Of our colleagues on the commission. Commissioner covington i will second. Vice president nakajo thank you commissioner. President cleaveland commissioner hardeman, you wanted to add something . Commissioner hardeman were being watched by the Mayors Office and board of supervisors and were sitting here telling everybody that yes, we know were not supposed to ask for a new title, now what we want is one and a half positions. I think we have handled this very poorly. I think our discussion makes us look like were more interested in getting our opinion about getting a grant writer than actually getting a grant writer. I was convinced by statements from staff that were going to have a grant writer and the staff has rewriten it to give us that. We say we want a grant writer because we want a grant writer which i find confusing and im sure the Mayors Office and board of supervisors who are the final vote on this probably thinks this is confusing for them to absorb what were saying too. Im going to vote against this motion. President cleaveland thank you commissioner hardeman. Commissioner veronese. Commissioner veronese commissioner hardeman, i appreciate your passion on the issue. And i believe that the Mayors Office and board of supervisors will see that we are passionately advocating for the future of this department and i will bet that in the next 10 years as i look back at approving and voting on this particular measure as we sit here today, hundreds of millions of dollars will flow into this department over the next 15 years because of this one vote. And so if the Mayors Office is a little bit confused, he he shouldnt be confused or he or she or whoever it is there should not be confused. Were a commission sitting here to make important decisions on the future of this department and this is one of the most important decisions well make this year. President cleaveland all in favor of improving the budget with the additional amendment from commissioner covington. Can we separate the two items . I would vote for the budget. But i dont want to vote for the amendment. Commissioner covington theres a motion on the floor. Theres no reason they have to be combined. President cleaveland do we want to separate the motions . Commissioner covington theres a motion on the floor, if theres a motion on the floor you have to vote on the motion. President cleaveland all in favor of approving both the budget and the additional aye. Opposed. President cleaveland four aye one nay. Thank you very much commissioners. That was a robust discussion on the budget and it is i guess the most important document and process we go through annually. Mr. Corso, would you just briefly reiterate the three Top Priorities in the budget for this department this year. I think were still having those discussions at the Budget Committee level. But overall i think theyve been as they have been, equipment, staffing on a higher level, equipment, staffing and Educational Outreach and continuation of those efforts going forward. President cleaveland thank you and thank you to the commission for your continued support. Madam secretary, please call the next item. Item seven report from chief of department joanne hayeswhite report on Current Issues and activities and events since the Fire Commission meeting on january 24, 2018, including budget, academy, special events and outreach to other agencies in the public and report from operations Mark Gonzalez on overall field issues, bureau of Fire Prevention and airport president cleaveland chief in light of the time, please keep the report as brief as possible. Chief hayeswhite thats easy for me. Were going to have to strong arm but im ready to roll. My report since the last meeting january 24th, i can skip budget since we had a robust discussion. It goes without saying how much of a valued member mark corso is to our team. I appreciate his expertise, patience and professionalism 24 7. Its not an easy job. I have good news, i know commissioner hardeman was talking about the drones and commissioner veronese. We have a new assistant to the team, i would like to ask him to rise and briefly ill tell you about our selection in former capital Michael Cochrane and now assistant deputy chief. H please step up and say a few words. Thank you. President cleaveland commissioners, chief joanne hayeswhite, assistant deputy chief, i want to say what an honor it is to be here. I look forward to serving, continuing to make sure that were prepared, ready to respond and recover from any incident we might have. Chief hayeswhite thank you. President cleaveland anything youd like to say personally about your background and looking forward to doing. Im Third GenerationSan Francisco firefighter, my family has 90 years of Proud Service for the Fire Department. Prior to that, responded to 9 11, that got me to ground zero and homeland security. And a lot of major incidents and im ready to go. President cleaveland welcome aboard. Congratulations. Thank you sir. Chief hayeswhite we bid farewell and congratulations to the chief retiring at the end of next week after a very well revered career. Did a great job in the field and in Service Training captain for two years and served as director of training. Jeff, congratulations to you. Do you want to step up briefly . laughter good afternoon commissioners, chief. I want to thank you all for the support you have given me while in this position. Its been an honor chief. The support ive got from every uniformed