San francisco Fire Commission regular meeting wednesday, february 22 and the time is 5 03 pm. Roll call president cleaveland present nakajo present hardeman present covington present chief of the department hayeswhite here. Item two general Public Comment. Members of the public may adjust the commission up to 3 min. On any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speakers showed us the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual missionaries were Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with a speaker. The lack of a response by the commissioners or Department Personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of the statements made during Public Comments. Thank you mdm. Sec. Before we have Public Comment, the gentleman here you may want to be on the other side of the room. [inaudible off mic] okay, good you may not want to block the exit. They will come in and make you move anyway. One estate not to stand on the other side of the room. [inaudible off mic] the sheriff will be here momentarily to bring it to a [inaudible] what room . I dont know what room yes. They are going to open one up is there any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 3 approval of the minutes. Minutes from the regular meeting on february 8, 2017. Any Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners any comments or a motion . So moved. Is there a second . Second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, say nay. It is unanimous. The minutes of february 8 are approved. We have the same fourspeed february night special Meeting Minutes . So moved. Second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, say nay. Thank you. Mdm. Sec. Item 4 chief of departments report. Report from chief of the department on Current Issues activities and events within the department of february 28, 2017 including budget academies, special Events Communications and outreach to other Government Agencies and the public. An report from the administration. Report on the administration divisions, fleet and facility status, finance support services, Homeland Security and training within the department. Good evening, chief. Good evening president cleaveland and commissioners. I would like to acknowledge as you know the Fire Department is rich in history and tradition. On that note a little note the presence of a former deputy chief of operations for the San Francisco Fire Department had a great care where career with us and thats retired jeopardy cheap ramenwith us tonight welcome. Would you stand . Nice to have you. [applause] so my report since our last meeting which was on february 8 starting from the top regarding the budget, i actually excused our Deputy Director mark or so from tonights meeting because hes been working for the much every day. He worked all through the threeday weekend. Happy to report this fiscal year we remain on track for revenue and expenditures that we didnt i do not really appreciate the support and involvement of the commission can we were able to submit our budget in a timely fashion can we submitted it yesterday and we also in addition to the budget submittal thank you president cleaveland and commissioners, we submitted the joint letter recognizing the city as all city departments for a 3 reduction to their operating budget and that given our concern about that creating an adverse impact to operations that wasnt something we could immediately identify but we in good faith will continue to use discuss with the majors mayors budget offers. I did speak to Melissa White house is the mayors budget director. She is understanding and supports the ongoing dialogue. We do feel, as reported at the last meeting, that given strong revenues we may be able to come up with part of the solution in that form but that to actually cut a items would be very difficult to do if we wanted to maintain the level of service that we currently are providing. So thank you for that. Regarding academies, the 120 firstclass is in its 13th week. You hear a little more former director of training jeff codb me about the htwo academy and hes company tonight by couple members from his staff. The recruit training capt. Joel santo and the pain who is a rescue capt. And assists with the medical side of the training. In deputy chief williams report she will talk about the progress of the 120 firstclass in the 13th week. I believe were at a total of 49 members. So that is dropdead views since our last Commission Meeting and they can give you further detail on that. But we are on track for april 13 Graduation Ceremony get it about Riordan High School at 10 am. I am preparing as his hr is for the 100 to 22nd economy with a number of alternates selected for the last process that will move into the conditional phase. In addition, the backgrounds will be sent out to a larger applicant pool for somefor consideration for april although we have a number of people select slated for the april class but there will be some consideration for april but mostly for further academies including september academy. That is in progress at this time with hr. Our internal hr and my office. So no one is received additional background but i expect them to be hearing very soon. Im hoping by the end of the week certainly no later than the end of this month. On last friday on the 17th, its always great and i know youre always supportive of internal promotional opportunities. We were able to an conjunction with the ems division and division of training,they do phenomenal work it not only htwo academy but all kinds of different internal promotional opportunities available. So we had put seven height parttime per diem paramedics through sort of a mini academy and addition to what theyve already received initially and they im glad to say they became the fulltime hthree level twos last week and weight knowledge that in sort of a small ceremony at headquarters. In addition, between last friday and then we had some more on tuesday total of 18 4hthree level i emts many of them just hired within the last year, with paramedic licenses have now become htwo level ii paramedics. I believe to htwo firefighters transition to become hthree level iii fully firefighter paramedic so a lot of upward mobility good would happen without the good work of hr but really the work of the division of training under the direction of chief beanie and ultimately the deputy chief raMona Williams. So good work being done there. I did speak with each of you personally regarding a change in leadership at the ems division. And we will bewe are in the process of selecting an ems division chief good week without a general order. We received 18 resumes or personal promotional qualification forms. Those are being reviewed and its anticipated interviews will take place next week. We will keep you posted on that. Also wanted to let you know that just today the h40 battalion chief list eligible list was adopted. That examination took place in january, the results came out. There was an Inspection Period of the week10 days and that was adopted today. So there are no current openings. We were able to towards the sunsetting of the battalion chiefs with the old battalion chiefs list, we were able to promote five members. So all that rain has been filled and it is our goal to if theres any vacancies to make sure were filling those vacancies on a regular basis. So those five battalion chiefs that we just promoted with and create five captains jobs which i intend to make very soon and sort of like a domino effect that will then create five lieutenants. So more upward mobility. Then i just want to review for you, sort of conglomeration of specialist medications and outreach, since the last meeting, on february 9 in the evening i tendered civic celebration for the year of the rooster at city hall. Hosted by mayor lee and his staff as well as the legislative branch of government. On the 10th and 11th i did want to acknowledge the highrise bill that we had at 525 market555525 market it was a lot of great work that went into that. We had over 100 firefighters participating that drill every day. Chief postell was for the leader of the group but we had i know chief beanie was there and everyone that made that i raised real as real as it could possibly be. Its appreciated a lot of work went into it but ive heard nothing but positive remarks about getting that opportunity and certainly, the building owners, the building management, we really appreciate them stepping up as have other building owners and managers in previous years. We try do Something Like this on an annual basis that the deputy chief of operations chief gonzales is present for the saturday drill and i was present in a good company with the president nakajo on sunday the 11th. Thank you to all involved. Its always great to have that ability to train particularly for specialty type incidences and complicated complex incidences such as a highrise incident highrise emergency or fire. Lets see. We also had that weekend on the 10th, the Chinese New Year parade which was very well attended. Id like to thank all of you and i know commissioner hardeman you are with family and doubts always takes top billing but to have pres. Cleaveland vp nakajo and commissioner covington with this marching and writing in the parade and then also attending the Asian Firefighters Association dinner which was very nice. Was a long evening but very special evening and thank you for your participation in sports that i know its appreciated by all the agent Asian Firefighters Association and i enjoyed adding dinner with you that night. Thank you, also to the members of the command staff that participated and chief rivera gets a shout out because he also came to the dinner with his lovely wife and two children that night. So thank you. On 13 february and we did have participation from pres. Cleaveland vp nakajo we appreciate your supportwe reconvene the Ambulance Working Group which was initiated back in 2014 when we saw those transport units respond times creeping up and as you know we endeavor and the goal is to have a transport unit on the scene of a code 3 emergency lifethreatening emergency, within 10 min. Time frame in the 90th percentile. So they can get the critical patient to one of the nine receiving facilities. So we generally, in the report next month chief gonzales will talk about our supply on a more regular basis as meeting the demand. There are sort of pockets, pieces of time, mostly friday nights, some saturday nights with that were seeing we are stretched. So were looking at a whole lot of different factors of how we might be able to relieve some of that pressure on the surge nights. Again this is not a major emergency. Just a typical friday night we do believe that it sort of a conflict of factors including particularly on friday nights people commuting home but also people commuting into the city were difficult getting to point a to point b for our units even though ive read lights and sirens. Everybody knows its much tougher getting around town these days. Not to mention, an increase in call volume. We expect 400 more transports between november and december and then that case, stayed on track is slightly increased in january. So pretty phenomenal to see that in general were making those response times but there are certain times of day and days of week that we are focusing on. So reconvene this workgroup means all the stakeholders back at the Table Including the two leaders of the Fire Commission, members of the Controllers Office, the mayors office, local 798, are private partners, so there were over 20 people at the meeting and Controllers Office is going to do some analysis and get back to us and then later this week ill be meeting with keith howard, who used to be the mayors budget director. Now shes the deputy chief of staff doing analytics and she is sort of the project manager of this. So more to follow on the work of that working group. On february 14 i did want to acknowledge that chief Mona Williams and myself had the opportunity after he was nominated to attend a ceremony put on by the rotary club. They do this annually and a Public Safety appreciation day. They knowledge someone on the sheriffs, the police, the coast guard and the Fire Department. This years nominee and a word he was longtime member of the department probably became in 1989. Its worked 20 of his 28 years at station one. Firefighter derek oleary, for a rescue at a fourth alarm fire back in january of 2015 at 22nd and mission where where very bravely gave up his mask when he and his partner found in a conscious nail victim in a tight corner where they had to extricate him fromhe was unconsciousand in very very smoky environment and dangerous toxic environment firefighter oleary recognizing this man was sort of in dire straits gave up his selfcontained breathing apparatus mask to assist the man breathing. Was a very dramatic rescue. The man was removed from the building purportedly did not survive but firefighter oleary was acknowledged that day could buy the rotary club and his wife and son and his parents were there and his father is a retired lieutenant from this Department Mike oleary who served from 19 69 until 2001. They could give a shout to derek oleary for his great work. Very humble firefighter like most firefighters did said he was just doing his job but it was a nice afternoon. On february 15i appreciate vp nakajo and commissioner covington attending and i was here tonight with division iii was there mention it but its his birthday today as well. I think hes in the audience, excuse me assistant chief david frenkel. Happy birthday. Dave as chairman of the 150th committee put on in hosted coordinated a lunch for all the 150th committee members. Reports i could not stay. I saw the beginning but like to again acknowledge everyone for their great work on the successful 150th celebration. On february 16 in the Late Afternoon i attended the city administrators swearingin for another five years but naomi kelly was wanted by mayor lee last week to that position. In this morning the deputies and i met with local 798. We do a monthly labormanagement meeting and todays meeting was quite productive. I found a lot of Common Ground on a number of items. Which i know you would be interested in. That is all i have at this point. Thank you commissioners. Thank you, chief. Before we entertain any questions or public, and i think well move on and have the report from the deputy chief of administration. Ramona wilkins welcome. [inaudible off mic] sorry . The overflow room is room 421 so in case anyone wants to sit down. Did good evening chief. Good evening president cleaveland. Members of the Fire Commission, chief, deputy chief raMona Williams this is my administrative work for the month of february. This covers activities from january 25 through february 22. I will begin with the end excuse me Assignment Office. The Assignment Office is currently working with the division of training and scheduling of the visionary firefighters as well as the hiv three level i and level to write long. Over in Homeland Security chief francisco continues to attend various meetings and training exercises as well as update the command staff on all real and potential terrorist activities. During this reporting period, he has prepared the event action plan for the Chinese New Year parade which is on