Clerk 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 a speaker. The lack of a response by the commissioners or Department Personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. President nakajo madam secretary, at this time, is there any member of the general public that wish to make Public Comment, please step to the podium. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Secretary. Clerk item number 3, discussion and possible action to approve meeting minutes. Minutes on regular meeting on october 23, 2019. President nakajo thank you very much, madam secretary. At this particular point of the agenda, approval of the minutes, i will call for Public Comment. Any member of the public wishes to address Public Comment, please approach the podium at this time. And madam secretary, can you please note that commissioner veronese has joined us at 9 03. Clerk discussion and possible action to approve a new memorandum of understanding between the Fire Department and city college of San Francisco. President nakajo i was reminded by the good commissioner cleaveland that i did not take a motion for approval of the minutes, is that correct . So i will turn to that item and ask the commissioners for any comments or questions or for a motion. So moved. Seconded. Very much, commissioner cleaveland. Thank you for reminding the president. Thank you commissioner for your second. All in favor, say aye . Approved. Thank you very much. Madam secretary, 4 . Clerk item number 5 . Update on e. M. S. 6 program. President nakajo madam secretary, i have item 4 for the directors report, after the memorandum of understanding. Clerk i have that as item number 4. Im sorry. President nakajo okay. Well call item 4. May i interject for a moment . I have to go to a mayors meeting, so i was wondering if i could give my report prior to item 4. President nakajo well make that adjustment. Clerk directors report. Report from jeanine nicholson. Report on the activities of the Fire Department since october 23, 2019 including special activities, outreach and changes to other Government Policies and the public. Good morning, commissioners, command staff and everyone else. Thank you for being here. Chief jeanine nicholson. This is my report since the last Fire Commission meeting and thank you for making an adjustment in todays calendar. I do have a Department Head meeting with the mayor at 9 30 downstairs. Weve been continuing our visits. I visited station 52. I visited station 51 a week and a half ago, and were getting good feedback, im getting good feedback from the folks in the field on those visits, and then last night, we had a town haul at station 49, and our very own mayor, london breed, was in attendance, and that was really, really great and really you could feel the good energy in the room, the morale of folks just sort of lifting up. And our people got to see that our mayor understands you know, understands our challenges, and she was really supportive, so that was really great. We met with the controller and the Mayors Office regarding performance metrics in e. M. S. , so we have all the data that we need when we go forward with this years budget, so we can be on point with all our ducks in a row. So were continuing to work with the mayors and Budget Office and continuing to work internally. We met with the Police Department chaplains. As you all know, we will be losing father john green, who is one of a kind, so we are looking to other models such as the Police Department the Police Departments model, and we are continuing conversations with them. They have numerous chaplains, and they are also starting a program for basically Community Chaplains to have people on call all the time, so were looking at that, seeing if we can jump on board with them. We met with lieutenant Dwayne Eckert who volunteers with meeting with the Fire Department in safety education. Were ramping up that again and we asked for one volunteer from at least each station to volunteer and go out and teach kids about fire safety. We had a meeting inhouse about special events. The mayor has interdepartmental meetings going on about inhouse events and how to sort of smooth the process there. Weve been making our voice there in terms of if you need an e. M. S. Plan, you need to check with us before signing off on things, for one. And also, we are looking at sort of the budget capture from within because we are working with more and more special events, and we are being asked to do more and more, it does have an impact on our budget. And so whether we get asked for tactical medics or an e. M. S. Stand by or even the event action plans that chief cochran works on, these are all action plans of ours, so we want to make sure we include that in the budget. Speaking of the budget, we attended a budget 101 meeting with mark corso. Gave us the nuts and bolts of the budget. Were starting on the budget earlier than normal with the Fire Department. So we did that a couple weeks ago, and that was super helpful in helping us understanding what our budget was. But we are ramping up on the budget right now, so we are ready to go come january 1. Chief bell and myself went up to the folks who deployed on mutual aid on the kinkade fire. Got to check in on them, bring them some goodies, and see how they were doing. So we did that on the 29th. We did have our academy to e. M. T. Pinning bump up, so kathy, can you make sure you let everyone know . Clerk yes. Its next friday. I had a meeting