Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE BOS Public Safety Neighborhood S

If theres one thing i think you have heard today is that policy aside in drafting the rules is a complicated issue. Theres a host of technical concerns and minutia. We do have concern about putting this on the ballot in terms of not being able to kind of tinker away and amend the measure to address the implementation issues. I understand one of the amendment is to allow the board to amend it after five years. There could be things that may need to be addressed in a short amount of time. Would not rest on the eastern neighborhood on the pdr question. We have been for the last five years engaged on the central some effort, 2011, we hope to be before the board in 2017 the consider this plan. The construction of a new pdr is a central issue and we have proposal that will be before you soon that is a comprehensive proposal that is cutting edge and includes things not just in terms of replacement but construction of the new pdr not just in the plan area but outside. We hope the board will consider it in full next year. We are quickly ramping up as part of the continued work on the map 2020 Mission Project to take up pdr reservation concerns as the immediate issue and we have gotten resources from the board to do so so we hope to have the opportunity to continue to work on these issues and flush them out in the near term. In terms of broad takeaways without getting into some of the wording of the measure, weve learned some general principles and takeaways on our work in the pdr and legislation in recent past. One is that as you have heard from recent speakers is that the role is varied even throughout the eastern neighborhood. They were not intended to preserve the pdr like a mixeduse office or mixedused residential; looking at the different role from the sally district or the unintelligible district. We have to preserve and build the pdr. There are tradeoffs for cost and personality for pdr space, onsite, offsite. There are design and functional requirements of pdr uses. We should think about those hard about how they are compatible with different building prototypes in different zoning envelopes and the kinds of spaces that we would end up with. We should consider the financial feasibility of the requirements in the context of all the Public Benefits that we are expecting of projects undertaken. We have very complex Public Benefits analysis looking at pdr in the context of other expectations like higher inclusionary housing requirements. And then of course one of the amendment that was introduced would deal with this issue but certainly we dont want to discourage any Property Owner from renting to a pdr or institutional tenant again by putting restrictions on them. Those underscore some of the broad considerations that we hope in legislation or measure would take into effect and underscore that we think this is a complex and technical issue. It takes time to work through the matter and we hope that we are not hamstrung in terms of having the board being able to on an ongoing basis i just a matter and take it up as the need be. Supervisor mar i want to thank mr. unintelligible for at least giving us my office some of the concerns and thanks to april and unintelligible from supervisor kims office for making amendments that are a good way of addressing some of those concerns and i would urge that i have heard loud and clear about the dangers if we dont act now. Mr. Arberling sounds like called it a massacre of art spaces, the elimination of bluecollar pdr. Kate suggested that the lot more be done by the city to support affordable pdr. I would like to know what we will do, what we can do to do that. I am meeting towards supporting an amended version of this given the crisis that many of our communities are facing. I know that supervisor tang pass legislation allowing some of the west side spaces to be used for manufacturing and sales. Supervisor tang citywide. Supervisor mar some of the main places where pdr occurs. I wanted to say that i am trying to understand more mr. Switzkys concerns. For now i am very supportive of this effort but want to see some of those amendment address the concerns. Supervisor tang i want to thank everyone who came out and spoke about this. At the heart of the issue all of us care about preserving the wonderful useful pdr spaces or uses. Of course, our as Additional Community organizations and art. Even as somoene who generally does not unintelligible appropriations i support the entire board is supplemental to preserve the nonprofit Stabilization Fund that supervisor kim brought forth. I know that again we all share in that same vein of thought. We want to preserve these great uses but of course i concur that it really should be legislative process because what happens there is that the Planning Commission will need to go and formally evaluate the proposal and formally weigh in on what the impact will be. It could be negative in terms of what this particular tool is doing here. And of course we dont want to see it go that way. I appreciate amendment but even as originally drafted it would have impacted neighborhoods even the sunset district where a shoe cobbler counts as a pdr use. Trying to find another pdr use is difficult. It is difficult to recruit business is to go into the westide of town. We drafted legislation to allow for two thirds of ground space to be dedicated towards Light Manufacturing as long as the third of the space is a storefront. Previously the planning code only allowed for a certain number of horsepower which wouldve powered blender for like production and manufacturing. We have not seen that they hold, the Light Manufacturing. We will like to encourage more like an factoring in some of the neighborhoods where we would not normally see that. Im concerned that there has been a huge divide in terms of folks for the many communities and the people who are actually in occupying pdr spaces or using and delivering pdr uses. They have not been part of the conversation and that is worrisome to me. I want to see that level of engagement occur. And so at this time even though the amendment i feel very uncomfortable with this particular ballot measure moving forward. One last thing that i will add is that i know there were a lot of folks from the Mission Community speaking about the preservation of art uses and so forth. I will say that this year the Planning Department in their Budget Proposal that included additional funding for planning solely dedicated to map 2020 and would have come with a huge set of proposals for the work that could be done in terms of amending the planning code to preserve what the mission is. A budget analyst recommended to cut that particular position. I was a supervisor in the Budget Committee that said no, we need to keep this. I want to thank the staff for coming up with the idea to allow the proposal to move forward so that we can have dedicated staff to come up with other legislative tools that we need to support our communities. I am very interested to see how that effort will be played out. Supervisor cohen . Supervisor cohen thank you supervisor tang for your work and remarks and i want to thank supervisor mar for the discussion leading up to this meeting and last week. My hope is that when we hear this again on monday that we will be able to continue the conversation and continue to talk to many of the issues with this item and either agree to move forward with a legislative solution or amend the measure. I am willing to support and include supervisor kims amendment with one change in the language and im going to read into the record. This the change where i would like to see to the amendment that she has proposed to the Geographic Area section on page 4, lines 1321. I would like to remove showplace where unintelligible and central water front area plans in the eastern area neighborhoods. I dont think the replacement obligations work for the area as i have mentioned. That has been little to no conversation with the affected Community Groups on this particular measure. I have heard from the Mission Neighborhoods. Maybe theyre interested in having it in so be it. There is a small segment of the Mission Neighborhood and i wonder how knowledgeable the entire community really is informed on the amendments and the ballot initiative. On the proposed amendment, i would like to allow the board of supervisors to amend this measure. I believe that it is extremely restrictive. We have gotten into trouble before as the board excuse me initiatives going to the voters without enough of civility. correction flexibility. I would like to place a fiveyear it limit on that ability. Supervisor tang supervisor kim has that written in. I want to comment on that. I think that may be a little bit too long; i want to ask the Planning Department staff in terms of evaluation, in terms of the policies. I think five years is too long . What would you say in terms of the time frame . Supervisor cohen i am not looking for that limit. I prefer to have a general requirement that states that the board of supervisors may amend the provision of the measure. Supervisor tang at any time. Right now it says after five years i suppose but supervisor kim. Supervisor cohen i would like to see if there is consensus in this body for that amendment. I want to make a motion that we adopted amendment with the change that i have articulated and those changes are to remove show square, central water and unintelligible from the plans. I encourage is sponsored to be open to continue feedback on the measure. I had the opportunity to Exchange Text messages and supervisor kim and i will sit down in the next several hours and days so that we can have a conversation facetoface. Supervisor mar but me ask, Showplace Square is in district 10 . Uhhuh. And central water plan is in district 10. I am supportive of that. Thank you. I am not supportive of the elimination of five years. Supervisor tang one or we take some of the suggestions first and then i have some other suggestions as well. First mistake what supervisor kims office has proposed intensive amendment but eliminating from the impacted area Showplace Square unintelligible and central water plant. Lets do that first and thats not take the part regarding the board of supervisors adopting an ordinance after 60 months. Okay . We can do that. Supervisor mars has made a motion, seconded by supervisor cohen. We will take up without objection. gavel and modifying at any time before or up to 60 mothns. The motion is to not accept it . Deputy City Attorney. Supervisor kims proposal includes a fiveyear provision and an additional restriction that any amendments adopted by the board must promote or better achieve the underlining goal of protecting and enhancing pdrs in unintelligible . Are you proposing . Supervisor tang i am summarizing that statement. Your proposal is to amend the ordinance to provide as a new subsection at the end the board of supervisors may amend the provisions of this measure at any time, period. Supervisor tang any time to promote or better achieve the underlying goal of protecting and enhancing the pdrs. We would strike a couple of words from what supervisor kims office has brought to us, that last clause. So why dont i make a motion or suggest a motion to amend into the legislation one last paragraph which would say the board of supervisors may amend the provision of this measure at any time after its initial Effective Date to promote or better achieve the underlining goal of protecting or enhancing this pdr for institutional and art activity uses. That will be supervisor cohen to make a motion. Supervisor cohen so moved. Ill second that. Lets do a roll call. On the motion by supervisor cohen. Supervisor mar no. Supervisor cohen aye. Supervisor tang aye. Supervisor mar absent. Supervisor tang g1 gavel supervisor tang any project fully approved by the Planning Commission as of june 14th of this year and so id like to see if supervisor kims office would be amenable rather than saying the full Planning Commission approval, and that perhaps projects submitted unintelligible by that date instead. Your amendment is i apologize i cant make a decision on the half of the supervisor so i am unsure of what i can do in this situation. Okay. So just a warning, were tight on the timeline. Will continue this in a special meeting on monday. Perhaps it is something that you can bring back to supervisor kim for the grandfathering dates and what that would entail. The other thing is that i have heard a lot of concerns from folks involved in Small Development projects. And so again you cannot make this decision today but one thing i would like to ask the supervisor kim is a project smaller than a certain Square Footage would be exempt. Obviously we are going to have project not move forward if theyre not able to build the housing that they need to make up for the pdr space or the retail space. Again thinking about projects that are of smaller sizes; and the Square Footage could be obviously to be determined. So i think those were two of the main things i would like to see in place. Speaking to the Planning Departments concerns, i would like to see a few more controls in place regarding design and use of the space. Saying that we are replacing the pdr is something that may not be the best result. I believe that those were most of the concerns that i wanted to talk about at the moment. Of course we would love to follow up with supervisor kim after this hearing to see what else we can hash out before monday. With that then colleagues i think the item has been amended. I dont know if there are further questions or discussions about this. We have stated what i think our Committee Members are collectively desiring regarding discussion with the community. If we can get a motion to continue this item is amended to our special rules committee on monday . So moved. We take that up without objection. Thank you very much. Next item. I item 12, hearing to consider the proposed Initiative Ordinance submitted by four or more supervisors to the voters at the november 8, 2016 election, entitled ordinance amending the police code to prohibit the placement of tent encampments on public sidewalks. we appreciate your effort and service. unintelligible to provide our proposed overview of the ten t policy. Homelessness in San Francisco continues to persist. Tent encampments raised Numerous Public Health concerns for our city and our office does not believe it is compassionate to allow human beings to live in tents on our streets. Is dangerous for the residents of the encampments and our residents. We believe that we should do everything in our power to help get the homeless into the services and housing that they need to better themselves and to get out of this tent encampments. We are not confident that we can work out a consensus solution that the public and the board of supervisors can agree with. Our measure is straightforward and simple. We are not advocating a policy as a panacea for homelessness in seven cisco our policy is aimed solely at the tent encampment in San Francisco there our proposal makes it clear that they can only be removed with a 24hr. Notice. The department of public works will store the belongings for at least 90 days. Our intention is to get the homeless out of tent a tenth into housing. With provide the maximum flex ability for the department of homelessness in the front line workers. A we trust that the frontline workers are in the best position for each individual residing in the encampment. Would intentionally do not include any criminalization element. No individual beside will be cited, fined or put in jail as a result of this initiative. We appreciate the time today. I know this is an informational hearing but i will be happy to answer questions as well. Supervisor mar i know well have more for discussion at a later meeting. You mentioned that the solution is housing. What is a commitment coming from supervisor farrell on that to create housing . An adequate housing for homeless people. That is a fair question. We just included 11 million over two years of additional homeless housing, cosponsoring the. 75 sales tax that seeks to provide unintelligible over 25 yearsfour homeless dollars with a majority of that going to housing. We want to do everything in our power to get the homeless off our streets. Supervisor mar i know chair tang and i sitting through Budget Committee meetings over the last couple of years have number of hearings with the coalition for homelessness, the support housing roots but also the police and Law Enforcement side. I have concern that the human infrastructure side has not been involved in this. We have four members of the board banding together behind his policy. unintelligible . Supervisor mar i know mr. Montejano you mentioned that its not compassionate to allow tent to continue to exist but i view this as potentially violating unintelligible . It will not significantly increase costs to the city. I see some of that in there. Im guessing that we will get a controllers report. My understanding from the budget Analyst Report is that criminalizing the homeless, the analyst concluded that we are spending 18. 6 by the police alone for in some ways frivolous efforts to crack down on people without homes in public spaces. Is a wasteful 18. 