So those fees pay for we received five host tenders in total, four from the city and one from the state. Those are a Million Dollars each, fully equipped, fourwheel drive, they come with a tran pump, as well as a portable pump that we can drop in the bay, as well as 6,00 feet of hose. I think chie the chief has a photo for you in his presentation today. And since then, i also sept a video message out to the field in terms of what we received. It is important to keep people informed. I had my biweekly meeting with mayor breed. The last time i was able to bring deputy chief woresh with me, and today i have a meeting with her and i will bring the deputy chief along. We have a new deputy chief of support services in the house today. Chief rivera has retired. The new chief is dawn dewitt, and she has 24 years of experience, and she is probably the most organized person i have ever met. She has hit the ground running. Can you stand up, please, chief dewitt . There you go. There is our new chief of support services. You can just say hello. Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here. [laughter] tell us about you while youre here. Sure. Ive got 24 Years Experience in the department. Ive come up through the field. I worked at firefighter, lieutenant captain, and battalion chief most recently. I am highly organized, and it has been a long time since i sat behind a desk. I was the manager of a law form before i came into this. This seems like a division with many legs, and it is challenging so far. Im enjoying it. And she is also one of our training officers back in the day down at the division of training, so. I just thank chief rivera for his dedicated service to the department for 28 years. I met with supervisor Hillary Ronan to explain the budget acts that we made and how our system works. She was on the Budget Committee. I wanted to really bring the story to her that i didnt think some of the Budget Committee sort of understood what i was trying to get across. So im going to continue to bring the story to those that make our decisions on our behalf at city hall. I met with the head of d. E. M. , mary ellen carroll, and one topic was our uniform members. There have been rumors flying around of them not being there, etc. , and i explained to her the importance of having our uniformed members at the d. E. M. , just like our members from fire prevention, who had field experience, it is extremely important for us to have members at dispatch who have worked in the field, who know what a rick operation is and how to handle it, who know wo what an mci is, and who know where all of our stations are and what all of our equipment is. So well have a further discussion with d. E. M. On that topic later this week. I met with sean buford again, not just labor management, and were keeping up regular meetings, besides those regular management meetings, which is super helpful. I met with the aides from senator Kamala Harris office, and they offered assistance in terms of any grants that we need assistance with, and they were also really interested in our disaster planning and response. So we gave them all of the information on that. Myself and chief woresh met with daily city fire, and we opened up the lines of communication there. So the first time were seeing each other is not at a big innocent incident, and that was helpful. We had a meeting with the ambassador to peru, and we brought in our employ group, who were great. And the Peruvian Fire Department are all volunteer, and they dont get much funding. And so los vonberos is going to work with them. We had the topping off ceremony, and im really pleased to see that is really moving along. Were looking forward to moving in at the end of next year. Recent upgrades to our Fire Department operations center. So the ops center that we have on the second floor, which is an Emergency Center for us, if we need it. Myself, i would be at the department of Emergency Management with the mayor, but the rest of our Incident Management Team would be at that Fire Department operations center. So we had our first training on that with command staff, and deputy chief aloe is working with chief cochran and others to make sure we get some further trainings in place for Incident Management Team, for when we have an extended incident that we need to support. National night out, i attended with the mayor at the bay view opera house on third street and at the community center. I want to thank all of our members for the support around outside lands and the work that chief cochran and chief woresh did in preparing for that event, as well as chief tonge, in terms of our medical response there. We worked with the police and a lot of other city departments, and it turned out quite safe, which i know people were really worried about that. And i just want to recognize that one of my deputies told me today it is 100 days into this administration today, and i want to really thank the command staff, swell as well as our assistant chiefs out in the field for really stepping up to move this department, and it is much appreciated. None of us do this alone. And then wait, there is something on the back page. The civil grand jury were finalizing that. Mark curso will be going to another meeting today with the Mayors Office about that. And once we finalize everything, it will be brought before the commission. The chief center drill update so we were having that drill the last time that we were at this meeting. I had excused chief worsh and others to attend that drill. They were dispatched code 2, which is regular flow of traffic. And the first engine arrived in under four minutes. It is two blocks away, station four. And the last apparatus, being a medic unit, arrived on scene about 25 minutes later. So there are definitely some traffic challenges. But lets reiterate that