february 11 and is met with barry as spenders regarding the at the oc upgrade project could hes also been working with the assistance of some members were working in a modified capacity updating our departments continuity of Operations Plan and the department tsunami planted these are works in progress. He also provides the command staff and ongoing storm forecast for that field and has attended the canine training which was held in santa paula california and viewed the new canine Training Facility. As always, like to remind the public that they should stay ever vigilant and to Say Something if they see something. Over in the Investigative Services bureau, ist, during this reporting period, the bureau has conducted various background testing for candidates for upcoming academies as well as conducted 39 random drug tests during this reporting period and all results were negative. Over in the Physicians Office they also continue to administer promotional probationary preemployments physicals for Department Members as well as jobrelated injuries and returned to work exams. During this reporting permit, the office has reported 41 workrelated injuries which is up from 15 the last reporting period. Under support services, with assistant deputy chief rivera, they received a total of 254 request for services during this reporting period. A little less than half or approximately have,more than half, 144 were close during this period. Construction at pump station one which is located at headquarters, has been extended due to the current testing of the fuel tank and pumps onsite. They are also working onthey are near completion of the minor work thats been done on the second floor of the building. All easter projects continue to move forward and our track. And next month we should have a permanent position filled for our and industrial hygienists. We currently have the assistance of the department of Public Health which is assisting our department on related health and safety issues. Working chief rivera, working with center shop they havethey are in the process of outfitting [inaudible] 18 with our [inaudible] agb and Service Next Month which is waiting for additional security valves on the apparatus. We are working with the mta to standardize residential parking permits. This process is for all fire stations and the members. And per transportation code the Fire Department will be eligible for up to 10 permits per station if that fire station is located in a parking permit area. During this reporting period, boe personnel performed 21 emergency field repairs to San Francisco Fire Department apparatus including ambulance during the past 30 days. This has resulted in minimal disruption to Department Readiness and keeping the vehicles in Service Without the need for changeovers. Updates on station five. The contract was awarded to also construction. They are tentatively scheduled to begin in april. It is scheduled to be completed by the summer of 2018. Over at station 16, theyre still approximately a 30 day delay. They are behind due to inclement weather and other permitting issues that have since been resolved but the contractor believes that the project will still be completed on schedule. They assume theyll make up the time at the end of the project and these dates for completion our january of 2018. Over activision and training, during this reporting period, chief beanie attended various Community Events including the monthly firefighter career nights. Over in the dirt with [inaudible] continues to oversee Emergency Preparedness training for the community which is a vital asset and resource resource that we realized in the event of a major disaster in the city. In addition to our ongoing training she continues to attend Monthly Community in advance training outreach presentations. A few of which such as the hand licensing training and exam outreach presentations with the San Francisco Police Department to name a couple. Over in inservice training, the staff is preparing topreparing for an upcoming fire behavioral Building Construction training module which will include utilizing vacant buildings set for demolition and they allow the department to utilize it for further training, handson ventilation or salvage and overhaul operations. The staff also continues to perform maintenance on the compound and upkeep on that this will be an equipment with the ongoing life fire burned Training Groundthe Training Grounds take a beating so the staff uses a break and training to do some maintenance muchneeded maintenance. Over in special projects, this is an area i dont usually mention very often but i just wanted knowledge of the training specialized training they prepare for Department Members as well as preplanning meetings that go on ongoing throughout the year. As the chief mentioned, they just completed a highrise drill which was well received and well attended. As well as i has not training and meetings. They also have water rescue committee meetings, pg e is also work a Fire Department for training on how to respond to various utility type of emergencies as well as bart and muni which is an annual training we conduct where members understand and train on how to perform rescue with regard to bart and muni. That also includes auto extrication to name a few. And as the chief mentioned, the recruit academy the 121st recruit academies currently in their 13th week. There 49 recruits remaining in the academy. We lost five and three from injuries that they previously had prior to their enrollment at the academy were aggravated from all the aggressive training. To recruits were released due to accumulation of deficiencies. And as the chief mentioned, assistant deputy chief beanie will go into further detail but right now theyre preparing for the final campus friday and the remaining weeks will be various training components that are required by the state fire marshal. At this time this concludes my report. And im open to any questions you may have. Thank you chief williams should appreciate that very much. Do we have any Public Comment on either of the two reports from the chief or chief williams . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner . Is to Vice President . Thank you very much president cleaveland. Im going to first of all thank you very much chief williams for your conference of report. I just have a couple of questions. Before i even proceed with that i wanted to wish chief Dave Franklin happy birthday. Chief franklin. On the happy occasion and i would like to welcome and tell former chief rate thousand beanie how good it is to see you. Retirement does you will, chief. Chief williams, imagine an active shooter drill. Could you again tell the commission today and location of that drill . Im going to achieve, beanie answer that question. We thank you very much chief williams good evening jeff beanie. An active shooter trainable ashley start on 6 march ruby down at the airport. We dont working with assistant deputy chief castellanos and following week i believe the 13th thats when we start the training module for all numbers in the city. Back up and running so we expect that to go on for a few weeks. Thank you very much chief. I just wanted to let you know chief williams, that i do appreciate the dates on the president class that we have. With the number of 49 and in terms of the five members that did not make it, and even the description of the five terms of the circumstance, as a commissioner i appreciate that. I know that we will get a detailed presentation tonight from chief, beanie on the training so we will be able to hear all the details in terms of criteria and what goes on but i want to mention that to you as well. Thats what i have right now, chief williams for your particular questions and comments. Chief hayeswhite, i do have some comments and questions. I want to come up first of all as a comment equally expend i appreciation to the asian firefighters at the chinatown parade and i appreciate the commissioners that attended as well. I know commissioner hardeman you are with us in spirit. Either my imagination or that audience used to get larger and larger but i was really proud that this year are contingent was very large. Very large. It include a lot of the members in the audience but also fire cadets, fire reserves, members of family that were all part of this and i really appreciate it. I also appreciate the banquet and having dinner with you, chief as well. Was a greater great delight to do that. I also wanted to acknowledge and appreciate that the attendance of the highrise drill, which was on sunday the 12th come i did attend and want to ignore to chief beanie for being my partner during that whole highrise drill and feeding me all the information that you provided good i want to add knowledge chief costello as well in terms of the observation but i was very very fortunate to be able to attend that highrise drill because i think the scenario was a three alarmi three alarm senate terms about the equipment showed the members its always good for the commissioners to be able to see the members in action and again, that highrise drill those about my second one but its really important for me to be able to see the kind of coordination that occurs because again, i always ask that question about what happens when it comes to the highrise and that drill is realistic enough for me to be able to hear various scenarios. So i was very very pleased with that and thank you very much for that. I also want to express my appreciation for chief gonzales for coordinating my request for a ride along word station 49 with an ambulance with a rescue capt. And that writer launch, chief is can occur on march 24 and thank you so much for the reference over to chief molloy good the last weld the two points left. Would be chief hayeswhite, when you talk about the promotions, and the promotions of the battalion chiefs, that just occurred, would some of that ceremony of promotions, could it occur here at the regular chamber accordingly to the numbers of people that it affects because i just thought it would be a great thing if we could do that because you were mentioning having some of fire Retirement Ceremony depending upon the numbers also be here according to agenda and the situation. But i just want to suggest that because again, i just think that promotions and retirements are a good way for the public to knowledge the members of that. The last thing is i will attendwell i will attend fridays graduation on the emts over at Treasure Island and looking very much forward to that. The last acknowledgment was i know that theres a fundraiser on saturday, march 4 in the San Francisco firefighters Cancer Prevention foundation. Its can be here in the city and i know all the commissioners support that as well with all the work that occurs within that. So i have more comments and questions mr. Pres. Thank you for a much chief hayeswhite chief williams. Thank you be thank you mr. Vp commissioner hardeman thank you mr. Pres. Im not really too many questions but there is one that i doubt if this would be probably to chief and i dont know if you saw this. I talk to you chief gonzales earlier that i saw very disturbing things on the its called [inaudible] when it brings them back after their heroine, that wasnt so long ago was under 100 and this was a national tv they said that potentially going up to 4500. One of these things they decided they can get the money for it so i dont know. How does that affect a budget queen does that come from the health side of the this city on those dedications that are used medications that are used for emergencies like that queen be so very good question that ive not seen that but it is smart and is something that is utilized by paramedics. Given the condition of the patient. Upon arrival. If they have overdosed it is something that can either nine of this right term, but literally ring about gillespie was [inaudible] one, thought happened that i cannot believe it was the first time i saw it right. Its pretty incredible to see it work. It is part of our medical supply so comes about out of our budgeted it is something we have totake a close look at. And we will. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. Bs that is somethingas far as the Chinese New Year parade have to explain i was out of town and my daughterinlaws soccer 20 mins up in santa rosa in a 105 games so she won the womens division. So was in a wasted trip so sorry i missed it. Then, derek oleary, is that of Michael Oleary and i were on the eighthgrade basque all time we won the city championship in it was quite an athlete and went on to be all city at si in baseball. Some really happy to see that the rotary club honored to firefighters and [inaudible] happier than the sun was. Retired chief, thanks for coming. Its nice to see the oldtimers and that you are remembered and greeted warmly by the cheap prior to the meeting. Happy birthday, chief franklin. I will never have my birthday so braided at a Commission Meeting gazelle was born on the fourth of july. Something ill just have to do without. [laughing] i was fortunate [inaudible] in this building i met mayor lee and didnt want to stop and talk to them but he said he want to stop and talk with me sweat a great conversation it was in a great mood. It astounded me how much we knew about the Fire Department and how he is regret not giving us a fifth commission. Its been over a year and he told basically he said when the everybody in this room tonight know that hes working on it. And that hes following Fire Department and appreciates all that happens here appreciates all the commissioners. He thinks is a good group here. He says the four of us can do the work of five. Hes not that concerned. [laughing] lets see. What else . The great news is the way you described it, chief about the promotions, theyd get the battalion chief and then trickle down so thats creates like 20 promotions. Thats fantastic. Im really happy to see that people work their way and earn their stripes and get toand Everything Else is going great. You guysyou chiefs are doing a great job. Appreciate it. Good about the random drug test. Thats been going well, 39 more random testing are negative. So all in all, doing a great job everybody could appreciate these great reports. Thank you. Thank you commissioner hardeman. Commissioner covington thank you mr. Pres. Thank you for your report chief hayeswhite and for your report as well chief williams. Chief hayeswhite, you said that theres an ongoing dialogue regarding the budget can you tell us, is that dialogue the most recent dialogue has included a refreshment of the figures regarding the deficit for the city . I have read that is probably 59 million more than the administration expected. So our percentages been adjusted . Thats my understanding. Weve not had that oneonone discussion, but you are correct. The city is still projecting a deficit but to your point, i read it as well, 59 million. So i believe theyre making some readjustments and i disagreed part of this ongoing dialogue, it would certainly be a question we would at have for them and perhaps suggest to Melissa White house the mayors budget director, depending on her schedule may be reconvening a meeting because theyre gracious with their time late last year early this year. With a Budget Committee. To have that discussion