The time is 5 03. And this is the remote meeting via video and tele conferencing. The below link and phone number will be read off momentarily. This meeting is being held by webex pursuant to the governors order declaring a local emergency. During the coronavirus disease emergency, the Fire Commissions regular meeting room at city hall is closed, and meetings of the Fire Commission will convene remotely. You may watch this meeting live at sfgovtv. Org. To participate by Public Comment by phone, call 4156550001, and use access code 146 1463360. Members of the public will have opportunities to give Public Comment. The public is asked to wait for the particular agenda item before making a comment on that i a tem. Comments will be addressed in the order they are received. When the moderator announces that the commission is taking Public Comment, members of the public can raise their hand by pressing star 3 and you will be queued. Caller wills hear silence when waiting for your turn to speak. Operator will unmute you. When prompted, callers will have the standard 3 minutes to provide Public Comment. Ensure that you are in a quiet location. Speak clearly and turn off any tvs or radios around you. Item one, roll call. President kathrin feinstein. Present. Vice president tony rodriguez. Present. Commissioner stephen nakajo. Present. U a commissioner francee covington. Present. And commissioner ken cleveland. Present. And chief of department yes neen nicholson. Present. Item 2, general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction that 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. Madam secretary, do we have any Public Comment . We do not have anybody on the Public Comment line. All right. Then Public Comment will be closed. Would you kindly call the next agenda item . Item three, approval of the minutes. Discussion and possible action to approve the Meeting Minutes of the january 13, 2021 meeting. Again, is there any Public Comment, madam secretary . There is nobody on the Public Comment line. All right. Is there any commissioner that wishes to comment upon the minutes . I move to approve, madam president. An i would like to comment, madam president. Of course. Thank you. So during the conversation between, excuse me, between all of the commissioners of the subject of the chiefs residence came up, and in that exchange in the minutes i think the comments are reversed. We have commissioner cleaveland suggesting that the residence be sold, and then commissioner nakajo talking about having sold property in the past and how he doesnt recommend that. So im just asking that those items be switched. They are out of order. Is there any comment by our other commissioners upon that . Commissioner cleaveland . Commissioner nakajo . I dont remember which order those conversations came, so i happy to have it changed in the minutes. It makes me no never mind. Commissioner nakajo . I equally, again, whatever the reflection is accurate. All right. Madam secretary, can we make that change . Yes, we can. All right. So what if i propose that that change be made, and based upon a vote of the Commission Accepting those changes, that we vote to approve. I second. I dont think you have a second. We dont have a second. I second. Okay. I will do a roll call. President feinstein. How do you vote . Aye. Commissioner nakajo . Aye. Commission Vice President rodriguez, how do you vote . Aye. The motion is unanimous. Item four. Chief of departments report. Report from chief of department Janine Nicholson on report on current issues, activities, and events within the Department Since the Fire Commission meeting on january 13, 2021, including budget, academies, special events, communications and outreach to other Government Agencies and the public. And report from Administration Deputy chief jose velo on the administrative division, fleet and facility status and updates, finance, support services, and training within the department. Chief nicholson please. Good evening, president feinstein, Vice President rodriguez, commissioners and staff, this is my report. First, i would like to introduce we have a new assistant deputy chief in the house tonight. Tom oconnor is our new assistant deputy chief of the puc liaison. You all know about the civil grand jury and the importance of us rolling out efws, and we worked with the p. U. C. To fund this position. Tom, i know your coat is not updated with the right stripes, but say hello to the commission please. Cant hear. There he goes. All right. Good evening, commissioners. I am v very happy to be here. And jeanine pointed out that i am so new that i dont have my jacket properly adorned. I apologize for being underdressed for this occasion, but i am excited to work with the administration and move forward on the efws and all challenges that the administration is facing during these very uncertain times. Welcome and im sure chief dewit can help you with the jacket so there we go. Thank you. She knows somebody. Who knows somebody. All right. Thank you. As you know, on february 8, we will have a firefighter class of 25 coming in. And we also have a few other classes going on at Treasure Island that i am sure chief velo will touch on. And e. M. T. , e. M. S. , paramedic and other stuff. But let me get right into sort of covid. All things covid. So for tier one which is what San Francisco is still in, tier 1a, sorry, tier 1a, there are approximately 200,000 people in that tier. The city has not received 200,000 vaccines yet. The latest numbers i have that others have vaccinated, i believe, approximately let me get this number right. We have their numbers that were starting to compile, and we have echs numbers and they are finally the city is finally sort of getting it to one what is the word i am looking for . Anyway, 82,000. 