Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Important things. That was it. Good report, as usual, chief wyrsch. Thank you very much, commissioner. President nakajo thank you very much. Commissioner cleaveland, please. Commissioner cleaveland thank you very much, chief wyrsch, for your report. Couple of quick questions. Do you track the type of overdosing that people are having on the streets . We have this huge uptick of narcan distribution. What percentage are fentanyl based and what percentage are heroin based and do you track the reason for the overdose or the cause . So if i may interject, when we give someone narcan, and it reverses the overdose, we know its an opioid, okay . We dont necessarily know if its fentanyl or heroin or what it is. So we dont run a test to figure that out typically, so that may be done at the hospital. But what we can say sort of anecdotally. But what we can say is the use of narcan by our members has gone up, and i know the Health Department has put a lot of narcan on the streets in the hands of folks who are addicts. And with the increase in opioid overdoses and deaths, theres more and more fentanyl out there. So i just dont know how much it is percentage wise, but but yeah, its its an issue, and its much more its much stronger yeah, and its much stronger than heroin typically, so we had a big we had a big issue last night. Actually, a call with over five people at the jail. Commissioner cleaveland thats really said. You said by the mail, people are receiving fentanyl by mail. Theyre able to track a package, but while theyre tracking a package and getting search warrants, ten more are coming in in small doses. Its very cheap, my understanding. Were trying to get information out to the departments for training on fentanyl. Commissioner cleaveland is it powder or tablets . It can be a powder, tablet, airborne. It can be a liquid, and so thats what also makes it dangerous. If its a powder, and somebody gets it on them, that can be absorbed. If its a liquid, same thing. Inhale it, so its really a dangerous thing, so we had our five inmates, prisoners, as county jail yesterday, 850 bryant, and then several of the deputies also began showing symptoms, so we had our hazmat team in there, clearing it all out. So yeah, its a big deal. Commissioner cleaveland almost like biological war fare. Yeah. And it hit the east coast and other places before it hit us. Commissioner cleaveland you mentioned just correct me if i am wrong that 58,000 people account 58 people accounted for 1,046 calls. Im sorry. Are you looking at the end, the activity summary report . Commissioner cleaveland right. Yes. Commissioner cleaveland we still have a few people making a lot of calls to our department on a regular basis. Yeah. Commissioner cleaveland unbelievable. I want to congratulate you on the drone and our and the to buy some. How many drones do you think we need for the department to save our citizens along the cliffs from fires and Everything Else . Well, im interested to see the range and how quickly they can be deployed, how well we can be trained in them. Theyre an expensive piece of equipment. I know all long, were covered by water, cliffs, and well see how they work at fires. Im really interested to see how they work and how the Program Takes off. How many total . I have to wait to see commissioner cleaveland a half dozen . I dont know. Commissioner cleaveland they have to be fixed and maintained. Commissioner cleaveland program to serve. Yeah. Commissioner cleaveland so half a dozen . Sure. Commissioner cleaveland and your last question, grant writer. Wheres our grant writer . Where is our grant writer . Good morning again. Commissioner cleaveland good morning, mark. We had an internal deadline of 930 for our last round of applications where we did some outreach to grant or specific related job boards. I just received the last match of applicants from our h. R. Division. There were, i believe, 18 or 19 qualified applicants in that batch, and that goes along with candidates who had previously applied, so were currently reviewing those and hope to setup interviews over the next few weeks after selecting a number of candidates for interview. Commissioner cleaveland is there any possibility the commission or some of the commissioners can be involved in the review of these candidates . Were in discussions for that. I think thats definitely a possibility. Commissioner cleaveland thank you. Thats all my questions. Thank you, chief. Thank you, mr. President. President nakajo thank you very much, commissioner. Thank you very much, chief wyrsch, for your comprehensive report. Appreciate it very much. Thank you. President nakajo madam secretary. Item 6, resolution 201 the03, resolution recommending that the board of supervisors authorize the San Francisco Fire Department to accept and expend fiscal year 2019 Port Security Grant Program funding in the amount of 341,625 from the federal Emergency Management agency for the purchase of marine equipment. President nakajo thank you very much, madam secretary. Commissioners, we have items six, seven, eight, nine on this with director corso. Vice president , did you have a comment . Commissioner covington no, i just i was going to ask if you were going to call them altogether . President nakajo i believe we have to have a vote and approval on each item separately, director corso, or can they be theyre different descriptions. They are different. I cannot speak to whether we can commissioner covington we can do them separately. President nakajo all right. Thank you very much. Chief