as part of these ongoing discussions. Once they hit reset and readjusted without looks like him what that might mean for us. So very good point. Okay. Because i think that there are also anticipating additional revenues in the amount of another 30 million. So if we can, you know, lobby is much as possible to have some leeway in terms of the cutbacks that we have been requested to make, i think that would be fabulous. Agreed good luck on the Budget Committee thank you thank you. So there are 49 members of the class still there which is great. You know, people in the firehouses, say this classes are too big. But with our attrition rate people are trying very very hard and sometimes your body just wears out and so we lost three members of the class according to chief williams reports because of aggravation of preexisting injuries. So its very important that we start with a really robust class each Academy Class. So that we can have the numbers that we needed Going Forward so that when all of these people, you know, what i call the great tsunami is coming our way and we have that wave of retirements coming that we are not caught inflatfooted. So 49 is a good number. I hope it stays at 49. Commissioner covington to your point, thank you for that. The point youre making. As a division of training stopped it is a lot to train in any given time but it is not realistici think it might i been associated with division of training since 2000 for four years of the training chief and then the rest of the time is cheaper that apartment. I believe theres only been one class out of nearly 20 that graduated, that i am aware of, all of the candidates. So its not realistic to assume every class we will have everyone that starts everyone finished it around 10 slightly less than 10 has been our average but i have to look at again and redo the numbers but just to give you context, i did attend as a guest the sfpd graduation friday night they start with the academy of 50 and a graduated 35. So the academy is longer nearly 8 months. But the number started and finish is much more dramatic than for us. Its always difficult losing even one person, but it does seem to be you know because its rigorous and theres a lot of expectation, division of training step i will assure you, needs the candidates were than halfway. They put their heart and soul into it. But it is rigorous and we do have some the dropoff or dropout were are relieved but i think probably industrywide, its lower than most academies. We work very hard for everyone to succeed. Certainly, i do agree with you. Perhaps chief, you will remember i was the one who pushed for larger classes when chief williams was over at the division of training just because wei felt, that when we had the funding, we should get as many people through the academy as possible and who knew. Just within a matter of a couple of years, we would be facing more deficits in the city. So i am glad to see that has taken place. So thank you to everyone and we do have a very able person in chief, beating to see us through. So the five new battalion chiefs, that is great news in the five new captains. So chief, are you going to wait untilwell what is the timeline for the new captains to be brought on . So were winning five last battalion shoes in order to get them through the promotional process, which they have, you take them time because they go to medical exam and so forth and i need to get clearance for them to occupy fulltime requisition. That has just recently happened. So i would say very soon, within the next weektwo weeks we will name five new captains off of the list. Very good. The new battalion chiefs are undergoing another medical examination. Is there Something Different in the duties of a battalion chief that would require additional stamina or a different physical level of physical ability . So for every promotion,if every promotion a member is required to go through sort of a refresher health exam with our Department Physician which includes the toxicology screening. Okay. So theres no additional physical role. It just thats part of when you get promoted, you undergo just kind of a check up as well as a talks screening. Okay. Thank you for that information. And congratulations to everyone who worked so hard on the highrise drill. I know that is quite the undertaking. I mean theres so many moving pieces and parts and people that it requires all hands on deck so thank you to everyone who made that is successful drill. And the Chinese New Year parade, as everyone has said them was fabulous. The food was fabulous. It was a dry day [laughing] everyone was very happy about that. So all went well. Thank you to the Asian Firefighters Association for hosting us in such good spirit. Chief hayeswhite, the friday and saturday nights, and the slower response times, is that an inability to get around the city due to Traffic Congestion or is it the call volume is higher on friday and saturday nights was an accommodation . Is accommodation. So we are looking at conducting some arthritis because like i said we have [inaudible] outgoing the city coming into the city exiting to commute home, and coming in so we can entertainment that sort of thing. So with congestion is big factor for friday night but we also see an increase in our have seen an increase in our calling. So we are looking at a number of things including the time p. M. Have at the hospital the nine receiving hospitals. How long they are waiting to transfer care of the patient. We are looking at this shift of the private agencies as well to make sure they are compatible or that they are stepping up during those peak. Spiri theres probably five or six f were kind of zeroing in an and analyzing at this time. And looking at her staffing. The Controllers Office agreed to recalculate, if you will, the number of ftes that we have fulltime equivalent so in 2014 given the call volume and given what we were experiencing it came up with a 200 count fte count. We are saying that should be reanalyzed given the pretty consistent increase our call on. Is 200 and off . Should be in addition to the 200, based on what we are saying these times we are seeing going higher than even we forecasted, does that mean we need to adjust our staffing awkward squeak so Controllers Office has agreed to do that analysis and when we reconvene we will review that. He was very good. When will that report be forthcoming . Take statuses from the Controllers Office was noncommittal. Its a big job so probably a couple of months. We said we would like to have the informationi would like to have it by the [inaudible] which is when the mayor has to submit a balanced budget and probably a couple of months but we will continue to check in with them on that. Okay. In anticipation of the controllers report, are we doing an analysis that we can helpso that we can help bolster what it is the controller finds . Because this will be another year before we can try to have additional staffing. So were looking at it internally as well. Ive test mark corso with that and his staff. Okay. So is there five or so factors involved in this because we were doing so well. You know we had what was it 90 ontime . Were meeting at this month for january which was extremely busy, we were at 89. 29 could is that correct . Well, on the 90 . He was a thats what i would like to call it as well. Like i said were concerned about those if we drill down those friday evenings say 7308 pm but generally, much improved from two years ago. For all of the investment in the ems division for our new including our new ambulances and so forth, and probably advocacy that we done collectively it has paid off. Were just keeping a close eye on. Width very good. Chieftains also had something to add . [inaudible off mic] pretty comfortably but as you mentioned on friday, and saturday nights, the traffic isnt just will get their code 3 but this thing is we have limits applied ambulances so most of our transports are code 3 calls are transported to two. So they have to do with the topic getting to the hospital. And getting back to the post through the same traffic. A lot of it is the traffic but a lot of times its the hospitals. As well as we do have some staffing thats one of the various old variables as well to a lot of our per diems door volunteer is much on fridays and saturday nights. So its a lot of different variables. But over the last 12 months, if you tickle the 12 months and averaged them out, we made 10. 06 minutes. So thats right on 10 min. Chief gonzales, is their incentive to work on friday and saturday nights . Is there an additional incentive to work with dont pay more on friday and saturday nights, no. Okay. No search pricing . No. [laughing] all right. , thank you. I also wanted to thank the birthday boy douche joe remain unnamed for the 150th closeout gift that suits you franklin i see looking down. It was a lovely afternoon and thank you vp nakajo for coming. The 150th was very very very busy year and was a very good year for the department so thanks again to everyone who did so much to make the year fabulous year. So now ms. Chief williams, can you talk a little more about the departments tsunami plan . Of that plan is under assistant jeopardy chief Jane Francisco under Homeland Security and he is been tasked with updating that tsunami plan and he said the assistance of battalion chief is currently under tempering modified assignment sillies fulltime at his assistance. If you would like for me to have she francisco come forward . Thank you. Good evening assistant Jane Francisco Homeland Security division do have a specific question or general general overview and based upon chief williams short comments am i just a moment ago, chief said the plan is being updated. So how long have we had a tsunami plan . B was the cities had a space tsunami general plan for the tires it is not specific to the Fire Department or after trying to do is develop a tactical tsunami plan for our department in the event that we have it to cover three sections. What to do if we have 50 min. Notice, what to do if we have less than four hours notice, and in greater than four hours. Because theyll present different challenges in trying to evacuate certain neighborhoods identified to be in the inundation zone of a spoon tsunami. Russell cocoa powder on facilities that would be affected by a potential piece suit tsunami way. How do we secure our three fire boats. Had we secured station 35, station 25 and other station that might be in the inundation zone . Had today about do it themselves, get them safe. Imported Fire Department property and then go back in and assess evacuate in the public which is very very challenging and tsunami plan itself, its a big task but theres a lot of things to consider. The more you dig into this the deeper the roots go and the things need to consider in all kinds of things come up with such a Sea Level Rise and evacuation routes, muni evacuation plans to get buses to neighborhood identified areas good so people can get on the buses and get out for those zone have transportation. Another big big problematic issue is people with disabilities. An elderly who cant answer the door, wont answer the door. Im not answer the door lessons my son was coming to pick me up. Joe ball kinds of issues and what to do with those peopleand then you have the surge of evacuation if we have four hours, well, people are currently until three hours and 55 min. Now theyll want to go at once. The traffic issues. So theres a lot to consider. It takes a lot of research to develop to identify what we can do, how do we continue to operate our department, how do we continue to evacuate the public. Width very good. Thank you for that. That overview of the tsunami plan and to the president and my fellow commissioners, i think it would behoove us at some point to put this on one of our agendas so that we can get more information. Okay, thank you all very much. Know the questions for me at this time. Thank you commissioner covington. High commissioner hardeman job additional comments or questions . Thank you very much. Just a couple of comments and a couple of questions. I also agree that the highrise drill is a very important drill will be conducted each year and appreciate the Fire Department working with the private sector to make that happen. I have a question. Do we have we had any highrise fires in San Francisco in the past decade or so . Occupy buildings put it that way. I know we had one done in mission bay that was under construction, but absolutely. We have themwith type i residential highrises. Weve gone to likely percent the highrise we had this year. [inaudible] Office Buildings with her extinguished or they have them [inaudible] lighthouse with that highrise fire though what theyre doing in a commercial building huge fire probably inevitable that fire out. [inaudible] in place get the victims out and organized fashion and following ics procedures. I think those annual highrise drills are critical and very important to appreciate the Fire Department working with the private highrise sector of our community. Talking about the Ambulance Working Group, chief, i was at that meeting and i agree. Part of the problem is the way time that patients have once are paramedics deliver them to the hospitals good suits can be important for us as a department to work with a hospital counsel with the individual hospitals to make sure we can cut down that way time of our paramedics as much as possible. Because that certainly takes them out of commission from answering another call. On the workrelated injuries, 1141. Seems like a spike it was there a particular reason for that spike in workrelated injuries this past month . Weve had some greater alarms work working fires recently and we had [inaudible] tweak their back, there need. Arm, shoulders. It wasnt weatherrelated, we no. Was not weatherrelated. [laughing] you mentioned that january 2018 completion date for station 16 . Yes. Really . Those attentive day we were given by the contractors well, if they do they get a bonus of a make it . If they dont make it they get penalized. All right. I also wanted to thank everyone involved with the Chinese New Years parade and chief rivera for getting a nice ride for myself and some of my other commissioners. Also, i would like to think the Asian Firefighters Association for the really nice dinner they put on and invited us to. There was very very nice. I guess were going to have to check into that dark on cost that is thats biking 4500 is commissioner hardeman brought up that screen to be make a serious dent in our budget this if its in fact happening. Hopefully not. One last thing. Residential parking permit. As you know we receive numerous letters and complaints about illegal parking of our firefighters around fire stations. I think initiating a residential parking permit for fire stations is super important and i hope that will happen. How did you come up with the number 10 . I believe the was im assuming by the mta hassan. I know some stations in the city currently or have them as resident parking permit is a certain number based on the stations eyes, i believe. I agree it was a number based on staffing per station at that location. Spews permanent staffing basically . Correct. [inaudible] we are up to 15 does the Department Pay for these residential parking permits . No. We do