Operator will unmute you. You may watch live at sfgov. Org roll call. President morgan is running late. Vice president fraser. Present. Commissioner nakajo. Present. Commissioner feinstein . Present member collins, upon present and chief nicholson. Present remotely. Vice president fraser will read the land acknowledgment. Ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement the San FranciscoFire Commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you. Item 2 general public meant. Members of the public may address the commission up to 3 minuteos i matter within the commissions jurisdiction tha is not on the agenda speakers address to the commission as a whole and not individual commissioners or Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter in debate or discussion with the speaker. The lack of response by the commissioners or Department Personnel does not necessarily institute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. There is nobody approaching and nobody on the line. All right. Public comment is closed. 3 approval of the minutes discussion and possible action to approve the Meeting Minutes from the regular meeting on march 20 27, 2024. We will is there discussion on the minutes . Or comment from the mission on the minutes . There is owen nobody on the line or approaching. So moved. President morgan . Abstain i was not present. And Vice President or commissioner feinstein . I also was not present. Vice president fraser. [inaudible]. Motion is unanimous. No. 2 excused. Item 4. Chief of departments report. From chief of Department Jeanine Nicholson on activities and events in the Department Since the meeting on march 27, including budgeters academies, special events. Communication and out reach to other Government Agencies and the public and report if operations deputy chief lug tlop on fires and beauto of investigation. Training and airport division. Good morning. May i begin . Good morning, chief. Good morning. President morgan. Sorry im late Vice President fraser. Commissioner feinstein, commissioner nakajo and commissioner collins, maureen and command staff im year xhier chief this it is my report since our last meeting witness stand a press conference on the steps of city hauch im getting feedback not sure why that is. Will im hearing myself twice. Society commission is aware there are many more changes coming. In terms of street changes. Because the changes thus far made by the mt a muraleen do you have your hand raised. No , im trying to unraise it. Am i missing something. I do not. I cant hear anybody. Can somebody let me know if you can hear me we can hear you. Something is going on with the web ex. Okay. All right. I will continue. In any case, in terms of the vision zero press conference, there will be more changes coming. To the city streets. Because all of the changes thus far, has slowed the Fire Department in terms of our response times but has not lowered the number of cyclist deaths in the staechl so unfortunately, we are the only 1s that have been impacted on that. And i know there will be enforcement cameras will be helpful. But we really need enforcement. From the police in terms of traffic issues. And you have been we are involved we have someone from fire marshall kauffmans office involved with the mt a on the changes and you know we are not so we are involved in the process. But just so the commission knows a lot more changes are going to be coming. Another event i attended was at the uss harvey milk they brought a new ship here. So that it could launch from San Francisco. Speaker pelosi was there and spoke. Mayor spoke. The nephew of harvey milk spoke. And it is a ship that will deliver supplies, and equipment. To other ships. It is not a fighting shipment per se. So that was adult see it come in the basement uss harvey milk. Yea. And a great event to be at. And in terms of speaker pelosi. There is a grant that we put in for that we are getting for 700 thousand dollars for our Training Center and we are grateful to her. And to all the folks that work with her. In addition last time i spoke about the grant that our folks got for turn outs. So, our people under mark are doing a wonderful job look outside the box and getting us money that is needed. Media. Talk about media. Nbc bay area in regards to women in the fire service and the Fire Department is looked at as an example of what other departments can be. And so i spoke on that. I was also interviewed about the sauce or toxic free turn out that we are looking to get. And that all of the sudden came up in the news a week and a half ago. Because of the legislation that has been put forward. I told nbc news we have been working on this for 5 years and we are grateful for everyones support. So that legislation i believe they leave it be for a month. I dont know if it is Public Comment or what it is but then they will vote at the full board late this month or early next know month they will vote on it. In regards to [inaudible]. Turn out. 798 adam wood testified at a hear nothing sacramento yesterday regarding the toxic chemicals in our equipment and gear. And just so the commission knows, this does not owen impact firefighter its has a significance impact on firefighters because of the exposure but it impacts all of us it is in all thing in your homes as well. I attended a conchs last week in williams, california