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The lack of response doesnt constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. There are no callers on the public commit line. Thank you ill close Public Comment and go to the next item. Item three approval of the minutes. Approving the Meeting Minutes of october 14 2020. Thank you madam secretary. To my fellow commissioners i made a few comments to the secretary regarding the minutes. There is nothing that changes the meeting the meaning of the minutes. Ill entertain a motion to approve. So moved madam chair. Thank you commissioner cleveland. Is there a second please . I second. Thank you Vice President feinstein. President covington how do you vote . I vote yes. Commissioner nakajo. I vote yes. Commissioner rodriguez. I vote yes. There is no one on the Public Comment line. Next item. Chief of Department Report to nickelson on issues and activities within the department in the meeting including budget, Academy Special events communication with other agencies and report from Administration Deputy chief jose on Administration Status and update. Support, services and training within the department. Thank you. You said there is no Public Comment . There is no Public Comment. Okay, very good. Are you there . I am. This is my report for wednesday october 28th 28th. I would like to thank everyone commissioners for your support for checking in with us online and president covington for being present with us. It was an emotionally challenging time and id like to thank all of the folks on here that really steppedup to make it happen. Assistant deputy chief eric just came in and organized a whole lot of it for us. I know the assistant deputy chief had her handful with lodgistics as well. I know, our chief down at the airport picked the family up. Thank you to the chief. Thank you everyone for your help. I appreciate it. Holding services during covid19 involves more work. I couldnt be more proud of everyone for stepping up and getting the job done so, thank you. The cortez family felt the support. I just received another thank you letter from them today and they really felt the support and love. I know their go fund me account is still open as well. Thats been really good to see so many people stepping up for them. We are of course following up with all of our members there at the incident with our brother to make sure that they have the things they need. We are a strong group of people but sometimes we need support. At this time id like to introduce my new deputy chief our new deputy chief bryan. Hes been in the department for a long time. He was a division chief. Might you announce yourself and say a few words. Thank you chief. Hello, everyone. I think i know most of you. Im very excited about this opportunity. I look forward to working with all of you and im available 24 7. Its good to see you. Thank you. Yesterday we held a town hall. We held it virtually with the chief to provide a forum for our medics and emts and rescue captains. We spoke about policy changes and procedures, openings, your Critical Response teams. Its a wonderful thing and we support them. They are the ones that know how to follow the problems. We will be stepping up again for the next several visits. All of the command staff will be visiting a certain number of stations like we have been doing since the administration started. Its been real good to go out and talk with them. I know its been good for others on the command staff. Well continue that in december. Through december. We have a few different employees we met in october and the chief association as well. Its good to have ongoing dialog. I know the chief will be with us next month to speak on the new team that we are putting together with the department of Public Health and support person to respond to Behavioral Health crisis on the streets. He will be providing all sorts of detail on that in the priority of the Mayors Office and department. Really we are looking at 21,000 calls that the police went to last year and we went to many of them as well. Not all of them. We are looking to takeover the burden of the calls where there arent violence involved. That team of people, paramedics from the department and advanced healthcare practitioners and peer support person someone thats experienced addiction or Mental Health issues. They are working on the changes and well talk to you next time about that. We are almost squared away on getting an Level One Academy up and running. We are getting emts onboard. We are also bumping up some current emts and paramedics. We will take a bunch of the paramedics. We are hiring people now to get that squared away. They solidified and chosen and going through background and medical. And then last time we spoke about a grant. It was accepted from fema of 14 million and it will allow us to hire and cover 36 people for the next three years. It will be no cost to the department. The only caveat with the grant is that when we accepted it, a few weeks ago, whatever i staffing was at that time we need to basically keep similar pretty much the same over the course of that Grant Funding over the next three years. If we hire 36 to what we had three weeks ago. We will have to hire again. We are looking pretty good there and we are looking at having a class in february. More information will follow on that. We are selecting some people people. There are way too many good people to chose from and thats a wonderful problem to have. Also the training center. We had a meeting yesterday and we still cant tell you where it is. There is a possible aquisition. We put