>> welcome. i'm carlo the director of mission for st. anthony foundation i want to thank everyone.for joining us in this special celebration. blessing and dedication of this facility which moving forward known as the caplisten family oasis shelter. [applause]

>> i want to extend a warm welcome to our mayor, thank you for being here. supervisor preston who i saw, thank you. and executive director of homelessness and supportive housing. thank you for being here today. thank you for everyone for coming. you know we are here to honor the people all of the people involved in transforming motel to a shelter. to support the families that live here and also to celebrate had the facility stands for. jot oasis protect demonstrates that is public had the city, private sector and faith based organizations all come together to work around a common goal. that goal is to support our neighbors in need especially the most vulnerable. as you know, since the height of the pandemic, the founz agsz with the city operating the oasis as a shelter for families. in june, when michael and elaine

heard about the challenges associated with keeping the shelter open, they stepped up in a major way. if not for the generosity of the family trust, backed by the board at st.an thon and he commitment of providence it continue this good work and of course lodgist cal and financial support of our city; we would not be here today. jot oasis is here to provide a place of shelter and transitional housing. more importantly, a safe place for women and children had they have nowhere to turn. to speak more to that i invite the executive director of providence tah patricia doyle to share thoughts. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. providence foundation of san francisco believes that true change begins with compassion

and collaboration. and prior to getting started i would like to introduce the board of directors and executive staff. chairman of the board mr. james blanden, please, [applause]. lanita williams. bernadette anthony and canisha roads. thank you for joining me. providence foundation has proudly operated the oasis facility here as the emergency family shelter center since the start of the pandemic. march of 2020. providing a safe, secure resident, case management and support services to women and families. providence was introduced to the

oasis by supervisor dean preston >> who not only assist in the obtaining the oasis hotel and i to operate and stay at the oasis. we have been here for over 3 years, a long time and the shelter in place contract will be here for the next 9 years. [applause] had the previous owners first expressed the intention so sell the oasis that meant that the shelter in place was at risk of closing down. st. anthony stepped up and st. anthony foundation is a testament to our unwaivering commitment to address homelessness and improving the lives of our most vulnerable population. here in the city.

together, we have built more than a shelter, we have created hope and opportunity for those in need. our homeless families with children and women who are at risk of violence. to tell you more about our partnership, i would like to bring forward st. anthony's foundation ceo neil. [applause] [laughter] thank you. >> good morning, everybody we are here to celebrate and we want to celebrate that is right and good about our world and san francisco and about the good work of so many good people. we are here today because we are on a mission from god. this mission is not only to support those who are most vulnerable and in need of our

help, but also to help them to sustainablely find a way out of that cycle of poverty, homelessness and abuse that too many experienced for generations. and we are here to help these most vulnerable people because -- we have decided and have a vision to bring together the best that we have to offer. providence foundation the operator of the shelter. the city of san francisco and st. anthony to provide the services with the focus on the person so this we can help people to get out of the situation. and we are here to help 300 more people every year to exit the cycle homelessness and poverty and abuse every year. we are here today because of the good work of so many people of good limp we are here because providence our friends and partners set up the shelter on the very difficult circumstances in covid times and run it

extremely limp and they will continue to do this, thank you providence foundation for this. [applause] we are here because the good work of providence foundation was supported by the good work of elected officials starting dean preston and his team who helped setting up this shelter. as a first step, thank you to them as well. and we are here and we are here especially we because of the caplin's they had vision andien officersity to step and lay the ground work to prevent eviction, thank you very much you are an inspiration to us. [applause] >> and we are here the board and staff of st. anthony got inspired bigenerosity of the caplin's and put their money and work behind that and create a

vision and stretch to make that happen. thank you at this time board and staff of st. anthony. and -- i'm coming to the end there are men to thank. moved by the spirit but not longer than 90 seconds. mayor. gone over. so -- we are here because the mayor and her team at hsh supported this vision. and they found a way of supporting us in a very creative and nonbureaucratic way how to put the best of everything together that is something what we are grateful for which thank you, mayor and thank you to your team for that support. [applause] you know what, most of all we are here because we have a job to do and our job is to really serve the people we are called to serve. and to make the change happen. we are bringing things together in a now way that is now to all

of us it is ditch, but the price is worth it. thank you for starting long journey with us we know we can be successful. thank you. [applause] and i would like to turn it over to our mayor. [applause] >> all right! let me say how excited i am to be here. and in bureaucratic years this went pretty fast. things take long to do things with the city and county of san francisco and i gotta say, how everyone came together to make this possible was extraordinary. i am really honord and grateful to st. anthony for the w they do in san francisco all over the city to help families and help people in need. i'm especially grill for the partnership with providence foundation and i want to shout

out to patricia dole for hard work in helping to take care of this shelter and other family shelters throughout san francisco. [applause] thank you. for in the only always stepping up but also the job opportunity you provide to so many african-americans in this city. we know that after can americans represent almost 40% of the homeless population and the work that you do to help make sure they are housed and provided with opportunity to work in the same facility system irrelevant extraordinary work that needs to be recognized. we appreciate our relationship with providence foundation so thank you very much. >> i want to say to the caplin family and your generosity, we would not be here were not for the lord puting project on your heart through st. anthony to make this possible. i money this is how god works.

in is how we make magic happen for people and families. and i want to give perspective here because -- i have been you will be hearing from others who will be talking a bit about their various experience. living through this place and being able to exit into permanent supportive housing opportunity. i want to just put something in perspective. this city does extraordinary work. there is a lot of criticism but since 2018, we helped over 10,000 people exit homelessness in san francisco. and we have never had even a point in time count with 10,000 on the street in the city that is some perspective. i heard a few claps back that. [laughter] [applause]. every single night we are

housing almost 15,000 people in our shelter and permanently supportive housing developments. doing extraordinary work. in our last time count san francisco was the only count in the bay area that saw a reduction in homelessness. 15% in unsheltered homelessness and 3.5% reduction over all in homelessness. the thing is, we are investing we are doing the work, and fortunately for us, we are blessed to have extraordinary partners to help us achieve goals especially sometimes when the city is not able to step up completely and provide the necessary resources and the capacity to dot work. and this is where st. anthony come in the fear of loseing as a shelter they're supported families and supported people who are escaping situations of domestic violence and supporting folks to turn their lives

around, this place was be threatened. and shafereen mcfadden and her team because of when we were dealing with jorge reasonable doubt up their sleeves and made sure not one family was displaced. in fact, they helped to get people in a more permanent, stable position. worked really hard to do this. and when the opportunity came, and neil reached out and said we can pull something together >> a great he hold me unanimous donor i'm grateful the family agreed to allow us to recognize them for what they are doing here today. but if were not for them this would not be happening now. this is a big deal. the city will provide the resources for the operational expenses related keeping place going. the steal pay for a number of other repairs and other thing this is need to occur. so we are doing something bulled

not do it without the support of perking this building and in our housing portfolio for families who need it the most. this is extraordinary. and i'm so proud of everyone involved in this project and makeing possible. in sees this as a beacon. home and life and dh space is a place of light and a place of hope. one that will be open and visible to families who need it when they do need it. because this city has done extraordinary things to help people and i'm proud this is just another opportunity to ensure that families have a safe, affordable place to call home as a transition to something permanent in san francisco. i want to thank each one of you for being involved. this is a game changer and we will continue to do all the amazing work we are doing. no, we are not where we want to be.

but working together with our private partnerships and our religious institutions and including the inter~ faith council i see michael thank you for joining us. working together, we will get there. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> i will introduce myself. i'm shafereen mcfadden director of hsh. homelessness and supportive housing. so, i am so excited be here today and i want to thank supervisor preston for your initial advocacy ongoing advocacy on this building. certainly, patricia doyle and the work your team has done this is an exciting space for us. i think the first time i came here as canearbya said it was 13 months ago.

i was struck biby the sense of the community. women, children special fathers here. everyone i talked to said we want to retain the sense of community. we feel safe here and we are concerned this place will close before we have a chance to move into permanent housing. at the time, i think we were really trying desperate low to figure out how this would happen and you know i think we put it in the winds. i agree with the mayor that god works in mystereius ways. thank you to the caplins for your amazing donation and neil to spearhead this to make sure we were able to come together and figure out how to support families at the oasis. you know this is the way we are going. thinking more about noncondition agreeigate shelter.

families need privacy and community this is a good location for that. . i want to thank my team at hsh. also providence and your teams. and neil's and everyone at st. anthony this was in the easy. part of the reason is because we have 2 different organizations with 2 different cultural identities. and so coming together and trying to figure out how we make that work with all of the services and programs that providence offers, and all of the service that st. anthoniments to bring in was not, it was a challenge. i thank everybody for continuing on that vision and able it say. we know we will get there in the end even had it is hard. appreciation to all of you. and i'm excited to bring up -- she is going to tell her story but somebody when has been at the oasis for a number of

months. her daughter and you will speak, too. i believe after, so, i just they are good examples of what the oasis means for families. means for women and children. and what we realliment to see is people to leave places like the oasis, go on in housing and be the great people and the san franciscans they will be. looking forward to hearing your words. thank you. [applause]. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for having mow. a special thanks to providence and patrish why and everyone here at providence. thank you so much. thank you for the staff you have here. i would like to say thank you to providence issue st. anthony the

mayor and everyone who made it happen i was not sure what would happen or where i would go or that the future would hold. after losing a child to suicide last year, i became homeless and hopeless. since move nothing providence i gained permanent housing at city gardens in san francisco. now i have hope they can do anything the support my family and provide a safe and permanent housing for them. a thanks to the staff in the case managers here at providence. they encourage me never to give up. and to also put me and my children first. thank you for supporting my son and encourage him to play football. he is now playing football at galileo high school and he is the honor roll student. i hope that -- [applause] i hope

this future family who is in to providence utilize the services and the support than i have to offer. thank you so much. [applause] >> i will translate. >> [speak spanish] i would like to thank everyone for being here today. it is not easy for some of the families that arrive here for the first time to get a head start. [speaking spanish] >> thank you for projects like this. my family can come with a safe,

welcoming and warm place for mow to be. thank you. [applause] thank you very much. >> all right. now going to be time for blessing st.an thoen is fran civic an ministry i like to invite father ma sada and michael the executive director of interfaith council. they will be joining us on stage and lead us in a blessing. >> good morning, everybody. you join me in blessing this beautiful place. god, you are beauty, you are faith you are hope you are love. you are everything that we have. we ask to you bless this place. this beautiful place. that everybody was here is feel

safe, peaceful and be welcomed. as a community. we thank you for everybody who make this happen. we thank you for the heart this is came together to help people in need. we praise your will and timing and love, for your people. i bring the love and the prayers of the 800 communities of faith and religious institutions in san francisco. moles and pat have been part of a round table of ceo leaders and i have been hearing about this and many of you who travel up franklin did in the pay attention to it before. now i look at it in a different life it is an oasis. a respite from struggle as people gain the strength to move on. the place is blessed. it blessed by the generosity of the caplin's and response. it is blessed by the good people

of faith here and add to that. thank you for giving hope to people in need. they are not forsaken and you brought everyone together through faith and love. to make our assistant district attorney a better place, amen. [applause] now like to invite tim dunn the chair of st. anthony, forward. >> good morning everybody. delighted be here. want to thank all of our donors for everything than i have done for us including the caplin family and the city for being a great host with us on the project. it is pretty phenomenonal to see what if we get people together wheno can accomplish, so.

