>> good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining me today. joining us all here today. my name is special agent jeremy brown with united states secret service and i'm the asian pacific enomic coordinator. the secret service and federal and state local partners joining me here today have been preparing for the apec leader summit, which was designated a national special security event. this event will take place in san francisco from november 15-18. the apec summit is a part of the apec leaders week and designated a national special security events. we refer as a nsse. due to the size significance and anticipated attendance.

this will be the united states secret service 75 national security event. this designation is given to insure the full weight leverage talent and resources of the federal government and our state and local partners to this event and other events like this. when an event is designated the u.s. secret service assumes its mandated role as the lead agency for it design and implementation of the operational security plan. however, the success of these events cannot be obtained by any one agency alone and i can say it has been a collaborative effort between the u.s. secret service, the san francisco police department, the california highway patrol, the federal bureau of investigation, the federal emergency management agency, u.s. coast guard, san francisco fire department and many federal state and local partner

tuesday design the security plan. during the last several months and in fact today, this collaborative team has conducted numerous training exercises, one of which we finished this morning a table top exercise to prepare for this event cht this insures that each agency is properly prepared for this event of this magnitude. the number one priority for the secret service and everyone standing here today is the safety of the world leaders, the attendees coming to the apec summit, but as well as the general public here in san francisco while the apec summit is here in san francisco. because of the nature of this designation and impact to the normal daily lives of san francisco residents and visitors is unavoidable. however, the team here has taken extraordinary measures to

minimize that impact where possible while maintaining our obligation to the safety of the attendees oof the apec semt as elwith as the general public. the public will experience increased traffic on both roads and walkways in and around the apec venues. vehicular public transportation and pedestrian impacts should be expected in the downtown area around the muconey center. around the san francisco waterfront, as well as the nob hill neighborhood. residents and businesses generally will have access to their normal residents and their normal businesses, however, they may under go a security screening and mild inconvenience to traverse these areas. specific road closures and pedestrian and vehicle access information have been provided on a map like the one displayed behind me here that can be

accessed online. also made available to mapping software people are familiar with here in san francisco that they have on their personal smart phones and other devices. secret service establish remote delivery and vehicle screening at pier 27 that allow all delivery vehicles going into their zones to be screened and then they will be given specific instructions once they are screened. their vehicle will be sealed and can access the perimeter under certain conditions. deliveries should occur between 10 p.m. 7 a.m. there will be temporary flight restrictions. this will impact commercial and private air traffic as well as drown operators. the federal aviation administration this and notice to all airman for all effected

air traffic. again to include drones. there will be restrictions for commercial and private maritime traffic around the waterfront area. those restrictions will be communicated directly by the u.s. coastguard and notice to mariners. the summit security plan is part of the secret service zero no fail protective mission and also a part of each and every state federal local agency participated in this security plan. we have absolute confidence in this plan and we have taken extraordinary measures to minimize the impact to the public and to the residents and visitors of san francisco. we thank the residents and visitors of san francisco for their patience. we will do our best to collectively keep the public informed of changes or impacts or incident that occur during the apec summit. i like to personally thank chief scott with the san francisco police department as well as the san francisco

department of emergency management and many other federal state and local partners who mentioned for all the work thus far. it is truly a collaborative effort and i thank you all for your continued partnership. my pleasure to introduce chief bill scott. >> thank you special agent brown. first of all, i want to thank our partners and like to start with special agents jeremy brown for leadership and professionalism planning the apec alongside the sfpd. i want to thank and acknowledge the partners at the cal highway patrol. we have [indiscernible] here and also thank commissioner [indiscernible] for their assistance and commitment of resources to this event. we cannot do this without their help and this is a

unprecedented event for the city of san francisco. we are very excited to take part in this event and putting the global spotlight on the city and county of san francisco. we are expecting up to 20 thousand people from across 21 member apec economys, ceo's around the world and expecting close to 1 thousand media representatives. our city is ready to meet this moment. the san francisco police department has a full time team working with all department bureaus to insure adequate service provided to the apec event and to the city as a whole. our department of emergency management headed by director carol and mayor office are working full time to coordinate all city agencies to be prepared for this epic event. the san francisco police department is also partnering with federal, state and local agencies to support the u.s. secret service, their security

mission. sfpd is working to insure first amendment activity is properly facilitated and remains peaceful and let me be very very clear, any act of violence against any member of the public or law enforcement will not be tolerated. this department has a lot of experience in handling large scale security events. yearly we have the pride event. the 2018 global climate action summit superbowl and victory parade for golden state warriors and san francisco giants. we have experience with this but so do all our partners. that experience will make us successful with this year's apec event. ypt to talk about our staffing. the san francisco police department is staffed up and prepared to make sure this event is safe for everyone. work wg our department of emergency management and will have a joint information center to respond to inquirys and get

information out in real time. we do not anticipate apec impact city services by ems or 911. emergency responders will be available everywhere in the city. several hundred sfpd officers are dedicated to normal operations, including calls for service and emergency response acrauz the city. and we plan to maintain adequate service for the greater city in our 10 district stations outside of the apec conference boundaries in order to handle our routine normal calls for service and provide the public safety needs of this city. all of our sworn members will be working. we are mobilized for that week and we will have hundreds of sfpd officers ambassadors, volunteers dedicated to this apec conference to insure the safety of visitors and dignitaries in both the city limits and at the san francisco international airport.

the california highway patrol and over a dozen local agencies are providing personnel to supplement the needs for the uniform law enforcement as designated apec venues and events. our san mateo county agency is supporting the san francisco airport so we are well prepared for this events. here is our call to axz. we are asking the public, stay vigilant. if you see something, say something. we should do that always no matter what you see, we will check it out. don't be afraid to call. be patient. as special agent brown mentioned, many areas of the city will be impacted by street closures, detours, buses rerouted, public transportation rerouted and dignitaries escorts. it will take all patience to get through this week. we will keep you informed and make sure you know what routes you can take for public transportation, what routes are

closed so you can plan accordingly. we encourage you to take public transportation or walk, but most importantly, please enjoy the city as you would normally. this police department and our public safety partners will be out 24/7 as always insuring our community is safe. last, let's please be respectful and tolerant of one another. many people from many cultures and many different countries with many different ways of life will be converging on the city of san francisco during apec. we are that city. we are a welcoming city that respects every culture, so let's make sure that we model that this week and beyond. let's show the world that we are truly a world class city. the map has been provided. working closely with city partners and agencies to assist with road closures.

working with mta on public transportation but pay attention to the alerts because that will help us get through this with hopefully minimized disruption to normal routine. with that, i like to close by saying, thank you, thank you again to our partners. this will be a exciting time for the city of san francisco as we will be on the global stage. we are prepared. we have done this before. we have the experience. we have the collaboration. we have partnership and we are committed to making this a safe event for everyone and with that, i like to introduce special agent in charge from the fbi, bob trip. >> good afternoon everyone. thank you chief scott. my name is bob trip. in november, apec will bring together the leaders of nations that account for 40 percent of

the global population and 50 percent of global trade. the fbi is committed insuring these leaders, other visitors and the city and residents of the bay area can enjoy these events in a safe and security environment. we are bringing all fbi resources to bear to fulfill our own mission and to plan for contingencies. our role will focus on crisis management, investigation, and intelligence support as part of our preventing terrorism mission. we will work together with partners to collect threat intelligence and mitigate any threats in support of this event. a driving force behind the summit is the power collaboration that same principle is guiding the planning and engagement of the federal state and local partners that you see gathered here today. the fbi is proud to stand among our partners and to provide them all with our full support. i'll turn things back over to

secret service for questions. >> we can take some questions related to the apec event. first up. >> hi. there. what measure s might the secret service might conduct sweeps to make sure any unhoused individuals in zone may be removed, is that something the secret service will be working on? >> first off, thank you for that question. i know there is a lot of concern in san francisco regarding the homeless population. we have a plan that we work closely with san francisco police department on. i will turn it over to chief scott. i think he has more detailed information to answer this specific question. >> thank you for that question. first of all, let me say, we are not conducting sweeps.

we have a infrastructure in the city to address some of the challenges with our unhoused population and we will plug into that infrastructure to make sure people need help need help. the main thing, the main focus that we are all here for is public safety and the safety of this event. there will be places where we wont allow access and we are prepared to deal with that if we have unhoused people that are displaced. they will have opportunities for shelter. they will have opportunities for help, but the main thing is to make sure it is a safe environment, so we will plug into our regular infrastructure. the department of emergency management. the fire department has a street crisis response team. we have shelter beds available. we have the resources to make this work and that's what we intend to do. i want to say this, it isn't a crime to be unhoused. it isn't a crime to be homeless.

we are out there to make sure we help people. we are out there to make sure this event is a safe event but we also want to represent our city in the finest light, so all these components and infrastructure pieces we put together over a number of years will come together and help guide us to a successful event. >> should people start expecting to see like, [indiscernible] things in the ramp up to this since they are necessary to [indiscernible] heads of state. >> thanks for the question. in the days leading up to the period of the nsse, you will see what we would call administrative movement of motorcade vehicles throughout

the city to prepare. you will see instillation of various physical barriers to assist with the restrictions displayed on the map here in the days leading up to the 15-18 period. it is slow ramp up a few day ahead and culminating the evening of the 14 to early morning hours of the 15 of november. >> on the map, what are all the colors mean? can someone point out what everything up there means [indiscernible] >> if i could get a map here i can refer to real quick. i got one with me and will try to talk through it. so, the colors and everything on the map are self-explanatory. there is a legend at the bottom corner and so i'm happy to visit privately after this to answer those questions, but for

me to explain entirety of the map, there is a lot on the map. there is vehicle restricted zones. there is pedestrian restricted zones. there is closures of public transportation routes. there are reroutes available to the public of san francisco to take in lieu of the closed public transportation routes. those are all displayed on the map. those are what the different things mean, but detailed explanation of the map for the purpose of time here today, not going through from a-z on that. >> [indiscernible] for people listening at home. where can people read and find out the closures that effect them? >> excellent question. i know this map is going to be most important to the public so i'll differ that question to a san francisco pd or city partners. >> [indiscernible] >> you are saying there is a [indiscernible] can you elaborate on that?

people are wondering [indiscernible] we had the president here. we had a lot of people from out of town. what type of extra security are we expecting, especially 21 leaders? >> great question. again, as i said earlier, this event has warranted full resources of the federal, state and local government, so i'm not going to speak to specific numbers. what i can tell you is there will be a extraordinary amount of law enforcement, military and public safety personnel in san francisco for this event, so well above what anybody has ever seen here before. >> can you give us the idea--we have seen the president in san francisco before. can you give comparison how much more locked down the city will be? >> i can't give you a detailed comparison other then to say, it will be much more then a normal presidential visit to

san francisco. we are anticipating not just the president of the united states, also the vice president, also potentially heads of state from 21 other countries that are coming to this event, so you know, minimum, 21 times what you would normally see might be a good opening ball park, but again, very hard to specifically describe and compare because you are comparing apples to oranges. >> [indiscernible] >> that's a great question. so, the major closures around muconey will be from second street to 5 ethstreet. those streets will be open beyond the points the streets will be closed. then from market street to harrison street. again, both streets being open, but anything beyond that boundary is closed to vehicular

traffic. >> [indiscernible] >> i'm going to differ to the city of san francisco on the public transportation questions because they are the experts on that. >> good afternoon. i name is jeffrey tumlin the executive director of the san francisco municipal transportation agency. we are very grateful how closely the secret serve iss worked with us to minimize negative impact to the transit system and particularly to center naerbds like chinatown, union square, south of market and the whole southeast quadrant of san francisco. that said, for security reasons, the yurba buena station and 4th and brandon station of the central subway will need to be closed for it duration of the event. we are grateful we are able to reroute trains, so the t3 trains instead of going into the central subway will simply follow the old route to market street subway and very

importantly will be able to run high frequency shuttle trains between union square, market street station, and chinatown. this is very important for us to make sure we maintain strong conductivity to chinatown. bart, caltrain will be fully operational uneffected. sams trans and golden gate experience very miner reroutes so if you are coming to san francisco that week, please do take public transit. very importantly, we will be publishing very detailed traffic walking biking and especially transit updates under our website later this afternoon and will continue to update that as we get more information. please go to sfmta.com/apec. where you can not only find information, but also sign up for regular alerts and updates. >> what about the cable cars

and [indiscernible] >> yes. the cable cars will be disrupted by the nob hill area zone but grateful to the secret service and our team who found a way to continue operate the hyde street line from the cable car barn at mason street to the hyde street terminal so that will keep running. the rest of the line needs to be replaced by bus connectivity. >> it sounds like there are three areas. there is muscone, nob hill and waterfront portion. can you talk about the waterfront portion? >> i will differ to secret service for the details of the dates and boundaries, but for each of those, they worked very closely with us in order to develop plans to make sure public transit can be rerouted around those closures as

needed. >> i wondered about the-- >> if i can answer that question first and come to you. so, your questions about the waterfront. >> [indiscernible] three security [indiscernible] >> that's correct. so, the question i think is about the waterfront, and that will primarily be on the day of and especially the afternoon and evening of the 15 of november. we expect the embarcadero to be closed that day on the 15 of november from battery to broadway that will be a closure there. you will also see diversion of traffic before you get to battery or before to broadway to prevent congestion. also on the map you see a area in the water that is maritime restriction zone. that will be in effect the afternoon and evening of 15 of november that include ferrys and such diverted around that zone. we made large enough to account

for safety needs and security needs we intend to have for that particular venue, but also allowing as much traffic as possible around that zone to take place. >> [indiscernible] >> i wondered about the people in the area they might have to undergo security check. is that bag check or beyond that? >> great question. for people that live around or operate businesses around some of these venues, particularly mos coney if you are trying to access for example the met rion or something of that nature, you will have to go what is effectively a bag check. any packages or bags you have with you would have to be inspected, but nothing beyond the bag or package check will be the procedure there. >> how are you planning to respond to protesters and can you confirm if and where there will be zones that protesting

