Into debate or discussion with the speaker. The lack of a response by the commissioners or Department Personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Thank you madam secretary. Is there any member of the public that would like to come forward and speak at this time . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Item 3 approval of the minutes. Approval of the Meeting Minutes from the regular meeting on september 28, 2016. Is there any members of the public that has a comment on the minutes as sent to us . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. And my fellow commissioners i would like to continue this item. There are a number of things they want to discuss with the secretary. Actually i dont need to continue because theyre not [inaudible] [off mic] no. Not of great import, so i will entertain a motion. Then i move to approve. Okay thank you. I will second. Thank you very much. All in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you. Item 4 chief of departments report. Report from chief of department on Current Issues and activities and events within the department. Since the last Commission Meeting including fiscal year 20162017 budget academies, 150th anniversary updates, Strategic Plan update, special events, communications and outreach to other Government Agencies and the public and report from administration. Report on the administrative divisions fleet and facility status, finance, support services, Homeland Security and training within the department. Thank you madam secretary. Chief hayeswhite. Good afternoon president covington, members of the Fire Commission. This is my report since our last meeting on october 12. With regards to the budget after First Quarter of this current fiscal year 16, 17 were projectedded to be on budget for expenditures and revenues. We began planning for the 1718 budget process and projections to be released by the mayors Budget Office and we work closely with the office for the five year Financial Plan for the city with the Mayors Office. Related to academies our 120th academy are in the final weeks. There will be a graduation of 51 members. We started with 54 on november 4 at usf. They have been grairks to provide their presentation auditorium for us. 10 00 a. M. On november 4, a week from friday. With regards to the class we are anticipating hiring 54 members and into the academy. 42 will be off the National Testing network list and we will be bringing 12 employed members from station 49 over two weeks later to join the class so the original 42 will start on the 28th and they will be joined by members of station 492 weeks later. The two week gap which i think i have discussed before is that the members of station 49 have demonstrated their competency and theyre working on as paramedics and the first two weeks of the academy is evaluation of the emt skills so they dont need that refreshing and we are awaiting there are six final offers so far for that class out of the 42. Weve identifying the members from station 49 and the remaining 42 that weve put a number of people through medicals. We anticipate i anticipate doing conducting more interviews and backgrounds for the classes that we will be hiring in 2017 and those will take place probably the end part of this year. The list that were using i believe is for people that have taken the test through may, so we anticipate probably end of november, early december asking for a refreshed list which will i believe go through at least september or october so i think that is good information for a people in the audience as well as members of the public. Our deputy chief administration Ramona Williams will go through the other component what is is happening at training with academies. We have a age per diem Paramedic Academy that is nearing completion. They completed classroom training and now on Field Training and almost complete and the division of training continues to do a great job for the amount of work of in service and training and follow up with probationary training and thank you to the chief for that. H3 level one emts with paramedic license we will offer the opportunity for them to promote in that classification to go from emt to a paramedic. That is anticipated. Chief williams will go through that as well as an emt academy slated some time in january. With regards to the 150th anniversary this year has flown by. There have been a number of events and theres three more really that remain in celebration of our 150th year. Our committee will be meeting tomorrow. Probably one of the well, second to last meeting. We have been meeting since july of last year, and we will discuss the final events of the year which include a Film Festival which president covington has been intimately involved and heading that up and doing that on november 5th and 6 ts and were doing something in conjunction with another group and of the fire which the 150th committee has underwritten. Aspects of that premier, and then we are also planning for a large e havent for those that are on duty for december 3 which is the actual 150th birthday for the department and well have an event for members that want to come off duty at the zoo on the evening of december 3. I did want to make note of our fire boat commissioning which we had since the last meeting and it was a wonderful day. The weather cooperated. It was a beautiful back drop. We appreciate the port for there partnership as well as well as the San Francisco guyants to have the event where we had. It