fire skoechl there were great conversations from everything from wild land, urban, state wide legislation. It is a really great opportunity to also just network with other chiefs from this state of california. Really helpful. With chief of support Service Michael mullin we visited station 51. Last week, it was well received. And you know we spoke again aboutow challenges and needs. And what we were seeing in the fields that we are really, really proud of and pleased about. And some of the things we are working on for the field in terms of getting them equipment and all the other things that are going in headquarters. I greeted a new class of 9910s. What are 9910s . They other young people from city emt who are going to get 500 hours on an ambulance. This is a paid internship. Where theyll get 5 huh human hours on an ambulance so they can then apply to the San FranciscoFire Department to work on an ambulance. Some of them may do that some may apply for the suppression side and some may go another route t. Has been a Successful Program thus far. And we had dozens of young people come through station 49. As a third porn an ambulance. Thank you, deputy chief tong for your support and all the work that your people nut to this t. Has been successful. I greeted an h3 level one class an emt class earlier this week. And they are there are a lot of local young people in this class. And 12 of the 14 have actually worked on an ambulance in San Francisco as well. But many of them are from San Francisco and currently live in San Francisco, which is great. There was a boot camp this past weekend at treasure island. For it was supposed to be over 100 people i dont have the numbers how many showed up. But it is a good measuring stick for these recruits and candidates. I say. And it is a good chance for us to get some eyes on folks and so they can get help from which employee groups or whom ever and get an upon idea what they need to work on and what the expectation is. We had a retreat last week. Cb234 and mark and myself i told you doing this once a month it has been helpful in moveings the Top Priorities forward in this department. We discussed communications that is such an enormous topic. And got into also tuck burglar our dash board. In terms of the dash board we are determining what data it is that we want to have easy, quick access to, so i or another one of our chiefs can tell the story to whether its the Mayors Office or city supervisors or the media or whom ever. And this is a lot of this does exist it is hard to get to and find, we are having our leader at it put together a dash board so we can do it without bothering him all the time and his people. Lastly on monday, i presented the Capital Plan Committee with mark corso. And i wanted to really explain and ask them for their help. Mark corso presented the asks for the year. It is somewhere around 7 Million Dollars. Which is not a lot of money. And it is not a lot considering we need millions of dollars for our repairs and remodels and blsd of our fire stations. But i spoke out and asked for assistance with challenges the seismic risks that many stations face. What could mean in an earthquake. We could lose firefighters, a station. The equipment in there. There are major risk and we will not be able to respond to that neighborhood that community so in addition to commissioner collins seen repairs at our fire stations so folks can live in a normal, safe environment. And so i said to them that the process that we have is in the working for us. The process that capitol Plan Committee has is in the working for us. And it needs to change this is not sustainable for us. We stheen with our Training Center. And not barely having enough money for that and we cant do station 7 and the other 6s that we need there is not another easter bond until 2028. And this puts us even further behind the 8 ball. So. You know the other challenge is that right now there is 59 Million Dollars for the plan has for all city departments. But 29 Million Dollars of this is already spoken for in were set asides and the like. So this leaves 30 Million Dollars for all the other departments unless they decide to put more money in that budget this year. We will see. So, its very little money for a lot of departments we near a challenging economic time. And so i am going to continue to be the squeaky kwheel and tell them that we need change. And i understand that this change will take years and years to happen. But if we dont start speaking out now. It will take longer. And i really feel like the push needs to happen. And so. I do did ask them forking sluzs and answers and help. And you know i dont know that i will get anything from that. But i will continue conversations with them and i do than i have the full support of the commission and work with the Mayors Office and commissioner collins on messaging or strategies that we might employ with your support of e. That cop cludes my report for today. And as you know, again i have a meeting of the Department Heads with mayor breed. At 9 30. Thank you. Chief. That was a lot do you have time for questions. Yea. Please. A couple questions. I will ask the other commissioners you have questions for the chief . Commissioner collins. Chief, can you hear me . I can, yes, maam. Im curious at the capitol Plan Committee was there any discussion in general of not only allocation of funds but more efficient use of funds. There was little discussion about that other then and there this is how much money there is, we have this many millions going to rec and park. Grown this is a set aside and this many to Something Else and there is you know 30 Million Dollars left for everyone else. Yesterday was the opportunity for Public Safety to present. So capital plan having other departments come forward this is a yearly thing we do during budget season, we ask for our we state our needs and tell them when we are asking for. In the past, we asked for 50 mission. 