cannot take place. >> appreciate the question. the question is regarding protest and demonstration. so, i'll answer part of it and turn the rest to chief scott. so, from secret service perspective, to answer your second part first, secret service does not designate protest zones, no protest zones. we designate general public areas and areas restricted from the general public. as far as your question regarding any concern over protests, as chief scott stated in his remarks and i'll second this, during this planning, we accounted for the fact there will be perhaps many different groups and many different type of people that want to come to san francisco and exercise their first amendment rights and we are prepared to see that. we dont want to discourage that, however we want to make sure that if anybody is doing anything in conjunction with those activities that result in violence or criminal activity,

that will not be tolerated by the u.s. secret service or the san francisco police department. i'll turn it over to chief scott for any second comments on that question. >> thank you special agent brown. i just reiterate what was just said. it is about facilitation of peaceful first amendment activity and also about the general public safety for this event and the public as well. including the protesters themselves. we will facilitate like we always do first amendment activity. we do that very well and we will employ similar tactics and strategy we always have and it is about facilitation. if and when protesters show up we will be deployed to handle that. we have extra officers that we will be able to handle that type of event if it occurs. the message is this and want to reiterate, criminal activity will not be tolerated and

anybody think they are going to come in name of protest and hurt somebody or do crime or start fires that will not be tolerated so want to reemphasize that. we will do it consitutionally and respect rights and professional in our actions but will not tolerate the nonsense so i want to make that clear. we are all professionals up here. we respect the country consitution and will facilitate that, but we also want to make sure this is a peaceful event. >> question for chief scott. well aware sfpd had under staffing issues working with mutual partners in other counties and cities, is it safe to say during this time that sfpd might be fully staffed? >> everybody is working, so we will be fully staffed and we have assistance. i said earlier in my remarks,

can't thank the california highway patrol enough, the u.s. secret service, all our partners, we are all in this together but the municipal policing is the san francisco police department with help from other local agencies. we have motorcycle officers from other agencies, squads to deal with the security assignments and we have squads to deal with the fixed posts and we are prepared to adequately police the rest of the city during this event, so we are ready, and we are short, but thank goodness we do have the assistance of calling everybody in that make this work. thank you, great question and fair question. thank you. >> businesses operating in some of the security zones, is there going to be any impact to their hours and also, is there cases where there is inconveniences

because of dignitaries? is there compensation for some of the [indiscernible] >> so, appreciate the question regarding the impact to businesses. with very few if any very rare exceptions there will be no businesses asked to effectively close. there will be impacts. already discussed that people that are patrons of the businesses may need to undergo screening if they wish to do business with these places or perhaps the business workers or owners. there will also be impacts during motorcade movement. there is restriction of traffic and restriction of pedestrian traffic during key times so there will be impacts, but we are anticipating any full closures of any private businesses here in san francisco as a result of this.

because of that, we are not anticipating any need to compensate business owners due to these impacts. it is something that as part of this national special security event and the fact it is here in the city of san francisco and hosted by the city that is anticipated these types of impacts will occur and i'll turn it over to the city for further comment on that, but that's effectively comes with the territory of with these type of events. >> from a city perspective, our mayor's office worked very hard to coordinate with small businesses, with all businesses. office of economic development, our office of small business development have been working at this for monthss to keep everybody informed as to what the impacts will be. online there will be a lot of people in the city that attend the conference. we hope it helps our businesses economically, but that only happens if we are well

coordinated, people well informed and people understand what the closures are, how to get to and from daily routine of life and we will do that well. the department of emergency management does a great job informing the public when we have these types of events and public notices particularly if there is a emergency that are tied into this or as a result, or emergencies around the city. we will keep everybody informed and i think that will be the key to making this a smooth as possible, but we definitely are--we understand the businesses will be-people will be disrupted and why we are here today and continue to message to the public to make sure we minimize the disruption and businesses can go about their routine. thank you. >> [indiscernib

>> good morning, everyone. >> thank you for joining us on this beautiful thursday morning am my name is carl the interim director and delighted it welcome you to the opening ceremony of the newly painted pedestrian bridge this links japantown and the fillmore community a couple of notes after the program invite

everyone to go on the bridge and have a photo opportunity with the beautiful view and i utilize this color of the japantown bridge. so with that, i would love to introduce our mayor the leader of information who inspires us to think creatively and come up with beautiful projects and work with the community and really is the woman behind all of this like to introduce a mayor london breed (clapping.) i want to take this opportunity to restriction we have some wonderful community gifts and first start with our general of thank you for joining us, we are honored by your presence. (clapping.) now you'll be hearing in the council generally and the amazing community members this is also great to come home

everyone i get a chance to come to fillmore or japantown this is a homecoming for me so many of the people joining us are people who have been colors in this community for decades the ones whenever and a broaden challenge the first one to raise the hand and to assure that the quacks of 24 neighborhood when the city comes in and those impacts are positive for the people who live here and the welcome addition no japantown this is a a deep he rich history in challenges and struggle and sneak before the redevelopment agency took hold to have neighborhood geary bridge is not the same it is a road but a highway divided our community in ways we couldn't

have imaged it was really what started up afterthought advocacy to make sure the community is a part of this when we are proposing the give and take bus rapid transit are dedicated to the munching to make sure that muni is moving efficient and low as a fast as he came in the streets of san francisco we need the see with the community in mind and navenlt we worked with with the japantown community to make adjustments were not talked about. and initially the plan called for tearing down in bridge behind us so many people felt this bridge was about bridging gaps and bridging community to the though not only proposed department since the last fire commission meeting, including budget, academies, special events, on to this wonderful bridge this seniors and kids use and elementary

school but folks cross this bridge next year safety to get on give and take we didn't want to see that amazing bridge torn down and within the middle of block within laguna and western a crossway honest we crossed the street in the middle of the road putting our lives in our hands to get to japantown and walk under the plaza and then down to the bowl now it is safe passage and one of the creations of the folks from the community who saw is this was so many kids and folks using this as a cross we wanted to make that satisfy that's what we need the and today 317 celebrating why are we celebrating the bridge but the symbolism of what it representatives the connections

between folks farther part of western community and the people part of japantown those ties that bind us help to maintain that bond that is unbreakable because of the challenges of the past and so today as we celebrate the beauty of this bridge and the beauty of japantown and the western addition we reminded o communities are here because of people who 0 that live and struggle and the people that remainy silent despite the brooks thank you, everyone for being here but thank you, department of public works and carl and her team to make that more beautiful a than i've ever seen and tenderloin one on our community members and steve and

greg from the so many people and james from hud this is a community effort and i'm looking forward to not only continuing to walk across this bridge by it see it continued to be used for folks to be connected and with that, at this time, i want to introduce the council general of japantown. >> (clapping) good morning, everyone. thank you very much for inviting me today a block event i think the theme today, this morning is the bridge. bridging the community with the japantown and western addition and reaching the bridging san francisco to japan

bridging to to the world i came here 5 weeks ago but i have already heard the mayor brooedz so many times every time i'm excited 0 here that mayor breeding it is the enrollment of the bridging between the western addition and a japantown san francisco and japan and to the world. so in two weeks ago time will be a guy garlic event gathering 21 applies here. i celebrate and i congratulate mayor breed and the people of san francisco to hold such an event introducing san francisco to the world and, and, and

rendering tuned for that having that event possible in san francisco. and we hope that we can have this kind of mature bridge again in japan and in other parts of the world thank you, again, for today and congratulations. thank you. (clapping.) i also want to give a shout out to some of our community members of the squares deputy city attorney i can't and connie for the record and economic development want to shout out to another one who works there and japan and i see patrick who is here. thank you very much for joining us really is a close comment community that work closely together and at this

time, i want to ask is grace or steve. >> okay. we're to ask fire commissioner steve to come up and say a few words (clapping). >>. thank you very much. mayor breed and council germany want to give a real recognition to mayor breed in terms of our presence and support in the western addition yeah fillmore and japantown for our responsibility as mayor of the san francisco. i need to recognize the repetitive of our community which are many folks behind me make up the mayor's office and support but the partnerships with dpw and michelle and carla and all the

dpw team because without that combines and collaboration 24/7 us the mayor office and more importantly the fillmore community i am full of emotion standing in the stood shadow of japantown and can't stop thinking about all we didn't need in the old days to combine fillmore. we simply wobbled across the street so through the evidence of history and what happened and highway and free with that beautiful rendition of the bridge and the colors with the aspirations of apec i feel that our journey is moving forward and time to heal

japantown and the fillmore with that history and dedication we maintain that bridge and that relationship that goes beyond to japan as well thank you, mayor breed and department of public works. thank you. (clapping.) thank you so much steve i know that sandy is not here but shout out to all the work she's been doing over the years and at this time, i want to recognize andy to say a few words (clapping.) thank you, ma'am mayor. and concrete before i've been a preacher all my life and to the consul generally i'm excited to be here preliminarily to illustrate to talk about how

this bridge representatives our connections between two communities and time is trying to separate us and managed to stay today an example of this. the association and steve will do a great documentary between those two communities. many, many years ago, i was invited to be on panel of um, that commemoration of the japanese when we were sent away to the camps i didn't know why i was invited but went because of japantown called they and i was so grateful there was a elder woman that talked about the day

they were leaving she said of the only people that seem to miss they're leaving where black people in the philadelphia more today they left the only people that showed up to say goodbye were the black christian folks from the fillmore and brought brown patricia of chicken and that's the way we used to travel across country because of, of course, because of jim we didn't know we tried a restaurant would serve us and fried chicken would last longer out of rerefrigerator and something that fits in a shoe box you know what i'm talking about that's

the kind of relationship those communities have always had and notice that while our association location japantown you fillmore it is really more separated since this bridge than that was ever was in reality because our relationship was a relationship of location by of the heart. and while they can pit this in to separate us they couldn't separate our hearts from one another that's why we're still together and i see a lot of people in filling more and japantown serving that and make sure that i let nothing happens we've always been together and determined to stay together no-brainier what happens in gearing boulevard i

want to tell you and let you know that we are psa this relationship togetherness on to the next generation and on to the next generation every in san francisco, california learn how you be can be distinct in the community. >> be together contaminate what a beautiful lesson to thank you, everyone for giving us to chance to glover any in our friendship. thank you very much. >> thank you rendering attain send and toy everybody for coming here we're going to do a ceremony i can't tell walk across this bridge and, yes. so we're going. >> here's what we do in a community coming together and

hanging out one another and uplifting afternoon this is was it will be and also be. thank you very much for being here today. >> oh, wow, look at the colors i love it. and wow. >> i know; right? >> uh-huh. >> when i was a >> we can sweep by in front of a house in a matter of seconds. the only people who don't like it are the people who get the tickets. >> this is a street sweeping sign. don't let it get you.

pay attention. [♪♪♪] >> in the morning, when we first go out, we start at six in the morning or seven in the morning. we call that our business run. we sweep all the main arteries of the city. after 8:00, we go into the residential areas and take care of all the other customers. >> the idea with the street sweeping program is to get the leaves and the debris off the ground. >> we -- for not only appearance and cleanliness but safety as well. >> we will get anywhere from 2- 7,000 pounds per truck depending on the season and the route. the street sweeper and the choice of the use right now is an error sweeper. they have a motor in the back and it blows winds down one side and carried by air into the hopper. what will mess this up is new --

large pieces of cardboard or sticks or coat hangers. anything that is more than 12 inches. the tube on the tracks is only 12-inch diameter. >> people asked what they can do to help to keep the city clean. there are people that letter. leaves are one thing. any of the garbage you see is from people being careless. [♪♪♪] >> one cars parked in the way, we can't sweep under the congress. to deal with this, we have parking control officers that are provided by m.t.a. and they go in front of our sweepers and pass out citations to people that are parking the wrong way. once the sweepers sweep past in san francisco, you may park

behind the street sweeper. we all know parking is a big issue. north beach hasn't been swept since the eighties because of opposition. but we are getting a lot of requests to sweep. basically our trucks are 10 feet wide. we stick the brooms out and they are may be 12 feet wide. >> there are a lot of blind spots when driving a large truck pedestrians and bicyclists and cars. and navigates this 22,000-pound truck through the city. >> we involve the public here -- to adhere to traffic laws. these routes were developed back in the eighties around the capability of the sweeper. things have changed since then so we have to adapt. luckily, public works is embracing technology and working on a system to alter our maps. this is literally cut and paste -- cut and paste. we will have a computer program soon that will be able to alter

the maps and be updated instantly. we will have tablets in the checks for all of the maps. we will send a broom wherever it needs to go and he has the information he needs to complete the safety. what is needed about these tablets as they will have a g.p.s. on it so we know where they're at. you do get confused driving along, especially the inner sunset. recall that to the be made a triangle. >> thanks for writing along with us today. i enjoyed showing you what we do and i urge you to pay attention to the signs and move your car and don't litter. with all >> it is one of the first steps families and step to secure their future and provide a sense of stability for them and their loved ones. your home,

it is something that could be passed down to your children and grandchildren. a asset that offers a pathway to build wealth from one generation to the next. and you need to complete estate plan to protect the asisets. your home, small business, air looms and more. you and so many communities, black, indigenous, latino and asian worked so hard to make yours but estate plans could be costly and conversations complex proud to partner to bring free and low cost estate plans to san franciscans. by providing estate plans we are able to keep the assets whole for our families, prevent displacement, address disparities and home ownership and strengthen the cultural integrity of the city. working with local non profit organizations and neighborhood groups bringing the serveess to you and community, to workshops focused on estate planning and why it's important.

