so its interesting how the public thought it was a good idea. Two people i know thought we got the second new fire boat and anyway thats just for comment. Thank you. Okay. Thank you commissioner hardeman. Madam secretary please call the next item. Item 6 update on the 150th anniversary Film Festival. Update from president covington on the 150th anniversary Film Festival scheduled for november 5th and 6th 2016 at the San Francisco main library. Okay. Thank you very much. My fellow commissioners i had this put on the agenda because we wont have another meeting within now and the time of the festival. The festival planning is going extremely well. We have live presence on the web now and i ask mr. Hastings [inaudible] to come today and go over how people can find out entirely what the offerings are, what movies are and documentaries are going to be screened as well as getting a ticket for the event, so mr. Mora. President covington. Okay. Before you speak [inaudible] [off mic] chief hayeswhite has a comment. Thank you very much president covington. While mr. A is setting up i wanted to acknowledge for your efforts and support all throughout the 150th year and before that for being actively involved in the committee, and for planning this festival, and i would also like to acknowledge because he doesnt come often to fire Commission Meetings. I appreciate mr. Mora for being here. I would like to take small credit for the employment with the San Francisco Fire Department. I had the opportunity to meet him and we consolidated the 911 centers and on contract for the city and from day one i thought he was an amazing person and i helped to encourage the chief to interview him and over saw the slot for technology in our department and i know commissioner nakajo it was about that time you joined the commission from our departments perspective we were very under resourced, still are in terms of technology, but also were using manual typewriters at the time so jesus we convinced him to come on board and work for us and hes a wonderful person to work with, but very under stated, very bright person, and throughout the city he has made a huge difference in how our technology is perceived and sits in on meetings and i would like to say thank you because he works very long hours and really he doesnt wear a uniform but one of the Unsung Heroes in the department so thank you to jesus. [applause] you are much appreciated. Can we go to the computer please . There you go. Okay. So its very simple. Can you hold the mic up a little bit . So going back to sffd website and go to events and from events you will see the sffd Film Festival and this will bring you to the page where you can look at a brief description of the festival and then from there you can see you can open a calendar that has all the different events for the two days, and at the same time you can click on any other programs. There are five programs, and that will bring you to the event page where you can simply click register and get your tickets. Very good. Thank you. I wanted to also encourage people to get their tickets. That way we have a more accurate count of how many people are likely to come. I want to say just to give some more Background Information on saturday november 5 there will be a number of shorts that are shown including documentaries from 1896 to the present. There is excuse me. Really thorough look and conversation look at and conversation about Emergency Medical Services in the San Francisco Fire Department. There will be a screening of a documentary and then there will be a Panel Discussion and q and a, and the panel list will be dr. Clement ye, ems captain simon and the panel is moderate the by assistant deputy chief jeff myers and the Program Number two we have womens Fire Fire Service documentary, very short from 1942, and a salute to our nert teams and then there is a documentary entitled taking the heat which is about the addition of women in the new york Fire Department. We also have a tribute to africanamerican firefighters and a wonderful documentary that i think many people in the department have seen called into the fire. Its from 2006 and it is really quite an overview and wonderful representation of the life of firefighters, both in cities, small towns, woodland fires. Its a very, very good documentary and multiple Award Winning film, and the saturday offerings are topped off by the towering inferno which will be screened at 3 00 oclock in the afternoon at the main. The festival continues on sunday, november 6. The main opens at noon but people with tickets will be allowed in at 1130, and we have case study regarding the fifth alarm. That is the mission bay fire of march 2015, and that is going to be followed by a Panel Discussion and question and answer session and the panel list are deputy chief mark gonzales, assistant deputy chief and fire Marshal Daniel cosoaso, battalion chief rich mcgee and lieutenant steven mcguire. The panel will be moderated by chief hayeswhite and then we have in the afternoon, later in the afternoon, a screening of ladder 49 which is the John Travolta and and ja kin phoenix movie and we have a film for the little ones and in the latino historic room and the other offerings are shown in the coret auditorium so the Children Program is Program Number 5. And at noon we are screening the chuckin ton that prol rescue and at 130 playing fire and rescue from 2014, so its an blend of movies and shorts and i encourage everyone to come out and take part in the festivities. So anything you would like to add mr. Mora . No. It should be really simple to get the tickets and then we can register everybody when they get to the library. Okay. Thank you and so this is the website. Www. Sffd150. Org. Okay. Thank you again mr. Mora for all of your creativity and hard work. Youre welcome. Thank you very much for your comments. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this event for the 150th . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Commissioner nakajo. Madam president i always want to join chief hayeswhite in acknowledging mr. Mora for all of your work and expertise. Its really, really appreciated. I just thought theres Nothing Better than to have the president of the Fire Commission narrate the whole program and she knows it well because she is the main person with the energy and the creativity that put this all together. I just thought it was really cool that you were starring the materials so the rest of the audience could see that as well. President covington is really, really delightful that you give so much. This 150th year is so special. Weve done so many activities throughout the year, the parade and such and other activities and then to go into the holidays and to have this Film Festival at the library with all of your work that youve done. Im a Committee Member that almost did nothing but show up and the president had reames and reams of films that she reviewed as well to put this program together. That is perfect in nature. Both the saturday program in terms of the panel and the sunday program and particularly for children. Its free. Get the tickets as you say but i think its a real Good Opportunity for all of us to invite the family members and kids to come out and be part of the San Francisco Fire Department. Thank you very much president covington. Thank you. Mr. Mora thank you. Thank you. I forgot to mention that for the Childrens Program there is the wonderful helmets and [laughter] and snacks and lets see. What else do we have . We have stickers. [inaudible] [off mic] and coloring books. Thank you. All right. Next item please. Item 7 agenda for next fire Commission Meeting on november 9, 2016. Is there any members of the public that would like to suggest some items for the agenda for november 9 . Public comment is closed. Madam secretary we already have the review of the harassment prevention policy for the ninth . Yes. Thank you. And commissioner hardeman did you want to suggest an item regarding the aging fleet . Madam chair, yes. Seeing when i first came on the commission the fire boat was just right around the corner and it took six years that we might want to with the guidance of the chief and her staff look at scheduling an agenda item in the future in a meeting that might not be too crowded and put it on the agenda. I dont think its something that has to happen next month but i think its something that we all realize that at some point maybe the other two fire boats are in their 70s and their 80s and eventually how long can they last . They do remarkable job. Staff of the Fire Department keeping them together but only go so long i think. Okay. Duly noted. Madam secretary are there any other outstanding topics or items . Yes, the controlled substance policy update. Yes. Thank you. I think it would be a good time to review that policy, so i would add it to the november 9 agenda. And Vice President cleaveland. Just a couple of things madam president. Thank you. I wonder if we need to have a little discussion on the h23 progress if there is any kind of update available that we can talk about at this point . And i also wondered if we are going to have a conversation about the joint building inspection commission, fire Commission Meeting and when were going to do that . Im not sure if that is something we need to do outside of a Commission Meeting, but we need to talk about how we want to do it and when we want to do it so i would like to put that on the agenda at least for conversation. Are your comments in regards to the joint task force . Yes. Okay. Great. All right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Any other suggestions . Okay. Well, i think we have a good number of items to discuss. All right. Anything from you chief . Okay. Well, i would like to adjourn tonights meeting in honor of two of the members of our department who have passed away. Fire safety inspector manuel pigaros passed away on october 19 at his home surrounded by loved once after a hard fought battle of lung cancer. He served with dedication and distinction in the bureau of Fire Prevention for over 31 years. And also we want to remember the passing of retired assistant chief ray landy. He passed away on october 11, 2016. He retired from the department on september 16, 1989 with over 35 years of service, so i adjourn this meeting in honor of these two members. [gavel] thank you. 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Some 30 people ended up falling into the water including children and adults and it could have beenit set the stage for a huge tragedy during a time at which so many people are our city were coming together to celebrate fleet week. When that event happened fortunately, people who have been trained in people who were good san franciscans or just people who are goodwill came together and responded. There were obviously called the were made immediately. Were voters who saw what happened. Some screamed at the top of their lungs that they needed help. Some of the nearby voters saw what happened and saw some people without lifesaving jackets werewere apparatus is through what they had into the water. Others who saw kids in the water jumped in rather than watched to save them. The Fire Department showed up immediately assessed what has happened the San Francisco Police Department particularly, the marine unit which ive had the pleasure of working with on the waterfront jumped in and paramedics came to the site. A couple of individuals were rescued from the water but could not breathe and so cpr was given immediately on the shores and paramedics immediately rushed those that perhaps were not indicating weight consciousness into our zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital trauma center. There, life was saved when you look at this potential huge tragedy you wonder how as a city we kind of were lucky but its not luck. I will tell you its not luck. It is people who every day are sensing that something could happen and they were ready and this is what we have as a city often times talked