And commissioner joanne hayeswhite. Public comment, the comment shall address remarks as a commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. Not to enter into debate with a speaker. The lack of response does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support with statements made during Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment . Please come forward. And identify yourself. Welcome. Good morning. Im the author of 1906 the novel about San Francisco earthquake and fire. And the documentary film maker of the finest ruins. After the 1906 earthquake, the citizens of San Francisco passed the largest bond issue ever, 5. 9 million to build a supplemental water supply system. That system has not been expanded into probably 15 of the most vulnerable neighborhoods. It was the work of absolute genius. There are two major components to it, a gravity fed system of the giant tanks. And High Pressure december diesel pumps and there are 42,000 wood buildings not protected by that system. There are 300 out there with a limited supply of water, each of which needs a fire engine to draft from it. A High Pressure system in that area with two diesel pumps would give the neighborhood unlimited supply of salt water with a positive flow. Every High Pressure system out there that takes three valves can supply more water than four or five fire engines if knew figures are correct, a massive amount of water that doesnt have to be repressurized. The communities are vulnerable and its not just in earthquakes and fires. I believe in i have done as Much Research as i can, in 2014 during the mission bay fire, the awss had to be brought in because it took 17 million gallons of water to put out the fire. In 1989, it took 5. 5 million gallons of salt water that was a quarter of a block to put out the fire. There are two things necessary, not just post earthquake, in a city built to burn according to a previous fire chief, you need a massive supply of available water and the system to deliver it. Those systems are indispensable to the survival of the city. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other Public Comment . Welcome. Good morning. Im tracy thompson. I live in the inner sunset. And im here because im a concerned citizen, i read some recent articles regarding the lack of a system to fight a firestorm in the inner sunset and outer sunset in the richmond, etc cetera. From what i understand and what the sfpw has admitted that if this were to happen, a firestorm, theres no way to fight this kind of fire. Im not a Fire Fighting expert, but it seems to me that if we dont have awsf, the auxiliary water system to fight a fire, if we fail to expand the system to all neighborhoods of the city, we wont be able to put out fires postearthquake and as you know, we just had an earthquake that felt pretty strong january 4th. If we cant put out a fire or this kind of fire, when it happens, nothing else matters. Meaning, you know, our little neighborhood beautician projects and the money that gets allocated to choose what we do with the neighborhood. It seems to me that since 2010 the money has been voted for and passed for but nothing is available to fight this kind of fire. And the city is a billion dollar economy and were getting a winfall here, the city hall is getting a winfall from airbnb, uber and all these other startups but theres no money for 650 million to build it out in the areas that need it . We also pay the same taxes that the other parts of the city pay. And yet we dont have this kind of protection that the other parts of the city has. So, im here because i strongly believe that theres a gap here and it needs to be addressed. And it is being addressed, but it needs to be put in place immediately. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any further comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary, would you call the next item . Item three approval of the minutes, discussion of possible action to approve Meeting Minutes of december 13th, 2017. Is there any Public Comment on the Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, whats your pleasure . Vice president nakajo. President , thank you. On the agenda i have in terms of the minutes, if were looking at december the 13th, is that what were looking at madam secretary . Correct. I believe i was present at that meeting. It says excused on my copy. So if i could have that corrected or verified. Yeah. Thank you madam secretary and mr. President. Would anybody like to make a motion or additional comments . Chief. You want to add something . We talked about this earlier but i did find where you had indicated you thought graduation for the 123rd class was february 28th because its in the minutes. So i ask on page 4 top of the minutes, the graduation which i will speak about briefly in my presentation, the corrected date is february 8th not 28th. Thank you. Thank you. May i have a motion to approve the minutes. A second . All in favor. Aye motion carried. Madam secretary, call the next item. Item four, report on fiscal year 2018 2019 capital Information Technology budget request. Report from chief Financial Officer on the 2018 2019 capital it budget. Good morning mr. Corso. Finance and planning here with our regular budget item for the first meeting in january. Usually approval of Department Submission for capital it and in this case potentially fleet for budget proposals due to the fact that those are usually due a month or so earlier than the normal operating budget. A