Comment. Im no. 3, Consent Agenda. All matters listed here under a constituted Consent Agenda are considered to be routine by the committee and will be acted on by a single vote of the committee. There will be no separate vote unless the member of the Committee Suggests and it will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as a separate item. Item 3a, approving the minutes of the meeting. I move for the approval. I second the motion. Item no. 4, Environmental Program support. Thank you, chair richardson, director and president tsen. This item will go to the board as an action item. I wanted to have a conversation here before taking it there because we kind of have two different paths Going Forward ahead of us. We have a contract with lang Engineering Environmental to provide Environmental Conservation services to tida to monitor the navys Environmental Program, and we brought them on in 2013. This is a Selection Process that actually had been contacted before i arrived to tida.
Have recommended one position this is consistent with other Fire Departments that have some kind of support Strategy Planning process we want to point out theres a highly paid position within the Fire Department which we recommended their responsibility was live Strategic Planning and planning my understanding the depended agreed their Strategic Planning process should be included we stand by our remedies and the other recruitment the audit they needed to work within the existing resources they District Attorney have an overall recruitment problem but with only the department attract San Francisco residents to the Fire Department and were very clear we need to work with the existing resources there are many to the best of your knowledge theyre not looking at the existing resources to improve that process as. Yes. Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee i want to read the item the chief spoke to the reduction of 477 plus we recommend that you reduce uniform shareholders in 20152016 t
Other recruitment the audit they needed to work within the existing resources they District Attorney have an overall recruitment problem but with only the department attract San Francisco residents to the Fire Department and were very clear we need to work with the existing resources there are many to the best of your knowledge theyre not looking at the existing resources to improve that process as. Yes. Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee i want to read the item the chief spoke to the reduction of 477 plus we recommend that you reduce uniform shareholders in 20152016 the department has increased over 7, 8, 9 by over 3 million up to 9. 3 percent increase in 20152016 the department will eye 350,000 for recruitment of new officers the board of supervisors approved a fulltime professional in 20142015 at the department of Human Services and in addition the department is requesting 50 thoughts r thousand dollars for extra coverage during fleet week and finally the budget Analyst Reco
Mention, Substance Abuse, beds that are available for the clients that are coming out of custody. So that we can keep them from recidivism. We can keep them from failing to. We have to make sure the major chordates. We do boston we go to their cameras. We know their street names and so forth to get these guys back to court. However, these clients are homeless. The majority of them are homeless. We also need beds available for these clients and we take them out of custody to my there are few shelter beds. We do work with the clients are currently on probation because probation does have housing. However, we see a short a shortage of beds treatment beds, Mental Health beds, and as well as housing. That is a great problem for our office and the caseworkers and the clients because once we can stabilize our client of Mental Health, their prescription medication, get them into a Substance Abuse program, or into housing while they are waiting and we are working with them, theyre more likely t
That would go over with other inmates trying to sleep in their dormitory setting. So, they need single cell or two person housing. We need treatment space, both for individuals treatment that meet compliance so private space where the clinician can sit with the client and hear the clients concerns, work with the client that is visible to the custody staff but the custody staff cant hear whats being said. Its also very important that we group rooms. Thatll be what we call therapy rooms so that the individual can roam around. Socialize, when theyre in jail, and learn how to socialize, learn how to cooperate and be in treatment so they can be successful when theyre in community. People that are housed in direct supervision jails generally do better. Jail is the huge risk for suicide and i dont know how many of you have looked at county jails three and four but there the old vail bar jails, though, it kind that you see in the movies. Its hard for the deputies to view inmates are housed in