Transcripts For SFGTV Fire Commission 92816 20161014

Wednesday october 12, twonet 2016 and the time is 901. Roll call. Cuv covington, here. Cleveland rkts here. Nakajo, here. Hardeman, here. Joanne hayeswhite, here. Public comment. Speakers address the remark tooz the commission as a whole and not individual xhirgzs or personnel. Commissioners dont into debate with a speaker, the lack of response by commissioner or Department Personnel does not constitute agrumentd with or support statements made during Public Comment. Thank you, madam secretary. Excuse me. Is there any member of the public that would like to address the commission at this time . Welcome. My name is catherine [inaudible] as members of this department there are additional allegations regarding the station two situation that hasnt been addressed or investigated. I respectfully request the administration the elephant in the room and Management Practices which are the bigger picture. For the record, i worked and been in dangerous situations with the accused and never felt harassed by any of the men or others in the department. The women of the San Francisco Fire Department are not victims, we stands up for ourselves and worked hard to get where we are today, we stand proudly with brothers and sisters in this department. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning [inaudible] lieutenant in the Fire Department in San Francisco. I have been in 14 years and during that time i started out like everybody else a probey. I worked hard to get respect and harder as a female because i didnt want to be considered the weak link and through my years i have beenafter i got promoted, i worked hard to get promoted and worked at division och training training people treating everyone the same because in this department we all put on the same uninorm and same turnouts and we do the same job. So, there should be no question as to, we get detailed woman today, this could be a problem, no, we want to be considered like everybody else recollect a strong fire fighter. I worked at station two many times as a fire fighter and a officer and at any time any call there is never a problem. Sitting around the table, never a problem. We joke, they are like my brother and im offended what is going on. I have frn frnds calling say what is going on in San Francisco. There is nothing going on in San Francisco chblt this is a incident that is not universal. I work hard and respect everyone in the department, do their job, i do my job, i respect that we are all San Francisco Fire Fighters and this is our city and want to stand proudly side by side. Im a litm upset what is going on at two because now it looks like my family is being attack and brothers taken out by someone who is new and it st. Wrong. Thank you very much. Thauchck, thank you, next speaker, please. Can you hold on one moment . Those people standing in front of the door, please move to the side. Thank you. Good morning commissioners, president covington. I stand before you who worked at station 2 off and on for the last 12 years. I think as we let the story going on without details we allow our reputation to be tarnished and more importantly hurt the bond that has gown between the brother jz sisters that has grown over 30 years. When you allow a outside department that doesnt understand the day to day culture realty is skewed mpt equipment moved and training for mew member jz even from the manter over a meal that is subpar is normal for any real member of this department t is not singled out, is just our norm day to day stuff. The disstorted accounts and inaccurate information builds distress and hurts uzas a department. If we allow this to go on without defending our sechbls we are betraying our own and damaging the tradition that makes this department so glait. Great. Thank you for your time. Can you introduce yourself, please . Sorry, adrienne sims. We have other speakers. Good morning. Geren cauldwell fublic relation officer frz the curren theater and here with [inaudible] who under her leadership we are renovating the theater before it opened in january with the tony winning musical, fun home. As geren said im carol [inaudible] hayes, proud first generation san franciscan and iit is my fervent desire and commitment to honor and welcome all san franciscans who make the city great. I want to invite through all of your wonderful 50 uniformed Public Safety legendary folks to join us in open the curren theater january 26 and above and beyond that can geren cauldwells assistance, to offer wonderful opportunities for all of the people who work in this city and we are so thank you ful that with all your commitment, so we look forward to spending more time and welcoming you at the kern and our coming into the fire stations and being good citizens of this wonderful community. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public that would like to straess address the commission . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 3, afruvl of the minutes from the reg yrm meeting on september 12, 2016. Is there any member that would like to comment on the minutes as submitted . Okay, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. We have a motion and second. All in favor please say aye. Aye. Thank you. Item 4, chief of departments report. Report from chief of department of current ixues, activities and event within the Department Since the Fire Commission meeting of september 28, twentd 2016 including Academy Strategic plan 150 ath anniversary, special events, communication and outreach to other Government Agencies and the public. Report on field operations, including greater alarm fires, Emergency Medical Service recollect bureau of Fire Prevention and investigation of airport division. Chief hayeswhite. Since the report in september 28 regardinggoing from had agenda regarding academy. The 120th class is nearing comcompletion and held jun jan 24 at usf. We will graduate 50 recruits. We put together a plan for 121 clast beginning november 28 and will comprise 52 members, 42 members from the list and 12 members coming from station 49. Conducted many interviewed last month and offers were made with members going through medical. We intend to have additional background and interviews conducted in the coming months or two months. With rarsds to our h 8 per diem paramedic class, we have 40 members in that process and i believe they are going through field training. They completed the classroom training. We are also planning to have a bump up class, a opportunity to internally to promote h 3 level 1 emt to become a h 2 paramedics so men 5e we hired have a paramedm license so the opportunity to have them cross up to become a paramedic and then in early part oaf 2017 we intend to have a h 3 level one em 2rks class. With regards to struteaken planning, we had a draft reviewed by the Committee Member jz stakeholders. Those comments were due on friday the 7th and being incorporated into the draft with the goal of completing that draft with those edits incorporated andprinting presenting to you in the november meeting i think is what we had discussed. Happy to bring that to you and have that project completed and thank you for your support of that as well. With regards to activitys sichbs the meeting on september 28, i attended mayor Strategic Planning reteat on the thurth 30 of september, all dpa day retreat with approximately 60 of us at pier 27. Fleet week, i like to acknowledge everyone in our department that participated, there were many of us, but specifically home land scurbt Shane Francisco who put together a overview of the participation and jeff myers. There was a lot of planning and work that went into a successful fleet week, the weather couldnt have been better. I attended a conference with the mayor in presidio kicking off fleet week and then got to brief lee take a look at the cross training at Treasure Island on the 5th of october where we approximately 70, 72 members men and women from our military for urban search and rescue by maybes of our department and Veterans Association was also there to provide lunch for those members. It was a wonderful opportunity for cross train toog go on, so we hosted over Treasure Island Training Facility and had members will hear more from chief francisco and did ship board drills mpt fleet week was very successful. On thursday october 6 i attended a Senior Leadership seminar at marines memorial and will pass around the objectives that seminar schwas well attended by city officials with the goal of forming and strengthening the relationship between local and military. Also attended the parade of ship jz delighted to have the fire boat lee those ships last friday morning add ing at st. Frances yacht club. Those are my activities during fleet week. On the third of october myself and assistant fire marshal joun and alivia scanlen met in preparation of the government audit oversight meeting which occurred last friday and met with supervisors yee and breeds office to discuss what we were going to present at the friday meeting and october 4 we met with supervisor peskin so the goal is meet with all 3 Committee Member tooz clean anything they wanted in our prisonitation. We find it helpful to meet with the supervisors on those committees ahead of time to answer any question ahead of time or prepare better for the presentation. The chief culm beanie and chief williams met with the Advisory Board october 4. We try to dathat quarterly so that was a very good meeting. We talked somewhat about the upcoming nurt drill and then on friday, there was the government audit and Oversight Committee hearing. Because i was at the parade of ships i wasnt able to attend but like to thank president covington for your participation and dan ducove io and scanlen. All the information that we had given ahead of time was really helpful. I was unable to attend but had command staff under direction and appreciate getting it better deputy cheap gonzalez and rest of the staff aattended the italian hair hj parade while i was away ateneding my college reuni. Appreciate you doing that. This week i want to acknowledge and dont want to steal thunder on the Fire Commission, but i have done it before but want to acknowledge, we whether r glad you are not retiring from the Fire Commission, commissioner nakajo but didnt want to pass the opportunity to congratulate on 45 years of service to your community, japan town and urg withing with cumofepy. We are delighted to celebrate that with you. I understand you will be getting large honors from had consm general of japan andmany will be there with you and proud to know you over 21 years we have been working together so congratulations and know there is a nice celebration for you on saturday. I will not be able to attend that unfortunately but it is deserving oaf ocknowledge, dedication and out in the community and involved in the Fire Department, native san franciscan, profser at San Francisco state where i had the opportunity to speak to a class or two of yours so im a huge fan and wanted to congratulate you on your retifermt. I will be attending notunfortunately i wont be able to attend the event on saturday because i will be traveling to sacramento to pay tribute in respect to 5 memberoffs the department who are deceased not line of duty deaths, but died from cancer related industrial career ending injuries that they succumbed to and so happy 250 report 5 names will be added total of 29 names, 5 from this department this saturday to california Fire Fighters Memorial Wall and i will be there meeting with the families, flags will be presented to each the families and names will be added to the wall. Those members are fire fighter seeo malla, richard if if foust, [inaudible] lieutenant john murphy so will be with the members families paying respect and making the ultimate saccharifies and we are grateful to the the california Fire Fighters memorial when we submitted with local 798 the members names for consideration, all 5 were selected and accepted to be paid tribute to forever on thatd that wall. The other thing that i wanted to mention happening this week, it is Fire Prevention week so we will be continuing to pass along our Fire Prevention message on saturday there is a open house at each station in the city. There are banners up on the stations where the public are invited and welcome to come in and learn more what we do, take away fire Safety Information and that will be also inconjungz with the nurt drill that is also this saturday at marina middle school. And in addition, the munt of october is Breast Cancer awareness munt where we allow wearing of pink t shirts on the weekend and after a certain time of week daze. We have United Fire Service Women that have for the last several years sold t shirts that will go to had San Francisco Fire Fighters Cancer Prevention foundation. Finally, i wanted to mention happy event that we are all look for ward to next monday, the 17th of october at 10 30 a. M. At covey code where we will commission the fire boat and unveil the name the fire boat. We had over 300 School Children in a contist and committee that selected the name which will be unveiled next week mpt we are delighted to have Diane Feinstein that will celebrate and kick off the ceremonies i joined my mary lee and other dignitaries, active members from station 35 and members i worked in the early 909s 90s on the fire boat so it will be a wonderful participation. With regards to the 150th, we have a few more important events i want to mention. Our committee will meet at the end of the month october 27. We have Successful Living history day last month it st. Fire Prevention Month qu nurt and open house on the 15 lth, commission on the 17, president covington works diligently on the Film Festival the weekend of november 5 and 6 at the main library. We are assisting local 798, the 150th committee to finance the gartland fire premier in the mission and plans are under way for a final 150th birthday 1e7 celebration december 3. That conclude my report. Thank you. Thank you, chief hayeswhite. Any member the public that would like to comment on the chiefs report . Public comment is closed and we will go to the operation report from chief gun vols. Morning. Deputy chief mark gonzalez. There was 3 second alarms, all were second alarnls. One on september 6, 212 a. M. On octaivia. [inaudible] ignight the exterior of the struckier and under investigation. Fire on the top floor. Extended to the attic, smoke extended to the common attics so there was a precautionary second alarm but fire didnt spread to adjoining structures. The crews did a great job. An sope 21, 238 a. M. Alarm on vermont i 19th. Temporary assistant chief ruben stein started in the laundry room to the dweck and spread to the top rooms and roof package. The decking burned producing column of oily black smoke and second alarm was called when realizing the charley exposure was involved. Great property loss was represented. Any valuable paintings were relocate today the top floor. The cause the fire was determined accidental. The third second alarm is 157 prospect september 23. The commander was ac burke. This was a residential vick torian. The remodel was started by malfunctioned heater and cause accidental. The brauvy exposure needs to be opened to check for fire extension. The second alarm was struck due to extent of fire in the void spaces and difficulty accessing the space. One fire fighter was injured and transported due to debris. 