brief presentation and then happy to answer questions. With regards to the capital and it budgets, the approval process is a little different than the normal operating budget. Departments submit budget requests, this year by january 12th which is friday. Submittals are to the Capital Planning committee, the cpc. Those are in advance of the operating budget. Theyre vetted through the separate committees independent of the overall budgets and then they both develop various funding scenarios, levels of funding and those funded under the scenarios and work with the mayors Budget Office to come with a budget number and depending on that budget number, it would be funded and proposed as part of the mayors overall budget on june 1st. So last year as part of the two year budget, we had two years of capital funding, the current year and the next year, the first year of looking at here. This is what were currently funded this year, approximately 3. 4 million and currently in the budget next year but will be reevaluated, general facility maintenance, specialized focus scope projects and in addition, some Planning Funds that go to future planning for the easter program, those are eventually reimbursed but can get the departments ahead as far as planning efforts. Some of the current capital initiates were working on, were working on the 2010 2014 bonds and Public Health and safety bond programs and those close out those projects and the beginning of many of the projects and those bonds. Projects included range focus scope, roofs, generators, electrical, etc cetera to kind of the larger scale projects we have, station five, station 16, station 35 and ambulance deployment facility. And were working with dpw on potential projects for the 2020 bond using some of the Planning Fund and taking a survey of our Department Facility and the greatest areas of need and then dpw, similar to what they have done in the past prior to the 2010 2014 bond, theyre in the process of doing analysis of all the facilities to get a better idea of what each specific system for the facilities, for example roofs and generators, what the needs are for each facility. Its a rather comprehensive report, well brief the commission when we have it. Were working close with dpw on that. We use it partly as justification, as many of you know, we have hundreds of millions of dollars in need and part of that work is being able to stick more concrete numbers and examples in it. And the more Planning Funding we have, the more information we have been able to get. We have a better understanding of the exact condition of our facilities and in addition based on some of the work done on easter, dpw has a more realistic idea of the cost on that. That is in the works currently with dpw. Here is our proposal for the Capital Budget. These projects are not identified, theres details in the commission packet. These are currently not identified as being part of the Public Health bond or the easer scope and in total as you can see, theres approximately 33 million requested in the first year and 53 in the second year. This is similar to what we proposed in the past. We have updated on the actual work completed by dpw and it doesnt incorporate proposed work as part of the scope. Moving on to it. Currently were in the process of closing out some of the current it projects we have, were doing upgrades on the apparatus, the computers that get the information and were working closely with Department Technology on a number of upgrades, server, wifi at Department Facilities is gradually being rolled out and in general enhanced security and data capabilities for the Department Administrative infrastructure. And we have rolled out a number of new technologies to the field, a lot of tablets, for example for training. A lot of the instructors have tablets and the ability to communicate via tablets and then were rolling out sharepoint, a collaboration tool for members and committees to share information and work together. So heres our proposal for the budget for it projects, incident display boards, kind of a display monitor at facility that shows incident information among dispatch. We have one installed, i believe station seven that seems to be favorable amongst the members there. Sharepoint, the additional training and implementation. Training simulators to try to simulate some of the Technology Available is quite impressive, simulate events virtually. Now that the Drone Program is under development, we have requested money. Software solution, converting electronically a lot of the records at the department of Physicians Office to more electronic and additional tablet deployment to engine crews. And lastly, ill touch on fleet. As this is generally fleet is part of our equipment request in february but this years the Mayors Office has requested we submit it a little earlier, so that is also due on the 12th. Its vetted through the City Administrative Office and Mayors Office and theyll develop city wide what fleet needs. All non fleet equipment, fire and ems is submitted as part of the budget in february and all equipment allocations is part of the mayors budget. As i mentioned earlier, last years Budget Approved a capital request for the department and approved a fleet request and ill get into the fleet plan a little bit here. But this is our allocation that currently exists for the current year and next year in the budget. There are both ambulances and Fire Prevention vehicles supported by revenue programs. As we discussed at a number of meetings previously, the Mayors Office approved an equipment plan a couple years ago. The current fiscal year is the second year, it is five years. 