. >> commissioner veronese: second. >> president nakajo: there is a motion by commissioner hardeman, second by commissioner veronese. the minutes are approved. [gavel]. >> president nakajo: madam secretary. item 4, fire director's report. >> president nakajo: thank you very much, madam secretary. on item 4, as tradition, chief of the department will report first, and then deputy chief will report second. good morning, chief nicholson. >> good morning, mr. president, commissioners, maureen, command staff, and that includes the folks not in uniform, by the way. chief jeanine nicholson. this is my report since november 13. it's going to be a minute longer than it usually is because we have a few more things than we did. november 15, i set up a meeting with the head of d.e.m., mary ellen car ellen carroll, and the head of p.d., chief scott, to collaborate on issues, whether it's dispatch, training, and other challenges and opportunities that we can work on together. so we are going to be having quarterly meetings where we can, you know, work on things together. the retirement ceremony, thank you t

? commissioner alioto veronese? >> commissioner veronese: i understand we're going to be using paramedic larry to retirement, which is a bummer. he's a great guy and he's done a great service for this city. i just want to thank you, chief, for coming up with that program -- under your administration, certainly. it's a great program that we now have paramedics on bikes in the airport. it made me feel more secure in that airport because it's kind of siloed out there in its own little world. great job on that. larry's a great guy. really made me feel and my family feel good about having those paramedics in there. >> president nakajo: thank you very much. commission vice president covington? >> commissioner covington: thank you, mr. president. i just want to say that last week, we had a very reference and acknowledge our commission secretary, marie comfrey who really worked very, very hard on that retirement to make it as nice as it was. it is a great thing to see members come in and actually smile when they go out, as well, and look just great, and there is life after the fire dep

: thank you, commissioner cleaveland. commissioner veronese? >> commissioner veronese: thank you for your report. you did mention that there's an 1 11% increase over the past month, but in the last year, it's almost a 300% increase. i know that i mentioned this before, but now that we have this information, what are we doing with it? did we notify the department of health so that they know what's going on? i just want to make sure we're making the best use of this information. so i just want to make sure that that's happening. and then, if you could -- and i saw this morning, there was a -- a press release by the mayor's office, that they've reached an agreement with the board of supervisors on the comprehensive mental health agreement, and i'm just curious for a future meeting as to what the fire department's participation in that would be? >> i can speak to that, yeah. do you want it right now. >> commissioner veronese: if you don't have it -- skb >> i can't remembe >> yeah. in the mayor's meeting, we had the doctor speak, and i spoke with the doctor afterwards, and i said he was going

you please note that commissioner veronese has joined us at 9:03. >> clerk: discussion and possible action to approve a new memorandum of understanding between the fire department and city college of san francisco. >> president nakajo: i was reminded by the good commissioner cleaveland that i did not take a motion for approval of the minutes, is that correct? so i will turn to that item and ask the commissioners for any comments or questions or for a motion. >> so moved. >> seconded. >> very much, commissioner cleaveland. thank you for reminding the president. thank you commissioner for your second. all in favor, say aye? approved. thank you very much. madam secretary, 4? >> clerk: item number 5? >> update on e.m.s. 6 program. >> president nakajo: madam secretary, i have item 4 for the director's report, after the memorandum of understanding. >> clerk: i have that as item number 4. i'm sorry. >> president nakajo: okay. we'll call item 4. >> may i interject for a moment? i have to go to a mayor's meeting, so i was wondering if i could give my report prior to item 4. >> president naka

. >> thank you very much, commissr cleveland and secretary for thed 527. commissioner veronese has d us. are there any other commentr questions other than that? did l chief velo already? >> no, we did not. >> report from administration, y chief jose velo on the administe divisions, fleet and facility ss and updates, finance, support services, and training within te department. >> thank you very much, madame secretary. and good evening pre, vice president, commissioners. [speaking spanish] >> there we go. >> this is my report for the mof october. like i've done in the t few meetings, i have a comprehee report for you. i'm going to bry go over some of the highlights e report. and i'm happy to answery questions at the end. so some oe personal projects i'm working om continuing to attend meetings tt the feedback to give the administration's view and visior the work that's going on. aattea workgroup that came up with goo, positive ideas that we are goino dial down a little more. the war supply committee. every time i n opportunity i attend the meetini attended this monday's very pose meet

to show our appreciation. to you commissioner, veronese for this program. >> item 6, commission report. report on commission activity since last meeting october 9, 2019. >> commissioners, i'll call for public comment on this item. any member of the public wishes to give public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. any announcements that you would like to make at this time. vice president covington. >> vice president covington: i was thanked to thank commissioner veronese for his ongoing support regarding the stress unit. i think it's very admirable. he pursued money and training for the peer support group. i thank him for that. i wanted to say that i know that the president of our commission was there but the commemoration of the 30th anniversary was outstanding. it was just absolutely wonderful. it was very uplifting. i would think it might be a somber event, actually we laughed a lot. the st. francis fire boat was there. the mayor did a wonderful job as emcee. supervisor stephanie was there. there were people in the department who has been in the departm