together the department of real estate. There is a private owner and we are doing everything we can and more to follow on that. Its trending in the right direction. So thats the good news. Then you might know we sent more folks out on leave. We did preposition because we knew the winds were coming. We went out and prepositioned and nothing lit off out there. They were sent down south to the blue ridge fire. So they have an act of saving peoples housing and doing all sorts of good work. They were on the news. I know the commissioner got a letter from someone thanking them for for their great work. So with that, i will conclude my report for tonight. Thank you so much. I wonder, chief, do you have anything to add to the report . Shes not on. Chief tong, is she on . Yes she is. Do you have anything to add. Good evening president. No not right now. Okay, thank you. Okay, then. Is there any Public Comment on the chief reports . There is no one on the president commitment line. Ill go to my commissioners. I cant see everyone at the same time. Let me start with commissioner nakajo. You are not on the camera at all president covington. Really, wonder why . Madam president i beg your pardon. Did you turn your camera off . Not intentionally. Okay, let me see. Is that yep you are back on. I didnt see myself but assumed everyone else could. I was wrong in that assumption. All right commissioner. Madam president i do not have any questions for the chief at this time. Okay, thank you commissioner nakajo. Commissioner cleveland. No questions at this time. Okay, thank you sir. Commissioner rodriguez. Thank you chief for your report. At this time i do not have any questions. Okay, madam Vice President. Thank you madam president. Chief, i have one question and i cant quiet tell if its based on the fact that we as commissioners get notification of some events and no notification of other events. I dont know why we get selected for certain things. That seems to be what beeps on our cell phones. Im going with what i get. It sure seems to me that shark rescues are way up. I dont know if im right about that conclusion or somehow, you guys have programmed me to only be notified of shark rescues. Boy, do i see a lot of them. Do you notice anything going on. Is there anything going on or just what they chose to send me. The powers that be, the computer powers out there. Vice president thank you for the question. Antidotally, yes we have seen a increase in shark rescues and water rescues as a whole. So yes. We would have to rundown the data but from what we are all seeing and im sure many folks on the screen here shaking their head yes, as well. Its not the only thing we get though but quiet a few. I realize that but is there im not asking for any particular reason other than is there that explains that all of a sudden. Yes. So, there are a number of factors. I would say that you know, we definitely seen an increase in covid19 people cant get out to many places and they are going to the beach. There have been a lot of people we lost one man earlier this summer that was from out of town. Folks coming from out of town dont understand that we have one of the most dangerous beaches in the country. So yeah, we have seen a lot more people from out of town and, you know you have random sort of whatever the weather and tide is doing. There are a number of things that play into it. Its the most dangerous beach in the country and we had the most deaths over the years. Yes, its been quiet busy of late. Thank you that makes sense. Thank you. I appreciate comments from all of the commissioners. I see that the captain is on. Ill let him Say Something as a member of the public. Well, as a surfer for the last 30 how long have i been surfing . Since 1983 there has been a huge influx of surfers. With covid19 and people not working and working remotely and also being able to learn a new hobby at ocean beach instead of going to pacifica thats a starter beach. They have tried to learn at ocean beach and its not a beach to learn at. So with the influx of new surfers, good weather and covid19 its most crowded then i have seen it in 15 years this weekend every peak 20 to 30 people. We are also experiencing, usually the waves are bigger but keeping the beginning outofthe waters but the waves have been historically small and gives more people trying to get into the sport. Well, thank you for the information, captain. Thats really interesting. Thats really interesting to me. It seems to make perfect sense. Growing up here i was taught about the undertow at ocean beach. My spouse grew up in Southern California and was a surfer. He always told me remember the ocean is not your friend. It will kill you. So please. Please be careful. We have enough risk in your daily job. Please be careful with your sporting activity. Wed like to keep you around. All right thank you madam Vice President. Are there any additional comments from commissioners as a follow up . No okay, thank you you all. Thank you all. Okay lets see we have the report from administration. Good evening, president Vice President commissioner chief nickelson and marine. This is my report for the month of september. Id like to share my presentation. Are you able to see anything . Not so far. Chief we depend upon you. You are our go to guy for this stuff. I apologize for that. Id like to give you an update we had as you recall. A busy season up north. Now we are switching operations down to south we had a team deployed on the assignment. This is a program the governor started two years ago. Funding a program where agencies and counties can ask for resources