>> i'm 86 years old and you do need a trustee. you need a will and put who ever you want in charge of it. >> that's why i wanted to be here today. that is why one of the first steps i took when become assessor recorder is make sure we have a partnership to get foundational funding to provide these resources to community. but even more important is our connection to you and your homes and making sure we know how to help you and how to protect them. >> if you don't have a living trust you have to go through probate and that cost money and depending on the cost of the home is associated the cost you have to pay. that could be $40 thousand for a home at that level. i don't know about you, but i don't $40 thousand to give up. >> (indiscernible) important workshop to the community so we can stop the loss of generational wealth and equity and maintain a

(indiscernible) >> why are estate plans important? we were just talking before we started the program, 70 percent of black americans do not scr a will in place. >> as mentioning being in community we had a conversation with a woman who paid $2700, $2700 just for revocable trust. what we are talking about today are free or low cost estate plans that are value between 3,000 to $3500. free or low cost meaning free, or $400 if you make above $104 thousand a year, and capped larger then that amount. because we want to focus on black and brown households, because that's whether the need is, not only in san francisco, not only the bay area but the region as well. and, >> i was excitesed to see the turn out from the western addition and bayview and want

to make sure we cover all the different steps from buying a home to making sure homes stay within the family. >> work with staff attorneys to receive these free and low cost complete estate plans that include a living trust, will, financial power of attorney, and health directive. >> that's why it is so important to make these resources and this information accessible. so we can make sure we are serving you and your families and your generations and your dreams. >> we insure the financial stability of san francisco, not just for government, but for our communities. >> on behalf of the office of assessor recorder, i'm thankful for all the support and legal assistance they have given that makes the estate planning program a realty for you in san francisco and are thank all the community partners like san francisco housing development corporation, booker t washington center and neighborhood leaders and organizations that help families and individuals realize their dreams of building wealth in san francisco from one generation

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the san francisco budget and finance committee meeting of november 8, 2023. >> the meeting will come do order. well to november 8 budget finance committee. i like to thank matthew from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. doia have announcements? >> please make sure to silence cell phones and electronic twices and should you have documents to be included as part of the official file should be submitted to myself the clerk. public comment will be taken on each item. with your item comes up and public comment is called line up to speak on the west side of the chamber to your right along

the curtains and you may submit comment in writing e-mail them to myself the budget finance committee clerk at brent.julipa@sfgov.org. if you submit via e-mail it will forwarded to the supervisor. and may also submit to 1 dr. carlton b goodlett place. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of november 14 stated. >> thank you so much. with that, just wanted to alert everyone that today on the agenda we have items 1, 7 and 8 that actually have the budget and legislative analyst report that means for those items we will have the department

presentation, then bla report fallowed by questions and public comment. also before we call item 1, we need to excuse supervisor safai who is now chairing the retirement board meeting at the very same time. do i need to-can we do that without objection? >> sure. >> seeing that, supervisor safai is excused and with that, please call item 1. >> item 1 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the department of the environment (“environment department”) to accept and expend a grant of $605,620 for a term of three years from september 12, 2023, through september 11, 2026, from the united states department of energy's vehicle technologies office to expand an electric bicycle pilot for delivery workers; and to authorize the director of the environment department to enter into and execute the grant agreement and amendments thereto, and to execute the contracts

between the city and various agencies consistent with the aforementioned proposal and necessary to carry out the purpose of the grant or this resolution. madam chair. >> thank you. today we have joseph from policy and public affairs coordinator from sf environment. >> good morning. thank you chair chan, vice chair mandelman. joe from san francisco environment. we will be briefly presenting on this a & e before bla gives its report. i like to introduce my colleague hannah [indiscernible] our clean transportation program manager who will be giving our department presentation today. >> thank you, joe. good morning supervisors. hannah trun. the clean transportation program manager for the environment department. i'll present on this e-bike pilot grant award the department received from the u.s. department of energy. the $605 thousand grants award

will builds upon existing state funded e-bike pilot for delivery workers. the grant expands the number of participants in the program and develop online decision making tools including cost benefit calculator and e-bike selection tool. the doe grant builds on $2.4 million california energy commission grant the department received last year in 2022 to implement the four projects. identified in the city electric vehicle ready community blue print. the current one that is ongoing, the state grant funds charging ombudsperson, infrastructure mapping tool and fast tracking hub in under served community chblt the pilot identified as priority action in the city climate action plan and inspired by local agency formation commission labor study. the new doe funding will support up to 50 additional

e-bike participants with goal reaching 80 delivery workers. we have seen strong demand so far with the current pilot and did initial recruitment for the 30 state funded participants in march. we received 173 eligible applications across 21 zip codes. so, ultimately this new funding will expand the data available to the pilot provide more san franciscans with access to this emerging technology and develop new public resources to help delivery workers make the decision whether to switch to an e-bike. we launched the first cohort in june this year and these photos show a few images of the classroom and safety training the sft bicycle coalition facilitated. we are hopeful the pilot findings will demonstrate e-bikes can be a faster cleaner more cost effective method for last mile food delivery and

started to gather lessens learned for future policy design and infrastructure needs. we look forward continuing to learn more with this program expansion. thank you for your time this morning. happy to take any questions. >> thank you. >> morning supervisors. nick from budget legislative analyst office. item one resolution approve the acceptance of a grant from the u.s. department of energy to san francisco department of environment. the grant has value of approximately $605 thousand and requires a one to one match with a three year retroactive to december 2023 to december 2026. this grant will be used to funds expansion of ongoing analysis of use of electrical bikes by app based delivery workers and how it impacts earnings and safety and other

metrics tracked by the program manager at department of environment. you can see the entire program cost is on page 4 of the report is $1.4 million that includes this $605 thousand grant. the matching funds requirement will be met by previously awarded state grant the california energy commission grant the board approved last year. there is no it general fund money used for this match. we do recommend approval of item 1. >> thank you and thank you, i appreciate the presentation and appreciate the mention of local agency formation commission as the chair. i appreciate the partnership and see both lafco and sfe environment can continue with this program. given the former supervisor district 4 supervisor, supervisor mar also the former lafco commissioner, this was

his baby so to speak and seeing that today and seeing it finally is launched and it is a very good thing, look forward seeing how it grow and see how it expand to a possible--i know that our colleagues supervisor preston also commissioner on lafco, exploring municipal bike rental and hopefully with that we can see how this was done and see what we qu can also do to move municipal bike rental forward. with that, let's go to public comment. >> thank you. we invite members of the public who joined today and wish to speak on the item to line up now. we invite speakers to come forward and all speakers have two minutes to speak. madam chair, we have no speakers. >> no public comment, public comment is now closed. i like to move this item to full board with recommendation

and roll call, please. >> on that motion to forward to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman, aye. chair chan, aye. we have two ayes with member safai excused. >> thank you. the motion passes. let's go to item 2. >> item 2, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to enter into a participation agreement for county-based medi-cal administrative activities effective july 1, 2019, that will remain in full force and effect until terminated by either the department of public health or the california department of health care services, with anticipated revenue to the city of $1,000,000 or more; and to authorize the department of public health to enter into amendments or modifications to the agreement prior to its final execution by all parties that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the agreement or this resolution. madam chair. >> thank you. today we have deparm

department of public health. >> good morning chair chan and vice chair mandelman. thank you for having me present today. my name is [indiscernible] i am the medi-cal administrative activities coordinator for san francisco. just a little about lilt quick intro about the program. county medi-cal administrative activities is a federal reimbursement program. it is run by cms at the federal level and reimburses counties for a portion of the expense of administering the medi-cal program. the program is administered at the state level by the department of healthcare services on behalf of cms. and currently, dph participants generate over $13 million a

year in revenue. the program is a very important source of revenue for the city and county of san francisco, and reimbursement helps pay for work that staff members already do on a day to day basis to keep our life saving programs strong. and this is just a list of the claimable activities. our participants perform medi-cal outreach, monitoring of service, facilitate applications, contract administration for medi-cal covered services, policy development and program planning around medi-cal covered services and ma implementation training. and the reason why i stand before you today is due to the participation agreement we can have dhcs. in prior years the city and

county of san francisco maintained a participation agreement with dhcs that renewed every three years. and it also stipulated a maximum dollar amount in the agreement. dhcs recently drafted a new participation agreement, which would replace the existing contract with the city going forward. and this agreement would eliminate the need for renewals since it will not include a expiration date, and remain in full force and effect until terminated by either dph or dhcs. and in addition, a maximum dollar amount for claiming will no longer be required, therefore revenue would no longer be capped. the reason why this resolution is retroactive is because dph received amendments from dhcs

to this existing agreement after the agreement start date. and the amendments from dhcs stipumented the agreement is retroactive from july 1, 2019. so, dph agrees with the new participation agreement and we request that you approve the proposed resolution. thank you and i welcome any questions at this time. >> thank you. so, i see the agreement itself says we will receive $1 million or more and i understand that because now we no longer have a cap. do you by any projection that perhaps how much more we will receive now that we do not have a cap? >> well, currently we generate about $13 million a year.

sometimes more. i have seen it go up to $15 million, but now there is no longer a cap and we are always looking for opportunities to expand and grow the program, so it is great there is no longer that limit. we can raise as much revenue as we can. depending how many-how we grow the program and how many participants get added annually. >> thank you. because i'm a lay person and trying to learn about healthcare services, and could you please help me understand if any, maybe this isn't a relevant question at all, the state of california has now launched i think this program i guess is cal aim, and does that impact us at all or is this relevant at all and feel free to say no, it isn't relevant?

>> i'm not aware it is relevant to the program. >> thank you. with that, let's go to public comment. >> yes, madam chair. now is the opportunity for members who wish to speak on item 2-we have no speakers. >> thank you. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed and like to move the item to full board with recommendation and with that, a roll call, please. >> on that motion to forward with positive recommendation, mandelman, aye. chan, aye. two ayes with member safai excused. >> thank you. motion passes. please call item 3. >> item 3, resolution retroactively authorizing the office of contract administration to execute a third amendment (modification 3) to contract 1000024326 with bar none auction for as-needed auction services; extending the duration by one year from october 1, 2023, for a total contract duration of five years from october 1, 2019, through september 30, 2024, with an increase in anticipated revenue of $800,000 for a total anticipated revenue amount of $2,900,000. madam chair.

>> thank you. today we have the office of contract administration here. >> thank you. good morningism my name is will alderman with contract administration. today i will summarize the recommendations made by the office of contract administration in regards to city wide auction services for surplus assets. this is as-needed contract. the contract isn't guaranteed any money or the contractor isn't guaranteed money under the contract. the apted revenue value is estimated at about $2.99 million over a 5 year duration. city departments utilize the contract for auction services to dispose of any surplus assets. the cost for shipping transport are taken from the proceeds. the city pays zero percent of the sale to the auction company.

the auction company gets paid via buyer premiums. the revenue values will increase or decline as assets age out. revenues expected to increase by about $800 thousand this to total of $2.99 million over 5 years. as such, we request your approval for the auction service revenue contract. thank you. this concludes our presentation and we are available for any questions. >> thank you. i appreciate this-always good to know we are utilizing a service that allow us to rid surplus items and with that, let's go to public comment. thank you. >> we invite members of the public who joined to step forward and provide your testimony.

madam chair, no speakers. >> thank you. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. i like to move the item to full board with recommendation. thank you so much for this technical but important contract and let's move this roll call. >> on that motion to forward to full board with pause tev recommendation, mandelman, aye. chair chan, aye. we have two ayes and member safai excused. >> thank you. motion passes. please call item 4. >> item 4 is resolution affirming san francisco's compliance with certain state housing laws in support of the municipal transportation agency application for funding by there- >> today we have sfmta here. >> good morning chair chan, supervisor mandelman. local government affairs manager. i am here mostly just to say we

are here asking for your support for this resolution. this is going to allow us to obtain some critically needed funding through mtc. i would like to hand it over to my colleague our planning director, mia small who is here and we also have transportation planner cathy steadwell for any questions that might come up with regards to technical details. thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning supervisors. mia small, sfmta and the purpose of the resolution is to access funding, federal funding through the regional partner mtc. the money or already have about $21 million allocated for a couple key project. the next batch is all most twnt $22 million to support critical transit optimization and pedestrian safety and happy to go into more detail as needed.

the two big ones are embarcadero pedestrian safety improvements and 29 sunset improvement phase 1 and phase 2. chair chan i think you are quite familiar with so these are also under the muni equity strategy as well as supporting a lot of kids and caregivers getting to school so why making phase 1 and phase 2 projects. it is the one consideration is that we have a compliant housing element, which is allowing us to continue to access these funds, mtc passed resolution 4505 which asks to do one additional thing we need to complete by the end of the year, by december 31, which is we need to affirm our compliance with very specific state housing law, in particular, state density bonus laws, the adu and surplus lands. this is just basically a opportunity for us to reaffirm

things we are already doing and wubs once we have the resolution passed we can center the accessibility to these funds that are so important for us. happy to answer additional questions and to get into more detail about the projects. >> thank you. i thank you so much for the presentation and also thank you so much for having a briefing to help me understand the language within this resolution so we can be certified as in compliance of the housing element and receive these grants through mtc and with that, let's go to public comment. >> thank you madam chair. we are opening public comment. for those who wish to provide comments to item 4. madam chair, no speakers. >> public comment is closed. like to move the item to full board with recommendation and

with that, roll call, please. >> on that motion to forward to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman, aye. chair chan, aye. we have two ayes with member safai excused. >> thank you, motion passes. please call item 5 and 6 together. >> item 5 and 6. item 5, resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development to expend soma community stabilization fund dollars in the amount of $99,000 to engage a consultant team in developing a new five-year strategic plan to address various impacts of destabilization on residents and businesses in soma for a term to commence effective upon approval of this resolution through november 30, 2025. and item 6, resolution

retroactively approving the fiscal year (fy) 2022 housing opportunities for persons with aids (hopwa) permanent supportive housing renewal grant; and authorizing the mayor, on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, to accept and expend the city's fy 2022 hopwa permanent supportive housing renewal grant from the u.s. department of housing and urban development in the amount of $1,510,695 for the period of june 1, 2023, through may 31, 2026. madam chair. >> thank you. we have the mayor's office of housing and community development here. >> good morning supervisor chans and mandelman. back before you representing mohcd to request authorization to expend $99 thousand from the stabilization fund. this dollar amount will pay for consultant team. will with work with mohcd and community advisory committee on new strategic plan to guide the programming and expenditures of new development fees directed to the fund from the central soma plan. rfq was put out in march of this year.

we received three proposals and review panel scored the proposals and presented the highest scoring proposal to the cac in august, at which noint cac unanimously and enthusiasticically recommended to forward the request to the board of supervisors for authorization. that is all i have today and i'm available, happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. if i understand correctly, for the soma community stabilization fund, this item has come before us and for the other funds that we end up approving was also in the combination that we were able to augment by other source? >> correct. the last strategic plan was done before we received fund from rincon hill area plan.