, commissioner covington. commissioner veronese. >> commissioner veronese: chief, that picture of you is priceless. i'm not going to ask who you were on the phone with. >> with the chief. >> commissioner veronese: okay. that's a great picture to be used at another moment. getting to this narcan, july to september 2019, thank you, thank you. this is great information, and it shows that from july of 2018 to september, we've more than doubled in narcan administration, and it appears to be some sort of a spike in april -- straike that. it goes in april from may to 181, a huge spike. i don't know what's going on on the streets, but clearly, something happened at the end of may that could cause that to -- would cause that to spike, and i'm not sure if the department of health has this information but if they don't, we should probably give it to them because it paints a picture of what's going on in the streets, and it would be great to know what the strategy is because these numbers have gone up. it's gone up to 214 from then. is this something that we see once this strain -- is it fent

veronese. all those in favor? opposed? none. congratulations. madame secretary. >> item 7, commission report. report on commission activities since last meeting on august 28, 2019. >> president nakajo: commissioners, i don't know if you have any items. the only item i would like to remind us all, we have a date for the retirement, which is going to be scheduled for i believe november 18, which is a monday, over at headquarters. we're looking at a 4:00 start. the letters have been sent out. we'll find out who will attend, but that date is november 18. any other comments in terms of the commission reports at this point? commissioner? >> commissioner veronese: yes, i wanted to thank you, president nakajo, remiss in not thanking you for coming to the event on saturday and representing the commission. i appreciate you and thank you for that. >> thank you very much. i would like to acknowledge you, commissioner veronese, for all of the hard work and the success of that staircase event. i hit the staircase area sales force and was just taken by the excitement, the boost, the music, the atten

president covington and thank you for the second, commissioner veronese. any member of the public on that motion? public comment is closed. madam secretary. >> clerk: is that a unanimous? (roll call). thank you very much. >> clerk: item 6. report of chief of department on current issues, activities and events since the fire commission meeting on august 28, 2019 including budget, special events, communications and outreach to other government agencies and report from operations deputy chief on overall field operations including greater alarm fires, emergency medical services, bureau of fire prevention and investigation. homeland security and the airport division. >> president nakajo: thank you very much. good morning, chief nicholson. >> good morning. chief janine nicholson. this is my report since our previous commission meeting. thank you for moving the agenda around for me, and good morning, president, vice president and commissioners. obviously, today is 9/11. this morning we had a commemoration ceremony at every firehouse in the city. i thank those who came to station five, commission

. >> president nakajo: thank you very much, commissioner cleaveland. veronese? >> commissioner veronese: can we see the -- >> yes, i will get it to you. >> commissioner veronese: then as far as the chase center is concerned, i'm sure you've run all the scenarios of having different events stacked on top of that one event, right, because you have the baseball stadium there, you have rush hour traffic, you've got, you know, god knows what other you know street closures happening on the weekend there. have you looked at the calendar and kind of run worst-case scenario of what that would be like? >> chief nicholson: yes, we have, absolutely. >> commissioner veronese: i have another thing and i forgot to write it down so i forgot it. i just remembered. in regards to the ongoing discussions you've had with the department of health on the ambulances sitting on hospitals, those are still ongoing? any progress there since our last meeting? >> chief nicholson: so we are gathering data around the time on task stuff and time at the hospital that we were talking about, but my meeting with dr. colfax

, commissioner alioto veronese i could see why he would think that three would be low, i also thought the same thing. thought also brought up the question regarding the new chief of health safety and wellness. it is part of charge for that person going to be actively trying to change part of the culture in the department so that people feel more at ease in coming forward with things they are dealing with that my fall under stress? >> that is absolutely the core of the issue. absolutely. the culture change is one of the major factors. years ago we had a culture that we had a code, season firefighter, that has it is a culture change that takes some time. . >> v.p. covington: when i would visit the scene, people would encourage me, rub your back up against the wall, your turnout coat looks clean. i heard that was not the best thing to do. that is still going on, that, you know, so much so. thank you very much. >> thank you very much vice president covington. before we start and continue with, chief nicholson? >> if i can just respond to the work-related injury count in terms of stress. i