82,000 from the private and so we will see how many more vaccines the city gets. We just dont have enough vaccine. And all of those, i know that we vaccinated many more people once than we have people twice. So the impact from the state has not been good, and in terms of when were getting vaccine and how much were getting. Theres just not enough vaccine to go around. I will be attending a policy meeting tomorrow morning where they should have further, hopefully further information from the state. One site, city college site is doing over 500 a day. Ucsf is heavily involved and we have two paramedic captains managing the site on a daily basis, seven days a week, so stepping up for the citys efforts. Masconi center is going to be expanding what it has now. Kaiser will be staffing that site. And then in the bayview, theyre looking at the Produce Market indoor site. And it is unclear who will staff that. D. P. H. Is also vaccinating at maxine hall in the west addition. In terms of our own members, we have had 1,418 members have responded yes. Almost 1,000 of them have received their first dose, and almost 400 have received their second dose. Many more have appointments this week. Out of everyone, we have had 245 that have declined the vaccine. So we are following up with those that have not responded as well as those who havent gone to get their vaccines yet by going down the chain of command with all the folks. And were also going to be sending out a video message and some other messaging. L. A. , i dont know if its l. A. City or l. A. County, chief velo told me, but whichever one it is, they vaccinated 75 of the members and their covid positive numbers have just dropped dramaticcally. I know ours have as well of late. And thats great. Some of that is also because its dropping within the city as well. So were working on getting more of our members vaccinated. Right now we have 25 people in quarantine. Out of those, 24 are covid positive. Were waiting on the 25th one. We have had 93 people return to duty for a total of 118 of our members have tested positive with covid19. Not all of them have been sick, clearly. Very few have been hospitalized. In any case, we need to remain vigilant until we have the full vaccine rollout, so we will still be masking and cleaning and all that kind of stuff that we have been doing. And the covid positive and quarantine was much higher last week in the past couple of week. Were going in the right direction. I went yesterday and i know others went today to get training so we can actually give the vaccine because i would love to give the vaccine to the president of the union on camera, but we are all ready to step up and help. We look forward to participating as much as we possibly can. Some really great news, city emt which i have spoken about in here before, which we have been working on for the past year and a half. Its been a collaboration with the supervisor from district 10, with human rights commission, with the Mayors Office, and with some of our own members really stepping up. It is a wrap around program for young people between 18 and 26 or so. A wrap around program which also enables them to get an emt license. So there are all sorts of services that they get with it including academic help. Including trauma counseling. Job life coaching. And they take an emt class. So i went to the orientation today outside the union hall, and supervisor walton showed up and the mayor showed up. And there were 15 young men and women there. Looks like a great group. We are working that once they finish this training which will be sometime in may, once this cohort finishes, we are working on a way for those who would like to get experience in the Fire Department of bringing folks into the Fire Department on the ems side and going to get hours on an ambulance. You cannot be hired in the San FranciscoFire Department on the ems side without a certain number of hours on an ambulance. And so we are working on providing that and it will not be it will be the position is a 99 10 which is what other departments use for this type of program and what the sheriff has used as well. But it is trying to create a pathway from kids in the community into the Fire Department. This is the very first step. The mayor showed up and all the kids signed up and went through this rigamarole to do this and is pretty much a Fulltime Program through the end of may that is very rigorous. The mayor showed up today and said she was going to give each of them a 3,000 stipend per month, which is great. So i am really excited about it. And well see how the first one goes. And we are working on funding that through oewd and through hrc and the district 10 supervisor. Funding that when they come in the department. I am really excited about that program. And then one thing president feinstein loves to share about is shared spaces. Can you just speak to the latest discussions and the challenges and what we are playing. I think im on now. You are. Good evening, commissioners. Fire marshal and the sheriffs space and there will be a reopening and beginning tomorrow at 8 00 a. M. If i am correct. Everything has been on hold the last few week. Our plan is to basically start up and reinstitute what our program was before the latest shutdown. And that is surveying all of the shared space sites, 900 plus of them are district inspectors. Identify any code concerns, Fire Department access concerns. Documenting that and bringing that to the attention of the Business Owners and to d. P. W. , and to take corrective action steps. Prior to latest whole shutdown, i should say. We