units responding to this drill did not use emergency lights and sirens, which counts for some of the delay. But we are continuing to collaborate with m. T. A. And the chase center and other parties. And chief de cossio, he was also at that drill, and he and chad law have been instrumental in working with the m. T. A. So we will be having further conversations and collaborations around the traffic patterns to and around chase center. And then i met with director Debbie Rafael with the department of environment to see where we can overlap. She is happy weve removed some of the toxic foams from our department, and were using renewable diesel, and it is going to be a bit of a rude awakening for our members moving forward. Any new systems that permitted after january 1st of 2020, will not have gas, natural gas lines. The city is moving away from that cu due to the impact that it has on Global Warming and sea level rises. So any buildings for, for within the city citybuilt buildings will likely not have gas in them if theyre permitted after january 1st of 2020. So were going to have to work on some conduction ovens or something. I certainly impressed upon the director that we are all forgoing green as long as it does not impact us operationally and logic lodge jirvegllogistically, and financially. And some of these things have a Financial Impact on us, so we would need some help on that. On september 11th, as always, we will have our commemoration ceremony. This year it will be at our newly remodeled station five. Well start at 6 45 in the morning, and were expecting the mayor to be there and several other dignitaries. And you should have gotten an invitation from my office yesterday. That concludes my report. Thank you very much, chief nicholson. At this point, well call for Public Comment before the commissions comment in question. Any member of the public wishes to give Public Comment, please come to the podium at this time. Seeing none, the Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, Vice President covington. Oh, im sorry, i should remove my name. I dont have any questions at this time. Okay. Commissioner hardiman . Thank you. Chief, this new wellness, Health Wellness position, battalion chief, that is one individual for a regular work shift, not three . It is one person on days at the headquarters. Good job. I just wanted a clarification. Thank you. The dawn dewitt, you have big shoes to fill. Ive always been a big fan of chief riveras welcome. I was wondering i dont know you personally, and ive never sat down and had a conversation with you, and so welcome. You have big shoes to fill. His greatest asset is he had such a terrific memory shi his hair. [laughter] everybody loved his hair. Especially chief vernasi, he was very jealous. His greatest trait was his memory. But being organized, probably the most important thing about that job, so that was good to hear about that. Thank you. I just wanted to comment on that, that im happy to hear that youre organized. Thank you. I dont know if i have his memory, but ill do my best. Everybody has a different way of doing things. Right. Thanks for stepping up. On the budget, very good job. Cant get everything we wanted, but you did very well. And im so happy. And i would also like to thank mark cuss cuso. Good job, chief, very good. Thank you very much, commissioner hardiman. Commissioner veranisi. Thank you. Chief, does it feel like a hundred days or a hundred years . Im going to exercise the fifth amendment. [laughter] i was looking at chief worshs report, but you did bring it up, and i wanted to mention that it appears that the calls on e. M. S. 6 are now up to 80 homeless people. And i think that is unusual because i remember it, and i dont have the prior statistics, although the chief does give us the last five to six months, and it looks like it varies from 65 all the way up to 81. I think 81is the highest ive ever seen it. I want to put it out ther there my opinion has been very clear on this in the past, but at a certain point we need to stop calling this e. M. S. 6 and start calling it the homeless emergency plan or something. Because when we go to our next budget and we ask for people for the department and i know we just got five people for this specific unit but at a certain point, if were serving the Homeless Population primarily were way beyond primarily if were talking 81 , then we need to put a different name on it. We see the members of the board, the supervisors and the Mayors Office, throwing money at this particular issue i know we have five positions, but i think we could actually get more is 81 of our calls for e. M. S. 6 are homeless. I want you to consider it. If it keeps trending at 81 , we need to call it homeless something. If i could just say, it is a Pilot Program. As such, it cannot be called anything to do with homelessness because it is our frequent callers, is what e. M. S. 6 is addressing. And while, yes, the majority of that is homeless in nature, i dont believe the language within that Pilot Program speaks to that. So its not actually allowed to focus on like were not allowed to deploy with necessarily putting one of our e. M. S. 6 people with the hot team because dedicate them to the hot team because they are not our only frequent callers. But absolutely, we are most of the people are homeless and it is important for us to continue to make our story heard by everyone at city hall. These are where our funds are going to. And we need some help with that. Yeah. I hear what youre saying. And i understand that the Pilot Program is titled one thing, but what we call it i dont think affects our Pilot Program, and i think at a certain point, we need to be realistic about what this Program Actually is, as opposed to what it was set out to be. And maybe we change that Pilot Program to change it to what it