with sheryl davis of Human Rights Commission regarding opportunities for human rights for all, looking at in summer 2020 hopefully doing something similar to e. M. S. Corps, which is in the east bay and other places, hopefully somewhere in the city. So were looking at that, coming up with plans, and hoping to make that a reality in the nottoodistant future of next summer. And if you dont know, e. M. S. Corps is a program for youth who may be at risk, and it gives them an opportunity to take an e. M. T. Class, as well as it gives them trauma counseling and life skills and the like, so were looking at being part of that. We had the emergency firefighting water supply hearing at board of supervisors. Supervisor mar had a resolution, so its very similar, pretty much the same as what weve been talking about the last few months about the efws. Then, theres been the power safety public power safety public shutdowns. Weve had Treasure Island experiencing that, but weve had our generators up and running, so were ahead of the ball game on that. Chief nicosio attended a response to wild fires that was attended by supervisor mandelman. There was a lot of concern out there, so we were working with them and the parks on how to best address some of those issues. Phoenix Society Dinner was last week. I want to thank the command staff for attending. It was to honor several retirees, and i also want to thank the command staff for going out to the veterans day parade. We had a good showing, and that concludes my report. Im available for any questions. President nakajo thank you very much, chief nicholson. At this particular point, we will ask for Public Comment on the chiefs report first, then well ask for questions or comments from the commissioners. Any member of the public wishes to give Public Comment on chief nicholsons report, please indicate and approach the podium. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, on the chiefs report, any comments or questions at this time . Thank you very much, chief nicholson. Give our salautations to the mayor in your meeting. Ill be here for a few more minutes. President nakajo we are going to go back to item 4, and then, after we have item 4, well have item 6. Madam secretary, item 4. Clerk item 4. Memorandum of understanding between city college and the Fire Department of San Francisco. A new memorandum of understanding between city college and the Fire Department of San Francisco. President nakajo good afternoon, chief. As you may recall back in january of this year, the Commission Approved a oneyear m. O. U. With city college. That encompassed training and Work Experience through the sffd, and that transferred into city College Course curriculum and resulted in actual city College Course credits for people going through the program. But this was a oneyear Pilot Program as the arrangement we had with city college, although it was a plan we had discussed for years and years, but we never had a plan until this last year to move forward. We were very pleased with how its worked out so far. The january 19 and Current Academy that began in october were the first two programs that went through this Pilot Program. Weve enjoyed our relationship with city college. As a result, both parties are looking at expanding the scope and agreement going forward. The m. O. U. Before you is a fiveyear agreement to enter into a contract with city college. Were working with city college to expand the scope to a variety of other training and other different courses, and that can be added at a later date being an addendum. The department believes this is a winwin for all parties. Both the city college and the department see benefits from this. Its a Revenue Source for the department, and members get access through no cost to them to city college, and they get College Credits to continue their education if they so choose. So this will be before the college in december. There are a few staff from city college here. So with that, happy to open up any questions or allow them to come up and say a few words. President nakajo could the representatives from city College Please approach the podium and participate in this memorandum of understanding item . Hi. Thank you. Im dr. Edith cuepar, the instructional director for city college. We have enjoyed or relationship through the m. O. U. , and during this time, weve deepened it [inaudible] and will be active on january 1. So anyone whos currently going through can get that certificate of achievement after january, they can apply for it. We will continue to work closely with our friends in the Fire Department and continue to deepen the relationship through many, many ways. Any questions about this partnership, id be glad to talk about that, but i also want to leave time for my colleagues. President nakajo please do, chancellor, and please remain until your team completes the presentation. Please. Good morning, chief. Jim connors, retired Fire Department, and director of instructional fire science. So chief corso described to us this contract. One thing that i would like to comment on, last january, president nakajo referred to whats called continuous professional training. Its complicated with the firefighters work schedule and trying to equate hours to units, so were diligently working on that. I have retired captain ed moy whos really good with numbers. Hes identified in several ranks hours of training over the hours, so now, the piece is going to we have to finish working