person behind me to allow me to do a good job. Im happy with where our decision is at right now. For those sitting behind them, good luck. Be prepared, we since i have been at the division, we put out close to 250 new recruits and its been a great ride. Im looking forward to retirement. Thank you all very much. President cleaveland chief, i would like to give you a standing ovation for your service. Thank you. applause president cleaveland commissioner hardeman would like to add to that. Commissioner hardeman chief, so many compliments when people heard you were retiring. The interesting point, you cant compare the Police Department to a Fire Department, i was reading a couple days ago that the Oakland Fire Department has less than one third of the students entering the academy graduate. And your Graduation Rate with your predecessors has been great, so keep up keep up the high Graduation Rate and bring in great recruits you have. Thank you for your service. President cleaveland very good point. Thank you. Chief hayeswhite to continue regarding decision of training as you know, last week we graduated 47 recruits into the Fire Department in the initial field assignments. We are on track to hire a class of 54 the end of next month. 124 comprised of 42 members off the list and 12 from station 49. We do have an entree level class currently in, they began the 29th of january. Its a six Week Training Program and their graduation for march 9th in the afternoon. Since the last meeting, proud to promote permanently 10 new members and named 14 new acting assignments. Congratulations to those members. Had the opportunity on the 25th, police chief, myself, the sheriff met at the department of Emergency Management on january 25th to provide an eoc policy Group Briefing to mayor mark farrell to let him know what goes on in large scale emergencies and what his role would be. As mr. Corso indicated, weve had Budget Committee meetings, one january 26th and one last friday and we appreciate the Committee Members work. Many of you were there on the 26th, participated at a career day on the 30th of january. Provided an awsf briefing, not only in the last reporting period of supervisor fewer and katy tangs office but also to commissioner peskin. Participated in the metro chief Conference Call february 1st. Attended the chamber of commerce event on february 2nd. There was a budget meeting here at city hall. Thats when we were able to get with the mayors Budget Office and budget director Melissa Whitehouse who has agreed to meet with the Budget Committee, a date on the books for early march. Appearing before the philippine consulate february 6th to provide an overview on Emergency Preparedness and that was well received. The 7th of february, i participated and testified at a government audit and Oversight Committee here at city hall to discuss the expansion and additional redundancies built in the city. I spoke about the 123rd Academy Graduation on the 8th. Budget committee on the 9th and yesterday had the privilege to attend with deputy chief nicholson, the rotary club acknowledged two of our members, lieutenant brice peoples for his career in general but specifically to a dramatic rescue last year april 6th where he single handedly brought a woman in distress down wooden stairs during a working fire. He was acknowledged as was paramedic dan azzereta who does great workmen of mentoring. I wanted to remind the commissioners that we have the Chinese New Year parade year of the dog february 24th convening with the Asian Firefighters Association at approximately 4 30 at second and market. Look forward to seeing you. The next step is to be chief gonzalez. Good morning. Dep chief gonzalez. There are two greater alarms in this reporting period. January 16th, 1529, hours, at taylor. There were a few comments but it was a quick coordinated attack with a goal of keeping fire out of the attic. It could have been a third or fourth alarm. Very steep hills, deep buildings and large buildings. The third alarm january 23rdrd. This was assistant chief, three or four members of the staff responded to the fire. I think commissioner hardeman may have responded as well. Units did a good job. They did a partial roof collapse at the fire. They pulled the units out and Personnel Accountability report, all units were safe and the fire went out. I have to go back commissioner veronese youre correct about the tsunami. Not wanting to cause a public panic, that was the goal. Means of alerting if they were necessary would have been used absolutely. This was a slow moving potential approaching danger. Opposed to the danger of a wildfire coming over the hill or your local earthquake that happens right now. I believe the correct alerts were used and the strategy of Higher Ground and evacuate. Theres also mention of the stress unit. The stress unit is one of the most important units but i will always say the most important are men and women and engines, trucks and rescue squads and the ambulances. They are going into the fires, theyre going down the smokey hallways, ambulance crews are on their own dangerous neighborhoods late in the morning. The stress unit is an important unit. There was a red alert, there was a sea lion attack january 11th. A group of firefighters and paramedics walked the city civic corridor. I have to address on the alert, it all has to be capped and one word. You text that to 777888 and then you will be signed up. It has to be all caps and one word. Ems