45 Million Dollars. That is never worked. We appeared it down this year. Knowing that we really have hundreds of millions of dollars of need. But you know and thats some of what i asked for. In my upon comments yesterday was yea. More efficient use of the funds. And yea. So, i didnt there was not much conversation about it after i spoke other than thank you, chief for your comments and then police spoke and they said. Yea we have the same problems that fire has and sheriff spoke and said the same thing. So, i think there is coabuilding we need to do and work with the Mayors Office to push this forward even though it is difficult budget time i want a change to be ready to go. Was there Public Comment . After the chiefs report. We have somebody approaching the podium. Good morning again. It has been awhile. Hi. I was of late for the general comment. Lets not waste time. Look at the skies. Register for yourself what is going and pass the world step by step we cant hide. Nowhere to hide we have to pay for when we dont say t. Is very important. Something concerning this, you know whether you believe or not in astrology so in astrology you have 3 fire signs. Airys,lyo, sagittarius they are masculine fire. The feminine signs are water, woman are better to take care of water. To extinguish the fire that men put in this world. So everybody should upon bed because you feel it. All right. So what is please Pay Attention to the [inaudible]. This not only because they are. Pausing your time this is regard to the chiefs report. Public comment chief pass the world to the mayor because some point she has to take responsibility. She does not want to do it. [inaudible]. Thank you. For your comment. Ghee back to questions from the commission. Who wants to be next joyment know you are short on time, you mentioned and thank you for your report. You mentioned that the beginning about the city streets changing. And pedestrian and cyclist stats have not changed. And about slowing response time. Is there any opportunity for us to have any preview or see anything in advance of the changes . Or so that is what we have been work on for years now. And i think the chief will answer that better. I know asked for a map of the city. I have no idea if we got that yet. Chief will answer that. Thank you for your report. Du want to go ahead. Chief and answer the rest of the question . I can do it now or it was going to be part of the body of my report thats fine. Save t. I had a question for chief nicholson. Are you there, chief . Yes , sir. Regarding the turn out you know thank god we got 2. 3 Million Dollars grant. Which would helpful ballpark figure it replace the turn outs, how much will it cost the Fire Department . Could be 12 Million Dollars. We will have to moving forward. But, yea. Thats a rough number. Safety is no accident. Any other commissioners have questions . No. Okay. Chief, you are up. Sir. Good morning. Thank you. Good morning president morgan. Vice president fraser and commissioners Im Department of operations and had is the Operations Report for march. Got busier in march. Waiting for the pictures. Okay. And there was one greater alarm during march. Over february, we had an increase in working fires from 913 with i greater alarm and other calls remain the same of one greater alarm is listed the 11th. On 3 30 on 137 [inaudible] avenue. This is the report. This is the fire. A third alarm 1. 51, 157 julian avenue. A very congested area. In are mission and area that most of the officer in thes room are familiar with having served as Company Officers and firefighters in the district. On there was a hiccup in dispatch. Reported 3 different locations. Short interville. Companies were responding if sickth street when they did land on the address 137 julian. The approaching Company Officers noted the main body of fire was on weesz. Which is common it this area of town where the alleys are you know residential streets with addresses on both sides on the north side and south side and east and west side. Most were julian address the main body was on wes. On arrival, the second new company in thes area and truck 7 approaching and obstructed by vehicles and made the report the best access from 16th does change the pattern near this incident and everybody reacted well. Adjusted quick and able to get units on wes and on julian. To address the fire and the rescue problem. The first alarm units you see they had a body of fire that started on the grounds. Adjacent to the vehicles and quickly spread up the rear mud port stair case areas. Common in this type of construction. A wooden mud porch or utility area. This one had a set of wood lattice that made the fire spread quickly. Once it has hold of that it transitions ready low to the interior of the