i'm not going to speak long, i wanted to say thank you and thank you for joining us and it is grit to be a part of this. [applause]. >> short and sweet. i want to thank everyone for coming and being a part of this special blessing. and dedication to what this facility means for the families living here. this will conclude our ceremony but before that on behalf of st. anthonies i invite to you max's opera cafe to join us for lunch. all right. thank you. [applause]

>> hi. i'm prihere at the gorgeous san francisco precylinderiel tunnel p. i'm here with ceo and president of chamber of commerce rodney fong. tell us about the chamber and when make its and in san francisco. i great diversity of san francisco businesses from cars to mall businesses and hospitality and instructs.

so the chamber of commerce hen here for 173 years and represents them as 1 ecosystem. tell us about the tunnel top this is is i beautiful new space create in the the left year >> it is beautiful and this was an army base convert today a park. but i chose this location for you because to mow it is a coninfluence of nature readaptation and men a ship will in to port with goods and trades. and important it remember this san finish sitos the edge of the west coast a great per city and important piece to the economic vitality of the pacific rim. we have an initiative here, too, to green our city as much as possible. it is an exciting time. come out and check out san francisco and the presidio tunnel top when you are in our per of the world. rodney thank you for being here and thank you for showing us. franciscans have witnessed since

the worst days of the days of the aids crisis. there was a time in south of market where i live when the worst thing my neighbors encountered was illegal trash dumping or an illegal encampment, but with increasing frequency these days, it's a dead bodies, bodies, lives lost to overdoses in a year on pace to surpass all

others in our history for drug overdose deaths. we all know our struggle to meet the challenges of this moment. it is hamstrung by another crisis as a wholly foreseeable crisis as which city hall candidly did not do enough early enough to address. and that is our police understaffing crisis. if we don't act substantively and effectively, i believe we are on pace for a staffing shortage that an sfpd commander last week called potentially catastrophic. right now, nearly a third of the police police department we are supposed to have isn't there. and worse, between 350 and 400 current police officers are right now eligible for retirement. over half the police department could be gone if we don't act now. our police department isn't our only understaffed department. so stipulated. but by any measure, our police understaffed in crisis, in my judgment, is acute enough and unprecedented enough and consequential enough to the safety of our city and its

residents and its visitors that it deserves its own solution. that is what my charter amendment endeavors to provide. that is not to deny my other staffing shortages or to minimize them. and that is not to deny or minimize the need for other solutions. and i'm open to being part of those discussion as now it is my understanding, adding that another amendment may be offered today. and because those here deserve transparency about an amendment that may significantly alter this charter amendment, in my view, possibly diminish its effectiveness, i would like to invite supervisor safai to fill us in. if you're. are you sure i can talk in general about it, but i'm going to. there's a lot of people here that want to do public comment, so i'm just going to speak briefly, kind of set the table. i agree with a lot of what you said. chair. appreciate the fact that that you highlight that this is something that has not been addressed effectively, and let's call it out what it is. i mean, the budget, the direction of the

city leadership, the city rests with the mayor of this city. the mayor sets the tone. she allocates the resources for the budget and has total control over how that money is allocated . and i think we can remember for when we were talking about our housing crisis just two years ago, there was a push to allocate money from the reserve, about $50 million was allocated and the mayor chose not to spend that money. and that is the power of the charter and power of the way the city is set up in the city and county of san francisco. i had a hearing last year. i talked a little bit about it last week where we talked about the overall emergency response system. we talked about wall times in our emergency rooms and how long people wait when they have been in an accident or some type of emergency, how long they wait to even get into a bed, how long it takes to get eight nurses to come and the understaffing of our nurses in our hospital, als, also, how long it takes the

phone to actually be answered in a 911 call emergency. our 911 call operators are down about 30 staff right now. our paramedics, our mental health providers. i mean, there is an entire safety net that deals with all of the crisis in the city. and actually, i was i just want to point out, we talked about last week about retail theft. i've been talking about retail theft for three years. we've put resources, forces, energy, effort behind it and found out last week that the police department had created a so-called strike team and that's with 400 less officers. so they're doing more with less. and let's just put on the record for the listening population. we allocate money for police academies when those academies are not filled, we use that money for overtime to fill the staffing in the in the district stations later today. item

number two, we're going to talk about foot patrols and putting officers back out into the street, into the community to do true community policing. i think that's an important part of the conversation as well. so today we are i do have an amendment that talks about about dealing with the fiscal crisis that our city faces. the mayor in a very unprecedented fashion. last week asked every single department in the city to cut their department budgets by 3, and that is millions and millions of dollars when you're talking about public health, when you're talking about fire, police, mental health, hsa, every rec and park, every single department in the city. it was reiterated in the paper again today that that is an unprecedented move by the mayor and that talks about the fiscal crisis that our city faces. we have a half $1 billion budget deficit that we're facing. so in that context, we

are being asked to make this decision. it's an important one. chair and i have stood with you and said, we do need to change the conversation around police staffing. we need to do that, but we need to do it in a responsible way. and we need to think about either existing revenue that is out there that we have that can be restructured. some of the different revenue that's come in over the last two years has generated additional revenue for our city, is not necessarily allocated. and the mayor, again, has the ability to make decisions, plans and priorities in the upcoming budget. and it's very well that she could do that. so my amendment simply says either existing revenue or future revenue should be tied to this, given the fiscal crisis that our city faces. and i think anyone in the audience and anyone in the city and county would say, if we are going to allocate anywhere between 20 to $30 million a year to this in a mandatory fashion, what kind of

impacts is it going to have on our 911 call operator? our nurses, our paramedics, our firefighters, our sheriffs, our our bus drivers, every single aspect of the city and county. and so i have always been consistent about being fiscally prudent and looking at it in such a way that we have the ability to achieve the goals that we're setting out and not harming the overall safety net. i've been consistent about that. so i simply say in the amendment that we're going to talk about a little bit later that that this would be tied to either existing or future revenue. we can adjust that. and also keep in place the policy goal that you've set, which sets the numbers of officers that we're trying to achieve. and i think that given the context that we're in today, i think that's the right way to approach this and not to undermine the entire system of public safety in our city. thank you. thanks thank you. supervisor sohi, could i ask

one? i just i think we mentioned this, but it would be helpful if i don't know if there's a staff or someone could get sort of the highlighted. it's incorporated throughout. but the main, the main portion is on page four, lines 12 through 17 that talks about a full funding date that would be certified by the comptroller in writing that there would either be existing revenue restructured or or new revenue passed by the voters. can i ask because it isn't clear to me. sure there is a first year appropriation of $16.8 million in the initial year. is that is there a tax hike trigger on that as well or is that does it is for the entire concept? yeah, it goes it goes based on the entire cost. so you would have we'd have to identify all new revenue for the entire

portion of what you're proposing . okay. would it be and by the way, just to underscore what you're proposing in year one, the almost 17 million would not go into effect until july or something because we'd be passed by the voters, be certified and it would be in the upcoming budget, which we do in june. we vote on in july. it doesn't go into effect until august. so there is time during these budget negotiations that were that are upcoming for that to happen sooner if the mayor so choose. and you and you were and the board and others were part of that conversation. so there is a faster way to achieve what you're proposing through the normal budget process. but this also sets the tone for upcoming revenue for the for the following years right? okay. so thank you. sure so i appreciate that. there are theoretically faster ways, but historically we i have concerns about the lack

of certainty. and one of the things that i really emphasize in the process of working on this was we need to solve an historically unprecedented police staffing crisis. and to do that, we need to give the san francisco police department something it does not get at here at city hall and that is the certainty of knowing over a period of time that they are going to have the resources for five years to finally deliver on the promise of a fully staffed police department that this city has been denied for decades. i think we're in a moment in time when this is an incredibly important public policy priority . so i'd like to just ask commander jones there was just raised, you know, there is an option for the mayor to propose budget supplementals that. can you walk us through how in your time in the police department, how do budget supplemental go when they come to the board of

supervisors? i would call it an all out battle. well, usually when we have supplemental is on the table, i think that in the past people have turned to it. that's always a good option for you. but we are fighting tooth and nail every time we have to go in to justify why we need that money. not to say that we shouldn't justify it, but there is never certainty that we're going to get it and i think that that's what makes it really challenging to continue to put all of our resources in place, because we're not sure if we're going to have those resources the next day. okay, great. thank you. vice chair walton. thank you. chair dorsey. just a couple of things to point out as we continue the conversation. the lack of staffing for the police department is not due to the budget. it's due to the fact that nobody wants to be a police officer and that folks are not showing up to the police academy . and i'll save my deeper comments for later. but certainly, you know, with all due respect, commander jones,

you don't expect that the police department to be able to speak for the legislature. supervisor dorsey, your question was forcing her to speak for this body. and i don't think that's appropriate. it is it is a historic perspective that honestly, i lack i'm really can't speak for this body. okay i think the commander was addressing her during her time working on staffing. what is the experience of the police department? she was addressing the question that you forced her to answer. right. great supervisor sapphire, do you have . yeah, i would i would ask commander jones through the chair if you don't have people that can answer the phone when an emergency call happens and the call times are done, does that impact the service that you provide for the city? if 911 calls go unanswered, how does that impact your work? it's all pieces of the same puzzle. so response times has a component,

as well as an sfpd component. right. and then also, when you are called for service, either either a, b or a c call and you show up and you don't have that mental health technician or the paramedic from the fire department, if those cuts start to happen, how does that impact your work? it's more work. it's more work for you and it's ineffective. i can tell you one of the things i talked about last time and i just want to underscore this point, it shows how far the police department has come and how san francisco is a leader. my first month in office, we had a911 call it was an individual that had a restraining order against him on a neighbor. and when the police showed up there ended up being a police involved shooting. this individual was ended was a 5150 mental health problems, but there was not a mental health provider that showed up to deescalate the situation. and since that time, i know the protocol is if you have someone

that's in mental health crisis as mental health technician or professionally trained, you know, officers that have gone through that de-escalation techniques is changed the interact, is that correct? yes and so again, when we're underscoring what we're providing in the city in terms of not just police for our public safety, it's also the entire public safety net that's involved in that. it's mental health, it's 911. it's paramedics, it's all of the system. and i think that's what we're trying to balance out today. i appreciate chair dorsey . i think that this has been and i'll just say from my own experience, there's always been the political football of the police academies. how that ends up through the budget process. i will say last last year, the $25 million supplemental was a pretty easy process given the situation. there was maybe a little bit of debate about ultimately how the neighborhood police stations were versus the

downtown police stations were provided. but in the end, the 25 supplemental went through too, and i think that was pretty positive for the city and for the police department. but i would say ultimately, what we're being asked to do today in this fiscal crisis, even if we were to wave a wand and give you the money today and then take the money away from all those other pieces, it would impact your ability to provide that work. and that's what we're trying to balance out. we're trying to balance out the importance of all of the different pieces in public safety. given this fiscal crisis. and i can't underscore enough how bad this fiscal crisis is when we have 34% office vacancy in our downtown alone and hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue shortfall because of that, it impacts the entire budget. and so that's what we're trying to do. supervisor dorsey chair dorsey was saying either existing or new revenue, then we can balance this out and have a much more