working on response vehicles, bike medics, possibly a third as a back up. The airport wants to just fund two of them right now. Well do it with their funding at their direction. We feel it should be for maybe next fiscal year, that should be implemented in the next few weeks. Fire prevention, i have the report and applications, permits, violations, complaints, etc cetera. One thing i want to mention about Fire Investigation is that the coast guard did a good job to assist in getting on the backlogs. Whatever needed to be tightened up was tightened up. Its down to 88 from 130. So thank you. Also attached to the report is my report. If you have questions im available. President cleaveland thank you for your report. Im going to request my fellow commissioners if they have questions of you to send them directly via email. Each of us has your comments. If we have follow up, we do it with the chief. Madam secretary, any Public Comment on the chiefs report and chief gonzalezs report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary im going to ask that the next two items, 8 and 9 be tabled. Commission report and agenda for the next meetings. In lieu of the time. And ask that we have Public Comment ongoing into closed session on the two closed session items, review of our Department Doctor and a disciplinary hearing. So, do i have a motion from so moved. Any Public Comment on president cleaveland any Public Comment . Seeing none, thank you. Public comment is closed. So well move on into closed session, so well have not only did the total death on our streets from traffic collisions decrease dramatically in 2017, pedestrian deaths did as well. Since 2013, fewer pedestrians have been killed on our streets. This is really good news. You know, no one wants to see the accidents on the side of the road, no one wants to experience going to a crime scene on the road knowing your loved one has been hit by a car or sadly tragically killed. This is about bringing that number of 20 from 2017 down to zero. We dont want another death on our streets because of human error, because of anything that we can avoid. If we change our behavior, we change our roads and we do a better job here in the city and county of San Francisco. My ask of the public, number one be aware of your surrounding, be aware of the law, be aware of the street signals and crosswalks and try to work within the laws designed to keep you safe. Look at where we were and look at where we are. This vision will be a reality. We all have to remember that all of us, all of us every single day, no matter how you get to work, school, wherever you go, all of us are always pedestrians. This impacts all of us. School starts again on monday, so i hope as you are reporting today you will encourage people to slow down, to be mindful, to recognize that youre going to have more cars on the street on monday. Were going to have more kids on bikes, more kids walking. Please, be slow, be safe and be mindful. I just want to urge everyone at the sound of my voice to make some corrections. If you operate a motor vehicle, think about it, think about the person standing on the corner. Think about how fast youre driving. Think about the stop sign youre about to come to. Just think. And just doing so, youll help someone live another day. I guarantee that. I guarantee that. Good morning. It is thursday, february 15th. This is the regular meeting of the San Francisco recreation and Parks Commission will the secretary call the roll. roll call commissioner buell and mcdonnell have excused absences. Please turnoff your devices. Also, if you would like to have a secondary conversation we request that goes outside. If you would like to speak on an item we request but do not require a blue card. Unless otherwise announced by the president each person will have two minutes for Public Comment on each item. If there is an item of interest not on the agenda under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak on general Public Comment, item 4. That is continued on item 9. When you make Public Comment, please address your comments to the commission in order to allow equal time for all. Neither the commission nor staff will respond to questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. Last, and if the fire alarms activate you must evacuate the building. Please note elevators will immediately rush to the first floor and are not available for use. If you need assistance please make your way to the closest area across the hall in the mens restroom. There is a speaker box. Security will as test you. We are on item 2, president s report. Before the president s report, can the secretary check the mics of the commissioners to make sure everybody is working. I would like to make this the Vice President s report. You will hear shortly from the general manager of the many great park openings that we had. I wanted to really recognize that a lot o of the park openins and the grand ope openings is do the great work of the general manager and staff as well as the beneficiary of generous contributors and supporters particularly the trust for public land and Helen Diller Foundation and ja jackie and dae were blessed to have them in our lives. You had hear more from the general manager on the park openings. Second, i want to recognize tomorrow is the start of Chinese New Year. To the entire city of San Francisco and the department. That is my first great cantonese. Meaning happy new year, good health, may all your wi