>> that was for the [indiscernible] >> yes, and a lot of capital funding. similar, little different but similar what we had before. >> thank you. i just wanted to make sure i understand what we are approving today. did you already speak on the accept and expend grant as well for the housing opportunities? >> that's next. >> yes, please go ahead. >> morning supervisors. i'm helen hail, director of housing services for the mayor office of housing community development. here to present the accept and expend resolution authorize our department to renew our fiscal year 2022 permanent supporting housing renewal grant from u.s. department of housing urban development in the amount of $1.5 million. for the period of june 1 through may 31, 2026,

retroactive request because of had delay of the granlt agreement from hud. don't really understand why it was delayed, but that is the reason. didn't receive still september. this was the redevelopment agency and shifted to mohcd. the city received support if the work which provides partial rental subsidies for individuals living with hiv seeking to enter the workforce. the compettenative grant is three years. at it end of each term, reapplies and renewal process and hud has chosen to renew each time. the partner is catholic charities who supported 80 individuals in the last fiscal year entering the job market. we are here to ask for support to continue this important program with our hiv community. happy to answer any questions you may have at thas this time. >> thank you. we don't have questions so think 80 we can go to public

comment. thank you for the presentation today. let's go to public comment. >> we invite members of the public who joined to speak on this item. line up to speak. no speakers. >> public comment is closed. like to move item 5 and 6 to full board with recommendation and roll call, please. >> on that motion to forward item 5 and 6 to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman, aye. chan, aye. two ayes with member safai excused. >> motion passes. thank you. mr. clerk, please call item 7, 8 and 9 together. >> yes, items 7-9 resolutions a[indiscernible] extension amendments or modifications to lease that do not increase to t city and [indiscernible] or

the resolutions. item 7, resolution approving and authorizing the director of property, on behalf of the department of public health, to execute a fourth amendment to a lease of real property located at 716-720 sacramento street, with 716 sacramento llc (73.4%) and dls sacramento llc (26.6%), at a base rent of $370,000 per year with 3% annual increases, for an initial term commencing upon execution of the lease and after approval of this resolution by the board of supervisors and mayor, in their respective sole and absolute discretion, with a total term of december 1, 1996, through june 30, 2026, with two one-year options to extend; and to authorize the director or property to enter into any extensions, amendments, or modifications to the lease that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the lease or this resolution. item 8, resolution authorizing and approving the lease of a portion of the real property located at 2205 jennings street with j.d. harney, inc., a california corporation, john daniel harney and bernadette patricia harney, co-trustees or successor trustee of the john daniel harney and bernadette patricia harney revocable living trust under agreement dated august 13, 1987, as community property, and mm1495wall lp, a

california limited partnership, for an initial three-year term at an annual base rent of $264,000 (or the monthly amount of $22,000); plus 3% annual increases to base rent; plus one five-year extension option to further extend the term of the lease; the lease will be effective upon approval of this resolution; and to authorize the director of property to enter into amendments or modifications to the lease that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the lease or this resolution. item number 9, resolution authorizing and approving the lease of real property located at 42 gough street, with gough club, llc, a california limited liability corporation, for a three year term at an initial base rent of $44,472 per year with annual rent increases based on the consumer price index of 3% to 5%, with one option to extend for one-year, effective upon approval of this resolution; authorizing the director of property to enter into any additions, amendments, or other modifications to the lease that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities of the city to effectuate the purposes of the lease or this resolution. madam chair. >> thank you. we have item 7, and 8 that both have the budget and legislative analyst report so maybe what we should do is go to per item,

[indiscernible] with the presentation and 7 and then back for 8 and then 8 for the report. thank you. >> very good. good morning chair chan, vice chair mandelman. director of real estate. before you today on item number 7 asking for positive recommendation for a resolution authorizing a lease of approximately 9250 square feet at 716, 720 sacramento street on behalf of department of public health. dph occupies the premises since 1996 and they currently operate the chinatown child development center out of this location. also known as the ccdc. the ccdc mission is promote the social economic wellbeing of

children youth and families in san francisco by providing comprehensive mental health services, which are easily accessible and culturally appropriate. the current lease provided for 5 year option to renew at fixed price that we determined exceeded the fair market value and in addition, dph desired flexibility in the termination date to allow for a possible relocation to a new space in the future. as a result, instead of bringing to you the option, which are shown on the screen on the upper level aterant rate of $57.40 real estate negotiated the following terms, three year deal with two one year options to extend. we also reduced the rent to

$370 thousand per year, which equates to $40 per square foot. this flexibility again allows for dph to either remain or move to a possible location in the future. that concludes my prezen sentation. i have anna [indiscernible] and david [indiscernible] from dph with me to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> item 7 is resolution that approves an amendment to existing lease with the city as a tenant between the city and

716 sacramento:the lease extension would be from reto active to july 2023 to june 2026 and has two one year options to extend. this is a site that has been leased by the department of public health since 1996 for the chinatown child development center to provide mental health service to children family. we detail the fiscal impact of the lease. the rent is decreasing from about $530 thousand to $370 thousand in the first year of the extension and then there is 3 percent escalation for the next two-years. if the aupshzs to extend are exercised the rent is reset to market rate at each option, and the rent is paid for by the general fund. i do believe this is retroactive approval because it is extending the lease as of

july 2023 so we do recommend approval of the resolution, but also recommend item 7 be amended to clarify that is retroactive approval. >> thank you. are we in agreement it should list as retroactive back to july 1, 2023? while we are trying to get to retroactive date i wanted to understand from the department of public health that as we are going through this both the--consider like a 3 year lease with for the chinatown children development community sites, what is the future plan if we can discuss about the future plan for the future location?

>> good morning. thank you chair chan, vice chair mandelman. i'm the governor affairs manager of dph here on behalf of greg wagoner who is the chief operating officer of dph who could not be here today. the future plans for chinatown public health center is dependent on the public health safety bond that is scheduled for november 2024. the plan is according to the public health safety bond is to relocate and colocate the ccdc can public health center number 4, but that is dependent on the election and the bond passing as well as the time needed assuming it does pass, the time for build out and construction so therefore we are

respectfully requesting approval of this resolution. >> thank you. as we understand it at the current location it is 9250 square feet of office space in this location. will there be comparable space for the chinatown child development center then in the chinatown public health clinic 4? >> i don't have the details with me now but i can get those questions answered and circle back with you. my understanding is that there would be adequate space, but let me confirm and circle back with your office. >> that would be great. i think that the public health bond will come back to this body for discussion. i do look forward with that presentation then is to be able to be clear about the scope of the project that will be

inclusive of chinatown child development center and help us understand what other services both the existing services that is being provided by the clinic at the current location on powell street and after renovation what would that actually look like if it is expansion. >> of course. >> good morning chair chan and vice chair mandelman. dave and the operation manager for the behavioral health system of care. the department of public health. it is a multi-disciplinary clinic that is mostly out-patient, so families, children and parents seen on site in addition there is services offered in the community for up to 10 or 13 school districts. if there is a local crisis or a need for any of the outpatient clinic services. psychiatry, mental health or crisis in the community.

>> thank you. just look forward seeing how it is incorporated on that site at powell street for the future and so i appreciate the effort and look forward to seeing more information. thank you both. >> thank you. >> chair chan, director of real estate. as to your question with regards to an amendment to make this retroactive, i greatly respect the work the bla does and i rarely disagree with them, but i have to respectfully do so in this occasion. i think that the bla is confusing hold overwith retroactivety. right now we are in hold-over on this lease. the hold-over is a function of the original lease and the amendments. i think that simple example might be able to explain the

differences between the two. hypothetically speaking, let's assume the committee rejected the amendment. the rent we have been paying up to this point would not change because it is under the original lease and all that has been approved by the board. if this were retroactive amendment, then the $40 we have been paying while in hold-over would change because that $40 would have been contingent upon future oaction of it board which didn't happen, so in this particular case, the monies paid in hold-over won't change whether you approve or disapprove this amendment. >> i think that is the part anybody can jump in to clarify--as it currently is, we are actually going to-there is decrease for the new lease if i

understand correctly. >> yes, we are going to $40 per square foot, which i believe is am crease under the-- >> $40 per square foot so actually a decrease by like 30.3 percent, and so the question i think that we are now asking is that, if we were to do the retroactive--my assumption is-i think the question is, when exactly is this new lease term? >> the new lease term starts upon the board approval and the mayor approval. so it doesn't revert back. the monies we have been paying under the old lease as part of the hold-over provision. i think the danger of confusing hold-over with retroactivety is it would-have the landlord and my staff and the bla consider

that there is a possibility that the hold-over somehow is contingent upon board future action, because that is what retroactivety means. basically, if you had a retroactive lease, the agreement you have is tentative and subject to board ratification. that isn't the case here. the $40 we agreed to is agreed to. it isn't contingent because it falls under the third amendment and the original lease in the third amendment. >> let me try to understand this then. i can understand if what you are saying is that the $40 per square foot only happens when after we approve this new lease extension. but what you are saying is, you have been paying that for the hold-over? i can understand if you are saying to me that supervisor if we approve the ret row activity

that means-because you have not been paying the decrease rent and therefore the retroactive to date back to july then of this year then it will require some type of reimbursement of the rent we have been paying from the landlord because we have been paying at a higher rate and with the new lease extension and amendments we will be paying a lower rate, is that what you are saying? therefore that is problematic for you? >> i'm sorry chair chan, i didn't quite follow that. i believe that we are paying $40 per square foot in the hold-over period per agreement and that the new amendment if approved would continue that

rate. so, instead of paying $57 in hold-over we are paying $40 in hold-over. the 4th amendment and paying the $40 pursuant to the original lease. if this amendment is approved, it will commence when the board and the mayor approves the resolution and we continue to pay the $40 and annual increases for the term of the new amendment. >> vice chair mandelman. help me out. >> i think it is a legal question. maybe. but what's it date that will be on the amendment? i'm not going to practice law here. >> deputy city attorney ann pearson. i'm not familiar with the specific terms of this lease,

but as i understand it, there is a hold-over period, during which there are terms that guide and dictate what we are paying and the terms of the rental and that your approval is sought not back to july, but for this amendment moving forward. >> i'm sorry chair chan. i appear to be confused. we are paying higher rate then the $40 and the bla is correct, this would be retroactive lease. i apologize. the confusion was mine and not the bla. >> can i say something here? the reason the hold-over provision which i actually read says that it does not extend the term of the lease and the amendment in the legislative file says the term begins july 2023. this is ret row roactive approval. >> thank you. i just want to sort of-if i

may, just for my own clarification so i understand what is going on here to make sure we are all now on the same page, because even though it sounds we are now, i just wanted to summarize so i at least understand correctly. the terms of the lease we are before us today for approval is really officially starting july 2023 of this year and which then allows the city to pay actually at a lesser rate at $40 per square foot and so it is the reason why that we are now need to amend the resolution, not the term of the lease, the resolution indicating that it is retroactively approved starting from july 1, 2023 of this year so that we can sort of rectify

the fact we have been paying $40 per square foot less starting july of this year. >> that's absolutely correct. >> one other thing chair chan, in our report which is that the amendment in the legislative file, there's what i believe are typos. it says $40 square foot but says the base rent is $454 thousand which should say $370 thousand and we talked to real estate about staff about this and they agreed it is an error and it is rent going forward is $370 thousand. i just want to confirm that on the record, because the document in the legislative file--approving is inconsistent with the resolution. >> so, are we going to go--sorry. are we going back to correct the actual lease documents

because it sounds to me what we are say ing is the resolution needs to be amend for it date for retroactive of july 1, 2023. however, the dollar amount is correct in the resolution, but in term s of lease document the calculation of $40 per square foot does not equate to total dollar amount of rent? is that a correct understanding? therefore we- >> i think the final version of the lease will be different then what is-the version the legislative file which is a draft version that hasn't been approved needs to be revised to reflect the actual annual rent. >> we can revise the lease to correct that error. >> thank you. i appreciate this and thank you so much for helping me understand and with that, we

can go to item 8. >> good morning again chair chan, vice chair mandelman. director of real estate. before you seeking positive recommendation for resolution approving a lease of approximately 10 thousand square feet of warehouse space and 5 thousand square feet of parking at 2205 jennings street on behalf of department of technology or dt. mr. clerk, can we have the presentation? thank you.

radio shop is located at 200 paul avenue and dt also entered into companion lease for storage vehicles materials and equipment at 1755 egburt. in july of 2021, the egburt site was sold and city given 60 days to vacate. the real estate division was able to find a suitable alternative site at 2205 jennings street and enter under to a short-term administrative lease in order to vacate timely from the egburt site. the real estate division has negotiated a longer term lease at jennings street to make it coterminus with the lease at 200 paul. the site again is 10 thousand square feet with 5 thousand square feet of yard. the negotiated rent is $22

thousand per month or $264 thousand annually with 3 percent annual increases. the deal structure industrial gross with the city pay its own utilities. the term starts upon approval of the board and mayor and will expire december 31, 2026 which is coterminus with 200 paul lease. there is one 5 year option to extend which is also identical to 200 paul. this allows dt to determine whether it can collate both of the sites in a new location or extend the status quo for additional 5 years. that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. >> morning again. iletm 8 is resolution that approve the new lease between the department of technology and the owners of 2205 jennings

street. this is a new lease with approximately 3 year term through december 2026 and we detailed the fiscal impact on page 12 of our report. totalerant over that three year period would be approximately $816 thousand paid for by the general fund. this lease is used by the department of technology public safety division for storage and vehicle parking. it is near another site, 200 paul where the staff for that division are and expiration of this lease coincide with the expiration of 200 paul lease to allow the city to perhaps bring them into one space or city owned space. we also note in our report that this is a 48 percent increase above the existing lease for that site, but it is still

below market rate and that shorter term or at or below market rate, we believe-still a good deal for the city. the shorter term lease that is-allows the city to occupy the site now was entered into to allow the city to immediately occupy it, and i feel comfortable recommending approval of item 8. >> thank you. i think i have just a quick question. i think just wanted-would like for you to director to elaborate just a little bit about for the relocation or the reasoning for relocation and identifying the new site for dt, department of technology. >> yes. thank you chair chan. as i said before, we had a

storage facility at 1775 eggburt. that property was bought by pg&e for its own pupss and refused to grant the city a lease. per the terms of our lease with the private property owner, we only had 60 days to vacate to make room for pg&e. the owners at jennings were kind enough to give us a below market rent in order to facilitate a quick relocation in the anticipation this longer term lease is coming before the board for consideration. >> i appreciate helping us and doing this work to get us out of the bind of 60 days being evicted by pge. let's goto item number 9. ready for item number 9.