6 million. This will focus more on Police Response as opposed to the human side equation of services and drug and Substance Abuse support and Mission Project<\/a> to take up pdr reservation concerns as the immediate issue and we have gotten resources from the board to do so so we hope to have the opportunity to continue to work on these issues and flush them out in the near term. In terms of broad takeaways without getting into some of the wording of the measure, weve learned some general principles and takeaways on our work in the pdr and legislation in recent past. One is that as you have heard from recent speakers is that the role is varied even throughout the eastern neighborhood. They were not intended to preserve the pdr like a mixeduse office or mixedused residential; looking at the different role from the sally district or the unintelligible district. We have to preserve and build the pdr. There are tradeoffs for cost and personality for pdr space, onsite, offsite. There are design and functional requirements of pdr uses. We should think about those hard about how they are compatible with different building prototypes in different zoning envelopes and the kinds of spaces that we would end up with. We should consider the financial feasibility of the requirements in the context of all the Public Benefits<\/a> that we are expecting of projects undertaken. We have very complex Public Benefits<\/a> analysis looking at pdr in the context of other expectations like higher inclusionary housing requirements. And then of course one of the amendment that was introduced would deal with this issue but certainly we dont want to discourage any Property Owner<\/a> from renting to a pdr or institutional tenant again by putting restrictions on them. Those underscore some of the broad considerations that we hope in legislation or measure would take into effect and underscore that we think this is a complex and technical issue. It takes time to work through the matter and we hope that we are not hamstrung in terms of having the board being able to on an ongoing basis i just a matter and take it up as the need be. Supervisor mar i want to thank mr. unintelligible for at least giving us my office some of the concerns and thanks to april and unintelligible from supervisor kims office for making amendments that are a good way of addressing some of those concerns and i would urge that i have heard loud and clear about the dangers if we dont act now. Mr. Arberling sounds like called it a massacre of art spaces, the elimination of bluecollar pdr. Kate suggested that the lot more be done by the city to support affordable pdr. I would like to know what we will do, what we can do to do that. I am meeting towards supporting an amended version of this given the crisis that many of our communities are facing. I know that supervisor tang pass legislation allowing some of the west side spaces to be used for manufacturing and sales. Supervisor tang citywide. Supervisor mar some of the main places where pdr occurs. I wanted to say that i am trying to understand more mr. Switzkys concerns. For now i am very supportive of this effort but want to see some of those amendment address the concerns. Supervisor tang i want to thank everyone who came out and spoke about this. At the heart of the issue all of us care about preserving the wonderful useful pdr spaces or uses. Of course, our as Additional Community<\/a> organizations and art. Even as somoene who generally does not unintelligible appropriations i support the entire board is supplemental to preserve the nonprofit Stabilization Fund<\/a> that supervisor kim brought forth. I know that again we all share in that same vein of thought. We want to preserve these great uses but of course i concur that it really should be legislative process because what happens there is that the Planning Commission<\/a> will need to go and formally evaluate the proposal and formally weigh in on what the impact will be. It could be negative in terms of what this particular tool is doing here. And of course we dont want to see it go that way. I appreciate amendment but even as originally drafted it would have impacted neighborhoods even the sunset district where a shoe cobbler counts as a pdr use. Trying to find another pdr use is difficult. It is difficult to recruit business is to go into the westide of town. We drafted legislation to allow for two thirds of ground space to be dedicated towards Light Manufacturing<\/a> as long as the third of the space is a storefront. Previously the planning code only allowed for a certain number of horsepower which wouldve powered blender for like production and manufacturing. We have not seen that they hold, the Light Manufacturing<\/a>. We will like to encourage more like an factoring in some of the neighborhoods where we would not normally see that. Im concerned that there has been a huge divide in terms of folks for the many communities and the people who are actually in occupying pdr spaces or using and delivering pdr uses. They have not been part of the conversation and that is worrisome to me. I want to see that level of engagement occur. And so at this time even though the amendment i feel very uncomfortable with this particular ballot measure moving forward. One last thing that i will add is that i know there were a lot of folks from the Mission Community<\/a> speaking about the preservation of art uses and so forth. I will say that this year the Planning Department<\/a> in their Budget Proposal<\/a> that included additional funding for planning solely dedicated to map 2020 and would have come with a huge set of proposals for the work that could be done in terms of amending the planning code to preserve what the mission is. A budget analyst recommended to cut that particular position. I was a supervisor in the Budget Committee<\/a> that said no, we need to keep this. I want to thank the staff for coming up with the idea to allow the proposal to move forward so that we can have dedicated staff to come up with other legislative tools that we need to support our communities. I am very interested to see how that effort will be played out. Supervisor cohen . Supervisor cohen thank you supervisor tang for your work and remarks and i want to thank supervisor mar for the discussion leading up to this meeting and last week. My hope is that when we hear this again on monday that we will be able to continue the conversation and continue to talk to many of the issues with this item and either agree to move forward with a legislative solution or amend the measure. I am willing to support and include supervisor kims amendment with one change in the language and im going to read into the record. This the change where i would like to see to the amendment that she has proposed to the Geographic Area<\/a> section on page 4, lines 1321. I would like to remove showplace where unintelligible and central water front area plans in the eastern area neighborhoods. I dont think the replacement obligations work for the area as i have mentioned. That has been little to no conversation with the affected Community Groups<\/a> on this particular measure. I have heard from the Mission Neighborhood<\/a>s. Maybe theyre interested in having it in so be it. There is a small segment of the Mission Neighborhood<\/a> and i wonder how knowledgeable the entire community really is informed on the amendments and the ballot initiative. On the proposed amendment, i would like to allow the board of supervisors to amend this measure. I believe that it is extremely restrictive. We have gotten into trouble before as the board excuse me initiatives going to the voters without enough of civility. correction flexibility. I would like to place a fiveyear it limit on that ability. Supervisor tang supervisor kim has that written in. I want to comment on that. I think that may be a little bit too long; i want to ask the Planning Department<\/a> staff in terms of evaluation, in terms of the policies. I think five years is too long . What would you say in terms of the time frame . Supervisor cohen i am not looking for that limit. I prefer to have a general requirement that states that the board of supervisors may amend the provision of the measure. Supervisor tang at any time. Right now it says after five years i suppose but supervisor kim. Supervisor cohen i would like to see if there is consensus in this body for that amendment. I want to make a motion that we adopted amendment with the change that i have articulated and those changes are to remove show square, central water and unintelligible from the plans. I encourage is sponsored to be open to continue feedback on the measure. I had the opportunity to Exchange Text<\/a> messages and supervisor kim and i will sit down in the next several hours and days so that we can have a conversation facetoface. Supervisor mar but me ask, Showplace Square<\/a> is in district 10 . Uhhuh. And central water plan is in district 10. I am supportive of that. Thank you. I am not supportive of the elimination of five years. Supervisor tang one or we take some of the suggestions first and then i have some other suggestions as well. First mistake what supervisor kims office has proposed intensive amendment but eliminating from the impacted area Showplace Square<\/a> unintelligible and central water plant. Lets do that first and thats not take the part regarding the board of supervisors adopting an ordinance after 60 months. Okay . We can do that. Supervisor mars has made a motion, seconded by supervisor cohen. We will take up without objection. gavel and modifying at any time before or up to 60 mothns. The motion is to not accept it . Deputy City Attorney<\/a>. Supervisor kims proposal includes a fiveyear provision and an additional restriction that any amendments adopted by the board must promote or better achieve the underlining goal of protecting and enhancing pdrs in unintelligible . Are you proposing . Supervisor tang i am summarizing that statement. Your proposal is to amend the ordinance to provide as a new subsection at the end the board of supervisors may amend the provisions of this measure at any time, period. Supervisor tang any time to promote or better achieve the underlying goal of protecting and enhancing the pdrs. We would strike a couple of words from what supervisor kims office has brought to us, that last clause. So why dont i make a motion or suggest a motion to amend into the legislation one last paragraph which would say the board of supervisors may amend the provision of this measure at any time after its initial Effective Date<\/a> to promote or better achieve the underlining goal of protecting or enhancing this pdr for institutional and art activity uses. That will be supervisor cohen to make a motion. Supervisor cohen so moved. Ill second that. Lets do a roll call. On the motion by supervisor cohen. Supervisor mar no. Supervisor cohen aye. Supervisor tang aye. Supervisor mar absent. Supervisor tang g1 gavel supervisor tang any project fully approved by the Planning Commission<\/a> as of june 14th of this year and so id like to see if supervisor kims office would be amenable rather than saying the full Planning Commission<\/a> approval, and that perhaps projects submitted unintelligible by that date instead. Your amendment is i apologize i cant make a decision on the half of the supervisor so i am unsure of what i can do in this situation. Okay. So just a warning, were tight on the timeline. Will continue this in a special meeting on monday. Perhaps it is something that you can bring back to supervisor kim for the grandfathering dates and what that would entail. The other thing is that i have heard a lot of concerns from folks involved in Small Development<\/a> projects. And so again you cannot make this decision today but one thing i would like to ask the supervisor kim is a project smaller than a certain Square Footage<\/a> would be exempt. Obviously we are going to have project not move forward if theyre not able to build the housing that they need to make up for the pdr space or the retail space. Again thinking about projects that are of smaller sizes; and the Square Footage<\/a> could be obviously to be determined. So i think those were two of the main things i would like to see in place. Speaking to the Planning Department<\/a>s concerns, i would like to see a few more controls in place regarding design and use of the space. Saying that we are replacing the pdr is something that may not be the best result. I believe that those were most of the concerns that i wanted to talk about at the moment. Of course we would love to follow up with supervisor kim after this hearing to see what else we can hash out before monday. With that then colleagues i think the item has been amended. I dont know if there are further questions or discussions about this. We have stated what i think our Committee Members<\/a> are collectively desiring regarding discussion with the community. If we can get a motion to continue this item is amended to our special rules committee on monday . So moved. We take that up without objection. Thank you very much. Next item. I item 12, hearing to consider the proposed Initiative Ordinance<\/a> submitted by four or more supervisors to the voters at the november 8, 2016 election, entitled ordinance amending the police code to prohibit the placement of tent encampments on public sidewalks. we appreciate your effort and service. unintelligible to provide our proposed overview of the ten t policy. Homelessness in San Francisco<\/a> continues to persist. Tent encampments raised Numerous Public Health<\/a> concerns for our city and our office does not believe it is compassionate to allow human beings to live in tents on our streets. Is dangerous for the residents of the encampments and our residents. We believe that we should do everything in our power to help get the homeless into the services and housing that they need to better themselves and to get out of this tent encampments. We are not confident that we can work out a consensus solution that the public and the board of supervisors can agree with. Our measure is straightforward and simple. We are not advocating a policy as a panacea for homelessness in seven cisco our policy is aimed solely at the tent encampment in San Francisco<\/a> there our proposal makes it clear that they can only be removed with a 24hr. Notice. The department of public works will store the belongings for at least 90 days. Our intention is to get the homeless out of tent a tenth into housing. With provide the maximum flex ability for the department of homelessness in the front line workers. A we trust that the frontline workers are in the best position for each individual residing in the encampment. Would intentionally do not include any criminalization element. No individual beside will be cited, fined or put in jail as a result of this initiative. We appreciate the time today. I know this is an informational hearing but i will be happy to answer questions as well. Supervisor mar i know well have more for discussion at a later meeting. You mentioned that the solution is housing. What is a commitment coming from supervisor farrell on that to create housing . An adequate housing for homeless people. That is a fair question. We just included 11 million over two years of additional homeless housing, cosponsoring the. 75 sales tax that seeks to provide unintelligible over 25 yearsfour homeless dollars with a majority of that going to housing. We want to do everything in our power to get the homeless off our streets. Supervisor mar i know chair tang and i sitting through Budget Committee<\/a> meetings over the last couple of years have number of hearings with the coalition for homelessness, the support housing roots but also the police and Law Enforcement<\/a> side. I have concern that the human infrastructure side has not been involved in this. We have four members of the board banding together behind his policy. unintelligible . Supervisor mar i know mr. Montejano you mentioned that its not compassionate to allow tent to continue to exist but i view this as potentially violating unintelligible . It will not significantly increase costs to the city. I see some of that in there. Im guessing that we will get a controllers report. My understanding from the budget Analyst Report<\/a> is that criminalizing the homeless, the analyst concluded that we are spending 18. 6 by the police alone for in some ways frivolous efforts to crack down on people without homes in public spaces. Is a wasteful 18. 