[ roll call. ] clerk item 2, general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission for up to three 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 the speaker. The lack of a response by the commissioners or Department Personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support statements made during Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment . Please step forward. And identify yourself, please. Hi. Good evening. My name is tracey thompson, and i came to this Fire Commission meeting for the first time on january 10th to express my concern over the lack of an adequate way to fight a big fire in the western and southern neighborhoods of the city. What i heard in response at that meeting was, quote, the pc is handling it, unquote. And another question arose, is there any of this 33 million requested by the sffd for awfs, and the answer was no, by the way. Not any of the minutes from the puc website address from october 24th to january 18, 2018 addressed or update the status of the optioned analysis that was presented in the City Response in the local papers. In fact, the report could not be found on the website. It had to be requested. What was further disconcerting and in that january 10th meeting, all of you approved 33 million, a 10 increase from last year, when it appears from the Fire Commission minutes, it wasnt even on the agenda. Basically, it took less than a month for the kmition to approve this amount of money. And further. Few of you had requested Additional Information but somehow were forced to vote. There was confusion in this approval. Needless to say it was noted. In addition, none of the 33 million is for any part of the awfs. So the facts are the puc is not handling it, and if they are, theyre spending a lot of money that it will take to install an awsf and spending it on independent consultants and Third Party Reviewers of the consultants work. Not to mention selling off their work by the awsf. And now, we are not informed the public is not informed and youre not keeping us informed on this progress, or you guys have yet to supply a timeline. And we just had an earthquake last night at 10 00 p. M. , and i dont know if you felt it, but i did. We need an adequate firefighting system in place as of yesterday, and the bonds were approved up to seven years ago, and it hasnt even begun. Its begun in some ways. Yes. Im really trying to understand the lackadaisical timelines of ensuring this protection in the city. In the january 10th meeting more time was spent discussing 870 bush street and its maintenance. Were running out of time. I dont think that because this falls under the puc umbrella, it precludes the Fire Department from doing things about it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any further Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary . Clerk item three, approval of the minutes, discussion and possible action to approve Meeting Minutes of january 10th, 2018. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, your pleasure. Move the minutes, mr. President. Do i have a second . Second, mr. President. All in favor . Minutes are approved. Clerk and i believe we have an agenda change. Correct. Im going to go into closed session were not going to clear the room, were going to have a quick tenminute conversation on a legal matter in the Conference Room behind this podium here, so were going to have a motion from the commission here to go into closed session, we will do so, but well be back in about ten minutes, so well hope that each of you will stay here. So do i have a motion . [ inaudible ] its item number clerk nine. Nine that we are moving up so that the counsel can get in and get out, basically. So the motion would be to move item nine to now. So moved. Do i have a second . Second. All in favor . All right. We will go into closed session for about ten minutes. We need to go into Public Comment ongoing into closed session for existing litigation. Thank you, madam clerk. Is there any Public Comment . Thank you. Clerk government section 549569, administrative code section 6710 d . Any Public Comment on this . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Okay. We have to do the motion again, i suppose. I move. Second. All in favor . Its unanimous. Thank you. Item okay. We are back in any session. Clerk item 10, discussion on any item in closed session vote to elect oh, no. Ill go ahead and report that we did agree to the settlement, and well pass that final onto the board of supervisors for approval. Do i have a motion not to disclose what we discussed in closed session . Motion. Im sorry. Who seconded that . Ill second. All in favor of not disclosing our closed session . All right. Were going back to item four. Fire Department Operating Budget fiscal years 20182019 and 20192020. Presentation from mark corso, Deputy Director finance and planning, to the Fire Commission, presentation and discussion. Good evening, mr. Corso. Good evening, Fire Department and chief. Here to give kind of a follow up from last meeting which was strictly regarding capital and i. T. Requests, and so i have a brief presentation and then open it up for any questions. Just a number of items wanted to highlight briefly. Just a review of a lot of the timelines and previoinstructiot we briefly discussed at meetings. We have just a brief technical on the Financial Systems conversion, a review of the base budget, some of the updates to the budget so far, challenges we face, and any questions or discussion that we may want to have. Just highlighting some of the previous instructions that have been relayed to the commission. The citys looking at approximately a 260 million deficit over the next two years, and that is anticipated to increase in the out years from there. All departments have been requested to make a 2. 