Yeah, ill second it. Fine. [roll call] okay. Your permit application is conditionally granted. Please follow up with our Deputy Director for next steps. Congratulations. Okay. Great. The final item on the agenda is item number eight, commissioners comments and questions. Okay. Nothing. You must have something. I do have something. I knew you would. Go ahead. Make your so starting this sunday for eight weeks, waverley alley, theyre going to be doing sunday play streets, and were going to be doing things for the kids, and also, theres line dancing for the tourists to see. And on the other alley, therell be activation of different nonprofits. In fact, on the 18, theyre going to be doing a big safety the sfpd will be there for the recruitment team. Fire department will be doing first aid and c. P. R. Its kind of a healthy safe chinatown promotion, but theres a lot of Different Things happening, so come down. Its the launch party. And how many weeks . Eight weeks starting the 11, so itll be finished on the 29 of september will be the last one. Beiokay. Id like to open this up to Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Id like to close this meeting i. I just feel like this is what i was born to do when i was a little kid i would make up performances and daydream it was always performing and doing something i feel if i cant do that than i cant be e me. I just get excited and my nickname is x usher my mom calls me i stuck out like a sore thumb for sure hey everybody im susan kitten on the keys from there, i working in vintage clothing and chris in the 30s and fosz and aesthetic. I think part of the what i did i could have put on my poa he focus on a lot of different musical eras. Shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness Shirley Temple my biggest influence i love david boo and el john and may i west coast their flamboyant and show people singing cant be unhappy as a dr. Murase and it is so fun it is a joyful instrument i learned more about music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3yearold an age i did executive services and also thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk ill be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know im in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our show and started writing a script based on our troop of 6 american burr elect performs in france we were woman of all this angels and shapes and sizes and it was very exciting to be part of the a few lettering elect scene at the time he here he was bay area born and breed braces and with glossaries all of a sudden walking 9 red carpet in i walgreens pedestrian care. Land for best director that was backpack in 2010 the french love this music i come back here and because of film was not released in the United States nobody gave a rats ass lets say the music and berry elect and performing doesnt pay very much i definitely feel into a huge depression especially, when it ended i didnt feel kemgd to france anymore he definitely didnt feel connected to the scene i almost feel like i have to beg for tips i hey im from the bay area and an artist you dont make a living it changed my represent tar to appeal and the folks that are coming into the wars these days people are not listening they love the idea of having a live musician but dont really nurture it like having a potted plant if you dont warrant it it dizzy sort of feel like a potted plant laughter im going to give San Francisco one more year ive been here since 1981 born and raised in the bay area i know that is not for me ill keep on trying and if the struggle becomes too hard ill have to move on i dont know where that will be but i love here so so much i used to dab he will in substances i dont do that im sober and part of the being is an and sober and happy to be able to play music and perform and express myself if i make. Few people happy of all ages ive gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong [pledge of allegiance] this is a reminder to silence all Electronic Devices the Fire Commission regular meeting wednesday, august 14th, and the time is 9 00 a. M. Item one is roll call. [roll call] item two, general Public Comment members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. The lack of a response by the commissioners were Department Personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Thank you very much. Is there any member of the public that wishes to give Public Comment at this time . Please approach the podium if you do. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item three, approval of the minutes. Discussion of possible action to approve the Meeting Minutes of the july 24th, 2019, meeting. Thank you. At this point, item three, approve the minutes. Is anyone from the public would like to state Public Comment on this item of approval of the minutes . Seeing none, madam secretary, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners. Move to approve, mr. President. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you very much, commissioners. Madam secretary, i am going to, commissioners, move item six out of order, the update from the assistant deputy chief up to the next item. The chief has a pressing meeting that he needs to attend and also Department Personnel from his unit his here, as well. With that, commissioners, madam secretary, i will call the chief up. