Many thanks to my sister, carmen chu, i know that is my sister down there, but this is another sister. Thank you, carmen, you are a rock star. I hope the ceremony doesnt make you go into labor. [laughter] but if it does, there are plenty of us who know what to do , so we are good. [laughter] thank you for being a strong role model for me and others, thank you so much. Speaking of strong women, i want to say a special thank you to my new boss, mayor london breed. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you for this opportunity and for entrusting me with the mission and vision of the San Francisco Fire Department. I vowed to continue to work diligently for you, mayor breed, for the city family, for my Fire Department family, and the citizens of San Francisco. There are so many other people to think, too many, in fact. Both in and outside the Fire Department, but let me be clear, i did not get here alone. First, i want to speak about my family, the biological kind, that is. My parents and my brother and sister. I am the youngest of three. They used to tell me, well, my brother and sister did, that i was found in the garbage and wasnt really there little sister true story. My brother who was four years older than i played football with me, and i mean that literally. He used me as a tackling dummy. They taught me how to get back up on my feet after getting beaten over and over. And my sister, who was smarter then the what rest of us, she was psychological warfare instead of physical. I may be dating myself, was she thought she was harriet the spy, and kept files on the entire family. Lets just say they were not very flattering depictions of us she, of course, became an attorney. [laughter] to my parents who taught me responsibility, perseverance and service, my father who is no longer with us, he is literally over the moon today. Look up at the moon, youll see a bald guy up there beaming. He modelled kindness, generosity , and doing the next right thing. And my mom, who at the ripe young age of 85 go zwilling on the water, three days a week. I remember her telling me last year and the year before that she was so angry because the rowing coach told us she could no longer carry the boat down to the water, that others had to do it for her. She was incensed. I could carry the damn boat, what do these people think i am, old . My mom, who is no angry with me for telling you how old she is volunteers at a local high school, tutoring yen men on the basketball team, and tutors Syrian Refugees in english. I am grateful to my family for these and other lessons, and im happy they are here supporting me today, all my nieces and nephews, cousins, all of you, thank you. To San Francisco, i moved here 30 years ago. I felt welcomed from the start. I could be who and how i was without question, and i have so many tried and true friends that i have trudged this road of happy destiny with here. I am so grateful to this city. Now onto my Fire Department family. I have had the absolute honor, privilege and good fortune of serving in the San Francisco Fire Department for over 25 years. I came in as a firefighter, promoted to firefighter paramedic, lieutenant, captain, battalion chief, and deputy chief. To my brother and sister firefighters, e. M. T. S and paramedics, i say to all of you, i have sat where you sit, i have an understanding of and an appreciation for what you do each and every day. I thank you for doing the work you do and for the sacrifices you make. I am so grateful that we get to do this together. Thank you. [applause] there is no crying in baseball, all right . No crying. The San Francisco Fire Department is unique in any in many ways. We work in a oneofakind city of densely constructed wood buildings on hillsides. We fight fires in our own way and do a darn good job of it. We do the secondmost dense city population in the country, second only to new york. That brings its own challenges. We have the most Diverse Department in the country, we are extremely proud of that. [cheers and applause] we are using innovative approaches to address are homeless and opioid addicted populations, but there is some ways that our Fire Department is not unique. One is in the high cancer rates of our members. Firefighters nationwide get cancer and in higher rates then the general population. Many of us get it at younger ages. We understand that we signed up for a dangerous job, we love our job. It is just that now we are more likely to die from cancer than anything else. I have often said that there is a cancer sniper out there, and it is not if, it is not when, it is which one of our brothers or sisters will get hit next. In july of 2012, i was diagnosed with aggressive type of breast cancer, so the treatment itself was extremely aggressive. Within two weeks of diagnosis, i had had a double must missed ectomy and a port implanted porch implanted in my chest, one month later, i had the first of 16 rounds of chemotherapy. I lost my hair, my appetite, 25 pounds, i had sores in my mouth, rashes on my body, you name it, i had it. I felt awful most of the time, yet i am one of the lucky ones, because i am standing here today some of our members are not. People such as denise, david, john, rich. These are just a few of the names. But because we are who we are, we are facing this challenge head on with awareness and with changes to policies and equipment. Another way that the San Francisco Fire Department is not unique is in the rates of prose to posttraumatic stress injury and posttraumatic stress disorder in our members. We often help people on the worst day of their lives. We see tragedy and trauma time and time again. We maintain our professionalism in the presence of these challenges, and we have begun to understand the impact that it can have on our members. But because we are who we are, we are also meeting this challenge head on, and i have brought in more resources for our peer support unit. We want to ensure our members and the department resiliency and readiness. In february of 2009, i responded with a great crew to a fire. It was after midnight. It turned out to be an arson fire. Someone had poured an accelerant in the ceilings and floorboards of a home. Six firefighters were injured at that fire, including myself. I suffered first and secondary degree burns over 15 of my body there were others who were injured much more severely than i was. One was chris posey, he was on my crew that night. I felt responsible for him and for his injuries, even though an arsonist was responsible. My injuries from that fire were not just physical, but my fire family had my back. Retired members, people in the Department Shared up showed up for me ways i could not have imagined, and i came back to work stronger. We support one another in so many ways. My fire brother, chris posey, fought his way back over the course of a year. Im so glad he is still with us. Chris posey is a kind of person that works for the San Francisco Fire Department. He is right up there today. [applause] Katherine Alba is a member of station 18, one of our rescue stations. They run countless calls to ocean beach. She and other members spent hours out at fort funston last month, rescuing one woman and a dog, and searching, digging for another woman after a devastating cliff collapse. Heartbreaking work. Catherine puts her heart, or soul, and her body into her work every day. She is a kind of person that works for the San Francisco Fire Department. [applause] chica contrary us as a paramedic who saved ambulance partner who was having a heart attack while on duty. She took action, and calmly saved his life. Her partner his back to work today. She is the kind of person that works for the San Francisco Fire Department. [applause] john choi, a humble man, who works at one of the busiest stations in the country, and to our diet was diagnosed