Transcripts For SFGTV Fire Commission 32217 20170414

Also have captain veronica penia with me and lieutenant andrew marks with me and several recruits in the audience if you want to raise your hand so the commission can see you. They will be graduating in a couple of months. Thank you for this opportunity tofor me as you with the fire reserves what we do on a weekly basis, so well start a presentation. We are swarn volunteer organization of San Francisco dedicated to serviceing can we grow to the computer . You have it . We are sworn organization of San Franciscos dedicated to serving the people of city qu county of San Francisco. Primary goal mission is provide training support for San Francisco Fire Department at large scale emergencies including grader alarms and natural and man made disasters. Our secondary mission is to provide training and experience for San Franciscos interested in a career in Fire Fighting. The fire axilry reserve was created under 711 of San Francisco administrative code in 1950. We are governed by the Fire Commission. We are under the Administrative Division of the Fire Department. My direct superior is assistant deputy chief jeff column beanie. Sffd regulations apply to us and we are governed by all state laws applicable to reserve Fire Fighting. So, there was three bakes incarnations of the fire reserve. The sf auxiliary fire service organized in 1941 shortly before world war roam roam 2. After pearl harbor there was members who received training as axilry Fire Service Members under the Civil Defense counsel. In 1950, we were reorganized under the civil disaster counsel and we were organized under sf fire auxiliary reserves. In 1981 we reorganized again under the Fire Department bureau of training which is now division of training. We celebrated our 75th anniversary along with with the Fire Department 150th. So, at full strength we have 52 members. We havewe support at greater alarms. We were involved in the loma preeta earthquake, mission bay fire, but also do a lot of Community Service and some the programs we support are nert, Fire Fighters toy program, guardians of the city when they have presentations we help them with that, the cumuchy foundation, habitat frahumanity. We did ems support at the giant parade. We do hands only cpr in the schoolwise the american heart association. We meet every thursday night depending on where the division of training is at 19th and folsom or more than likely lately at treasure islands meet from 1900 to 2100 hours. The recruits in right now, they go through a 52 hour academy. We use the same curriculum as the San Francisco Fire Department does in their training academy. They have to have a emt license, cpr card and need to be San Francisco residents which is vital if there is a disaster, they need to be able to respond quickly. Here is our hours of service for last year if you can see on the screen. We had 2216 hours of training. We had 225 hours at greater alarms. 997 hours of Community Volunteers for total 3438 hours. We have 24 members and 31 in the academy and they will graduate in july after that squee will have a total of 56 members possibly. Recently we put 6 members in 118th academy class. Three members in the 119th academy class. 1 member in the 120th class. 6 members that will graduate friday from the 121 academe class. Im driving down to la graduating from la city tomorrow. We have one graduating from oakland in two weeks. We place reservist all over the bay area. All over the United States really. It is a Great Program and the people that come and participate do really well in these academies. Final thoughts in the event of a major disaster, San Francisco fire reserve stands ready to assist San Francisco Fire Department and safeguarding the lives and property of citizens of San Francisco. We found a quote by chief william mur ey. Proud oof the fire reserves whos domotion must stand as a model for other volunteer forces immolate. One final thought, i like to recognize fire reservist ioanna stergiades. She moved to los angeles with him but on her way out she made a generous doimation to the fire reserves and was at all the fires and went to all the training and all the volunteer event she could so like to acknowledge her dedication for the San Francisco fire runchs. Thank you. Any questions. Thank you. Would your cohorts like to say anything . Thank you for giving the opportunity come down here, we appreciate it. I also like to thank you for your continued support. It is a program that is not well known outside of the Fire Department, but our 75 years of service i think speaks for itself and you can see from the snap shot we are fulfilling the mission of supporting the department when there is a extreme situation and for providing training to help get the next generation of Fire Fighters in uniform. Thank you. Thank you very much. This was put together by Deputy Commander daung and Deputy Commander norris is doing a great job running the academy and getting the recruits in shape for the next step. Any Public Comment on the item . Anyone like to say anything . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner covington. Thank you, mr. President and thank you for your presentation and good work, commander buckley and the rest the reserves. I must say that during that huge mission fire that we had a couple years ago, it was wonderful to see how many reservist were deployed to help with that. I watched them work, i was very impressed with their dedication, with their skill and their willingness to jump in and do whatever was needed to fight that fire. A fire alarmer and i really appreciate your work. I had a couple questions. How does the Department Support the reserves . They support us with the training officers. They are there every thurs day night with us and offer support through our drills and offer their expertise on whatever we are drilling on that night. And where does your financing come from . Grants, donations. We scrape together what we can. I can get a lot of things donated to the reserve program. I have done a lot through reaching out to different departments and getting stuff donated to us and our own department too is really great in donating equipment that we need. Very good. Do you say you are currently meeting on thursdays at the Training Facility oti . Correct. That must be a tremendous help too. It is a great facility. It is a great facilsty. Absolutely unbelievable. There are so many different thing youz can do out there. Extractions, the whole thing. Anything you imagine that has to do with Fire Fighting we can do out there. Glad that facility is open to you. How many reserves are