8 residents were [inaudible] also like to make comment of first alarm on september 28 at 555 claiten at 212 in the morning. Battalion chief hickey found the victim in heavy black smoke and taken out of the building by truck 6 and transport by the ambulance crew. Due to quick action, effort and skill of the members and care received at the hospital this victim should sur vive. Public responses on social media regarding the second alarm on prospect. Props to sfd for burning roof. We are over whelmed for gratitude for fighting the fire at our home. Fire prevention attach the rurts of permits and inspection for the month of september. Our prevention out reach. During the 150th parade on 924 and 25 at Fishermans Wharf the following material was given in the event. 480 smoke alarnls, 2100 childrens fire helmets, 1500 photobook squz 1500 badge stickers and fire safety badge streets on 25 different topics. Staffing up date. 7 new inspectors are assigned to bureau of Fire Prevention. Two new investigators are assign today the bureau Fire Investigation. This includes one to knhunty outreach. Back to district inspectors, they have brin relocated from headquarters on townsened street to 21 on e streets including 2 lieutenants, one administrative and 12 inspectors. The Warriors Arena is currently undr review. The project sponsors have a timeline of building inspection and fire meeting. The project includes review of arena platform and high rise structure. Under review is central subway on moscone and that is going well. The task updates are the same from last muckt, if you have any question yz can answer at the end othf report. Update on bureee Fire Investigation. Proud to report they are doing a great job and a number of open Fire Investigation roorts is 91. This is a improvement of 7 from the last month. Bureau of communications, i like to let you know that bitalion chief [inaudible] is leading bureau of knhunication and replaced by chief hayes. I like to command battalion chief [inaudible] he is very valuable and will help chief hayes transition to the position and help when back in the field. Ems operation for the month of september, responded on scene, 89. 17 percent under 10 minute and 76 percent market share. Ems 6, twoe 33 encounters with clients. Finally, the San Francisco international airport, there is a large scale airport dwil this morning led by adc cast llano and [inaudible] this conclude my report and any questions after Public Comment. Thank you, chief gonzalez. Are there any members of the public that has comments on chief of departments report as well as the chief of Operations Report . Okay, Public Comment is closed and will go to fellow commissioners beginning with Vice President cleveland. Thank you, madam president and good morning everyone. Just a couple questions for you , chief. First off, you went to the mayors Strategic Planning retreat, what do you think was the most valuable thing you learned at that retreat . I would say a number of months since all the debarment heads have gotten toort so that is aul oma good opportunity. We broke down into i would say 10 tables of 6, where we talked about the overreaching goals of the city that dont just impact one department but multiple. Homelessness issue. We talked about 3 to 5 cross over issues and most vexing issues. Talked about them at length and discussed various solutions or regz resolutions to better address those as a team. What was the number one crossover issue that tend to impact the greatest number of city departments . I think it was the affordability and liveability in the city. Safety was right behind that though. It was parcel to it making sure we are not losing families, diversity and what might be driving families out of San Francisco. Interesting. Thank you. Um, when you had your meeting with the superizvisors to discuss grand jurys report what were their Major Concerns they voiced to you . I think that president cuvington could answer that. Friday there were few question. Basically we afforded the supervisors the opportunityi personally met with supervisor yee as well as supervisor peskin i was able to catch up with later because want able to make that meeting. We didnt get to talk to supervisor breenbreed but spoke to her aid connor johnson. We wanted to make sure they were clear on the report and reviewed the highlights and cover letter and provided a matrix and left them with the opportunity to ask any questions. Generally, they didnt have a lot of questions. I think we were very thorough in our response and in that number of the recommendations made by the civil grand jury were either agreed with and already implemented or in the process of being implemented. And, they were all very pleased with the fact that we received additional staffing from funding from department of building inspection for Community Resource officers in the form of a Fire Prevention inspector and Fire Investigation additional spot, so generally they didnt have a lot of questions because they were well versed in the report we had given ahead of time. Thank you, chief. Chief gun gonzalez a cup ouple question. We have fire inspectors what does it bring the total number 2 . Total number, i have to refer to fire marshal decozeia. Brings us to 42. You probably need to answer the next question, what is the average time that it take tooz investigate a fire . That varies. We target two months basically 60 days is what we target for open reports but dont go beyond two months and average 3 oto 35 runs a month for Fire Investigation so bringz into 60 or 70. One last question since you are here, Fire Prevention week what do you planl plan to do beyond having the fire station over to provide information to the community, are there other things to promote Fire Prevention week . I would want focus on this week, it is ongoing thing of ours, safety out there and the anniversary the parade we had a booth with nurt and think chief wnt over what we handed out and Safety Information and also those packets and Safety Information is going out to all the fire houses. Is there a psa plan, Public Service announcements . I work would the pio and discuss information. It is a lot about smoke alarms. There is a lot we can dine the social media realm to promote that. Yes. Smoke alarms save live jz trying to get that message out. Good deal. Thank you. Thats all my questions. Thank you vise president cleveland. Commissioner nakajo. Thank you madam president and chief gun gonzalez. It seems like we have had a lot of fires lately. From my experience and working off my communication pager, and set for 2 alarms and above in the incidence greater thanit feels like there are a lot of fires within the last two weeks. On one day i want sure if there was 2 or 3 within that 24 hour span, it sure felt like it or two on a saturday and one on sunday. I want to know off your report page 1, there was response to a elder person that needed to be rescued, chief is that that is correct. That is first alarm on 555 claiten. 555 claten. Did that elderly person get transported to hospital and such . Yes, sir, code 3. Okay. Do we know what the status is of that person . It was guardt the last time i checked but expected to survive. Other piece of nrfgz and again chief i am a chief commissioner so have prevy to the information about a elderly person or a pregnant woman rescued comes off the tv media, was there a rescue with a pregnant woman . One of these fires in october or september . I just heard it recently. It could have been october. Sthr was a fire last weekend nor iga. They did a great job at that fire as well. Okay. Recent in october. I just picked that up and wondering how that woman was. I can check for you. I appreciate that, chief. It isnt part of your report but will ask it, over the weekend we had a boating accident and again, off the media i think chief [inaudible] was working that day, but it hit national news. I picked it off cbs how catastrophic it could have been but there is a investigation in surms of circumstances but know we were involved because the shots taken today were the ambulance and crew line. There was also valiant efforts by civilians at that accident. I think the civilians did the rescue in the immediate area. There were other agencies involved. South San Francisco fire and oakland pd boats as well and sfpd boat so a lot of agencies jointly and did a great job. We did a lot of the transport because we were on the land where they brought the victim jz thankfully everybody walked away but there had to be a resuscitation on scene and believe by civilians. Okay. Assuming when you say oakland fire boat and such, san mateo as well . South San Francisco fire. Okay. They were out there because the fleet week activities . I believe so and all in different possessions positions of the box in the bay. Thank you very much for that update chief gonzalez. I think i will conclude with that. I have a question for chief hayeswhite, please. When it comes to 121 class that will start in november you said november 28. When do you thairng think that comligez will be finalized. By theened of this month or early first week in november. We like to give the nebs 2 to 3 weeks notice. Sometimes it doesnt always happen but would say by late october or early november mpt you reported our graduation for 120t at usf . Correct. Do you know the location . I believe it will be the auditorium where the old Presentation High School was which is turk and masonic. But i will have specific details on that and i heard 10 oclock but well have that down for you for sure on november fourb. The last question in 2017 the first class for h 2 is when . April. Thank you very much for your remark jz kindness in terms of the recognition. Appreciate that, thank you. Madam president. Thank you commissioner nakajo. Commissioner hardeman. Thank you madam president. So, he is sitting down. You saw that one. Um, chief can you explain what happened with that jet fuel . That is quite interesting spill at the airport. They knocked the fireit was full of jet fuel and caught fire similar to i would say igniting similar to diesel, but they knocked it down before any explosion could happen and did a good job. The other concern there is the run off and contained that as well and did a excellent job. It was a spillage and caught fire . Trying to figure out how that it was probably filling up i imagine but dont havet thainformation. That is just curiosity. The composite decking that burned, is that the plastic stuff they advertise on tv competing with redwood . The composit is like the tarry substance so burns a black smoke, oily smoke. I thought that stuff would be fire proof. No. Everything burns mostly on the buildings. Unless it is concrete. I dont know if this is for you or the chief, the 7 inspectors how are they picked and what type of shift do they have and what ranks did they have when the Fire Fighters or officers go into that position . So, the 7 inspectors came from the rank of h 2 fire fighter. Sometime s they come from h 3 fire fighter paramedic. As deputy chief gonzalez said we moved seasoned 12 inspectors overand had the opportunity to go there yesterday on oak street between broderick and deviz dareo. We modify td to set up worksites for the inspectors and came at a good time because we are pretty challenged for space down at fire headquarters and Fire Prevention so when those 12 inspectors moved out we were able to move the 7 new inspectors in to headquarters where they will receive a lot of oversight and training so will work alt headquarters. Not sure if anyone assigned a plan check. Typically the fire mars al will fill where the gaps are and work a day shift, typically 4, 10 hour shifts. Glad to see them take the job. We hope to by the next meeting or by the november meeting we will have additional 4 inspectors so good news. Chief gonzalez back to your report, 4 80 folk detectors and the 1500 fire helmets a photo book. Those are great and glad to see people took those p. My grandson got the helmet so that was really nice. I like to follow up on vise president cleveland regarding out pch reach, it is year long now and ongoing all the time including at the beach, prevention for the kids and different languages. When you brought up outreach a year and a half ago it is out there and twitter getting the messages out i started following it. Our pio is twitter fiend and puts stuff out there sothe message is getting out there. Thank you, chief gonzalez and fantastic report, it include the airport and details, very good. Thank you. Thank you. Chief hayeswhite, to you and primarily fire marshal decauseio, congratulations getting your grand jury finished and getting that through. Thank you, it was a lot of work and hopefully be a while before you have to do that again. We anticipate a follow up on that particular report. Usually we will be asked for a update when we fill out the matrix work in progress. There is another civil grand jury that convened and looking at our training. We always welcomespecifically the Training Division and have been over to Treasure Island. I havent spoken with them but welcome the civil grand jur aempt often time said they have good feedback. That is great if we demand we keep the Training Center there. We have newcould be good news. While i have the mic congrat ulations to commission rb nakajo with all the years in the Fire Department and starting cumofepy and leading it all these years look forward you being honored this week. Congratulations to you. Thank you commissioners for your comments and that thank you chief for your report. I wanted to say that our aparns appearance before the civil grand jury went extremely well. The chair of the civil grand jury for the report on dbi and the Fire Department a tale of two departments began his comments by apologizing for running out of time and therefore there hadnt been interviews with you and the fire marshal, so it was good for them to acknowledge that and they said that Going Forward they would make sure that would not happen again. They also pointed out a number of things that were good in the department and then it was supervisor peskin who had a very good idea regarding using the location maps for the city in general and that information from our two departments should go there since there was already a place for it. Fire marsal decozeio could you add to that, please because i think Going Forward that might be a route for us. Good morning. That is beyond my scope and have to speak with our it but the concept you are speaking of the main kench with supervisor peskin and Information Systems dont cross and share information so that was the main point he was trying to make and i agree with him. In his opinion and felt that was our biggest challenge. That is what was highlighted in the grand jury report. I want to say i really appreciate the amount of time and effort that grand jurors put into writing these voluminous reports because they are like us commissioners, they are volunteers and they do this because they love the city and they want the city to improve, so i take to heart all their recommendation. Thank you. Chief hayeswhite, could you talk a little more about the Strategic Planning meeting with all of the Department Heads . Sure. So, the Mayors Office Budget Office specifically has been convening smaller meetings regarding Strategic Planning and the future of various departments in the city and decided several months ago to have a retreat. Basically get together for the Department Heads