42 gough. go ahead. >> sorry, all you. >> sorry. i thought we were doing 7 and 8 and then 9. again, chair chan, vice chair mandelman, director of real estate. before you today seeking positive recommendation for resolution to approve a new lease at 42 gough for approximately 1744 square feet of space to be used as a parent resource hub managed by the health services agency or hsa.

the city proposes to lease this space for the parent resource hub. parent resource hub serves as a centralized support facility for foster parents to access multiple resources such as donating items, providing location for foster parents to meet and parent association and also a designated safe place for foster youth to engage in age appropriate activities. the terms of the lease are three years commencing december 1, 2023. there is one option to renew for one year at 95 percent fair market value. the base rent is $25.50 square feet or $44.472 per year that

comes with two months of free rent. the adjustments are based upon cpi or consumer price index bracketed between 3 and 5 percent. we also have the option to rent two spaces at $120 per month each for the use of parents and volunteers. the landlord will provide tenant improvements, namely floor coverings rkss paints and security upgrades requested by hsa at the landlords commence. that concludes my presentation and available to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. i don't have questions on this one and also again, appreciate the work that you are doing. you and your team are doing. with that, let's just wanted to summarize 7, 8 and 9. item 7, we are in agreement to amend item 7 for retroactive

date to be july 1, 2023. we do not have anymore questions on item 8 and 9 and actually appreciate real estate team work on both items and helping us definitely for the jennings-2205 jennings street relocation for department of technology, which we appreciate. with that, it is our hope or it is our goal after public comment that we will amend item 7 as recommended by budget legislative analyst and then move all three items to full board with recommendation. on the motion let's go to public comment. >> thank you madam chair. opening public comment for 7-9. invite members of the public to step up if they want to provide comments. madam chair, no speakers in the chamber. >> seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. we will amend item 7 as

recommended by budget legislative analyst to the retroactive date of july 1, 2023, and move-i guess we have to do one motion at a time. let's move that motion to amend item 7. roll call, please. >> on that motion to amend item 7 to include retroactive language for july 1 approval-did you also-sorry madam chair, did you also move to forward as amended or just taking the vote? >> just do the amendment and move all three together. >> okay. very good. on the motion to amend item 7 to include retroactive language for july 1 approval and to forward item 7, 8 and 9 item 7 as amended to the full board with positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman, aye. chair chan, aye.

we have two ayes with member safai excused. >> the motion passes and then for amendment and then let's move all three items including item 7 as amended, 8 and 9 to full board with recommendation and motion for that, please. for roll call for that motion. >> chair chan, i did call that motion. >> you did? >> we are good? >> sorry. i am spacing out. okay. thank you. with that, do we have any other business before us today? >> madam chair, that concludes our business. >> the meeting is adjourned. thank you. [meeting adjourned]

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>> the meeting is called to order at 212 p.m. the sheriff department oversight board is now in session. on behalf of the sheriff department oversight board we like to thank sfgovtv to broadcast the meeting. you may view on cable channel 26. please stand to recite the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> do you have any announcements? >> the file number 231020 and by instruction of the mayor remote public comment has been discontinued unless you have an accommodation. if you wish to make public comment, you are welcome to attend the meeting in person to

do so. when public comment is called during each line item, the public is welcome to address the board up to two minutes. there will be general comment at the end of the meeting for items that do not appear on the agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the sheriff department oversight board. public comment is available for members of the public present in personing by lining up against the far wall. you have will have two minutes to provide public comment. -you have 30 seconds to complete public comment, the second tone alert will alert your 2 minutes are up. >> thank you dan. member nguyen indicated he was called to duty and will be absent from today's meeting. motion to excuse member nguyen. >> motion. >> second. >> thank you. any objection? motion passes unanimously. dan, please call the first

item. >> i will call the roll. >> sorry, please call the roll. >> [roll call] >> we have quorum. >> thank you. the first agenda item, please. >> line item 1 adoption of minutes. review and approval the minutes from sheriff department oversight board regular meeting held october 6, 2023 and the special meeting held october 13, 2023. >> so move for adoption of both. >> second. >> members of the public who like to comment on item 1, adoption of minutes, please

line up against the far wall and approach the podium. you have two minutes to give public comment. there appears to be no public comment and call the roll. member afuhaaman, aye. member brookter, aye. vice president carrion, aye. member palmer, aye. president soo, aye. member wechter, aye. the motion passes. the minutes from the regular meeting october 6, 2023 and special meeting october 13, 2023 meeting are adopted. >> thank you. next item. >> line item 2, report from dpa on sheriff's investigation. report on recent sheriff office investigation for the third quarter by the department of police accountability. diswill be limited to determining whether the calendar any issues raised for

future board meetings. mr. kind. >> thank you. good afternoon board members and president soo, vice president carrion. i'm here to represent the department police accountability by way of background, department of police accountability provides administrative investigative service for sheriff investigation for the purpose of investigating misconduct. prepared a brief presentation to go over stats and trends to keep this board informed about the current state of the investigations. displayed on the screen right now is just a very brief third quarter snapshot indicating for the month of june-sorry, july,

september and august of this year, we opened 12 new cases. that involves 28 new allegations. we closed 11 cases. we had two improper conduct findings. in other words, we made recommendations for sustained findings on two investigations and the source of most of our investigations are based in county jails 2 and 3. this next slide represents quarters 1, 2 and 3 providing a comparison from 2021, 2022 and 2023. we had already gone over data from 2021 and 2022 at the last presentation. what's this slide demonstrates is the current trends at least in not deriving anything necessarily from these numbers, because they are relatively small numbers and numbers

fluctuate. we are high compared to last two years. opens 31 cases to date in 2021 or 31 cases in third quarter 2021, 19 cases in 2022, and 35 cases in 2023. also seeing a significant increase in the number of cases that we are closing in the first three quarters. in 2021, we closed 8 cases. 2022, 11, and 2023 22. that is experience and experitous with the investigators and also getting more investigators trained to be ready to handle any upswing in the number of cases that we receive and number of investigations we need to conduct. one notable trend this year or not large enough to say it is trend, but one notable change

in the data is we added three death investigations this year and the largest number of death investigations we've opened in one year. it may not seem like a large number, but as you imagine death investigations are most in depth involving the most amount of resources. >> would you prefer we hold off questions to the end or do you want us to interrupt you? >> we are here to serve the board so at your preference. >> okay, then i have a question. 12 cases were opened, 11 cases closed. are those 11 cases of the same 12 cases or are the level 11 cases from other quarters and if they were from other cases how old were the cases that were actually closed of the 11? >> most of the cases were

closed from previous-actually, some of them overlap, but some of them were from 2022. i don't think there was cases older then 2022. all were closed within the 278 days and don't believe any of the cases closed had been told under statute of limitations so all of them have been closed within the 270 days. some of them, much shorter i think because we have been getting records much faster with the sheriff office, and we have been able to conduct interviews sooner, and hopeful that with more training, more experience and more in-house expertise developing with sheriff case, we'll be more efficient with these type of investigations. >> thank you. >> this next pie chart simply represents that we are still getting the majority of our new

cases as referrals from the sheriff office, meaning that most of the complaints are lodged with the sheriff office and then forwarded to the dpa for investigation. our hope is that with greater attention paid to the fact we built an online portal and little more encouragement we can get more folks to use the online portal. of course we would not close down any of the different avenues we created for opening complaint because we want to be able to have it as accessible to the public as possible, but there are a lot of benefits i think filing complaint through the online portal provides, namely, it will get the fastest service as well as provide us with the most accurate data. >> i have a question about phone complaints. if someone calls from the jail after hours, how does dpa

follow up on that? >> so, the message would be forwarded to intake investigator and intake investigator would then start a investigation into that and reach out to the inmate. >> also for the referrals, are all the referrals from the sheriff office? >> yes, i believe all of these represented in the third quarter for referrals from the sheriff office. weal will sometimes get referrals from other agencies, but think it is relatively rare. this next pie chart simply demonstrates that the overwhelming majority of our allegations received and you'll remember from the appendix in the last presentation, the categories of misconduct are the broadest so that tends to be in every statistical snapshot we looked at

misconduct tends to be the largest or broadest category of allegations we receive. similar to what we presented from the 2021, 2022 data, the demographics of complainants continues to be primarily black or african males, age 20-40. that will be the demographic that we would obviously focus services for. >> excuse me, regarding the allegations by type, do you break down allegations more specifically then just general misconduct? >> yes, there is a lot of allegations subtypes. for example, use of force or unnecessary use of force is misconduct subtype. >> could that be reported to us with the break-down? >> yes, as we had reported in the previous report, we broke

down by all the subtypes of allegations and something we prepare for the annual report and we would be prepared to present to this board a full 2023 statistical report some time hopefully in february or march. this last slide simply represents where our new cases originated. as i mentioned from the snapshot the majority are county jail and county jail 2 and 3. one case from the san francisco general hospital. the allegations from those three cases are fairly eveningly distributed, meaning that the case from san francisco general hospital involved more subject of investigations and yielded more new allegations and we had two sustained allegation from a incident at the hall of

justice. >> is it possible to give a breakdown of locations more specifically then by jail but pod number and also by time so would identify which shift? >> that data is all available in our database, so i'll make a note and we could easily identify with more specificity. i know secretary leung distributed to the board the article the jail was opening a annex to offer more jail space due to the increase in the inmate population so imagine that we will get potentially more areas where there are complaints. >> just to note, chief cline, when i think of disclosing very specific information about like

the pod not just the jail and the time, i assume of course that is only after an investigation is concluded, because anything pending investigation will be problematic and different privacy issues. correct? >> yes. >> that is something in your analysis you will be looking at to seeing also if it is appropriate to be--to report on those things given the status and posture of the investigation and case? >> thank you for raising that point. all our presentations we run through the len of confidentiality. if there are [indiscernible] from a particular investigation that are so unique that it would reveal information that remains confidential under that statute, we would of course filter that out. >> thank you. >> dpa--has on the website case summary reports which are

anonmizeed summaries of the allegations of the summaries for all complaints against san francisco police department. could you create something similar for the complaints against sheriff department personnel? >> we are posting what you are referring to is 293 summary or what we are calling just a ammoninized summary of what some of the allegations are, and that'scurrently posted monthly in the monthly report. if you simply filter out sfso versus sfpd cases in that section where there is short paragraph about each case you find the summary posted online right now. >> i think of what called the complaint summary report, which listed each allegation. it was anonmizeed, didn't have names or locations, and it summarized the evidence. you still post those on the website on a monthly basis? >> yes. yeah. >> that's what i'm talking about. can you produce those if the

sheriff department? >> yeah, all that data is readily available for us to assemble and any presentation for the board. i'll make a notation of what this board requested if there are additional pieces of information or other statistical data you like us to report on, certainly just filter it through secretary leung and we'll prepare that hopefully for a annual report for this board some time in early part of next year. >> posting to the website for the public would be helpful for transparency. >> certainly. >> what is also helpful probably is the staffing members and the population numbers. i am looking and know there has been-i won't say dramatic increase, but a increase with what is happening in the tenderloin with the police officers and other law enforcement agencies. >> staffing numbers for the sheriff office?