about being a resilient city, a city thats ready and prepared that were so many people, not just the professionals, not just police and fire and Public Health and paramedics were actually trained to do this, but ordinary citizens who may have been there also had a sense. They were going to save lives and do with they could do. I, today, wanted to say thank you to each and every one that we could identify that is not working. I know fire chief feels the same way i do. Our police chief feels the same way we do. Our Health Director does as well as our department of Emergency Management. We are holier today to take a moment. I know in everybodys busy lives and i know you all want to get right back to work doing more of this because this is what you came to San Francisco to do but let us take a moment to say thank you to recognize that in these moments of extreme need i am so gratified to be part of a city that says we are going to put aside whatever it is, whatever challenge we have, died in to that operation and save lives. Save kids. Save families. I watched as this unfolded and i was aghast at how many people were in the water with film footage is that are repeated over and over again. But i think the film footage i want to see and continue to see is the operations of people who respond in a very very good way. No one lost their lives that day. That is hugely important when you have an event of this magnitude. Lives were saved, not only in the water, on the shore, on the way to the hospital, but in the hospital as well. Doctors, nurses, paramedics, firefighters, police officers, volunteers, and other boaters. Today i just want to say on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco it is my honor to join all of you in personally thank you for really you are sure it was him. I know its kind of maybe two dramatic to use that word but we do have a city of heroes, a city were prepared to be heroes because they want that label but because your objective is to save peoples lives and to make sure that we all get to enjoy much as we week, but to enjoy this city and the opportunities it provides. I, for one, and certainly everybody in my staff and all the people that serve it officially want to say, thank you and if i the opportunity i would like to at least takemake for personal pins as my staff and i and the chief and others helped me pin every single one of you. I hope that you received this with the requisite appreciation that i do as the mayor of this great city, but also that ive been around now for 30 years working in the workforce. So i am a brother to all of you. Because i know ive worked alongside people who are really really dedicated to this city. But i say personally, thank you to each and every one of you for the work that you do the demonstration you showed the patients, and the honor of preserving life in our city and i know that as these kids grow up and of course come i think they will remember it for the rest of their lives because they get to but theyll be very thankful for the kinds of things that we do for each other. With that, if i may have in him can prepare this and i can get help from our chief as well . [inaudible] by the way these are hearts of San Francisco. [ceremonial recognition] if you did not hear that i feel too mentioned was a boat out there that mr. Schulz stoltz owned called happy days and i just think thats probably best example of what occurred that date with everybody working as they did. So each of them will get pinned today with a certificate of honor and again on behalf of the city, thank you very much achieves, thank you for helping me do this and honoring the men and women and also the volunteers in her hospital as well. Thank you. He was thank you mayor day. Very proud to be a good hightech oh your comments. Every one of you stepped up that day and mayer lee thank you this did not event occurring 11 days ago for your office which is a very big book very busy office to recognize all these members such a rapid period of time speaks volumes and is free much appreciated by myself and achieve as well as all our members. So i will begin asking each one my members to come on up to receive the mayor certificate of honor garden with capt. John would go. [cermonial honoring] firefighter joe silva. [cermonial honoring] im going to have a commander that they chief odo assist with that painting of the members. Firefighter william boyle. [cermonial honoring] firefighter john tupa. [cermonial honoring] paramedic andrew kristofferson. [cermonial honoring] paramedic Michelle Seidel [cermonial honoring] paramedic rebecca law [cermonial honoring] firefighter mike horta. [cermonial honoring] firefighter matt adams. Matt is not here. Okay. And capt. Clyde christoph. [cermonial honoring] from the event are dormant thank you to mayor lee and thank you to the members behind me and all the members the work so diligently that they would all the partners. [applause] just real fast, this is a First Responder Worst Nightmare to look and see this many potential victims but all the folks stating the honey stepped up to the plate went immediately into action. Thats what we trained for things just like this. Our marine units have the obligation of obviously handing handling things in the water is why you see them out all the time to deal with issues just like this and i promised them i would also give a huge shout out to the kos guard who actually got 20 people out to safety. They wanted to make sure that they ignored the Us Coast Guard for their efforts and for what theyve done. This is a huge collaboration between as the mayor said earlier private citizens in the folks that put on a uniform to do this thing as a matter of course. Again i want to really liberate that these are heroes and these were a relic actions performed that day because this is definitely worstcase scenario. With that of the first presentation that will be to officer Nick Betancourt cured im sorry nick is not here. Sgt. Keith matthews. [cermonial honoring] next up, officer mike