Transcripts For SFGTV Transporation Authority Full Board 102516 20161030

Hope that some of you have a career in music because youre really good and when i was mayor i had something called a command performance in the bands used to come down and perform in city hall. Mr. Mayor, maybe thats an idea . [laughing] so my favorite was at the time the Benjamin Franklin middle school band but i think today it would be you. So thank you so much for this performance. The clapping [applause] when i was mayor was more than 27 years ago my the fire boat was and looked at as a useless appendage of the Fire Department. It was a lot of pressure on me to zero it out in the firefighters budget. In the Fire Department budget and i never did. Because i believe it was our safe point should something really happened and then the year after i left office that something did happen. Who would have believed at the time that the giants would have been at Candlestick Park at 5 pm in the afternoon playing in i think it was the third game of the world series. And who would believe that the area struck at least by the earthquake was, in fact, the marina. All the planning that we had done indicated that was going to be the areas where we had a number of unreinforced brick buildings. Namely, chinatown and the tenderloin. Instead, it was still the marina is built on fill. Well, i was getting ready to go to a queens bench and make a speech and instead i went down to the marina. I saw the fire boats come in. I saw the portable hydrant being rolled out and i asked why now and i was told all the water mains were out. So that hydrant went up to visit darrell street and actually, to great extent saves the day. The man who invented this portable fire hydrants name was frank blackburn. He was the deputy chief of the department. It was a real step forward. The hydrant was subsequently used in rwanda for the transfer of water during a terrible drought and was credited with saving the lives of 140,000 people. So this is where the protected productivity, the design, of a command staff of the San Francisco firearmFire Department produced something that had never been done before. It was very special and i always became a firm backer of the phoenix. Never got zero doubt in my nine years as mayor and so here we are today with a bran new phoenixwell brandnew fire boat that is going to be named. It will be bigger. It will be better. And it will be the failsafe should something happen and these mains go out again. So i want to say, congratulations Fire Departments. Frank blackthorn isnt here but i just want you to know wherever you are, that it was really a good step forward and i want to thank the San Francisco Fire Departments for all you do. I had the privilege in the nine years that i was mayor of going to every major alarm in this city and so i actually saw you were. Once i saw that it was interesting for me because all the Union Battles became nothing. It was all worth it. Thank you so much for your service. [applause] thank you so much sen. Feinstein. It is such a pleasure to have you here with us today. Please, help me welcome the mayor of San Francisco, the hon. Edwin lee to say a few words. The bank. [applause] thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. Sen. , its a joy a pleasure to an honor to be with you this morning to christen this next fire boat. Its monday morning everybody. We are at atc park. We got the Riordan High School band. Ive got my feels copy. Im with the San Francisco Fire Departments. Mondays dont get any better. [laughing] so i want to say, thank you as we add to the incredible need of apparatuses that we must have in this evolving city. I know that the fire boat is going to be invaluable. The chief and i and the commission know that the equipment, not only has to be replaced, it has to be modernized. As our city is growing. With mission bay that we are in now, with the growing population that we have, and the bayshore, the south bay, all of the areas of the city, we need the modern apparatus. This morning im joining all of you to say, thank you, to the men and women of our Fire Department because this apparatus not only complements the things that we did, the guardian and the phoenix, but it also complements the men and women who on on everyday basis, whenever the call is made, you rush in to that danger in order to relieve us from danger. So i personally want to say thank you to each and every one of you because that apparatus replacement is helping. We have just made investments in your ambulance and i knowand convert and achieve our working together with me to make sure that Response Teams and her influences are there. They are there today because of your work with us. Now, the fire boat with his new apparatuses and its new ability to pump bay water into wherever we need is going to be an incredible answer to the needs. Now i will also say that this new fire boat is more than just a piece of equipment. It is about our cities resilience because we have more and more with the use of all of the equipment that we have and the training that we are doing with fleet week, and i know lewis and the threeweek association are here. Just last month we celebrated fleet week we celebrated more than that could the sen. And i were there to see the actual training that is going on between our Fire Department, all of our First Responders in the city, our Police Department, of course, in our Health Department working together with our federal and state agencies to make sure we train to the level in which the next big event will call upon us. Our neighborhood emergency Response Teams, they are training over 26,500 500 residents of our city to be better prepared to be able to save themselves, their neighbors, their friends in the community. That is about resiliency. That is about being really prepared. The good story about this new fire boat is that the bulk of it was funded, thanks to the senators advocacy on our behalf and others. The majority of it was funded through fema and federal grants. Well, you know fema usually comes in after the event happens to have fema come in before an event happens is what we have been always trying to do in our city, to be better prepared. Have all of the responding agencies, whether it is pg e were whether small or utilities, whether it is all our departments working together ahead of time so that we never introduce each other at the time of an emergency. This is what we do and this is what this apparatus will do. So i want to say thank you. I want to say thank you to