to again discuss city wide issues that effect all our departments and ways to endeavor to work more clously together. It was kicked 5u6 in the morening by mayor lee. He did have to leave but most the 60 stayed throughout the day and he came back in the afternoon for the debrief what twee discussed throughout the day. There will be follow up meetings regarding this retreat conducted on the 30th. Were there any specifics regarding how to formulate a strategic plaj plan city wide . Department heads now, they are review forms say performance and how it relates to each department Strategic Plan. Was there any discussion about specifics that each plan should have Going Forward, what is the possibility of having a overall Strategic Plan for the entire city since all these Department Heads have gotten together . So it was more subject oriented rather than detail oriented about a plan. It was more discussion about some of the top three to five vexs issues. Less about the structure of a Strategic Plan, if you will, but more about identifying the most challenging issues and how we would go back as a city and various city departments making a difference to try and improve on how we respond to those type of issues. I know in your comments you said homelessness was one. For instance, regarding homelessness, were there specific ideas you put forward as to how we might deal with the Homeless Population differently . There were a lot of ideas put forward and there will beagain, i dont want to speak on behalf of the mayor or Mayors Office. I was a a participant and one of 60 so there will be findings and report that comes from that will be a working plan so the answer is yes, and the feedback that we had as discussion points will be formulated into a report that well work off of. Okay, there is Nothing Specific that you would like to share with us at this time . As a participant. Probably not at this time. Okay, well well come back to that im sure. Absolutely. Thank you. I also would like to keep praise upon my fellow commissioner nakajo for his forward thinking along with mrs. Sandy moorey in terms of creating cumofepee. He has been with cumofemy which is a wnderful institution in japan the entire 45 yearsism he is the only executive director cumofepy had so when we anounssed his retirement late last yearno, spring time, it was maywhen he announced the retirement at the annual event jaws hit the floor. He was mobbed afterwards because i couldnt get close to him to say good bye because people were gob smacked and couldnt believe he was reto retiring and the board aurd selected a successor. Thinkerize moving well. Cumofepy is not only in San Francisco but the soult south bay as well sethank you to your dedication to the city and elders of the city and japan town in general. Thank you. Alright. I dont think i have any questions for you. Thank you president. Thank you. Item 5, update on recent discussion regarding establishment of h23 classification. Hello commissioners. The h 23 a lot the issueerize intertwined. Our intention is wants is get this done as soon as possible chblt the one thing or a couple things it is intertwined with that we made progress is rc rotations rescue captains. Ime awaited president oconnor to agree with it. That is tied into the 12 hour shift of the rescue captains as station 49. Once we implement that we there is a hurdle to agree with the union on and once that is there the position can start as well as the h 23. The h 23 discussions will starlt afterthat is implemented. That concludes your report . That concludes my report. My update. Your update. Any members the public that would like to comment on the update . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Vise president cleveland. Thank you, madam chair and thank you chief for your hard work on this particular issue. You said there was a minor hurdle now on this rc rotations. What can you tell us what that is . The rc rotation is a matter of president oconnor agreeing to. The issue to the 12 hour shift is pay issue. Local 98 is okay with the 12 hour shift . That isnt had problem. Dhr and fsla laws. You think that will be cleared up through dhr . I am hoping, yess. H 23, the definition of that position has been finished, right . Dhr blessed it . The qualification. Yes. We have to work on that with president oconnor. That needs to be worked on after we get the shifts in place. The shifts in place are the primary thing to work with dhr and City Attorney and get all the Heads Together to work on that and get it implemented and once that is done i can get the same amount of heads toorkt to work on the h 23. So you cant multitask . We can maybe have the same meeting on it. I just hope this position gets created as quickly as possible. I know avenue wn needs to work in good faith and think they are, but we just need to move forward and i love to see this position be available, the promotional opportunity and Position Available starting next year. That is my goal. I like to see that happen and like to see the 12 hour shifts implemented as soon as possible. In order to do that one thing scheduled is a meeting tomorrow between us, dhr and City Attorney prehadch meeting before we meet with president oconnor and his attorney. Good, thank you. Thank you. Any other commissioners . Okay. Vise president cleveland and i ateneded numerous meetings regarding this position and wanted to say time is of the essence because the rowd to advancement is actually blocked without the pis position for a number of people, so we want to make sure that people on the ems side have opportunities just as people on the suppression side to move their careers forward. If there is a a need for the vise president and i to attend another meeting we are happy to do that and very vested seeing that move forward. I always welcome back up. Dont worry chief we are happy to provide it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, maam any Public Comment . Alright. No Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Item 6, update on fleet week activities and events. Thank you, madam secretary. Fellow members of the commission, i wanted to invite chief francisco to speak to us today because you remember he got what was essentially a book on the incredible activities related to fleet week and it is quite a undertaking to put all that together and the San Francisco Fire Department was a intgle part of those opportunities to share experience, to learn new skills and all of that, so i am going to leave it to our chief of department to see if he has opening words and hear from chief francisco. Thank you, president cvington. It was a successful week as i alluded to earlier and appreciate you acknowledging the Fire Department put a lot of working making sure the aspects were coved. Chief francisco and myers did a excellent job throughout the week. I also like to personally acknowledge our newly formed Employee Work group San Francisco Fire Fighters veteran association. They are auch to a wonderful starlt as you have seen them at 911 in the morning and sieving history days as part the parade. We had members of that session cooking lunch for the men and women in uniform. When they comto Treasure Island they provided a color guard and lunch that i dont think i alluded to that i attended with chief gullm beanie was acknowledged at the iii luncheon. Chief gullen beamy received the fire fighter of the year award. It is fitting that they had a role in fleet week. There was many events a number of us ateneded and think it was great you asked chief francisco provide a brief overview of and graphics which also include what commissioner nakajo asked about as recently as the saturday boat capsize. Chief. Good morning. Chief francisco. Put together a picture shoe for you based on the pictures i had in the short time so doesnt include everything but highlights. The fleet week was a great week. Great weather, probably the best fleet tweak to date. What we have done in San Francisco back in 2010 we changed the focus on fleet week from a air show and parade of ships, to a defense support of civilian authorities. How the military provides humanitarian aid and food and water and supplies to a major disaster. Since then it has taken off and in San Francisco it is the model for the country. La is doing it and san diego and new york is trying to get on board. It started off on sunday, monday with the exercise. She attended press conference with the mayor that day and tuesday we had 26 military members riding the ambulances the entire shift. A great time to Exchange Information to battle field medicine and street medicine and share best practice. They got great call tooz work and see recollect you see a roll over in the picksure picture so got to see good things to learn from. And then on wednesday, we went out to Treasure Island and trained 50 marines and 22 navy salers on u. S. Operation, urban sunch and rescue. It was conducted at Treasure Island Training Facilities and like to thank chief cullen beanie and in Service Training staff and lieutenant [inaudible] who set up the island and had everything to go to put on a great training. Inservice staff congratulation to them. Northern california resh cue training is a privateantty that conducts trainling comprised of some San Francisco retired fire members and detailed heavy squad rescue one. Local 97, 98 provided the bbq and members of the San Francisco Fire Department Veterans Association cooked lurch for them. You see in the picture on the bottom left they are learning how to cut and brief concrete. This is our first rotation, we provided 3 rotations so cutting concrete is what the slide is about. In the top they are punching holes and work getting a hole in the concreelt or using a [inaudible] on a concroot saw. In the next module we learned how to move and lift heavy objects. You see a 6 thousand pound slab of concrete and learning how to lift that up and slide another under it. Going back to the egyptians day when you dont have heavy equipments they put it on roleer jz raise it up and slide another slab under it and the bottom left you see a 4 thousand pound concrete cube and learned to flip that over in a safe and controlled manner simulating having to move rubal during a earthquake or building clapsh. On the bottom right they are learning how to construct shores to strengthen buildings and walls and ceilings to enter the structure and conduct a search. In 2011 the navy deployed to japan and used skills they were taught at Treasure Island so came full circle and why the navy is buying into this and trying to get this Program Going in other cities as well. At the end here you see the veterans at the top poses with the mill itary members. It was a chance to inter 5ck9 with intervens to talk about transitioning out of military and into the fire service. On the top we created a competition for them. We split them up between marine jz navy and enter that tube from either side and there a wall, each has one wall and have to breach the wall and who gets through it first you beat on the other wall and gets really heated. It turns out the navy won so the marines had to take it on the chin. They are eating lunch on the bottom left and big group at the end, 50 marines and 22 sailors out there. Also, while that was going on we had canine exercises with the military as well. Captain grose was out there and Garret Miller and ed martinez are out with k 9s and see them going through different props. You see the legs sticking through but made it up into the wendo. We had a lot of good press, 4 new stations coving us. They got a lot of good footage of marines and navy learning how tacut and breach concrete and so fort so was a very good day lunch was great and weather perfect. The navy asked if we can do two days next year mpt they liked it so much and want their member tooz do it and marines as well. That bringz us to thursday and did interoperable Fire Fighting training on the csf san diego. This is about delivering a marine force into a hostile area. Pretty big ship. We spent the morning learning about the fire fightsing systems and capabilities see the central coal on the left, getting a brief how they handle an alarm and identifying the space of how you do that. It is all numbers, all the numbers mean something on the navy ship so we are learning that sequence. You can see in the other pictures they lead a hose line to the navy fear, main space fire or engine room fire. They are very worried about that a lot of fuel and machinery so we went in the holes and down the latters and pretendsed to put out a fire down there. Just another great time both members enjoyed from the military and Fire Department and had engine 1 and 35, truck 4, rescue squat 1, bitalion 3 and division 3. Next year i think we will build on momentum and probably do a confined space rescue. A few months ago the uss graud loupey came into town and said we are in town for a extended time for dry dock repairs and wanted to give a touro wednesday the members took a look at the ship and thursday a look at the ship and confined space hazmat. The Fire Fighters were familiar with the laypen out and were able to pull somebody out with a rope system so worked well and think that is what we will do next year. Friday fs the parade of ships and the fire boat led the way, the new fire boat 3 was outd there so everybody got to see that. It chs nice to see it working. That brings to saturday and have the k 9 hero at the park. Many agencies vaurfbed, thifs bigger from last year, Police Department, shaifer office, chp, bart pd, u. S. Marine dogs and california dog association, k 9 companion, paws for purple hearts help veterans with ptsd and custom and boarder patrol. Well attended and great weather, everything couldnt have got better this year. That brings to the operations or humanitarian otmarine agreen where we had a vehicles on display such as the mass casualty transport bus, the multicaelshty unit and nurt and new group, the Fire Department Veterans Association was out there. You can see there in the bottom right we are give agtour of the transport bus to marines there at the villain as well. That brings to the operations. How to protect the 150 thousand people we see each day friday, std saturday and sunday. Traffic was terrible due to columbus kaday parade and fleet week. We set up a mobile command at marine agreen jz have 4 [inaudible] assigned, 3 medic unit, one amr unit and rescue boat 1 and 2 to enforce the safety zone of air show box and fire boat 3 and assigned battalion chief. Also is ems chief jech jef myers who oversaw the operation as we had newer captains working so provided assistance for them and see the unit working it. Normally just have normal cogs during the event but we had the unthinkable happen at the end the air show, we had inboat over turned with 30 people inside or on it. 27 adult squz 3 children. There was 3 people in the cabin when the boat over pm turned. I talk to a suviver and was in the cabin and filled with water rapidly and saw the young boy and went towards the boy and pushed him out a open window along with the mother and found a pocket of air and took a breath and found his way out. Cpr was conducted on the boy we believe by the father and put on surks f police boat marine 10 kw wry the time they got to the dock the boy was alert. Do you want advance your slide . I guess i should. There we go. You can see it. So, we called for a red alert. You with see a massive number of units respond i believe 11 ambulances that ran it. Assistant chief ball postm commandsed the incident and medical supervisor wasands a thomas and transportation was john cav gnaw and treatment officer was sebastian mu row and [inaudible] were the first Fire Department officers on the scene that established the protocols there and got things underway and organized. Very difficult to manage 30 people on your dock now all needed evaluation and determinations where they will go. The crew here did a outstanding job managing that incident and making work well and had the best outcome for 30 people in the water. This could have been a catastrophic insants please Department Marine 10 and captain worked well together. Great effort by everybody there and thank you to south San Francisco Fire Department and oakland Fire Department for assisting as well. With that, we had a great fleet week. Hope to build on it and make it breter better next year, it was a good time and can only get better. Can i take any questions . Thank you, chief francisco. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on the report . Alright, Public Comment is closed and ill go to vise president cleveland. Thank you, madam chair. No questions but want to keep a praise on you. I think you did a wonderful job and we should all be proud of fleet week and participation the Fire Department has with the military and marines and navy. I think we are probably unique in the country in terms of our participation and cross training between our Department Personnel and the military and training them and we get trained as well so it is an amazing collaboration and wanted to congratulate you, heap praise on your for your leadership and i look forward to next year mpt. Thank you very much. It take as team of people. The operation is big, but thank you. And commissioner nakajo. Thank you, madam president. Chief francisco i really appreciate this report and as you phrased the pictures, the visuals are great. Thank you president covington for bringing this to us. I think the question i asked earlier about the accident that occurred during fleet week is just simply amazing me in terms of the last slide. I was looking at how many ambulances were there both ours and private, what street they were parked at because we practice and talk about scenarios but in when it occurs it is just amazing how well the systems work. I know that we can never take it for granted but with the Police Department and it sounds like the citizens jumped in and so for me it is just a great scenario and glad we had this brat back with the visuals so everybody can see the contribution. I want to thank you chief and members of 98, veteran members and all participant noted within this report for their participation. It makes us very proud, thank you very much chief hayeswhite and chief francisco, madam president. Thank you. Commissioner hardeman. Thank you, madam chair. Chief francisco, i know you put in about two months of work in the last week and must be so glad to relax a little, but what a great cause. It unfolded the whole week and seeing as usual our military dressed up and acting so well behaved and watching the blue angles perform and others, but as a port commissioner i met many many blue angles and the closest i can describe them, they are like navy seals. They have the have the most perfect physical mental condition to fly the plane jz they are such wundserful human beings it is like youwould you marry my daughter. If you have a daughter, you would love to pick them because they are like perfect people. So, that was good. I was invited to go on the fire boat, which is required to be out there during the performances and that was a real street to see how that functioned and all the other police and fire boats, there were smaller ones like the rubber rafts and coast guard, quite Impressive Group of people protecting our fire boat just had docked and already got off when the accident happened, otherwise we were not too far from there originally but once it was over it went back. Anyway, i just like to thank you. It was wonderful and 35 years now as a navy seal, Diane Feinsteinthe fleet week and Dinan Feinstein is the one who instigated it and grateful and hope everybody appreciates all the wonderful people that serve our country and protecting us and the people like me let us live a spoiled brat wonderful life never in a fox hole or freezing weather and never had to be in the 120 degree weather in afghanistan or other places in the world, so very grateful. I like to compliment who put together the logistic operations and the board of directorsthis must have been invaluable to you as a resource, this is very good. Starting in april we plan the thing so those are the all people we work with. This is very bright, smart. Thank you, good job and thank you chief for having great guys like francisco who ree where he lucky to have working for city of San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner hardeman. And thank you chief francisco. I know you thought you were totally finished and thursday you got the call president covington wants a overview and i appreciate your digging deep after having extended so much energy. Not a problem at all. Thank you,ioknow you are that kind of guy. I think it is very important for the citizens of San Francisco to know that thrt is much more to fleet week than the blue angles. That these kinds of training opportunities and formation of interpersonal relationships will all go well for us when we have the earthquake we know is coming but dont know when. The more people who can chip in and help us, the better. The military is more than willing to do that you know, to help on the civilian side and thats essential because we will need all hands on deck when that earthquake like loma prieta roars through. The urban search and rescue is very essential and i happen said upon the k 9 heroes at the park and that std was saturday was a glorious day and that is a dog park on a regular basis so people brought all thir their dogs out. Someone is very fond of great danes because there was a cohort of great danes. Little tiny kids and these huge dogs that are more likewell, anyway. Everyone has seen them so they are like ponys and think a number of kids asked if they can be put on top of the great danes but the great danes were not having it. That was a wonderful demonstration of how the k 9 units work and the booths were very very informative. Had a lot of intellectual presence so people had questions and wanted more information and wanted to support the various k 9 units, so that was very good. And i wanted to ask you a question regarding the boat incident. I know there were 30 people and you said 11 ambulances were involved. Would this have been an occasion to use our mass casualty bus . It was pensioned down there and could have been brought up. It is dependent on the level of severity of the patients if we need it or handle with the ambulances. Give me further delineation between when we will use regular ambulances and when we use the mass casualty bus. I will differ to chief [inaudible] myer. Jeff myer e 34rks s chief. The use the mass casualty bus is the resource the 911 system could be utilized in several different formats. When you have large numberoffs non ambulatory non critical patients. So, patients that are unable to walk due to their injuries or illness, but also a mixture of green patients and the Ground Transport ambulances are used for the most critical vejs. Any time we have mass casualty incident you have the rest of the city and it is regular 911 traffic coming into the system so you have an entire city to maintain as far as 911, but also support the incident so it is rabalance between patient squz criticality and available resources within the system what is the availability of surge unit from our private partners, etc. It is a balance. We also would use the mass casualty bus in a situation where you have large working fire as a rehabilitation station but also utilized for local Emergency Rooms that over whelmed with patient populations from broget internal and outside event and can be rolled to the hospital and allow Surge Capacity for that emergency department. The personnel can come on board and have additional twnt patient capability. How long does it take to deploy the mass casualty bus . The greatest time period to get the bus is generally twnt 20 to 25 minutes. Muni drivers are operating the bus for us as they have the most experience. Currentsly they are housed at a major muni repair facilities, so the availability of a muni driver is the only real self limiting factor. We plan to cross staff the bus with on duty personnel and back fill later, so the ability of muni to get the bus out the door to the incident and cross staff on site. Great. Well thank you. And again, thank you to everyone who worked on fwleet week and did a fabulous job. It takes so much creative thinking and energy and over a long period of time to put together such a comprehensive event especially on the safety side, so thank you very much chief francisco. Thank you. Item 7, agenda for next Fire Commission meeting on october 26, 20s 16. Commissioners . Madam chair in light of the recent allegations on Sexual Harassment within our department i think we need to have review of that policy and i request that we put that on the agenda and have a rather indepth discussion about what that means. Duly noted. Commissioner nakajo. Madam chair, i dont have any particulars for the october 26th regneural meeting, but i would like to say a few words before we adjourn and that is all i have at sthis point. Okay, thank you. Commissioner hardeman mpt i trust your judgment to set a good agenda. Thank you. And madam secretary do we have any topics outstanding . Um, there was a outstanding topic but dont have it off the top of my head. Alright mpt in the mean time i will go to commissioner nakajo for his comments. Thank you very much, madam president. I just want to say to the chief of the department, chief hayeswhite and commissioner hardeman and you madam president covington your kind words and appreciation vise president believe cleveland for my participation with cumofemy scene center the last 45 years. I will have a conclusion on the date, october 31, easy to remember because it is holloween but lots of love in the chambers so sincereious appreciate that as well. For point of information, i am a Fire Commissioner and will remain so will participate for 3 more years commissioner hardeman. 3 and a half years so, here we go. Thank you very much. Appreciate all the support. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner nakajo and now that you are going to be retired, there are some things coming down the pipe that i like to chat with you about. [laughter]. Chat away and you wont be listening. It is controlled substance policy. Thank you. I know there was something out there. Controlled substance policy. And the vise president s and i will confer with the chief of the department to see what other items will fall on the upcoming agenda. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak at this time . Okay, Public Comment is closed. Andi would like to adjourn this meeting in honor of retired assistant chief ray landy who passed away this week, monday october 10th. He retired from the department on september 16, 19 ailth 9 with over 35 years of services. Thank you. We are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] all right, good morning, everyone and welcome to our rules Committee Meeting of thursday, october 13th, 2016, i am tang, chairing this committee today, and to my left is supervisor cohen and we will entertain a motion to exexcuse mar later. And we would like to thank mark and jim from stgtv. Are there any announcements . Yes, silence all cell phones and Electronic Device and completer speaker cards and documents included to the files, should be submitted to the clerk and the items today will appear on the oblth, 25th board of supervisors agenda, could you call number one . Ordinance amending in the stafgs code to change the membership requirements for the Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee, and to establish a sunset date. Could we get a motion to excuse, supervisor mar. Lets make a motion to excuse him. We will do that without objection. And now we are back to item one, which has been called. And i think that we have a representative back here. Good morning, i am the chair. And now what you have before you today, is something that we have worked on hard, and unfortunately this year, we have only had one meeting with the quorum. Because of what the administrative rules have, we have to have 18, we have to have at least, 12 people. When there is only, is 4 people appointed, at any particular time, it means that everyone has to be there basically. And we know that is not possible. And so we as a Committee Sat down and we went through and we looked at what we thought were things that had not been filled in years, and one seats that were duplicates. And what we came up with. We are really hoping that, you know, second is so important, and we cant get anything done. And we have resolutions and we want to pass, but without a quorum, we cant do that. You know, based and a lot of stuff that we wanted to do this year. And i have feel really good and i think that i have gotten all of the district seats filled which has not happened in a long time. So i worked really hard as the chair to get the seats filled. But we need your help to make it easier for have a quorum. On average, how many people are attending these meetings . We usually get, nine to eleven. But that is not a quorum. No, we sit there and count the people, you know, and door opens and is it another member . You know . And that is so frustrating when you have a committee as important as psac is. How are they interacting with vision zero. We are active in that. And we are always at vision zero and active with that. Okay. And then i also see that another requirement in addition to kind of reducing the number of seats is that any member who misses three regular meetings, within a six month period without express approval of the committee will or shall be deemed resigned from the committee. You know, with he have some and a couple of people that we dont see, and it is kind of frustrating when it is like where are they . That is why we wanted to put that in there also. All right, thank you for your presentation. I think that is, obviously we want these Advisory Committees to really serve their purposes, if you are not able to meet more than once a year, i think that these changes are fine. I have had to cancel the last two meetings because we were not going to have a quorum, the next meeting, our november meeting is on election day, we are not sure what we are going to do about that one yet. Here today, and the chair, kevin and one of the members, howard, and so, we hope that you will pass this along to the board so that we can actually do something. All right. You know, when i became th, r i had a lot of things that we wanted to do, but we have not been able to do them, because we have not been able to meet officially. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. Do you have any questions or comments on this item . Okay, so seeing none, again, i think that it is straight forward but we will open it up to the Public Comment. If you want to comment on item one . Come on up. Hello, and high name is kevin, and i am the vice chair of the psac and as becky just stated, we have not been able to have an official meeting for a very long time because of the number of seats on our committee is 23. But we need to have 12 people to show up to have a quorum. And because a lot of other people have other commitments and other jobs that are not able to meet at this, and at the certain time on the second tuesday of each month, we are not able to pass any resolutions or have any important talks or meetings about Pedestrian Safety, and vision zero, which is what this committee was pretty much formed to deal with. And going, and as becky stated we need to reduce these number of seats, some of which are we have two seats for the bicycle committee, or whatever. And two for school, or is that right . Some of these are redundant and we dont need the double seats that one person can fill and be able to commit to meeting once a month. So we need to make sure that all of the people who are where the seats are filled with, are committed to vision zero and able to meet once a month. And have this quorum, so that we can pass the important resolutions and help you guys deal with vision zero, which is one of the most important things in the city. So, please pass this resolution, legislation and thank you for all of your hard work. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please . Good morning, i have been on the committee since it was official in 2003, and first i want to thank supervisor weiner for carrying the ordinance through to get the changes, the changes are simple, they really, by getting down to about 6 nonsupervisors these are 6 that are typically always filled, my seat, as for the transportation and the school and one school seat and obviously we need a bicycle seat and a Pedestrian Safety seat and the other two, but they are typically filled and eleven supervisors do a better job of filling their seats. And so then we have a quorum and that shows but we typically have 9 or 10, or 11 people out of the 14 appointees, that is good and we will go on and do the business and advice you and the mta and get the city safer and better for pedestrians thank you very much. All right, any other members of the public who wish to comment on item one. See none, closed. If we can get a motion to send this forward to the full board. Supervisor cohen . I will make that motion with a positive recommendation. And we will do that without objection. Item two. Hearing to consider appointing one member to the cannabis state task force. We have one seat and one applicant here and that is jennifer, i believe that she is not able to make it here today, is anyone here to speak on her behalf . Okay. So anything, none why dont we open this up to Public Comment. No i was going to actually, i thought that there was no one to speak on her behalf. I thought that i was going to make a motion. We will go to Public Comment. Seeing none, closed. And i would just say that this particular seat has a requirement that it is a representative of a labor union that represents employees working the cannabis industry from looking at her application, miss garcia does satisfy that requirement and i believe that she had originally wanted to app apply last time around, i would be fine be supporting her. Xurp cohen . I would like to make a motion to move to the full board a positive recommendation to appoint jennifer to seat one. And we will do that. Madam chair, that is also with the residence waiver. Yes, with the residency waiver. I didnt realize that. We will do that without objection. Thank you. Item three . It is the hearing to consider the term, ending november, 19, 2018, or the tenure of the nominating supervisor, whichever is shorter to the committee and one seat and one applicant. And we have charles. I am marks a pointment to the district two seat and i have lived in district two my whole life and i was born at california pacific on california street, and i grew up playing at the park and i attended the University High school and i continue to live in district two to this day, growing up i would ride my bake through the neighborhood. And i will be going to college, when i realized that i could influence the change on the streets that i was riding on. When i did arrive in la, i became fed up with the Transportation Options and the poor bicycle infrastructure, and back when the city was horrendous and that was for me, as an experienced biker, and other students would not touch a bike and would not want to go downtown or wherever, and it was difficult, so this really sparked something in me and by the end of my four years, i had created a fully funded and student staffed Bicycle Share Program which exists to this day, and close with advocates to influence the important street projects for the people walking and biking in the neighborhood. Now that i am back in stowers, i have been working pe San Francisco for year and a half and in this job, i work with the city agencies to organize the project and push them to completing. And it has given me a sense of how they come to fruition and how to mobilize the residents, to meet their needs, bike and walk, and people in cars. It is also, for the diverse residents of San Francisco. And their unique per pespectivp. And this has shown me that there is still much to be done to make the streets safer for all, and while i may feel okay riding on the streets that is not the case for many if not most. My little sister, for example, now she is in high school and wants to ride to become more independent and she is nervous, sharing the traffic lines and riding around in the cars, i think that the streets need to be safe and accessible. And whether that is my 14yearold sister or my neighbor with your nomination i will strive to the goal for making the street safer for all users in district two. Thank you for the thorough presentation and for your work while you are in college. I am happy to make a motion after Public Comment. So we will go to Public Comment then on item three. Any members of the public who wish to speak . Thank you. And seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor cohen . Thank you, i would like to make a motion that we move with the positive recommendation to appoint charles for seat two. And we will do that without objection. Thank you. All right, item four please . A hearing to consider appointing two members terms sending january 15, 201 , to the Health Authority. There are two seats and two after mri cants. We have eddie and maria luz. Torre. If you are here come up and make a present welcome mr. Kim. Good morning, supervisors tang and cohen, good to see you, my name is eddie and i am the current president and ceo of northwest medical service and taking care of 65,000 patients here in San Francisco, and 75 percent of them are at or near poverty. And have been working with them since i have been a ceo for eight years now. And we are really happy to be able to say that we have been able to put a majority of the visions in health homes and i think that when i first arrived, we had 50,000 patients and i think that we are up to close to 150,000 now. And i am proud of that and they are getting excellent here in San Francisco. I know that this is the reappointment and the same as seat ten as well. If you could describe what you would like to work on if you were able to be reappointed. Sure. Right now, i think that the baby boomers are really growing. And hopefully, we can do something with the health plan, in helping with the seniors. I think that the growth pattern, that we see for the baby boomers, are going to be expotential and so we have to figure out ways of providing that same type of Affordable Care for our senior population as well. All right. Good to see you eddie. Supervisor cohen. It is good to see eddie before us. Okay. All right then, and i guess that without any further questions and then we will move on to the next applicant . Thank you. Thank you. My name is maria luz. Torre i am the cochair of the San Francisco health plan and there are two of us as cochairs and cochairs are appointed by the governing board in the Health Authority. And i have cochaired the committee with three different people. And i am still doing it. My children were on medical when i start and when i started working, they were on Healthy Families because our income was up a little bit and then when the income went up, they were on the healthy San Francisco and now i am an ics provider and so for the first time, i am a member of the San Francisco plan before, it was my children. And i am also the organizer of the parent voices of San Francisco, and we served the low income family and we advocate for the children and their families and i know the struggles that the families go he through because i have been one myself. I feel one myself. And, we represent the consumers in the governing board. Or the Health Authority. And i think you are probably asking the same question that you asked eddie. And so, as a consumer representative, it is our obligation, me and ireen, who i cochair to represent the voices of the members of the health plan. Like one of the biggest issues that we have is access. And San Francisco and having universal coverage, and i think that the access is very important. We have many families who work three jobs, or work during the day or go to school, and may not be able to Access Healthcare for the children and so it is important that we provide the special care, and extended care up to 5 00 or on saturday and stuff like that. Maybe you can just talk more about some of the issues that you have been able to address, while serving in that role. All right. Yes, so as, and the committee chair, we facilitate the issues that the members bring to the gro group. It is not provided by the plan itself, and make sure that we bring in the resources and that the health plan provides the connection to the members. And so that they are able to access the dental care, because not a lot of providers want to do them in medical and the paperwork is just crazy. And one other thing, is that brings in the family and usually complain that going to the hospital or to the appointment is very difficult and they get like, and they are late for like ten minutes and then their appointments cancelled. But sometimes they are waiting for an hour. It is like they can wait for an hour but when they are late, their appointments cancelled and it is another three months before you can get an appointment and so we are bringing it up to the governing board and to our Quality Improvement people. My cochairs, in that committee. And so we want to make sure that these are addressed. And then, also we for instance, with regard to the formula, like sometimes a doctor prescribes a medicine and it is not in the formula, and so the access to the prescription will be instant, and sometimes members of the health plan were just like get frustrated and so we bring this up to the governing board. And sometimes, also the staff, because to coc comes to our Advisory Committee and here hears from the members directly, and so we facilitate that. And i have been on the cochair of the committee for so many years and i believe that my being there with the three different cochairs to provide the community. And it is an elected position by the member of the Advisory Committee and so i am honored to serve, and it is a volunteer position and i am honored to serve. Thank you so much for your service, supervisor cohen . Thank you, i just want to make a minute, to compliment you and i think that you have been an Outstanding Community leader and incredible coming from the community, and the Pacific Islander community and at times you are under represented in the last six years that i have been on the board you have been around and active. Whether in the volunteer capacity. Or in an appointed position and so i am happy to support you again today. Thank you. Thank you. Well, thank you so much for your presentation, and now we are going to go to the Public Comment to item four. Thank you, supervisors, my name is sumi from the San Francisco health plan and i just want to briefly say, that the San Francisco Health Authority is absolutely supportive of the reappointment of eddie and maria you have been outstanding Board Members and it was interesting to hear the pedestrians safety, advisory commission, issues because we have not had that problem, it is a volunteer board, and it is 19 members. But eddie and maria are among the most faithful members who really take the time, and the volunteers from a lot of time. To really help us in our duty and in our responsibility and in our passion, to take care of the low and moderate income people to make sure that they have access and, be sure that we hear the providers that take care of them and as wells the members that we serve and that will be like maria and they have done a fantastic job and we hope that you will support their reappointment. Thank you so much. Thank you. Any other members who wish to comment . Seeing none, comment is closed. I would love to make a motion to reappoint eddie for seat six with a residency waiver. Also to appoint, maria to seat ten. And we will do that without objection, congratulations. Item five . Hearing to consider appointing four members for a twoyear term to the Workforce Community Advisory Committee. There are four seats and three applicants as one has withdrawn. As the clerk stated Dalila Ahumada has withdrawn their application and so we have Elizabeth Simpson and debra mann and villy wang and if they could come up that would be wonderful. Good morning, supervisors. I am with the San Francisco conservation core. And i am a new executive director of the previous executive director has been there 25 years, and i have been the executive director since last april. I am not a resident, but i have worked both in the private sector, whereas with Morgan Stanley and i have been doing the Business Development here in San Francisco for about 15 years, and switch to the academic side and i worked at stanford and the university of San Francisco. And while serving in the university of San Francisco i was on the committee, that created the streets. And under the previous under i am trying to think of the mayor. And until we took that from a very idea to the full issue and now we have the sunday streets, as well, the San Francisco conservation core is the Workforce Development for the population, 1826 and we also run a Charter School for those who have dropped out of the Unified School District and then we do the career placement and then we have the employer relations and an academic component where we worked with the cools and do Workforce Development and so my full resume, there, and i also full disclosu disclosure, my daughter is qunichlt ncy man and volunteerd for supervisor cohen and wanted me to share with both of you at Lehi University and plays basketball and she was featured on the schedule. So any way, just so you know, loved her public experience and actually is studying Political Science and loved the grassroots building that she did this summer. I also want to speak on behalf of liz simpson. I am a new director here in San Francisco and liz has been a mentor. And so liz serves as the executive director at the success center, since 2010, she has gone from 450,000 budget to 2. 