have about 130 location where is we had violations. The majority were associated with the use of l. P. G. And theaters. Number of them also were associated with Fire Department access. The good news there is i believe the access issues are down below 10. At one time they were up to about 30. So that is moving the right direction. And again, everything is kind of put on hold because there was no activity the last few weeks. So i started today the district inspectors started up their survey again. We wanted to take a look at the structures and see what kind of damage, if any, associated with the latest storms. I have yet to see the feedback on that, but i will know more tomorrow. And then the other thing thats kind of new on the horizon is the potential to transition some of this program into potentially a Permanent Program and weve begun discussions with other departments on that. My take on that is we look at it through a different lens. Though a lot of our requirements and place for the Share Program will apply, it is not necessarily apples to apples. With temporary structures, you have more latitude and the fire code is more forgiving and gives you more latitude. We did use a lot of latitude. Not to say they are unsafe, but as they convert to transition to a permanent status, there will be a more conservative approach knowing they will be there indefinitely potentially. And were having those talks. Those talks are going to include what standards are we going to apply to them. Who will be the lead agency. And what other departments will be brought on board. Will d. P. I. Be brought on board. Once we come to an agreement on a program, standards that are going to apply and the work flow, i think well be off and running and on a good track. But again, those are preliminary conversations. This hasnt come this is not official at this time. Its just a point of discussion. Thank you very much, fire marshall decasio. That concludes my report, president feinstein. Happy to take any questions. President if you have any questions for the chief, just raise your hand. All right. Commissioner covington. Thank you, madam president. Chief of the department, i am wonned erg about the people who are not i am wondering about the people who are not being vaccinated. I think you said that there are 245 members of the department who declined. So are there any different measures that are put into place for people who are unvaccinated . Thank you for your question, commissioner covington. No, there are no further precautions put in place at this time. We are still everyone is acting as if we could get infected whether weve gotten the vaccine or not. But we cannot force them to get the vaccine. But everybody is acting the exact same way that we have been for the past almost year. And we will until we know further. Im not sure if and when we will get to quote, unquote, herd immunity or if there thats even possible with all the new strains of covid that are coming through, so right now were just remaining very vigilant. Okay. I was wondering if there is additional testing for those folks or if there was any change at all. No, not at this time. Sorry, my camera keeps moving. Not at this time. All right. Thank you. And congratulations on the launch of the program. That sounds very exciting. I know you have worked very hard to bring this to fruition, and im sure that the young people, what did you say, age 18 to 26, are very, very pleased with this opportunity. I know that their families are proud of them for having been selected and they have a very bright future, so thank you for that. Nothing more. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner covington. And i cant remember who else had their hand up. Commissioner rodriguez. Vice president , please. I think you might be muted. I found it. Thank you. This is for fire marshall decasio. Maybe because i installed fire sprinklers for a living for so many years, i am kind of curious. You said this is in the talk, but if there become permanent fixtures, would they have to be fire sprinkled or because they were outside they wouldnt have to be . Has that come up yet . Yes, hello, commissioner. That is an excellent question. And to my earlier appoint, how to identify the use of these bases and how to classify them and what standards will be applied, those questions have not been answered yet. I think that is the starting point so were consistent in our message and application of the code. Commissioner okay. Thank you. President any further questions, Vice President . Commissioner no, that was it for me. Thank you. President of course. Any other commissioners have questions of the chief . Commissioner nakajo. Commissioner thank you very much, madam president. First of all, i want to take a point in the remarks since it was in the agenda and correct me if i am wrong, chief nicholson, but is it Deputy Assistant chief tom oconnor at this point . Assistant deputy chief, yes. A. D. C. Commissioner all right. I wanted to get it right. Assistant deputy chief tom oconnor. I wanted to congratulate you and welcome you and you will be a great addition with your vast knowledge. As you know and you have been around long enough to understand the importance of awfs. I want to welcome you. Second to that, chief nicholson, i wanted to applaud you on the start up of the program. What is the official name of the program . Commissioner nakajo, the official name of the program is city emc. It is being run by a nonprofit that we have been working with since the beginning. It is city emt. Again, congratulations. I have been working on the sidelines in terms of this endeavor as well, but to be able to have a focus group within the community