actually is. I just want to put it out there. Im not asking anything other than pointing out to everybody here that it is now up to 81 serving homeless people, and it is great that were tracking that because i see these numbers. The 40 number is popping up everywhere now, which is really good, because now people are talking about it. So i really do appreciate that. I wanted to ask how the meetings with d. P. H. Are going in regards to the ambulances on sitting on hospitals, or upstaffing the hospitals. Are we continuing with those . Yes, we are continuing with those. And i have just asked my adman person to schedule another meeting on the topic and some other things. So its definitely still on the radar. Yes, were definitely talking about it and working on, you know, some sort of Creative Solutions to alleviate our time on task, for sure. Do we have the statistics or the information are we tracking the average time that an ambulance is sitting on a hospital . Or the average time that an ambulance is at a hospital . I think that would be important to show. If were not tracking it, if there is a way to track it, we probably should. Because it would also tell us which hospitals are the worst offenders. So, were not tracking that specifically. What weve been tracking is time on task. I believe it has gone up 25 in the last several years or so. So the time on task and some of that is certainly the hospital, some of it is traffic in this city, some of it is that we no longer have a hospital in one part of the city, it got moved to van ness, so there are all sorts of things that impact that. Absolutely upstaffing the hospitals in that way also impacts it, too. Ive spoken with dr. Coldwell from San Francisco general emergency hospital, and a couple other people from the general, and we are having these conversations. And its not necessarily going to be a quick fix, but we are having the conversations right now. Chief, can we track and i know there is a difference between time on call and time on hospital. Is there a way that we can track time on hospital . Because that would at least tell us whether or not if its a d. P. H. Issue or a st. Francis issue. I think having that data would be really important for you in your conversations with these people, because maybe it is not d. P. H. Maybe it is Sutter Health or one of the other hospitals that we need to have these conversations with. We can certainly look at if that is possible to track. Wed have to talk to our i. T. Guys. I think that would be really Important Information to have, if we could start tracking that. I think that would be great. Thank you for your report, chief. Thank you very much, commissioner. At this particular point, no other questions or comments from the commissioners, we will move on to deputy chief victor vores presentation. Welcome, chief. Good morning. I hope you dont mind my jacket being open. It is like a 50gallon hefty bag in these things when it gets hot. [laughter] im not kidding. Deputy chief of operations, vic worsh, again i would like to knowledge the a. C. S and all the staff and the incredible hard work and the pace that theyve put us through, all of this, and also the a. C. S, tremendous kudos because, again, we kept all of our fires out of first alarm. So that means theyre being extremely aggressive but safe. But i talked to all of the a. C. S after all of the fires, and everything has been positive. Their hose leads, the ladders, everything has been working out really well, so im proud of them. I was told to adjust according, so i will not go through each of the 13 fires. But we had a cliff rescue, where we rescued one person, we had two separate bay re rescues, and we rescued two people. And we rescued two windowwashers. We had an extrication from a bart train, and we rescued them and saved them. We had four auto extrications and we saved three out of the four extrications. We did have a fire at the end of the month at centurs. F. O. , and it went well. We didnt have to use any of our San Francisco resources. It was five floors to the roof, it was an hvac unit. The interesting part was they had to make a large line lead, over 600 feet, all the way up five stories to get to the roof. So it was a difficult lead, but on top of that, what they were leading through, there was over 30 different kind of Hazardous Materials inside that plant, including cyanide. They did it safely, made it to the roof, and extinguished the fire. Good for the s. F. O. The mccarthur tunnel. Wehad a fire in the tunnel, and it was difficult leads, and we were pushing the fire back on each other, but it took some it was quick. It was put out quick and extinguished very rapidly. The mcclarin park wildfires, one of them we had was five acres were no structures. It was caused by a homeless camp with cooking and heating. Yesterday we had a meeting with the San FranciscoPolice Department capitol jack hart, dean crisman, and pablo lugenza, and lieutenant baxter, and they met with the community, and superintendent anderson, and they talked about the fire and the Public Safety around mcclarin park. This has been an issue. The meeting was informative and very well received with the community. We had another rescue this is a picture of fort fonkston, where we rescued a mother, an 8yearold son, and a dog. They were rescued successfully with no injuries. Here is a picture of a highangle rescue at 301 mission. These four windowwashers were stuck 10 floors up for four hours until they decided to call the Fire Department. We got them out very quickly. That worked out good and fast. Battalion 3, we now have ticks on all of our companies, and were training on how we can save lives and reduce property loss with this new equipment. It has been working out well. Working with Homeland Security, been working in the fdoc, and all engines, trucks, an