thoughtful process around public safety. and i agree with you 1,000. we need to do everything we can to get officers into the police department. and there has been a lack of desire to want to be part of this department in the city and county. and so this could be a positive step in that direction. but i also know that there are some newly hired officers over the last couple of years that it could create some division for as well. i mean, if you have someone that was just hired in the last year or two and they weren't offered $75,000 or some signing bonus, what kind of impact do you think that would have on the department's morale and for the newly hired officers, commander? i don't think that our newly hired officers would walk away because they didn't receive $75,000. i think that that's a bonus to get people walking through the door. other agencies all across the bay area and all across the nation are offering incentives to have people come in. and i don't think it's going to make anybody leave because they didn't get it. i think it can really only be positive. and in

regards to that, $25 million, i mean, we talked about it. yes, it did pass in the end. and it was a tremendous amount of effort. but we knew we were probably going to need that on the front end because of the staffing crisis right. so knowing that we were going to need it and didn't get it right from the get go caused us to have to ask for it later. and i think that's the consistency that we're talking about it. we want to know that we're going to be able to have what we need. so we can so we can continue on. and i think it's really challenging when we have to keep going back. and that's why something like this would be really, really positive for the police department to have the reassurance that we would have the funding available to do the things we need to do. all right. thank you. great thank you. supervisor sophia, i don't disagree agree that there are other departments that have staffing issues and staffing crises. and i appreciate the points that it is all interrelated. but it need not legislatively be all interrelated in a single charter

amendment. and i think that where i have a problem with this is it feels to me like this this amendment is holding hostage the city's ability and voters ability to make progress on a public safety crisis that they're facing. but we can discuss that. supervisor that's a little extreme. hostage given the context of what's happening in the world right now. i think that's a little extreme use of words, but i'll just leave that there. and i would just say at the end of the day, supervisor, we have to be conscious of all of the different services that are provided in this city right now. we are going to have to make some very, very difficult choices. i invite you to be part of the budget process this year. engage very concerned distantly because we are going to have to choose between providing after care for children and providing gardeners and busses and police officers and paramedics and i could just keep going. i mean,

that's the level of the shortfall that we have ultimately at the end of the day, and i agree with you, we need to do everything we can to get officers, but we have allocated and i would like to ask the chief if you can come up for a second, chief, or maybe your your cfo, how much how much money is in the budget right now left over from the police academies that we have allocated to your department? i mean, i know we put out a money in for multiple academy classes is and when the remainder is there, you use that remainder to do overtime. right. to fill the void or fill the need of the officers is on a daily basis. i mean, we've put an unprecedented amount of money in there and giving you a lot of flexibility to hire, but that has not been fully realized. is that correct or not? exactly so we i think it was 100 officer is what we had what we got approved for to hire and as we stand, we're on pace

to reach 100. so there's not how many have you hired to date do you know i mean, approximately i'm not going to hold you to that. but just if you have that or if your cfo has that. so we've had one academy class in that started in september. there were 26 recruits in that. so we're right on target. the next class is scheduled for january, january, and it will be about the same size. yes, that's what we anticipate. i think it started out with 28, but we lost a couple. we usually have some attrition, right? i mean, so you'll have some remainder. so how many more classes do you have for the rest of the year and aren't there on the rolling basis or are there. yeah. so for academy classes is what we had anticipated with on average about 25 officers per class. so we actually were as director leon said, a little bit over the 25, right? so my point is that we've given you enough to hire at least 100 for this year, which is very similar to what supervisor dorsey is proposing, and we will do the same in the

upcoming year to ensure that we have enough resources and i think that's i think that's going to be a very thoughtful conversation that's in the context of all these other cuts that are happening. that was my only point. not to say that you haven't realized it. you haven't filled the academies. i know that when you don't, the remainder goes to overtime, correct. you're allowed to use that for overtime. well the salary savings to balance the books, yes. right. okay that was my only point. okay. for now. thank you. thank you. thank you. supervisor fire chief, i got a couple questions because i think and i appreciate the point about the funding for hiring, but fundamentally that is only half the equation because what we're really talking about here is recruitment. and i think that was something that vice chair walton brought up. we were in a very competitive environment where people, by and large don't want to be police officers in the numbers that they may have wanted to in past decades. i have said many times and i believe i don't know if i think you preceded the bill clinton era, where there was a lot of

federal support for local governments to hire, but we aware that we're in a demographic cliff issue where there is a disproportionately large number of police officers reaching retirement age at a time when there is a younger generation that isn't going after these kinds of jobs. and the numbers that we have. can you tell me what is the what is the current recruiting budget for the san francisco police department? it's 250,000. okay. can you tell me how long it's been? has it has it come up? is that has it gone up and down? it's been in that amount, i believe, since 2007 or so. 2007, 2008. i know you talked to police chiefs from around the country and observe police departments from around the state. are you aware that other police departments have higher recruiting budgets for what they need to do to compete in the most competitive law enforcement

personnel environment we have seen in modern history? yes. okay could you speculate on because i'm aware that, for example, we talk about the city of alameda is upped the ante with a $75,000 recruiting bonus. there there was a cal matters story on that that called it a success. they are solving their police staffing problem with with recruiting bonuses and solving the public safety challenges along with it. are you aware of others? i think the city is the city of antioch also doing all around the bay area, city of antioch city of alameda. i mean, their departments all around the bay area, redwood city, southern california, los angeles, new orleans pd here. i'll mention some more in the bay area. hayward vacaville, el cerrito, you mentioned antioch, seattle. and those are just a few. i mean, basically, this is a very competitive environment.

so the many departments have gone to signing bonuses to up their recruiting efforts. okay. can i ask, in your professional judgment, would the certainty of five years of funding to get us from an historically unprecedented under staffing level to the recommended staffing level? would that help? i believe so, yes. the impact is this recruiting. it really tastes consistency to get out of . the deficit that we're in right now. it's not going to happen in one year. it's going to take a persistent effort. and we've seen this from the great recession and we lost a lot of officers during that period. and we still haven't recovered because we've been up and down in terms of our efforts. so i do believe that the consistency of having a multi-year approach will be definitely helpful in terms of getting us closer to or getting us to where we're trying

to get to. okay can i ask also and i don't know if this would be for you or commander jones, but on the in terms of the predictability of funding for a five year period, it's my understanding that some of the upper end bonuses is that we're talking about are structured over 2 or 3 years. is that your understanding? and could you explain that? yes, that's correct. so a lot of these are tiered. so once somebody passes the academy, they would get an initial amount of money. once somebody passes probationary period, another some. so really, it's not just to get them through the door, but to get them to stay as well and have some longevity. so they're usually structured over the course of a couple of years. okay so if there was actually i suppose it's an academic question because it wasn't clear to me whether the amendment would allow for a first year payment. but one of the things that this was intentionally trying to solve for in creating a fund was to avoid the mistake of the 1994 charter amendment, which, while it had some teeth,

it was a minimum staffing level. it didn't have any kind of dollar dollar commitment that would get us to full staffing. what it concerns me is what has happened since the last charter amendment that removed the minimum staffing level could either or both of you address, since voters enacted prop e in 2020? can can you tell me where we were at that point and where we are now? i think we're several hundred officers less than we were in 2020. so 2019, we started to see things come down and 2020 it became a pretty steep decline. and i can get the exact numbers for you is like, are you aware of a drop or a decline in in san francisco's police staffing at that level? and it has it has it dropped prior higher to the minimum staffing level be removed? you

know, we had a minimum staffing level of 1971 police officers from 1994 until 2020, and sometimes it has gone up and down. my recollection is that we came close a couple of times, but it kept us honest somewhat. i want to get a sense of historically, where has it gone since prop e in 2020 was adopted . yes, since the property was initiated, we were at 1869 full duty officers in 2019 dropped to 1829. in 2020, it dropped to 17 70in 20, 21. dropped to 1588 and 2022 and has dropped to 1475 this year. okay okay, great. thank you. okay. supervisor coffee? yes s chief. so you said the budget for recruiting has been at a quarter million for since 2007. and have you asked for that number to go up? have

you proposed in your budget? have you had conversations with the mayor and asked for that increase? we have asked for additional recruiting funds and it's still at 250. so it's never been approved by the mayor. is anyone from the mayor's team here today. okay the reason i ask let me just be clear. you know, as you very well know, the budget process is a long process and the budget gets negotiated throughout that process. so as far as where those cuts happen, i get it. but you just never was increased. i understand. and i mean, you said it's been the same since 2007 and supervisor dorsey is saying that this is a this is something that's happening around the bay area and again, we approved a $25 million supplemental last year. i never heard about having any of that money go toward recruitment. i never heard

anything about any of these additional requests. and again, this this should be, i think, a collaborative kind of process in terms of how we're putting this together. if you think that this is an effective strategy, i certainly have been on the budget for three years. i've never heard that highlighted as a as an idea or a proposal. well, and so my point is, i am for this concept and i am supporting it. but in the context of everything that's happening in our city today. and that's why i asked commander jones those questions and you won't be able to effectively your officers won't be effectively be able to do their job if all the other public safety pieces in the city are under funded or cut or under staffed. and so it's an entire ecosyst system that i think is really important. and i'm glad to know that when you did the presentation last week and talked about what recruitment can do and the impacts it can have, it's the same thing when we asked for an assistant

district attorney in the budget last year to focus on retail theft, and that was also denied by the mayor's office. but we did get, what, $17 million grant. are there ever any funding from the state that also can help with recruitment? some of the things you're talking about today, like in some of the other areas that we've worked on, we actually apply for a grant, a federal grant. i think it was 5 million directly on. correct me on that for hiring officers. so we were approved for that, and that's to help. so what is that 5 million going to be used for to hire officers? so in similar ways that you're that you've laid out before in terms of recruitment, the million, i believe, is for salaries. correct me if i'm wrong or is it is it for the academy the way you broke it down last to pay the people while they're in the academy? and that's a majority of the line item goes toward the salaries and training money. i believe it's for salaries. but patrick that's correct. the

grant specifically pays for the salary for new officers that join the department right. meaning while they're in the academy or when they join it, the grant itself pays. the commitment is for three years of funding. so the grant will pay for the salary for up to for that duration of the new officer . yes. so could you use that in similar way that we're talking about today? could you do you have flexibility to use that as as signs bonuses not for signing bonuses. it's specific only for personnel costs, but you could allocate some of your additional money and replace it with this grant money to do something creative, correct? not in that manner as well. so for all of our grant programs, there is a provision of not supplanting. so any resources that we have. oh, okay. okay. but okay. so anyway,

my, my main point was, is this this budget has stayed under this mayor and under this this like this, the recruitment money has stayed flat at quarter million dollars. yeah. and we have applied for we applied for another grant this year to increase the amount of money we would have for recruitment. but we did not get it. okay. got it. i was talking more about the funding. okay great. thanks thank you. supervisor safai. i mean, i have some i think i don't have any more questions. i have thoughts on this amendment, but i don't know if you. vice chair walton, do you have any questions for them or should i? folks thank you. chair dorsey. i don't have any questions. i just you keep asking questions that are asked in the department to speculate. and i'm wondering when we stop looking at data to make budgetary decisions. but no, i don't i don't have any questions. you just keep asking

the same questions over and over and over again. and we got a lot of the public here that we probably should be hearing from great supervisor sapphire, are you still on the. well, i mean, i guess i would just like to end with it would be good to hear from the mayor and the mayor's budget office in terms of how they plan to address the upcoming budget and if they if they're making this a priority, if they want to make recruitment and some of the things that are talked about today a priority, because regardless of what we do here and what amendments we make going forward, i think that that's an important piece of the conversation. since the mayor controls the budget process primarily, i think the mayor has a role to play. i think the board of supervisors has a role to play. and voters also have a role to play. so thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. supervisors before i'm just going to in one respect, i will concede that i am grateful for the amendments that's being offered today. but in only one respect. and that is because

over the course of many months i have made many, probably dozens of pitches to community organizations and potential supporters. and occasionally i will get the question on why do voters need to fix san francisco's police staffing crisis. and i think this gives me an exhibit a, this is exactly why voters need to fix this, because i don't believe city hall will do. i think this is an amendment that is a hostile amendment that makes this charter amendment that the police chief and other police chiefs i've spoken with something that could solve this problem and it renders it performative instead of substantive. this is a last minute. this is a last minute amendment. in my view. it is a poison pill to defund police recruitment and to deny san franciscans a fully staffed police department unless they approve new taxes to pay for it.