was wonderful and well attended by a whole host of people. We were grateful to have mayor lee there as well as senator Dianne Feinstein and supportive of our department and particularly the fire boat and when she was mayor and we talked about that day there were many types that the funding for the fire boat was suggested to go away and she was unwavering in the support so it was fitting to have her christian the boat that day. Thank you for being there and your comments that morning. President covington and you know i pay tribute to all the members of the department but specifically for the boat, station 35 and past, present and future members of the fire boat. Its a wonderful asset for the department, the city, the region, and so we thought that went off very well. With regards to Strategic Plan currently the plan theres updates to the plan that reflect the concerns and input from members of the planning committee. Mr. Corso and maureen, the fire secretary and others are helping him with the revised draft for the committee to review and the Fire Commission and i believe there theyre continuing to meet with the subject Matter Experts to update the plan and identified the gaps on to events and activities outreach since the last meeting. Many of ution in this room were very proud to be part of a historic moment and that is commissioner nakajo receiving the conmenidation from the counsel general from japan and thank you for including us and were proud to have the working relationship with you, and on your upcoming retirement in a few days on october 31, so that was a wonderful night. I had the privilege of being at the residence there being the counsel general but many in the command staff had not and thank you for including us and congratulations once again. On the 15th of october i know there was retirement event for commissioner nakajo that many attended. I wasnt able to be there. It was the conclusion of Fire Prevention week and there was a bril and one of the ones i couldnt attend and chief williams attended as well as many members of the department and lieutenant the coordinator and held at Marina Middle School and i am also told that went very well. I had the privilege to travel up to sacramento that day, and i attended a very moving ceremony. I will pass around the program. It was a california Firefighters Memorial in which 29 members of the california Fire Departments were added to the memorial wall, their names. Unfortunately we had five of those members of the 29 that were added to the wall, but it was like i said it was a very moving ceremony. All five families were there for our members and i had a chance to visit with each of them where flases were presented by an honor guard. Three members of the department participated in the honor guard to present flags to the families and its a lasting memory in that all five names can be visited along with all of the other names that are on the wall and as a reminder like i said i was very proud and all served the department with dedication and to have this monor to be there honor and be there and have the families honored and appreciated for the loved ones service like i said was special and the five members out of the 29 that were from our department were firefighter [inaudible] firefighter paramedic richard faust, Firefighter David [inaudible], firefighter clyde [inaudible] and lieutenant john murphy so there was a number of people from our department. Ad am wood from local tv was there as well to visit with the families and it was beautiful. Governor brown spoke. Lieutenant Governor Newsom was there and it was a beautiful ceremony. I just talked about the fire boat commissioning that octobered on october 17 and fittingly was the 27th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake and we tied that in fiesly. It was an honor to speak at the Emergency Preparedness seminar. I gave opening remarks. We have a Good Partnership with the Building Owners and Managers Association and the more we can partner with elements of the community certainly Building Owners regarding the importance of preparedness the better off we all are so that went very well. We had the Monthly LaborManagement Meeting on the 18th and i had the privilege of attending it was a very Interesting Group and historical. There was the 100 anniversary of the board of supervisors that were celebrated last week on the 18th and they took they tried to match a historic photo from 100 years ago so i was part of the photograph but they invited all former supervisors and well attended and they each had a opportunity if they chose to speak about their time so that was also a pretty special day i thought of being a native san franciscan. I knew all of the former supervisors as well or least read or heard about them so it was very special. On the 19th mayor lee which we appreciate made a presentation to many of the rescue personnel that worked on october 8 during fleet week toes rescue the 30 people in the water when the boat sank and he paid tribute to the members of the Fire Department and had chief and about ten others from the department. Chief Toney Chaplin was there with the department and acknowledged the private samaritan that helped with the rescues and personnel from San Francisco general so those that responded to the scene and all the way to the hospital where a few people were transported. It could be a much worse situation and no loss of life and no real injuries that sustained because of the team work and mayor lee was pleased and