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners. Here this morning to give a brief overview and update of the division of Fire Prevention investigation. Todays agenda will be highlevel presentation today. It is a general overview of the division and breakdown of scope and duties within the division. Well talk about recent accomplishments over the past few years and programs we have launched and continue to grow. Well talk about current initiatives that are ongoing and then i have our senior staff here which i would like to introduce at the end of the presentation to acknowledge them for all their hard work that they do. This first slide is just a general breakdown of the division. The division is made up of two bureaus, the bureau Fire Investigation, and the bureau of Fire Prevention. We are 100 members strong. We have an assistant fire marshal, we have nine captains, we have 12 lieutenants, we have 50 plus inspectors, we have nine investigators and six Fire Protection engineers, seven admin support. We are a large group and it takes entire group to get the job done. We are a team. It is worth mentioning this past fiscal year that we completed 26 inspections. Is a 50 increase over the last ten years. In addition, we have processed 13,000 construction permits as an increase of 100 over the last ten years. Beginning with the Fire Investigation, that team is headed by our assistant fire marshal. There is a captain of the lieutenant and admin support. The captain who is the manager of the unit is not here today. I would like to go down with this response. They respond to up to 20 fires in a month. Zero five prevention. What i have before you on the slide is a breakdown of our sections. Captain harold is here today and manages our plan check section. About 1,000 plans plus a month. Districts, captain matthews is here for districts. Or team is, if you look at the lifecycle of the construction project, the very end of it is the field inspections. Her team goes out to see that all the work is done per plan and is per code. Her group is the last to sign off. Fire permits, those are operational permits. Theres about 42 of them in the fire code who regulated activity from the fire code. We process about 4,000 of those a year. Highrise, we have a highrise section. That is all under captain mary shea. We have five highrise inspectors. We inspect every highrise once a year. There are 622 of them. Fire complaints, that is a new section that we have launched over the last couple of years, no speak more to that on the next slide. The port of San Francisco, the port is over seed in any Fire Prevention activity is his responsibility. He also serves as our new hearing officer, and he is also he has been assigned a special project with the fire code amendments, which he has done a fine job and i will speak to that on the next slide. S. F. O. , captain russell. She heads the team down there that is responsible for Capital Improvement projects. It is the terminal one project, and the new hotel. Schools, we inspect every school annually. Theres 240 of them. That falls under captain mary shea. Residential care facilities, again, social services before permitting these Residential Care facilities request by requested the next four items i will speak more in depth on the next slide. Community outreach team, training, and special projects and housing. I would like to review some of our accomplishments that weve had. Becoming fire marshal four years ago, we had a backlog of Fire Investigations and it is now down to 53. I credit that to management and training. The captain is doing a fine job. Fire complaints section, this is a new section. It is headed by a lieutenant, that is our accelerated Code Enforcement officer, and their four inspectors dedicated to fire complaints. All the fire complaints were sent over to the district inspectors who had to balance their load with new construction and referrals, and fire complaints. We want to make fire complaints a priority. We created a separate section and that can give it the ability to address it properly. We receive anywhere from 400 to 500 complaints a month. The majority of our fire complaints come from our r1 and r2 watch what inspections, company inspections. Part of that fire complaints, i would like to make note in the appendix, i put in the appendix probably more detail than we really need, but it shows the lifecycle of a complaint and the notice of violation in the administrative citation, admin hearing, it is all there. There is a chart of the lifecycle of complaint. Part of that lifecycle is the ministry of hearing. We have two administrative hearings and month. The administrative hearing officer those issues that are not abated or corrected or forwarded from the integrated hearing at the time they are issued. It is worth noting our website. We have answers on our website. You can look up fire records which will link you to the building, which you can look up and address and all fire related inspection activity is right there at your fingertips. The Community Outreach program headed by captain bombing. Participating in about 15 events or presentations a month, including the monthly fire safety fears. We interact with about 2,000 San Francisco his each month. Website enhancements, further on the website enhancements, i would like to thank and acknowledge our p. I. O. We have a number of fire Safety Information sheets and tips on our website. Also we have a fire safety video that our Community Outreach team developed, and it is on the website for all to view. And then we have special projects team. Affordable housing. Originally this team was developed just to address the development projects. Theres a proximal he 17 of them i refer you to the appendix. If you look in the appendix, there is a snapshot of the pipeline. I assume you all have a copy you dont. Here is the fire complaint lifecycle. It goes into detail from end to end process all the way from Code Enforcement. Here we go. This is what i was referring to for our housing team. The latest data for the Planning Department. 