i i see it as kind of cynical. i think this is and i think it is i think hostage understanding, the sensitivity of it. this is holding san franciscans hostage. their their public safety hostage for a tax hike. and i think most san franciscans are not going to be happy about it. i think san franciscans, by and large, should reasonably expect that a fully staffed police department is part and parcel of the baseline obligation of what a well-led city government should do. and instead the charter amendment that i authored that is supported by mayor breed and which our current chief of police and also former chief of police greg sir, both both agree would work would give voters the ability to accomplish that it would prioritize exist tax dollars for more police hiring and better dress our public safety crisis. instead. i think this amendment tells san franciscans is of

course you can have a fully staffed police department, but only if you pay extra for it. this is making san francisco into the spirit airlines of municipal governments, and i think most san franciscans will find it infuriating ing a fully staffed police department should be what you get for the taxes you already pay. and i don't think that this is something that i can support. i think it would be funny if it weren't so harmful to our ability to make the kind of progress to dismantle open air drug markets, to restore and maintain public order, to protect public safety, citywide. so i am disinclined to support this amendment. but supervisor safai, i'll just end with i just let's characterize this appropriate. lee it doesn't ask essentially for a new tasks. it says that there could be additional revenue in the future or existing revenue, existing

revenue that could be reorganized into this. so that is a fact. secondly we it is absolutely right now you've got my blood boiling a little bit. absolutely irresponsible and inappropriate to put in front of the electorate and say, choose between this. i'm going to give you this, but all this other stuff is going to go away and i'm going to jeopardize that. i don't care about emergency rooms. when people get hurt. i don't care if there's not a 911 call operator to answer the phone. i don't care if a paramedic shows up when i need it because all i want is this. listen, i have been one of the loudest voices for more police officers in this city. i have been consistent about that. so you're not the only one supervisor dorsey, that is a missed characterization. and please stop using the word hostage. it's really, really insensitive in this moment. it is absolute insensitive. and personally an affront to me as

well, based on my own personal experiences growing up. okay, please stop saying that. lastly i will say we can do this in an improper way. where is the mayor ? where is the mayor? who controls the budget? because the mayor controls the budget, she can make a commitment to this today, today and say, i will put this in my budget, put this all to end, and i will make this a commitment. and guess what? you have all these other people in the city that care about public safety. let's bring people to the table. where is the leadership? where is the leadership on this issue rather than just running off to press conferences, cutting ribbons and then showing up and saying, i'm tired of all the bs? well, guess what? i'm tired of all the bs to thank you. the just a point of clarification. the legislation that you are amending here, the words are this is contingent upon the controller's

certification that a future tax measure be passed by voters. it says online 14 this is a ploy for a tax hike that new, new or modified tax modified means existing. there are a number of existing taxes out there that are going to be restructured. we have something that we passed in the last year that's just now coming in the ceo tax. we have the business tax. we have the gross receipts tax, we have existing taxes supervisor that are in the process of being modified and concerned about being modified. let's all get to the table and make this a priority. okay. i just want but it's it is clear that this is it is contingent on a on a tax measure, whether a tax hike or a modified tax, but only then can we have a fully staffed police department. i think this is this is exactly the reason this this is the performative kind of thing. it is emblematic of what

the approach was with mental health. sf where we had a trigger that were this we're going to enact a policy to tell everybody that we're doing something, but we're going to put triggers in where it won't become operative. four years later, we still don't have an operative mental health sf on the books and i think this is doing the same thing. this is telling voters that we're doing something that does nothing. if in my view, if you're happy with how city government is working today, if this is this amendment is for you, if you're happy with how the city feels right now, i think this is an amendment you can be happy with. if you think city hall can solve this. this is an amendment to support. but if you actually want to address what i think is the five alarm fire that is the public safety crisis in this city, i trust voters to solve this and i trust voters to solve it in a responsible way that we took months working on and not

something that is going to be derailed by an 11th hour poison pill amendment that is a ploy for new or modified taxes. that's my view. so vice chair walton. thank you, chair dorsey. i find it strange that it took you months to come up with a funny, strange. i just got to say, i find it strange it took you months to come up with a charter amendment that does absolutely nothing. to supervisor safire's point, the mayor puts the budget together and can include an innumerable amount of resources for all city departments. your charter doesn't do anything but say we're going to fund something that may not come to and may not come into fruition. so it's a myth to get the voters to think that we can guarantee a minimum number of staffing that is a myth. we can never guarantee that the work should be on getting people excited about become police officers, getting

people excited about serving in that manner so that we can fill our academies so that folks want to serve. that's where the problem lies. we have the resources to fund the police department, the police department is fully funded. there are our officers are paid for. and will continue to be paid for. but if you want increases, which obviously i support the entire safety network versus just thinking policing is going to solve our public safety issues. but supervisor sapphire is absolutely right that this is something that can happen from the executive branch of government. so we're going in circles. you're giving the public a myth of that. we'll be able to have a minimum police staffing number, which is just a fallacy. so we're going in circles in this meeting. the public is here to talk. you keep saying the same thing over and over again, but if it took you months to come up with that, i apologize. i thank you. vice

chair walton. so i think we're ready for public comment. but as for public comment, today, we have we only have two items on today's agenda. but given the many members of the public here to participate, i think as last week, we will facilitate this orderly meeting by getting to both items and limiting public comment to one minute. i would also ask, i know that the clerk had mentioned people to please observe some decorum, watch cell phones. i would also ask that we observe board rules about applause, customarily expressions of support are expressed with waving hands or jazz hands. so let's be respectful. and, mr. clerk, can we open up item number one to public comment? yes. just to restate, we are taking public comment. we are allocating one minute per speaker. and in terms of the signs, please keep them at chest level or lower so that

you do not block the view of other parties. and again, can we have our first speaker good morning, supervisors. dorsey safai, an and walton and thank you for this hearing. my name is teresa rutherford. i am president of seiu. 1021 we represent over 18,000 workers in the city and over 200 classification as a large proportion of that are part of public safety. i do want to endorse what supervisor walton said that the staffing vacancy is not going to be solved by creating a. charter amendment. it needs to be addressed because of the social, legal and historical issues that the police has had among their ranks and in the practices that is

what is keeping people from joining the force. and so the amendment will not solve that problem. i do want to point out that this amendment would take away over 200 million from the general fund. it would also take away it would also take away from thank you, speaker. time has elapsed. we are allocating one minute per person for all. between the community and between law enforcement and does not add or support the wraparound services that speaker time has elapsed. it this community deserves. so let's let's provide comprehensive services for everyone and every.

please proceed. oh my apologies. please proceed. good morning. i just. sorry, i'm having problems with the button. make sure mr. seconds to you can see the clock on the before you. i see the clock. all right. good morning, supervisor safai walton and dorsey. i have talking points. my name is kristin hardy. i am the vice president for san francisco 10 to 1. i'm also a san francisco native. you know, regarding this, we let me just start off by saying this. we fully support supervisor safford's amendment to this, regardless if it's the last hour and no disrespect to the police here and to you, supervisor

dorsey, but i was bred here. you you flew here. i was grew here. okay so you don't speak for the san francisco residents as me being a resident, born and raised, we do we do support our police. but this amendment, we would not be voting on this, me or my community in d7 and grew up in d 11 would not be in support of this. i support supervisor asia. i support supervisor walton be equal about it. we represent the 911 dispatchers. commander just spoke how my members are big part of this. make sure that the money is spread evenly. if you want a piece it among all of us, we'll be in support of it. but don't dish it all to the police. okay? hi, my name is gus vallejo . i'm a long time. i actually am a resident and native of san francisco and i'm also president of ifp local 21, where we

represent over 5000 city workers. and like everyone here, i'm here to speak my opposition to the reckless policing staffing charter amendment has. it's currently written the measure mandates a budget set aside, which takes money out of the general fund, money that can go to other priorities. as we've heard, the prospect, the proposed set aside would put our entire budget in crisis, draining over 200 million over 500 years from the general fund. this would lead to few, as we know, fewer dispatchers, firefighters, nurses and other essential workers and we know the city is already struggling to fill thousands of vacant positions, including hundreds of vacant nursing positions, as new set asides need to come with new funding sources. residents like me want to make our city safer, but they also want to be smart about it. so i urge you to support the amendments to ensure that this measure doesn't come at the expense of so many other life saving priorities made it

right. good morning, supervisors. i'm bianca polovina . i am the president elect of iaff local 21. i am also a compliance officer here for the city and county of san francisco. and a district eight resident of the city. i'm here today to strongly oppose this police staffing charter amendment because public safety includes so much more than just police. public safety includes public health. it includes emergency services. it includes breaking the school to prison pipeline. and so much more as written. this proposed set aside would drain hundreds of millions of dollars from these other priorities with nothing to show for it. as we've already heard, the people who live, work and play in san francisco deserve a full and comprehensive investment in public safety. residents want you want all of us to make our city safer, but

they also want you to be smart about it. i urge you to support the amendments to ensure that this measure doesn't come at the expense of so many other life saving priorities. thank you. rudy gonzalez, san francisco building and construction trades council. 27 trade unions, some of my reps are here in the room. support the overall theme. need you to accept these strategic amendments that allow you to identify one of those revenue sources that a lot of hard working san franciscans overwhelmingly way over two thirds approved at the height of the pandemic. we probably need to recalibrate some of those in the future conversations, but we need to set up collaborative tables where people can come together and say, i am pro police funding, but in the months you took to come up with this supervisor for you didn't identify a funding source. and finally, on a personal note, i'm deeply offended at the worst of the use of the word hostage. i have three jewish kids that i have to sit at the table with, and they have to wonder how they

talk about current events in their classrooms. and there are real hostages right now in a crisis in our world. and the kind supervisor asked you twice and you fucking doubled down on it. shame on you, supervisor. that was wrong. that's wrong. good morning, supervisors. i'm rj thomas, a member of ifp local 21, and i'm here to advocate for supervisor sophie's proposed changes to item one, the police staffing charter amendment without any changes. the current proposed charter amendment does not have a responsible funding mechanism and would put further burdens on the city's general fund. we support an amended resolution that funds the charter amendments, law enforcement, staffing objectives and as a funding mechanism that actually pays for it. you cannot add more police without also adding more 911 operators to support them. you cannot propose changes to the funding commitments without providing necessary revenue to support those proposals. we support a safer and smarter san francisco,

one that protects residents and small businesses as but san francisco voters understand that expanding financial commitments requires allocating additional resources to solve the problem. please vote yes on supervisor safire's proposed amendment. thank you very much. good morning, supervisors. my name is kim thompson. i've been a city employee for over 30 years and i am the local 21 san francisco vice president. it seems to me that it's irresponsible, especially given the recent mid-year budget cuts the mayor has requested to pass a charter amendment without a defined revenue stream that will impact the general fund and certainly have an adverse impact on city services and employees. we support a safer, smarter san francisco. we can have both safety and support for our services. what we need here are real budget priorities and real fiscal leadership. thank you.

