Conferencing. Due to the governors order and the sixteenth proclamation declaring the existence of a local emergency. The covid 19 emergency the Fire Commissions meeting at city hall is closed and will convene remotely. You can kawch a watch at sffd d. You can call and enter access code 146 7836196. Item one, roll call. roll call commissioner Tony Rodriguez has been excused. Item two general Public Comment. The general public can address any matter for up to two minutes that does not show up on the agenda. Commissioners are not to answer or enter debate into any speaker. The lack of response is not necessarily in agreement with or opposition of any Public Comment. is there any Public Comment at this time . there is no Public Comment. okay. Thank you. Public comment is hold on one moment. Did you want to make Public Comment . Caller three . No Public Comment. There is no Public Comment. okay. Is the caller waiting for another item . they are not talking. okay. Public comments is closed. Next item, please. item two,item three approval of the minutes. Discussion and possible action to approve the Meeting Minutes of june 23, 2020. i have some minor changes thats mostly misspellings and that stuff but nothing of substance. I will address that with the commissions secretary tomorrow morning. i move to approve madam president. thank you, commissioner cleveland. Is there a second . second. thank you Vice President. All in favor please respond when the secretary calls your name. kro roll call . the minutes are approved unanimously. great. Thank you. Next item, please. approval of the minutes from the special meetingactually that was the special meeting on june 23 that we just approved. Now these are the regular Meeting Minutes on july eighth, 2020. it was the regular meeting that i was referring to. But i will entertain a motion for the special meeting. madam president , a couple comments and perhaps these are the same that you are going to reference. On page two it talks about th thethat needs to be completed at the end of 2020. I imagine 2024 and not 2020. This is the middle of the page where it says direction should begin in early 2020. I would dare say that would be rapid fast. I imagine it would be 2024. Would staff like to throw out the date. chief, do you have that figure in your head . im sorry. I didnt hear the question. the rebuild of station 13 was to be completedstarted when and completed when . the rebuild of station 13 has not yet begun, i havent heard anything about the build since recently. Everything with covid 19 has it on hold. theres not real date yet. Its not been scheduled yet. okay. Well just scratch that out of the minutes. okay. the second part on the minutes dealing with the retirement of mr. Green. Someone was to take that position. I believe the chief is intending to bring together a group of people to replace his position. Ill just make that minor change. Chief do you have verbiage youd like to put in there . youre go to go have moreie than one . we have a committee thats been put together that is doing a search and some sort of investigations and research for us. Yes, the plan is to have more than one person of one faith because we are a Diverse Department and frankly nobody can replace mr. Green any way. We drove that poor man into the ground. We put a lot on his shoulders. For a couple of reasons we want to change that up. It is in process. Covid 19 put a little hitch in our giddy up as well. We do have a committee on it. okay. Excuse me, commissioner cleveland, may i interject a question. of course. thank you. Chief, i thought you said its not just different religions but different denominations as well. yes. okay. add that to the minutes. yes, please. very good. Those were the only two comments i had on that. okay. Thank you, commissioner cleveland. You have already moved the item. i will do so with those changes. okay. Thank you. We have a motion on the floor s there a seconisthere a second p. second. roll call motion passes. Item four, chief of department support. Report of chief of department on current activities in the Department Since the Fire Commission meeting on july 8th 2020 including Budget Academy and special events. Other Government Agencies and the public and reports and administration. Status and updates. Finance, support services and training within the department. good evening, president and commissioners. This is my report. For wednesday july 22 for the last two weeks. We had our 16th emt graduation. Our Vice President was there out on treasure island. We did it socially distant and thank you for your remarks Vice President. Several of us at station 49 went to a Virtual Training gender 101 and inclusion policy. Were getting our folks trained on that. I went and visited one of our members who was sick this week with cancer. She is not working right now but i went and visited him at his home from a safe distance, of course. For the covid 19 update. The Community Spread is increasing in numbers. Thats what were seeing sort of folks getting it from family and friends. And bringing it to work. We had a little bit of a uptick in our numbers. We have 14 overall people have tested positive within the department. Many of them are back to work. Seven of them were symptomatic. There was no hospitalization within our department. I believe we have six people off right now. We are doing everything we can, reiterating pte and everything that weve been doing thats been working thus far. We just see this going up in the state and the country. Its not surprising we have a little bit of an uptick. The Physicians Office has been really wonderful. In terms of, you know, updating stuff daily. Changes coming to our procedures from the cd c, from the d ph on a