not there but by the individual firefighter . He was probably the house or house collection good the city is not responsible for paying for parking for their employees. Have a couple of the questions bound and reserve them for chief beanie when he makes his presentation on training. So without further ado, [inaudible off mic] you one additional question. I did want to go before you had a chance to speak [inaudible] thank you mr. Chair. I want to bring up the coyote creek bbb san jose watching i repeatedly on the news last night the outfits. By the Fire Departments equipped . They seem to be very well outfitted with water resistant garment could so howhow do most Fire Departments handle that . Im sure you dont have emergency flood outfits for every firefighter. So how does that happen . Is san jose deal with that for instance not that you would know exactly, but is something that hasnt happened before soall the other cities and counties in the bay area that are doing with all this water problems and rescues the what kind of equipment does one expect to have in the Fire Department for that . Well, i know some of our companies i respond to bathe rescue, they are equipped with wetsuits and fins and other flotation devices for each member so that they can enter into the ocean because the water is as you know very cold and just kind of protects their skin from that temperature drop. Yes. Because we dont have a potential dam break is one thing in San Francisco has to be congratulated because we just pixar Crystal Springs damn and taxpayers allotted billions of dollars to fix our system to protect our users and citizens. So we bit the bullet and theres a lot of other places particularly in [inaudible] that the county is not responsible there but money wasnt allotted and that was voted upon not to allot the money and i think San Francisco deserves a pat on the back because we did a lot the funds to fix our system through the puc. So i wasnt expecting that we would have the same exact equipment is san jose had but it was either that seem like they were prepared to do the rescues and had their rafts and their boats carrying people besides. It was quite remarkable. Just to add commissioner hardeman we do as chief william said have coastal rescue units as well as [inaudible] as well as surf rescue give it we do not have a Swift Water Team per se or the types of equipment some of the types of women of san jose has utilized and if we felt that we were in need of it and we do not have it theres always resources that we would call in but fortunately, because of the dams they have in the creeks we dont have those types of problems. They dont usually get them either but have different types of equipment than we do. Some more like you said i noticed the same thing. They were doing the rescue the mobile home parks and certain neighborhoods. The other thing, too chief williams, not so much to bridge chief beanie, you are the former train director, too, as far as losing folks from deficiencies or for help, if the public could see the condition of the people that come to this meeting, likely firefighters are actually conditioned and i think the fact that a few squeezed through with minor past injuries, then they came up again, i think thats only the department deserves a pat on the back. You can cross out everybody was a minor nagging thing because many people will have minor nagging things regardless of how good shape all of these candidates are. So that it didnt go to the point of not allowing somebody the opportunity. I like that. [inaudible] as far as the deficiencies, if it was easy, it wouldnt be any deficiencies so you do needyou do need to have criteria to make sure youre getting the best people. So i dont have any i do the two are. Sorry they did not make it but that is what happens when you have a physical mental things you have to pass. From not getting enough points taken away. Anyway i just congratulatei think you deserve a pat on the back getting the 49 make it by april 14. I just want to agree with you commissioner. The Training Staff i just wanted on record they do an excellent job. As the former director of training as a former instructor, the academy, i know that the hard work and dedication it takes to bring a resulting a good product of good firefighter for the department. As you mentioned, there are some people who are injured there able to push through with her injuries and hopefully not aggravate it further by the train but able to get through it. Like you said everybody can make it through and it is a difficult time when i would achieve have to make that decision. I then that you make that decision that the person has to be released but like you said the market was easy then everybody would be doing it. So i just wanted knowledge the zapt on the hard work. Especially chief, meaning. Thank you commissioner hardeman thank you chief williams. No further comments from my commissioners or questions, mdm. Sec. Call the next item. Item 5 oreo from port fire marshal ken coughlin. Discussion regarding responsibilities assigned to the port fire marshal. Welcome. Good evening commissioners. Nice to pleasure to meet you pres. Cleaveland vp nakajo good to see you again commissioner covington and thanks for the invite. Commissioner hardeman. Ive created a powerpoint to give you some background could commissioner hardeman invited me here to kind of give and understand what is the port of San Francisco. Ive been in that position for him is five years now and ive never been invited for some sugar sure you dont hear much about whats going on down there. Go to the powerpoint . Go to the powerpoint, please. Like the sfo airport at about away even though we are in San Francisco. You can see poorly in a map but that yellow part there is the port of the San Francisco. It was transferred from the state of california to visiting county of San Francisco in 1968 via the burton act and San Francisco , now cares for the water Front Properties and does belong to the state of california and the people of the state of california. Its partially 7. 5 miles of all waterfront from the high street harbor always down just before Hunters Point shipyard, b. 96 recology area. Whether strange facts about it in has no addresses. Everything is known that is either pier or a seawall lot. Which makes it little more difficult with these recent about once we have which will see later in the slides. Just some background. To let you know these are all working sheds. Both would be pulled up trains would go out to the piers and below them. It was known as break old storage versus now this is no longer possible because everything is a container so the defensive containers. This is what you see San Francisco is, known as bites major landmarks at t park. Therefore, what were going on 15 years now i believe. Good development within the last five years sometimes at the port, that come online since commissioner hardeman was down at the port to make your the beautiful building your on pier 15 exploratory and. New cruise terminal at pier 27. And it is a working port. The port has been working to bring the docs that can work with the longshoremen which is gone over at pier 80 which is used for the rope which is rollon rolloff vehicle could be some you commissioners made cardone there for that opening a few months back. So just some background when i do them look it up here at pier one thats without port opposite. Everything for the port is given in the one building their go with the City Attorneys office, Fire Department, a couple members of Police Department then their own Planning Division building and etc. Theres only two was down there. Myself and inspector mark mcgovern. We are tasked with doing everything we do juicy at headquarters. We issue operational permits, review permitting of all special events, and review for building plans could all building plans under my desk have to go ahead and review them and get them back out again. We do the same construction inspections. Annual safety inspections of old occupancies. Preconstruction meetings. Predevelopment infrastructure review, which after going and working with them thats when i work with chief rivera to implement those with special port projects and also do Safety Training of the port employees. One of the good things i mentioned this to us every was able to work with the port director elaine forbes, to bring on the new position for the port, which is a Fire Protection engineer. In hopes of capital upgrades of the port of life safety mainly sprinkler standpipe systems which are lacking in some of the buildings at the port. This is a Historic District. Anywhere from high street harbor always down to pier 50 abruptly giant parking lot a is all Historic District. It needs to be maintained. It belongs to the people state of california. So within locking up in that effort and start next week. Technically that we work into the Fire Department and be taking care of it thats on the special project for up to three years. It was no test work but there is a root interview process. So some of the things i mention we take care of events. Pretty large events at the port. These are not small parties. As you know the 34th americas cup was there a couple years ago. The giants world series over two years it seems like with super bowl l over at the port. Cirque du soleil using and really in the parking lot. Fleet week. Concerts readily at at t park and then they have large events at pier 48, 27, and 35. That includes concerts, corporate events, very visible. Facebook, google, dream force, everything happens over at the port. These are just some of the pictures of past events in the last couple of years. Concerts americas cup and fireworks. Currently, for last five years as a been there but work on quite a few developments. Ive always say nothing very moves very fast at the port. It takes a long time. Many outside agencies statement commission, bcdc, corps of engineering, anytime you want to do anything with the 100 feet of the shoreline, it requires a lot of permission, let different groups. One of the workouts of the five years ive been around was actually believe started four years before that was giants parking loteight. Pictured left is what it looks like on right now and hopefully theyre hoping for the First Quarter of 2018 to goahead and further sure for shovel in the ground is a root, 12 square block 8 Acre Development known as mission rock. They continue to work with pier 70 good thats an old bathroom steelyard worth steel shipyard. Its going under two different developments. Currently right now you have odi or in Development Working on the store building but you see the goat on 20th st. They are rehabilitating those in the using those whereas the rest of pier 70 will be mainly new construction. My role with that and not only with the sprinkler Fire Life Safety exiting part of it but we continue to work with and wrangle over Fire Department axis. Cannot fire engines get into this closed community be able to get out and help the people there. Another one thats been nice, up you will see their Broadway Hotel good i dont know if youve heard about. Thats at the end of our way and the embarcadero. We continue to work on that together to [inaudible] provide Fire Department axis bold hydrant streets and egress. Going down to the port it took a while to understandit seven. Most of the port uco with a call finger appears. You pretty much putting people thousand feet out in the water above the water with only one way out back to the public right away. In the embarcadero. The port was my architecttoworkwithmeandweworkto g ethertocomeupwithanexitanalysist od i ggunfirecouldwehavenoandapplyitt o that is created a few issues. If you see the picture on the right there without earlier there was a highrise drillbit retreat the piers as i rise. Take the pier put it on an and you stand up it works the same way. Get the people are the building, walk on the apron. Everybody moves the same way just like you go down the exit of the building to the public right away. We produced this exiting analysis to give to developers or hopes of developing the piers expectations have a code applies to them. A lot of that came from and just kind of finish in open for questions, this is how they welcome me to the port of San Francisco its five years ago it was my third day on the job. Saw chief hayeswhite l thinks this is what i get but its been nice to know the last five years since that this pier was rebuilt in less than nine months because of americas cup we have not had any tires of this sort and its been a very good learning experience i think for both the port of San Francisco msl. So hopefully thats a quick understanding of what i do. Its everything you do at the Fire Department headquarters just twoperson show at the pier. Any questions quit thank you mr. Coughlin to any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Starting with vp nakajo thank you resident cleaveland. They give a much fire marshal coghlan. In my senior name correctly the was perfect i really appreciate this item being called. I been sending in this position for 21 years and this is first time weve seen the port update the presentation. With this kind of detail. Its similar to being in terms of our relationship and jurisdiction with the airport. You go out there and see the airports and see our department and its humongous. Then the responsibility of the department. Same feeling i get with the port. Historical San Francisco and of course it always becomes our relationship as the Fire Department with the port so i really appreciate your presentation. Ive a couple of questions in a couple of common street when you talk about your location at pier one, where is pure one located . Is at embarcadero and washington. So the piers go audit north of the Ferry Building may go even to the south. In terms of your two member staffing without you said . Yes. With all these responsibilitys yes. Is your other stopping support is that a person that support person to you or what is that title . Is an inspector. Currently one of our civilians inspectors whos been assigned on there for about eight years now and will be retiring in the next expected retirement in the next six months but with just those two people. Ive been working with the port on attempting to work to get another employee down there because as you see from these projects, within the next 12 months or so its good to get even busier to be able to keep up with these developments. Part of your presentation was that the advocacy for a new position Fire Protection engineer, with that far pretension reduction engineer be doing . So occur in one this quite a few Capital Projects. I been working with the port to initiate to this Capital Projects could i went through some records went down there i noticed the last 25 years of current fire marshal has been asking for a sprinkler in pier 31 very visual historic pier in the center of everything. Its always been turned down. Working with the Current Administration i was able to get a Capital Funding for that. So this Fire Protection engineer will come in and actually design that system to reduce the costs can go ahead and put that out for an rfp that furthermore, if they continue on as we see needs to design other standpipe systems at the port. For example pier 19 and pier 23 those being used for the americas