with cancer a year ago, and fought his way back. John choy is a kind of person who works for the San Francisco Fire Department. [applause] , and last but not least, Darrell Hunter. While on a peak roof with fire raging in the house below, darrell blew out both of his knees at the same time. What are the odds . He fell onto the roof and held on for dear life in excruciating pain. It took a team of people to put out the fire and extricate darrell safely from the roof. It was a monumental effort by darrell to fight his way back to work. Mind you, if you have ever seen Darrell Hunter, you will know it was also a monumental effort by a crew of people to put that fire out and get him off the roof. [laughter] Darrell Hunter and the members that worked to save him are the kind of people that work for the San Francisco Fire Department. [applause] these are just a few of the dedicated, resilient, innovative smart, strong and capable people that i get to work with, learn from, and grow with. I am so very fortunate. Moving forward, i have a strong command staff around me. I want to thank the deputy chief of operations, and the deputy chief of administration was a bellow for jumping on board with me. Thank you, guys. [applause] thank you to my ever steady and hardworking command staff. Thank you, men and women, so much for all of your effort. [applause] we are a collaborative, we are goal oriented, and we are diligent. We will continue to work to provide the best service we possibly can. We will continue to meet the mission of the San Francisco Fire Department and work on the priorities of this mayoral administration. I vow to work to ensure that we, as a department, continue to instill a love of responsibility and service in our members, as we also strive to take care of them. We are addressing cancer and posttraumatic stress industry in injury. Well continue to address homelessness in collaboration with the mayors office. We will continue our efforts with other city departments to ensure we have a robust plan for disaster operations. 1 foot in front of the other. We will get it done because that is what we do. Mayor breed, with this great honor comes great responsibility i understand that in my bones, now lets go back to work. [cheers and applause] how about that . One more hand for our 26th cheap sheep of the San Francisco Fire Department. [cheers and applause] 26th chief of the San Francisco Fire Department. [cheers and applause] at this moment, i also want to recognize the members of our San Francisco fire commission. Can i please ask you to stand while we give you a round of applause. [applause] now what you would think that we are done, but we are not. Chief nicholson, we have a very special song, appropriately named girl on fire. Performed by darrell stone, a firefighter with the department. Please welcome darrell and d. [applause] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [applause] congratulations, nine. As we close the ceremony, please join me in one more big round to congratulate our 26th chief janine nicholson. [cheers and applause] thank you so much for attending. Please join she nicholson across venice at the greenroom of the Veterans Building for a reception. Now i would like to ask all uniformed officers to make your way to the stage for a photograph. Thank you so much. My name is alan schumer. I am a fourth generation san franciscan. In december, this building will be 103 years of age. It is an incredibly rich, rich history. [ ] my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. I am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. I have two ways of looking at my life. I want it to be i wanted to be a Fashion Designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. I ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. The work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the Garment Industry. I had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. It is almost like an extended family. I have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. She was a dressmaker of the first order. I would go visit her, and it was a special treat. I was a tiny little girl. I would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. The Garment Industry had the at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. You will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. Women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. There was a woman by the name of diana. She was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. She classified it as a third i. Will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of San Francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. I believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. The board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. Jeffrey heller, the city and county of San Francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. To impart to the history of this building is remarkable. To see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you Start Talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. With children, and i do mainly all of the childrens tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can Start Talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of San Francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. At times, my clothes make me feel powerful. Powerful in a different sense. I am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. Usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. I have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit . Retirement to me is a very strange words. I dont really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the peoples palace. You want a longterm career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something youre then yourself. Follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way. As latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. Our debts are not for sale. A piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and its a long Family Tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. I have been cure rating here for about 18 year. We started with a table top, candle, flower es, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. The most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. In Traditional Mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. Keeps u. S us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that Community Dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. When i first started doing it back in 71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. I think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. I think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us its not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, its really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. People are very respectful. I can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. What should we wear . What do you recommend that we do . They say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and its all hybrid in this country. What has happened are paper cuts, its so hybrid. It has spread to mexico from the bay area. We have influence on a lot of people, and im proud of it. A lot of tim times they dont represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. I can see the city changes and its scary. When we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. As someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. I have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. In the 80s, the processions were just kind of electric. Families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in San Francisco. Service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a Family Practice of a very strong cultural practice. It kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many