there within the state . Are there a lot of them . Reserve departments . Yes. Um, well there is a lot of volunteer departments in the state of california, but as far as organized through Fire Departments, there are not that many. There is a lot of cadet programs that is part of like academics like the fire colleges have like cadet programs where they place people in these departments to do like ride alongs and stuff like that, but dont think there are too many organized reserve programs like the way we do. That actually respond to greater alarms and our involved in the operations that we are involved with. So, you are fairly unique, then . I would think so, yes. The only other that we are aware of is sacramento. They generally respawn to greater alarms and have a rehabilitation unit so that fire reserve group will respond to some of the incidence. Very good. Thank you for that information. I see here commander buckley on one of the powerpoint slides you have the fire reserve is governed by and you list first the San Francisco Fire Commission. Correct. Can you give us just a little history of interaction with the commission . It was created in like 1950 as part the admin code and actually if you have the history manual we listed out that section. Generally i think the chief will appoint the commander and its with the commissions approval. Other than that it is generally supervision. You have control over uniforms, rules and regulations and the usual things, but we are pretty easy going so dont have to interact too much. [laughter]. I appreciate your easy goingness. And commander buckley, how long have you been serving . Going on 18 years. 18 years. Thats wonderful. Thank you again very much. Youre welcome. Thank you, commissioner covington. Mr. Vise president. Thank you very much, president cleveland and thank you very much commander buckley for your comprehensive presentation in the cuman force, all you who are here. Members the fire reserves. I particularly enjoyed your booklet. When you had the 75th anniversary and to your reference all the historical content is in here as well. A lot of folks dont know there is the statue at Washington Square that honors the formialulation after the San Francisco earthquake. Im kind of vint age personalty so any time you tell me Something Like 1941 or 1947 even though i still was a babe so to speak, History Speaks to San Francisco and to have a organized component at the San Francisco fire reserve since 1941 and 1947 all the way through to todays 75th an versery is a great great accomplishment. It is unique to the history after the 150th year to understand and get from the 150th committee the historical conitant the San Francisco Fire Department in the sense that we at one point we were all volunteers and moved towards the department we have today. I especially appreciate commander buckley your presentation today and with all of the information. I believe i was the commissioner but know the other commissioners whole heartedly support the reserves, i wanted to have the reserves come up on a periodic basis. The fact you have been with the department for 18 years as fire reserve commander speaks for itself but as commissioner covington spoke about, at the greater alarms very often the fire reserves are at the scene as well assisting and supporting the department and members and i know that we the department, chief hayeswhite operations do appreciate the work because again for myself you are identified by a little bit of different color but the work that you do is really really remarkable and very very important. I have to admit i have a bias of favoritism in some ways of great efection and respect to the San Francisco fire reserves and for the fact as a stepping stone, so to speak or training formula as a member to the San Francisco Fire Department, i dont think for the men and women who are interested know a greater Training Ground in my opinion than the San Francisco fire reserves so again i want to acknowledge that. I as a member of the community appreciate all of the volunteerism you do, plug for the Japanese American Community and chery blossom festival. You listed the senior center. Quh you are out there with the fire reserves and city college it is amazing the interaction that we have created there as the various members get to know each other and have that same kind of common bond, which is Community Services. I thank you commandser buckley, thank you very much for all of you in the command force and thank you very much to the members serviceing the San Francisco fire reserve. Thank you. Youre welcome Vice President nakajo. Thank you vise president. Commissioner hardeman. Thank you, mr. President. Commander buckley, all these years of dedicated service, thank you very much. It was suggested that we ask the fire reserve to make a presentation, i was uncertain because we just had the 75th an versery and this great presentation made tothe bottom line is you are the interns for the San Francisco Fire Department in many respects with 16 coming to the board recently. When president cleveland asked the last meeting or meeting before about the numbers she wasnt exactly sure. She knew it was significant but that is quite a number, 16. With new commissioner [inaudible] will discover is this is just another marker or credential you will see from the outstanding candidates that we have, which all most everybody in the room wants to be a fire fighter and their credentials are incredible and you will be surprised. I dont think you will expect to see what you see with these pages and pages and pages. Show you their bioes, before or after the meetings as you come in or leave the meeting, it is very impressive. When you see the fire reserves, that getting up there with something you ought to give a lot of significance to and obviously the chief has by her selection of the candidates, so congratulations to the chief for her good work and taking good candidates and thank you to all the staff that is here, giving up your time and hope you have a successful career. If not in Fire Fighting if it is something associated, thank you very murch. Thank you, commissioner hardeman. Commissioner [inaudible]. Thank you, commissioner. Commander, you said that in thei think in the 40s there were 6 thousand of these i think as many as 10,000 at 1 time. I have to say it was quite impressive at the time. The city had the foreciting beginning in january 1941 that war was inevable and organized through the Fire Commission and mayor at the time set up very prestijs committee to evaluate what was going on at the time and in the blitz in london and new york city was training and