cup was vacated and looking to bring a few different tenants and get my ghost of a sandpiper every speed. Good because of the distance to get to the end by the time our suppression, is get there and pull a large line down the apron and attempt to start fighting the fire we lost the pier. We just cant do it. So the goal is working with them because this Fire Protection design on up pipes so our engines can pollput the water in front of the building and suppression firefighters can go down to the end and start fighting the fire in a lot less time. I appreciate that description as well. Part of this basis balance of historical perception of what the piers were to what is occurring now, theres so much development, so much activity, so much difference its almost like trying to take the image that we have of the pier previous and trying to do new adjustments with that as well. Myself speaking doesnt know the enormity of the piers until you go down there because each pier is quite large. Quite extensive. The concept always come to me as what happens if there is a fire at the piers and what is the result and are recollect historically theres been some very very large pier fires and dont ever recollect that we saved a pier but basically tried to have the fire [inaudible] not advancing. In terms of your position fire marshal, was your supervisor . Who do you report to . I report to fire marshal vande cozier. In terms of specific steel cord made without department at pier 35 for engine 35 as well we how does that work week it seems like a lot of coordination, a lot of communication. Can you rephrase the question . We had a presentation in terms of the fire boat the new one as well as the one we have existing. Theres always been a discussion that we are right now that was a presentation recently about the building of the new fire boat pier. As much as i can collect from that it was going to be a floating pier. Yes. On that i was part of the discussion early on when it was presented to the port whether they were going to build a taller pier to account for Sea Level Rise and when the discussion came up to do the floating barge my role when it comes to Development Like that, thats only falls on support services. I would be doing because i soon all firehouses after spengler systems. Were still tried to work through because its a boat is really fall into our jurisdiction if its on water theres a certain separation there. But working together with the port to give our assistance on how the fire code can apply to this project, yes. The temporary quarters at pier 26 when the fire boat moves over then i will play a role in the inspection ensuring that egress and the access and the Sprinkler System thats currently in the building is applicable for this space. Okay. Again i realize that wrapping some development over there in terms of our futuristic home for the fire boat and such. I was concerned that when new facilities are built that its built with the architectural designs of somebody thats not a member of the department or what best works for us. Thats kind of like a concerned especially that kind of coordinationit doesnt remain clear because its a big project and clearly youre working both with entities both without and another question would be this is probably not part of your jurisdiction, but for example, with the new warriors stadium being projected with the hospitals down there, the discussion always is the Traffic Congestion with the embarcadero. Is there some jurisdiction that falls within your parameters on that as well . Not when it comes to congestion or traffic flow. The appraiser be solely the port of San Francisco. These developments the role i play is evaluating turning radiuss width of street for our apparatus to respond and does it meet our meeting, so we worked out with the department of public works or puc. Then also hydrant locations and ancillary water system in conjunction with chief rivera of support services. Okay. Again this is part of just some logistical projections but if something happens at at t ballpark or something happens at the warriors stadium, it involves us because we have to respond. As beautiful as this all looks with the Traffic Congestion, sometimes you just dont work right and im really interested to we have our inclusion within this planning on how we can respond because again a beautiful warriors stadium is nice for one or something and needs to occur, i know that at t both eight the quote unquote Medical Clinic within the parkland comes to [inaudible] im just projecting that out. I appreciate very much this presentation and i know that for 60 years commissioner hardeman was a port commissioner ann is very knowledgeable about the goingsons of the port but i truly appreciate this presentation. An update. Thank you ray much. Thank you Vice President. Commissioner hardeman and former port commissioner hardeman thank you mr. Chairman. Vp nakajo you cleared out a lot of my questions. So i will try to [inaudible] one thing that i think the public should know is theres a huge group of construction workers but at pier one could still located pier 50 couple hundred construction court. Is that the headquarters are they moved out of their . Pier 50 now is a maintenance division. They been moved over there. When i do lota is there objection to move out or were they going to stay clean they are slated to stay there. On the work of pier 48 thats a nice thought. Spot. When the giants about loteight was mentioned last week how the Public Safety building where we have our new firehouse its just most spectacular building was built that way intentionally to make sure that stand up against all things that could happen. So i hope that [inaudible] just like commissioner nakajo said, not just for the Fire Department but for the sheriffs and the Police Department. Congratulations on you engineer and your inspector, when a person retires, will it be replaced . Yes. Okay. Glad to hear that. The arena i was talking you before the meaningthe arena just falls out the jurisdiction of the port so youll not be working on the warriors new arena. Ill be that falls under the city and county. Terry francois when they straighten out that out surely the report found to be a park on the left side and the port will be working on putting in eight very landing there. Which will come in time for the arena. Its not expected to come in time for the arena but ill be involved with that probably. Well, fire marshal, youre going to have your hands full. Of a lot of work in front of you. Most of these projects will be up to 10 years so pretty much the tire by that time. Thank you appreciate you coming over. Thank you commissioner hardeman commissioner covington thank you mr. Present. President and thank you for your presentation. Its very good to hear about all of these things. Youre in a very very active part of the city so theres a lot going on. I want to appreciate commissioner hardeman for suggesting this item for the agenda. Its been very very good to have excuse me fire marshal coughlan here with us. I know that commissioner hardeman and i have been to most of these events. From the americas cup, we were together on the fire boat for the very very last one when america clinched the americas cup. Nobody us want to go out in the fire boat so i was president of the commission at the time so i said well nobodys one of as chief everybody thought they were going to lose. And i went out the last seven in a row and they won them all. Commissioner john, didnt join me so that was a surprise but that you do not have a lot of requests once we were down 7zero nobody want to join because of our boat had to be out there for work. So therell allowed to have people to see what was going on to we were very fortunate i had to butt in on that one because those windows spectacular days of my life when we saw that final day. It really was spectacular. The great americas cup f fa having take americas cup history so was good to see things up close and in action. So all these events have gone to, world series, super bowl l, all of that everything is gone swimmingly. It has been great. So i know that youre doing a great job under fire marshaland the Fire Protection engineer, that is coming in, how is that position created . Is it suggested by the Fire Department or to the port i requested the port to obtain Fire Protection engineer at least for twothreeyear period so we can work on these outstanding Capital Projects. They agreed and they are cfo worked with our cfo mark corso, to an hrto get a Job Announcement out and put that out. Instead of the port taking it on that since we do have our own Fire Protection it was a plan check. We were able to work through our Human Resources department to advertise the job, get applications, do the interviews and then technically a person will work for the Fire Department but the port will go ahead and take care of all the pay and benefits for that person. Very good. So this is a fabulous collaboration. Its very very good. Can you just tell us a little more about the port being a Historic District . Is very much for different Historic District. As you know. The northeastern waterfront mainly around pier 35 probably to pier 23 but the embarcadero district district as a Fishermans Wharf area and the sickos down they came up with different names that single rate period of four different requests to the state to make that Historic District is now allencompassing historic area. As you see if you go to pier one oclock on the front of 1. 5, three, and five are grouped together as a circle place. That includes even farther down to pier 48 and 50 eight and probably doesnt look like it but hopefully over a period of time it will. They are charged with maintaining that capital improvements. Some are livid older than others. Pier 28 being over 100 i think built in 1903. The majority of tickets were talking 114 years. Its very difficult to maintain those. The port itself limits all the money brings in from its rents, go back to it in over billion dollars worth of deferred maintenance and as you see now we have a seawall project the port is now working with the city and the federal government to get funds to go ahead and strengthen that seawall. Keep our fingers crossed no big quake were gives way between Sea Level Rise spews tsunami and the seawall we are keeping our fingers crossed. The Historic District except that. So other monies forthcoming from the state . I dont get into it just from what i hear. There was a first allocation of funds to study what its going to take an actually believe tests certain areas and to find out resiliency of the seawall, with lands everywhere you see right where pier one is out with downtown area that seawall was to fail we would have some serious problems. But for the existing piers thats what i was referring to, is there any money forthcoming from the state for any kind of upkeep . No. Being a historical district, does that mean that there is nothing that can be done in terms of modification of the facade that sort of thing . Is very limited. We have our own Planning Division who keeps an eye on that. Actually, who works with the city planning. Yes, most of the facades will remain the same but there are certain [inaudible] exportoriented looks like pier did before but if you step on the back axle different. They allow that. This giveandtake. Theyre very protective of it when the nfl super bowl was here if you notice they were lucky to get assigned this big up on the outside of one of the historical piers. They just to move a lot this is not something meant to be commercialized. Good example of what can be done with a piers at pier nine [inaudible] has no vinegar if you go look at the southside the open windows they take the bay doors and put in glass storefronts in them. It still shows you very much with the pier looks like what it is acting as a office so thats a perfect example of what can be done. It cannot be a residential office. It can never be a hotel. It is not going to be permitted and currently the work on the waterfront Land Use Plan so that is still probably another year out before they figure out how theyre going to work on some these other ones. Pier 35 is a cruise terminal. It will be beat a backup cruise terminal. 27 is one and 29 that some of the new developments mirrored with jamestown going in there. Another one is storage good its working before. This process is in their Storage Companies are in there. It department of [inaudible] now was taken agreed upon to take over pier 31 from the pier 48. At pier 48 as part of the Development Still [inaudible] it will mean, act as an event then you very good. Thank you again for all this great information. Thank you commissioner covington. Thank you fire marshal coughlin for your presentation. Very informative we appreciate your time and effort in putting it together for us. Thank you pleasure mdm. Sec. , politics item please item 6 overview from division of training this session and expectations and over you on hto recruit training. Good evening chief. Good evening once again good evening commissioners, chief. While were getting set up here, i thought of posting to give a report on our Academy Class i cannot do it alone god to bring in two people that just six and rededicated and do i have to say most of the work bystander. You giving most of the credit mcginnis capt. Sato and rescue capt. Nick painting so thank you. Im glad they are here. So what im going to be going through is a brief overview of the academy and the changes that took place from the beginning of 2016 until now get a lot of changes were made and thats will be going through. Like i said on january 1, 2016 the state Fire Marshals Office made many many changes really connected with the national nfpa standards. We as a department and really at the forefront of the chief a true backer of it, that we needed to make some changes. We knew we needed to make some changes in our curriculum. Well three didnt echo effect Grant Eligibility our mutual aid, industrial standards and training levels, and really the most important i thought the opportunity to improve the future of 4500 firefighters we were ready to train. So what we have to do . We had to get a lot of instructors trained under the state fire marshal guideline and we hit the ground running. We used our states Master Instructors we had in the department and very quickly trained many of our instructors who are recruit training along with her wildland instructors cadre as well. This in 96 hours of instructional development. What i am most happy about part of that training is an Ethical Leadership in the classroom. This makes every instructor that represents the city and county of San Francisco from the Fire Department before theyre put in front of a recruit is trained how to be professional in the classroom, respected as needed and overall ethical achievements that we shoot for. So its an excellent oneday class they need to go through. And all have done that. So what have we added . Weve added many things. Most of it my hands on Fire Training. Survival, ventilation, rescue, live fire, works, driving and pump operations. This required three more weeks of effective handson training for Academy Classes. So where does it start quick charger 20 week academy starts with the first two weeks of art htwo ms training. As we knew 8 of our calls are