hi, my name is martha conti and i have lived in san francisco since 1975. i've paid taxes here. i personally really have had experiences with crime. i've had check fraud, wire fraud, bullet come through my bathroom window five minutes after i left and my son's friends robbed at gunpoint on the way home from my house. so public safety is the priority. the first priority in a civil society and it is not a zero sum game. um, if we were to pass this measure without additional taxes, we would stop losing businesses and citizens and taxpayers and be able to create that fundamental public safety that is essential to a

thriving city, a thriving community, a thriving san francisco. so i would advocate to pass this measure and not add any amendments to increase taxes. thank you for your time. good morning, supervisors. i'm brandon dawkins. i'm the vice president of organizing for seiu local 1021. i can speak from experience, first of all, as a former san francisco resident and now an antioch resident, i'm pushing for more funds to add police to the department does not keep san francisco safe, providing vital services to public health that we can provide mental health services, wraparound services to get people off the streets. that's what helped keep us safe. so i encourage you all to support supervisor safire's amendments and let's not add any more cops to this, but let's think smarter

about how we're pushing these funds and let's think smarter about how we can keep san francisco safe. and it's not adding more police officers. i can speak from experience that living in the city of antioch, just because they just because they added a $30,000 bonus to add police officers and to recruit and attract more police officers, still ain't keeping antioch safe because it's still dangerous. hell. so we need to think other ways. and to keep san francisco safe. and it's not by adding more police officers, it's by supporting other services that keeps us safe. hello my name is leslie cooper. i'm a senior behavioral health clinician with the department of public health super visor. dorsey, i told you my feelings about this amendment two months ago, so i'll speak to the other two individuals. this is a problem i value the police. my family have police officers in them. i professionally have collaborated with police to help

defuze situations. we do not need to pit us versus them, which is what this amendment does. i think that. i work with the intent of case management program and i know that there's been concern about the waitlist for folks doing mental health in the city and for residents receiving mental health services. the last thing that we need is to take money away from those of us providing those services. secondly i used to work for the department of homelessness and supportive housing overdoses are not going to be solved by police. hello. i live in district seven with my family own a wine store

on new montgomery street that has ten employees. we're obviously impacted by the rise of crime downtown since 2020. we've had our windows broken, our door bent, our doorframe bent and multiple break ins. this obviously hurts us financially, but worse, we've been told from our insurance broker that given the high crime environment is a very real risk that will not be able to renew our policy when it expires is because we cannot operate without insurance. that would be the end of our business in san francisco. we must get police officers back on the streets walking a beat where their presence can be seen and felt. likewise, san francisco must have enough police to properly respond to burglar alarms and phone calls so that burglars stop laughing at us when we say that the that we're calling the police. police need adequate staffing to show burglars that there are consequences for breaking the laws. in san francisco if policing does not improve and crime does not come down. operating a retail store will become impossible and even retailers like us who want desperately to stay open in san francisco will have to close.

thank you. i'm arnold troutman. i was a teacher, a pair of was for school unified for 37 years. i live in parkmerced. it used to be a beautiful neighborhood. now it looks like a ghetto with there's graffiti all over the place. my car was stolen twice. i'm getting ripped off. the people who claim to represent unions here, they have their executive board meetings make decisions. they don't ask. just like our union leaders didn't ask us nothing. they don't ask us anything. they don't represent us. the same people who are responsible for the storm are now complaining that it's raining. they can't be trusted to solve the problem either you do it or we're going to take you out politically. and you can go teach at a university and fail upward like like lori lightfoot in chicago, thanks a lot. back to you. good morning, supervisors. my name is forrest cameron. i'm a student at the university of san francisco, as well as the vice president of our student body and a resident

of the tenderloin. i got involved on my campus because i saw the struggle students were having. and while i do appreciate the committee's attempt to make san francisco a safer place for us students, if the board of supervisors really wanted to make a difference, it would reconsider item one and use the general fund to invest in the youths and students that live in this city. every day i hear student testimony about running out of money, skipping meals, working two, three jobs to try and make their to pay their bills, to keep the rent, to pay the rent. i hear fears of evictions, the issues of mental health and the unanimous feeling of apathy and neglect towards the youth of san francisco. if the board of supervisors wanted to improve the quality of life of the city, they'd make health care more accessible and affordable. they'd help lower the rent and food. they'd do anything that can make the lives of the over 8000 students at the university a little easier. supervisors i am tired of having to watch my students and constituents struggle to go to school. tired of hearing 18 and 19 year olds struggle and suffer alone. and we would like your help to make our lives a little

easier. thank you. have to go to class by. good morning, supervisors. my name is angela chan. i'm an assistant attorney at the san francisco public defender's office. i also previously served on the police commission. i urge you today to vote no on supervisor dorsey's sfpd funding charter amendment that would cost an estimated $300 million and contain no revenue source. this legislation provides no meaningful oversight or accountability regarding how sfpd would manage this windfall should the legislation be adopted by voters. instead, the legislation orders the police commission, which is supposed to be an independent oversight body, to blindly accept sfpd's budgetary requests and to limit any reductions to sfpd budget to no more than 5. absent a two thirds vote, this legislation should be seen in the context of other efforts to weaken the commission's oversight of sfpd. the legislation provides sfpd with open ended discretion to spend precious public resources on recruiting and hiring efforts

and advertising, but provides no metrics to measure effectiveness, whether sfpd is required to explain how it used the funds and what the funds are used on, it is fair to wonder if this fund will be used for other purposes, such as creating a reality show about sfpd officers for advertising purposes. vote. melanie kim with the san francisco public defenders office. the board should be skeptical about allowing sfpd to govern its own affairs and of continuing to invest huge sums of public funds into a department with a track record of misconduct. just recently, several officers were accused of falsifying traffic stop data which may show that sfpd is already inexcusable. racial disparity in stops, searches and seizures are underreported. during the pandemic, dozens of officers were fired because they refused to receive the covid 19 vaccine, raising serious questions about whether sfpd staffing crisis is in part self-made. since 2016, sfpd has

stashed dozens of problem officers away who cannot perform their charter duty to preserve the public peace, prevent and detect crime, and protect the rights of persons and property in so-called rubber rooms. while the city has paid upwards of $16 million in salary for those officers. similarly, the city has paid $70 million to settle claims against sfpd officers. none of this money comes from sfpd's budget. perhaps it should, adding more officers with the weakened oversight and accountable systems is a recipe to waste more public funds. thank you. thank you. good morning, supervisors. my name is carolyn johnson and i'm a long time resident and parent in san francisco, a member of local 21 and i work with the public defender's office. i'm here to urge you to table this charter, measure this legislation lacks clear metrics and accountability and most disturbingly, gives sfpd access to massive amounts of city funding at a time when the city is projecting a $780

million budget deficit. and we are heading right now into midyear budget cuts. this legislation often directly undermines the express will of voters who just three years ago passed prop e to remove the minimum staffing levels with more than 70% support so that the city could use a thoughtful process for determining police staffing, staffing based on data at a time when the public health crisis is leading to unprecedented overdose deaths in our streets. we desperately need more mental health care workers, social workers, residential treatment beds as well as affordable housing. this measure will take funds that should be focused on saving lives and instead give annual funding increases to the sfpd, irrespective of their effectiveness or the overall needs of the city. before the next speaker speaks, i would just like to remind the audience that we would appreciate it if you do not use audible applause and they use the jazz hands instead so that we can continue with our public comment in an

efficient manner and do not speak over the public. commenter as a courtesy. it would be appreciated. thank you very much . please begin. hi, my name is jesse cipher. i'm with the san francisco public defender's office instead of inflating an already large department, the city should reinvigorate its search for more effective and cost efficient alternatives to policing. an immediate way to reduce officer workload while preserving transparency and accountability is enacting policies such as the limitation on pretext stops as sfpd conducts tens of thousands of stops for minor infractions such as broken tail lights. but rarely recovers contraband to further reduce burdens on officer time. instead of creating more time through increased staffing, invest in evidence based alternatives to policing. importantly such models are overwhelmingly popular with the public as an alternative to police only interventions. consider denver's

approach to mental health calls for service, sending mental health specialists instead of police to address substance abuse and nonviolence emergencies. reduce some crimes by as much as san francisco can follow their lead. thank you. please vote no. we don't need this. all right. yes hi. good afternoon or good morning, everybody. this is evelyn coryell. i am the 10 to 1 seiu board member and also chairperson industry for san francisco. the concern that i have is not just that a person or department is supposed to be taking care of the whole entire of the city, not just only one, because if you're sleeping with all the funding that we have, that we work for are we're not going to go nowhere. we are suffering right now with the identity that trying to get more funding. police are supposed to be getting more funding from the

other criteria. not everybody is funding because with these things, our city will be going to doom and we didn't want to be just like chicago right now. thank you. good morning. my name is mina young. i've been a 40 year resident of san francisco district one. i can see that the government is not working because as you can see, the bickering is over. the most basic service that we deserve and people are not feeling safe. if one tenth of the citizens have i mean, of the residents have left the city, so they are voting with their feet. so with the basic service in place, that supervisor dorsey has proposed, we will ensure that we have the basic service that we deserve and people can have a livelihood , then we can thrive as a city and bring back the businesses. thank you. please endorse as

supervisors proposal. thank you. good morning. my name is stephen martin pinto and i strongly support supervisor dorsey's minimum police staffing legislation as a firefighter in the bayview district at station 17, i serve your constituents. supervisor walton and i often work closely with the sfpd on emergencies when it comes to violent incidents such as shootings or stabbings, which unfortunately are becoming not uncommon, it is critical that police are on site to provide security so that we can provide our life saving critical care. i think it's obvious that the public safety is a foundational policy from which every other policy is dependent on to include housing and transportation policy and thusly deserves high priority without public safety, we do not have visitors business patrons, businesses, residents and we will not have tax revenue and money for our city programs. so therefore, i strongly support supervisor dorsey's minimum police staffing legislation.

thank you. good good morning supervisors. ellenberg adele, i'm here to speak against supervisor chavez poison pill amendment and in support of supervisor dorsey's police staffing measure, a fully staffed police department is the least that we should expect from our tax dollars in order to refund in order to refund our sfpd. our sfpd needs to have this certain t the certainty over a period of five years to execute a plan to refund the police. this amendment by supervisor safai and by the way, supervisor safai, thank you for clarifying for everybody in san francisco that you are firmly in the side of the defund police camp. defund the police is clearly what wants to is what you're looking for. here we are doing something without actually doing anything is what this

amendment says. and we're tired of that. we're tired of you delivering that. say no to this amendment. support dorsey's ballot measure. thank you. hi. my name is bert wilson. wilson i'm a san francisco 911 dispatcher for our problems. echo the same as what san francisco police is echoing what ? we've been living it already. we have a 40% staffing shortage right now. every weekend there's mandatory overtime where they're mandatory in 17 to 18 dispatchers to stay longer, making 12 hour days, 12 to 16 hour a day. workweeks every day. i'm asking that if you approve your sfpd to fund us also. i mean, like sapphire stated, it's an ecosystem of public safety ecosystem. and we need to get funded just as much as sfpd.