6 million. This will focus more on Police Response<\/a> as opposed to the human side equation of services and drug and Substance Abuse<\/a> support and Mental Health<\/a> support. I see this doing the opposite of what you have laid out and i want to put that into the record. Maybe if i could respond to that statement. Respectfully we drafted this policy not to have criminalization element whatsoever. If you look at the language of the initiative the individuals responsible from the city side in terms of going out and potentially removing encampments are the department of homelessness and support housing, the department of public works and the Department Public<\/a> health. We do not mention the Police Department<\/a>. It does not preclude them going out into situations where they are needed. It provides the maximum flexibility unintelligible . There is not a one size fits all solution. Supervisor tang any other questions or comments . Seen on lets go to the controllers statement this. unintelligible Controllers Office<\/a>. The cost assiated with implanting this policy varies greatly from minimal to significant depending on how the policies are implemented. At the minimal level the city can either choose not to enforce the prohibition on encampment or it could prioritize these individuals that are affected over individuals currently in the system, displacing those people. On the significant and the cost would be great if you choose to augment the services that exist currently so that youre not pushing existing individuals out of the system and providing more shelter and housing. It is unknown right now with the actual cost would be. Supervisor tang thank you very much. At this point im going to open up item 12 to this. Two speakers. Davis with the unintelligible collaborative. The organization is opposing this. This is a cruel, meanspirited measure. There is no can see that this will not lead to criminilaziation. Is a member of the Lgbt Community<\/a> we are going to be present. We have members in this category at a disproportionate rate. I feel like this is trumping that rhetoric, getting certain segment of the population. I urge supervisors cohen, tang, ferrel and wiener to withdraw the measure. It does not represents francisco values. My name is elie johnson sounds like . I think we should have our unintelligible in you know every board unintelligible would be i would say that is better if we had unintelligible . On that issue. I think that we have unintelligible . Should be about 12 cents a piece. unintelligible that we have in our yard unintelligible . Should be about you know our links in unintelligible . Should be about im at 12 inches on that. That we be more on this issue becausebuilding is one of our processes as far as making money. unintelligible . Building houses in different perspectives and cannot be going through thank you very much. Any of the members of the public you wish to comment on item 12 . Seeing none, comment is close. gavel hearing filed without objection. Item 13. Hearing to consider the proposed Initiative Ordinance<\/a> submitted by four or more supervisors to the voters at the november 8 , 2016 election, having to be here. Jeff montejano. In order to significantly address her housing shortage we need to address all different types of housing. The creation of unintelligible seems to be less contentious. Our initiative housing has the potential to realize tens of thousands over time. unintelligible . Before i begin to provide an overview of our initiative i went to address up front that supervisors farrel and unintelligible identification with one another. Supervisor unintelligible has unintelligible , we are hoping that we can get to a consensus before that meeting and remove this measure from the ballot. This upcoming monday supervisor farrell and unintelligible will be at the land use committee. We seek to introduce the amendment to the pending ordinance in front of you. It is our goal to get this done through the legislative process. If we are unable to come to a consensus that maximizes the most amount of Housing Units<\/a> with the least restrictions we are prepared to head to the ballot as need be. The proposal would allow the creation of unlimited ad use capped unintelligible capped at no more than one unit in buildings of four unintelligible or less. We believe that at a resident to our commercial this is can ensure the longterm vitality of the commercial district as well additionally the proposal would allow one new adu to be constructed in new residential units of 5 units or less. It would codify existing practice of infilling unintelligible in buildings and allow ads to be added in the habitable space. Lastly we are proposing to retain the existing size the program in the current form supported by the board of supervisors unintelligible district specific legislation. It has been one of the most successful programs of producing adus good way to construct badly needed housing. Thanks and i will be happy to answer any questions again. Supervisor mar i am pleased about the shortterm rental limitations again. I have a question about how it will be monitored. In terms of the new construction of adus . Supervisor mar monitoring provision of potential uses of shortterm rentals. Are initiative prohibits newly constructed adus to be used for shortterm rentals. I recently created office of shortterm rental administration would be most charge was probably doing the majority of the monitoring and existing Planning Department<\/a> and the department of building inspection as well. Supervisor mar and for buildings that are rentcontrolled buildings, how do you deal with the new unit . Will they be under our rent control ordinance . Yes, any new unit constructed will be permit rentcontrolled as well. Supervisor tang thank you. I know theres a lot of discussion going on about shortterm rentals in the city and so forth. I will say that from my districts perspective, many owners have not intended to rent out. Theres a lot of narrative that shortterm rentals are taking away from other rentals. Again, a lot of them are constructed because of monetary reasons and so forth but they never intended or wanted to rent to tenants. This is just a hearing set this point will open this last item to Public Comment<\/a>. If anyone is here for this item please come on up. unintelligible need to make unintelligible as superisor daly supervisor tang if you would keep the comments to accessory dwelling units. unintelligible to the units because common sense we do have priorities. That need to be done. And our Children Situation<\/a> needs to be explained to different parts of what has been happening which will be more unintelligible . Respect yourself a little better than turn different shades of green. A lot of the problem here in his world has been uncivilized effort, not things done because of nonresponse and unintelligible . And we dont have to unintelligible because of unintelligible got to do this or that. There is a reason for every purpose that we have unintelligible today. And our unintelligible and food is one of the things of our land that should be more appreciated in our values. Supervisor tang thank you very much. Seeing nor the members of the public who wish to speak Public Comment<\/a> is closed. gavel at this time we estimate and minimal impact to the cost the government. Supervisor tang thank you it could have a motion to file this item. So moved. Anymore items . None. This meeting is adjourned. This meeting is adjourned. gavel announcer b dreams and good grades arent enough to get into college. There are actual steps you need to take. Finding someone who can help is the first and most important. For the next steps, go to knowhow2go. Org. The time is 9 00 a. M. Item 1. Roll call. President francee covington, vicepresident ken cleaveland, commissioner stephen nakajo, commissioner michael hardeman. Here. Item 2. General Public Comment<\/a>. Members of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address their 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 a speaker thank you. Is there anyone who would like to address the commission at this time . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. Clerk item 3. Approval of the minutes of regular meeting on june 8, 2016. Is there any Public Comment<\/a> . If not, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. I motion to move. Second. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Clerk item 4. Chief df departments report. Report from the chief of department. Report on current issues, activities and events within the Department Since<\/a> the Fire Commission<\/a> meeting of june 22, 2016, including academies, Strategic Plan<\/a>ning, 150th anniversary update, rc 4 station 49 update, special events, communications and outreach other Government Agencies<\/a> and the public. Report from operations. Report on overall field operations, including greater alarm fires, Emergency Medical Services<\/a>, bureau of Fire Prevention<\/a> and investigation and airport division. Good morning. Please take a seat. This is my report since the last meeting when chief was acting chief. The general report covers the period from june 22nd. I wanted to let you know moving right into the academies, 120th academy is in their fourth week. They were joined 2 weeks ago by station 49. That total number of members in the recruit academy is 54. We also during the month of june had a bump up academy for level 2 paramedics, sorry, level 1 emts to become level 2. Well get that number for you. 120 class is scheduled for the end of the year. I was told after taking some time off that im getting a new proposed start date for the class. Its not going to slip by much. We want to make sure we have Proper Staffing<\/a> and give Members Division<\/a> training some time off because we are going to have new classes. We will have the new schedule by next meeting. 121 for that class. We adopted a new list which it incorporates new members coming into process to be retested. There was an earlier adoption this month. It captures everything going through the Testing Process<\/a> through may. And a dhr in request sent out the survey to members on the eligible list. Beginning next month, additional members will be contacted for backgrounds to begin the Selection Process<\/a> and screening for the 121st class. Related to Strategic Plan<\/a>ning, it continues to be a work in progress. Im happy to share a current working draft with the Commission Per<\/a> president covingtons request. We have a situation where the project manager assigned to compile Additional Information<\/a> from the subject Matter Experts<\/a> are the heads of each subcommittee. She has taken a leave unexpectedly. I have asked to capture what has been compiled to date and provide me with where we are at and that draft will be shared with you. We are still targeting some time in the fall for development of that Strategic Plan<\/a>. Related to the 150th anniversary update, i know president covington attended the last meeting. I was unable to do so. It was june 30th. The next is in july. At the meeting there was a discussion about having a volunteer Appreciation Day<\/a> sometime in august. Thats being headed up by member of guardians of the city. We will get that report. We are working on a 911 plan which will incorporate what weve done every year since 911. This is the 15th commemoration of 911. We will have a display and unveiling of the World Trade Center<\/a> artifact that we were able to get. We are looking to placing that around the Public Safety<\/a> building which is a shared facility with the Police Department<\/a> and our station 4. More to follow on that. The thought would be to incorporate that into the ceremony in the dedication of the World Trade Center<\/a> artifact. We are working on the 924925 that weekend to be a department display of apparatus, parade, in conjunction with fisherman. What our fireboat, when you get a budget representation, you will get the updated information. We are expecting arrival of the fire boats next month. That has been slightly delayed and we are looking at incorporating with commissioning with fleet week. We are in the midst as you know we had asked sf School Children<\/a> to participate in the naming contest. There is a panel of six of us that we are looking at. I believe there is over 350 names submitted by School Children<\/a>. So, weve put the names out to the panel and the panel will convene to make a final selection on naming the fireboat. The i know president covington has participated and we have down the numbers. For Fire Prevention<\/a> week, we have planned for that and we have ordered additional materials particularly in our 150th year. I know president covington is working on a field fest in november to be held in the library, and on december 3rd, the final Birthday Celebration<\/a> event to acknowledge it at each station and then the final event at the San Francisco<\/a> zoo. We will be meeting with members of the zoo tomorrow to talk about planning for that event. So that covers where we are at with the 150th planning update. In relation to the station 49 supervisory model return for the rc 4, we appreciate your direction, your support. We have created with department of Human Resources<\/a> an h 23 admin position. We are working to have the supervisors match those that are coming in at all hours in the day with emt and paramedics and asked to work really close with mr. Steve to be the lead to have those discussions, but we look forward to moving forward with that model very quickly. And also when weve had some meetings regarding this topic, we talked about Additional Support<\/a> of a captain during the day, an additional captains position at station 49. We did advertise for that. We committed to advertising for that prior to the end of the fiscal year. We did receive 6 or 7 resumes of interest. We will be conducting interviews soon to fill that position which boost the supervisory level at station 49 very soon. With regard to special events and communications and outreach to other Government Agencies<\/a> stepping back on june 21st, i had the opportunity, i was selected by mayor lee and mayor shaft to present at the bay area womens summit at moscone center. I found that to be very rewarding and valuable. I did participate half a day and was proud to participate as the San Francisco<\/a> Fire Department<\/a>. Many including our president joined the pride parade on june 26th. That was a great day as well. And on june 29th, i returned for that morning to present for the Public Safety<\/a> committee meeting. The specific agenda item was related to the fires in the Mission District<\/a> and specifically the fire that occurred last month 29 and mission. So, chief gonzalez and i as well as captain from the bureau Fire Investigation<\/a> participated. And then 2 days later on the first i did return at the request of the Mayors Office<\/a> and attended a grart Commission Meeting<\/a> the latino Commission Meeting<\/a> where the mayor asked for several Department Heads<\/a> to attend. I was attending with ms. Scan lon, fire marshals and department of operations. The department of operations and department of emt was there and the Planning Department<\/a>, probably 50 of us in the room to discuss budgets request made by the department and some concerns they had. They related to some transit issues, homeless issues, fire was brought up very lightly toward the end of the meeting and a followup meeting which well participate in. And one of the other things that we will be participating also in conjunction with the fire and Mission District<\/a> and i believe president covington, you will be able to join us tomorrow for a second meeting in the missions. In may we talked about Fire Prevention<\/a> outreach related to fire education and we would love if 1 or 2 of you can join us for that. There will be representatives from supervisor campos office and possibly him as well. We are a little thin in terms of command staff. A couple are on vacation and the other including the deputy chief of administration. They are attended a Counter Terrorism<\/a> awareness workshop in the presidio. I attended yesterday. Chief gonzalez. Excellent presentations were made and actively participating in coordinated efforts as it relates to Counter Terrorism<\/a>. So i felt it was valuable for staff to continue day two of that. I know you will be hearing separately from mr. Korso on the budget. Im really pleased with the outcome of our budget. I want to acknowledge each and every Fire Commission<\/a>er for your advocacy and support. We made a lot of phone calls together. We have a fleet plan that will carry us through the next several years. We will be revisited obviously, but its something we have not had and will endeavor to have with commissioner nakajo remembers that and the days and coming up with the plan. We had the plan, but just didnt have the funding. To get the funding is something that is greatly needed by the men and women of the department. To get that acknowledgment was basically because it was a lot of people coming together and advocating collectively for what our priorities were. I would like to also acknowledge the Budget Committee<\/a> made up of all the ranks in the department to come up with that. I know mr. Corso provided some details on that. Deputy chief gonzalez did see that this job goes well beyond 95. There were late nights here in city hall particularly with the ag bag process and with local 798 were able to get restored funding for battalion 5 which spent a number of years, additional battalion chief back out in the field along the panhandle and golden gate park. That will come on board middle of january. That is also very significant and required a lot of follow up and a lot of conversations. We are very appreciative of that. That concludes my report at this time. Thank you, chief. Welcome to some of the m members in the back. There are seats here if you would like to sit. Okay. Commissioners, do you have questions at this time or will you wait in until we have the Operations Report<\/a> . All right. Vicepresident cleaveland . Thank you for your report. Its comprehensive and very positive. Im pleased. I had a couple of questions. One dealing when you select candidates for the academy, you know airlines over book and they feel that a few people arent going to show up or cancel. They always over book flights. Do you pick more candidates that are going to make it into the class after the backgrounds, etc. Do you select 20 more or what . Whats your average wash out before they even get into the academy . So, prior, we do select more obviously and actually to illustrate we had for various reasons a couple people changed their mind at the last minute. There was a medical issue, a resignation. We were able to get more ready to go. Usually i have 1216 people on reserve. Once a number has been selected for medical, they