Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining for the grand opening of our public lobby. It has been a long process. Were so honored to have you all here today. First, before we get into our short speaking program, i first want to acknowledge a few parties that have worked really hard to make this all possible. Id first like to thank our budget analyst and project Management Team that have worked really hard to make this run smoothly. Thank you very much for that. [ applause ]. Theyve also worked very closely hand in hand with the mayors budget office. Id like to thank Kelly Kirkpatrick for coming here today. Thank you. [ applause ]. Next i would like to thank our public facing team who provides excellent Public Service. Our Public Service team and our recorder division. Thank you very much. [ applause ]. They provided Excellent Customer Service even throughout a lot of yay. They provided a lot of Excellent Service even throughout a lot of construction. Thank you for keep
Thats another advocacy issue. We could be charging as mechanism to do if there isnt im sure if we charge a patient for ambulance ride, work charg we can charge a hospital while were waiting for someone to take the handoff of the patient. I think in 2020 these are things we need to be thinking about as a commission and super advocating for ourselves. D. P. W. Managed to get half Million Dollars out of the Fire Departments hands going into their hands for a job thats a Fire Department job. Maybe we should hire that guy at d. P. W. Im hoping in 2020 we do a better job at this and we as a Commission Start to see this stuff. Thanks chief. Thank you very much. Chief velo thank you for your report. I have two things. There was a drill on saturday october 19th. Did you want to comment on how well this drill went . Thats the drill debut that coincides with the earthquakes we had in past history of San Francisco. Very well attended. Lot of volunteers were there. It was very well attended event.
On october 17th, 1989. For those of us who were around at that time, remember there was a moment when we didnt know what to do. The bridges were closed. It seems like we were really stuck. What happened is gods spirit within us took over and what happened is communities came together. The communities came together to not only address the immediate issues, but the more farreaching issues. Example, the San Francisco Interfaith Council was founded as a consequence. Can you imagine that week all of our faith decided we should Work Together as a community of San Francisco and Work Together. Thank you, god. You had to ring the bell a little loud, but we got it. Thank you for the First Responders, many of whom risked their lives. Thank you also for the individuals who are not First Responders, but who stepped out. They let god work in them. They have been blessed since this time since that time with the divine intervention of our god. Our god has given us Civic Leaders who make sure that our
Fairness of it. Great. Supervisor haney. Thank you, Committee Members for having this hearing. Thank you to sheriff he to the r staying the entire time and to everybody here and gave comment and who is fighting here for so many different hearings. I thank you for being here. There are a cup tell take aways i have. This conversane ever session is not over. We agree the Facility Needs closed. I believe it needs closed immediately. It should have been closed before. You know, the fact we had an announcement yesterday from the mayor saying it would be closed in 2021 is a delay from what was said earlier. The city administrator said it should be closed this year. I am concerned about the lack of a plan. I was hoping we would get more details what is going to happen now. What are the immediate stones i . My fear is that the result is trying to back us into something we should not be doing. The sheriff herself said it would be horrible to send people to alameda county. Why are we acting as th
To do this. They were very pleased to do that. They actually approached us to get the idea of getting that in the school. Well meet with them in the future and have ideas. Having that relationship with s. I. And having that large drills going from house to house instead of doing it live, it was a great drill. I was pleased to see that. The press was impressed. Pretty much a full page and the back side. I wanted to get some feedback on that and i want to thank all those volunteers and members who went out there that day. Only other remark i wanted to show our appreciation. To you commissioner, veronese for this program. Item 6, commission report. Report on Commission Activity since last meeting october 9, 2019. Commissioners, ill call for Public Comment on this item. Any member of the public wishes to give Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any announcements that you would like to make at this time. Vice president covington. Vice president covington i w