ems. So we really go back and look at these back to basics approach on training. There are 17 skills that we concentrate on. Part of that training is also 24 hours of field evaluations while theyre out on our ambulances working with our crews in the field. Also during the two weeks we get active Shooter Training. Just like when we give to our members in the field, we do to our recruits that first two weeks at this First Responder training was mandated by the California Assembly bill 1598 really requiring all members to get this active Shooter Training we could get these people read out of the gate before they hit the field. This active Shooter Training has been viewed and approved prior Alameda County ems eight sfpd and the fb i. Had nothing but goods set things to say about her trained so they has not really what i want about and really were the changes in the meat and potatoes of the academy is probably everyone sitting by me listen up. Handson training ventilation, ventilation is one most important things we can do to fire now our recruits get to use our power saws axes, all the things needed to ventilate the building. Theyre not just trained on it over and over but are also tested on it now. The state qualification. Very happy about that. We have much more live Fire Training in our Treasure Island Training Facility that this is a great picture. It shows really with the atmosphere is like in a Training Ground a lot of smoke on the outside. You can see in separate much zero visibility. We have the ability with our propane fire so we can set to roll fighters in a safe manner over our recruits to let them learn about fire behavior and things like that. Obviously you can imagine this apartment trained her prudes like most. Firefighter survival training. Another big part of the training in San Francisco Fire Department. Really showing our firefighters at a very early time in their career to where if they were to get in trouble and an incident which can happen that can happen when you recruit in the field, the best way to get out of it. Again not just showing them having him do i do with great pictures up here going out of windows. But really we found nationwide with this training is cutting back on firefighter injuries most important firefighter fatalities. We have increased the wildland mutual aid training hours. Its actually gone from just hours two days and this is really given the members all the numbers coming in our department an excellent handson in the fields making hose leads, making fire lines, and making them ready day one if they get called on a strike team with a need to go to northern california, southern california, wherever needed there ready to go. Really happy about that training. Additionally, survive rescue training. Also part of the state fire marshal curriculum we get a rescue squads out there that some of our top rescue squad officers that have you can imagine so much a wealth of knowledge in these areas. Whether it be low angle rescue, confined space, really gives the recruit at an early time all the different possibilities things they may see the specialize in sin like this. Lastly kumar hands driver training. The state Fire Marshals Office just recently made some changes kind of up their game a little bit, on pump operations and things i got to weve taken all that incorporated it into our academy and right now we believe our our recruits are getting the finest pump Operations Training they can get. It should be said to saul did not come about the couple of days but it took a while all year pretty much for the sfpd to become only a 12 accredited local academy in california. This is where the state comes down and basically audits are Training Facility,. There are certain things we must have late training my classrooms, computer labs for rubble piles things like that. We pass the first aid. They were very impressed. As you can see the other cities in the state that i also have their alae approved. I cannot give a presentation on the Academy Class without recognizing what i believe one of the finest training attendance at this apartment has ever had. Earlier and actually in november, the california Fire Training officers at their conference i believe was down in bakersfield, recognized thyssen family lieut. Tyson lee is one of the top three training officers in the state of california. Im happy to say lieut. Lee is here with us. Thyssen yi width did i say tyson lee. Thank you very much. He is never to let me live that down. [applause] he phones me now. So just in closing up just a couple of things. Some numbers i just want to let you be aware of. Again in this last year so much work put into good since january of 60 weve had 150 new htwo with 60 new hthree level ones 16 new [inaudible] 30 new htwo. 60 registered state instructors of january 2017. Up from 19 we have registered with the state in january of 2016. 30 state evaluators in 2000 sitting from zero we had in 2015. Sf pd concert part of i in over 75 different subjects and chief williams i know that makes you very happy. And it allows us to just not go out like we always had to bringing instructors from all round the state. We do it inhouse and we feel our instructors are the best there are. In over 3000 certifications issued by the sf pd division of training in the last year. That is state and national standards. Cannot wait to read them all out or you can see theres Many National and state agencies that now we are aligned with an affiliated with this new curriculum which really is opened up so many avenues for us for some excellent training. Justin closing with a picture there of the 1 20 positive at this rotor because i think it is also nice job on it and really this didnt happen without having i cant say enough the support we got from the administration on day one. It was a huge undertaking staff was. Was a huge undertaking budget wise. And im proud to say the recruits the graduate have graduated from the last three classes in the ones coming up in april approved in the putting. It works. Were very excited about. Thank you very much good will take any questions be thank you cheap. Thank you chief. [laughing] think every much for your presentation. Any Public Comment on this presentation . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Commissionerwill start with commissioner covington thank you very much mr. Pres. And thank you chief, for this update. These are exciting times for the division of training. Very very good a lot as happened in just one year. So just a couple of questions. How many academies are there in the state of california . Jewel sato capt. Of Training Division of trivia there are 12 accredited local academies to the state Fire Marshals Office. But i could not tell you how many different departments have their own academies are now accredited. They are also academies that are credited to the city college system. Accredited regional training academies. Very good. Thank you. I know that we were on a slide when you were talking about the achievement of training lieut. E so lieut. , can you step forward and i want to make sure [inaudible] am so glad you called him up. Am so sorry were but i know you are lovely family will want [inaudible] [crosstalking off mic] good evening. So tell us a little about yourself. [laughing] how long have you been at the Division Queen i bear the division of training on and off since i guess 2010. One arrays in San Francisco. Native san franciscans will stop Elementary School washington heights. City college. Went over the bay could calpain back and lucky enough of these blessed be working for these fine officers and can say its the best job in the world. Very good. Now you are one of the top three fire instructors in california. That is fabulous. We are very proud of you. So were going to applaud again. [applause] would you like to say anything else . No. The chief knows i do know one person does this could what you see with all these classes it comes from hard work from everyone from them the administration to the chief and everyone who shows up every day. All these people your i think i feel i see a lot of these people because city college i cant believe you guys deserve [inaudible] every single Commission Meeting that our goal at division and training is to make them better. It is. We sometimes we hear whining and we do say, dont wish it was easy. Wish you were better but our goal as the Division Training is always to make them better. So the weekend good product good firefighters to serve the city of San Francisco. Very good. Thank you again lieut. Yi. Chief, lets see. Now that we have all this wonderful going on, are we going to be opening up our facilities to other departments that dont have these facilities . Yes. We have done that in the past. Unfortunately, because of the tight training schedule we have the next three years we are unable to do that because of the size of our class. Along with inservice him as on the same campus, it prohibits us from doing that. They are out there they want to, we just cant do it i imagine they would like to come to our division of training. Is there any news perhaps you want to pick this over to the chief of the department, but is there any news on a new Training Facility . Chief, without objection let you start yes. Great areas good im super excited but unfortunately attending meetings with chief rivera meeting with dpw on a weekly basis. So the ball is rolling. I want all mummers of the San Francisco fired apartment to hear that. Because its an exciting time. It is rolling and we are in the prospect very good good im glad were seen some proceedings could chief hayeswhite i like to add were exhausting all avenues related to replacing our Treasure Island Training Facility which we think will be occupying in the early 2020 decade. Which is not too far away. So we have had ongoing discussions with mr. Brian strom. Talk to a member of the San Francisco Unified School District board and we are contemplating a lot of different Creative Solutions possibly partnering with another Public Safety organization sfpd to do combined training. As well as looking at facing the stateoftheart Training Facility on a bonds. So like chief, many of the two, its part of ongoing discussions. Very good. I think a bond idea is excellent. Thank you for your presentation. Thank you. Thank you commissioner covington mate vp nakajo thank you very much mr. Pres. First of all chief, many, thank you for your excellent presentation. I also want to his knowledge capt. Sato and tyson guy. I dont tyson for a long time. Its truly great to see somebody come out of the community but also be part of this dedicated Fire Department. Its a plethora of information and how long have you been within the department . [inaudible off mic] 19 years. Capt. Sato [inaudible off mic] 21 years. Excellent. Its not just big knowledge of and of the classes that are coming up could i also cant help but acknowledge the mayor of San Francisco and his support of our department with these hiv new calendar. The calendar has been fierce these last couple years, and again from the Historical Perspective there were times and days were we would have classes for years and when we had a class the number of 16 recruits was a big deal. Comparative to the kind of numbers that we have now with the encouragement and support of commissioner covington and the commission in terms of opening the poll but realistically if the mayor did not commit himself to public service, Public Safety, with the Fire Department this would not occur. For myself again following the calendar, paramedics, emts, its a couple conglomerates and often times what your total staff chief, Training Division queen i would say roughly 30. Okay. It just again amazing how much dedication that staff has and how hard everybody works. Im glad he put out the knowledge meant of ethics and dedication in the seriousness that you take because the Training Division is not an easy job. Your training and individual member but the whole family is involved. The concerns of that particular number. Im glad chief hayeswhite you talked about how all things are going within the endeavor of a new site. Because not only was it an excellent presentation of these photos help quite a bit. So when i see more training at the burn center, i know how important that is. In terms of enhanced driver training, apparently, i saw a memo go out that you are having that session on march 27 over a Training Facility for driving . Does that sound accurate . Quite possible. I dont have my calendar in front of me. We much every day theres something going on there okay. So enhances driver training, what entails without particularly in the Short Description . Is a training members . Its possibly without looking i am somewhat guessing can am guessing some type of Emergency Vehicle Operations Training driving cones, backing all different types ofits also guidelines given to us by the state. Im guessing thats probably what it is. Okay. I was interested in that because again the commissioners are privy to information that comes from the chief on active Shooter Training, driver training, again these are all conducted by your staff and hold a terminus amount of interest with the commissioners as well. I just am very very pleased with this presentation and the pain was also part of this presentation. In terms of information what is your title, what is your rank . [inaudible off mic] these, please b was nicholas bring in as captain. The training separate okay. Are you will tenant as well . No. Its a different rank structure some of firefighter paramedic had been promoted to rescue capt. So when your train at their Training Division you handle most of the paramedic training with your staff . The paramedic training about sober if any me for any testing or anything else. I can do both. Okay. Thank you very much. It was very important to have all of these identifiables that you brought today. I love your enthusiasm, cheap good you are so excited about this presentation that you can pick it up from your voice. As well as through the description could all talk about exciting times is that kind of leadership that we need within this department and kind of shows clearly the kind of enthusiasm and dedication and support to the chief to the training offered offices did i plot all the winter was a work and thank you so much for your dedication and service. Thank you so much thank you vp nakajo. Commissioner hardeman thank you mr. Chairman. Nice graphics. Thank you chief, meaning. So the statewhen they put out these survey time limit for all the departments to comply were how doesare we on schedule ahead of schedule, are we doing im sorry missed this the first part of questions be was when the state fire marshal put out these notices of new requirements, hows the time limit for that . Some of the departments are not necessarily good financial shape as San Francisco might be to get the training done. Yes. Youre absolutely right. We were very fortunate here in San Francisco to have the backing of the mayors office, the chief, to be able to conduct a stranger a lot of cities on the state cant unfortunately. When changes to come about, working with capt. Sutter which i make those changes quickly as possible make sure they fit into our curriculum and firefighting in San Francisco once we do that then we filled to good fit we put