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The voters and the board of supervisors approved f. It requires the Fire Department to maintain all fire stations in place and located as of in 2004 and it required 24 7 fire station staffing. This table shown here shows the current annual count and percentage of the uniformed employees at the San Francisco Fire Department by race. It shows that break down of fiscal year 08 through fiscal year 1315. The Fire Department maintained a work force with from the range of 48 to 52 percent, minority representation over those years. And obviously that exceeds the 40 percent established by the consent d...

Department. We might say, for example, in the sheriffs department, we found a new video exam thats a good way to assess integrity. The Testing Process belongs to dhr. I will say that we continue to search for improved testing mechanism. We believe we are been doing it correctly and its natural that those who hasnt been successful is going to disagree with that. Im sorry for that, but its our job to look for better mechanisms and were still doing that. Thank you. I want one of our plans im reminded, to go back to the succession planning question that you asks, we always are a list available. It...

Fire commission with regard to the documentation of their meetings. We recommended that meeting minute be transcribed completely and posted to the Fire Commissions website and we recommended that the Fire Commission consider relocating their meetings to city hall in order to increase participation of the public and to insure video recordings of those meetings through sfgovtv. We wanted that to be publicly documented and sources are allocated between the ems some suppression function to insure quality patient care and safe response time. As you may have seen on the previous slide, we recommende...

There were no fire exam administrations, so there were acting assignments that people werent allowed to take. They were given assignments based on sinority. Theyre challenging that process and thats their right and we respect that right. We feel like weve done a fair process and if someone disagrees and if we believe we havent, well change it. Its a fluid process and were always looking for new tools and i challenge my team to do a National Search and look were doing how many people are on this team . On our Public Safety team . John. Five. Are they Public Safety experts. Examination experts. ...

Are there done in multiple languages . As we understand it, theres recruitment materials produced by the employee organizations that are produced in multiple languages. But i cant speak to specifics on that. But as we understand, they are. Thank you. The table on this slide shows the percentage of female applicants from 1988 through 2009. As you can see over recent years, the number of female applicants has been trending down. So even though currently the composition of female employment in the Fire Department work force is meeting that ten percent threshold, the decline in the number of appli...