sent advisors all over and came to the the conclusion being a unique environment with its hills, the winds coming off shore and dense wooden structures if there was airline bum bardment whatever the other cities suffer would pail in comparison to what would hap toon San Francisco so they created a fire reserve and you said you were a police reservist. We are created under the same act, the police and fire reserve is under the same section of the admin code. That was created to address that issue. It wasnt very popular for us but after pearl harbor it is something a lot of people want today be a part of so through the course of the war i think 10,000 people receivered training with 2 to 3 thousand people active at any one time. Currently today these are volunteers. These are unpaid sworn volunteers but with no compensation. Having bichb a reserve myself i take special interest and as one of the other commissioners said bias towards these types of service so i love to learn more about the reserves offline and maybe come to one of your trainings to see how you are doing it. You are more than welcome. Thank you. Thank you for what you do. Thank you, commissioner. Chief hayeswhite. Thank you, president cleveland. I appreciate the commission ajendsizing this item and as a former director of training i worked closely with the fire reserves from 2000 until 2004 and can tell you they are dedicated and professional. This is unpaid and you acknowledged that and i appreciate it, because 18 years of service not all 18 years as commander but 18 years of service with the fire reserves for commandser buckley all unpaid. Many of the reserves work full time jobs and do this out of passion and love to serve and so it is wonderful Training Grounds for new recruits. Every thursday night the division of training work hand and hanz with the ininstruct as to go through the paces and evolutions so want to take the time to say thank you to you commandser buckley and all the volunteers to make our department a better one. Thank you, chief hayeswhite. I like to add my compliment tooz the program as well. It is an amazing program. I had a couple questions, one being that what percentage of the graduates would you say from your program that go into Fire Services in our department or another Department Around the state or country for that matter . Do you have any idea what launching pad this program is for the people who go through it . Its i would say upwards 90 percent. They end up here, there somewhere or through ems. They go into ems service, but mostespecially now that all these different departments are hiring, a lot are getting picked up and getting jobs. I would say if they go through the program 90 percent get picked up somewhere. If you want to be a fire fighter go through the Fire Reserve Program is a slnt way to make that happen. I think everyone in the room is interested being a fire fighter should consider it. The second question is what kind of qualifications do they have to have in order to be accepted as a fire reservist . It was the old San Francisco qualifications. Have a emt license, a cpr card and live in the city, 19 years old and thats it. Any physical requirements . Well we do a lot of physical. There is physical agility training in the program. Yes. It isnt just book learning . We work with the equipment and raise laiders and pull holes, every they dine the fire academy. All the fitting and hose and bladders and equipment. There is no cost to the trainee, do they have to pay a fee . No. Actually there is a slight cost. Im trying to get the cost down. Im trying to accumulate uniforms so they dontwhen i came in we had to buy everything. We had to buy shirts, pants, boots, so right now when they come in they are required to buy a tshirt and a sweat shirt, pants, but i got a deal going with banner so we can get like a hybrid pair so they are not 120, they are like 35, but i provide shirts, dress shirts, ties. So there snow funding from the department itself . No, at one time we were in the budget, but that went away a long time ago. Long long time ago. What would you say your total budget cosh would be if you put together a budget figure . It is hard to say. Like i said, i get a lot of stuff donated through the department. Stan helps a lot with turn out gear and boots and stuff like that, so nice to know what your an nual operating budget might be just a ball park . I can work on that. If we look at adjusting our budget in the future. Thank you so much for your service and volunteerism and spirit. I ink this program is really the best there is in the country and i would encourage anyone interested in being a fire fighter to check it out. Thank you for being here. Thank you, president cleveland. Madam screert secretary. Iletm 7, chief of departments report. Report from chief of department joanne hayeswhite on Current Issues axativities and events within the Department Since the Fire Commission meeting of march 22, 2017, including budget, aadomies, especially events, communications and outreach to other Government Agencies and the public. Report from operations deputy chief Mark Gonzalez on overall field operations, including greater aarm fires, emergency medical serveish, bureau of fire prevection and investigation, and Airport Division. Thank you. Good morning again president cleavelands and commissioners. I like to welcome our new commissioner [inaudible] very nice to have all 5 Commission Seats filled. It has been a while. It is a little over a year so welcome and i would be remisif i didnt acknowledge that as everyone knows the city is rich in history and tradition. I know your family played a huge role in that history and tradition and i know all of us on behalf the San Francisco Fire Department and sure your colleagues welcome you and want to acknowledge not just you but your families rich contribution particularly from a Public Service standpoint so welcome aboard. I did want to let you bow before i talk about our budge t and this is my report since the last meeting of march 22, we had sad news. Mark corso is not with us today due to unexpected passing of his father last week so like for your consideration respecktdfully request adjournment of the meeting in honor of our Deputy Director faulther clod corso who passed away last thursday and if you keep him in your thoughts and prayers during this time. Being the professional that he is, we have been in touch and he assures we are on track for revenue and expenditures and will be presenting on april 27 at 1 p. M. To the budget and finance committee providing a ovview of our budget and will be prepared for that. Wanted to note that for you. With regards to our academies, the 121 academy is comprised of 49 membersism we started with 54 and will graduate probably 49 this friday, 10 a. M. , archbishop reerden high school adatorium. I like to acknowledge assistantchieve column beanie for the great work they do with our academies. There a lot of probationary members in the field. 