corso. Thank you very much. Mark corso. The first, resolution three is an accept and expend request. The department requested and received a grant for the Port Security program fore the amount of 341,645 for portbased resources based on the port. Dive and surf rescue equipment, refurbishment of one of our fireboats. The department is respectfully requesting approval to move forward to the full board for approval of the grant and im happy to answer any questions. President nakajo thank you very much, director corso. On this, im going to ask for Public Comment on item six, resolution 2019013. Any member of the public wish to give Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Commissioner covington i would like to move this item. Commissioner cleaveland second. President nakajo thank you very much, commissioner covington, for that motion. Commissioner cleaveland has seconded the motion. Commissioner veronese, do you have any questions . Commissioner veronese yes, i have a couple questions from mr. Corso. Mr. Corso, how did you get this grant . How did this come about . So this is a grant through fema that comes up every year, and we submitted our application. This is how we funded our new fireboat in the past, our new rescue fire and dive boat. This is an annual grant that the department regularly applies for. Commissioner veronese okay. So this is something that we know comes up every year and the department applies for it. Correct. Commissioner veronese im wondering if we have a grant writer, if ten of these come up. Do you think well have a grant writer by the end of the year at least. By the end of the year, thats our goal. Commissioner veronese and so i know that there are marine drones that exist, as well. Are we looking at those capablities . At this point, no. I think to chief wyrschs point, we want to nail down our program with this pilot and see all the impacts on training and deployment before we expand but thats something thatll definitely be on our radar. Commissioner veronese okay. I would suggest to chief cochran, hes probably looked at this, but there are drones that just go in the water that would save a firefighter from having to jump in the water, and so i would suggest that as part of a marine grant in the future, that we also look at those. These are drones that have been specifically developed to save lives in the water that would prevent a firefighter from having to jump in the water. Okay. Thank you so much. President nakajo thank you very much, commissioner veronese. Theres a question on the motion. Ill call for the question. All in favor say aye . All opposed . None. Thank you. Madam secretary. Clerk item 7, residence accusation 201904. Resolution 201904, recommending the board of supervisors authorize the San Francisco Fire Department to accept and expand fiscal year 2018 stance to firefighters Grant Program funding in the amount of 612,129. 09 from the federal management Management Agency for the purchase of rescue tools and equipment for the department. President nakajo ill ask for excuse me, please, director corso. Thank you. Good morning again. Mark corso, and this is another grant before the commission. As commissioner veronese mentioned, there are a number of regular Grant Programs mainly through fema that the department applies for, and this was one for which we applied and were approved for a request. This is the fiscal 18 firefighters grant requested by fema for the purchase of new and enhanced hand tools and electrical tools. Ventilation fans for members, as well as conversion of a number of tools powered by generators to Battery Powered that reduce emissions. So the goal of this Grant Program one of the goals of the Grant Program itself is health and safety of members. Theres a match of 61,000 required by the department, which we will absorb in our budget, and im happy to answer any questions on this particular grant. President nakajo thank you very much, director corso. At this time, ill call for Public Comment on this item, number seven, resolution 201904. Seeing none from the public, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Commissioner covington id like to move this item. Commissioner cleaveland second. President nakajo thank you very much, Vice President covington, for the motion. Commissioner cleaveland has seconded that motion. Any questions or discussion . Call for the question. All in favor, say aye. Thank you very much. Madam secretary . Clerk item 8, resolution 201905. Discussion and possible action regarding proposed resolution 201905 recommending that the board of supervisors authorize the San Francisco Fire Department to accept and expend a 1 million allocation from the California Department of Emergency Services for the purchase of one hose tender as part of the departments budget tax. President nakajo thank you very much, madam secretary. Director corso. Thank you very much. As you may recall in subsequent conversations, the department has been allocated in the current fiscal year the purchase of five hose tenders. The actual technical allocation for that was four were allocated through the city process through the citys General Fund Budget and one was allocated as a grant, technically, from the state of california for 1 million to purchase one, so in total, in combination, theres allocation for five. This is the technical approval of that award from the state thats through the states annual budget and is going to be administered by cal office of Emergency Services of the state, so were working with them on the kind of transaction of that funding. I wanted to thank the