>> yeah. particularly where the complaints are happening and then i suspect with the annex and growing population there may be other issues. >> we can make that request of the sheriff office, and the daily population i think is posted and updated every day on the sheriff website as well. >> i don't think it is separated by jail. >> that's correct. we can see if we can get that data from the sheriff office as well. >> thank you. >> this board has a lot on their plate. anything else that i can assist with? >> thank you. >> we appreciate your thoroughness. thank you. >> thank you. >> next agenda item, please. >> yes madam president. line item 3. public comment on closed session. public comment on all

matters--no. >> public comment >> public comment on item 2. members of the public who like to comment on line item 2 report from dpa on sheriff office investigations please line up against the far law and podium when it is free. >> just quickly. the guy from the department of police accountability come from? or do they become part of this department? who pays them? are they elected or [indiscernible] otherwise, you have to make sure that the information you get from these department is not only [indiscernible] follows the process of integrity. it is so important today,

otherwise we are---going on and on on things that are not reliable in the end and don't work in our best interest all together because no matter the activity we are having, we are [indiscernible] that was my only remark. >> thank you. now call item. public comment on closed session. public comment on all malters pertaining to item below closed session. if you like to comment on closed session line up against the far wall and approach the podium when free. >> quickly. i said this last time so timely, just [indiscernible] the concept of closed session raises questions all the time,

because why is it closed session? everybody must feel it. the problem is most people dont care anymore. that's it the problem. but we should care. closed session means what are you talking about that the public shouldn't know immediately? [indiscernible] thank you. >> thank you. calling item 4, closed session on public employee appointment hiring, sf admin code 67.10b discussion and possible action. inspector general, position established by san francisco charter section 4.137 to head the office of inspector general. at this time, we ask members of the public step outside why the board is in closed session. for those viewing the meeting on cable cast, we will be in

closed session on your screen. we will reopen chambers and resume broadcast after closed session. [closed session] [meeting reconvened] >> call line item 5. vote to disclose vote in closed

session. vote to elect whether to disclose discussion on item 4 held in closed session. san francisco administrative code 6712a. >> i move that we keep the closed discussion closed accept that we are going to make an offer to a candidate at the highest salary range. >> is there a second? >> second. >> members of the public who like to comment on item 5, vote to disclose discussion in closed session, please line up against the far wall and approach the podium when it is free. thank you. alright. calling roll on the motion not to disclose this discussion in closed session. member afuhaaman, aye. member brookter, aye. vice president carrion, aye. member palmer, aye.

president soo, aye. member wechter, aye. the motion passes. discussion held in closed session will not be disclosed. call line item 6, quarterly report. discussion and possible action item. review and discuss s derks ob evilyuation outreach and third quarter report due to sheriff and board of supervisors pursuant to sf chapter 4.137. >> i like to in addition to community outreach to include the community outreach member palmer and i did at the san francisco county jail to receive input from individuals incarcerated in city county and i like the notes that we took of the input we received to be attached as addendum to the report just as the minutes of the public comment at come community meetings we held with

previous reports. i can share those here. >> i have a question, because --i think there is difference betweening a community member that is in the opinion and someone that is actually incarcerated. i don't think that we want to put anyone who is incarcerated in a position that anyone with identify who they were and who the comments were coming from. so, i think that to me is something that comes to mind is, to protect the confidential because we want [indiscernible] without concern of retaliation so that is a issue i like to address. >> yes, mrs. clark reviewed these and she her suggestion removed certain things she thought might be too specific, but she felt everything in here

is quite general. it is not specific to any individual, and would not in any way identify anyone, but the charter does mandate that we solicit input from persons incarcerated in the city and county under mandate for community outreach so i think what we did is a form of community outreach. >> my concern isn't the second part. i agree with the second part completely. thank you for going. it would have been best if other people would have been aware when you were going to so other board members like myself who asked to go would have been included in that. i think that there was a general consensus we wanted to move forward. i know myself i said specifically several times i wanted to be part of that process, so it is unfortunate there wasn'tcordination.

my concern isn't the public being able to identify, it is the fact sheriff deputies saw you come in, go to a particular jail house and you visited certain pods. they probably saw you going to particular places and talking to folks and i think that's the concern. it is not publishing to general comment. i think it is important that the deputies especially if we have deputies that may be the ones the concerns were raised about, and word of mouth spills very easily from the custodians to all kinds of folks. i want to make sure that the folks we are soliciting input from are safe and i don't want any deputies that may be accused of misconduct to use this process in any way to potentially retaliate from somebody who is incarcerated.

someone incarcerated. so, that is just the realty. you went to certain things at certain times where certain people were housed. it isn't hard for people to figure out. that being said, i haven't had a opportunity to review the notes. i don't necessarily have a disagreement with generalized statements as a whole. but if--see, i would be-my concerns are real. >> if i can respond to your concerns. as someone who is formally incarcerated and have retaliation by correctional officers in prison and deputies in jail, when you come forth and you voluntarily give your name, you are already know you received the brunt of

retaliation. they came into these spaces knowing that they were willing to put themselves in harms way, not to say that they are in harms way, i don't want to accuse any deputy that would do further harm to anyone, but myself, i was ready to take on harm that comes my way because the importance of oppression and brutality in the jail system means someone has to make a sacrifice and that sacrifice will come from people who received the most oppression and have the heart and courage to stand up. first of all, i want to commend those men who came forth and was willing to give their name and information in order to stop the brutality and oppression happening inside our jail system and let it be known, it is happening. second, we took their names off out of respect for them

individually, however, to your concern about them being hurt, we make sure i took every precaution that we went to a number of pods, not just one, so that there were enough people coming into a private situation, we closed the door, we spoke in confudentality and for the most part they were protected. their voice was protected and we make sure that we took great care of documenting their exact allegations. jason did a amazing job in doing that. i did most of the facilitating of the talk knowing what to say and what to do. we do plan to make another trip

there and you are definitely invited and encouraged to come see for yourself the heart-wrenching testimony of men behind bars with no voice and no apparatus for the most part to get their complaints out. it changed me. i am fighting back emotions from just remembering that day. i received trauma from having to experience what those men talked to us about and i'm one who experienced such conditions. it has taken every discipline in my body not to step outside

of the bounds of my position on this board to use my voice at kpoo every tuesday between 12 and 4, and newspapers that i write for. organizations that i move with. we just had a meeting with the sheriff department and it took every restraint i had not to violate my position on this board and any other position that i hold. but these men gave us is why we are electing our we appointing and hiring an ig. their voice, their concerns, their outcry has gone unheard when it comes to abuse.

their diet is one we wouldn't feed our dogs. their clothing are causing them to become sick. physical rashes they showed us. i can go on. it is very important that the hiring of this ig and the investigation of what's going on inside these jails be made public and that their voices are heard by any and everyone who gives a damn. >> i thank you commissioner palmer for opening yourself like that, and being vulnerable and really connecting in a meaningful way, and placing yourself in that situation where you experienced trauma and possibly relived your own trauma. i think that it really demonstrates how important it is and how valuable you are to this board and the perspective

you bring to the table and i know that those individuals felt more comfortable because they were talking to you, and because you have been there and walked those steps and i cannot imagine or even contemplate imagining what that experience may be. i-my goal is not and i want to make this very clear just because there is interpretation, my goal is not to silence those voices. my goal is to protect them so other people feel more comfortable also expressing their voice. i looked in my e-mail and couldn't have missed i didn't see the notes or what not. i'm very much aware of retaliation and harassment, and the impact of what it is to be the loan person who stands out and fights for justice.

and fights against injustice. i do not in any want to silence the voices, i want to insure because i haven't seen the notes. i haven't seen the notes. i don't know the details of it. i dont know if it was the days are on there. i dont know if the pods are there. i dont know if that specificity of information i would be as a past prosecutor of police and sheriff in the city and county would potentially put a victim, right because that's what they are, they are victims of police misconduct and police abuse at any risk. so--i'm sure city attorney clark has done a great job reviewing them and what not, so i just want-i think that it is important to just be thoughtful

and insure that that is being done to protect those voices so hopefully we can by our process empower others to feel comfortable to know they are going to be as much as possible protected and given the opportunity so maybe next time we have another-so the next time we have more visits, maybe more people will talk to you. many more people will be able to be frank because we are going to demonstrate to our incarcerated population that we are here for them when they are victimized by the people who's responsibility is to do the right thing. >> the notes are right here if you want them. i could not send the [indiscernible] >> okay. >> did not approve until yesterday. >> i will intervene because i received an urgent e-mail and i

responded to member palmer right away, and i said, the immediate course of action should have them file complaints directly, and i didn't get any follow-up and frankly uncomfortable publishing this now because not only do i see possible retaliation possibly from sheriff to inmate, but between inmates, and i want to remind everyone, we are a quasi-judicial board here, so any kind of things that come before us we have to make a decision. i don't want to taint any investigation. that is quhi why i thought it was best to have the complaints directed to dpa, and we also had discussion about how inmates go about that and assignments of tablets. i was concerned about even having information where people

could be identified, and i don't dispute it is a urgent matter. i didn't get any further response. the other part i'm really concerned about is, this should have been a entire board kind of meeting and we could have gone in and i want discussion with the city attorney, but the entire board should go there as closed session and observe and take testimony because it shouldn't be just one or two people going so we are all there so that the people effected by the justice system have confidence the entire board is watching for their wellbeing and the conditions. so, that's a really big concern of mine. >> i have a question for commissioner palmer if that's okay. commissioner palmer, i just received this for the first time now. it is about a page and 3 quarters of notes. i haven't been able because we

just literally passed around a piece of paper and didn't realize this is what we were talking about. were you the person who drafted this or was this commissioner wechter, and do you think-what are your thoughts? i would want your perspective. if you read this, would you be-understanding my concerns i think that i articulated. i don't have a issue with identifying direct concerns. like expressed concerns. these are very specific things. i wonder if there is ways though to do that without mentioning-i dont know if we need to make this public because it is considered. i hope not. when it was happened-- >> it wasn't agendized. >> it wasn't agendized. >> can i interject.

i think what you are talking about is whether to include this as part of the quarterly report is my understanding. is that not what you are discussing now? >> yep. >> in general, the content of it i agree and understood that would be at another meeting. >> i see. >> this is the first time hearing about the proposal included in the quarterly report which i don't think is necessarily a problem, but i just want to be clear, that is what you are discussing, because i agree, in general the content of the jail visit and how you address that in the future, whether you have another site visit, all that i think should be on another-should be agendized to have the fuller discussion but now is whether this should be attached to the quarterly report. this should be part of the quarterly report. >> it is even having that particular visit was that a full board sanctioned outreach? the other things we had have been publicly noticed and it has been open to every board

member. >> right, butthalities that's not on the agenda. >> no, but we are talking what to include in the quarter report. all that community outreach were things publicly announced and ownen to the entire board. this particular issue was not open to the entire board and wasn't per se a board sanctioned community outreach. >> i have to say that it was open to the board to go. jason made it very clear what he wanted to do here in the meeting. i said yes, i would go. the vp said she would go, and we made it under the three panel that we have done for other projects, so this wasn't not--this wasn't like it wasn't disclosed. we said what we were going to do and anyone was welcome to step up. as far as the dpa is concerned,

of course, we can let them know what we found, but after talking to you i wanted to make sure this was a discussion we all had as a panel of what we say and go to them, because again, i didn't want to step out of bounds as a board member. however, when we went in it wasn't a question of what are your complaints, what are your-what is going on here. we were not asking them to say anything other then the question was, what would you like to see the sheriff office improve on and what not. what would you like to see the inspector general? they are no idea what any of that was about. they gave a rats you know what about that. what they wanted to say was, what is going on and what is hidden. i work with the san francisco jail justice coalition under our great leader ann retiring and taking time away. shout out to her dedication.

we fought to get those tablets in there so there could be a 602 process which is an appeal process that will be able to be immediate, that will documentation when it happened, time stamped and would be a record that couldn't be thrown in the trash can and all we heard the 602 on papers were thrown in the trash. it was given to the person complaining about and it did go somewhere it was thrown in the trash. dpa should know about this. the reason it is not because the people inside the jail is making sure it doesn't. we want to make that very clear. >> my question is, how come that information isn't on the notes? if that's the first thing they came and said, how come it isn't in the notes? commissioner palmer, i really want your leadership in this,

because and thank you because you are being a leader and have been a leader on this. i are want to go about this thoughtfully and carefully in the right way and i think there are perspectives i have as trying in my interest of producting victims that are just like immediately come to mind, how can we insure these victims are protected and but at the same time that their voices are heard in this process. i think it is challenging balance to score, but i believe that it is our responsibility to do the work to get to that balancing. i never like getting things handed to me and saying, hey, let's agree to this now. i would have been helpful to get this in advance.

life happens, i understand that, so if feels a little- >> [indiscernible] remember this was the last meeting. right before the last meeting i was approached and i said, i am uncomfortable having openingly discussed because i don't know what is in it and don't want to reveal identities, but give meings additional information. between right before the last meeting and this meeting, i didn't receive anything, so my only question and my only response at the time was, can you make sure it gets directly people know to get directly to dpa now and you have the information so you could as proxy and don't know if you did it or not. i am hoping you on behalf of the people who trusted you to be able to advance their complaints to dpa so it has been immediately addressed and then part of it also is to know whether or not these particular

issues are being investigated, because if it hasn't been investigated then we know they never received the complaints that should have been advanced. but if they are investigating it, this adds more. this also i guess if you will, closes any gaps in terms of the investigation and the whole process. >> can i say something because i want to make sure i understand. the issue is maybe we should have a more formalized process of how we outreach with the inmates, or-- >> my issue is, because their names are not on here so dont understand the retaliation piece of it. second, i do agree with palmer. they are coming to them and telling them information willing to go on the record for it, but you guys made the decision to remove their names. >> i guess, but is that true?

i don't know that. did you ask them if we could publicize what they are saying? >> yeah, i asked them. we asked them and they gave us their name and made sure he wrote it down correctly. >> okay. >> second piece i want to say is that, what jason is saying part of our charter of the board we have that right to talk with inmates and i want the open line. yes, we have a existing process with dpa, but that process is clearly broken because that was there before the fight club scandal. so, again, it is just further prove like, hey, you can go to dpa and also come to us, but i understand what you mean about you are saying about we might be doing double work. what they are complaining about is already handled by dpa. >> it is not even double work, but also making sure there is con confidentiality and record keeping. if there are not complaints on

record that is evidence that it isn't getting through. if it is currently being investigated how long has the process been going on and why has it taken x amount of time to address it. obviously it wasn't addressed. i say a document like this doesn't really help to resolve the issues and it is too detailed for a quarterly report. >> got it. >> what do you think about commissioner palmer, if we were to not go into details, but address the issues? like if we could address these are the general issues and-because the quarterly report to me is what's the purpose of it? the quarterly report is to inform the board of supervisors, the mayor and more importantly the community of what is it we are doing. so, we want to make sure they know, we have gone out of our way and yes, we can work on making the process better for

all board members. we are learning and we are learning and i give credit to that. everyone makes mistakes, believe me, i know, and we can do better the next time. that is fine. for the purpose if our purpose is to highlight the issues that these folks talked to you about, then i would recommend-i don't know if the time table, if there would be a-i like the idea of the issues. if we had one sentence of a issue for each one, i think that makes sense. that kind of incorporates all those things without the detail, but because i think that's kind of what we have in the minutes for the comments for the community. community members some spoke a lot longer, but their statements were synthesizeed. i assume there is already a

synthesis of information to hopefully incapsulate all that, right? and some of them don't even have the detail. so, if the purpose is to identify the issues and recognize that by identifying the issues we inform the public who may have--unless they have a loved one or have experienced themselves, would have no idea of this. how else can we use this information in a meaningful way? >> yeah. >> because i don't think-i don't want to make it seem and i think this is what we should never do is, throw away good work. you did great work going in there and thank you to both to doing it. i would have wanted to be there as well, but that's okay, because i will next time and that's okay. so, for the purposes of this

quarterly report, i think i want to be able to say those voices, we already have it on our agenda. the more i think through because thinking through as we talk about it, we already have the agenda of where you guys were going and the date, right? so, that's already public knowledge. >> was it on the agenda? >> was it on the agenda? it wasn't on the agenda. >> it discussed. this is the suggestion that i have--is that, for the next meeting, we could synthesize. remember when i asked about priorities and i didn't receive from you member palmer, but i assuming that it was about community and especially conditions, so i talked about even having health and we didn't get the director of jail health, but i think what would be more helpful and easier to

address and more generalized is if we have health conditions and then underneath bullet points of things that you found and observed and then, we have-- >> [indiscernible] >> health and medical. but under that also goes to food conditions, because that was brought up a long time ago and then the lack of access to fresh air and sunlight and then i think there was a report that required more outdoor exercise not held. we have it in different categories, and then communications, grievance process. not existing and so if we just have topical categories and some more specifics so still general and bullet points, i think that would be something that could be addressed more readily and then we can have reports at our meet ings.