the men and women of local 798 for your dedication to working with the commission, the chief, the city, to make sure we are at our best. To make sure were all prepared and of course thank you to our Police Department our Sheriff Department all the First Responders as well. This is an incredible time for our city to be adequately prepared to make sure that we are investing properly and we are prepared for the immediate future. Thank you very much. [applause] now the president of our Fire Commission francine covington. Good morning everyone. Isnt this a fabulous day . Wow. Mother nature loves the Fire Department. You can see that. [laughing] thank you all so much for being here. This is such a fantastic day for us because we get our third fire boat. As a city we are not growing out oh we are growing up. Becoming more densely populated and we need to have as many Resources Available to us as we possibly can have. I want to thank the mayor for his support. I definitely want to excuse methank sen. Feinstein for her support when she was mayor and now in her position as sen. Its very very crucial that we have this support because we were able to get to more than 8 million in fema funding. The process of going through naming the boat was delightful. We received more than 300 names from schoolchildren and the guardian and the phoenix were also named by schoolchildren. So, this continues a a tradition in the department and youll find out with a winning name is an injustice gets. I would be remiss if i did not acknowledge by fellow commissioners starting with commissioner sancho was on the zombies are longestserving commissioner. 21 years as commissioner on the Fire Commission. And we also have commissioner cleveland and commissioner hardeman so again thank you all very much for being here and i just cant tell you how delightful this is. [laughing] see you soon. [applause] thank you president covington. Now it gives me great pleasure and it is truly an honor to introduce the next speaker. Please, welcomed the chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, joanne hayeswhite thank you. Good morning and welcome an open e ctr. Five signs, did thank you for bringing us in to archbishop Riordan High School band. We really appreciate you being here. If you dont pursue a career in music consider the fire service. Thanks for being you. My brother was class of 1971. Its a great privilege to be here with so many of you get a lot of people to knowledge and think. Certainly, our federal partners are regional partners, my colleagues from throughout the bay area, Fire Department, thank you for being here as well as our military partners. To our elected officials, i see some remember to supervisor peskin here today as well as our sheriff vicki hennessy. Shes not elected but i think if she was elected she got 100 support and that is the city and state chief of protocol charlotte schultz. Thank you for being here. [applause] so many people we have our partners in the pvt. Ambulance amr is to get my colleagues are city administrator naomi kelly could you blame force from the port the port has been huge part of good always with us every step of the dig i see jack therefrom the giants here. Thank you for helping us have a beautiful backdrop. And lets get them in 2017. [laughing] ive three of my former deputies which hegary and pati appreciate you being you were part of the team as we thought about this boat. Guardians of the city is here. Well represented with jim finley retired captain 150th committee the threeweek Committee Like mayor lee said thank you for all you do and someone also said to shout out to Bearden High School mentoring free week were picked as number one in the battle of the bands. So congratulations again to you. [applause] we also local 798 president tom oconnor. Thank you for being here today and celebrating with us. Also, in the back mark heller please offered scissors as you is a great partner. In our hearts and souls are out to officer kevin downes who we Work Together on friday night and we wish him a full recovery. So this is about celebrating and i can definitely say the native san franciscans am proud to continue serve as your fire chief you have a great team i can than staff is all here. I appreciate all the hard work you do. My hat is off to all the members active and retired civilian and uniformed in our department it is about teamwork. Sometimes we dont always see eye to eye when it comes down to what we really need to do the filling our mission we get it done and i really really appreciate that. Part of the team though as i was growing up was a great admiration for the mayor during the 1980s as she took over a difficult time in the late 70s. Now shes our sen. A Great Respect and shes been an inspiration to all of us. I do know personally from so the gentleman i work with when i started at the fire boat worked there for about 18 months would allow about maritime operations. The importance of a fire boat. Sen. Feinstein is absolutely correct and i dont be she gives herself enough credit whatever aides at a time later became the Fire Commissioner have the rough, she sent him down multiple times and she herself can down to station 35 during her time as mayor because she was getting a lot of pressure to retire the fire boat. Its an expensive vessel to maintain. We all know that. But all of that those arguments, those discussions of those all went out the window 27 years ago today when the fire boat phoenix pumped throughout the night and saves most of the marina a great part of the marina get so sen. Feinstein is very special with us that youre here today. We really appreciate it. Of course, mayor ryu appreciate your leadership and support are always a champion for preparedness. And that does not go without us noticing here in the San Francisco Fire Department get we really appreciate all your support of our department throughout the year. Or commissioners also appreciate your support that we also have a beautiful craft behind us which were democrats and berries. We would like to say thank you for the craftsmanship from jensen maritime and bigger corporation. Then as well weve had a great partner throughout the year and very proud of the Partnership Since ive achieved since 2004 has even gotten better with Pacific Gas Electric were happy to have Vice President of electric operations Gary Anderson with us today been a great partner and specifically the router 150th year they have been with us to upper celebrate and enables to celebrate. Other department heads, i know mayor lee