thank you. that's right. yeah, that's right. hello. my name is susan abbott. i'm a native san franciscan. i'm a tour guide and tour director for and i'm the whole atmosphere of tourism. i get questions only about crime now and where not to go and tourism is a huge revenue for so many. so many businesses and they don't want to they don't want to go to applebee's. they want to go to the small businesses and the small neighborhoods. and these neighborhoods are deterring operating. and it's completely defunding the whole idea of wanting to come to san francisco. also i say look at you talk about these public safety being on the chopping block. we spend 1.1 billion on homelessness. this and that is not tracked. there is no accountability there. we don't

know the accountability of the nonprofits and the non-governmental organizations that are supposedly fixing the mental health problem and the homelessness in san francisco. i support fort dorsey's charter amendment. thank you. hi, good morning. my name is debbie dobson. i'm an seiu 10 to 1 executive board member and i'm a chapter officer at laguna honda hospital. laguna honda hospital employees are working short staffed, doing the back breaking work of providing care and frontline services to our patient sites. and these patients, they're human beings and they need this care for many different reasons. some of them are unable to take care of themselves physically or mentally. we're also in the process of trying to get recertified. we have working short staffed our people are are

being injured and having to take off, making it the more short staffing thing. and in addition to that, when they're short staffed, they're forced to cut corners and that has the potential to impede our recertification and our ability to continue providing care. we don't need money funneled away from providing care to these human beings that need to be cared for. so i implore you, do not take that much money out of the general fund because we need to be able to continue to provide services for these people. thank you. okay hello, my name is shannon knox. i'm the executive director of the san francisco drug users union. we're a harm reduction program in the tenderloin. i'm an asset to the community and we me and my staff have reversed two overdoses in the last three weeks. our budget is 238,000. we

aren't funded by the city whatsoever. and having come back to san francisco, being gone since 2018, i'm like, i don't think that more police is what we need right now, especially considering arresting drug users increases their likelihood to overdose by like 12.7, having just lost someone to overdose, just released from jail. i think that we need to look at other alternatives to public safety here in san francisco. and also, like i looked at the statistics yesterday, just to catch up. and this is like a joke like san francisco's police department is super not effective. for what what the taxpayers are paying for. like, i was like i don't even know what to say. there's so much i can say. but think about people's lives, i guess. how about that. hi, my name is dylan evans. i was a homeless

drug addict for years and i would do anything to get, you know, i was never scared of the police when i was out there. we any anyone was trying to get that fixed. they don't care about the police. the police aren't going to stop the crimes. but ever since i started working with with the i haven't committed any crimes and no one really wants to do the crime. they they do it because they have to. so given a choice, i, i no longer commit those crimes. it's just it's pretty simple. please don't need the money. we need the money. san francisco can't ever again afford to face the shortage of police officers that we now have. let's be clear. the total current budget shortfall is the direct result of the highly visible, rampant crime and growing homelessness and addiction issues that have

eroded our tax base, eviscerated tourism and convention business, and damaged so many small businesses and residents. those issues are exacerbated by both the police commissions continual hamstringing of sfpd and this government's utterly failed policies. on addressing mental health and addiction issues, driving homelessness. i strongly urge this committee to move supervisor dorsey's proposed charter amendment forward, as is how exactly is it, quote, fiscally prudent to not prevent our current situation from happening again. morning supervisors. my name is chris burnett. i'm an out of work glazer with local 718 san francisco local 718. and i believe that you ask any san franciscan this is a complicated problem. you're talking about mental health, you're talking about poverty, you're talking about drug use on the streets of san francisco. if you want a silver bullet, silver bullet. supervisor dorsey housing put a roof over these people's heads

and you will stabilize their lives and you'll probably save their lives. vote no vote down on this amendment. i still have 30s here, folks. that's a simple truth of it. just put a roof over these people's heads and you will save their lives. you talked about fentanyl. you talked about all these problems that are definitely clear to anybody that lives and works here in san francisco. so just build the housing, give them a roof over their heads and you will save their lives, support the support staff that make this city better. more cops isn't going to do it. thank you. good good job. good morning, supervisor ayers. my name is carl decay and i lead the asian law caucus. criminal justice reform program on behalf of the caucus. i'm here to strongly oppose this charter amendment. my organization serves low income and immigrant asian and pacific islander community. so we are well aware that this is a time of intense fear and anxiety about public safety. the

intensity of those feelings makes it all the more important to avoid locking in a long term set aside that would continue to impose unfunded mandates on and shackled the judgment of city leaders far into the future. our public safety is a complicated challenge that requires well thought out strategies. it can't be reduced to the number of sworn officers who are on the payroll. thank you. supervisor safai, for highlighting how this set aside will lead to staffing shortages and other important city departments. and it's important to note this isn't just a five year set aside some aspects of this last into 2035. some of the structural changes are permanent. please vote this down. hello, my name is claire lao. i'm with the chinese progressive association in i live in san francisco and i work with working class chinese immigrant families in the city. our community is deeply concerned about safety and wants

a comprehensive approach to address it. that means adequate and effective response from 911 dispatchers, police and emergency workers, mental health and drug rehab providers, educators, as well as programs that protect our tenants, workers and families. san francisco is projected to have half a billion budget deficit next year as i mentioned earlier, and we are heading into midyear budget cuts. we need our government to be smart and responsible in developing and funding a comprehensive approach to safety. we that is why supports sakai supervisors afriyie's amendment that attaches a revenue source so that this measure does not come at the expense of so many other life saving priorities. thank you. let's take a quick pause and let the room clear out so that we can hear you a little bit better. just give us a moment.

okay good afternoon, june supervisors. my name is luwawu. i work at chinese progressive association work with constituents who live in three, four, ten and 11. i'm here to support supervisor safire's amendment to this measure. we are here in support because over and over again our members have shared a deep concern for to what claire had mentioned earlier, a comprehensive

understanding of safety. we as an organization have spoken to over 1300 community members to understand their concerns around safety. yes, our communities have spoken to homelessness, spoken to mental health and drug addiction, and they've spoken to a need for police. and overwhelmingly, what they spoke more of was the need for stable housing, more funding for public schools, good opportunity for work, a mutual support care and a network of services that speak to true accountability. we need our government to be smart, not to be responsible in developing an approach that that that is that makes sure that we cover our revenue. the needs to have this revenue attached to ensure its sustainability and that we don't drain our millions of dollars of our our funding. thank you. good morning, supervisors. my name is aaron

kramer. i'm a registered nurse at san francisco general hospital. i've been with the city and county for 15 years. i'm here today respectfully, to disagree with your amendment. supervisor dorsey, and your fox news rhetoric. i'm not here to ostracize the police. you know, i need them to do my job, but i need a collaborative, comprehensive team of services to able to take care of the people that i care for. you know , being at the hospital through the covid crisis, you could throw as much money as you want at a nurse. they're not going to stay, you know, traveler nurses were paid like mercenaries. you know, we've had chronic short staffing throughout that. and for the years i've worked there, i don't think throwing this money towards the police is going to help their staffing problems. you know, we're both highly regulated, skilled labor professions. it's hard to train and recruit. i understand that. but the crisis and public safety

issues are not going to be solved by them alone. we need a collaborative team of services to do the job. thank you. bring it up. hi, my name is brenda barrows and i'm here in support of the amendment from supervisor safai. and the reason this is very personal for me, i've had two people i know killed by the san francisco police department, the current way needs to change. we can't keep going back to the same crap that we know doesn't work. you can't arrest your way out of this. that's not going to get people out of poverty. that's not going to deal with any of the issues that cause crime in the first place. so deal with that first before you just want to hire more cops. we'll see it all. joe biden. can

i start? yes please. okay. my name is ruben juarez and i'm a library worker for the city and county of san francisco. coming up on 37 years. i also live in the city and i'm a proud member of seiu. 1021 i'm here to oppose supervisor dorsey's charter amendment. it's clear that public safety requires more than law enforcement. it. we don't want to see fewer firefighters, nurses, mental health services, services, homelessness services, substance abuse treatment services and other essential workers and services to keep san francisco safe. i work again for the san francisco public library. we see a lot of the landscape that's changed our city. but more police won't be the solution in our department. we have our wonderful building and ground patrol officers who deescalate certain situations in other words, there's different

ways to handle this situation. instead of adding more police. and thank you. where's the clock ? if you look down, you can see the number there. see good morning, supervisor. i'm jabez wesley from d three. i'm here to oppose this charter amendment. it just a few numbers. the san francisco police department is allotted about $775 million a year and let's say about 75 billion of that is for the airports. it's still about 700 million. sorry and this year, advocates put together this proposal for something called cards, compassionate and response that would cost an approximated $7 million a year,

which is 1% of the police budget. and it would handle level c crises, which are basically noise complaints, loitering, nonviolent situations , drones, and sending police to these situations makes our city more dangerous because it's an escalation in violence. it's someone with a gun. and if we want a safer city, we want to we need to get police out of these interactions, defund the police. thank you. black lives matter, defund the police. my name is jordan. my pronouns are she, her? they them. and i am concerned about public safety. as a tenderloin resident. but i don't support this fucked up bullshit ass charter amendment because i believe public safety is about making sure people have their needs met and not taking away funding of human needs for more cops. i'm the only pd i support is public defenders. this charter amendment is not about public safety for all of us. it's political masturbation and crisis candy that is riling

up a conservative base. and when i and autistic trans femmes speak up about it, i get stalked, harassed, non-consensually photographed outside the political arena. he even had death threats aimed towards me, including a constituents last superfan of supervisor dorsey threatened to kill me with fire in a constituent fan of stephanie threatening me with dog mauling it all in the name of public safety, more cops won't keep our marginalized community safe. we keep us safe. you are a disgrace, like my cut and choke on it. i yield my time. fuck you . good morning. my name is sarah silver. i'm co-lead of the iconic d three neighborhood group soup adviser. dorsey, i'm here to support you in your efforts to fix the crisis with the police staffing my question is this can we tap the civilian population to help fill the void to field calls and handle other administrative functions? i see so many passionate people in this room. i'm sure they have

broad experience in life and in the city, and many of us have some spare time. we could probably use an extra few hundred dollars a week. i did some quick math, figured you could hire 40 people, all 20 hours a week at $24 for $1 million. with 25 million, there would be 1000 part time workers. thank you. good morning. my name is jay connor ortega, and i'm co-president of iconic d three, the board defunded our police in 2020, including our now assembly member, haney and ever since then we have been limping to on trying to undo that mistake. supervisor myers, don't let all the good residents here in our city become victims of rapists, murderers, drug dealers, pedophiles and more. as a worker myself, i can speak for workers and workers can't work if we are injured or even killed. the

asian community, who are constantly attacked were here also because we are all tired of criminals roaming our streets and making victims daily. the question is how many more people have to die in order for all of you to bring back our officers support. dorsey's legislation as is or watch the voters revolt. revolt at the ballot box that will see the minimal staffing passed. thank you. good morning, supervisors. my name is donna altshuler and i'm an seiu 10 to 1 shop steward and a chapter officer. there's only so much money in the general fund to go around and there is a staffing crisis not only with the police, but throughout all of the city of san francisco. so we need to put more of the funds that are being proposed into social services for homeless ness,

