Transcripts For SFGTV Fire Commission 21016 20160215 : vimar

And that that motion carries well take that without objection. Thank you. Any other items before us today. Theres no further business. Thank you very much this meeting is america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all that this is a reminder under the administrative code the ripping and use of paernlz and similarly be sounding electronics is disruptive set all to silent mode or turn the device off completely this is the regular meeting wednesday, february 10, 2016, and the time is 905 roll call commissioner president covington commissioner Vice President cleaveland commissioner nakajo commissioner hardeman chief chief joanne hayeswhite item 2 general Public Comment this time, members of the public may address the commission items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may thank you, madam clerk any Public Comment . Good morning, commissioners and chief my name is mike im the president of the San Francisco Fire Commission ems Officers Association im almost paramedicic captain the oldest serving captain with the city 25 years plus i come today is discuss a troubling issue that is sgovng currently as you may know last year you funded rc4 which is a unit that was shut down many years ago to go back to cover the south part of city, however, at this point youve fund it is still not being staffed the field rather that is being held at the bans depot fire station 404 our perspective in the ems Officers Association this is somewhat akin to a hostage take over rc4 has been told we will not move it until i agree to 12 hour shifts with the captain and in fact, of it gets moved that unit will then be pulled back to station 4 the talents to assistant the captain the new captain significant portions of the day we are already currently understaffed in the r. C. Roll in the field many of you are probably aware that the ems a regulations for the county of San Francisco one paramedic captain shall be available for 10 ems unit in the field currently each day we have 40 plus unit and many times 50 accomplice therefore we have been out of variance with the ems for many years this is ruled negative impact significant Response Time delays for the r. C. And, in fact, times when the r. C. S do get on the scene ill point to one issue that is come up the paper a normal response for r. C. The mario woods shooting no fire captain on the call this happens regular and r. C. One that covers the from the back of bell park to the fillmore district we aged telephone to 16 calls per day and r. C. Two handles everything west of that r. C. 3 handles the remainder of the city and as such again get on many calls where supervision maybe appropriate therefore putting the r. C. Out of service for a tit for tat not augusto 12 hour shifts means be rc4 goes what can to the field out of service for significant portions of day to assistant the r. C. At 4 the talents we state that you cant parse out station 4 the talents and the difficult job and mistake that better by telephone hour shifts what needs to happening happen you need to up staff one more r. C. We recommend on twentyfour hour shifts as well as significant administrative. Excuse me. Captain are what youre saying is important but madam clerk is the timer on. It started late you may continue, sir. In incident command we know that the appropriate level of supervision is 3 to 7 percent per supervisor yet the r. C. At 4 the talents and the field supervisor many more people routing myself a pacific captain i supervisor 8 engines and between 8 and 12 ambulances which means i supervisors 40 People Per Day this is not acceptable we ask the appropriate staffing 44 be not hostage to a 12hour shift and want the paramedic captains position actually be codified in the regulations and rules as to what exactly it does in you look at the rules and regulations sorry. Your time is up. Finish your thought. Excuse me. Finish your thought you. It is look at the current rules and regulations the area for the paramedic supervisor and capita has no role underneath essentially says two thank you very much. Thank you, captain hallow hallowing i didnt anything else for Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed well go to the next item. Approval of the minutes. Thank you. Commissioners . So moved. Thank you moved by commissioner hardeman and seconded by commissioner Vice President cleaveland. All in favor, say i. I. Public comment on the minutes . Okay Public Comment is closed. Item 4 resolution 2016 dash zero one resolution 2016 applause recommending the board of supervisors authorizes the San Francisco Fire Commission so accept a gift of 25 thoughts thousand dollars from haute for supply and Public Safety Education Programs the field. Thank you this item is being presented by our common core. Good morning madam president and commissioners im here for the next 5 items but the next 4 are closely related donations to the department give you a little bit of background on the process then the individual donation the department has a gift fund from private entities those are recorded by adopted scombolt enlist fund and by the polygamy gift over 10,000 needs to be formally approved by the commission and supervise so before you are 4 resolutions two