This is meeting of San FranciscoFire Commission, wednesday april 27, 2016. As of our custom well begin with the pledge of allegiance, please stand. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Madam secretary can you do announcement wednesday april 27, 2016. 503. This is reminder under Administration Code 67 a 1 runging i use oof cell phones pagers and sournds producing devices are prohibited. To vibrate or silent mode or turn it off. This is also a reminor food isnt allowed. The may 11, 2016 regular Fire Commission meeting will resume at city hall in room 416 at 9 a. M. We like to take this time to thank the folks at sfgtv, you do great work. Item 2, roll call. President franceee covington. Present. Leaveland, present. Nakajo, here. Hardeman, here. Joan hayeswhite is excused. Mark gun zaul ez is serving in her absent. Item 3, members may kraez the commission up to 3 minutes ochb any matter within the jurisdiction and does not appear on the ajendsa. Speakers shat address the remark tooz the commissions as a whole. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with a speaker, lack of respaurns or personnel doesnt constitute agreement with or support statements made during Public Comment. Thank you madam secretary. I want to before we call the next item, i want to make sure i thank the Mission Neighborhoods centers under the excellent direction of sam ruiz for listing us here this afternoon. Can you please go over item 4 . Public comment. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment . On something that isnt on this evenings agenda . Okay, thank you captain. Commissioners, chief, mike [inaudible] president of the San Francisco ems officers association. I think it is praept we are meeting in the southern part of the city where can bring to the public eattention we valimit amoujt of paramedics, we have one supervisor for hamp the city. We vasecond supervisor who is budgeted since october not yet assigned because of unwillingness by the administration to decouple staffing and station 49, the ambulance depot with the supervisor [inaudible] who should be stationed at 43. At this time i would like to continue to bring to your attention this is occurring and Still Holding it hostage and as i said we have one supervisor for approximately half the city to supervise the paramedics in a area where there is a significant number of elderly population, a significant number of medical and trauma calls, which are supervisor because of the vast differences he is covering cant offer assistance to paramedics and fire responding. I like to thank commissioner nucaujio who road with me and think whee a good time. I like to offer to any of the other commissioners that you should feel free to ride with myself or any other paramedm supervisor jz well be glad to show you what we do out there. Thank you very much. Thank you captchen whooly. Any other members of public that would like to speak at this time . Seeing none ill close Public Comment. Nextitement item 4, approval of the minutes discussion and action to approve the meetings minutes of march 23, 2016. Commissioners. Approve. Thank you. Is there a second . Second. Thank you. All in favor of the minutes by the commissioner secretary say aye. Thank you. Any Public Comment on the minutes . Madam secretary are there copies of things down there for people . There is against the wall thank you. As the items come up if you would like to look at the paperwork relate today the items, they are back there the binder in the binder. Thank you. We have no Public Comment it seems on this item. Public comment is closed. Item 5, leave of absence. Discussion and possible action to approve chief of Department Request for leave of absence with pay for 2 days may 16 and 17, 20s 16 to attend a portion the 20s 16 metropolitan fire chief conference sponsored by sth International Association of fire chiefs in long beach. The source of funds for the trip is provided in the Fire Department 201516 budget thank you. Is there Public Comment on this matter . Move, madam chair. Second. Thank you. Any discussions . Any comments from commissioners . Okay. All in favor . Signify by saying aye. Thank you. Jarks item 6, chief of Department Report. Report from chief of department of activities and events within the Department Since the San Francisco meeting of april 13, 2016 including fiscal year 2015 and 16 Budget Academy strategic planning, 150th anniversary [inaudible] report from administration and wheaten facility status, finance support, home land security and training within sth department. Thank you. Chief gonzalez, before you give the report for the chief of the department, i want to ask would you like to present from the podium . Would that be easier . I think it may be easier for people to see you, but it is up to you. Whatever you prefer. Okay, thank you. [inaudible] the chief of the Department Report of april 13, 2016. She wanted me to touch on the metro fire chief conference she went to. The last she attended was 20s 13. Some oaf the items are nlsh Fire Protection association with jim [inaudible] diversity and plomotional and entry level selections. Fire based ems, new day. Fire based ems [inaudible] for decision makers. On to had budget update. April 19, the Budget Committee met with supervisor farrell, chair the budget and finance committee. April twenthd, the chief presented before budget and finance committee and presented a ovview of funding needs with prioritization given to fleet