need to be refreshed if they dont get picked up for the class. But generally if they get selected for a medical exam, they are slated for that class or next class. You say what, 10 or 10 out of 50 would be 20 . Okay. Those that dont get in, do they get in a Holding Pattern<\/a> at that point and brought into the next academy . Thats correct. All right. Fire prevention week, i think thats very important and there is a lot of concern out there in the public about fires and ways and means to prevent them. Im wondering if the department has put together a really comprehensive Fire Prevention<\/a> program that can be taken to the neighborhoods in the city. Is that under way and something that can be done . Yes it is. I know we had a very successful Public Safety<\/a> Announcement Campaign<\/a> if you will during the month of june for the july 4th celebration. From our perspective, it was a safe holiday. We do similarly for Fire Prevention<\/a> week. Every year, every station has an open house where information can be given out in every neighborhood. I really think that Fire Prevention<\/a> should be every week, not just 1 week. Quite frankly we need to come up with a program to install all of our fire houses around the city and have it as a Continuous Program<\/a> so we educate the public on an on going basis that there are ways to prevent fires and these are the key reasons you have fires. That kind of information needs to be out in multiple languages, needs to be out on the street all the time, all the street fairs all the time. We need to be out more in educating the public on how to prevent fires if we can. I would like to see that. Thats a great point. I know we have some information on our website. I know for the july 4th, we published Safety Information<\/a> in five languages. We received funding this fiscal year for an Additional Fire<\/a> investigator and fire inspector. Their roles will be to literally be out canvassing and interacting with the community. Its Community Outreach<\/a> in the specialty of Fire Investigation<\/a>. So i envision that if there is a fire at 29th and mission. That fire investigator will then work with Fire Prevention<\/a> and appear at Community Meetings<\/a> to talk about some of the things that people have asked for what will happen and how can this be. Thats the reason for the resolution of this fire and once its investigated and the reason why its happened. That should be posted so people understand how fires are started and we can dispel some of the information that people have in their minds. The investigators that are doing that and the Additional Inspector<\/a> will be tasked with community presentations, Community Outreach<\/a>, related to what you are asking for. I think thats excellent. We need the to do more on educating the public on Fire Prevention<\/a>. Thank you for that. When you have the Latino Coalition<\/a> on the mission, did they have specific demands or specific request of the Fire Department<\/a> . That meeting was a couple weeks ago. The agenda didnt quite touch on everything that it wanted to because there were some other very passionate issues that were brought up. So, the mayor, i believe, agreed to meet in the Mission District<\/a> to have a followup conversation. Very little at that meeting touched on fire safety issues. Okay, lastly, i would like to compliment you and i would like to compliment mark coreso and chief gonzalez on putting together the fleet plan. It was amazing. I dont know if most of the public knows but the city had only a 10 million budget annually for the whole city for all equipment for all this. It was crazy. So perfectly underfunded budget item. I want to congratulate the department on getting a plan, a fleet plan approved on a multiyear basis and thank the mayor and his staff for supporting them. Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you, vicepresident cleaveland. Commissioner nakajo . Thank you. Good morning, chief. Welcome back. Its great to see you. I hope all goes well with your son. I hear hes doing went. I want to comment on a couple items of your report. I also want to follow up from vicepresident cleaveland in terms of his positive comments towards the budget process and the comments on this years budget process. We know that mr. Coreso is going to be presenting later on and there will be more information. But i want to echo on the vicepresident and myself in terms of the appreciation of the players that were able to accomplish the budget process. I particularly want to call out that vehicle replacement program, and thank you for referring to former president and commissioner paul conroy. But we had again Structure Plan<\/a> if you will promoted by the commission. There was paul conroys tenure of the commission. I just wanted to point that out because that is a great example of the proactive contribution of the commission that we at least had a plan that the department could refer to. So, in terms of the budget, allocation and being able to fund that, i wanted to call that out. I will let commissioner paul conroy know about his contributions on that. I think thats very important. The other thing i wanted to acknowledge again was in your report of announcements, chief, you talked about reinstatement of battalion 5. I think thats so important and so crucial particularly since we have had all of these presentations, the mission fires. The fires of greater alarm. The last fires and the five alarm clearly with the city and battalion five is a major contribution to the city. Thats the responsibility. I wanted to call out those particulars at this particular time. Other than that, i will wait for the operation report mr. Coresos report. Thank you. Commissioner hardeman . Yes, thank you. A very outstanding report, chief. Very positive. Things look good and hopefully no more fires in the mission. Interestingly the fire in emeryville, a six alarm. We never had a six alarm. I called chief gonzalez and tried to get his recollection on six alarm and he said, six alarm, have we had that . One thing that intrigued me about the fire was 100 firefighters personnel out with a six alarm. We do with a five alarm we have 150. Chief gonzalez is very good about researching and coming back with the amount of people that the Fire Department<\/a> would assign a particular event in order to keep everyone else available. I learned a lesson. Thanks, chief. Did you have any insight. Did we ever have a six alarm going back in history. My wife says what about the earthquake . Thats all handson deck. Is there a change . Each department jurisdiction has different rules and different Staffing Levels<\/a> to what makes up an alarm. Per our rules and regulations and procedures we dont exceed a fifth alarm. If we felt that staffing was compromised because not only are we dealing with the issue at hand, but making sure other areas of the city are well protected. Anytime you have a great alarm, almost 50 of our working staff was at that fire that we would contemplate request for Additional Resources<\/a> coming in from outside the city. Fortunately, in my career we have not had to do that. The big fire down when chief trevino was chief, he was relatively new to the department. He was considering what comes after 5th because we need a lot more resources, but the crew was able to manage that fire. Per protocol we do not exceed five alarm. If we need additional personnel, there is procedures in place with automatic aid. California was sort of the creator of the instant command system and mutual aid system. So we have brothers and sisters if we need Additional Resources<\/a> to call in. Thats what they are doing in calling in. That was a good education, thank you. For example, not to reference something that, you know, is necessarily a good thing. But when we lost through the fire up on berkeley way, when lieutenant perez and firefighter Anthony Valero<\/a> passed away, i wanted to make sure that anyone who wanted to attend their service were able to. We called some in to augment our staffing. Whether for an emergency which we would be prepared to do so or even in a time of need when we wanted to grieve appropriately for our fallen members. We utilized it for that occasion. Thank you. The other thing, you and command staff and mark coreso and the supervisors and the mayor, the collaborative effort on the budget and looking at mr. Coresos report later. So hopefully nothing surfaces at that time to negate any of these. Being a commissioner is great to see this happen after a number of years and seems like you are getting no where and paddling upstream. This is finally some good. Im sure command staff is mostly elated. Congratulations. We are consciously optimistic and you are right. We will stay on it until it is a done deal. Thank you, commissioner hardeman. Chief, i had a couple of things, actually two. The Strategic Plan<\/a> is tremendously important to the department because it will be a snapshot of where we are now as well as where we want to go, and how we are going to get there in the future. So, even though the person who has been doing the coordinating for this Strategic Plan<\/a> is going to be out, i have requested that the chief send to us this first draft so that we have time to review it and chime in on anything that we, you know, that we want to chime in on about whether its a compliment or something we feel may have been overlooked. So its very important that we do give the Budget Committee<\/a> and the Fleet Committee<\/a> and the whole Strategic Plan<\/a> committee our feedback on these things. I agree with the commissioner hardeman that after so long of being without , we are finally catching up the. We have a lot of catching up in terms of resources and aging equipment. Its good that we are on the path to get that done. I want to thank the fellow commissioners who have been part of that push. Please continue to enter as needed because we have a lot of work ahead of us. I can respond to something. Can you hold on . Thank you. In terms of the Public Safety<\/a> committee, you referred to that on june 31st. I would like to at this time call upon the fire marshall to give us a short abbreviated version of his remarks for that committee. If you could, sir . Good morning. President covington, im not really clear of your question. If you can give me a little bit more detail . A little more context . Yes. If you can talk a little bit about your presentation particularly the mission because that was the focus of that particular meeting. What it is that we have looked at in terms of the fires there, what we found, what comprises the Arson Task Force<\/a>, just those kinds of general things. With regards to the mission itself, the alarm was in Bernal Heights<\/a>. We looked at the mission. We went back to 2004 to look at the working fires and greater alarms, etc. What we found is since 2004, the overall fires in the mission it fluctuates as few as 10 and as many as 28 in the year. It took an average to roughly 17 a year. Thats on part of what we had last year. We had 17. So, not discounting every fire is a concern of ours, but i think the focus should be, well the focus is on right now for what we are hearing feedback is people being displaced which is a great concern. So we looked at the greater alarms last year. If you look at the greater alarms, we had more greater alarms than we would typically have. We would have two or three greater alarms every year. Last year we had seven in the mission. We had more fires. I think thats a good starting point for discussion. So we are all clear what is the problem and how to address it. So, that was part of the message i tried to convey. We talked about the fire on 29th and mission. We talked about having a greater alarm during the day and how that happened. We took a look at the structures there that were involved. We briefly spoke on the code requirements where you couldnt build those structures today on todays code requirements, etc. That was kind of the meat and potatoes of the discussion. Can you talk a little bit now about the composition of the Arson Task Force<\/a> . The Arson Task Force<\/a> we have a captain, she spoke to the committee. We have a training lieutenant. We have nine investigators that are on 24 shifts. And part of our Community Outreach<\/a> team it will appear to be inspector for days to track data by neighborhood. We would like to track the data in San Francisco<\/a> and track that data and compare it and see for any red flags and then well gather fire safety prevention information to go out and speak to each neighborhood what we are seeing in your neighborhood and best ways to prevent a fire. Also, as part of the task force are there members from other departments . Yeah, we have the Police Department<\/a>s. I dont have the breakdown from that. I know they are part of that and the City Attorneys Office<\/a> that heads the task force. So the task force is not just the Fire Department<\/a> . Thats correct. When a determination is made, its made collaboratively . There are different roles. The Fire Department<\/a> determines the origin and cause, the Police Department<\/a> gathers information and witness statements. As far as the fire cause, that is the Fire Department<\/a> and we team up with that information and provide the District Attorney<\/a> if there is any legal action or legal course to be taken. Very good. I know that i called you up on the spare of the moment, but do you have in your mind now how many outstanding arson cases there are or i should say open arson cases. Thank you, chief gonzalez. Okay, i know we have a total, we are looking at the open cases themselves under investigation. Now, we call the Arson Task Force<\/a>, arson team, doesnt mean its arson related. There are four causes. Accidental, incendiary, natural, and those are the terms that we use to complete our report. We have 135 of them over at this time. Thats a reduction from 147 over a year ago. The goal is to be no more than 2 months out on our open log. We do 35 a month, roughly 70 a month would be a normal load to carry. We are at 135 now and on our way to that. Related to arson, i dont have the number right here. Those are determined to be incendiary at this time. Thats okay. I called you at the spare of the moment and i know you were not prepared for a presentation. I just want people to know the backlog is being cleared up and we have many partners in determining next steps in the investigations. Absolutely. For those open reports many of them are not structure fires, there are many vehicle fires, outside fires, trash fires. We have 59 structure fires in that at this time. In the mission of the 135, i believe we have 7 of those are in the mission at this time. The mission gets 89 of the fires. We are actually lower of what we expect to see in the log. Thank you very much. I appreciate your on the spot presentation. The chief of the department has something to add . Thank you, briefly i wanted to add in conjunction with the Team Approach<\/a> not only are we working with the San Francisco<\/a> Police Department<\/a> but we are also working very closely, i believe there is assigned a Deputy Attorney<\/a> that we work with. Very good. Thank you, chief. Very good news about battalion 5 and i think well hear more about various fires in the city in the Upcoming Administration<\/a> report. Commissioner hardeman, you had something to add . Thank you, madam president. I just wanted to respond to the talk about the Strategic Plan<\/a>. I was able to find the time to attend the last couple meetings and the makeup of that Group Bringing<\/a> people from all levels of the Fire Department<\/a> together; and being a person that gets to sit and primarily listen to discussion because my nosing in at that point would just be a waste of time. It was very valuable for me to learn, but it was nice to see the dialogue between the highest ranking and the lowest ranking of people exchanging information and coming to conclusion. I think its on its way. The document you received or we have received as commissioners i think is going to be a very well received item. I believe you will be happy with whats transpired so far. Wonderful. The Strategic Plan<\/a> in almost completion, correct me if i am wrong, chief, it will be sent to all members of the department for their feedback, is that correct . That was being discussed at the last meeting in terms of how before finalization how it would be conveyed. Would it be a working draft sent to everyone or discussion if every rank is represented is that the next step and whether there is a meeting held for days and times. That is to be determined. Okay, thank you. I hope it gets distributed widely so every member of the department feel they have had a chance to respond and give input. I had one other thing. A friend of mine, the fire marshall as spoken. Congratulations, that you are down to 70 under your leadership. That was 70 open from 400. Thats remarkable in a short time. The other thing that is interesting as you talked about Bernal Heights<\/a> where the fire was. I think the longest street in the city, in the mission, a block or two off, psychologically where there are other parts of mission. That was great points that you brought up so people understand it how you have to define different neighborhoods. Thank you for your report. Thank you again, commissioner hardeman. Vicepresident cleaveland . Thank you, madam president. I had a few questions for chief and fire marshall. I appreciate your impromptu report here. I think what you do and the investigation is that you are tasked with our front and center concerns to a lot of people in the city. I appreciate your leadership there, and i wanted to ask you a few things. You mentioned 17 fires in the mission. Was that over a period of 10 years or what . I wasnt quite sure how many fires weve had. That was for 2015. That was for 2015. 