it in. Thank you. I was happy to hear that you admitted that you cant do without capt. Sato and capt. Payne and we know about the tenant he could like you said a couple minutes going economic to the Heisman Trophy you dont have to win it. Youre one of the best out of thousands. So thats a real honor. Absolutely. Delegating most important thing and you cant delegate is hard to do your job so looks like the delegating traffic. Thank you. Thank you. About was a good so congratulations again. Really i mean you love your job. Youre an example. Any person that comes up and says, i got the best job in the world, then proceeds to be awardedyou have the best job youre really good at it so congratulations. Abuses and neck so motivator in the class commission. The new model with across the want to pursue the name raining we are not training. In these last few months its very fitting. We we thank tenant ifor that. Thank you commissioner hardeman. Vp nakajo i give a lot of acknowledgments in terms of this particular area of training and htwo and members given the opportunity and id knowledge the mayor but i definitely would knowledge chief hayeswhite for the support for the Training Division but all the department but particularly within the last couple of years weve really made an emphasis again my generation has retired from this department. I talk often about the young men and women that potentially want to be working in the department and again its not reality unless the leadership again exhibits the support. Thank you smart chief hayeswhite. We thank you very much Vice President thank you, chief, beanie for your presentation and i had a couple of questions but how many state master is sucked as we have and what does it take to be a state Master Instructor . Spears him a pass that over to capt. Seidel because i believe he is one. We have for mastery structures in the department. I am wanted [inaudible] he is one. There is shane kyle is a captain. Hes not one yet hes on his way to becoming one. And the requirements of the syndication standard has changed in the last year. It used to be a series of classes when i went through the six different we classes you have to go through as well as have back on expensive number of hours teaching now its onto three different class b stock to be the background requirements being a trained officer pursuant amount of time having taught so many hours in the classroom either during just basic firefighter nor state fire curriculum. Speak thank you very much. I would also like to express my appreciation and i think all of the commission to the mayor for supporting the additional funding for the classes that have taken place that under your leadership, chief, beanie, it turned it into a really spectacular program. So thank you for that. Thank you i dont have any further questions could any other questions for my fellow commissioners . Thank you for your presentation and thank you lieut. And congratulations again lieut. Yi on your recognition is been one of the three best instructors in the state. Thats quite an accomplishment and we are privileged to have you on our staff. I did get an answer on the driver training, and appeared this is for our rescue squads that we will be doing on the 27th. Very good. Thank you very much. Madame secretary call the next item item 70 medications received since last meeting of february 8, 2017. Emails from James Corrigan dated february 12, 13th, 14th, and 15th 2017. Any the public on the communications . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Any comments . Yes. Until common before we close out were talking on birthdays. The adverse person in the room will have no birthday this year. Sorry about that chief. The chief was born on february 20 im so happy birthday. [laughing] even though you dont have one. Thank you commissioner hardeman. Vp nakajo, did your comments . Okay. Adam secondary call the next item please agenda for next Fire Commission meeting discussion regarding agenda for the march 8, 2017 regular meeting any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . I know we have one Vice President nakajo we will start with you thank you president. Mdm. Sec. Clarification. We do have ms six scheduled to present next Commission Meeting . We have not determined whether 21 of the march meetings. Ive not gotten confirmation which one. Thank you very much could also just as a point of information, the president and myself on march 1 are going to be doing a tour of the Emergency Management center on Church Street for our exposure and education and mr. Pres. , colleagues, at some point when its appropriate we might be able to get an update about the fire reserves and the goingson with the fire reserves because i know that theres been a new recruitment of many members and perhaps at some convenient time we will be with to it as have some update without thank you mr. President. Any othercommissioners, thank you mr. Bryce present. Something other than tsunami plan i think you want to put that on a future agenda . Yes. Mr. Pres. Also, i think it would be good to perhaps have chief gonzales give us an expanded report and include a little more detail about the airport. How things are going there. Okay. Detailed airport update. Commission hardeman any items likely nothing further, no all right. Seeing no additional items, then secretary exempt adjournment so moved. Second. This meeting is adjourned. [gavel] [adjournment] good evening and welcome to the the wednesday, february 22, 2017, meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals dpoels is joined by commissioner sanchez and commissioner Bobbie Wilson and commissioner rick swig our president commissioner president honda will be absent brad to my left is the dependent and provide the board with legal advice and cable car and my name is Cynthia Goldstein the boards executive director. Were joined by Scott Sanchez planning department. We maybe by builder inspector joe duffy representing the please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited. Please carry on conversations out in the hallway. Permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. Have up to 3 minutes no rebuttal. To assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speaker card or Business Card to the clerk. The board welcomes your comments. There are Customer Satisfaction forms available. If you have a question about the schedule, speak to the staff after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow we are located at 1650 mission street, suite 304. This meeting is broadcast live on sfgovtv cable channel 78. Dvds are available to purchase directly from sfgovtv. Thank you for your attention. Well conduct our swearing in process. If you intend to testify and wish to have the board give your testimony evidentiary weight, please stand and say i do after youve been sworn in or affirmed do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony youre about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth . I do. Okay. Thank you so Vice President commissioner Vice President fung two housekeeping items this evening item number 5 Jennifer Creelman vs. The department of building inspection at 143 corbett avenue. The parties are requesting jointly that be moved to april 5th to allow time for Development Discussions we do need to move the item and move to approve okay. A motion from commissioner lazarus to continue this to april 5, 2017, at the request of the parties item 5 is there any Public Comment . Okay. Seeing none pathologically or then commissioner Vice President fung commissioner lazarus commissioner swig that motion carries thank you the other housekeeping storm item 7 has to do with with an alteration permit on tichlt 55 33rd avenue the appeal is withdrawn our regular calendar general Public Comment the opportunity for anyone to address the board within a jurisdiction but not on tonights calendar any general Public Comment no item 2 commissioner questions or comments anything commissioners. No thank you so item 3 the boards consideration of the minutes of february 15th 2017. Annexes on the minutes a question if i was not here it didnt seem appropriate to vote on the minutes does the City Attorney have a opinion. It is presumed if the commissioners will vote on whether or not they approve the minutes. Okay unless the only basis for being recused a conflict of interest or the permission from the other members of the body. Thank you sure it is clear. Any comments or additions to the minutes move to deposit. Thank you any Public Comment on the minutes seeing none, we have a motion from the Vice President to adopt the minutes commissioner lazarus commissioner wilson commissioner swig thank you that motion carries im just not 100 percent sure that item number 4 is happening there is a request to continue to item to the 22 of march came through my phone this moment by the parties. Both parties . Yes. Both parties. Actually, i dont know if so it both parties i cant tell from the email bear with me a moment the parties are here; right . Why not hear the next case. That would be great thank you so well hold off on item 4 item 5 rescheduled so item 6 this is appeal Alexander Fleming vs. The Zoning Administrator at 523 guerrero street. Appealing the denial on december 1st of an exposure variance to convert the ground floor of the 3 family between to a new between to a noncomplying rear yard start with the appellant the appellants agent. Thank you and unfortunately my thanks very much scott my name is iran District Attorney im the architect of record for this studio addition indeed i intend to speak quietly at 523 guerrero street we the owner rejects not being here had business in Santa Barbara sends his rejects so sorry i need to collect my thoughts that is the the subject property at is a 3 unit building with vacant storage nonused Storage Space on the ground floor as well as a garage my client decided to do a volunteerly schematic upgrade and capture the urban used Storage Space to create a new unit also lives in the building the garage is being used belongs to one of the unit not deed it is an Apartment Building so is he established out with another designer not a licensed architect who got him acquit a ways introduce the process did a good Schematic Design and took to the various Building Department dpw got preliminary approval of the streetscape plan, etc. So she wanted to make sure that all her ducks were in the right now and something in the rejected well when the, of course, the Structural Engineer was involved do do the smeefks upgrades he is, of course, unable to take responsibility for her drawings i was brought in to actually finish up the project im a licensed architect and you know she did a good job finished up the details and title 24 and did whatever else was needed and brought it into the brought my drawings into go maybe overthecounter that was what was indicated in her minutes ever her discussions with the various departments at a time she was told so i did this to get two separate permit applications on the one set of drawings because it was actually was one thing and we got partway there overthecounter and overthecounter i was youll see in exhibit b i think it show see the two the one set of drawings with one, two sets of permanent drawings he went to planning and i met with edgar who told me that you know you really should spate out the drawings do the smeefks not voluntarily do the schematics upgrade and come back and do the unit addition he said truly when you do it do it as just a unit addition with a variation she said everything about the plans were pretty much ready with the permits he said youve got everything except this minor enclosure. inaudible . Pull the microphone over. Excuse me. The the subject building unfortunately, the original designer put mudrooms in exits there which was semi transparent their exit stairs in the space that otherwise would have been a very nice 25 by 27 backyard but my project the building is relatively small relative to all the rest of the buildings and we have a substandard lot the lot well it is 90 feet deep so our lot end somewhere if looks like it is there but not somewhere back here we ended up from the front space to the back of the lot is 27s feet and this was here 17 feet well, that happens that close to being. You have a very expensive easel the width of unit is only 17 feet without the overhead thing that is 17 feet and it goes back to 17 feet so we felt that mr. Lopez said you got a good case ive seen m rebuttal time. Very good. Inspector duffy to hold anything for you. Scott sanchez planning department. Thank you for having the hearing tonight for this case so appreciate the comments and concerns by the appellant just as some background the proposal to add a between to the the subject property at that didnt feature as the unit is proposed not code compliant enclosure on a rear yard in order for the street that didnt meet the requirement of planning code so with that there are two processes that one what undertake used to be one process which was a variance process but for the past two years theres the ability to add do accessary dwelling now the division the dwelling unit allows administration review the project and allows for granting of waivers like the endorse in this case in order to quality for the waiver under the adu provisions it has to be 15 by 1 foot open area that faces on to which this qualifies for the benefit of review the ability that are added under the program that are rental unit to create we havent had the ability to do to create them to grant a zaurns 5 findings that needed to be made in this case, the acting variance in august we been faced with prestigious combed that are adding dwelling units and if an alternative pathway used to be no, but where there is an alternative path we findings those are havent met the necessarily 5 standards for granting the variance there is a code compliant path an alternative path that allows for the creation of unit without a variance thats the in case here for those reasons it is not worthy of a grant for the property in terms of the staff conversations we discussed that with the folks and current a great resource and do everything you can to understand the process that was my understanding that when he was suggesting that as an alternative and make people aware the most that are there i tell people you can point out my determination to the board of appeals not meaning it will be over turned but a good chance these days but have to make people available that are available to them so it results it was represented to him the city administrative of the Property Owner to not is age electrical unit not have the restriction for the new unit so if thats the case this is the process to go through certainly in the past no other process and variances have been looked more favorably by the way, in this case there is an alternative process one that has benefit to the city so you know with that, i i believe that mr. Thank you for your time appropriately denied the variance i reviewed the materials by the appellant i dont feel they had a strong argument about the 5 finding that are necessary to the grant of 0 variance the argument largely was based on you know that staff had told them to go through the process and therefore that was enough to justify the granting of a variance i dont see that as justification