1 million. She is a resident of San Francisco. And educated at San Francisco state. And she began her Work Employment with the private investment, or the private Industry Council which was the predecessor of oewd and she is an expert in Workforce Development over the last 32 years and she was part of the grant that has secured 25 million for Youth Employment in San Francisco and she also worked with the San Francisco juvenile Probation Department for 16 years, creating job training, and programs at Log Cabin Ranch we also were at the ranch when we are doing the Workforce Development with the ten to 12 youth that they send there and we work with the Probation Department. And after retiring from the juvenile Probation Department, liz took on the appointment at success center. And in her first year, she worked with the ymca, and Program Development and it is just been honored recently, for her community service. So thank you for the opportunity to speak and we look forward to serving. Thank you so much. All right, and. Hi, good morning, supervisors tang and cohen, i am a workforce analyst with the office, and i am here because i will be staffing the Workforce Community, Advisory Committee. And we are very excited to get this committee off of the ground. And it has taken a little bit of time. But we believe that the candidates that we have in place represent you know, a wealth of expertise and knowledge in the area of Workforce Development in the city of San Francisco. So, we could not be happier, with the folks that we have proposed to be around the table to begin meeting hopefully in early november. And just to speak on behalf of billy wong. As a grantee of ours and the Community Based organization and on the sunset district, it is one of our highest performing grantees and i know that he has been there for many year and we rely on them for their expertise particularly in training and placement in the communications and information economtechnolog sectors which are growing and continue to grow in the city of San Francisco and so she brings a wealth of knowledge in that space, and so. I am sorry you said big hat sunset district. Isnt that correct . No that is not correct. That is in dog patch. She lives in the sunset. I am sorry. That is a nonprofit of phenomenal work that is happening on the south east. That is okay, that is what i am up for. But any way. High, performing grantee as our success center, and San Francisco conservation core, and so we are very excited about these three nominees. And hopefully you are as well. Great. Thank you very much. I am sorry that miss wang could not be here, but we are very familiar with the work and you know, really happy to see that she has applied. And so at this point, then, again, we have three applicant and four seats. We will go to Public Comment, unless there is any other questions for applicants . Okay. And i dont see any other members of the public here. So we will close Public Comment. And if we can get motion or several motions on this. Sure, what i would like to do first of all, i have had the opportunity to work with liz and villy for years and worked with mrs. Mann through the work of her daughter and as well as her taking the core, and these are phenomenal suggestions and we are in store for a really stal lar workforce committee, i would like to make a motion to appoint Elizabeth Jackson for seat two, mann for three, and wang to seat four. And for mann we would need a residency waiver as well. We will do that without objection, congratulations. All right, and so now, mr. Clerk, are there any other items before us. There are no more items madam chair. All right, this meeting is adjourned thank you. Light for streets illuminating our ideas and values starting in 2016 the San Francisco Public Utilities commission is xhoefl that light with new led with the did i audits for better light for streets and pedestrian and theyre even better for this vitally lasting longer and consuming up to 50 Percent Less Energy upgrading takes thirty minutes remove the old street light and repeat 18 thousand 5 hundred times while our street lights will be improving the clean energy will remain the same every San Francisco street light is powder by 100 percent godfathers hetch hetchy power in one simple word serious as day turns [gavel] good afternoon to you. I like to call this meeting to order. Good afternoon mr. Mdm. Clerk welcome back everyone to the regularly scheduled meeting of the San Francisco Employee Retirement system. Commissioner cohen chairman of this body. Would you please rise me put your right hand over your heart and say the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] all right ladies and gentlemen, by way of introduction to my left is the Vice President brian stansbury. Mr. Mdm. Clerk how are you today just fine please take roll call cohen, here. Stansbury, here. Driscoll. Makras, here. Meiberger, here. Paskinjordan, here. A quorum is present thank you esther mdm. Clerk these call item 3 item 3 closed session and action item ladies and gentlemen at this time will go to closed session with state public, and whether we should go into closed session . Seeing the usual commenters are not here. Theres no ladies and gentleme to call this meeting back into order [gavel]. Com back. I like to take a motion not to to come out of closed session, first. I want to acknowledge that the matter related to the Settlement Agreement with Northern Trust was approved and approved unanimously. Part of that motion i like to make a motion not to disclose the rest that was discussed in closed session. Is there a second moved and seconded. We can take this lets do a roll call vote before you move on all state for the record commissioner meiberger was not present in closed session for the first item the record will reflect that. Could you do a deed keeps vote cohen cohen aye stansbury absent bridges aye driscoll aye makras aye commissioner meiberger aye paskinjordan aye the motion passes thank you very much. Could you please call the next item the next item is item number for general Public Comments. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the time on a january 2 general Public Comment. If you like to come up please do so. Love 2 min. To speak on any items that seeing none, [laughing] you are testing me. I name is john ensign im a twoyear member of Pension Funds and i like to give you talk about my favorite topic hedge funds. I like to give you a few reasons why you should divest from hedge funds. The first reason is that 15 Year Experience that calpers had with hedge funds in markets. Spending hundreds of Million Dollars in management and performance fees they only had a 4. 8 [inaudible] the second reason is the bloomberg report, 11 large Pension Funds have invested in hedge funds. Theyre the same experience as calpers. Management performance fees in return for poor performance. The bloomberg report also determined that most of the reasons that Pension Funds and Pension Funds are a [inaudible]. The third reason you should divest in hedge funds is [inaudible] 1 Million Investment with a Top Hedge Fund manager. I think everybody here and i few months ago, so far, [inaudible] vanguard s p 500 is up 65 and the Top Hedge Fund manager are up 21 . So those three reasons should give you deep thought into divesting from hedge funds. The third reason is one of the best investments that 1 million that. What it is showing is that High School Dropouts with 15 min. Of tuition can beat the best and brightest Hedge Fund Managers in the world. Thank you thank you. Any other speakers . Public comment is closed. Could you please call the next item next item item number five in action items and approve the minutes september 14, 2016 retirement Board Meeting thank you. Lets take Public Comment on this item. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve to accept the minutes . Moved motion made by meiberger and seconded by paskinjordan. Without objection to the motion passes. Would you call item 6 items six the consent calendar action item thank you. Is there Public Comment on the consent calendar . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. May have a motion to accept the consent item moved and seconded. Without objection the motion passes. Mdm. Clerk item number seven discussion item Investment Committee report thank you very much. This is a discussion item. Investment committee, commissioner bridges the report stands as [inaudible] the committee met on september 21. It was very well organized it with Great Success in education via our Investment Team as well as some of the [inaudible], think mr. Coaker and his staff. Incarnating the speakers [background noise] i think we are a better board as a result of the information and knowledge we received on that agent so thank you could i welcome any other comments san diegan anyone on the Committee Want to comment . Seeing none, but go to Public Comment. Thank you for the report. Public comment on items seven . Investment Committee Report seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This is a discussion im so no action is item needed should could you call call the next item he was item number eight and action item consideration of investment restrictions on firearm and ammunition manufacturers and retailers we had some discussion and clearly state the motion if this is again we had a long series of discussions last month on the divestment of excuse me the restriction of firearms and ammunition manufacturers and retailers. I think weve exhausted discussion on this particular topic but go ahead and open up to Public Comment. Anyone in the public like to speak on this items the seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This is an action. Colleagues can i get a motion moved and seconded. We can takethe house has changed a little bit whereon item 8 but the divestment of firearms. Thats okay. I have a question. Okay. So calpers anddivested from the Firearm Companies but not the retailers. Is that correct . That is correct are you asking us to divest from both . Yes. We are recommending that you divest from both. The three retailers that we listed as well as the 56 firearms and ammunition manufacturers which is what new york has done right but calpers did not do that . That is correct do you know of any reason why cowpers did not divest of the retailers . I do not. Its a fairly new should i think it serviced and separate, maybe march of this year. At the employees you are city newark state employees retirement system. Actually raised it as an initial in our initial discussion. The retailers being responsible for the distribution of firearms, so right after the Board Meeting new york took their action and thats why we reported back last month and we basically are saying that obviously, its a policy called by the board but we have a kind of five of what 800,000 in investments on the retail side and we basically were saying that if its the boards will, that we would recommend that you divest both from the manufacturers as well as the retailers and we have in fact contacted our Investment Managers and sort of said this is whats going to be before the board as far as reporting back to you the Implementation Plan and whether what impact it would have on the managers. Okay. Weve done all the research to ensure that those are the only retailers that distribute any mission and guns that were divest invested in pure those three are the only ones . Yes no other . I think a primary business the significant part of their business is guns and ammunition. I think i dont know you can probably buy a gun at kmart. I dont know. I dont know. Yes but, the question for me when i look at Dicks Sporting Goods [laughing] where we also buy shoes. Is that really significant part of their business . B was it is not. Walmart it is him. Walmart used to be able to buy rifles. Right. Is that something the board understands its really about that were making decisions to divest of all these Sporting Good stores and people where its a very minimal part of what they do . It is in lot of these committees are meant minimal part of what they do and because of greg fd as i discussed in the memo, my anticipation is that this becomes a major issue. See some of these committees saying its not worth its a small sliver of revenue and we dont want to be involved. This exactly what we saw in the Tobacco Industry became more concentrated. Okay. Thats a good expiration january have action work ballots was going to be bought up by big five . Pavel is been purchased was announced last week. Six isnt it . No, its not docked dicks. Its bass pro which a privately held company so its not a key manager. Its another privately owned company okay. Thats a good explanation. Thank you. Any other discussions. Mr. Driscoll [inaudible] this instruction promotion is to implant the plans . Correct in terms of de minimis amount we should not be looking for a firearms ammunition free benchmark . I have not looked into. What you get to and specialize benchmarks like that you are talking less than i think 1012 basis points or all of benchmark not a significant affect . No. I just wanted to make sure on the report the motion has been made and accepted already. Lets take Public Comment it can we do this the motion is to sell the bus stocks in a prudent manner. Over a period of time that is burkett will reach out to the manager to determine what is appropriate for them to liquidate one manager came back as what the policy is on liquidating and they feel they can get out of this specific names in one, two, three trading days inside of a week for everybody. He was okay. Roll call vote [inaudible] meiberger aye [inaudible] thank you limited mdm. Clerk these call item 9 [inaudible] thank you, norm. Commissioners, this is a recommendation to invest in a long only public equity chinabased manager to invest in local chinese shares. I will ask bob and on and allen and we would also like to introduce, hilly. From any pc who is also here to provide some information to the board i want to recognize commissioner makras before we go forward [inaudible] i am told that it was a split vote33. Honestly commissioner gobble so ill put the motion to adopt as i will with item number template i support the item. I also support our efforts for getting our license. This calendar item does not do that but what makes the support this the most is i think we have more flexibility with this pitiful he had our own license. We can go in and out of the stock easier if we had our own license and it we were to pull all our investments out its believe we would not be with to get back in. But by having a gun but will have the flexibility of going in and out. The only question i have of staff is with hedge funds and other investments you come to us and you say we want to become experts at sometime and bring things in. Hedge funds whether we do a fund to fund or do it inhouse or not all that debate then were integrating either actually doing a full inhouse. Why did you not make a recommendation here where we could piggyback qualifying for our own license to the flexibility in the future if you want to use our own license . Im not sure i understand the question but let me begin to reply and see if im hitting the target here. The license has been historically used by underdeveloped countries who want to begin to allow for an investment but they want to control the pace of that. To avoid booms and busts of capital coming in and then cap out leaving. Thethe license has been used by a number of countries over quite a number of years. So china is doing the same thing that other countries have previously done. As china market has matured and evil from the