72,000 new residential units in the pipeline. A significant portion of those fall under the review of our plan check but also our special housing team. That team has now taken on other duties, as well. We are adding a lieutenant to that team. We have a Fire Protection engineer, two inspectors, theyre taking on the a. D. U. Then we have task, which is a new program, as well. Captain chad law works with m. T. A. And d. P. W. Vision zero, walk and bike s. F. , and he oversees or he represents a Fire Department for any and all street calming proposals. He has to strike a balance was safety and pedestrians and bicyclists while maintaining Fire Department access. That is his job. Current initiatives. I got out of order there. I apologize. I thought you had this slideshow otherwise i would have just ripped i wouldnt have just referred to the appendix. Investments to our budget, we are repurposed singh a couple of our positions up to chief level officers. And again, i refer you to the appendix. If you look at the appendix here , if you look at our chart, that is our existing order chart when i came to the department, when it came into the bureau in 1997, we had two captains, now we have nine captains. We felt that was under control and would be better served better served with an additional 42 positions. We also felt that given the Decisionmaking Authority at chief level officer positions would serve as well. And also, quite frankly, just to be more strategic and more responsive and flexible in making these decisions, and basically owning the sections below you and giving it more direct oversight. The next slide in the appendix was the new age 42 will show the different breakdowns and the structuring that is under control. I think it speaks for itself. Highlighting right now the fire code amendments. We have the 2019 San Francisco california fire code which will go into effect with amendments january 1st, 2020. Captain kaufman has headed that, making those revisions and we take the old code, we update it, the section numbers et cetera, we do little tweaks, little changes here and there. Nothing really significant or controversial, it is just cleaning things up a bit. The process, we have the final draft, which i will share with the chief. We get their input and approval then it will go to the City Attorney for them to review. After that it will come to you as the commission to vote on it before it goes to the supervisors. All this needs to happen by january 1st. Also part of that update, the administrative bulletins, they are part of the fire code. They will come before you for approval, as well. Our assistant fire marshal pruitt and captain harold have been working on those with their teams. Fortynine south van ness, it is a onestop shop permit center. Next june it will be there. The main changes there will be that we will be joining the construction permits and operational permits a 49 south van ness. The reason were doing that is because there is some overlap, and it makes sense to have the city together. So for consistency, and also it is more efficient with our management team. Also on that, we are in the process of migrating to electronic planning. We are starting a pilot next month. We will start small with the a. D. U. Team. I think eventually it will take some time, a couple years, but we will be across the city and everything will be done paperless. The advantage to that is, besides being paperless, is parallel pass review. The departments where theres overlap and review, redundancy, but necessary redundancy, i might say, right now it goes through each department. You can have realtime parallel path review and electronic review. You can see realtime, other departments comments, et cetera it will be a major improvement down the road. Special projects, housing. We just recently signed an m. O. U. With d. P. W. To expedite review and approval for all homeless shelters and navigation centres. That scope has grown. Special housing has to do with anything thats Large Community development or affordable housing, including homelessness. Training. That is something i have been trying to focus on. As you can see, we have so many of them sections within the division. Each section become specialized. So to be efficient we are limited on the flexibility in how we can move our Human Resources around, and what we what we are trying to attempt to do is to broaden our base in training and the plan review, and we have had two classes now. We are just finishing up a sixweek class for plan review or Fire Protection engineering our Fire Protection engineer has been doing that. We had an intro plan review and we just had an intermediate plan review completed. We anticipate one on fire alarms will be our next class. Broaden the base, give us fl