before the fire strikes. The deployment is much faster and proven to be effective in many instances. We were called to assist across the county for that. We also had an engine assist in that. Mobbed night they were both deployed to the blue ridge fire. As of 10 00 a. M. Its 14,000 acres and 16 containment. Yesterday it was zero percent contained as of this time yesterday. The chief said on channel 2 and right behind the reporter our fire truck with our crews out there. I have seen it report and crews out there and the fire was coming down the hill. We got a lot of good feedback on social media for our department being there. If you think this fire season has been busy let me give you the stats from cal fire. They put out a report every year. This is just by size. In 2020 five of the top fires in the history of the state have happened in the state of california. Since 2000 we are seeing something here. We know what it is. Climate change and disease of the trees. Its been a busy season. Its not over yet. This is the prime of the season. We went to a fire in med to late december a few years ago. We hope it doesnt get worse. Its a significant trend. Update on training we hosted three Leadership Series at the fire academy. We hosted for some of our investigates and chiefs. This was from our office. We hope this will help us do better investigations. We selected captain julia as it new captain. He returned after three years. We continue to do multiple drills. Chief johnson is here. We did a water rescue. We continue to do drills all of the time and even with covid19 we have to continue to do the drills. Our teams have been quiet busy. They have been reporting every month. This is National Preparedness month. Our teams provide personnel to food banks and testing sites we are proud of their efforts. The mayor selected an Emergency Response team. On the 17th it was the 30th anniversary of the founding of nerd. It came after the earthquake city hall was very proud. Our chief of health has been quiet busy. Like the chief said ill speak about the memorial we held. This required canceling the plans. We will continue to develop our curriculum. We are looking for a new member for the Behavioral Health unit. They have been promoted soon to prevention. So we need to fill that spot and we are testing for that. We have been busy with the flu clinics. We hope everyone on the call has taken a flu shot. The goal is to achieve 70 of the data. We will continue to provide feedback for the covid19 safety plans. We are working on our stations. Many locations will be polling stations. We will have a plan for that pretty soon. Our Regional Planning bureau we have a vacancy there. Every year members can bid for open spots this takes place every year. Also different shifts took effect on october 3. One of the busiest divisions under my command. The fleet, we have the bids due after thanksgiving. If you recall the last meetings they will have to bid again. We will get them back after thanksgiving. We were granted five new mini pumpers from oes. This is liken begin 361. If they need them we will staff them. We will pay for them to be deployed. They will go for support and the bigger begins we send arent as good. We are also lucky enough to get grants. So soon enough we will have nine new mini engines that will assist us in brush fires. The new engines coming out we will do an early inspection. We will take covid19 precautions we will get better there and its not what we want to be the completion date is the fifth. The middle panels continue to be installed. We have dry wall in both levels. Its not finished yet but its there. Also the anchoring of the station. Some of the first floor pictures in the progress. Also the exterior. This has been built at treasure island. This is the work thats been done on the peer make sure they have the anchors for that. Its been installed and rooms near completion. The warehouse for all of the equipment. We will see pictures on the exterior of the division. Thats basically all of the storage for the medical equipment so we can give it to them. Our Human Resources we had two retirements. All of those promotions and captains. This is for our family. Thank you for those that put this together. Do you recall we are able to have companies to help cover the city. This is the project that was the operations chief and a lot of work was put into the project. We have numerous calls and offers for help that wanted to come and pay respects and help us out. That came from across the county. Multiple engine trucks and they were able to come in and pay respects at the end of their shift. This was from 2 30, 3 00 p. M. Until 10 30. Everyone and could pay respects. Alameda county cameraman put this video together. [ music ] that ends my report thank you. Can you hear me . Yes. Thank you very much for your report and showing us the video. Its still quiet moving to see thank you for mentions people coming from the out lying areas to help. Thats very good. I think the go fund me page is still up any member that would like to donate feel free to do so. Are there questions for im sorry are there any Public Comment on the chiefs report . There is no one on the public callin line. Okay, thank you. Since there are no members Public Comment is closed and ill go to fellow commissioners. Ill begin with Vice President feinstein. Thank you madam president. Kind of knocked me off my feet there. That was really that was a lovely tribute. I know that everybody appreciates it and you know, well always be able to respond when other departments need us that was lovely. I have a few issues to brin