and equipment. Thank you for [inaudible] continued discussion with Mayors Office between now and when the mayor subimates the budget june 1. Academies, 119th academy. In the 14th week 50 members remain, graduation is june 9 at [inaudible] 120th class, interviews conducted and some will move to medical evaluation. Additional back grounds connected in may for november 2016 and 2017 classes. [inaudible] began april 25 with 32 members. Grad wigz is june 3, 2016. Ha perdeem. The interviews are conducted, offers made and 31 membererize completing oen line training with a classroom beginning may 9, 2013. My goal is have 100 ha by the end the year. Very good supplement fl ems division. It keeps them stabilized. H 3 level run and 2, that is emt to bump up academy 19 promoted to level 2. Strategic planning. The subcommittee met several times this month. The committee will reconvene monday may 19 at 9 a. M. [inaudible] if not it was well attended. Exchiefs were there as well so thauchck to all who attended the [inaudible] impressive foremostly [inaudible] and fire fighter beaumonty was over the top with the flag. It was very impressive mpt there are many events scheduled from now to 2017. There is a up coming chicer panel may 4 at the main library. That is one you cant miss. I suggest we do video it and we are. Hopefully well work with sf gov tv for those who cant be there. The next meeting is scheduled for may 26. Special events, communications and outreach to other government agencies, the [inaudible] held at marina greens and middle school. It was very well attended. Thank you eric [inaudible] very good job. I think she is in the back. Cherry blossom parade took place on 417. April 19, 1906 commemoration took place followed fwhie golden hydrant and met with [inaudible] Labor Management meeting. April 21, the chief and deputy attendsed the earth day event. I had to leave for [inaudible] third alarm that morning. The chief attended announcement of the bay area womens summit held in San Francisco this june. Lastly in memoriam i request meeting be convened in fire fight denise [inaudible] who was a devoted member from 20022014 as well as fire fighter stephen ras cone who served from 1977 to 2012. Thank you. Thank you chief gonzalez. At this time were there any members of the public who have comments on the chiefs report . If so, please approach the podium. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, any questions for chief gonzalez . Come forward. Public comment is open. I do have Public Comment about the mission of fires not about the chief report so is there a time to speak at that point . The Mission Presentation by our fire marshal will begin at 6 oclock in order to give people enough time to get here from work. Will we be able to talk after that presentation . You may pose question but there isnt a opportunity for us to dialogue. Okay. Thank you. Public comment is closed. Commissioners. No questions. Commissioner nakajo. Thank you madam president and thank you very much chief gun zaul ez for your report and also doing double duty as you relay the chief report. My question is concerning the 160th celebration, the grand opening we had at union square that ladder demonstration is really impressive and i was wondering if that ladder demonstration is that ever going to be repeated during the festivities . I take that as a yes i want to relay that question as the folks didnt have to opportunity of the opening of the 150th. It is very impressive. Thank you. Commissioner hardeman . No questions. Regarding the 65 foot ladder raise which is the 6 and a half stories tall, that will be taking place again i believe it is in july, is it july . It will be part of the parade and muster. September 25. Okay. Thank you. I had just one quick question for you chief gonzalez. The h 3 graduation is june 3 and you mentioned another graduation before that time . There are 2 graduations one is june 3 and one is june 9 . Yes, maam, the entry level one is june 3. Interviews for the ha have been conducted. They are doing Online Training and the classroom component begins may 9. The 119th class is the one on june 9. 119th h 2 academy. The h 3 level 1 june 3 and h 2 academy is june 9 at reerden high school. Thank you very much. I just had a quick question regarding superbowl 50. I know in the chronicle there was some mention of some reimbursement of funds to the city. I wondered if any of those monies would be forth coming to us to cover over time . I know the please department and therfb say no to money but would refer to mark courseo. Mark courseo and chief fran cisco if you have anything to add. Mark coursey. In regards to your question for the most part are contributions for operations perspective were not reimburseed. We were allocated in the bumgt to cover over time but there was approximately 40,000 of reimbursement we are planning to receive from the Host Committee with regards to certain special events we were provided service for. Outside of that, we are not anticipating any reimbursement. Are those monies the 40,000 you just referenced is that above and beyauchbd what we expected initially . Correct. We were budgeted as part of the mayor budget the allocation is 250,000 for over time for providing ems. We will be at the end the day the total expenditures were about 400,000 and so we were reimburseed 40 of that through the Host Committee. Great. Very god. Good. Thank you. Chief gonzalez is there anything you wanted to add . Im good, commissioner. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. That was a very speedy report. If you have more to add. Thank you. [laughter]. Okay. At this time i anticipated that we would be a little longer. We have the admin report still. Okay. This is chief william. Okay. You want to call her up . Chief williams come you up to the micro phone, please . Good evening president covington rsh members of come Fire Commission and Mission Neighborhood community. Ramona Williams Deputy chief ofads sminstration and this is the report for month of april, 2016. I like to start with training under jeff colem beanie. Last week the Recruitment Committee outreach held the meeting thursday april 21. There was a large attendance and the members provided a lot of valuable information to perspective candidates. As mentioned by chief gonzalez this is week 14 for 119th recruit academy. We have 50 recruited remaining and menshzed graduation date of june 9. Over on in Service Training at Treasure Island we continue our below grade training on Yerba Buena Island with positive feedback from the public and work with sfpd in the planning process for our active Shooter Training module. We are nearing completion in our construction och the bart station proper and anticipate training to begin this summer. Over in our ems Training Division as chief gun zaul ez mentioned we concluded or h 3 level 2 bump up academy and have just began or h 3 level 1 emt academy past monday, april 25 with 32 stud rnt. We are in the process completing the interviews and submitting offers to approximately 38 h 8 per deem paramedics. The ems Training Staff continues to provide training for all department members. As mentioned before, nurt under eric odd sairo continues to provide Emergency Preparedness training and advance command operations to members of the nurt committee. Along with Neighborhood Outreach presentations. Chief gonzalez also mentioned budget and finance status under mark cor so and we are waiting decision by the voters in june regarding our health and safety bond being presented in june. Under acting capt chb shealy hunter, there are numerous background and testing potential candidates for Upcoming Academy as well as random test that take place through the reporting period. All results have been negative. Under it Management Information services, we have continued to upgrade various equipment and products throughout the department such as recording application for the division of training, working with recruit academy, division training, Treasure Island and station 49, installation and configuration of the wire less network in process and some areas completed as well as up graded on the mcp and fire apparatus and ems dispatch to name a few. Under home land security with shane fran cisco attended countless meetings and work groups throughout this reporting period in preparation for training exercises and planning for up coming events such as beta breakers [inaudible] several triathlons [inaudible] fleet week which will happen later this year to name a few. We now have 4 k 9 handlers and chief fran cisco attended a Managers Meeting earlier this mupth to discuss changes in the mou. Under support services, the deputy chief lombardi is also buzzy attending meetings and work groups throughout the city to explain health and safety bond which we hope the voters prove this june. He is also been work wg the port on pier 26 for relocation of the fire boats during the construction of station 35. The easter projects which include easter 10 and 14 involve numerous upgrades and improvement to the neighborhood fire stations. They are on going and on track and next month chief lum bard ewill give a presentation at the next Commission Meeting which will include all bonds the department is currently involved in including the ax zilry water supply system. Construction of pump station 1 at Head Quarters which was arichblgnomy estimated to be completed by may has been extended to october of this year. Correction of airport station 3 is on track and slated to be completed by the end of the year. Under fleet management, Engine Specifications are being finalized which include enhanced safety and profile reducing feature squz additional sedans have knin ordered for the staff of bureau Fire Prevention. 9 new ambulance have been ordered and boe continues to reorganize the weir house for a more efficiency for station 49. Under facilitymancy, 137 requests for services have been received and processed for the month of march. Exhaust extractors have been installed in all stations and completed. The fire boat is on track for completion by the end of may with the commissioning sarmony scheduled for july. And that concludes my report. I will address any questions the commission may have. Thank you, chief williams mpt any member of the public that would like to ask a question or comment on the chiefs report . From administration . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. My fellow commissioners do you have comments . Vise president cleveland thank you. One question dealwise health and safety bond on the june 7 ballot of 58,000,000 of the 350,000,000 bond will go to the Fire Department, 44,000,000 going to build emergency medical Head Quarters and dispatch center. What is the Fire Department doing and working to get it bonds passed . I know we need to work with the Health Department is someone designated within to work to create a campaign because we have to gee convi