5 decrease in their general fund, and that relates to about 1. 5 million in each of the next twoers i cant, for a 3 million overall. Here is an overview of the timeline, meeting today to have a budget discussion, potential approval at the meeting on the 14th of february. The departments budget submittal is due on the 21st. June 1st is when the Mayors Office submits a balanced budget to the board. Budget hearings in june and july at the board. And then briefly, i wanted to touch on the conversion, just highlighting some of the documentation i provided to you. Back earlier the city converted from the legacy system, so thats been a big adjustment for everybody. Were completely on the new system but theres been some issue with reporting and coding, and as the budget was transferred over, theres been no document changes, but youll notice a lot of the coding and information has changed. There has been a complete overhaul of the coding and reporting system. The initial documentation to the commission is reduced from whats been provided in previous years, but i anticipate that being resolved by the second meeting that we have. And then just kind of highlighting the overview of what has been provided to you in your packets. Its just the overview of the base budget. So last years process, the department had a budget that was approved for the second year, and that rolled over to be the approval for the first year. One time revenues, expenditures, theyre extracted out, and any target reductions are summed up in that base document amount, and those are in the documents that were provided to you. Operations, the assumptions include whats been funded is the hiring plan for the department, the graduation of the march 26th academy. That starts the hiring over the two years, and there would be an additional graduation of three additional academies over those two years. The base budget includes backfill for academies from ambulances, any atrition and any adds into the Fire Department from there, and any adds to the fleet plan. These years coming up with years three and four of the fire equipme fire five year Fire Equipment plan, and theyre included in the budget. Paragra the airport has requested some additional staffing through the department for training, for Fire Prevention and for operations, the incorporation of a bike medic down there, and in addition the port has requested actually filled this year through a work order but has requested to fill permanently into your budget an Additional Fire inspector down there. Fire prevention and investigation, maintains consistent staffing currently there at the bureau. We transitioned a couple vacant civilian positions to fire engineer, and those will be incorporated into the departments base budget, and two years ago the Department Funded some education and outreach positions, over 1 million worth of funding, and discussions with the Mayors Office that is anticipated to continue over the next two years, as well. Additional budget updates, as discussed and approved at the last commission meeting, the department submitted the capital i. T. And fleet budgets by the january 12th deadline. That was submitted on time. Overall were continuing to meet with budget heads on budget means and Needs Assessment. We our next meetings on friday morning, and well be discussing the issues pertaining to budget and also prioritization of departmental needs and we are working on updating staffing models for Fire Prevention and ems and also looking at fee and revenue projections. Just highlighting some of the basic budget challenges. These are no different, definitely from last year, considering the process is very similar. Our main goal is to maintain a lot of the currently funded initiatives. That includes the outreach and hiring program, as well as the equipment and fleet allocations. The other challenge we have is a lack of budgetary flexible. The last majority of over 90 of our salaries is allocated to salaries for front line and personnel of the department for minimum staffing requirements. And were also trying to balance departmental requests for service. Just wanted to highlight that briefly. Over the next slide, youll see since 2010, youll see a continued increase in overall chart volume, and thats the chart on the left showing the last fiscal year call volume. We finished last year with a little under 150,000 incidents. As you can see thats a dramatic increase from fiscal year 10, which was just over 100,000. And then, the daily incidents that the Department Responds to. You can see thats been increasing as well monthly, pardon me, to over 10,000 incidents in it a month, and so that has gradually increased, and thus, the need for increase for services has come along with that. One of the discussions with the committee has been how do you balance budget requests with these increasing demands for service and thats something were discussing ongoing and definitely struggle with. So with that, i wanted to open it up to any questions or discussions. Thank you, mr. Corso. Do we have any Public Comment on mr. Corsos report . Seeing none, Public Comments closed. Commissioner veronese . I saw the 30 increase. I think it was over the last seven years in medical calls. Have we looked at how that is compared with the amount of calls for