housing, drug addiction and the mentally ill. some of this money needs to go to city employees that provide the vital services that i've just mentioned. i urge you to vote no on mr. dorsey's chapter amendment. thank you. good morning, supervisor. my name is julia rome and i'm with the san francisco travel association. on the top concern we hear from visitors, be it leisure or business from visitation all over the world, is the perception of safety or lack thereof on our streets. we are here today to voice our support for dorsey's charter amendment. this proposal would put a minimum staffing number back in the charter and dedicate funds to recruitment over a five year plan. now more than ever, we need these resources to combat the property crime and fentanyl crisis, the brunt of which is borne by our residents, visitors, small businesses and office tenants currently, our city faces not only a shortfall of officers, but a serious

perception issue. safety concerns have permeated into every corner of international media about san francisco. these potential losses, both in terms of economic activity and overall vibrancy, are immense. this measure protects existing officers and sets aside money to compete with cities across california that are currently offering significant bonuses to lure recruits and existing officers away. if we don't make san francisco feel safe again, we are ensuring the loss of more residents, more visitors, more businesses and more tax revenue. in closing, we ask you to meet the moment that we are in now. support full staffing of the sfpd to build towards a better and safer future for our city. thank you. good morning, supervisors. my name is alan cohen. i'm a supervisor with san francisco adult protective services and i'm here with seiu today. we're not interested in criminal rising poverty, homelessness, mental illness and substance abuse. just recently, governor newsom passed some new

legislation that's going to really change things in mental health and allow for hospitalized action, meaningful hospitalization and treatment of the chronically mentally ill. and many of those chronically mentally ill on the streets of san francisco are also substance abusers. and we want them to get treatment, not just fill up the jails. so we need time for that to go into effect. taking money away from all of the other services that are provided in the city to give to the police. you know what they say. if your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. and that's not what we want for the citizens of san francisco who are the most vulnerable. so we're against, you know, supervisor dorsey's amendment. and we hope that you will not vote for it. thank you. good morning, supervisors. my name is richard perino. i'm 78 years old. i'm a lifelong san franciscan and i'm a veteran

also. i'm representing the seniors of this city and the veterans, as do you know that we're getting preyed upon? i have been assaulted and mugged twice. have you read about the asian community and all the assaults and robberies on that community? the present staffs of the san francisco police department does not adequately protect my community. de my community city. the most vulnerable of the communities seen was seniors was if you vote against this, you're saying screw you, seniors, screw you. asian community. i vote. i urge you to vote for supervisor dorsey's charter amendment to fully staff the san francisco police department. thank you. hi

my name is ingrid cobb. i'm an seiu member slash officer for our work in san francisco general hospital. we are severely short staff on calls in and out, traveling nurses in and out. we don't even have time to train them correctly. we also i'm a native. i was born and raised here. 56 years of my life has been spent here and i'm here today to say no. i don't support dorsey's proposal. good morning, supervisor. my name is claude joseph. i'm with seiu local. 1021 supervisor. supervisor dorsey i'm here to say that we are the public that you are claiming to be speaking on behalf and you are wrong. you

are not speaking on our behalf. you are wrong about your understanding of public safety and you are wrong about your approach on this whole issue and how to resolve it. i highly recommend that you meet with mr. safai so he could provide you with a little bit of understanding of his comprehensive understanding of public safety. we need to hire more nurses for the hospitals. we need to provide more beds for people who are suffering for substance use so that way we could get them off the street. the criminalization is not going to be the resolution to this problem. i highly recommend that we vote. supervisor dorsey's recommendation down. thank you. good morning, supervisors. i very much support supervisor dorsey's charter amendment. we absolutely need full staffing. we are losing police officers in this city at a much faster

velocity than we are gaining police officers in this city. something dramatic needs to happen and this is a great proposal. and i would like to point out that $120 million was removed from the police budget in 2020. that has never come back. we need that back. the city budget has doubled old since 2017, been doubled. it's ridiculous. and it's been paying for failed strategies his corrupt nonprofits that need to be audited. and what sci fi i'm sorry, but i cannot agree with your amendment to this amendment because you're talking about a new tax on residents to get our basic safety and law enforcement needs met at. thank you and residents operations. hi, my name is mark manos. i'm a san francisco resident. i noticed what foot patrol does in a

neighborhood that has a lot of crime. so i support an increase or a minimum police staffing and but when you do increase the police staffing in one area, you know the crime lots of times moves to another area. so i think a good solution might be having like a color coded crime level system where there are minimum staffing requirements like zoned by neighborhood. this way, as the crime moves from one neighborhood to the other, you do have minimum requirements for police in that area. hello, my name is leah mckeever. i live at seventh and market in six. according to a mission local article for the fiscal year of 2024, the mayor has cut funding to the city's overall grocery programs by $10 million to $20 million. the city's food security budget will drop by another $10 million the

following year, with the recommendations of zero funding for the food bank in 2025, according to the food bank, their staff hand out about 150,150,000 meals daily to hungry san franciscans. they operate a host, a program signing people up for the state's calfresh food stamp program, running food pantries, et cetera. the food bank workers said that they would have to make significant reductions if this were to happen in in a police analysis report regarding sfpd's 20, 2223 budgets. the report states the police department's $611.4 million general fund budget for 2223 represents an 8.7 increase or $49 million over the $562.5 million originally budgeted for 2122. that money is coming from the food banks. feed us. stop it with this bullshit right. can't pavolony san francisco labor

council. i just want to say i've been around for a long, long time. i've been around since the 70s chinatown gangs. 80 crips, bloods. there's been crime in this city for a very, very, very long time. i've had my car broken into. you counted it up last night. nine times. my mom's bar business was broken into seven times. i just want to say the charter amendment that you're proposing, dorsey would not have prevented any of that. i just had my purse stolen at a gas station monday of last week. had my window smashed my purse, grabbed. i was gone. more police would not have prevented that crime. and i know it's really easy to tell people what they want to hear, but that's not what is. what will make us safer or what will make us safer is

building our communities much, much better, giving them much more resources. that's what will make us stronger, safer and. are the other members in the room who would like to make public comment at. you can approach at this time, i do not see any additional public commenters. great. thank you, mr. clerk. public comment on this item is now closed. vice chair walton thank you, chair dorsey and i do want to thank all of the public for their comments this morning. i do want to clear something up because i know there was a lot of political rhetoric and most certainly a lot of framing of what actually happened in 2020. but we never defunded the police department. you can ask the police department. you can ask the mayor. we never defunded the police department. that's not what happened. the chief will tell you that. so i just want to

be very clear. that's not factual. that we defunded the police department in 2020. but this charter amendment is not really about more cops. it's about writing blank checks. you know, and it's funny, as we watch this hearing and when we go back and look at the statements made and the questions asked, chair dorsey, as asked the chief and the commander, where would you like 5 million, five years of more funding for your department? of course they're going to say yes to that like that. i mean, that any city department is going to want more resources to do to do work. so but, you know, i am for community policing. i am for equitable, for patrols across the city, particularly in the most violent areas of the city. but with the projected budget deficit in the hundreds of

millions of dollars over the next couple of years, $780 million, i cannot support arbitrary commitments and amounts of money for any city department in especially because in order to adequately keep people safe, we need to invest in prevention. anti poverty strategies, mental health supports, affordable housing academies are not fool you heard the police department say that this is not supervisor walton just making up his own scenario and our police department needs the support of our entire safety net work plus, we can never guarantee any amount of staffing for any department. the staffing shortages are due to people not wanting to be police officers as that is what we need to fix. the narrative around policing, getting police in our communities so that neighborhoods, kids, communities, our young people

trust the department. and we've seen some of that work happen with our police department. but most certainly this is not about resource aces to fund and staff police our police department is fully funded right now and they can't fill academies. we've heard that this is strictly a political response to a serious issue. let's really build the safety net to support what the police department to support our public safety for the people in san francisco. this is an unenforceable and misleading to the public. it's a myth to think that you could guarantee staffing numbers, and it's a sham to create an image of such a guarantee. we plus calls for service are going down by the department's own data and own admission. more investment in our street crisis response team.

crisis alternative response team . mental health. health. sf violence prevention strategies. job training and workforce development is what we need to increase public safety. the more options and support people have, the better decisions they will make, which is what ultimately reduces crime and violence. we cannot afford this charter as written and most certainly we could do a lot of this work in the normal budget process, but at least the amendment is are an attempt to be more response able. i think the entire charter as a whole is a fallacy. just so you know. but the amendments include includes a revenue source for funding a set aside and there is a reason that we have three branches of government. i heard people say we're tired of having to come in here and ask for money. that's the constitutionality of

decision making. but no one wants to come and ask for resources for their department. but i, as a member of this board of supervisors, my colleagues are responsible for making sure all city services are taken care of, that all city services are provided, every question asked the department by the chair was speculated of and not enforced by data whatsoever. even if you believe more officers were the answer, this charter amendment does not get you that it does feed into right wing conservative anti san franciscan rhetoric like let's fund all services and really keep people safe and try to focus on policy that will be effective of this charter amendment. does does nothing. thank you. vice chair walton, supervisor sophia thank

you. thank you, chair. i appreciate all the people that came out today and i'll just say, i think it's unfortunate that we're in a situation where people feel like they're pitted against one another for i, i have been consistent about wanting more police staffing. i believe in that. i've supported that. but unfortunately, when we're in a situation where we're facing over a half $1 billion budget deficit, where the department itself said on the record it has had the same, um, recruitment budget since 2007 and there's been many opportunities from the mayor's office to allocate funding for recruitment, which could deal with many of the things that are here today. the mayor has just come out and said mid-year budget cuts are facing every single city department, vital, vital services us. so we're going to be asked to do a lot of very hard decision making. and i think that there's nothing to

stop the mayor from prioritizing additional police academies in the upcoming budget and prioritizing additional funding for recruitment in the upcoming budget and that's usually how you see if something works. you can't say that this is something that will be impactful. well, as supervisor walton has pointed out, we have had money for academies in the past and we haven't been able to fill them. so the best way to approach this is to say we're going to have identified revenue, we're going to say that we can use an existing tax or reformed or look for new revenue. and at the end of the day, i would just say that this is something that we should do collaboratively and it's something that we should do in a much more thoughtful way. i know supervisor dorsey said he's been working on this for months. i saw this for the first time just two weeks ago. so i never, as a committee member, had an

opportunity to look at a draft of this. i had the outlines and that's why i was supportive of it. but we also did not know the extent of the budget deficit that our city was going to face. and we didn't know until about a week and a half ago that the mayor was going to be making mid-year budget cuts. and so all of that plays into this because as you know, at the end of the day, i think we can achieve a lot, a lot of what is being asked for without going to the budget ballot. but if we are going to do that and we're going to set something for the next five years, it should be consistent and we should have an identified revenue source. and so that's why i come with this today. we have done that in many other measures in the past and it has been successful. we've worked collaboratively to identify sources of funding and we have shown the success that it can have. so again, my intention, i talked about it last week as i saw the language set it on the record. i believe that we should be supporting an

entire public safety net from paramedics to nurses to firefighters to sheriffs to 911 call operators. all of the system needs to be working together collaboratively. we thank you. thank you. supervisor safai and, you know, i get that some people feel we can't afford a fully staffed police department right now. and i just will say, i feel very strongly that we can't afford not to have a fully staffed police department. but at the end of the day, voters should get to decide how their tax dollars are spent. and i believe they should get to decide that before we ask them for more tax dollars. either way, it should be their decision. and i don't think that's irresponsible. well, i think that's democracy. most of my career in this building was in the city attorney's office 21 years ago. i came into here to work and i have watched policy makers, boards of supervisors