bushnell. [cermonial honoring] ofc. Braden todaro. [cermonial honoring] officer matt mckay. [cermonial honoring] is kaplan and i know its all about the teamwork and i was reminded by chief bodo south San Francisco Fire Department happen to be in the area because it was clear week so we were blessed in so many ways for Good Samaritans and our partners in neighboring jurisdictions in south b van fire was responsible for rescuing eight of those 30 in the water that day. So we would like to give them a shout out and acknowledgments as well. Thank you very much the last thing ill say this is a coincidence of the future and the future is collaboration between everybody. Law enforcement, fire, ems everyone and citizens. Weve all come together in this city has been one out of unity and it was demonstrated appropriately in this incident with the civilian helping fire, police, pulpy groundwater and save their lives. As the mayor said before theres a lot people that are low back on this 2030 years on the road and understand as are looking back because of the relic effort with the folks sitting behind me and again was round of applause for all them. Thank you. [applause] this concludes our program. Thank you so much for coming. Youre watching quick bites, the show that is San Francisco. And today youre in for a real treat. Oh, my food inspired by the mediterranean and middle east with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in San Francisco. Were at the 55th annual armenian festival and bizarre. This is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much Delicious Food here. And i cant wait to share it with all of you. Lets go. Armenia, culture and cusine has had much cultural exchanges with its neighbors. Today armenian food infuses he flavor from the mediterranean, middle east, and eastern europe. This is our 55th year and in San Francisco were the largest armenian Food Festival and widely recognized as one of the best Food Festivals in the area. We have vendors that come up from fresno, from los angeles showing off their craft. We really feel like we have something for everyone in the neighborhood and thats really what it is, is drawing people to see a little bit of our culture and experience what we experience weekend in and weekend out. We are behind the scenes now watching the chef at work preparing some delicious armenian kabob. This is a staple in armenian cooking, is that right . Absolutely, since the beginning of time. Our soldiers used to skewer it on the swords. We have a combination of beef and lam and parsley. And every september over 2000 pounds of meat being cooked in three days. After all that savory protein, i was ready to check out the fresh veggie options. This is armenian cheat sheet. Its tomatos and mint and olive oil. That makes summer food. And what im doing is im putting some nutmeg. It is kind of like cream cheese. In armenia when they offer you food, you have to eat it. They would welcome you and food is very important for them. In every Armenian Community we feel like were a smallvilleage and they come together to put on Something Like this. What i find really interesting about San Francisco is the blends of armenia that come together. Once they are here, the way people Work Together at any age, including our grandmothers, our grandfathers, skewering the meat, its fun to see. Fun to see everybody get together. We call it subarek. Its a cheese turn over if you want. We make the dough from scratch. We boil it like you do for la san i cant. The amount of love and karin fused in these foods is tremendous. They come in every day to prepare, cook and bake bread, all in preparation for this big festival. Nobody says no. When you come them, they have to come tomorrow for the feast. What a treat it is to taste a delicious recipe, all made from scratch and passed down through generations. It really makes you appreciate the little things. Its one of the best festivals. Its outstanding, a marvelous occasion. Were outside checking some of the food to go options. I grabbed myself a ka bob sandwich, all kinds of herbs and spices. Im going to taste this. Looking fantastic. One of the best ive had in a long time. You know its delicious b i have just enough room for dessert, my favorite part. Were behind the scenes right now watching how all the pastries get made. And weve got a whole array of pastries here. Honey and nuts and cinnamon, all kinds of great ingredients. This is amazing. Heres another yummy pastry made with filo dough. Oh, my god. Really sweet and similar, its lighter. This is what i like. We have a lovely row here. Looks like a very delicious and exciting surprise. Im going to bite into it. Here we go. Um. This is great with armenian coffee. Now were making some incredible armenian coffee. We buy our coffee, they have the best coffee. They come from armenia, specially made. And would you like to try it . I would like to try. Would you like sugar or no sugar . No sugar today. Im so excited. Really earthy. You can really taste the grain. I think thats what makes it so special. Really comes out. I hope you try it. Were having a great time at the armenian festival. We ate, we saw, and we definitely conquered. I dont know about you, but i have to go down to the food. Check out our blog for so much more at sf bites at tums abler. Com. Until next time, may the force be with you. First of all, everybody is welcome and we ask two things when they get here. One, that they try something theyve never tried before. Be it food or be it dancing or doing something. And if they feel like it was worth their while to tell one person and bring that person, that family member, that friend down the street to come with them. Were going to have to do a lot of eating so get ready. Get ready. And you diet tomorrow. Good afternoon. Welcome to the a special meeting of the government audit oversight for today wednesday, october 265, 2016, im the brunt chair aaron peskin joined by board president london breed our clerk clerk erica major madam clerk, any announcements . Yes