regular basis. This stuff is changing almost daily. We have seen three of our ems six members all come down with covid 19. They were all working around a particular site. An isolation and quarantine site. None of them are super sick like i said. The ppe works for us for the most part in the field. A lot of people have covid 19 fatigue. I think its common and our members are no different. Were making sure that our members are aware of the services that we have available to them. Not just the stress unit but this app we came out with recently. The Doctors Office has really been very helpful working with our employees in any way they can. Its not just covid 19 fatigue, its stress around their families not wanting to bring covid 19 home or what have you. It is an on going challenge for us. Just so you know the command staff and i spent a significant amount of time participating in meetings like this evening. Each day discussing various issues that arise on a daily basis. With this virus surgethat includes internal departmentcan somebody mute because theres a lot of noise in the background. Okay. Some of those meetings are we have internal Department Meetings once a week, every wednesday. My command staff and i sit down and let each other know whats going on and whats new. We have city Wide Department policy meetings that include the mayor, chief worth will be taking that one for me tonight. Its at 6 00 oclock. Thank you chief for that. We have daily discussions with the local emsa. As things change with the virus, we have changes in regulations and directives and the like. Theres a Transportation Work Group that were onto discuss transit operational challenges. Theres all sorts of things going on there. Transit lanes only et cetera. Theres also a tender loin work group that we participate in discussing challenges in the po. There is a constant dance with the sfmpa because there are a lot of Different Things coming our way, slow streets, shared spaces, and transit only lanes. These are all things were being asked to move forward with and as expediently as we can. But it takes some work on our end to make sure that we are still able to respond. That we still have good access to folks in these neighborhoods when they want to shut down or slow down a street. That is of ultimate importance to us. We have to balance that with the needs of the city and wanting to open up businesses and people needing to get out and stretch their legs. But we have to be very mindful from our point of view in terms of making that happen to ensure that we do have good access. And the other thing about that is this is alsothat is under chief operations. But its also under our fire marshall. These things areweve been asked to do all these things. As you know fire prevention, it usually makes money for us and were not making any money on this stuff. Were not charging any fees for any of this. I think everyone at this time has been asked to step up and do more with less. You know, were working as part of the city family as best we can. Those are some of the challenges that have come out of covid 19. I also do a Public Safety departmental meeting every two weeks. We are heavily involved in h stock to help the Operations Center. One of our paramedic captains is running it. I want to say, im not just saying this to say it but these are just some of the things that have come out of covid 19 while were also trying to run our department. Whether its purchasing, training, whatever it happens to be. These are just additional things that have been added on us while were working in this covid 19 timeframe. The budget is also big right now. Its a very sort of strange time, we have not finalized our budget negotiations with the mayors Budget Office yet. But we are working as hard as we possibly can. I do want this budget to have any impact on our operations in any way, shape, or form. I have said that to them over and over again. Its unacceptable. I know that the city is also working with different unions right now. Negotiating with unions to see if theyll hold off on some of their pay raises. Thats going to play a part in our budget as well. I dont have a report for you in terms of what is what but the schedule for the submission is august first. Its coming down to crunch time. Im hoping that theyve got the stuff with labor figured out pretty soon. What else . We had a hearing on emergency Fire Fighting water system on july 16th. We reported on the civil grand jury required updates. Chief may have that in his report. Suppression has been super busy. Weve had a ton of fires in the last two weeks. Im really proud of how our members have done. Ive gone out to a couple of them and our folks are working hard. As we know ems has been busy and definitely picking up. Ems six is really to its own detriment that they are doing so good that they are asking to do more right now. Fire prevention is busy as well with those additional asks that we have. I just want to thank the commission for all the work you do for us and thampg th thank td stuff for all you are doing. That includes mark and our civilians as well. Its a team effort and everybodys working their tails off. Everybody that i see here right now is working really hard. I appreciate all of them. That kn colludes m concludes my. thank you chief. Is there any pu Public Comment n the chiefs report . let me check. We do have public comept. Comment. Caller seven. Hello . No. Caller three. Caller three do you have Public Comment . no. no pub pli Public Comment. okay. Thank you. I will go to my fellow commissioners. i dont have any questions for the chief, i really appreciate and have a true sense of how hard everybodys been working. My comment is really more of a thank you. We get these little