119th will come off probation. There is 120th in the second round if you will, of probation and 121 will hit the field. It is great as we know we will have a number of retirements we anticipate in the next couple years so to be able to supplement with the new hires is something that we all worked very hard for, so again appreciate your support as well as the support of both the executive and legislative branch at city hall for the hiring plan. With the graduation friday we griv the Division Training wuc 1 week rest because april 24 we start the 122 academy comprised of 54 members, 42 of the network exam and 12 members of our department coming from station 49. We are looking at promoting or offering the opportunity to 8 h 3 level two paramedics and 4 h 3 level 4 emt. Happy to report i made 22 acting promotions in the rank of battalion chief, rescue captain, captain and lieutenant. Announced 7 permanent h 20 lieutenant positions. And then again since the last meeting just want to give a overview of the activity of the office. I mentioned at the last meeting on march 23 i was parseticipant in a fire boat Design Review panel. It was very interesting. We will be keeping the facade and keeping the building that currently housing our station 35 at the foot of harrison on the embarcadero but there will be a building constructed behind that to accommodate our future needs and be able to make it a safer place for our workforce. With the review panel we looked at three different designs that architects put forward and i was on the panel mostly as the operational or functional expert and my colleagues on the panel were architects and so, we provided information to the department of public works who is managing that projject more to follow on that. On the 29th our 4 commissioners at the time joined us and like to acknowledge the Airport Division under the direction of rudey cast llano. The grands opening of airport station number 3. They had the tours and welcome ceremony and that was well attended and looks like a beautiful facility. That was enjoyable experience. I know on the 29th in the evening commissioner covington and i attended the mayors women history avent at city hall. On the 30th i was given the opportunity for a third year in a row to be invite today the sf chronicle vision awards, which is a very inspirational evening with very interesting eclectic group of people i felt honored to be invited again this year. All of the nominees were amazing people. The final resiptiant of that award is prusilla chan who does great work arounds helt care and a pediatrician in the city and an amazing visionary person. I represented the department there. Also, attended cesar chavez breakfast march 31 to represent the department. April 4, deputy chief gonzalez attended the h 3 commission. I know president cleveland you and i have spoken about is with regard to the h 20 lieu inant exam. That is still work in progress for the minimum qualification to sit for that exam. Historically it was a one year period in order to sit for that promotional exam. In 2008 it was 3 years, in 2012 it fsh was 5 years. The specifications said since 2008 three years. Being the collaborative person that i want to be, we did reach out after we heard from the local 798 that their preference is go with 5 year minimum qualification and employee groups we canvased so we are in current discussion with department of Human Resources on what that qualification will be. Whether there can be a compromise which will include consideration for members with more than 3 years but less than 5. There is 130 members effected whether they can sit for the exam but not promoted until the 5th year since the date of hire. That is all in play now and will keep you updated on that as with the membership because there is a lot of interest surrounding that. On april 5, last week i was a presenter at the department of emergency management. They had a three day epicenter conference to talk about in the events of a earthquake what our contingency plans are in terms of working collectively i collaboratively with departmentagys and third party efolks like the interfaith council, red cross and Salvation Army so participated in one on one with department of maejs manage. I believe nert gave a presentation as well as assistant chief [inaudible] and franklin also took up part of a afternoon discussing Fire Department planning and operations. On april 6, i participated in walk to work day and had the opportunity to meet with supervisor se fewer to sit down with all the new supervisors. Typically at the beginning of their term i send a letter congrating them and asking for time. We had a very good discussion, over a hour regarding the role of the Fire Department. She had a lot of very interesting questions, concerns. She talked about some of the nuances of her district in the richmond, aging infratruckture, overhead wires. That was late thursday evening 4 thirty clck to 6 oclock. The next morning there was a 4 alarm fire in her district which she responded to. With her i think we will have a very open minded and very involved supervirez and look forward working with her and appreciate her time. On monday this week, in the absence of Deputy Director i presented at the Capital Budget meeting to further our initiatives relate to our aging infrastructure, the need to continue funding for hbac system, exhaust extractors, boiler and generators and that was received well. No word on that yet. As you know in the past we are very realistic about our needs and the easter bon of 2010 and 14 are helpful. Roughly 160 million over those two bonds, which was about 160 million out of 820 in the bond funding but we want to make sure the Capital Budget just because of easter not acknowledge the fact that we have a lot of needs for our 24 7 facilities of which we have about 50. Yesterday i presented to the counsel generals that work here in the city and i answered questions about the Fire Department and relationship we have in the event of a large scale emergency. After the meeting today the deputies will go to it department of emergency management. It is dispatchers week. I said with our personnel that work at the 911 certaintyer and civilian personnel they are unsung hearoes. If they dont get it right we dont get it right so want to acknowledge