Different Directions but i will always love the early days in the 80s where it was so intimate and son sofa millial. Our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue rescue it also. Thats what makes it unique. You have to know how to approach this changing situation, its exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. Whats happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well its relevant and its relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but its become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. Our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know . We have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump a administration and i think how each of the artists has responsibilitie responded ss interesting. The common my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field Interview Police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in law enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. Whawhat do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the a with the enou with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco. E city of San Francisco. Manufacturing in cities creates this perfect platform for people to earn livelihoods and for people to create more economic prosperity. Im kate sosa. Im cofounder and ceo of sf made. Sf made is a Public Private partnership in the city of San Francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in San Francisco. Sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other Small Business support organizations who provide more generalized support. Everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow. For example, it would be traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide Small Business owners with education. We have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city Seas Partnership with Small Business, creating a 100 Company Selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or twoperson shop, and who dont have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show their products and it comes back to how do we help Companies Set more money into arthur businesses and develop more customers and their relationships, so that they can continue to grow and continue to stay here in San Francisco. Im amy kascel, and im the owner of amy kaschel San Francisco. We started our line with wedding gowns, and about a year ago, we launched a ready to wear collection. San franciscos a great place to do business in terms of clientele. We have wonderful brides from all walks of life and doing really interesting things architects, doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, other like minded entrepreneurs, so really fantastic women to work with. I think its important for them to know where their clothes are made and how theyre made. My name is jefferson mccarly, and im the general manager of the Mission Bicycle company. We sell bikes made here for people that ride here. Essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban environments. Our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. We care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. When people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. Its a pretty fun shopping experience. Paragraph. For me as a designer, i love the control. I can see whats going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the designs. Going through the suing room, im looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look . Is this what shes expecting, maybe if weve made a customization to a dress, which we can do because were making everything here locally. Over the last few years, weve been more technical. Its a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right decisions are as a Small Business owner. Sometimes its appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. We need to talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar problems, other people that are in the trenches, just like us, so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to overcome another problem. Moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how theyre going to use it, whether its the end piece or a he hwedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so thats the direction i hear at this point. The reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and making the city something that it has always been and making sure that were sharing the opportunities that weve been blessed with economically and socially as possible, broadening that all right. On 2, 1 you innovation on or was on over 200 years they went through extensive innovations to the existing green new metal gates were installed our the perimeter 9 project is funded inform there are no 9 Community Opportunity and our Capital Improvement plan to the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood it allows the residents and park advocates like san franciscans to make the matching of the few minutes through the philanthropic dungeons and finished and finally able to pull on play on the number one green a celebration on october 7, 1901, a skoovlt for the st. Anthonys formed a club and john then the superintendent the Golden Gate Park laid out the Bowling Green are here sharing meditates a permanent green now and then was opened in 1902 during the course the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that citywide much the city the greens were left that with an ellen surface and not readers necessarily 1911 it had the blowing e bowling that was formed in 1912 the Parks Commission paid laying down down green number 2 the San Francisco lawn club was the first opened in the United States and the oldest on the west their registered as San Francisco lark one 101 and ti it is not all fierce competition food and good ole friend of mine drive it members les lecturely challenge the stories some may be true some not memories of past winners is reversed presbyterian on the wall of champions. Make sure you see the one in to the corner thats me and. No . Not bingo or scrabble but the pare of todays competition two doreen and christen and beginninger against robert and others easing our opponents for the stair down is a pregame strategy even in lawn bowling. Play ball. Yes. Almost. clapping . The size of tennis ball the object of the game our control to so when the players on both sides are bold at any rate the complete ends you do do scoring it is youll get within point lead for this bonus first of all, a jack can be moved and a or picked up to some other point or move the jack with i have a goal behind the just a second a lot of elements to the game. Were about a yard long. Aim a were not player ill play any weighed see on the inside in the goal is a minimum the latter side will make that arc in im righthand side i play my for hand and to my left if i wanted to acre my respect i extend so it is arced to the right have to be able to pray both hands. clapping. who one. Nice try and hi, im been play lawn bowling affair 10 years after he retired i needed something to do so i picked up this paper and in this paper i see in there play lawn bowling in San Francisco Golden Gate Park ever since then ive been trying to bowl i enjoy bowling a very good support and good experience most of you have of of all love the peoples and have a lot of have a lot of few minutes in mr. Mayor the San Francisco play lawn bowling is in Golden Gate Park were sharing meadow for more information about the club including free lessons log good morning, today is wednesday, may 15th, 2019. This is a regular meeting of the building inspection commission. I would like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices. The first item on the agenda is roll call. [roll call] commissioner moss is excused. We have a courtroom. Or next items item two, president announcements. Welcome everybody