17 working fires. Okay. We had more than 17 working fires but classified as working fires, structure fires. Through our dispatch system they are designated as working fires. I think the point to make here is that for the public is that the fires that we see and hear about in the mission, its not an in ordinant number . Thats correct. What weve seen throughout the city, fires are generally declining. The mission had stayed relatively flat. They have had roughly 17 a year for the past 12 years or so. I know there a lot of talk about the percentage of fires in the Mission Going<\/a> up. Well, if your fires stay flat and the percentages are going down, your numberser going to go down over all. The question is why is the mission staying flat and the rest of the neighbors declining. Thats why we are trying to get our arms around it and understand. Those areas in the mission and chinatown, they are densely populated. We need to get to every single Department Building<\/a> in that area to educate them on what not to do. We are seeing more and more People Living<\/a> in closer proximity. Thats a factor as well. In terms of major causes, you say there are four. When you do an arson investigate you come out with a report and its one of four things. What is the major cause of fire. Thats a national standard. There is four determinations made, accidental, incendiary, natural or undetermined. Those are the four main causes. So, for example if its accidental, we break it down further, what was the cause. It could be electrical or discarded smoking materials. The reason for fires is accidental . I can speak to the mission because we really dug down deep in the mission. What we found in the mission, the majority are accidental. The majority of the accidental, a High Percentage<\/a> about a third related to electrical faults, failures, extension cords, power strips, etc. If you look at the national data, that should be about 8 . We are at 83 . Thats what we are working on. A lot of people are charging their cell phones ipads. Also there are a lot of older structures. Not only to the residents but the Property Owner<\/a>s is something to be done here. Yes. Thank you very much. My pleasure. Thank you, commissioner. Thank you, vicepresident , cleaveland. At this time, i think for the chiefs report before we go to the report from operations, i would like to see if there is any member of the public that would like to speak at this time concerning the chiefs report at this time. Okay, seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. Chief gonzalez, welcome. President , before chief gonzalez comes up. I do want to Say Something<\/a> i said earlier with academy. They graduated earlier part of june. We attended that ceremony in june. The bump up, the correct number was 16 that we bumped up to become paramedics, 13, and then 3, for a total of 16 went through a modified academy. H 2s that have a paramedic license and we were able to make them to level 3. They advanced to the Fire Department<\/a>. I just wanted to correct the record. Thank you inform for that correction. Good morning, president , commissioners. Chief gonzalez. We had a fire on 29th and mission. I would like to comment that the members that day did an excellent job concerning the fire conditions and the wind conditions. Another challenge, there was a building under construction, there were structural members there were there and it lit up pretty quickly. All i remember is the look that we exchanged when that building went up because it seemed like that building was an immediate concern. The companies did a great job and lined were in place to prevent more lives lost in that fire. A concern for the city, the supervisor and ourselves to see what we can do for those displaced occupants. Also on this fire, we alerted the staff, 311 social media advocates and put out information in english and spanish. The Salvation Army<\/a> and dph worked in parking lots for the displaced victims and putting Services Together<\/a> immediately after the fire. The sf and Water Department<\/a> worked on the water issue to minimize more water damage. We had a situation on the bottom of 49th street. We had to get to the residents down there to minimize more damage. I would like to remind the public to sign up for Emergency Notification<\/a> to alert, we also posted information last month on the radio that happened july 4th. I will instruct fire marshall to get more literature out there in more languages. We can do that when we do sunday streets and the parades, etc. To see something say, campaign, the number was to call. 311. On 67, lieutenant shay and the p. D. Attended the Merchants Association<\/a> meeting to discuss fire education and fourth of july safety. June 8th, sf p. D. And ocean beach met to discuss ocean safety prevention and education. Working fires during the month on the 12, 3129 clement street was a fire, good job. And there was a fire in a storage room. Working 35 street and a roof fire. You did a good job with that one as well. An adult rescued off the cliff. A second rescue off the cliff as well. We had a cliff rescue godfrey battery. And saw something add something. This resulted in a swimmer in distress which required cpr to be rescued. The victim was taken to emergency hospital. Really, i feel good about that, last month we made the 10 minutes code three ambulance response. This month the call went up, we are under 10 minutes. We are at 9 minutes. 73. The money infused by the city helped us with the program and a combination of other things. We are happy about that. The chief bumped up the members and 3h 2 as well were bumped up in the academy. Our training continues. There are nine new members qualified to work at radio. The control substance policy is in review phase. We have a meeting to discuss the final approval of that. And continued meetings with the ems provider groups and ems schedule to allow better opportunities to meet with the eoa requirements, percentages, we want to get to that 80 . And the station 49 update, as the chief mentioned regarding the supervisory position. We need to set up a time to meet and discuss implementing the same for that position. Division of Fire Prevention<\/a> investigation, i think fire marshall pretty much addressed everything. Other than the permit totals and the accelerating totals which i have in my report for you. The Fire Investigation<\/a>, 59 structure fires, 27 fires, that is what we like to call our queue. It has gone down from last year as the fire marshall noted. Also as part of my report, i would like captain balmy from Fire Prevention<\/a> to give his task update. He has a presentation for you. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you, good morning, commissioners, good morning chief. I have been asked to provide a brief presentation on the task advisory Staff Committee<\/a> and the Fire Department<\/a>s role on that committee. Even though this will be the brevity is not indicative of the importance of us being on that committee, though. Captain, can you tell us what task stands for . The task is the transportation advisory Staff Committee<\/a>. Its known as task. Tasc. Can we go to the computer, please. They are not getting a live feed. Give us an update. The tasc committee has the responsibility of vetting any change to a public street or legislation regarding public streets before a required hearing at the sf mta board. It essentially reviews proposals from different agencies and the public or individuals or it could be from an organization or city agency. Basically the Program Overall<\/a> sponsored by an sf mta member and the mta member provides documents for our review or the agencys review. The review process is such that we, the Fire Department<\/a> requires the material be provided at least five Business Days<\/a> before the tasc meeting. Thank you, captain balmy. We dont know how long it will take for this to come up. We would expect them to have been here by now. Can i go back to chief gonzalez and perhaps well get an update on the airport just to complete his portion. I have the update on the airport. I think that was the next thing on your operation report. I have a summary of some of their activities. We have a record review with the San Francisco<\/a> International Airport<\/a> Safety Management<\/a> certification. They had a meeting with bill adams who is in charge of the communications division. They payne participated in training exercises. 101 is our sf city unit when they call and 303 is from san mateo. We wanted to make sure he had integrated training to respond to the airport for major incidents. He has done so and will continue to do so throughout the year. I also met with the new fire station with the three design team. I would also like to mention they are having state of the art h back, he can mention more about it. I believe its a 5tiered system at the new station we scheduled to open next year if my recollection is correct. They also worked on during the red cap structure locations for units that respond. Also i have assistant deputy chief. Hes busy in the field right now, they are doing training on burning live training. They do that at dallas and for my assistant chiefs for the six of them and also for battalion 9 and 10 trying to produce a command in system of our class together. Those are one of the things that our chief requested down at the airport. I think its an important tool. The first thing they came up with is 3 days down to dallas. I dont think its feasible to send to 3 days in dallas. I was asking to do something in a field closer. Its a lot of our chiefs out of the area at one time is not good. I can go back to prevention if you like. I understand a couple of their commissioners do have questions on your report thus far. Okay. Vicepresident cleaveland . Thank you, madam president , and thank you, chief gonzalez. Your report is very comprehensive. I appreciate that. I want to congratulate you and chief myers on getting ems Response Time<\/a> under 10 minutes. Thats great. Its been a big issue for a long time and i congratulate you and the department and all the departments for making that happen. All of them should be congratulated. Thank you very much. I have a question on the local station 49 staffing update. When do you think that will be resolved. I would like to know if you can estimate when you might have that resolved. We have the battalion 5 thing, thats in place and the cd 4, is that happening . Whats the deal . The next step would be to meet with dhr, 798, the attorneys, and us to negotiate it. I dont think it would hurt to have a premeeting, maybe, again with the commissioners or maybe two of the commissioners along with 798 and the chief. Obviously president oconnor to hammer out the final details to expedite it. That might be a great idea. Its such a critical thing and the ems services one of the most Important Services<\/a> that our department provides to the city and the citizens. We have to get this resolved. Absolutely and part of that what the chief mentioned with the work. That is going to be implemented. Well Begin Next Week<\/a> to have that implemented within the next two to 3 weeks. Excellent. As far as the airport, the training has to be done and specialized training to be done in the airport because of the types of fires you may have there. Dallas has the best training in the country, is that correct . Thats objective. I havent looked at all the Training Facilities<\/a> myself. I have heard that said myself. I have to research that myself. Im concerned if we send them to moffat field, is that going to be as good a training. I want the men and women in our Fire Department<\/a> to get the best training possible. I dont care where we send them. We dont have to send them at one time. I agree with what you are saying. I would never want to compromise the training, if we have to send them to the north pole, there would be a limitation. I agree with that. We dont want to compromise the training by not sending them there, but we dont have to send them at the same time. Thats definitely a priority. Thank you. Thank you, vicepresident cleaveland. Commissioner nakajo. Thank you for your report. I also want to comment on the Emergency Medical Services<\/a> report portion and refer to again the Response Time<\/a> to a 9. 73 response which was always to go up to 10 minutes. I dont know about anybody else but for me this is a very important historical accomplishment within this department. Weve worked for years trying to see this, and it just doesnt happen overnight. I know its a budget issue, a personnel issue. Again, its related back to, i know mr. Corso will be up here. In terms of the report from the Mayors Office<\/a> is a great report. You can wish for this to accomplish. They have to have something substantial behind that. I want to congratulate everybody on that and Going Forward<\/a> to maintain that. Thats the hardest part about all of this. The second thing i wanted to comment on and its not particularly a report but under the categorical of Emergency Medical Services<\/a>. I needed information. There were some incidents referred to previously on an emergency call of a chp officer whose throat was slashed, and i know some of our units responded to that as well as some privates. Im curious as to whether there was any recognition given to that particular personnel, crew, whether it was private or with our department who responded to that officer. I do know that officer apparently is in recovery mode doing well, but i think again if it was and im trying to verify that by members of our staff as well as the Police Department<\/a> and our privates. That was one other issue while we are waiting. The other issue, i will wait for mr. Corso as the budget presentation to comment. But those things i wanted to really feind out. One more thing, mr. Chief gonzalez, im glad you narrate your report so the public and the audience can hear your report because again, this report is comprehensive, and i know that again we gave some recognition to your staff. Is it particularly Jenny Franklin<\/a> again that puts together on some basis . Yes, sir. Okay, for the commission this is a comprehensive report. I know the chiefs are all out there, and if there is a question, you have a responsibility, maybe thats not a strong or kind word, but we seek information and very often when you give comprehensive information like this, it answers a lot of questions. Did you want to give reference to the chp officer . Certainly, my recollection is that we did acknowledge by name the members of the department. There were two members and intern that day. It was during super bowl week. I got them three together and met them at the General Hospital<\/a> when i found out the commissioner from the california Highway Patrol<\/a> was going to be flown in by helicopter to meet with the chp officer that was injured. We had sort of a reunification. If you desire to bring them before the commission which i dont think we did. I remember recognizing them by name. Im happy to do so. Yes, chief, thank you very much for that because i do believe those individuals by name should be recognized, but also if there is an occasion for us because we have done that many times, commissioners, of recognizing individual personnel that have done outstanding work. If we can, i would appreciate that. I will leave that to you. The names were submitted to the meritorious committee for consideration for meritorious award which we usually have every other year. Okay, i appreciate that. I think thats really proper. Im also interested in the day as well. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you, commissioner nakajo. Commissioner hardeman . Thank you, madam president. Chief, thanks for your intensive report and all in this document as you mentioned. One thing that caught my eye was cited when you get out there that you get out there as fast as possible. And you have seen the five alarm at 29th and mission is refreshing to see thats the only greater alarm in the whole month of june and this Fire Department<\/a> was able to get this fire out with a single alarm. So, the response and diligence. As you brought up, here is the natural instincts. We are lucky to have someone that also has the natural ability. One thing i didnt see is that 75 people lost their jobs and the 58 that were displaced as residents. That adds another sad wrinkle to the situation. Anyway, thank you for your great report. As far as the Highway Patrol<\/a> man, i talked to an officer with him. He was so elated and wanted me to express to the Fire Department<\/a> that they didnt think he was going to make it. These are experts in a lot like other safety officers in understanding severe injuries. They thought for sure the Highway Patrol<\/a> man was a goner and if it werent for the ability of the medical personnel out there. He was extremely grateful. If we do recognize the members here, i think it would be good to organize with the chp personnel as well. I thought i would bring that up as this is televised so the public understand how these situations work and how important it is to have the Response Time<\/a> like you just indicated coming down. Fingers have been pointed at the staff and firefighters and the union, everybody said. None of it was the responsibility and any particular crew to have the resources to do the job. Now that we are getting that, the response is coming down. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sounds like we have technical difficulties. One of the ways to make it work, if the computer isnt working, we can use the overhead projection until they figure out the computers. We might be able to use the overhead projector. Okay. How long will it take . I have more to keep going. Okay. The other thing perhaps we can use the overhead. Why dont we use the overhead and go to mr. Corso, and captain balmy we will hold on yours a little longer. Mr. Corso, lets have the secretary please call that item. Clerk item 35. Overview of fire Department Budget<\/a>. Update and overview from mark corso on the current budget. Welcome, mr. Corso. Good morning commissioners. Mark corso from planning and budget to give a brief update from the last time presented which was june 8th which was prior to any of the budget hearings we had. Everything is not final. There is a couple more steps. I will roll through that as well. I wanted to keep you up to speed with where we are on the department. The overall timeframe we are looking at. The mayor released his balance budget on may 31. The Planning Department<\/a> began discussions to work with the budget an alyst and began discussions and provided justification to those requests. The department scheduled two hearings before the budget and finance committee scheduled for june 17th, friday and second hearing coming back june 23. Rd. As i mentioned upon release of the mayors budget, the department began working with the budget analyst on their proposed recommendations. We provided justification for our budget, answered a number of questions they had. They initially proposed some recommended cuts to the Department Budget<\/a> surrounding recruitment, surrounding deletions in the department and potentially some project funding reductions. So from the may 30 time and over the next couple of weeks, the department worked with the budget analyst at the Budget Committee<\/a> meeting. And fortunately this year we were able to come to an agreement with the budget analyst prior to the first hearing which we had not done in the past. The structure this year was a little different. In the past the board requested the budget analyst to provide two reports to the finance committee one at the first and second meeting. This one was different in there was going to be more time focused at the Budget Analyst Office<\/a>. We worked with them and eventually came to an agreement. The agreement ended up, the end result was approximately 590,000 reduction in the first year made up mainly of general attrition salary. Im confident we can absorb those reductions. There were no reductions to affect any of the project initiatives and Equipment Fund<\/a> and no deletions of miss any positions. We were able to come to an agreement prior to this meeting. We did attend and reported to the committee that we were in agreement. Theres no presentation requested of us by the board. So we were in agreement. So while we were in agreement, we did not have to return for a second hearing which was great and that hearing was used for the board of supervisors, the budget and finances committee meeting. The remaining departments came into agreement or worked with the board on some type of reduction. At the end of that, the board of supervisors began their internal process called the ag back process where they made negotiations themselves and discussed the entire pool of recommendations that were a total from the departments as well as the budget analyst and additional Revenue Sources<\/a> certified by the Controllers Office<\/a> and a group of money that the board negotiated to divvy up to different projects. This was the entire week and concluded at the budget special meeting. There was an agreement after much back and forth among the supervisors and passed the budget and recommended budget to move to the full board. As a result of that process, there were some very good news from the Fire Department<\/a> working very closely with 798 we were able to restore battalion 5. In addition allocated some additional funding for youth firefighter training as well. And kind of a high level summary of the budget as it currently exist. No reduction to the fleet and equipment plan. Obviously the department was very excited when the mayor proposed their budget showing for our fleet equipment. There are no reduction, deletion of any existing programs or positions, uniform or civilian. That includes the initiative. We were funded quite a bit of positions for our bureau fire and prevention. Those positions will still be moving forward. Thats great. Again, as i mentioned restoration of battalion 5 effective january and 125 for firefighter Youth Training<\/a> in conjunction with the black Firefighters Association<\/a>. As i mentioned the process is not officially complete. The budget still needs to be heard at the board and approved. June 24th, marked the date that the board of supervisors agreed on that and the budget was recommended to the full board. July 19th, next week is the presentation before the board for the approval of the full budget. It needs to be approved twice by the board. The following week will be the second approval by the board and will go to the Mayors Office<\/a> for the final sign off on the ordinances and late to early august. After the mayor signs it and its fully approved, it gets loaded into the system and the Funding Initiatives<\/a> can move forward at that time. With that, i would like to open to any questions and any information. Before i do, i would like to thank the mayors budget office, the boards budget analyst that helped through the process, local 798 and the Fire Commission<\/a> for their support. Im happy to answer any questions. Thank you, mr. Corso for your presentation. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on the budget presentations . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed on this item. And commissioner cleaveland . Thank you, madam president and thank you for the excellent report and for the excellent process. This has been one of the smoothest years i think for the Budget Department<\/a> in my recollection and certainly as we are faced with the budget analyst process and certainly to get an agreement on the first go around. I commend you and the staff at the Budget Analyst Office<\/a> to coming to accord early on. On the ag back, what was the actual cost . We had requested approximately over 900,000 for the entire year or effective when the budget would kick in. We were approved for half of that 450,000 and the full 900 in the second year. So starting in the half of the year. Thank you very much and thanks to all of those people involved in the budgeting process that helped you and worked with you to create a budget that is the best weve had in many years. Thanks. Thank you. Okay, thank you, vicepresident cleaveland. Commissioner nakajo . Thank you very much, madam president. Mr. Corso, thank you very much for your comprehensive summary. On chief white, i definitely want to congratulate you on your work, mr. Corso, i have been participating for 21 years without offending any former mayor, mayor brown, mayor newsom, this is the best budget we have ever worked with. I know chief hayeswhite, how important that is and for integrated participation. Mr. Corso, you have been out there on the front lines with the budget analyst to agree with us. Mayor lee, im going to call him out. The support that we have received. The board of supervisors, the restoration of battalion 5. I want to recognize 798 for their participation. This is a really remarkable great accomplishment within this department. I again want to make sure that again we all have participation within this, but also it is a great accomplishment. I skrus just want to thank you for your participation on this moving forward. It doesnt get any easier, you know that and i know that. Thats why with the commissioner, with all of these parameters on fire education, all the responsibility that this department is willing to take on this responsibility, but we need some resources and help to pull this off. It doesnt just fall into our own house. Well all do the job that we can. Again, i appreciate this. Madam president , vicepresident cleaveland, thank you very much for your sincere efforts and hard work on this budget. Thank you, madam president. Thank you, commissioner, nakajo. Commissioner hardeman . I would be remiss if i didnt say anything. It is commendable. I really want to congratulate mark corso because it takes a certain style to negotiate, and with the financial problems that the citys had over the years, you having to go through this agonizing year in and year out and yes, your personality and understanding of the budget, really helped to achieve and the staff and their knowledge and your personality and leadership and situation with the chief giving you a promotion that you recently received is certainly we deserved. Everybody deserves a pat in the back, but you are the guy and you understood what the departments needs were more than anybody. Thank you, good job. Thank you very much, commissioner. Thank you, commissioner hardeman. While i echo the sentiment and compliments of my fellow commissioners, and i do also want to thank especially chief gonzalez who was very diligent in roaming the halls and speaking to everyone, all of the folks on the legislative side of the city. You know, to get the resources that we need, and he was part of a dynamic duo which included ms. Olivia scannen. I ran into them frequently in the hall ways. It really shows how when we are altogether, the union, the Budget Committee<\/a>s, the commissioners, the administrative staff, the rank and file, i mean, we can do a lot of things. Now is the time to get things done while we are flush in the city. Because we have gone through some lean times, and now that we are not so lean, we really do need to keep the pressure on to get the things we need because we have a lot of things that are required to fulfill our mission. So, kudos to everyone. We can celebrate this, and the idea that you didnt have to go to the second meeting. That alone is worth an ice cream cone. I just have one question, mr. Corso. Will the 125,000 allocation for the firefighter Youth Training<\/a>, can you talk a little bit more about that . I will defer to the chief on that one. Chief hayeswhite . Yes, we were also pleased to receive an add back of 125,000 to augment a Great Program<\/a> which i have been a huge supporter of over seen by the black Firefighters Association<\/a> for the Youth Fire Academy<\/a> run typically during the school year from 1418. It various up to about 20 students that show an interest in the fire service. Hopefully some day we plant the seed and they become firefighters or paramedics. Its more about having members of the black Firefighters Association<\/a> volunteering their time. Captain pruitt who is with our Fire Prevention<\/a> department, he runs and over sees the black Firefighters Association<\/a>. They use sometimes our resources and use our vans for transportation and training. They are wearing a uniform and being a team player. That has gone on for a number of years. Usually in june there is a Graduation Ceremony<\/a> or an award ceremony. I have attended the last 15 years. Chief attended last month. We were approached in conjunction with the black Firefighters Association<\/a> and Supervisor Malia Cohen<\/a> s office formalizing this type of academy. He saw in the youth fire academies that black firefighters have an opportunity to enhance or improve and bring into alignment what has been done over in the east bay. So a proposal was made and we had made the pitch, supervisor cohen, again embraced it and she was the champion for getting that back into our budget. Wonderful. Thank you, chief hayeswhite for relaying that information. A question for you, mr. Corso, does the budget include a grant writer . It does not. It was not funded. It would be needed and was mentioned quite a few times at the budget level. It was proposed, we were not funded for it. It would be a benefit to the department. In the absence of having a dedicated grant writer, i think we do a good job in general due to the last group funded by a grant. That work will continue, but i think that is an area where we can improve for sure and i think well continue to work with the Mayors Office<\/a> to explore that possibility. I know we have been extremely fortunate over the last 18 months at least in securing large grants. Im wondering if there is a plan or any talk of what we do in the interim because its going to be at least another year before we are budgeted for such a position. But we do need Additional Resources<\/a> on the grant writing side because chief francisco, it falls under chief franciscos administrative umbrella, does it not . Absolutely. Its very much bigger than the largest umbrella in the world. So, the resources that are required to write grants, its quite an undertaking. I really would encourage the chief and your staff for us to come up with ways to assist us in the grant writing. Absolutely. I have had discussions with chief and some of his Training Staff<\/a> have expressed interest in specifically ems and particularly grant programs. Part of it in my new role would be a goal to formalize the grant process in that department and that is definitely on the radar. Very good. Thank you very much. Any additional questions . Okay. Any Public Comment<\/a> . On the budget . No. Okay. Public comment is closed. And lets see, how are we doing with captain balmys presentation . Is it good to go . Okay. Please return to the mic, captain balmy. Well find out. Okay. Well try this again. So, i will begin with just an overview of tasc. Well discuss a couple of challenges and i will bring some recommendations forward about the challenges. So the transportation advisory Staff Committee<\/a> is defined as an inner departmental committee. Its chaired by the sf mta and discusses proposed legislation or proposed street changes prior to proceeding to an sf mta public hearing. It provides a regular forum for the key agencies to review and comment on the changes to these rightofways. And its important to note that its only an informal advisory board. The board does not make any decisions about approving or disapproving any of the proposals. I will go into that further on into the presentation. So some of the agencies in the cities family that are represented are the sf mtas sustainable streets division, traffic, transit operations, parking enforcement, taxi services, the Planning Department<\/a>, the department of public works, the Police Department<\/a> and the Fire Department<\/a>. These are the only members of the committee at this time. The agenda items that are heard at the task meetings are for proposed legislative or street changes that are requested by a project sponsor. The sponsors can come from a variety of fields, it can be an individual. As an example, there may be some concern from people on a street about the speed of vehicles going up and down their street. So they can petition and apply to the sf mta to provide some remedy or relief for that. Typically, they will request a speed hump be placed on the street. The community and business organizations also can present proposals through a sponsor to the committee and i think its pretty obvious that for a Community Organizations<\/a> going through this process also enhances the live ability of the city. So the pavement to Parks Program<\/a> where a street is transformed from vehicular traffic to pedestrian traffic are typically sponsored by a community request. Private developers, we all know the development is going on in the city. If a developer has a project, they need to go in front of the planning committee. The Planning Department<\/a> will request they comply with the better streets plan, and the developer will implement the goals of the plan. In other words, they will widen sidewalks, implement corner bulbs at the request of the Planning Department<\/a>. It will become a permanent street change. And different city agencies are also required to come and bring their presentations or their projects and be presented to the tasc members. Infrastructure within the city existing and then a new infrastructure and especially with all the vision zero goals that the city is achieving. These are all funneled through the tasc. These are some of the items heard at tasc. We dont hear everything, but the majority of them are transit calming and Pedestrian Safety<\/a> measures. I will just focus on those. Speed humps, speed cushions, bulb outs, crosswalk, speed limit changes and traffic circle. The number of speed limit changes are the safe routes to School Program<\/a> where the areas are calmed by putting up speed limit signs and changing them from 3515 miles per hour, for instance. The land reduction removals are typically result of the citys goal of reducing the amount of vehicular traffic and changing it to pedestrians. So if the land reductions are typically from a practice that considers the street and call them a road diet. In other words, a street is going to become two lane instead of the four lane now. Second street is part of the road diet program. Though items are required to be heard at tasc because they have the responsibility of approving or disapproving the proposals and forwarding them to the board of supervisors. The meetings of the tasc are not open to the public, but there are avenues for private and nongovernmental property parties