and mayors alike. set up city departments for failure or deny them the tools to succeed and then blame them for failing. and when i was appointed and then elected to this role, i made a commitment and i made this commitment in every department head i talk to. i will never be a supervisor who sets you up for failure or blames you for failing. unless i have done everything i can to set you up for success. and part of the idea of introducing this early and having taking time to work collaboratively with the police department, with the city comptroller, with the city attorney, with the mayor's budget office and i know that, you know, i think we were sharing drafts of documents. there's a brown act that prevents me from talking to my colleagues here on the rules committee directly about these measures. but it was important to me to ask the department what it needed to succeed in in

something that i know that this is and i think this is a valid point that vice chair walton made. this is speculative. we're in uncharted waters here. we've never seen a competitive environment like what we're seeing right now. so i'm asking people, based on their expertise . chief of police scott, what do you think will work? and that is why we crafted an amendment that i think gives voters the opportunity to make a decision that will make real progress in a highly competitive environment like neighboring counties and cities are doing with their law enforcement. what challenges? we are not competing as well as we should be. this charter amendment would change that. it would give voters the opportunity to change it. and i think that's actually the most important point. we we're not here as the board of supervisors to enact a charter amendment. we are proposing a charter amendment for submission to voters. so that voters get to decide how their tax dollars are spent. as for this proposed amendment, i've said this and i,

i appreciate the spirit with which it is offered, but in my view, this is a poison pill amendment that defunds police recruitment. that's what it does . this changes the charter amendment into a stalking horse for a tax hike. that's what it does. but it no longer does anything substantive on public safety or police staffing. it is a different charter amendment. now, if we pass if we enact and include this amendment and i know, you know, i realize supervisor sophie, you said you were consistent, but it is 180 degree turn from the charter amendment you supported last week. but supervisor safai, i just want to say for the record, do you acknowledge that this is something that could be done? the mayor could put money in the budget and fund recruitment and do exactly what you're asking for? yeah, i think the mayor and the board alike could be and

actually should. i think there's a there's an important point here that nothing the fact that we are taking up a charter amendment that it in many ways in my view the charter amendment i'm proposing is what we should have done in 2020 with with what became prop e, we had the benefit in 2020 of a multi year process that identified outside experts to get us to tell us how many police officers a city like san francisco should have. i think we should have taken a hard look then of getting us to full staffing. we missed the opportunity to do that. and i think right now we can't afford not to do that. so i am not against solving other problems too. we can walk and chew gum. we have to. supervisor sophie no, no, that's it. i just wanted to make sure we were clear that this is something that can happen tomorrow. thank you. great okay. supervisor, do you want to make a motion on your.

yeah. so i'll make a motion to accept the amendments as discussed. i know i'll have to sit for a week because i think there substantive. is that right. madam city attorney through the chair, deputy city attorney ann pearson. all amendments made to ballot measures need to have to sit. okay. thank you so there you go. i mean. okay. okay i mean, there's an argument that we should table the table, the measure and work on a supplemental, if that's what we're offering. i think we could do both. okay. um so there's a yes. so a motion motion? yes. on the motion to amend vice chair walton walton i supervisor sapphire. a sapphire i chair dorsey. i dorsey i motion passes without objection. okay thank you, mr. clerk. and then we'll make a motion to continue this item for next week. do we have to vote on the motion to

continue? yes, the motion is to continue the matter to our next meeting, which would be november the 6th. on the motion to continue, vice chair walton walton. i supervisor sapphire. i sapphire chair dorsey. no. dorsey. no the motion to continue passes with chair dorsey dissenting and committee. great thank you, mr. clerk. and on item number one, charter amendment, minimum police staffing and five year annual funding requirement. as amendment moves to the full board on a 2 to 1 vote. it's not moving to the board. it's continued to move to the continued until next week. my apologies. thanks. the matters continue to our november 6th rules committee meeting as amended. thank you, mr. clerk. can you please call item number two? yes item number two is ordinance amending the administrative code to require the chief of police to adopt a foot and bike patrol strategy for the police department and to require the police commission to

hold annual hearings regarding community policing and foot and bike patrols. thank you, mr. clerk. and this item is chiefly sponsored by supervisor safai, who spoke to it last week. but supervisor, do you want to anything you'd like to say about this? let's have a second. but we're going to just take a time for people to leave. i don't know. all right. here we go. oh no. that yeah, yeah. okie dokie. let me put this right here for. okay, thanks, everybody. okay and this item is chiefly

sponsored by supervisor safai. would you want to do anything? here are some amendments. do you need a copy. okay. thank you. i think this complements the previous conversation nicely. um so, colleagues, thanks for continuing this item last week. i have amendments that i've just presented to you that will do the following. we talked about the, the need to get foot beat officers either on bike or foot patrol out in the community. we put forward this proposal, as i said, to get equity across the entire city. this requires the chief and the captains to work collaboratively to come up with a plan. we specify in the amendments that these this will be set and put in place as of january 1st, 2024. so we will

have over the next couple of months, the chief and the captains will work on the plans and then they will be implemented starting january 1st. appreciate police department's work with us on that. i mean, they have an annual process that they go through bi annual and their own budget process. so we want to incorporate that into the budget process. s so that's good and it clarifies the role of the commission in and the work that they do along with the captains. but again, just to reiterate the captains are allocated money from the command. they have the flexibility now, now, but this is saying to them, work with the chief to come up with a requirement. this is requiring every police district in the city to put officers on the street. we know from the data and we know from practice that putting officers out in the community one builds trust, builds morale, and it helps to reduce crime significantly. so i don't believe these amendments

are substantive. i think these are non substantive substance tive amendments, just clarifying dates and otherwise through the chair to madam city attorney. these are not substantive amendments, correct? that is correct. great so and if we can send this to the full board with a positive recommendation, that would be my request. but again, just appreciate that the chief and his team, diana and others that worked on this, again, an the input from the commission and also the response that i got from community members, others and everyone that's pretty much asking for police presence in the community to do true community policing. i think we've waited for that for a long time. so i'm sorry, supervisor walton, through the chair. supervisor walton. thank you. chair dorsey well, one, i just really do want to stress the

importance of community policing and what seeing officers on foot patrol and on bikes does in the community and the opportunity that it allows for relationship building. and so that is 100% why i do support this, support this and i know that the chief and i have talked and command staff have talked about the report that really detailed the importance of sector cars and having cars on patrol. but i do want to say, as we continue to work to improve our environment and continue to work to do everything that we can to try to keep cars off the street, that i really feel our bike patrols, if they are employed appropriately, can cover a lot of ground as well. and so i just wanted to state why i think that that is an important direction to focus on, not only because i think

they can cover some ground, but also because it really does force a relationship up with with community and officers. so i just want to thank supervisor sapphire for bringing this forward and just look forward to really seeing the positive interactions that can come from this. okay. thank you. vice chair walton, i wanted to ask if i might the chief if on is there . i'm just looking at my understanding of this is that it's not it is asking for a plan . my one worry that i would have and i don't know if this is fixed, if changed by the amendments that are offered today, may i know that staff's and i apologize to my vice chair, walton, because i think your point about me repeating myself, i'm going to be a broken record for the next year on police staffing issues is just is there anything in here that is going to be problematic given the staffing challenges as well?

everything is dependent upon staffing. i mean, it's i think the three of, you know, we believe in foot beats. we believe in bike units. and it's been a function of our ability to deploy them consistently across the city. so that is totally dependent on staffing. i think the measure calls for a plan. and, you know, we'll try to figure out as best we can how to work through our staffing challenges. but it's all dependent on staffing at the end of the day. but i guess what i'm asking is, is this i think a plan is good. and actually, in some ways i think it's probably a good thing. so that the department can explain the importance of while these foot beats and bike patrols are important and i support this, i mean, the innovate actions and aspirations of 21st century policing around community policing especially, is the reason that i you know, when i there was an opportunity to come work for you, i jumped at it because i've seen over the years many of the challenges our police department has faced. and so i appreciate your leadership

on 21st century police reforms. and i know community policing, foot patrols, bike patrols are a part of that. i want to make sure that we can get that, too. that's why i'm working on police staffing. i just wanted to make sure that there is nothing in here that's prescriptive that is saying that we have to do bike patrols in a certain area or commit staffing. if we don't have it. well, as i read it, it calls for planning and it calls for plan and supervisor zafar has been vocal about us being creative, you know, as, as we can be in terms of trying to make this happen. i will say, if there is a decision that has to be made between filling the basic sector cars, which handles calls for services and fielding other things, we have to make a decision. and sometimes that's a game time decision depending on how many officers you have for that day. but we'll work through it as best we can. okay, great. thank you, chief. thanks, chief.

and just to follow up on that through the chair, i mean, my understanding is currently, even before this legislation, all of the captain cars have monies in their budget. it and it's voluntary. it's voluntary right now foot patrols are something that they can do based on the way that the chief excuse me, the captain set it up, is that correct? they the overtime is divided by the different commands or district stations as well as other commands in the department. so, yes, they have the ability to manage their commands. and if they want to run a foot beat on an overtime as long as they manage that budget, they have the ability and the autonomy to do that right. and i think just just to clarify, and that's just i appreciate the question from supervisor dorsey. i mean, the thing that that we're doing is we're requiring, i think for the first time to be a little bit more aggressive and creative and saying someone has a 10 to 12 hour shift. and i think that's usually how they're running. figure out a way to work, incorporate it in if you, you

know, based on again, this leaves all of the decision making to the chief all the flexibility work with the captains look within your existing constraints on over time. but i think as supervisor walton said, you know there's certain areas of the city that just haven't gotten the foot patrols. and you and i have had this ongoing conversation for seven years. and so i'm very excited about this. i think it also will help to address many of the things we were talking about in the last conversation. asian people want to see officers present in the community. i think it helps with morale and so again, i appreciate the cooperation and appreciate the work that supervisor walton and others did. you know, a few years back we built on their initial groundwork and evolved it to what we thought was better for today. thank you. great. thank you, sir. thank you, chief. and not withstanding some of our

disagreements about police staffing and the charter amendment preceding this, i do agree that foot patrols and bike patrols are really important and they are such an essential element of community policing. so i appreciate supervisor sakai for his leadership on this. supervisor sakai, would you want to make a motion? yes, i'd like to make a motion to accept these items as discussed and proposed and so first we'll make that amendment and then i'll have to make another motion after that. right or can i make the motion to send it? can we take except public comment prior to the motion? let's open this item up to public comment. yes sir. with any members of the public like me, public comment on this matter, you can approach the podium at this time. okay. i do not see any any public comment for this matter. public comment on this item is now closed. okay so i'd like to make a motion to amend this item as proposed on the motion to amend and vice chair walton walton i supervisor

safaei a sapphire chair. dorsey a dorsey i the motion passes without objection. okay and i'd like to make a motion to continue this to next week. no, no, no, it's not. i'm sorry. just clarification. it doesn't need to be continued because there's no oh so i'd like to send this to the full board with positive recommendation as amended. and would you like that as a committee report or as a committee report? yeah. okay please. yes, on the motion. if the motion is to recommend the matter as amended as a committee report on that motion, vice chair walton walton i, supervisor sapphire. a sapphire chair. dorsey a dorsey i the motion passes without objection. thank you, mr. clerk. on a unanimous vote, then item to administrative code, community policing and foot patrols goes to the full board with a positive recommendation and a committee report. mr. clerk, do we have any further business

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