obviously, the commission, the mayors office, and the board for their support of this project and the communications with the state and id be happy to answer any questions related to this. President nakajo thank you very much, director corso. At this point, i will have for Public Comment on this item eight, resolution 201905. Seeing no members of the public that would like to give Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner covington ill make a motion to accept this. Commissioner cleaveland second. President nakajo thank you for the motion, commissioner covington, and for the second, commissioner cleaveland. Ill call the question. All in favor, say aye. Thank you. Madam secretary. Clerk item 9, resolution 201906, resolution 201906, recommending the board of supervisors authorize the San Francisco Fire Department to donate a retired ambulance to the city college of San Francisco. President nakajo thank you. Director corso. Obviously, we have a long relationship with city college. We have worked with them extensively in the past and we have extended that with our current m. O. U. For Firefighting Academy so were looking forward to in the future to expand that even further to offer additional trainings for members and work with them closely on that. We have previously donated equipment such as an obsolete fire engine to their academy for training their students, and so this vehicle here is a retired ambulance thats no longer of use to the Department Even in a relief capacity. So we would like to move forward to request to donate this fees piece of equipment to city college for educational purposes. President nakajo thank you very much, director corso. At this point, ill ask for Public Comment on this item, item nine, residence dugs 201906. Seeing no one to do Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Commissioner covington i would like to move this item and i have a question for director corso. Commissioner hardeman second. President nakajo okay. Theres a motion by commissioner covington and a second by commissioner hardeman. Commissioner covington . Commissioner covington director corso, does this make two or have we donated more than to obsolete apparatus to . So in my memory, we have donated one fire engine and one ambulance, so this would be the second ambulance. Commissioner covington thank you. President nakajo call for the question, commissioner involving c covington. Call for the question, commissioners. All in favor, say aye. Thank you, director corso. Madam secretary . Clerk item 10, commission report. President nakajo thank you. Commissioner hardeman . Commissioner hardeman last month, i was back east, and i went to see the 911 museum. It was very informative, the whole area, how its been rebuilt. On a lighter note, i was in the bay of fundy, which has the highest and lowest tide, and i felt right at home because it also has the second foggiest place in the world, so it felt good to get away. So any way, thats all i had to say about my time. President nakajo thank you very much, commissioner hardeman. The only information, commissioners is we do have the retirement set for monday, the 18 in terms of your calendar. At this particular point, ill call for Public Comment on commissioners report. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary. Clerk item number 11, agenda for next and future Fire Commission meetings. Discussion regarding agenda for the next and future regular meetings. President nakajo commissioners, at this particular point, do we have any items . We have october the 23 coming up, one meeting in november, one meeting in december. As a point of information, we do have closed session after this regular session. We do need to vacate this chamber at 12 15 so at some point, if its convenient or if it works out, we may have to have a closed session on the 23rd to finish off whatever business is at hand today. Madam secretary. Clerk item number 12, Public Comment on item 13 on all matters on 13b below, including items on 13b to be held in closed session. President nakajo thank you, madam secretary. Ill hold Public Comment on item 13b below. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary. Clerk item 15 item 13, possible closed session regarding personnel matters, vote on whether to conduct items 13b in closed session. President nakajo i need a motion for us to return to retreat into closed session. Commissioners . Commissioner cleaveland i move we go into closed session. President nakajo thank you very much, commissioner cleaveland. Commissioner hardeman second. President nakajo thank you very much. In terms of this item of closed session, the Department Evaluation view of our department physician, we will continue this item to the next commission meeting. I believe its october 23, and we will agendaize the item in the closed session for the 23 and continue it. Having said that, this meeting now is adjourned. Thank you very much. [gavel] today we are going to talk about fire safety. We are here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco. Its a wonderful display. A little house in the urban Center Exhibition center that shows what its like in a home in San Francisco after an earthquake. One of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. We are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. Thank you. My pleasure. We talk about the San Francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. How do we avoid that kind of problem. How can we reduce fire hazard . The construction was a lot different. We dont expect what we had then. We want to make sure with