to present or participate in the Committee Meetings<\/a> when its appropriate. The tasc members may review, discuss and comment on these items at that time and each agency is allowed to either object or not object. They must state that during the conclusion of the item presentation. But we can also not object with conditions and make recommendations. Committee agencies can also place an item on hold and the item is not scheduled for a public hearing until the Agency Issues<\/a> are resolved. Proposals that are not scheduled for an sf mta public hearing may also be heard at the tasc meetings, but they are for discussion or informational purposes only. So, an item that would be brought forward that was from a Nongovernmental Organization<\/a> would be the Ride Share Program<\/a> and the commuter shuttle buses, and they would come and present their proposal to the reasons for them wanting to utilize the city streets for their business. An example of a proposal thats brought for information or discussion only would be the it was a project brought forward to essentially coordinate the muni transit systems bus routes on Market Street<\/a> with colored lights along Market Street<\/a> above ground. So, when a bus came by down below, the light would follow. When its traveling you can see where the bus was. That never came to fruition. It was just brought for information only. So, what the sfd review at these meetings or prior to the meetings. We request all the documents be provided at least five Business Days<\/a> prior to the meeting. I do not believe any of the other agencies do that. We are tasked with not only reviewing them but also making a decision as to whether we would object or not object. So, many of these projects are massive in size, and the number of projects is great too. So, we need the ample amount of time to review them. We require that drawings be provided. We are looking at a two dimensional presentation essentially for both existing conditions and then we require what the proposed conditions and then we see how it affects fire Service Features<\/a>. On the fire Service Features<\/a> that we review are fire vehicle access, the Building Access<\/a> and Fire Department<\/a> access to the connections on the buildings, fire water supply access and fire ground operation access. Fire vehicle access, we look at whether we can navigate the street with the proposal, and if we have issues, we vet all these prior to the tasc meeting or try to have them vetted. If we cant come to a compromise or to acceptance, then we place the item on hold until we can be comfortable with the present and the existing and the proposed conditions. So some examples we always consult with support services because we are looking at two dimensions when looking at plans. Its better to be able to have feedback from the field. In this particular case, the boots on the ground is very important. We also perform field evaluations and we can see these particular scenes here from project called annie plaza. Its at annie plaza. They are anticipating making it permanent. We are working with them to maintain Fire Department<\/a> access and Building Access<\/a> on this street. The reviews also may include field vehicle test where we test both the condition for the proposed change and then after or while the process is going on we have to confirm that we are able to navigate the streets. Sometimes when you are looking at two dimensions, it looks like it would work, but based on our investigation, its not an accurate way of measuring that. This particular case, this is at 19th and dolores. We had an existing condition and the proposed condition was to put a bulb out, and the bulb out created a condition where the vehicle had to take the term wider than under normal operating conditions in a nonbulb state. Thisis a highly route vehicle. We have meetings with the sponsor and Exchange Ideas<\/a> or solutions to make both parties satisfied with the project. If its unresolved, we place it on hold and it can be drawn from the agenda bean by the sponsor or flat out objected from us or any other of the committees. Some of the challenges we have run across with this is meeting the increased demand to review the new and existing Infrastructure Projects<\/a>. The Staffing Levels<\/a> are not at what is optimum for reviewing these projects. The number and quantity and size of the projects of course as you can tell by being drug around in the city has increased. It has to do with existing Infrastructure Projects<\/a> and new projects that are consistent with reaching the goals of vision zero and the better streets plan. The other challenge that needs to be addressed is communicating to the various departments within the city family about the complex San Francisco<\/a> Fire Department<\/a> operational needs and requirements. Its surprising to me that most of these agencies do not have any understanding of how the Fire Department<\/a> operates during an emergency and or medical incident whether it be fire or medical. So thats a challenge. The agencies typically try to understand it in a way that its black and white and its difficult for them to understand it and its not the way it really is. So some of the recommendations that we make, i would make and the committee would make are to develop a plan for a separate Fire Department<\/a> section that includes dedicated staff to review tasc proposals over the next several years, and to include operation numbers on that section. Vision zero goal, from 14 to 16 was 24 projects in 24 months. The sf mta achieved 30 projects completed in 20 months. The next goal for 1618 is 57 projects in 24 months. So its the very ambitious projects to reach these goals, and our staff is one 1 2 people. Request the City Attorney<\/a> to provide clarity regarding interpretation of which municipal codes exceed the fire and safety code and when there is a conflict. There is still no resolution from the City Attorney<\/a> as to does the transportation code trump the planning code and or the fire code . Because there are competing codes within the citys family that contradict each other, and that needs to be resolved. We want to educate our sister agencies and their staff about our operations and Access Requirements<\/a> and the needs for medical and fire and our needs in medical and fire incidents. We would recommend that the San Francisco<\/a> Fire Department<\/a>s division of training create a Fire Department<\/a> informational video or Powerpoint Presentation<\/a> with supporting documentation of fire response and fire ground operations and present them to our sister agencies. So educate is one of the recommendations not only within our department, but also of our operations to other departments. Then, we would need to continue to work with the sf mta to better communicate on all tasc related projects. Typically we meet once a month and they present their concept of a very large project, for instance, the geary street corridor from downtown to the avenues and van ness avenue which goes from Market Street<\/a> down to bay street. These massive projects are typically given to us 5 days before the tasc hearing. So we have implemented a program where if they are going to have a project that is of substantial size, that we need to get together and review it months ahead of time. These are not projects that just come up next day, these are all well planned out. So i will be happy to take any questions if you have any or clarifications if you need any. Thank you, captain balmy for your presentation. I would like to ask if there are any members of the public who would like to comment on your presentation. Are there any members of the public that would like to come to the opposed podium . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. I will go to my fellow commissioners beginning with vicepresident cleaveland. Thank you very much for this very illuminating presentation. I wasnt aware of the transportation advisory committee. This is news to some of us in the commission and very interested in the operations of this task force obviously. Youve mentioned that you only meet once a month. It sounds like its a full time job and then some and the committee. The committee only meets once a month to hash out those changes, right . No. I wasnt clear on that. The committee itself meets bimonthly. We immediate on the second and fourth thursday of the month. We meet twice a month. However on projects with sf mta, we meet with them monthly for them to bring concepts to us to get our feedback so they can help. It helps them design the project to meet our needs and their needs. So is this committee comprised of technical people . Engineers, architects, people that know how to design things . So, the Committee Members<\/a> are not. The people who are presenting the proposals are and sf mta, this is mostly sf mta, we are invited to be there. We are not required to be there. So its their committee . Its their committee. They dont have members of the public as part of that committee . They do not. I was really concerned to hear that sixth street is going to become two lanes. One in each direction. As a street that comes off interstate 280, i think its a terrible idea to all of a sudden bottle that into one lane. Everything is going into one lane, are you kidding . I havent seen the exact layout of the i think its a terrible idea. Absolutely. I will communicate that. In terms of the bulb outs and what not, i think its important that getting to fires access is critical. When they are closing out streets, they are compromising the life and safety of the occupants of those buildings next to those alleys. Permanent closure of alleys is a bad idea unless the Fire Department<\/a> has access, very good access particularly in high rise situations where you have high rise buildings. I think its a terrible idea to close them permanently. I certainly think the Fire Department<\/a> has to push to maintain access to every single alley in our city. Understood. Im also concerned about the codes. I think the City Attorney<\/a> needs to get their act together and tell us what codes prevail, is it the fire codes, transportation codes. We need that and the City Attorney<\/a> needs to issue their opinion. I urge that to happen. Understood. Have you had a chance to put some dollars and cents to your requested recommendations . We need to have some dollars and cents added to that recommendation so we know what we can adequately provide assistance to you. I have not and i will consult with the fire marshall and mark corso regarding that. All right. Again, thank you for your report. Thank you, vicepresident cleaveland. Commissioner nakajo . Thank you very much, madam president. Captain, thank you very much for your report. I think i learned more from your report than a lot of people in the city. Im speaking for myself. Its hard sometimes to be a commissioner with the information and the responsibility with the department but i also happen to be a senior director in an organization in japantown and also being in a position that affects all of us. Im always amazed of where i cant turn and what color is this or that. Im not here to sit and mown and grown and complain. Because im part of the process. When i sit at these meetings and gary corridor, these are huge projects that are affecting everyone of us and very often i wonder who the heck came up with this and came up with some kind of concept of identifying again in this city what department is part of that. Now, for us not to have an invited share at these meetings or decisions, i want to hear like vicepresident cleaveland, our additions or our abilities to enforce because all of these wonderful ideas have justifications, but when it comes to our members and our fire vehicles getting to our job responsibilities, that does not work. For me, in terms of our department, as you sit on this committee, im overwhelmed with the amount of jurisdiction and the amount of parameters that we have here. Again, this is our comment for the commissioners, but i also cant believe that many of our sister and brother departments in this city and county do not know what we do in the Fire Department<\/a> besides put out fires and rescue people. I think its crucial and essential that we do that. I dont see it fall all upon us even though that responsibility is there because every time we have a discussion, our request and realization with our budget request gets larger and larger and i realistically want to be able to project out there. If we have to educate some people, thats fine, but im concern with the amount of noninfluence we have on this level if thats what im picking up and how better we can or how we can reinforce our kinds of concerns on a serious matter. This is serious business. So, for me, follow up of this information is very important to at least go back and try to educate some focus. You can tell there is some emotion behind there because im a citizen of San Francisco<\/a>. But when it falls to the parameters of the department, im concerned. I would like to know how we can get more teeth on our reinforcement and i will wait to hear from our commissioners in terms of how we can do this. I very much appreciate that you brought this and chief gonzalez that this is now part of our presentation. My last point, vision zero and changing streets, sometimes i get to hear that the department is resistant on changes, thats no what we are about. Its about our ability to do our task and duties. Thank you very much. Commissioner hardeman. Thank you very much for your well thought out report to us. You have a very tough job because you are dealing with well intentions on supervisors and other commissioners and other departments that are trying to narrow streets and increase residential foot print, but at the expense of the Fire Department<\/a>. Could you explain, im sure you know, if not maybe another staff person about what happens when you have to hit a curb when you go to a five alarm fire in a ladder truck or engine, what happens to a vehicle that cost up to 50,000. Can you translate that . I would have to defer to support services and the bureau of equipment for answers to those questions. I dont know if anybody is here, but we can look that up and research it and get back. Commissioner, deputy gonzalez. An example that happened on dolores and market where we had a fire. There were some safety streets and we had a problem with our truck. It did cost the city money to make that repair. What we are asking is more, our input is valued more for these projects so we dont have to correct it afterwards. The damage to the vehicles can be extremely significant is what i have been told in the past. I havent seen anything recently written on it. If it jumps the curb, if its over 4 inches, it can do damage to the system. It could be expensive. Okay. Thank you, chief gonzalez. Captain balmy, again, are you dealing with the southeast corridor at this point on Treasure Island<\/a> yet. Is Treasure Island<\/a> trying to narrow the streets too or have they gotten to that situation yet . The major developments going on throughout the city have been reviewed or under review now. Weve looked at and under the process of reviewing candlestick point, hunt ers view, Treasure Island<\/a>, yerba buena island, also the potrero hope and the sunny dale hope projects. These are all large developments totaling close to 3,000 additional people. So, they are being vetted. The streets are being examined from access as well as access to the buildings and any features that the buildings are required for the Fire Department<\/a> to get access to, fire escapes, Fire Department<\/a> connections. So i can understand the sf mta having this group get together, but their main goal is to move that transit like commissioner cleaveland and a lot of us are concerned about eliminating lanes which seems to be not in the interest of the moving traffic for the Fire Department<\/a>. Its not our call, but we have to deal with that. The lane reduction is more towards eliminating private vehicles as opposed to actually eliminating the lane. Have you been down Mission Street<\/a> recently . They have the big red lanes down there and those are for transit only. The four lanes that anybody could be now is reduced to two. They have also forced right hand turn lanes to get the private vehicles off which creates another issue. It has a domino effect. It happened to the neighborhood next to these. The one area where i do agree is that ocean avenue which is not too far from my house. If you are on 19th and going west, situated bike lanes there is such an extra wide street. But a few years ago before creating the bike lanes there it was a recent thing. And they added bike lanes and is the worst maintained street in San Francisco<\/a>. So cal trans controls that from 19th avenue west, put bike lanes in at pretty much one or two peoples request. Now the city which is not communicating with cal trans now has bike lanes on ocean avenue where it should have went in the first place. We have very, there isnt too many coordinations between the city in terms of that property. Not that its your problem, but it certainly is when you are dealing with that. Sorry about that. Thank you for the report. Youre welcome. Thank you again, captain balmy. I think the proposed legislative for street changes presented at tasc really their further exposure and dialogue here at the commission level. I have gone to a couple of the meetings within the department, but not with the mta, not with the overall tasc force. It is challenging, very very challenging for our department. I