presented certificates to all of the members there that day and a pin from the city so i was proud to be part of that. On october 20 our department participated with many of the rest of the state of california and the great shake out. I participated at break Hart Elementary School in Hunters Point with the police sheave and other members from City Government where we worked i had a third grade class we talked about the importance of preparing in the event of an emergency. I spoke to the kids afterwards. Jim oconnell from battalion ten assisted me. At headquarters we had an exit drill. I believe chief francisco and gonzales were in charge of the drill to make sure that we participate. I think people think we rescue people but its important to be prepared as well and every station in the department participated in that exercise. Later that day i was on a panel with few of my Department Head colleagues, director reiskin from mta and anne koenen burg and the city assessor recorder. We were invited to participate as part of the chamber of commerces Leadership Program and gave a 15 minute overview of the departments achievements and challenges and then i have done this before. We spoke to leadership San Francisco which is comprised of 50 members from the community, for profit, nonprofit, governmental folks that are part of this 10, 11 month session. Theres monthly sessions over the course of ten, 11 months. I was a participate in 2003 so im an alum and acknowledge mark corso the director of finance and planning and he was in part two where the cfos put on an xaz of the members to talk about the challenges and the priorities and so forth in city budgeting so thank you for joining me on that. And then i closed out the afternoon with a planning meeting at the zoo for the december 3 event which will be able to provide more detail on next month once we talk to the committee tomorrow at the meeting. And then today i was really happy to start off it started off a wonderful day. I would like to acknowledge firefighter mary reidy and member of the Fire Service Women and a long standing employee group. I was a member of the original Steering Committee and next year will mark the 30th anniversary of women here in the Fire Department in San Francisco so they put out the call to have active, retired and civilian and uniformed women to do a historical photo and very pleased to say that there were at least 200 or so of us there this morning from nine to 10 30 a. M. And it was great running into some of the women that you know kind of paved the way and are no longer with the department, so we had a good turnout of women to that event, and photos will be made. It was perfect morning out at the field with the Golden Gate Bridge as a back drop so that was wonderful. And i would like to thank you them for that and mary reidy and finally president covington for your consideration. Someone that i worked with, not that i ever worked in the bureau of Fire Prevention but always had a smile on tis face and saw him four days a week when i headed up to my office. He was able to retire but spent 31 years with the department and retired just before passing away and that is fire inspector manuel mikaro and served the department with great pride and entered the department in 1985. He had an illness that he didnt have for very long. He died relatively soon after his diagnosis but i would like for you to consider adjourning in his honor and memory tonight and he has a service on friday which many of us will attend and my personal condolences to his coworkers and the bureau of Fire Prevention. He was a good man. That concludes my report. Thank you chief hayeswhite. Is there any members of the public that would like to comment on the chiefs report . Okay. Public comment is closed and i will go to the fellow commissioners starting with commissioner hardeman. [inaudible] [off mic] surprise. It was up there the whole time so i get to go first. Okay. I dont have anything earth shattering. Thank you for the detailed report chief. The fire boat was really a fun day and your staff did a fantastic job. The weather was great. I had a real personal interest there because in a way i was wondering if they were going to name the fire boat after Diane Feinstein but that didnt happen but she gave me the first payment in 1982 at the mayors Mayors Office of training and later appointed me human rights commissioner and i am grateful and friendly with her. It was wonderful she was the one that got to christian the ship. That was terrific. Staff the writing by senior chronicle staffer carl molte was fantastic and has a deep interest in maritime too and took the general obrian over to normandy for the anniversary i guess it was what the 50th anniversary and wrote articles every day in the chronicle so he knows his maritime and made that whole trip, and personally i would like to thank dennis kennedy. I dont know if we all received his email with all the 50 or more photos that he sent. That was quite nice of dennis. He did a great photo on that day. Chief commissioner nakajo that was a great lunch you had and it was nice the command staff and you know that the command staff is there on their own time, quite often at a lot of these events and they were at commissioner nakajos event and that really shows a lot of class so that so many people take their own times. I know chief williams was on vacation but she still showed up. Its very nice and you show the respect that the top people in the Fire Department give to ea