i don't want have to presentations people come and talk and doesn't lead to something. that is why i try to be ord rly and have a calendar year worth of benchmarks and hopefully next month we will see a ig. i expect we will have town halls and community meetings with the ig and i also want to be there as a entire board at the jails. i think it is very important we all be present so that at least there is a perception there is unity and we care and we want to address these issues. when it becomes piece-male and we have discussions, if we are there and observing and listening, then it is a concerted effort and i think it is more expedient and things could be addressed in a more reasonable fashion. >> i make a motion that these notes be attached to the

quarterly report as an addendum so that will be transparency and we can do all the things you want to do later on, but i think it is important that the sheriff and board of supervisors and public hear what we heard, and this has been stripped down quite a bit to remove any identifying information. none involves a specific complaint. i did tell the people we met with, if you have a specific complaint, here's the phone number for dpa, 415-241-7711. >> yes, you did. >> more comfortable for- >> i made a motion. >> let's have discussion on it, please. >> very interesting. first and foremost and want to thank you for going inside and having the conversations. that is what i want to lead with. as colleagues, which we all are, there are times where there are events that do take

places where everybody isn't going to be notified t. is the nature of what it is we do. we have schedules and families and jobs so i'm okay with that. i think what i'm hearing and what needs to happen is it needs to be something more formal. maybe even a suggestion on our agenda that there is a section for members to be able to report out on things you might have done on your own in terms of discussions with the sheriff department, or with other colleagues as well. i am completely okay and comfortable with the document itself. i think what i'm hearing and would be comfortable with is if we say that moving forward i do think this sort of information should be in our quarterly report, but i think we would need the time to work through exactly what that looks like so all folks and all parties feel comfortable. again, i want to lead with, thank you and i do agree, jason, this information does need to be out there. i just think we need to figure out exactly what it looks like

and where it goes within our quarterly report. >> quick correction. second person i did thank them as well. >> for sure, but i want to be the first to lead with it. >> that is very true. >> i want to say, that visit was the most meaningful time i have spent on this board. walking into those rooms, shaking each hands of each of those men asking their name, telling them my name and letting them know we are here to listen to you and i probably said a couple dozen words and did most of the talking and i took notes. but it was a very meaningful experience for me to hear those stories. i think it is very important. i want to continue doing it and i think what we heard needs to be out there and that's why i want this attached to the quarterly report and certainly going forward we can talk about doing this collaboratively and more people going out there,

but if we are reporting on outreach activities we did in the past quarter, this was one of those outreach activities. just as the night out activity was. >> may i make a suggestion? my suggestion is--i do believe we should take up the date. it has been discussed, but i think that we should take off the date. just a little bit more. maybe i'm being a little more precautious, but i had to be because i had witness, victims that were incarcerated all a sudden turn and say they are no longer going to testify. i had to stop investigations because we [indiscernible] because the victim who is an

incarcerated person won't move forward. i understand what the goal is. i understand what we are trying to do. i think we can go about it next time in a better fashion, but we can go forward and based on what i'm hearing and i think the good faith i would support this being attached as is as a collaborative effort to recognize that we are working together to move this board into getting these voices being heard in the best way. i would request that just a date be exclude d. >> okay. good idea. thank you. >> my suggestion and just because i would have liked time to digest this a little bit more, but in terms of attaching this as a report, i just think i get a little lost about like,

maybe if we could optimize it to be-to prioritize the issues a bit. i don't know--i personally dont want to publish this because i think if we can refor mat it that would be my suggestion. yeah, that's it. >> i like how you formatted and presented things when i ask ed for things informally. i don't know if this is the document that is best to address things. i agree with-there are all high priorities. i like to see it more where the sheriff can take action immediately and this i don't know if people will parse through it and then i also think i would rather see a memo we put out by the board

formally to the sheriff office. >> i agree. i want to say that i support sheriff me miyamoto. he is one of the best sheriff we have had. he is fighting a extreme uphill battle in transforming the culture of the deputies inside the jail. i go into the jails myself as a artist to beautify the space so children visiting their parents don't have to visit them in a space that is so sterile and incarceral and have that type of effect on them. there are other people who work with the sheriff inside the sheriff office that have a lot of respect for. a lot of times their hands are tied because they are working

outside of their visual, their every day experience. sheriff miyamoto does not work a 8 hour shift inside a pod. he doesn't know what's going on continuously inside a pod, and some of the assistant sheriff and under-sheriffs so my goal and sure jason's goal is to work with this board to do the best that we can for those people inside that are forced to live under these conditions and whatever that looks like, because we say we are all learning, we are--i'm new here in this experience in this level of agency, so everybody on the board i respect. all the opinions that were stated, and how best we move forward is good. let's do it as a team. >> how would you suggest it be reformatted? >> well- >> i don't think it has to be on the spot to suggest how it

is reformatted. just for consistency. i do think it should be added just because of the date we do have, but should look similar to the section we have under community outreach. that is what we called it. it should share within this document that is going to the board of supervisors that we did go inside and visited the jail. and then i think what should happen moving forward are these notes and this sort of specificity to me should come in a report from the individuals that went so that we can move on some of these things that are in here. if we can as a body. if that makes sense. saying it should be addressed in the report, i don't think in this level of specificity as an addendum it needs to go with it. if you read here under community outreach it takes about the members invited to national night out.

chinatown and engaged the community. i think a similar sentence that go tuesday goes to the board of supervisors. suffice for quarterly report, and we should have member reports that come out from us that are a lot more specific like the document we have here, so we can discuss format and what can we take away from what it was that was shared. >> i think that limit transparency. i think the reason these men talked to us is they want these issues known. they want them out and- >> i think when we share public, everything is public record. this is all- >> right now this isn't. not unless we put it in-not unless we attach to the quarterly report. that is why i wanted attached as addendum. >> what i'm suggesting is put on the agenda for the next meeting we have then it is public this document. >> actually, can i just interject for a second, because materials that whole board is

looking at on a item that is in closed session, it is something that the secretary will have to post at the close of the meeting, so it is--going to be made public. whether or not it is part of the quarterly report is a different issue. >> that's why i was troubled that something was circulated before a meeting and so-- >> i don't want to be surprised by other board members last minute before hand on a document that will be really integral to our mission. just for the future. let me finish please. let me finish. i understand there is good intention here and i understand we got really great ideas. i apologize to bookter for my incorrect correction, because like i said, we all make mistakes. but that brings up another issue. this is why we have to be thoughtful about these because we have these procedures and they are there for a reason.

i agree with brookter's approach, this is cat is out of the bag. let's make a commitment to each other as board members to try to think about what is our main goal. i know we are all here because we care about these issues. we are not getting--for some it is time away is time lost in so many different ways. financially, all these different things. so, i don't want to be surprised like this in the future where it is like lets do this and do this because i want to be thoughtful of this and i want you all to be my team members and we are team members whether we have strident and contentious disagreements and thought processes and you don't need have to like me but i demand you respect me and it feels disrespectful to be

bambuzzled with this and it puts my guard up because i go into what are we doing, how to protect victims, how can we best do this and we are having a lot of conversations in a way that it doesn't have to be antagonistic and doesn't have to be that way. i hope that this can be yet another learning experience for our commission. i really appreciate commissioner bookter's suggestions and agree with it. this is already--now since it is passed around, public record. so it will be available and it will be available now, so i think--we dont need to attach it because it is available on the website. >> let me explain again why it is--i did not have any intention bringing this forth until mrs. clark approved it. i had sent her a copy of this

with additional information, she highlighted sections, she thought i should remove, i removed them. i sent the revised version and it was only when i got her approval that i thought to bring it forward to the board that i did so. that was late yesterday. >> i think you should have advised me as the president and the vice president and we are also attorneys, so i think we have good judgment legal judgment about what would be proper and it was a whole month in between and i never got any response back after i first got notice that it was--things were urgent. again, i dont want surprises. i don't want to hear things in the newspaper that often times are inaccurate. we had one candidate who interviewed and said i read

this in the paper and it wasn't accurate. that's-again, it is a disrespectful way to do things and undermines-not just confidence in our board, confidence in the process and you know, it is just inexcusable and you say you have so many years in investigation. now i wonder if you kept things confidential and done things by procedure. this is not a good way to do things and the information here is very useful. it could be presented in a better way, but if you had come to any of us or brought it up ahead of time, we could have discussed it. that is what i'm troubled by and it also means that there might have been delays getting these things addressed and i also want everyone who is effected by the justice system to be able to come out and feel comfortable, but this is not the way to make them feel

comfortable. >> if i can madam president there was a motion put on the table. just to kind of pull us back. i guess the great thing being a democratic body there are safeguards of us being able to dething. there was a motion on the floor. >> i do want to point out that discussion in the previous quarterly reports you made a motion president soo to add language we hadn't heard and added and there were several paragraphs included in the final vurz version that we didn't have a opportunity to vote on. this has been occasions when things have been brought up at the meeting where the quarterly report was discussed where additional language was proposed. >> you wereprint present at the time to present the report but didn't present early enough to meet deadlines so i offered to do things. you were president for a entire

year and didn't move things forward and tried to help you. we are a entire body. and you want to present your own personal agenda when we are supposed to work together and so, if you are trying to make any one person look bad you are making the entire board work bad. i let my work speak. >> i think the personal attacks over me over the last year made the board look bad. most people who observe the meetings commented upon that. they felt it is unprofessional. oversight community has been looking at this and has a very negative view oof the way this board behaved. i worked in the oversight committee a long time. well known and well respected and people hear your personal attacks and go, that's not true because they know me. >> you portray as a victim and you have been victimizing

everybody else on the board. >> can take a 5 minute break maybe? just a suggestion. >> [multiple speakers] >> the board will be in >> we are back in open session. the time is 347 p.m. >> i want to suggest we put this over to the next meeting to discuss. another opportunity to look at this and think about it. i thought it might be a compromise to diffuse things. >> just want to confirm it deadline doesn't issue with it deadline, the reporting i want to make sure we don't miss anything.

the quarterly report is due what date again? i just dont know that-not sure. >> i think there isn't anything in the charter that says a due date so dont think there is a due date. >> alright. just wanted to confirm that. i have no problem with continuing this conversation and hopefully it can be conducted in a different way. >> i'll make a motion to continue this agenda itedm item to the next meeting. i withdraw my earlier motion and make a motion to continue this agenda item 6, quarterly report to our next meeting. >> i second. >> for members of the public who like to make public comment on line item 6, report quarterly report, please line up at the far wall and approach the podium when it is free.

>> long to wait, but fine. interesting to listen to you. i know it took you 45 minutes before saying the word, goal. so, the goal it seems to me it is to improve the system which has to be a mess in jail, because if you look at what's going on out of jail, it is a mess, so the pgoal is improve. you should [indiscernible] generally speaking you must push the concept of responsibility and critical thinking. remember something, when you are-you have nothing to fear if you know what you are doing is good. there is something important to remember is the bad guys like it when you speak honesty [indiscernible] they respect that very much.

it is not necessarily the best solution. you chicken out and nob mob when you have something to report. that is the way it works. so, keep that in mind, please. you can definitely improve the system if you--not that easy obviously, but remember, responsibility-don't be afraid to speak the truth. but again, you must make sure first you did nothing wrong. [indiscernible] >> thank you. do we need to take a vote? >> [indiscernible] >> calling the roll on the motion to continue this line item. member afuhaaman, aye. member brookter, aye.

vice president carrion, aye. member palmer, aye. president soo, aye. member wechter, aye. the motion passes. this line item will be continued to the next meeting. call item 7, future agenda items. discussion and possible action. >> if i may. >> yes. >> i was thinking for future agenda items, i like added to the agenda a section that talks about reports from members, because i also think it would be good given that you gave us instruction to provide what we want to look at as members that we have that section to where when we go to events or we have something that we want to bring to the body we can do in that section. it doesn't mean every month someone has to come with something. you may have nothing but it allows that section when things

are new that do come from city attorney or come s last minute we can at least be able to have discan cushion about it. doesn't have to be a decision made, but allows for members to give presentations on things they are doing within community to the full board. >> i am looking at the city attorney right now. >> i'll work with the secretary. ideally you would give the secretary a sense of what you are going to report on just so members of the public have an idea-doesn't have to be a lot of detail or final, but--so, if i was understanding correctly it is like reports from members. ideally someone would let the secretary know ahead of time if they are planning to give a report so you can have the subject matter what you report is on the agenda that would be better. while i'm talking one thing mentioned to president soo at the break probably important to

tell everyone, i don't think you can have a closed session visit to the jail. there are only certain things that can happen in closed session and i don't think this falls under that, and you guys remember how you had to have the training and groups of three so you didn't have a quorum so you were not having a meeting. but there is nothing to prevent three people at a time or some number fewer then four going around the same time to hopefully accomplish the same task. >> thank you. >> future agenda item i love to discuss. i xoe we are all most at the finish line with ig. should we at some point chat about the priorities that we want? >> yes. that was--so, i think i had asked for priorities again and we had discussed it before.