a nonmedical related . Medical calls, just you mean as compared as part of our total call volume increase . Right. So medical call has been the main driver of those the overall departmental call increase. And so im wondering if the i know that the department has spent years coming up with a plan on atrition for materials and vehicles, and im wondering if that plan is flexible enough to well, that plan probably only addresses old rigs going out and being replaced by new rigs, but it doesnt address the new rigs coming in. Correct. We had requested last year or the year before that was a request to increase overall the fleet. Its more of a its a little different on the fire side because we have a fixed number of station locations, but on the ambulance side weve increased the fleet and the total number of vehicles we have in our fleet and that came along with personnel increases, as well. Okay. So that came along on the ems side of it. Thats correct. And has it been 30 or do you know what that number is . Not off the top of my head. I do know that we increased i believe it was two years ago, there was an analysis with the mayor office, and i believe we increased by i believe it was close to 20 at the time. Very good. Additional personnel and fleet as well. Okay. I would only comment that i think that chart that you provided that showed the 30 increase, it doesnt seem to be going it doesnt go down in any year. It just needs to go straight up. Yeah. I guess with the exception of 2014, theirs looks like its a slight dip, but otherwise, its an upward trajectory. I think this makes a pretty good case since its medical related, a pretty good case for the medical response vehicles. Youve got the airport, pursuant to what you just said, talking about putting people on bikes. I think that would be the equivalent of Quick Response vehicles in San Francisco to be able to get to people quicker and not necessarily have engines responding to purely medical calls when theyre not required to. So thats just a comment ive noticed from this. My second question and final question is what if you could brief me quickly on what the process is, are we voting on this item today . No. This is just initial discussion. Theres a lot of work to be done over the next few weeks, and then potentially on the first meeting in february , there would be a budget for your approval. If theres still following issues, we put a hold for the following week on those issues for a following submission if needed. But this is just for initial discussion. I would only say i hope the department doesnt come to us with a budget request that doesnt give us any time or input to to to comment on it only because just by way of example, the San FranciscoPolice Department, i learned this just the other day, has a new sub station down at the whafsh, a wharf. Its a beautiful sub station, and all of that was paid for by Homeland Security grants, which to me speaks to the fact that we really need a grant writer. I know that members of this commission have been talking about grant writers. I would hate to see a budget in front of me that doesnt include a grant writer. Absolutely. So included in your documentation weve done every year as part of the department, we collect data from Division Heads and members in the field. And thats discussed with the budget chief. We included it last year. And included in that is a grant writer and other additional equipment and other personnel needs for the department, and that has been discussed and is incorporated and turned over generally to the Mayors Office, along with our budget proposal. I know you say that, and i think i was around for last years budget. I was here in april beginning of april last year, so i was here for the tail end of that. Right. So we submit in february , so that was probably when the documentation was submitted to the Mayors Office and approved by the commission. Got it. My my message to you is i would hate to see a budget in front of me that didnt have Something Like that because i would not be able to support it. Understood. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner hardeman. Thank you, mr. President. As usual, very good report, mr. Corso. Thank you. Thank you. On sfo, you described all these items training, the bikes, the inspector. All that is not thats a separate item that will not have any negative effect on the overall budget back up in the city. That just deals with the airport, they are paying for it, and it just happens to be we have to review it and that process has to be approved, right . Absolutely. So we work very closely with the airport and their budget staff and obviously with the chief and their Operation Staff there. They are 100 is fund t fund t and the department with the airport. It is incorporated into our budget, but it is funded 100 by the airport, and similar to the port, they pay for the port fire marshall, some Fire Prevention personnel, as well, as well as the boat and the pilot, so thats 100 funded by the port. Ive seen sfpd on bicycles at the airport, and we have no one in the Fire Department right now using the bicycle or is that are we do we have some of that happening already . We have in the past, commissioner we have in the past used the h3 level 3s on an over time basis, but right now, we dont do it as much because we have limited personnel and over time opportunities. But we will have eight street level 2s, which are medics off the ambulances. They are volunteering since the general order went out, so hopefully we can implement that up here when ems Staffing