7 million over the first two and minimum 4 million over the remaining three. The up coming budget corresponds to year three and four of the fiveyear plan and part of the equipment plan is fleet. Fleet is a big emphasis on that. To give you an update, we just received eight fire engines and in the process of ordering six Additional Units. We have three ladder trucks on order, piloted ambulances being tested in the field currently. Five command vehicles and Fire Prevention vehicles. The other thing the plan has allowed, secure longterm contracts for vehicles, procurement Going Forward is easier. We have multi year contracts for ladder trucks, fire engines and command vehicles. Heres our proposal for the fleet request, based on the current fire resolution for fleet approved back in 2009. There was discussion of updating that, we have not but were happy to work with the commissioners if they choose to. There are certain allocations the department is to request and then outstanding items are added together. In essence the way to read the table, a 36 Million Investment would bring us up to the fire approval resolution levels for fleet and equipment. Thats what the request is based off of. With that, happy to answer any questions. Thank you mr. Corso. Is there any Public Comment on mr. Corsos report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners. Commissioner veronese. Mr. Corso, thank you for your presentation. Just so i understand this, the Capital Budget request for the capital proposal on page six so you have all of these different budgets that youve given us information on, page 3, six, five help me understand eight and 10. These are all separate budget requests . Correct, because they are separate kind of committees that review the budgets. At the end of the day they meet up at the mayors budget proposed june 1st but during the course of evaluation theyre vetted through separate entities. The it is vetted through the citys committee on Information Technology and the fleet is vetted through the Mayors Office and City Administrative Office. And the studies that were doing are we doing the studies or anticipate doing them on page six . Were doing some of the work currently as part of the overall bond planning studies that were doing. Theres a number of in preparing for the 2020, were working on a number of studies, overall facilities, training specifically and bureau of equipment with intention that once the ambulance facility moves out, our bureau of equipment would transfer there. The study for the Training Facility, is this a study what are we studying . How do we how do we study this unless we know the location, what is this study about . Part of it, i guess study is not the correct word so to speak. Its planning. Were looking at need assessment is a big part of it. What is the Training Division of Training Needs for the department. What types of training do they do, what type of facility or equipment would they need for that. Thats part of it, regardless of the facility portion of it. But thats also being considered and worked out with the department, department of real estate, department of public works and the Mayors Office currently. When is that study anticipated to be finished . I believe they just completed a portion we received a portion, the Needs Assessment for division of training. I havent viewed it yet. It was just sent over yesterday. But thats the preliminary study on the training. When is it anticipated to be finished . Were working closely on the site portion of it, theyre in the process of hiring, i guess, not that our folks are not subject Matter Experts on the training part but on the facility side, theyre contracting with a vender who has expertise on building these facilities and will do additional reports to provide the department. And that should be done in the next two months i believe. Okay. So thats going to be done in time for us to know what were looking for as far as a new Training Facility is concerned . I know thats going to take a long time. I would hate for the study to be completed at a point where its too late, if you understand where im coming from. So that is the big issue is the site. The location. I think we have a good grasp of the needs of the department for training, but nailing down the site is the main driver of the work being done right now. So thats part of the study is locating a identifying a site. Correct. When we do the studies, who are we paying the funds to . Is that are we paying that to ourselves . Dpw usually handles it and they have inhouse for design, architecture, etc cetera but they bring in contractors as needed. Its part of our budget but we pay dpw to do the work. Correct. Okay. One other thing, the elephant on the document, the chiefs residence. This is news to me, we have a chiefs residence, although i understand the chief doesnt use it. This is a historical structure. It was donated chief can talk on it. There is a residence 870 busch that was occupied by my predecessors mainly because they didnt reside in the city and its important to have the fire chief reside in the city because its a 24 7 job. We have modified it to be an alternate site and facility in the event we need to use it as a backup department operating center. Youre welcome any time to take a look. We do use it every once in a while for offsite meetings and so