engine and cronenberg thank you also from the department of emergency management. My sister is your patricia get second row and i see my big brother dan class of 1971 just showed up. City college. Instructor for 39 years thanks for being here, jim. I want to say to code thank you to all the men and women the station 35 and are fire boat. Like i said i have the privilege of working on the fire boat in the 90s. I learned a lot. Some of the people i learned from our now retired good im grateful they are here at the party was the engineer on october 17, 1989. He is it. Neat, where are you . Thanks for being you could happily retired. We also have bob costa who taught me a lot. When i was at the fire boat where is bob . Thank you, bob for being here. We have Dennis Kennedy also here. A number of other retired these wave your hand if you work on the fire boat and are now retired. Thank you for all for being here. [applause] i would also like to pay tribute to two men that are worth with their no longer with us. They were wonderful pilots. One was died in 2006 and one died and audio seven. Pilate arvid habaneros and pilot kevin devine. They were huge numbers of our department and both died unexpectedly while they were still serving in the San Francisco Fire Department. I know the members always have Great Respect for them but i want to acknowledge them. We did also invite their families today. So without further ado, we all wanted them am excited to introduce fairly sooni think mindy has Something Else to say but were going to introduce the schoolchild, third grader from st. Peter in a few minutes hes going to come join me and work get on with us our market so thank you very much for coming out and appreciating our beautiful boat. [applause] thank you so much chief hayeswhite. I dont think this boat will be officially ours until we receive the title. So id like to invite the chief executive officer, bigger, mr. Frank so deep, up to present the vessel title to the chief of the department. Speed thank you. Good morning. Did anyone hear the hammering going on behind you spewing raise your hand if you did. Okay so what were you thinking . Were you think i can believe someones making noise in the middle of the ceremony . Were you thinking is he building a piece of staging or is he building an awning to keep someone out of the weather . Were you thinking is it safe . Were you thinking does it fit if you need a hammer . [laughing] we are bigger we build think. Thats how we think. Its a great honor to be here on behalf of of the 500 different craftspeople who touch this boat who are skilled artisans at baker who really built this remarkable fire boat. To chief hayeswhite to mayor lee to sen. Feinstein, thank you for honoring bigger by allowing us to partner with the San Francisco Fire Department to build its. With me today is alius cut planning and zoning one of the people selected by his peers to be here to represent those who with their hands with their brilliance, built this great boat. At baker we are pretty partial to San Francisco bay area. We built for of your ferries that some you travel in south big that are run by. When you go by the transbay new Transbay Transit Center and you see those really cool that their xrays think of it v for bigger because we both goes structural parts for you. We built your boat. So were also building two more boats fourwhich will come out in the spring and winter group and designing some electric hybrids that will overly transit people. Most environmentally sponsored boat manner possible. Whether we are building ferries or structural sections for transbay were by designing the hydro electric ferries are people at baker lake allee, take great care to deliver quality we deliver it with love. Why . Because fire boat has a critical purpose often a purpose that has the potential to save lives and to protect our countries citizens. So ali is one join me in this presentation and chief, if we may, on behalf of bigger, jensen maritime the designer, and are 2500 skilled artisans at baker please accept this title to this great fire boat from us. [applause] you are welcome. Also please join your boat has been selected by people as being one of the 10 significant votes of the year and might just get out onward later this should enjoy it with the love. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] before i bring up our next presenter, i did want to also acknowledge the beautiful singing a Firefighter David huckins wife geico, thank you very much for making this so special. Beautiful rendition. [applause] my staff kelly and olivia without them this one ive happen today either. So i know you dont want a lot of acknowledgments but its definitely do. Thank you so much. This is the exciting part. Were going to have a red. Come on up. On board to induce you know mr. Nico the there appeared geico is a thirdgrader at st. Peter and paul. [applause] i happen to know him although i did not know that he was the person that committed the name. As president coming says were over 300 entries to name the fire boat. Nico is the winner. Were going to unveil the name soon but i did want to say that he had about eight member panel on the selection committee. Was not an easy task but you are entry was picked. Im going to have you unveiled again shortly but first of all we are going to have nico read a fire code that was written in 1935 by one of our members. Here is a scuttle that protects our big a floating tower with a chilling spray. To douse the anger of starting flame and put the minutes of dread fire to shame. Whose staffs this towering ship spewing when she must team into some blazing slip . Must be firefighters of courage possessed by very few. Members of our fire boats crew. [applause] great job. Nico is the son of one of our valuable members capt. Tony rivera. Tony, please stand up. And his lovely wife, lisa. And his daughter in fifthgrade, nina is with us. And his inlaws. So thank you for being here. Great job on the poem. Pretty good for third grade i think youre not an easy poem to read the very fitting one. Thank you so much, nico. That was great. Okay. Now on with the ceremony. Two members of station 35, will assemble for the chief to give the order to command the ship. Thank you members of engine 35 fire boat and now we will do the official unveiling of the name. Which was recommended by nico rivera and selected by our fire boat naming committee. The name of fire boat three is the st. Francis. Speech during[applause]. 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