the good work of the partners at the dem and will be attendingthey have a whole week long celebration but we will be there today. There is a janet achen is the dist patcher the year and have an acknowledgment for her. This friday at 10 a. M. 121 class will graduate and for meno of us, not all because there is a conflict with easter but i will participating and some of the commands staff along with commissioner nakajo at 1 oclock sunday at the Cherry Blossom parade. That concludes my presentation at this time. Thank you, chief. Any Public Comment on the chiefs report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Vice president nakajo. Thank you very much president cleveland. Thank you very much chief hayeswhite for your report. I just wanted to comment on a few items here. Number one is point of reference since we are talking about the chiefs report. In the subject matter of the potential issue of working details out on the upcoming exam for the h 20s in terms of those members who have served more than 3 years and less than 5, in terms of the recommendation on employees group i can understand that and read the justification behind that. But i also feel that in some ways some of the members who are between that categorical 3 to 5 years it may be a benefit to us as a Department Since wree growing and changing that we have some opportunity for those members to take the exam. So, i just wanted to verbalize the consideration concept of that. I also would like to have a consideration as a concept of them to be able to at least take the exam and if they appointment so chooses to be firmed after 5 years, there are greater authorities and with the administration and hr who you will be talking to that will make that determination. I just think it might be a opportunity for us to build consistency within the officers rank for the future. I know that 3 years may sound not as much of experience, but i find many members that are in that categorical are experienced, knowledgeable, so i just wanted to verbalize that. I also wanted to verbalize and acknowledge from the department and yourself the april 3 letter to San Francisco board of appeals that myself and president clevelandsent in with our fire marshal referring to section 17975 article 2. 5, the relocation appeal process that im pleased that we are working with the building and permit appeals to look into the issues of residents that might be residing in warehouse type looking facilities that we in San Francisco and department are proactive in our enforcement but also work wg the cooperation of the building board of appeals to implement the process of appeal. I wanted to acknowledge that because i think it is so important for us to keep doing that. Also, as a opponent of acknowledgment, the Commission Regular receives email jz updates from the Commission Secretary and on march 3, coming from fire fighter Jonathan Baxter was a new package of information called the new safety package. Commissioners i dont know if you had a chance to look at that, but that series of information under the categorical is quite comprehensive and a lot of information, which again is encouraging because it shows us and the department there are all these educational aspects that we are trying to educate our members in the city about cluttering or fire alarms or common sense type of issues that the public can be prepared and aware of. I want to acknowledge those three particulars as well. I dont have anything specifically to ask you at this time, chief hayeswhite but in your report i wanted to comment on that. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you, mr. Vise president. Commissioner hardeman. Thank you mr. President. Congratulations chief on your promotions. Love to see that rewarding people who are so deserving and i generally dont disagree with fellow commission and Vice President but i was following very close the 5 year, 3 year argument without input to a human being but just watching it close, and im on the side experience really matters if you will be responsible for more lives. I like the fact that i agree 5 yearswhen i was a apprentice and 5 years i became a [inaudible] i thought i was the greatest. Looking back i know 10 years i was really good. Even though i fs very good but one of the best after 10 years and that is just the way experience is in any job and when i was a business rep i thought i was fantastic affyear 1 and looking back i was much better after year 5. That is just a personal opinion so do think that without any input or any involvement by me that the decision was good, but having people prepare at 3 years or take some sort of a test isnt a bad idea but dont think an apontment should happen until later. Glad you were involved in that fire boat station and sitting with a birch of architects must have been a little difficult. They have great ideas and they are artist basically that design things and sometimes their creativity gets in the way. The airport event chief cast lawn osfantastic, what a great job. You really did aamazing how many people you had there, how many leaders. It was veer nice. So happy i was able to make it and really enjoyed it and stuck arounds and took the tour. I was fortunate to have more than one tour because everyoneential took a tour and i was talking and got around it and it was terrific. So happy the airport has the Financial Capabilities as commissioner our new commissioner will see the airport handles the financial matters and they are just spectacular with the three stations down there and youll enjoy that. Janet atkins i happened to catch her being on television being haun frrd the officer down whos acttually downs was down and she was in my neighborhood and had been a dispatcher for i think over 25 years i she never had a matter like this and it was really moving to her and she stuck around after her shift was over and through the night concerned about making sure that all the event that happened to save this person and catch the person that had shot this officer. So, she was terrific. Just a tip of the hat to her so glad you decided to make some notice of her too in your report. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner hardeman. I also like to add my congratulations for Job Well Done to chief cast llanos of station 3 at the airport. Very nice ceremony, nice crowd and super beautiful facility. I think the city and residents and anyone traveling in and out of the airport will be better protected by a first class facility so thank you for organizing a amazing event so thank you for that. Chief had a couple things. One, i did receive a copy the email from cynthia goldsteen who said it is the relocation of appeals board within the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development that will be the group or the people that we would go to for any sort of decisions on relocation allowances or appeals of those are relocations the fire marshal designates so we vaperson to reach out to, gene flanry. Have you talked to that person . I havent but nigh staff has so well x up with a solution. He initially was somewhat resistant because it is a one man or one person operation and so he want today do checking, very helpful but not exactly sure where it will land but it will land somewhere and know with you and i working on it im confident that it will land in the appropriate lap. Work in progress . Correct. Alright. I also like to support both commissioner hardeman and Vice President nakajo on the h 20 lieutenant situation. I do believe that if you have at least 3 years of experience you should take the exam but need five years of experience to be promoted to lieutenant. I think it is a win win arounds and hope the department of Human Resources will grant us to do that. Well here more about the h 23 program. Was there any final design select odthen fire boatstation 35 for the no final decision made. It was more about evaluating the three submittals and having a discussion about what will work best. There are pieces and parts from each proposal we felt would work well so gave very good feedback to department of public works. There was none that you liked the best . Thrfs one that i did. Thone that is the one we should have. [laughter]. That would be nice. There were elements of all that i thought were appealing, but there are many different component we were looking at and i think that it was a long day but it was well served in providing the feedback to dpw so confident in the process that we were able tothe information we were able to give to the project management of dpw and learned a lot that day as well and think the architects learned a lot about the life of a fire fighter and what works best. What is practical and not practical 6789 thank you for your report. Vice president nakajo did you have a question for the chief . Lets welcome chief gonzalez to the podium. Good morning. Welcome new commissioner. Chief. Deputy chief gonzalez operation rortd for march. 13 working fires. One was a second alarm. Location was 39 waverly place. The box came in at 336 in the morning. 4 story type 3, mixed occupancy. One civilian transport. The cause of the fire under investigation. Assistant commandser is chief burke. Engine 2 first on scene. Heavy black smoke. The building occupants reported person on the florth floor unaccounted for. This was reported to Companies Inside the building via radio transmission. About the same time the driver of the supply engine, engine 41 reported a problem with the low pressure hydrant. What happened was the inside of the outlet broke apart and wont into the section hose. Luckily the screen at the inlet for the engine prevented that material going to the pump but the flow was restricted. The asisant chief burke called for the Rapid Intervention crew. That engine is on scene at the command post ready to rescue our units inside if there is any rescues of our own people. He directedthality engine to take over from the hiderant on the other side and with that challenge he struck a second alarm. They also founds the occupant on the 4th floor and carried to the ambulance. All units did a good job at the incident and thankfully nobody got serious hurt. Other instance, bay rescue march 2, one male in the water with two bystanders. The sffd and sfpd saved all of them. The original victim was transported for evaluation. March 4, thrfs a big rig roll over off 101 highway. Luckily there were no cars below. This resulted in minor injury. March 9, there was a first alarm fire, 390 valencia res cude frown female. March 9, 457 30th avenue. Rescue off second floor. March 25, first alarm fire with rescue, 1 male adult requires intubation. The victim is doing well at the burn unit and expected to be sent home early april. March 28, first alarm fire with rescues taraval truck rescued a 91 year old wheelchair bound female from the third floor. Adult female fts rescued. Victims taken to the hospital where they are daing well. On the community out reach, the pubhook can sign up for emergency promotion by texting to 88877 and also follow the twitter at sffdpio. Senting out information on the ocean beach area. Ems, we had 3 multicasualty incidence, 1 march 11 with 6 vehicle collision, march 23 and 27 we had two pepper spray weleases, one at howard and third and the other at twenth and buckingham way. Ems updates, i like to commends ems chief andrew [inaudible] doing a great job. Hit the ground runjug doing a lot of positive things out there and need that at station 41. Some of what he has done, met with director for Sutter Health hospital and meeting with other facilities. It is regarding what we talked about in Previous Commission meetings about the time at the hospital trying to getd the ambulance out of the hospital quicker so be agpoint person on that. He is also going out on ride alaurks with once a week with ambulance unit which is good for the troupes. Next week he plan tooz ride with ems 6. Like to thank commissioner nakajo who came for the ride along. Toured staegz 49 and rowd with medic 79. Special mention on march 21, Dan Ynez Reta par ticipated algalileo high. Mentioned president cleveland about the h 23, we are very close. What we hope to do is trying to decide whether it is a side lettero a amendment to the mou. Also want to make other language but waiting to hear back from the dhr director mickey cal hann. Ems Response Timeerize code 3 transport units on scine, 94 percentile under 10man. Als units under the saechb minute mark. 93 percent of the time we are on there is 6 minutes so very impressive. Could be the new chief or the units on the field as well. Division of fire prevepgz investigation. Have the stats included and permits and inspection numbers. Fire Prevention Community outreach, there was 8 instances throughout the month of marchl. We are trying to reach all the different neighborhoods. Accelerated Code Enforcement admin strailtive hearings. Held 9 hearings for violations at 68 properties. The next hearing is april 6, 2017. Plan check section update, the warriors arena, the site plans are approved. That is a good thing. Park merced maus oscone unlder review. [inaudible] that is 1. 