of them with recently received and two clean up that haves not believe it or not approved for a variety of reasons unless there is specific instructions on the donation on the positive gift fund they ought to be spent at the discretion of the department the item before you is trillion a in the amount of of 25,000 in a number of different donations blow the threshold over a period of time but going back though the records there was a desire to have it formally approved 20 checks 20 thousand was allocated to the Fire Department for fire safety and materials and fire safety a Training Programs one check for 5 thousand dollars was designated for the nert program for the disaster for graduating students threelegged stool 7,000 of the allocation of 20 has been expended on public materials for a variety of events and teaching and the nert fund was expended by the worries of triple a the remaining fund were the gift fund it has a balance of 30,000 and thats not take a look at the donations before you heterosexuals on the specific documents. Thank you that i am open this resolution . Okay. Ill go to might fellow commissioners starting with commissioner nakajo thank you madam president so were talking about resolution the first resolution 2016 dash zero o 0 one. Correct. Your take every resolution separately. Correct. And in terms of the sdrmgs of the funds you said the remaining amount was distributed to the general fund of the department . I wouldnt say a general fund but the variety of funds outside of operating budget and allocated to the department so all these funds 25 have been accounted for and expend. Theyve not 25 thousand threelegged stool 12 thousands have been expended 7 throws tour nert and the remaining balance into the gift balance. Is there a designation for the remaining balance. Theyll be used for the direction for puck safety aid outreach to provide a variety of training and educational materials to the public. Thank you, mr. Cosponsor so and madamadam president. Thank you a number of questions how often are they pegged i think it is wonderful the public makes donation but how often Strings Attached and the larger donation we get a number of smaller donations of 1 or 200 that have no designated purpose occasionally they do but a general donation to the Fire Department some of the larger donations most of the time designated for specific programs nert for example, or for Public Safety for certain types of equipment time donor feels and we honor those are you have we ever had a gift we rejected. To the best of my knowledge no. Who authorizes expenditures out of. The chief thank you. Thank you and at this time id like to indexing. So moved. Okay. Thank you all in favor, say i. I. Okay next item, please. Madam clerk. Item 5 resolution 2016 dash 02 discussion and possible agency for the proposed resolution recommending that the board of supervisors authorizes the San Francisco Fire Commission accept a gift of 12,000 from the Insurance Company for the recruitment training video. Okay. Mr. Corso any any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Reintroduce yourself. March corso Fire Department this is a similar item a donation from the Firefighters Fund for 12,000 i apologize didnt came into interest the commission for formal approval this is an allocation of 12,000 that was expended for a recruitment video this video as shown in h two information hosted in cooperation with the humans and Fire Department this was a joint effort of employee groups and the union this both the department and d h. R. Uses ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, mr. Corso. Any questions commissioners . Commissioner Vice President cleaveland. Just one mark, thank you when we get money to develop things hike the video is it a 5 or 10 minute video. Chief do you want. This video is approximately 10 minutes it is longer taped but i believe id ask my Administrative Officer to followup on that approximately 10 minutes. So we got the money and spent it and created the video and wanted to authors a gift okay got it when we how do we select the. General theyre in under the as pies for vendor we can show we used the current. Not the Fire Department that makes that Selection Process it is purchasing that makes the selection. The department may select a vendor but the vendor needs to be compliant with the city, of course. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no other commissioners wants to speak on the item elizabeths. So moved. Thank you all in favor, say i. I. Next item, please. Resolution 2016 discussion and possible action recommending that the board of supervisors authorizes San Francisco Fire Commission accept a gift of 44,000 plus for the allocation of the purchase Public Education and outreach materials and in conjunction with the Fire Department one hundred and 50th anniversary. Thank you, madam secretary is there any Public School on this resolution. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed mr. Corso. Good morning, again mark corso the next are two donations for an allocation of 55 thousand dollars from the state of mr. Wu the department was graciously listed as a beneficiary of benefits and there is no allocation of spending i followed up with the attorney and told there was no Additional Information the state appointed an x for of the estate and no immediate relatives or family known in specific guidelines for how to expend the money in discussing with the achieve the department it tends to use this for fire educations and Safety Training and outreach i mentioned one and 50th anniversary the resolution title is not necessarily going to be spent open materials but the departments intention with funding to long with some of the programs the fire preservation is leveraging the one and 50 anniversary to serve as a way to outreach to additional people and the public so this is as far as anticipated expenditures this will consist of one thousand smoke alarms and detectors for distribution to the public approximately 10,000 for Translation Services and reproduction and Public Safety in a variety of languages and an 1 thousand for fire extinguish training that will be used to demonstrate to the public if anyone has questions not sure how to use a extinguisher it will be in information ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you mr. Corso. Ill go to any fellow commissioners beginning with commissioner Vice President cleaveland. Thank you madam president i think this is a great idea i think that the chief is gotten a home run in terms of whatever we use those funds it is a very nice gift from the estate of mr. Wu request a heightened alerted of fires and we need to educate the public this is a wise use of money so thank you, chief. Good call. Commissioner Vice President cleaveland are you meeting this item. I move it thank you. Commissioner nakajo. Thank you madam president i also echo commissioner Vice President cleaveland comments on this estate i had a question in terms of what is the motivation of the rule state of Public Safety address in terms of a demolition from for the Fire Department im sad we dont have connection to that family or relatives because this is again, a great example of a generosity of the members of the San Francisco community to also echo the comment in support with commissioner Vice President cleaveland chief to the use of funds and the educational aspects smoke alarms makes a lot of sense whatever outreach to the community and it is great to add to the 50th nancy pelosi in an Educational Outreach kind of format weve been discussing thank you madam president. Commissioner nakajo was that a second. Yes. It was thank you. Okay we have there is a motion and a second so. All in favor, say i. I. Unanimous thank you, mr. Corso. Resolution 2016 dash 04 discussion and possible action for the proposed resolution 2016 dash 04 recommending the board of supervisors authorize San Francisco Fire Commission accept a gift of one thousand plus from the pastor trust to be allocated for Public Education and outreach material in conjunction with the Fire Department one and 50th anniversary. Thank you, madam secretary any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and i will go to commissioner Vice President cleaveland. Thank you madam president just a quick question what is the pastor revokable trust. Similar good morning mark corso similar to the estate this was a trusted for an added number of beneficiaries and the Fire Department was graciously lazed along with the American Red Cross so once the gentleman passed away the distribution of the trust were known and distributed the depth graishlz received 72,000 this is mr. Pastor as opposed to the pastor of a church. Yes. Mr. Corso give us some more background im sorry. Ill go to the commissioners for comment i understand there is change in the language. Yes. I do want to make an amendment to the resolution and i apologize complete oversight patrol vehicle at the diemgs didnt find specific language that designated where the department should expend those fund and after discussing with commissioner Vice President cleaveland i saw the changes made that were priority by the Attorneys Office and amendments that states rather than be other discretion of the Fire Department the fund were allocated for the partnership of firefighters equipment id like to request respectfully a change to the language for the purchase of Public Education in conjunction with the Fire Department one and vothd anniversary chapping that to allocate for the purchase of firefighting equipment with regards to the expenditure were looking at the funding for an accompaniment for the purposes of jaws of life equipment well be consulting on the equipment prioritization but at that time, thats where our intention is i apologize for the confusion. Thank you for the clarification commissioner nakajo. Madam president thank you very much mr. Corso for your research in terms of the this particular gift i think that real important that we try to fulfill the designation and the wishes of those individuals again, i support of concept that we oozed use this with the discussions for the department overhaul equipment in terms of prioritizing the jaws jaws of life it is some comments in terms of power saws of that nature i know it is on the list of our request as well but i support this thank you. Im happy to report back how we actually expend those items. I appreciate that mr. Corso thank you madam president. Thank you commissioner nakajo and thank you, mr. Corso for bringing this revises to us to we c