i was hoping we would have the under-sheriff make a report. she is quite busy. chief indicates she may come next month or extend to january because she's definitely in the thick of budget and they are trying to onboard a cfo, which is crucial right now. but, part of what i hope she would report to is how they handle things internally once a full investigation is completed from dpa. just in general terms, and how she parses out particular complaints and investigations based on severity. the other--so, the top priority is we community engagements and then i had mentioned health. we still did not calendar somebody reporting on health in particular. the doctor in charge of jail

health and i think a lot of these issues hopefully will be addressed and this was at the particular doctor who was on leave for quite a while and so that was an issue as well. i am not get nothing to reasons why she was on leave, but it is still a major issue for us and i think that will be ongoing and then i think as we synthesize these particular issues members palmer and wechter found out at their jail visit, looking at how we can get those addressed and remedied in the quickest fashion. then from member nguyen, he would really like to look at the working conditions of the deputy-how to enhance officer safety and working with a strong partnership with other law enforcement agencies

addressing the mental health of the deputies. so, those are some issues and think that really-a year goes by pretty quickly so why i like to try to prioritize things. we discussed health so long. i think the other priority we talked about were services, so reentry prior to reentry, a lot of educational opportunities and the apprenticeship and job training opportunities and then supportive services on reentry. i think member palmer you would be very instrumental in that particular-those particular portions. >> i like to for future agenda items find time if fot here in

city hall, special town hall or san francisco jail justice coalition, they requested they would love to appear here and talk about the things they do and find and work on for the jail population, but two fridays have been very difficult for most of them, so we could find a better opportunity for them to appear before the board or in the community outreach program, that would be great. second, this might seem kind of trivial at first or superficial, i like for us to take a board photo and to create a culture for this board and legacy for the board, we being the first to sit on this board, and possibly design a letterman jacket so we can wear and create that unifying team spirit that we should be

having. >> make us new bracelets? [laughter] >> that would be great too. >> so, will you send the contact information on the justice coalition to both me and secretary--that way if we need to have a special session or it could be coordinated with maybe another community meeting. and then i think another priority was to recalendar the glide meeting. >> actually commissioner palmer, didn't they say at this point they needed some space? glide? because we rescheduled and they put a lot of work and we kept rescheduling and canceling, so i think--i think maybe we should work-reach out and say, what are your next event plans

that you have and how can we come to you and your constituents, rather then doing all the work they have done for us. i think we need to make-i feel the need to make amends. if i may finish. i would like to maybe possibly reach out and see there is ways that we can work within their schedule if they are open to us or if it even just testing the waters of is it too soon. that's all. >> just answer that question, they did say any type of engagement with us will have to be next year. the next available-- >> dan had communicated that to us. but i think in the future because dan had expended a lot of energy on trying to calendar meetings that it would be much easier if we were invited to that meeting, so in particular,

even town halls by the different supervisors as well. >> in addition to jail justice coalition i like to hear from representatives of public defender office because they are the most frequent contact with people in the jails about what they are hearing and the concerns they have. i also since we now will have an inspector general i like to have presentations by experienced oversight practitioner on best practices for establishing an investigative and model agency. what is going to be necessary to make that agency succeed. the required training, resources and staffing which also the source of support for when we seek budgeting for those items. if we have recognized experts in the field saying this is necessary to make a office succeed. i also like the presentation on anonmizeed information

regarding lawsuits and settlements against the sheriff office and judgment for the past 5 years. that resulted in significant maybe over $25 thousand settlements and steps taken by the sheriff office to address any behavioral or conditions systemic behavioral conditions that result in the settlements or adverse judgments and again that information can be anonmizeed. >> as a past prosecutor that worked on this, i have to say i would also appreciate that there is a lot of wealth of information in the da office that actually works with these victims, these particular victims, and deals with the complexity and the challenges and investigating and prosecutors this and i think i would agree with commissioner wechter that the public defenders are very important in their perspective but think we should also reach out to the prosecutors that work with

victims and families of doing the investigation of police and sheriff misconduct as well as through the prosecution of them. >> you mean victims and families of people incarcerated thin jail? jarks >> yeah. they are the victims identified and the potential defendants are peace officers, deputies. >> maybe we can get anonmizeed information on the criminal referrals they made. i think they have a separate internal affairs that handles criminal investigations they refer to the district attorney office. i have no idea what the numbers of those are. i would hope they are very low, but i just don't know. >> not going to venture anything mid-case. >> they wouldn't-no one talk about mid-case if you are a prosecutor. you aret noallowed to.

even afterwards there is confidentality you are not allowed to. >> since dpa only investigate certain classifications of complaints, typically the more serious ones i like regular reports from the sheriff department on the number and type of complaints received in the last month or quarter. the number and type of grievances submitted by incarcerated individuals within the last month or quarter, including facility or location. we can have a sense of where complaints are coming from and what they are about. i also like a revisiting to the statistics chief gave us about the sheriff office design to the special patrol operations in the tenderloin. i think that was a good presentation showing the statistics on the arrests,b the number of people referred to drug treatment programs, and the number of people who

entered those treatment programs. i think it is very useful to be kept abreast of what's happening with those ongoing efforts and the tenderloin and south of market. >> i think last thing that i hear some of that, maybe-we get reports from the sheriff and i mentioned this at nauseam prioritizing what we get from the sheriff, but it may be helpful to identify key categories we say every time you report can you give us a update on this, because these are the things that are so central to the work we are doing, so it doesn't become a situation that we have tons of requests that might not be-that are difficult to come through. it goes back to--i always go

back to the idea and even this is very public right now of, the under-staffing of the sheriff. maybe we can think about this as a future agenda item of, as a board, can we-we have identified the priorities that we want them to focus on, but for the reporting, if we want to-if it would be helpful and maybe we can just ask the sheriff too-is it going to be helpful if we consistently ask for the same things so you don't have to reinvent the wheel of getting the information and you can be more expeditious or maybe we can work with the sheriff a little bit more about those reports. >> if i may vice president carrion, that's what-one of my favorite words is template. i tried to be very consistent what i ask for and it has got to be germane to what we are

doing. i don't want reporting just to have a report or someone speak. things we can utilize to see if there are particular trends or improvements. the sheriff office is vastly different from the police department. i have seen the police department be able to push a button and be able to pget a report. that is not the case and already had a presentation from it as you may recall from sh sheriff office. until we are there, i think if we get maybe monthly or quarterly reports on categories of the complaints and how they are addressed. i think it will be helpful when i do get to meet with the under-sheriff. we were supposed to meet and been quite busy. and then more i guess on a little of a scary note, she will retire soon as well, so hopefully she will be able to get the cfo up to speed and

then her successor. she has a wealth of information and i want to make sure we get at least a presentation from her for a overview and so that when we do ask for things that it is very direct and germane to what we are doing and helps to improve the sheriff office. >> in speaking of the district attorney office, if they give a presentation i like information on the number of arrests made by sheriff deputies on the special project in the tenderloin and soma that they dismissed and the reasons for the dismissalism i think they usually have categories like lack of evidence or-you would be more familiar with that vice president carrion. i think that would be useful to know. >> the only issue-that is correct. there are different codes you do like need future investigations in interest of justice, there is about 20, 30 some on different codes for

that. the only thing that i have to say, i think that would be-my interest in bringing the da was more a education kind of process. we are looking at oversight and those issues, versus our role and what we do is only-it is not criminal, so it doesn't seem as specific to request that data and i'm not sure because i know the disclosure of that might be governed under certain rules. i wouldn't tell a bunch of people, this case dismissed because of this reason. there are certain protocols for that, and i do also think while that is helpful information, does it go to what we do as a board? there is a difference to me from the criminal process and the different administrative process that we deal with now,

because our inspector general is not going to be dealing with the criminal. they go to the da and i think it would be important for us to build a partnership, but we may be over-stepping by going into a realm that we are not charged to look at by the charter. doesn't mean we can't learn from that realm. i think that's more of my interest is learning best practice, because i learned so much and i find that that experience is instrumental to what i think i can contribute here on this board. >> the reason i ask for that is because i recently attended the international association of chief of police conference in san diego. there was a excellent presentation there from a prosecutor who worked with the police agency and found many of the cases were having to be dismissed or were dismissed on appeal because the bad search and seizures. he talked about how he

addressed that by doing intensive training with that unit on constitutional law and that significantly improved the outcomes in court. it could go to are the deputies making these arrests, did they know enough about constitutional law or is there a area there that the sheriff may want to look at and improve the training. >> i don't see how that connects because you are asking for data. you are asking for specific numbers of why it-the codes for dismissal for specific cases. it isn't asking about the training. we have all that information right now. >> also add to scope of work is not within-that is something for the sheriff office to deal with. >> if deputies are making arrests that are not adhering to constitutional law that it is something we should be aware of and that would be one way of

gauging it. that is a recognized outcome you can look at to see the success of a oversight entity is, are the law enforcement officers making an arrest or doing searches that are thrown out by the courts because they are done improperly. >> that is not how it works, but--interesting because that is a search and seizure argument that then is litigated in a criminal proceeding. right? so, that information is not something that would be the charging. if there is a illegal search and seizure, there needs to be evidence like possible cause for that,b which includes the warrant and if it is warrantless, all those things. it isn't as if you find a code that says unreasonable search and seizure. you will see a lack-you will

not get that-it is not data that can be easily pulled first of all, and again, i-commissioner afuhaaman just also commented, it is outside our scope, so we have a lot of work to do. we have a lot of work to do. >> jail conditions, i think it is looking at working conditions of the deputies, improving staffing. and we got a budget to deal with. we don't have a budget we are not going to do any of this. >> it does fall under patrol operations which is something we charter. >> it does, but that part of the patrolling is smaller so i would think it is lower in priority and if you want to address the jail conditions and then also families effected by the criminal justice ist

systems and the visits are limited now because of staffing. >> one interesting way to look at it rather then thinking about criminal is how many misconduct complaints have been done due to patrolling. that is information we could get from like dpa, how many misconduct complaints have come from patrolling? that i think would be more in line with what we are charged to do. >> that really won't reflect whether deputies are making good arrests or searches. it is something a continuing process and not something that they do as a normal course of duty the way the police department does. they have traditionally very limited patrol duties. this is a new fairly new assignment for them. >> especially they trained. >> right. i want to know if they carry out the training effectively by making solid arrests or are

some arrests dismissed by the da office because they see they did not have probable cause or reasonable suspicion. that is what i'm curious finding out. >> i believe we can get that information from the sheriff, not the da office because they have to file the reports. they would have record of that, not the da. let's get the information from where we can get it from and we are operating to. me bringing in the da seeing a valuable partner we can learn from in different ways, just like we can learn from the public defenders in many ways. i understand the concern. i think i agree with looking into that issue to make sure that the sheriffs are patrolling appropriately, i don't think method of getting that information is by going through it da office. i think we can do that in a different way that is more aligned with how we are charged to do our work and what we are

authorized to do our work, which is to work with dpa and to work with the sheriff. they should have the-i can't imagine and we can ask, does the sheriff have the information of how many cases their deputies submitted to the da and not charged? right? >> if they keep that information. they may not. >> that's a good question. maybe they need to. we don't know. that's all i'm saying. i'm not trying to [indiscernible] the issue, because i think that is a valid issue, especially since it is new and a resident of the tenderloin i live in this environment and it is my home and these are my neighbors, so i recognize the importance of it. i just again want to go about it in the way that aligns with what we are charged with. >> maybe someone listening to this will make a public records request of the district attorney and obtain the

information. >> so, member wechter, i will try to refeign making public record request when sometimes a simple request works a lot better and we want to demonstrate how it improves our work, but right now i dont think going to the da office for this data necessarily improves and helps us with what we are doing. >> i respectfully disagree, but we can disagree, it's alright. >> any other future agenda items? >> just as reminder, chief requested that when i give him items and if any items come up that at least there is a three week turn around time so he knows which particular personnel he needs to call on. >> if no other discussion for members of the public that like

to comment on item 7, please line up against the far wall or approach the podium when it is free. calling line item 8, general public comment. the public is welcome to address the board up to 2 minutes on items that did not pupeer appear on the agenda but in the subject matter jurisdiction of the board. personnel nor board members are required to respond to questions but may provide brief response. general public comment is items that did not appear on the agenda. if you like to comment line up against the wall and approach the podium when it is free. >> yes. i just want to [indiscernible] something about bad guys. i think it is important to understand there are bad good guys and good bad guys. it is very important. guys who [indiscernible] bad guys but pretend to be good

guys. i wish-i want to address something--i'm amazed by the way you wear your mask by a surgeon where the surgeon [indiscernible] and you still are able to talk. amazed by this. honesty. to the sheriff miyamoto, you don't--you have to make your team strong. please, you push the concept through you-talking to the sheriff-push the concept of responsibility on critical thinking. you must do that. going to help a lot. the future will be beautiful, but we are the [indiscernible] all comes from the wrong system of education. [indiscernible] been going on for ages. so it created in some people

emotional disorder leading them to delusion of [indiscernible] people who want the control the world, not knowing they can't. it is impossible. so, now the future will be beautiful, but we have to deal with this unintelligence. 20 seconds. something to help you here--technology works against us today because the way it is now it has become our enemy, so just help you. when you use your cell phone, understand you are working for the weaponization of technology, not good idea. you are taking part. the future is against weaponization if we want beauty. otherwise we are not able to achieve that. it is a process, but--just a idea for you to [indiscernible] thank you.

>> thank you. call item line, adjournment. action. all in favor? >> aye. >> any nays? >> just one reminder, any suggested charter amendment changes should be submitted to dan so we can entertain that at the next meeting. >> thank you president. meeting is adjourned at 4:21 p.m. [meeting adj chinatown. >> (music).

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