for granting a variance and certainly, if we were to tell someone if you see the board of appeals take an action like this this is not what the decision will be we reserve the right for the information at the time the Public Housing was held and i think the decision was appropriately render ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Questions. Just to clarify so prior to this new process if you gotten this as then a variance where you saying youll be more inclined to grant it from it didnt necessarily meet the criteria. So thats what were looking at here you know what is the handicapping of a variance and in this case there is no handicapping because there is actually a codecompliant alternated that allowed the creation of unit thats hard to make all the findings by previously if there was this was 5 years ago and you know were having because of otherwise be a quality unit to meet the endorsed requirement well be inclined to grant the evaporates no way to add to the Housing Stock within the density limits but through the processes now alternative processes i understand interest is a restriction for it being rentcontrolled housing but seeking a exemption to a code compliant so it is a fair trade off not metal detector all the code compliant but going through the accessary Dwelling Program and having it subject to rent control it is a fair trade off for not meeting all the trade requirements and commissioners. I absolutely see the point and lean towards the agreement that that is a fair trade i think well see things in the future about that because now there is an opportunity to it can illegal units and make them into legal unit unit by what you described, however, it is important in a hearing process to reask the question although i always anticipate the answer is having rent control permanently on a unit which is trying to legalize is that a handicapping is anyone going to say well, your wrong it is a handicapping to have permanent rent control on. Can i clarify one thing that is not an illegal unit. No, no, no im not characterizing that as an illegal unit unit in any way, shape, or form whether the Current Situation not an illegal unit it is strictly a variance but any unit that going for conversion and it is can permanent rent control be considered a handicapping. No. Thats the key question bureau but a hardship of rent control im not have that vein but i want to put it on the record. I have two questions any other questions first is theres 3 levels of residence use above the proposed new unit is there a combination of two of the floors to a unit. The architect can address. Secondly, this is a question of endorse most of cases on exposure related to corner lots and the apartments in terms of benefits of urban design having the building wrapping the corner versus a code compliant required a gap on one side or the other how does this differ from that. To this would be mid block it was existing legal nonconforming so not a code compliant rear yard faces on the rear yard which is not code compliant it didnt meet the requirements for the exposure after the code compliant usually it depends on the size of lot theyre better off for meeting the exposure requirement by facing the streets if youre in a corner lot my units that face on the frontage is a code compliant if so it as larger corner lot have a case theyre creating a noncompliant rear yard to the unit that a face that are noncomplaint in this case an existing structure with the adding dwelling unit and most of time i review the least half a dozens of those a week as an accessary dwelling and with the number of units up to six or seven unit added under this program per believe so i i mean it is something that people avail themselves in terms of adding to the Housing Stock but maybe i didnt answer that question. Okay. He think i would have differed a little bit in terms of how those buildings were not coming from to the exposure requirement whether the size of lot was large or small the issue of the distance from there openings to the Property Line but we can thats a separate issue in terms of the new construction but in terms of the difference between those variance requests versus this one is something that well stack on i guess. Okay. Thank you so i dont think there is any Public Comment but rebuttal from the appellant side. The backyard there the plan is to terrace that back it has wonderful exposure actually and in the paperwork that mr. Sanchez submitted his are you able to my original appeal he mentioned possibly putting the new unit in the front because with the street frontage it will meet all the requirements but one the garage is being used and two a garden apartment at street level is so much more pleasant than street level up to the street plus the garage is being used so that didnt really in our minds that you know youre not supposed to take away from the rental part of rental is the garage that was really a solution for us september 4th is when i understand the entire city became enveloped with this policy of adu unit for the whole city up into the literature i was privy to at the time of now almost a year ago about doing all of this it hfs the castro and it was for units that were was required to have a retrofit and i dont know if youve ever seen this handout but although it is dated july of 2015 and we went in may of 2016 but this was what i had on hand when i was told this i had a mixture i looked at the literature for adus in the castro a under the schematic retrofit legislation from the existing building is subject to rent control then adu and coast if you are youre adding kooufrts in july of 2015 as far i saw of 2016 a couple of weeks after my hearing with mr. Sanchez that it became a citywide thing with all that considered it seemed applyable alex lets go ahead and do it i dont advise variances lightly through everything i could see advice of the senior planner it seemed reasonable two different results. You need to wrap up. Okay mr. Sanchez. Oh, excuse me were there 3 units here before. Theres 3 flats there is a 4 Story Building the ground floor. How do you create. At the ground level it happens to be no, this building is a 4 unit. Exactly within that. Thank you Scott Sanchez planning department. I think the appellants timeline of when it became available San Francisco government Audit Oversight Commission is accurate by the time of hearing it applied to smooefks for the retrofit i think that was required in 2015 but it was an eligible process that of the variance it was heard and at the time it applied to the voluntarily upgrades so ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. This zoning allows what 3 units. Within the density that is allowed under this. So the fourth unit is without the adu process would have been in excess of the density. So the zoning is rto generally no unit limit there is a this is within the allowed limit it used to be the rh3 or rh2 before the eastern neighborhoods sdoensz to the rto. And the density is based on the site area. In the rto generally not limited by site areas if there is an rto ill double check but within the density limits of district not exceeding the density if it was they couldnt seek a variance for it it will be through the adu process at this point. The last thing that was only a stair and rear yard that make that a nonconforming rear yard. No, i think that is building itself extends into the rear yard but it is well the mudroom what she calls the mudroom otherwise she indicated that it was 27s feet from the rear Property Line to the face of this unit. I i know no dimension of the drawing. Only in response to that question. You have to come to the microphone. So on the plans there is a 17 foot rear yard which is showing here there is actually within that 17 foot rear yard there is a roof with an open stairwell well but it will have to a 25 feet rear yard but part of stairs and part of existing building will be for a compliment rear yard and if you understand that but if she removed the mudroom would that and left the stair would that then be a complying rear yard. In the stairs are not compliant. Accuses us. If youre done with the question commissioners, the matter is submitted. Commissioners. I see the Zoning Administrators argument is valid because there is an alternative and therefore there isnt a hardship and therefore the variance theres no justification for a variance and it can get down with the alternative process without a problem so therefore you know, i would deny the appeal. So i guess im differ from that a little bit in the following ways the face of this unit is compliant to the rear yard if so the planning interpretation of the overall building because of the stair portion and what they call the mudroom sticks into the rear yard therefore the whole building is noncompliant in terms of rear yard but the unit itself is compliment not firm in terms of what it looks like it does dimensionly the width of the unit in terms of what the rear yard there i guess im looking it is a process of exposure the adu process was done primarily to take care of the illegal units and bring them to code and make them part of the Housing Stock this is not an illegal unit that is under that kind of process and therefore it is not my mind the same as the example of the common ones with the rooms behind the garage and the richard or part there are thousands of them and so i disagree with actually with both sides in terms of this is a purely a process the question is it satisfy the exposure requirement so it didnt require a variance in the in the first place. I understand planning determination yeah there is a piece of building that sticks and therefore that piece creates that the entire rear yard a noncomplia noncompliant. If no now we are going getting confusing here this whole case is built on the question of a variance so were discussing a variance for not a evaporates. But if the commissioners reading is that were discussing the wrong thing because there shouldnt be a variance discussion in the first place how the case becomes well null and void how do we move away from a variance versus a nonvariance if youre position is not a variance discussion in the first place that leads to confusion for me. Not that im not dangerously with you by the way, your wisdom is very strong in this case but were not thats not the case that is in front of us. I guess im not saying that planning has been inconsistent in their determination what creates a noncompliant situation but i disagreed with the va and our discussion of where exposure variances have come before us historically theyve all been yes on corner lots but the reason they were given was that the dimension from openings in the building to the rear Property Line were not per code we gave those left and right including for highrises weve done it for three or four Story Buildings and so ive seen the differences between those exposure variance versus this one, this one conforms if you take the street line dimension from the face of unit to the rear yard. But so and so variances arguably met the criteria for a variance; right . You know my opinion of the 5 criterias i mean, you look at both of those neither the appellant nor the Department Reason made compelling cases either way. But i think this might be worth thank you think no reason for going for a variance then the appellant is only left with the accessary dwelling process respect this seems for rent control and dont get anywhere. Lets go away from that whether i feel it should have been a variance application or not lets go to the fact there is an application and the question is whether the va applied it equally in this instance versus the use. So our point was that the va failed to recognize that in fact, a variance was not that necessary and the solution was the solution also didnt require a adu because the unit was legal in the first place so no, i probably will back off from that and say i dont think that is the the department has been consistent where one piece of building sticks out beyond the required rear yard of the entire rear yard makes it nonconforming i guess my point this situation to the code. If no ill make a motion. Unless Something Else feels. I want to. Ill remind the board if this is a motion to overturn the va and grant the variance and the board needs to articulate the 5 finding. Either tonight or at a subsequent hearing but these need to be stated and need 4 votes. Yes. We do. Why not move that along ill move to grant the appeal on the basis that the va erred in his finding on the 5 findings. Okay. I i mean, we, call the roll but we need to find have those 5 finding articulated not an error standard but we need to know what the 5 findings are but. To be provided at a future date. So the motion includes the written finding at a later date. Yes. Well not b labor that. To grant the appeal and overturn the Zoning Administrator with the adoption of the finding at a later date okay. On that motion commissioner lazarus no commissioner wilson commissioner swig no okay. That motion is voted 2 for and 2 against the motion fails there is no other motion than the variance is upheld by operation of law. I can make my motion if there is to deny the appeal and that the finding of the Zoning Administrator were correct that there should not be a variance because there is an alternative facility to allow this project to move forward and that will be the audi know i used too many words but make that what you can edit. Okay. So that motion by commissioner swig to deny the appeal and uphold the Zoning Administrator that the finding tacked by the Zoning Administrator are correct those encompass on that Motion Community college no commissioner lazarus commissioner wilson no again, the vote is 2 to two, that motion fails. Lets go home well move on to item 4 i got confirm this is item 4 appeal at james kelly vs. The department of building inspection. From the board is inclined well move the case to that date. So moved. That motion from commissioner lazarus any Public Comment . Seeing none, commissioner Vice President fung commissioner wilson commissioner swig okay. That motion carries that item is continued at the question of the parties Vice President. Whereon comment to make i know weve already acted on item 5 but i would request that the Building Department see if the parties there if they cant come to agreement with everything they should split off the portion are of the retaining wall if they can come to agreement with that and get that done because with all the rain on the hillside it doesnt make sense for them to stall that come on, if you have a statement. Commissioners joe duffy dbi so a few weeks we let them do the emergency work because we were aware it needed it wasnt kind of urgent we let them do some of the be work on building but theyre working on the settlement and we are involved in that as well with the Ethics Commission and a permit on that one coming as well so you i only bring this up because the continuance is april. I know. Anyway it is just yippee get our point it was i think we were aware of it and wanted to kind of resolve it. Okay. Thank you. Okay theres no further business. The meeting is i was chai. So i would not have to do it again. Good morning, today march 9th, 2017 i will call the regular meeting of the transbay
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