alerts regarding Motor Vehicle accidents, brush fires, bigger fires, medical occurrences. It just seem it me stabbings, and gunshot woundstheres a tension that you can sense. I know i dont get all that you get but just from what i receive, i can sense that. I really want to thank you because you guys have a lot of courage and just dedication to do it day after day after day under really what are becoming very warying and trying circumstances. My comment is more of a thanks than anything else. thank you, madam, Vice President. Commissioner. madam president. Thank you chief for your reportyour reports are always straight forward with information. This evening your report was full of a lot of information and still very informative and straight forward. I appreciate the detail on the report on the membership in terms of covid 19. The information in regards to how many members in our department have it. How some of them are systematic and some of them are recovered. Let me double check my numbers again but did you say, chief, that we had about 14 cases in the department . yes. Over the past couple months weve had 14. Not 14 at once, but 14 total. Right now i believe six people are out with it. okay. Chief just to run it down a little bit. What is protocol if a member tests positive or has symptoms of covid 19 and gets tested. Does that member automatically get sent home. Can you give a Little Information in terms of protocol. yeah. Ive have chief fellow take this. Hes been really involved in this and has better details than doi. thank you. In regards to your question, we have this very thorough process of notifications for the members. First of all it depends if the member is working or not working. If not working the member calls the officer and then the Doctors Office. That member is put off. It depends how long he is off and has any symptoms. Its a workers comp. Issue if he becomes sick. The county is already treating covid 19 for the time being. The member is automatically sent home after notifying the supervisor. We also do Contact Tracing of the members. If the member tests positive today, they were tested yesterday. The protocol is calling all the members that worked with that member the last two or three days. If that member happened to work several days in a row, well notify all those folks and the company officer. We notify them and the Doctors Office is given the right information to do. If its a symptomatic after ten days we do a negative test to come back. Were working on a new pro procs on how to do that. The members know how and what to do. The officers know what to do. We really fine tuned the process for the members what to do and we Work Together to do that. Its been working well so far commissioner. thank you so much. Just a couple of followups. In that process where the member feels ill, testing is there somewhere along that line. Do we have a particular place for our member it go and is that accessible . yes. The city tests at the site 3132 its accessible for city workers. Everyone that work with that individual is recommended they go testing. And if they register as a dsw worker, they have priority going to pier 31, 32 side. Thats one of the most accurate tests we can do. Less than forty eight hours we have is the results. That helps with Contact Tracing. when a member is better or well is there protocol on when he returns back to work. Is he immediately back at the station or whats the process . the current protocolweve been asking for a negative test. We usually give ten days after the original test. Weve been changing and modifying the guidelines. Well record a negative test, we still require a negative test until we decide to change it accord to go the guidelines. A minimum of ten day fz yos if e a symptomatic and twenty days if you are symptomatic. i appreciate the report and the comments. I appreciate the word covid 19 fatigue. How long this is taking with apparently no end in sight. I appreciate you giving a frank description of not only how this effects our membership but also how it effects their family members. My only other comment is if you recall at the last Commission Meeting i asked for some clarity on who works for the department for the safe streets and the inherittive responsibility. I was wondering how much time that takes. It was evident that the fire marsh anmarshall and operationss involved. Is that an inherent responsibility. We dont charge for those services. I think its significant all of these requests for the city and trying to be a Strong Player takes time and energy from our department and i look at that as a relationship in terms of budget. If theres any justification to me in terms of budget of this department, its all the extra responsibility and work that were doing presently thats covid 19 related. Thats all ive been hearing in terms of economics, effects, Mental Health, physical, jobs related. Whats the cost and effect of covid 19 in terms of operation and administration. Again, i hear what were doing and i hear the increase. I also appreciate the membership in terms of cooperating but to me its a clear justification for dollars on the budget for our department in terms of what we do and what we do best. Thank you for your report, chief. thank you commissioner. okay. Thank you. Commissioner cleveland. thank you, madam president. And thank you commissioner for your comments because i was going to also jump in on the safe streets and slow Streets Program that i knowits been given a lot of press recently. Particularly the tender loin. They seem to be crying about how we dont haveevery other part of the city has been given slow streets. I thought the chief could elaborate or one of your staff could elaborate on what seems to be the pr