commissioner veronese, you have a comment. commissioner hardeman, at this point, i just wanted to report to you, colleagues, that on march 20, we have a meeting with the guardians of the city to follow up on the presentations and the guardian did at this last commission meeting. and we had chief rivera attend and captain sorano as well. we had director corso, myself, from guardians of the city we had three members. and four items and one as improvement of communication and coordination because of the recent towing of the antique rigs to t.i. as well as the wrap of the antique rigs in terms of security as well as preservation. the other item that we talked about was the request from the commission and the department for a reimbursement for the cost of the towing and the wrap of the antique rigs that was voted down by the guardians of the city at their meeting with a memo to us on march 11. at that meeting i asked that if the representatives through james lee take back the request of the department back to the board of directors

commissioner veronese? >> commissioner veronese: thank you. i think the commission should -- as commissioner nakajo had said earlier, acknowledge the service of ann kronenberg who's been a servant to san francisco for 30 years -- i've known ann for at least 25 years when i worked with her husband in the d.a.'s office. he has since passed. he was a great man, but ann, also, is a wonderful lady and a great servant to this city, and it would be great if this city or the commission, perhaps, sent a letter to ann, acknowledging -- i know we spoke earlier, this may have been last year, about doing certificates of sorts, but -- from the commission, but at the very least, i think a letter to ann, thanking her for her service would be appropriate. secondly, i wanted to -- the stress unit needs to be -- stress unit, a resolution needs to be agendaized for a future meeting. i would also like to put on that list to calendar for a future meeting a future discussion on the housing issue. i know that as the commissioner covington had just mentioned to me, th

thank you. >> let me finish with commissioner veronese. finish your thought. >> i believe commissioner hardeman has been sitting silently and patiently as well. >> i'm not in any hurry. >> i think it's important to have the chief speak first. give us your input. >> sure, i'm happy to take any specific questions. it's been a long day, i might be able to be more concise if i get specific questions. commissioner veronese, thank you very much for putting this forward. i've been a long-time supporter of the stress unit and i've worked with a number of members including captain griffin, we have two new members, nazareta and mahoney. certainly i would like their input, as well as griffin, i know retired member christy, endeavoring to look at building on what we have, i really think is a great model. i do. i know there are a number of departments, i know commissioner veronese, you mentioned long beach, they are very progressive. but there are departments that don't have full time members that are firefighters and/or medics that are truly peer memb

addition to president cleaveland and commissioners hardeman and covington are commissioner joe alioto veronese, as well as commissioner steven nakajo. thank you to the commission. certainly my commission is here, mark gonzalez, jean nicholson lieutenant t nicholson, lieutenant tom murphy in the back. section chief tony malloy, thank you very much for all the hard work. this is a facility that's very unique, nearly one of its kind in the state of california. we're building without a whole lot of blueprint or other facilities to look at. so that's why it took a lot of time and attention to detail to make this facility the great facility that it will be and that our members so deserve. public works, i will say i do consider director nuru a partner of mine. we come together. we have two other projects hopefully looking forward to being delivered soon, hopefully, before i retire. i know it's a top of your priority list as it is yours. thanks, mohamed. brian dahl also helped with this today. we brought good weather. also we look forward to holding accountable the contractors. i heard they're going t

so thank you, commissioner veronese for doing that. seeing no further comments, madam secretary, next item. >> clerk: item seven, fire commission election of officers. item a, nomination and election of commission president. >> is there any comment -- public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. vice president nakajo. >> thank you very much, mr. president. colleagues, at this particular time, i would like to advance and nominate as president of this fire commission ken cleaveland, who is presently our fire commissioner. i have worked with many commissioners, all of us have had an opportunity to serve in some capacity as officers, as well. i know that commissioner veronese, you've just joined us, but i think that for us as commissioners, that concept of collective leadership is both in leadership positions, but also as members of the commission, that we all have fair access as well as respect among us. and commissioner cleaveland in the year that he's been serving, i have never met a more -- and there are a lot of

commissioner veronese? >> chief, quick question. two or three nights ago, we received a text message in the middle of the night about an earthquake off the state of alaska. that happened, an 8.0 earthquake, i think was a pretty big one, and then several small ones, i think in the last couple of days locally. i just think it goes to show how important it is -- of course what happened up in the napa and sonoma fires, and the special warning systems, and the warning they got out in hawaii last week that must have been absolutely terrifying. so the tsunami warning that was after the earthquake warning didn't actually happen, so i'm wondering -- i didn't actually receive it until 7:20, saying the tsunami was coming at 6:20, so i would have been underwater. >> i'm not sure i'd know what to do if i'd received that text message, and i know a lot of people probably feel the same way. i think as a fire department, we have somewhat of an obligation -- i know it's not just us, but it's des and fire, but we have the obl

>> i want to congratulate commissioner veronese's cousin on winning the british open. he looks like your cousin. >> does he? >> anybody disagree? there's italian heritage there, connection, he has got to be sicilian. >> i will look him up. i wasn't aware of it. >> this is the win of what? >> british open. he is italian. >> oh, right. >> i think we wanted to put the chief's residence on the next meeting's agenda to discuss that. >> i have the chief's resident's update. we do have a closed session settlement that needs to be approved. are we going to put the mayor's transition update on the next -- >> i don't think we will be ready at that point. >> and commissioners, just as a reminder, i will not be present for 8-8. deputy chief gonzalez is a good fill-in for sure. he is limited in one aspect and that is of the chief's residence, he doesn't have sort of the knowledge i might have but chief rivera is very well versed on it. i just wanted to raise that for you. >> okay. >> any other commissioners have any additional items to add? >> just a clarification, between now and

>> absolutely his. >> commissioner veronese: i believe it was a battalion chief and who else was that? >> john sikora and jeff morano were the ones that were there. jeff is retired but there were other members that are still active, correct? and they also honored dan armenta who died of cancer a few years ago. but i can give you more information on that his. >> commissioner veronese: i'm sure the full commission would like to learn more about that and these gentlemen and why they were honored to. thank you. >> absolutely. >> president cleaveland: thank you. >> commissioner hardeman: i will try to be brief. it was a good report on all the equipment. it looks like it is going in the right direction. good news. i don't know if this is you or chief gonzalez, but as i was goofing around, they had a special about houses and fires on government tb. this is something i had not heard before until -- on government television. this is something i had not heard before until that night. everyone has been recommending to me about closing bedroom doors when you go to bed at night. >> close when you