first time the cutie license became available in about 2002, ms. China has exactly changed and the consensus which we also leave is that the license is not necessary anymore. Let me just quickly read some comments. I asked for msp i presented at our investment Committee Meeting last week to clarify this. Just to item i asked them in their opinion it is Still Necessary for sfers for a manager to invest in chinese stocks to obtain our own license and this is how they are applied. To invest in china eight shares it is not necessarythe word not is capitalized. Its not necessary to obtain a license. I asked the same question of jade capital who was also at our ic meeting last month. They said the exact same thing. Thewith the advent or development in the past number of years, first of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange where you can invest in local shares through the hong kong exchange, and more recently about to come on board now is the shen zen Stock Exchange stock connect, is managers can have their own license. They can buy all of these stocks and we dont have to go to the administrative requirements of getting our own broker, our own auditor, our own lawyer etc. All of which we would have to do and file our own reporting requirements, all of which the managers will do for us. So these are some of the reasons why did colleagues any other discussion at this time . Yes, please . [inaudible] kind of an obvious quite of course youre going to say no. Burst of all i do follow your lead and did talk to standard because stanford does i allocation and they have the manager and i was taught was a constructive discussion at the advantage for us to haveis that we have been official ownership of the shares as opposed to the brokers, number one. Number two, theres greater transparency. You get to know your holdings. If the broker has it that you dont have the same axis xx holdings. Its not the same level of transparency. The other thing is the captive. If we dont have it how reagan or determine a manager. The managers can be terminated and we get the cash back as opposed to if we had the license we could Just Exchange it, hire another manager, rather than just getting cash out. So those are the advantages those are what i see are the issues in terms of applying for the license. Those listening and dont know what it is, i dont think we do find that you get it since for qualified foreign institutional investors. What you do is a longterm investors such as ours will petition the government of the peoples republic of china get an allocation to request in these unlisted a ship. The way it works now are managers [inaudible] have the allocation. So they have the right to do so. Theyve gone through the application process. So thats that is think and yes, we can do it without it course but if i were a broker i would say the same thing because i with a manager captive. If he or she the manager is not happy with us the manager would im sorry the plan sponsor would have no recourse to hire another manager. Or be a lot more complicated you might be able to do it but would be significantly more complicated. Those are the issues i see in terms of getting the license. Yes, its a process to do so. I would categorize it more of an insurance policy. If youre committing 400 million to investment with its limited transparency in a country that has different rule of law and why not buy some insurance policy on it. Thats the way i would characterize the license. I would still think we would go forward with it. We can still go through the application and i did meet stuart shown in birder from cda a Similar Company subsidiary of they own part of yesterday i found was again very constructive conversation but this is a very important point thats when tonight Due Diligence independently to find out what it is by talking boat to the managers directly as well as two other Plan Sponsors that you have a license in terms of will what is the vantage to it. I see the other issue Going Forward that we mentioned in msc i was going through the process of adding the unlisted a shares through the benchmark. What this is going to mean is whether investors must Plan Sponsors are also 11 allocation. I feel a lot of, dishing Going Forward with that. My gut feel is that it makes sense to at least do. When i talk to representatives from cdh, of course they will help us. Go through this. Yes, its a separate broker, application others many manager from layers of process. So this would be a golden opportunity for us if we decided wanted the license to go through the process simultaneously to get our own allocation as well as to solicit the managers to help us which i think they would be very willing to do subject i did ask you directly on the stogie i do not get a response on this in terms of what are your views on going for the allocation directly. What i think makes a lot of sense to me, its a good insurance policy. To guarantee a longterm investor and the other plan sponsor that have invested in a petition for a allocation have been longterm investors. Such as other more so the endowments. Stanford, harvard, etc. Have the allocation directly. Not that many public Pension Funds but my view Going Forward is if msc i add this to the benchmark and other managers want to have another Plan Sponsors, want to have a market weight there also have to invest in the unlisted a shares. Plus, i think mike had opportunity could we also talk what the shares but also bonds. Its not just the equity side but the spiral side and its to nominating the local currency both of which am in favor. Those are my views on it. If i could ask a staff directly because ive not had a direct response, what would you think about applying for the allocation directly . I know we dont have to but i see it as an insurance policy and terms of guaranteeing a longterm commitment to invest in china to go ahead and go through the prostate commissioner, i still recommend that we not do that. The reasons why amongst the things that you just mentioned there, beneficial interests, beneficial ownership, msc i clarify that last month. Thats not an issue that matters. That matter is settled. Transparency to the manager. Thats not an issue for us. I will note that no other plan sponsor in the world has sought a license to my knowledge in the last year and a half. But other than your former employer uc berkeley that was what the last one that did and it was a year and a half ago, more of little more than that. The thing with the uc office that is a mixed bag no. Again because things have changed in six years ago when i was at uc we were campaigning to do this. Now im not sure that uc would bother to do it again. I believe as of about 3045 days ago they still had not made an investment in china. Its prudent to be really slow going. The other thing i will note, it is pretty wellknown that china that ms ci is going to approve at some pointmaybe next year im not sure about that but its going to be sometime in the next couple of years that ms ci is going to approve the a shares in the index. That is also really well known in the market. Even though its really well known, there are no other Plan Sponsors such as ourselves that are pursuing a license in anticipation of that now. Even though it is really well known. So i just dont think its necessary. Its administrator. Bureaucratic. Its not intended to protect our interests. Its designed so that countries, governments, can protect their own interests and other china has become a mature market, the need for it is naturally going away as it has with other countries that have followed similar prosperous. I think a few years just as with other countries that have done this thewill naturally go away. As it did with taiwan. Thats what i recommend. Commissioner stansbury i was looking at the chart on page 6 and it looks like it had some positive returns over the last several months. Do we know what that number is . Yes. Since june or june through october, what is that, five months or junei guess just four months. Staff ease up a little over 6 yet spring is the next manager just as an fyi because that might be the next question there up a little over 12. So in dollar terms, do we know i didnt have we invested inseveral months ago what we would have in profit . Yes. We wouldve made about 12 million on steffi and we wouldve made about 25 million on springs. I support this item. When were done with questions about happy to make a motion to second its good ill be supporting it. Thank you very much. Lets go at and take Public Comment on this item. This is again for item and nine. Commissioner can i just get 20 seconds. I think 348 years ago the idea of commissioner meiberger of having any share license was very aspirational and was forward looking. But things have changed. Its just not necessary with the advent of the hong kong stock connect and jen zen stock connected people can see the need for going away but i knowledge several years ago i thought was a very good and forward looking thing to do and i still think investing in china is still a very good and for thing looking to do. I would also say one of the other clients that brings [inaudible] soundboard it of few months ago things were saving their allocations for us and this endowment since we were little slow if they could take over that allocation. We thought we discussed it was necessary they could have it. In the last couple months since the announcement of the jen zen stock connect we really dont think we need the licensure we can go through the stock net. We think that more than gives us access to the investments we have. Another very large leavitt very largedecided recently to give additional money to springs and they did it using spaceswe had a reference call with them. They feel the need is there any more. It gives that much faster access to the investments. [inaudible] with the sovereign borrowing funds from the managers. So mme. Chairman, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Seeing no other Public Comments Public Comment is closed. I the question is this [inaudible] out of the Cayman Islands . With all due respect you can speak but pardon. You can speak and raise a question. [inaudible] Cayman Islands your friend to i understand. The point im making you wont get an answer why . The way Public Comment works is you make it, not a question of okay ill make a comment then. I dont think we should make any investments in china especially for social reason. Well social activist when you need them. If i was a struggle i would invest in one time in china. I dont see why you have to triple all over the world for good investments. If timbuktu is going to go up 25 of your would any of you invest in it . The answer is probably no. Question you both asked the best question you have asked on any investment is what is the risk. Is there any risk is low . Moderate . Hi . And what is the [inaudible] those two questions is to ask [inaudible] when it comes to investing a lot of economists think this can be worldwide recession within the next 12 years and the safest country to invest in the world is the United States. The United States is the largest economy in the world. California it was a country would be the seventh largest economy in the world. San francisco is one the richest countries in the world. Just those three places you dont have to go anywhere else. You can just look at a few place. If you cant find a good investment as anywhere in the world you cant be looking very hard. I remember in england 50 years ago, personal saying [inaudible] when america catches a cold rest of the world will catch pneumonia. Thats probably going to happen. Youve got billions and billions dollars come to the United States the next oneto you. So wheres the safest place in the world to invest . Its right here in the United States california in San Francisco. [inaudible] 10 years ago. Probably off the price right now what its sold for. Thats the other thing you should take into consideration. [inaudible] when are you goodbye your own buildings be one that would be a good investment thank you. Time is up. Dont worry. Theres a whole agenda. For you to comment on. San diegan Public Comment is closed. Why dont we added a motion is already been made and accepted. [inaudible] brian seconds that motion. Last question . The issue commissioner meiberger is making about the value of [inaudible] i can understand the time it would take a thing he said doing both at the same time to theres a bit of a change. The value of doing the work if we dont use it. I dont know how to work i know one lady from columbia said they did. 12 years to do. Let alone the value of having it. It could take months. Its unlikely to take six months or more. It would cost thousands of dollars. I think its in the low tens. It would require us going to china where these administrative reasons. When were called upon to what were connected to our Due Diligence on lawyers and custodians and the like. So its administrative. I know we have spent about the issue of doing two georgians on the managers are recommending and all the other managers you interviewed and try to figure out where is the best value for staff in our consultants to generate returns for us well the things i just described are operational. The reading i just described it is operational. If we make the investment directly with the manager were utilizing the managers operations rather than have to create it ourselves. Is there any significant difference in the rate of return for people use thefor people who plan to managers . [inaudible] roll call vote driscoll aye makras aye [inaudible] please call item 10 item 10 action item approval to commit over 200 million to springs Capital Management about equity manager. We are ready to move. At the boards discretion if you want us to walk through the manager we had done that previous ago we could do that. Its totally up to the board lets go ahead and take [inaudible] public, and is open. Anyone like to speak on item 10, please, not no comments . Okay. Public comment is closed. Im ready for a motion. Moved and seconded. Colleagues can we do this without objection or do we need a roll call vote these were big issue unassuming could briefly mentioned that these, girl rates callbacks and those kinds of things. We looked at [inaudible] much more favorable good requires a much lower minimum and what were putting in. Our size was significantly reduced the fee and were putting in provisions to help something thats not just a strict performance fee. I can really go into also commissioner, if i could, i would be glad to talk about fees with you personally for business reasons we cant go into the details here. As a manager youre welcome to talk to the manager directly. But i do want to thank han if i could followup with my angry before we go through. If you could address the issue in terms of performance fees. One of the key issuesthis is based on performance versus the benchmark, correct correct so the benchmark is downlets say 40 , in our manager does not has a zero return. So the benchmark is down 40 and you show that one of the years was down 36 so im not thats not a big deal. A wide deviation. So if the benchmark is down 40 an hour manager has zero return just give us a rough idea what the fees would be. Now . Just a rough thing in terms of how its done versus the benchmark. Yes. [crosstalking off mic] i understand we are not able to but ill be glad to talk about it with you after were still in negotiations. We dont want to announce something thats not been determined we are going to move on. Any other questions on this item . Thank you very much. Lets take Public Comment on this item. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [crosstalking off mic] can we take this without objection . Motion passes unanimously. Thank you ray much for your work on it. [crosstalking off mic] [laughing] this is her first expense with the board of judges been higher but shes were diligently to get all your questions to get addressed we appreciate your time. Commissioner meiberger did send two people to junket i just want to introduce haley was on that trip and came out here to present any questions if you have them. Thank you for coming. Can we call the next item item 11 action item recommendation to terminate a manager. Okay take it away staff today were also recommending the termination of guys out. One of our convertible management they were added to the San Francisco portfolio in 2003 as way to provide some Downside Protection in the public equity portfolio. Were now shifting some that downsize protection to the absolute return allocated the initial funding for that was effective october 1 of two and earned 50 million. Now we see less of a need for Downside Protection currently in the public equity per foot therefore were recommending determination of they have a heavy analysis as part of their security selection. Unlike our other convertible managers advanced capital these more fundamental analysis approach. We believe that advance approach to security selection using fundamental analysis is more consistent with the public equity strategy and also was driven higher returns relative to these as all. Today were recommending terminating is as of the retaining advance at this time. Eliminate market value for his as a was 160 min. Noise but at the end of the september get the proceeds to use the proceeds to fund the new managers that we were justice cussing. We believe this strategy in china that we recommend are more Higher Office strategies over the long run for the public equity portfolio. Finally we would note we currently are study overweight in the us with 50 of the public equity portfolio in the us today. As relative to our target of 48 . So shifting some of the assets fromus convertible manager to china will help us move towards our target Asset Allocation. Those are my comments to let me know if you have additional questions. Thank you. Colleagues, any questions . None . Lets go to Public Comment on item item 11 Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to except staff recordation . Moved and seconded. Motion moved by commissioner makras saddam the second by paskinjordan. Without objection the motion passes. Thank you for doing the Due Diligence. Next item, 12 thank you commissioners. This is a recommendation to terminate and emerging market strategies. So this would partially offset the addition to emerging markets that we have through the investments in springs and ill ask bob to make some comments and ask any pc if there any additional comets as well. Today were also regarding the termination of Capital International emerging markets growth fund. This of global strategy. The preliminary value for the strategy of San Francisco was 110 million as of the end of september good plan to shift these assets to our new china managers. Capital historically has been overweight for china so the termination is in part two manager china exposure within public equity. We also note capital has a number of comedy specific issues raised concerns with us. First, the multimanager approach. The current tm team has experience material turnover or the last several years. Theres a couple of tm departures just this year. They do not provide attribution and analysis by p. M. So its difficult for us to set the quality and impact of the current team in place and also difficult to assess the impact of the recent turnover. Secondly w, very large institution. They have now 1. 4 trillion in assets and they continue to grow their Retail Business. When we first invested with capital in 1990 or so the Retail Business was less than 6 of them. Now its closer to 95 of a un. Despite the 81 at the firm level if you look at the assets in the strategy were recommending terminating back continues to shrink very aggressively over the last several years. The concerns about the portfolio underperformance. The Management Team and pm turnover. So therefore recommend a terminating Capital International emerging Market Growth fund and shifting the assets of the new china manager. We think the specialized boutique managers we just recommended for china glad better alpha than a global manager in a large asset gathered like capital. I think she covered every point i would make you book these managers have been on your watch list. Capital in particular was indicated, is so large is difficult for them to outperform in this space and they are in fact on our hold list which means were not allowed to use them in new searches because of concerns of turnover so what are very supportive of the recommendation. Board members . Mr. Driscoll [inaudible] i can get that to you secondly, 1987 we started with capital. Anyone else, questions, statements lets take Public Comment. Thank you for your presentation. Public comment is open for item 12. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to except the recommendation to terminate . Moved and seconded. Without objection the motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Would you call the next item, please item 13 [inaudible] commissioners, as a new members of our team come on up, [inaudible] yes thats correct. We are recommending a change in custodial. Theres a number of reasons why. When im going to do is ask bob to walk through the process for how we went about this search. Im going to ask alan to make some comments about the rationale for this recommendation and in him and ask bob as well as mark to make additional comments tethered onto bobs market without all asked bob to get up with the process utilized commissioners, several months ago you approved as interviewing three organizations. He and wynonna and state street. We assembled a team of five people representing disparate groups within San Francisco myself, bill coaker handling the risk Asset Allocation jim burrell from accounting. Along with and mark from talent assist us we did onsite visits with all three organizations. They street offered the sacramentobased team. We didnt onsite visit in sector mental. We visited Northern Trust offices in chicago. We also went to be unwise office in everett massachusetts geography perspective its about 20 mins worth of boston. All these meetings lasted in excess of five hours good we went through multiple areas within each organization to kick the tires, see what exactly each of them could offer us. Once again that from the onsite visits we resembled a group. Talked about the pros and cons of each managers. We also reached out to state street and dn y and asked for access so licenses to use the actual systems for test runs to make sure we understood without capabilities are. Theres one thing for them to be running the demonstrations for us. Its another thing for us to actually bribing it and whether or not it meets our expectations. What we very quickly discovered throughout the process was that the Systems Technology user interfaces the easeofuse of the systems very quickly position both state street and the nys top of our list in terms of capabilities. So we continued our Due Diligence with those two firms and ask alan to comment on the risk platforms and some of the demonstrations and models shes run. He was if i could interject real quickly weeded comments of reference checks on all three institutions. Yes. We, as bob was saying, we did impose on the systems i followed up with web additional webex and time for question. As we discussed at prior investment Committee Meetings, we had several objectives for Risk Management platforms. I merrily we wanted to be able to aggregate all Asset Classes a look at the total plans for Risk Assessment based on Actual Holdings. We wanted to be able to do scenario testing, including mapping individual private Equity Holdings with public equity characteristics so we could compare the private and public market. We wanted to do sensitivity testing. We wanted to look at exposures across our at all Asset Classes, geographical, currency, and sector based on Actual Holdings and the earnest money underlying earnings of the comedies. We want to look at fixed income characteristics. We want to be able to model managers pro forma before hiring them were before rebalancing between managers. We want to maximize transparency in our Hedge Fund Portfolio we wanted to be able to really assess liquidity from the market level the security level, the just overall liquidity with the contractual at the contractual level with our managers good in addition to forecasting cash flow liquidity. Andwe also wanted to have an easeofuse in the platform. Be able to easily navigate the system because we could quickly with a few clicks till down from the top level at the total plan level to the manager level to the old ames level to the cash flow level. We look at multiple competitors in this space. We believe that be and why mellon will meet or exceed our objectives. Through their workbench performance in a x5 form as well as their risk view, risk analysis system. Be and why mellon, in addition, has a partnership with burgess since the late 19 burgesses one of the leading providers in the private markets through a direct link between the be and why mellon Accounting System and the burgess five form our staff will be able to access the burgess system and see on a daily basis the Cash Adjusted valuations were carried forward as well as do research on thousands of limited partnerships on the burgess system. Mellon has also wired benchmark which is a hedge Fund Analytics platform in 2014 incorporated that platform into their risk system. The overall flexibility of the system, we believe is a plus. Our staff will have access to all systems and be able to create reports ad hoc or automate them. It is customizable. From the mapping of the private Market Holdings to the reports themselves. In general, we believe that the inline mellon will be a great partner. Going forward. The team is responsive to their very knowledgeable. Not just on the underlying methodology of the analytics, but also on the rationale behind asset owners like ourselves and our use of these analytics. We believe that Going Forward will have a literal seat at the table through Advisory Board in helping to shape the future of the technology at the firm as well. Which youre going to be a part of . Yes. Thats correct. Though bob, any further comments . I just want to reiterate that staff and ellen did really we went through this process. It tested we wanted to test drive it. Talk is cheap but we want to be sure that we would be able to access the information they would have enough of a bandwidth, bmi mellon to accommodate the different Asset Classes that you have. So thats one thing. The process im so proud of my, mark and the team because i could smell it. That they were really at it. Second, it is imperative that because of your size him up because of where you are headed, that you get in a very solid Client Service team. That is critical. I think the commitment of the and wynonna to this is [inaudible] the lead is the Client Service [inaudible] for stanford. He is also handling major relationship are creme de la creme of clients. You make a mistake with bmi mellon,thats one we know. We know hes a bulldog. So they know what is up. The third and most important thing is this. The tools that would be available to seek transparency, to help you navigate through you need a qualified [inaudible] investor allocation to get to china or can we use hong kong connect portions on connect, those are their bailiwick. They are close to 110 markets frontier emerging markets. Youre looking at 10 additional markets as we speak. So they are at the forefront of that one. Plus, actions processing or print actions, bsg, scenarios thats also a nice platform that they offer as part of the relationship that they would support. So you will be going through a nice evolution. Last, but not least, since im an accountant by training, they have their bits debits and credits. They have very good five form to meet your calpers and [inaudible] to generate. They know. We know because our clients are very happy. With a lot of those reports that i think jimwill be very effectively enhanced. Second, last but not least, they will be a very good book of record given the responsiveness of the platform. Anything else . Bob . One other question. One other comments. [crosstalking off mic] [laughing] we did reach out to our other consultant should two toric bridge to garner their opinion with regard to a recommendation for bn why mellon they were supportive of it. Member members . Commissioner driscoll mark, have you ever done a transition from Northern Trust to [inaudible] yes. Secondly are easily recommended them because you think theyre the best. The question is you have any feel promised capital will continue to in investing in the development of their systems . Right out bmi mellon, if we look into their spending the last three years average is close to 7501 build. Actually there investing the next level of platform called nexus which is basically everything that you see today are now building the new platform that will be able to cover that. So they are investing seven or 50 million for r d and system maintenance. Development. We were pleasantlywe were really enthusiastically surprised by the Technological Advancements in custodial and Risk Management. We are living in an era of big data explosion. Just in the last 45 years it really shows in how mellon has developed a decisively in terms of their technological and risk purporting capabilities. I submit the fiveyear contract but in terms of leapfrogging in Technology Baby will be with them for 10 years . Were typically now doing threeyear contracts with a rolling oneyear for two years and after five years were obligated to research. We could do research at three years and we always include opt out under special circumstances. In terms of a connection with burgess in terms of the daily Risk Management, will they be able to then possibly look at the values of the gen. Partners tell us but amateur leverages advanced many of the holding . [inaudible] to do they look at all of that yes exxon. Board members, before i forget a number of colleagues from ellen are here today in the prepared to walk through a presentation, give your presentation and you can ask them questions for equity if you so choose. Commissioner bridges [inaudible] this presentation is for only correct its good to know about transparency and reporting. Tell me a little bit about the [inaudible] good to see you. Commissioner bridges. The next platform actually is all of this big data and cloud. What they want to be able to do is capture every data that passes through their platform whether its from other custodial banks , client, Investment Managers, prime brokerage forms and all those good the ability to digest and digitize those data and have that data basically self repair themselves within 5 min. Would be the holy grail. So they have made that commitment. Its in beta. Its in beta level