would like to in an upcoming meeting perhaps when chief lombardy is present, to go over the traffic calming and Pedestrian Safety<\/a> measures that really impact us and go over them in detail, the speed bumps, the cushion, the bulb outs, even the park lets which make the things difficult for us. So, that would be not the next meeting, but perhaps the meeting after that to go into these things in greater detail. In the meantime im going to ask our chief of the department what kind of efforts are being done to make sure we have some sort of agreement when plans come to us because in the year of making process, you know, so many meetings and then it comes to us as almost as they are complete which makes it very difficult to say, well, no, this doesnt work because of this. So, chief, do you have some feedback . And also at this time i would like to excuse commissioner nakajo. He has another pressing meeting to attend. Thank you, commissioner nakajo. President , covington, we have articulated our desire to be at the table earlier when these plans are underdevelopment, and we have been successful for some of the larger projects including park merced, out in Hunters Point<\/a> area. We have not formally put that in writing if thats something we feel we need to do, we can do that, but for some of the larger projects in the last year 1 2 since chief nakajo has been the fire marshall and captain balmy, we have advocated because we dont want to have the last road block or the last agency that reviews and says no. That has changed and im fairly happy with that. Its worth revisiting and i will do so. Thank you for that. Chief, do you have anything to add at this time in terms of process and procedure . What i would like to add is basically it boils down to two basic things in my opinion. Jurisdiction. Since the state fire marshall does not adopt section in the fire code that regulates street calming, fire calming access, they leave it up to the local. We as a local agency, the city, adopted that specific section. So it doesnt carry the weight of the state. We have competing ordinances at the local level. Thats no. 1. No. 2 is we have a number of different guidelines out there whether its better streets or subdivision projects, cpw, sf mta and everyone has their own guidelines and they are not in alignment. Those are the two challenges that i see. Thank you, thats very valuable feedback. President covington, if i may . Yes. At the information you are requesting, we can provide that moving forward with the mta. That would be helpful. All right, anything else, captain balmy . No, thank you very much for your attention. Thank you for your presentation. All right. Now we have we dont have any other outstanding issues. Weve gone back and forth of one part of the agenda to the other. Madam secretary. The overview of the Department Budget<\/a>. We are now on item 6. Agenda for next Fire Commission<\/a> meeting, discussion regarding agenda for the july 27, 2016, regular meeting. Okay, thank you. Fellow commissioners . Trusting your judgment, madam chair. Obviously we ought to put station 49 staffing issue on the agenda to see it again in 2 weeks. Very well. Anything else . Nothing else at this time . Okay. Commissioner hardeman . Madam chair, i trust your judgment in setting the agenda. All right. Thank you for finding me trustworthy. So the vicepresident and i will caucus and develop the agenda. Okay. Is there any Public Comment<\/a> regarding upcoming meetings and agenda items . Okay. Seeing none, oh yes, please, come forward. Good morning. Im just curious about people displaced from the community, an update on what the Fire Department<\/a> is doing to help us people stay in the city. So thats all i wanted to address. Okay, thank you. Okay, are there any other members of the public that would like to speak at this time . Okay. Public comment is closed. And i do believe that concludes our business for the day. This meeting is hereby adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] hour. Good morning, everyone and welcome to the peoples palace and im here this morning to announce yet another milestone in our citys commitment to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour by and people will work this fourth of july weekend we are celebrating our countries birthday but recognizing in the celebration throughout the weekend people like the people had that are standing with me are working whether the restaurants or hotels or Health Care Workers<\/a> and others and and we all feel for working people that is hard in our expensive city to survive unless you have a december sent wage thats why a couple of years ago i destined or joibd the board of supervisors full board of supervisors to place before the voters an 15 an hour minimum wage and people that work in all those industries we did it together and were celebrating because today it goes from 12. 25 an hour to 13 and up to 15 and after that cpi takes over i want to remind everybody this city was brought together with our labor unions and your working families made up of all the exit are represents our city and got this done in a strong collaboration with everyone and showed not only the cities around the bay area but the state of california if we got together and thought about peoples lives what glosses the challenges every day we can get this done for them i think were happy here to see the wages go up are rehappy yeah, well have more to celebrate in addition to, of course, the bitter of our nation and things we enjoy we picked this date it is a significant move and i also want to say that we know that our workforce all those peoples here they are still an affordability gap so this is going to help people he you go that suggest that a lot of people are working two jobs to support their families we want to celebrate those moms were all ushth together to help them but for also myself and mayor libby schaaf of oakland that recognizes our workforce is more regional than ever do more than benefit the residents that work in our city and so we joined. Today and cities that are committed along with cities like new york and seattle and los angeles and portland and the others also raised their minimum wage we want to the state of california to do the same thing because what could happen i think all the labor advocates know and people that we raised our minimum wage just and ourselves in the city of San Francisco<\/a> or just in oakland we would probably be golden state talent that belongs to where everybody lives and not as affordable to them as it is to those were helping so mayor libby schaaf and along with the united Health Care Workers<\/a> started a process and emigrate hundreds of thousands of snatches set the minimum wage higher of 15 an hour tour the state of california in uniting all the cities with the labor unions and workforces and people good minded across the region we got the governors attendance and the state of california attendance such that a few months ago governor jerry brown signed the legislation to raise the states entire minimum wage for everyone for 15 an hour over a period of time those movements wouldnt happen unless we place the needs of workingclass families that work hard to build that consensus im here to join in the celebration and here to say that im going to be working this weekend as well as in addition the celebrating but also acknowledge the people that always serve us at the hotels and restaurants and people that are working the janitorial and Building Maintenance<\/a> and all working class in the city were there to be of help this will be consistent raising the minimum wage to attack affordability challenges is part of solution paid parental leave is part of the solution making sure that we work so that no one is a theft of their wages thats why your head of the department the labor enforcement is joining us with the advocates of people that earn those wages im saying they earn every single penny they deserve to make sure they get it in their hands thats why we announce these and make sure that everybody is prepared adequately ahead of time to make sure those wages are paid and wage theft we have to make sure that our workforce that speaks many languages dont get capture and been take advantage of this is how we really in city year ago we have a benefit and make sure that everybody obtains that benefit i want to say at that moment im proud of the working folks in San Francisco<\/a> but the intensify region and proud of state of california and your legislation for working with the governor to a raise the minimum wage that adds to the celebration of the fourth of july and makes that more meaningful and then we hope that the entire nation does this as well question hear a lot of stories from a lot of places across the country that the liveability is under challenged or were taking care of business in the city and state and lets go on the National Level<\/a> and support of the prosperous country to make sure they get a december sent wage wsip think we have paula to speak for her experience and what that means to her paula clapping. good morning. I want to again thank the mayor mayor ed lee for being the vera person that was instrumental in making in milestone occur and happen my name is paula im a home care worker and worked in the city there are challenges with the rising cost of rental rates and even though im covered by rent control im still monthly yearly challenged and with different increases that i have incurred in the last few months and years this new legacy life act 15 minimum wage will surely ongoingly help me through my endeavors thank you. clapping. good morning. Im naomi kelly the city administrator i should tell you that paula was ininstrumental in working with m and mayor schaaf she helped to organize snatches for the measure. Thank you paula for all your hard work i want to introduce antonio a Health Care Worker<\/a> an organizing member of unit health care woeft west and worked to race erase the minimum wage and allowing home care workers to apply for overflow room he speeded there was something wrong with his mother it was alzheimers i want to introduce juan antonio. clapping. buenas dias. speaking foreign language. so good morning. Thank you for inviting me to prestige events for people i feel blessed. speaking foreign language. my name is juan antonio and in 2015 specifically he which is a Health Care Worker<\/a> for my mom. speaking foreign language. i just want to be very clear even San Francisco<\/a> home care workers work very hard we do that because the standards of living inform San Francisco<\/a> was very high we work very hard to meet those needs. speaking foreign language. so the job was basically like this door by door house by hours snatch by snatch people refused to sign this will make that worse we said no join hands and Work Together<\/a> and talk to the leaders theyll help us there was a Great Success<\/a> this doesnt he said here the initial is very important we need to keep on working so the situation gets better for all of us. speaking foreign language. you cant say that as good but thank you to everybody especially mayor ed lee during that time when the Campaign Began<\/a> until today to fight for this measure to come through we want to thank them from every member in the United Health<\/a> care west and give them this im not sure what you call that laughter . Well, thank you. speaking foreign language. ed lee. This is especially made for you ed lee our mayor thank you. Okay. This is a beautiful portrait up next, we have the director of Office Standards<\/a> and enforcements mr. Pat mulligan working with these men and women in the Office Enforcement<\/a> who are here behind us in the audience and ones that are the advocates of minimum wage paid sick leave and parental leave and Health Care Accountability<\/a> act not only fierce advocates by our enforcement and making sure that our businesses and contractors with the city, our all of people are getting a fair wage and benefits so my honor to introduce pat mulligan. clapping. thank you, naomi it is the mission of Office Standards<\/a> and enforcement to provide enforcements of all local labor laws and approximate protection for all workers and an honor to serve those who support of aggressive and Labor Protections<\/a> in the United States<\/a> and do through the hard work of all the staff there the office of labor improvement id like to remind the employers indicating the increased minimum wage throughout San Francisco<\/a> id like to add that is also particularly fitting we are celebrating this announced of an increase in minimum wage throughout San Francisco<\/a> as we lead into the fourth of july depicts day weekends for many workers and modest increase or any increase in their earns represents real and a very well defined dependence have a great weekend thank you. clapping. and okay. And this ended our press conference i have to say the growth and strength of our local economy will prosper so the maus coney Center Project<\/a> is transformation of the Convention Center<\/a> and it is not only addition and increased space but also a transformation of the urban neighbor around it in a positive way. 25th largest Convention Center<\/a> in the country but the conventions are getting bigger so with this extension it is 13 largest we have been under construction a year and a half and set to complete the construction in 2018. It generated over 9 billion in San Francisco<\/a> 35 percent of viz 2rs coming to San Francisco<\/a> are coming to maus coney. 2500 jobs will be created. If we didnt do the expansion we would luce 200 million in taxes a year. The conventions they are talking about going other cities with ample [inaudible] and exhibit space and not come to San Francisco<\/a>. There is a lot of [inaudible] we are at a point now where our [inaudible] two halve oz the mos connie and think what we desire is one space. We are adding space about 200,000 space. We are connecting the two existing north and south exhibition halls that excavate under Howard Street<\/a> to increase the largest exhibition space to 1 contig ws space over 500,000 square feet. The spot im standing in will be inside the lobby. The building will be pushed out to Howard Street<\/a> and connected north and south above and under ground. When you go on the north our south side you enter into a hall that is divided into major ways this is Public Private<\/a> partnership. The Hotel Industry<\/a> [inaudible] splitting it up of the building. Since we have a north and south Howard Street<\/a> it [inaudible] to make [inaudible] improving the bridges to make them more accessible so go over Howard Street<\/a> [inaudible] developed to look at several different proposals for a light [inaudible] to work with that bridge and the selection of the [inaudible] he is on what i think is a beautiful piece that is very animated. You will be able to see it as [inaudible] cross the bridge and can see it as a resident of San Francisco<\/a> looking up. There is a second bridge and this bridge replacing an existing bridge over Howard Street<\/a> that links yerba buena gardens to a childrens playground. Make a much larger public space as well as aplaza space that brings you up to that in a visible way. We worked on the playground to make it safe and invited and added more open space the area will be connected with the neighborhood. [inaudible] much better space for everyone. Why is such a fundamental part [inaudible] could be thought of as columns and beams [inaudible] the areas that you walk to check in prior to [inaudible] all those activities [inaudible] opposed to [inaudible] we thought of ways to bring light into these occupied spaces including skylights and [inaudible] highest level of [inaudible] recycled steel. The concrete is [inaudible] we will be harvesting all the rain water and storm water and reusing it. In [inaudible] they extend down into the aquifer level of the water level which means water is being pumped out to remove the pressure and there are over 15 million gallons of water per year that maus coney center pumps out so the water is wasted. Our idea is disconnect the ground water system from the [inaudible] and reuse the water and save and preserve and use it for [inaudible] and use it for other irrigation uses. We have excess water to fill up [inaudible] there will be limited traffic impact during construction there is a 8 month period where we have to take a lane of traffic out from Howard Street<\/a> so we can expand the tunnel. We anticipate the construction to be minimal. [inaudible] make the center statef the art and much more competiti. [inaudible] having the space. [inaudible] underneath howard. Having [inaudible] this is a [inaudible] worked with the residential, the merchants in the neighborhood, the non profits to make sure this is a vibrant area. Even if you dont come to the convention and enjoy the public space, it is something that helps revitalize the neighborhood and bring energy to the neighborhood and more people to the neighborhood and shops and retail and shocase San Francisco<\/a> around the world. brief recess . Thank you, everyone, welcome back from our recess. We were on item 11 and we have april","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"\/\/ia800505.us.archive.org\/0\/items\/SFGTV_20160714_213000_LIVE_BOS_Public_Safety__Neighborhood_Services_Committee\/SFGTV_20160714_213000_LIVE_BOS_Public_Safety__Neighborhood_Services_Committee.thumbs\/SFGTV_20160714_213000_LIVE_BOS_Public_Safety__Neighborhood_Services_Committee_000001.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240625T12:35:10+00:00"}