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Fire commission asks chief to design expanded peer support services; author to streamline resolution
Summary
After public testimony and lengthy commissioner debate, the San Francisco Fire Commission asked Chief Joanne Hayes White to develop a planning document for a restructured peer-support program and directed Commissioner Joe Alioto Veronese to return a shortened resolution; no final vote was taken.
The San Francisco Fire Commission on July 25 asked the fire chief to prepare a planning document laying out a state-of-the-art peer support services program for firefighters and deferred action on a detailed resolution that would rename and expand the department's existing stress unit.
The request followed public testimony and a long discussion among commissioners about the scope, timeline and potential budget impacts of formalizing peer supports. Commissioner Joe Alioto Veronese, who authored the measure, framed it as a planning document that would require the chief to report back with recommendations on staffing, training, governance and minimum standards. Veronese said the change would let the department "create a state of the art unit" and urged colleagues to support the effort.
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