7 miles of pipe. Atask update transportation advisory staff c34i9y. Task is working on 7 vision zero projects. One i like to mention the turk Street Safety project. Sfmta presented revised buffered bisical lane proposal at the march 9 task hearing. The bike lane adjacent to curb side parking and isolate the bike lane from traffic by posts or paint. We have no objections to this plan asprinted. Hopefully that is the plan that goes forward. We are continuing to work collaboratively with the mta and want to reiterate all the decision we make are recommendation we make to them and any of these projects is based on Public Safety and our member safety. A lot has to do with our aerial operations or sterning radius responding to fires. Updated bureau of Fire Investigation numbers there are 117 open active Fire Investigation reports. Also attached to the report is the activities for the mupth of march for San Francisco international airport. To close my report i like to say a few words about the retirement of my assistant ginny franklin. I want to thank the commissioners for recognizing ginny. Fabulous person, a fab ulous job from 1980 to 2017. She worked for sffd. I cant say enough positive things working with ginny. And cant thank enough for the job she has done for me. All the former deputies feel the same way including im sure jim olsen. It is working the Chiefs Office is a high stress environment. Ginny keeps it light, upbeat with a smile on her face. Does a fabulous job putting this report together. Keeps meticulous track the discipline file and ongoing cases, never complains but what i appreciate the most about ginny isand the chief assistant kelly, they keep a fire house atmosphere. They take good nature shots and give good natured shots and that to me lightens the stress level. I like to share one with you from ginny. One day i was probably a little stressed and may have needed affirmation. I said to ginny, so am i at least part the top 10 of the past deputies . Without missing a beat she said well you are in the top 13. [laughter] anyway, i like it go on record thanks to ginny again and enjoy your requirement and that concludes my report. Thank you, chief gonzalez. Any Public Comment on this report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner covington. Thank you, mr. President and thank you chief gonzalez number 13 out of 13. Thank you. I just have a couple of questions. The big rig roll over off the 101 highway, there were no injuries. No and i believe from recollection i believe there was a driver and passenger. It was a heavy duty dump truck and it went off by third street over there on battalion 10. It was pretty impressive and fell 25 or 30 feet off the freeway. I assumed they were wearing their seat belts . I assume, yes. That has to be very very squarey that type of fall. I wanted to know march 25, the first alarm was rescue at lanken, has the cause the fire been determined as of yet . I can look into that for you and get that answer to you. Okay, thank you. Wundsering about that mpt and then the fire safety tip. I think that is essential for people, so if we can continue to get those out so people nsds understand that say consider pets part the family the pets should be included. Absolutely. That would be helpful. And i also want to congratulate everybody on the 6 minute Response Times, that is extraordinary from where we were to 6 minutes. Thats just amazing. It is. I were doing well on the first unit which i say those units are static usually and it could be or Data Collection as well is more accurate, but they are getting there. They know get on the rig quick, get their safely, but getting their expendiantly. You alluded to chief zan off and happy he can take credit for those one. He cant take credit for those but can for the ambulance ones. Okay, as long as we share the credit. I wonder do we need to put the h 23 on the ajendsa of a upcoming meeting because this seems to drag on, the negotiations . I think it is languishing. If what 798 what they are saying is where we are going and if i can get this agreement from the director of Human Resources to memorialize it, i think thalths thats the direction we have to gerather than just a verbal agreement because as you know verbal agreements are verbal agreements. It has to be memorialized i think in the mou or as a side letter so we can put it to bed and move to other issues. I agree with you but as my ongoing concern is as you know, that these are line items in the budget and i dont want them to disappear. I really want to fill those positions. This might be a question for mark or the chief. We are spending the funds by filling that position with the 33. We are spending more, so we are justifying the money, it is just creating the position is what is the challenge. Okay, chief hayeswhite. Deputy chief gonzalez is correct, the money is spent as a substitute for where we want to go to, so i share your concern and i am frustrated with the lepth length of tifem it is taking. We have committed to be good working partners with local 798. It is a clearly a administrative decision but want to engage and work well with them. We are very close and chief gonzalez has done well. I like to give us respectfully requesting hopefully by the next meet ing because i know that we dont have a meeting on april 26. I would say certainly by the next meeting we should have closier and if not i agree it should be agendized to bring it to fruition. What do you think about that, chief . You got it, chief. Thank you both very much. Thank you, commissioner covington. Commissioner hardeman. Thank you, mr. President. Another wonderful well written lengthy but needed, so really appreciate all the effort that goes into this document you presented that you dont read to everyone in the audience but it has the numbers and all the details including the airport chief cast llanos report is in here and it really makes it easy for commissioner to see what is going on in the Department Without having to make phone calls and ask around too much so thank you for that. I was watching last night san jose and congratulations on the Response Times. That brings up to san jose. They are looking at all the main corridors they have particular routes which i guess our stations do too, to navigate and those routes are more and more crowded. There are signals on the routes automated so they are putting in 600 thousand to automate a bunch of those routes for the whole length and that is a interesting concept to think if they only cost 600 thousand to do that so you can go for quite a ways having the lights change in sequence so you take off and the first changes the rest will change automatically as the computer chip or something and chief probably knows and you might know chief gonzalez so thought that was interesting