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The voters and the board of supervisors approved f. It requires the Fire Department to maintain all fire stations in place and located as of in 2004 and it required 24 7 fire station staffing. This table shown here shows the current annual count and percentage of the uniformed employees at the San Francisco Fire Department by race. It shows that break down of fiscal year 08 through fiscal year 1315. The Fire Department maintained a work force with from the range of 48 to 52 percent, minority rep...

Department. We might say, for example, in the sheriffs department, we found a new video exam thats a good way to assess integrity. The Testing Process belongs to dhr. I will say that we continue to search for improved testing mechanism. We believe we are been doing it correctly and its natural that those who hasnt been successful is going to disagree with that. Im sorry for that, but its our job to look for better mechanisms and were still doing that. Thank you. I want one of our plans im remind...

Fire commission with regard to the documentation of their meetings. We recommended that meeting minute be transcribed completely and posted to the Fire Commissions website and we recommended that the Fire Commission consider relocating their meetings to city hall in order to increase participation of the public and to insure video recordings of those meetings through sfgovtv. We wanted that to be publicly documented and sources are allocated between the ems some suppression function to insure qu...

There were no fire exam administrations, so there were acting assignments that people werent allowed to take. They were given assignments based on sinority. Theyre challenging that process and thats their right and we respect that right. We feel like weve done a fair process and if someone disagrees and if we believe we havent, well change it. Its a fluid process and were always looking for new tools and i challenge my team to do a National Search and look were doing how many people are on this ...

Are there done in multiple languages . As we understand it, theres recruitment materials produced by the employee organizations that are produced in multiple languages. But i cant speak to specifics on that. But as we understand, they are. Thank you. The table on this slide shows the percentage of female applicants from 1988 through 2009. As you can see over recent years, the number of female applicants has been trending down. So even though currently the composition of female employment in the ...

Draft form. We received it. As you can tell from my presentation, we were working hard to get changes. We did not provide it to anyone speaker somebody possibly in those departments might have or even, i guess, your imply that the budget and Legislation Department i want to be clear because i didnt receive a report when the information came out. It clearly came from a department and thats a real problem. It didnt come from our department. I can verify that. Theres a limited number of people were...

Over whats produced and sort of what the message is that theyre putting out to the public. Is that the question . Theres no way that we can maintain or manage a uniform message that these individual organizations are using to communicate with people . Thats correct. Not at this time. Are these recruitment tool to the best of your knowledge, are there done in multiple languages . As we understand it, theres recruitment materials produced by the employee organizations that are produced in multiple...

The report was released to the press before it was released publicly and released to the responding department. Do you know who did that . I dont know. I raised my concern with the budget and legislative analysis but i was concerned about that. We was told that the report had been made public. It hasnt been received by the members of the board of supervisors and it was only received by dhr and the the Fire Department in draft form. We received it. As you can tell from my presentation, we were wo...

Know whether our kids are doing well overall and whether they can compete for a job some day. Thats why we need common goals, thats where common core, consistent strong benchmarks for english Language Arts and math. If our show is the first time youre hearing about common core youre not alone. 62 of americans nearly twothirds of you have never heard of common core and those of us who have heard of it neither understand nor embrace the standards. Initial testing of the standards in new york and k...

Know whether our kids are doing well overall and whether they can compete for a job some day. Thats why we need common goals, thats where common core, consistent strong benchmarks for english Language Arts and math. If our show is the first time youre hearing about common core youre not alone. 62 of americans nearly twothirds of you have never heard of common core and those of us who have heard of it neither understand nor embrace the standards. Initial testing of the standards in new york and k...