on is how do we equate that to hours and units that meet the ed code requirements. And the only quick comparison ill give you is how convoluted our training schedules are. In the Fire Department, they detail their training schedule in the Police Department, they detail their training schedule to the training department. We send our people in shorter increments that dont equate to t. I. Were working on getting that in longer hours. I sent an email to the state and asked them if anyone has Instructional Service agreements, how do they address inservice training, so were working on it. President nakajo thank you very much, captain connors. The preference would be for you to verbalize, as well. Good morning. Im monique pascual, director of service agreements, so i v been working with chief corso, making sure that we run the process as smoothly as possible. It has been running smoothly, and im excited for the next five years. President nakajo very good. Were going to ask for questions or comments from the commissioners at this point, and if there are any questions or comments, please respond to them. Vice president covington. Commissioner covington thank you, mr. President. Thank you, mr. Corso, and the city college team. Have we gone through a complete calendar year under the trial . We have not gone through a complete calendar year. That would be in early january. Weve gone through a complete academy, which was the january 2019 h20 academy. Commissioner covington and were there any things that were changed from the initial m. O. U. To the fiveyear extended m. O. U. That we have before us . I do not believe that there were any changes in the language. There were mainly just addressing the dates, and as i mentioned, at a later date, we may be able to address some additional courses, but the scope is still consistent. Commissioner covington okay. And you referenced this being a Revenue Source for the department. Can you talk more on that . Absolutely. On the last page, page 7, it discuss discusses hourly reimbursement for training hours, so working closely with miss pascual, we pay for all members kind of enrollment fees, anything related to that, so our members do not have any costs that theyre forced to bear. As a result of that, we work with city college and bill them and get reimbursement on an hourly basis for the number of hours of instruction. So based on that, we see additional revenue come into the department that have been returned back into the training program. Commissioner covington all right. And what level of funds are we talking about them . So for example, for the initial h2 academy in january that has already concluded, the Department Took in a net of approximately 70,000 in revenues, and that would continue for future academies as well as the additional Work Experience course. Commissioner covington so that 70,000 goes back into the program itself. Is that to expand the program or purchase equipment or what . So the intent of that program is to go back into the Fire Departments initial training, be it more classes, equipment or what have you, but thats for the department to prioritize. Commissioner covington okay. Very good. I love a funding source. Absolutely love it. Okay. I had another question, and thats im not sure who on the college team will answer this, but the certificate of achievement and continuous professional training, what is required for you to receive that certificate . So for the certificate of achievement commissioner covington thank you thank you. Oh, yes. Hes much taller than i am. So for the certificate of achievement, what they need to complete is the academy plus their onthejob training. And at that point, they will get the certificate of achievement. These courses actually also apply to an a. S. In fire science at city college, so theyre in addition, while theyre going to the academy, theyre working towards their degree. Commissioner covington mmhmm. Their associates degree. Their associates degree. Commissioner covington okay. Thank you very much, doctor. President nakajo okay. Thank you, Vice President covington. Chief nicholson . I just want to say thank you, chief corso. Were happy with this relationship, were happy with this program, and i dont know if you know this, but that man over there, jimmy connors, was my very first boss in the Fire Department. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Im going to tap out right now. Thanks. President nakajo thank you very much, chief nicholson. Commissioner cleaveland . Commissioner cleaveland id just like to commend this program and move that we support this fiveyear memorandum of understanding. Commissioner covington second. President nakajo okay. Theres a motion by commissioner cleaveland and second by commissioner covington, but theres a comment by commissioner alioto veronese. Commissioner veronese commissioner cleaveland beat me to it, but this is a great program, and i wholeheartedly support it. President nakajo okay. Thank you, commissioner alioto veronese. Okay. Theres a question on the table. All in favor . Opposed . Motion passes. Okay. I have to say, class of 65, and i wish we were both 65. Thank you very much. Madam secretary. Clerk item number 5, update on e. M. S. 6 program. Dr. Clement ye and simon pang to provide an update on the e. M. S. 6 program. President nakajo okay. Welcome, dr. Ye and dr. Pang. Thank you, commissioners, chief wyrsch. Im clement ye, director for the department. Im joined by simon pang and