how that would play out. They are claiming it will get worse because of the population so san jose is having difficult times with needed stations i guess, so that is something im glad we dont have that problem. The voters of San Francisco have taken care of this department demanding stations stay open and are a little confined space all we can do up. The distance to travel wont go up. When the population goes up that increases the number of calls which means the unit wont be available, so itsan jose i am a advocate for anything that makes Response Times more efficient. If we had that program implemented here and did the green lights, the traffic conditions downtown especially during rush hour just because of the green light if there is no where to go there is no where to go. They have to get out of the way. They is a lot of grid lock on the freeways but think the streets are not as bad as ours. We have the capability we looked at that certain stations, station 3 and station 1. Mta has that capability so there is technology where the lights can be changed if a Emergency Apparatus is coming. The challenge for us is safe station 1 on folsom you can try to make the lights green all you want but when the is grid lock with cars trying to get to the bridge it dozen help. I just that it was interesting. I saw it last night and fresh in my mind talking about Response Time but congratulations on Response Time. Especially afterthe torture and agony, all the department and the commissioners received and the mayor and to see that now have bragging rights to say thinks are looking good. You know, chief gonzalez the last few meetings you talk about ovhead power lines and made be aware of what a tangled mess. I am looking up now and say you get to intersection jz it is like holy mackerel, this is a web. Also i see your concern with getting in the corner and there is no way you can be in the middle of the intersection and shoot in a corner of the 4 buildings that may be there because the power lines are everywhere so have to go on the side. I see where you are saying when the truck is driving around or a engine they are looking at the lines to see if there are new lines and how that will effect fighting the fire or rescuing someone in the building. It is a challenge. They work to getif there one aerial shot there is one shot and the truck needs it be cognisant. They make consuggestions because you are move hose but there is one spot to put the truck to get the aerial shot and that is where they need to be. Glad to see you are still here after 5 years. You are real good at your job and that comes from all different sources including 798 says you a reasonable guy to deal with and you are good at what you do and hope because ginny is leaving that doesnt effect anything you do. Well see how that goes. [laughter]. And you handle adversity very well. You have a good demeanor about you. Lastly, congratulations to chief column beanie for your class going oen and hope to get at least a couple days around easter to relax. Your group works very hard, thank you. Thank you, commissioner hardeman. Vise president nakajo. Thank you very much, president cleveland. Chief gonzalez, thank you for your comprehensive rort. I want to comment on your report, not only is it comprehensive but very very detailed. I wont go through the whole report but basically on page 3 when it comes to the Community Outreach section i very much appreciate the detail of the Community Outreach section. Fire fighter baxters responsibility to provide this information, chief . It is lieutenant baxter does provide this information. Lieutenant baxter, i appreciate the detailed information. Im on page 4 and your categorical is emergency medical service, i assume page 4 and that cot goreical chief zanoff is responsible for the report . Yes, sir. I want to tell you chief zanoff and will get into details about my ride along but i very much appreciate your report t. Is very much comp hence v. Im a commissioner that doesnt mind ic looking at all your details. There is nor more information we received in the sense of more enhanced clear information. Again, we are joined this morning by commissioner alota and commissioner on page 6 you see the indicators of Response Time at 94 percent, 10 minutes oreb or less. Chief gonzalez talked about als engines respondsing 93 percent sth yes, sir. For many those are magical numbers for compliance and for us a long standing issue within that. As you can see through the report, page 7, page 8, all of that is very much comp rehensive. Chief gun zaulance Fire Prevention and Community Outreach presentation, who houses this particular unit, is that fire marshal unit . Yes, sir. Under prevention. Thank you very much for this. I again when it talks tit about the Community Outreach and give the dates and location it shois this commission again our relationship with the community at large. How important that is as well. I was impressed with this report again with ginny franklins retirement chief gonzalez i assume the quality and comprehension of this will not suffer at all because again, all of the material is clearly here. We are holding interviews next week, well see. Page 10, is thatd a area housed by the fire marshal or what categorical is that under . Captain balming in Fire Prevention is our point person and handles most of that as katie fengon. Lieutenant fengon. Correct me if im wrong but i dont recall a report separately for Transportation Advisory Committee previous. This is great again because if it is anything we havent had, any additional it is just a complete comprehensional package. Is this something we are going to get in the package on a regular basis . Ill keep them in there, vise president. Thank you very much. Page 11 we have a categorical again, when chief williams was here it was lengthy because there was so much area of responsibility equal to euros. San Francisco International airport assume that is chief cast llano in terms of that responsibility am i correct . Yes, sir, Vice President. I i with the commissioners very much enjoy chief your airport station 3 grands opening. Impressive to say the least. We are very very fortunate to have that support from the San Francisco airport director as well. Just as a opponent of information for myself, quh i wents to the station there are issues that came across our screen in terms of that station and perhaps with other stations that were issues of perhaps concern or modification, so for myself as i did detur specifically paying attention to the exhaust issues of the members in the station who sleep and work and close pruximity of the plains taking off once the