conversations that i've had with each of them individually. . >> comm. alioto veronese: we are in the educating phase which i think is important so they can get a better sense of what we are seeing out there? >> yeah. we are bringing the statistics, the percentage of our calls and, you know, doctor cole sees it in his emergency room. yeah. . >> comm. alioto veronese: i mean, i'm sure he sees it in his emergency room, but i think these conversations you're having is important, because it tells me you're getting those numbers out in the field because some of those people are not seeing the emergency room because they are being treated our people. those of the conversations we going to have. where the funding can come from for these programs that will benefit all of us. >> i think that's really important. in regards to other hospitals, are there other hospitals that aren't under dph, right? i noticed driving up post or bush, on the side of st. francis, now our ambulances are being parked across the street from the hospital, as opposed to in front of the emergency room entrances. i am hop

for his report. i appreciate there's an update to the drone program that commissioner veronese asked for, so i appreciate that being part of your report. >> chief nicholson: thank you, president nakajo, commissioners, maureen. so the command staff and i, as i told you the -- at -- at the previous commission meeting, deputy chief velo and myself and deputy chief wyrsch have been visiting the fire stations as well as having a town hall at station 49. we're continuing to do that, and we're getting good feedback, good communications with everyone, and as they say, sometimes the best ideas happen over a cup of coffee and we're really getting some good ideas and some good conversations have begun. so we're getting some really good ideas from the stations and once we get that, we'll setup a plan for command staff to go to all of the stations. members have until june 17 to apply for the committee and work groups that we are going to be reorganizing and reestablishing. we've had several committees and work groups over the years, and not all of them have been active. and what we would li

covington. [applause] >> commissioner vernoses -- veronese, cleaeland -- we are joined by both of our captains. and all of the members. thank you. [applause] >> they were very patient during the time this is under construction, in this area did not lose any of the members. we just redistributed and we are able to keep up with the response time. everyone is really glad that they are back here. this is our largest station. it houses an engine, which is an officer and three members, and a truck which is an officer in four members. it has room for growth. it also has our division house, and the city itself, and the fire department is divided into two divisions. this is division two, and the other division is 19th and folsom. during the workweek, or 24/7, the city is bifurcated in those division chiefs. we have michael in division today. [applause] >> they oversee the strategy, tactics, and operations for the city under the direction of the deputy chief of operations. it's 21,000 plus square feet. i still haven't visited it entirely since it has been completed. our members just moved i

, when commissioner veronese and i toured, it was quite educational. that was when you first came on the commission, i think. yeah, so the big problem then was that there was a training program and people were leaving for a higher paid job in the bay area. has that been -- it's been satisfied where if they sign up and commit to training, they have to commitme for a certain amount of time? >> you can leave if it doesn't work out, but things have been pretty steady, i would say, since i've been there. you know, part of it is that we have -- you know, we're going to have 50% of our staff, dispatch staff having under five years. we have a lot of new dispatchers on the team. there's positives to that and also challenges. it means we need increase -- we need to pay more attention to supervision, so we have less experienced dispatchers and training. although i will say that we do dispatcher of the month and we do accommodations all the time, and we seen some amazing, io iowa -- amazing work by our rookie dispatchers. there is the new group that's coming in or just started on monday, our new

francee covington. >> commissioner joe alioto verone veronese, chief of department janine nicholson. >> members of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes on any matter within the jurisdiction and does not appear in the agenda. speakers shall address the remarks as a whole and not to any personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate with the speaker. a lack of response by the commissioners or department personnel does not constitute agreement with statements made during public comment. >> thank you madam secretary. in terms of general public comments, is there any member of the public that wishes to give a public comment at this time? seeing none, the item is closed madam secretary. >> discussion of the minutes, approving minutes of the regular meeting on april 24th, 2019. >> is there any member of the public that wish to give public comment at this time, in terms of the approval of the minutes, please approach the podium. seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners any questions or comments on the minutes? if not, i'm going to need a motion and se

commissioner veronese, we included the identifiable home address report. >> i like that, that's a good idea. >> i'm trying to decipher everything here. >> you added the totals, i appreciate that. >> the totals are here, 37% with no identifiable addresses, i have to rename this report, i think. sometimes we have to be aware that a lot of these are repeat patients, something to think about. for our e.m.s. 6 report, we have some notable statistics. if you notice on this chart, our top three callers in the month of march, our top caller called 22 times. we have that down to 6 in april. the second highest caller was 21 calls in march, down to 8. and our third highest caller, 19 calls in march, down to 2. i think that it's a very successful program we're working on with e.m.s. 6, they referred 124 patients they offer support to. we neconnected with 49 of them. 49 of them were either sent to a shelter, program, or service to help them in their need. so great job by e.m.s. 6. so fire marshal put it together a comprehensive report here, he's available for clarification for the fire prevention and in